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Meaning if you're bowling and you have an open frame in the first frame that if you're a pitcher and you get lit up in the first inning and it's like, oh, one run. You gave up two runs in the first inning and yeah, rough start. Or is it like, what's happening to Georgia right now? They're in the first half and it's 30 to 10. Gonzaga. Like, when you just, when you just can't get it going, what's the worst feeling? That's when you wish you had life's reset button. Remember when you have a bad start to a Nintendo game on a Throwback Thursday and you just reach with your big toe to reset it? How about when your favorite NFL team gets scored on and then your defense comes up? You know? You know what I mean? Like, you get blown out in the first quarter, basically, when they score quick and you like fumble the kickoff and it's like 14, nothing like that. You like, it's hard to recover. You see it in fighting a lot. Someone comes out, you know, with a nasty right hook to the head, that dude gets popped. He's never the same throughout the rest of the fight. I got one now. Again, it's sometimes it just unfortunately bad circumstances. You ever see a good fighter gets accidentally headbutted early on in the fight or cut? And yeah, you're cut. And I'm saying so they're already rattled. They're struggling. Saw the worst cut in boxing history. Oh, that was the Tim Zoo Fedora fight. Yeah. But what I'm saying is that was the result of a headbutt. So imagine you're a fighter and you're game planning and training for months, and in like the second round, the other guy accidentally headbutt you and you cut your eyebrow and then you're bleeding the fight. Where is life's reset most important in sports? Life's reset button. How about when you're in a heated game of mini golf? Not real golf because I'm not there yet in life, but mini golf and yet you start off with a really bad like five, six. What? This is horrible. No, I think the number one answer for me, I mean, of course. Bowling. Yeah, I was going to say because we all have this fantasy that we're going to bowl 300. The other ones are all relatable if you're athlete of a pro level. But I think if you're bowling with some friends or you go with the wifey or girlfriend or your kids bowling, if you have like a seven and then you miss the pocket on like on a spare and you're like, open frame. Can we starting a game. Open bowling. Open frame to start the game. Weeknight. However, as a, you know, a superstar pitcher when I was like a teenager, never played as an adult, I thought you were a belly itcher. But I do remember the feeling of a 1, 2, 3, first inning as a pitcher versus two guys got on base. I let up a run. Like you just. It's just not how you want to start a game. So that's another big one. What's the worst? Cause it looks like Clemson's off to a bad start. It looks like Gonzaga is beating Georgia by 20 in the first. So speaking of brackets. Rich, I know we're not going to have time for it on this show. We will talk about brackets and other conversations to avoid on over promised right after this show on fox Sports Radio's YouTube page. But listen, unless your final four is out of it, you're in it. Really in until then because there's upsets in every round. But I did want to bring this up today. Kavina will say that I've been dropping this fun fact all week. Oh, no. The chance of someone having a Perfect bracket is one in 9.2 quintillion. Quintillion. Impossible. And that one is Kurt Hennig. One is Mr. Perfect. Mr. Perfect one in 9.2 quintillion. So just for perspective, I did a little research. I don't mind you dropping that fun fact because every time you've said it, I could drop that cool Mr. Perfect joke. Fourth time you've done it. I've been counting. Yeah, no, it's giving me opportunity to shout out Mr. Perfect four or five times. The late, the late great Curt Hen. One in 9.2 quintillion. I want to just throw some perspective at you guys of other far fetched things. So when your brackets already busted and it's, you know, 208 West Coast Time and you're thinking my bracket. And for the record, we all filled out our bracket we're just trying to explain that no one wants to hear about yours. Everybody cares about their own. They just don't care about yours. I made that point when we walked in. Bri, who's a lovely producer. I love Bri. She's in the editing room. Oh, Briella. Briella. She ripped her pants today. I'm sure she wants me to tell everyone on Fox Sports Radio. Everyone laughs. Wow. I didn't even know that. And I'm here. She ripped her pants. Is that why I saw her running through the parking garage in sweats? No, I swear. Yeah, so Bri ripped her pants. She said she bought us a cute new outfit and it ripped in the crotch. She had to have, like, Uber, go to Target. That's Brie right there. That's Bri. And she had to have sweatpants delivered here so that she could have pants. And I said, you know what? No one would even notice. Because everyone's so self involved that if you were to turn the corner, Bri. And someone said, rich, for a million dollars, what is Bri wearing? I would have got it wrong. Also, we have staplers and tape. You could just Jimmy rig that thing. Give MacGyver that. I wouldn't have noticed. So we're all overstimulated today. We're not even paying attention. Everyone's overstimulated and everyone's only concerned about themselves. Everyone's in their own. Like when you have a big pimple, you can have a big pimple on your nose and you think everyone's looking. No one even notices. However, this bracket thing. 1 in 9.2 quintillion. For perspective, I did a little research. Other things that seem very impossible. What do you think the chances of winning the Powerball are? Not as high as the bracket. 1 in 292 million. Wow. To win the mega millions, 1 in 302 million. To get eaten by a shark in the ocean, 1 in 265 million. Wow. Really? That's some bad luck to be struck by lightning. One in 16,000. A lot of people get tricked by lightning, apparently. And to bring it back to sports, to show the perspective of this perfect bracket where you guess all 63 games right, 1 in 9.2 quintillion. To make it into professional sports, fewer than 2% of D1 collegiate athletes make it into the pros. Less than 2% of Division 1 college athletes go professional. In fact, in the NFL, 1 in 10,000. In Major League Baseball, 1 in 22,000. And in the NBA, 1 in 55,000. Wow. So to put in perspective of the people out there that played sports in high school, college, anything to make the pros is tough enough. You've seen those. You've seen those people do, like, their little demonstrations, like, you know, how many kids play little league or pony ball? Millions and millions. And then how many of those play junior high, high school, college, minor league, get drafted? Whittles down. Whittles down. So to think how tough it is to get into pro sports, to win the lottery to be eaten by a shark. You know, I didn't look this one up, knock on wood. To be in a plane crash. That's why when all these terrible flight things are happening, you still have to remember there's 100,000 flights to take off out of the United states every day. 100,000. You have a better chance to be killed by a meteorite than you do to have a perfect bracket. It's true. So you're telling me there's a chance? So one in 840 million. Well, think. Think about it like this. So to have a meteor hit you, the odds. So when companies are like, hey, we'll give you millions if you get a perfect bracket, they might as well say, we'll give you trillions if you get a perfect bracket. It's gonna be a quintillion dollars. Elon's promising you a trip to Mars, which we know is not even possible. So, like, maybe it's like, if you actually somehow did get a perfect bracket, he's like, okay, we'll figure that out at some point. Like, it's not gonna happen. I was. Sam, you brought it up yesterday. I thought the documentary was fascinating. Do you remember that Pepsi promotion where they collect enough points, Those little cutout coupons or a little. The barcode UPC thing on a case of Pepsi or Mountain Dew jetliner, You need lighter jet, 60 million points or something. Yeah, it was like a fighter. A fighter jet. But they made it like a joke in the commercial. And people literally try to do it, Right. There's a documentary did it. And you know what? It's. It just shows you how hard it is. The end. I just wanted to put a perspective because what do you. What are you gonna do with all that Pepsi in Mountain Dew? Did you watch that documentary? No, but, I mean, you have to store all that in, like, a warehouse. Then it goes bad. I did. I forgot how he did it. But they did. Warm. Now they got a warehouse. He had people to fund him because. Yeah. He had to get investors. You can't just buy millions of cases. I mean, how much you think millions of cases of Pepsi cost? So this kid did it. You might as well just buy a fighter jet from like the Russians or something. I mean, it's much more cost efficient. So just to put a perspective, if your bracket stinks, you're not alone. Everyone's bracket stinks. In fact, what was the luckiest thing that ever happened to you growing up? It's a good question. I never even won a raffle. Never a raffle. Nothing like that? No. Yo, I know you want like a cakewalk. My kids little league at Ben's Pony ball opening day, we won a $50 gift card to an ice cream shop. That's the luckiest I ever got. Perfect bracket. But this is amazing story in my life, okay? It's not a perfect bracket, okay? But there has to be. What's right under quintillion? There's probably one in a trillion chances of this happening. One in a bazillion. This is at least one in a bazillion chances. You know those carnival games where there's bottles and you have to throw those little red rings on those bottles? It's very hard. But the little red rings are just the right size to fit on top of those bottles, right? And there's usually basketball and there's usually. There's usually one like, golden bottle. I'm glad you said that because there was 500 bottles, okay? One gold bottle. I swear to God this is the truth. And I think it was Six Flags. If I'm not mistaken. I'm at Six Flags. There's one gold bottle. The rest of them are like brown, right? And you get those little bucket of red rings. Dude, I did a little flick. Little flickaroo, right? It was like, I swear to you, it was like. It was like one of my. My ancestors and an angel from above caught it mid flight and placed it perfectly right on the only golden bottle like Christopher Lloyd and angels in the outfield. That's so weird. I couldn't believe my eyes, dude. It was like blink. I was like, what? Dude, Nobody believed it. And you know what? You know, they advertise like you could win a tv. They didn't have anything. They didn't have anything because no one wins that. So I'm like, wait, wait. So they, they advertise like flat screen TV or a mountain bike. And they're probably like, here, here's a Tweety Bird stuff. They're like, dude, just come in the back. We'll discuss this for you. There's only one out of 500. The chances of winning. I get Scooby Doo. Hell no. And it's funny you say that, Rich. I actually got a mountain bike out of it. I wanted the tv, but they were like, we give you a mountain bike. And at the time, I was like, I could actually use a mountain. I was in college. I could use a mountain bike. Took the mountain bike. And that's my story. That was. Dude. But that was a one in a trillion chance when I did the math. So, yeah, I was pretty lucky. It's no bracket, dude, but it was pretty dope. I mean, there's some people, you see that on their Draft Kings or FanDuel or whatever, they'll be like, I'm like one leg away from a, you know, 15 leg parlay. And that itself is one of those. But that's a bet. I'm saying in life, when do you feel like, danny, do you have a moment where you're like, yeah, it was like my luckiest moment as a kid. No, I mean, I was like, I got a job that I was trying really hard for. I was 15 years old at the time, and it was an official, legit FM radio station. So I felt super lucky getting hired after the interview. You know that feeling after an interview where it's the hardest night's sleep? You don't know if you're gonna get a call back. I had to bring a work permit in. I'm thinking there's. The odds are stacked against me. So by far, I was the, like, the little Doogie Howser on the FM RAD radio station staff. So that probably was like my luckiest moment as a kid. And we see these half court shots with all that pressure for big bucks. You know what was really lucky? Did you see that Luca shot? Warming up. Give me a break with that. Yeah. Rich, did you see this? No, I didn't. Dude. He's like, in the stands, and he just launches it up from behind the backboard, like by the tunnel. It goes from behind the backboard. Hierarch. Swish. Nothing but the bottom. But I remember when we were kids, Larry, it was way crazier than anything you've seen Steph Curry do before. Larry Bird would do that in warmups. And I remember seeing that on, like, Warner Wolf's. I gotta say, as a kid, you know, when you. When you think about luck in sports, of course, the immaculate Reception comes to mind. But I. The immaculate Reception for me is when that field goal was kicked and it was a dude that jumped out of the stands with such precision. Perfect timing. Oh, Chicago fan. And he caught it midair. People don't, you know, people don't realize that was Isaac Loincro. True story. Right, Isaac. The timing involved on that. That's crazy. Isaac Lohan. That was a. Security guards were a little touchy with me after that. I remember being like, wait a minute. But one more sports one. And I have. I know, Sam, you have one. And I have a story about Covino that I think was his luckiest moment. But in sports, do you guys Remember when Paul O'Neal bobbled the ball in right field and for some reason he's like, eff it. And he just kicked it with his foot. Yeah. And it. And it like went in line to the cutoff man. It's on his baseball referen, like throws righty, kicks lefty or whatever. Yeah. It was unbelievable. But is that legal? It is. Wow. You can't throw your glove at a ball, can you though? I don't think so. Right. What if it lands in the glove? Hold on. Kavino showing me the Lucas shot. Yeah. Watch this shot. Talk about luck. There's like so much luck in that. I mean, it's an obvious skill, but look how ridiculous. Oh, my God. It looks fake. That was in warmups. Yeah. And then he would go on to have what, that huge first quarter. Yeah. Kind of a precursor for what's to come. Yeah. So my. My moment that I think Covino's forgetting was his luckiest moment. And I don't want to be vulgar here on Fox Sports Radio, but don't make me dump you. Does this involve Patriots cheerleaders? Close your ears. All right. Better clean it up. Earmuffs. We were in our 20s. Every good story starts with we were in our 20s. Well, it justifies it. Yeah, justifies it too. Wait, wait, wait. You need one of these sound effects. It was 2000 something. We're at a Super bowl party. And at this super bowl party were the New England Patriots cheerleaders. And you could imagine they were smoking hot. They were one of these girls you could imagine, a model, blonde looking cheerleader, probably like the hottest one. She's like, hey, you. She was like teary eyed, like she was sad. She comes up to Covino and she's like, you come with me. I'm like, me. And she brings Covino back to her hotel. I remember waiting in the lobby for two minutes, but apparently her boyfriend had cheated on her. And she's like, I'm going to get revenge. Covino Happened to look like her boyfriend. Yeah, yeah. The scoop was I looked. I resembled them. So. And I remember I reap the benefits of this guy being a cheater. I guess she got cheated on by Mario Lopez. I guess. Yeah, probably. And I remember being like, did this just happen? Did he just happen to be a guy that looked like this hot girl? Lucky night. So give me props. Sometimes luck's on your side. Sometimes not so much. Sam, what's your lucky story? So about 13 months ago, this was mid February of last year, Dez Bryant on X shared that he did a 13 leg college basketball parlay and he won $417,000. He had a 13 leg parlay. That's crazy. And he won. I mean, to be a retired football player and to win $417,000, that's like a couple paychecks. Then you're like, okay, that's some good money. You know what the big story in the east coast was? Growing up. If you grew up in the New York, New Jersey area, this was a big headline. I don't know if it made it out here on the West Coast. This is at the height of when Jennifer Lopez is Jenny from the block. JLo. Everyone's like, JLo. JLo. As popular as she is now, the big story was her mother went down to Atlantic City and JLo's mom won the million dollar slot machine. The wheel of fortune. Yeah. And it was like, really? Of all people, JLo's mom, like, as if she needs it. But remember that story? Yeah, of course. It was like Jennifer Lopez, her mom, of all people. So your lucky story. Feel free to share. 87799 on Fox. But you need to be what, one in. I'll say one. I'll say it one last time and then I'll retire it until next year. Guys. 1 in 9.2 quintillion. Ridiculously more tricky than winning the Powerball, the Mega Millions and getting eaten by a shark while being struck by a meteor at the same time. Could happen. You could take the fun out of anything. Definitely could happen. Hey, guys, you could do it, though, remember? So you're telling me there's a chance? Hey, I mean, if Harry thought there was a chance. Lloyd. Lloyd Christmas. A guy like you and a skirl ghoul like me. Sirl ghoul. I was way off. Yeah. All right. Thank you. I was Sam David. If you get that perfect bracket, Fox Sports Radio pays you an IOUs. A briefcase full of IOUs. Maybe occasional $5 bill. This is good as money, guys. This one's as good as money. I'd say a ferra. When we first started promoting this, I pictured our boss, Scott Shapiro sitting down with the lawyer for our network and saying, get 1 million. Can we say 10 million? You could say 500 million. There's not a briefcase with a million. You're going to end up with a mountain bike. You can save $500 million and Colin Cowherd gives you lap dancers. I think there were like Howie Mandel briefcases on the, on the table. I think the point here. Billion dollars, not impossible. But it's the closest thing to impossible. It's improbable. No, technically, it's not impossible. Not impossible. But we. Closest thing you could. But we just talked about how you could win the Powerball and get hit by a meteor and still that's better odds. Talking about crazy luck. You need crazy luck to get a perfect look at Clemson's coming back. Oh, yeah. They got three minutes to lever the point game. Yeah. And by the way, speaking of comeback, while you were watching John Cena, I was watching a new Bert Kreischer special and it's called Lucky, Lucky. Yes. On Netflix. So whatever you're watching, enjoy it. Enjoy your March Madness. Dipsy doo Dunkaroo. And a week from today, we'll all be enjoying some baseball. Enjoy Over Promise. Right after this show, let's get to the phone calls at 87799 on Fox. Then we'll talk some Ron Washington. All right. Nice. What up, Joe in Sacramento? What's up, Joe? Hey, what's going on, guys? What's up, brother? I wanted to share a lucky story with you guys that I experienced back, way back in the late 90s, mid-90s. Okay, so I was in the sixth grade. There was a soda company, I don't know if you guys remember it, called Surge. Of course. So they were giving out prizes, you know, under the bottle cap type thing. Well, I found a bottle cap and I looked at it and there was a code on it. I got the code. It was for the walkie talkies. So I won two free walkie talkies. I was stoked. But then it got better because I was. I was waiting for him to come. They came. My dad says, let's check out the range. I started walking down the road. He was at the house. Got about a quarter mile down the road, I found a twenty dollar bill. And that's the luckiest this guy's ever got. Finding money's great. You know, finding money in laundry that you forgot about. I found a dollar On a park bench or on a bus stop bench. And I was like, my lucky day and a nickel in my pocket. Nickel in my pocket and I got a $1. Thanks for sharing. We appreciate it. Shout out to Rapid Radios too, By the way, speaking of luck. To wrap it up, it all comes down to who's lucky enough to win March Madness. Your bracket. No one's going to be perfect. You feel that way about box pools at the Super Bowl? Like, you could get crappy numbers. I always remember the story my dad loves to tell where he got 8 and 9, and this was the Super Bowl, Danny, where your Raiders ended up beating the Washington Redskins. Terrible. Being a little boy, I could hardly understand football. He's like, oh, buddy, Dad's not going to win. These are the worst numbers. These are the waste. And The Raiders won 38 to nine. And eight and nine are not traditionally good numbers for a box pool. So sometimes you get lucky. I always think of this when you go to a stadium. And speaking of Bert Kreischer, see, the show all ties together. I saw recently for the hell of it, he just bought everyone in his whole section at a ball game a bunch of 50, 50 raffle tickets. Did you see that? He just bought a ton of them. Do you know anyone that's ever won the 5050 at a stadium? No. I kind of feel like it's a scam, dude. You'll see. You'll be at Dodger Stadium and they'd be like, hey, the 5050 raffles up to $90,000. You know, you get half and they give the other half to, like, a charity or something. I've never known one person to be like, yo, guess What? I won 40 grand where I was at the brewers game and I won the 50 50. Never. Never met him ever. Like, do they have to publish a winner ever? They don't show a winner up on the scoreboard or anything at the end of a game. Probably is a scam, Danny. So again, we're Kavino Rich, live from the Tyrack.com studio. Remember C and R? They paid for Ohtani. Exactly. C and R brought to you by Travis Matthew Apparel designed for confidence and comfort no matter where the day takes you. Visit travismathieu.com receive 20% off your first order when you sign up for email matthew.com 20% off. You're looking to buy something new. Might as well get your 20% off the first order when you sign up for the email. Travismathu.com yo, you are going to be jealous. I got Some Travis Matthew shoes in the mail yesterday. Yeah, yeah, I know. You said you got nice green ones. Yeah, you know what? Maybe. Danny J, are you size 11? Yeah, I am. Actually, I am now. You gave me a dilemma. They're both size 11. Oh, boy. I want some Travis Matthew shoes. We'll see who's lucky. I was going say maybe I'll spread the wealth. That's cool. You could give them the same. No, no, I insist, Danny. Then we'll flip a coin for it. They're silver and black. Oh, no way. Really? Yeah. Wow. Some cool stuff at Travis Matthews. So they got really great stuff. Now, before we get into old school when 50 hits. We do it every Thursday. Throwback conversation. Today's like a terrible anniversary of sorts. But we're going to have some fun with it. We'll explain. Yeah. Got to talk about Ron Washington. What is he, 73? You know what I always think about? How he looks like George Jefferson. No, but close. I think about how long he's been in the game. Right. What a nice guy he is and what a great coach he's been. I've always. I've only heard good things about him. No, but don't you remember when some little kid was baby Ron Washington for Halloween? I do and it went viral. And it was the best things. It looked like a little baby George Jefferson in a Rangers uniform. He had like the horseshoe. I don't know why I always think of that. It's so funny. And I always felt bad for him because that Rangers team was a strike away from winning the World Series. Yeah, they went to a couple World Series and just couldn't get the job done. Remember they lost to David Freeze and he's one of those guys you would like to see win eventually, but not at the expense of my team. But you know, Ron Washington's been doing it a long time. You know who never gets blamed. Not that I want to throw him under the bus. Someone fill in the blank for me. I know Isaac's going to have it on the tip of his tongue. Who is the right fielder for the Rangers? Who if he made a really nice play, it wasn't an easy play by any means, but right fielder for the Rangers, Pete in Cavill. Stop. It was in Hamilton. No, but no, it was. It was not a white player. It was a guy in right field who missed it, got misplayed it slightly. But was it Nelson Cruz? Nelson Cruz. Nelson Cruz slightly misplayed a ball a little bit. It would have been a phenomenal play. But if he Makes that play. The Rangers win the World Series. No one ever really blames Nelson Cruz, rightfully so. It would have been a. But it would have been a really, really great catch. Anyway, so. Ron Washington, 73 years old, by the way. So keep in mind, that's my. My dad is 73. Yeah, that. That's perspective, because, you know, he's in great shape. He's been doing. He's still doing it. So if you people his age retire, if you're a guy that's, you know, roughly 40, your dad is Ron Washington's age likely, right? So I bring this up because I'm torn on it, and a lot of times I want to come here with an opinion where I'm like, guys, here's my opinion. You know, it's in. In stone. But I really don't know. I feel like I want to talk it out with you guys. Ron Washington has banned phones in the clubhouse for the Angels. I like it. Now the Angels are a team with terrible luck. Speaking of luck, the Angels are a team that. Do you remember, like, a couple years ago, is the first time they were in first place at the same time as the Dodgers ever with the. The Angels are the rally monkey. Was like their one moment of glory last time they won was on. Danny Glover was the manager. Right. You're going to come with us, too. What about bullpen phones? They taking those out, too? So Ron Washington, who I do love his vibe, saying, no phones in the clubhouse, no cell phones, no smartphones. And you got to ask yourself, a bunch of players in their 20s and 30s, are they going to be like, yo, f this. And he's put Mike Trout and some of the team leaders in charge of how much the fine should be. And it seems like there's people behind it. And I'm like, are they behind it? Because if they weren't, then they look like a bunch of complaining biatches. Or do you think a bunch of young men want a no phone policy? Now, the theory is they don't, but that's not the point. The theory is Ron Washington wants to force his team to talk to each other. Exactly. To bond and communicate. Is this forced? Do you think it's brilliant? Do you think it's ridiculous? I don't know the answer. Because every time I convince myself, like, dude, outdated. Get Ron Washington out of here. This is stupid. I think it's great. Because even if it doesn't work, it's not gonna come back to this being the issue. Right. It's either gonna work and great or it doesn't. And that's not even the reason you thought people didn't want to go to the Yankees because of facial hair. Imagine it's like, yeah, dude, you know, all day when you're in the clubhouse and getting ready, you can't. Your phone. Here's what I think is a great idea. First of all, it's also a storyline on the White Lotus this season. The White Lotus, Season 3. The whole premise there is they're in Thailand and they're like, all right, give us your phone. So the families could bond together. And Jason, Isaac's character is a businessman who's dealing with some issues and he doesn't want to give up his phone. Right. But the whole point is so that you could bond. That's why you're there, get to know each other, take it back. And I think in this case, you got to think outside the box. And that's what Ron Washington's doing here. He's like, look, I played and lived in an era where this was the way it was and we all bonded as a team. We're better as a result. And if this helps the team, good. But again, if they stink, it's not going to be because of this. So it's a no lose move that he can keep the benefits. But I'm saying you could argue that, you know, this outdated type of thinking would. Would upset the young players. So I just saw a study, someone posted it about this, like in Australia or Sweden, some country, they did a. All the high schools there. You could not have your phone all day. And they found out that kids were learning better, they had better social skills. They were like. There was less anxiety from, like, cyberbullying. Iowa's legislature wants to do this too, where they're going to ban cell phones all day in high school. And it's good. It's been overwhelmingly positive. That's what I'm saying. So it's like these guys are paid millions. They can go without their phone for however many hours. 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We do this every Thursday old school and 50 hits. What we gonna do right here is go back into time. Throwing it back for a Thursday old school when 50 hits at 50 after CNR give you the time capsule topic and we reminisce together. So last week we were on vacation. I was doing the backstroke in a cenote. Rich, you were in Mexico with the Spring Breakers. Rich was in a booty shaking contest. Yeah. People don't know that he was in Cabo. We weren't here. And last week was the anniversary of when Rudy Gobert rubbed the microphones. Remember that? Of course. We were working at ESPN at the time. Like, what is going on? Yeah, he started Covid. Yeah. Yeah. Like, man, he's not taking this serious. This is a bad look. I remember sitting in the newsroom when we worked over there and it was the day last week when we all got word. Wait, well, Tom Hanks has Covid. Yeah. Wait, this is getting serious now. Tom Hanks. Well, this week, Danny G, you said one of your greatest memories was hearing the news, right. About when Covid started. It was announced that Tom Brady officially agrees to move on to Tampa bay for a two year deal. 50 million guarantee. Yeah. Because we were like, is there even gonna be an NFL season? Yeah. So, you know, we started hearing all these different random things and could we go back to work? We're washing our hands, singing Happy Birthday. So we wanted to be back. It wasn't a fun one time. It really wasn't. But as we look back five years ago this week when that happened. Five years. What are some of your random memories during COVID Could be sports related. Doesn't have to be. It could be sports. It could be just those random things you remember like going to the supermarket and they would only let certain people in at a time I remember they would let old ladies in early in the morning. Yeah, senior citizen AM But. But if you got some random memories, five years ago this week, we're talking the anniversary of coronavirus. And I bring it up because today is the day five years ago, Tiger King was released on Netflix. So we met Joe Exotic on this day five years ago today. So believe that we'll reminisce a little bit. Five years ago. Your odd weird memories from the early days of COVID Oh, you know what you could do too. Look in your phone and search March 2020, see where you were on this day. Let's go old school. Today marks the five year anniversary of Isaac Lomcron's favorite show, Tiger King. Honestly, it's a show that none of us would have ever tuned into hadn't we had been so bored making puzzles and sourdough bread and washing our hands over and over again, wiping down our groceries. All the stupid stuff we were doing to kill time. This was our only option. It's the only reason we care. Look at the date. It's a 20th, right? So Friday the 13th was the last day many people were at the office. So this was seven, eight days into a quarantine. And Netflix is like, hey, here's a documentary about weird people that would that have jungle cats show you cool cats and kittens. Yeah, Ridiculous. So ridiculous that we were all exposed to this and we all talked about it. We all watched it. And again, it was a totally total timing sort of thing. Otherwise we wouldn't have cared about Joe Exotic. But instead we all watched and we all knew that song. You remember that stupid song? It wasn't even him singing. Now I understand. I saw tiger and a tiger saw man. Now if you remember back at this time when we were so bored, everyone's jumping on zoom together. Everyone's making videos from home. Spot was making sourdough bread like a lot of people were. Yeah, I was so bored at home, I was making videos. I did a. I did my own version of that stupid song five years ago. Take a listen. Hey, it's Quarantino Cavino with my latest jam that I'm working on. Everybody feel free to sing along. I saw Rich Davis, jittery buffoon. I saw Rich Davis was a goon. Rich Davis was a goon. Everybody. I saw Rich Davis. He was a jittery buffoon. This. Thank you for making that five years ago. And you just on repeat. Hey, Rich Davis was a goon. So what were your weird memories from five years ago when you were watching Joe Exotic and Tiger King. When Covid first started and you were like, you said, you were wiping down your groceries, you were getting back from the supermarket. And I remember, like, you know, everyone has their own timeline of when they played it safe and what they did, but you remember taking like, Clorox wipes and wiping down the packaging and everything. Boxes. Yeah, they would get. They would arrive. I never wiped the groceries down. Well, the thing is. And I did. Danny G. The thing is, at this time again, last week was the Rudy Gobert story. This week is when we were introduced to Joe Exotic. Five years ago, Tom Brady announced he was going to the Bucks. After 20 years as a patriot, you're like, okay, well, that's cool news because you're thinking ahead, right? All right, Tom Brady. March Madness was canceled. I was going to say, why were we watching Tiger King? I don't know. Because the tournament that's going on today was canceled. Yeah, five days, all wondering, like, hey, we were supposed to have this two week curve thing. Are we. Are we heading back to work or what? Yeah, Five days before the tournament was set to begin, it was canceled. So weak, dude. So anyway, when we all look back personally, and I know everybody feels the same way, but it really, like, it sucked, dude. I hated every second of this. I hated it to the high heavens. We're gonna try to have some fun with it today. Your random memories five years ago, it's a major time. I know, I know. Some people lost people. There was some tragedy involved. We're keeping the lighter side of things. Like, you know, there's a lot of people that benefited from this, namely influencers. Because at that time, musical ly turned into TikTok and that blew up and you started seeing people doing their zoom. Carol Baskin killed her husband, whacked him, and all these dancing trends. Yeah, but were you zooming anybody? You were doing Skype before this happened. There's still people right now who get to work from home. And that would not be possible had it not been from their company branching out and allowing them to work from home when Covid was. The listeners don't know this. All of us are actually at our homes right now, by the way. By the way, here at Fox Sports Radio. Here at Fox Sports Radio, we had to dig a little deeper to find live sports news. Here is a clip from March 15, 2020, when our top story was live badminton. Listen, finally, hold on to your socks and shuttlecocks, because at the Yonex World Badminton Championships, Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota of Japan said sayonara to China's Douyuwei and Li Yinwe. 21:13. That's what I call March Madness. That's wild, dude. Do you know one thing I'll never forget on our network, first of all, we all had a zoom call with Scott, our boss, and he told all of us, he said, obviously these are interesting times. We're all gonna have to dig a little deeper to find really good, entertaining content for the listeners. Because, you know, nobody was sure with network, tv, radio, whatever. We didn't know, would there be less listeners, would there be more? Turned out the listenership like tripled because people had all this extra time to take in TV shows and radio and, and television. So that was one thing that was a little strange was suddenly there were 11 million listeners instead of 6 million or whatever it was. You know what that, it was great for radio and Fox Sports Radio and us professionally. We ended up in a better place. But you know what it also did in an eye rolling way, it let everyone think they could do their own podcast from home. That and it did sort of water down our world like, like during, towards the end of COVID that's when you'd bump into someone and they're like, you know, I do a podcast and you're like, changed everything. It was funny to hear the different hosts though, and what they would cover. Like, I'll never forget Ben Maller covered a marble championship race where people were racing marbles. I remember that. And remember there were the, the NASCAR drivers that were doing the simulated race car races in their contraptions. There were so many odd ends that were being covered and discussed and a lot of it was amusing because people were like, what are you guys going to talk about? Well, we found things to talk about, that's all. Yeah, everybody had to pivot and that's our strength. So yeah, we were fine. We were in sweatpants and we were drinking more than ever. But what were your memories that stood out? Oh, do you know what? That's a great one. Camino. I hadn't wore sweatpants since middle school pe. Oh, it came back hard. And I started wearing sweatpants all the time. And in fact, I'm wearing jeans today. In the last year or so. That's when I actually started dressing like a human again. It was a major comeback. I, I got way too sweatpant, comfy. And I think a lot of people did. Puzzles became a thing. So what were your memories five years ago when we were introduced to Joe? Exotic could be in the world of sports. It could be just in your life. What do you remember most? I got one in the world five years ago. One in the world of sports. Throwing it back on a Thursday. First of all, I remember Jimmy Butler doing his big fakes, big face, coffee inside the bubble. That was a good one. Yeah. Remember when he was. He was charging other NBA superstars $20 for a cup of coffee. And since then, he has opened up coffee shops. How about this? Remember Major League baseball? Certain stadiums and teams were selling cardboard cutouts that you could put in the stands. Like, if you wanted Danny G's cardboard cutout at a stadium, you could buy it. I was in Dodger Stadium. Clay Travis did a bit where all of us from the show. Isn't that still your Twitter? Your Twitter avatar? It's my Twitter avatar, yeah. Is it? I'm gonna go there right now. Danny G Radio shows how little I pay attention to you, Danny. I never even noticed this. I didn't notice that it was all bat, right? Yeah. On the Clay Travis show, that was a bit that we did. Oh, your famous photo with the blue bat. Yeah, that's that. So just to have a funny cutout, I held a wiffle ball bat. Oh, I didn't know that's what it was from. Yeah, of course we know that. That's hilarious, dude. That's the picture Spot uses when he goes to you in videos. All right, so Danny G Radio, if you want to check it out, let's go to the phones. 87799 on Fox. It really is like, it leaves such a weird feeling inside because you're like, that was five years ago, something happened where it just feels so odd. Like, time went super fast since then because it was a major stamp in our life. Right. So everybody remembers it. And then it's like every time it was so much quicker after that. Playing catch up ever since. Right. What I don't want to do is have this get political, but I do want to bring up one point that I think one of the big negatives, besides, obviously this affecting people, you know, certain people, the elderly, compromised people did get affected, died. I think. I think that the reality is that it separated us more than ever. Like, I think we were politically divided a little bit before that. You know, there are people that love Trump, hate Trump. But I think during COVID I think that how people treated Covid, we were more separated than ever before. And I saw this firsthand because I live out here in la. My wife's from Texas. We were renovating our house we went back and forth from Texas to LA every three weeks to check on the progress of our house. I'd come back here to la, people would be double masked walking down the street. I'd go to Texas and our friends would be like, want to get dinner? And I remember being like, we are living in different worlds. I'd had. I had friends. I'd go out for brunch with my friends in Texas, then I'd come back here and I'd be like, hey, guys, I'm wearing a mask. Like, I remember being like, what world are we in? Because depending on where you lived, you acknowledged it or you didn't. And it was very interesting. Obviously different levels of precaution. Hating talking about it, like, puts me into a place that I hate. I actually have to stand up because it gives me anxiety. I hate it. 877-99-NOx. Let's go to the phones. Let's say hi to Justin in South Dakota. Justin, what do you remember from five years ago when you were watching Joe Exotic? Well, I never seen Joe Exotic, but I was going through stage four non Hodgkin's lymphoma cancer. So. Yeah, man. Well, it's good news. He's here with us. Good for you. You're here. Yeah. Heck yeah. Of the year. What a hard time for people to have medical issues. Because if you were, remember, we all started missing our dentist appointments. We weren't going to checkups anymore. No one's getting a haircut. Exactly. And if you were sick or you had someone unfortunately pass away in the hospital, what if you needed hip surgery? What if you needed someone called electric surgery surgery? You're like, I can't do this right now. Danny's right, Sam. I have a friend who lost their father. Not to Covid. He passed away of something else. But they couldn't even be with him in the hospital. Yeah, it was horrible. I think another thing, dude, I started giving friends haircuts. I had clips and I was good at it. So yeah, I was giving Spotty a haircut. There's a video where our video guy spot, he was even lazier then. That's if that's possible. But I remember he had not got a haircut for a month. And then Covid happened, so he was like overly due for a haircut. So one day while we're doing the radio show from home. Dust off the clips. Covino gave him a sweet fade and we're like, wow. And that's when people started getting flow bees again. Yeah. George Clooney was one of them, right? I remember him talking about it. Rich, hold on. Before you go to call you. Your kids would have been very young when Covid struck, right? So I'm thinking about all the parents who either had, like, kids between the ages of 0 to 5 or the parents that had to, like, educate, like, homeschool their kids and work. Sam, I think that sounds like the most stressful home life ever. I think about how grateful I am that my kids were too young during COVID But you had to be around them 24 7, right? For a while. On a side note, though, selfishly, my son was a newborn, so it was sort of a good time, right? Can't talk yet. He can't eat snacks. Kept people and germs away. No. Not only did he just got to be home, no mean no. Meaning I was stuck at home when I had. My son was born in February of 2020. So when he was one month old, Covid happened. So I was the dad that was able to be there and help my wife all the time because go to work. No one's going to work. So selfishly, I was like, not a bad time to have a baby during COVID However, if you had kids that were in school, what an effing nightmare. Imagine your teenage kids in high school, and every day they're on their laptop trying to learn from your kids, and you're maybe trying to work from home. And think about how, like, what cabin fever you'd have at home. Not only that, I was telling Cavino earlier. Imagine you're the dad or mom that saved for your kid's college tuition, and you have tens of thousands of dollars and your kids sitting in the kitchen doing college. Meanwhile, you're spending tens of thousands of dollars. You know what gives me anxiety, Covino? The fact that we had to eat through doordash and Uber eats and all that. Oh, they still do Touchless delivery. That's. That stuck around. Yeah, it did. But I had never used those services until Covid. Dude, Rich never washed his hands before COVID That's facts. That's the truth. It's facts. We were gross before COVID I went back to not washing my hands. I'm good. Back to the phones again. What do you remember from five years ago this week? Keep it light. Tripp in Vegas. What's up, Tripp? Hey, guys. Good to have you all back. Missed y'all last week. Thanks, bud. Still listen, though. But Ms. Jaw. Two things, especially being in Las Vegas. One, you just mentioned doordash. That created Something that stinks, that contactless delivery equals. I mean, I'm not a doordash driver, but that meant people didn't have to. That's number one. And then the second thing is, I've got pictures. I took my girlfriend at the time of that. We got to go do this. I've got Walking on the Strip by the Bellagio and all that. It's like I felt like Will Smith and I am legend. There was nothing on the street. I have. Lights were out. I have a video trip outside of the Staples Center. Before it was crypto, right. Cavino and I used to work at ESPN downtown la. I have a video that looks like a ghost town. It looks like, honestly, like you said, I am legend Will Smith. It was the weekend after everyone was quarantined. And I'm like, guys, look at downtown la. It's. Nothing's here. I was one of those guys that thought I was a day trader. I don't know if anyone. Isaac, did you dabble in that? I was Sam. I was one of those guys that was every day. I was buying, like, penny stocks, and I'd have great days, bad days, everyone thought they were a day trader. You know what's weird? I'm not making this up. Even before COVID you know who was a huge day trader? Al Michaels. For real? Yeah. During those days, like, I'd have buddies tip me off, like, hey, buy this pharmaceutical stock and it would go up like 300 a day and buy Zoom. And I remember telling my wife, like, I think this could be my side hustle. Rich was a day trader. I was a day drinker. My best friend was Tito's. Tito's was my best friend during that time. Rich invested in them. Yeah, we started boozing a lot around that time because we were home and bored. I remember, you know, either making or, you know, losing thousands every day in my life for like six months. But I remember Covino hit me up one day. And again, it's not funny to joke about alcohol too much. But I remember Camino hit me up one time. He goes, bro, like, how often do you go through a handles of. A handle of Tito's? How many did you have just going through them? You know? Why? What was that? That weird party zoom thing? It was called house party. House party. Remember, people were jumping a house party just to, like, communicate on social media, and you're having drinks and you're just talking to randos. It was a weird time. I think you guys were both in relationships when Covid started, I was Single at the time, actually met Brenda during COVID That's crazy. In the second year of it. So how did she feel when you took your mask off? It was a surprise when we both took our masks off. But dating and dating profiles and meeting people was interesting at the time. Because you thought you would get ghosted prior to Covid. You really got ghosted as far as actually meeting up with people during COVID There were even zoom dates and things. It was a virtual dating almost at the time. It was really strange. She gave it to me. What, syphilis? No, the vid. All right, let's go to Chris in Arizona. We'll go rapid fire. Then we'll go to Isaac for an update and we'll get back to that Ron Washington conversation, which, by the way, the more I'm thinking about it, the more I'm confused. So I need your help. Chris in Arizona. What's up, bud? Hey. You guys led right into it with it, with the whole drinking thing. During COVID my wife, I have friends over every Saturday night and she's not too fond of it from time to time. But during COVID she's considered high risk, so she didn't want us hanging out. So first Saturday, when Covid really hit, my buddy pulled up in his truck and sat on the tailgate. We made sure we were six feet apart, but we still got it done. Yeah, I remember people. Do you remember, like, kids would have drive by birthday parties, like for little kids, like their pals would like go by the house, like, hey. Or like grandparents would talk to their kid grandkids who like a glass and so gay. We're trying to have fun with this conversation. It's really tough. The more we're having the conversation, I'm like, this sucks. Do you know how difficult co parenting was? Okay, here's a positive we had. Especially if you're in a major city with gridlock traffic. That is the best time I ever have driven my car in Southern California. That was a positive. I'll give you positive. I told you. We were renovating our house in Los Angeles. I was flying to and from Texas every two weeks. $49 one way. And I was like one of eight people on the plane. It was ridiculous. And it wouldn't be a show if I didn't bring up Kavino's ex wife once in a while. Right. Because I love to point that out. I always felt bad for him. I'll say it so you don't have to. Some people were more cautious than others. Every time he had his daughter. She required, like, a negative test when he gave his daughter back. Yeah, it was so Kavino. Let's talk about the nasal swabs. Dude, I would call Kavino like, yo, bro, where are you? He's like, they would have met a urgent care. I'm like, why? He goes, you gotta get my daughter. I'm like, every week. Well, because my ex has little ones. Didn't want to bring anything compromised back to her every time. Every time. Covina. We entered the network doors here. We took our temperature. There was like a workstation. It was weird. I was. Sam kept bending over. Yes. Is this where you put it? Remember, we had to get it. If we had to get a COVID test, though, we had to, like, go to some. Some like, you know, clinic or something. We couldn't get one at home. How about the shady Urgent cares who ripped all of us off by charging so much money for those tests? We saw those urgent cares go out of business once. People didn't need the tests any longer. Can I tell you, this is so east coast of me. I had a Covid guy early on, when tests were hard to get. I had a guy. Like, someone would be like, I had a guy that would be like, yo, Honda. Like, I had a guy that if you gave him a hundred bucks, he had a test, like, so it was a weird time, dude. Again, to be honest, I'm almost regretting we're reminiscing. But you know what? It was five years ago. It is a timestamp, honestly. Check this out, because this will. This will mind f you a little bit in a weird way, but also a nice way. If you do search in your gallery, Go to your gallery and you search March 2020, you could see right where you were before this happened, and right where you were right around this time. You're like, oh, my goodness. I went to a. I went to a Bon Scott tribute night, and Bill Burr was one of the acts doing like a 20 minute stand up bit. And it was all like AC DC covers. And that was like. While Covid was sort of drifting out into the masses and he. Someone made a joke. They're like, I have Covid right now. And Bill Burr was like, get out of here. So it was crazy. We all felt kind of weird to be there, but we're like, let's do this rapid fire. Patrick in Spokane. What's up, man? Hey, what's up, boys? Yeah, it was crazy times back then. We went to a concert up in Canada. I live up here in Spokane right Before and things were getting weird and on our way back, like everything got shut down. And I just want to give a shout out to the people that didn't get shut down. I worked for a very large package distribution company. Not the brown one, but the other one. Yeah. And yeah, we didn't got shut down, we got slammed. Dude, we got smoked during that time. So, you know, shout out to all the hard workers. You know, we talk about if you want to forget all the negative or the positive, if you want to talk about the things that changed in your life. We talked about how there are people that started working from home even half the time that still work from home, that never work from home. Essentials and non essentials. Yeah, that's right. Like the people. There's so many people that went to an office every day of their life and from COVID on they're like, yeah, I work from home half the time. So there are some. We had never used the word quarantine as much like in this past two weeks, five years ago than right now. You remember Club Quarantine? Yep. Quarantino Covino is what they call Ohio. Nick, you're on. What's up man? Hey, what's up guys? Hey, bud. Man, I kind of want to approach the angle here and you've danced around it a little bit, but I kind of appreciate you guys in there and let me elaborate, but man, the things was so crazy, like you couldn't do anything the way you did it before. And my whole life I've worked, I've been a sports fan. And the one thing that's kind of always been the same is an hour and a half of Ben Maller on the way to work in the morning, an hour and a half of Covino and Rich in the evening. And everything that was on media was like fear mongering and this and that. But man, every morning you guys were there, you know, and it was just, it was normal. It made stuff feel normal. It made it feel like it would eventually go back to normal. So you know, in the, in the, like you're here. It's very eye rolly to say, but I sort of felt proud that Kavino and I never missed one day like Covid happened and we're like, all right, let's just. We were each other's. What would you call when you. What do they call the people close to you? Like your confidant? No, not your inner circle. Remember it was like you. Not the people you quarantine with, Remember, like your inner circle. People there's like, a stupid name for it. Like, you're. Whatever it was. Oh, there was a term. I forgot it. What was. There was like, a term for, like, the people in your circle. Like. Like, they're in my blank. And it was like the people that you were around without a mask, like, oh, no, they're in my. Whatever. Did we call ourselves Wu Tang? Yeah. Yeah, we were the clan, you know, just for optics. You want to hear something ridiculous? And I get it. Maybe we were working at SiriusXM at the time. We work together every day. Would you believe on video? They made us go on different cameras even though we were in the same room, because they didn't want anyone to think we were in the same room. And I'm like. And I was like, dude, we live down the block from each other, and we're best buds. We're still hanging out. And they were like, yeah, yeah, but for perception reasons, like optics. Two cameras. Yeah, that's how it was. Optics. I get to do damage golfing. That was my introduction to you guys. The very first time I saw you two working together was during COVID and I got it, and the caller hit on it a little bit. But I got to give props to all the tech producers, the executive producers, the editors. You're here the whole time. They gave us FEMA cards because the network's in charge of EAs alerts for the country and stuff like that. So we were. We were considered essential workers. We did not miss a shift. We could not miss a day. And, you know, hopefully you didn't get sick. Thank goodness I didn't come down with COVID during that stretch. But we all had to be here physically in the network while all the hosts were from their home on, you know, the satellite feed. Push through it all. Two quickies. We'll go to Isaac, and we'll get back to our Ron Washington hypothetical. What's up, Johnny boy? Virginia Beach. What's up, man? Hey, how's it going, guys? What's up, man? What up, buddy? I doing good. I had heard that Las Vegas had a problem. They couldn't lock the doors because those doors were never made with locks on them. You know, that's. That's like seven isn't the joke? Like, seven Elevens don't have locks on their doors because they're open 24 hours. You know, it's. I do remember Vegas going to Vegas soon after Covid. Remember, they had the shields up between you and the dealers. How weird. That was Plexiglass, dude. Kavino sneeze. Guard. During the break, Covino was saying how it's almost like anxiety ridden to have this conversation because we've come, you know, we're sort of like, you know, back to normal in society, but really sort of c blocked a lot of people's lives and relationships and work and a lot of stuff. So even talking about it sucks. Doesn't it make you appreciate how things are right now? Doesn't show you how resilient we are. Yes, things. Bad things happen. And you know, I don't care about your personal take on Covid because we all have our own thoughts, but to think, here we are, back to back to normal, right? I won't say this. Those stimulus checks we got could have been like doubled. They didn't quite go far enough, especially for people who were trying to get by. You're like, you still complaining about your stimmy check? Here's like $1,500. But like, it was like maybe inflation was starting to take a hold or something. But I'm like, these disappeared. This money went bye bye in like a second. We'll take. I need a little more money. One more to wrap it up. Who do we got? Speaking of Vegas. Ah, and hi. What up, Ann in Vegas. Yeah. Good things come to those who wait. What's up? So things I remember most about COVID I started Facebook gambling. Like pool tabs and these bingo groups and all different types of, like, random gambling that people would just be hosting online and these chat rooms on Tick Tock and everything else. But then also I got pregnant during that lockdown and so someone was locking it down during lockdown. Yeah, Social distancing didn't work out, but it was like my first kid. And it was terrible because of a quarantine situation. Like, I had to go to all my appointments alone, even for delivery. Like my doctor at the hospital. I was originally gonna go to St. Rose and like, they weren't allowing even the father to come in for delivery. Like, seriously alone. Yeah. And absolutely it was. It was a sucky time to be a pregnant mom. Hey, you know what? You may be thinking something because she said Vegas and it would only be Covino and Rich esque to end this conversation on a smutty note. But what happened to strippers during COVID They started only fans. Exactly. I wrote down strippers into only fans because all these young women that were making their money lap dancing and touching and grinding and groping, that was no longer on the table. Comedians. Everybody had a pin. Only fans. Yep. Comedians started podcasts. Exactly like it. You know, think about that two layers and we'll move on. Just remind yourself, Covid comedians, podcasting, strippers only fans. Bo Burnham did a special from home, if you remember that. I do remember that. So again, five years ago, if you want to chime in on your memories, hit us up at covinoandrich. And when we get back again, we continue with this Ron Washington story. Maybe talk a little brawny Isaac Loeincron. What's doing in the world of sports, my friend? Well, speaking of that, a quick promotion. You can join me on my new OnlyFans page. By the way, same great sports news, minus the trousers. All right, with that out of the way, hey, it's. Hey, Martinez. The news can feel like a lot on any given day, but you can't just ignore la Noticias when important world changing events are happening. That is where the Upverse podcast comes in. Every single morning in under 15 minutes, we take the news and boil it down to three essential stories so you can keep up without feeling stressed out. Listen up first from NPR on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Bob Pittman, chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia. I'm excited to share my podcast with you. 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I think every food and drink should be served out of a bat. The beer bat's just like this long beer. You can drink, but then you can't put it down. Dodger Stadium has a beer, a beer bat, but you can't put it down. Isn't there like a flat portion at the bottom where you can kind of balance it? No, not really. Oh, man. Bummer. How about someone invent that? Well, remember to join us on over promise, Fox Sports Radio's YouTube in 10 minutes. And remember to set us to be number one on your preset on the iHeartRadio app. It's a new feature again. Fox Sports radio on the iHeartradio app. Look for Covino and Rich. And thank you guys for hanging out with us. Now we gotta wrap it up with Ron Washington again. I think it's a great idea, Rich, because like I said, it's a no fail experiment. If they do terrible, it's not because they didn't have their cell phones. And you have to think about how much of a distraction it is. Especially when you're trying to make a change, right? You're trying to do something different. Like when players are being hit up by their wifeies throughout the day and baby mama drama and they're distracted with social media. You know, he's there trying to win. Like take away the distractions for a little while. It's the least you could do if you're serious about winning when you're getting paid that much money. No, I. I get you with kids. I said this to my wife yesterday. Anytime my son or daughter, like, hey, dad, can we, you know, do ground balls outside? Or, hey, do you want to ride bikes or do something? I'm always gonna say yes. Because if they're choosing that over their iPad, you'd be a terrible parent if you're like, no, no, I can't go do your iPad. You made me think of one thing, though. You know, I do think it's a good idea for Juan Washington to take the phones away so that chemistry could build, relationships could build. We can communicate as a team, but if you are a parent, you never want to be that far away from your phone in case they need you for an emergency. So that's. That. That is problematic. I never want to be too far away from my phone. My battery dies. My first concern is, what if my daughter's trying to get a hold of me? Yeah. So how do you. How do you balance that? That would be something I'd be, you know, concerned about. I think Mike Trout and other team leaders have been put in charge of, you know, administering fines and stuff like that. Hey, maybe. Maybe there's a. How about this? There's a clubhouse, almost like a bat phone, like the hotline, I think there actually is, where it's like, hey, listen, wives, girlfriends, mother. Like, if there's an emergency, there's someone on hand at all times. The famous Joe Montana story where he'd call out to his wife from all the different stadiums. And by the way, there's a related story today where Bronnie James, who's probably getting some playing time tonight against the Bucks. Bronnie James said that he sees and reads and hears all the criticisms. He sees it all, and it sort of motivates him. But how about for the people that gets in their walls and gets in their head? You think they really need that when they're trying to play their best before a big game? I don't think it's that productive for these players. The reason I'm torn on this, Kavino, is that when you hear stories of school saying, no phones, I think that's a great idea. When you say, hey, do your kids rather go outside and play Wiffle ball or go on their iPads? Of course. Wiffle ball. 10 out of 10 times. I'm just saying these are grown men with wives, girlfriends. Gomads side girls, kids, moms, aging parents. I just feel like taking away a grown man's phone is like, come on, it's a grow. Imagine somebody like Kavino. Hand it over. You beat. You tell him to beat it. School, the workplace dinner. You know, this is the workplace. Yeah, I get it. Right. And if it's clearly it's problematic too. These guys are spending more time on their phone than they are building chemistry. Well, getting to know each other. If The Angels aren't 25 games under.500, we'll consider it a victory. What do you think? Right. Hey, you got to applaud Ron Washington for trying to do something different. And Kovi brought up the Lakers. Besides the tourney. Lakers, Bucks. No Luca, no LeBron. Of course. Austin Reeves is now hurt. Finney Smith is hurt. Vanderbilt is hurt. So is Dalton Connect going to go for 40 tonight? And Bronnie will definitely get some playing. Is it is tonight. Let's honestly prop it is tonight. Bronnie's highest point total ever should be. I mean, you just named like five players that put a point. So unless they plan on scoring 65 points, maybe Bronnie scores five to 10, he's going to mess around and get a triple double. 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