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June 12, 2025 17 mins

In yet another legendary episode, Paulie & Tony Fusco EXPOSE the vast cover-up behind this terrible NBA Finals and how the Thunder and Pacers could INSTANTLY BOOST TV RATINGS. They also tell you what MORONS are forgetting about Aaron Rodgers and why he's going to make the Steelers MUCH BETTER, and how this move has already helped Browns QB Shedeur Sanders. Plus, they break an INTERESTING development in the Knicks head coach search.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right, all right, com into your life from Philly.
It's the number one rated Pauline Tony full Sco show.
Yo as always Pauli Fools gohay with Tony Fosk. Go ahead, doneo.
I'm back in the studio after going to New York
last week. You know, as you know, I went directly
to the NBA officers to warn them about how terrible

(00:27):
the space is Thunder Final is going to be, told
them to swap out the teams. Obviously they have not
done that, and it is totally blown up in their faces.
You know, his NBA Finals just so terrible. And yet
you know we're gonna have to dig into it on
the show, Tony, which is gonna get our show horrible ratings,
just like it's getting the NBA Finals horrible ratings. But uh,

(00:47):
that's our commitment to you the viewer, absolutely, yep. And
we don't realize that it literally might only be one
viewer by the end of our NBA Finals coverage, right, Dony.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
You know, we just asked that you sit tight through
the paces thunderpart and we'll get to more watchable, less
boring content. Yeah, although you know we're gonna be talking
about Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers. So please sit tight
through that too, because you know that's actually not any.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Better, No, not at all. But by the way, if
you want more watchable content, remember you hit like you
hit subscribe, you follow the pod. You know you'll be
able to see shows where we're not forced to talk
about Basis, Thunder and Aaron Rodgers. By the way, you
know you might have seen this. You know a lot
of people after Game one of the Finals, they said
that ABC's NBA Finals coverage hadn't felt special enough, right,

(01:37):
so you see in game two, ABC put the O'Brien
trophy on the court on the screen and you know, Tony,
I thought that totally fixed it, didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
You one hundred percent? It immediately felt so much more special.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Absolutely. So that's why during our coverage today, we're also
going to do the same, just to make our coverage
feel more special for you the viewer. Look at this,
think where it is a trophy right there on the screen.
You know, it feels so special screen dough and yeah,
look at that, but hold on just a second. Wait,

(02:13):
I want it's blocking my hand. I want, I said,
I want my hand to be able to go over
over the trop What are you doing that it's in
front of it? What what's that?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
I told you we don't have that technology to do
that on this show.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Boll can't you figure that out? You know, you're a
you know, you know what, uh, a technology person, you know, obvious,
you know obviously.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, no, it would cost a fortune to do that,
and you guys don't have nearly that amount of money,
trust me.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh yeah, well here's your fortune. You're going to be
dead after the show.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, read it and wait, bro, and just take it down,
Take it down, down, down. We got a lot to
get tough, so let's just get right into our top
story s. All right. You know, as we set up top,
the ratings for this NBA Finals just been absolute garbage.
You know, gave doo was the lowest rated NBA Finals
game since two thousand and seven. Well if you don't

(03:19):
count the COVID year, which got lower ratings because you know,
it was October and Lebron was in it. But anyway,
this Doughty Finals, it's just been so bad, such a
bad look for the NBA. And well, you had an
interesting theory about what's going on. Tell the people, don't.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
It You know, I don't want to sound like one
of those conspiracy nuts, but when you look at what's
going on in the news, you have to wonder if
the Illuminati, led by George Soros, had Antifa start these
riots in Los Angeles in order to distract people from
the NBA Finals so that they could blame the low
ratings of the finals.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
On the riots and not the woke NBA.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Of course, we saw this a couple of years ago
when the Illuminati told Russia to invade Ukraine so that
they could blame that for the low ratings of the
even less watchable Buck Suns Finals. Again, I don't want
to go down the rabbit hole, but it does make
a lot of sense, makes a.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Lot of sense just terrific basketball and also geopolitical analysis
that Tony, And oh, well you see this, you know.
The other day at a press conference, NBA Commissioner Adam Silvera, Well,
he came out and he said the league is considering
expanding to other markets in future seasons. And well, I thought,
why wait, right.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Dony, totally, why not do it now during the finals.
That's the quickest way to fix these crappy ratings. You know,
you take Oklahoma city and move them to Tampa Bay.
That way you got the lightning and the thunder in
the same city. And then you take the Indiana paces
and you move them to the biggest market, China, and

(05:00):
instead of the paces, you call them the pandas. That way,
you only have to change a couple of letters on
their jersey. And also you could make the jerseys in China,
so you save tons of money on labor costs because
you don't actually have to pay the workers over there.
Makes total sense.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
It just makes perfect sense. Don of course, what I
would do?

Speaker 3 (05:23):
What fucking in fact that that was the dumbest and
most ignorant take you've had in a while.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Here's adake. Can you just be quiet? How about that? Yeah,
take a take a sabatticle, you take a dump? What
what I have a better idea? What? Oh? Look, hey
put the Hey put the O'Brien troll over my face.
He did it for me, bro take it off.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah okay, but but next time you say something dumb,
I'm putting that trophy back over you.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well you can't because guess what, we're moving on the
non finals coverage. Yeah, so that wouldn't even make sense anymore,
Say jokes on you book. We're moving on to the Knicks, okay,
who are not in the finals. Okay, so stop with
the graphics and all that. Anyway, look, the Knicks, they're
trying to interview other teams coaches, but they're getting blocked
it every time. The MAVs refused to let him interview

(06:22):
Jason Kidd, the Rockets refused the maya dooka. But there
is actually one glimmer of hope here for the Knicks,
isn't that DONI.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yes, my sources tell me the Bucks have not only
allowed the Knicks to interview Doc Rivers, they've offered to
pay his entire salary if he can go coach the Knicks,
and also pay for his entire rent in the city
and all his utilities and internet for the next twenty years.

(06:52):
Just such a great sign of teams helping their fellow teams.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Just an incredible inside report that And all right, let's
move on to the NFL, where you know there's news
people care about more, not by much, but you know,
still Aaron Rodgers signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers, as you know,
and well Tony, you know a lot of people they're
bashing this move, but that's because they don't see the
bigger picture here, do they? Totally.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
What people are forgetting is that Aaron Rodgers is a
great leader, not because he can motivate the Steelers offense,
but because he can motivate the Steelers defense. They know
how shitty he is, so that's going to inspire them
to work even harder. We saw this with the Baltimore
Ravens in two thousand. They had literally the best defense

(07:42):
ever because they had the shittiest quarterback ever. Trent Dilfer
and I gotta say right now, the Steelers are my
pick to come out of the AFC and then lose
to the Eagles in the Super Bowl by a score
of seventy six to three.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Just terrific analysis all around that, Dony. And you know,
by the way, Aaron Rodgers he also announced the other
day that he got married. Yeah. Nobody seems to know
who this woman is except that her name is Brittany
with an Eye. But Dony, you dug into this, didn't you?
What did you find? I did?

Speaker 2 (08:17):
My sources tell me that this Brittany with an Eye
is actually a forty seven year old man from Nigeria
posing as a woman in order to steal Aaron Rodgers's money. Wow,
we know Aaron Rodgers is highly susceptible, like when he
got tricked by the Jets into signing with them. And
my sources tell me that people around Rodgers are very

(08:38):
concerned that he might actually now be legally weed to
a Nigerian telephone operator named Najobi also with an eye.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
I'll keep you updated on what I hear. Just a
stunning turn of events that Dony. And on that note,
you know, now that Aaron Rodgers is in the AFC North,
we need to reevaluate the quarterback situation in that division
totally because you know, when you break it down now,
this is a huge upgrade for Brown's QB Shadeur Sanders,
because it's now safe to say, Dowdy that Shadeur Sanders

(09:10):
is no longer the worst QB in the division. I mean,
what do we always say, if you want to judge
a quarterback, look at.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
That last season, you know, and when you do that,
you can see Shadure Sanders is way better than Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Last season, Shador had a completion percentage of seventy four percent,
while Rodgers had a poultry sixty three percent, and Shadua
passed for three hundred and eighteen yards per game while
Rodgers only threw for two twenty nine and Shaduu had

(09:48):
a passer rating of one sixty eight point two while
Rodgers only.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Had ninety point five.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
But that I mean, frankly, I'm surprised to steal didn't
try to trade for shador Met.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Too, don't. He just can't argue with stats like that.
And you know, on the subject to Rodgers, there have
been a lot of people out there wondering why the
Vikings what with JJ McCarthy when they could have gotten
harder to get Aaron Rodgers. And you know why you
can't compare you know, the stats from last season because
well McCarthy didn't play. I mean that's obvious. Clearly. What

(10:23):
you can do is go back two.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Seasons see exactly and when you do that, the stats
just speak for themselves. McCarthy had a completion percentage of
seventy two point three percent when Aaron rodgers completion percentage
was zero percent. McCarthy threw for twenty two touchdowns when
Aaron Rodgers threw zero, and McCarthy threw for a not

(10:50):
terrible two nine hundred and ninety one yards. But that
number is great when you compare it to Aaron Rodgers,
who had Goosegg yards. So clearly when you see the numbers, Now,
why are you kidding?

Speaker 3 (11:05):
What? Aaron Rodgers was injured two seasons ago.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
So we're making a comparison.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
But it makes no sense.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Well you know what's gonna make no sense? You on
your paycheck.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, the people making panda jerseys are gonna make more
than you.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Now shut up. Oh wait a second again, don't you
look at it. He's blocking off face. We're not even
in the NBA final segment anymore. This is just so unprofessional, Tony.
We're gonna have to handle this exactly. You know. We're
gonna sort this out though. Yeah, we'll be right back

(11:45):
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from break, and you know, usually at this point of
the show we do some kind of you know, deep

(13:13):
dive into a bigger topic. We were planning to go
deeper on this Space is Thunder series, but during the
break we got an email from the Fox Sports Radio
Research department about the ratings for our previous segment. It
turns out that the ratings were so low so little activity.
YouTube actually just shut down. Yeah yeah, yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
We also got some very sad news that a few
of our viewers actually got so bored they were lulled
to sleep and then passed away.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Oh I see that's what happened. Because I was looking
at this number here there was a negative three. So
that explains that the negative three. That's just tragic. We
do apologize to anyone who died during the previous segment.
Hearts go out, But again, you don't blame the NBA,
not sec fault. You know, we did dry and war
them don and told them at the top. Yeah you know,

(14:04):
if you are still alive, go back and watch the
previous episode, which was just terrific. Yeah all right, and
this not to say this wasn't terrific though you know,
it had its interruptions from Terobo Brudoso tried to ruin everything,
but that I tempt fate. We told you.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
No more what yeah, what corrections?

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Just go what you really believe.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
The Illuminati started the riots in Los Angeles to distract
from the NBA Finals and give the NBA an excuse
for the low ratings.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, bro, connect the dots, bro.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yeah, you know I shouldn't even bother addressing it. This
is the kind of crackpot theorizing that is ruining our country.
And you need to stop.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Oh yeah, well you know what. You need to stop breathing.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, and you know what, I am gonna bother addressing
the pipe bomb I I send to your mailbox.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Oh great one, what are I still knowing? What you said?

Speaker 3 (15:08):
Trent Dilfer was the worst quarterback of all time?

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Terrible, bro, bottom of the barrel. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
I can name two hundred quarterbacks worse than Trent Dilfer.
He won a Super Bowl, he made a Pro Bowl.
It's disrespectful to say that.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Oh sorry, you're right, Allow me to be respectful. Please
kindly go yourself.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, and also I kindly ask you to please go
play with you micro penis.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Oh still talking? What?

Speaker 3 (15:41):
I also want to point out what you use Shadoor
Sanders stats from last season and compare them to Aaron Rodgers'
stats from last season.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
So yeah, learn stats, bro.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Yeah, No, Shadoor was in college. It's a totally different game.
You can't just translate that to the NFL.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Oh yeah, well I saw your stats from college zero sex.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, here's something you can translate to s virgin.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Oh oh this needs no translation, Tony. A great message
that just came across book. For next week, super Bowl
hero Eagle's legend Nick Foles will be on the show Huge.
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(16:36):
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There you go, we'll see. Oh no, he's doing it
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(16:57):
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