C&R - Nate 'BTN' Diaz, 51 Mill, Kyler, Cove's Cash

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Speaker 1: We got lots of NFL to get to.

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Speaker 2: Baseball stats are in and my goodness, I think I saw a headline that more than half of Canada watched the World Series, so man when we write with Baseball's Poppin' Huh. It's back in a big way. But as I said, I've quoted this years ago. Don't call it a comeback. It's been here for years. But I cool Jay stole that from me. We got to start the show with just an announcement that it's not official. Official, it's not official like Danielle Fishle my favorite, uh other than Kelly Kapowski, my favorite girl from our childhood. Okay to Peka, it's not official, but Nate Diaz is taken over for Tank Davis to fight Jake Paul November fourteenth. We're gonna talk about it eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox right now, we're broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studio. And if you miss any of today's show, any of our discussion about Jake Paul, Nate Diaz, and of course we got to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Haley Bailey and Matt Khalil. There's a story there. I go.

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Speaker 2: You have lots to get you can miss anything. Can I give you a hint about the Hally Belly story?

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Speaker 3: Sure?

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Speaker 1: And Mikhalail apparently two and a half coke cans? That's it?

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Speaker 2: What so listen as wild stars are gonna get to but this Nate Diaz, Jake Paul fight.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Nate Diaz, Jake Paul, please tell me who cares?

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Speaker 2: If you miss any of this again, catch it on the podcast five Stars, search Es Cavino and Rich wherever you get your podcast. Care.

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Speaker 1: I care.

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Speaker 2: I'll watch any fight. I watch animals fight on Animal Planet. I watch bugs fight. I watch my dog fight a praying mantis. That's a true story. My dog came into the house with a praying mantis and I said, the praying mantis doing drunken, drunken master Ninja moves they were fighting. I enjoyed it. I love any fight now. I love legitimate fights more like I want to see a real fight like Virgil Ortiz's fighting this weekend. You're like, who, I don't care, because you're the bozo that loves the circus and loves the spectacle. Casual fans love it, and if it brings casual fans to fighting and boxing, I'm all for it. Nate Diaz forty years old, Jake Paul twenty eight years old. Now the backstory exists. Jake Paul is supposed to fight Gervonte Davis, like Rich said, Jervonte Davis got in some trouble. He assaulted a stripper. That's the other story. There's many stories surrounding this guy got him in some trouble. Now he's off that fight. And as you know, Jake Paul spoke publicly about his disdain for this guy and how he promotes swimmen and he supports women. He'd never want to give more money to this guy. So that fights off. Who's going to replace him? Francis and ghan who was a name, Ryan Garcia was a name. Roaldie Romero through his gloves in the ring edgar Berlango was saying he wanted that pay day. Well, of course I wouldn't want to pay day, but of all the people you just named, I would have been probably pumped for any of those. Wow in Ghanu so big, would a whoop Jake Paul's ass. And then he said, oh, Ryan Garcia, that's a smaller guy, but that would have been on Everything you mentioned is better than Nate Diaz, who no one cares about.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean anymore?

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Speaker 2: You mean UFC legend Banass, younger brother of Nick Diaz Legend Nick Daz Nate Diaz. It's a rematch. By the way, Hello, did anyone not see the battle beat him? Can I just say, I'm not here to say I'm so pumped about this, but I'm saying it's better than nothing. Because you and I were going away next week boys trip right, We're going to Arizona. Watched the Cardinals play. We planned on watching a fight. Give you another day, got Jacoby Brissett. There's thousands of people who were excited to go to see this fight. Maybe friends getting together. At least we're gonna get something again. Allegedly supposedly, not officially, but likely Nate Diaz, Jake Paul too. It's a rematch and a worthy rematch. And here's why Nate Diaz really fought fought hard in this fight. Dude, it was It was a closer fight than anyone had expected. It was a bit of a battle, and dude, is better than nothing.

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Speaker 1: I'll take it. Can I tell you something?

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Speaker 2: First of all, your memory must be trash because there was nothing awesome about that fight.

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Speaker 1: I remember Nate Diaz looked sluggish.

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Speaker 2: And Nathdaz lacked power, but he kept fighting and it made it exciting. Oh, they should use your tagline, because that's how I feel about it. Nate Diaz versus Jake Paul quote better than nothing. Wow, you're really selling it. Hey, guys, you know Dann Bayer, you want to uh, you want nothing for lunch or a sandwich for lunch? Sandwich better than nothing?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 4: Btn?

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Speaker 1: Better than hey?

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Speaker 2: Man, wasn't that our tagline Today's national donut Dad? I think someone brought us donuts? Right, there was one, like, you know, like plain donut left hey.

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Speaker 1: Better than nothing?

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Speaker 2: And you know what, you could say that sounds lame, but it's also true and it's also correct, and then use that to the little little piece of that donut was Btn as Dan Bayer put it better than nothing? Well, and he just take this because I Nate, nobody deserves it more than a Nate Daz. The guy devoted his life to fighting and mixed martial arts. He's a tough dude, He's a badass. These other guys really just wanted to pay day. Nate Diaz really just wants to get in here and brawl. He wants to fight.

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Speaker 1: Nate Diaz.

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Speaker 2: To me, he's like the Kevin Feeder line of MMA, Like someone from like that was like relevant at one point ten twenty years ago, and no one really cares anymore.

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Speaker 1: Nate Diz, Hey, where's my MMA? Fans at?

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Speaker 2: Did you hear what this guy just said? The Kevin Feeder line of mma of fighting, the Kevin Feeder line, A guy who accomplished nothing, that's what he's saying about. Backup, married he's the casper of you're talking about a mixed martial art legend and fan favorite. Less he's a fan favorite for sure, Nate Diaz. So you're really downplaying his fighting significance. Is he a boxer? No, but neither is Jake Paul Really?

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Speaker 4: Well, he is now, but I'm now I'm interested in the fight, just to see if Nate Diaz comes out to popos Au at the fight. Kevin Federline's great hits.

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Speaker 2: I know that's well he compared, you know what, to say the same level of significance to me.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 2: When I saw a headline yesterday it said Cardly Ray Jepson's pregnant and congratulations. But I'm like the call her maybe girl? How is she still getting a headline? How is Nate dan still getting a headline? Nate Diaz is way more legendary than you're painting the picture out to be right now, we're talking about a guy who devoted, like I said, devoted and dedicated his life to UFC. One of the UFC, I don't want to say faces of the Mount Rushmore.

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Speaker 1: But he's up there.

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Speaker 2: Man lazily collected money from Jake Paul once before to just stand there and have a half assed back if you were dropped on your if that was way more of a battle than anyone had expected, because Jake Paul is a lot stronger and bigger and younger, better of him.

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Speaker 1: All right, well.

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Speaker 2: Again this is the update. Just as we got ready for the show. It looks like he signed, he accepted. That's that's what it was. The story right now as we know it again it's a little after two pm out here on the West Side, is that Nate Diaz accepted the offer. I didn't know there was a legitimate offer on the table because there were so many names involved in trying to fill the replacement here now, but you know what it is, you know, it's when I have a hard time really buying in, when the person just doesn't it lacks relevance, like when Nate Diaz was in his prime that's a really interesting time to transition to boxing and see if he's got it. But he's a fighter, and you think that the casual fight fan knew who Gervante Davis was casual fight fan, but he's a legitimate Nathiaz is a is a more exciting draw as far as name recognition.

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Speaker 1: It was the two thousands and you were wearing an Affliction T shirt.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, hey you heard Rich by I want I want to know that's Rich Davis talking smack.

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Speaker 1: About Nate Diaz.

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Speaker 2: Irrelevant could be I'm here saying that I thought he battled stronger than I had expected the first time, and I thought we got a pretty decent fight out of it the first time. I'll take the rematch. Who would I like to see the most Ryan Garcia? But Ryan Garcia is a legitimate fighter, dude. That's like it's anyone would take the payday, but it's beneath him at this point, and it's beneath of Francis and Ghano, and in fact, Francis and ghan who said I feel disrespected.

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Speaker 1: Everybody you know wants the money. I get it. Let me tell you how this is a perfect fight for a Nate dim.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna give an analogy that you might understand, being that you're a Jersey guy. Sure, back in the two thousands, when you and I first started working together, late two thousands, I remember a big get on our show, believe it or not, was the cast of the Jersey Shore.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, around that time, but they were like the Beatles.

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Speaker 2: It was like when we had Snookie in the situation and Pauli D and all those guys on our show.

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your boy, Baldi D And you're listening to Cavino and Rich Oh yeah, Kams are here.

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Speaker 2: But I remember it being a big deal, like, Wow, Snooky, we got That's a good get.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 2: I remember, like a decade later, like, yo, guys, we've got some talent availabilities here.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys want Jaywow? And I was like, no, that's me.

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Speaker 2: That's how I feel about Nate Diaz fighting Jake Paul I think you're talking about it a well respected fan favorite of the UFC. Honestly, I feel like you you missed the boat on his popularity or something, or no I did in ahead he's the Jad, He's the Kevin Federline.

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Speaker 1: Give you keep naming. I think you're forgetting like the resume.

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Speaker 2: This guy was always a draw, a UFC draw, and you know it's not his first time putting on boxing gloves. So your thoughts. The only thing Nate Diaz lacks is power, but he still has the fight. Don't underestimate his competitiveness. And he's a little older now, he's forty, but he's not done by any means. He's forty, you know, as they say, shake Paul's twenty eight again. For the record, this is the update. It looks like it's happening. He accepted, and it's the one that makes the most sense because it's worthy of a rematch. I think nath Diaz deserved the rematch. You already talked a lot of smack. He said something along the lines if it were to happen, that he was going to dominate and destroy it.

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Speaker 1: No, what is he supposed to say? But he's not that kind of guy. He's kind of a laid back dude.

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Speaker 2: I think he wants his revenge inist fight Dan Buyer, As I said, before every big fight, you know the slogan before every big fight, btn bro better nothing better than nothing?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: So and listen, I agree with the sentiment of better than nothing, because coming out's right, we are we are doing like a guy's weekend with some of our buds, and Friday night we planned on getting a nice dinner and watching the Jake Paul Tank Davis fight.

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Speaker 1: That was part of the plan. So I guess this is better than nothing. But that's like, yeah, and the guys we were with, none of them know who Tank Davis is.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm a boxing fan, so of course I know who Tank Davis is, and I know there's a lot of people that do right. But as far as like the casual fan, much more people are gonna know Nate Diaz from his UFC fame David there was at least an angle with the Tank Tank Davis that was a circus fight. He weighs one hundred and thirty five pounds. Thank you for saying that, because that was the point. The point of the Jake Paul Tank Davis fight. And Danny G you'll back me up, is wow, could one of the best pound for pound little guys compete with Jake Paul, who's way bigger but not necessarily a boxing petty career.

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Speaker 3: When that was first announced, you guys argued about it on the air for a copy.

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Speaker 2: Made it interesting. It doesn't mean it's going to be a better fight. For all we know, we're gonna get a much better battle with Nate Diaz. The guy's tough. Rich is the guy. I want everyone to know that Rich is the guy downplaying night DZ right now. And I want Nick his brother to come here and kick your ass. So anyway, eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, in California, it's gonna come after you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. You're talking like a lot of smack about the wrong guy. So A seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Your thoughts on you?

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Speaker 1: Said?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm sorry, I think said Edwin Das who just decided to backstand my Mets and uh opt for a free agency.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm gonna have up a Dodger. So your thoughts on this, because it is the late breaking story. As we get into the studio here on this hump day, Covino and rich Ny Diaz accepted the fight. Is it official? We'll let you know when it is, but it seems to be. But in the world of fighting, you never know until you see it. All right, Well, hey CNR on FSR Now one other note before we move on, we're gonna get to some NFL. I know there's a mad Dog Russo clip we got to make fun of a little bit because get all mad about stuff. You don't need to get mad at you. Do you feel like your parents like, because he's rather with our parents' age. Your parents get mad about it, just cranky about everything everything. Absolutely, it's just this happens with time. Tell me that your dad, if there's a ten minute wait at the barber, he's like, yeah, I'm leaving. He doesn't wait ten minutes. He doesn't wait. And they love to complain, but that's okay. I mean you as a as their child, that's your job to listen.

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Speaker 1: And you know, one day we'll be there.

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Speaker 2: We'll be the old guy complaining so uh Med Doug Grusso complaining about something to do with the Dodgers. We'll get to that. We'll get to some NFL. But Danny g real quick. You sent us the stats and they're remarkable. Anyone that doubted baseball, I know we've been harping on it for the last months, like Baseball's pop and it's back.

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Speaker 1: It's great. And for the non baseball.

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Speaker 3: Fans month do you guys started out in July.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we've all but we're big baseball guys.

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Speaker 2: So my instinct told me I was everyone's watching this and Game seven of the twenty twenty five World Series, get this, Get this average fifty one million viewers combined across the US, Canada and Japan, making the thrilling, eleven inning game the most watched baseball game in thirty four years since Game seven of the nineteen ninety one World Series. And they had to have enjoyed that show, man, like you can't ask for a better game. Everybody tuned in and they watched something great. And I'm so happy to be the show that. Oh we're not the only show. Got to give props to MLB bro Ron Parker, but that always talks about baseball, and we're telling you what a great game it is. And we tell our friends, man, you're sleeping on baseball. And we saw the come up and rise of these teams. So happy to be part of it. I'm not surprised. I'm really not. It was a great season and a perfect ending for a great season. So props to baseball. Let's take two quick phote calls on the me me me the resps. That's natean Diez Jacoba for the record, though in the first fight they both came in at one eighty five. It was about two years ago one eighty five cruiserweight fight, and Paul won by unanimous decision in ten rounds like ninety I don't know. The scorecards were way different than what I saw. It was like ninety eight, ninety one, ninety seven to ninety two. Oh. I thought it was a closer fight because toward the end, Diaz was really stepping up, showing a lot of hard you don't remember that the whole fight, and Adz had nothing, and then at the end he started to get a little flashy and get a little wild, and there were like maybe two glimpses of him like trying things. It was the weakest ass fight, And I don't know how anyone could be excited for this. It would be like going to a restaurant that's stunk. You got diarrhea, you hated it going down, you hated everything about it, and then your friend's like, let's go back to that restaurant.

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Speaker 1: What are you going to say?

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Speaker 2: I feel that way about Pachiao Mainweather because there's talks about them fighting again, It's like, does anyone want to see this? But you're still going to tune in, so anyway, there's pretty flights that you watch right and the and you see our buddy Ariel Hawane or any give Aen Brock, some Procke and Brock. I love those guys and Hall of Famer worked with the DESPN.

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Speaker 1: I know what are you talking about? Brian Custer? Uh soon, but Bernie sooner? Bernie is of course I love Bernie.

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Speaker 2: When when we see those guys doing a post fight interview and the sentiment is like, Yo, we're gonna try to you guys gonna try to run it back.

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Speaker 1: There's plenty of times where you're like, yeah, that would be great.

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Speaker 2: I would love to see this fight again, said no one after the Diaz Jake Paul, And that's why I find it interesting. Well, Bernardo Asuno deserves a proper shout out. He's one of the best. But what's your analysis when it comes to this fight?

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Speaker 1: Guys? We'll take your phone calls now and we'll move on and talk some NFL. Pete in Vegas. What's up, Pete?

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Speaker 5: Gentlemen? How all are you today?

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Speaker 3: What's up?

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Speaker 1: Buddy?

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Speaker 2: Did you hear what Rich called Nate Diaz the Kevin fetterline of MMA.

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Speaker 5: First of all, I'm afraid to even answer the fact that I know it wasn't even the person he said of a damn Britney spears that he was married dude. The fact that I know that scares me. But guys, he must be crazy. All those nights, I was watching the fight and I'm getting ready to go cashing a giant ticket only to see IDAs with one eye, one arm, and one foot get off the tarp and knock the holy Bazooka out of the guy and win the fight.

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Speaker 7: That's what he does.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he got Haru.

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Speaker 5: He lets him kick their butt so he could come back and knock him out.

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Speaker 1: Listen, I hope we get something, but I feel like we're gonna be severe.

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Speaker 2: That last fight, by the way, was August fifth, twenty twenty three, sold four hundred and fifty thousand dollars pay per view BYES and it generated twenty seven million in revenue, so at three point one from ticket sales. So of course they're going to run it back if they have the chance. And the story now is he has accepted. So who else we got?

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Speaker 1: Trip in Vegas. Hey, Trip, what's up?

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Speaker 6: Hey guys, because Cavino, You're gonna love this. I'm sitting here waiting to go to my barbershop. All hispanic except for me the question I have And Danny G's laughing because he let me through on this. As I told him. When y'all go to San Francisco, are y'all going to be in like a ham your cage or are you going to get your own rooms? That goes way back for many years on that conversation.

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Speaker 2: We are going to Arizona, Yeah, to watch Phoenix, Yah in Phoenix and you know Rich Knight true story. Probably sharing a room. Well, no, it's an airbnb.

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Speaker 1: Oh so we're not. It's an airbnb. But we've shared rooms before, you know what. I'm very shared last year in Miami.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's an airbnb with like you know, we don't look at each other's junk.

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Speaker 3: We found out on yesterday showed that your partners.

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Speaker 1: Let's say hi to Justin in Fargo. What's up Justin?

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Speaker 6: Hey, buddy, Hey, I just want to weigh on a game set of the World series.

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Speaker 8: I've listened to a lot of the networks in the postgame coverage, and I haven't heard anyone say anything about the Dodgers on defense. Didn't have not one clean inning there is. Blue just had traffic on every inning of the game, which makes the win are more impressive to me. I just want to know what you guys thoughts on that was.

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Speaker 2: My thoughts are simple, man, I don't I'm not saying that the Blue Jays were the better team. They lost, but there was something about them that felt that way to me. And when I got from the Dodgers is regardless of the fight of the Blue Jays, they know how to win and they were able to pull that off. They just know how to win. And you just, yeah, they got on and they fought, but the Blue Jays, but the Dodgers knew how to get out of it. I just think that the you have to give the Blue Jays equal credit. Though as far as providing excitement, excite fight. The ratings, the ratings weren't huge just because it was the Dodgers. The ratings were huge because it was the Dodgers versus a gritty, heart filled Blue Jays team that took a Dodgers team that everyone expected to really just win easily to the brink to extra innings in Game seven.

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Speaker 3: So I think I don't even think Dodger fans, though rich thought that was going to be an easy World Series, not with the.

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Speaker 1: Bullpens start every were cold even against the Brewers.

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Speaker 3: The Dodgers back tue but very true.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but according to Las Vegas they were two to one. They were it was like minus two thirty to one.

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Speaker 3: One hundreds Vegas. Though the Blue Jays were the number one seed, the Dodgers were not, you know, one hundred percent as far as their bats and definitely not what they're pitching. So uh, I was nervous going into that World Series. I wasn't puffing out my chest like, oh, we're gonna sweep this Blue Jays team.

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Speaker 1: I think there's an intangible there though.

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Speaker 2: That was so evident with the Dodgers, And I think anyone that knows sports or even plays for fun knows what I'm talking about. You might not be the most aggressive, might not be the most flashy, Like you just know.

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Speaker 1: How to win.

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Speaker 2: And the Dodgers have that on top of being flashy and everything else. They just know how to win. And we're able to do that, and that's what we witnessed and it was awesome. Yeah, justin in Fargo. Thank you, thank you for the call. We're going to get to the rest of your phone calls. Nate Diaz, Jake Paul looks like a rematch is happening November fourteenth, because Tank Davis is in ahole, that's why. And we got more Cavino and Rich midwek Major Mike's Wednesday Words of Wisdom prizes to give away. We'll do it all next right here on Fox Sports Radio. Nate dis the k fed of MMA. No one cares. We're all gonna be wasting our time now in two weeks watching Jake Paul whooping old ass. Nate Diaz, Welcome back to Cavino and Rich as negative Norberto Rich Davis. Dude, you have Gervonte Davis who has this assault charge on him from a stripper, plus all these other charges that have come up with this guy. The fight's canceled. Jake Paul scrambling to put something together. I'm not a Jake Paul guy or fan or super fan or anything like that. For the record, just making it clear he's able to pull something together last minute for everyone's entertainment. It's UFC legend Nate he as for a legitimate rematch, and you're complaining about it.

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Speaker 1: I'll watch it pumped.

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Speaker 2: Well, but my point is you have a dilemma. You try to make some dilemonade out of it. He's doing his best, he's doing this, but what is he supposed to do? So instead of applauding the guy for hey man, you know, thanks for still making the fight happen and giving you know, the fans some entertainment. Like my dad went to go into New York City to see a Broadway shell once with his wife, with Hugh Jackman. Oh, Hugh Jackman, the greatest showman. Come to find out it's the understudy. My Dad's like, I, oh my money back?

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Speaker 1: You went home. No one wants to see this junk.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of junk, there's a junk story we're gonna get to in a minute that's way more interesting. Well your thoughts, Yeah, there's a few phone calls left on this interesting and the numbers eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Everything at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio. We still got Mike's Wednesday words of Wi them giving away prizes Midweek Major and more. I have a question, if you could pick someone at Fox Sports Radio that you think could do the worm as good as Freddy Freeman, who do you think it is? That's a good question because who would have thought Freddy Freeman could do the worm the way he did the worm? I mean, Doug's a pretty athletic guy. He's still coaching college hoops and he's a you know, in shape?

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Speaker 1: Is Doug? The answer is it you?

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Speaker 8: No?

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Speaker 2: Because I think Casey Rob Parker, because the worm doesn't mean that you could dance necessarily, it's just that you could do the worm. Might be someone like Jay Stu, like someone unexpect.

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Speaker 1: You think Jay Stue could do the worm? That's right, I got In fact, I've perfected it for minute years. I thought the the worm in high school, junior high, throughout my.

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Speaker 2: Whole career, Big sexy Ryan the worm, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's Big Mike can though. Do you think big Mike dan By? What make uh? Maybe thirty five years ago? It's so funny though.

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Speaker 2: Because if you don't know what Rich is talking talking about. Freddie Freeman just did the most perfect worm. It's like it was really good. Would have never expected that he was able to pull that on. That doesn't mean the guy's like a great dancer, doesn't mean he's gonna be uh an electric boogoloo.

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Speaker 4: Three.

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Speaker 2: Now you got to ask yourself though, if put to the test because you had to, you think you could. No, it's a skill, it's something. Yeah, it's something you've practiced it, but you don't think your body can move that way. Your agile guy, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: Can't do it. You're not some ten and three fourth stanks, But yeah, no, I can't do it. I'll try to be generous. I just know I can't. I think you're five to eight. No, nope, Kyler Murray, can you do it?

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Speaker 8: Or no?

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Speaker 4: I think Freddy Freeman's height, So I think we got to look at someone who's who's tall, maybe slender. So I don't mind the Rob Parker, I got it. I yeah, Isaac, I think would be good. I think, yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 1: If Steve Desager just bust at the worm, I just may walk out and they were coming back. It's not tall enough though. It's less of a dance move, more of like a party trick.

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Speaker 2: But I do wonder like and toraight we want to harp on the worm, but I guarantee we've all been to a wedding, an event, to party where the unassuming person does the worm's I don't know who could be.

00:26:19
Speaker 1: He did a great job. It was pretty wild. I couldn't believe it. I was like, is this real? I think it was Ai? Is this Ai? Let's going on? Man, Freddie Freeman, get a move. You think LeVar could do the worm play? He's an elite athlete. I don't know. I don't know. You know what we'll think about it.

00:26:34
Speaker 2: We got a lot of phone calls coming in at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, some about Nate Diaz and some about the NFL, some about the MLB.

00:26:43
Speaker 1: But uh, let's go to Dan Byer. Speaking of Dan Byer, let's say hello for an update.

00:26:47
Speaker 4: Hey guys, I got a bunch of NFL news, but literally just coming in seconds ago. Jimmy Butler's out tonight for the Warriors against Sacramento and other NBA news. No, Austin Reeves tonight for the Lakers is they take on the Spurs and Jess and are Walker Kestler is going to miss the rest of the year because of a left shoulder injury. I know maybe some people playing daily fantasy you want to get their lineups in. That's what we've got tonight. Looking ahead to Week ten in the NFL, guys, there will be no CJ. Stroud for the Houston Texans, ruled out because of a concussion suffered in Week nine, So Davis Mills starts for the Texans in their matchup against the Jaguars.

00:27:20
Speaker 1: The Cardinals are placing quarterback Kyler Murray on injured reserve with his foot injury. Right now, what he's going to concentrate on is getting healthy.

00:27:28
Speaker 5: He's not healthy enough to play and needs to get healthy so he can get back to playing football.

00:27:34
Speaker 4: That said coach Jonathan Gannon. So Jacoby Brissett, who's going to start against the Seahawks in Week ten, would be in line to start the three other games following that, as Murray will miss an additional four games because of the IR placement. Forty nine Ers quarterback Brock Purty limited in practice. I feel like a broken record, but that's what he was today. No practice for Ricky Pearsall Niners have that huge showdown with the Rams coming up in.

00:27:55
Speaker 1: The Bay Area.

00:27:56
Speaker 4: Pukainakua expected to play despite suffering a real issue against the Saints this past weekend, but Sean McVay expects to have his star wide receiver available for that divisional game. A couple of other notes, guys commanders said. Coach Dan Quinn told reporters they're still evaluating how to proceed with the elbow injury suffered by quarterback Jaden Daniels last Sunday night. Of course, Marcus Mariota is going to start against the Lions. No practice today for Bill's running back James Cook, Panther's running back ric O'Donnell or Patriots running back Romandre Stevenson. And Bill Belichick, one of nine former NFL head coaches who Advanceton's the into the semi finals in balloting for the Hall of Fame.

00:28:32
Speaker 1: Back to you, guys, Thank you, Dan, Bill Belichick. He could do the worm. He could do the worm. Imagine onto the onto the worm.

00:28:41
Speaker 2: This whole Brissette story, the Kyler Murray story, reeks of me. It reeks to me like it's a cover up of sorts, and that's sort of speculation. Yeah, that's all over social media today. That's the big stories like is he really that hurt? Or is Brissett just better, and he started better now and starting for the team, Like there's the truth and the spin, Like it feels to me rich, Like when when I was getting a divorce, I didn't want to tell my daughter I was moving out, so.

00:29:08
Speaker 1: I told her, Oh, I just had a that has to be closer to work for a while.

00:29:13
Speaker 2: And I feel like they don't want to tell us that Kyler Murray's not starting it's his foot injury. Like I feel like they're not getting the full truth out of that story yet, or maybe his foot really is that bad, But that's the vibe I'm getting, like we're not getting the true real story yet.

00:29:28
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what you are getting the true story though.

00:29:30
Speaker 2: In San Francisco, Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch have made it very clear that it's brock Perty's team and when he is ready to go, well, mac Jones even said that, yeah, he's ready to go. This is not a well let's take our time with Purdy because mac Jones has been a quality backup. They're saying, if party could go in any capacity, he will play. There's no like, well, let's stick with mac Jones while Purdy's nursing his injury if brock Party has a chance to play, he'll play.

00:29:56
Speaker 1: Okay.

00:29:56
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of phone calls about a lot of different things. Eight ninety nine on Fox. Let's go through it, uh Swifty and Vermont. What's up, buddy?

00:30:07
Speaker 7: Hey, guys, how's it going?

00:30:08
Speaker 1: What's up?

00:30:08
Speaker 7: Man?

00:30:08
Speaker 1: We're good.

00:30:10
Speaker 7: So I'm calling about Game six, the controversy that was never called and an inapperence call that was never called on Mookie Bets's shot that scored to sho heeo. Tani comes in first and as the Toronto pitcher is backing up the catcher, he's boxing him out like a basketball player.

00:30:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was wild, never called. Yeah, that was a good one.

00:30:34
Speaker 3: That was it.

00:30:34
Speaker 1: Did you see that play?

00:30:35
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:30:35
Speaker 2: Of all the plays Tani boxed them, that was I mean, I think because it could be left for interpretation of like was he really trying to box him out or was he just there and he just collided?

00:30:47
Speaker 1: I don't know.

00:30:47
Speaker 2: That was interesting. It showed a little bit of a It showed me a different side of show. Hey, like he's doing he's willing to do anything knowing here. All right, let's say hi to Mike, who wants to talk a little Nate Diaz and Fresno.

00:30:59
Speaker 1: What's up?

00:31:01
Speaker 7: What's up?

00:31:01
Speaker 6: Fellas? Always enjoy the show and enjoy listening.

00:31:04
Speaker 5: Thanks first off, Nate, you know, it's not like he's mega rich, so you know it is a payday for him.

00:31:11
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:31:11
Speaker 8: And the thing about Nat is he's always entertaining and he's always going to bring it and I love his swag.

00:31:16
Speaker 6: Man, talk to you guys.

00:31:17
Speaker 2: Later, you know.

00:31:18
Speaker 1: All right.

00:31:18
Speaker 2: So not that I'm scared that Nathane is gonna come get me, but I do find him entertaining.

00:31:23
Speaker 1: I just think anyone that, yeah it is then you call him the fetter line of the UFC.

00:31:30
Speaker 2: I mean Federlands are talented, No, but no, no, I'm just saying Nathan is entertaining as hell. I just think that anyone that is gonna watch a Jake Paul fight is looking for like a oh, what's the hook? We already saw this and it didn't end up great. It wasn't like this epic fight that you needed to run back, you know, like if you told me Ryan Garcia, the young, handsome Ryan Garcia, who Yeah, but Ryan Garcia is of a different pedigree of fighter, you know, like maybe he doesn't want to be part of that circus act. Well, you know what all I'm saying is that Jake Paul is going to beat Nate Diez and it'll go the distance. There'll be a moment where Nate Diez is tough and take some punches and the crowds like.

00:32:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're the man Nats.

00:32:14
Speaker 2: Remember before Gervante accepted this fighting, he was already talking about retirement. You know, it takes away a little bit of your legitimacy when you're fighting. Jake Paul, by the way, what a magnificent call. Comes in, gives your props, gives his take, says I'm gone see you guys, appreciate it. More of that like bang up job Fresno.

00:32:32
Speaker 1: If only everyone.

00:32:34
Speaker 4: And I'm not, Yeah, it's not everybody else, but like god, boom boom boom, gone see.

00:32:39
Speaker 1: It boom formatics.

00:32:41
Speaker 2: Yes, he'd be a great call. And we're going to get to the rest of your phone calls. Hank Tight, Liam, Mitch Frank, Rob, Hank Tight. We got more Covino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio next. Oh man, it's Covino and Rich. I just saw the most annoying thing you're looking in the mirror. If you follow college hoops specifically and be a two. I'm sure, but every time a team gets to sixty seven points and Angel gets his wings, the crowd just erupts it and like I just saw like three clips in a row where the minute the minute sixty seven has hit.

00:33:25
Speaker 1: So you'll be sure to look forth to that all basketball season.

00:33:29
Speaker 2: Covino and Rich live from the Fox Sports Radio studio and it's time for our tire rack play of the day. The Chicago Bulls are off to their best start since the Jordan era.

00:33:39
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00:33:47
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00:33:53
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00:33:56
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00:34:22
Speaker 1: Chat Live, pull up the chat man, I'll do it right now. Let's chat it up.

00:34:26
Speaker 2: You're the chattiest guy going, Rich Davis Covino and Rich FSR on YouTube. And speaking of Rich Blabermouth Davis, he's so full of hot air and so full of himself that when the Mets were doing well last year, he changed our MLB season bet. I want to take you back before we get too far past baseball, even though there's still excitement in the air. Rich and I had a bet who would have the better season this year? The Mets are the Yankees. It was a thousand dollars bet. He shook on it here in the stadio December. We made the bet in December before the season was popping. Who was going to have the better season? The Mets are the Yankees. And it was back and forth all year until the very end when the Mets just continued to collapse. If you remember, at one point I was I got all cocky because the Mets maybe had like a four game lead. And around that time, as part of the story, when the Mets were doing well. Rich said he wanted to change the bet, and I said.

00:35:27
Speaker 4: Well, what is it.

00:35:28
Speaker 2: He goes, no, we changed a bet when they were dead. Even for every game over, it's another one hundred dollars, and we shook on that. The Yankees end up beating the Mets as far as record, and they had eleven more wins. That means I won a thousand dollars from the original bet and eleven hundred dollars from the additional bet that this guy brought upon himself. I didn't want to do it. I said, sure, whatever, dude, because Rich is a gambling fool. So that means Rich Davis here owes me twenty one hundred dollars and we've never resolved this in the form of ninety four and sixty eight for the Yankees and the Mets were eighty three and seveny So I want my big giant check now. I want to like an Ed McMahon sort of giant check presented to me.

00:36:15
Speaker 1: That's what I want.

00:36:16
Speaker 2: I want my thousand dollars. But because I'm a nice guy, I don't want the full twenty one hundred. I'm willing to make a deal, like deal or no deal, like call the guy upstairs like Henker. Yeah, I'm gonna call the banker and make a deal with you. And I already threw it out there, but Rich short of ignored it. And if you missed it, my deal was this, and this was before the World Series. I said, Rich, you just got your patio done. Life out here in La is expensive. I'm not gonna make my good buddy, my co host, give me twenty one hundred dollars because he was a big mouth who decided to raise the stakes. It's being too nice. Just give me twe thousand dollars. That was the original betk and throw in that show hao tany rookie card you got although the special and Danny got me like when we first met. I said that before the World Series. I said that before any MVP, even though we knew he probably had it again this year, and I got no response. I got crickets. So are we going to resolve this?

00:37:11
Speaker 1: What do you think?

00:37:12
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Nation, you think that's a fair sort of deal. That's very very kind. I want to forget even called the banker. Hold on, I'm gonna call the banker and say, you know why, because when Danny G. I gotta meet Danny G. Understand what I'm getting that. Danny G was kind enough to buy Rich Davis this rookie card for what for Christmas?

00:37:32
Speaker 1: One year?

00:37:32
Speaker 3: Danny it was his birthday.

00:37:34
Speaker 1: It was Rich's birthday early on in our show.

00:37:37
Speaker 2: And Danny G's like, hey man, that's a gesture of kindness and friendship and our journey together as a show. I present you this birthday gift. And Rich opened it up and it was an Otani rookie. When you gave that rookie graded created o' tonny with the jersey in it and everything. When you gave that card, the Rich heart sank because I was like, that should be for me. So I've had my eyes on my car.

00:38:06
Speaker 1: Now.

00:38:06
Speaker 2: The only caveat was I'd be regifting essentially something Danny gave me.

00:38:11
Speaker 1: Bro I'm giving you. This is either give me that little piece of cardboard or eleven hundred dollars. This is the baker. Yeah, this is stump up and actually work.

00:38:20
Speaker 2: Could I press do you want to get feedback from the Fox Sports Radio Nation first?

00:38:24
Speaker 1: Or should I say you know what? You You've waited too much. I want to take twenty one. I'm taking the deal. This is not like the deal. This is not like shark take. You know when someone will will ask for mister Wonderful's all right, you waited. I'm done. Deals off the table. I want to know. You gotta shake on it. Is it a deal or no deal? I mean, you're very generous. I'm taking the deal. I'm taking your son's future old Tani rookie card. Are you sure about that? Go we documented on.

00:38:53
Speaker 2: Come one thousand dollars plus the card. I'll give you cash tomorrow.

00:39:01
Speaker 1: Until next season.

00:39:02
Speaker 3: They shook.

00:39:05
Speaker 1: Until next season.

00:39:06
Speaker 2: Bro one hundred and forty two days away. One hundred and forty one days away. Generous dude, al right, generousy. I appreciate you heard it here. First, I could have took twenty one hundred from this fool. That's kindness. I'm willing to take that rookie and Danny g that's not considered regifting.

00:39:21
Speaker 3: It's cool.

00:39:21
Speaker 1: It's part of the deal.

00:39:22
Speaker 5: Man.

00:39:23
Speaker 1: It's kicking myself because I could have sold that card for eleven hundred dollars. Hey, you know, just look it up. That card's actually wear sixty thousand dollars. He shook on it too bad. So all right, No, Tandy's yours. I perfect.

00:39:36
Speaker 2: Listen, my goodness, when we made that bet the whole season, that was anxiety ridden for me. Well, i'll tell you real quick, and it will be your chance to win it back. Next base Let me tell you it's uh. There was a point where they were dead even most of the year. When your team is on a losing streak and you're betting on them every day, essentially, it was miserable. But hey, what a great baseball season we got out of everything and we could officially close the book. All right, and your thoughts on that, Plus we gotta talk Haley Bailey and Matt Khalil and football and more.

00:40:06
Speaker 1: Two coke cans. Well, i'll explain what that means next. Hang tight,