June 28, 2025 • 42 mins
Mike Harmon and Arnie Spanier (in for Jason Smith) open this 'Best of' edition of the show with their biggest overarching thoughts and reactions to the NBA draft! What are the early expectations for Cooper Flagg? Which picks were the biggest surprises? Later, they discuss recent comments from Jets RB Breece Hall where he called Aaron Rodgers "a misunderstood guy." Then, they stay in the NFL, discussing which coaches are on the hot seat heading into this season. Plus, is Tom Brady dating Sydney Sweeney?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the best of The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Greetings and welcome in a beautiful Friday night. Yes the
long week. Maybe you're starting your weekend. You're on the
highways and byways. Maybe you're just sipping a nice cognac
watching the NHL Draft in the end of some Major
League Baseball games. However you're listening wherever you're listening to
the show, Thanks for giving us a few minutes of
your time. We look to entertain, inform, and rage and
(00:50):
gage and create a little bit of chaos along the way.
So thanks for being with us on Mike Carmon Jason
Smith Off tonight, which means we go to the bullpen.
My guy. I had to check in on him because
I got no yellow notepad notes that we've been so
used to loath these many years here at Fox Sports Radio.
So when a game towards eleven thirty this morning, I said, wait,
(01:15):
I haven't heard from Arnie yet.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Two thirty my time.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, so it's like Wednesday, you're already texting me, going,
I got a couple of notes for you Monday.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I was waiting on Monday.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, so I'm waiting on it. And then this morning,
running a few errands and kids are home right at
summer breaks, we're kind of chatting up, and all of
a sudden, I'm like, wait, I haven't heard from Ernie.
Let me make sure he's okay.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
How are he's okay? I'm good. First of all, I
was a little nervous coming on the air tonight because
I didn't know if you were going to be here,
Because twenty minutes ago I texted you. You never texted
me back. So I was a little worried that maybe
something happened and you are going to be here.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah. Sometimes wait, traffic do that to you.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
But I was here when you were sitting in you're
sitting in the studio doing nothing. You can text back.
I said, let's go, let's do this not a thumb.
Zu I want me to do with that?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I thought, I that's not a question.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I was gonna.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Now you're driving nothing, But then you'll never.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Learn how to drive if I keep doing it for you.
So I'm gonna let you drive.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I was gonna say, you're gonna try to jerk the
wheel and take us into a ditch. Three and a
half minutes into the show at Stinking Genus one is
where you find him in the twitters. Find me over
at Swollendome. You've got ideas of what you'd like us
to add to the show. By all means, fire it off.
We'll keep them read. We've got four hours to play with.
(02:35):
We've got a couple of guys potentially game time decisions
in terms of joining us content. It's Friday night. People
have their obligation time.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
What does that mean game time?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
That means they have appointments and they have dinners, and
they have theater and you know, stuff runs along. You
know they want to go stage door. Maybe they want
to go stage door. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I'm not I'm not a theater guy.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
If if somehow that doesn't surprise, yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I don't do That's not in my repertoire.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You and I have known each other a long time, and.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
You do that though you that's right, that's my thing.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
My kids and I absolutely once saw the Book of
Mormon a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, oh yeah, No,
I could go complete blue collar. Give me my old
style or perhaps blue ribbon, or I can bougie it
up with the best of them. Get my foie gras
and my expensive wines. I run the Gamut High Society.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I didn't even go see cats, So there you go.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
You didn't miss much of all the things I've ever seen.
Like I've I've come around to lay miz as I've
gotten older when I was younger. You know, a high school,
and this is the tip out there for everybody. You know,
you've got kids that are that are getting ready for
high school, maybe into college. They like theater a bit.
Most theaters will hold back some tickets where you can
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go on a student ID for fifteen twenty bucks.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
So that's how we got cultured as high schoolers. You know,
I had a girlfriend that was very much Hey, we
need to go check this out. One time I ran
into your guy, your buddy, Steve Kerr. Okay, at a
theater in Chicago, him and Luke Longley and Judd Bushler
A night at the theater.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You know what's so funny speaking about Kerr, I was
just looking at something from our high school. But somebody
posted something the Doors played at our high school. How
about that? That's crazy, man, I'm like, what the hell? Man?
Some of these bands before they became famous playing at
high schools and small venues.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Or did they? Did they play a straight concert? Or
at some point Morrison start walking around in the crowd
and give a twenty minute, you know, poem off the
top of his a little before the base just kept
playing The Killer Awoke before dawn. All right, Well, we
watched some great pitching exploits tonight, some tough, tough luck
(04:50):
finishes to great starts. We'll get into that as the
night goes on. As we're at the midpoint of the
Major League Baseball season. This week, a lot of lamentation
and handwringing over the NBA Draft how it was covered.
Fortunately for me, I don't have audio for such things,
so I don't have the same vantage point as others
(05:11):
who decide they want to go after individual analysts or
the shows directors and everything else, whether it was I just.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Want to jump in there's the and this is no
fault of anybody, but some of the interviews to the
parents or to the siblings were just cringe worthy. Mike,
I mean it was just painful. But I know, I know,
I know, but you would think, I know, they're not
trained to speak to the media or but you would
(05:41):
think that they would have pat answers going into It's
not like it's snuck up on them. Mike. Oh, hey,
my brother just got drafted. I didn't see that coming
from from miles away. One guy kept saying, I'm speechless.
I'm speech I can't I don't know what to say.
I go, well, yoh yeah, like ten years to figure
out what you're gonna say it. It was so cringe
(06:01):
worthy with some of these interviews. I'm like, no, no,
what are you doing it?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well, I mean, it's tough when a lot of your
your kids as they're being drafted there obviously don't want
to go to their destination and they're they're mouthing obscenities
or literally on the verge of tears. Uh. You know,
it's tough for the family to then react to it. Hey,
your kid doesn't seem happy. You're happy? Then he got
drafted here, so you got to love it.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I love the one. But are you well what the
days you've been waiting for this day for a while? Yes, okay,
and you know.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I mean that wasn't look man, you know you know
the rule of interviewing being in radio. As long as
you have you give someone a yes or no answer opportunity,
odds are they're going to take it. Hey, did you
feel this? Yes? Yes, I don't have to then expound
upon any of my thought process.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
No, but I mean, come on, man, you know how
proud of you? You know you've worked so hard. Where's
we're all so proud?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Like, well there you go. We could we could that
one up. I could just I didn't see that one
coming a mile away.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
But it was.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
It was funny, man. It happens every year, but this
year and see more than than usual. There was some
cringe worthy interviews, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Now we got more more fun and excitement with the
draft obviously on Cooper Flag, on Ace Bailey.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
The role of family and mentors and agents and advisors.
I use those terms loosely, particularly the advisor term in
all of this, but I'd be remiss. You know, you're
a big hockey guy, your son was goalie and getting
after it. Tonight is the NHL Draft live here in
Los Angeles, and I want to say, you know, we're
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not gonna go deep dive, obviously. You know I'm excited
though black Hawks. Blackhawks get well, but the Blackhawks get
a guy named Anton Frondell from Sweden with the third
overall pick, six one two oh five, introduced by Jeremy Roneck.
And that's where I'm going with this. He's a he's
described as a tank on the ice. We could use
more of those guys anyway. Enough on the actual players,
(08:02):
but what has been a brilliant move by the NHL
in announcing also their CBA extension today. There you go,
there's the business of sports. They will add two more
games to the regular season fifty to fifty revenue split continues.
But with each selection you've got a celebrity getting after it, right.
So we saw Jeremy Ronick. Okay, hockey guy, but a
(08:24):
legend in Chicago, he announces the draft pick of front Dell.
By the way, you'll appreciate this, I went to the
Costco a week ago. I had to pick something up,
you know, at the little merch stand where you go
and your voucher thing. And the woman that was there,
probably mid thirties African American woman wearing a Duncan Keith sweater.
(08:45):
Oh I love that love. We became immediate friends. Yeah,
so that was great. But watching it tonight, right, you've
got Adam Sandler for the Boston Bruins.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I saw that.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I introduced himself as Happy Gilmore. Joshua Jackson remember him
from you know, when he was a teenager. Now he's
Doctor Odyssey, waiting in limbo for whether that gets renewed.
George Kittle just did the Predators pick Bailey? WWE Superstar
with the Sharks. Bruckheimer Jerry Bruckheimer doing the Seattle crack
(09:17):
in his movie F one in theaters as today.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I got to meet it.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Trying Bundy.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Really, they're trying, though, They're trying to make it interesting.
They're trying. I mean, it's it's never obviously going to
be what the NFL draft is or anything like that,
but they're trying new things, unlike what the NBA did,
which was painful and especially day two. But we'll get
to that later on. But the at least the NHL
is trying different stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Well, the fact that they had a day too. We
had a good chuckle about it yesterday. That was the
we can't admit we only did it because of Brownie
last year. We had to run this out that in
the contract with this media partner, and you know it
changes and everything else, so you work to that. But
all of that to say, Draft week, New new Blood.
(10:00):
Not a bad way to bookend a week that began
with an NBA champion being crowned. Right, circle of life.
You want to sing a few bars of that while
we're out.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, yeah, No, I've been your best.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Delton John for you.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I gotta tell you, I usually enjoy the NBA Draft.
I mean, look, I know it's only two rounds and
I like to watch a lot of college basketball. This
year though, I mean, it was a big snooze fest,
especially round two. Did they do it in the dark
on purposes of the lights go out or something like that?
Was they only allowed to have twelve people in there?
(10:33):
I mean it was it was like, don't tell anybody
we're doing the draft, could you please close the door
over there? I mean it was and some of the commentary,
especially with Steven A. It was just I'm not trying
to pick on everybody like that did the broadcast, but
they just didn't care or they didn't put a lot
of thought into it.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
That's well, can we just finally all agree for as
long as he's been doing this, even when he sat
behind the desk, well, actually it would have been down
in the hall here for Fox Sports Radio. Not exactly
a guy known for his keen research.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
No, no, that's.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
So. You're not piling on, nor are you advancing a narrative.
It is what it is. We accept it for what
he is. People like to hear him scream, maybe say
something crazy and then moves on from there like that.
That's it. So as soon as he shows up, that's
the guy that got killed in a Law and Order
episode a couple of weeks ago, and he's best known
for shooting a guy at General Hospital.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
He was good in Law and Order. I'll give him credit.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
He was in and a half before they found his corpse
in the park Sports Alert.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I was surprised about that. I'm surprised they killed him
off so soon.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
But he was like he would have gotten a little
more mileage out of that character was good.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I liked it. I did that he's got a future
of that, but he did he's done soap operas.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, No, he's a general hospital guy. That's right, and
they wrote him in that's right.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
But the commentary on some of the players, you know,
very short, very brief. You could tell that he didn't
watch a lot of college basketball though you know a
lot of these guys you probably didn't know anyway, unless
you're like Doug Gottlieb, you know what I mean, and
you having to be like a coach of a college
basketball team. Just not a lot of well known names
(12:13):
and not a lot of guys you think are gonna
go ahead and make a big difference when it comes
to the NBA next year.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Well, but that's it, right if you're a college basketball fan.
And we'll get into this more fully with the look
back at Cooper Flag. You know, we've got a promo
Jason and I running talking about you know him and
what his potential is Wemby and talking about the new blood.
But when we're talking about the draft, you know you're
gonna see the roster of guys that were drafted by
(12:42):
your squad Northwestern. We finally had a guy drafted for
the first time since nineteen ninety nine. Congratulation Brooks getting
it done. He goes to Oklahoma City, but the idea
being that you're gonna look at that roster, but you're
not sitting there to watch that, So the show becomes
an NBA show as to all right, what's the roster
(13:02):
and how does this guy fit in? You can do
all the pre cut sixty second montage of here's a
couple of video highlights, here's a three point shot, here's
him defending well on the wing or whatever whatever the
guy's skill set is. But you're immediately moving into all right,
how does he make his NBA team better? And one
of the teams that's stung and we're in the lottery
(13:24):
and probably didn't see a lot of national TV time.
Oh maybe there was a little more learning to be done.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Right right, Well, I'm asking what everybody else is asking.
When you after the first five picks, you're saying, how
does Rutgers have two players in the top five picks?
And go what fifteen and seventeen? Sub five hundred?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, I can find that in the podcast Smith and
I and I just laughed. I said what a great
recruiting tool for the current coach. Look, I got two guys.
I'm going full Caliperio. I got two guys to the
NBA Top five.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Come play with me, Ed, we're sub five hundred, so
he hey, details details that doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah, well, those kids don't care about the winning part?
Am I going to be?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean I guess that's the only thing
that matters. And obviously as Bailey, I guess going to
show up tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah, we'll get we'll get into his situation a bit more.
But yeah, that's the latest headline. Uh. You know, as
you're you're you're jumping ahead on our playbill, you're already
looking ahead to act three like you're trying to get
out of the theater early.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah. Yeah, no, my bad. But I the only thing
that was intriguing about this whole draft was Cooper Flag
And there was no U you know, suspense he was
going to be number one, he was going to go
to Dallas. The only suspense is how good is he
going to be? Is he going to be that transcendent
player like a Larry Bird and a Magic Johnson when
they came in in seventy nine, or is he just
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going to be another great player or or just a
good player.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
How about we talk about that next. Let me give
you one piece of information. Yeah, going into the draft,
since I know you're a would be betting man, Yes,
I say would be because I know you're not laying
it down. But here's a bet that you could have
laid down, just to say you want to bet. Okay,
you would have had to lay down one hundred thousand
dollars to win a single dollar on Cooper flag.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
To be the number one pick. Yep, get out of here.
That that much? One hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
That's how much of a given it was.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Yeah, but there's always God forbid. Something could happen, you know,
and he you know, gets injured, or he gets hurt,
he gets hit by a car, k not wood, and
he's not the number one pick. I don't know, something
like that.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
But I mean, how much would you know? Did anybody
lay down any money to the contrary thinking that the
bus scenario, because look how positive you are.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Well, how much did I get back if I put
that like ten bucks? Do I get back like a
penny or something like that?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Fraction?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yeah, fraction?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I think that might have drilled one in half for you.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
You don't get anybody back.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You get nothing.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Nothing is just you get a hearty.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Handshake and here'll print out the vouch you The cost
of printing the voucher was worth more.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Than the get the buffet. You don't get nothings.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Many of those left, man, they killed them all. All right,
we'll continue. We'll talk Cooper Flag, a little bit of
Ace Bailey, and so much coming out of the NBA Draft.
We got a lot on the dock. It's statue or
not statue. Caitlin Clark misses another game. Uh change in Toronto. Uh,
that's a whole other question. And then the hot seat
because well, no, not the one that the odd couple does,
(16:33):
but because it's the NFL, so we immediately have to
fire guys before they even coach a game. We'll get
into all of that and so much more. Arnie Span,
you're in for Jason Smith. I'm Mike Carmen. Thanks for
hanging with us. It's Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith
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Speaker 3 (18:31):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with
Me Mike Harmon No Jason two night off vallegant gallivanting
across the Southland. I think, uh, maybe he's at the movies.
I don't know, chaos ensues. Maybe he went and saw Megan,
or maybe you went to take in F One once again,
because you know F One an Apple Original Films Warner
(18:54):
Brothers Pictures. It's a heart pounding underdog story, comeback story
from the director of Top Gun on Maverick. F One
the movie. It's in theaters now. Jason and I had
a chance to see it, right Brad Pitcher Star We
went and saw it at an Imax screening here. I
got to meet Jerry Bruckheimer, so that was kind of nice.
And it has every feel of the Bruckheimer movies that
(19:17):
you know and love today, it's it's an interesting coincidence
because today is the anniversary of the release of Days
of Thunder.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I don't know why I wasn't asked to be in
this movie. I don't understand what's going on.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Well, can you I'm gonna drive? Does Beth drive the car?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
No, I wasn't a two seater Indy car. Once. That
was pretty incredible.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
You were not driving?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
No, No, I was not driving. Can you imagine? Are
you drive?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
On?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
And let's see how it is so incredible. I would
crash into the first turn. I mean my body was
leaning one way, we were turning the other way. It
was I mean, I didn't know which. I couldn't tell
you if I was coming or going. It was. It
was incredible, absolutely crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
It's an incredible I want to sit in the rumble seats,
but my daughter and I are gonna go see it again,
uh tomorrow in the IMAX format. Really it's it's shot
that way, it feels that way. The soundtracks awesome. Go
on down the line. If you saw the banshees of
Enye Sheering, Uh, Carrie Condon is in that and she's
(20:20):
fantastic as the the technical lead. And Javier Bardam, I
mean he's he's brilliant and everything. I want the outtakes
of what he did with Brad Pitt.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
You're above my head now, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
The guy from No Country for Old Men?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Okay, Okay, now, Sugar, you gotta put it like that.
You can't just be.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
He was also in the Pirates of the Caribbean.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Right, but come on, we gotta give me the you know,
like the screen actor or the what party played. Otherwise
I have no idea who you're talking.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Perhaps the greatest villain of all time. I don't know.
We'll have it up on the metal stand. You can
make your vote. Is Sugur that guy?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
We need we need no pop culture stone unturned here
the Jason Smith Show with me Mike Harman. There should
be another podcast or something that flows with it with
all the pop culture references to see the mister. Yeah,
the rich tapestry that we weave, you know, between music
and movies and television. Right. I stayed up late till
(21:18):
three am to watch the Bear you know bodies and
so all the.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Ways that TV show The Arnie Spaniards show is moving
along pretty well. I want you to know that.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Wait, hold on, hold on, wait what.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
The Arnie Well, it's not called the Arnie Spaniards Show,
but it's moving along pretty well.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
He was just nodding along like he knows what. How
do I not know what this is? We've heard all
about this on Arny and playing have you okay? So
this is a Sunday sim Arnie. This is actually pretty interesting.
There's a Segars just giggling.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
As we talk about this every every Sunday.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Every Sunday. Are you supposed to be leaking stuff from.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
The well as? He's absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Are you killing this problem by talking?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Probably? But I call it the Artist Spanier Show because
you want to well, I can't give you like all
the details, but it was written about me. The main
character's name is me, so you know, the whole thing
is pretty much about me. That's why I call it
the Artye Spaniers Show. From salam is involved with it too, really, yeah,
he's one of the writers.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
You roped into this.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I didn't ask. I'm not even involved with this. I
don't I'm not getting paid. I don't think. I don't
think I'm getting anything.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I don't know. You're the guy always saying you're giving
guys weeks off weekends, So I mean, obviously you got
somebody banks you.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Know, it's it's my co host back in the day
in Phoenix wrote a story about our days doing radio together.
And her daughter is a big actress in Hollywood. Yeah,
and she's gonna be in it. And they actually gave
me a list of names of people that they want
to play me. Very interesting. I mean, oh it was great.
It was some pretty big names out there.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
So hopefully we'll get Brad Pitt's on the list. I'm sure, Okay,
oh yeah, I wish man he's going to go back
to being a clip booth and and and then moving there,
and it's more like Danny DeVito's trying to play Arnie.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
That's probably Wow.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
That's going all the way back to Taxi and one
over the Cuckoo's Nest. Come on, man fifty, I mean
he was the penguin for crying out loud. Because we
have a commemorated the anniversary of all the Batman releases,
you you.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Would know all the names are going after, but it's
getting pushed along. I got I read the pilot and
and that was good. So now it's in thease, the
phase of getting pushed to the networks.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Okay, well I'm a powerful and attractive man and I
can act so absolutely.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Well what you're you gotta you're in it. You're dude,
You're in done, done.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Yeah. Now I'm going to be some guy. You write
into episode four that you shouted down look at how superior.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
My argument was, Yeah, exactly, And then you read.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
A tweet at me that told me much the same,
that we're.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Gonna make the Sega look nutty. That's he'll be the
the nutty.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
He's the voice of reason around here? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
We need more voices than if he's the voice of reason.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I mean, we all have enough of them. We're in radio.
We got enough of them floating in our heads. One
of someone's gotta calm him down at Swollen Dome, at
Stinking Genius one where you find us on ex Ian
Roddy Ian Underscore, Roddy Yes, at Roddy Underscore at Ian
Roddy Underscore. Got to make sure you place that properly
ski other Ianah, you gotta find that guy, shake him down,
(24:35):
all right? So I bring Ian in because he works
with us on the Fantasy podcast. Obviously he works with you,
You and Plank Sunday Night.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Wow, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Go he may jump through the microphone and choke you
out because it's a Jet's story, and you know, those
that listen to the show regularly work on it, like
Ian does or Alex or Steve for that matter, Nick
and Jets. Now, if you know it and you don't
work on the show, thank you for listening as often
as you do, because I know it gets referenced across
(25:07):
the network of what we do on a nightly basis,
which means you've got other things you could be doing,
but you're listening to Jason and I. So thank you
very much. Breese Hall making his feelings about Aaron Rodgers
clear because after he leaves and he heads to the
to Pittsburgh, there's always the question of, well, how did
his teammates really feel about it? Right that it's seeing
(25:30):
he seemed a loof, he seemed disconnected.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I don't think i've heard this cut on obviously.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Well it's going to be me doing a dramatic read. Okay, yeah,
I only saw it in print. But it's the idea
that we have our our idea of who the man is, right,
and we see him on McAfee. We've had a number
of clips and people have decided what he talked about
being vaccinated inoculated verbiage and getting into semantics about her
(26:00):
choices and wording and phrasing of who he is, worried
about who he's married to, or what he's doing in
his personal life, all of those kind of things. But
when it comes down to being a teammate, he's a
guy that it's not like You've had a lot of
people go on record to wag their fingers and say, hey,
this guy wasn't connected to what we're doing well. Ad
(26:23):
Breese Hall to the Mix quote, very misunderstood person. He
said this to Troy Montgomery of Steelers Depot quote, great
dude comes off to people a certain way, but once
you really get to know him, you realize how good
a person he is. Last year, when you're losing games,
the blame gets put on the faces of the team.
(26:43):
When you're losing, someone asks to get let go. But
what people don't realize when stuff is crazy organizationally, that
it's hard for players to have stability and win games.
I love Aaron. Me and him still have a great
relationship to this day. That's my guy. That was another
quote front that he gave to Albert right right along
the way.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
So I just want to say something about that. Here
he is praising Aaron Rodgers on what a great guy
he is. Forget about on the field, just off the field,
nice guy, misunderstood, blah blah blah. Who else does that
sound like? It sounds like Bill Belichick? Remember, Oh, he's misunderstood,
he's you got a great personality. He's very funny, right,
Remember we hear that all the time. He's very funny.
(27:22):
So what do these guys do. They're such great guys
and they're so funny behind the scenes, but when they
see media coming around, I want to act like a
horse's ass. I want to be as mean and spiteful
as is anybody out there, and I want to go
ahead and get one up on the media. And what
is this all about, then, Mike, just to you know,
just to one up the media, or they just hate
(27:44):
the media so much that they can't stand them, and
this is the way they want acting from them. Some
such great guys, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Well some of it you create a public persona, right,
I mean, look at look at our business. We got
plenty of guys who, regardless of what they're talking, sports, politics, whatever,
what they say and what they believe are two very
different things, right, especially in our embraced debate world. All right,
you got which side today? Yeah, But I don't only
want to I call it in the air. I mean,
(28:12):
that's that's where we're at, with a lot of stuff
in these circles. And you know it, and I know it.
We've been in this business long enough. We know how
the sausage is made, so you've seen that.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
But you're such a great guy, but all of a sudden,
when it comes to the media, you're like, oh, I'm
going to attack or.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
But there's been a lot of guys that you know
will joke and poke at the media, but behind the
scenes you hear about all the things they do. Right
Popovich being forced to retire because of his health concerns.
What did you get story after story about how he
looked after guys when they drafted international guys.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
But that's a shot at that's a shot at the
fans too, when you're acting like that on TV.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I don't think so as long as you're winning games,
and you're not treating the fans like that.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
No, Well, who do you think is watching the game?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Oh, they're enjoying the hell out of you. That's my coach.
If you're winning, If you're winning, it works, right. So
for Belichick it worked until they didn't win anymore. True,
and then all of a sudden, you're putting you know,
the guy with the pencil behind his ear as your
offensive coordinator. Now you got problems.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
For years, we didn't believe Belichick had a sense of
humor because he was so you know, so snippety to
the media. We're like, oh, there's the way.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
This guy hasn't you know what the Arnie I was
always a sucker for the show he did each week,
and I forget who the his host was and.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
The man, the man came no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
This is long before, like when he was coaching in
New England and he would do basically the chalk Talk
half hour and they'd highlight big plays. He'd go on
for five minutes about how they came to use a
formation and what a guy you know, would say in
a meeting room, and he'd give you this whole backstory
and it's like it was fascinating television, like that's the
(29:53):
guy that I believe him to be. And then you
have all the stories about how funny is and you
know what a limericks and whatever else. But all of
that to say, you know, you've got you know, public
persona and then there's the people that you are when
when the lights dim.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
By the way, Jason Garrett did that once, the former
coach of the Cowboys. He brought in all the media
people and he put up some you know, some of
the film up on the board and before the play was,
before the ball was snapped, he'd ask a few of
the media people, all right, what do you do if
you're the safety the quarters? Are your blitz in? Are
(30:29):
you backing out of it? And of course everybody was
coming up with the wrong answers. You just cost us
a touchdown, you just caused us the game, You just
caust us the division, you just cost us the super Bowl.
So it's pretty funny because the media not nearly as
you know, as smart about the plays as they think
they are, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Well, but we we recognize that and you're trying to
be that conduit and that's where you lean on the coaches.
So when you don't get a gent what you believe
to be a genuine response from a Belichick Popovich, go
to your favorite coach here and there's plenty of them.
I mean, how much are they going to give you
because they've got the next wrinkle of it for when
they go to the next next team. Right, you're only
(31:11):
showing you so many of the looks.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Right, I was gonna say, who's more hated, coaches talking
to the media or coaches talking to the officials. I
mean the way they talk to the officials, it is
just horrible. I mean absolutely horrible. The abused officials have
to go through with some of these coaches.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Well, you know what, they get paid, and they're expected
to perform at a high level. And when we walk
away from games and we can point to one or
two or three plays that are in the balance, because
most of these games are in the balance. So as
much as folks can say, ah, get one call doesn't
cost you, well, sometimes you don't have enough time to
recover from a batter.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Yeah, But whether there's two hundred and eighty calls in
the game or three hundred calls in the game, you
got to get all three hundred calls, right, you're taking
a test with three hundred. You're getting all three hundred right,
my friend.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Come but does that mean you don't work them for
the next call? Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Of course you do well. But that's that's what.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
You're doing, right, and your squad hits the Jets? Reese all,
is this just being a good diplomat on the way out?
Do you believe it? Do you buy it? Or is
he is he selling you a bill of goods?
Speaker 4 (32:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I buy it. That's that he's being genuine about it.
I feel like all the players kind of, you know,
they did seem to like Rogers, And honestly, it's kind
of refreshing that the Jets are in the news and
it not to be some you know, crazy story that
happened that's just for the detriment of the team. Like, no,
it's just you know, complimenting your former teammate. But Rogers,
just like a week ago, wasn't he just roasting the
Jets run game? Yeah? Like I think he was talking
(32:39):
to Mark Shalleiraz, who then you know, recounted it and saying,
you want a twenty five minute diatribe on the Jets
run game? Well, Breeshall plays running back, and he just
went out of his way to compliment him. So I
think he comes out looking like the bigger person, and
Rogers is Rogers. He's in another place now, so you know,
both sides can move on. I guess yeah, I guess
the context right of how how deep that went into
(33:01):
the individuals actually on the field versus how it was structured, right,
I think it was more about the run game. But
even then, it's like, dude, you brought in Nate Hackett.
It's all this stuff. That's right, we don't have to
but legitimately what that would actually lend to is kind
of a distancing yourself from it because it didn't work.
(33:23):
So so now we get into the same thing that
we always do, and I'm gonna do I'm gonna pull
an Arnie here, and I'm gonna pull in another great
lebron James. And how much he stirs the drink as
to what goes on? Is the he the shadow GM
for the Lakers. Same thing here, because we all just
assumed Aaron Rodgers overran anything that was going on in
(33:44):
terms of play call selection. Pittsburgh, get well, Pittsburgh, He'll
overrun Arthur Smith, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (33:50):
He's not overrunning Tomlin? I promise you that there's that's
not happening. Is it? Is he getting fall to me?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Well, this is me just longtime observer of men in
situations to say what Aaron Rodgers wants. Mike Tomblin obviously
was okay with bringing him in, So maybe that means
you're okay when yes, after twenty years, he's suddenly gonna
be a different guy. Okay, whatever you say, Arthur, I
(34:18):
know this play isn't gonna work, but we're gonna run
it anyway. No, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
No, I just I you know, if Tomlin doesn't play
around though, I mean, unless he's given full ontonomy, and
he may do it, be doing that to Rogers, and
maybe that's the right thing to do. I don't see
it that way though. I think that, you know, there's
gonna be a happy medium somewhere between. But I don't
think Tomlin's just heading him the keys to the car
and they go go ahead and win us some ball games.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
I don't know. He did it with Russell Wilson. And
I'll take my shot that Aaron's a little bit more
advanced than that.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
We'll find we'll see if that's gonna happen. I still
think they're gonna be some five hundred there.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Look, they're over under was it was baked into the
cake when he finally signed the deal was eight and
a half.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Yeah, that's that's exactly where they should be.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I not, you know, showing off, not falling behind a
part of the curve.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Exactly eight to nine is where I see them. That's
probably exactly where they're gonna be. Sub five hundred there
you go. Maybe maybe they'll get lucky and keep the
five hundred street going for Tom win to get to
nine and eight. But no no playoffs, no playoff runs,
no Super Bowls. And this is Rogers last year anyway,
he's this is it. It'll be gone, and he'll be
(35:26):
done after this one of an okay year average year.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
On the Arnie Span your Twitter feed. He will also
go game by game through the Steelers record for you
because I'm not doing it here. But we will stay
with the idea of the hot seat because Todd Bowles
drawing a little bit of incoming and recognizing that they
need to win down in Tampa. So he is not
(35:51):
alone maybe Mike Tomlin finds the list. Who else are
we looking at? And I know already right now has
already written letter to the editors for maybe a teamy
cheers for We'll talk about all of that as we continue.
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Speaker 4 (36:28):
You you got what I need? But you say he's
just the friend. And you say he's just the friend.
Oh baby, I got what I need.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
My ears are bleeding. Shake its head in shame. To
say welcome back here in Fox Sports Radio The Jason
Smith Show would be Mike Harmon throwing up right now.
Alex may have just thrown up in his mouth a
little bit. The dulcin tones of the sticking genius himself
(37:03):
and the great words of STEVEA.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Sager those who sing shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
That's pretty good. Thank you, Thank you. The idea that
you have no shame that's like sitting on the plaza
outside of the forum and saying, hey, Laker fan, Laker
or what was it? As I recall you telling me
a story once upon a time talking about one of
(37:30):
the all time greats having a broken leg or something.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Yeah, Kobe, I said, you had a broken I got
in big trouble for that was the shock. Yeah there
you go.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Uh so, yeah, that was one that Tysher played for me.
I said, well, I mean, now that we know it exists,
it has to show up again, all right, So we
go back to the fun and exciting world of celebrity marriages.
Something we played the game of who's attending the Bezos
Sanchez wedding over the weekend? Fifty Well, that's like, you know,
(38:06):
you're that's a budget.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
I don't care. I don't care how much money. I
don't care how much money you have. That's obscene to
have a wedding for fifty million dollars.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Did they help the economy locally and provide a lot
of money towards jobs and people's livelihood? Yet it was like,
could that have been better used here in the United States?
In America? You U say, But what I'm going to
fault a guy for spending money on.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
A web There was like seventy private jets there too.
I mean people were everybody was taking their own private jets.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Well, they don't like each other, so they couldn't coordinate.
Maybe they don't have anybody's numbers, but it seems like
everybody's exchanging numbers. Now, see what I did there. Orlando Bloom,
recently separated from Katie Perry's, saw that he's out wandering
around with Tom Brady. Tom Brady reportedly, according to TMZ,
(38:55):
something you found very fascinating. Ernie Spaniard may or may
not be making some time, and you interpret that as
you will. With Hollywood starlet Sydney.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Sweeney, yeah she's a big deal, right, I mean I
don't know exactly what she's done to become such a
big deal.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
But she's like saying she's a big deal. She is
a pondered for a second.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
But he's like twenty years older than So what do
you mean? So so what that's quite a difference, isn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Does it make it wrong?
Speaker 4 (39:32):
No, I'm not saying it's wrong.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
I don't know. You You you get into a pejoratives,
you know.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Space forty two, she's twenty two.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Okay, well he.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Can't find anybody in his own age group that's hot
or anything like that or what even though she's very
good looking, there's no doubt.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Yeah, why why Sarney Sweeny's twenty seven, she's not twenty two?
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Yeah, oh she's twenty seven. How old is Tom forty five?
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Right? Forty seven?
Speaker 4 (39:56):
He's forty forty seven?
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Forty seven to twenty seven? So what can I do?
The twenty year age gap.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
That's not as bad as forty two twenty two, I guess.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
But see, now you're just kind of arbitrarily deciding where
when that twenty year difference is. Okay, well, I guess
what do they just set it right? They say your
brain is fine after twenty five?
Speaker 4 (40:17):
Right here? Now they're not dating. They're just chatting it up. Yeah,
they're just chatting it up whatever, whatever that means.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
I don't know what. I don't know. But you're hanging out. Look,
you're looking for love. You're at a wedding. You know,
you give into the feelings of the ceremony and the
pomp and stuff. But what are you saying, Hey, I'm
in a foreign country. You're having fun.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
What do you say, let's go for a boat ride
just you.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
And I or let's go on the gondolne have a
little bit of fun.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
I guess, I guess, have.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
A canoli in a nice coffee at a little cafe
on the side of the road.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
They got the money. That was money for the lifestyle
the rich and famous.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Well, a lot of what they're doing I think could
be done on no money. What coffee doesn't cost much?
Speaker 4 (41:00):
No, but how you get to get there? I mean, geez,
everybody who was invited. Can you imagine the money Oprah
was there. Everybody was there was crazy? Yeah, insane, man,
that was insane.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Good for them, Like, look, I don't wallet watch only
if it's affecting my money. Yeah, nothing Tom Brady, Sydney
Sweeney or Oprah Winfrey is doing right now is affecting
my cheddar. Maybe it's like our old Pao, my old
co host for some Fantasy seasons. Carissa Thompson, Yeah, random,
Lauren Sanchez, she's at the wedding.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
Oh, she was at the wedding, but it's.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Also part of the Amazon coverage.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Right. Oh wow, God, I wish I could go. I'd
be wedding Crashers. I'd do you should have done it.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
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So thanks for being with us on Mike Carmon Jason
Smith Off tonight, which means we go to the bullpen.
My guy. I had to check in on him because
I got no yellow notepad notes that we've been so
used to loath these many years here at Fox Sports Radio.
So when a game towards eleven thirty this morning, I said, wait,
(01:15):
I haven't heard from Arnie yet.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Two thirty my time.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, so it's like Wednesday, you're already texting me, going,
I got a couple of notes for you Monday.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I was waiting on Monday.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, so I'm waiting on it. And then this morning,
running a few errands and kids are home right at
summer breaks, we're kind of chatting up, and all of
a sudden, I'm like, wait, I haven't heard from Ernie.
Let me make sure he's okay.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
How are he's okay? I'm good. First of all, I
was a little nervous coming on the air tonight because
I didn't know if you were going to be here,
Because twenty minutes ago I texted you. You never texted
me back. So I was a little worried that maybe
something happened and you are going to be here.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah. Sometimes wait, traffic do that to you.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
But I was here when you were sitting in you're
sitting in the studio doing nothing. You can text back.
I said, let's go, let's do this not a thumb.
Zu I want me to do with that?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I thought, I that's not a question.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I was gonna.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Now you're driving nothing, But then you'll never.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Learn how to drive if I keep doing it for you.
So I'm gonna let you drive.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I was gonna say, you're gonna try to jerk the
wheel and take us into a ditch. Three and a
half minutes into the show at Stinking Genus one is
where you find him in the twitters. Find me over
at Swollendome. You've got ideas of what you'd like us
to add to the show. By all means, fire it off.
We'll keep them read. We've got four hours to play with.
(02:35):
We've got a couple of guys potentially game time decisions
in terms of joining us content. It's Friday night. People
have their obligation time.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
What does that mean game time?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
That means they have appointments and they have dinners, and
they have theater and you know, stuff runs along. You
know they want to go stage door. Maybe they want
to go stage door. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I'm not I'm not a theater guy.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
If if somehow that doesn't surprise, yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I don't do That's not in my repertoire.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You and I have known each other a long time, and.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
You do that though you that's right, that's my thing.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
My kids and I absolutely once saw the Book of
Mormon a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, oh yeah, No,
I could go complete blue collar. Give me my old
style or perhaps blue ribbon, or I can bougie it
up with the best of them. Get my foie gras
and my expensive wines. I run the Gamut High Society.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I didn't even go see cats, So there you go.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
You didn't miss much of all the things I've ever seen.
Like I've I've come around to lay miz as I've
gotten older when I was younger. You know, a high school,
and this is the tip out there for everybody. You know,
you've got kids that are that are getting ready for
high school, maybe into college. They like theater a bit.
Most theaters will hold back some tickets where you can
(03:51):
go on a student ID for fifteen twenty bucks.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
So that's how we got cultured as high schoolers. You know,
I had a girlfriend that was very much Hey, we
need to go check this out. One time I ran
into your guy, your buddy, Steve Kerr. Okay, at a
theater in Chicago, him and Luke Longley and Judd Bushler
A night at the theater.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You know what's so funny speaking about Kerr, I was
just looking at something from our high school. But somebody
posted something the Doors played at our high school. How
about that? That's crazy, man, I'm like, what the hell? Man?
Some of these bands before they became famous playing at
high schools and small venues.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Or did they? Did they play a straight concert? Or
at some point Morrison start walking around in the crowd
and give a twenty minute, you know, poem off the
top of his a little before the base just kept
playing The Killer Awoke before dawn. All right, Well, we
watched some great pitching exploits tonight, some tough, tough luck
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finishes to great starts. We'll get into that as the
night goes on. As we're at the midpoint of the
Major League Baseball season. This week, a lot of lamentation
and handwringing over the NBA Draft how it was covered.
Fortunately for me, I don't have audio for such things,
so I don't have the same vantage point as others
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who decide they want to go after individual analysts or
the shows directors and everything else, whether it was I just.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Want to jump in there's the and this is no
fault of anybody, but some of the interviews to the
parents or to the siblings were just cringe worthy. Mike,
I mean it was just painful. But I know, I know,
I know, but you would think, I know, they're not
trained to speak to the media or but you would
(05:41):
think that they would have pat answers going into It's
not like it's snuck up on them. Mike. Oh, hey,
my brother just got drafted. I didn't see that coming
from from miles away. One guy kept saying, I'm speechless.
I'm speech I can't I don't know what to say.
I go, well, yoh yeah, like ten years to figure
out what you're gonna say it. It was so cringe
(06:01):
worthy with some of these interviews. I'm like, no, no,
what are you doing it?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well, I mean, it's tough when a lot of your
your kids as they're being drafted there obviously don't want
to go to their destination and they're they're mouthing obscenities
or literally on the verge of tears. Uh. You know,
it's tough for the family to then react to it. Hey,
your kid doesn't seem happy. You're happy? Then he got
drafted here, so you got to love it.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I love the one. But are you well what the
days you've been waiting for this day for a while? Yes, okay,
and you know.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I mean that wasn't look man, you know you know
the rule of interviewing being in radio. As long as
you have you give someone a yes or no answer opportunity,
odds are they're going to take it. Hey, did you
feel this? Yes? Yes, I don't have to then expound
upon any of my thought process.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
No, but I mean, come on, man, you know how
proud of you? You know you've worked so hard. Where's
we're all so proud?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Like, well there you go. We could we could that
one up. I could just I didn't see that one
coming a mile away.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
But it was.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
It was funny, man. It happens every year, but this
year and see more than than usual. There was some
cringe worthy interviews, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Now we got more more fun and excitement with the
draft obviously on Cooper Flag, on Ace Bailey.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
The role of family and mentors and agents and advisors.
I use those terms loosely, particularly the advisor term in
all of this, but I'd be remiss. You know, you're
a big hockey guy, your son was goalie and getting
after it. Tonight is the NHL Draft live here in
Los Angeles, and I want to say, you know, we're
(07:39):
not gonna go deep dive, obviously. You know I'm excited
though black Hawks. Blackhawks get well, but the Blackhawks get
a guy named Anton Frondell from Sweden with the third
overall pick, six one two oh five, introduced by Jeremy Roneck.
And that's where I'm going with this. He's a he's
described as a tank on the ice. We could use
more of those guys anyway. Enough on the actual players,
(08:02):
but what has been a brilliant move by the NHL
in announcing also their CBA extension today. There you go,
there's the business of sports. They will add two more
games to the regular season fifty to fifty revenue split continues.
But with each selection you've got a celebrity getting after it, right.
So we saw Jeremy Ronick. Okay, hockey guy, but a
(08:24):
legend in Chicago, he announces the draft pick of front Dell.
By the way, you'll appreciate this, I went to the
Costco a week ago. I had to pick something up,
you know, at the little merch stand where you go
and your voucher thing. And the woman that was there,
probably mid thirties African American woman wearing a Duncan Keith sweater.
(08:45):
Oh I love that love. We became immediate friends. Yeah,
so that was great. But watching it tonight, right, you've
got Adam Sandler for the Boston Bruins.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I saw that.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I introduced himself as Happy Gilmore. Joshua Jackson remember him
from you know, when he was a teenager. Now he's
Doctor Odyssey, waiting in limbo for whether that gets renewed.
George Kittle just did the Predators pick Bailey? WWE Superstar
with the Sharks. Bruckheimer Jerry Bruckheimer doing the Seattle crack
(09:17):
in his movie F one in theaters as today.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I got to meet it.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Trying Bundy.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Really, they're trying, though, They're trying to make it interesting.
They're trying. I mean, it's it's never obviously going to
be what the NFL draft is or anything like that,
but they're trying new things, unlike what the NBA did,
which was painful and especially day two. But we'll get
to that later on. But the at least the NHL
is trying different stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Well, the fact that they had a day too. We
had a good chuckle about it yesterday. That was the
we can't admit we only did it because of Brownie
last year. We had to run this out that in
the contract with this media partner, and you know it
changes and everything else, so you work to that. But
all of that to say, Draft week, New new Blood.
(10:00):
Not a bad way to bookend a week that began
with an NBA champion being crowned. Right, circle of life.
You want to sing a few bars of that while
we're out.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, yeah, No, I've been your best.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Delton John for you.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I gotta tell you, I usually enjoy the NBA Draft.
I mean, look, I know it's only two rounds and
I like to watch a lot of college basketball. This
year though, I mean, it was a big snooze fest,
especially round two. Did they do it in the dark
on purposes of the lights go out or something like that?
Was they only allowed to have twelve people in there?
(10:33):
I mean it was it was like, don't tell anybody
we're doing the draft, could you please close the door
over there? I mean it was and some of the commentary,
especially with Steven A. It was just I'm not trying
to pick on everybody like that did the broadcast, but
they just didn't care or they didn't put a lot
of thought into it.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
That's well, can we just finally all agree for as
long as he's been doing this, even when he sat
behind the desk, well, actually it would have been down
in the hall here for Fox Sports Radio. Not exactly
a guy known for his keen research.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
No, no, that's.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
So. You're not piling on, nor are you advancing a narrative.
It is what it is. We accept it for what
he is. People like to hear him scream, maybe say
something crazy and then moves on from there like that.
That's it. So as soon as he shows up, that's
the guy that got killed in a Law and Order
episode a couple of weeks ago, and he's best known
for shooting a guy at General Hospital.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
He was good in Law and Order. I'll give him credit.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
He was in and a half before they found his corpse
in the park Sports Alert.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
I was surprised about that. I'm surprised they killed him
off so soon.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
But he was like he would have gotten a little
more mileage out of that character was good.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I liked it. I did that he's got a future
of that, but he did he's done soap operas.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, No, he's a general hospital guy. That's right, and
they wrote him in that's right.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
But the commentary on some of the players, you know,
very short, very brief. You could tell that he didn't
watch a lot of college basketball though you know a
lot of these guys you probably didn't know anyway, unless
you're like Doug Gottlieb, you know what I mean, and
you having to be like a coach of a college
basketball team. Just not a lot of well known names
(12:13):
and not a lot of guys you think are gonna
go ahead and make a big difference when it comes
to the NBA next year.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Well, but that's it, right if you're a college basketball fan.
And we'll get into this more fully with the look
back at Cooper Flag. You know, we've got a promo
Jason and I running talking about you know him and
what his potential is Wemby and talking about the new blood.
But when we're talking about the draft, you know you're
gonna see the roster of guys that were drafted by
(12:42):
your squad Northwestern. We finally had a guy drafted for
the first time since nineteen ninety nine. Congratulation Brooks getting
it done. He goes to Oklahoma City, but the idea
being that you're gonna look at that roster, but you're
not sitting there to watch that, So the show becomes
an NBA show as to all right, what's the roster
(13:02):
and how does this guy fit in? You can do
all the pre cut sixty second montage of here's a
couple of video highlights, here's a three point shot, here's
him defending well on the wing or whatever whatever the
guy's skill set is. But you're immediately moving into all right,
how does he make his NBA team better? And one
of the teams that's stung and we're in the lottery
(13:24):
and probably didn't see a lot of national TV time.
Oh maybe there was a little more learning to be done.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Right right, Well, I'm asking what everybody else is asking.
When you after the first five picks, you're saying, how
does Rutgers have two players in the top five picks?
And go what fifteen and seventeen? Sub five hundred?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, I can find that in the podcast Smith and
I and I just laughed. I said what a great
recruiting tool for the current coach. Look, I got two guys.
I'm going full Caliperio. I got two guys to the
NBA Top five.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Come play with me, Ed, we're sub five hundred, so
he hey, details details that doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah, well, those kids don't care about the winning part?
Am I going to be?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean I guess that's the only thing
that matters. And obviously as Bailey, I guess going to
show up tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah, we'll get we'll get into his situation a bit more.
But yeah, that's the latest headline. Uh. You know, as
you're you're you're jumping ahead on our playbill, you're already
looking ahead to act three like you're trying to get
out of the theater early.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah. Yeah, no, my bad. But I the only thing
that was intriguing about this whole draft was Cooper Flag
And there was no U you know, suspense he was
going to be number one, he was going to go
to Dallas. The only suspense is how good is he
going to be? Is he going to be that transcendent
player like a Larry Bird and a Magic Johnson when
they came in in seventy nine, or is he just
(14:46):
going to be another great player or or just a
good player.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
How about we talk about that next. Let me give
you one piece of information. Yeah, going into the draft,
since I know you're a would be betting man, Yes,
I say would be because I know you're not laying
it down. But here's a bet that you could have
laid down, just to say you want to bet. Okay,
you would have had to lay down one hundred thousand
dollars to win a single dollar on Cooper flag.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
To be the number one pick. Yep, get out of here.
That that much? One hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
That's how much of a given it was.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Yeah, but there's always God forbid. Something could happen, you know,
and he you know, gets injured, or he gets hurt,
he gets hit by a car, k not wood, and
he's not the number one pick. I don't know, something
like that.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
But I mean, how much would you know? Did anybody
lay down any money to the contrary thinking that the
bus scenario, because look how positive you are.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Well, how much did I get back if I put
that like ten bucks? Do I get back like a
penny or something like that?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Fraction?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yeah, fraction?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I think that might have drilled one in half for you.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
You don't get anybody back.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You get nothing.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Nothing is just you get a hearty.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Handshake and here'll print out the vouch you The cost
of printing the voucher was worth more.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Than the get the buffet. You don't get nothings.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Many of those left, man, they killed them all. All right,
we'll continue. We'll talk Cooper Flag, a little bit of
Ace Bailey, and so much coming out of the NBA Draft.
We got a lot on the dock. It's statue or
not statue. Caitlin Clark misses another game. Uh change in Toronto. Uh,
that's a whole other question. And then the hot seat
because well, no, not the one that the odd couple does,
(16:33):
but because it's the NFL, so we immediately have to
fire guys before they even coach a game. We'll get
into all of that and so much more. Arnie Span,
you're in for Jason Smith. I'm Mike Carmen. Thanks for
hanging with us. It's Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith
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This is Jay.
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I'm here to ask you please don't listen to the show.
The hosts are two absolute morons who have the dumbest
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Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 3 (18:31):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with
Me Mike Harmon No Jason two night off vallegant gallivanting
across the Southland. I think, uh, maybe he's at the movies.
I don't know, chaos ensues. Maybe he went and saw Megan,
or maybe you went to take in F One once again,
because you know F One an Apple Original Films Warner
(18:54):
Brothers Pictures. It's a heart pounding underdog story, comeback story
from the director of Top Gun on Maverick. F One
the movie. It's in theaters now. Jason and I had
a chance to see it, right Brad Pitcher Star We
went and saw it at an Imax screening here. I
got to meet Jerry Bruckheimer, so that was kind of nice.
And it has every feel of the Bruckheimer movies that
(19:17):
you know and love today, it's it's an interesting coincidence
because today is the anniversary of the release of Days
of Thunder.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I don't know why I wasn't asked to be in
this movie. I don't understand what's going on.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Well, can you I'm gonna drive? Does Beth drive the car?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
No, I wasn't a two seater Indy car. Once. That
was pretty incredible.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
You were not driving?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
No, No, I was not driving. Can you imagine? Are
you drive?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
On?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
And let's see how it is so incredible. I would
crash into the first turn. I mean my body was
leaning one way, we were turning the other way. It
was I mean, I didn't know which. I couldn't tell
you if I was coming or going. It was. It
was incredible, absolutely crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
It's an incredible I want to sit in the rumble seats,
but my daughter and I are gonna go see it again,
uh tomorrow in the IMAX format. Really it's it's shot
that way, it feels that way. The soundtracks awesome. Go
on down the line. If you saw the banshees of
Enye Sheering, Uh, Carrie Condon is in that and she's
(20:20):
fantastic as the the technical lead. And Javier Bardam, I
mean he's he's brilliant and everything. I want the outtakes
of what he did with Brad Pitt.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
You're above my head now, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
The guy from No Country for Old Men?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Okay, Okay, now, Sugar, you gotta put it like that.
You can't just be.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
He was also in the Pirates of the Caribbean.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Right, but come on, we gotta give me the you know,
like the screen actor or the what party played. Otherwise
I have no idea who you're talking.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Perhaps the greatest villain of all time. I don't know.
We'll have it up on the metal stand. You can
make your vote. Is Sugur that guy?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
We need we need no pop culture stone unturned here
the Jason Smith Show with me Mike Harman. There should
be another podcast or something that flows with it with
all the pop culture references to see the mister. Yeah,
the rich tapestry that we weave, you know, between music
and movies and television. Right. I stayed up late till
(21:18):
three am to watch the Bear you know bodies and
so all the.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Ways that TV show The Arnie Spaniards show is moving
along pretty well. I want you to know that.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Wait, hold on, hold on, wait what.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
The Arnie Well, it's not called the Arnie Spaniards Show,
but it's moving along pretty well.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
He was just nodding along like he knows what. How
do I not know what this is? We've heard all
about this on Arny and playing have you okay? So
this is a Sunday sim Arnie. This is actually pretty interesting.
There's a Segars just giggling.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
As we talk about this every every Sunday.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Every Sunday. Are you supposed to be leaking stuff from.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
The well as? He's absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Are you killing this problem by talking?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Probably? But I call it the Artist Spanier Show because
you want to well, I can't give you like all
the details, but it was written about me. The main
character's name is me, so you know, the whole thing
is pretty much about me. That's why I call it
the Artye Spaniers Show. From salam is involved with it too, really, yeah,
he's one of the writers.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
You roped into this.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I didn't ask. I'm not even involved with this. I
don't I'm not getting paid. I don't think. I don't
think I'm getting anything.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I don't know. You're the guy always saying you're giving
guys weeks off weekends, So I mean, obviously you got
somebody banks you.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Know, it's it's my co host back in the day
in Phoenix wrote a story about our days doing radio together.
And her daughter is a big actress in Hollywood. Yeah,
and she's gonna be in it. And they actually gave
me a list of names of people that they want
to play me. Very interesting. I mean, oh it was great.
It was some pretty big names out there.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
So hopefully we'll get Brad Pitt's on the list. I'm sure, Okay,
oh yeah, I wish man he's going to go back
to being a clip booth and and and then moving there,
and it's more like Danny DeVito's trying to play Arnie.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
That's probably Wow.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
That's going all the way back to Taxi and one
over the Cuckoo's Nest. Come on, man fifty, I mean
he was the penguin for crying out loud. Because we
have a commemorated the anniversary of all the Batman releases,
you you.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Would know all the names are going after, but it's
getting pushed along. I got I read the pilot and
and that was good. So now it's in thease, the
phase of getting pushed to the networks.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Okay, well I'm a powerful and attractive man and I
can act so absolutely.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Well what you're you gotta you're in it. You're dude,
You're in done, done.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Yeah. Now I'm going to be some guy. You write
into episode four that you shouted down look at how superior.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
My argument was, Yeah, exactly, And then you read.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
A tweet at me that told me much the same,
that we're.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Gonna make the Sega look nutty. That's he'll be the
the nutty.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
He's the voice of reason around here? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
We need more voices than if he's the voice of reason.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I mean, we all have enough of them. We're in radio.
We got enough of them floating in our heads. One
of someone's gotta calm him down at Swollen Dome, at
Stinking Genius one where you find us on ex Ian
Roddy Ian Underscore, Roddy Yes, at Roddy Underscore at Ian
Roddy Underscore. Got to make sure you place that properly
ski other Ianah, you gotta find that guy, shake him down,
(24:35):
all right? So I bring Ian in because he works
with us on the Fantasy podcast. Obviously he works with you,
You and Plank Sunday Night.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Wow, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Go he may jump through the microphone and choke you
out because it's a Jet's story, and you know, those
that listen to the show regularly work on it, like
Ian does or Alex or Steve for that matter, Nick
and Jets. Now, if you know it and you don't
work on the show, thank you for listening as often
as you do, because I know it gets referenced across
(25:07):
the network of what we do on a nightly basis,
which means you've got other things you could be doing,
but you're listening to Jason and I. So thank you
very much. Breese Hall making his feelings about Aaron Rodgers
clear because after he leaves and he heads to the
to Pittsburgh, there's always the question of, well, how did
his teammates really feel about it? Right that it's seeing
(25:30):
he seemed a loof, he seemed disconnected.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I don't think i've heard this cut on obviously.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Well it's going to be me doing a dramatic read. Okay, yeah,
I only saw it in print. But it's the idea
that we have our our idea of who the man is, right,
and we see him on McAfee. We've had a number
of clips and people have decided what he talked about
being vaccinated inoculated verbiage and getting into semantics about her
(26:00):
choices and wording and phrasing of who he is, worried
about who he's married to, or what he's doing in
his personal life, all of those kind of things. But
when it comes down to being a teammate, he's a
guy that it's not like You've had a lot of
people go on record to wag their fingers and say, hey,
this guy wasn't connected to what we're doing well. Ad
(26:23):
Breese Hall to the Mix quote, very misunderstood person. He
said this to Troy Montgomery of Steelers Depot quote, great
dude comes off to people a certain way, but once
you really get to know him, you realize how good
a person he is. Last year, when you're losing games,
the blame gets put on the faces of the team.
(26:43):
When you're losing, someone asks to get let go. But
what people don't realize when stuff is crazy organizationally, that
it's hard for players to have stability and win games.
I love Aaron. Me and him still have a great
relationship to this day. That's my guy. That was another
quote front that he gave to Albert right right along
the way.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
So I just want to say something about that. Here
he is praising Aaron Rodgers on what a great guy
he is. Forget about on the field, just off the field,
nice guy, misunderstood, blah blah blah. Who else does that
sound like? It sounds like Bill Belichick? Remember, Oh, he's misunderstood,
he's you got a great personality. He's very funny, right,
Remember we hear that all the time. He's very funny.
(27:22):
So what do these guys do. They're such great guys
and they're so funny behind the scenes, but when they
see media coming around, I want to act like a
horse's ass. I want to be as mean and spiteful
as is anybody out there, and I want to go
ahead and get one up on the media. And what
is this all about, then, Mike, just to you know,
just to one up the media, or they just hate
(27:44):
the media so much that they can't stand them, and
this is the way they want acting from them. Some
such great guys, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Well some of it you create a public persona, right,
I mean, look at look at our business. We got
plenty of guys who, regardless of what they're talking, sports, politics, whatever,
what they say and what they believe are two very
different things, right, especially in our embraced debate world. All right,
you got which side today? Yeah, But I don't only
want to I call it in the air. I mean,
(28:12):
that's that's where we're at, with a lot of stuff
in these circles. And you know it, and I know it.
We've been in this business long enough. We know how
the sausage is made, so you've seen that.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
But you're such a great guy, but all of a sudden,
when it comes to the media, you're like, oh, I'm
going to attack or.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
But there's been a lot of guys that you know
will joke and poke at the media, but behind the
scenes you hear about all the things they do. Right
Popovich being forced to retire because of his health concerns.
What did you get story after story about how he
looked after guys when they drafted international guys.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
But that's a shot at that's a shot at the
fans too, when you're acting like that on TV.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I don't think so as long as you're winning games,
and you're not treating the fans like that.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
No, Well, who do you think is watching the game?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Oh, they're enjoying the hell out of you. That's my coach.
If you're winning, If you're winning, it works, right. So
for Belichick it worked until they didn't win anymore. True,
and then all of a sudden, you're putting you know,
the guy with the pencil behind his ear as your
offensive coordinator. Now you got problems.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
For years, we didn't believe Belichick had a sense of
humor because he was so you know, so snippety to
the media. We're like, oh, there's the way.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
This guy hasn't you know what the Arnie I was
always a sucker for the show he did each week,
and I forget who the his host was and.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
The man, the man came no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
This is long before, like when he was coaching in
New England and he would do basically the chalk Talk
half hour and they'd highlight big plays. He'd go on
for five minutes about how they came to use a
formation and what a guy you know, would say in
a meeting room, and he'd give you this whole backstory
and it's like it was fascinating television, like that's the
(29:53):
guy that I believe him to be. And then you
have all the stories about how funny is and you
know what a limericks and whatever else. But all of
that to say, you know, you've got you know, public
persona and then there's the people that you are when
when the lights dim.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
By the way, Jason Garrett did that once, the former
coach of the Cowboys. He brought in all the media
people and he put up some you know, some of
the film up on the board and before the play was,
before the ball was snapped, he'd ask a few of
the media people, all right, what do you do if
you're the safety the quarters? Are your blitz in? Are
(30:29):
you backing out of it? And of course everybody was
coming up with the wrong answers. You just cost us
a touchdown, you just caused us the game, You just
caust us the division, you just cost us the super Bowl.
So it's pretty funny because the media not nearly as
you know, as smart about the plays as they think
they are, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Well, but we we recognize that and you're trying to
be that conduit and that's where you lean on the coaches.
So when you don't get a gent what you believe
to be a genuine response from a Belichick Popovich, go
to your favorite coach here and there's plenty of them.
I mean, how much are they going to give you
because they've got the next wrinkle of it for when
they go to the next next team. Right, you're only
(31:11):
showing you so many of the looks.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Right, I was gonna say, who's more hated, coaches talking
to the media or coaches talking to the officials. I
mean the way they talk to the officials, it is
just horrible. I mean absolutely horrible. The abused officials have
to go through with some of these coaches.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Well, you know what, they get paid, and they're expected
to perform at a high level. And when we walk
away from games and we can point to one or
two or three plays that are in the balance, because
most of these games are in the balance. So as
much as folks can say, ah, get one call doesn't
cost you, well, sometimes you don't have enough time to
recover from a batter.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Yeah, But whether there's two hundred and eighty calls in
the game or three hundred calls in the game, you
got to get all three hundred calls, right, you're taking
a test with three hundred. You're getting all three hundred right,
my friend.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Come but does that mean you don't work them for
the next call? Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Of course you do well. But that's that's what.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
You're doing, right, and your squad hits the Jets? Reese all,
is this just being a good diplomat on the way out?
Do you believe it? Do you buy it? Or is
he is he selling you a bill of goods?
Speaker 4 (32:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I buy it. That's that he's being genuine about it.
I feel like all the players kind of, you know,
they did seem to like Rogers, And honestly, it's kind
of refreshing that the Jets are in the news and
it not to be some you know, crazy story that
happened that's just for the detriment of the team. Like, no,
it's just you know, complimenting your former teammate. But Rogers,
just like a week ago, wasn't he just roasting the
Jets run game? Yeah? Like I think he was talking
(32:39):
to Mark Shalleiraz, who then you know, recounted it and saying,
you want a twenty five minute diatribe on the Jets
run game? Well, Breeshall plays running back, and he just
went out of his way to compliment him. So I
think he comes out looking like the bigger person, and
Rogers is Rogers. He's in another place now, so you know,
both sides can move on. I guess yeah, I guess
the context right of how how deep that went into
(33:01):
the individuals actually on the field versus how it was structured, right,
I think it was more about the run game. But
even then, it's like, dude, you brought in Nate Hackett.
It's all this stuff. That's right, we don't have to
but legitimately what that would actually lend to is kind
of a distancing yourself from it because it didn't work.
(33:23):
So so now we get into the same thing that
we always do, and I'm gonna do I'm gonna pull
an Arnie here, and I'm gonna pull in another great
lebron James. And how much he stirs the drink as
to what goes on? Is the he the shadow GM
for the Lakers. Same thing here, because we all just
assumed Aaron Rodgers overran anything that was going on in
(33:44):
terms of play call selection. Pittsburgh, get well, Pittsburgh, He'll
overrun Arthur Smith, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (33:50):
He's not overrunning Tomlin? I promise you that there's that's
not happening. Is it? Is he getting fall to me?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Well, this is me just longtime observer of men in
situations to say what Aaron Rodgers wants. Mike Tomblin obviously
was okay with bringing him in, So maybe that means
you're okay when yes, after twenty years, he's suddenly gonna
be a different guy. Okay, whatever you say, Arthur, I
(34:18):
know this play isn't gonna work, but we're gonna run
it anyway. No, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
No, I just I you know, if Tomlin doesn't play
around though, I mean, unless he's given full ontonomy, and
he may do it, be doing that to Rogers, and
maybe that's the right thing to do. I don't see
it that way though. I think that, you know, there's
gonna be a happy medium somewhere between. But I don't
think Tomlin's just heading him the keys to the car
and they go go ahead and win us some ball games.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
I don't know. He did it with Russell Wilson. And
I'll take my shot that Aaron's a little bit more
advanced than that.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
We'll find we'll see if that's gonna happen. I still
think they're gonna be some five hundred there.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Look, they're over under was it was baked into the
cake when he finally signed the deal was eight and
a half.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Yeah, that's that's exactly where they should be.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I not, you know, showing off, not falling behind a
part of the curve.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Exactly eight to nine is where I see them. That's
probably exactly where they're gonna be. Sub five hundred there
you go. Maybe maybe they'll get lucky and keep the
five hundred street going for Tom win to get to
nine and eight. But no no playoffs, no playoff runs,
no Super Bowls. And this is Rogers last year anyway,
he's this is it. It'll be gone, and he'll be
(35:26):
done after this one of an okay year average year.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
On the Arnie Span your Twitter feed. He will also
go game by game through the Steelers record for you
because I'm not doing it here. But we will stay
with the idea of the hot seat because Todd Bowles
drawing a little bit of incoming and recognizing that they
need to win down in Tampa. So he is not
(35:51):
alone maybe Mike Tomlin finds the list. Who else are
we looking at? And I know already right now has
already written letter to the editors for maybe a teamy
cheers for We'll talk about all of that as we continue.
It's the Jason Smith Show with me Mike Harmon here
in the Fox Sports Radio studios. He's already spanner. I'm
Mike Harmon. Thanks for being with us on a Friday night.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
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Speaker 2 (36:20):
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Speaker 4 (36:28):
You you got what I need? But you say he's
just the friend. And you say he's just the friend.
Oh baby, I got what I need.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
My ears are bleeding. Shake its head in shame. To
say welcome back here in Fox Sports Radio The Jason
Smith Show would be Mike Harmon throwing up right now.
Alex may have just thrown up in his mouth a
little bit. The dulcin tones of the sticking genius himself
(37:03):
and the great words of STEVEA.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Sager those who sing shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
That's pretty good. Thank you, Thank you. The idea that
you have no shame that's like sitting on the plaza
outside of the forum and saying, hey, Laker fan, Laker
or what was it? As I recall you telling me
a story once upon a time talking about one of
(37:30):
the all time greats having a broken leg or something.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Yeah, Kobe, I said, you had a broken I got
in big trouble for that was the shock. Yeah there
you go.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Uh so, yeah, that was one that Tysher played for me.
I said, well, I mean, now that we know it exists,
it has to show up again, all right, So we
go back to the fun and exciting world of celebrity marriages.
Something we played the game of who's attending the Bezos
Sanchez wedding over the weekend? Fifty Well, that's like, you know,
(38:06):
you're that's a budget.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
I don't care. I don't care how much money. I
don't care how much money you have. That's obscene to
have a wedding for fifty million dollars.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Did they help the economy locally and provide a lot
of money towards jobs and people's livelihood? Yet it was like,
could that have been better used here in the United States?
In America? You U say, But what I'm going to
fault a guy for spending money on.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
A web There was like seventy private jets there too.
I mean people were everybody was taking their own private jets.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Well, they don't like each other, so they couldn't coordinate.
Maybe they don't have anybody's numbers, but it seems like
everybody's exchanging numbers. Now, see what I did there. Orlando Bloom,
recently separated from Katie Perry's, saw that he's out wandering
around with Tom Brady. Tom Brady reportedly, according to TMZ,
(38:55):
something you found very fascinating. Ernie Spaniard may or may
not be making some time, and you interpret that as
you will. With Hollywood starlet Sydney.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Sweeney, yeah she's a big deal, right, I mean I
don't know exactly what she's done to become such a
big deal.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
But she's like saying she's a big deal. She is
a pondered for a second.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
But he's like twenty years older than So what do
you mean? So so what that's quite a difference, isn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Does it make it wrong?
Speaker 4 (39:32):
No, I'm not saying it's wrong.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
I don't know. You You you get into a pejoratives,
you know.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Space forty two, she's twenty two.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Okay, well he.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Can't find anybody in his own age group that's hot
or anything like that or what even though she's very
good looking, there's no doubt.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Yeah, why why Sarney Sweeny's twenty seven, she's not twenty two?
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Yeah, oh she's twenty seven. How old is Tom forty five?
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Right? Forty seven?
Speaker 4 (39:56):
He's forty forty seven?
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Forty seven to twenty seven? So what can I do?
The twenty year age gap.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
That's not as bad as forty two twenty two, I guess.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
But see, now you're just kind of arbitrarily deciding where
when that twenty year difference is. Okay, well, I guess
what do they just set it right? They say your
brain is fine after twenty five?
Speaker 4 (40:17):
Right here? Now they're not dating. They're just chatting it up. Yeah,
they're just chatting it up whatever, whatever that means.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
I don't know what. I don't know. But you're hanging out. Look,
you're looking for love. You're at a wedding. You know,
you give into the feelings of the ceremony and the
pomp and stuff. But what are you saying, Hey, I'm
in a foreign country. You're having fun.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
What do you say, let's go for a boat ride
just you.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
And I or let's go on the gondolne have a
little bit of fun.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
I guess, I guess, have.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
A canoli in a nice coffee at a little cafe
on the side of the road.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
They got the money. That was money for the lifestyle
the rich and famous.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Well, a lot of what they're doing I think could
be done on no money. What coffee doesn't cost much?
Speaker 4 (41:00):
No, but how you get to get there? I mean, geez,
everybody who was invited. Can you imagine the money Oprah
was there. Everybody was there was crazy? Yeah, insane, man,
that was insane.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Good for them, Like, look, I don't wallet watch only
if it's affecting my money. Yeah, nothing Tom Brady, Sydney
Sweeney or Oprah Winfrey is doing right now is affecting
my cheddar. Maybe it's like our old Pao, my old
co host for some Fantasy seasons. Carissa Thompson, Yeah, random,
Lauren Sanchez, she's at the wedding.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
Oh, she was at the wedding, but it's.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Also part of the Amazon coverage.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Right. Oh wow, God, I wish I could go. I'd
be wedding Crashers. I'd do you should have done it.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
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