Chapter 1: Who is Rico Bosco and what is his significance?
Are you familiar with Rico Bosco from Barstool? Yes. You know Rico Bosco?
Yes.
Al, you know Rico Bosco? I definitely know the name, but I don't think I would know him if I saw him. All right, so Rico Bosco's a guy who's been working for Barstool for a while, and he's a lot on the gambling side, but he's known for having a really, really bad temper.
Like, he'll tell you this, and there's videos of him where he's flipping out on colleagues and he's just losing his mind and storming off, and he's got, like, these, you know, Dave Portnoy's always, you know, trying to antagonize him, and he goes crazy and he yells and leaves the podcast. Yes, yes. So he's a big WFAN listener. He grew up in Staten Island.
So I mentioned how I'm going to Shane Gillis on the air. So he's listening. So he sends me a DM. And he goes, hey, you going to Shane Gillis? He's like, it's my wife's birthday. I'm taking her to Shane Gillis. I'd love to meet you and maybe get a drink beforehand and hang out. He's like, here's my number. I'm like, oh, okay, great. You know, whatever. I'll go say hi to Rico Bosco.
You guys, you know, I like his content. You know, seems like a good enough guy. He's not flipping out. So I'm finishing up dinner. And I'm like, oh, we're going to head over to the garden. And I text Rico Bosco. I go to my DMs. I text Rico. I say, hey, Rico, it's Gio. Finishing up dinner. About to head over to the garden. Where are you? Right? So he writes back right away, who the F is Gio?
I'm like, so I think he's kidding, right? So I'm like, hey, man, I just wrote back. I was like, yeah, well, are you heading over now or what? So then the phone rings. At dinner, I'm like, and it's him. He said, who is this? Who is Gio? How'd you get my number? And I'm like, boomer and Gio, hello?
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Chapter 2: What happens when Gio meets Rico Bosco at MSG?
You gave me your number. He said, oh, dude, I'm sorry. Can you imagine? What Portnoy has to deal with? Yeah. So then he's like, oh, man. He's like, oh, I'm so sorry. Then he sent me a video to back up. He said a lot of people had gotten his number and been bugging him. I guess that he didn't want to change his number.
So he sent me a video on a live stream just to prove his point that I guess some rando had gotten his number and kept calling him. He was screaming at the person. who had his number. So I got the full Rico Bosco experience getting yelled at. Wow. Hey, call me. Text me. Sure. Who the hell are you?
Jesus, man.
But I did end up meeting up with him.
That is great.
I did end up meeting up with him, and he was getting stopped all over the place at the garden. All these young kids going, Rico, Rico. Trying to make him go nuts and yell at him, too. Hey, Rico, you suck. He's just trying to relax. But yeah, so Gina didn't know who he was, so Rico's wife is explaining to Gina. What does he do? She's like, they just make him do a bunch of dumb stuff.
She's like, I'm the adult in this relationship. You know, I'm the person. Hey, the more dumb stuff he does, the more money he makes, man. No, of course. So that was just a funny story. All right, let's go to Tony, who's calling from Yorktown Heights. What's going on, Tony?
Good morning, guys. I just wanted to say we love your show. My husband and I have been watching for years.
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Chapter 3: How does Rico Bosco react to Gio's message?
And good morning to all the other gentlemen that are there in the background. Yes, here's the background guy. Background guy. I know people usually call you in for... sports and stuff, but I, I'm sorry to even interrupt your show for this, but, uh, where did you get your sweatshirt boomer? Because I look up boomer and I get a lot of things, but not you.
So I was looking at it, and I fell in love with it. So would you mind?
Yeah, well, Gio and I got this as a gift at the Golf Digest outing that we had at Sea Wayne, and that was sponsored by Cobra and Puma. That's right. And this sweatshirt happens to be the sweatshirt that they gave us, so it's the Puma Volition sweatshirt, V-O-L-I-T-I-O-N. And they make it in different colors, too, so you'll love it.
Oh, that's awesome. Again, I'm really sorry.
No, no, no, no. We like stuff like this. We like, you know, helping out the listeners and letting them know where things are. You are not the only person.
Well, thank God for that. My husband's been trying to teach me football for about 27 years. I have loved football for 58 years, but somehow it just does not register. I get my bare bones. I get the bare bones of football. You know, the yards and, you know, how many yards you got to get.
You get the first down. You get the first down. You get the touchdown. You get the field goal. Sounds like Al. Sounds like Al. He's just like Al Dukes. Yeah.
Yeah. I have been getting better, though, at looking at when they call the penalties. I have definitely gotten out. There's no way that's a touchdown. No way that's a touchdown. It's exciting. And especially now, it's an exciting time.
Well, you know, Tony, thanks for all the kind words. I'm glad we can promote that company. But it's actually, this is now becoming, for me at least, the least exciting part of football. It feels to me, every time Championship Sunday is over, It's a letdown. The football season is over because the Super Bowl is just a spectacle.
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Chapter 4: What was the experience like meeting Rico at the event?
Well, it's a month and a half before. But really, you're going to have a couple of quiet weeks. After the Super Bowl and then free agency is craziness. It's absolute craziness in early March, mid-March.
Well, that's when the new league year starts, and that's when trades can happen. That's when free agency can happen, and that's leading into the combine and everything else that's going on around the draft. And the draft is in where, Pittsburgh this year? Yes, it is. With their new coach, who will be introduced today, Mike McCarthy.
That's right. That's going to be a very Pittsburgh press conference. I can guarantee you that. It might even be a Primanti sandwich sitting on the dais. All right, so I want to make sure, I guess the tampering period is So if the ā no unrestricted free agent is permitted to execute a contract with a new club until 4 p.m. on March 11th, but the tampering period is a couple days prior to that.
Yeah, it's the 11th of Monday, right? 11th is a Wednesday. Wednesday, so they can really ā we'll start hearing stuff either that Friday or that Saturday.
Yeah. I also think maybe even that ā I think it's March 9th it actually is ā The perspective, yeah, you're allowed to communicate with a new club's front office at that point. That's the tampering period, March 9th. That's when we're going to start getting it. What about back channeling? Back channeling? That back channeling starts now. There's back channeling that's going on now.
But, yeah, I think the tampering period will start that Monday, and then it'll go throughout the rest of that week.
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