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Speaker 3: Hopefully everyone's having a good week. Maybe you're having like
Speaker 3: a PCA type of week. Maybe maybe you're having a.
Speaker 4: Walk off Cubbies type of week.
Speaker 2: He's so hot right now. He's like Hansel and we're
Speaker 2: gonna talk about him. And we're joined by a legend today, yesterday,
Speaker 2: a few legends Frank Callendo and I don't know, Drew Brees,
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer, today hip hop legend superstar ice Cube,
Speaker 2: say Rich ice Cube, ice peas ice Cube, we'll be
Speaker 2: here on the show. I want I do have to
Speaker 2: address with him. You have to calling him iced Tea
Speaker 2: instead of ice Cube. Early in my radio career, was
Speaker 2: one of my biggest flubs.
Speaker 4: It was just the flub.
Speaker 5: Let me.
Speaker 4: I'll defend you here. We grew up.
Speaker 2: Watching ice Cube, listening to ice Cube, knowing ice Cube.
Speaker 2: I know Rich, there's no way anyone under the moon
Speaker 2: in our age range, or anyone who worked in music
Speaker 2: for that matter too, didn't know who ice Cube was.
Speaker 2: But Rich called them iced Tea and it set the
Speaker 2: tone for like a really awkward moment. You know who
Speaker 2: you're talking to. I thought he was going to get
Speaker 2: up and slat Rich.
Speaker 3: Well, today I'm wearing my ice Cube Iced Tea shirt
Speaker 3: where it's.
Speaker 5: Uh, that'll help you with your confusion.
Speaker 4: Why did I do that?
Speaker 3: And it looked like vanilla ice? Oh my goodness, this
Speaker 3: is confuci ice Cube.
Speaker 4: On the show. So I got it right.
Speaker 3: And we'll hear from Patrick Renna and Danielle Fischel to Panga.
Speaker 3: They're in a new show called Dugout Dads, which is
Speaker 3: going to be awesome. It looks fantastic shore about you
Speaker 3: if you're living that world of coaching and parenting. We'll
Speaker 3: catch up with them and you'll hear that entire interview
Speaker 3: on our bonus pot tomorrow. But we'll hear from them,
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be an action packed show. First hour,
Speaker 3: we got to talk fights. And then there's a company
Speaker 3: that went out of business finally, And I think the
Speaker 3: biggest question is is there one person on the planet
Speaker 3: Earth that thought they were still operating? And that company
Speaker 3: is Columbia House. I feel like your mom was still
Speaker 3: a member rich My mom.
Speaker 4: Paid for her AOL I think until like five years ago.
Speaker 3: And that's exactly why I believe he still buys her
Speaker 3: CDs from Columbia House. Well, you know what everyone else
Speaker 3: is talking about fights, I'm cool talking about Columbia House.
Speaker 3: I wanted to talk about fight and fighting. We'll get
Speaker 3: the fighting and friction fighting. We'll get to fighting.
Speaker 2: And by the way, there is a big fight this
Speaker 2: weekend and I'll tell you all about that. We'll get
Speaker 2: the fights and football. But Columbia House just to switch
Speaker 2: it up and have some fun. I think we all
Speaker 2: remember the days of Columbia House. Sam, you're a little
Speaker 2: bit younger. We got Samy here on the ones and twos.
Speaker 2: I remember, Okay, you do you know what?
Speaker 4: You do?
Speaker 2: Have the soul of an eighty year old white guy.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Sam is much older. His name should be
Speaker 2: like Burt or something.
Speaker 4: Sad guy Sam.
Speaker 3: It's like a young kid named Now It's made the cycle.
Speaker 3: He's like like your uncle Sam.
Speaker 5: Sam the Butcher.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Danny G are super producers here if you
Speaker 2: want to call in and chime in, chop it up
Speaker 2: at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox and again.
Speaker 2: We are streaming live, like I said, and people are
Speaker 2: chatting early in the morning. It's early here on the
Speaker 2: West Coast. Shout out to the East Coast and everybody
Speaker 2: in between. At Covino and Rich FSR. I was a
Speaker 2: big Columbia house kid because think about the radio come up.
Speaker 2: It's not the same for all people, but I know
Speaker 2: Danny G and I especially Rich is just a ham
Speaker 2: who wanted to entertain and be on the mic. It
Speaker 2: was our love of music that brought us down this path.
Speaker 2: Right for the most part, right start.
Speaker 6: Reading song lyrics, Yeah, from actual CD you know inserts.
Speaker 2: I was spending my hard earned Bennigan's money waiting tables,
Speaker 2: serving turkeyo tools and samplers waiting tables and then immediately
Speaker 2: going to Sam Goodie or the Wiz or you know,
Speaker 2: even when I was younger, crazy Eddy because the prices
Speaker 2: were insane and you would buy CDs, but then you
Speaker 2: realized there was something called Columbia House, and dude, I
Speaker 2: was all about it, because, like I said, I grew
Speaker 2: up loving music just as much as I loved sports
Speaker 2: and collecting baseball cards. I loved getting CDEs, opening up
Speaker 2: the jewel cases, you know, reading the if they had lyrics,
Speaker 2: and really diving into those albums.
Speaker 4: It was the same for me. Still, I still remember
Speaker 4: the gimmick twelve CDs for a penny. Everybody remembers. But
Speaker 4: here's the question.
Speaker 3: I mean, you should who ever paid nowadays, your kid
Speaker 3: gets an app on their iPad, or you accidentally say, oh,
Speaker 3: let me get this editing app or you know, this
Speaker 3: cool little game or something on my phone, and what
Speaker 3: happens is, even if the free trial you forget, because
Speaker 3: your credit card is linked to your Apple pay and
Speaker 3: your iTunes and everything.
Speaker 4: So they always got you on the hook.
Speaker 3: Now, because you can't do Jack Diddley squat without giving
Speaker 3: some type of information, whether it's a streaming app or anything,
Speaker 3: so you're on the hook for everything. In fact, you
Speaker 3: get schemed because sometimes even if you want to cancel something,
Speaker 3: they have your info for payment back. Then it was
Speaker 3: in good faith that some week ass teenagers were gonna
Speaker 3: pay you that fat blue envolope. I don't know remember
Speaker 3: one person. Let me just describe the scene, and let's
Speaker 3: say I we're all on the same page.
Speaker 4: Let's take it back the year. It was nineteen ninety something.
Speaker 4: I don't know. You know, it's wild riches.
Speaker 2: It does deserve explanation because there are people that don't
Speaker 2: remember because they're too young maybe or too old.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know, too old perhaps. In fact,
Speaker 3: there's a big window of people that people told me like,
Speaker 3: just forget everything about their past, and they need a reminder.
Speaker 3: People that are like, yo, dude, do you remember?
Speaker 4: Of course I remember? Did you get dropped on your head?
Speaker 4: How did you forget?
Speaker 6: I don't think too old is a possibility, because those
Speaker 6: people back then were the ones yelling at us, like,
Speaker 6: my mom, you better pay that it keeps coming in
Speaker 6: the mail.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you're absolutely right, rich.
Speaker 3: Anyone too old is probably gone by now, because Columbia
Speaker 3: House is shutting down after seventy one years.
Speaker 4: Right, so it's been around a long ass time. How
Speaker 4: is it still operate? I don't know. I was shocked.
Speaker 4: I was more shot.
Speaker 3: They heard of something called I don't know, Spotify, Apple Music.
Speaker 5: iHeart they did transition their business.
Speaker 3: I know one guy working in one office. I just
Speaker 3: gave you the options. You're streaming on Spotify. You love
Speaker 3: serious XM, you got the iHeart app. You have Apple
Speaker 3: Music like they're like purchasing music in any other capacity?
Speaker 3: Like what was even their business model? What was the
Speaker 3: business model for Kobe House? I didn't look it up
Speaker 3: because I didn't know want I don't want to know.
Speaker 3: What could it possibility?
Speaker 4: The clue.
Speaker 2: I didn't know it existed until I saw this story.
Speaker 2: He ranted stores after seventy one years. Here were the
Speaker 2: rules back of the day. The penny deal.
Speaker 3: Twelve cassettes or compact discs CDs everyone for one penny,
Speaker 3: plus a very high shipping and handling cost. The commitment
Speaker 3: you agreed with no binding contract other than like you could.
Speaker 3: You could have been living in your college fratthouse and
Speaker 3: been like, oh yeah, my name's Seymour.
Speaker 7: Months people, I remember you miss these days of being
Speaker 7: like an anonymous consumer.
Speaker 3: I had buddies that would make up ten different fake
Speaker 3: names and just have They would do this ten times.
Speaker 3: The scammerroo, you get one hundred and twenty CDs. All right,
Speaker 3: So you asked the question though, and I have a confession.
Speaker 3: I guess okay, Well consider me the usher of the show.
Speaker 4: He's ay his cam fashions.
Speaker 3: Did you get that one for a penny? So you
Speaker 3: agreed to a specific number of items, usually six to
Speaker 3: eight CDs or cassettes, for a regular price of fourteen
Speaker 3: to eighteen dollars, and you had to buy six to
Speaker 3: eight within a year.
Speaker 4: But with that you got the twelve free each month.
Speaker 3: Called me a house mailed you a selection of the
Speaker 3: month card, like a little pamphlet, but no one ever paid.
Speaker 4: You'd get the twelve for a penny, and.
Speaker 3: Then you'd be like, you know now, my name is
Speaker 3: Stevemour Johnson, and you'd get twelve more for a penny,
Speaker 3: and everyone Johnson, but that was your name in the nineties.
Speaker 4: But I just wonder who paid.
Speaker 6: Well, somebody paid because their business was worth millions and
Speaker 6: millions of dollars.
Speaker 3: Well, when you say to pay or not to pay,
Speaker 3: I think of you to pay for sure, to pay,
Speaker 3: to pay Rich Davis to oh man, he's here, Actually
Speaker 3: he's not, he's here.
Speaker 4: Just today, guys tricks.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to distract you from the confession because I
Speaker 3: know the joke is.
Speaker 4: And nobody paid. Nobody paid. Rich was doing a stand
Speaker 4: up back everyone be like, yeah know what paid? Am
Speaker 4: I right? What the truth is? I paid?
Speaker 3: My god, truth is like I was fooled on this scam.
Speaker 3: But you meaning, like you know, you did pay a penny.
Speaker 8: That was it.
Speaker 2: You paid a penny, but then you were responsible. You
Speaker 2: got twelve CDs. I think you left that like one
Speaker 2: nugget of the deal.
Speaker 3: You got your twelve CDs for a penny, and you
Speaker 3: got your CNC Music Factory.
Speaker 6: The selection was so bad for hip hop and R
Speaker 6: and B. You got some you know, like surface level
Speaker 6: that it was like Bobby Brown on No Tupac. It
Speaker 6: was like Bobby Brown stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, very very very having a Rony Greatest Hits.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of CDs from this, so I
Speaker 3: used it, but I used it the proper way.
Speaker 4: So you would get your twelve you'd be so pumped
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 3: He put it in your little case alphabetically, and then
Speaker 3: you were responsible for like six to eight at regular price.
Speaker 4: So I would buy those six and you had.
Speaker 3: Like there was no time limit that I remember, or
Speaker 3: that I remember stressing me out, but I remember, Wow,
Speaker 3: now I gotta buy six for like for fourteen to
Speaker 3: eighteen bucks, like you said, because the shipping was so high,
Speaker 3: and you know, I did it because I feel like
Speaker 3: I felt like a guilt of like I had to.
Speaker 3: But Cavino's the guy that but I did pay, you know,
Speaker 3: is the guy that if you buy him and my
Speaker 3: mom probably.
Speaker 4: Was like, it's gonna affect your credit, you idiots or
Speaker 4: something like that.
Speaker 3: He's like oddly responsible and it's not a bad thing.
Speaker 3: But like, Cavino's the type of guy.
Speaker 4: That I did. I don't want to owe anyone nothing
Speaker 4: like this morning. He probably already ven mo me. I
Speaker 4: already did like for his coffee because.
Speaker 3: I don't want to owe anyone anything. I don't like
Speaker 3: that he felt like a weird guilt to klubbe house.
Speaker 3: But I did get my twelve. I did buy my
Speaker 3: six or whatever you were obligated for after and then
Speaker 3: I probably got you know, another twelve somehow, So I
Speaker 3: did finagle the system. They probably have a picture of
Speaker 3: you at headquarters. But I thank this guy, you know, hey,
Speaker 3: you know I'm here to announce that I've kept him
Speaker 3: in business for seventy one years up until now the
Speaker 3: last member. Because you know, it's another funny question. What
Speaker 3: do you think was the last CED you bought?
Speaker 2: Because when you bought actual cts, remember they came in
Speaker 2: at long, rectangular waste of cardboard. Remember they came in
Speaker 2: like this.
Speaker 5: Long lard blastic plastic cases like.
Speaker 2: All plastic cases. What was the last CD you bought?
Speaker 2: You actually bought? I have no idea.
Speaker 6: By the way, they transitioned their business in nineteen ninety
Speaker 6: seven to DVDs.
Speaker 5: They had a DVD club.
Speaker 6: I now look, by twenty fifteen they filed a chapter eleven.
Speaker 3: Did anyone else you speak of dv like, we'll switch
Speaker 3: to another kind of disc that will go out of business.
Speaker 3: Did you ever back in the day go to like
Speaker 3: best Buy or Circuit City, but mostly best Buy. I
Speaker 3: would buy mediocre movies for five dollars just because I
Speaker 3: wanted to fill up my sweet ced?
Speaker 4: Was my sweet a brag or a flexes?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 4: You know, say you had to display your scarfaced DVD?
Speaker 6: What color wood was your wreck? Was it the blonde
Speaker 6: wood or the dark I had.
Speaker 4: The I had like a kind of stain. Did you
Speaker 4: like a middle wavy one? I was gangster, almost black
Speaker 4: and crisp, and it looks sweet.
Speaker 5: Guys, you guys were modern.
Speaker 2: You had to have the seven bro crates. You had
Speaker 2: like the light the light woods, like I had a
Speaker 2: milk crazy. You had to assemble yourself, Danny.
Speaker 3: Danny probably had remember those brown VHS holders that you
Speaker 3: would pull like little dolls.
Speaker 5: Nos.
Speaker 6: Right, we had my older brother and I had milk
Speaker 6: crates filled with CDs and cassettes.
Speaker 4: Well albums would be and album yeah final. But Sam,
Speaker 4: you brought up the DVDs.
Speaker 3: I remember going to like because best Buy would have average,
Speaker 3: Like I remember by movies like Steak Out Too with
Speaker 3: Rosie o'donald for five dollars, because what be the most bunk,
Speaker 3: weak ass movies. But when you were like like in
Speaker 3: your early twenties or in college, it was a cool
Speaker 3: breaking right to be like, yo, come in my apartment
Speaker 3: or door, dorm room or something else. I got the sweetest,
Speaker 3: so proud DVD.
Speaker 2: We were so proud of our setup, our collection. And
Speaker 2: that's especially they fell into a case logic binder or
Speaker 2: remember people would have I always hear stories of Dude,
Speaker 2: I never got my Remember you would have a visor
Speaker 2: thing and you'd have your CDs and the visor and
Speaker 2: little cases.
Speaker 4: Dude. Man, my girlfriend she took my CDs. I never
Speaker 4: got them back. Man, she stole my binder.
Speaker 2: So you know, are you surprised or as surprised as
Speaker 2: we were to hear that Columbia House was even still
Speaker 2: a thing. Listen with all the streamers right now, and
Speaker 2: like I said, Spotify serious ExM. iHeart all the places
Speaker 2: you could listen to music for free or a subscription.
Speaker 3: I think the reality is there's a lot less like
Speaker 3: junk space being taken up. But there was something about,
Speaker 3: like you said, a collection of CDs or DVDs. I
Speaker 3: remember going to Covino's apartment and then his tech well
Speaker 3: you can you know, had a townhouse and he had
Speaker 3: a wall, like a full wall of CDs and he
Speaker 3: had some guitars hanging on the wall. And it was
Speaker 3: almost your way of saying, like yo, I'm into music.
Speaker 3: And if you went to in your movie room or
Speaker 3: you're den you had I remember my parents in my parents' basement,
Speaker 3: outside of a sweetfish tank, my parents' basement, we had like
Speaker 3: a wall like almost like like a mini blockbuster of
Speaker 3: like old phs, tapes and DVDs, and that's that's that
Speaker 3: tangible sort of feeling though, is coming back, Like there
Speaker 3: is a pushback with the weien Neels, the younger generation
Speaker 3: who want some tangible old school of God bless them,
Speaker 3: not only CDs and DVDs, but like walkman and flip phones.
Speaker 2: And they're sort of pushing back phes. You know why though,
Speaker 2: because they do feel like something's not right with the
Speaker 2: way we're living and the way we communicate.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I read an article recently that this new generation
Speaker 6: are buying all these CDs from these used music stores,
Speaker 6: but they're having a hard time finding actual CD players.
Speaker 2: True story. And by the way, we'll take some phone
Speaker 2: calls your thoughts. On Columbia House Closing Dawn eight seven,
Speaker 2: seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 4: I'm Cavino. I have a teenage daughter. She's sixteen.
Speaker 2: She already said, because I you know, you condense things
Speaker 2: as you grow. She wanted me to keep my CD case.
Speaker 2: I've kept about maybe five six hundred CDs that meant
Speaker 2: a lot to me, and I still got them in
Speaker 2: a rack. I remember, she wants them for some sort
Speaker 2: of retro room in the future, and I have I
Speaker 2: have a three hundred disc changer too, like I still
Speaker 2: have one.
Speaker 3: I remember, Daddy, because when Covino went through his divorce.
Speaker 3: Oh look, it took me sixteen minutes to bring up
Speaker 3: your ex wife. Sixteen minutes here about it. I remember
Speaker 3: when Cavino moved Do you remember about it?
Speaker 4: Tell me about my divorce, Richard.
Speaker 3: Sixteen minutes into the show. I remember when Cavino was
Speaker 3: moving out. We were good buds and went to go
Speaker 3: help him move all his stuff out of his own.
Speaker 4: Billy, Joel, let me file that under j for Joel,
Speaker 4: or you would do it under Joel instead of Billy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you got okay. But Danny Covi, I was like, yo,
Speaker 3: can you would spot help me carry my CDs? Like
Speaker 3: carry CDs? Like you need help carrying CDs? When I
Speaker 3: tell you, it was like a rickety old bookshelf.
Speaker 8: That.
Speaker 3: But when I tell you, the people can't see the
Speaker 3: window between you and I. This big, huge, monstrous class
Speaker 3: big spot has pictures of it somewhere. It was that
Speaker 3: size to the point where like three men had to
Speaker 3: like hold it on their back. It's like a moving truck.
Speaker 3: And he had not parted with those them you sell
Speaker 3: them in storage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but again I kept the ones that meant something
Speaker 2: to me because, uh, you know, it paved the way.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I was thinking about Columbia House
Speaker 2: and I got a lot of them from Columbia House.
Speaker 2: Columbia House, when you would get those twelve for the
Speaker 2: penny off the get go and then you would rip
Speaker 2: off the company, that's the that's the gimmick.
Speaker 4: That was your gimmick.
Speaker 3: It was good for getting like greatest hits, like you'd
Speaker 3: get them all at once, like yeah, like greatest hit
Speaker 3: albums that you wouldn't want to necessarily buy at the
Speaker 3: store right at the time.
Speaker 2: At the time you wanted to go get the Boys
Speaker 2: to Men album or whatever, you weren't buying the Eagles
Speaker 2: greatest hits.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you get the Eagles' greatest hits or
Speaker 3: led Zeppelin's greatest, the Doors Greatest, all the classic rock
Speaker 3: greatest hits with Columbia House sort of to complete your collection.
Speaker 3: The collection is really the core of what we're getting at.
Speaker 3: I do miss those days, man, I really do. I
Speaker 3: think a big takeaway is that Cavino is such an
Speaker 3: honorable guy he's the guy that paid for Columbia House.
Speaker 5: I gut.
Speaker 3: Were you the guy that when did you actually make
Speaker 3: a cleet call or did you be like you have
Speaker 3: a cleec call for mom up at the ball pick
Speaker 3: me up? Or you were the guy that actually so
Speaker 3: it's dude, well here's here's I'm.
Speaker 4: Here to see.
Speaker 7: It was the guy who was paying for music when
Speaker 7: everyone else was using napster to get it for free.
Speaker 4: And he's like, I'll still pay.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought that up, stand because that really
Speaker 2: was the beginning of the end for the CD the
Speaker 2: MP three player, And I still remember the day radio
Speaker 2: legend Wilpin Darvis came in and he's like, it's called
Speaker 2: an m P three player.
Speaker 4: I was like, what's that?
Speaker 2: This was a nomad. This is like before the eye
Speaker 2: the iPod, and I'm like what. And that was the
Speaker 2: beginning of the end. I was still rocking my discman,
Speaker 2: and it's.
Speaker 4: A way cooler. I was still nomad. I'm walking around
Speaker 4: everywhere with my music.
Speaker 3: There's there's the spot just posted a picture on our
Speaker 3: into of me standing in front of your CD wall.
Speaker 4: No way, you guys didn't break that down. How in
Speaker 4: the world. Can you find that constreaking it?
Speaker 2: No, dude, I still have like I had, I had
Speaker 2: several racks, right, I kept one to pass down and
Speaker 2: a lot of those are autographed after working in radio
Speaker 2: for years and you know they meant a lot to me.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's just I don't know, it's just wild
Speaker 2: looking back.
Speaker 6: By the way, if you want to see it, it
Speaker 6: is our YouTube channel, Covino and rich FSR.
Speaker 5: I love it. Bell Ad in the middle.
Speaker 2: You had the disc change with the discman, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: the megabase you would drain batteries. You were keeping Dura
Speaker 2: Celling company listening to CDs if you had a discman, right,
Speaker 2: because you would burn through them listen to the Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you had your discman, then the MP three player.
Speaker 2: But I really believe Napster LimeWire aries wherever you were
Speaker 2: downloading your music illegally, it was the illegal mentality you
Speaker 2: developed from Columbia House to say, I'm I'm ripping them off.
Speaker 2: I might as well rip off all these other companies too.
Speaker 2: Phones are hot, I mean every line is lit up.
Speaker 2: So let's go talks of old school And.
Speaker 3: By the way, do you miss that tangible thing that
Speaker 3: it seems like Covino is saying young kids now are
Speaker 3: sort of craving a little bit, like I do want
Speaker 3: to hold a.
Speaker 4: We We talked about this before.
Speaker 5: It's the same with video games.
Speaker 6: I don't like the fact that I don't have the
Speaker 6: cartridge of the video game in my Yeah.
Speaker 7: You bought an album and you had the lyrics you had,
Speaker 7: like you know, the liners and all that stuff, and
Speaker 7: look through it while you're listening.
Speaker 3: There there is something there, Like I mean, I don't
Speaker 3: want to get to so off tangent, but like even
Speaker 3: something as simple as you're in your car and you
Speaker 3: could listen to everything from Spotify to serious XM to
Speaker 3: have the iHeart app to any type of music of
Speaker 3: eye to everything right there in your console. You used
Speaker 3: to pull your stereo in and out. You would have
Speaker 3: the CD changer in your trunk. Like there used to
Speaker 3: be so much more stuff, and I sort of like
Speaker 3: no stuff.
Speaker 6: Also, there was a surprise because the songs didn't all
Speaker 6: leak all over the internet. Back then people didn't have
Speaker 6: advance copies. Only radio people had advance copies. And I
Speaker 6: remember as a kid standing in line at a warehouse
Speaker 6: music a big line of people that day Snoop Doggs
Speaker 6: first solo album came out, and it was so exciting
Speaker 6: to peel off the plat stick from it and put
Speaker 6: it in your CD player and hear these songs really
Speaker 6: truly for the first time.
Speaker 4: And you were taking a chance last time.
Speaker 6: Besides the radio single that was out, the album cuts
Speaker 6: were being heard for the first time.
Speaker 3: I agree with you, Danny, there is something we're missing.
Speaker 3: Like it's that feeling of like you could sit on
Speaker 3: your couch and you could go through Apple TV, Hulu,
Speaker 3: net Sex Paramount, every HBO Max, but like there was
Speaker 3: still something that you sort of miss about, like walking
Speaker 3: around Blockbuster, right, it was you'd be like, but you
Speaker 3: had to get up, get your car, go there, come back.
Speaker 4: But there was something hidding me.
Speaker 2: The lost you can playlists, I got a ton of them,
Speaker 2: but the lost art of going to the CD store,
Speaker 2: making a playlist, you know, giving it to friends or
Speaker 2: girls or women you.
Speaker 4: Cared about, Right, that was part of the routine.
Speaker 2: And like Rich said, it's why kids are yearning for
Speaker 2: a little more, And that's why they want cameras again,
Speaker 2: and even disposable cameras, and they want tangible because they
Speaker 2: feel like they've missed out on it, and they have
Speaker 2: and yeah, it's a weird, weird story where Columbia House
Speaker 2: is done after seventy one years today, who knew it
Speaker 2: was even still around?
Speaker 3: Hilarious on the local news end of an era. They're
Speaker 3: actually doing this on the local news Columbia House because
Speaker 3: everyone remembers. I let's go to all your feedback, dandy,
Speaker 3: who do you want to start with?
Speaker 5: Let's speaking of snoop Dog. Let's start in the LBC Jeff.
Speaker 4: Jeff, Columbia House resides. What's up?
Speaker 10: Hey, guys, I'm a majority stockholder in Columbia House. Do
Speaker 10: you think it's time to sell because.
Speaker 4: House?
Speaker 10: Columbia House or Amazon? And I think I made the
Speaker 10: right choice, all right? The checkers not yess? I'm smart guy. Hey,
Speaker 10: I have a question. Was your Scarface DVD next to
Speaker 10: the totally awesome Spacoli poster? And can I just tell
Speaker 10: you my most embarrassing Columbia House CD that I got
Speaker 10: in the mail? And I don't want you to make
Speaker 10: fun of me. I'm very sensitive.
Speaker 4: What is it I got?
Speaker 10: I got Natalie Merchants Tiger Lily sent to my dorm
Speaker 10: in college.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine being like, what, hey, bro, what do
Speaker 3: you got nothing?
Speaker 10: Oh no, I left it out for the girls, thinking
Speaker 10: you don't want to make out with me because I
Speaker 10: was sensitive. And that's why my milk crate was showed
Speaker 10: with My milk crate was showed with VHS because you
Speaker 10: get in the back of the video where you go
Speaker 10: through the beating section.
Speaker 4: So like you throw your going into a saloon.
Speaker 5: Right, that's a funny, great call, Joe.
Speaker 3: So let's take one more for now, Danny, I know everyone,
Speaker 3: We'll get to everyone.
Speaker 4: Let's take one more.
Speaker 2: I do love that thought of the beaded section of
Speaker 2: the video store or the saloon doors.
Speaker 3: You go in here, you're like, whoa never go to
Speaker 3: the video store and you would see like someone's dad
Speaker 3: or a teacher or someone come so weird.
Speaker 6: I went in and I say your dad, Hey, likely
Speaker 6: all right, quickly quickly, here we got thirty seconds for you.
Speaker 6: Eddie and Indiana?
Speaker 4: What's Eddie?
Speaker 9: Hey?
Speaker 10: How are you?
Speaker 9: Man?
Speaker 4: Is this crazy?
Speaker 5: Eddie?
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 9: Hey?
Speaker 10: It is crazy?
Speaker 5: Eddie.
Speaker 9: Hey, listen, I just I know I'm not few years
Speaker 9: older the most of you guys. I'm in my early fifties.
Speaker 9: But hey, so the Columbia House thing. What I remember
Speaker 9: as a kid, you had a place on the little
Speaker 9: like postcard type thing you mailed in and it's had
Speaker 9: a fixed penny here. You literally would take the penny
Speaker 9: to the thing mailing it. Do you remember that?
Speaker 4: Hilarious? You say yes, yeah, so fun. That is wild.
Speaker 3: They must have had some tax code for write offs
Speaker 3: because there was no way like for losses, you know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, Like for all the people that didn't pay,
Speaker 3: they must have had some tax code where they were
Speaker 3: able to rebound some of those losses.
Speaker 2: You know what, though, Rich, We're gonna have to add
Speaker 2: Columbia House to the conversation of man Blockbuster really blew it.
Speaker 2: They could have add Netflix because Columbia House was ahead
Speaker 2: of their time of we want to get music into
Speaker 2: the hands of people. Like, how were they not the
Speaker 2: next Columbia House Camezon, you have something else right like
Speaker 2: you and kidd, they were ahead of the game and
Speaker 2: we all knew it.
Speaker 4: We all did it.
Speaker 3: For me.
Speaker 2: The one that comes to mind is like see and
Speaker 2: see music Factory for real, Like we have embarrassing CDs
Speaker 2: that we got because there was a penny who cared imbarssing.
Speaker 3: I love seeing music. I mean I liked it too.
Speaker 3: In fact, show that up for our way back Sam.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But the fact that it was around for seventy one
Speaker 2: years and done today, it's one of those things that.
Speaker 4: Make you go hmm, good one who is buying this stuff?
Speaker 5: Still?
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Speaker 5: You've made it.
Speaker 4: You hear the horns.
Speaker 6: Before we hand things over to the one and only
Speaker 6: host of the segment, Iowa Sam. We go over to
Speaker 6: the main studio the two big red love dice and
Speaker 6: they roll these to see who gets the first take.
Speaker 4: Danny, do you why are your red love dice so sticky?
Speaker 7: This week rolled the ten stick more than usual, so
Speaker 7: they're perma sticky.
Speaker 4: Ah, you win?
Speaker 8: Do you know?
Speaker 4: Goes first?
Speaker 5: Do you know?
Speaker 6: Somebody snagged one of our big red love dice this
Speaker 6: past week and we found it in the Colin Cowherd studio,
Speaker 6: deeply unsettling. Somebody was playing with one of our dives
Speaker 6: doing with it all right, who gets to go first?
Speaker 6: Covino gets first take. And now, ladies and gentlemen, the
Speaker 6: most famous person besides Brian Bell of Wheezer from Iowa
Speaker 6: City Iowa, Iowa, Sam.
Speaker 7: Thanks guys, Hi Sam, Hi Tom. I'm a little out
Speaker 7: of breath from dancing too early for this here. It's
Speaker 7: like an early morning workout. Heart rates up a little bit.
Speaker 7: Tom Brady, guys, wants to play all the snaps, all
Speaker 7: the minutes he can, exhibition and official. After sharing his
Speaker 7: seeming admiration for the NFL preseason over the weekend, in
Speaker 7: an Instagram post, Brady shared video of a twenty ten
Speaker 7: Patriots preseason touchdown passed to Randy Moss with the caption quote, preseason,
Speaker 7: regular season. I never wanted to be taken off the field.
Speaker 7: Practice makes perfect. Too many people looking for easy ways
Speaker 7: out these days. When you're a football player in its
Speaker 7: football season, your job is to play football unquote. His
Speaker 7: comments likely directed at limited starting quarterback appearances during Week
Speaker 7: one midweek or major.
Speaker 2: Major anything major, Yeah, anything, Tom Brady's major man. I
Speaker 2: heard him say some great things about Peyton Manning recently
Speaker 2: on some social media eclips. Everything he says gets my attention,
Speaker 2: and I think he's smacking theese candy asses into place.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I like his old school mentality, his practice mentality, and
Speaker 3: the fact that that meant something to him. Because we
Speaker 3: always downplay the meaning of preseason, like, yeah, preseason.
Speaker 4: Who cares whatever?
Speaker 3: Dude, he was playing hard and it meant a lot
Speaker 3: to him. I think that's cool to hear. I think
Speaker 3: it's major. But again, we talked about, man, they should
Speaker 3: play in the preseason until someone gets hurt and then
Speaker 3: it becomes.
Speaker 4: Well, why you played him in the preseason.
Speaker 3: You can't really win or lose because whatever you do,
Speaker 3: you'll be questioned. I'm not saying Tom Brady sounds like
Speaker 3: the old now in the NBA, a lot of times
Speaker 3: the old heads sound.
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, the game used to be tougher. I get it.
Speaker 3: Tom Brady played in the preseas in he threw a
Speaker 3: dime to Randy Moss and people who are commenting like, yo,
Speaker 3: who's the third quarter of a preseason game?
Speaker 4: What is Tom doing in there? I think there's a balance, yeh.
Speaker 3: But the fact that that means something a guy that's
Speaker 3: so accomplished, right, I mean seven super Bowls speaks for itself.
Speaker 3: The fact that that means something to him says something
Speaker 3: to me, like that's cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But you will see teams that their starters get very
Speaker 3: limited time and you know, maybe weeks one and two.
Speaker 4: They're a little rusty, but that's the game now.
Speaker 7: Right in Week three, usually see more quarterback play finally
Speaker 7: getting in there against some snaps.
Speaker 3: But you've seen some starting qbs take a snap, some
Speaker 3: having like the forty nine ers, none of their stars
Speaker 3: have touched the field, so it depends on the.
Speaker 5: Team, it does, all right.
Speaker 7: Let's skip ahead to last night as the Milwaukee Brewers
Speaker 7: tied the largest shutout in the modern baseball era Milliwaukee
Speaker 7: with a twenty two to zero destruction of the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 7: Brewers are brewing Seattle sinking, big dumper, not dumping.
Speaker 4: Midweek or major.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think this is It's all major because I'm
Speaker 2: not taking any joy in the fact that cal Rawley's
Speaker 2: not bringing it. But we did say there's no way
Speaker 2: he's gonna match that season again.
Speaker 4: He had a magical season last year.
Speaker 2: Everything went his way, and now the guy's baton won
Speaker 2: something with Man, how many.
Speaker 4: Home runs do you have now he's he's a thirteen
Speaker 4: or fourteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, having a miserable season and this just
Speaker 2: adds to it.
Speaker 4: And the Brewers are great, dude.
Speaker 2: A lopsided victory major for the Brewers twenty two to nothing.
Speaker 4: I just feel really bad for cal Rawley.
Speaker 3: The craziest part, by the way, this is major. This
Speaker 3: has two It is like, you know, two big takeaways
Speaker 3: for me. The Mariners have fallen from grace last year.
Speaker 3: This is a team that was a playoff team. Everyone
Speaker 3: was loving cal Rawley and Julio Rodriguez and this this
Speaker 3: team was stacked and everyone thought this was the beginning
Speaker 3: of a big run. And that team is, I believe,
Speaker 3: eight games under five hundred.
Speaker 7: Now can't they still like they're still in play to
Speaker 7: win their divisions.
Speaker 3: It's such as everybody is so medio. So I think,
Speaker 3: if I'm a Seattle fan, I'm really bummed about how
Speaker 3: this season is going. Next to them, they might be
Speaker 3: the second biggest disappointment other than the Mets.
Speaker 4: Right, and then look.
Speaker 3: At the Brewers best record in the National League. And
Speaker 3: get this, we talked about the long ball. They have
Speaker 3: the fewest home runs in Major League Baseball. They put
Speaker 3: up three big, three run home runs last night, but
Speaker 3: the Brewers the least home runs.
Speaker 4: In baseball, showing you that you don't need the long
Speaker 4: ball as much as we.
Speaker 3: Think pitching matters, pitch situational hitting matters.
Speaker 2: People have to start taking the Brewers way serious if
Speaker 2: you don't, and the Tampa Bay Rays just to throw
Speaker 2: them in the conversation.
Speaker 7: Isn't it crazy? The Brewers have only they've never won
Speaker 7: a World Series. They've only been to one in like
Speaker 7: the mid eight you know, early mid eighties. By the way,
Speaker 7: in the Rays, I think they're due to make a
Speaker 7: World Series.
Speaker 3: So Sam, the Rays and the Brewers the two best
Speaker 3: teams in baseball right now as far as total team
Speaker 3: home runs ranked twenty one and thirty.
Speaker 4: So it just shows you the long ball is important.
Speaker 3: But again, just having all these guys that one sixties,
Speaker 3: other ways to aim like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's other ways to win. So there you go.
Speaker 7: All right, final story here h sticking with baseball. Also
Speaker 7: to baseball, excuse me.
Speaker 2: He's been hanging out with his Italian friends. Also had
Speaker 2: Goba gul when you came in.
Speaker 7: Here, Dude, I always start my morning with gob. I
Speaker 7: mean that's a good breakfast protein. Also last night, staying
Speaker 7: with baseball, as I mentioned, after a two run home
Speaker 7: run and a seven to six win over the Rockies
Speaker 7: in Denver, sho hey Otani now has hit thirty or
Speaker 7: more home runs in six consecutive seasons. He's not going
Speaker 7: to get into the fifties for home runs this year,
Speaker 7: I don't think. But six years of thirty plus. Oh
Speaker 7: and it has a nice twenty two game hit streak
Speaker 7: going at coursefield show Hey the money, show me Otani
Speaker 7: Midweek or major Baseball.
Speaker 4: This is base I think it's major.
Speaker 3: I think it's interesting to think that we're very homed
Speaker 3: and we're very like blase about another thirty home run
Speaker 3: season from the sessional one.
Speaker 4: He hit what fifty five and fifty four last couple
Speaker 4: of years?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but still six years in a row, and we're like, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 3: what A media like this is great?
Speaker 2: Good for him. The guy is a superstar. And I
Speaker 2: can't hate on nobody could hate on Shohyotani. His his
Speaker 2: average season is the best season ever for most people.
Speaker 4: How many home runs you guys think he gets to
Speaker 4: this season? Look at I get the forty four, not fifty,
Speaker 4: not fifty for sure. I think this is major.
Speaker 3: But I think what's major about it, Sam is something
Speaker 3: a little different, and that is the nl MVP race
Speaker 3: is as tight as skinny jeans in the two thousand,
Speaker 3: you're skinny jeans right now, Otani's been in to ninety four.
Speaker 3: Lit's sen how close to these guys are ninety four,
Speaker 3: thirty and eighty PCA two eighty two, thirty one and
Speaker 3: seventy nine. PCA and Otani have both seen very clutch
Speaker 3: this year. The Cubs more of a surprise than the
Speaker 3: than the Dodger. So you give a little advantage to
Speaker 3: PCA that he's sort of carrying a team that wasn't
Speaker 3: expected to be this good Shoe Hayes on the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: But I think because of the pitching, even though he's
Speaker 3: not pitching now, will that be what brings Otani MVP
Speaker 3: after MVP, Just that the fact that he had that
Speaker 3: little stint of pitching that was great. Yes, because they're
Speaker 3: too close otherwise offensively, So yeah, he'll always get the advantage.
Speaker 4: But it's a big story. I love it.
Speaker 3: I love it, And that's all shere out. Thank you, Sammy,
Speaker 3: thank you Midweek Major. We do what every Wednesday on
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Speaker 3: How about one of the most influential figures in hip
Speaker 3: hop history, A rock and roll Hall of Fame, an actor,
Speaker 3: a filmmaker, entrepreneur, and now the guy behind the Big Three,
Speaker 3: which is getting ready to crown a new champion.
Speaker 4: Always great to.
Speaker 3: Have them on the show, Ice Cube, what's up?
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 9: Man?
Speaker 3: Great to see you. Thanks for your time, man, We
Speaker 3: appreciate it.
Speaker 8: They made a T shirt out of it.
Speaker 3: Can I tell you something? I listen? Ice Yeah, clear
Speaker 3: the air. Rich You'll you'll never remember this because you
Speaker 3: do a million things, but can you know? And I've
Speaker 3: worked together over the years at Fox Sports Radio now, ESPN,
Speaker 3: Serious XM back in the day, and these guys bust
Speaker 3: my chops because one of my biggest flubs ever had
Speaker 3: to be over a decade ago, easily.
Speaker 4: I accidentally called you Ice.
Speaker 3: Tea Yeah, and I remember you looked me in the
Speaker 3: eyes and you said, you know who the f you're
Speaker 3: talking to? And I was like, oh, well, I'm here
Speaker 3: to back them up and say absolutely knew who we
Speaker 3: were talking.
Speaker 4: But man, we.
Speaker 3: Never let him live that down. And I don't know
Speaker 3: if I want to forgive him or not.
Speaker 4: That's up to you. Do you forgive me before we
Speaker 4: start this?
Speaker 8: No? I don't forgive you for that. But you're not
Speaker 8: a bad guy, you know what I mean? Uh, it happens.
Speaker 8: Uh you know my homies ice that's that's that's big bro,
Speaker 8: you know what I mean. That's the og. So you
Speaker 8: know it happens. You know you're not the first one though,
Speaker 8: but uh, you know, you gotta know it's apart man.
Speaker 8: Come on.
Speaker 3: But when someone saw the shirt they sent it to me,
Speaker 3: is uh ice cubes in an ice tea?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I had to wear this, Hey ice cube?
Speaker 8: When you see stuff like me a few times? So
Speaker 8: that that's funny that they actually made a T shirt
Speaker 8: out of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you see that, do you wonder where's your
Speaker 3: money at? Like you're not getting paid? Like what's your mindset?
Speaker 3: Or do you just are you flattered when you see
Speaker 3: stuff like that.
Speaker 8: I used to think about like, damn, you know, I'm
Speaker 8: missing out on some some cash. But then I realized,
Speaker 8: you know, they wouldn't make stuff like that if if
Speaker 8: it wasn't cool, you know what I'm saying. So you know,
Speaker 8: obviously it's cool and and that's good enough for me
Speaker 8: that you're wearing a shirt with my face on it
Speaker 8: and it's cool and it's funny and ice tease my man,
Speaker 8: Like I said.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well we're here with a legend ice cube, and
Speaker 3: I see a lot of cool stuff behind you in
Speaker 3: your office there. Earlier today, we're talking about how Columbia
Speaker 3: House officially shut down. We're talking about back in the
Speaker 3: day buying cassettes and CDs and all that stuff. What
Speaker 3: is your physical what's your physical music collection? Like do
Speaker 3: you still have records, cassettes, CDs? Do you still have
Speaker 3: all those physical you know music?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I have, man cassette players that players remember that,
Speaker 8: of course, of course, you know. And man, we still
Speaker 8: got vhs around here because a lot of my history
Speaker 8: is on these things for eights, things that we recorded
Speaker 8: a lot of history on, and so I want to
Speaker 8: have stuff to play it on, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: So people, you know, my wife, kids like when are
Speaker 8: we getting rid of this? I'm like, never, We never
Speaker 8: get this because you might not ever find one again.
Speaker 8: So a lot of records around here, you know, I
Speaker 8: got a lot of I got forty years of stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we thought our CD cluestion and our DVD question
Speaker 2: that was our bragging, right, Like you got actual bragging, right,
Speaker 2: So you got your actual hits behind you that we
Speaker 2: were buying. Yeah, yeah, we were proud to display your CDs.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised ice Cube is not shocked that Columbia House
Speaker 2: was still in business. Were you one of those guys
Speaker 2: buying albums for a penny and not paying Columbia House?
Speaker 4: Like did you use Columbia House back in the day?
Speaker 8: Now? You know, it was a it's a trip because
Speaker 8: you know, we would go buy our records. We was uh.
Speaker 8: We was also part of record pools, so they would
Speaker 8: send us a bunch of free records. We would have
Speaker 8: so many records, you know, some we didn't even want.
Speaker 8: So definitely didn't go to publishing clearing house. But you know,
Speaker 8: fun fact Priority Records who signed n W. A. E
Speaker 8: Ze uh myself before before they signed us, they used
Speaker 8: to do, uh this group called the California Raisins and
Speaker 8: they they went into all these compilations, so that was
Speaker 8: there their game. They was like k Cow or somebody,
Speaker 8: that bunch of compilations and uh, and then they signed us,
Speaker 8: and uh, you know it was it was we was
Speaker 8: definitely different than the California raisings.
Speaker 2: No god, I would say in the movie. Yeah, straight
Speaker 2: out of Compton. So ice Cube is here on the
Speaker 2: Conveno and Ri Show. And speaking of you know, your
Speaker 2: CD collection and your DVD collection, you know, we would
Speaker 2: obviously display our scarfaces and Boys in the Hoods and
Speaker 2: everything like that. Which one would you be proud of
Speaker 2: and bust out from back in the day? What was
Speaker 2: what was the one you put out there to display
Speaker 2: as far as your movies?
Speaker 8: Oh, Man, Friday. Definitely Boys in the Hood. It's the
Speaker 8: first one, Friday because it's the one that I produced
Speaker 8: and wrote and put together, you know, so it was
Speaker 8: kind of my first shot at, you know, trying to
Speaker 8: get behind the scenes and not just be an actor.
Speaker 8: So extremely proud of that, you know, and especially over
Speaker 8: the years how big it's become, you know kind of
Speaker 8: you know, they still they still quoting the lines from Friday,
Speaker 8: so that's cool.
Speaker 2: And you had to do all that prior to chat GPT, right,
Speaker 2: So you had no help. Man who helped you back
Speaker 2: in the day doing that stuff?
Speaker 8: John Singleton, you know John Singleton who under Boys in
Speaker 8: the Hood. He discovered me straight up. You know, he
Speaker 8: was like, Yo, I want you in my movie. I'm
Speaker 8: not an actor. I'm like, dude, you know what are
Speaker 8: you talking about. You know, I'm trying to be the
Speaker 8: best rapper in the world. And and then he just
Speaker 8: was like, yo, man, I need you. And then he
Speaker 8: asked me to write. He said, when are you going
Speaker 8: to write a movie? And uh, once again, I'm like, yo, whoa,
Speaker 8: whoa whoa buddy, you know, not just start acting. And
Speaker 8: so he mentored me and helped me write and Friday
Speaker 8: was one of those that he you know, was really
Speaker 8: helping me on to get it all the way on.
Speaker 2: Point Friday and absolute classic Boys in the Hood. Rest
Speaker 2: in peace, John Singleton and again ice Cube is here
Speaker 2: on the Cavino and Rich show.
Speaker 3: Music, movies, sports. That's what makes you unique, man, You've you've.
Speaker 4: Done it all.
Speaker 2: Who's the coolest to work with in your career? The musicians,
Speaker 2: the actors, the athletes, What's what's been your experience with
Speaker 2: all that?
Speaker 8: I mean, I love working with Mike Epps. You know,
Speaker 8: he wanted the actors that we just have fun. You know,
Speaker 8: we're friends. So it's like you know, going going to
Speaker 8: work with your homeboy. That's crazy. You know. It's like
Speaker 8: I'm in a Friday movie just being with him. And so,
Speaker 8: you know, he's great to work with. It's been great
Speaker 8: to work with Clyde Drexler on the Big Three, just
Speaker 8: you know, just seeing him all the way from his
Speaker 8: Houston days, the Five Slam of jama days, seeing him,
Speaker 8: you know, give fits to the Lakers when he was
Speaker 8: at Portland and then Houston winning a champion, and then
Speaker 8: working with him. You know, I've been working with him
Speaker 8: now for ten years on Big Three, and he got
Speaker 8: to be the happiest dude on earth man. You know,
Speaker 8: he's always laughing, always smiling and always uh, you know,
Speaker 8: just a great person to be to be with and
Speaker 8: to work with.
Speaker 4: And they get to work with you, which is an honor.
Speaker 2: So I'm wondering, you know, when you got your foot
Speaker 2: in all these different circles, ice Cube, do you ever
Speaker 2: sit there late at night and just bug out how
Speaker 2: crazy your life is with all the people you know
Speaker 2: and all the things you've done.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I do, to be honest, Yeah, you know I
Speaker 8: feel you know, blessed is an overused word, you know,
Speaker 8: double blessed, triple blessed, whatever you want to put it.
Speaker 8: I've been able to be in the right places at
Speaker 8: the right time, doing the right thing that people like.
Speaker 8: And and you know, so I don't take it for granted.
Speaker 8: I do smell the roses. I do, you know, reflect,
Speaker 8: and I'm always looking forward to the next episod.
Speaker 4: So I like that.
Speaker 3: Hey, ice Cube, you talking about being at the right
Speaker 3: place at the right time. What a moment when you
Speaker 3: were representing the Dodgers in the World Series against his
Speaker 3: against Covino's Yankees, and uh, I dud I was there,
Speaker 3: I know, And that was a moment that really everyone
Speaker 3: the whole sentiment was like, yo, l A just beat
Speaker 3: New York.
Speaker 4: That I knew it was over. And I knew it
Speaker 4: was over.
Speaker 3: When that happened. And the craziest part is there's a bobblehead.
Speaker 3: I don't know if everyone knows, there's a bobblehead of
Speaker 3: you in the Lowrider. And it's like you can find
Speaker 3: it online. It's it's expensive as hell trying to find
Speaker 3: one of those. Now, do you have what you have?
Speaker 8: One?
Speaker 4: He has in his office?
Speaker 8: You know, Yeah, I got one right here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that man. I love that it means
Speaker 3: a lot to you.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and to be a part of that.
Speaker 5: How cool is that we got two male one to us.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so it's the first one, you know, when I
Speaker 8: dropped the mic the mighty down here, you know what
Speaker 8: I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So that's sweet.
Speaker 3: But I love that those moments mean so much to you,
Speaker 3: a guy that's done so much.
Speaker 4: Do you ever get any nerves in those moments?
Speaker 3: Like, y'all, I'm at Dodger Stadium, it's a world series,
Speaker 3: like I'm representing, Like, do you still ever get nerves
Speaker 3: or no?
Speaker 8: Not nerves? You know, it's you worry about things not
Speaker 8: going right, Like, uh, you know, you're in the stadium,
Speaker 8: so it's an echo. Yeah, ear piece in your ear
Speaker 8: of the real track, and you're staying You're trying to
Speaker 8: stay with the ear piece. Now that ear piece go out,
Speaker 8: music out, You're gonna sound crazy in there. You're not
Speaker 8: gonna be on beat, You're gonna be off. So you
Speaker 8: just you just worry. Okay. I hope, I hope they
Speaker 8: got that ship together. Excuse they got that together? And
Speaker 8: and you know, if they don't, I gotta be ready,
Speaker 8: you know. And being a MC from back in the day.
Speaker 8: You know the systems we used to have to wrap on.
Speaker 8: I'm pretty prepared for, you know, a whack system, so
Speaker 8: I just, you know, I kind of have to like
Speaker 8: get ready. So that's the things you worry about. But
Speaker 8: you know, I know my songs. I know you know
Speaker 8: how I'm gonna do it. You know, I know the lyrics.
Speaker 8: I'm a flip you know, That's what I was really
Speaker 8: worried about. Am I gonna Am I gonna piss the
Speaker 8: Yankees off and turn them up because I'm flipping these
Speaker 8: lyrics on them.
Speaker 3: I'm wearing Yankee jersey and I'm rocking out to you
Speaker 3: and I'm felt defeated.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's done. Like you couldn't.
Speaker 3: Hate that moment, no matter if you were the biggest
Speaker 3: Yankees fan or not.
Speaker 4: Again, we're here with ice Cube. It's so cool to
Speaker 4: have you here.
Speaker 2: The Big Three Championship this Saturday, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about that. But you know, are you to consider yourself
Speaker 2: more of a music or a sports guy, because I
Speaker 2: don't know, grow coming up in this industry, they always
Speaker 2: made a sort of choose who we were, and they're
Speaker 2: synonymous to that. How do you feel about that? We
Speaker 2: feel like they go so hand in hand, man.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I love them both. You know, It's like peanut
Speaker 8: butter and jelly. You know, you gotta like to me,
Speaker 8: sports withour music is just a game.
Speaker 4: It's like hand with no burger.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so you go together, you know, that's a Friday.
Speaker 8: And so you know, I've always loved loved them both
Speaker 8: the same, you know, you know, but of course I
Speaker 8: get different things out of it. But I you know,
Speaker 8: I love to see, you know, somebody play the drums
Speaker 8: just as much as I love to see a dunk contest.
Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Talent talent, You just like talent exactly.
Speaker 2: Speaking of sports man, how many kids in the nineties
Speaker 2: were rocking Raiders starters, jackets just because of you and
Speaker 2: your style and everything else. I'm one of those idiots,
Speaker 2: you know, growing up New Jersey wearing the Raiders colors.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on Fernando Mendoza.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, great. You know, he looked great in his
Speaker 8: first preseason game. Poise, quick with the ball, quick decisions.
Speaker 8: But I still think he should I still think Kirk
Speaker 8: Cousins should start. You know, why, when you gotta when
Speaker 8: you gotta vet like, Kirk, you got a new new
Speaker 8: regime coming in, Like why start everything like that? You know,
Speaker 8: I think, let let the kid get comfortable, let the
Speaker 8: kid get anxious, you know what I'm saying, Ready to
Speaker 8: go at the bit and and and and look, you know,
Speaker 8: I think that's the way to do it. I'm not
Speaker 8: the coach of staff. I'm just the president of the
Speaker 8: raided nation, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: That comes all the time.
Speaker 8: Just write most of the times with a lot of power.
Speaker 2: Though I'm wondering, do you shoot cousins a little text
Speaker 2: or a little DM then saying, yo, go get them?
Speaker 4: Kirk, do you do you reach out to these dudes?
Speaker 2: Because that means why not? I mean, that would mean
Speaker 2: so much coming from you, I would imagine.
Speaker 8: You know, I wouldn't want them reaching out to me
Speaker 8: on on uh on things I need to do. You know,
Speaker 8: they they got enough people in their ear in their face.
Speaker 8: Who know really what's going on. I'm not in one meeting,
Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying. So I don't. I don't
Speaker 8: mess with athletes during the season about games or how
Speaker 8: they play, or what they should do or none of that.
Speaker 8: After the season, I might talk a lot of madness.
Speaker 8: And you know, I'll say anything after the season, but
Speaker 8: during the season, they don't need to hear from me.
Speaker 2: Ice Cube is here on the Cavino and Rich Show
Speaker 2: in for Dan Patrick Fox Sports Radio this Saturday, the
Speaker 2: Big Three Championship, Dallas Power Boston ball Hogs.
Speaker 4: Tell us about this man and.
Speaker 3: Dude, this is what the tenth season now, So you
Speaker 3: got to be pointing about it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, how crazy is that?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 4: Tell us about it?
Speaker 8: It's amazing. You not just want to be a part
Speaker 8: of sports. I just want to bring more cool sports
Speaker 8: to you know, basketball fans. You know, after the finals,
Speaker 8: I used to get a hangover and I'll be like, damn, man,
Speaker 8: one need more, need more. And so I felt like
Speaker 8: there's millions of people out there just like me, and
Speaker 8: why not professionalize something that's part of basketball anyway? Three
Speaker 8: on three has always been this step cousin of five
Speaker 8: on five, and uh, we want to give it some shine,
Speaker 8: polish it up, put some real pros out there that
Speaker 8: can play this game, and it's its own sport. You know,
Speaker 8: like you got boxing, you got UFC, you got uh,
Speaker 8: you know, rugby, you got football, cricket, and baseball you
Speaker 8: got five on five and you got three on three.
Speaker 8: You know, so guys have their own skill set. You know,
Speaker 8: just because you were good at five on five, that
Speaker 8: don't mean you're gonna be great in the Big three.
Speaker 3: Other guys that you think of that you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: I know they would be good at three on three,
Speaker 3: Like your ultimate Big Three players that you like, I
Speaker 3: guarantee if they played, their game would translate big time
Speaker 3: to three on three.
Speaker 8: Of course. You know, I'm looking at you know, a
Speaker 8: person like Westbrook. You know, I know you just stepped away,
Speaker 8: but his game would translate. You know, d Rose game
Speaker 8: would translate. You know a few people. You know, if
Speaker 8: you could pass, dribbles, shoot, and defend at a high level,
Speaker 8: you'll be all right in the Big Three. But if
Speaker 8: you're weak at any of those, you're gonna have trouble.
Speaker 8: And we got our best teams going at it this
Speaker 8: week on Saturday, and you're.
Speaker 4: You're twenty twenty six Big Three MVP.
Speaker 2: Pargo is playing too for the Boston team, So yeah,
Speaker 2: you got some big names there, yup, Greg Monroe, Dallas
Speaker 2: Power Beasley's on that team. So yeah, dude, it's cool
Speaker 2: seeing the sport grow. And I'm wondering. You know, obviously
Speaker 2: you got some big names involved. Now what about these
Speaker 2: social media guys that go viral.
Speaker 3: Do you keep your eye on like those MK type
Speaker 3: of dudes that are doing all these crazy viral videos
Speaker 3: when it comes to his one on one game and
Speaker 3: things like that, or do you always just have your
Speaker 3: eye on the former pros?
Speaker 8: No, No, you know, we're we're open to players who
Speaker 8: can play at this level. So it's twenty twoing up.
Speaker 8: You know, we don't want we don't want to get
Speaker 8: Youngster's too young plan because it's a real you know,
Speaker 8: it's a man game. It's called the three, not the
Speaker 8: Little three. So twenty two one up. We've had some guys,
Speaker 8: you know, Drew League MVPs like Frank Nitty come in.
Speaker 8: We've had you know, guys who are you know, viral
Speaker 8: sensations like Nazia Corps one on one guys who you
Speaker 8: know made Dey Mark in the one on one game.
Speaker 8: I think he's like thirty six and oh, you know,
Speaker 8: one on one against some of some of the some
Speaker 8: big names or or a pretty good name. So and
Speaker 8: he can play our game. That's the key. Can you
Speaker 8: play Big three basketball at a high level and if
Speaker 8: you can, we want you. But if you can't, we don't.
Speaker 2: Hey, speaking of basketball too again, Big Three Championship this Saturday.
Speaker 2: Magic Johnson recently said that people should boo Lebron James
Speaker 2: in his return. I want to know your thoughts on that.
Speaker 2: As an LA guy. Should he get mood coming back?
Speaker 2: Or do you give him the respect? Like if you
Speaker 2: were there, how do you handle that?
Speaker 8: You give him his respect walking through the door. There's
Speaker 8: no reason a boying in the layuplind But you know,
Speaker 8: once the ball comes in and he hits his first
Speaker 8: three on.
Speaker 3: You, I agree, yes, competition and then when he retires
Speaker 3: and he officially retires and then he comes back. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you give him his prompts right now he's competing against you.
Speaker 2: I'm with you on that. Now we're gonna go to
Speaker 2: our producer, Danny G. He's a he's a big, big fan.
Speaker 2: He's got a question music question for you, Danny G.
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 8: Man? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Well, first of all, congrats on the success of the
Speaker 6: Big Three, because remember you when you first came out
Speaker 6: with it, the naysayers, this ain't gonna last.
Speaker 5: How do you like cut now? Really quick?
Speaker 6: I want to ask you because as a youngster, I
Speaker 6: was programming fifty thousand watt KCAQ in the late nineties,
Speaker 6: back when West Side Connection came together. So I got
Speaker 6: to see you guys at the House of Blues in
Speaker 6: La just tear it up. It was a crazy time
Speaker 6: for West Coast hip hop. So looking back almost thirty
Speaker 6: years later, what stands out to you about that time.
Speaker 8: Well, you know, of course, with the West Side Connection,
Speaker 8: what was great. You know, we we had just had
Speaker 8: a ride in La. There was a gang truce in
Speaker 8: ninety two where you know, bloods and crips decided to
Speaker 8: not fight and do those things. So putting together the
Speaker 8: West Side Connection, you know, we had you know, one
Speaker 8: guy mac ten he was from a Blood neighborhood, and
Speaker 8: then we hadve c from a Crypt neighborhood, which we
Speaker 8: grew up in the same neighborhood. So it was cool
Speaker 8: to be able to show the unity and music. But
Speaker 8: at the same time, there was an East Coast West
Speaker 8: Coast beef going on, so it kind of got you know,
Speaker 8: it really didn't blossom like we wanted to because of
Speaker 8: the friction that was going on in hip hop anyway.
Speaker 8: So that's what I really really remember about the time is,
Speaker 8: you know, trying to bring the Red and the Blue
Speaker 8: together through through the success of the West Side Connection.
Speaker 2: You know, it's crazy to hear those stories because I
Speaker 2: also think of ice Cube now as you know, lovable
Speaker 2: dad and you are, And I got to ask you
Speaker 2: about your son's career too. You know, we have kids
Speaker 2: and we take so much joy and their accomplishments. You've
Speaker 2: done so much. I'm wondering how you feel about your
Speaker 2: son's accomplishments.
Speaker 8: Oh, man, I love it. You know, he's having a ball,
Speaker 8: which is the most important thing. He's having fun with
Speaker 8: the industry. He's a second generation Hollywood. He's been he's
Speaker 8: been around movie sets before he knew who he was.
Speaker 8: So it's great to see him live out his dreams,
Speaker 8: you know, doing Godzilla movies and Star Wars movies and
Speaker 8: all this stuff that he grew up on. I remember
Speaker 8: buying him all kind of Godzilla toys and now he's
Speaker 8: in the movie with the monster.
Speaker 4: You know, that's so cool. You gotta bug out on
Speaker 4: that too.
Speaker 3: You're sitting there watching your son with Godzilla.
Speaker 8: That's wild, man, It's wild, and it's fun. And as
Speaker 8: long as he's having fun with it, and long as
Speaker 8: he keep the industry in perspective. You know, it's a job,
Speaker 8: it's not an adventure, and have fun with it, dude.
Speaker 4: Ice Cube a pleasure.
Speaker 3: Thanks for your time man Big Three this weekend, and
Speaker 3: thanks for sort of forgiving me for accidentally you tea
Speaker 3: back in the day.
Speaker 4: I feel so much better now.
Speaker 3: Ice Cube A true pleasure, a legend, hall of famer music, sports,
Speaker 3: It does everything.
Speaker 4: Got a lot very pumped for the Big Three this weekend.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Hey, you're welcome to come in the studio
Speaker 4: next time. I hope to see you again. Continued success
Speaker 4: Cube all right, take it easy, Thank you man. Ice
Speaker 4: Cube