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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome in side hour three the Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon, live from the Fox
Sports Radio studios. And believe it or not, Denzel Washington
hates what Mike and I do for a living in
all of us. But before we get to that, you know,
I meant and I feel bad. It's been two hours
into the show, and I wanted to ask you about
(00:51):
this ty shirt because I know this is something near
and dear to your heart. Reports came out today. Yes,
I love you well, thank you. I appreciate that. As
food it was big. You're welcome. Speaking of food. Uh,
you saw today that Beyond Meat apparently filed for bankruptcy.
Seeing right, But now they come out and say no, no,
all these reports are false and we didn't file for bankruptcy,
(01:15):
nor are we planning to. So we had the reports
of Beyond Meat filing for bankruptcy. Now they're not filing
for bankruptcy. Where do you come down in this?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Is is Beyond Meat? Do you do?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
You?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Do you push that? Are you are you? Are you
subscribed to it? Or do you have any inside information
on this? Because you're kind of my like you know,
food that that that I have questions about. You're the
guy I come to. Yeah, we're supposed to have a
podcast about that mat Yeah, we were. We supposed toyeah,
don't eat that. It's gonna be our podcast.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yeah, I'll tell Elijah to move back the Doug gott
Leap stuff for that.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, we could do that way. So I still want
to do that. Don't eat that thought with you? Yeah
you do with Beyond Meat. Yeah. Each each episode is
a food that we y. One of us says, don't
eat that, donate that. No, I'm with you on Colliflowers,
don't eat that. I'm with you on that. Eat that. No,
don't eat that kidney beans, because there's something you can
get that's even better than you then have to eat
(02:06):
kidney beans, not at all. Kidney beans are terrible. There's
a reason it's called kidney beans. They're your kidney I'll
tell you this though, I'll just drink water. That's good
for your kidneys. Just drink water. There you go, don't
eat that. Drink water.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
You're you're taking advice from the guy who literally eats
the balls from the ball pit at McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You do that. You have this this obsession that I've
I've never once been in the ball pitt. Deny eating them. Okay,
but I've never once been inside. If a ball, if
a ball find his way outside of the ball pit,
it's fair game for anybody. I've never been in there.
You're lying no, because well, first of all, it's very
(02:46):
small entrance to get into the ball pit. It's it's
very difficult.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, okay, and meaner now, oh.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Now I could.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
But now but now now you're acting like you didn't
treat it like it was hell in a cell and
drop into the top.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
There he comes with Ronald McDonald doing the play by play.
Here he comes, Hamburgler.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
What do you think Ronald McDonald's one of the costumed characters.
You're battling. What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Come?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
On, come on, I can't battle. That's like, no one
wants to see that. Ronald McDonald's Like, no, Ronald McDonald's,
but everybody loves Ronald mcdona.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
While in the background you got Max Sabbath playing the
theme songs for everybody.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
You got you got a battle, Grimace or mayor mccheese
or you know someone like that. Oh, Ronald, you don't battle,
and if you win, you get all his charity money.
And TJ clearly fallen arches for Jason Smith as he
beats Ronald McDonald to win the McDonald finish. Yeah, the
fallen arch. Well, i'll tell you that's Jason. Yeah. When
(03:40):
I first saw that Beyond Me was doing these illustrious
ads with Kim Kardashian, Yeah, and she was fake eating
the food. Okay, I was worried.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Okay, anytime you go to that type of celebrity, it's
not good because that's beyond eating.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That's not eating. Yeah, beyond meat is beyond okay, you.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I was worried, But I will say this, like when
the Whopper came out with it Beyond Me Whopper, and
then there was all these other fast foods getting inspired
by it.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I was hopeful.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
You know, it's a substitute, so people who are still
plant based, et cetera can go to these places. I
was very excited about it. I will say, personally, I
don't like them though. Okay, I know they're not a sponsor. Okay,
I'm just saying I've read a lot of their ingredients.
A lot of them are not soluble, a lot of
them are additives, a lot of oil based so stuff
I'm not a fan of. And this sounds crazy to say.
I'd rather you just eat the meat rather than beyond meat.
(04:24):
Person Personally, wow, I do believe.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I mean, annual revenue down twenty twenty one was four
hundred and sixty four million dollars. Yeah, the last twelve months,
we're talking three hundred million, so you've lost twenty five
percent of your base.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
I have the spokesperson for your company. Oh you do, yeah,
Fabio Okay, I can't believe it's not real meat.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And you could. It would be not a lot of
money to get Fabio to do that now, like he's
been out of circulation. He makes more money than you do.
Uh now, I don't know you were you sure about that?
And he's got better hair well, Yeah, that's true. What
if Fabio was bald. When's the last time he saw him?
What if he shaved his hair off? You're saying that's
a wig. No, I'm not saying what I'm saying. You
decided to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
That's hurts crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You've not I've not seen Fabio in a while. Maybe,
but see this is the problem Jason.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Yeah, I really was a ball, Like I said, that
beyond me in the beginning, Okay, but then you look
into it, you learn about it. Yeah, it's better to
not eat it, Okay. So that's why I was like,
not shocking.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
He said. They could have been bankrupt. Okay.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I just say, like, if you're going to go that route,
just eat the meat. You don't net fake meat or
just see fruits and vegetables, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Okay, love Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
So he said he retired in twenty twenty one. He
was hoping to marry and have children. Sleeping in a
hyperbaric chamber because he believes it reverses aging.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
This is ty Shirt or Fabio both, okay. Reversus aging, yeah, Alex,
just sleeping in the hyperbaric chamber? Is that reverse aging? Yes? Really?
So does fasting?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I thought that would. But that kills you if you
don't eat eventually. No, no, how long? Well how long
do I need you? How long? Is fasting good for?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Three?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Four days?
Speaker 7 (06:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Food is good for Are you kidding you? Over seven?
You can't and you drove you DT a car? Oh
that's dangerous. No sign, Yes, that's absolutely danger to make
you unsustainably able to drive a car. It makes you
want to pass out. No, yes, it does. Called heat
exhaustion or like dehydration. You need calories, you need water
at least. Okay, I'm pretty sure it's recommended by many,
(06:24):
by the FDA, by groups of scientists. You know, you
got to eat a certain number of calories a day.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, I's just gonna tell you it's technically not illegal,
so shut up.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
RFK says, you don't. Oh, that doesn't help my case.
It's too soon, Frostburg, Too soon. I could be Fabia.
By the way, I I do like twelve to fifteen
hour fasting. Almost everything's good, and that's great, but intermitted
for Yeah, I mean minutes though four day? No, no, no, no,
I do it. No, it's since PhD man, it's been
If you have sleep, it doesn't count sure it does.
(06:53):
You're not eating, you're fasting. Stop it. How many times
I used to wake up in the middle of night
going I need a sandwich. I'm gonna have sandwich three
o'clock in the morning. I'm not a sandwich, Jason.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
I'm telling you, there's more research coming out about your
body going into ketosis after seventy two hours of not eating.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
People can get three days without eating. It sounds tough.
It sounds like a bad idea. Just sounds tough. Everybody dry.
It would look like the zombie apocalypse, like when people
are driving they start driving into poles and stuff because
the zombies are attacking them. It's not like that's it
would be for people to eat for three days. Oh yes,
people would be happy tucking. There's a term called hungry
(07:31):
because you're angry because you eat so much. No, No, you're.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You're trying to kill the US economy. No, did we
not just say a story about burgers.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I want to save it. Hang on, I want to say.
Angry is a word when people haven't eaten and they
need to eat. Not true, that's absolutely true. No one's
angry because they've eaten too much. Just angry.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
No, it's called gluttony. You're so used to eating, you're
upset you haven't een yet.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
It's not hungry, that's that's that's full, that's that's whole.
I'm whole. It's not I'm mad because I've eaten too much. No,
you fall asleep?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
No nothing catastrophe, Uh trip to fan induced Komas Jason.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I'm telling you, if everybody faceted, the world would be peaceful.
There's no no. If everybody well, it'd be peaceful because
people would be passed out and they would die. Because
we're controlling the population. Why people haven't eaten. You see the.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
One with uh what was his name? Dana White? He
did a post from before and after his three day fast.
He looked great.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, well of course you're because you haven't eaten. But
stand up. Let me see.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Can you stand up?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You can have a conversation because every day, what do
you think about? What just went on? The care bears
are here. I have to go talk to them. What
are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Their are? So is Alice in the Madhatter. I'm late,
I'm late. I'm horrible, harribly late.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You need a sandwich. You gotta go have a sandwich
right now, Like, Jason, don't knock it to your dude,
there's no you won't. There's no three days, no way,
no way, no, Why would I want to do that
because you'll thank me? No, Frostburg, Frostburg. You're right, there's no.
I would never gets You're not going three hours? No
I can know. I go, I do twelve fifteen hours
O game awake standing on my head. Chance, No, let's see.
(09:08):
I do the six hours awake, then eight hours of
sleep and then three hours I go. I go like
twelve to fifteen a day. The first day is the hardest,
the second d is the deepest. The second day would
not be as hard because I wouldn't. I would barely
be conscious.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
No way, yeah, yeah, I bet you Jason, you could
do seventy two hours.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
You don't know you did, not, dude.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
No, the psychological battle that would be waged in his
head right there, it's not good.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I would after the first day, Like you know when
you go to the movies and they do the let's
go into the lobby, right and the hot dog is
walking and the Hamburger is walking, and like, let's go
to the lobby and you have ourselves a snack. I
would start seeing that and hallucinating that in real life
there's a walking hot dog. I gotta go grab it
and eat it. I'd be like Homewarns The Land of Chocolate,
like trying to take a bite out of a chocolate
(09:58):
colored dog. Oh, it looks like a the dog is chocolate,
but it's a real dog. What are you doing? I'm sorry,
I'm just so hungry. Yeah, my mind immediately.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Went to uh space madness, the famous Wren and Stimpy
episode covert my ice cream bar and all of a
sudden they're battling.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
But yeah, no, seventy two hours. No, it's the psycholog I.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Don't think that's healthy. I don't think that's good for you.
I get the intermittent fat No, I get the intermitt
in the twelve and fifteen hour fasting. I get that.
I understand that. I've I've I've done some research. Hey,
I've done some research. Suddenly I'm an expert. I've done
research on this. No, but I've talked to you know
my primary about fasting, and how important isn't through PhD
weight loss. You've been talking about it, but three days
your primary? So you mean Ronald McDonald, You can't have three.
(10:42):
I'm doctor doctor ron. It's doctor McDonald. What do you mean,
doctor Ronald or doctor McDonald. I don't know, doctor doctor
ron doctor McDonald.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Well, and then over the top you get the PhD
in musicology by doctor Michael McDonald, and all of a
sudden we're singing yamo b there, it's all over.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You don't but you should have a sand witch. Uh
you know, I maybe doctor Hamburglar, who would come in.
I wouldn't understand anything he said. Doctor what should have? Maybe?
All right? Thanks, I don't know what that means, but
I'm gonna go have something eat. I'm gonna have It's
like a pizza three days that. I don't think that's safe.
I don't think that's for you. Definitely not for anybody.
(11:21):
For other people. You couldn't do three days without eating either.
You couldn't do that. I'm not out here saying I
do that, no, but I'm saying I can't do it,
and I don't think it's healthy. That's what we're doing.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
To the great quote from Jeffrey Lebowski, It's just like
your opinion.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Man, Okay, if it really was that great and it
was proven and people could do a lot of great things.
More people would try that.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
No.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
But see this is where it gets tough, right because
there's a lot of things that are proven to be
good for you as a society.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Do we do them?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
No, not at all. I don't know that that's good.
But I really I want more proof it's good for
you than tight shirt. Read this in a reddit threat?
No more than that's not a Reddit page. I've done
it myself. I walked into Whole Foods and the guy
that was giving out nugenics was, you know, telling me
how it was. Jason RFK says it's healthy. I'm just
(12:15):
telling you, Jason, I can even vouch for this.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
We had Jay Glazer on he literally had a UFC
fighter on his podcast talking he had stage three cancer.
He fasted for like I don't know how many weeks
did chemo and his cancer's gone. Literally said it subdued
his cancer. Okay, I think the chemo probably helped to
fascinating all.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
That, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Okay, all right, all right, just saying, okay, all right,
you can handle me all you want.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Three day Okay, I'm just saying you could do three days,
all right, all right, try it all right, Now, okay,
here's what I do. I'm going to going to Whole
Foods and talk to the same guy you talked to
and see if he tells me the same thing. Her
name was Miel and she doesn't work there anymore. Whole Foods.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Exit.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I'm about a Fresco exit. Swallowen to that. Jason Smit
showing Mike Harvid live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
All right, we need to do that beyond me. I
clearly you see what will we all deal with here
every night in the show. But coming up next, Yes,
Denzel Washington hates what Mike and I and all of
us do for a living. Maybe I hate what he
does for a living, or maybe I just hate some
(13:15):
of the things that happen in some of his movies. Well,
you're next, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
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This is Jay.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
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Usually in these promos they ask you.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
To listen to the show.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
I'm here to ask you please don't listen to the show.
The hosts are two absolute morons who have the dumbest
takes on sports imaginable. Don't listen to the show so
it can get camps.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
What the hell are you doing out studio? Get him, Paulie,
Ignore that fool. Listen to the Pauline Tony Fusco Show
on the iHeartRadio app you get your podcast.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
He's still moving.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Ty Shirt thinks we should all fast for three days.
A bad idea. You'd pass out and you could do damage.
Fox Work. Let's do it Fox Sports Radio. The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon, all of us freestyling to
three day fasting. Three day fast do it now? No easy? No, yeah,
(14:30):
on the three days more of all of you. Let's
do it. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon, live
from the Fox Sports Radio studios. I really, come on,
It's okay, okay, we're done. We're done with the three days.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Jake ties me up at wait what done.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
With the three day fasting?
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Now?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Look, I apologize. We'll get to the Denzel Washington story
coming up in a few minutes, but we gotta go
to Vegas now. We got some big stuff happening the
last twenty four hours. Time now for our weekly visit
with Vegas insider Todd Furman. You can follow him on
Twitter at Todd Furman, former Rods maker at Caesar's, check
(15:10):
them out on CBS Sports Line. He's everywhere. He's with
us tonight, It's Todd Furman to what's happening? Man?
Speaker 7 (15:20):
You know, gentlemen, I had to get my football fixed
in Winnipeg tonight with no NFL preseason, no college football yet.
But as things always do, they come up. Travis Kelcey
and Taylor Swift. When you watch Zach Kleos, Travis Kelsey's
college roommate at Cincinnati, lead a last minute drive and
it's the Winnipeg Blue Bombers staving off potential upset bid
(15:40):
from the Ottawa Redblacks. As football season inches ever so close.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
You know, there's the twenty seven final. I love it well.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
That was a twenty seven to eleven game in the
fourth quarter. You know, I picture you sometimes, Todd, where
you know some stuff you don't tell us, and like
after you get off the phone with us, you're in
some kind of big high roller suite and you're popping
champagne going Yeah, Blue Bombers, thanks for this, Like, does
that happen in your life?
Speaker 7 (16:05):
I see that, you know, when we started doing this,
it feels like twenty years ago with you two knuckleheads,
and my life was a hell of a lot more
exciting when I was on the phone with you guys
or getting off, whether it was walking around Las Vegas
Boulevard going into a nightclub. These days, you guys are
how I end my night. And it's part of the
reason that I can't do the ten twenty Pacific spot
anymore because I'm fast asleep. No, there is no roll
(16:27):
over street. I'm sitting in my office. There is a
bottle of water here, and once you guys allowed me
to have my walking papers, I get myself ready for bed.
I'm hoping I'm asleep I about ten fifteen.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Wow, All right, then, well.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Exciting life. It's Mary Gilly.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah in Vegas. Yeah, I'm married in Vegas. That's where
I go. Now, first thing I want you know, we're
gonna get to college football here because we got the
Materia story coming up. But you put this out today.
You're looking at the best quarterbacks in college football, and
you do not have arch man on your list of
top five quarterbacks in college football right now, which I
think you can be arrested for, because I think you
(17:07):
absolutely have to do that when you're doing any kind
of college football list.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Yeah, it's amazing if you slammer a Manning in any capacity,
whether it be Eli at this point in his career,
Peyton arch Archie, or even Cooper. I think it's grounds
for imprisonment if you head below the Mason Dixon line.
But thankfully out here in the West Coast we are
safe from some of that purview. And for me, arch
Manning has a lot of proof, and I'm not saying
he won't move himself into the upper echelon of college quarterbacks,
(17:33):
maybe as early as the week one, if he leads
Texas on the road and puts together video game like
numbers against the defending national champions.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Arch is the front.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Runner for the Heisman Trophy if you believe what the
odds market is telling you at a price tag right
around eight to one, But he doesn't have the same
decorated resume going into the season like a number of
other quarterbacks I included do with the likes of Garrett Nsmeyer,
who still has plenty to prove under center this year
at lsu K club Nik at Clemson, who I'm sure
would love to put together a tremendous season and improve
his draft stock. Even a guy like Carson Beck who
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gets another lease on life leaving Athens a chance maybe
to have a wake up call with a surgically repaired elbow,
and he'll have a chance for the bright lights the
opening weekend as well, when they play host to Notre
Dame as modest two point underdog. So a lot of
quarterbacks that have accomplished plenty in the college realm, and
plenty of electrics soon to be superstars that still for me,
(18:24):
have much to prove during the month of September and.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
October ekstrap lading off of that, Todd, does that mean
we've got a wider window of teams that might be
viable wagers in terms of fighting for a national title.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Definitely the case, and it's part of the reason harm
If you were to look around the regulated sports betting
landscape right now, depending on your choice in sportsbook, you
will find a variety of different teams listed as a favorite.
Some books will have Texas in that role. There's will
have Ohio State, Georgia and Penn State. So it's not
like years past where you have a clear cut number
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one team. And it's part of the reason that we'll
see history on Big newon Kickoff opening weekend of the
season where the number one ranked team in the AP
pole will actually be an underdog in their first game
of the season, at least if the betting market holds.
Although I would not be shocked to see Texas take
a little bit more money as Ohio State does everything
they can to sort out their quarterback carousel. And will
it be Julian sand or what we see kind holds
(19:19):
under center for that big game against the burn.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Orange Vegas insider Todd Furman our guests here on Fox
Sports Radio. All right, now, let's get to the John
Matteer stuff. The last few days, Oklahoma quarterback a lot
of gambling scrutiny, says he never bet on sports, amid
the scrutiny of his Venmo page, which you know Hey's posted.
Here's some bets I made on sports with other people,
and there's screen grabs that are out there. Now, sure,
(19:42):
I know you've been following this story. Well, what do
you make of this whole thing? Surrounding the tier.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Well, first things first, I have to come clean here.
I am a former college athlete, and I did bet
on sports, oh while I was participating in the nca
not games that I was participating in, since they don't
typically hang numbers on Division three hockey, especially the NESTCAC.
But I was smart enough, at least when we were
going through our transactions way back in the early two thousands,
not to leave much in the way of documentation around
(20:08):
or use electronic methods like John Mattire. This may put
me on an island, guys, but by one hundred percent
think Matier was betting college football with his buddies for
low stakes. Do I think it's a big deal. Absolutely not.
And I think the denial in all of this may
actually be worse than the crime itself because people are going, well,
I would a kid be this dumb to actually put
that through venmo lest I remind everybody we live in
(20:31):
a world where Calvin Ridley, was a wide receiver for
the Jacksonville Jaguars, signed up for an account in his
own name at hard Rock to place legal bets on
the NFL, which is strictly forbidden. So I don't think
John Mattier, in my opinion, has really done much wrong.
I know he's violated the NCAA's policy on all of that,
but the denial, you know, for me, sometimes is worse
(20:51):
than the crime itself, and I'm curious to see what
they're able to uncover. You hope this story gets dary
if there's not much more to it and he can
focus on, you know, acting the Oklahoma football program the
way they anticipated when they brought him in as one
of the bigger quarterback transfers that we've see in coming
over from Washington State. But these are the kind of
stories that we're going to continue to see in the
world we live in. So I think it's always fluid
(21:13):
and the NCAA has to have as a punishment that
fits the crime. I think zero tolerance is great to
some extent, but honestly, guys, I'm more critical of the
potential policies that are out there where they're talking about
allowing college athletes to bet on professional sports. And the
reason I say that is because once you open that
Pandora's box a ten dollars better, it can oftentimes bet
(21:33):
fifty one hundred and get themselves in trouble, and the
unfortunate part is if you get into the wrong people,
the fastest way that you can repay debts is by
sharing information about your own teams games. And that's my
biggest fear. If you allow some of these college athletes
to bet professional.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Sports, opening that doorways certainly potentially problematic on a whole
other scale. Add the old shadow element to it all.
As much as we've got stuff regulated, Todd, I mean,
there's still a whole other, multi billion dollar marketplace that
can't be tracked quite so, people, Sea.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
I wouldn't know anything about that, nor would your brothers
in any capacity, So I'm not doing what you're even
trying to insinuate here.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I always love that my brothers end up in the
middle of all of this. Smith has accused them of
every type of theft known demand and now we've got
them in the gambling realm.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Let's go to the NFL.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
We've got four teams that separate in terms of Super
Bowl odds right now, three of which are in the AFC.
And then, curiously, he's sitting in the number two perch
despite losing their coordinators. The Detroit Lions far ahead of Washington.
How deep do you think the pool is of viable
contenders in the NFL as we sit here going into
Week two of the preseason.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
I'm not going to make a strong case for any
of the teams that have the shortest odds on the board.
Not because I don't believe in the Baltimore Ravens finally
potentially getting through winning the AFC and having a chance
to play for the Lombardi Trophy. But I just think
in number at seven to one or thereabout will be
widely available throughout the course of the season, given how
tightly bunched the AFC looks, at least on paper right now.
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As you get further down the odds board, I think
people are trying to make a case for the forty
nine ers given that relatively soft schedule, although if the
injury bud continues to bite at the clip that we're
seeing through Camp, I mean the forty nine ers may
not have fifty three healthy bodies to trout out their
Week one when they make the trip up to the
Pacific Northwest to take on the Seahawks the Vikings in
that twenty five to one range. You know, do you
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believe that JJ McCarthy can pick up where Sam Donald
left off and maybe make some of the plays that
Donald couldn't on the big stage in the postseason. So
I do think we have a little bit of a deeper,
more competitive field than what we've seen in the past.
Have I run to bet any of these teams and
add them to my portfolio going into the season. No,
but one team that I may not be as bullish
on as the betting market, or two teams along those
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same wavelengths. But the Houston Texans have a lot of
questions they have to answer. I have some major concerns
around their offensive line and if the defense regresses, can
the offense bridge that gap? And I still think you
have to play a semblance of two way football. And
for the Cincinnati Bengals, until I see more out of
this team defensively, even if Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, Chase
Brown or fantasy superstars, can they hang forty every single
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week knowing that the defense may give up thirty nine
in the process.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
All Right, Lastly, tom, let me take you to the
NBA where netstar Michael Porter Junior had a big, eye
opening statement from a podcast this week where he said, look,
he thinks the gambling situation in the NBA is gonna
get worse with prop bets. We look back at Emmanuel Class,
who may never pitch again in baseball, as he's being
investigated for a big prop bet throwing a ball the
first pitch of the inning. He said, look, you know
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you got guys that are telling their friends who don't
have any money, Hey, bet ten grand on this. I'm
gonna I'm gonna, you know, leave the game after three
minutes tonight, bet my unders. I'm gonna pretend I'm sick
and help get you guys some money. He says, this
thing could wind up getting worse. Where are you on this? Hey?
Speaker 7 (24:50):
You know those are eye opening statements, and you do
wonder you know how deep some of this can go
along that same thought process for me? And again I
don't run in those circles. But if you're an NBA
player are making millions of dollars, do you really want
to sacrifice your career and your potential earning potential for this?
Isn't it easier just to cut one of your buddies
at check for ten grand for some of these things.
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A lot of these prop markets, you can't move anything
in the way of substantial life changing money by any
stretch of the imagination. And I know Michael Porter Junior
a little bit closer to the situation, given what's transpired
with his brother around the Toronto Raptors. But I do
think sportsbooks and the operators out there bear a little
bit of the responsibility. Look, there's no reason to hang
player props for the guys that are eighth, ninth, and
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tenth coming off of the bench. Maybe in the playoffs
where everybody wants to try and be involved, it makes
a little bit more sense. But a Tuesday night in
November for a Raptor's Hornets game, do we really need
to kind of offer those betting types. Do we have
to get into some of the micro markets for the
first pitch of an inning, will it be a ball
or a strike? So somewhere along the way, cooler heads
have to prevail. I mean, we have some of these
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watchdog services that are out there to try and legislate
this and keep tabs on some of the irregular betting patterns.
So I've always said, like Harm kind of mentioned there
that anything that you can do in the bright light
and try and use that at some level of transparency
is going to take us in a more positive direction.
The one thing, and you know that, I will say
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for all the players out there that say it's hypocritical
that the leagues are partnering up with these sports books,
these boys better look in their bank accounts and understand
where the revenue streams are coming from. It shouldn't be
that difficult as a professional athlete to give up sports
gambling in some capacity for a eight to ten year
career or whatever it may be. And then should you
want to bet Major League Baseball parlays or get involved
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in the NFL, by all means, take full advantage, do
it in responsible channels. But it's a privilege to be
a professional athlete. One thing I will say to defend
the athletes though, the behavior that you see from whether
they're bosts or immature individuals that are betting, it's borderline
reprehensible and I think there needs to be a better
effort to try and monitor some of that behavior. So
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some folks that take to the social media channels decide
they want to break or threatened athletes. I have a
zero tolerance policy for that kind of behavior.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
He's on Twitter at Todd Ferman, that is at Todd Ferman,
Vegas Insider, has always appreciated my friend. We'll talk to
you next week. Have fun.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Always a pleasure, Smith. It's amazing you didn't get any
Mets dialogue in when they're two and thirteen over the
last fifteen games. I see how it is.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
There is no baseball tonight. I'm sorry Todd was canceled.
I'm sorry I have their.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Double day too.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Always a pleasure boy.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
See you buzz anybody, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Lott from
the Fox Sports Radio studios. Time now to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports from monthly
blogos who has the latest monthsly what he got for us?
Speaker 9 (27:34):
Well, guys, MLB wrapped up early tonight, so let me
tell you what happened. The Nationals handed the Phillies their
third straight loss, coming out on top three to two,
but the Phillies planned to utilize the six man rotation
starting this weekend when Aaron Nola returns from the injured list.
Nola hasn't pitched in the majors since May fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
The Guardians scored.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
Four runs in the seventh inning they beat the Marlins
nine to four. Cleveland is now half game back on
the Yankees for the final walchart spot in the al
Ozzy Alby's had three rbi as the Braves edge the
Mets four to three. With this lost by the Mets,
the Reds are now half a game back on the
Mets for the final wildcard spot in the National League.
Diamondbacks outscored the Rockies eight to two, and the Tigers
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held on forty three against the Twins and eleven innings
as Labor Torris hit the sacked fly.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
NFL.
Speaker 9 (28:21):
Week two of the preseason continues on Friday with two
games Titans and Falcons that's at seven Eastern and then
Chiefs and Seahawks that is at ten Eastern, and then
more games on Saturday. You can expect to see Justin
Herbert playing for the Chargers. It's gonna be his first
career preseason appearance. Joe Milton will start for the Cowboys
against the Ravens on Saturday, and Sam Howell will start
(28:43):
for the Vikings as they play the Patriots for their
second preseason game. Ram said coach Sean mcvahnounced quarterback Matthew Stafford,
who hasn't practiced during training camp because of an aggravated
disc in his back will work out on Saturday ESPN
with a story that Chiefs wide receiver where she Rice
has a disciplinary hearings geduled for someport September thirtieth. He's
still eligible to play in the Chief's first four games
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of the season, barring the reaching of a disciplinary settlement beforehand,
and in the NBA. Pat Riley will receive a statue
from the Lakers when they face the Celtics on February
twenty second of next year.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Back to you, guys, Thank you, Monsen, Jess, Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon. I didn't know. I know there are some
people that don't like what we do, don't like what
we say. Are takes. That's what life is, right when
you do sports talk radio for living your opinionated and
you know people like it or don't like it. I
didn't think we would all catch the eye. And I
say all it's the colloquial all of Denzel Washington, who
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is in the midst of doing publicity for his new movie.
I got the title right here. Oh, it's something you
don't want to see. That's the title of the movie.
And he has spent the last couple of days taking
shots at sports talk radio people, whether you're on TV
the radio, doesn't like what we do. Doesn't like the
fact that we never played the game professionally. And because
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we have a mic phone, we're allowed to give our opinions.
Here's Denzel not happy with us.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Everybody's got an opinion.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
We live in a world of opinionaire you know, That's
what I call them, opinionaires.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
They're all the shows, a bunch of guys and a
couple of them that are played, but most of them
who haven't, who have an opinion about what something should
be when they haven't done it. Those who can't talk.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
About those who can't, those who have know what they
talking about.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Those who haven't. Dune period too much talking, too much talk.
Everybody got an opinion. Everybody's sitting around getting fat, you know,
thinking they know how to do it.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Just because you can sit behind the desk and chit
chat doesn't mean you can do a damn thing.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Come get up here with me, let's find out.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Come get in the gym with me.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Let's find out.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I mean, I don't know you.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
You know, I can throw my hands, I can do all.
I can sure do it. I can do it for real.
I don't talk about it. Let me seeing kid you
know who never played a day in his life and
now and get back at everybody because he got a
mic in the space and show people need to shut up.
People need to shut up, learn how to do something,
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be actually good at something. Try m okay. So first
I have I have two things right off the bat
with this mike. Are we skinnier? Are we fat? Because
he said you have fat fat behind the microphone? But
skinny kids that want to get even with people? Right Like,
that's like are we skinny? Are we fat? Like? Which
way are we?
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Why are you skinny fat? I mean because that is
a body composition, isn't it? Like I think it's either
like my body fat low muscle mass kind of thing
like fats.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Like you get the fat fries or the skinny fries
at fat Burger, right Like, are we fat or skinny?
I don't know. Well, maybe maybe it's you and I
because you know before PhD weight loss and after PhD
weight loss that's why we were a.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Little bit of that.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah. But then he says does he does he seem
like he wants to fight people, like he said, hey,
get like like get in the ring, with me, Like,
is he does he want people who give sports opinions
for a living to get in a ring and fight
with him? Is that what he wants? He's seventy years old.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Well, I mean, look, played played basketball and for them
all those years ago. Fifty years ago. Man, that's not fighting.
But it's also like that music in the background.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Was that part of a movie?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Yes, he was ready to threaten me by the way
everything he just offered there, What is it?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
What is it? Oh? It's an opinion?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yeah, yeah, no, but I do agree like they even
you know, pumped it up for him with that boom
look like the starter.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
It's like he's giving me a monologue from one of
his films and like justin is, I'll go for the
hat trick.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
He's gotten it in. It's like just your opinion, man.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, So how about this? Okay? So Denzel hates us,
all right? I understand that, right, And there's lots of
things we can say, and there's lots of things I
can say to defend what we do for him. But no,
but I have a microphone coming up next, Denzel, how
about stuff that I hate that you did? And I
guarantee you I'm not alone with this. Yeah, a couple
of your biggest movies. I'll tell you what was ruined
(33:00):
because of things that happened in your movies. How do
we do that? That's coming up next. Because we got
big microphones. We're getting even with people because we're skinny
and we were fat, and it's next. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I'm a Woman.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I'm a Woman from the Permanent Vacation album of nineteen
eighty seven. It's Aerosmith with their come back.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
It.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Dude, looks like a lady watching the Mets.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
On the TV. They had a lead, but then they
gave it up. They lost of the braves again and again.
Now are leads down to one and you know we're
going to miss the playoffs. Mets, Mets really make me
miss the Knicks. Mets, Mets really make me miss the Jets.
(33:53):
Fox Sports Radio, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Live. So we
played the Denzel Washington audio for a few minutes ago,
gone viral over the what you said viral over the
past twelve or sixteen hours, where you Know. Doing a
a media blitz for his new movie coming out called
Straight to Video, he decided to take on sports talk
(34:17):
radio sports talk television. People don't like the fact that
people that didn't play a game professionally have opinions on
professional outcomes of games. Didn't like you, doesn't like your
opinionare right, doesn't like us? Well, I'll be okay. Now,
I'm not gonna spend time defending what we do for
lin because I'm pretty sure we've seen that. Hey, guess what,
just like acting, we can make a pretty decent living
(34:41):
at sports talk radio. There's a pretty big market there
for television and what we have to say for what
people like us have to say for a living. So
instead I will say this, Okay, Denzel, you you don't
You're entitled to your opinion, you opinionair, You're entitled that. Okay,
So let me tell you a couple of things I
didn't like. I don't like this. I didn't like the
fact that your final scene in Training Day ruined the
(35:01):
entire movie, a movie that could have been really Training
Day up until the last fifteen minutes. Top ten all
time movie. That's how good it was, That's how good
the story was, that's how good. The acting was incredible,
But no, we're gonna go this whole thing where oh
is this my cousin It just happened my cousin that
(35:22):
you saved, and oh now Denzel has to have his
moment where he's got a yell and scream and do
the King Kongsi, which I get it, you know, hey,
that was that was some kind of acting. But I
look at it, I go that just ruined the movie.
Like it, Absolutely, he's got to have his moment. We
have to have it. Make it where oh, you just
happen to run into my cousin and save her life earlier,
and then come on, man, that was it. It took
(35:44):
a great movie and said, oh now it just became
here's another here's a drama that we say, hey, Training
Day's a terrific movie, look how good it is. And
then the last twenty minutes that ruined the movie. Again,
it could have been a one movie. We say, well, hey,
top to what's a top ten all time movie? The
last twenty years? Training one hundred percent, so well done
all the way through. No, but that ruined the movie.
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That's what I didn't like Denzel. So there is first thing.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Ken wins an oscar if we want to go to
the Tomato meter critics seventy four percent, and he even
admits it did not test well.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
The ending did not test.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Well after the build. Yeah, that re ruined it. It
ruined because I mean, just think about that, and I
can spoil it because it's been out for twenty years now.
No exactly.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
I mean maybe people are hearing about this movie for
the first time since we're promoting it as Opinionaiirzel.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I mean just think just times where you hear him
like you think it's an oh, by the way, conversation, Yeah,
I got the bath dub ready. Ah right, man, I've
seen in a bit like you know, okay whatever, and
then you're like, oh, oh, this is what that's all about.
Like the way the whole movie you completely see his
character different. Everything changes, and and Ethan Hawk's character goes
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from boy, he's the guy that's standing up for the
truth you're rooting from then you realize, oh my goodness,
this is not gonna end all. Oh my god, he's
part of a bigger conspiracy that he's being used for.
That's an incredible twist. It's an incredible development to a
great movie. That was something who saw the you know,
the streets of Los Angeles, This is what it's like,
you know, on the on the on the street level,
(37:14):
with how and how some cops you know, you know,
talk to and deal with with criminals and informants. And
it was an incredibly well done Now you've seen it
done so many times, but it was it was groundbreaking
back then. And this is just going back like twenty
some odd years. And if it had ended, like if
that movie ended with the bathtubs, I won't ruin it.
If the movie ended with the bathtub scene, right, and
(37:35):
that was it and it was lights out for the
guy in the bathtub, like that would have been an
incredible ending. That would have been I would have said
walked away with that and said, wow, that's the guy
who loves Marvel movies. Some Marvel movies, not this last phase,
the phase before, but not this phase.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
But let me let me go back to to another
classic as Macronus, What was the.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
What was the Gladiator too? Like, explain that to.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Me, Oh, the whole process why he did the movie? Yeah, like, yeah, not.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Only doing the movie. I mean, it's it's paycheck. But
you know if if the oscars mean nothing, and all
of this is you know, meaningless, because really, you mean,
you're just interpreting this character, much like we're interpreting what
we see and here and you know people we talked
to in these sports. What was the prompt to go
(38:23):
hang out with Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal. You'll hang
up and then listen.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
You're questioning my judgment and my opinions. Yet you did
Gladiator too, that's all I need to say. Gladiator two,
and you question my opinions, my opinionaires, you're my opinionaires
they're doing Then you did Gladiator two. The other thing
is this and there's another one, okay, another great movie. Uh,
no football team in the history of the sport has
(38:50):
ever won any kind of championship with six offensive plays.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Well, I mean depends how high up you're going. I
mean go back.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
When you're like pee wee football, I mean, if you
have the big as fast as running back, he can
run through people.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Okay, okay, okay, but you're still calling a couple of
different plays. But you have more than six plays in
the playbook. Herman Boone even said I had more than
six plays. It was a limited playbook and remember the Titans,
but the whole.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Day that was the greatest fictional coach according to a
poll on ESPN.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I mean, I mean, come on, man, the fact Denzel says, Oh,
I have six plays, that's all I have, veer and
it's like novacaine and it works. No, if you run
six offensive plays, a team can. A team is gonna
work on that in practice, and they're gonna stop you
because they're gonna know what the play is. They're gonna
figure out what they're You only have six plays? Oh sorry,
(39:38):
six plays and a double reverse crazy pass when you
really need something to win a game, like, no, you
know you're not winning that. That that ruined that. That
took took me way out of the movie. Six plays.
You're gonna win with six plays? Really? Six plays? No,
nobody wins at that level. And you didn't even need
to do it because Herman Boone was like, hey, that
that's not the That's why I had more plays than that. Okay,
but no, no, six plays. Now, I'm sorry. That was bad.
(40:00):
That was bad bad things didn't like it. Didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Denzel, can you tell me about the possession stuff and falling.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
While we're at, you know, going into spirituality and that
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Time is on my side. I like Falling, I love Yeah. No,
his no, he's done great movies, you know, but he
doesn't like and whatt's talk about doesn't like our opinions. Well,
here's because we have microphones. Here's opinions on two of
his biggest movies he probably doesn't like. Ruined, The End
of Training Day, Ruined, The End, Ruined It to Ruined,
(40:33):
the End, Exit Out About of Fresco. Coming up next,
we get back into the best sports debate of the
day by far Jason and Mike. Is Tim Tebow the
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome in side hour three the Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon, live from the Fox
Sports Radio studios. And believe it or not, Denzel Washington
hates what Mike and I do for a living in
all of us. But before we get to that, you know,
I meant and I feel bad. It's been two hours
into the show, and I wanted to ask you about
(00:51):
this ty shirt because I know this is something near
and dear to your heart. Reports came out today. Yes,
I love you well, thank you. I appreciate that. As
food it was big. You're welcome. Speaking of food. Uh,
you saw today that Beyond Meat apparently filed for bankruptcy.
Seeing right, But now they come out and say no, no,
all these reports are false and we didn't file for bankruptcy,
(01:15):
nor are we planning to. So we had the reports
of Beyond Meat filing for bankruptcy. Now they're not filing
for bankruptcy. Where do you come down in this?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Is is Beyond Meat? Do you do?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
You?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Do you push that? Are you are you? Are you
subscribed to it? Or do you have any inside information
on this? Because you're kind of my like you know,
food that that that I have questions about. You're the
guy I come to. Yeah, we're supposed to have a
podcast about that mat Yeah, we were. We supposed toyeah,
don't eat that. It's gonna be our podcast.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yeah, I'll tell Elijah to move back the Doug gott
Leap stuff for that.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, we could do that way. So I still want
to do that. Don't eat that thought with you? Yeah
you do with Beyond Meat. Yeah. Each each episode is
a food that we y. One of us says, don't
eat that, donate that. No, I'm with you on Colliflowers,
don't eat that. I'm with you on that. Eat that. No,
don't eat that kidney beans, because there's something you can
get that's even better than you then have to eat
(02:06):
kidney beans, not at all. Kidney beans are terrible. There's
a reason it's called kidney beans. They're your kidney I'll
tell you this though, I'll just drink water. That's good
for your kidneys. Just drink water. There you go, don't
eat that. Drink water.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
You're you're taking advice from the guy who literally eats
the balls from the ball pit at McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You do that. You have this this obsession that I've
I've never once been in the ball pitt. Deny eating them. Okay,
but I've never once been inside. If a ball, if
a ball find his way outside of the ball pit,
it's fair game for anybody. I've never been in there.
You're lying no, because well, first of all, it's very
(02:46):
small entrance to get into the ball pit. It's it's
very difficult.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, okay, and meaner now, oh.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Now I could.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
But now but now now you're acting like you didn't
treat it like it was hell in a cell and
drop into the top.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
There he comes with Ronald McDonald doing the play by play.
Here he comes, Hamburgler.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
What do you think Ronald McDonald's one of the costumed characters.
You're battling. What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Come?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
On, come on, I can't battle. That's like, no one
wants to see that. Ronald McDonald's Like, no, Ronald McDonald's,
but everybody loves Ronald mcdona.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
While in the background you got Max Sabbath playing the
theme songs for everybody.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
You got you got a battle, Grimace or mayor mccheese
or you know someone like that. Oh, Ronald, you don't battle,
and if you win, you get all his charity money.
And TJ clearly fallen arches for Jason Smith as he
beats Ronald McDonald to win the McDonald finish. Yeah, the
fallen arch. Well, i'll tell you that's Jason. Yeah. When
(03:40):
I first saw that Beyond Me was doing these illustrious
ads with Kim Kardashian, Yeah, and she was fake eating
the food. Okay, I was worried.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Okay, anytime you go to that type of celebrity, it's
not good because that's beyond eating.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That's not eating. Yeah, beyond meat is beyond okay, you.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I was worried, But I will say this, like when
the Whopper came out with it Beyond Me Whopper, and
then there was all these other fast foods getting inspired
by it.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I was hopeful.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
You know, it's a substitute, so people who are still
plant based, et cetera can go to these places. I
was very excited about it. I will say, personally, I
don't like them though. Okay, I know they're not a sponsor. Okay,
I'm just saying I've read a lot of their ingredients.
A lot of them are not soluble, a lot of
them are additives, a lot of oil based so stuff
I'm not a fan of. And this sounds crazy to say.
I'd rather you just eat the meat rather than beyond meat.
(04:24):
Person Personally, wow, I do believe.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I mean, annual revenue down twenty twenty one was four
hundred and sixty four million dollars. Yeah, the last twelve months,
we're talking three hundred million, so you've lost twenty five
percent of your base.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
I have the spokesperson for your company. Oh you do, yeah,
Fabio Okay, I can't believe it's not real meat.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And you could. It would be not a lot of
money to get Fabio to do that now, like he's
been out of circulation. He makes more money than you do.
Uh now, I don't know you were you sure about that?
And he's got better hair well, Yeah, that's true. What
if Fabio was bald. When's the last time he saw him?
What if he shaved his hair off? You're saying that's
a wig. No, I'm not saying what I'm saying. You
decided to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
That's hurts crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You've not I've not seen Fabio in a while. Maybe,
but see this is the problem Jason.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Yeah, I really was a ball, Like I said, that
beyond me in the beginning, Okay, but then you look
into it, you learn about it. Yeah, it's better to
not eat it, Okay. So that's why I was like,
not shocking.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
He said. They could have been bankrupt. Okay.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I just say, like, if you're going to go that route,
just eat the meat. You don't net fake meat or
just see fruits and vegetables, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Okay, love Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
So he said he retired in twenty twenty one. He
was hoping to marry and have children. Sleeping in a
hyperbaric chamber because he believes it reverses aging.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
This is ty Shirt or Fabio both, okay. Reversus aging, yeah, Alex,
just sleeping in the hyperbaric chamber? Is that reverse aging? Yes? Really?
So does fasting?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I thought that would. But that kills you if you
don't eat eventually. No, no, how long? Well how long
do I need you? How long? Is fasting good for?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Three?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Four days?
Speaker 7 (06:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Food is good for Are you kidding you? Over seven?
You can't and you drove you DT a car? Oh
that's dangerous. No sign, Yes, that's absolutely danger to make
you unsustainably able to drive a car. It makes you
want to pass out. No, yes, it does. Called heat
exhaustion or like dehydration. You need calories, you need water
at least. Okay, I'm pretty sure it's recommended by many,
(06:24):
by the FDA, by groups of scientists. You know, you
got to eat a certain number of calories a day.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, I's just gonna tell you it's technically not illegal,
so shut up.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
RFK says, you don't. Oh, that doesn't help my case.
It's too soon, Frostburg, Too soon. I could be Fabia.
By the way, I I do like twelve to fifteen
hour fasting. Almost everything's good, and that's great, but intermitted
for Yeah, I mean minutes though four day? No, no, no, no,
I do it. No, it's since PhD man, it's been
If you have sleep, it doesn't count sure it does.
(06:53):
You're not eating, you're fasting. Stop it. How many times
I used to wake up in the middle of night
going I need a sandwich. I'm gonna have sandwich three
o'clock in the morning. I'm not a sandwich, Jason.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
I'm telling you, there's more research coming out about your
body going into ketosis after seventy two hours of not eating.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
People can get three days without eating. It sounds tough.
It sounds like a bad idea. Just sounds tough. Everybody dry.
It would look like the zombie apocalypse, like when people
are driving they start driving into poles and stuff because
the zombies are attacking them. It's not like that's it
would be for people to eat for three days. Oh yes,
people would be happy tucking. There's a term called hungry
(07:31):
because you're angry because you eat so much. No, No, you're.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
You're trying to kill the US economy. No, did we
not just say a story about burgers.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I want to save it. Hang on, I want to say.
Angry is a word when people haven't eaten and they
need to eat. Not true, that's absolutely true. No one's
angry because they've eaten too much. Just angry.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
No, it's called gluttony. You're so used to eating, you're
upset you haven't een yet.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
It's not hungry, that's that's that's full, that's that's whole.
I'm whole. It's not I'm mad because I've eaten too much. No,
you fall asleep?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
No nothing catastrophe, Uh trip to fan induced Komas Jason.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I'm telling you, if everybody faceted, the world would be peaceful.
There's no no. If everybody well, it'd be peaceful because
people would be passed out and they would die. Because
we're controlling the population. Why people haven't eaten. You see the.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
One with uh what was his name? Dana White? He
did a post from before and after his three day fast.
He looked great.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, well of course you're because you haven't eaten. But
stand up. Let me see.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Can you stand up?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You can have a conversation because every day, what do
you think about? What just went on? The care bears
are here. I have to go talk to them. What
are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Their are? So is Alice in the Madhatter. I'm late,
I'm late. I'm horrible, harribly late.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You need a sandwich. You gotta go have a sandwich
right now, Like, Jason, don't knock it to your dude,
there's no you won't. There's no three days, no way,
no way, no, Why would I want to do that
because you'll thank me? No, Frostburg, Frostburg. You're right, there's no.
I would never gets You're not going three hours? No
I can know. I go, I do twelve fifteen hours
O game awake standing on my head. Chance, No, let's see.
(09:08):
I do the six hours awake, then eight hours of
sleep and then three hours I go. I go like
twelve to fifteen a day. The first day is the hardest,
the second d is the deepest. The second day would
not be as hard because I wouldn't. I would barely
be conscious.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
No way, yeah, yeah, I bet you Jason, you could
do seventy two hours.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
You don't know you did, not, dude.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
No, the psychological battle that would be waged in his
head right there, it's not good.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I would after the first day, Like you know when
you go to the movies and they do the let's
go into the lobby, right and the hot dog is
walking and the Hamburger is walking, and like, let's go
to the lobby and you have ourselves a snack. I
would start seeing that and hallucinating that in real life
there's a walking hot dog. I gotta go grab it
and eat it. I'd be like Homewarns The Land of Chocolate,
like trying to take a bite out of a chocolate
(09:58):
colored dog. Oh, it looks like a the dog is chocolate,
but it's a real dog. What are you doing? I'm sorry,
I'm just so hungry. Yeah, my mind immediately.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Went to uh space madness, the famous Wren and Stimpy
episode covert my ice cream bar and all of a
sudden they're battling.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
But yeah, no, seventy two hours. No, it's the psycholog I.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Don't think that's healthy. I don't think that's good for you.
I get the intermittent fat No, I get the intermitt
in the twelve and fifteen hour fasting. I get that.
I understand that. I've I've I've done some research. Hey,
I've done some research. Suddenly I'm an expert. I've done
research on this. No, but I've talked to you know
my primary about fasting, and how important isn't through PhD
weight loss. You've been talking about it, but three days
your primary? So you mean Ronald McDonald, You can't have three.
(10:42):
I'm doctor doctor ron. It's doctor McDonald. What do you mean,
doctor Ronald or doctor McDonald. I don't know, doctor doctor
ron doctor McDonald.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Well, and then over the top you get the PhD
in musicology by doctor Michael McDonald, and all of a
sudden we're singing yamo b there, it's all over.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You don't but you should have a sand witch. Uh
you know, I maybe doctor Hamburglar, who would come in.
I wouldn't understand anything he said. Doctor what should have? Maybe?
All right? Thanks, I don't know what that means, but
I'm gonna go have something eat. I'm gonna have It's
like a pizza three days that. I don't think that's safe.
I don't think that's for you. Definitely not for anybody.
(11:21):
For other people. You couldn't do three days without eating either.
You couldn't do that. I'm not out here saying I
do that, no, but I'm saying I can't do it,
and I don't think it's healthy. That's what we're doing.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
To the great quote from Jeffrey Lebowski, It's just like
your opinion.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Man, Okay, if it really was that great and it
was proven and people could do a lot of great things.
More people would try that.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
No.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
But see this is where it gets tough, right because
there's a lot of things that are proven to be
good for you as a society.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Do we do them?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
No, not at all. I don't know that that's good.
But I really I want more proof it's good for
you than tight shirt. Read this in a reddit threat?
No more than that's not a Reddit page. I've done
it myself. I walked into Whole Foods and the guy
that was giving out nugenics was, you know, telling me
how it was. Jason RFK says it's healthy. I'm just
(12:15):
telling you, Jason, I can even vouch for this.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
We had Jay Glazer on he literally had a UFC
fighter on his podcast talking he had stage three cancer.
He fasted for like I don't know how many weeks
did chemo and his cancer's gone. Literally said it subdued
his cancer. Okay, I think the chemo probably helped to
fascinating all.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
That, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Okay, all right, all right, just saying, okay, all right,
you can handle me all you want.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Three day Okay, I'm just saying you could do three days,
all right, all right, try it all right, Now, okay,
here's what I do. I'm going to going to Whole
Foods and talk to the same guy you talked to
and see if he tells me the same thing. Her
name was Miel and she doesn't work there anymore. Whole Foods.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Exit.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I'm about a Fresco exit. Swallowen to that. Jason Smit
showing Mike Harvid live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
All right, we need to do that beyond me. I
clearly you see what will we all deal with here
every night in the show. But coming up next, Yes,
Denzel Washington hates what Mike and I and all of
us do for a living. Maybe I hate what he
does for a living, or maybe I just hate some
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of the things that happen in some of his movies. Well,
you're next, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Hi,
This is Jay.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
I'm the producer of the Paula and Tony Fusco Show.
Usually in these promos they ask you.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
To listen to the show.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
I'm here to ask you please don't listen to the show.
The hosts are two absolute morons who have the dumbest
takes on sports imaginable. Don't listen to the show so
it can get camps.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
What the hell are you doing out studio? Get him, Paulie,
Ignore that fool. Listen to the Pauline Tony Fusco Show
on the iHeartRadio app you get your podcast.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
He's still moving.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Ty Shirt thinks we should all fast for three days.
A bad idea. You'd pass out and you could do damage.
Fox Work. Let's do it Fox Sports Radio. The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon, all of us freestyling to
three day fasting. Three day fast do it now? No easy? No, yeah,
(14:30):
on the three days more of all of you. Let's
do it. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon, live
from the Fox Sports Radio studios. I really, come on,
It's okay, okay, we're done. We're done with the three days.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Jake ties me up at wait what done.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
With the three day fasting?
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Now?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Look, I apologize. We'll get to the Denzel Washington story
coming up in a few minutes, but we gotta go
to Vegas now. We got some big stuff happening the
last twenty four hours. Time now for our weekly visit
with Vegas insider Todd Furman. You can follow him on
Twitter at Todd Furman, former Rods maker at Caesar's, check
(15:10):
them out on CBS Sports Line. He's everywhere. He's with
us tonight, It's Todd Furman to what's happening? Man?
Speaker 7 (15:20):
You know, gentlemen, I had to get my football fixed
in Winnipeg tonight with no NFL preseason, no college football yet.
But as things always do, they come up. Travis Kelcey
and Taylor Swift. When you watch Zach Kleos, Travis Kelsey's
college roommate at Cincinnati, lead a last minute drive and
it's the Winnipeg Blue Bombers staving off potential upset bid
(15:40):
from the Ottawa Redblacks. As football season inches ever so close.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
You know, there's the twenty seven final. I love it well.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
That was a twenty seven to eleven game in the
fourth quarter. You know, I picture you sometimes, Todd, where
you know some stuff you don't tell us, and like
after you get off the phone with us, you're in
some kind of big high roller suite and you're popping
champagne going Yeah, Blue Bombers, thanks for this, Like, does
that happen in your life?
Speaker 7 (16:05):
I see that, you know, when we started doing this,
it feels like twenty years ago with you two knuckleheads,
and my life was a hell of a lot more
exciting when I was on the phone with you guys
or getting off, whether it was walking around Las Vegas
Boulevard going into a nightclub. These days, you guys are
how I end my night. And it's part of the
reason that I can't do the ten twenty Pacific spot
anymore because I'm fast asleep. No, there is no roll
(16:27):
over street. I'm sitting in my office. There is a
bottle of water here, and once you guys allowed me
to have my walking papers, I get myself ready for bed.
I'm hoping I'm asleep I about ten fifteen.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Wow, All right, then, well.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Exciting life. It's Mary Gilly.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah in Vegas. Yeah, I'm married in Vegas. That's where
I go. Now, first thing I want you know, we're
gonna get to college football here because we got the
Materia story coming up. But you put this out today.
You're looking at the best quarterbacks in college football, and
you do not have arch man on your list of
top five quarterbacks in college football right now, which I
think you can be arrested for, because I think you
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absolutely have to do that when you're doing any kind
of college football list.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Yeah, it's amazing if you slammer a Manning in any capacity,
whether it be Eli at this point in his career,
Peyton arch Archie, or even Cooper. I think it's grounds
for imprisonment if you head below the Mason Dixon line.
But thankfully out here in the West Coast we are
safe from some of that purview. And for me, arch
Manning has a lot of proof, and I'm not saying
he won't move himself into the upper echelon of college quarterbacks,
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maybe as early as the week one, if he leads
Texas on the road and puts together video game like
numbers against the defending national champions.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Arch is the front.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Runner for the Heisman Trophy if you believe what the
odds market is telling you at a price tag right
around eight to one, But he doesn't have the same
decorated resume going into the season like a number of
other quarterbacks I included do with the likes of Garrett Nsmeyer,
who still has plenty to prove under center this year
at lsu K club Nik at Clemson, who I'm sure
would love to put together a tremendous season and improve
his draft stock. Even a guy like Carson Beck who
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gets another lease on life leaving Athens a chance maybe
to have a wake up call with a surgically repaired elbow,
and he'll have a chance for the bright lights the
opening weekend as well, when they play host to Notre
Dame as modest two point underdog. So a lot of
quarterbacks that have accomplished plenty in the college realm, and
plenty of electrics soon to be superstars that still for me,
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have much to prove during the month of September and.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
October ekstrap lading off of that, Todd, does that mean
we've got a wider window of teams that might be
viable wagers in terms of fighting for a national title.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Definitely the case, and it's part of the reason harm
If you were to look around the regulated sports betting
landscape right now, depending on your choice in sportsbook, you
will find a variety of different teams listed as a favorite.
Some books will have Texas in that role. There's will
have Ohio State, Georgia and Penn State. So it's not
like years past where you have a clear cut number
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one team. And it's part of the reason that we'll
see history on Big newon Kickoff opening weekend of the
season where the number one ranked team in the AP
pole will actually be an underdog in their first game
of the season, at least if the betting market holds.
Although I would not be shocked to see Texas take
a little bit more money as Ohio State does everything
they can to sort out their quarterback carousel. And will
it be Julian sand or what we see kind holds
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under center for that big game against the burn.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Orange Vegas insider Todd Furman our guests here on Fox
Sports Radio. All right, now, let's get to the John
Matteer stuff. The last few days, Oklahoma quarterback a lot
of gambling scrutiny, says he never bet on sports, amid
the scrutiny of his Venmo page, which you know Hey's posted.
Here's some bets I made on sports with other people,
and there's screen grabs that are out there. Now, sure,
(19:42):
I know you've been following this story. Well, what do
you make of this whole thing? Surrounding the tier.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Well, first things first, I have to come clean here.
I am a former college athlete, and I did bet
on sports, oh while I was participating in the nca
not games that I was participating in, since they don't
typically hang numbers on Division three hockey, especially the NESTCAC.
But I was smart enough, at least when we were
going through our transactions way back in the early two thousands,
not to leave much in the way of documentation around
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or use electronic methods like John Mattire. This may put
me on an island, guys, but by one hundred percent
think Matier was betting college football with his buddies for
low stakes. Do I think it's a big deal. Absolutely not.
And I think the denial in all of this may
actually be worse than the crime itself because people are going, well,
I would a kid be this dumb to actually put
that through venmo lest I remind everybody we live in
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a world where Calvin Ridley, was a wide receiver for
the Jacksonville Jaguars, signed up for an account in his
own name at hard Rock to place legal bets on
the NFL, which is strictly forbidden. So I don't think
John Mattier, in my opinion, has really done much wrong.
I know he's violated the NCAA's policy on all of that,
but the denial, you know, for me, sometimes is worse
(20:51):
than the crime itself, and I'm curious to see what
they're able to uncover. You hope this story gets dary
if there's not much more to it and he can
focus on, you know, acting the Oklahoma football program the
way they anticipated when they brought him in as one
of the bigger quarterback transfers that we've see in coming
over from Washington State. But these are the kind of
stories that we're going to continue to see in the
world we live in. So I think it's always fluid
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and the NCAA has to have as a punishment that
fits the crime. I think zero tolerance is great to
some extent, but honestly, guys, I'm more critical of the
potential policies that are out there where they're talking about
allowing college athletes to bet on professional sports. And the
reason I say that is because once you open that
Pandora's box a ten dollars better, it can oftentimes bet
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fifty one hundred and get themselves in trouble, and the
unfortunate part is if you get into the wrong people,
the fastest way that you can repay debts is by
sharing information about your own teams games. And that's my
biggest fear. If you allow some of these college athletes
to bet professional.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Sports, opening that doorways certainly potentially problematic on a whole
other scale. Add the old shadow element to it all.
As much as we've got stuff regulated, Todd, I mean,
there's still a whole other, multi billion dollar marketplace that
can't be tracked quite so, people, Sea.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
I wouldn't know anything about that, nor would your brothers
in any capacity, So I'm not doing what you're even
trying to insinuate here.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I always love that my brothers end up in the
middle of all of this. Smith has accused them of
every type of theft known demand and now we've got
them in the gambling realm.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Let's go to the NFL.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
We've got four teams that separate in terms of Super
Bowl odds right now, three of which are in the AFC.
And then, curiously, he's sitting in the number two perch
despite losing their coordinators. The Detroit Lions far ahead of Washington.
How deep do you think the pool is of viable
contenders in the NFL as we sit here going into
Week two of the preseason.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
I'm not going to make a strong case for any
of the teams that have the shortest odds on the board.
Not because I don't believe in the Baltimore Ravens finally
potentially getting through winning the AFC and having a chance
to play for the Lombardi Trophy. But I just think
in number at seven to one or thereabout will be
widely available throughout the course of the season, given how
tightly bunched the AFC looks, at least on paper right now.
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As you get further down the odds board, I think
people are trying to make a case for the forty
nine ers given that relatively soft schedule, although if the
injury bud continues to bite at the clip that we're
seeing through Camp, I mean the forty nine ers may
not have fifty three healthy bodies to trout out their
Week one when they make the trip up to the
Pacific Northwest to take on the Seahawks the Vikings in
that twenty five to one range. You know, do you
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believe that JJ McCarthy can pick up where Sam Donald
left off and maybe make some of the plays that
Donald couldn't on the big stage in the postseason. So
I do think we have a little bit of a deeper,
more competitive field than what we've seen in the past.
Have I run to bet any of these teams and
add them to my portfolio going into the season. No,
but one team that I may not be as bullish
on as the betting market, or two teams along those
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same wavelengths. But the Houston Texans have a lot of
questions they have to answer. I have some major concerns
around their offensive line and if the defense regresses, can
the offense bridge that gap? And I still think you
have to play a semblance of two way football. And
for the Cincinnati Bengals, until I see more out of
this team defensively, even if Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, Chase
Brown or fantasy superstars, can they hang forty every single
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week knowing that the defense may give up thirty nine
in the process.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
All Right, Lastly, tom, let me take you to the
NBA where netstar Michael Porter Junior had a big, eye
opening statement from a podcast this week where he said, look,
he thinks the gambling situation in the NBA is gonna
get worse with prop bets. We look back at Emmanuel Class,
who may never pitch again in baseball, as he's being
investigated for a big prop bet throwing a ball the
first pitch of the inning. He said, look, you know
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you got guys that are telling their friends who don't
have any money, Hey, bet ten grand on this. I'm
gonna I'm gonna, you know, leave the game after three
minutes tonight, bet my unders. I'm gonna pretend I'm sick
and help get you guys some money. He says, this
thing could wind up getting worse. Where are you on this? Hey?
Speaker 7 (24:50):
You know those are eye opening statements, and you do
wonder you know how deep some of this can go
along that same thought process for me? And again I
don't run in those circles. But if you're an NBA
player are making millions of dollars, do you really want
to sacrifice your career and your potential earning potential for this?
Isn't it easier just to cut one of your buddies
at check for ten grand for some of these things.
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A lot of these prop markets, you can't move anything
in the way of substantial life changing money by any
stretch of the imagination. And I know Michael Porter Junior
a little bit closer to the situation, given what's transpired
with his brother around the Toronto Raptors. But I do
think sportsbooks and the operators out there bear a little
bit of the responsibility. Look, there's no reason to hang
player props for the guys that are eighth, ninth, and
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tenth coming off of the bench. Maybe in the playoffs
where everybody wants to try and be involved, it makes
a little bit more sense. But a Tuesday night in
November for a Raptor's Hornets game, do we really need
to kind of offer those betting types. Do we have
to get into some of the micro markets for the
first pitch of an inning, will it be a ball
or a strike? So somewhere along the way, cooler heads
have to prevail. I mean, we have some of these
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watchdog services that are out there to try and legislate
this and keep tabs on some of the irregular betting patterns.
So I've always said, like Harm kind of mentioned there
that anything that you can do in the bright light
and try and use that at some level of transparency
is going to take us in a more positive direction.
The one thing, and you know that, I will say
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for all the players out there that say it's hypocritical
that the leagues are partnering up with these sports books,
these boys better look in their bank accounts and understand
where the revenue streams are coming from. It shouldn't be
that difficult as a professional athlete to give up sports
gambling in some capacity for a eight to ten year
career or whatever it may be. And then should you
want to bet Major League Baseball parlays or get involved
(26:36):
in the NFL, by all means, take full advantage, do
it in responsible channels. But it's a privilege to be
a professional athlete. One thing I will say to defend
the athletes though, the behavior that you see from whether
they're bosts or immature individuals that are betting, it's borderline
reprehensible and I think there needs to be a better
effort to try and monitor some of that behavior. So
(26:56):
some folks that take to the social media channels decide
they want to break or threatened athletes. I have a
zero tolerance policy for that kind of behavior.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
He's on Twitter at Todd Ferman, that is at Todd Ferman,
Vegas Insider, has always appreciated my friend. We'll talk to
you next week. Have fun.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Always a pleasure, Smith. It's amazing you didn't get any
Mets dialogue in when they're two and thirteen over the
last fifteen games. I see how it is.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
There is no baseball tonight. I'm sorry Todd was canceled.
I'm sorry I have their.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Double day too.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Always a pleasure boy.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
See you buzz anybody, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Lott from
the Fox Sports Radio studios. Time now to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports from monthly
blogos who has the latest monthsly what he got for us?
Speaker 9 (27:34):
Well, guys, MLB wrapped up early tonight, so let me
tell you what happened. The Nationals handed the Phillies their
third straight loss, coming out on top three to two,
but the Phillies planned to utilize the six man rotation
starting this weekend when Aaron Nola returns from the injured list.
Nola hasn't pitched in the majors since May fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
The Guardians scored.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
Four runs in the seventh inning they beat the Marlins
nine to four. Cleveland is now half game back on
the Yankees for the final walchart spot in the al
Ozzy Alby's had three rbi as the Braves edge the
Mets four to three. With this lost by the Mets,
the Reds are now half a game back on the
Mets for the final wildcard spot in the National League.
Diamondbacks outscored the Rockies eight to two, and the Tigers
(28:15):
held on forty three against the Twins and eleven innings
as Labor Torris hit the sacked fly.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
NFL.
Speaker 9 (28:21):
Week two of the preseason continues on Friday with two
games Titans and Falcons that's at seven Eastern and then
Chiefs and Seahawks that is at ten Eastern, and then
more games on Saturday. You can expect to see Justin
Herbert playing for the Chargers. It's gonna be his first
career preseason appearance. Joe Milton will start for the Cowboys
against the Ravens on Saturday, and Sam Howell will start
(28:43):
for the Vikings as they play the Patriots for their
second preseason game. Ram said coach Sean mcvahnounced quarterback Matthew Stafford,
who hasn't practiced during training camp because of an aggravated
disc in his back will work out on Saturday ESPN
with a story that Chiefs wide receiver where she Rice
has a disciplinary hearings geduled for someport September thirtieth. He's
still eligible to play in the Chief's first four games
(29:05):
of the season, barring the reaching of a disciplinary settlement beforehand,
and in the NBA. Pat Riley will receive a statue
from the Lakers when they face the Celtics on February
twenty second of next year.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Back to you, guys, Thank you, Monsen, Jess, Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon. I didn't know. I know there are some
people that don't like what we do, don't like what
we say. Are takes. That's what life is, right when
you do sports talk radio for living your opinionated and
you know people like it or don't like it. I
didn't think we would all catch the eye. And I
say all it's the colloquial all of Denzel Washington, who
(29:39):
is in the midst of doing publicity for his new movie.
I got the title right here. Oh, it's something you
don't want to see. That's the title of the movie.
And he has spent the last couple of days taking
shots at sports talk radio people, whether you're on TV
the radio, doesn't like what we do. Doesn't like the
fact that we never played the game professionally. And because
(29:59):
we have a mic phone, we're allowed to give our opinions.
Here's Denzel not happy with us.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Everybody's got an opinion.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
We live in a world of opinionaire you know, That's
what I call them, opinionaires.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
They're all the shows, a bunch of guys and a
couple of them that are played, but most of them
who haven't, who have an opinion about what something should
be when they haven't done it. Those who can't talk.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
About those who can't, those who have know what they
talking about.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Those who haven't. Dune period too much talking, too much talk.
Everybody got an opinion. Everybody's sitting around getting fat, you know,
thinking they know how to do it.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Just because you can sit behind the desk and chit
chat doesn't mean you can do a damn thing.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Come get up here with me, let's find out.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Come get in the gym with me.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Let's find out.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I mean, I don't know you.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
You know, I can throw my hands, I can do all.
I can sure do it. I can do it for real.
I don't talk about it. Let me seeing kid you
know who never played a day in his life and
now and get back at everybody because he got a
mic in the space and show people need to shut up.
People need to shut up, learn how to do something,
(31:08):
be actually good at something. Try m okay. So first
I have I have two things right off the bat
with this mike. Are we skinnier? Are we fat? Because
he said you have fat fat behind the microphone? But
skinny kids that want to get even with people? Right Like,
that's like are we skinny? Are we fat? Like? Which
way are we?
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Why are you skinny fat? I mean because that is
a body composition, isn't it? Like I think it's either
like my body fat low muscle mass kind of thing
like fats.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Like you get the fat fries or the skinny fries
at fat Burger, right Like, are we fat or skinny?
I don't know. Well, maybe maybe it's you and I
because you know before PhD weight loss and after PhD
weight loss that's why we were a.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Little bit of that.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah. But then he says does he does he seem
like he wants to fight people, like he said, hey,
get like like get in the ring, with me, Like,
is he does he want people who give sports opinions
for a living to get in a ring and fight
with him? Is that what he wants? He's seventy years old.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Well, I mean, look, played played basketball and for them
all those years ago. Fifty years ago. Man, that's not fighting.
But it's also like that music in the background.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Was that part of a movie?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Yes, he was ready to threaten me by the way
everything he just offered there, What is it?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
What is it? Oh? It's an opinion?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yeah, yeah, no, but I do agree like they even
you know, pumped it up for him with that boom
look like the starter.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
It's like he's giving me a monologue from one of
his films and like justin is, I'll go for the
hat trick.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
He's gotten it in. It's like just your opinion, man.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, So how about this? Okay? So Denzel hates us,
all right? I understand that, right, And there's lots of
things we can say, and there's lots of things I
can say to defend what we do for him. But no,
but I have a microphone coming up next, Denzel, how
about stuff that I hate that you did? And I
guarantee you I'm not alone with this. Yeah, a couple
of your biggest movies. I'll tell you what was ruined
(33:00):
because of things that happened in your movies. How do
we do that? That's coming up next. Because we got
big microphones. We're getting even with people because we're skinny
and we were fat, and it's next. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I'm a Woman.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I'm a Woman from the Permanent Vacation album of nineteen
eighty seven. It's Aerosmith with their come back.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
It.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Dude, looks like a lady watching the Mets.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
On the TV. They had a lead, but then they
gave it up. They lost of the braves again and again.
Now are leads down to one and you know we're
going to miss the playoffs. Mets, Mets really make me
miss the Knicks. Mets, Mets really make me miss the Jets.
(33:53):
Fox Sports Radio, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Live. So we
played the Denzel Washington audio for a few minutes ago,
gone viral over the what you said viral over the
past twelve or sixteen hours, where you Know. Doing a
a media blitz for his new movie coming out called
Straight to Video, he decided to take on sports talk
(34:17):
radio sports talk television. People don't like the fact that
people that didn't play a game professionally have opinions on
professional outcomes of games. Didn't like you, doesn't like your
opinionare right, doesn't like us? Well, I'll be okay. Now,
I'm not gonna spend time defending what we do for
lin because I'm pretty sure we've seen that. Hey, guess what,
just like acting, we can make a pretty decent living
(34:41):
at sports talk radio. There's a pretty big market there
for television and what we have to say for what
people like us have to say for a living. So
instead I will say this, Okay, Denzel, you you don't
You're entitled to your opinion, you opinionair, You're entitled that. Okay,
So let me tell you a couple of things I
didn't like. I don't like this. I didn't like the
fact that your final scene in Training Day ruined the
(35:01):
entire movie, a movie that could have been really Training
Day up until the last fifteen minutes. Top ten all
time movie. That's how good it was, That's how good
the story was, that's how good. The acting was incredible,
But no, we're gonna go this whole thing where oh
is this my cousin It just happened my cousin that
(35:22):
you saved, and oh now Denzel has to have his
moment where he's got a yell and scream and do
the King Kongsi, which I get it, you know, hey,
that was that was some kind of acting. But I
look at it, I go that just ruined the movie.
Like it, Absolutely, he's got to have his moment. We
have to have it. Make it where oh, you just
happen to run into my cousin and save her life earlier,
and then come on, man, that was it. It took
(35:44):
a great movie and said, oh now it just became
here's another here's a drama that we say, hey, Training
Day's a terrific movie, look how good it is. And
then the last twenty minutes that ruined the movie. Again,
it could have been a one movie. We say, well, hey,
top to what's a top ten all time movie? The
last twenty years? Training one hundred percent, so well done
all the way through. No, but that ruined the movie.
(36:05):
That's what I didn't like Denzel. So there is first thing.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Ken wins an oscar if we want to go to
the Tomato meter critics seventy four percent, and he even
admits it did not test well.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
The ending did not test.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Well after the build. Yeah, that re ruined it. It
ruined because I mean, just think about that, and I
can spoil it because it's been out for twenty years now.
No exactly.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
I mean maybe people are hearing about this movie for
the first time since we're promoting it as Opinionaiirzel.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I mean just think just times where you hear him
like you think it's an oh, by the way, conversation, Yeah,
I got the bath dub ready. Ah right, man, I've
seen in a bit like you know, okay whatever, and
then you're like, oh, oh, this is what that's all about.
Like the way the whole movie you completely see his
character different. Everything changes, and and Ethan Hawk's character goes
(36:53):
from boy, he's the guy that's standing up for the
truth you're rooting from then you realize, oh my goodness,
this is not gonna end all. Oh my god, he's
part of a bigger conspiracy that he's being used for.
That's an incredible twist. It's an incredible development to a
great movie. That was something who saw the you know,
the streets of Los Angeles, This is what it's like,
you know, on the on the on the street level,
(37:14):
with how and how some cops you know, you know,
talk to and deal with with criminals and informants. And
it was an incredibly well done Now you've seen it
done so many times, but it was it was groundbreaking
back then. And this is just going back like twenty
some odd years. And if it had ended, like if
that movie ended with the bathtubs, I won't ruin it.
If the movie ended with the bathtub scene, right, and
(37:35):
that was it and it was lights out for the
guy in the bathtub, like that would have been an
incredible ending. That would have been I would have said
walked away with that and said, wow, that's the guy
who loves Marvel movies. Some Marvel movies, not this last phase,
the phase before, but not this phase.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
But let me let me go back to to another
classic as Macronus, What was the.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
What was the Gladiator too? Like, explain that to.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Me, Oh, the whole process why he did the movie? Yeah, like, yeah, not.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Only doing the movie. I mean, it's it's paycheck. But
you know if if the oscars mean nothing, and all
of this is you know, meaningless, because really, you mean,
you're just interpreting this character, much like we're interpreting what
we see and here and you know people we talked
to in these sports. What was the prompt to go
(38:23):
hang out with Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal. You'll hang
up and then listen.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
You're questioning my judgment and my opinions. Yet you did
Gladiator too, that's all I need to say. Gladiator two,
and you question my opinions, my opinionaires, you're my opinionaires
they're doing Then you did Gladiator two. The other thing
is this and there's another one, okay, another great movie. Uh,
no football team in the history of the sport has
(38:50):
ever won any kind of championship with six offensive plays.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Well, I mean depends how high up you're going. I
mean go back.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
When you're like pee wee football, I mean, if you
have the big as fast as running back, he can
run through people.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Okay, okay, okay, but you're still calling a couple of
different plays. But you have more than six plays in
the playbook. Herman Boone even said I had more than
six plays. It was a limited playbook and remember the Titans,
but the whole.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Day that was the greatest fictional coach according to a
poll on ESPN.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I mean, I mean, come on, man, the fact Denzel says, Oh,
I have six plays, that's all I have, veer and
it's like novacaine and it works. No, if you run
six offensive plays, a team can. A team is gonna
work on that in practice, and they're gonna stop you
because they're gonna know what the play is. They're gonna
figure out what they're You only have six plays? Oh sorry,
(39:38):
six plays and a double reverse crazy pass when you
really need something to win a game, like, no, you
know you're not winning that. That that ruined that. That
took took me way out of the movie. Six plays.
You're gonna win with six plays? Really? Six plays? No,
nobody wins at that level. And you didn't even need
to do it because Herman Boone was like, hey, that
that's not the That's why I had more plays than that. Okay,
but no, no, six plays. Now, I'm sorry. That was bad.
(40:00):
That was bad bad things didn't like it. Didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Denzel, can you tell me about the possession stuff and falling.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
While we're at, you know, going into spirituality and that
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Time is on my side. I like Falling, I love Yeah. No,
his no, he's done great movies, you know, but he
doesn't like and whatt's talk about doesn't like our opinions. Well,
here's because we have microphones. Here's opinions on two of
his biggest movies he probably doesn't like. Ruined, The End
of Training Day, Ruined, The End, Ruined It to Ruined,
(40:33):
the End, Exit Out About of Fresco. Coming up next,
we get back into the best sports debate of the
day by far Jason and Mike. Is Tim Tebow the
best quarterback to ever play college football?
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