The Best Of Covino & Rich

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Herd with Colin Cowherd — "The Best Of Covino & Rich" (Released February 28, 2025)

Hosted by iHeartPodcasts and The Volume, "The Herd with Colin Cowherd" delves into the top sports stories of the day with a blend of insightful analysis and engaging conversations. In the episode titled "The Best Of Covino & Rich," hosts Covino and Rich explore a variety of topics ranging from the legacy of sports icons to nostalgic reflections on beloved businesses.

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1. Gene Hackman's Passing and Its Impact on Legacy

The episode opens with a somber discussion surrounding the untimely death of the esteemed actor Gene Hackman at the age of 95. Covino and Rich delve into the initial reports of carbon monoxide poisoning, which later hints at suspicious circumstances.

Notable Quotes:

• Rich [03:18]: "We may never know. The reality is that they're gone. And what do we really need to find out?"
• Covino [06:02]: "I think it's a realistic decision that you... pick a picture of you when you were still relatively young."

The hosts contemplate how public figures are remembered, particularly focusing on the contrast between images from their prime years versus their final days. Covino shares a personal anecdote about his father-in-law choosing a dignified photo after his wife's passing, emphasizing the importance of representation at life's end.

2. Aging and the Public Image of Celebrities

Covino, Rich, and Danny G engage in a reflective conversation about how aging celebrities are portrayed in the media versus their iconic moments. They debate whether public figures should be remembered for their youthful charisma or their enduring legacy.

Notable Quotes:

• Rich [06:39]: "I don't think every press photo should be when he was wearing a pair of New Balance taking a walk for the first time in, you know, at 94 years old last year."
• Danny G [07:36]: "I think that's a fair assessment."

The discussion extends to how photos from different life stages influence public perception, citing examples like John Madden and Betty White, questioning whether it’s respectful to showcase these figures in their later years or to highlight their most celebrated moments.

3. Confessions on Classic Sports Movies

The hosts take a lighthearted turn by admitting which classic sports movies they've never seen, sparking nostalgia and a collective reminiscence about beloved films that shaped their appreciation for sports storytelling.

Notable Quotes:

• Rich [14:06]: "I've never seen Hoosiers."
• Danny G [14:29]: "I have a vain question to, I guess lighten it up a little bit."

Covino adds to the revelations by confessing he hasn't watched "Slap Shot" or the newer "Bad News Bears," prompting the group to encourage each other to explore these cinematic gems.

4. Nostalgia for Closed Stores and Businesses

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to reminiscing about iconic stores and eateries that have since closed their doors. The hosts express sentimental longing for establishments like Hooters, Joann's, Blockbuster, and Showbiz Pizza, discussing how these places were integral parts of their childhood and community experiences.

Notable Quotes:

• Danny G [36:10]: "Can I throw you a little side tangent question?"
• Covino [37:36]: "Showbiz Pizza Place. Do you guys remember that?"

They share personal stories, such as Covino's memories of Showbiz Pizza and Danny G's experiences working at Bennigan's, highlighting the unique atmosphere and community these venues fostered.

5. Evolution of Media Consumption

Covino and Rich explore how media consumption has transformed over the decades, contrasting the tactile experiences of renting movies from Blockbuster or flipping through vinyl records at Sam Ash with today's digital streaming and instant access.

Notable Quotes:

• Rich [24:00]: "When did life become colorful, Grandpa?"
• Danny G [26:32]: "They do, they do."

The conversation touches on the challenges of preserving the nostalgic quality of older media formats in the face of technological advancements like AI-enhanced visuals and colorization of historical footage.

6. Discussion on Travis Kelce and Athlete Legacies

Shifting focus back to sports, the hosts discuss tight end Travis Kelce's remarks about retiring on a high note, drawing parallels with legendary athletes like Tom Brady and John Elway. They debate the pressures athletes face in shaping their legacies and the rarity of retiring at the pinnacle of their careers.

Notable Quotes:

• Rich [60:09]: "Travis Kelsey. Not. Not done."
• Danny G [61:25]: "He said losing super bowl licks. Losing the super bowl left a bad taste in his mouth."

The conversation underscores the emotional and professional complexities athletes navigate when contemplating retirement, emphasizing the desire to leave a lasting, positive legacy.

7. Final Reflections and Upcoming Topics

As the episode nears its conclusion, Covino and Rich touch upon current events, including Travis Kelce's career announcements and ongoing tributes to Gene Hackman. They hint at future discussions surrounding NFL updates and the enduring legacy of iconic coaches in sports media.

Notable Quotes:

• Covino [65:46]: "We ain't going out."
• Rich [66:22]: "Listen to Go G O t e Greatest of their era on the iHeartRadio."

The hosts wrap up by encouraging listeners to engage with nostalgic content and tune into upcoming segments that promise to blend historical insights with contemporary sports discourse.

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This episode serves as a heartfelt journey through personal memories, the inevitable passage of time, and the enduring impact of sports and entertainment on our lives. Covino and Rich adeptly balance lighthearted admissions with profound reflections, offering listeners both entertainment and thoughtful commentary.

Transcript

[Covino]

Make some noise for the greatest shooter of all time, Steph Curry.

[Rich]

We went live from All Star Weekend.

[Covino]

For a new podcast called Goat Greatest of Their Era. And we ranked our top five shooters from the 2000s. Peja 5, Dirk Ford.

[Danny G]

Peja is alone.

[Rich]

You won't believe who Steph left off his list.

[Covino]

That's so tough. That's why we have these conversations. Yes, absolutely. Love it. Listen to Goat G O T e Greatest of Their era on the iHeartRadio.

[Rich]

App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Covino]

Hey, everybody, what's up? This is Questlove, and every year we do special programming in February for Black History Month. Now, it's especially important this year as we gear up for some new conversations. So the team and I compiled some clips from the show that are worth revisiting. In part one of the celebration of Black History Month, we're listening back to Moments with Chris Rock, Solange Prodigy, Ben Vereen, Jennifer Lewis, Angela Rye, and Gina Yashore. Listen to Questlove supreme on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. Are you hungry? Colleen Witt here and Eating While Broke is back for season four every Thursday on the Black Effect Podcast Network. This season we've got a legendary lineup serving up broke dishes and even better stories. On the menu we have Tony Baker, Nick Cannon, Melissa Ford, October London, and Carrie Harper. Howie turning Big Macs into big moves. Catch Eating While Broke every Thursday on the Black Effect podcast, Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast. Wherever you get your favorite shows, come hungry for season four.

[Danny G]

I'm Mary Kay McBrayer, host of the podcast the Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told. This season explores women from the 19th century to now. Women who were murderers and scammers, but also women who were photojournalists, lawyers, writers, and more. This podcast tells more than just the brutal, gory details of horrific acts. I delve into the good, the bad, the difficult, and all the nuance I can find because these are the stories that we need to know to understand the intersection of society, justice, and the fascinating workings of the human psyche. Join me every week as I tell some of the most enthralling true crime stories about women who are not just victims, but heroes or villains, or often somewhere in between. Listen to the greatest true crime stories ever told on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Covino]

I'm Mark Seale.

[Danny G]

And I'm Nathan King.

[Covino]

This is Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli. The Five families did not want us to shoot that picture.

[Danny G]

This podcast is based on my co.

[Covino]

Host Mark Seals bestselling book of the same title. Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli features new and archival interviews with Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Evans, James Caan, Talia Shire and many others. Yes, that was a real horse's head. Listen and subscribe to Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Rich]

Hey, thanks for listening to the Best of Covino and Rich podcast. Be sure to catch us live every day from 5 to 7pm Eastern, 2 to 4 Pacific, on Fox Sports Radio.

[Danny G]

Find your local station for Cavino and [e-mail] or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio. Searching FSR. You woke up and you got the sad news that Gene Hackman, 95, and his 64 year old wife were found in their Santa Fe home dead with their dog. And at first it was no foul play. They're dead. Carbon monoxide poisoning is what you heard, but as of this afternoon, you're now hearing, ooh, suspicious details. And that's odd. That's weird again, 95 year old guy, he had a great life. But they did find pills and the wife's body next to a personal heater and weird things like that. It's like, well, what was going on there? And like partially embalmed or something. That's what our buddy Spot was reading to us earlier. You're like, what? We know details are coming out as we go.

[Rich]

We may never know. The reality is that they're gone. And what do we really need to find out? But I did have a but.

[Danny G]

It's an odd ending to a long life, an illustrious career.

[Rich]

It's like you live to 95 and have all that success.

[Covino]

Yeah, rich detectives aren't gonna say, oh, we're never, we'll never know.

[Rich]

I know there will be an investigation, I'm sure. But I feel like if you live to 95, that's a hell of a life and a successful life at it. So.

[Covino]

But his wife was so much younger.

[Rich]

Yeah. 30 years younger. So that it's an unfortunate story.

[Danny G]

When I heard the carbon monoxide thing, I thought maybe Gene Hackman was feeling like it was coming to an end. Health issues just because of old age. And maybe the wife. I was thinking I was romanticizing the whole thing, like, and maybe the wife didn't want to live without him and they decided to go out together.

[Covino]

Yeah, that wouldn't be fair to the dog. Though you give the dog to family.

[Danny G]

Or friends, they did find two other dogs that were alive. But again, in honor of Gene Hackman and his role in Hoosiers, we're going to go over the best coaches in sports, in TV and film. Get on over promised and we're going to talk some nasty. Nestor. It's a weird story though.

[Rich]

Yeah, man. I have a vain question to, I guess lighten it up a little bit. If you live till 95 years old, first of all, you've won the lottery of life. Famous actor, made millions and lived to 95, two Oscars. I mean, here's my question.

[Danny G]

Enemy of the State, Superman, Lex Luthor.

[Rich]

He was in the Royal. He was also, wasn't he in that movie where Jennifer Love Hewitt was bouncing around in her 20s?

[Danny G]

You know what heart she was so distracting.

[Covino]

I don't remember seeing anything but with Sigourney Weaver or. Yeah, I think Heartbreakers.

[Rich]

Heartbreakers, Yeah.

[Danny G]

I didn't even notice he was in it.

[Rich]

Boing. Vain question. When you live that long and they pay tribute to your life at your wake, your funeral. If you're a public figure like a Gene Hackman, do you want your picture to be one of you when you were a handsome young man? Because I'm seeing so many pictures of the 95 year old went on a decrepit walk around the block a year ago picture. And I'm like, that's not how you want Gene Hackman to remember. You want him to be remembered as the badass he was. Like I was. Sam said winning Oscars, Superman and French Connection.

[Danny G]

I think it depends how life you lived. Meaning if you died, let's say you die in your 60s, unfortunately, right. You've lived the majority of your life as a younger person. So I would think it would be fair to pick a picture in your 30s, 40s when you're still relatively young. But if you were synonymous with looking like an old guy for a long time, you have just as much of your life as an old person. Why would you want to bring it back to your primo days of your 20s and 30s? It's not who you were for the latter part of your long ass life.

[Rich]

No. But all right, if you're Marlon Brando. Brando. Do you want to be old fat guy in your pictures? You want to be A Streetcar Named Desire Marlon Brando?

[Danny G]

Yeah, but we, we work in the entertainment industry, right? It's like the people that still have their head shots from their 20s, it's like, yo, dude, you haven't been Looking like that for the past 20 years. That's also like false advertising in a.

[Covino]

Weird way, I'll tell you. I don't think it's a vain comment, Rich. I actually think it's a realistic comment. And not to bring anything down, but unfortunately my mother in law passed away in 2018. My father in law is still alive. And after that, after his wife's passing, he wanted a headshot. He wanted like a photo of himself. And so at some point, you know, like six months later or whatever, my wife ended up taking him for that reason of. He wanted, you know, a legitimate photo. Yes. That represented who he was at that time and it was her passing that made him realize that I should, I should get this done. I don't have this. We used a great picture of her from, you know, from a family situation but it wasn't a posed studio picture. He wanted that for when he went. So it's a real, like it's not a. I don't think it's vanity by any means. I think it's like a realistic decision that you.

[Danny G]

That's a really great story, Dan. You know, that's. Talk about thinking ahead, man. And I was going to say this, but Dan already said it kind of when they chose your mother in law's they looked for a good photo. I think the best answer here is where do you look your happiest?

[Covino]

Sure, right, yeah.

[Danny G]

So if you didn't do what Dan's father in law did, then you just got to get that happiest photo of the happiest time of your life, whether you were older or younger. You know, it's an interesting question. It really is because Rich is right. If you look through all the TMZs and all the stories that are talking about Gene Hackman, it's not him as a young man wearing an ascot as Lex Luthor. A lot of it is his recent days when he was 94 years old walking around town and it doesn't even look like the guy you remember. People age quickly.

[Rich]

Think of a sports figure that passed away over the last couple years. John Madden lived a nice life. Boom. I don't expect mutton chop on, you know, being carried off the field John Madden, but I don't want the final days John Madden. How about, you know, when he was in his primo days in the booth with Pat Summerall and the world knew him in the maybe the 1990s.

[Danny G]

John Madden, how do you want to be remembered? Is really, I guess the question. And it's not your happiest I don't know if. And again, unfortunately, people die at all different ages, Rich.

[Rich]

I remember the one thing.

[Danny G]

John Madden had a long career. We remember different stages of his life. So you want to pick one that's somewhat recent, but it's not your dying days.

[Rich]

I remember seeing a story on the news and please, I'm not trying to make light of this. I remember thinking, this is terrible. There was a story about a younger person who lost their life and then. And the news used to picture them with like a bunny ear filter from Instagram.

[Danny G]

No, that's true. I remember that.

[Rich]

And I remember being like the family said, this is the. What are we doing?

[Danny G]

Well, unfortunately, that's the world that we kind of live in now.

[Covino]

If the family doesn't provide a photo, they have to go hunting for one online.

[Danny G]

Right?

[Covino]

That was the only one they could find, unfortunately. Who knows?

[Danny G]

Yeah, good luck trying to find a picture of a young person without a filter.

[Rich]

Jane Johnson passed away and I'm like, she has a dog nose filter on. What do we. Come on.

[Danny G]

I remember that because in the most respectful way possible, we laughed at not necessarily the announcement, but the times that we're living in. Like, can you believe that's the photo they're using?

[Rich]

What an unfortunate story. And that's what we put up. So, you know, again, maybe it isn't a vain thought, it's a, it's a real life thought, which is if you live a nice long life, maybe it's a picture of you, God willing, you live to a nice old age. A picture of you with your grandkids, because you're at your happiest, maybe you as a middle aged man or woman when you were in your prime of working and everything.

[Danny G]

Okay, so to answer your question though, right, Gene Hackman, 95.

[Rich]

My point is, I'm done seeing 94 year old Gene Hackman photos. I think it's a disrespect because he was the man, he was in a lot of great stuff and he lived a great life. I don't think every press photo should be when he was wearing a pair of New Balance taking a walk for the first time in, you know, at 94 years old last year.

[Danny G]

Well, and I also don't think it should be a picture of him in his 20s or even 30s because he lived such a long life. 60s or 60s.

[Covino]

No, that's how we remember Gene Hackman.

[Danny G]

Exactly. If you go back, Royal Townenbaums was filmed in 2001. That's 25 years ago, right? That would have made him, you know, 70.

[Covino]

Early 70s.

[Danny G]

Yeah, early 70s. That's kind of how I remember him.

[Covino]

For the most part.

[Danny G]

So I think that's good. You got to find a compromise there.

[Rich]

Let me give you one more. When the late, great Betty White passed away, there were too many pictures floating around of like her final days.

[Danny G]

And I'm like, no, no, that was criticized.

[Rich]

Golden Girls, Betty White, always sunny or all the different, you know, hosting Saturday Night Live, baby. Yeah, like, like, I just thought it was like in bad taste, like, so her last living photo was like, you know, like an unhealthy looking.

[Covino]

I'll tell you what, you're Madden. I'm now starting to rethink your Madden point.

[Rich]

Maybe it is being carried off at.

[Covino]

The money shopping, if that is your high point of your profession and where you were. Like, that's got to be a Mount Rushmore part of his life outside of his children being born, but probably the George Washington of the Mount Rushmore part of his life. That wouldn't be a bad pick considering we've seen John Madden throughout the years. So I think that could be justified at that point. If Gene Hackman's picture was him winning the Oscar. I don't think that's entirely necessarily a bad thing. If it is the top. Top of your profession.

[Rich]

What did they use when Michael Jackson passed away? Did they use like young Jackson 5 stuff? Probably not. Did they use like, I look a little odd in the final days Michael Jackson, or did they use like.

[Covino]

No, it was mostly the Thriller era.

[Danny G]

I mean, they should have used the Thriller era. That's when he looked his best, based.

[Rich]

On that, to tie in with Dan said about Madden. Maybe it is. When were you your happiest? If you're a regular person like all of us, when were you at your personal best and happiest? Or if you're a celebrity, maybe it is when you were in your prime.

[Danny G]

So then pick a picture of me at about 14, before women got in the picture, because I feel like they took.

[Rich]

That's what you. At your best.

[Danny G]

Yeah, yeah. Women made my life more of a hassle than it's been worth. Just kidding. No, I'm not. Yes, I am. But here's Gene Hackman, Royal Tannenbaums. Like, that's fair. He's older, but he's not 95. So he's in his 70, like early 70s there. Early. But he still looks like Gene Hackman and healthy and happy. So do you go at your happiest where you looked? Your. If you Say Rich, that's when I looked my best. Then I think it's a vanity thing. That's where I was my best. I think that's a fair assessment.

[Rich]

Go. Can I throw you a little side tangent question? As we say, rest in peace, Gene Hackman and family?

[Danny G]

Sure.

[Rich]

We're going to go over the best fictional coaches on the bonus pod later, but I want to go around the room and I want everyone to dig deep inside and be honest and admit one classic sports movie you've never seen, because I'm man enough to admit it in this moment. I've never seen Hoosiers.

[Danny G]

And people deem that arguably the greatest sports movie of all time.

[Rich]

I've never seen pre Miracle.

[Danny G]

A lot of people say Hoosiers.

[Rich]

And there's a part of me that's like, yeah, I don't know, maybe my dad. My family never watched it. 86. So I was a little boy, you know, I was in kindergarten in 86, so maybe he wasn't in my wheelhouse.

[Danny G]

I mean, that's not an excuse, though. Movies live on. You weren't even born when Rocky came out. You seen Rocky.

[Rich]

That is true. But is there a movie like Covino has never seen the Mighty Ducks?

[Danny G]

Yeah, I'm not embarrassed by that, but it's true.

[Rich]

You should be a little embarrassed.

[Danny G]

Why? Dude, I just.

[Rich]

Arguably. Sports movie.

[Danny G]

Okay. It came out. You said the last one came out in 94.

[Rich]

The first one came out.

[Danny G]

Trying to get into college. 94. No kids in my life.

[Rich]

Gordon Bombay.

[Danny G]

Yeah.

[Rich]

1992. Mighty Ducks.

[Danny G]

Okay. Junior high. I'm all about playing junior high baseball, you know, trying to go out with my girlfriend, trying to squeeze a cheek here and there. You think I'm going to watch the Mighty Ducks in the theaters? Honestly, it was just. It's a timing thing, that's all.

[Rich]

I find that.

[Danny G]

And my daughter showed zero interest in that movie as I became a dad. If I ever have a little son one day, maybe he wants to watch the Mighty Ducks. I'll check it out. But I wouldn't put that even in the same sentence as a Hoosiers. Hoosiers belongs in a movie with like, in a sentence with the miracle.

[Rich]

I would argue. I would argue that Mighty Ducks is more popular than Hoosiers.

[Danny G]

Out of my face, dude. Out of here.

[Rich]

I would say many classic sports movie, you'll admit. Yeah. You just somehow just.

[Covino]

Yeah, I wrote a couple down, actually. The old, the original and the newer one. The newer version of Bad News Bears. Never seen it. And I never seen Slap Shot with Paul Newman.

[Rich]

Oh, I never saw Sam. That's a. That's a good one. Because I think if you are in your 30s or so, slap Shot might be a little old. That might be like right on the threshold of math.

[Covino]

Like I've seen. I love movies from like the 70s. Wasn't slap shot like what, late 70s, early 80s, something like that. So I go back and I watch movies. I just haven't seen it. And I love Paul Newman and like the Bad News Bears. Thing is like, maybe you were a kid at the time when you saw the original or the new one with Billy Bob. And like, I just never got around to it.

[Danny G]

Most of us would have never saw Brian's Song if we didn't watch it in school. I've heard North Dallas 40. Some classics that you may have seen your dad watching growing up.

[Rich]

I've heard Colin Cowherd talk about how that's the most emotional movie that can make any man cry. And we watch it in like a film class in college. Same I watched. And I remember. I remember getting emotional as well.

[Danny G]

Watched it in school. But you know, a film from 72, I don't know if I would have watched it on my own.

[Rich]

Yell air on.

[Danny G]

On TV all that often. I don't remember that. But yeah, I did watch it. For me, it would be the Mighty Ducks. I guess, if it's as great as you say it is. I'm not saying it's not good. And I'm not saying that Kitty, sports movies can't be good. I love the sandlot. I know, Rich, you're a big angels in the outfield guy. It's a classic, but I never saw it.

[Rich]

Daniel, anything come to mind that you missed?

[Danny G]

Dan never saw Rocky.

[Covino]

Well, yes, that's. That's exactly right because Sam can't just give one answer. He always has to give like seven. You know, before anybody else's. I was gonna say slap shot. Well, nobody else has chimed in yet, Sam.

[Rich]

That's the problem.

[Covino]

Well, I mean, I take seven pieces of pizza from an eight slice pizza.

[Rich]

There's a lot of sports movies out there.

[Covino]

One slice. And if everybody goes around like he literally. I got two of these. Two. And then of course, I didn't see Mighty Ducks. And then you haven't seen many sports movies, so there are a lot. I know, but it's just the fact that you can't not help but name three movies.

[Danny G]

Yeah, thanks a lot, Sam.

[Covino]

Replacements. Replacements with Keanu Reeves. Have not seen that.

[Rich]

And by the way, Gene Hackman in that movie.

[Covino]

Oh, okay. Of course, man. This sounded like Rapoport versus Schultz.

[Rich]

I was gonna say, you got. I feel some sexual tension in the episode.

[Covino]

I don't want any part of that beef. Yeah, I wrote down one here, and I know it has a cult following, but we weren't even in elementary school when it came out. I've never seen Caddyshack all the way through.

[Danny G]

Oh, wow. Really?

[Covino]

Seen parts, you know, when it's rerun on tv. But, yeah, I've never sat down and watched it for some time.

[Danny G]

You know, I thought of Caddyshack the other day when Dan Byer was talking about some of the things that we hated at first, but now we like. He said that he hated when people played their music on the golf course.

[Covino]

That's right.

[Danny G]

It was never a thing. And now he sort of likes it. It provides some sort of atmosphere. You're having a good time out there. Everyone has their own little personal speaker going on. Part of the joke was, Rodney Dangerfield was so disruptive that he had, like, a system in his golf bag and he's playing his music and everyone's Ted Knight and everybody hates him.

[Covino]

So great. So ahead of his time.

[Danny G]

It was ahead of its time. But, like, the joke wouldn't even translate, maybe to some people. Like, he's playing music. So what?

[Covino]

He had a beer tap on his golf bag, which was legendary.

[Danny G]

Seriously.

[Covino]

Poor Caddy. Oh, man.

[Danny G]

But Danny G. Wouldn't know because he's never seen it.

[Rich]

So you know what? As. As, you know, you have little kids now where a lot of us are dads in the room. Do you go back to the well and Danny G. Your son, co Is one. At any point, you're like, bad news, Bear son, Major league, sandlot field the dreams. Or is that generation just not going to care?

[Covino]

No, I think there's a handful of movies where we're like, got to share this. Like, my stepchildren, they had never seen Back to the Future. And so one night I'm like, get the popcorn. You're watching Back to the Future. And they loved it.

[Danny G]

What? Some people consider it the perfect movie.

[Rich]

Yeah, we always say, sports movies aside, we say it's the trifecta. If you're a kid of the 80s, it's Goonies, back to the Future, and Karate Kid. Those are the three that it would be hard to not try to pass down to your children.

[Danny G]

You know what else gets left out of that conversation, though? E.T. i mean, that's legendary. It's just so sad and sentimental. I think, like, you don't want to sit there and cry about an alien on a random Thursday. But in honor and in tribute, we will be talking about Gene Hackman and other fictional coaches from movies and TVs Tire World again on Over Promised. But I think we all got to check out Hoosiers if we haven't. And like you said, DB replacements, because Hackman's also in that one. But if you want to confess, consider this.

[Rich]

These are your confessions.

[Danny G]

Yeah, your confession.

[Covino]

And on the heels of that, Sam put a tribute up to Gene Hackman. I don't know if it's still up put. Because I'm such a huge Hoosiers fan that we went to the movie sites five years ago, me and my wife in Indiana. I threw a video up on Twitter. There's Also one on TikTok that I put up a couple years ago of, like, what it was like. I would explain it to you, but you've never seen the movie. So. So, but, but yeah. For any losers fan that want to check it out, feel free.

[Rich]

Cavino, you talk about it often. We're in that downtime now where baseball hasn't started yet. NBA and NHL are getting close to the playoffs. NFL off season. Hey, maybe your job this week or next week is to say, let me pick a classic sports movie that I just missed along the way, download it.

[Danny G]

On your travels and watch it. You know what I did, Richard?

[Rich]

Dedicated. Dedicate two hours of your life to Hoosiers or Mighty Ducks or Slap Shot.

[Covino]

Or, you know, I like that. That's like some good homework.

[Rich]

I admit it. I've never seen Hoosiers, but I'm not the only one.

[Danny G]

I'm surprised by that.

[Rich]

You've never seen Caddyshack and Mighty Duck. Shot Mighty Duck until recently.

[Danny G]

Remember the Titans?

[Covino]

I feel like Hoosiers. You need to immediately go watch that, Rich.

[Rich]

I'm not against it, dude. I will. If not, if I don't watch it tonight or tomorrow, it's on my next free night.

[Covino]

It's assignment viewing.

[Danny G]

By the way, is it a good thing or is it tacky and cheap when you notice somebody dies or someone's in the news and all of a sudden, like, you see the little thumbnail for their movie on every streaming service you have? It's convenient. But is it also like they're capitalizing off the death or controversy of that.

[Rich]

Person combined with paying tribute to them? I'm 50. 50 on it.

[Danny G]

Yeah. No, exactly. But you notice it, right?

[Rich]

No doubt.

[Danny G]

So I'm sure you're gonna see a Hoosiers thumbnail or a Royal Tannen's Mom Thun thumbnail. Somewhere in your streaming services, I have.

[Rich]

A dumb thought that has to do with what you just said about 90s movies.

[Danny G]

Yeah, well, let me. Let me again preface. Though. I had seen parts of Remember the Titans. I was on a plane. It was there.

[Covino]

I think that was from the year 2000.

[Danny G]

Was it 2000?

[Covino]

Yeah.

[Danny G]

And again, like, I liked it, Rich. I'm sure I'd have liked it a lot more when I. When it first came out. You know, you have to put yourself in that mindset.

[Rich]

We had a theory the other day that it's so dumb, why not bring it to Fox Sports Radio? I can't be the only one, because Covino felt the same way. And I'm really curious what everyone else feels. When you were a kid and your grandparents showed you photos and Relics from the 20s and 30s and 40s. Yeah, this should be in World War II or.

[Danny G]

Well, they would bust out their perforated photos, you know, with little triangular perforations on them. And they're always black and white, obviously. And I knew that I lived in a time of color photos, so I always associated their past in black and white. Old movies, black and white.

[Rich]

So when my grandparents would tell me a story, I pictured it in black and white. And in my mind, I thought they lived in black and white.

[Danny G]

Yeah. When I would imagine their stories, I would imagine them, like, in a Humphrey Bogart sort of era and sort of camera view.

[Rich]

So when did life become colorful, Grandpa? Oh, it always has been Grandpa.

[Danny G]

When did Technicolor, like, kick into actual life?

[Rich]

I'm not even BSing you. I thought my grandparents lived in black and white.

[Covino]

And I totally get it, because now when we. But it's not. You're not that far off because now when we see old clips colorized, it's not like anybody's wearing neon green.

[Danny G]

Yeah.

[Covino]

You know, like, it's all just a subdued navy black or brown or gray. So it's not. It's not that shocking. It is amazing to see those colorized, like, anywhere. Like, World War I footage I saw, it was like, of the British soldiers colorized. It was unreal. Like, it just brought a whole new life to it.

[Rich]

It feels like it can't be real.

[Covino]

World War II footage colorized. It is crazy.

[Danny G]

Like, in my mind, I saw footage of Babe Ruth colorized recently. It's like, man, that's weird.

[Rich]

Like, Abe Lincoln, anything.

[Covino]

Were the Yankees wearing their City Connect?

[Rich]

So I look at it and I say, you know, I thought our grandparents lived in the black and white.

[Danny G]

And I found out that Babe Ruth actually used mustard on his hot dogs, not ketchup. I always wondered.

[Covino]

Sure, yeah, because it was yellow. Solved the mystery.

[Rich]

So here, here's our dumb con on Rich thought. If we as little kids, I'm not saying I think that now, but as a little kid, I think I thought my grandparents lived in black and white.

[Danny G]

Yeah, I thought in old timey times they lived in black and white again. When, when I was a really little kid, Pleasantville style. Based on that theory. Based on that theory.

[Rich]

The other night I'm on YouTube because my kids just watch all junk on YouTube. But I was signed in under my name and the last thing I had watched was highlights of the 2024 Mets. Like all the Lindor and Alonzo home runs. And my kids who are getting ready for T ball and softball, they're like, dad, what's that? I go, you want to see a couple home runs from the Mets last year? And then it gets into the cat.

[Danny G]

Show us, dad, show us, show us.

[Rich]

And I'm like, hey buddy, can you name three Mets? And I'm so proud of my sons like Thodol Lindor and Polar Bear Pete. I'm watching them watch highlights and then my daughter does the whole, you think the Mets will ever win the championship, as she calls it? Because dad, didn't they win when you were my age? And that was the last time I go, yeah, buddy, it was. She goes, is that on TV? I showed them a two minute clip of, you know, gets by Buckner, Mookie Wilson, 86. All my kids kept saying was, were things blurry when you were a kid? So do our kids.

[Covino]

And the camera was shaking the same way.

[Rich]

We thought our grandparents lived in the black and white. Do our kids think we lived in the blurry?

[Danny G]

They do, they do. And there's so many reasons that even clips from the 90s, mostly the 90s, there's reasons that they're extra blurry when you see them now. Cuz they weren't formatted for today's type of monitor and screen.

[Rich]

There was sd. Yeah, right. And there were.

[Danny G]

So you'll see a clip. You know damn well it wasn't that blurry. But it was on video. Right. And now it's digital. When it transferred, it just looks like crap. So if a kid is looking at a highlight from the 96 World Series, gotta brag about my Yankees here. It looks like something from the 1960s. It looks pathetic looks pathetically blurry. So based on our theory of we imagine our grandpappy living in the black and white, our kids think we lived in the blurry. And they're not necessarily wrong because if you watch some of those videos, they're all blurry.

[Rich]

Dude, honestly, like any, any highlight you will watch or pull up on YouTube from the 80s, the way it's formatted, the way it's, you know, captured. George Brett getting mad about the corked bat. That looks like I can understand where your 5 year old or 6 year old kid would be like, dad, were things blurry when you were a kid?

[Covino]

2002 NFL Action 2001, you'd be amazed at how bad it looks. And it feels like it was just the graphics packages.

[Danny G]

Everything about it looks like, man, how old is this video? It's not that old. It's like 20, 20 years old.

[Rich]

Dan Byer and I take a lot of pride in being nerdy about is the lower thirds and the graphics packages. When you were a kid, you didn't realize that was never up during the game. If you watch an old NFL films from the 80s or 90s, they only showed the score and the quarter and how much time and third down, second down, going in and out of commercials. I guess they thought it was not a good idea to show it. Like if you watch an old Monday Night Football game when it was Al and Dan and Frank, there was, there was no permanent lower third.

[Covino]

You know, I'm sure there's some guy tunes in in the second or third quarter and watches 15 minutes of the game so he can get the rating not to realize he's watching a 41 to 9 game. Maybe like that's the reason why where all of a sudden now if you turn it on, you're like, that game's a blowout. I'm just going to turn it away.

[Rich]

That the theory might have been if you see the score, you're not going to stick around.

[Covino]

Sure, yeah. Who knows?

[Danny G]

There's also a difference in the quality of NFL films because it could be a game from, you know, the 2000s and it looks like something from the 60s because it's on film. That's always misleading.

[Covino]

Yeah, it just looks flat.

[Danny G]

It looks flat because it's on actual film. But when you see that old video of old baseball games, again, it wasn't that long ago and it looks so old. Hence kids think we lived in the blurry era of life.

[Rich]

Yeah, good luck. True.

[Danny G]

Especially with their HDIs, good luck getting.

[Rich]

Another show on this network or Any network to have the revelation. If we lived in the blurry.

[Covino]

You really have to go to that footage. If you want to do like a documentary on it, you have to clean it up. It takes a lot of post production editing or not editing, but, like, you have to like sharpen, sharpening things up. You have to really do a lot of work on it. It's like almost like restoring an old car.

[Rich]

Yeah. Does it creep you out, guys, when you see.

[Danny G]

You think, though, with. With AI they could probably do it easily.

[Rich]

Does it creep you out when you see how now they could bring old photos to life? Is that weird to you? Like, they'll take like an old timey times photo and they could sort of animate it, make it like a gif almost.

[Covino]

I just don't like the way the eyes look humans when they do.

[Danny G]

You see that video? I know it's stupid, but did you see the video of Donald Trump sucking Elon Musk's toes?

[Covino]

I did see that.

[Danny G]

It's so disturbing because it looks so real.

[Covino]

That was A.I.

[Danny G]

Exactly.

[Rich]

Yeah.

[Danny G]

You know, I'm sure there's old people that believed it.

[Rich]

My mom probably thinks it's real. Richie. I saw it on Facebook. All right, let's go to Dan Buyer for an update. What's going on?

[Covino]

Quickly, guys. Have you guys seen any of the old clips when they changed from black and white to color tv where stations actually did it, where they're like, we are not going to transition into a color mode.

[Danny G]

How about when Dorothy goes from Kansas to Munchkin Land? That was fun.

[Rich]

I watched the wizard of Oz recently with my kids and they were so bored in the beginning, and I had to be like, kids, I promise you it's going to get better.

[Covino]

Yeah. And you're going to hate what you're about to see. Chief said and Travis Kelsey confirmed he'll play in 2025, doing so in Texas. Messages to Pat McAfee of the Pat McAfee Show. Chiefs, by the way, place the franchise tag on guard Trey Smith. Former Buccaneers head coach John Gruden will be reinstated into the team's ring of honor. He Was removed in 2021, but will be back up in 2025. Make some noise for the greatest shooter of all time, Steph Curry. We went live from All Star weekend for a new podcast called Go Greatest of their era. And we ranked our top five shooters from the 2000s. Peja 5 Dirt Ford.

[Danny G]

Peja is a.

[Covino]

Okay, okay.

[Rich]

I'm mad him.

[Danny G]

I left him off my list, but.

[Covino]

I still like my list. You won't believe who Steph left off his list. That's so tough. That's why we have these conversations. Yes, absolutely.

[Danny G]

Love it.

[Covino]

Steph talked about what separates the truly elite NBA shooters. When you have a scouting report and you're on the list as not just a shooter, but we have specific rules for how we guard you. There's a fear factor that's associated with anytime you're wide open. Like, you might as well just count that and get on back on defense. Listen to Goat G O T e greatest of their era on the iHeartRadio.

[Rich]

App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, look at the time 50 after when old school hits.

[Danny G]

There's a search.

[Rich]

Yeah.

[Covino]

What we gonna do right here is go back back into time, throwing it back for a Thursday old school when 50 hits at 50 after. CNR give you the time capsule topic.

[Rich]

And we reminisce together.

[Danny G]

Now next hour, we will talk some NFL and Travis Kelce, he's made an announcement. We'll get to that. But every Thursday, we throw it back and we reminisce. Nostalgia, a big part of our lives. We get you involved at 87799 on Fox. Everything at Covino and Rich at FOX Sports Radio. Now, if you're on social media like most of us are or you just see the news from time to time, you may have seen that Hooters filed for bankruptcy. What Hooters?

[Covino]

What?

[Danny G]

To me, if you would have said what business plan might never fail, I would have to say, I don't know. Hot women in. Yeah, that'd probably be around forever if that could fill. How does that go out of style? Which shows you America's changing. And man, wow, that's a surprise. Are we too good for delightfully tacky now?

[Rich]

What's wrong with us? And then for the crafty folks out.

[Danny G]

There, Al Bundy's disappointed.

[Rich]

Or for the women that love to, you know, do their little crafty stuff at home, Joann's. How many times have you stopped at Joann's with your mom or your girlfriend or your wife?

[Danny G]

I feel bad about this, but at least I'll stop getting their junk mail every other day. It's like, geez, I bought some yarn there five years ago and I still get emails from them.

[Rich]

Yeah, Joanne's texting me every day.

[Danny G]

I'm sad anytime I hear this stuff. And if you have kids in school especially, they're always asking you to take them to Joanne's or Michael's because they need things for crafts at school and projects and things like that.

[Rich]

Last time you made a diorama.

[Danny G]

Yeah, dude, I'm at Joann's actually a lot because my daughter's always doing stuff for her. Her projects start with a shoebox. But again, Hooters. Joanne's just recently. I'm from New Jersey. My family was all upset because they're closing down one of the last locations of Rainforest Cafe in Jersey, their famous Menlo park location. Now there's only one left.

[Rich]

Remember, they always.

[Danny G]

In Atlantic City, you walk to the.

[Rich]

I guess you would say the. The lobby area, and they'd be like the. The jungle.

[Danny G]

Yeah. They're holding on by like string.

[Covino]

Used to go to the one in Vegas.

[Danny G]

Yeah. There's like one or two here and there. But based on these thoughts and all these news alerts, what are some places that don't exist anymore that we just miss? We really miss and wish we could bring them back. Wish we could share those moments with our kids.

[Rich]

The Hooters one hits home. Hits home for me because my wife, when she was in college, worked at Hooters. In fact, sort of how I met my wife, because she ended up. She was Ms. Hooters in like, like, 08. And we met her through the radio show.

[Danny G]

That's right. Going back, rich's wife was Ms. Hooters International. My girlfriend is the stock photo that they're. She also worked at Hooters. My girlfriend, believe it or not. And they're using her photo as the like, hey, we're filing for bankruptcy. Hooters. And like, she's the one that's all over the news alert.

[Rich]

So, I mean, think about it. How many times were you watching a game, having some wings? Hooters is America. This is shocking to me. I know Joanne's every school project for your kids. Shocking. What are the ones that sort of bummed you out when they closed down? It could be electronic stores. It could be record stores. It could be anything. There's old school regional shops that Toy.

[Covino]

Stores are a big one.

[Rich]

Toy stores. So we'll get to all of it next. Throwing it back on a Thursday. Those stores you miss from back in the day, we'll do it next. Cabino and Rich.

[Danny G]

Just recently, Rainforest Cafe, they're hanging on by a thread. They just closed down one of the most iconic locations in New Jersey. And there's one left in Atlantic City. I'm sure there's a few here and there, but they're hanging by a string. By a thread. That being said, we ask you Fox Sports, Radio Nation. Let's throw it back and reminisce on those national chains that we all remember that are no longer here. Stores that we miss.

[Rich]

Do you think you could buy one of those animatronic alligators somewhere from Rainforest Cafe?

[Danny G]

Go for it, man. But speaking of anatronics, I'll kick it off. Everybody remembers Chuck E. Cheese. It's still around, right? But before that there was a place and it was magical and it was all over the country. And I used to go there as a kid. As an 80s kid, anytime there was arcades and pizza involved, I wanted to go. And that place, this magical memory for me that I missed. And it's not that I miss it because I miss my childhood and I want to go back, but I wish I could have shared these things with my kid. But they no longer exist. Really. Showbiz pizza place. Do you guys remember that?

[Covino]

Enough that I went there before it turned to Chuck E. Cheese.

[Danny G]

Chuck E. Cheese ended up buying it out. But their animatronics were full body animatronics. Billy Bob and the whole premise was Billy Bob and Fats and the Rock Afire Explosion. They were a band rich. So you were going there to watch like, like a show and a performance. Like they were rocking out while you were eating pizza and then running to the arcade.

[Covino]

The ball pants.

[Rich]

Yeah, dude.

[Danny G]

I love.

[Covino]

My mom took us to the McDonald's playground.

[Danny G]

Yo, the Playland. Yeah. But DDG, you don't understand how it had the big. We had to beg our parents back then. Right? Now we're such suckers with our kids. So I, I missed that. I'll start off by saying showbiz pizza place. Miss that place, I'll hit you up with one. The pizza tasted just like the Chuck E. Cheese pizza though.

[Covino]

And it was not great pizza.

[Danny G]

I loved it as a kid.

[Covino]

They've actually, they've improved their pizza. I went to a party for my nephew a couple months back. Pizza better now at Chuck E. Cheese. Good, good job.

[Danny G]

But their animatronics were always weak at Chuck E. Cheese.

[Covino]

It's what Hooters should have done. They should have improved their food.

[Rich]

You said the like gronk there for a second. Pizza better. You know, these days, pizza Hooters. It is shocking that but you would think good looking women, tight T shirts, food, you know, sports on like it had the business model and they had money and they made money, as I.

[Danny G]

Told you, delightfully tacky, yet unrefined. My, my wife, their silky pantyhose and those Leg warmers they wore.

[Rich]

What are they going to do with all those white puffy socks now?

[Danny G]

Yeah, I know.

[Rich]

My wife worked at Hooters when she was in college, and she. She actually won Miss Hooters International.

[Danny G]

Your winner of the 12th annual Miss Hooters International Swims pageant is.

[Rich]

Number 1 10, Sarah Hoots from Texas. Can you name the voice of the announcer?

[Danny G]

No, but I think people will be like, her name is Hoots.

[Rich]

Real name?

[Danny G]

Yeah, real name.

[Covino]

Chris Rose.

[Rich]

Chris Rose. And by the way, money gig. I did that for, like, five years. It was the they. So they had money at one point. Because I remember being like, what are you going to pay me?

[Danny G]

Yeah, maybe Chris Rose is why they're going bankrupt. I remember he was getting paid.

[Rich]

I remember thinking like, yo, they got money was. I was always on, like, Fox Sports or ESPN or Spike tv. They would always televise that pageant. And guess who I got replaced by? I did it five years in a row. They're like, sorry, we're going with someone else. Harcini O Hall.

[Covino]

Oh, man.

[Rich]

All right, guys. I don't have a dog pound. I guess I lose.

[Covino]

This could have at least got replaced by Steve Harvey.

[Danny G]

Randy.

[Rich]

So bummed to see Hooters go. Before we go to all the feedback, I'm going to throw one out there. I won't be like, I was Sam in list 10. I'm kidding, Sam.

[Danny G]

Yeah, leave some pizza for the rest of us, Sam.

[Rich]

Kidding, buddy. If you're a homeowner or you remember buying stuff for your apartment after college and you were, like, trying to be a big boy, there's a couple Bed, bath and Beyond. You would have those coupons that were, like 20% off, and you'd always have one like that. Your mom would leave your apartment for you.

[Danny G]

I can't believe that they don't exist anymore.

[Rich]

Bed, Bath and Beyond got shocking. And I'm gonna throw out another name. You might even forget David existed. Remember Linens and things?

[Danny G]

Of course I remember linens.

[Covino]

Linens and things.

[Rich]

All those, like, home stores that.

[Danny G]

So you'd go to buy all the stuff you needed for your college dorm or, you know, your new apartment.

[Rich]

Yeah, I got my first big boy apartment. Let me go buy bath towels and a toothpaste. A toothbrush holder at Linens and things.

[Danny G]

Before we go to the phones, though, Rich again. 87799 on Fox at Covino. And Rich, let's take some accountability and say, yeah, we could miss these places all we want, but we're to blame here, because if Our lazy asses weren't going to Amazon, which changed everything. A lot of these places would still be here, you know, so, you know, we gotta say that we're the problem.

[Covino]

That's partially true, but it's also about money management and how you make.

[Danny G]

Yeah, but it's strategic decisions as corporate. Hi, I'm the problem. It's Steve. I'm not going to Circuit City, dude. I'm buying it online.

[Covino]

But they have to respond to that, though. They have to like, be like, okay, we're just to put stuff online.

[Danny G]

You know, businesses could have pivoted, but Amazon wiped out so many. And again, our new habits and our new way of. World. Of the world is what wiped a lot of these places.

[Rich]

I know it's not a store, but I thought this way when. Remember when they made the announcement a couple years back, like, we're gonna discontinue Twinkies. And everyone was like, what do you mean you can't discontinue Twinkies? And I remember asking everyone, well, when was the last time you had a Twinkie? And everyone's answer was like, I don't know, a decade or so. Well, you're the problem.

[Danny G]

There you go. You're the blame here.

[Rich]

You can't expect some of this. Stick around if you're not going there or consuming the product. Let's start with you guys and Danny. I always say I want everyone to think of some more. Josh, you started off in Ohio. Those discontinued, those stores that shut down. What do you got?

[Covino]

Hey, happy Thursday, guys. Hope you find well. So as a four year old in the late 80s in Dayton, Ohio, there was no bigger thrill than walking into a children's palace. And it seemed like the toys were from the floor to the ceiling. My older brother got his first Cobra Commander there. I don't know if you guys had that where you live, but I believe it in turn became Toys R Us later on.

[Rich]

Well, not only Toys R Us and the one you mentioned, Children's Palace, I.

[Danny G]

Remember Toys R Us lives in like, in a kiosk form. It doesn't even really exist anymore. They're trying to make a comeback. But I mean, who would have thought Toys R Us would be gone?

[Rich]

I remember my mom waiting early in the morning, as a great mom did in the 80s or 90s, to try to get me a Nintendo game for my birthday or something at KB Toys.

[Covino]

Oh yeah, could be a kid popular in the mall or not at Chuck E. Cheese. And you know, also in the mall, Orange Julius was a hot spot. To stay in.

[Rich]

That's a good one, Danny.

[Covino]

Still in Burbank, by the way. And one last thing about Burbank, California. They opened up a Toys R Us, a big store. It used to be a Kmart. Everybody was so excited as they were putting the storefront up. Turns out it was for a movie they were filming.

[Danny G]

No way. Really?

[Covino]

We can't go in.

[Danny G]

Oh, that's sad, dude. All right. Don't want to steal all the pizza. Who's next?

[Rich]

Tom in Florida. Tom, what store shut down? What's up, man?

[Danny G]

Bro, the place that we used to. And it wasn't because we didn't go.

[Rich]

We were there every Friday and Saturday.

[Covino]

Night to late night. I missed Bennegan's. Bennegan's was on point in the 90s.

[Danny G]

Dude, I gotta say this, but Kino worked there. I worked there forever before. That was my last job before radio.

[Covino]

They sent Covino to college.

[Danny G]

I can't tell you how many Turkio tools I served, how many samplers. The health club chicken platter for the win, dude. Their nachos, their honey mustard. Their sampler was fantastic. I loved working there. I had a great experience there. I miss it as well, because they had a great bar with over a hundred beers on tap. And, dude, it was a scene. I loved it. It was that. That Bennigan's Fridays, Chili's Applebee's scene. It was that level of restaurant holding.

[Covino]

Hands and Chachki's on the walls.

[Danny G]

We.

[Rich]

We talked about this briefly when they announced what earlier last year that they're going to reopen One Chi Cheese.

[Danny G]

Yes.

[Rich]

And listen, I think some of these may come back in one off pop up type of situations. The nostalgia generation. The nostalgia generation.

[Danny G]

People want that Monte Cristo.

[Rich]

Yeah. They'll thirst for it. So I wouldn't be shocked if they're like, hey, we're gonna do a Bennegans pop up in a few big cities.

[Danny G]

Used to love that. And. And if you guys don't know the reference, if you guys remember the movie waiting with Dane Cook and Ryan Reynolds, they worked at a place called Shenanigans. And it was a parody on Ben against.

[Rich]

Let's go to Trip. What a great guy in Vegas. Hey, Trip.

[Covino]

Hey, guys. Always great to hear to speak with y'all.

[Danny G]

Hey, buddy.

[Covino]

Danny. Danny G. Took the one. I was gonna say Orange Julius, but a couple more would be. I know Sharper images online, but Radio Shack used to be fun in the.

[Rich]

Mall when you were a kid, because.

[Covino]

During Christmas you could go play with all the electric cars, like, they would let you run them all over the.

[Danny G]

Mall if you needed a wire or a remote control car. Yeah, Radio Shack was your spot.

[Rich]

That's a good one. Trippin. And you know what? Kavino and I worked at Sirius XM in the early days of satellite radio. And Radio Shack was the one place that had, like, the early satellite radio.

[Danny G]

For the plug and plays or whatever you needed, any component.

[Covino]

When we were little kids, they had battery cards. We go in and get a free battery, and they would cut a little hole out of the card.

[Danny G]

You know what? I saw a story about Radio Shack. Doesn't like Nick Cannon own them?

[Rich]

I think there might be, like, one.

[Danny G]

Or two owns it.

[Rich]

There's only one. There's only a couple left.

[Danny G]

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna look that up right now. But, I mean, that was the spot if you needed anything.

[Rich]

Let's go to Marcel in Los Angeles. You're on with Kavino and Rich. What's up, bud?

[Covino]

I don't know the city yet, but not a restaurant, but a Blockbuster. Definitely going there on Friday and Saturdays. On the weekends, when you're getting out of school with your parents, you know.

[Rich]

You'Re so right on Marcel. It's an obvious answer that no one said yet. So thank you, my friend. Blockbuster, Hollywood Video. Whatever your spot was, I wonder if we glorify it, because the reality is you love sitting on your lazy ass, just going through Hulu, Netflix, Amazon.

[Danny G]

It wasn't even that rich.

[Rich]

Hbo, Max.

[Danny G]

It was the experience of it going there. Yeah. Releases you would go that you would rent the video game for the kid in your family just to keep them out of your hair so you could squeeze some cheeks watching a movie with whoever you were with. Like, if your girlfriend had a little brother, you got him a video game.

[Rich]

Get him out of your hair.

[Danny G]

Get him out. Yeah. Get him out of your face.

[Covino]

It was like the ramp up to a great night.

[Danny G]

Yeah, that was it. You'd see some. Some local people that you knew there. Hey, what's up, John?

[Covino]

They'd sell candy and microwave popcorn at the. At the counter.

[Danny G]

You get some Sour Jacks.

[Covino]

Overpriced. They all had that same smell when you walked in.

[Rich]

You know what? In the Blockbuster document, they described that smell. It was a combination of wet carpet from, like, just so many people walking through with, like, soppy sneakers, combined with plastic from all the cases and popcorn. So it was popcorn, dirty carpet, and plastic, and it had a specific smell. But Blockbuster Video, I'm telling you, the ultimate Foreplay. If you are a teenager or a college kid, let's go pick out a movie. You and your girl would hold hands. Start at the A's, work your way to the Z's new releases. And you're right, Kavino. I always remember they had Sour Jacks instead of Sour Patch Kids.

[Danny G]

I always wanted to rent Blacula and I never did.

[Rich]

I remember always wanting to rent Barb Wire with Pam Anderson.

[Danny G]

Oh, me too. Yeah. By the way, I looked it up for Tripp. Nick Cannon was named the CEO for Radio Shack in 2020. I don't know.

[Covino]

Is that an honorary title?

[Rich]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Danny G]

He's busy with 35 kids, so I don't know how that worked out.

[Rich]

Maybe they'll stay in, buys them all the remote control car.

[Covino]

He can just employ them at all the. Seriously, they can be all BE employees.

[Danny G]

These are stores that we miss. Stores based on the Hooters, Joanne's, news stores. Who do we got?

[Rich]

Let's say hi to Todd in Michigan. Hi, Todd.

[Danny G]

Todd's the coolest.

[Covino]

How you doing today?

[Danny G]

Hey, buddy.

[Rich]

What's up, man?

[Covino]

You guys mentioned Chi Chi? That was a big, big, big place for us to go back in the mid-80s, including all the Green Onion scandals. No, no, Todd's underwater. I'll see if I can get a better connection.

[Rich]

Todd.

[Covino]

All I heard was Green Onion scandal. What?

[Danny G]

Todd needs to go to the cell phone store. Get a new cell phone because they don't need.

[Rich]

He needs to go to Singular Wireless. Yeah, what's up, Dan, buddy?

[Covino]

Yeah, I got 18 here that I'd like to run down.

[Rich]

Go for it.

[Danny G]

The more the merrier.

[Rich]

Dan.

[Covino]

It's not taken, it's given. I know we got full calls, but I want to get these 18 restaurants that I miss in.

[Danny G]

Dan has a whole list.

[Covino]

I'm ready. Go for it.

[Danny G]

Dan's gon number 10.

[Covino]

A&W has revitalized themselves in a different way. Sonic has taken over the drive in. But the A and W drive in was a big deal when I grew up. The frosty mugs being taken out to your car as you. Wait. I know. Sonic does it now. And A and W is still thriving, just in a different fashion. But there was something about the A and W drive in. In fact, the building that ours in my hometown, it hasn't been open for 40 years, still has the same building and the same awning where you would park and place your in that speaker.

[Danny G]

Totally remember the A and W. And you made me think of something else. DB And I don't think anyone's going to say it, so I'm not taking anyone's answer. But when we do those graduate hotel appearances, a lot of them, they just take over other hotels and they rebrand them. And one of them we went to was a old Howard Johnson's hotel.

[Covino]

That was 16 on my list. Yeah, that was. I was going to say Howard Johnson the host, Joe.

[Danny G]

And I'm not talking the New York richest favorite New York met. I'm talking the hotel. But we would go there for breakfast.

[Rich]

He was a 30. 30 guy, by the way.

[Danny G]

He was. Yeah. And a sweet mustache. But Howard Johnson's. We would go there. Not to spend the night or anything. We would go there as a family for breakfast all the time.

[Rich]

By the way, can you imagine as a little kid how confused I was thinking that Howard Johnson was my New York Mets? But there was also hotels. I'm like, is it him?

[Danny G]

Wait, what is he again? A breakfast spot.

[Rich]

No joke. You know what? Before we go to. I'll take everyone's answer. East Coast. After every school play, concert or Little League game that was of importance. They may remain in a small way, but does anyone on the West Coast. Have you guys heard of friendlies?

[Danny G]

You'd go for a fribble. Yeah. After a big school event, they had ice cream.

[Rich]

It was like a diner, but they also had ice cream and milkshakes and.

[Danny G]

You know, like it was a major chain on the east coast for sure.

[Rich]

When you would. It was the quintessential. Oh, you had your school concert or the playoff game in Little League.

[Danny G]

Yep.

[Rich]

Afterwards, everyone went to Friendly.

[Covino]

It's like how we went to tcby.

[Danny G]

Is that. Was that tcby?

[Rich]

But this place had food, too. TCBY was the country's best yogurt. And I remember being like, who wants frozen yogurt? But they are also very few and far between TCBY's and one more and then we'll go to the phones. A very east coast truck stop place. They were in neighborhoods as well. They had a thick fins bar. And there was nothing better than Roy Rogers.

[Danny G]

I used to love specifically their nuggets and their sweet and sour sauce.

[Rich]

Great fried chicken.

[Danny G]

Did you guys have Roy Rogers here in la?

[Rich]

Hardee's was there. Hardee's like their.

[Danny G]

Yeah, Roy Rogers took over a lot of those. Good, dude. And they used to have a sweet bacon burger.

[Covino]

Did Roy Rogers have curly fries or am I confusing that with Arby's?

[Rich]

I think your Arby's did right. Roy Rogers.

[Covino]

I remember only going To Roy Rogers when I'd be on like a road trip. And we'd stop there.

[Rich]

Yeah, they would do big truck stop type of place. All right, let's start at the top and we'll go rapid fire. Mike in Florida, Hooters and Joanne's the latest to be gone. What do you got?

[Covino]

Two ground round up north.

[Danny G]

Pay what you weigh in South Florida. Ground round was a nightmare for any chubby kid growing up.

[Covino]

Mike, try to tell us the second one again. Wanna do city South Florida, Sunrise.

[Danny G]

I don't think I knew that one.

[Rich]

But ground round, that Cavino's not joking. A nightmare for chubby kids. Parents, if you ate, if you bought an entree, your kids paid what they weighed. So if you weighed 85 pounds as.

[Danny G]

A little kid, 85 cents.

[Rich]

85 cents. So the whole joke was like, don't bring your fat friends.

[Danny G]

But that was the spot for sure.

[Covino]

The Slider Sundays. Yeah, I have so many of those little baseball helmets left over.

[Rich]

You know what fascinated me as a kid? So I know I can't be a alone. Remember the first time you were allowed to do soft serve by yourself? Places like that would have you the ability as a kid, you could pull the lever.

[Danny G]

Yeah.

[Rich]

And do your own soft serve.

[Danny G]

No, I remember that.

[Covino]

Glorious.

[Danny G]

But it made me think of too. Again, I'm from New Jersey, so Route 22, New Jersey. You go up our guy that mentioned Bennigan's before, the parent company also owned steak and ale and that was the higher end version. That does not exist as far as I know. I used to love that place.

[Rich]

Demetrius in Tulsa. What's up, Tulsa, King?

[Covino]

Well, three things. One, an old franchise, Arthur Treacher's kind of was part of that fish and.

[Rich]

Chips thing that was going on for a while. Second of all, Howard Johnson's not only.

[Covino]

Did hotels, but they also did restaurants. And we have. We have a turnpike between Tulsa and Oklahoma City.

[Rich]

And the midway at Howard Johnson's was always open 24 hours.

[Covino]

So if we were going between the two, we could stop there. And third, somebody had to be really old to remember this, but Sears and I think Mike Montgomery Ward had a house. You could buy a house kit and build it.

[Rich]

That's insane. Sears and Roebuck originally, right?

[Covino]

You can do that at Costco or you can get like sheds and stuff.

[Rich]

Yeah. LV in Vegas. What's up, lv?

[Covino]

I got two for you.

[Rich]

Love your show. Thanks, man.

[Covino]

Little League, Shakey's Pizza after the game. And then who did not go to a Towers record in the early 90s.

[Danny G]

Tower, Virgin, Sam Goody, Coconut.

[Rich]

Coconut. They're all gone.

[Covino]

Tower Records was that. And what was the name of the other one? You. What? What did you guys. Mostly Sam Goody. Okay. You had Sam Goody Sargent. Oh, man, I'm.

[Rich]

Did you have. Did you have Nobody Beats the Wiz?

[Covino]

No, we didn't.

[Danny G]

You guys have Amoeba Records out here?

[Covino]

Oh, we had warehouse music.

[Danny G]

Warehouse music.

[Covino]

That's what the one I was thinking of.

[Rich]

Hey, Danny, you know, the. As I love when you always say it, the youngsters. The youngsters today, they don't know that thrill of. You had a weird. At a record store or a video store to get concert tickets.

[Covino]

That and also when there would be a big music release. Like, I remember when Snoop Dogg's first solo album came out, there was a line outside the warehouse music store. You waited in line for hours to get that new cd.

[Rich]

That's why I'm always so torn with music and entertainment. Podcasts, we have everything at our fingertips. Does it make us lazy or is it convenient? I just can't ever put my finger on if I'm glorifying the past. Like, if I wanted to listen to music, you had to go buy a CD or a record to go, you know, to listen to a radio show, you had to listen live. There was no podcasting and movies and everything. You'd have to go to a video store. Now everything's just right. Everything's on your phone. Is that awesome or not? I don't know.

[Danny G]

It is. But again, you know, you lose a lot as a result, and that's what we're going over, and we're probably moving in a better direction, but it is kind of sad to see these things go away. Speaking of music, Music, I'm pretty certain that Sam Ash closed down their last store. Guitar center still remains. Sam Ash gone. So if you want to buy a trumpet, you're not getting it. Sam Ash.

[Rich]

It's really funny you would ask that, because I. When you said Sam Ash, my only thought was, I think that's what my grandparents bought me. My saxophone.

[Danny G]

No doubt. Yeah. Sam, if you need to buy some reeds or a pair of drumsticks, Sam Ash was your spot. Yeah, that. That doesn't exist as far as I know. Again, certain brands here and there. Online maybe. Look, Rich and I, we worked. Our first show together was on Maxim radio. I mean, magazines barely exist.

[Rich]

Yeah, it's true. Three more quickies and we'll go rapid fire with John in Illinois. What's up, bud?

[Covino]

Hey, guys.

[Rich]

Love the show. Thank you.

[Covino]

Most of mine have been taken, but two quick things. If you want your Orange Julius, Dairy Queen has it now. They own it. I work at a warehouse. We stock thousands of cases of that stuff.

[Danny G]

Julius. That's cool, though. I didn't know Dairy Queen owned that.

[Rich]

Yep. And secondly, who's noticing the socks at Hooters? Oh, who's looking at the socks?

[Danny G]

Yeah. I didn't even know they had feet.

[Rich]

Wait, they. Wait, they have anything below the knee? What's going on?

[Danny G]

Just kidding. No, I'm not.

[Rich]

Josh in Pennsylvania. What's up, Josh? Damn, you guys killed my store.

[Covino]

Id.

[Rich]

I was gonna say the wall in Pennsylvania. Go down to the mall.

[Covino]

And I feel like it was like, Thursday. It was a certain day of the week. I think it was Thursday, when, you.

[Rich]

Know, your favorite rock band was dropping their new album. And it'd be so exciting, hopping in the car, you know, skipping school, heading down to the mall.

[Danny G]

You'd have the headphones that you could.

[Covino]

Pop on to, you know, hear the different tracks. You'd play like 30 seconds of the.

[Rich]

Song and test it out before you buy the cd. Josh. I'm so convinced, and I know it's self serving. I'm so convinced we had the best childhood. If you're roughly 40ish, I feel like.

[Danny G]

My daughter watches Stranger Things or Throwbacks and she swears that we had it the best. I'm like, yeah, I think we did.

[Rich]

I'm convinced life now is better and more convenient. But I feel like if you grew up in the 80s and 90s. We grew up in a very special time.

[Danny G]

More of a magical time. Yeah.

[Rich]

Dwight Rapid. We're running late, but a lot of fun talking to you guys. What's up, Kentucky? Kentucky.

[Covino]

All right. I just heard you guys say y'all want to get 40th something to take you way back, 20 more years. Okay. Do you guys remember George Web's restaurant? And then I'm okay. It used to be a Woolworth. Woolworths clothes was. I mean, store. It's kind of like a Walmart.

[Danny G]

Of course, Woolworth.

[Rich]

There was an east coast place called Caldor. I don't know if that made it out.

[Danny G]

Kmart. Woolworths for sure.

[Covino]

My grandma used to tell stories about eating at Woolworths.

[Danny G]

Bradley's. Two guys. But you know what? I do want to just plant one more thought before we move on, because this stuff we didn't even talk about. But mall stores, like, like, obviously structure's gone, but I used to work at a place. It became Men's Express now. Now it's Panda Express. Sam. Yeah, now they sell Panda clothes now. I used to work at a mall store called the Garage, and it's not what you see now. Garage. There are some stores called Garage. I used to work at a men's clothing store called the Garage, and they sold like, Levi's and Boss sweatshirts and things like big Johnson T shirts and all that. But if you remember, there was a whole chain of merry go round, chess king Ativo, all these stupid stores that don't exist anymore at the mall.

[Covino]

Make some noise for the greatest shooter of all time, Steph Curry. We went live from Austin All Star Weekend for a new podcast called Goat Greatest of their era. And we ranked our top five shooters from the 2000s. Peja 5. Dirk Ford.

[Danny G]

Paja is elite.

[Rich]

Okay, okay, I'm mad him.

[Danny G]

I left him off my list, but.

[Covino]

I still like my list. You won't believe who Steph left off his list. That's so tough. That's why we have these conversations. That's why we have Love it. Steph talked about what separates the truly elite NBA shooters. When you have a scouting report and you're on the list as not just a shooter, but we have specific rules for how we guard you. There's a fear factor that's associated with it. Anytime you're wide open, like, you might as well just count that and get on back on defense. Listen to Goat G O T e Greatest of their era on the iHeartRadio.

[Rich]

App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Travis Kelce. Let's touch on this guy for a second. Oh, hold up.

[Danny G]

You touch on them.

[Rich]

Travis Kelsey. Not. Not done. And then you got to ask yourself, not everyone gets to choose to go out on top. Not everyone's John Elway. Not everyone is. I'll be honest. I'm trying to think of who else. Michael Jordan. After the second three people. Then he came back as a wizard.

[Danny G]

J.G. wentworth. I mean, Jason Wentworth.

[Rich]

J.G.

[Covino]

Wentworth.

[Danny G]

I mean, Andrew.

[Rich]

Yeah. Andrew Whitworth. Very few guys, you could say when you look at what guy won a Super Bowl. Jerome Bettis. I remember the bus winning a Super bowl in Detroit. They beat the Seahawks. Sorry. Dan Beyer.

[Danny G]

Mayweather went out on top, and he's in the news today because him and Jake Paul are beefing publicly.

[Rich]

But not many people get to choose to go out on top. That's a rarity. That's a special thing. So when Travis Kelsey said, yeah, I'm not going out like that. I mean, short of another super bowl, you're going to go out on a note you don't want. It's really what it is. It's a sad reality.

[Danny G]

Well, hold on. I'm going to quote him now. I don't know if you saw it, but he did say we ain't going out like that a la Cypress Hill style. We ain't going out. He said.

[Rich]

Scooby Doo, y'all.

[Covino]

Scooby Doo. Yeah, Send dog.

[Danny G]

Yep. We ain't going out. He said losing super bowl licks. Losing the super bowl left a bad taste in his mouth. So therefore he wants to go at it, run it back one more time at least again. 35 year old Travis Kelsey on the Pat McAfee Show.

[Rich]

Even TB12. Remember Tom Brady? Do you remember how the story ended?

[Covino]

With a very dispiriting loss to the Dallas Cowboys in the first round of the playoffs, I believe.

[Rich]

Yeah. I mean, all right, so Tom Brady, we all thought his first exit was going to be on a. A pick to end the game, I believe, against like Jacksonville. Was it Jacksonville, Tennessee? Oh, Tennessee. It was against Tennessee. Like a team that really didn't go much further. And it was like, man, that's how Tom's going to go out. And then he comes back with the buck, wins a Super bowl, but then tries to run it back. And he did have a comeback in that game. That's the, the only saving grace is that he actually had a pretty decent second half. But they just couldn't, they just couldn't win.

[Covino]

That. That Bucks offense, though, was so hard to watch. His final year. It was just. And it wasn't really Brady's fault. It was just. I don't. It was just, it was grueling.

[Danny G]

It was like watching Iowa's offense, like, it was sad because you knew it was the end. But it's not like he sucked that season. The team just wasn't that good.

[Rich]

Yeah. And the simple fact that he had won the year before.

[Danny G]

Right.

[Rich]

And it was almost, wow, he really did it.

[Danny G]

Yeah. But he also, he beat freaking Patrick Mahomes. Remember the path that he took to get there? That was insane.

[Rich]

Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, Mahomes. Like, that was. That was badass.

[Danny G]

So again, it is unlikely to ever go out on top. But even when you try, Rich, sometimes to take that mental still image, even in your own life of like, yeah, this is my last day at the office, you rarely remember. You really remember it. You know, I'm thinking, no matter what you do, do you guys Remember the last time you. You played an organized baseball game? Like, did you strike out? Did you ground out? What was your hurrah? Did you hit a home run? Did you end it like Derek Jeter? No.

[Rich]

You would think. You remember, right? Like, I. If you played baseball, that dude had.

[Danny G]

A walk off, you know, hit to end his career.

[Rich]

If you feel as though. If you feel like you cared so much about sports as a kid, isn't it shocking how you probably don't remember your last at bat or your last football game?

[Danny G]

No, I couldn't tell you if I tried.

[Rich]

By the way, Jeter's last home game was the walk off. Yeah, he did get a hit in his last at bat on the road.

[Covino]

Remember?

[Rich]

It was like a weak infield dribbler, and it was like, look at that. He even hustled out his last hit.

[Danny G]

Yeah, but he was always full of magical moments there. No doubt. Again, but professional athletes, they have the footage, they have the moment, and they rarely go out on top, so you got to tip your hat when they do. So for Kelsey to run it, I mean, he must really have some regrets of how he played his last game, you know, because for them to run it back, to think they're going to win again, I find that hard to believe.

[Rich]

Ambitious. You know who would have been great at Deal or no Deal or press your luck. No whammy. No whammy. Stop. John Elway. When John Elway finally won, just remember when we were kids, he lost to the Giants, he lost to the Redskins, and he lost to the 49ers. And you're like, Man, Elway. Oh, and three in the Super Bowl. But he's so cool. He won. Helicopter dive into the end zone. Underdog beat the Packers. They came back, they ran it back, and they beat the Falcons. And I remember thinking, like, why is he.

[Danny G]

That's why. I feel like Kershaw's pressing his luck. He could have went out of Champ.

[Rich]

Yeah, they'll win again.

[Danny G]

I don't know.

[Rich]

Let's go to Dan Buyer for an update. Db, what's going on, buddy?

[Covino]

Remember when Brady retired the first time they thought that the final touchdown pass would be the one that Mike Evans threw into the stands? And so then that ball was the hot commodity. And then Brady unretires, and then it's like, ah, too bad. And so whoever bought it got the wrong end of the deal. The Titans did win the next week, though. Remember, they beat the Ravens and then lost to the Chiefs in the AFC Championship game. This is Nikki Glaser. From the Nikki Glazer Podcast. On a more serious note, I'm still.

[Rich]

Thinking about that commercial with Tom Brady and Snoop Dogg hating on each other.

[Covino]

Because when you listen to the reasons for hating someone or something, you realize just how stupid they really are. There is too much hate in this country and it's gotta stop. So join us at iheart and Standing up to It.

[Rich]

If you see hate, speak up, call.

[Covino]

It out and you can learn more by following OTs. Upwithhate make some noise for the greatest shooter of all time, Steph Curry. We went live from All Star Weekend for a new podcast called Goat Greatest of Their Era and we ranked our top five shooters from the 2000s.

[Danny G]

Asia 5 dirt 4 Asia is a okay.

[Rich]

You won't believe who Steph left off his list.

[Covino]

That's so tough. That's why we tap these conversations. Yes, absolutely. Love it. Listen to Go G O t e Greatest of Their era on the iHeartRadio.

[Rich]

App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[Covino]

Hey, everybody, what's up? This is Questlove, and every year we do special programming in February for Black History Month. Now, it's especially important this this year as we gear up for some new conversations. So the team and I compiled some clips from the show that are worth revisiting. In part one of the celebration of Black History Month, we're listening back to Moments with Chris Rock, Solange Prodigy, Ben Vereen, Jennifer Lewis, Angela Rye, and Gina Yashore. Listen to Questlove supreme on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. Are you hungry? Colleen Witt here. And Eating While Broke is back for season four every Thursday on the Black Effect Podcast Network. This season we've got a legendary lineup serving up broke dishes and even better stories. On the menu we have Tony Baker, Nick Cannon, Melissa Ford, October London, and Carrie Harper Howey. Turning Big Macs into big moves. Catch Eating While Broke every Thursday on the Black Effect Podcast Network. IHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts. Wherever you get your favorite shows, come hungry for season four.

[Danny G]

I'm Mary Kay McBrayer, host of the podcast the Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told. This season explores women from the 19th century to now. Women who were murderers and scammers, but also women who were photojournalists, lawyers, writers, and more. This podcast tells more than just the brutal, gory details of horrific acts. I delve into the good, the bad, the difficult, and all the nuance I can find because these are the stories that we need to know to understand the intersection of society, justice and the fascinating workings of the human psyche. Join me every week as I tell some of the most enthralling true crime stories about women who are not just victims, but heroes or villains, or often somewhere in between. Listen to the greatest true crime stories ever told on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.