Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Calls On Drafting Kickers, Rooting for Isles, Heated Rivalry Viewers
02 Mar 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. All right, 8.06, hour number three of the Boomer and Geo program. Coming to you live from the Built Ford Tough Studio. Geo will be back tomorrow, well-rested and tan, I am sure. At least I would think that would be the case. We've been all over the place. I do want to get to the baseball, but there's a couple of calls on the line.
I just want to get to them rather than let them hang out, and then we'll move on to the baseball. Patrick and Dobbs Ferry, good morning. Patrick, how are you? Hey, good morning, guys. How's it going? What's up? I've got a solution for the Giants kicking problem going forward. Talk to us. So we got this guy out of University of Hawaii. They call him the Tokyo Toe, Konsei Matsuzawa.
He taught himself how to kick on YouTube while working at a Morton's in Tokyo. Come on. Went to University of Hawaii, started the season, hit his first 25 field goals, including the game winner versus Stanford in game one. And he ended up being the first consensus All-American from University of Hawaii. This kid is legit. Wow. Yeah, you know who was coaching on the sideline against him?
Who's that? Frank Reich. Yes, he was. Very good point. That's a very good point.
Chapter 2: What kicker should the Giants consider drafting?
Yeah, I know the kid was 25 at 26 field goal kicking this year. And, you know, it is a great story. The question is, how much history does he have doing it? Well, he said, according to him, he learned on YouTube. Yeah, I know. I mean, come on. He was one of the finalists for the Lou Groza Award, which is the kicker of the year in college. So where do you pick someone?
Sebastian Janikowski, I believe, was a late first-round pick by the Raiders. Yeah, he was, by the Raiders. If you need a kicker, you want a kicker. Depends on just how strong the leg is. Is it like Brandon Aubrey, right? Yeah. You just never know. Soccer player? There's got to be the accuracy.
Supposedly, I want to say one of the Australian rules football players, I guess they did some punting drills. Oh, the punter? Yeah, and looked like he's probably going to get drafted somewhere. I always wonder why more rugby players don't end up as NFL players to some degree. It's a completely different game, I can tell you that. For sure.
And I don't necessarily know that they're... If I had to guess, I would say speed is an issue. Interesting. Because clearly they're strong enough. They're nuts because they're doing what they're doing with no equipment on. The YouTube thing. Where are the boundaries to YouTube? In what way? Have you ever looked on YouTube to learn how to do something and then do it step by step with the video? No.
I have as long as the video isn't like 25 minutes long. If the video is like a minute and a half to two minutes, I will sit through it and I will watch it, especially when it comes to like an iPad, an iPhone, a MacBook, or something like that that needs to take me through something that I need to learn. All right, so if I put into YouTube right now, Give me a task. Any task.
Because this is so crazy. Al and I talk about this on the podcast all the time. You could literally put in any year, any make, any model of a car and have an issue with that car and someone has done a video. Can you remove your own appendix? No, come on. Okay, all right. Give me something for real. There's no one did a video on removing it. How do you frame a house? Okay.
I will almost, I'll be stunned. I'm sure it's 100%. How to frame a house. Let's see. It comes right up. And the first video has 500,000 views. Oh, here we go. Are you doing two by fours or two by sixes? House framing explained 4.4 million views. Yeah. And the video is 12 minutes. This guy goes through it step by step. Well, there you go. And then there's another one here. There's tons of them.
How do you remove your roofing shingles? Oh, I like that one. How to remove roofing shingles. Well, that's not that hard, though. You go get the tool. I actually do know that answer. Let's see. Yeah, it comes right up. Yeah. All right. So what's your point? You can learn anything on this thing. Yes. And now there are limitations to it. Who needs to go to college?
Well, there are some people that do believe that. It is why. It blows me away. Hershen Valley Stream. What's up, Hersh? Talk to Boomer. Hirsch from Valley Stream is a cool name. All right. What's happening, Hirsch? And a cool listener. That guy was a great caller, but no one in my family was talking to me this morning after a half hour of that in the house. Boomer. Yes.
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Chapter 3: Will Boomer root for the Islanders if the Rangers are out?
He does, absolutely. But I'd like to hear him more here in the East, him being an East Coast guy, obviously. I know McDonough is as well. No, I'm talking about on ESPN. Kenny doesn't work for ESPN. I know he doesn't. And I know Sean McDonough's a Massachusetts guy. I like Sean McDonough. I like the way he does the game. I think Bob is... I actually think he's fabulous.
He's got a little of that Mike Emmerich sound. There's more excitement. Very exciting. In any event, it was a fun finish last night at UBS as they went back and forth there. Two goals and an assist for Schaefer across 23-plus minutes on the ice as he was a plus four in the game. And the Islanders do beat the Panthers 5-4, so that's five in a row for them.
They go west now, beginning with a Wednesday night visit to Anaheim to play the Ducks. Now, you said you couldn't have imagined that performance for him based on the way he woke up yesterday, but you did multiple times say that he was primed for... you know, going crazy post-Olympic break, and he has. Yes. So what the heck was it that he said to you or that you saw in him during the break?
Like, I know he's a great player, but this is like another level since we've come out of the break here. He didn't say anything. I could just tell by talking to him. Some good intuition on your part. Look, I don't want to speak for the young man. He obviously speaks for himself. I don't... I was disappointed he didn't make the Canadian Olympic team. A little extra fire.
So if I were disappointed, I can't imagine how he must have felt or how maybe his family felt. Disrespected maybe? No, I don't think it's not disrespect because you know what it is? For most of all of hockey, it's about respect. It's about paying respect to guys who've been there before, guys like Sidney Crosby and Drew Dowdy and people like that.
And then you just don't want to hand something over to somebody who's just starting. You know what I mean? You want guys to earn it. And I'm not saying that Matthew has certainly earned it by his performance this year, but he's just getting started. And Canada also. And Canada's loaded. They're loaded. But for me, he never said anything like that.
I just, just talking and being around him and talking hockey with him, I could just tell that he was ready to get going. Well, my prediction is looking pretty good. Two and a half weeks off, man. Yeah. And sitting there and having to watch Canada lose? This usually happens to me, so since I'm not the one sitting there. Vincent Comac, what's up, Vince? Hey, good morning, guys. Good morning.
Listen, I'm a big NASCAR fan. I've been listening since 6 o'clock. I don't think anybody's mentioned the fact that this guy, Tyler Ruddock, won the first three races of the NASCAR. And Michael Jordan's got his three-peat. Yeah, I mean, this had never happened before. Isn't it Reddick? This is NASCAR history. Yes. It's Reddick, right? What did he say? Yeah, Tyler Reddick, yep. Yeah. No, I know.
And he won convincingly, too. Yep. Chris? I knew about the Michael Jordan angle, but we don't really do NASCAR here on the show much. Why not? I don't know. I think this is important. I think you should. You mentioned the NASCAR races? Well, we did a few weeks ago with Jordan, sure. Well, there was a... Unfortunately, a little different tie-in there a few weeks ago with the Jordan thing.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the upcoming trade deadline for the Islanders?
All right, so to your point. Okay. Now. I don't know what the source of this is, but AI will tell you that heated rivalry surpassed 10.6 million viewers in February. It's popular. I was going to tell you that's fugazi. I don't know if it is or it isn't. I'm just telling you what AI is telling us. AI is very unreliable. Very unreliable.
As he's learning, he uses it a lot, and sometimes it misleads him. But that sucks, though, because I don't have HBO. And I'm not getting HBO to watch another show. I already have six different streaming services. It's too long. That's you. Don't worry about it. It'll become an all-in-one ginormous bundle. But not yet. Not yet. All right. Let's move on since this was a swing and a miss.
Jerry wasn't up on the show. I thought he'd get the jokes. He didn't. That's fine. Gay hockey show. Yeah. Was that from just now? That would have been great if that was from a few weeks ago and he completely forgot that he did discuss it. No, that I have not discussed. It didn't ring any bells. Got it. Well, this rings a bell for you.
Rutgers did beat Maryland down in College Park yesterday, 69-65. I would hope since you were on the call for us. I do vaguely remember that, yes. Saturday, St. John's over Villanova, 89-57. That was the follow-up to losing to UConn by 32 last Wednesday up in Hartford.
So Kevin Willard and Villanova feeling the brunt of the response from the Johnnies one game later, and Willard would know, having coached for Rick Pitino in the past. Your experience after a big loss, what is Rick like at practices? Well... I'm not full of ****. I don't have hair in my stomach. I had full set of hair when I started working for him. It's the most miserable experience in life.
You fear for your life every day. Seems a little extreme, but he's not really joking about it. Everyone laughs when I say that, but you think you're going to get fired. It's miserable. As he's gotten older, he's probably become more of a cranky old **** than he was when I was younger. Like you literally fear for your life. So there it is again, literally fearing for your life.
Comes with the territory, says Patino. Yeah, he probably knew him when he saw the score between UConn and St. John's. Yeah. I was like, oh, Jesus. Yeah, I got to go deal with this now. You know you're going to get the best of them. I'm going to run into a buzzsaw, and they did. Yes, last one here. Patino's been consistent that way a long time. He's that intense. He always has been.
He's got the most energy of any coach I've ever been around. I think that's why he's got 900 wins in national championships, because he does a better and more intense thing than anybody.
So you hear at the end, he obviously means it as a compliment, but I don't know if he was getting heat for the first part of it or something, or if this was just coincidental, but he followed up with a long tweet about it yesterday, about how great Patino is, and gave his first opportunity. See, I didn't take that first part as, wow, there's some truth to it, I'm sure.
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Chapter 5: How did the Knicks perform in their latest game against the Spurs?
And the energy that this guy has at 72, I should be so lucky to have it now. And that goes to the work ethic, and he's kept himself in shape, and I'm sure Willard just was, ugh, with this guy. And able to pull off that all-white suit again there over the weekend. Well, people say pull it off. That's not a great look. It's just not a great one. He's playing into the St. John's thing. I know he is.
I know. I get it. Let me give you something a little off the beaten path station related before I go. So this slipped through the cracks for me last week when we did the Padres pitcher with the hemorrhoid surgery and the whole thing. Okay.
So you spoke about Craig's experience back in the Super Bowl, first Super Bowl run for the Giants, and him having to deal with that and fly into Arizona and back.
Chapter 6: What highlights did C-Lo share about Matthew Schaefer and the Islanders?
So he later in the day, I guess, laid out that whole story on the afternoon show with C-Mac. And then he's telling the story about the experience. Plus, I think this might have been the same day you had the Giancarlo Stanton with the bag of chips. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe not, but the point is... A lot of times on this station, we even did it with the Stanton and the elbow thing.
We try to compare it to our own experiences, right? So regular person versus professional athlete. So I guess Pete Hoffman decided he wanted to chime in on all of that. Craig's hemorrhoid story as compared to others. Of course. And then C-Mac jumped in. Oh. And it kind of backfired on him a little bit. What do you got, Pete?
So is this the same thing, like, when people call up about, like, and compare their hemorrhoid issue with yours? Exactly the same. You're a world-class a-hole. I'm a... Well, I'm just saying, that's... Huh. Whoa. That's three shots. Didn't see it coming that way. I thought that's where we were going. You just, that's what you took out of that? Yeah.
Seemed like that was an appropriate thing at the time. Yeah. So we say he doesn't get to talk much, finally gets a chance and he calls him a world-class a-hole. I'll tell you what, that was a home run as far as I'm concerned. That was a short porch home run for the Yankee fan that he is, the shill that he is. Something a little uncomfortable in the moment and then trying to clean it up after that.
I felt good about it until I said it. I'm a professional a-hole. So my hemorrhoids are nothing like your hemorrhoids. That's right. My ass is special. That's right. No longer virginal, but special. That's right. Gotcha. All right. I thought that's what he was saying. Yeah, you did. So you loved it. I don't know if Blake necessarily loved it. I loved it 100%.
And by the way, it's in the hopper as maybe the best quote thus far this year, 2026 WFAN personalities in the hopper. Not just from CMAC, WFAN personalities. I think all of us. That has got to be like the line of the year thus far. Wow. All right. Well, the bar has been set. Yes. And we'll see if anyone can top it. Good for CMAC actually getting a word in. We got a word in, all right?
C-Mac gets a lot of words in. He's gotten more and more. He's gotten comfortable. I feel like it's, you know. He did. He did go back at Craig. Craig was kind of getting on Stanton about the chips thing. And C-Mac wasn't having it. Oh, you can on the C-Mac. He's got to protect his Yankees. Yes. Well, I saw he got into it with a couple of people on X over Stanton. X callers. Yes, the callers too.
The other thing I'm going to say is you can't count the last half hour of the show in terms of how many words C-Mac gets in. Because Craig's gone. Because Craig's gone. That doesn't count. Craig's been staying now. So they don't have a C-Mac hour? C-Mac is very popular. That's why. He's got Ryan's coattails. I don't know about that, but I do know Craig has been staying until like 6.15, 6.20 now.
Oh, 6.15, 6.20. Wow. Well, I think it was supposed to be 6 o'clock. Okay. And C-Mac does the hour. leading into the Lugauer, whatever we call it, after hours. And I think he's been staying a little bit longer. I think they like one another. 6.15, 6.30, that's beyond four hours. I mean, you cap it at four. So he's going to be, I mean, you can't jam credit.
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