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Free shipping, free road hazard protection. Over 10,000 recommended installers. Tirerack.com way Tire buying should be. And be sure to check out the fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. Not only do we post great videos. All the. All the live long day. I was going to say all the live long day. Guys, our buddy Elijah, Spot, Sager and Sagar. Everyone posted great videos. I'm not drinking. I promise. All the livelong day. What is that? Like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or what? No, there's no more seven dwarfs. I would say I'm. No, there's a new one coming out, right? There's no seven dwarfs. Aren't they dwarfs? No, they're mystical woodland creatures. That's why people are saying they're not going to go see the new Snow White this weekend. Wait, wait, wait. They've gone too politically correct. This is the one that's out, like right now. One that's out this weekend. And they're. They're like CGI guys. They're. They're cgi. Not dwarves. Woodland creatures. Woodland creatures. Like a raccoon? No, not a raccoon. Like, there's like little. I don't even know what. They're. Little people possum. Like little gnomish things. Why don't they just call them dwarves? I look at it like they took away work from. Honestly, little people. They did. Like Dinklage and all that. They prefer to be called dwarves. Listen. Or little people. Let me tell you, no one's going to see that movie for that reason. All right? Hey, Kavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. And we're going old school like we do every Thursday. And before we get to your phone calls and feedback, we are reminiscing. And I'll. I'll explain in a second. We did say it's March Madness and we jokingly did our Macho Man Randy Savage. Oh, yeah. Macho Madness. Oh, yeah. I'm so proud of myself. Do you think because we see a lot of these legends, the way we look at Mike Tyson now, as he's like a funny older guy and a lot of the legends. Do you think if he had lived, Macho man would have been one of these guys we get a kick out of? Oh, yeah, definitely. Like, I feel like Macho man would have been a really funny old guy. Like, we would have been like, he probably would have done a promo like it's March Madness. Like, they're like, we. We missed out on, like, old Macho. I mean, we got to snap into it. We saw him in Spider man, right? Like, you started seeing them in a pop culture sort of way a lot. I feel like just. Yeah, he would have just expanded on that the same way. Like I said, you see Mike Tyson or one of our older childhood heroes, you know, it's like a funny veteran, I guess you would say. All right, let's go old school. Today marks the five year anniversary of Isaac Loenkron's favorite show, Tiger King. Honestly, it's a show that none of us would have ever tuned into hadn't we had been so bored. Making puzzles and sourdough bread and washing our hands over and over again, wiping down our groceries. All the stupid stuff we were doing to kill time. This was our only option. It's the only reason we cared. Look at the date. It's the 20th, right? So Friday the 13th was the last day many people were at the office. So. So this was seven, eight days into a quarantine. And Netflix is like, hey, here's a documentary about weird people that have jungle cats shows. Cool cats and kittens. Yeah, ridiculous. So ridiculous that we were all exposed to this. And we all talked about it, we all watched it. And again, it was a totally total timing sort of thing. Otherwise we wouldn't have cared about Joe Exotic. But instead, we all watched and we all knew that song. You remember that stupid song? It wasn't even him singing. Cause I saw tiger. Now I understand. I saw tiger and a tiger saw a man. Now, if you remember back at this time when we were so bored, everyone's jumping on zoom together. Everyone's making videos from home. Spot was making sourdough bread like a lot of people were. Yeah, I was so bored at home, I was making videos. I did a. I did my own version of that stupid song five years ago. Take a listen. Hey, it's Quarantino Covino with my latest jam that I'm working on. Everybody feel free to sing along. Lysol Rich Davis. Jittery buffoo. Lysol, Rich Davis. And Rich Davis was a goon. Rich Davis was a goon. Liz saw Rich Davis. Jim Reebok, everybody. I saw Rich Davis. He was a jittery buffoon. So thank you for making that five years ago. And you just on repeat, hey, Rich Davis was a goon. So what were your weird memories from five years ago when you were watching Joe Exotic and Tiger King, when Covid first started and you were like, you said you were wiping down your groceries, you were getting back from the supermarket. And I remember like, you know, everyone has their own timeline of when they played it safe and what they did, but you remember taking like Clorox wipes and wiping down the packaging and everything. Boxes. Yeah, they would get. They would arrive. I never wiped the groceries down. Well, the thing is. And I did. Danny G. The thing is, at this time, again, last week was the Rudy Gobert story. This week is when we were introduced to Joe Exotic. Five years ago, Tom Brady announced he was going to the Bucks. After 20 years as a patriot, you're like, okay, well, that's cool news because you're thinking ahead, right? Tom Brady, March Madness was canceled. I was going to say, why were we watching Tiger? I don't know. Because the tournament that's going on today was canceled. Yeah. Five days, all wondering like, hey, we were supposed to have this two week curve thing. Are we, are we heading back to work or what? Yeah. Five days before the tournament was set to begin, it was canceled. So weak, dude. So anyway, when we all look back personally, and I know everybody feels the same way, but it really, like, it sucked, dude. I hated every second of this. I hated it to the high heavens. We're gonna try to have some fun with it today. Your random memories five years ago, a major time. I know, I know. Some people lost people. There was some tragedy involved. We're keeping the lighter side of things. Like, you know, there's a lot of people that benefited from this, namely influencers, because at that time, musically turned into TikTok and that blew up and you started seeing people doing their. Carol Baskin killed her husband, whacked him, and all these dancing trends. Yeah, but were you zooming anybody? You were doing Skype before this happened. There's still people right now who get to work from home. And that would not be possible had it not been from their company branching out and allowing them to work from home when Covid was. The listeners don't know this. All of us are actually at our homes. Right now, by the way, by the way, here at Fox Sports Radio, here at Fox Sports Radio, we had to dig a little deeper to find live sports news. Here is a clip from March 15, 2020, when our top story was live badminton. Listen, finally, hold on to your socks and shuttlecocks because at the Yonex World Badminton Championships, Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota of Japan said sayonara to China's Douyuwei and Li Yinwe. 21 13. That's what I call March Madness. That's wild, dude. Do you know one thing I'll never forget on our network? First of all, we all had a zoom call with Scott, our boss, and he told all of us, he said, obviously these are interesting times. We're all going to have to dig a little deeper to find really good, entertaining content for the listeners because, you know, nobody was sure with network, tv, radio, whatever. We didn't know, would there be less listeners, would there be more? Turned out the listenership like tripled because people had all this extra time to take in TV shows and radio and television. So that was one thing that was a little strange was suddenly there were 11 million listeners instead of 6 million or whatever it was. And you know what, that it was great for radio and Fox Sports Radio and us professionally. We ended up in a better place. But you know what it also did in an eye rolling way, it let everyone think they could do their own podcast from home. That and it did sort of water down our world like, like during, towards the end of COVID That's when you'd bump into someone and they're like, you know, I do a podcast and you're like, changed everything. It was funny to hear the different hosts though, and what they would cover. Like, I'll never forget Ben Maller covered a marble championship race where people were racing marbles. I remember that. And remember there were the, the NASCAR drivers that were doing the simulated race car races in their contraptions. There were so many odd ends that were being covered and discussed and a lot of it was amusing because people were like, what are you guys going to talk about? Well, we found things to talk about, that's all. Yeah, everybody had to pivot and that's our strength. So, yeah, we were fine. We were in sweatpants and we were drinking more than ever. But what were your memories that stood out? Oh, do you know what? That's a great one, Kavino. I hadn't wore sweatpants since middle school pe. Oh, it came back hard. Yeah. And I started wearing sweatpants all the time. And in fact, I'm wearing jeans today. In the last year or so, that's when I actually started dressing like a human again. It was a major comeback. I got way too sweatpant, comfy. And I think a lot of people did. Puzzles became a thing. So what were your memories five years ago when we were introduced to Joe Exotic could be in the world of sports. It could be just in your life. What do you remember most? I got one in the world five years ago. I got one in the world of sports. Throwing it back on a Thursday. First of all, I remember Jimmy Butler doing his big fakes, big face, coffee inside the bubble. That was a good one. Remember when he was. He was charging other NBA superstars $20 for a cup of coffee. And since then he has opened up coffee shops. How about this? Remember Major League baseball? Certain stadiums and teams were selling cardboard cutouts that you could put in the stands. Like if you wanted Danny G's cardboard cutout at a stadium, you could buy it. I was in Dodger Stadium. Clay Travis did a bit where all of us from the show. Isn't that still your Twitter, your Twitter avatar? It's my Twitter avatar, yeah. Is it? I'm going to go there right now. Danny G Radio cut out shows how little I pay attention to you, Danny. I never even noticed this. I didn't notice that. All bat, right? Yeah. On the Clay Travis show, that was a bit that we did. Oh, your famous photo with the blue bat. Yeah, that's that. So just to have a funny cutout, I held a wiffle ball bat. Oh, I didn't know that's what it was from. Yeah, of course we know that. That's hilarious, dude. That's the picture Spot uses when he goes to you in videos. All right, so Danny G Radio, if you want to check it out, let's go to the phones. 87799 on Fox. It really is like, it leaves such a weird feeling inside because you're like, that was five years ago, something happened where it just feels so. Like time went super fast since then because it was a major stamp in our life. Right. So everybody remembers it. And then it's like every time it was so much quicker after that ever since. Right? Yeah. But I. What I don't want to do is have this get political. But I do want to bring up one point that I think one of the big negatives besides obviously this affecting people, you know, certain people, the elderly, compromised people did get affected, died. I think that the reality is that it separated us more than ever. Like, I think we were politically divided a little bit before that. You know, there are people that love Trump, hate Trump, but I think during COVID I think that how people treated Covid, we were more separated than ever before. And I saw this firsthand because I live out here in la. My wife's from Texas. We were renovating our house. We went back and forth from Texas to LA every three weeks to check on the progress of our house. I'd come back here to la, people would be double masked walking down the street. I'd go to Texas and our friends would be like, want to get dinner? And I remember being like, we are living in different worlds. I'd ha. I had friends. I'd go out for brunch with my friends in Texas, then I'd come back here and I'd be like, hey, guys, I'm wearing a mask. Like, I remember being like, what world are we in? Because depending on where you lived, you acknowledged it or you didn't. And it was very interesting. Obviously different levels of precaution. Hating talking about it, like, puts me into a place that I hate. Actually have to stand up because it gives me anxiety. I hate it. 877-99-FOX. Let's go to the phones. Let's say hi to Justin in South Dakota. Justin, what do you remember from five years ago when you were watching Joe Exotic? Well, I never seen Joe Exotic, but I was going through stage four non Hodgkin's lymphoma cancer, so it sucks. Yeah, man. Well, it's good news. He's here with us for you. You're here? Yeah. Heck, yeah. What a hard time for people to have medical issues. Because if you remember, we all started missing our dentist appointments. We weren't going to checkups anymore. No one's getting a haircut. Exactly. And if you were sick or you had someone unfortunately pass away in the hospital, if you needed hip surgery, what if you needed someone called electric surgery? You're like, I can't do this right now. Danny's right, Sam. I have a friend who lost their father. Not to Covid. He passed away of something else. But they couldn't even be with him in the hospital. Yeah, it was horrible. I think another thing, dude, I started giving friends haircuts. I had clips and I was good at it. So, yeah, I was giving Spotty a haircut. There's a video where our video guy spot. He was even lazier then, if that's possible. But I remember he had not got a Haircut for a month. And then Covid happened. So he was, like, overly due for haircuts. So one day while we're doing the radio show from home, Dust off the clips. Covino gave him a sweet fade, and we're like, wow. And that's when people started getting flowbees again. Yeah. George Clooney was one of them. Right. I remember him talking about it. Rich, hold on. Before you go to call. Your kids would have been very young when Covid struck, Right? So I'm thinking about all the parents who. Who either had, like, kids between the ages of 0 to 5 or the parents that had to, like, educate, like, homeschool their kids and work. Sam, I think that sounds like the most stressful home life ever. I think about how grateful I am that my kids were too young during COVID But you had to be around them 24 7. Right. For a while. On a side note, though, selfishly, my son was a newborn, so it was sort of a good time. Right? You can't talk yet. He can't eat for snacks. No. It kept people and germs away from him. No. Not only did he just got to be home. No. Meaning I was stuck at home. When I had. My son was born in February of 2020. So when he was one month old, Covid happened. So I was the dad that was able to be there and help my wife all the time because go to work. No one's going to work. So selfishly, I was like, not a bad time to have a baby during COVID However, if you had kids that were in school, what an effing nightmare. Imagine your teenage kids in high school, and every day they're on their laptop trying to learn from your kids, and you're maybe trying to work from home and think about how. How like, what cabin fever you'd have at home. Not only that, I was telling Kavino earlier, imagine you're the dad or mom that saved for your kids college tuition, and you have tens of thousands of dollars and your kids sitting in the kitchen doing college. Meanwhile, you're spending tens of thousands of dollars. You know what gives me anxiety, Covino? The fact that we had to eat through doordash and Uber eats and all that. Oh, they still do touchless delivery. That's that stuck around. Yeah, did. But I had never used those services until Covid. And Rich never washed his hands before COVID That's facts. That's the truth. Facts. We were gross before COVID I went back to not washing my hands, back to the phones again. What do you remember from five years ago this week? Keep it light. Tripp in Vegas. What's up, Tripp? Hey, guys. Good to have you all back. Missed y'all last week. Oh, thanks, bud. Still listen, though, but missed y'all. Two things, especially being in Las Vegas. One, you just mentioned doordash that created something that stinks. That contactless delivery equals. I mean, I'm not a doordash driver, but that meant people didn't have to tip. That's number one. And then the second thing is, I've got pictures. I took my girlfriend at the time of that. We got to go do this. I've got Walking on the Strip by the Bellagio and all that. I felt like Will Smith and I am legend. There was nothing on the street. I have lights were out. I have a video trip outside of the Staples Center. Before it was Crypto, right? Kavino and I used to work at ESPN downtown la. I have a video that looks like a ghost town. It looks like, honestly, like you said, I am legend Will Smith. I was there. It was that. It was the weekend after everyone was quarantined. And I'm like, guys, like, look at downtown L. A. It's. Nothing's here. So let's go to Jen in Michigan. What's up, Jen? Good evening here from Michigan. Seven or three years before I found out I had sleep apnea. So wearing those masks, it was hard on me. Yeah, no, it's hard for a lot of people. And especially with little kids that are trying to learn and mask. It was a rough time. You know what if you put one of those masks on for some reason right now, it's weird. A few minutes in, you're like, how did we do this for hours and hours on end again? I hate looking back at that. I really do. And seeing all our little kids go to school that way was the worst. Smell your own breath, your glasses would get foggy. However, you know what? It gave some people some self awareness. Gave some people some self awareness about how dank their breath was or, you know, if you didn't listen. A lady doesn't do all her makeup or something. She can just throw the mask on. She doesn't have to do her lipstick. Vito and I had a theory that it was a great time for ugly people. It was. That was a great time for ugly people with hot bodies. We said, if you had bad teeth or bad nose, beautiful eyes. If you had bad teeth or a bad nose, like you might have, that was your time to shine. Just look into my beautiful eyes and look at my beautiful body. That's amazing. Well, listen, Fox Sports Radio Nate, we're going to continue reminisce and wrap up with your phone calls next. And then back to Ron Washington. What do you think about no cell phones in the clubhouse? All that and more coming up right here. Fox Sports Radio with Kavino and Rich. Now, tires matter. They're the only part of the vehicle that touches the road responsible for everything acceleration, braking, steering and handling. Tread confidently with new tires at tire rack whether you know exactly what you want or what you're looking for. Expert recommendations Tirek makes it easy. 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So unless you're an influencer, your career took a good turn or you were one of those people that just made a ton of money in the market, which, by the way, when you think about what you were doing. I was one of those guys that, trust me, it didn't work out all well in the end, but I was one of those guys that thought I was a day trader. I don't know if anyone. Isaac, did you dabble in that? I was Sam. I was one of those guys that was every day I was buying, like, penny stocks and I'd have great days, bad days, everyone thought they were a day trader. You know what's weird? I'm not making this up. Even before COVID you know who was a huge day trader? Al Michaels. For real? Yeah, for real. During those days, like, I'd have buddies tip me off, like, hey, buy this pharmaceutical stock, and it would go up like 300% a day. And I buy Zoom. And I remember telling my wife, like, I think this could be my side hustle. Rich was a day trader. I was a day drinker. My best friend was Tito's. Tito's was my best friend during that time. Rich invested in them. Yeah, we started started boozing a lot around that time because we were home and bored. I remember, you know, either making or, you know, losing thousands every day in my life for like, six months. But I remember Covino hit me up one day. And again, it's not funny to joke about alcohol too much, but I remember Kavito hit me up one time. He goes, bro, like, how often do you go through a handles of. A handle of Tito's? How many did you have just going through them, you know? Why, what was that? That weird party zoom thing? It was called house party. House party. Remember, people were jumping on house party just to like communicate on social and you're having drinks and you're just talking to randos. It was a weird time. I think you guys were both in relationships when Covid started. I was single at the time. I actually met Brenda during COVID That's crazy. In the second year of it. So how did she feel when you took your mask off? It was a surprise when we both took our masks off. But dating and dating profiles and meeting people was interesting at the time. Because you thought you would get ghosted prior to Covid. You really got ghosted as far as actually meeting up with people. During COVID There were even zoom dates and things. It was a virtual dating almost at the time. It was really strange. She gave it to me. What, syphilis? No, the vid. All right, let's go to Chris in Arizona. We'll go rapid fire. Then we'll go to Isaac for an update. We'll get back to that Ron Washington conversation, which, by the way, the more I'm thinking about it, the more I'm confused. So I need your help. Chris in Arizona. What's up, bud? Hey. You guys led right into it with the whole drinking thing during COVID My wife, I have friends over every Saturday night and. And she's not too fond of it from time to time. But during COVID she's considered high risk, so she didn't want us hanging out. So first Saturday, when Covid really hit, my buddy pulled up in his truck and sat on the tailgate. We made sure we were six feet apart, but we still got it done. Yeah, I remember people. Do you remember, like, kids would have drive by birthday parties, like for little kids. Like their pals would like go by the house, like, hey. Or like grandparents would talk to their kid grandkids who like a glass. We're trying to have fun with this conversation. It's really tough. The more we're having the conversation, I'm like, this sucks. Do you know how difficult co parenting was? Okay, here's a positive we had. Especially if you're in a major city with gridlock traffic. That is the best Time I ever have driven my car in Southern California. That was a positive. I'll give you a positive. I told you. We were renovating our house in Los Angeles. I was flying to and from Texas every two weeks, $49 one way. And I was like one of eight people on the plane. It was ridiculous. And it wouldn't be a show if I didn't bring up Kavino's ex wife once in a while. Right? Because I love to point that out. I always felt bad for him. I'll say it so you don't have to. Some people were more cautious than others. Every time he had his daughter, she required, like, a negative test. When he gave his daughter back, yeah, it was so Kavino. Let's talk about the nasal swabs. Dude. I would call Kavino like, yo, bro, where are you? He's like, they would have met her. Urgent care. I'm like, why? He goes, you gotta get my daughter. I'm like, every week. Well, because my ex has little ones. Didn't want to bring anything compromised back to her. Every time. Every time. Covina. We entered the network doors here. We took our temperature. There was like a workstation. It was weird. The top thermometers. I was. Sam kept bending over. Yes. Is this where you put it? Remember, we had to get. If we had to get a COVID test, though, we had to, like, go to some. Some like, you know, clinic or something. We couldn't get one at home. How about the shady urgent cares ripped all of us off by charging so much money for those tests. We saw those urgent cares go out of business once. People didn't need the tests any longer. Can I tell you, this is so east coast of me. I had a Covid guy early on, when tests were hard to get. I had a guy like, someone. I had a guy. I had a guy that would be like, yo, hundo. Like, I had a guy that if you gave him a hundred bucks, he had a test, like, so it was a weird time, dude. Again, to be honest, I'm almost regretting we're reminiscing. But you know what? It was five years ago. It is a timestamp. Five years. Really? Honestly, check this out, because this will. This will mind f you a little bit in a. In a weird way, but also a nice way. If you do search in your gallery. Go to your gallery and you search March 2020, you could see right where you were before this happened. And right where you were right around this time. You're like, oh, my goodness. I went to A I went to a Bon Scott tribute night and Bill Burr was one of the acts doing like a 20 minute stand up bit. And it was all like AC DC covers. And that was like. While Covid was sort of drifting out into the masses and he. Someone made a joke. They're like, I have Covid right now. And Bill Burr was like, get out of here. So it was crazy. We all felt kind of weird to be there, but we're like, let's do this rapid fire. Patrick in Spokane. What's up man? Hey, what's up boys? Yeah, it was crazy times back then. We went to a concert up in Canada. I live up here in Spokane. Right before it and things were getting weird. And on our way back, like everything got shut down. And I just wanted to give a shout out to the people that didn't get shut down. I worked for a very large package distribution company. Not the brown one, but the other one. Yeah, and yeah, we didn't got shut down, we got slammed. Dude, we got smoked during that time. So, you know, shout out to all the hard workers. You know, we talk about if you want to forget all the negative or the positive if you want to talk about the things that changed in your life. We talked about how there are people that started working from home even half the time that still work from home, that never work from home. Essentials and non essentials. Yeah, that's right. Like the people. There's so many people that went to an office every day of their life. And from COVID on they're like, yeah, I work from home half the time. So there are times we had never used the word quarantine as much, like in this past two weeks, five years ago, than right now. You remember Club Quarantine? Quarantino Covino is what they call Ohio. Nick, you're on. What's up, man? Hey, what's up, guys? Hey, bud. Man, I kind of want to approach the angle here and you've danced around it a little bit, but I kind of appreciate you guys in there and let me elaborate, but man, things were so crazy, like you couldn't do anything the way you did it before. And my whole life I've worked, I've been a sports fan. And the one thing that's kind of always been the same is an hour and a half of Ben Maller on the way to work in the morning, an hour and a half of Covino and Rich in the evening. And everything that was on media was like fear mongering and this and that. But man, every Morning. You guys were there, you know, and it was just. It was normal. It made stuff feel normal. It made it feel like it would eventually go back to normal. So, you know, in the. In the. Like, you're here. It's very eye rolly to say, but I sort of felt proud that Kavino and I never missed one day. Like, covet happened. And we're like, all right, let's just. We were each other's. What would you call. When you. What do they call the people close to you? Like your confidant. No, not your inner circle. Remember? It was like, you. Not the people you quarantine with. Remember? Like, your inner circle people. There's like a stupid name for it. Like, you're. Whatever it was. Oh, there was a term. I forgot it. What was it? There's like a term for, like, the people in your circle. Like. Like, they're in my blank. And it was like the people that you were around without a mask. Like, oh, no, they're in my. Whatever. Did we call ourselves Wu Tang? Yeah, yeah, we were clan. You know, just for optics. Want to hear something ridiculous? And I get it. Maybe we were working at SiriusXM at the time. We work together every day. Would you believe on video, they made us go on different cameras even though we were in the same room, because they didn't want anyone to think we were in the same room. And I'm like. And I was like, dude, we lived down the block from each other and we're best buds. We're still hanging out. And they were like, yeah, yeah, but for perception reasons. Like optics. Two cameras. Yeah, that's how it was. Optics. I get to do damage golfing. That was my introduction to you guys. The very first time I saw you two working together was during COVID and I got it and the caller hit on it a little bit. But I got to give props to all the tech producers, the executive producers, the editors. You're here the whole time. They gave us FEMA cards because the network's in charge of EAs alerts for the country and stuff like that. So we were considered essential workers. We did not miss a shift. We could not miss a day. And, you know, hopefully you didn't get sick. Thank goodness I didn't come down with COVID during that stretch. But we all had to be here physically in the network while all the hosts were from their home on, you know, the satellite fee. That's crazy. Push through it all. Two quickies. We'll go to Isaac and we'll get back to Our Ron Washington hypothetical. What's up, Johnny boy? Virginia Beach. What's up, man? Hey, how's it going, guys? What's up, man? What up, buddy? I doing good. I had heard that Las Vegas had a problem. They couldn't lock the doors because those doors were never made with locks on them. You know, that's. That's like seven isn't the joke? Like seven elevens don't have locks on their doors because they're open 24 hours. You know, it's. I do remember Vegas. Going to Vegas soon after Covid. Remember they had the shields up between you and the dealers. How weird. That was plexiglass, dude. Kavino, sneeze guard. During the break, Kavino was saying how it's almost like anxiety ridden to have this conversation because we've come. We're sort of like back to normal in society, but really sort of c blocked a lot of people's lives and relationships and work and a lot of stuff. So even talking about it sucks. Doesn't it make you appreciate how things are right now? Doesn't it show you how resilient we are? Yes. Bad things happen. You know, I don't care about your personal take on Covid because we all have our own thoughts. But to think, here we are, back to back to normal, right? I won't say this. Those stimulus checks we got could have been like doubled. They didn't quite go far enough, especially for people who are trying to get by, like you. So complaining about your stimulus check. Here's like fifteen hundred dollars. But like it was like maybe inflation was starting to take a hold or something. But I'm like, these disappeared. This money went bye bye in like a second. I'll take. I need a little more money. One more to wrap it up. Who do we got? Speaking of Vegas. Ah, Ann. Hi, Anne. What up, Ann in Vegas? Yeah. Good things come to those who wait. What's up, Ann? So things I remember most about COVID I started Facebook gambling. Like pool tabs and these bingo groups and all different types of like random gambling that people would just be hosting online in these chat rooms on TikTok and everything else. But then also I got pregnant during that lockdown. Oh, and so someone was locking it down during lockdown. Yeah, social distancing didn't work out, but it was like my first kid and it was terrible because of a quarantine situation. Like I had to go to all my appointments alone, even for delivery, like my doctor at the hospital. I was originally going to go to St. Rose and like they weren't allowing even the father to come in for delivery of like, seriously alone. Yeah, and after the delivery, it was a sucky time to be a pregnant mom. Hey, you know what? You may be thinking something because she said Vegas and it would only be Covino and Rich esque to end this conversation on a smutty note. But what happened to strippers during COVID They started only fans. Exactly. I wrote down strippers into only fans because all these young women that were making their money lap dancing and touching and grinding and gropey, that was no longer on the table. Comedians. Everybody had a pin. Only fans. Yep. Comedians started podcasts exactly like it. You know, think about that. Two layers and we'll move on. Just remind yourself, Covid comedians, podcasting, strippers. OnlyFans. Bo Burnham did a special from home, if you remember that. I do remember that. So again, five years ago, if you want to chime in on your memories, hit us up at covinoandrich. And when we get back again, we continue with this Ron Washington story. Maybe talk a little brawny Isaac Loinchron what's doing in the world of sports, my friend. Well, speaking of that quick promotion, you can join me on my new OnlyFans page. By the way, same great sports news, minus the trousers. All right, with that out of the way, round one of the NCAA tournament in full swing. Ah, yes, radio is theater of the mind. One game going on right now. 8 seed Gonzaga leading 9 seed Georgia 8562250 left to play in the second half. Gonzaga jumped out to leads of 13 to nothing and 35 in this game. The big story of round one today, 12 seed minutes McNeese upsetting 5 seed Clemson 69 61. McNeese led 5129 with 741 left in the second half. Clemson closed the game on a 3818 run, but ran out of time. 1 seed Auburn over 16 seed Alabama State 83 to 63. Auburn led this game by just one point with 114 left in the first half. 1 seed Houston over 16 seed SIU. Edwardsville 7849 seed Creighton knocked off 8 seed Louisville 89 75. Creighton's Jamiah Neal 29 points, 12 rebounds and 6 assists. 3 seed Wisconsin getting past 14 seed Montana 85 to 66. 4 seed Purdue holding off 13 seed High points, 7563 and 6 seed BYU advanced over 11 seed Virginia Commonwealth 80 to 71. Finally in the NBA, ESPN reported Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic will not play tonight against Milwaukee in order to manage his sprained right ankle. 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I think it's a great idea, Rich, because like I said, it's a no fail experiment. If they do terrible, it's not because they didn't have their cell phones. And you have to think about how much of a Distraction. It is, especially when you're trying to make a change. Right. You're trying to do something different. Like when players are being hit up by their wifeies throughout the day and baby mama drama, and they're distracted with social media, you know, he's there trying to win. Like, take away the distractions for a little while. It's the least you could do if you're serious about winning when you're getting paid that much money. No, I. I get you with kids. I said this to my wife yesterday. Anytime my son or daughter, like, hey, dad, can we, you know, do ground balls outside? Or, hey, do you want to ride bikes or do something? I'm always gonna say yes. Because if they're choosing that over their iPad, you'd be a terrible parent if you're like, no, no, I can't go do your iPad. You made me think of one thing, though. You know, I do think it's a good idea for Ron Washington to take the phones away so that chemistry could build, relationships could build. We can communicate as a team. But if you are a parent, you never want to be that far away from your phone in case they need you for an emergency. So that. That is problematic. I never want to be too far away from my phone. My battery dies. My first concern is, what if my daughter's trying to get a hold of me? Yeah. So how do you. How do you balance that? That would be something I'd be, you know, concerned about. I think Mike Trout and other team leaders have been put in charge of, you know, administering fines and stuff like that. Hey, maybe. Maybe there's a. How about this? There's a clubhouse, almost like a bat phone, like the hotline. I think there actually is, where it's like, hey, listen, wives, girlfriends, motherfuckers. Like, if there's an emergency, there's someone on hand at all times. The famous Joe Montana story where he'd call out to his wife from all the different stadiums. And by the way, there's a related story today where Bronnie James, who's probably getting some playing time tonight against the Bucks, Bronnie James said that he sees and reads and hears all the criticisms. He sees it all, and it sort of motivates him. But how about for the people that gets in their walls and gets in their heads? You think they really need that when they're trying to play their best before a big game? I don't think it's that productive for these players. The reason I'm torn on this, Kavino, is that when you hear stories of schools saying no phones. I think that's a great idea. When you say, hey, do your kids rather go outside and play wiffle ball or go on their iPads? Of course. Wiffle ball. 10 out of 10 times. I'm just saying these are grown men with wives, girlfriends, goomod side girls, kids, moms, aging parents. I just feel like taking away a grown man's phone is like, come on, it's a grow. Imagine somebody like Covino. Hand it over. You beat. You tell him to beat it. School, the workplace, dinner. You know, this is the workplace. Yeah, I get it. Right? And if it's clearly it's problematic too. These guys are spending more time on their phone than they are building chemistry. Well, getting to know each other. If the Angels aren't 25 games under.500, we'll consider it a victory. What do you think? Right. Hey, you got to applaud Ron Washington for trying to do something different. And Kovi brought up the Lakers besides the tourney. Lakers, Bucks, no Luca, no LeBron. Of course. Austin Reeves is now hurt. Finney Smith is hurt. Vanderbilt is hurt. So is Dalton Connect going to go for 40 tonight and Bronnie will definitely get some playing. Is it is tonight. Let's honestly prop it is tonight. Bronnie's highest point total ever should be. I mean, you just named like five players that put a point. So unless they plan on scoring 65 points, maybe Bronnie scores five to 10, he's going to mess around and get a triple double. It's gonna be cool to see. Definitely reason to watch tonight for sure. Well, hey, have a great Thursday night. Over promised is up next our bonus podcast. And then tomorrow back here on an action packed Friday. So we appreciate all the support at Covinon Rich. We'll post a link where you could play along live on the YouTube channel. Right. Arriva there too, baby. See you in the over promised land. Goodbye. Later. This is Nikki Glaser from the Nikki Glaser podcast. Have you guys seen this new commercial from Stand up to All Hate? It's basically Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady going back and forth with reasons that they hate each other. But then when you really listen to them, the reasons for the hate are just so stupid. I don't know. This. This commercial really got me. It's a strong reminder that hate in our country continues to be out of control. 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