C&R - The Most Lovable Nerds

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Speaker 1: But let's get back to our old school topic at hands all right now?

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Speaker 2: On this day nineteen sixty eight, a classic debut on CBS Television Mister Rogers which later became Mister Rogers Neighborhood. And you know what I'm reading about it? Did you know Michael Keaton worked on that set back in the day. I didn't know that, but in the description this is where it gets funny when you see this on this day article and this tribute to Fred Rodgers, who I think is a legend. Honestly, the world's a better place because the guy's like him, the guy who loved kids in the best way possible, right, it says. Fred Rogers was often described as a gentle and deeply curious nerdy man nerdy and quotes. So it was a debate in itself on whether or not he was a nerd. I never looked at mister Rogers and thought.

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Speaker 1: Nerds, because it was like you were looking in the mirror. Maybe I just thought of him as a kind guy.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 2: When I say nerd, I think like Steve Rkle or like you know, someone from the movie Nerds, like pocket protector glasses.

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Speaker 1: To me, like nerd. Fred Rodgers is just like he changed his sweaters on the set Rich He was a cool nerd.

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Speaker 2: But it was you know what, though, And that's a whole other way to look at it, because there are cool nerds out there, like they're into nerdy things, like Mike who runs his place, Mike who runs this place. He brought up from wonder years, Winnie Cooper. Why am I jowing a blank on her name? Danica mckeller. There you go, Danika mckeller. Like, she's hot and good looking and cool. We've had her on the show a few times, Winnie Cooper. But really she's a book nerd, a math nerd. So you could be really nerdy into something and still be cool. And I think that's what mister Rogers was. He was a nerdy guy. I just yeah, I agree with rich When I hear nerd, I think of a guy. You want to give a wedgie to a Steve verkle A Lewis Skullnick any part of the Revenge of the Nerds, I think nerdy guys like that.

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Speaker 1: Could I give you one of my pet peeves.

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Speaker 2: When a girl that's really hot like puts on glasses and she says something like, oh my god, I'm such in nerd, I'm like, no, you're hot, You're not a nerd.

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Speaker 1: Like nerds got picked on to get thrown in lockers, I think.

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Speaker 5: But the nerd kind of became cool in a way. He ever since Revenge of the Nerds. They were like the smart intellectual guys and the jocks were like the jerks.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you saw the movie, what is it not? The show?

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Speaker 2: The movie? Remember twenty one Jump Street. Nowadays, what was cool is nerdy and what was nerdy is now cool. It's like the old reversal. I think we're confusing geeks and nerds, and I think there's the same thing.

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Speaker 1: I looked it up.

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Speaker 5: It says a geek is passionate about a specific subject like technology or pop culture, while a nerd is a studious, academic intellectual focused on mastering KnowledgeR skills.

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Speaker 1: Here's where Danny G won me over.

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Speaker 2: And this is the differential here, because again it describes Fred Rogers as a nerdy man. Danny G goes, well, just because you're nerdy doesn't mean you're not cool. He goes, oral Hersheiser was kind of a nerd, and I'm like, yeah, but he was a bulldog on the mound exactly. So I'm like, you know what, You're right, Greg Madden. And then I thought Mad Maddix was the professor. I mean, Greg Maddox, Mike Mussina is kind of nerdy because you know, next level intellect and but you're still great at what you do.

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Speaker 1: Like, so I get it. What would Carlton be? I mean he's rich. Yeah, but he was kind of nerdy and a.

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Speaker 2: Super I mean super opulent guy nerds without a different category. Two, there's just a slight difference between geeks and nerds. Don't gets and dorksweves and dorks too.

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Speaker 1: Makes me think of.

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Speaker 4: That the secretary in faris Bueler's day off, which peris Bueler is a righteous dude.

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Speaker 1: And then there's righteous dudes, and then there's righteous dude.

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Speaker 2: But you know what your favorite old school nerds in honor of Fred Rogers and if you do have little kids, I pointed out before, I think we connect the dots if you have little kids. Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, which is a highly popular cartoon, is from the imagination of Fred Rogers, and the people behind it partnered up with another production company, Daniel Tiger. And you know what was it King Friday in Mister Rogers. Yeah, Prince Wednesday is Daniel Tiger's best friend. And you know that it all ties together, So.

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Speaker 1: So the legend lives.

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Speaker 2: And I think we all watched at one point in our life. I watched him more than I watched Sesame Street. I was more of a Fred Rogers guy what about what about in uh, how about Pewee Herman? What would you consider his character Pete Doubs, He is a nerd? Peeky web I know you are?

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Speaker 1: Where am I?

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Speaker 5: I mean, by the way, could be TV characters or real life people, because I right away I was thinking about Bill Gates.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Bill Gates is a is a nerd. He's many things these days.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got one for your d NYG. Well, Jeff Bezos was a nerd, but now he's a super villain. No key, now confused. You know what, if you want to give your own definition, I think that's as fun as the conversation. We all have a different definition. I do get what Danny G's saying. Let's make this clear again. He was described as a nerdy man in this article. I never considered Fred Rogers a nerdy guy. He just like you know, he's just like a like a goofy, nice guy.

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Speaker 1: Let me give you two.

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Speaker 2: If you watch Sandlot, do you say, oh, squints nerd? Well, you're going back to the eighties, like just because they wore glasses, you considered them nerds. I mean, but I'm saying, like I wore glasses as a kid when I was in my preteen teenage years.

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Speaker 1: In that case, we're all nerds. If I was supposed to wear glasses.

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Speaker 2: If I was a kid playing baseball and I had braces and glasses, I was probably the nerdy kid on the team. No, who was the nerd? If Phonsie was the coolest on the Happy Days? Right, A Cunningham the nerd was like Pazzi the nerd.

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Speaker 1: Hey, let me tell you something, cunning Ham. If Phonsie was the definition of the epitome of cool? Was Cunningham a nerd? All right? Sheldon from Big Bang Theory, that's a nerd?

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Speaker 2: No, are all nerds technically, But Kelly Cuoco's characters and she like into science, but she just happens to be hot. So does that make her she was the neighbor across the way. But isn't she also into science and stuff?

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Speaker 1: Or No? I don't. I never watched the show, really, I just barely knew the characters. Okay, I got one for you. I got the coolest nerd. Ever.

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Speaker 2: Then if if if studious and stuff like that makes them nerdy, right, but you could still be cool. Wouldn't Indiana Jones be a nerd? He was a college professor. Right, the guy was he's an oral hers right, he was a college he wore glasses, He.

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Speaker 5: Taught, and he turned he turned into an adventurous dude with the hat and the whip.

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Speaker 2: But then he do yeah, but then he was Indiana Jones. If you want to know the true he might murder. He might be a professor.

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Speaker 1: He was a murderer. He was a cold blood killer with Jones, so he could just kill people his gun. The guy had the sword and then he just went out and the away with self defense. Rich.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was Sam, and this is said respectfully, you think you're a nerd a little bit? Yeah, for sure, Like I would say that was nerd or a geek. Right, I don't know what offensive. None of them are really offensive anymore. I guy look at Sam, and I'm like, Sam's a really cool guy. But you know what, Sam's also a guy that you know, I don't think he's peculiar classes, but I think he has a nerdy sense of humor.

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Speaker 1: But then again, I vibe with his humored so much. So do I have a nerdy sense of humor? I don't know. I'm so confused by this.

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Speaker 2: You know why, because if This was in nineteen eighties conversation, and you just look like a nerd to me, you were nerd nowadays, Like it's like it's the definitions have changed a little, dude. I was the blurred sort of definition you mentioned Fonzi before. Yeah, I was wrong.

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Speaker 1: Kelly Cuoco's character was a waitress. She was not like a science third.

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Speaker 2: But I think she met the gang the hall. Yeah, I think mayam Bi Alec though, wasn't she a nerd?

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Speaker 1: Like some on that that was Sheldon's girlfriend? Right? You know, I don't think it was. It was Okay.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it just look like a nerd, but you're not at all. I think that's the worst if you look like a nerd but you're really not like smart.

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Speaker 5: I have one doogie how was definitely a nerd. He's a kid doctor for sure. Yeah, yeah, here's a kid doctor. Vinnie Delpina was not not his friend. Yeah, so who comes to mind? Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox and if you could make sense of this by all means, But according to the tribute, according to the description, Fred Rogers was a kind but nerdy man. This is arguably one of our stupid or nerdy conversations of all time. Mauser hits us up, Mercer hits us up. A lot of people's thrown some names out there.

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Speaker 2: You could be a nerd and cool and lovable, like when I say Bill Nye the science.

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Speaker 1: Guy, huge nerd, a huge nerd.

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Speaker 2: But don't we all didn't we all love Bill ny the science Kuyle Bill who's a big nerd and I love him.

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Speaker 1: Neil de Grasse Tyson, he might be the coolest nerd.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm a little offended you said that this is a good one from Steelo and Stockton. I don't want to steal all the answers because we got the phone lit. But ste low and Stockton said George McFly nerd, Hello McFly, Marty.

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Speaker 1: Who is he? But he was also kind of a loser our nerds losers? Then see see Jordan nobody turned out to be cool. He was an author. I remember, Hey, I'm talking to you McFly.

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Speaker 2: Oh No, that was directed it the other McFly royalty Royalty records hits us up.

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Speaker 1: He goes, what about Mike and Stranger Things? Better?

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Speaker 2: Yet, a lot of the kids in Stranger Things they're all into like dungeons and dragons. Yes, I would say they're nerds. What about the band Wheezer? Aren't they just compiled of a bunch of nerds for the most part. So yeah, I guess it doesn't make you it's not cool.

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Speaker 5: That's a good I was thinking of musicians this morning when this topic came up, Like Phil Collins, all you had to do is put a pair of glasses on him.

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Speaker 2: And he looked like a nerd and then sees why I was confusing. I'm sorry to like.

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Speaker 1: Over analyze this.

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Speaker 2: Just the looks compared to like nerds, like Buddy Holly look like a nerd?

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Speaker 1: Was he a nerd? The guy had hits at twenty one years old. He had h's for days, But he looked like a freaking nerd, didn't he?

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Speaker 5: Buddy Holly, You're right when you said the lines are blurred throughout the past couple decades.

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Speaker 1: They are.

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Speaker 2: They're definitely blurred. Now I'm thinking when I think of nerds, I think Revenge of the Nerds, like Arnold Poindexter. I think of Lamar Latrelle, I think of the nerds from the movie skull Nick. I think people that looked like that. But now I guess there's something cool about him because we've seen nerds take over, we've seen the revenge of the nerds, and there apparently is a difference between nerds and geeks. But we do pay homage Fred Rogers because honestly, I don't think there was anyone cooler than that dude growing up.

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Speaker 1: So funny, I.

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Speaker 2: Said to Cavino earlier today when we were doing our other podcast, isn't it funny how the pendulum swung so much on what is nerdy? Like, Well, the nerd became cool and that's why this is a tough conversation. Yeah, now live in the upside down. Well, you know what the turning point was, in my opinion, Glee and High School Musical and some of those shows where where theater stuff and those computers computers were considered to be nerdy things like you me into computers, do some sort of nerd And then it was like it became you know, video games and gaming and nerdy and all sorts of wizard stuff became mainstream and cool. So what was considered nerdy became acceptable, and like people dressing around like Comic Con characters that became mainstream and cool.

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Speaker 1: That's a great example.

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Speaker 2: Comic Con was designed for nerds and now regular people like, let's go to comic Con, right, So what was nerdy became cool and it's kind of tough to differentiate nowadays. I got a question based on its newl based on that if it aired twenty years earlier, would Game of Thrones been the nerdiest stuff?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Because look, Lord of the Rings, right, like the Hobbit. The story of the Hobbit existed forever. When I was a little kid, they were talking about the story of the Hobbit and.

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Speaker 1: That was on led Zeppelin's songs were written about Lord of the Rings.

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Speaker 2: Able to help make it cool? Right, and then what happened all of a sudden that was like for nerds. Yeah, now it's like a cool thing. You know what, who gives a great one DC ninety two on our YouTube chat He goes, just picture every movie growing up that Rick Moranis was in because he was such a great nerde whether he was a dad, a coup or whatever, whatever, Rick Moranis was ghostbuster, ghost perfect. Like Rick Moranis said that give him. I said, DC DC ninety two should qualify for a prize just for saying that.

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Speaker 1: He's a scientist. And I shrunk to kids. Yeah, like whatever.

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Speaker 2: Rick moranis was just a fantastic nerd. What was his handle, dcwotty spotty in the chat give him the info to claim a prize. Anthony Michael Hall always played a geek in John Hughes movies, So again that's the difference, right, But he was the geek.

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Speaker 4: Didn't he play the bad guy in Edward Scissorhans The Boyfriend? He he did a total flip.

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Speaker 2: He did right well, hold on Michael realm or just Michael m Michael em said when you think about it, you guys shout it out the movie the other day, he goes, wouldn't all the goonies be considered nerds because the cool kids were like, yeah, they might like.

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Speaker 5: But then there were some cool kids that joined the nerds. Yeah, goonies is a great call.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: If you guys remember the video for nineteen eighty four is Hot for Teacher van Halen classic. It starts off with a nerd named Waldough, you remember, and he goes to the school and all the little kids, the cool kids were Van Hale and his kids.

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Speaker 1: They'd be like, sit.

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Speaker 2: Down, Waldough Waldough from the Hot for Teacher video was a big nerd if you were an MTV kid grown up? All right, So we got loaded lines eight seven ninety nine on Fox Whammy. It's such a random conversation, but this is all our homage to Fred Rogers on this day. We all grew up with him. Who do we got, Yeah, we got Danny g You want to do it zip.

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Speaker 1: Through with us? Yeah, let's start with Manny and El Passo. We get the phones up here than we're doing.

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Speaker 7: Man love this show, great topic.

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Speaker 8: I consider I consider myself a geek.

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Speaker 9: I'm a big comic book frian.

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Speaker 3: I love cartoons from the eighties.

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Speaker 7: But I got three names for you. One musician, we're all Yankovic.

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Speaker 9: Whan Velma?

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Speaker 7: I mean, is Velma nerd?

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Speaker 10: I mean she is?

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Speaker 9: She's a hot nerd.

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Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, one's a good one.

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Speaker 9: The last one Peter Parker. Everyone loves Spider Man.

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Speaker 1: I think held it. They're weird. Hell I was Sam.

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Speaker 2: I think he's a rock and roll Hall of Famer. That's that's a debate for another day. But when you think of longevity alone and the impact that dude had from the MTV days till now, he's still doing it. Weird Yankovic underrated superstar. I I just get a sense I could be wrong. I was Sam, I bet you love weird Al.

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Speaker 4: I definitely approve, not like a weird Al super fan, but he's a legend I loved.

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Speaker 1: But I feel like you're cover from the cloth where you'd be like, yeah, weird now man? I mean he yes, no one mastered parodies like him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's why I believe Kavino when he says he should be in the Rock Roll Hall of Fame. I'm not joking like this, you should be absolutely. I mean, if there's gonna be one parody guy, why would I why not? We'd now all right, Uh, who else we got, Danny?

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Vegas your homie trip trip. What I bud?

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Speaker 7: Hey, good afternoon, gentlemen. What I got Two nerds that I'm gonna say, Bruce Banner and Spock are two great nerds, and then a geek. And then a geek would be Napoleon Dynamite.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great answer, because Napoleon, It's like, yeah, it's the way he's he's all like nasally, you know, he's got your weird curly hair, the way he runs, he got picked on a little bit at times, and.

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Speaker 1: You know what they say.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm not trying this. Rich gets mad at me because I try to tie it back to sports all the time.

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Speaker 1: We're talking Fred Rogers, Ye, did you feel worse because we're on Fox Sports Radio?

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Speaker 2: To like, because it's also called a tie in and if there's a relevant tie in, why wouldn't you bring it yourself?

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Speaker 8: Is it?

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Speaker 2: Ryan Fitzpatrick get a lot of credit for being like an ultra smart guy. Yeah, Harvard graduate. So I'm just saying, like, how could you leave out? And that it is Fox Sports Radios, so how could you leave him out? We're talking nerds? RICHARDT Nerd, he was just great at football, Richard Sherman, Stanford Wizard. Right, I mean like there's there's athletes that are that are nerds.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: Big Bert, by the way, he's up next on the calls. He said he could give you the definition of a nerd.

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Speaker 2: Oh perfect, all right, cause again it's changed since we were kids.

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Speaker 1: Who do we got big bird? They do, Hey, big baby, heybody, You.

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Speaker 9: Guys are always great. So here's the definition. You guys said it through all the movies you talked about the goonies. We're talking nerds are just outcasts. They're they're the people that are not mainstream. These are not normal people. Look at Revenge of the Nerds. They had Lamar. He wasn't a braining act, but he was outside the norm. That's what a nerd was back then, anybody that didn't fit the status quo. So that then that morphed into geek ism, and I think that's where we are now.

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Speaker 1: Guys, I like it. I like it.

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Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I did a certain guys, But Bill Walton's on it. Thank you very much, Bill Walton, I agree. Rest in peace. Bill Bradley, a guy we used to work with. They got Jeremy Lynn on here as a nerd.

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Speaker 4: The politician Bill Bradley. Yeah, Bill Bradley. The politicians used to have a signed basketball from him, and I gave it to my cousin. Kind of regret it now, uh former Nick right, Yeah, of course I got I got a few.

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Speaker 2: Would you consider leaping Lanny Poffo, the graduate, the genius, I mean the genius Lenny Pofo, the wrestler. He were cap and gown in the ring and he read poetry. Yes, kind of a nerd.

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Speaker 5: Oh absolutely, I think I was thinking of the Beastie Boys video You Gotta Fight for your right to party?

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Speaker 1: Remember the Nerds? Yeah, the party, of course, classic eighties nerds.

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Speaker 2: Steve Nash also had a reputation of being a super smart guy. Could be considered nerdy, but it was a baller, no doubt. But back to your phone calls eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, Who comes to mind?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we got Texas in the house, Lewis, Hey Texas, Hey guys, yo, But good man, what's up?

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Speaker 8: I have the coolest nerd in the history of television?

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Speaker 1: Can I guess? I just want to guess? Can I guess? Raville Reddenbacker? Who you got?

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Speaker 10: It's Clark Kent?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Clark Kent. Of course Clark was supposed to be, I guess a nerd? Right, superman.

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Speaker 2: But isn't it funny that we did live in a time where we watched Orville Reddenbacker in commercials like that's how you know you're old? Like, hey, I'm so old that I remember when the guy on the box was in the commercial.

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Speaker 1: He was doing the commercial.

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Speaker 2: Guys, he was such a nerd, though he perfected those popcorn seats to be what we have today, Colonels, I should say popcorn curls to be what they are now. So that dude is a major, major nerd. He was cess with popcorn kernels. Now let me throw a few more at you without trying to steal all the answers Ghostbusters, egon is he?

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Speaker 1: Is he the gotten nerd? Nerd? Big time ducky oh yeah?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 2: From Pretty in Pink John Cryer and I might have the best movie nerd of the two thousands. Are you ready for this one? He got an id that said mclovin, mcklove mi plasse. What's his first name? Christopher Min's plus men's plase mcleoven definitely was the nerd super bad, Yeah he was, but he thought he was cool. What about in a American Pie? Would you call Jim a nerd Jason Biggs or was he just awk like an awkward teenager? I think Finch was more than nerd. Yes, Finch didn't want to go to the bathroom at school, he had a run home. Yeah, he had kind of weird quirks. Also was like swave or yeah, I'm just thinking remember the movie road Trip, the character played by DJ Quails. Oh my god, just looking at a little skinny, nerdy guy. All right, So thank you guys for you feedback. I can't believe so many people are calling up for them. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. If you want to still get through eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Oh, Scott's got a good one on the feedback. Gotts of feedback too, loaded lines again for the third time. Let's go rapid fire when we get back. But Danny, I'm gonna throw one at you. And the guy's whole vibe was I'm a nerd. I would say, I'll quiz you back in the day when we were younger, you could win his money.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh you want me answer right now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Ben Stein win ben Stein, Ben all the time.

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Speaker 2: Ben Stein was the whole gimmick was like, I'm in the.

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Speaker 4: He was a teacher, you know, and he was actually, I think Richard one of Richard Nixon's like assistants back in the day that politics.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, damn, all right, Willson your feedback rapid fire In honor of the late great Fred Rogers, mister Rodgers debut on this day, your favorite Nerds of all time possible. Get to a little Major League Baseball, maybe a little NBA. Well, I got a bone to pick with the WBC hitters hitting ranking.

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Speaker 1: Oh you got a bones to pick? I do? Oh? I can't wait to hear this one.

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Speaker 2: Slash disclosures, Oh Sam, Weezer, Buddy Holly, double Doozy of Nerds. That's a double tier of nerds right here live from the Fox Sports radio studio, Covino and Rich.

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00:25:47
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00:26:07
Speaker 1: Eight on this day.

00:26:09
Speaker 2: And even though we think he's the coolest, nicest dude, kindest guy and wonderful part of our childhood growing up He's described as a nerdy man, and I guess I want to come to that defense. But nerdist considered cool nowadays. Yeah, and I guess looking back, he was a nerdy guy. He's just a really kind guy. So nerds not necessarily a bad thing. He just was kind of nerdy. So we're going over some of the nerdiest guys that come to mind and history. And you know, I think of the movie Grease when I was thinking of the Fonds before a the.

00:26:41
Speaker 1: Tea birds were cool.

00:26:42
Speaker 2: Eugene was the nerd now right, you love to tie sports in, yeah, because of his Fox Sports, right. I thought that Oral Hirsheiser was because I'll never forget as a kid, Oral Hirscheiser was a bulldog, right. He was the guy on the mount. He led the Dodgers. He was great, aggressive picture. But I remember seeing him on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson singing. You guys remember that clip of Oral Herseheiser singing on the Tonight Show, And I was like, what a nerd?

00:27:09
Speaker 1: He was like a big nerd.

00:27:11
Speaker 2: As a big Mets fan, yeah, I remember just getting dominated time and time again by the Braves and Greg Maddox and I'm like Greg Maddox is the greatest picture in the game, but he just appeared to me like almost like like a little dweve like a nerd, and I'm like this guy, but he's so smart, the professor Greg Maddox. But hey, we salute you, Fred Rogers. We're gonna do what we call crossfire.

00:27:37
Speaker 10: Here we go.

00:27:38
Speaker 2: We're gonna go a little bang bang bang, gotta make it quick and snappy on the phones at eighty seven to seven ninety nine on Fox. But thanks for holding, thanks for waiting.

00:27:44
Speaker 1: Why would you say snappy when you could have said speedy delivery, speedy delivery, like mister mcpheely. Yeah.

00:27:49
Speaker 8: Uh.

00:27:50
Speaker 2: Let's go to Texas and say how to Jay Jay, who's the top nerd?

00:27:53
Speaker 8: What do you think I actually had a He might be unconventional, but I'm gonna say.

00:27:59
Speaker 10: Kobe Bryant, he spoke two languages. He also he I think he's got an award for writing a book. He was a student of the game.

00:28:07
Speaker 8: You know, he was a nerd.

00:28:09
Speaker 2: I think that is a honestly a phenomenal thinking outside the box answer. Kobe was you know, Italian, I spoke multiple languages, was a was a real studious type of guy, the late great Kobe Bryant.

00:28:20
Speaker 1: That's that's actually terrific. An he win in Oscar for a a sports ar basketball really documentary, no doubt. All Right, let's say how to Greg in Connecticut? What's up? Greg?

00:28:29
Speaker 8: Yeah, So I'm going three real quick, which is are we talking geeks? Are we talking nerds? You got Juliet in the movie Twins played by Ronold Schwarzenegger, he was a nerd, and then you've got Bill Belichick talking formation nerd, and then the last one is bodybuilders in the Macros nerd.

00:28:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll give you this. You know what macro talk is nerdy talk? Yeah, for sure. Like when our buddy Spot starts talking about.

00:28:59
Speaker 2: His macros and the diet and I'm like, what a nerd man, you could turn something cool into something so nerdy.

00:29:05
Speaker 1: You're losing my attention.

00:29:07
Speaker 2: Arnold and Twins, though, is a phenomenal answer because he's a specimen. But the whole funny part of the movie is, you know, is that you know it's him and de Vido. But Arnold is like the genius who was raised by scientists.

00:29:18
Speaker 1: He got a good DNA. Yeah, that's a great answer with the band Devo. Were they nerds or were they aeist? Like eighties cool? Wait? Who else did that guy say? He spurred another thought, he said, Arnold, I'll never know.

00:29:30
Speaker 8: Man.

00:29:31
Speaker 1: We're trying to do crossfire here, just thinking backwards. Let's go to Vegas, Rich, what's up Vegas?

00:29:37
Speaker 10: What our fellas? What about Murdoch from the eighteen He was like the ultimate geeky nerdy dude that everybody wanted to take their parents' radio apart and learn how to put it back together because of him.

00:29:49
Speaker 2: These are I'm not going to debate, I completely gonna remember, but it becomes a debate in itself our geek and nerds synonyms.

00:29:55
Speaker 1: Danny g was saying, no, there's a difference. So I don't know.

00:29:58
Speaker 2: And as I said earlier in the nothing bothers me more than when a hot girl calls herself a nerd just because she likes to read or wears glasses.

00:30:08
Speaker 1: You're not a nerd. You're still a hotker. You're just hot with glasses. Let's stop it. Uh, Cam in Illinois? What's up? Cam?

00:30:16
Speaker 8: Hey? What's going on? I gotta go with all Timer Screech from Saved by the Bell.

00:30:22
Speaker 7: When he did he did the spray dance with Lisa Turnle.

00:30:26
Speaker 5: At the mat.

00:30:26
Speaker 1: Dude, Zach Morris is trash. Remember is that Zach like screech smart? He is more of a geek. He was a geeky kid. Yeah he was. He were like goofy pants and geeky kind of.

00:30:38
Speaker 2: I mean it's not like he got into Stansbury Rest in Peace, Dustin Diamond. But yeah, I mean, I mean it's a good one. I mean we said it before and I'm sure everyone's thinking it. If you're just joining us, don't worry. We covered Rkle because I think but you know who's not a nerd? Will make it clear? You know who's not a nerd? Stefan or Kel.

00:30:56
Speaker 1: Oh, he was smooth. Yeah, that Gus was a smooth brother. Branch and Chico, what's up, Branch?

00:31:02
Speaker 9: Let's go with the guy that's the actual nickname was Nerd Power.

00:31:06
Speaker 7: Eric Sogard, Oh.

00:31:08
Speaker 1: Former a Yeah, Nerd Power. That's funny.

00:31:11
Speaker 8: Man.

00:31:11
Speaker 1: Who else do we got, quick? Quick? Quick?

00:31:12
Speaker 2: I'll tell you we got Chris Sable Because when I was a kid playing baseball and I had to wear like those goggles, I felt like such a nerd. I'm mich Well, then I guess I must look like Chris Sabo. He just kind of looked like a nerd. But I don't think he really was a nerd. I mean, you know who, he just had those crokies, you know who was a great NBA player. But I thought always looked like the biggest nerd of all, Kurt Ramon. I knew you were going to say that, like Rambas was a stut of a player, But I mean, tell me that guy.

00:31:35
Speaker 1: Didn't look like a nerd. He like stepdad, Gary Night. What's up?

00:31:38
Speaker 5: Kids, Let's wrap things up on the phones with Louis and Washington State.

00:31:42
Speaker 1: Yo, Loui, Louie, what's up?

00:31:43
Speaker 10: Man Fellows?

00:31:45
Speaker 9: He took the words out of my mouth with the Kurt Rambis.

00:31:48
Speaker 10: But I got the I got one other one, and uh it's Rick Vaughan.

00:31:53
Speaker 2: Dude, that's fantastic. I was just about to say, if no one said it, it just proves it. Glasses back of the day were considered nerdy because when wild thing Rick Vaughan, I never thought of him as no.

00:32:03
Speaker 1: But when he got the.

00:32:04
Speaker 2: Glasses, what was the trepidation? What was the hesitation? It was because back then glasses meant.

00:32:09
Speaker 1: You were in nerd.

00:32:10
Speaker 2: Remember, he was like, I gotta wear these like he was so you know he had the shaved head. Yeah, he came out of the you know prison.

00:32:16
Speaker 5: That's why Jan on the Brady Bunch was so self conscious when she got the glasses.

00:32:20
Speaker 1: Remember, I'm like, yeah, I mean we were.

00:32:22
Speaker 2: Can I tell you I look like a nerd? Not to call my dad out, because Greg, my dad's most supportive guy.

00:32:27
Speaker 5: You know my dad.

00:32:28
Speaker 1: My dad listens for now. I'm on the edge of my seat.

00:32:31
Speaker 2: My dad listens to our Patreon every day, which you should too, covin on rich Uncensored every morning. Then we come here for a couple more hours, have the best time ever on Fox Sports, Rady out, I get up patreont. He listens to every podcast I do. But I gotta bust my dad's chops for a second. Glasses were so nerdy in the eighties that when I wore glasses for family photos, my dad would make me take them off because it.

00:32:55
Speaker 1: Ruined the photo. You ruin the photo, Oh, Richie, take them off. You you gotta be racist, Ny, You're nerdous Danny. When you look at any picture of me from my childhood, like when I tell people like, no, no, I was a nerd.

00:33:07
Speaker 2: I wore glasses and I braces. My dad would be like, all braces, don't smile, glasses, take them off.

00:33:12
Speaker 1: Oh you're on the photo, ritchie. Oh what are you some type of nerd? This is my ugly son over here. Kid, You're not to be seen or heard.

00:33:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, my dad, hey son, you gotta take the glasses off. All right, thank you dad. All right, let's go damn buy for an update. Thanks for all the feedback.

00:33:31
Speaker 1: You guys are great.

00:33:32
Speaker 2: China at COO and Richard pedeget what's fella's crazy day at the Winter Olympics.

00:33:37
Speaker 6: It started with the US women's hockey team scoring late in the third period and then going overtime, going to overtime with Canada.

00:33:43
Speaker 9: Patada against Fresh Stators out of the ice, Albert passport color the fatsman, my.

00:33:48
Speaker 1: School cuts to the next Yeah, good color. The overtime hero the United States. Let's call it gone.

00:33:59
Speaker 6: The third on the US is one gold in women's hockey. Meghan Keller with the goal, Kenny Albert with the call on NBC Universal. Switzerland ended up taking the bronze in women's hockey.

00:34:10
Speaker 8: Now.

00:34:10
Speaker 6: In women's figure skating, American Alyssa lou brought home the gold. The twenty year old became the first American to win gold in the event since Sarah Hughes did it in Salt Lake City in two thousand and two. American speed skater Jordan Stoles has so far stolen the show, winning two golds in the five hundred meters in one thousand meters today won silver in the fifteen hundred meters. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, according to ESPN, has told the league's general managers anti tanking rules will be in place for next season. Suns owner Matt Ishbia took to social media to complain about tanking today, calling it quote loser behavior, behavior done by losers end quote, ESPN saying Warriors guard Steph Curry dealing the swelling in his knee. There's no timetable for him to return to the lineup after missing their previous five games. This just in from the Thunder as Shay Gilders Alexander is going to miss another week because of an abstrain. A couple of other notes to pass along talk of the NCAA tournament, both men's and women's expanding from the current sixty eighteen format. Those talks have been put on hold, but we'll resume after this year's tournaments. Eagles left tackle Lane Johnson to return for his fourteenth season. In twenty twenty six, In Indiana, House Committee unanimously passed the Stadium Bill to try lure of the Bears to build their new stadium in northwest Indiana and the Brewers sound manager Pat Murphy to a new three year deal with a club option in twenty twenty nine.

00:35:29
Speaker 2: Guys, back to you, Oh thank you. D be great update. Hopefully a Ruin's enjoying the Olympics as we get ready for baseball. The second half of the NBA in full effect. I got to give Trip in Vegas, one of our most loyal good pals, some props, he said, last second entry for best Nerds. Would you call him a nerd or not?

00:35:47
Speaker 1: I'm about the guy that's on our screen right now playing the saxophone. By the way, that is me.

00:35:51
Speaker 2: Oh that's Rich I'm sorry, Oh my god, spot how do you find that photo? At Coveno and Rich FSR. At covin O and Rich FSR. It's not Revenge of the nerds. That's actually Rich playing the saxophone.

00:35:59
Speaker 1: Aren't you proud that that kid in that picture ever touched a woman?

00:36:04
Speaker 2: I can't believe that ever had any girlfriend. So yeah, my goodness, Tripp said, is he a nerd or not? Bud Bundy, No, I don't think I thought Bet was. I mean, he's street wrapper, Grandmaster Bib. But he struck out with all the girls.

00:36:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I guess was cool. I thought, But it was cool too. He loved this hip hop, he loved his women. He just struck out all the time.

00:36:26
Speaker 2: Right, Well, hey, your thoughts at Covin and Rich will get all your feedback, and Kavino said, we'll talk about a World Baseball Classic next.

00:36:39
Speaker 1: Who are these nerds? Is this Stevo Nerds? Break your mama's back.

00:36:46
Speaker 2: Covino and Rich live from the Fox Sports Radio studio, Ready to tackle your financial goals. Wee will makes it simple to start investing, powerful tools, real time data. All one app gets started at wee bowl dot com or download the wee bowl app today.

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00:37:08
Speaker 2: Now remember tomorrow, Brainwave, the game that sweep in the nation, be part of it. Plus we get weekend hobnobin going and getting you ready for the weekend. But right now, real quick, right quick, it's a show and till Thursday. And anybody that guessed that, I brought in an Aaron Judge Dan Berry Mint statue you are correct, given to me by my mom, my mother. But that's one of my prized possessions. I keep it on my desk at our podcast studio for our Patreon show and I'm happy to bring that in today to get you fired up. The closest the world Baseball class, the closest to guessing was Wes in Vegas, Wes and Idaho, who said it's a the fugasey MVP Aaron Judge. Oh okay, there he is your MVP, dan Berry Mint, Aaron Judge, right there.

00:37:54
Speaker 1: I brought that in today. I love that thing. Oh and mind Rich, Oh, this is the share with the class.

00:38:00
Speaker 2: Is the softball glove of the greatest softball player in the San Fernando Valley, Al Bundy. You're truly rich Davis, this is my this is that's the one you actually use. This is my glove I use How long have you had it? And this has nothing to do with the fact that I forgot my Show and tell and this was in my trunk.

00:38:15
Speaker 1: But I figure could be anything. Remember the crap kids used to bring into classes when you ran out to your car.

00:38:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've had it for twenty years. I've had this glove twenty years now. Cavino says it's a bit heavy. Technically you would say outfielder glove. But I use this at the hot corner.

00:38:31
Speaker 1: It's big. But you always tell me you don't like them flop. No, when I said I don't like them floppy, I was talking about something else.

00:38:37
Speaker 2: Oh, because that glove is extra large and flop this this has got. This is like twenty years of softball prowess. Well to see it. If you missed out, watch what you hear on our YouTube page. Coveno and rich FSR. In fact, our bonus pod continues there. Coveno and rich FSR on YouTube over promised we're going to talk about unhinged athletes. Oh I lost show on Strickland. We're gonna talk last brain cell. There's a new sport that explores the last brain cell. We have as humans plus who might be asked. We'll discuss that on a new episode of Over Promised. Next you brought up Sean Strickland. Yeah, well we're gonna talk to This guy is so unhinged, like I almost be like, you know, ye intruders, beware to quote goonies. If you watch his press conference, he says the most vile, racist, bizarre stuff you could say equally funny because you're like, does this guy for real?

00:39:28
Speaker 1: What a maniac? But Danny J who is our winner? K A R I K in Minnesota.

00:39:36
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's a he or she, but they said the statue is of Covino hitting his twenty seventh Little League home run. I like that, Harry, so in the chat, we gave you the email info to claim your prize so much.

00:39:48
Speaker 2: Or perhaps it's Carrie K Carrie K. But it's like carry he aarrik Carrie K.

00:39:54
Speaker 1: Thank you.

00:39:55
Speaker 2: If she loves if she's from Minnesota, she must love my Minnesota spamsh that Well, hold on, it's KNT late early and I promised you something. I told you I had a bone to pick with the World Baseball Classic, even though I'm super pumped about it. We'll talk about this tomorrow. I guess the top ten hitter rankings came out according to the WBC, And here's my boney, Hey, Rich, what's that stuff I cleaned my junk with in the shower?

00:40:18
Speaker 1: Oh? Hogwash. I think this list is hogwash.

00:40:21
Speaker 2: And here's why they got Aaron Judge My show and Tell Dan Berry MT statue this guy right here at the MVP. They got him number two to show Hey o Tani, who's playing for Japan obviously another MVP. But they got show Hey as the number one hitter in the WBC, not the number one player. Now, if it was the number one player, I would have no issues with this whatsoever. Overall, there's no debate, no arguing that show Halo tanis your best player in baseball, right, But as far as hitting and give credit where it's due, Aaron Judge is the best hitter in the game. And I have the proof, I got the stats. And if you don't believe me, we'll discuss it tomorrow. I guess, all right, is there a list.

00:40:58
Speaker 1: Of the best asses? Is Kel Rilly number one?

00:41:00
Speaker 8: On this?

00:41:01
Speaker 1: Is this this statue? And it was I knew Rich was gonna work set skater was on that list to.

00:41:07
Speaker 2: This statue, Aaron Drake got flat ass Ye he's no uh Jake Paul's girlfriend. Jutta, my goodness, don't medal, don't meddle, not just in skating. Join us on over Promised next, All right right here on YouTube. We'll see you there until then.

00:41:21
Speaker 1: Read it there you baby, see you in the over promis Land. Let's go on, guys later