The Best Of Covino & Rich

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Herd with Colin Cowherd – "The Best Of Covino & Rich"

Release Date: April 17, 2025

Introduction

"The Best Of Covino & Rich" episode from "The Herd with Colin Cowherd," hosted by iHeartPodcasts and The Volume, delves into a myriad of sports topics, blending humor, insightful analysis, and engaging banter among the hosts and guests. This episode primarily focuses on the ongoing saga of Aaron Rodgers, comparisons to iconic music groups, insights into Bill Belichick's personal life, NBA updates, and a nostalgic segment reminiscing about lost skills from past generations.

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1. Aaron Rodgers: The Fall from Grace and Comparisons to Boyz II Men

Discussion Leaders: Steve Covino, Olivia Carville, Danny G

The episode kicks off with a spirited debate about Aaron Rodgers' current standing in the NFL. Steve Covino draws an unexpected parallel between Rodgers and the 90s R&B group Boyz II Men, highlighting a perceived decline in Rodgers' athletic performance and popularity.

• Covino's Analogy:
  “Aaron Rodgers is like Boyz II Men. They went from selling out arenas and winning Grammys to playing at malls. Similarly, Rodgers went from being the elite quarterback to uncertain team futures and reduced contracts.” [03:00]

• Olivia Carville's Insight:
  “It's nice to hear that he has a realistic expectation of what he deserves at this point in his career.” [06:29]

The hosts explore Rodgers' willingness to accept a $10 million contract, contrasting it with the high-value deals typical for top-tier quarterbacks. They discuss whether Rodgers' reduced salary reflects his diminished status or a strategic move to stay relevant in the league.

• Rodgers' Statement:
  “I play for $10 million. I never once said I need a multi-year deal, 30, $40 million. I said play for 10.” [05:57]

Danny G's Perspective:
Danny G expresses skepticism about the necessity of Rodgers in certain team dynamics, emphasizing the need for teams to develop their quarterbacks rather than relying on seasoned veterans like Rodgers.

• Danny G on Team Dynamics:
  “Aaron Rodgers is a band-aid and we don't need a band-aid at quarterback. We need our quarterback of the future again.” [35:40]

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2. Bill Belichick's Personal Life and Its Impact on Coaching

Discussion Leaders: Steve Covino, Olivia Carville, Dan Byer

The conversation shifts to Bill Belichick, the legendary NFL coach, focusing on his personal life, particularly his relationship with his young girlfriend, Jordan Hudson. The hosts debate whether Hudson's presence at NFL practice fields is distracting or merely a benign addition to Belichick's professional environment.

• Olivia Carville's Concern:
  “She’s so prominently noticeable; it’s a little distracting. Is she doing anything wrong?” [25:12]

• Steve Covino's Defense:
  “He could do whatever he wants because he's Bill Belichick. He’s the greatest coach of all time, and he deserves any little perk.” [25:16]

The hosts discuss how Hudson's visibility may affect team dynamics and the perception of Belichick's professionalism. They consider whether her presence undermines the traditional image of Belichick as the stoic, strategic mastermind.

• Caller Matt from Alaska's Take:
  “Having his girlfriend around is a way for someone at UNC to say the wrong thing, giving Belichick the out to step away gracefully.” [34:26]

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3. NBA Updates: Playoff Predictions and Player Health

Discussion Leaders: Steve Covino, Olivia Carville, Danny G, Dan Byer

Transitioning to basketball, the hosts provide updates on recent NBA games and playoff developments. They highlight significant performances and key matchups, focusing on the Western Conference's dynamic landscape.

• Anthony Edwards' Performance:
  Olivia Carville praises Edwards for his vocal and impactful presence on the court.
  “He was pretty vocal. He’s playoff Jimmy, so this is when he steps it up.” [66:05]

• Playoff Matchups:
  Steve Covino expresses excitement over upcoming playoff matchups, particularly between the Clippers and Nuggets. He emphasizes the strategic gameplay and the potential for thrilling encounters.
  “I love Kawhi and that Clippers team playing the Denver Nuggets in the first round.” [66:24]

Player Health Updates:
They also touch upon Damian Lillard’s recovery from deep vein thrombosis, signaling his readiness to return to play, which adds another layer to the playoff narrative.

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4. Throwback Thursday: The Lost Skills of Past Generations

Discussion Leaders: Steve Covino, Olivia Carville, Danny G

A nostalgic segment titled "Throwback Thursday" reminisces about skills and experiences that younger generations no longer understand. The hosts and callers share personal anecdotes about technologies and social practices from their youth.

• Key Topics Discussed:

  • Memorizing phone numbers and using rotary phones.
  • Developing photos from film cameras.
  • Making mixtapes versus creating digital playlists.
  • Using microfiche and card catalogs for research.
  • Fantasy football before the Internet era.

• Notable Quotes:
  Olivia Carville:
  “They lack understanding because they didn't see it. We'll never really know about the art of the mixtape.” [37:06]
  Steve Covino:
  “Rollover minutes, dialing up the Internet, passing notes – these are things our kids just don't get.” [45:53]

Callers contribute humorous and heartfelt stories, highlighting the contrast between past and present communication methods and leisure activities.

• Danny G on Pass Notes:
  “Remember when the teacher would intercept a note and read it aloud? Instant entertainment!” [48:27]

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5. Additional Sports Insights and Lighthearted Banter

Throughout the episode, the hosts engage in lighthearted banter and share amusing stories, reinforcing the show's engaging and personable atmosphere.

• Steve Covino's Story:
  “I had to tell my son to play basketball with the neighbor kid. It felt like 1980 again!” [55:38]

• Olivia Carville on Modern Parenting:
  “My daughter didn’t know how to use a typewriter or a map. She’s amazed at how we communicated.” [57:43]

• Danny G's Fantasy Football Pre-Internet Experience:
  “Playing fantasy football before the Internet was a calculator-intensive task.” [58:41]

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Conclusion

"The Best Of Covino & Rich" episode successfully blends sports analysis with personal anecdotes and nostalgic reflections. The hosts provide insightful commentary on current NFL and NBA topics while also fostering a sense of nostalgia through discussions about lost skills and past experiences. Notable moments include the nuanced comparison of Aaron Rodgers to Boyz II Men, the debate over Bill Belichick's personal life, and the heartfelt reminiscing in the Throwback Thursday segment.

Key Takeaways:

• Aaron Rodgers' Career Trajectory: Rodgers is navigating a challenging phase, akin to Boyz II Men's transition, reflecting on his relevance and value in the NFL.

• Bill Belichick's Personal Choices: Belichick's relationship dynamics are scrutinized for their potential impact on his professional environment.

• NBA Playoffs Excitement: The Western Conference promises thrilling playoff matchups with standout performances from players like Anthony Edwards.

• Nostalgia for Lost Skills: The episode highlights the gap between generations, showcasing how certain skills and experiences have become obsolete in the digital age.

Notable Quotes:

• Steve Covino on Aaron Rodgers:
  “Aaron Rodgers is like Boyz II Men… he gets it.” [03:00]

• Aaron Rodgers:
  “I play for $10 million. I never once said I need a multi-year deal, 30, $40 million. I said play for 10.” [05:57]

• Olivia Carville on Lost Skills:
  “They’re too busy streaming to understand the art of the mixtape.” [39:00]

This episode serves as a comprehensive exploration of current sports narratives interwoven with personal reflections, making it both informative and relatable for listeners.

Transcript

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[Steve Covino]

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[Olivia Carville]

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[Steve Covino]

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[Olivia Carville]

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[Steve Covino]

I want to tell you why Aaron Rodgers is like boys to men.

[Olivia Carville]

Oh, hold up bro, hold up. Because Danny G said hey man, I don't tell you guys what to talk about, but no Aaron Rodgers.

[Danny G]

Look at all these great topics we have today. There's no need for you to spend a half hour on Aaron Rodgers when there's absolutely no news about where he's actually going to be playing or sitting his butt on the beach retiring.

[Steve Covino]

Oh, I'm sorry I missed that now. But Danny, I just, I did have a Deep thought about Aaron Rodgers and how he's very much like your favorite R and B super group from the 90s. Boys to Men.

[Olivia Carville]

Boy bands ruined them.

[Steve Covino]

You're on the right track because, you.

[Olivia Carville]

Know, boy bands ruined a great thing, which was Boys to Men.

[Steve Covino]

Don't you ruin my better than Colin Cowherd analogy. Okay, all right.

[Olivia Carville]

Zip it, stars.

[Steve Covino]

How is Aaron Rodgers like Boyz II Men? If you watch the documentary on Netflix back in the day, I believe it's called this is Pop. And you realize that Boyz II Men was dominating the world. Motown, Philly, it's the end of the road. Like they were on top of the world. Who was bigger than Boyz II Men? I remember having my first couple skate with a girl in seventh grade at the roller skating rink, trying to get a little smooch while Boyz II Men was playing in the background.

[Olivia Carville]

Kidding me. You're talking to one of their biggest fans. Cooley High Harmony. Man, I loved it when she broke up with you.

[Danny G]

You put unbended knee on a mixtape.

[Steve Covino]

Correct.

[Olivia Carville]

Sipping ain't easy.

[Steve Covino]

Get over here. Junior high makeouts, blah, blah, blah. So we all have fondness for Boys to Men, I'd like to think, right.

[Olivia Carville]

Big time love. In fact, the fun fact I got to sing with Boys to Men on our show. I loved Boyz II Men.

[Steve Covino]

Wow. I was like, doom doom doom da da dumb dad.

[Olivia Carville]

So how I could think of a few ways in which Aaron Rodgers is like them, but I don't want to ruin your surprise.

[Steve Covino]

So Aaron Rodgers is like Boys to Men. And I'll explain Boys to Men in that docu series, this is Pop. They talked about how boys to men went from playing arenas and sometimes stadiums, number one hit records, Grammy awards, Grammys. And then all of a sudden came the boy band explosion. NSync, Backstreet, 98 Degrees, O Town, O Town. Like boy band.

[Olivia Carville]

I was like, no town.

[Steve Covino]

They sort of replaced boys to men on young girls bedroom walls.

[Olivia Carville]

Well, everybody started associating Boys to men as a boy band sort of act, and they lost a lot of credibility as that sort of faded.

[Danny G]

And that was for pop fans, Rich, not R and B fans.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah, they sort of lost their R and B vibe and people threw them into that mix.

[Steve Covino]

So overnight it seemed they talk about this on the documentary. Overnight they went from selling out arenas to yo, should we play at the mall?

[Danny G]

They were playing casinos.

[Steve Covino]

And it was a quick fall from grace where one minute you're winning Grammys and everyone knows your song songs, and then you're Trying to decide should I be playing at the, you know, at the Topanga Mall for a couple hundred people?

[Olivia Carville]

I think they opened up for the Zach Attack.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah.

[Olivia Carville]

And who is the Sparkles girl on Robin Sparkles? I think they opened up for Robin Sparkles at one point.

[Steve Covino]

And how is this like Aaron Rodgers? I'll tell you how. Because you could go from the hottest commodity in the game to, to, yeah, I really don't care that much anymore. Real quick in sports, music and entertainment, grand opening, grand closing. And Aaron Rodgers this morning when he talked to McAfee, even talked about how I'm not looking for 40, $50 million a year, in fact he'll play for a lot less.

[Aaron Rodgers]

I had a lot of great conversations with a lot of teams. I've been straight up with these teams from the start about where I was at, you know, starting with the money thing. I told every single one of the teams I talked to, you know, ain't about the money. I play for 10 M's, you know, I don't care. I never once said I need a multi year deal, 30, $40 million. I said play for 10.

[Steve Covino]

So Aaron Rodgers at least is accepting the boys to men fall from I'm the elite. I'm the elite 50, $60 million guy. He gets it.

[Olivia Carville]

It's nice to hear that he has a realistic expectation of what he deserves at this point in his career. That's nice.

[Steve Covino]

And when you think about that, I have so many other thoughts.

[Olivia Carville]

All right, well, I have two other ways in which he's like boys to men.

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[Olivia Carville]

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[Steve Covino]

So Tell me other ways how Aaron Rodgers is like boys to men.

[Olivia Carville]

And of course, we want to know your thoughts, too, about Aaron Rodgers. There's a few updates on Aaron Rodgers. Big story today, 87799 on Fox.

[Danny G]

Don't you dare extend this segment.

[Olivia Carville]

He's come to the end of the road. Bam. And it's so hard to say goodbye.

[Steve Covino]

I see what you did there.

[Olivia Carville]

And I think he should look, I am the first guy. One of the rules here on the Covino and Rich show is, you know, they'll tell other people how to spend their money and don't tell other people how to live their life and how they should live their legacy. So if Aaron Rodgers wants to play and he's willing to play for 10 million a year as a back, is he willing to play backup?

[Steve Covino]

I don't think he's willing to do that.

[Olivia Carville]

But hey, you know, I think maybe he should look into that, too. But I'm saying I'm the first guy to say it's none of our business. His legacy to enhance or tarnish is his life. I believe Bon Jovi said that, too.

[Steve Covino]

He did.

[Olivia Carville]

It's his life now.

[Steve Covino]

Never.

[Olivia Carville]

But I really feel at this point and at this stage and for where he's at and what he's been through with the injury and bouncing around now I think it's time to call it quits. Unless he's willing to play backup, I think it's time to retire and he should be proud of that. And I'm never that guy. In fact, I don't think I've really ever leaned into that as much. I've talked about it because it's been an option, it's been talked about. But I really think it's time, man. And I feel like at this stage, it's like you're overstepping your. Overstepping your welcome. He's overstepping and overstaying at the same time because he's got other teams waiting around to see what he's going to do. It's almost disrespectful at this point. He's saying there's no Steeler line. He's saying right as of now that, bro, there's no timeline and he has no retirement decisions in mind.

[Steve Covino]

The Steelers have Kyle Rudolph in their quarterback room, sort of just like you said. What I say, Kyle Rudolph. I love that guy. I've mentioned him like 10 times.

[Dan Byer]

Yeah, the Kyle Rudolph Vikings tight end reference you've done a couple times lately.

[Steve Covino]

I, for some reason, I must have a Thing. Maybe I'll be meet him and we'll become best buds.

[Danny G]

Now, to be fair to Aaron Rodgers, he did say that he's not holding the Steelers hostage, that he's telling them they can move on if they need to.

[Steve Covino]

I mean, that is true, but that's like a girl telling you like, well, if you want, you could see other people and you're like, well, I know what that means because then if I do, it's over.

[Olivia Carville]

Right. I get it though. On the flip side, you can say, well, that's on the Steelers.

[Steve Covino]

I mean, you could sleep with whoever you want. Okay. Come on.

[Olivia Carville]

But as the toady said back in the 90s, make up your mind. Make up your mind, dude.

[Steve Covino]

Aaron Rodgers, like Boyz II Men, the fall from grace was there. They acknowledge he's not playing stadiums anymore. He's playing malls. And it happens real quick. I love that he acknowledges it, but interestingly enough, if he's willing to pay play for $10 million, isn't it shocking that no one else has bit? Because I thought the hang up was, I don't know, who wants to pay him 30, 40, 50 mil for a year or two. If he's selling teams, I'm okay with 1 year, 10 mil if it's the right fit. You don't think teams like the 49ers scratch your noggin a little bit?

[Olivia Carville]

Like, yeah, now that, that's public information, public knowledge. It also makes the fans put pressure on the teams to be like, yo, well, then we should get them. If that's the case. If, if that sounds good to you for $10 million, it's not a bad deal. And you know what? When, when the story's written, like, we all sort of lived it, so we all have our opinions. But looking back, looking back, let's say fast forward 30 years from now, we're not going to say he fell off a cliff or that he hit a wall. We're going to say that he suffered a bad injury and that's why his career wasn't the same.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, right.

[Olivia Carville]

Like, we often sort of forget, like, how serious that was. Dude missed a whole season.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah.

[Olivia Carville]

As a result, it's not like he was stinking. No, he got hurt.

[Steve Covino]

It. It might go back to my thought months ago. And again, I'm never the I told you so guy. In fact, people that do that, I want to karate kick, judo chop. But I did say a couple months ago when we were speculating, ooh, what team would it be? Minnesota or the Steelers or the Giants or When we were speculating the few teams, I said, you know what makes the most sense to me? And maybe I was right. You know, like a broken clock is right twice a day. I said, what if Aaron Rodgers starts a season without a job and then he's the savior that comes in because we're likely to see at least one or two starting QBs go down mid season on a decent enough team and then who's the hero that comes in for five to $10 million halfway through the season? Aaron Rodgers.

[Olivia Carville]

And again the update today, Fox Sports Radio Nation. He says there's no deadline with the Steelers and they in fact can do whatever they want. As Danny said, there's no deadline with the Steelers or any other team and no retirement decisions as of now. Aaron Rodgers, some people sick of hearing about it and hearing about him a la Danny G, but it's kind of hard to avoid. And do you have any other ways in which he's like Boys to Men?

[Steve Covino]

I love the.

[Danny G]

Yeah, it's like the water runs dry.

[Steve Covino]

Danny. I have one more analogy that's way less cool than Boys to Men. I know. It's a movie Covino probably thinks is like super corny and way too corny for a guy like Steve Covino.

[Olivia Carville]

Is it a movie you like?

[Steve Covino]

Yes.

[Olivia Carville]

Then yeah, you're probably right.

[Steve Covino]

Has anyone here seen the legendary rom com My Best Friend's Wedding?

[Olivia Carville]

Oh, my God. Come on, dude. Is that where Julie Roberts stands up.

[Steve Covino]

And has a sing along the moment I wake up?

[Olivia Carville]

That is sprinkled with before I put all my makeup.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, listen, there's cheesy scenes. I'm not saying it's one of my favorites.

[Olivia Carville]

I saw that part and I left.

[Dan Byer]

It's a juicy Lucy. It's oozing cheese.

[Steve Covino]

Oh, yeah.

[Danny G]

I mean, never seen it.

[Olivia Carville]

Movies. Conqueror.

[Steve Covino]

Danny G. You've never seen My Best Friend's Wedding movies?

[Danny G]

Never seen that.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah, you ain't missing anything.

[Steve Covino]

Dude, there's a sport. Remember the dad? Cameron Diaz's dad is what? The owner of the White Sox?

[Dan Byer]

I did not recall that fact.

[Steve Covino]

The whole. There's like multiple scenes that take place at I believe the old.

[Dan Byer]

I can't say I remember that movie very well, if at all.

[Olivia Carville]

It was a pop. Any Julia Roberts movie at that time was huge. Right. So how does that tie into Rogers?

[Steve Covino]

Because he's like Julia Roberts in this movie because at the end of it she's chasing after a guy who's chasing after a girl and everyone. Someone's chasing someone. And then her gay best friend That I think is played by Rupert Everett is like, jules, no one's chasing you. Rewind a couple of years. How many teams would have been chasing Aaron Rodgers if I told you right now, Mahomes, Joe Burrow, any of these the top tier quarterbacks, Josh Allen, if they were like, hey guys, I'm available. 30 teams would be like, I want in. No, no one is biting on Aaron Rodgers so much. Like.

[Olivia Carville]

And you know what he's gonna say, Much like Julia Roberts in a totally different movie. Yeah, mistake. Big mistake. So big mistake. And I would root for that. I want to make this clear too. Steve Covino, just the fan, just like everybody else. I'm not saying he should retire because I don't like the guy, but I'm also not rooting against him. Like if he comes out and lights it up. Believe you me, I love that story. I really do. I love seeing a great comeback story or a second third chance story if he comes back. We were all wrong, man, that would be so dope. I would love to tell you, man, look at, look at Rogers. He still had some in the tank because we all want to feel that we still have something in the tank. I'm not, I'd be rooting for Rogers in that case.

[Steve Covino]

I'm a big fan of when you say the phrase, believe you me, it's a good one.

[Olivia Carville]

I feel it puts more emphasis, man.

[Steve Covino]

I feel, I feel convinced. Like, believe you, it just adds a.

[Olivia Carville]

Little more conviction, that's all.

[Steve Covino]

So, hey, I won't harp on Aaron Rodgers.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah.

[Steve Covino]

But it's a big story a to make. I don't want to upset Danny G. And I get it. We're all we have Aaron Rodgers, exhaustion. But there is one more clip fatigue. You don't need to play the whole be the whole clip. But I would say just the beginning of how he talks about retirement and how he's a 41 year old man. Life is different now.

[Aaron Rodgers]

You know, I'm in a different phase of my life. I'm 41 years old. I'm in a serious relationship, off the field, stuff going on that requires my attention, you know, to make a commitment to a team is a big thing, whether you're a first year player or a 20 year vet. I've been straight up with these teams from the start about where I was at, you know, starting with the money thing, you know, I told every single one of the teams I talked to, it ain't about the money. I played for 10 M's you know.

[Olivia Carville]

And that makes things a Lot more clear. So again, Aaron Rodgers fatigue is real. But I think that changes. It changes the conversation because you would imagine that a guy like that comes in with an expectation, a built in starting point of about $40 million. He's willing to take $10 million. What do you got to lose at that point?

[Danny G]

Rich. So it's actually like Pretty Woman because his rate has changed. It's not about the money anymore.

[Steve Covino]

Just don't kiss on the mouth. Danny, I, I am with you now. We're done. We don't want Aaron Rodgers fatigue. But how, how much of a chip is he with the draft one week away because now let's say he's out. Doesn't that change a few teams options?

[Danny G]

Well, and thoughts, specifically the Steelers.

[Steve Covino]

Steelers and Minnesota, who I think oddly hanging on to maybe the Vikings.

[Danny G]

It looks like they've pushed all their chips into the middle of the table for J.J. mcCarthy.

[Olivia Carville]

Let me ask you this. Do you think Steelers fans want them? I want to hit up like my personal Steeler friends and fans and people I know. Like, do you think the fans are like, yeah, man, Rogers, I don't know.

[Steve Covino]

You know, like I said, when a player is acquired on your team, it goes back to my first lame Julia Roberts analogy. And by the way, good luck finding another show that somehow ties random movies and sports together. You go look and then you'll come back and be like, rich, you were right. Like I said in that movie My Best Friend's Wedding, when no one was chasing Julia Roberts. It's like, well, you got to remember, does anyone really want you in this scenario? When the Mets got Juan Soto. God, were we happy when the Dodgers acquired Ohtani on that huge deal? My goodness. Jerseys were selling off the shelf when certain players are acquired or resigned. The fan bases are crazy. Look at the Lakers and Luca, number one selling jersey in the NBA.

[Olivia Carville]

That's awesome.

[Steve Covino]

You got to remember, are the fans pumped or not? Give me a team, right?

[Olivia Carville]

That's a part of it. I mean, we all have Steelers friends, right? Seriously, just like take a little. Just throw a text message out there and take your own little test. Have you had any of your Steelers friends say, man, I hope they get them? I haven't. And I'm not saying that's the pl end all way to figure this out. But I haven't heard one person excited about getting them. Because it feels, I'm not saying it is, but it feels like you're not moving forward. It feels like you're moving backward. If you make that move during free.

[Steve Covino]

Agency Danny G. I've seen all of us in the studio react when our player that we liked left our team or got resigned. When your team acquires or loses a player, there's a reaction like, oh man. Or oh yeah, heck yeah. Will Aaron Rodgers warrant that reaction from, from anyone? Well, if Aaron Rodgers signs a one year deal with the Steelers, Vikings or some mystery team that may come out of nowhere, does the fan base explode in happiness?

[Olivia Carville]

Well, here's the other thing, and I hate to bring it up because it's so obvious, but it is part of the conversation and it's not just him and where is he at in his career? Because he's going to offer great leadership, he's offer something for $10 million. It seems to be worth it. But you also get that traveling circus that comes along with him. Is that really worth it? Is that part of the reason why, you know, it's not that great of an option?

[Steve Covino]

And then you gotta ask yourself, while the price tag is low, if a team has a quarterback, even if they're wishy washy other guy. What a kick in the huevos. If you're like, yeah, you know we're gonna go with Aaron for a year but, but stick around because next year we may go with you. Like, as a Niners fan, I find that to be appealing because I think the Niners have a lot of great offensive key players still in place. Aaron Rodgers is appealing. If you don't want to pay Brock Purdy 50, $60 million a year, but then what? When that one year is done, what do you do? You go, hey, now you're back, right? I don't know.

[Olivia Carville]

So your thoughts? That's the big story today. Again, he says there's no deadline with the Steelers or any other team and no retirement decisions in the future. So your thoughts on Aaron Rodgers? Apparently he's like boys to men. And Julia Roberts, that's what you got out of our show. Covino and Richard, since we harp so much on Aaron Rodgers, even though Danny G was super producing, saying, nah man, don't talk about him, that's what he wants. You know, even though Danny G told us not to, we spent so much time that we're not going to have time talking about the greatest athletes in the world, like who are ever, ever. Allah.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah.

[Olivia Carville]

Travis Hunter, who wants to play both sides of the ball, right? So based on that, we'll talk about him. The greatest athletes ever. We'll talk some baseball cards and friendly wagers today. Friendly wagers on over promised a brand new Episode debuts an hour and a half from now. We go live on fox Sports Radio's YouTube page. So join the. Join the chat.

[Steve Covino]

Now, if you're talking about the greatest athletes, I mean, later on today, we'll definitely talk about Sh. Otani.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Caller]

Sh.

[Rich Davis]

Otani.

[Olivia Carville]

Right now we're live from the Tyrack.com studio.

[Steve Covino]

Yep.

[Olivia Carville]

CNR and get you ready for your next hilarious PayPal campaign with Will Ferrell. Oh, I want to be with you every day. I love that.

[Steve Covino]

Well, get ready with you everywhere. Get ready for his rendition of Fleetwood Max. Go your own way in a bathtub. Check out the teaser that drops this weekend and the commercial on Saturday during the games. All right, all right. Now, the teaser drops today, by the way.

[Olivia Carville]

Oh, nice. I can't wait. Love, Will Ferrell.

[Steve Covino]

So Bill Belichick is in the news, and I find it to be amazing how our perception of this guy has been altered a little bit in the last, what would you say, months, maybe years.

[Olivia Carville]

What changed that? Him doing aerobics on the beach? Doing airplane with his girlfriend.

[Steve Covino]

That's one of them. Yeah.

[Olivia Carville]

What changed your impression of him?

[Steve Covino]

His birthday was yesterday, I believe.

[Olivia Carville]

You know where it really started, Rich? That Tom Brady roast. Look at him. He's smiling out there having fun. He didn't look as grumpy.

[Steve Covino]

Yesterday was his 73rd birthday, so you know what? I hope to be having that much fun at 73.

[Olivia Carville]

Well, there's two stories that involve his hot young girlfriend, who, by the way, is running for Ms. Maine, USA. Did you see that? She's still a pageant girl. Good for her. First part of the story was when she wanted or he wanted her cc'd on all of his emails.

[Steve Covino]

Yep.

[Olivia Carville]

People said, huh. I mean, I guess. Okay, thought that was weird. And then everybody went man at arms and up in arms at the fact that she's on the practice field, like, very prominently there. And, you know, her being attractive doesn't help because she's so noticeable.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah. She wasn't dressed down. She was, like, dressed hot.

[Olivia Carville]

Right. And was she necessarily doing anything wrong? Well, that's debatable because the story was, well, why is she there? Like, she's so prominently there. It's like she's in the way. Why is she there? It's like, my girlfriend's sitting here while we're doing a show. What's she doing here?

[Danny G]

She does clean your headphones right before each show.

[Olivia Carville]

I mean, once in a while, she'll walk in and, you know, give me a massage.

[Steve Covino]

But seriously, there is something he said about this now? I did.

[Olivia Carville]

But the update is this though, Rich. She was simply doing her job, apparently, like making sure the microphones were working properly. It's part of her gig as an assistant producer or something like that. Coordinator or producer for a documentary infomercial for NFL Films. And also that's the other side of the story.

[Steve Covino]

Also, the 24 year old girlfriend, Jordan Hudson, wants to make sure her boyfriend, Bill Belichick, his son, receives the utmost respect, they're saying. Also, she's quality control. The reason she cc'd on emails and present is that any anytime this conversation's about, well, his son's there for nepotism reasons. And she apparently is like almost handling the administrative nonsense that Bill's like, got no time for this. So she's sort of being an assistant in a way.

[Olivia Carville]

But the vibe is becoming like, well, is she too prominently around? Why does he need her around so much?

[Steve Covino]

I don't think this is a Yoko Ono breaking up the Beatles situation. I think it's a Bill Belichick has earned this situation.

[Olivia Carville]

Well, that's the question.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah.

[Olivia Carville]

Fox Sports Radio Nation. Just based on some of the stuff you've been seeing and hearing. Again, cc'd on the emails. She's on the practice field again, doing her job, but she's so prominently noticeable, it's a little distracting. You're so used to seeing Bill Belichick be his own guy and he's out there just being grumpy. Do you think he's crossing the line a little bit, like optically in a way? Is he crossing the line professionally in any way? Or as Rich just said, did he earn it? Like, zip it. You're not Bill Belichick. He could do what he wants.

[Steve Covino]

I mean, both could be true. Like, I personally think he's earning.

[Olivia Carville]

I think it's a weird look. I do.

[Steve Covino]

He's the greatest coach of all time, arguably most super bowl rings. Who's better than Bill Belichick and Tom Brady when they were together? I think he's earned any little perk, especially Camino. Get this. This is not like he took over for Jerry Jones and he was Jerry Jones coach in Dallas or you know, Mal Belichick, who's the new head coach or the jets or the Niners or the, you know, Falcons or some NFL team. He's at UNC that historically has a bunk football program. You bring in Bill Belichick, I think you roll out the red carpet. If you're like, hey, Bill, you and your girl on side by side, foot Rubs during practice. Do it. Yeah, but you know what happens at unc, man?

[Olivia Carville]

Here's what happens. It becomes online f. And the distraction, taking away from the team. That's the thing. Is she doing anything wrong?

[Steve Covino]

No.

[Olivia Carville]

If anything, it's the fact that she's attractive, young, and hot and noticeable, and people just can't stop talking about it because it's an unconventional relationship.

[Steve Covino]

But I don't understand how. How we think this is going to negatively affect Bill Belichick. I look at it this way. The only argument you could give on the other side is you could tell me if you work from home, you're just as effective. But there's a part of me that's like, maybe not a hundred percent right? Like, I could work from home, I could. But I. You. Maybe you're. Even if you're 99% effective, you're still losing 1% when you do. This is almost like bring your kid to work day. When you bring your kid to work, let's say your kid's off from school and you're like, hey, yeah, hey, buddy, just sit in the lobby while dad works. You're. You could work fine, but you. You have to admit, you're, like, 1% distracted.

[Olivia Carville]

That's what I'm saying. There's a little sense of being distracted here. And it's also proof that she's going to be very involved in the UNC program moving forward. That's the other takeaway. But I'm not.

[Steve Covino]

I'm not trying to compare his girlfriend to bring your kid to work day. But think about it. If I told you, Kavino, it's spring break this week. My wife had a meeting or had to do something. Yeah. I'm going to bring my son. Don't worry. He's going to sit in the lobby on his iPad the whole time while I still do a great show with you. You don't think every break I'd go out there like, hey, buddy, you need some Cheetos? You need some. You need a juice box. You're still slightly distracted.

[Olivia Carville]

And it's not even that either. Look, let's be very clear, too. Props to Bill Belichick. He's got himself a hot, young girlfriend. All right, let's be real about it. Good for you, dude. Glad you're having fun.

[Steve Covino]

When you whisper it like that, it sounds creepier and hot, young girlfriends.

[Dan Byer]

And, you know, like, Joe Biden.

[Olivia Carville]

He's a legend. Hot, young girlfriend. He's a legend. He's done it. Great for him. But don't Tell me. And this goes both ways. This isn't a sexist comment. If a guy is at the girls workplace or if a guy's hanging out with the girls changes the dynamic. Meaning, Rich, if all the boys are hanging out and all of a sudden my girlfriend comes and she's all of a sudden hanging, we're not ribbing on each other the same way. Right. And if we really wanted to go at it, there is a sense of I don't want to do that in front of her. Right. And it goes both ways. If girls are doing girl stuff and all of a sudden I come marching in, hey, ladies, what's going on? You don't think that's a dynamic shifter? So to have like her there, Maybe the coaches and the players, they feel like they can't approach Bill Belichick in the same way because it's in front of his girlfriend. Like, what if someone had like, like a serious conversation where they really wanted to be heated at Bill Belichick, now they don't because she's there and it could change things. And it does cause fodder that I don't think is necessarily happen helpful. But is that warranted? No, but that's just how life is. Because she's young and attractive and he's Bill Belichick.

[Steve Covino]

All right, I'll give you an example and then we'll take your feedback. We'll go to Dan by for an update. I think Bill Belichick could do whatever he wants and I'll explain why.

[Olivia Carville]

Well, I mean, he is give me.

[Steve Covino]

The biggest sports talk show in the country. You could argue Dan Patrick McAfee, Collins, Stephen A. Like the heavy Lord. I'm talking like I would say that.

[Olivia Carville]

Would be when you and I fill in for DP or fill in for.

[Steve Covino]

Colin Kavino and Rich.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah, but.

[Steve Covino]

But you know, if you're going to.

[Danny G]

Be real, according to your statistics, according.

[Olivia Carville]

To me and my family.

[Steve Covino]

But if dan Patrick or McAfee or Stephen A. Or Colin or one of the biggest guys in the game, if someone said let's say they retire and then you know, 102 point whatever the ticket was like, hey, can you do a local radio show once a week? You're a legend and maybe you're bored. You want to keep doing this and Collins like star stars, fine. I'll do like a weekly Colin segment. He could show up there in his slippers getting a massage while he's doing it. They just want him there. Unc just wants Bill Belichick there. That program was non Existent. Now it's not only on the, on the map. People are going to watch UNC games.

[Olivia Carville]

Kind of like he's, they're so grateful to have him there that he could do whatever he wants. And we're seeing it.

[Steve Covino]

He could. Honestly, he could request the most ridiculous crap and they'd be like, Mr. Belichick. I mean, it sounds a little crazy, but you got it, sir. Why would they not? Have you ever watched a UNC football game in your life? And the answer is no. I don't. You don't even need to think about it. The answer is no. Will you watch one this year? The answer is yes.

[Olivia Carville]

Well, okay.

[Dan Byer]

Mack Brown was coaching there previously.

[Steve Covino]

No one cared.

[Dan Byer]

No, they did.

[Olivia Carville]

I mean, he had, he had.

[Dan Byer]

No, he had them definitely elevated from where they were prior.

[Steve Covino]

I didn't care. And that's all I.

[Dan Byer]

They were winning eight, nine, ten games a year. But now it's like, oh, you got an NFL coach like Mac Brown won a national championship. But I'm just saying it wasn't completely desolate there.

[Steve Covino]

Mack banging a 24 year old.

[Olivia Carville]

Whoa. No, but you know what? That's the other thing.

[Dan Byer]

I hope not.

[Olivia Carville]

That's why this is very odd because she's the same age as the. Actually around the same age as the players he coaches. And we've never seen any other significant other on the field with the coaching staff in this way at all. In fact, we often bring up the fact that Joe Montana used to call his wife on the sideline and thought that was odd. Bill Belichick has his hot young girlfriend right there with him.

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[Margie Murphy]

In 2020, a group of young women in a tidy suburb of New York City found themselves in an AI fueled nightmare.

[Olivia Carville]

Someone was posting photos.

[Steve Covino]

It was just me naked. Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts on my body. Parts that looked exactly like my own.

[Margie Murphy]

I wanted to throw up. I wanted to scream. It happened in Levittown, New York. But reporting this series took us through the darkest corners of the Internet and to the front lines of a global battle against deepfake pornography.

[Steve Covino]

This should be illegal, but what is this?

[Margie Murphy]

This is a story about a technology that's moving faster than the law and about vigilantes trying to stem the tide. I'm Margie Murphy. And I'm Olivia Carville. This is Levittown, a new podcast from iHeart Podcast, Bloomberg and Kaleidoscope. Listen to Levittown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast. Find it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Steve Covino]

I know we have our Mets, Yankees. Bet whoever finishes with a better record.

[Olivia Carville]

At the end of this year, both tied 11 7. Right now.

[Steve Covino]

I saw the Yankees are underdogs tonight playing the Rays. I'm like, who's pitching for the Yankees? Maybe you could tell me who Will Warren is. Are you that thin in the.

[Olivia Carville]

Just a young dude. Are you that young dude that the Yankees believe in a lot? They think he's got some good potential for sure.

[Steve Covino]

I'm going to keep an eye on Will Warren from this, Moving this point, moving forward, because I'm like, will Warren. I had to look him up. I'm like, I never heard of Will Warren. All right, look at the clock. It's 50 when old school hits. Come on.

[Olivia Carville]

There's a search.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah.

[Caller]

What we gonna do right here is.

[Steve Covino]

Go back.

[Olivia Carville]

Into time.

[Caller]

Throwing it back for a Thursday.

[Steve Covino]

Old school when 50 hits at 50 after C& R, give you the time capsule topic and we reminisce together. We go old school every Thursday. But before we do, do you mind taking two quick phone calls? I. I forgot we had people holding. We got time. It's all good.

[Olivia Carville]

You know what? Let's do it.

[Steve Covino]

Who do we got to wrap up the Bill Belichick conversation? The Aaron Rodgers stuff? I don't want to peep. Keep people holding if they're kind enough to call. Right. Matt in Alaska wanted to talk about Belichick and his girlfriend. What's up, man?

[Caller]

Hey, what's going on, boys.

[Steve Covino]

What's up, buddy?

[Caller]

My take on the whole thing is, you know, Bill never wanted this job in the first place. He only took this job so that his son could have it three years after he's there. So having his little side piece around up in everybody's business trying to make her mark on the program is a way for somebody to at North Carolina to say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing. And it gives Bill the out that he wants. He doesn't have to. He doesn't have to coach his so can slide in and everybody moves on happily ever after.

[Steve Covino]

That's. Well, you know.

[Olivia Carville]

You know what? No, it holds some weight and I appreciate the call, but you never saw him do that before because he took the gig real serious. Right. So there's something to be said about that.

[Steve Covino]

And Patrick in Illinois. Some thoughts on Aaron Rodgers. You said you wanted to know if Steeler fans were excited. Yeah, Patrick's a Steelers fan.

[Olivia Carville]

Hey, are you excited about potentially getting Aaron Rodgers?

[Caller]

I do not want Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers is a band aid and we don't need a band aid at quarterback. We need to hope shedeur slides to us. If he's not there, then we grab dark one of the other guys, Milroe or someone. We don't need a band aid. We need our quarterback of the future again.

[Olivia Carville]

If we're relax for really thinking about it, I imagine that's how most of the fans feel.

[Steve Covino]

Well, we shall see. I mean, if Aaron Rodgers steps in, he's great. There you go.

[Olivia Carville]

Would love to see him surprise everybody.

[Steve Covino]

Back to old school.

[Olivia Carville]

Thank you, buddy.

[Steve Covino]

I'm sorry. I just didn't want to leave those people holding. I appreciate it, man.

[Olivia Carville]

It's Easter weekend, guys. Taking care of our peeps first.

[Steve Covino]

That's what I'm saying.

[Olivia Carville]

That's what I'm saying.

[Steve Covino]

You got to support Paz. The only egg dye coloring in the game.

[Olivia Carville]

Paz has nothing to do with my peeps reference.

[Steve Covino]

No, but I'm saying peeps are gross.

[Dan Byer]

Who eats peeps?

[Steve Covino]

Little kids.

[Olivia Carville]

I love peeps. And I love our our fox sports.

[Dan Byer]

Radio turbo peeps marshmallow.

[Olivia Carville]

Now we reminisce on Thursdays. We throw it back. Danny G had a meme that got us thinking. And we want to include you and get you thinking too. The viral meme went like this. What's a lost skill that the current generation lacks understanding of? And there's so many ways you could take this. I could tie it into sports too. It is Fox sports radio a lost skill that the current Generation lacks understanding of. There's so many examples you could think of, but when it comes to sports, it's not necessarily a skill. But I don't think the generation will ever have a true understanding of how impactful and great Bo Jackson was because he never won. So it's our job to pass that info on. They'll never really know because they didn't see it.

[Steve Covino]

That's not a skill. Dope.

[Olivia Carville]

I know, I'm saying, but it's something. Let me read the question again. That the current generation lacks understanding of. It really is.

[Steve Covino]

They lack understanding.

[Olivia Carville]

But as far as total understanding, as.

[Steve Covino]

Far as skills go, I have a skill that is irrelevant now. I had the unique ability to remember people's phone numbers after giving them to me, like, once or twice. I. You could ask me now, like, my childhood friend's phone numbers, and I remembered it. What a waste of a skill means nothing. In fact, I bet you most of you don't even know your wife's phone number.

[Olivia Carville]

I mean, along those same lines, baseball card stats. Now we're seeing maybe a little bit of a comeback of that because baseball cards have done such a great job of making it exciting again with their rookie debuts and all these special cards. But you would know the back of the baseball card. You know who batted what and when and how many home runs.

[Steve Covino]

You knew that Wade Boggs batted.368.

[Olivia Carville]

You knew all that stuff because of baseball cards.

[Steve Covino]

The lost skills that you had that mean nothing in 2025. We'll take your feedback next. Going old school. Covino and Rich.

[Olivia Carville]

You know where you often see this on videos that go viral, where you see parents hand over a teenage kid a weenial. They'll hand this weenial a rotary phone.

[Danny G]

Yeah.

[Olivia Carville]

And they're like, dial that number. And it's not necessarily a skill, but it was a skill we had. Like you mentioned, Rich, memorizing phone numbers. These kids have no idea how to do it.

[Danny G]

They're handed a cassette.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah.

[Danny G]

And they don't know how to put it in and play it.

[Olivia Carville]

You know what? Speaking of Danny G, that was one of my thoughts. I wrote down. They'll never understand. They'll never have a complete understanding when it comes to the art of the mixtape. Yeah. They know what making playlists are all about, but they'll never know the art of the mixtape. Mixtape?

[Danny G]

Yeah, real mixtape. Where that came from. The word tape.

[Olivia Carville]

Oh, exactly.

[Steve Covino]

I wrote that mixtape. It was because I said, yeah, you can hand someone and be like, hey, here's a link. I put together a great Spotify playlist. There is an art and a love and art.

[Olivia Carville]

And I like. You made the time you gave that to somebody. Oh, my goodness. You put so much heart and thought into that.

[Steve Covino]

Well, now just go on Spotify or Apple or Amazon or any app for that matter, and you're just dropping and dragging songs.

[Danny G]

It's like, AI, it does all the work for you.

[Olivia Carville]

I mean, how about this? Hold on. They'll never have a complete understanding. Like, you could tell them, but they'll know. They'll not know everything. And that one song that you couldn't buy or you couldn't find, you're waiting on the radio for it to play and then you're just hoping that bozo DJ guys that we grew up to be didn't talk over the introduction. So there was so much involved in the art of the mixtape that kids lack understanding of.

[Steve Covino]

I want to open this conversation up a little bit because I think we'll get better answers if I adjust the question a little bit.

[Olivia Carville]

Sure.

[Steve Covino]

Because the phones are all hot. But I feel like I want to angle it a little bit differently.

[Olivia Carville]

87799 on Fox.

[Steve Covino]

I'm with you. I don't think we should keep it to just skill. I think it should be something that we were so into or a part of our lives that our kids generation will not know. I don't think it needs to be necessarily a skill, you know?

[Olivia Carville]

You know what?

[Steve Covino]

But I'm talking about just like, I'll give you one, the things that were a big part of our life for. For instance, if you wanted to get to a big time concert or go to a Dodgers opening day or Yankees opening day, you would have to wait outside a store in a long line for Ticketmaster to open it. Like your local video store. They don't know that hassle. They're just like, dad, mom, can you go on StubHub or SeatGeek or something? Like, they don't know the struggle of hoping that there weren't too many people in line.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah. And I have these conversations all the time. I have a teenage pain in the ass. I mean, teenage daughter who often asks me like, well, dad, if you had to meet up with somebody, well, what would you do? I'm like, oh, I'm glad you asked because I think you have a lack of understanding of how times were. We didn't have no way of communicating. We didn't have text messaging or cell phones or anything like that. You would just find the biggest or popular landmark like Yankee Stadium, for example, you see the big bat at Yankee Stadium. I don't know, you'd meet there or you'd have a meeting spot. Like, you really had no other way.

[Steve Covino]

That's how you met up.

[Olivia Carville]

Or what if your friend was at the mall, though? How would you find him? I'm like, I don't know. You just, you just would try to find them. That's all.

[Steve Covino]

You circle until you find them. You said the big bat. How many times have you're an old school Mets fan or, you know, even at Citi Field after Shea Stadium. How many times have you met someone at that Big Apple? Yeah, I'm E. At the Apple or Dodger Stadium that got that big bobblehead. Meeting someone, that was a big one.

[Olivia Carville]

I think the popularity of certain things, too, that these kids, they'll know and you could tell them, but they'll never know. They lack an understanding. Like, I'll give you. This is a stupid one. You know, we mentioned Bo Jackson before. Like, you could tell him all day he was the greatest, but they lack understanding because he never really won anything. They don't know. This is dumb. But it's like the, the character Pac man, like, when I was a little kid, Pacman was huge. Huge.

[Danny G]

Turned into a cartoon.

[Olivia Carville]

Turned into a cartoon, a cereal lunchbox. Like, Pac man swept the nation for me as a kid and that was my pocket right then, of course, you know, Super Mario became a thing and all that, but because Super Mario became a thing, because Sonic became a thing and there were so many other iconic characters since. No one really even talks about Pac man and how big he was.

[Steve Covino]

Camino's a couple years older than me. Pac man, before my time. I never played Pac Man.

[Olivia Carville]

I was huge.

[Steve Covino]

I remember I was. I was a little boy and I got Nintendo.

[Olivia Carville]

It was huge when I was little.

[Steve Covino]

But. But I know the legacy, you know.

[Olivia Carville]

You bring this up all the time, Rich. How to keep score. Kids will never. Oh, my bad.

[Danny G]

On his list.

[Steve Covino]

My whole list.

[Danny G]

My bad.

[Steve Covino]

No, I. I wrote that.

[Olivia Carville]

Well, I had it written down, too.

[Steve Covino]

I wrote down bowling score and baseball score. Like, I remember going to the game and I thought it was sort of cool to be like, I'm going to keep baseball score. And we met, we learned just last week, right, that they don't sell programs at most baseball stadiums anymore. The idea of, get your program. No one's buying a program. And if you play sports now, if you got kids in Little League or Pony ball, every. There's a mom on the team and she has an app, and there's no even, like, keeping score. It's. It's on an app.

[Olivia Carville]

You know what kids lack understanding of? This is great, because I deal with this all the time because my daughter's in high school. And then it'll dawn on them, like, wait, well, wait, dad, how did you do that? And how did you print out a paper? I'm like, well, I would either have my mom type it out at work and then bring it home because she was willing to help me out, or we had something called the word processor. And then you have to explain to them what that is. And they're like, wait, so was it a computer? And you're like, well, not really.

[Steve Covino]

No.

[Olivia Carville]

I don't know.

[Steve Covino]

Oh, it's a typewriter.

[Olivia Carville]

It was like a typewriter. I mean, we had a typewriter, too.

[Danny G]

Along those lines. All kids know is texting their friends. Last week, my wife was talking to our teenager because she was telling her, well, you're probably not paying attention in that class. She got her progress report. What are you passing notes with your friends? And she's like, what do you mean passing notes?

[Steve Covino]

Passing notes, dude. Hold on.

[Olivia Carville]

You know, you brought up something else that's right up in that same category. Because of the communication that's available in today's world, your kid could email the teacher. If they don't know the assignment.

[Danny G]

They see their grades in real time.

[Olivia Carville]

They get their grades in real time. Like, if you were a kid. And chances are I wasn't the only bozo. I was like, what's the homework assignment again? You'd have to, like, try to hope your buddy knew what it was or how to do it, because there was no communicating with the teacher.

[Danny G]

The teacher posts notes and homework online on the school website, on the school app.

[Steve Covino]

We have any. Every day. My daughter's teacher and my son's teacher, they're uploading pictures on Class Dojo, and there's all these little parent apps.

[Olivia Carville]

Like, do you remember the empty feeling of not knowing, like, what the assignment was or what page or what exactly it was or how to do it? None of that anymore, Rich. They'll never really understand that little struggle we had as kids growing up. You know what else they'll never know? The lost art of waking up early to make sure you got all your Saturday morning cartoons in because they're so spoiled with On Demand everything.

[Steve Covino]

The lost art of blank. That's where we're going here on a throwback Thursday. Let me. Let me hit you with a couple.

[Olivia Carville]

More younger generations Just lack an understanding of it.

[Steve Covino]

I saw a funny meme and it sort of encapsulates. Encapsulates this thought. Back in the day, we would wait until 8 or 9pm because your phone plan had free nights and weekends and you'd worry about your rollover minutes. And how many minutes do I have now? No one wants to talk to anyone. Texting was like almost the throw in. And free texting, like no one cared. It was, how many minutes do you have? And then I gotta ask, what happened to all of our rollover minutes?

[Olivia Carville]

That is so funny, dude.

[Steve Covino]

Rollover minutes.

[Olivia Carville]

Another nights and weekends thing.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, I'll call you back at 9:00.

[Olivia Carville]

Or how about this? You know the calling card that we had to have when we traveled?

[Steve Covino]

Oh, yeah. Remember your parents would if someone called long distance. Long distance.

[Olivia Carville]

It's a lack of. It really comes down to the lack of understanding that younger generations have today.

[Steve Covino]

I got another one that everyone in this room did. And if you didn't, then you're just a nerd. How many times did you master the art of calling a girl for your buddy while he was listening in?

[Olivia Carville]

Oh, yeah, that was the best because.

[Steve Covino]

That wouldn't be a thing anymore. But Danny, if Danny's like, remember when.

[Olivia Carville]

Ernie Billy Madison did it?

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, that was the last two people to do it.

[Olivia Carville]

Ernie and Billy Madison. You blew it.

[Steve Covino]

That'll be like if Danny and I were friends as kids. And he's like, yeah, Rich, I really got a crush on Jessica. So I'd be like, hey, Jessica. Yeah, it's Rich. Just curious. Meanwhile, Danny's listening on the other line. What do you think of Danny G? I think he's sort of cute. So you think he's cute. All right, thanks, Bye. Yo, bro, I mean, how many times did you do that little act?

[Olivia Carville]

That's the lost art of being a wingman on the phone. Yeah, that's really what it is. So we go to the phones based on the meme. Throwback Thursday, old school and 50 hits. A lost skill or just anything that the current generation lacks understanding of, no matter how much you tell them.

[Steve Covino]

You know, you brought up your daughter asking how people communicated. I was recently reminded by a buddy of mine, I went to school in the late 90s, early 2000s, in college, graduated early 2000s. I'm the generation that went to college without a cell phone. And by the end of college, we had cell phones. So I think back to like my freshman year, late 90s. If you went to the bar and you wanted to communicate that to your buddy. Do you remember writing on people's dry erase boards in their dorm room? Like on your dorm room door? You would have a dry erase board and you'd be like, yo, John, we're going to be at O'Flanagan's at 9 o'clock. And you just left him a dry erase message.

[Olivia Carville]

And if you didn't have that, you'd have to leave a note somehow or else John never knew where you were.

[Steve Covino]

But did you know what the lost art of also, you said pass notes, Danny. It got me thinking of how every day I'd fold up a little note in the shape of a little football, the little triangle. And I would pass my girlfriend, my high school girlfriend, a little note in between third and fourth period, like, hey, babe, love you.

[Olivia Carville]

Kids back then had that particular skill, how to fold those little notes. I didn't know how to do this.

[Danny G]

Remember when the teacher would intercept one and hold it up and make an example out of the two people she found corresponding with each other?

[Olivia Carville]

Now you're bringing up sore subjects, Danny G. I had a girl one time, she was like drawing me pornographic pictures, I swear to God. And she was sent and she was passing them to me, and a teacher intercepted one.

[Danny G]

Remember, a lot of the teachers would have the rule.

[Olivia Carville]

Sanders in the back.

[Danny G]

A lot of the teachers had the rule, if I find it, I'm gonna read it out loud. And so we'd get like instant entertainment as the teacher would read the cheesy letter that, you know, I have a.

[Steve Covino]

Gross story that I'm even skeptical. I'm hesitant to tell.

[Danny G]

Oh, now you gotta tell it.

[Steve Covino]

I have to tell. But before I tell that one, the, the story Camino tells, he's not finishing it. This girl, for trying to keep it clean on Fox Sports Radio, let's just say she was. She drew pictures of a sailor with a huge hat.

[Dan Byer]

Anchor.

[Steve Covino]

Anchor, yeah. She drew a picture of a sailor with a huge anchor with a huge plank and she handed it to Covino and the teacher intercepted. And I remember you said your mom was called, like, why some girl sending your son pictures of a.

[Olivia Carville]

She got a lot of trouble. I didn't do anything. Yeah, I did nothing at all. But I remember being like, oh, man. But, yeah, people are always passing notes, you know, where they had to be crafty about it. You had to fold it up real nice.

[Dan Byer]

They still do that in one place today in prison.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah, passing notes.

[Dan Byer]

They have like a little fish line.

[Olivia Carville]

And Sam knows from experience.

[Dan Byer]

I do. Or from watching lockup.

[Olivia Carville]

Sam jailbird let's go to your phones. 87799 on Fox. Get you involved. We love reminiscing on a Thursday.

[Steve Covino]

I'll quickly tell the one embarrassing. So it' not me, but I. I remember, you know, the one teacher there was always the teacher that was so sweet but gullible. And you always felt bad, like, oh, the delinquent guys are. Are being so mean to her, you know? You know what I'm talking about. There was always like. Like an older, nice lady teacher.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah. And usually a substitute.

[Steve Covino]

And the scummy dudes in your class would always do rude things to her.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah.

[Steve Covino]

You know, old, old. I'll call their old. Ms. Melville was like, Poor Ms. Melville. If I catch someone with a note, I'm gonna take it and read it aloud. So these guys. This is gross. They intentionally knew they'd get caught. So let's just say someone reached down their pants and pulled out some hair, put it in a note, passed it intentionally. Ms. Melville intercepts it. Okay. She opens the note in front of the class, and a bunch of hair falls on her.

[Olivia Carville]

So the lost art of seeing a dirt bag, I guess. Yeah. Being a trash bag. The lost art of that. How about the last time, speaking of school microfiche, because your kid will ask you, well, if you had to do a book report, had it. Well, honey, there was something called microfiche and a card catalog. You had to know how to do these things.

[Steve Covino]

I'll be honest, looking back, that system stunk.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah, it was the worst.

[Dan Byer]

I had to use that one time in college, and I was like, this is. And I only remember it from, like, Ace Ventura. Remember when he had a. He went through all the old Miami Dolphins rosters, like, on microfiche birds.

[Steve Covino]

Dude, that was the only cool use of microfiche in humanity. When Ace Ventura tried to track down Finkel.

[Olivia Carville]

But, dad, what if you had to look stuff up, like. Well, we had encyclopedias, I guess, shout out to Funk and Wagnalls and Britannica and Charlie Brown.

[Dan Byer]

I had Britannica.

[Steve Covino]

Love you.

[Olivia Carville]

So, again, the lack of understanding things that this current generation or younger generations just lack understanding of the lost art of blank.

[Steve Covino]

Let's start with Trip in Vegas. You're on with Kavino and Rich. What's up, Tripp?

[Caller]

Hey, gentlemen. Every show is better than the last.

[Steve Covino]

Thanks, brother.

[Olivia Carville]

Let's spread that rumor.

[Caller]

I'm gonna rattle off a few. And then I wanted to add one, because when Rich changed the parameters a little bit. So I would say cursive developing, film reading A map, changing a tire. And then the one thing when you're talking about it, not a skill. But they missed Black Friday. We used to have to stand in line if no stores were open now.

[Steve Covino]

Well, I made the day before this past Thanksgiving, I made the observation that Cyber Monday, almost bigger now and Black Friday is going to be a thing of the past. It's going to be best known for good football games because the NFL is going to tackle that holiday, pun intended. But he brought up one that I thought was interesting. Cavino. He said, developing pictures now, they don't.

[Olivia Carville]

Even know how to use the camera.

[Steve Covino]

I'm saying now the idea of like, all right, I'm going to take a live photo so there's no chance my kid could blink. Not only that, upside down portrait mode. All the little tricks people have back then. As Sebastian Maniscalco. Aren't you embarrassed? Doesn't he do a bit where you'd go to Sea World, Shamu would jump out, your mom would be like, click, hope I got it.

[Olivia Carville]

Hope I got it.

[Steve Covino]

You would just hope you got the picture. You would develop pictures and your mom would bring them home. You'd be like, yeah, I wonder if they came out good.

[Dan Byer]

Only like 30% of them were just blurry or eyes closed, a red eye, all that stuff.

[Danny G]

Yeah, and we had throwaway cameras. We even had the throwaway cameras that went into the water, remember?

[Steve Covino]

Yeah.

[Dan Byer]

Waterproof. And so people have more expensive.

[Danny G]

Yeah, you know, a junk drawer in your kitchen or in your house, maybe people would have a drawer with tons of throwaway cameras. Just meaning to get those developed.

[Steve Covino]

No doubt. Sacktown, one of our favorites. Sean, what's going on, brother?

[Caller]

Yeah, my flashback, fool. Man, y'all always had me cracking up at these, bro.

[Olivia Carville]

Thanks, man.

[Caller]

First of all, Rich, what a dirty dog you were in elementary school, man. That poor teacher.

[Steve Covino]

No, that wasn't me. Just for the record, that was not me. I was in that class.

[Olivia Carville]

Rich had no hair, so it couldn't have been him.

[Steve Covino]

It couldn't have been Rich.

[Caller]

Rich was patting a baldy down there.

[Olivia Carville]

They used to call them Baldo Ronaldo.

[Caller]

These kids will never know about the art of Mac. And Covino knows what I'm talking about, man. Telling your homegirl that you have a little crush on her homegirl get on the phone, doing three way calls at night time, trying to, trying to, trying to plant the seed so that you could one day take her out of the date to the movies. These kids have no idea what that's all about. They're Too busy streaming.

[Olivia Carville]

You know what it is, man? It was the, the game. It was like you had to have game. Right. But our game was so different than game today because you realize, like, game today revolves around. You have to be. You have to have online game. I was just gonna say you have social media game.

[Danny G]

That's a great point. Because we had teen centers. We had the skating rink, we had the bowling alley. We had to meet up at places with lots of other kids. There was no, There was no phone to phone going on. Except Rich, as you mentioned, you know, the long cord on the phone and you try to hide in your room and make it sometimes.

[Dan Byer]

Party line.

[Danny G]

Yeah. Most of the time. Our parents did not want us busying up the lines, especially when the Internet became a thing. Remember, get off the phone. I'm trying to. I'm trying to dial up to the Internet.

[Steve Covino]

These are all great examples. You know, I had something happen to me yesterday that was the most refreshing thing based on this conversation. You know, we were home in the afternoon yesterday because we were filling in for dp. All the kids out here in la. Spring break. Long story short, I get a knock on the door. I'm like, what is it? Telemarketer? What is it? Someone trying to sell me solar? What's going on? Would you believe this is the cutest thing. My son. There's a kid down the block that's also five years old. He came over with his dad and he's like, yeah, we want to know if Benny wanted to play basketball in the driveway. I was as thrilled as could be.

[Olivia Carville]

I'm like, this is 1980 something, dude.

[Steve Covino]

It felt like it. And it was the coolest feeling because at first I'm like, who's knocking on my door? The neighborhood kid wanted my son to come play basketball.

[Danny G]

Dan Byer just asked what time it was that they're playing basketball.

[Steve Covino]

11:00Pm dad. No, but it was, but it was. It was so refreshing. I was like, yo. I told the dad, I'm like, yo, I love your style. I'm in. You know, I'll walk over. And then I left my son there for a bit. I'm like, dude, you're across the street playing basketball. Be a kid. All right, Want to go rapid fire?

[Olivia Carville]

Let's do it. Let's get you involved. It's all you now. Let's go.

[Steve Covino]

Pete in Iowa. Hey, Petey.

[Caller]

Hey, how you guys doing?

[Steve Covino]

What's up?

[Caller]

Before I say my one thing I, we, I. We forgot is a real quick story about my, like, back in 1988. We went to Laker game. I was like 15 years old. My mom dropped us off, me and my buddy at the parking lot. I said, we'll see you in three hours. That don't happen anymore.

[Steve Covino]

Like, your parents dropping you somewhere. Be like, see you later.

[Caller]

What's that?

[Steve Covino]

No, no, no.

[Caller]

They just dropped you off. Yeah, they dropped. They dropped us off. They will see you in three hours. So I had one of those old Can 81 cameras. I dug up the ring quartz off, took great pictures of Kareem doing skyhooks, magic doing no look pass. And I accidentally opened the back door and ruined all my photos. So that was a hardship. I still think about that today.

[Steve Covino]

Oh, that's the worst. Thanks for the call, Peter. He had all these great photos ruined.

[Olivia Carville]

You know what I think about, too, Rich? I don't think anyone's gonna say this, but again, like, my daughter asks me these questions all the time. Like, well, Melody, we used to have to call 41 1. What's that? Well, if I needed the number to, I don't know, the pizzeria to Blockbuster Video, because I wanted to know if they had the. If they had a. From Dusk Till dawn on vhs, I'd have to call them.

[Dan Byer]

Wasn't that answered by a real person, too?

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah, can I have the number of Blockbuster Video in Union, New Jersey, please? And they would look it up, and you'd call information. And she's, like, blown away by that stuff. And it goes to show you how easy, you know, there's a lot of challenges in today's world, but how easy it is to have everything at your fingertips.

[Steve Covino]

Just a new set of challenges. Jeff in New York State, Covino and Rich. What's up, man?

[Caller]

Yeah, I was calling. I remember playing fantasy football pre Internet.

[Steve Covino]

Oh, my God. How many calculations did you have to do, right? Break out the calculator, Jeff.

[Danny G]

Chris in the fax machines.

[Steve Covino]

Oh, my God. Yeah. You want to know who won the next day? I was saying just recently in New York, Danny G. The late baseball games. It would just say late game, you know, I wouldn't know. Like, you would have to.

[Danny G]

That's insane.

[Steve Covino]

You would have to wait, like, oh, the Dodgers, who won last night? Late game, it would say. They're in the Daily News. All right, Chris in Nevada.

[Caller]

All right, y'all got me going way, way back. But what about Bammer? Y'all remember that? Bammer.

[Steve Covino]

Bammer. I feel like he's. There's a punchline.

[Caller]

Y'all know about Bammer Weed? I know.

[Danny G]

I Should, I don't know.

[Olivia Carville]

Is that a Deez Nuts joke?

[Steve Covino]

I feel like I was being set up.

[Danny G]

Yeah, I felt like something was coming, right?

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah, exactly.

[Steve Covino]

I, I, I guess I felt the setup. So if not Chris, I'm sorry you felt like a trickster. All right, Arizona. Wrap it up. Chris.

[Olivia Carville]

Coming up, a.

[Caller]

Hey, how's it going, guys? Thanks for taking the phone call.

[Steve Covino]

No problem.

[Caller]

So I got two of them. First one is be kind, Rewind. They'll never know the pain of having to rewind your tape. And then number two is MapQuest. I don't know how we got through those 15 pages just to get an hour and a half upstate.

[Olivia Carville]

Or how about just using a map, period? I don't know how I did.

[Danny G]

Growing up, if you handed a kid nowadays a map, they would be so confused.

[Olivia Carville]

Looking back, I'm amazed I survived that era because I'm like, how did I get anywhere?

[Steve Covino]

What did he say? Be kind. Rewind. That, that was, that was the, that was one of those indicators. Like, you know how they say, like, are you the type of person that returns your shopping cart? Otherwise, you're an a hole. If you return your Blockbuster Video without rewinding it.

[Dan Byer]

No, you'd get charged a little. Fine.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, but it's like a dollar fifty. Was it. But I feel like that was a reflection of, like, what type of person are you?

[Olivia Carville]

Rich. What are you gonna do when you're, when your son Benny says, well, dad, how did you watch smut? Well, dad was explaining them, like, scrambled smut. Or are you gonna tell them about, like, sneaking in to find your dad?

[Steve Covino]

I'd have to say, Ben, when I was your age, I didn't have all this free Internet porn teenage son. What I did was I took my dad, I found my dad smut, and made sure to rewind it to the exact spot he left off.

[Olivia Carville]

See, now that's lost art that they'll never really understand.

[Steve Covino]

And I, you know and know what I had to do, son? I had to put Sports Illustrated covers on club magazines.

[Olivia Carville]

Yep, yep. Just to keep away from Mom.

[Steve Covino]

Exactly.

[Olivia Carville]

They'll never know.

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[Olivia Carville]

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[Steve Covino]

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[Steve Covino]

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[Steve Covino]

I remember you and I sort of debated this. Maybe in the last five years, you had run out of business cards and you were like, should I order new ones? I'm like, I don't even know who. Maybe professionally. But now with, like, apps where you could tap phones and get the info. Like, the idea of someone being like, here's my business card. Is that, is that old school? Like, is that sort of, like, very outdated?

[Danny G]

I have one more. And Mark, he hit us up on Twitter, was thinking along the same lines as me. I wrote down personal finances because everything is, you know, once these kids get a checking account, like, my son is 18 and he finally got his first bank account and everything. Imagine him having to learn how to write a check or how to balance a checkbook.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah. Oh, my God, are you kidding?

[Danny G]

He barely can use his ATM card. He just.

[Olivia Carville]

That's such a great one, balancing your checkbook. Yeah, right? Kids today would have a complete lack of understanding and knowledge on how to do something like that. My daughter didn't know how to use money the other day. She needed that.

[Danny G]

That's what I'm saying. They're used to the parents giving them zells, like, hey, dad, just give them.

[Olivia Carville]

The cash and they'll give you the change. Well, how does that work? I'm like, what?

[Dan Byer]

Or like, you want to get a dollar back? Like, and so you give someone like a $5 and 10 cents, and if it's 4 bucks, you get the dollar.

[Olivia Carville]

Back, and they have a lack of understanding of a lot. And again, your answer is at Covino and Rich, we throw it back every Thursday. It's right now. We're live from the Tyrack.com studio.

[Steve Covino]

Be sure to check out the YouTube channel. In fact, our bonus podcast over Promise, which starts at about 20 minutes, that streams live on the YouTube channel. You can see what we're doing. And a bunch of great clips from not only our show, the whole network, Fox Sports Radio. And to sort of wrap that before we get into the NBA. Lot of great feedback when we go old school. Danny. I talked about it the other day when we filled in for dp. My daughter went with her friend for hello Kitty night at Dodger Stadium, and she came home with a Dodgers hat. And I was, like, sort of angry about this.

[Danny G]

I love those people that took her to the game.

[Olivia Carville]

Good work.

[Steve Covino]

Not my mom. My wife. My wife was like, you do call.

[Olivia Carville]

Her mama once in a while.

[Steve Covino]

No, my wife does. My wife forgets sometimes, and she'll call me dad and daddy, like, in public. I'm like, you know, the kids aren't here.

[Olivia Carville]

Oh. Because she's so used to referring to daddy.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah. Hey, daddy. Yes. So my wife, big daddy. My wife says this to me, and I looked at her like, I'm like, we had a time machine. Was this 1998? She goes, Should I send Emmy to the game with, like, some cash? Give her like 40 bucks or 20 bucks. I'm like, no, just send her the game. I'll text the parents. If you want anything, we'll zell you or venmo you or something. She's like, like, so give her no cash. I'm like, babe, I don't even know if Dodger Stadium takes cash. That's like. I mean, do you operate in cash at a stadium even anymore? You tap your card, you tap your phone. We live in a different world.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah.

[Steve Covino]

I don't blame your daughter.

[Danny G]

Our parents used to have to pin $5 onto our shirt for a field trip right now.

[Olivia Carville]

We'll talk a little NBA before Dan Byers update, but some good games yesterday. Props to the Heat. Heat over the Bulls, Mavericks over the Kings. Gotta wait again. What? Friday, right? Continues on Friday.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, the final playing games, but I think the eyes are all on Saturday. And did you see Anthony Edwards? He was, he was pretty vocal. Danny G saying, oh, he talks a lot. He goes like, listen, I know that no one wants us to win. No one wants the T Wolves to win. No one wants us to advance.

[Olivia Carville]

He's cool with that.

[Steve Covino]

And he. And he's cool with it. And you know, some people like playing the role of spoiler underdog, but that's. That's a Saturday matchup. I think Saturday, the Western Conference to me is so compelling. It's the matchups. You know, when the NFC and the AFC playoff pictures are coming together in football and you're like, oh, man, if this team wins the tiebreaker, we get better matchups. I do think by the Golden State warriors losing that last game and having to do the play in, I really do think it gave us cooler matchups. I love Kawhi and that Clippers team playing the Denver Nuggets in the first round. I like the T Wolves and Lakers playing. And I sort of like, like the warriors having to go to Houston, which on paper is a better team. But playoff Jimmy and Steph in the playoffs, like, I think the matchups are so good.

[Olivia Carville]

I love in the Western Conference Jimmy Butler's attitude. I mean, again, he's playoff Jimmy, so this is when he steps it up. But I love that he gives Steph the credit he deserves and that's why it works. He's like, I'll be his Robin to his Batman all the time. Like, it's cool to see their camaraderie and the respect he has for Steph Curry because they're going to be tough to deal with. They have such a chance with both of those guys playing.

[Steve Covino]

Well, I think the Western Conference has. Has not only unraveled and unfolded the way we want as fans, but the NBA as far as ratings go, honestly, the fact that you got the Clippers, who played great this year, the fact that the Clippers are going to Denver, I guess, the T Wolves, Lakers, Warriors, Rockets, and then the one throwaway series, we'll probably get to see Oklahoma City dominate round one against whoever.

[Danny G]

And how about AD Last night, though? And Klay Thompson found the fountain of youth.

[Steve Covino]

You know what, Danny? You could argue that if AD And Clay and that team gets it together.

[Danny G]

Oh, if Kyrie hadn't got hurt.

[Olivia Carville]

AD was in the zone. Everything about him was in the zone. Body language, the way he played.

[Danny G]

Yeah, we talked about attitude. First time suiting up for the Mavs, I mean, it was only two and a half quarters, but he was locked and loaded. Man, in the way he played with Kyrie was pretty amazing. So they would have definitely been a threat in the west had Kyrie not gone down with that injury.

[Olivia Carville]

Well, the big story today is, you know, we started off with Aaron Rodgers. There's two big stories in the news. And that's Aaron Rodgers and that's Dame Lillard. And he's been cleared of the deep vein thrombosis in his right calf. They announced that today. So he's practicing today. He's out for the game on Saturday, but it looks like he'll be ready moving forward after that, which is kind of cool.

[Steve Covino]

Vein thrombosis. Sounds like something you get when you see a good looking girl pass.

[Olivia Carville]

Vein thrombo. Deep vein thrombosis.

[Steve Covino]

Man, take your eyes off of her. I'm getting some vein throbosis.

[Olivia Carville]

So that's. Talk about perfect timing though, and when it counts and when it matters. That's big, big news in the NBA.

[Steve Covino]

Well, for more updates, let's go to our buddy Dan Byer. Dan, the Dame. The Dame news is pretty big for the Eastern conferen.

[Danny G]

Yeah, yeah. Interesting. Cause I do think that the Bucks, not that they're better without Damian Lillard. I think that there's a different chemistry at hand. Yes, yes. And for the long run, it'd be better to have him. But they got to get past this Pacer series first. We'll see how it works out. As giving us said, it's game one on Saturday and it's the first game of the playoffs. Tipping off 1:00 Eastern Time. Couple of other notes from the NBA. Grizzly's guard, John Morant. Game time decision for tomorrow. And the Kings are hiring former Knicks GM Scott Perry as their new general manager.

[Steve Covino]

All right, now there's a story out of the football world. Mike Leach, sort of a wild head coach back in the day in college football.

[Olivia Carville]

Big personality type of guy.

[Steve Covino]

Washington State, Mississippi State. He was a bit of a wild guy.

[Danny G]

Eccentric.

[Olivia Carville]

Third most winning. Is it winningest? Third most winningest coach in Mississippi State.

[Danny G]

Most people know him for Washington State and Texas Tech.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah.

[Steve Covino]

And there's a, there's a story, Danny G. That this is, this is a legend barstool published it as well.

[Danny G]

The legend of this first was told in 2023, but NFL Reddit and Barstool picked this up again yesterday.

[Steve Covino]

Mike Leach allegedly once had to be talked out of putting a little person in the backfield and throwing them over the line of scrimmage during short yardage situations. Why would someone not go back to this brilliant idea? You get a little guy and.

[Danny G]

This sounds like the most Mike Leach thing ever, by the way.

[Olivia Carville]

Can you just honestly visualize and imagine that for a minute? Like, how wild that would actually be? So ridiculous to think about.

[Steve Covino]

Forget the tush push, dwarf in goal. But I mean, fourth and goal.

[Olivia Carville]

Speaking of, there was a three foot seven professional baseball player. Chicago native Eddie is. Eddie Gadle, who had three 7 and 65 pounds, was the smallest man to ever play a major.

[Steve Covino]

Maybe he tried to draw.

[Danny G]

Just a publicity stunt, and I think.

[Steve Covino]

It was to try to draw walking.

[Olivia Carville]

But it is a real story. I think it was. Was it the Browns or something?

[Steve Covino]

What year was it?

[Olivia Carville]

It was 1951.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah. I wasn't around to witness this.

[Olivia Carville]

No. But it's a true story. And you've heard the legend.

[Danny G]

I'm sure we've all seen that picture of the little guy at the plate.

[Steve Covino]

But, I mean, you could say political correctness. I mean, little people are there. We don't call them certain words anymore because we've evolved and we're kind. But you could still say dwarf, because that's, you know, seven dwarfs. Dwarfism is a thing. But little people. If there was a little guy. Listen, Dinklage, one of the greatest actors out there right now. You're telling me if there was a little guy that would be down for this, Some ripped little guy that just happened to be born with dwarfism, and he said, I'm in. And they said, all right. On fourth and short situations, we're gonna have, like, DK Metcalf pick you up and toss you two yards.

[Olivia Carville]

Come on. How do you do. I mean, I'm not even trying to make fun of this. I'm really trying to visualize it. Do you do it, like, from between the legs, like. Or do you. How do you do it over the head?

[Steve Covino]

Like an underhand basketball shot.

[Olivia Carville]

Like a soccer. Like a soccer ball. Like inbound.

[Steve Covino]

Like an inbound. No, I would say like an underhand basketball shot.

[Danny G]

Like when you lift. Like when you lift Rich up in the studio to change the light bulb.

[Olivia Carville]

Oh, just like that. Oh.

[Dan Byer]

But then what if there's like, a Levar Arrington who just comes jumps in them into the air and like smacks him out of the air.

[Olivia Carville]

By the way, we're not laughing at the little person in the story. We're laughing at the idea.

[Danny G]

From Mike.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah, from Mike. Let's be very clear on that too. That's what's wild about it. Like the fact that this is actually thrown around or maybe even joked about. But it's LinkedIn.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, put it around. But don't act. Don't act like little people. You know, either get aggravated by this or they lean into it. Remember the man show? And there's bachelor parties that hire little people. We had it. We used to have a friend, no joke, a guy named Chuck Love. Rest in peace.

[Olivia Carville]

He was great.

[Steve Covino]

He would had a company hire little people.com for bachelor parties and events. So I don't think this is as crazy as you think. I mean imagine that. Take a little guy just two yards. Touchdown or first down? Come on, you know, tush push. Forget that I'm about the fourth and dwarf.

[Olivia Carville]

Hey man, if Altuve is in the big leagues, anything's possible.

[Steve Covino]

I will see you guys tomorrow. Are even there.

[Olivia Carville]

See you in the over prompt promised land. Let's go.

[Steve Covino]

I don't know if Ralphie will let you pet him.

[Margie Murphy]

In 2020, a group of young women found themselves in an AI fueled nightmare.

[Danny G]

Someone was posting photos.

[Steve Covino]

It was just me naked. Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts.

[Margie Murphy]

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