C&R - Swagger Jackin' & Politics in Locker Room

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Speaker 1: Yeah for real? Well, hey, Rich, let's jump into the ruckus.

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Speaker 2: Let's get into it. I already say congratulations to the Knicks. We will talk about it because someone's faking it, and I'll tell you who coming up. Someone is faking it? Who's faking the funk on that nasty dunk. Who will explain? But congrats big win over the Spurs last night, and I want to kick it off with.

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Speaker 1: Rich's Mets. Now hear me out.

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Speaker 2: It's not baseball talk because I know you guys are in your NBA Cup, NFL zone.

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Speaker 1: So are we.

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Speaker 2: But there's two stories. If it was just one story, I wouldn't talk about your Mets. Two stories number one, and you're not talking about Diaz and Alonzo, No, no other Mets stories.

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Speaker 1: Number one. I gotta say, what's the deal? Bra?

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Speaker 2: You want my leftovers like a dog? I say, my leftover is like a dog. You o my seconds as they say, the sloppy seconds.

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Speaker 1: Here we go.

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Speaker 2: As of today, Riches New York Mets got Luke Weaver for a three year deal like twenty two million or something like. That reliever Luke Weaver. He had his moment and yes that rhyme, Sam, I know you like that reliever Luke Weaver.

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Speaker 1: Luke Weaver, the reliever re Weaver. There you go. There got the.

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Speaker 2: Dream Weaver, Luke the reliever Weaver. So the Yankees steal Luke Weaver. He had an off season. I'm okay with it. But now put together the Mets current bullpen. You have our leftover in Clay Holmes, you have our leftover and Devin Williams, now you have our leftover in Luke Weaver. Not to mention, you have our leftover in Juan Soto and me are gonna make a pretty generous offer, apparently to Cody Bellinger. Yeah exactly, and you're after Bellinger. Let me say this respect for and let me use sports terms. Get off our jock, bro, what are you doing?

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Speaker 1: What's the deal?

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Speaker 2: This sounds like a desperate you know, like a dude that's obsessed with you or a woman. This is more of a woman tactic where a woman is so obsessed And I say disrespectfully ladies, but it's more likely to be a woman in this case from my experience, sexist, very sexist.

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Speaker 1: But hear me out.

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Speaker 2: You know how certain women are so vengeful and caddy and petty sometimes or maybe even obsessed with other women, Like they just copy their style, they steal their man. Is that the whole narrative of Bieber's wife, Like, didn't you like copy? Everything's become obsessive, right, it's less of a of a man quality. I'm not saying men are above it, but I mean the Mets are really on the Yankees?

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Speaker 1: Jock here, Am I wrong in saying that? Am I?

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Speaker 3: Am?

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Speaker 2: I losing my mind? Okay, got the entire Yankees bullpen. I walked into our now want the Yankees outfit? I walked into our today, and Comito goes, yo, take your team to get off my nuts, Like, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 5: Yo?

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Speaker 1: And come on?

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Speaker 2: And what a Mets thing to do? On a side note, oh, here we go. I believe Jason Smith said this, not Mike Harmon. Jason Smith. I can never tell him apart no, no, no Smith sleeves, Harmon hat.

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith wears no sleeves. Mike Carmon wears a hat. I'm an ass man. He should wear he should wear slips.

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Speaker 2: Jason Smith is also a Mets fan like you, and he goes, what a Mets thing to do? We no longer have the guy that hit the home run in Pete Alnzo. We have the guy that led up the home run, right, like, what a Mets thing to do? But not only that, they have all of the Yankees like bullpen and now outfield. And it didn't work for the Yankees. So why are the Mets doing it? That's story number one. Well, and it has nothing to do with the Mets Yankees. I think that there are sometimes, Danny, have you ever noticed that there's a team in the NBA, NFL, Major League Baseball where there's a handful of guys that used to be on your team and you almost look at it like, oh, look at them.

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Speaker 1: They're like it's my Oh yeah, like my team liked in a way. Rich.

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Speaker 6: It's like how the Packers have Josh Jacobs, Nate Hobbs, a couple of other Raiders.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, man, I should just start rocking the g hat.

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Speaker 2: But you want to know why this is happening too, And this is part two of the story. This is kind of wild. So again, this is not about baseball.

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Speaker 1: This is an update. It's like you see.

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Speaker 2: Something you like and you just try to emulate it and copy it and basically rip it off. Like I like that dude's jacket, I like that dude's sneakers, that dude's hat, and then you.

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Speaker 1: Steal his whole style and swaggers. Swaggers don't work that way, dude.

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Speaker 2: You got wiring, Guarie agents, you got Clay Holmes, Devin Williams, Luke Weaver, Wan Soto, you're going after Bellinger. My goodness, dude, part two of this If you don't care about the Mets Yankees, good because Part two of this could do with football, baseball, basketball, anything. It's more of just a a twenty twenty five general sentiment. Let's explain to what makes sports beautiful and makes sports great. All different walks of life life come to one place with one purpose, and that purpose is to win. Right, different ideology, different people, different cultures from all different walks of life, different lands. And this is a national game, and this is on full display if and when you do watch like the World Baseball Classic, or you're starting to see in the NBA when they do the international players orus the American born players. It's it's beautiful when you see, Hey, my team's got Japanese players, black players, white players, Latino players.

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Speaker 1: It's all different. It really is.

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Speaker 2: All differences aside, And it doesn't matter what names on the back because they're all playing for the name that's on the front, right, All differences aside. When you're in between those lines, you got one goal, one common goal together and has to win. So nothing else matters once the buzzer hits. Once the game starts. You could have went with tip off first pitch or kickoff, went with buzzer hits.

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Speaker 1: I went with the.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I saw you Somebmy Scrambley.

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Speaker 1: How does the game start?

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Speaker 2: Once the game starts, all those things are out the window. Differences don't matter. You won common goals to win. And would you believe it that word on the streets is as of today that your boy Brandon Neimo and Lindoor never saw eye to eye and they got rid of Nimo because of political differences. I'm not saying this hasn't existed before. I'm sure it has, but I've never really heard it like this before in sports. It infiltrated relationships where it never has before, and now it's infiltrating sports in a way that it really hasn't before. They couldn't put that aside, I'm assuming, and it's a pretty good assumption what I read. And Nimo was a Trump guy, Lindoor was not. They couldn't put their political differences aside for the soul sake of winning in New York. That's just so lame to me, because that sort of defeats what sports is all about, Like, well, you're letting your political differences get in a way of winning. Here, I listen, I'm call me old fashioned. I still believe in the idea of, hey, we could be friends if we have different political beliefs. But that is not a sentiment that is popular among younger people because their mindset is Yo, if you disagree with me on these big issues, then I don't know how it could be your pal. It's a very different mindset. You could say, well, that's the problem, you should care and I get all that. And here's another example. You can say, well, that's the caveman knuckle dragon mentality of our generation.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever Danny g Iowa, Sam spott Low and cron I say this respectfully, Fox Sports Radio Nation, Please I say this respectfully. Have you ever kicked someone out of the bedroom because they didn't line up with you politically? Have you ever had a hot woman laying in your bedroom and said, wait a minute before we do this, Oh, who do you support?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Because guess what in today's world, and I've seen it first.

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Speaker 2: Hand, imagineing you're ask getting days in the two thousand, you're like some girls like unrobing in your better and you're like, hold on before this proceeds, mccana Obama.

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Speaker 1: Oh what if she asks you right? Hold on? Trick question?

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Speaker 2: Oh, like do you do you lie just to make it happen?

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Speaker 1: I don't vote right exactly. I'm an independent.

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Speaker 2: If you, when I'm noticed, know that it becomes you don't vote. Oh my god, you don't care about the process.

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Speaker 1: I'm neutral. Now that the neutral is even worse because then you're quote wishy washed. No, I screwed this up. Let me tell you.

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Speaker 2: I would say my brother is single again. He recently got divorced.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately. Yeah, meeting someone is hard enough.

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Speaker 2: My brother, my brother has had to fake the funk so many times because girls on dating profiles will be like unless you like hate President Trump, don't respond to my brother's like, I don't hate President Trump.

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Speaker 1: But she has a fine ass.

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Speaker 2: Like you know, you're like, it's right, just like you got to put differences aside between the line for the greater good of winning. Sometimes you gotta put your differences aside to make a relationship work right, and you connect on other things and it's okay to disagree. That's how we were brought up at least to think. Now I'm seeing younger people and younger relationships. They don't deal with it. Dude, I have a teenage daughter and I was like, whatever happened to uh Kirby?

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Speaker 1: I don't know the kid's name.

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Speaker 2: I can't give way to kids name anyway, weird, weird millennial name, weenial name, larynth whatever happened to larynx?

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Speaker 1: Cayden because kids don't have normal names.

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Speaker 2: We're having a Cayden, nice kid. They didn't line up politically or he sets them off the wall sort of views that he that didn't agree with my daughters, so they're like they called it done.

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Speaker 1: Though, I'm like, what why are you guys worrying about that? You're sixteen years old?

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Speaker 2: You could say that we're you could say, hey, Kevina Rich, you guys are dummies. That's been said before. That's possible. But think about it. If you were a single guy in the nineties, two thousands, if you're an older school dude seventies or eighties, did you ever one time when you were in high school even no care or think about the political thoughts of a girl you had a crush. No, never when you were when you were on your come up, did you ever think of a girl who you asked out on a day? High school girl asked me what my thoughts of the Gaza Strip?

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Speaker 1: Where I would be thinking, is that a steak? I wouldn't know.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't I wouldn't have known what she was talking about because I was a teenage idiot. These kids about the Gaza Strip of the style she had going on somewhere kids today, and you could say, well, then that's better for them because you should line up. I don't know about that. It's infiltrating relationships. How many young single people are out there because of all the difference is it's hard enough to find someone. Now you're adding another layer. And now it's infiltrating sports, the old that the old adage of opposites attract I think people have sort of poo pooed that idea, and you know what the.

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Speaker 1: Sale mc scat cat the I will let Paula Abdul not know.

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Speaker 2: I feel like it's very almost counterproductive in old school when Cavino and I genuinely say something like yeah, man, I'm sort of a down the middle guy, because you know what happens. Then every Republican friend you have is like, what are you some liberal?

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Speaker 1: Uh wimp?

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Speaker 2: And then every liberal friend you have is like, what are you some trumper? You're on an island. I can't win, Like when you're when you're a middle guy, where you're like, hey, you know what I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't love or hate this. You're considered wishy washy Jackson.

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Speaker 2: Can I tell you I saw our buddy KFC from Barstool point out something great. He's a good dude. He was on our bonus pod recently. Over promised. KFC from Barstool said, the biggest problem we ever did when it comes to politics is we started treating politics the way we treat sports.

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Speaker 1: How you will.

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Speaker 2: Attic like fanatically, like Cavino, you're a Yankees fan, Danny g you're a Dodgers fan, you will hate the Padres no matter what undeniable the Red Sox could do no right in your mind right, that is fanatical, that's fanatical, ridiculous behavior.

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Speaker 1: You hate your rival. If you're a Lakers fan, the Celtics, even if they.

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Speaker 2: Do something good, is the point? Yeah, Yeah, you just hate them. You hate them because you have to. Gary Vaynerchuk talks about this are pal motivational speaker and influencer Gary Vee talks about how he knows as a Jets fan, he's illogical and that's what it is.

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Speaker 1: He's a fanatic, right because of sports whatever.

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Speaker 2: But when you take politics and you you treat controllably and undeniably agree with one hundred percent of something someone does or says, because you're treating politics like you're a fan no offense, Donald Trump, Kamala.

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Speaker 1: Harris, Joe Biden.

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Speaker 2: They're not the Raiders or the Padres or the Patriots and the Cardinals. It's a politician. So it really upset me to see that Nimo and lindor whether the rumors are true or not. The fact that the Mets clubhouse was divided politically. Oh dude, just sort of week with the holidays coming up, you going a hon a good dinners or you know, my family's coming in town for Christmas. You're telling me you think your family all aligns politically.

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Speaker 1: Get out of here. You have some family members that lover hate the same guy.

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Speaker 2: Right, and by the way, think of polarizing figures in sports, like in history, like like a Kurt Shilling.

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Speaker 1: Right, you think everyone in the locker room lined up with that guy. Absolutely not, but they put it aside to win. How did they not do that?

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Speaker 2: I give this sort of thing needs to stop because you'll never line up with everybody. You think everyone here Fox Sports Radio lines up the same way. No, but we want to do great radio and we want to have fun throughout the day. We want to connect and put all that aside. Your Mets can do that. I hope it stops there, because your boy Lindor is part of two weekass stories. Him and Nimo couldn't line up politically, they thought about it, they got rid of nim and then the side story is a total side note. Him and Soto didn't vibe and that was part of the problem this year too. Well, you know what, let me take it to my football team, since I'm only going to talk about my team's Danny. But you've heard this story too, where forty nine ers injured. Unfortunately edg Rusher and one of the best defensive players in the league, Nick Bosa, is very openly a Donald Trump supporter. Yeah, and they made it very clear that his teammates are like, yeah, dude, I might not agree with you, but you're a boy, the Niners and other athletes have overcome what has been around forever political differences. But now we seem to think, well, I can't hang with that person. We don't see eye to eye and everything when you could see that, sir, because what happens is Lindor then says, and again I'm painting in broad strokes here, I don't know this to be fact. Yeah, this is automatically doesn't like NIMO because we treat it in a fanatical way, like hold on, I don't care if you're a good guy.

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Speaker 1: I don't care if you're a nice family man.

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Speaker 2: I don't care if you're a great base that guy you're against Trump, you don't like me.

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Speaker 1: I hate you.

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Speaker 2: Therefore, no chemistry. So if this is this might not be the first time this has happened. You don't think, bro, You don't think in the NFL when people were kneeling during the anthem, Oh yeah, you don't think that that divided different races and cultures and southern people in coast northern people. You don't think there was divide during that. Oh there had to be.

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Speaker 1: There were, there were, There were definitely locker room conversation.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry when you're getting paid that kind of money as a professional. You have to put it aside for the fans. Dude, it's not you don't have to hang out and like the guy. You have to win together. It's as simple as that you're on the team. Not everyone's gonna love each other and get along and line up in life and in sports. I think it's a shame they couldn't put those differences aside. I have a question for the same and I.

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Speaker 1: Hope it doesn't continue to be like a like a.

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Speaker 2: Trend because politics is now like an everyday mainstream conversation. Hey, let me let me put you guys on the spot, Isaac Danny g I was saying, do you think politics will remain a focal point? Do you think we're just going through one of the ebbs and flows in history where it's where it's a out in front of you thing. Do you think we've just had some polarizing politicians or do you think, hey, we went through the Vietnam era that the country was divided, then you you know, do you think it's an ebb and flow or do you think moving forward, every generation will be this politically motivated.

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Speaker 7: I'll answer first, because I have balls, please do I mean? The most accurate answer I can give is I honestly don't know. I hope it's an ebb and flow because I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You hear people say we're more divided than ever, and then like your dad might be like, oh, you aren't around Sundaer in Vietnam or something there.

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Speaker 7: The sixties were pretty interesting, but in a different way than it is now because.

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Speaker 1: Of different issues. He tell us about the sixties.

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Speaker 7: I did a lot of LDS r LSD.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, let me let me just say it's it's wild, because again, it's a weird take in twenty twenty five, where I could genuinely tell you I have friends that think Trump is the greatest guy in the world, and I have friends that think Trump is the worst guy in the world. And I've never been like, you know, I don't think we could be friends because of your political take. I just I may say, yeah, I don't agree with you on that. In fact, I may or maybe we don't vibe socially, right, Hey, we don't have to go out and chop it up and be best friends or besties having drinks in high five? Do you think but when you're when you're professionals, you have to put that aside. So do you think, let's just be real here, do you think like a forty year old nerdy punter is socially hanging out with some twenty two year old draft pick who who just entered the NFL and is like, you know, Chase an s No, do you think do you think you know? We talked about that with Matthew Staffords. Matthew Stafford, you know, the possible MVP this year. Remember like a year ago, his beautiful wife was doing her podcast and said that, hey, it's a little tricky because it's hard to relate to everyone in a locker room because some guys are in there close to forty and married other guys or Chase it ass you know, political differences everyone's gonna have.

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Speaker 1: And here's the shame of it, right, different thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, the biggest shame of it too is in the world of dating and relationships and friendships, it's hard enough to find people to relate to, and you're adding one more layer to it, right. The same in sports, it's so hard to build chemistry. We see it, right, It's so hard to build that winning team and that magic and that chemistry, and now you're adding one more annoying layer that doesn't even belong there anyway.

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Speaker 1: This is sports, this isn't politics. Keep it out of the locker room. He used to be.

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Speaker 2: Keep it out of the Thanksgiving or Christmas or Hanuka table. Keep it off the table, keep it out of the holiday. Now you got to keep it out of the locker room. It's just one more layer that interferes with the chemistry and winning of a team. I mean, who's great at making serious issues very light?

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Speaker 1: The great Larry David. Right, are you guys fans of CURB?

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say us too, but pretty maybe close to Larry David, but not Larry David. There's a great episode where he's hooking up with this beautiful girl but she hates Jewish people and he's.

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Speaker 1: Like, but it's like but but it's you know, so satirical.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, we are you know, that's a humorous, you know, TV show.

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Speaker 1: But he didn't have a problem with that. Then Marty had the problem.

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Speaker 2: With Yeah, Funck Housers was like the late great funk Causer. But your thoughts, Hey, let's open it up, Let's let's have some real talk. Here on a Rando Cavino on Rich Wednesday, and we are going to get to midweek Major and the NBA Cup.

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Speaker 1: You know NBA Cup.

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Speaker 2: Someone's someone's full of someone's full of it, someone's faking the funk.

00:22:42
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call someone out today.

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Speaker 2: And also we talked about there being like five games this weekend where the steaks are so high. I want to go over those games that you guys and really break them down. Oh steaks. I'll have the guys the strip with that medium. Well, uh, Danny, keep everyone on hold. I see the phones are hot. Thank you, buddy. We got more CNR next right here on Fox Sports Radio. All right, well, quick time out, rich time out from all the political time. I know, please holiday upgrade check. Are you still watching the games on an old small TV? If you are, you're only seen about half the game. Yeah, your TV shouldn't tap out in the red zone. Don't embarrass yourself, guys, get a good TV TCL. The QM eight k QD Mini LED is the real MVP ultimate brightness, black levels for the ultimate experience. Pictures so clear you could taste the turf. And it's not just football movies. Look cinematic. You know I was watching yesterday. Stand by me, Rob Ryan or dude, rest in peace. Cinematic games feel smoother. We'll be watching the Fight on Friday. And yes, everybody notices all your companies like, yo, dude, is that a TCL. So here's the holiday play. TCLTV is go Premium with the QM eight K. That's the ultimate choice, or the versatile QM six K, which has an elevated game day experience.

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Speaker 1: No bueno.

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Speaker 2: No no politics at the holiday table, no politics in the locker room, in the clubhouse.

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Speaker 1: Can't happen. Chemistry killer.

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Speaker 2: I I can't understand how we've slid to the mindset of don't agree with me, can't hang with you, like like our buddy Jeff hit us up, he goes guys, when I met my wife, I'm very picky about lining politically with someone.

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Speaker 1: I get that when you're dating.

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Speaker 2: But he did go on to say I can remain friends with people who don't agree with me if I know they're good people. I'm still I I don't know. I find it tricky. It's it's it's tricky territory. It's tricky to rock and rhyme, and it's tricky to line up politically with everybody. It's impossible, especially on a team and when you're looking for a special especially it's not the eighties where Ronald Reagan won forty nine of the fifty states in an election. We're talking about the last three elections are down the middle. Well, let me you know, almost fitty fitty Fernando Mendoza. I don't know where he lines up politically. I have no idea, but I hear how his teammates talk about him. You could see how likable he is, right, Yeah, everything he's saying, especially for Hispanic players and everything, I'm like, this guy is amazing.

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Speaker 1: He's the best. I love this guy. He's lovable.

00:26:17
Speaker 2: I want to getim a hug. A lot of his teammates are like, I would run through a wall for this guy because he's such a good dude. I love him in this net and you could see the chemistry. You could see they play for that dude. They're protecting that dude. You want to protect the guy you don't like, You know what I mean, It's hard to like somebody if you're leading with politics and you disagree all the time.

00:26:39
Speaker 1: That chemistry is not there. It's not going to be the same chemistry.

00:26:42
Speaker 2: Killer, And it's a shame that we're letting politics infiltrate our relationships in this way. And again our buddy Jeff who hit us up and said that also a little younger than us.

00:26:51
Speaker 1: Yeap.

00:26:52
Speaker 2: I never was sizing up a woman. And you could say I'm wrong for that, and I understand where you're coming from, and maybe that is the problem. But I never was sized up a woman. And I don't think she was sizing me up. Me thinking who, I wonder what party he belongs to, because I'll tell you which, one taco party of one?

00:27:07
Speaker 1: You know, like, it wasn't that deep for me. Did we get along?

00:27:10
Speaker 2: Cavino's biggest choice was not a Republican or Democrat.

00:27:14
Speaker 1: It was soft shell or heartsh right flour or corn.

00:27:18
Speaker 2: And it's just a shame because political differences shouldn't infiltrate your sports team. Just either just added to the list of things that can mess with chemistry inside of locker room.

00:27:28
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:27:28
Speaker 6: When I was a little kid here in East LA, my mom was really cautious about colors that she put on me and my brother. Yeah, and that's what we were thinking about. And some people treat politics like that now, Yeah, like gang colors.

00:27:41
Speaker 2: You're absolutely right, and that's a shame, you know, who I blame them, you're boiling door. I do because i think he's a really likable guy, and I'm surprised. That's why I'm hard. This is all speculation from Mike Francesse evaculation. But the story is Lindor was not vibe Mo Soto and politically different with Nimo, and that's why he's not there again.

00:28:00
Speaker 1: Allegedly whatever. But I'm sure this happens.

00:28:03
Speaker 2: I'm sure it happens, and people don't want to talk about it moving forward. What happens between lines, you know, politics should not infiltrate that. All right, let's go to your feedback, Danny g Who do we got the phones of the phones of CNR, phones of CNR and I can't log in here.

00:28:21
Speaker 6: Let's know how the phones have been on fire. Let's start in Fresno, California with Cody.

00:28:26
Speaker 5: Cody, Hey, guys, this just happened to my brother two weeks ago. He's twenty years old, younger than us. Yeah, went on a date with a girl, a great date, went back to her place. They're hanging out. She goes, oh, I forgot to ask who did you vote for? And he said it and she goes, I'm gonna have to ask you to leave, kick them out. Watch him on Instagram. Then she went to the te app and said that he's a fascist and make sure not to date this guy.

00:28:50
Speaker 2: Dude, I'm not surprised to hear that. It's not stuff we had to deal with, and it makes it more difficult for young people and that's why they're all single. Yeah, but I'm not surprised to hear that, is my point. I was more surprised that it's happening in sports. But thanks for sharing. Now, let's go to Bruno in Brooklyn.

00:29:09
Speaker 4: Stop, gentlemen, good afternoon or good morning.

00:29:12
Speaker 1: Hey, how are you listen?

00:29:14
Speaker 4: Guys? Well, hey, listen, I just want to say, first and foremost happy holidays and all the crew at C and OR. I love you guys.

00:29:21
Speaker 1: Thank you man.

00:29:22
Speaker 4: Last of the year and.

00:29:23
Speaker 5: It's been fantastic. Hey, back to the point here.

00:29:27
Speaker 4: One thing I think that.

00:29:28
Speaker 8: Changed between with you guys with myself was there was no social media.

00:29:32
Speaker 3: Man.

00:29:32
Speaker 8: Now, let me just say that we were growing up, you didn't have You didn't know what everybody thought that you hung out with. Now everybody has a platform and they're they're they're posting every day, every night and it's starting fires.

00:29:45
Speaker 4: People are getting fired.

00:29:46
Speaker 8: Up and they're saying I can't hang with this guy because he agrees with this or that.

00:29:50
Speaker 4: We didn't have that.

00:29:51
Speaker 1: I never one time, But you're right.

00:29:53
Speaker 2: Social media may, you know, propel kids into politics earlier. And then again, we have had some divisive candidates more so than ever. Right, But like Esteban, I don't I'm not following him. I'm looking at the feedback. He goes fifty to fifty really, and I'm like, yeah, we've had the last few elections. People that have won the electoral have lost a popular and vice versa. Like we're talking about a country that's very divided. So by that theory, fifty percent of the people you meet could likely be people you don't necessarily agree with. That means you're not going to be friends with fifty percent of the people you meet. That's crazy. Let's go to Long Island and Kristina. This is also if you want to think a little deeper too. This falls hard on coaching staffs and managers and things like that. Get the piece like it's just one added layer again because you have to deal with different personalities and different people that.

00:30:42
Speaker 1: These younger players also their political difference.

00:30:45
Speaker 2: To back up what Bruno said, they also have to deal with social media another layer. Like you said, GM trying to create a team based on like their political affiliations, just to keep the chemistry alive.

00:30:56
Speaker 1: Let's go to Long Island High Kristin.

00:31:00
Speaker 3: Hello, I like your show, by the way, thank you, and the happy holidays. See you guys. I just want to stay on here. And I have a friend named Eric. I also call him e Yeah, and he's the best friend I've always had. But I also love your music and I do not like politics.

00:31:21
Speaker 1: How about my shirt? Are you watching episode right? Shirt?

00:31:25
Speaker 2: And I appreciate Thank you Beck, Greg, you know what made the most sense of anyone, by the way, anything else, I don't like politics.

00:31:33
Speaker 1: Greg in Pennsylvania, Greg, thank you.

00:31:38
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas, gentleman, and I hope you have a happy New Year. Hey, I would like to bring I would like to bring this fox over feelings junk and I'll use that because this is the afternoon into sports. The whole eye test thing is for the intellectually weak who either have a gender to push or they just want to piss people off with what they say. Because and where this came to a head for me, like a giant ZiT that popped up overnight that you didn't know you had. Was the whole Notre Dame bitch and the whole Door Sanders thing. It's either like you're on one camp or another, and no matter how you try to tell them the facts, it's just like, as matter of fact, this morning is watching the channel.

00:32:22
Speaker 2: I never by the way, yeah, I never believe. And by the way, Greg, Greg call, I know. I can never understand when someone and this goes for politics, because I said, we treat politics like sports. Now we're fanatical. I can never understand if you said, here's twenty issues. I can't imagine. I can't believe the people that are like, well, I'm just gonna click every check on the left or right because that's my party. I can never blindly follow something like that. I feel like you go down a checklist of twenty things, you might be like, yeah, I got, you know, thirteen checks on this side, seven on this side.

00:32:54
Speaker 1: I can't fathom how.

00:32:56
Speaker 2: And that's like voting in Congress and all this stuff, like they just vote on party lines. I can't imagine being like here's the issues and being like, well, I'm just checked on the left checked Out's right that there's not a lot more to this, right. I hope this sort of stops here, because you don't want this to change how we watch sports and how sports teams are run and how they get along. Like sports should be a safe space from that sort of thing. So that's why I didn't like the story. And again, this is all leged from Mike Francesa and some of the things I read online about Nimo and Lindora, and I just hope that there's not more of this in the future. Yeah, let's help with that said, we got a lot to get through. We're going to talk a lot of NFL today. But it was a good story. I mean, I'm glad you brought it up. Let's go to our buddy, Isaac Lohenkron.

00:33:39
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00:35:03
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00:35:09
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00:35:12
Speaker 7: I used to be quite a jock back in the day. I actually used to play hockey. By the way, for real, Wow, what do you mean for real? Blades don't blades of steel doesn't count. He was a skinny, fast guy. Yeah, of steel. All right, Well, listen, we're gonna talk. We're gonna talk to some NFL.

00:35:28
Speaker 2: And someone's full of crap when it comes to the NBA Cup. We'll get to all that and more next on Coveno and Wretch. Your dad probably thinks his name is Mike Bubble. Yeah, Mike Bubble. I like when he sings the standards blade dad.

00:35:49
Speaker 1: Ye are busting out that bou blaz at the for the fight? Yeah? A holiday, Michael Bubbley.

00:35:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, fight night on Friday. Who's coming? By the way, We're having a brose night, I think, so, don't be bringing your wifies. Yeah, I made it official. It's a bros night. We talked about that yesterday, Isaac. It's an interesting thought, right, when you get older and you have you know, friends with kids and wives, when you have people over your house. You have to specify. Is it like a guys night? Are you bringing kids and wives? It's it's not. Some families roll like five deep. Now you got to feed it the entire family.

00:36:24
Speaker 7: Important delineations have to be made. By the way, Apparently my invitation got lost in the mail.

00:36:28
Speaker 1: It was a casual we decided yesterday. But you are more than welcome.

00:36:31
Speaker 7: No, I can't, I can't make it.

00:36:32
Speaker 1: Misa Sue Kasa or something like that. Max Brosmer is taking your spot because it's Brose Knight from the Vikings. Max Brosmer, Yeah, Brose Knight. I like that one. I'm breaking out his material.

00:36:43
Speaker 2: He'll be at Flappers in Burbank this weekend.

00:36:47
Speaker 1: Don't forget to tip your waitress.

00:36:49
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00:37:05
Speaker 6: So Sam has all these bad puns and jokes prepared over here, but he doesn't have the play of the day ready.

00:37:10
Speaker 1: Come on, is the play of the day. Josh Hart and Brunson.

00:37:12
Speaker 2: By the way, No, Sam, Sam has a bro pun but no play the day until now and hit it.

00:37:20
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00:37:20
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Speaker 1: Ti iraq dot com. Wait, tire buying should be And I want to say that you see hard pull that move last night?

00:37:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought that was the play of the day. That's that's how we warm up for every show. By the way, so that's not new, that's how that's how we're so ampy. Josh Brown Brown Thumbheart. He did a celebration maneuver that I've never seen before in the NBA.

00:38:13
Speaker 1: You've done it, No, I have not. It's not truthfully, he just not in public. He h, he did.

00:38:21
Speaker 2: Let's just say he did that with his thumb to Jalen Brunson and Jaylen Bronce.

00:38:24
Speaker 1: Was like yo, and it was caught on TV. I don't know.

00:38:27
Speaker 2: I think he was more like, hey, we just want the cup thumbs up, thumbs up the wrong spot.

00:38:32
Speaker 1: Uh.

00:38:32
Speaker 2: It was all playful for sure, but you know it's kind of funny to see on television. You know we should talk about the NBA cup.

00:38:40
Speaker 1: Rich. It was last night again the Nicks beat the Spurs.

00:38:44
Speaker 2: Do you want to talk about it honestly or do you want to sound like Stephen A. Smith before? First take this morning? Listen to this. I love everybody and I made everybody.

00:38:54
Speaker 1: I love the I love all the networks. I love everybody.

00:38:58
Speaker 2: You don't know what.

00:39:02
Speaker 1: Poscott SI BA cups this morning? Just say the next they just see the next.

00:39:08
Speaker 2: Now here's what I said. We saw him beat the Spurs one. I love the excitement, But how much of that is Steven a being sarcastic? How much of that as ESPN's in bed with the NBA and like, you know, it's their biggest partner versus like, is anyone really excited? Here's my litmus test on the flip side. Did you see what Charles Barkley said? You know what, get that cute up. Let me give you my litmus test. My friend Nicole, who I do a parenting podcast with every week that really is more smutty than parenting. I was talking to her earlier today and her husband's a big Knicks fan, and I go, yo, it is Matt really pumped about the uh the cup last night?

00:39:44
Speaker 1: And she's like, what cup?

00:39:46
Speaker 2: And I go last night the Knicks, Like your husband and son, your your nine year old son and your husband big Knicks fans. She goes, yeah, like they went to the NBA playoffs last year at the Garden. Those tickets were expensive. I go, yeah, not last year. Now last night she goes, what's the NBA Cup. She's like, I don't think they even know. I'm like, they know, but I don't think anyone cares. Yeah. Again, We're from the East Coast. A lot of our friends Knicks fans, family members Knicks fans, so always chopping up with family. Nick's fan friends say like, yeah, bro, my uncle Bill hit me up this morning like yo, man, the Knicks bro. And I'm like, seriously, is like no, but you know at least they want something better than nothing. Better than nothing for sure. Charles Barkley says NBA Cup is embarrassing. I'm disappointed that we have to make an nd season tournament to make these guys more money. We'll play it for you, but do you think that stephen A was being serious there? Or is this showmanship at its height at it's worse? And your thoughts on the NBA coup will share ours. All that and a bunch of NFL I'm pumped about NFL Week sixteen, so hang tight,