Hour 1 – LeBron’s Season Debut, Cam Skattebo Living His Life

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Speaker 4: We got Iowa Sam on the Glockenspiel on the ones and Tuesday, and we have our super producer Danny g on standby if you want to chime in eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Again, Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studio. But first and first, mostly before we talk Lebron and Jake, Paul and Anthony Joshua and Scataboo and Moore. Midweek Major we're streaming live. We're doing it live. We want you to get involved. We want you to say and see what's up at Covino and Rich FSR on YouTube. At Coveno and Rich FSR on YouTube. Let's go question for you. Yeah, he said, good morning, we're here p W Herman style. Who does he say hello to? Who's his neighbor in Pee Wee's Big Adventure? Not only will I say it? See this is why you gotta watch us on YouTube. I'm gonna act it out Covino and rich FSR. Where's my red bow tie? I'm gonna act it out right now your boomerang bow tie?

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Speaker 4: He walks out of his house. He turns on his sprinkler, which was Willy Waterbug. Oh I had that as a kid. That was a little sprinkler jump around thing for your front lawn. And he goes, good morning, mister crabtree. It's a little early for this. He goes, good morning.

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Speaker 3: Peewee, I'm going a wad in my lawn.

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Speaker 4: We're Covino and Rich Pee's voice a little too high at this hour. Remember it's earlier here in LA. We're in Los Angeles, the mean streets of LA. We're lifting the barrio right now. Rich Davis is in Texas, so call him hop along Dickey, but call us up and say what's up? Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. We gotta kick it off with less p W Herman impressions way back in a Wednesday and more. Lebron James, Lebron James. Yeo, it's uh, it's happening. And when I say it's happening, I mean the Lakers are coming together. Lebron's healthy again, Lebron James.

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Speaker 2: And you got Austin Reeves, the unassuming goofy white dude, and you got Luca and they were saying, oh, it is my odlyce.

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Speaker 4: Related that I wouldn't say racist, racist has this negative connotation to it.

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Speaker 3: Related.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a white guy. I'm allowed to say I'm a goofy white guy. I'm allowed to say Austin Reeves is one of me. Rich is the president, So I'm the president of goofy white guy club. I'm trying to recruit Austin Reeves for for years.

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Speaker 5: I have a couple of friends who are goofy white guys.

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Speaker 2: I sent them an application. He's like, I'm in, But now the Lakers. Last night, Danny g you must have been salivating over watching those.

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Speaker 3: Three stars work together.

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Speaker 2: They look dominant at times, and we talked about it yesterday on our show. So let me just reiterate that Austin Reeves gets not enough credit for what he's bringing to the table.

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Speaker 3: You know what I thought about last night, Danny.

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Speaker 2: As a Niners fan, if you're new to coven On Rich, we appreciate you hanging with us. And for Dan Patrick, I'm a big forty nine Ers fan because Austin Reeves was not drafted to because he's unassuming. There's a little rock Purdy vibe with him, meaning like, oh shucks, Like it takes a little more to impress people.

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Speaker 4: It takes circus numbers. It takes for him to lead the team and put up circus numbers to get the credit that he's deserved for a minute. Now, he's playing in Los Angeles, he's playing with superstars, he's playing big, He's leading a team for the most part, he deserves that superstar sort of recognition, like he should be a household name, and unless you're a basketball fan, especially a Lakers fan, you really don't know who he is, and by now you should. In fact, his goofy sort of attitude should also make him more of a star, but it's not. However, I think when his name's in the same sentence as Kobe as it was this week and he starts climbing those Lakers' rankings, yeah he's gonna get that recognition he deserves.

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Speaker 3: But again, he had.

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Speaker 4: To go above and beyond because of his unassuming ways, I think to get that recognition. Just this week, Austin Reeves is the second most twenty five point games by a Laker guard since two thousand. Only Kobe had more. So second to Kobe, that's unreal. He's in serious company. He went five for nine from deep against the Bucks and officially passed Caldwell Pope for seventh place on the Lakers' all time three points list.

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Speaker 3: So he's making three points left and right. He has.

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Speaker 4: Five hundred and twenty three threes in two ninety one games. That's before yesterday's game and yesterday numbers he lit it up yesterday props him. Luca had thirty seven points. Reeves had twenty six points and was leading for a while. He had that four point play that Danny g got all excited about Lebron James eleven points. But here's where you were getting a rich I could see what's happening. We didn't have a clue. I'm not sure the league had a clue, because we're like, how was Lebron gonna fit into this twelve dish in the ball around? And I quote Danny g He's still doing his producer stuff right now. I quote Danny G Man, it's look, he was magic Johnson out, dude, go let's slow the magic Johnson. Let's first of all, it don't sound anything like that.

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Speaker 5: I said. He was dropping magic Johnson like passes.

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Speaker 3: Yo. Man, it was like Johnson.

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Speaker 4: You know something about john All I heard was your Johnson or Johnson or something.

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Speaker 5: He what he turned into like a quarterback, a game manager if you will.

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Speaker 3: He really did. It really looked that way.

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Speaker 4: And here's my most obvious we call this on the CNR showgram an obvious servation. Here's my observation watching the game. The most obvious one. It really looked for the first time in forever.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Elsa like Lebron James was having fun. It looked like he was. I get it.

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Speaker 4: It was his return excited, but there was a different vibe and a different level of fun and excitement from Lebron James. And that's fun and excitement you need to have, I think to win in this league. When there was too much pressure on Lebron, it wasn't fun and it was all on him. If he's able to dish it around like this, man, they're unstoppable. I've said it prisoner of the moment, but I mean it. Let's go well.

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Speaker 2: I love that phrase prisoner of the moment because I'm gonna say a very prisoner of the moment type of thing. They're eleven and four. They're not They're not like average. The Lakers are good. But there's a team in the West. You might have heard of them, the Oklahoma City Thunder, who might lose like three games all year. They just don't lose. Okaysee, just doesn't lose. Here's my question. If Lebron's playing fun and we know the end is New Year, and I do have the sentiment that when all said and done. Lebron retires, I think we're gonna look back at times and say, you know what, we were hard on him. We didn't really appreciate him. The constant comparisons to MJ and kobeing Yo. I know he said and did it to himself with the whole not one, not two, three, four five? Are we still hanging on to that Lebron Miami Heath thin personainly?

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Speaker 4: No, Rich I'm not a Lebron lover. I gotta make that clear. I'm not a hater either, right. I respect greatness and have admired his career. He kicked off season twenty three. I believe he kicked it off with a three right Danny g a sweet bucket to kick it off, and that passes Vince Carter most all time twenty three seasons. You know, when I see him with his Lebron Aham Lincoln beard and it's getting a little gray, and he's just rocking that thinned out sort of look. I'm looking at him not with the same lens that I looked at him before, not five, not six, not seven. I'm looking at him now as a guy who has his son in the league. He's having fun, he has the ability to switch his game up. But he has this this wisdom about him now and at least like even that look in his face, like he looks older now. And I don't know, man, I'm rooting for him in a different away, like, yo, dude, have one, at least one more great season and stick it to this OKAC team. Man, they're young, but he's Lebron, and they have superstars. They've got Luca, they've got Bronni off the bench, hit in threes. Oh yop, don't don't, don't, don't be making it tell like Bronny is like a contributor. That's a dope moment. No, but even eight and had twenty points. I didn't even bring that up. He had twenty points. If Lebron's able to dish it around. They made some crazy passes last night, right. I looked at him as a guy yesterday, to answer your question, old Rich, not a guy that you wanted to roll your eyes at. I looked at him as a guy who we've seen grow up. In fact, we've grown up with together, and he's getting older and I can only root for that. I saw Lebron the man last night, not LEBRONI attitude having basketball player Comano.

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Speaker 2: You and I have been together a long time as a radio you know, friendship and partnership. We saw Lebron go from Cleveland to Miami to the Lakers, that we've seen the journey, and I would say, run the boards. I know we play that clip all the time, the not three, not four, not five.

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Speaker 3: Not two, not three, not four, not five?

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Speaker 2: Are we still holding it against Lebron his one like because it came across so arrogant and never really came to fruition. They want a few in Miami. But I look at Lebron now and dare I say, as the season continues and Oklahoma City right now in Vegas is a plus one seventy five to win the NBA Finals. They are like like leaps and bounds above anyone else as favorites to win back to back NBA titles. The Lakers won two, three, four five, They're like they got the six best odds at plus fourteen hundred. Could there be a sentiment that the Lebron haters maybe change their tune and it becomes the fun story, like yo, Lebron, one more before it's all done?

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Speaker 3: Like yes, could be a sentiment where if.

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Speaker 4: He brings the energy and like he brought upon himself, he shouldn't have to do that, but he does come with that sense of not two, not three, not four, sense of arrogance and and lebron and me bron and things like that. If he plays with the same energy and attitude that he had last night, it's contagious.

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Speaker 3: It's likable.

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Speaker 4: It's fun when when other people, I mean, it's just I don't know if it's science, but it is. If other people are having fun, you want to have fun with him, and it's contagious.

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Speaker 3: What's the theory, it's the Neil Strauss theory. Yeah, Danny J.

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Speaker 2: Spot, I was Sam everyone listening all the dan Ats and Dan Patrick audience. I remember back in the day, there was like, remember like in the two thousands, it was like a hot thing to like have these like dating coaches. Not not people have dating coaches, but these guys would write books about how to get the attention to women. Like it's like corny stuff. But there was one thing I remember thinking, all right, that's not corny, that's true, and it was if you're at a bar with your buddies and you guys are laughing and having fun. Somehow women will infiltrate your group because you are having fun.

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Speaker 3: When you're having fun and laughing, enjoying yourself.

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Speaker 4: Like subconscious subconsciously is like, what's going on over there?

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Speaker 3: What's so funny? What are these guys?

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Speaker 2: You're to guess where everyone's eyes go, Camino besides the hot booties. If you're in Vegas, everyone looks at the craps table where everyone's high five.

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Speaker 3: And and cheering, like, yeah, what's going on over there? Everyone's having fun? I want to get in on that. We are.

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Speaker 2: We gravitate towards fun and people really, you know, bringing the vibe. And I think Lebron with his mean face in Miami, like yeah, let's go, baby, pounding his chirs not two, not three, not four. That's that's a young Lebron. This is a end is near. I got some gray in my beard, I got wisdom. I'm an old dude, you know, like as you know, like he's looking more like Morgan Freeman than like a young man. Now he's Lebron's not young, And dude, I noticed that yesterday. Is he an incredible shape? Absolutely? The guy's a specimen.

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Speaker 4: That's not my point he's not out there hobbling around like an old cream abdul Jabbar or something. This guy's in great and incredible shape. But he doesn't have to be that star anymore, and I think he's accepted that. In fact, Danyg said that he made a gesture and has sort of implied that maybe we get more out of Lebron because he doesn't have to be everything for everyone because he has other people to play around him. Danyg, you said when he made a gesture, that's sort of what he.

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Speaker 5: Is conferring when he checked out of the game or was checked out of the game by Reddick, and I'm always gonna call it. Staple Center crowd gave him a standing oh for his passing performance. Basically at the end of the game, he kind of made a gesture like this is what I'm gonna do now because he had more assists than points.

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Speaker 2: And you know what if he could unselfishly make that his game, because that's an ego thing too, when you're putting up twenty five to thirty your whole career.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's still digits. I think that was the priority, right, Yeah, you help me keep that going.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm saying, if you could throw ten to fifteen assistant there and maybe score eighteen or score twenty or sixteen. If that's the Lebron game, we forget that Magic Johnson wasn't scoring thirty points a game that's very similar to Now I made funny when you compare him, but that's a very similar to Magic Johnson type of game when we were little kids, scoring points, but more so being a leader out there. And if Lebron could do that with a smile on his face, dare I say that the public, well, all of a sudden, look at Lebron as a face again, like you know how John Cena just went from good guy to heel back to good guy. Like maybe we see Lebron James go back to good guy. Maybe Lebron James he won't be gassed. It's not all on him. He's got people he could dish it too.

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Speaker 4: And when I say dish it, we're talking like Globe trotter Magic Johnson. Like passes last night. If you didn't see it because it was a late game on the West coast, across the court, he made a sweet pass across the court. Again, I even said it, but Bronni did get in there, hit a nice three point shot. You see him fire it up about that. It was a really fun vibe. We're just telling you it's his return. It was a different Lebron last night. It really really was. Again, it's one game, and it was the Jazz, the five and what are they five and nine? The five and nine Jazz.

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Speaker 5: They have a young team, but you saw him at the start of the game. They had a double digit lead over the Lakers, and I think all Laker fans watching and basketball fans watching around the world were like, ah, look at Lebron's gonna clog things up here we go. The chemistry is not gonna match here. But quickly they figured it out. By the third quarter, they were all clicking together. To go back to Rich's point about the thunder though, Rich, I know you loved to schedule watch. Yeah, let's look at February ninth.

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Speaker 1: That is, Rich loves to look at the schedule, schedule watching.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh I love looking at the schedule. Danny, please take over.

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Speaker 5: Let's hear this the day after the Super Bowl, so two things to look forward to that Sunday and then Monday, February ninth, the Lakers host the Thunder. All right, That's that's the real test here, because obviously we're at the very early stages of the NBA season. The Lakers just got blown out by the Thunder and they bounced back with a couple of dub three now double digit wins after that. But they have to do this against a team like the Thunder and if they can't.

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Speaker 2: A couple months, a couple months together with this crew now to really gel and say, all right, February puts, that's just a date you marked out on the calendar, the Monday after Super Bowl Sunday. Where are the Lakers? If healthy, how do they match up against Okac and Cavino. You know, we talk about fatigue in sports. We got it with the Chiefs, like people are, oh my god, I'm so sick of Tailor and Travis and Mahomes and Andy Reid and that.

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Speaker 3: You know, we talked about that.

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Speaker 4: When it came to MVP and Aaron Judge not getting the award, people had Aaron Judge fatigue. It's like, well, guess what, he still deserves the award. I don't care if you're sick of them or not. And you know, the Dodgers as likable as they are. There was a sense of like most people were like, come on, Blue Jays.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: I think that people really don't want to see the Okay City, the Oka say Thunder win.

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Speaker 3: I really don't. I don't think Okay See, you got to think like gangster Okay, Okay, she there is.

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Speaker 2: I don't think the thunder is like this fan favorite, like yo, we want to see this be a dynasty. I could be wrong, but they don't got the you know when when when all the other dynasties did it, whether it's Golden State.

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Speaker 3: Or you know, the Bulls.

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Speaker 2: When we were kids, or the Lakers or Celtics, like there was there was a little something more no offense to.

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Speaker 3: S g A.

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Speaker 2: I don't think any anyone's like, man, I really want to see this team run it back a bunch of times. I think the Lakers if they faced off against Okay See on the road, I'm way looking ahead. I do think there's a sentiment that even though the Lakers are this legendary franchise, I think people would be rooting for the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: I really do. I think that'd be.

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Speaker 2: Lebron winning one more is way more appealing than Oka SA.

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Speaker 4: Great for basketball. It just is, you know, it's it's been overseted.

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Speaker 3: But it's true.

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Speaker 4: When the Lakers are good, the NBA is more exciting, it's better. There's so many franchises in sports like that. Lakers are definitely one of them. And you know, we saw a different side. We're not swinging if you're new to the Coveno on Rich show, we're not swinging from the Magic Johnson. We're just James. We're just telling you what we saw last night. And even the criticism he handled with a smile and a smirk and fun. And it was, like I said, it was noticeable. That's why we're pointing at pointing it out. People were asking reporters were asking him, Yeah, how'd you feel about people questioning how you'd fit in with the chemistry of the team, And like he laughed about it. He's like, come on, man, I could I could win with anybody. He goes, why is that even a question? And he proved it. He proved it yesterday in a big way. If they're able to keep that up, there's no reason why they shouldn't. The Lakers are back in the conversation again, even more so, I should say, because there was question of how's Lebron gonna? We questioned it, how long does it take till they build that chemistry? One night yesterday we saw it. The Lakers win one six, And the side question besides Lebron's return is why isn't Austin Reeves a bigger star? Well, he's bound to be, He's gonna be, he already should be. Think about it and we'll talk some Skataboo and think about this. Do you expect all your athletes, all your heroes to be robots? Do you expect them to be sports robots? Or do you like to see the human side of your favorite athletes? Because there's the Camp Scataboo story. We gotta tell you there is, and I'm gonna tell you why fans are more ridiculous than ever before. Uh, this cam Scataboo story makes me want to strangle all the people that are getting down on this guy because he did something involving the WWE.

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Speaker 3: And there's people mad about it, like what are we doing here? What are we doing? We'll get to that and a bunch more next.

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Speaker 4: There you go, over promising and remember you could see it on YouTube, but definitely join us. Listen to Over Promised with Covino and Rich on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Covino and Rich live from the Fox Sports Radio Studio. Rich is in tehas Dicky Tahas the hottest rookies, biggest superstars, and all time greats. The only place to collect them all is Panini Trading Cards, the official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show for Innston classics, autograph cards, memorabilia cards, rare inserts and more. Start to continue your collection now at Paniniamerica dot net. Covino, that's me out here on the West Side, leaning like a soolo, Gonna turn your hump day into a hump knight. Rich Davis super pumped about the Lakers. You know we're not even well, I guess if we have any teams the Lakers, but it's just about Lebron's return and Reeves looking like a superstar.

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Speaker 3: Danny G's super pumped. He's the resident Laker fan here.

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Speaker 5: You guys went through that whole first segment, by the way, without even mentioning Luca.

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Speaker 4: Actually I mentioned he had thirty seven points, but that really was it.

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 4: It was about no, no, no, no, no, not the points. Meaning that's the only time we brought him up. Yeah, because Lebron was just putting on a show. It really was all about him, and we shouldn't have been surprised that he's able to get in there and dish it around and play with anybody. It's just a matter of is he willing to be a different type of player, like the certain players that are able to change their game and other players that refuse to. It's like a power pitcher, right, how many power pitchers were just really right on the fastball for the rest of their career until they couldn't play anymore. And then some went crafty and decided to switch it up and changed her game and work on the curveball, work on the on the split, split ball, the splitter, you know, split ball, the.

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Speaker 3: Special pitch.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it gives him more longevity. Yeah, if Lebron's able to switch his game up like that, he gets more longevity the old split ball.

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Speaker 3: No. I always think of Pedro Martinez.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Based on what you're saying, like, if Lebron could adjust his game Pedro for the Red Sox early on, you know guys, a lanky, five ten dude throwing heat over overpowering people. Then if you look at the end of Pedro's career, you could say that about some of those Atlanta Braves pitchers in the nineties, when you're able to adjust and say, all right, well, I'm not going to overpower people anymore. Let me work on my cutter, let me work on my my secondary pitches.

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Speaker 3: You just gonna have a longer career.

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Speaker 2: And if Lebron's like, no, I don't pass the ball, he'd be a detriment. The fact that Lebron has those ball handling skills, that's what you said. His you know, worth is so much more, especially when you got scorers like Luca and you have Austin Reeves who is proving to be Would you argue all star level is Austin Reeves an all Star level player?

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Speaker 3: Yesterday? No doubt? Yeah dude, we said it yesterday.

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Speaker 2: The Twitter x feedback we got and some of the stuff on like Instagram and TikTok, people like you guys think he's.

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Speaker 3: An All Star. You're on drugs, NA, Danny G.

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Speaker 4: You would agree he's an All Star, right, he doesn't look like an All Star.

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Speaker 5: Yes, so far, He's got to keep up this level of play and be one of the leaders of the team. We talked about that yesterday, not just take a back seat to Luca and Lebron, but also now they got shooters like La Ravia, They got a couple of bigs. You even saw Jackson Hayes get in the mix yesterday. So that bench is going to have to stay hot and healthy throughout the season for the Lakers to climb over the OKC thunder.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, shame on me, because what did I say a month ago, Cavino on our afternoon show, I said I was gonna deny the NBA until Christmas because I was so invested in the NFL and when the baseball playoffs are going on, and here I am, I'm like, I'm starting to get sucked in early, which means we said it before. We're going through a sports renaissance right now. I know that sounds way I feel like I'm saying something way over exaggerating, but baseball was popping. Baseball was insane this year. The NFL, the parody is unbelievable. We don't know who's good who's bad week to week. One week bo Nick stinks and next week might be.

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Speaker 4: The teams just sort of ridiculous at this point, but it has us interested for sure, like what is it? Yeah, then you're like, wait a minute, can the Patriots be back to their glory or or they have?

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Speaker 3: They played no One?

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Speaker 2: There's a million stories and then here's the NBA, and you got some great storylines as well. So the only thing bumming me out about the NBA, and you could say the same about the NFL. It goes with my conspiracy theory that human bodies are not designed to play at the speed and the strength that sports are being played now. Because what is the only thing hurting the NBA and the NFL right now?

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Speaker 3: Turf toe injuries injuries? Turf toes injuries.

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Speaker 2: Think about it, Wemby Yannis in football, how many wide receivers have we lost?

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Speaker 3: And you know guys that are sidelined.

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Speaker 2: The game is being played so fast, the game is being played by dudes that are faster and stronger than ever before. So the only the only bad thing about sports right now. I think people are too big and strong. And that's it really all right? Fine, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. That's our number.

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Speaker 4: You could also see us live participate live live chat, Get involved Covino and Rich FSR on YouTube, CoV I and O Covino and Rich FSR join us and remember giving away prizes. We got Mike's Wednesday words of Wisdom got Midweek Major. During the show the biggest stories in sports and pop culture, we decide if the stories are mid as the kiddos say, week or major. We do it every Wednesday on our show five to seven on the East, two to four on the West. But we're in for the great Dan Patrick. So any final thoughts right now? We'll touch on it again about Lebron or Reeves or Luca. They played an exciting game. It was it was a late game. Maybe you missed it. You probably saw the highlights. You gotta take our word for it, because man, it was electric.

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Speaker 5: What up, Danny G I know Lebron wakes up to a five seventy in Los Angeles, so he's listening to you guys right now. Noise all right, So Hi Lebron, good morning, But I won't mince words. His ego is large. We know this. Can he put this aside full time this season? Because after the game, he and coach Reddick were both talking about how he's just getting his win back in the debut, he's getting his feet back underneath of him. Does that imply at all to you guys that he feels like he's gonna go back to forcing things maybe and taking over as the man.

00:28:05
Speaker 3: Dude?

00:28:06
Speaker 4: That was just the perfect pocket of what you need from this guy. Eleven points twelve assists right there, improve on that. We don't need him. You don't need him scoring thirty seven points. You don't need him being Luca, you don't need him being Reeves. Let those guys shine. You've been in the league forever. I think it's more impressive to see this side of Lebron at this stage of his career. If he's willing to put that ego aside, that's the key ingredient. That's the magic sauce, that's the secret sauce you need to win. I think so if he's able to do that, I think that's the that's the question. But the answer is if he is, they're gonna be a team in the playoffs for sure.

00:28:44
Speaker 3: Are you saying that Lebron listens to Dan Patrick in LA every morning?

00:28:48
Speaker 5: One?

00:28:50
Speaker 2: But that's the austments we were talking about. My answer is Lebron's perfect.

00:28:55
Speaker 3: They could do no run no yea, I'm kissing a little ass. Why are you kissing lake yourrass?

00:29:03
Speaker 2: So Coavino, let me shive gears to football if you don't mind. I talked about all those injuries in the NBA, in the NFL. It's the only downfall of sports right now, all the injuries to key players. Besides that, all the all the major sports are more exciting than ever before. I really feel that way, and I don't want to sound like the host of a game show the best season ever.

00:29:25
Speaker 4: I really do think things are great right now. Yeah, that Jesse Palmer is full of bs. This is not the best season of the Bachelor ever?

00:29:32
Speaker 3: Was he talking about? Says that every season?

00:29:35
Speaker 2: So camp scataboo scataboo, which just sounds like a made up word from Adam Sandler.

00:29:44
Speaker 3: Scatterbo.

00:29:48
Speaker 2: But camp scataboo, I mean, we're talking about a guy that was electrifying and fun in college. And then we wondered, hey, is it going to translate to the NFL. You know a lot of teams. I was like, well, we wanted him, but hey, Giants picked him up. And I'll give you the answer. It translated. The guy plays with heart, plays with intensity. He's such a bro. He's cut from them, Gronkowski cloth, he's head buttoned, Jackson Dart, everyone's injured now and I got a major problem.

00:30:17
Speaker 3: I always think of that picture though, with them posing in the end zone.

00:30:20
Speaker 4: You know what you're I'm talking about, right, yeah, like two It's like, yeah, like they're gangsters, so funny man.

00:30:27
Speaker 3: Yeah. The energy he brought was was again contagious. It was great. I love that he was doing before he got hurt.

00:30:33
Speaker 2: I think because of Camp Skataboo and because of Jackson Dart, I think if you are one of the people hoping to get that coaching vacancy, hey yeah, maybe maybe interim coach ends up with it. But I think the Giants' head coaching positions a hot a hot seat right now that you would want to be in because I think that team really is on the upward trajectory. Went healthy next year. Next year should be a fun year for Giant fans. But right now, there's a lot of people giving camp scataboo. Is it flack or slack Camino. Slack is what people use at the office, right, Ah, that thing that I always ignored, Like, I'm not doing that. Yeah, I'll send it to you on slack. I'm like, how about you beat it? How about no, I'm not kidding that.

00:31:18
Speaker 3: Can you text me? I don't do that, don't teams? Yeah? No, thanks, Yeah, flack would be the answer to you.

00:31:24
Speaker 2: So they're giving him flag because he was at Madison Square Garden with some teammates and comedian Andrew Schultz was there too, and they got a little shoving match with the judgment day in Camp Scataboo's just having fun.

00:31:39
Speaker 3: I mean he's in the front row. The crowd goes nuts.

00:31:42
Speaker 2: They write him into Monday Night Raw and Scataboo, who's such a broie, fun type of dude, gets into it a little bit, a little tussle at Monday Night Raw, and of course Bozo fans seem to have a problem with this so much so the camp scout how to release a statement. This is what he wrote on x He honestly, if you don't like him having a good time while dealing with a tough time. They just go ahead and unfollow and casually move on. I'm not able to play football and have the fun I've been having my whole life, So I'm just trying to do things outside the box to keep me happy, enjoy the rest of the all's week, and just don't talk about me.

00:32:28
Speaker 4: If he ain't gonna say anything nice, he really is kept from then cloth huh.

00:32:33
Speaker 2: But I'm team Scataboo on this because if you don't think he wants to be on the football field, you're on drugs.

00:32:42
Speaker 3: If you don't think this guy wants to be out there, everybody cares more than him.

00:32:45
Speaker 2: Yeah you're you care? You think you care more than Cam Scattaboo, You bird brain. This guy wants to be out there. He wants to be competing, So he has a seasoning ending injury. He's got his Dots boot on, He's got his boot on his foot. There's nothing he could do. What do fans want? Do fans want him to sit home and cry and mope and act like a little beat or do you want this guy to try to find joy in other parts of his life? We have this weird reality as fans that we think players should be so one dimensional that, hey, man, if camp Scataboo is not thinking and breathing and living football.

00:33:24
Speaker 3: Then he's not focused. What the f do you want from this guy?

00:33:30
Speaker 4: I like the boot as a wrestling prop, kind of like Bobby the Brain had the neck brace, Cowboy Bob Barton Orton had the cast. Scataboo has the boot. He'll drop the big boot on you. You know what, rich I hate to say it, but I see both sides to this, I really do. And I could tell you what you got back Skataboo, But remember he's recovering from an injury, and sometimes guys like him are their own worst enemy. You already said he's a bonehead, right, So sometimes guys like that need some coaching and need some guidance and need to be slapped on the head and say, hey, dude, you're recovering from a severe ankle injury. We all saw it. It happened not that long ago, in fact, October twenty sixth I believe it was. It was late October. This happened. Maybe you shouldn't be doing that optics. Optically, it's not good. It's not a good look. You know, if he were to reaggravate it and it had nothing to do with wrestling. People are still going to go back to that moment, so you do have to be careful. October twenty eighth is when he injured his ankle. That's so that's pretty soon to be out there on Monday Night Raw. So I could see why fans are I don't think they're they're concerned, man, they're concerned fans like, hey, should he be doing that?

00:34:49
Speaker 2: He wasn't in the ring, he didn't walk down, he didn't walk down the aisle coming home. The oil come scatable, and he's in a credit pretend. We need to, you know, make that here too. You know, maybe maybe a lot of people think that wrestling's real. Still let me let me tell you him shoving a wrestler and having some fun, getting the Madison Square Garden, New York crowd riled up. I think anyone that has a problem with this is a real Acidi'm buffoon.

00:35:16
Speaker 3: And you know what, you know, who's guilty?

00:35:18
Speaker 2: People like you and your girlfriend? Whoa, Oh, I'm going I'm going after you, bro.

00:35:24
Speaker 5: Whoa?

00:35:25
Speaker 3: You know what?

00:35:26
Speaker 2: Covino's girlfriend said something and I hope you don't take too much offense. But wow, I'm gonna let you know what it is next, and it has to do with people like you and your girlfriend that have problems with athletes doing anything other than sports. Get a grip. We'll talk about that. We'll talk some more NBA, NFL, and also Cavino. We got midweek major coming up. We're gonna give away some prizes. So all right here in for the great Dan Patrick and Honor to fill in here on Cavino and Rich.

00:35:55
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00:36:08
Speaker 3: What I think?

00:36:10
Speaker 4: My lips are a little sort from all that Lebron James ass kissing.

00:36:14
Speaker 3: We did this hour away. We got to call it as we see it.

00:36:19
Speaker 4: We know it's one game, you Jabroni's but that's what happened, Covino and Rich. He had a game. Now we're talking Scataboo. We're live from the Fox Sports Radio studio. After the show, the dpat podcast goes on our stream, it goes up.

00:36:34
Speaker 3: Danny g puts a best of us. It's all there today's show.

00:36:38
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00:36:59
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00:37:27
Speaker 3: All right.

00:37:28
Speaker 4: The only downside is Rich forgets he's on camera, so he's always picking his nose and he thinks we don't see it, but we see it. And it just sucks when you guys take a screenshot of it and post it everywhere. Not that I'm telling you to do that, but sure, really nice, bro, Thanks so skytbo.

00:37:47
Speaker 3: Got Scataboo was on Monday Night Raw. That's the story.

00:37:50
Speaker 4: He's getting criticized by fans like, yo, bro, hey, chill out. This just happened October twenty eighth. You hat an ankle injury. You're rehabbing. Should you be out there putting all that pressure on your ankle?

00:38:04
Speaker 3: I'm sure he's not giving. He wasn't giving souplexes in the ring. He wasn't.

00:38:08
Speaker 2: He wasn't giving anyone the stole cold stunner. The dude was in the front row. Did we not speaking of the Giants back in the Was it the who was it?

00:38:19
Speaker 1: Uh?

00:38:20
Speaker 3: What? What team was it? It was the Giants when they were on the boat.

00:38:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, But was was it Odell Beckham Junior and Victor uh Victor Cruz right dancing when they were salsa dancing on the boat.

00:38:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was no big deal.

00:38:35
Speaker 4: But didn't we say, ah, maybe it's not a good look before a big game. You think it's a good look when he's rehabbing and everyone was so heartbroken over this, it's just not giants.

00:38:48
Speaker 2: Giants are parting on a boat. Then they go on to get crushed in the playoffs. That's way different because they were mentally, you know, incapable of partying and winning a big game the next week.

00:39:00
Speaker 3: MP Scataboo is not playing the rest of the year.

00:39:01
Speaker 2: Hey, camp Scataboo, see you in August, see you, you know, week one of the NFL next year.

00:39:07
Speaker 3: Why are we caring about what he does now?

00:39:09
Speaker 2: If he's bringing himself joy, if you know, if you're just joining us, Camp Scataboo getting a lot of crap to the point where he had to come out and say, hey, guys, uh, you know, if you don't like that I'm having a good time while I'm dealing with this tough time, then go ahead and unfollow and casually move along. I'm not able to play football and have the fun I've been having my whole life, So I'm just trying to find things to keep me happy, enjoy the rest of the year. Week and if you're not gonna say anything nice, you like, essentially beat it. And I'm teams Scataboo on this because people and fans are delusional maniacs. I think athletes should only live a one dimensional life like camp Scatabu should be sitting in his bedroom crying in his ass soup until he's healthy to play again next year, and guys like you were just as guilty.

00:39:53
Speaker 4: Well, I look at these guys and I realize how much they're paid and there's sort of admired by millions of people as physical specimens. That's their job. You want them to be solely focused. If we as fans feel we're more invested than the actual players, sometimes that is a problem.

00:40:11
Speaker 3: We never want to feel like we care more.

00:40:13
Speaker 4: That's why fans don't like it when after a loss you see people playing slapass with the opposing team, and when opponents are buddy chummy it rubs us the wrong way is because fans are invested. So if fans managers are invested in these guys as actual investments, yeah, we want them to have those same priorities and take it easy, take it.

00:40:34
Speaker 3: Slow, man.

00:40:35
Speaker 4: You have this illusion, and it might not be an accurate or fair one, but that their sole focused should be on the game.

00:40:41
Speaker 2: The scalvey here that I'm pointing out on the on the YouTube page.

00:40:46
Speaker 3: On behalf of pretty much everybody that feels that way.

00:40:50
Speaker 2: Fan short for fanatic, which isn't necessarily like a complimentary word fanatic, like you expect these guys to do nothing. I heard Cavino's girlfriend, and I don't want to talk badly about the woman you love, that's my woman, But I heard your girlfriend about I don't know, three weeks ago. She was bitching and complaining, not just to you, because I'm sure that's what she does as well, but she has Josh Allen on her fantasy team.

00:41:22
Speaker 3: And I saw her on.

00:41:23
Speaker 2: Social media mad that Josh Allen was dressing up at a Halloween party with Hallie Steinfeldt, because why was She'd he go dress up?

00:41:31
Speaker 3: But he wasn't playing that great? Well, you know what, you just nailed it. I get it. This is before he had a big game last week, right, Don't.

00:41:38
Speaker 5: Tell me that she had him on the bench this past week.

00:41:40
Speaker 3: No, No, last week. He had a great week.

00:41:42
Speaker 4: It was a bit of a comeback week for him, statistically, right, and you saw him do what he does. But if you're not playing well, of course, it's always going to go back to those bad, optic moments, those questionable moments. But you're giving them the fans, fanatics, as you put it, that opportunity to point their finger and be like, see it all goes back to that you're not your head's not in the game, you're not taking as serious.

00:42:08
Speaker 3: If Scataboo.

00:42:11
Speaker 4: Re injures that ankle, or rehab takes longer, or he's not one hundred percent when he comes back, it's gonna go back to things like that. So why are you giving people that sort of ammunition? Is my point.

00:42:23
Speaker 2: I just want people to remember that athletes are humans and their lives are not one dimensional. I remember about a year ago during the forty nine.

00:42:29
Speaker 3: Ers bye week. They're also young men, and young men do stupid things sometimes.

00:42:32
Speaker 2: During the forty nine Ers bye week, George Kittle and his wife were in a cabin chilling out, and there were fans that are like, why are you chilling out in a cabin during the bye week with your wife. You look over the film and it's like, guys, you need to have a well rounded life, and we'll we'll take more of your phone calls and feedback. Next in for the Great Dan Patrick Cavino and Rich Fox Sports Radio, Let's go