July 13, 2023 • 22 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right, all right yo, yeah, so your life from Philly.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's the best for the Molly and Tony Foolsco Show, yo,
y'all as always Polly Foolsco here with Tony Fosco and Tony.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yo. Not a normal show today, is it?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
No? No, very unusual. But don't worry.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
We're gonna walk you through what's going on so you
don't get confused at all.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Exactly, people, because we know you're doning it in right now.
You know you want to hear us smart takes and
all the big stories going on in sports right now.
Well you know that's actually on you. That's your mistake
because you should know there are no big stories going on,
you know, July.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
People, what do he want us to do?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You know, be like ESPN and do like a college
football preview show.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, here's a preview of that. You're bored exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
See, it's gonna be much better for you wait and
also for us because you see, this episode is what
they call in the business a clip show. Okay, and
now you're probably wondering, you know what is a clip show?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
You get ficked out your pants and pencils because we're
given another education over here.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, that's what we do. So, yeah, what a clip
show is, we'll let you behind the curtain. It's when
we play you clips from previous episodes. Now here's why
clip shows are so good. Not only because they're jam
packed with entertainment, you know, because we've been number one
in this business for twenty three d isn't counting, as
you all know. But the other reason clip shows are
so good is, see what we do is we just
(01:33):
have some nerd edited cobble together a bunch of old clips.
You re listen to them, and then Fox Sports Radio
pays us the exact same amount they would had we
done an.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Actual show, and then boom, easy money.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, well except for our editor because you know, we
told them to choose our best dakes and well, how
do you even choose, Tony?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Look, you can't, you can't choose because they're all perfect.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, we also know how much you people out there
like when we lay into an idiot producer back there,
so we told our Rady to throw in a good
some of those good clips from that though.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, lots of zingers in there. We got him good.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And since this is a clip show that applies to
the ads too, so right now we're going to run
a sponsored message from a company that was so pleased
with the message we did for them that they actually asked.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Us to rerun it. So here, run that.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Again, run it again. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Have you ever tried Australian food, Well, believe it or not,
it's not as weird and off putting as it sounds.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
In fact, Tony, you have your own story here tell
the people.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
A couple of weeks ago, I got my aunt Marie
and her boyfriend Nunzio a gift card to Outback Steakhouse. Well,
I saw them the other night, and Nunzio seemed so happy.
He told me he really enjoyed eating out down on
though with my aunt. I asked him what he ordered
that out back, and then he seemed confused. He said
(02:58):
he'd never eaten there and didn't even know what Outback was.
And I said, but you talked about eating out down
Under with my hand.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Oh uh, forget what I was saying. Let's just move on.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Terrific story, Tony. Anyway, a special treat for.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
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promo code fusco and get point zero two percent off
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Speaker 1 (03:21):
Hundred dollars a more off of only valid in Alaska. Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So now that we got that business out of the way,
it's time to look at some of our greatest takes
from this past year.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
So here we go with top takes. What takes.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Such a sad turn of events as we saw at
the Super Bowl, Tony, a great game overshadowed by one
bad call, and now we feel just terrible.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
For the Eagles and also the Chiefs, don't we, Tony?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Yeah, Now, all anyone's gonna remember from this game is
that bad call. No one will remember who won, or
who lost, or who won MVP. They will probably remember
the rush tds that Jalen Hurts had because that set
a record, yep. But other than that, everything else just forgotten.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So true, Tony, there are just certain times when you
shouldn't make that call. You need to let the players
on the field play the game, Isn't that right, Dony.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Of course, we can't be reinforcing rules all the time.
Imagine if the cops pulled over everyone who was speeding,
the cops would be so busy giving tickets.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
All the murderers would go murder. So if you say
all rules.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Should be enforced at all times, then basically your pro murder.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So elegantly put Tony.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And another thing we must point out is that the
refs didn't call holding the entire game until that final
call right there.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So you know, don't you.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Think that the players must have been looking around thinking, hey,
they're not calling hold.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Holding must be legal in this game. Of course they did.
You know, people always say there's an exception to every rule. Well,
how is anybody gonna know what the exception is and
what's not. It's very confusing and frankly, it's a mixed
message to players.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Okay, we got to defend someone who is once again
being unfairly adapt Of course, Ja Moranto again, for some reason,
is in hot water just for flashing a gun on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I don't get it, Tony, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Explain to the people why you know, John Morant lives
in Memphis.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
The team is called the Grizzlies.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
If you live in an area prone to grizzly attacks,
then it would be stupid not to carry a gun.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Frankly, when I saw the video, I was shocked because
I thought he should be carrying something bigger, like a
rifle or a bazooka or something. Do you ever see
the movie The Relevant with Leonardo DiCaprio that one scene.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's terrifying, terrific point that Tony and you know Ja
Moran's critics out there, these idiots, you know, they're.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Saying that this is not how a role model.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Should behave excuse me, Oh yeah, well, why don't you
tell that to John Wayne?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, a real Harry Why at ark the best?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You know, people they're already up in arms about this
NFL schedule because it includes a Friday night game for
the first time. They're going to be playing on Black Friday,
November twenty fourth, and so that people are saying that
adding another night of football as they always do, They
say it adds to the injury risk. You know, yeah,
read that danger. You know, we listen on this show
(06:45):
to complaints. We hear the people. But what we do
that separates us as we come up with solutions. And Tony,
you said something the other day that was just so smart.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
It was just such a simple solution. Go, don't tell
the people.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Here's my solution.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
If the players need more days to rest, then there's
clearly a simple fix, add more days to the week.
If weeks had eight days instead of seven, there would
be no problem. So I propose that during NFL season
we add a day called Moosday, which comes between Monday
and Tuesday. Now you're probably saying, won't this add more
(07:22):
days to the year. No, because just simply remove seventeen
days from August. Nobody likes August anyway. It's boring and
hot and everyone's over it. So there add Moosday plus
take away half of August.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Problem solved.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Just an absolutely brilliant solution by you, Tony, and thank you.
Don't be surprised people when September rolls around and you're
all rushing out to buy new calendars.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah, and get used to saying tgim yeah Moosday there.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Okay, just a terrible week for ESPN. Two shocking incidents
occurring during the Morning Show first take, and we're gonna
talk about one of them right now.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It occurred on the segment where Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Smith was asking long time New York sports broadcast of
Michael Kay to name who he thought would be the
next New York team to win a championship.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Let's go ahead, and play that clip.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Which team in New York do you think wins a
championship next?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Rangers?
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Oh lord, come on, Patrick, they don't count, don't They
don't count.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
The only thing I know about hockey that black and
I love Gary's my button.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
It is no disrespect to the Rangers, aunt to Patrick
kne of course, but just just for Steve Football.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Wow, I still can't believe it. Just so disrespectful, disrespectful.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
You know you're here even a they're.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Totally shutting down the hockey conversation, trying to shift the
conversation of football, baseball, basketball.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
The NHL has always been considered one of the four
major sports.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
You know, it's right up there with NFL, NBA, and MLB.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Totally. Nothing competes with it absolutely.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I mean, you know, well unless you count NASCAR, but.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
That's only in the South regional.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, and uh maybe UFC, but that's on pay per
view elitist. Yeah, and uh maybe golf with Tiger Woods,
but he's out of the picture now, peg leg And
I guess you got to throw in.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
College football and college basketball.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Too, which is not pro, not not pro.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And well maybe you got to throw in little league
baseball because that.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Does do big numbers for about a month each year.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Yeah, that's true. And also poker also true. Horse racing,
Yeah that's fair. But it's animal sports. So you know, Asterick, well.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
Other than that, you know, hockey is a Big four sport.
It's undispotally can't argue on the subject of arguing. Another
great transition there by you, Dony theristic.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, that leads to another.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Incident we saw on First Take this week, brewha breaking
out between JJ Reddick and Kendrick Perkins.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
You know, Reddick fired back at Perkins.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Because he thought Perkins was accusing the NBA MVP voters
of being kind of racist. I guess because they gave
MVP awards to Nicola Jokick, Dirk Nowitzki, and Steve Nash
and now they appear to be giving the awards a
Joe kick once again. And you know, Tony, it is
an interesting point that Kendrick Perkins is making here, but
(10:45):
you felt he missed the point kind it, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Unfortunately, Yes, you see, Kendrick Perkins was on the right
track with his criticism of NBA MVP voting, but a
closer look reveals that the real reason Nicola Joe keeps
getting named MVP. Is that in sports media there's clearly
a strong pro Serbian bias. You think it's bad with
(11:09):
the NBA MVP, just look at the award for ATP Tennis.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Player of the Year. Every year they got Novak Djokovic
winning over and over again, as you can see more
evidence of clear Serbian bias.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Terrific journalism and research that Dodika truly.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The biggest story in all of basketball.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
And no, it's not the Denver Nuggets making the NBA Finals,
Nobody cares. And it's definitely not Lebron possibly retiring please
get good riddance to him. Yeah, exactly. And it's definitely
not Carmello Anthony retiring.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I thought he retired like five years ago.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, same here.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Anyway, the biggest story is clearly what's going on in
the WNBA. Britney Griner's w NBA return to the Phoenix
Mercuries was the league's most watched.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Game since nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
It scored six hundred and eighty three thousand viewers, you know,
which is so virtually nothing, but you know, in WNBA.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Terms, that's fruet ball numbers exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Anyway, Tony, don't be surprised, you know if other leagues
take notice.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Of this, right absolutely, you know, if I'm NHL Commissioner
Gary Bettman, I have to consider copying the Britney grind
of strategy to juice ratings. You take that conom McDavid guy,
and you send him over to Russia and have him
imprisoned in a Russian jail for only a year or so.
Then we trade him back to America for a Russian
(12:39):
war criminal and bada binglada bum. Everyone's watching oiler games again,
record ratings exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And you know you look at the NBA right now,
you know you got this possible Nuggets heat turd of
a final that nobody wants to watch. Yeah, Adam Silver
right now has got to be considering having North Korea
maybe capt Jamal Murray, you know, just for a few days,
you know, just before the series starts, and maybe you
know you think about it right at game time, you know,
Jamal Murray just parachutes down into the arena like a
(13:10):
fan man.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You know, the ratings would be.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Your ratings through the roof. In fact, the PGA Championship
just got its lowest ratings since two thousand and eight.
Don't be surprised that before the US Open Rooks Koepka
winds up being captured by a Venezuelan drug cartel or
maybe a roving band of sea pirates.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Terrific points Tony bound to happen O Skip Dayls and
Shannon show Ye you know, get your divorce because they
seem to clearly hate each other any way. You know,
people are saying that this is all Skip's fault, that
Shannon's right to believe in all this. What you know,
this is what I totally hate about sports TV these days.
(13:51):
You know, this idea that these former athletes can come
on and be better at sports talk than journalists and
seasoned radios. It's just predict us and frankly rude to
our proud profession, isn't it, right, Tony.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
You know, it's a toxic situation because these Hall of
Fame athletes on TV now, they just naturally assume they
know more about sports because they, you know, we're in
locker rooms and actually on the field, and that's a
real problem.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
It's just terrible, you know, ruining the whole foundation of
what our proud industry of sportstock radio is built.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
On.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
You know, we understand and Skip Bayless understands tool that
the only way to have con perspective on sports is
to have no direct association with it at all.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
That's how you remain.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Objective, exactly. You gotta be objective, Skip Bayless.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
He's looking for a replacement who won't argue with him
so much, won't you know, debate him.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
As so much fun?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, we totally agree with what Skip is doing here absolutely.
Who why would anyone in their right minds want to
have a co host on their own show who disagrees
with everything they say?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Oh you want that, Tony?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
No?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I mean that makes absolutely no sense, right one.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I mean, you can have compelling, interesting conversation just like
the one we're having right now and agree on everything.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Right, you'll hit the nail smack on the head as usual.
I got nothing further to add because you nailed it.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
There you Goere you go. That's how it's done.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
We saw an absolutely terrific take on Jampet this week
from just a brilliant observer of sports. Of course, I'm
talking about Chris mad Dog Russo, who said, boldly and correctly,
mind you, that this year's Nuggets team was totally overrated
and that the nineteen eighty six Celtics would sweep the
Nuggets four row, no contest, and Tony mad Dog Russo
(15:48):
is so right here is it?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Absolutely this year's Nuggets team would stand no chance against
the eighty six Celtics. All you gotta do is look
at the number of Hall of Famers on each team.
That's the ultimate way to judge a team. That eighty
six Celtics had six Hall of Famers, the Nuggets have none.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
That's a glaring difference.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Such a great point that Dony, and you know another
angle here that you know, I can't believe the media,
or maybe I can believe that the media is just too.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Chicken to talk about. You'll hear it on this show people.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Doesn't anybody find it a little strange that in the
span of a week we've seen two athletes with major
championships from a country that nobody's heard of. You got
Novak Djokovic Serbian when in the French Open. Then you
got Nicola Jokik, also Serbian, with in the NBA finals,
(16:46):
and nobody in our business seems to bat and I
find and find this weird.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
It's it's very disconcerting, isn't it, Tony Very.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
You know, I don't get my information from the Internet
because I'm not dumb and gullible. I go to trust
sources like Encyclopedias. I went to my most trusted world book,
Encyclopedia that I've had for thirty years. And what's so
strange is that there's no mention of a country called Serbia.
But now everyone's talking about Serbia this and Serbia that.
(17:18):
Isn't it just a little strange how this quote unquote
country is so important all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Just terrific perspective and research that Dony, and thank you.
What I'm about to say is controversial, but you know
it's a duty as journalists it must be said.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
What about Chernobyl.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
You know you had all that nuclear radiation springing all
over the place like forty years ago or so.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
You look now at what's going on.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
All of a sudden, You got these monster athletes sprouting
up everywhere in this country over there.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
You know we've seen this before. Just look at the
incredible hulk.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
The radiation transformed Bruce Banner and made him huge. You absolutely,
one hundred percent have to consider that maybe all those
gamma rays from Chernobyl got into their DNA and gave
them super strength.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You absolutely have to.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, you know, this is what they call them, the
business people, investigative journalism.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
We do real news on the show.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Wow, Wow, incredible. I got geese bumps just listening to those.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
And you know that was just one percent of all
the great days that didn't even that was just you know,
not even the tip of the iceberg. But like is
above the dip anyway, by now public demand.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You know people out there.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You also like that part where you know, our producer
Jay interrupts with his stupid corrections and you know we.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Tell them what it is.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, so well, yeah, let's go ahead and play some
of those clips right now.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
He said, Jamaran needs a gun to protect himself from
Grizzly Bears running around Memphis.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah. Bro, yeah, the team's called the Grizzly bro.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
They're called the Grizzlies because they originally played in Vancouver.
There are no Grizzly Bears in Memphis.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Oh yeah, well, you know what's gonna be grizzly when
I murder you?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah, next time we talk bears, it's gonna be where
to bury your body boom, that's it.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
We're done. Unts.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
You keep saying the Nuggets player is Nicola joke Kick.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah it's his name.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, No, it's.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Nicola Jokic, not joke Kick. Maybe you should try watching
a Denver Nuggets game.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Oh yeah, well, I'm gonna joke kick you in the
Nuggets if you catch my drift.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah you know what, I can't wait to watch your funeral.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Oh, James Bradbury did admit that he held juju Smith Schuster,
so so what So if a player admits that he
committed a penalty, there should be no discussion after that.
It's over.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You're right. The only thing we should discuss is where
to bury your body.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Yeah, there's only one penalty we should discuss with you,
the death penalty.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Oh got them.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
You basically slammed ESPN for not talking hockey on their
debate shows.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, it's shameful of them, totally.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
You guys never talk hockey on this show. In fact,
I don't think i've heard you talk hockey ever.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Oh yeah, well I don't think i've ever heard you
shut the up.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, hockey reminds me of your love life. Cold as ice, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
You said, serbian athletes are so dominant because of the
nuclear effects of Chernobyl.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah, bro crazy upsetting, but true.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Yeah, if that even was true, Nuclear radiation doesn't make
it stronger. You only see that happen in comic books,
not in real life.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Oh yeah, well you know what else you only see
in comic books, nerds like you.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah, and you know what's also not in real life?
Your girlfriend? Yeah, he's done. Shit, let's get out of
it here, we're done.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
By the way, what you do realize why there's no
such country called Serbia thirty years ago?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It's mysterious, bro very mysterious.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Serbia was part of Yugoslavia then it declared independence in
two thousand and six. But I shouldn't be surprised if
you don't know that though.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh yeah, well, speaking of surprises, wait until you start
your car tonight.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Yeah, forget Yugo Slavia.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
It's gonna be you go kaboo me yea, you're done.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Great, he's done.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
You know, Tony, we really need to get a new
producer on this show. It's just because, yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I mean, what are we doing? This supposed to be
a best of show, not a worst of? Why we
even playing producingj in the show.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Great point, Tony, we should have just played our parts,
you know, and you just left him out. Yeah, but anyway,
it didn't ruin what was otherwise a terrific clip show
because you know, it made it so great.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
We didn't have to do a single thing. We didn't
have to lift a finger.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
In easy money for us all day.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
So anyway, in the meantime, you you know you want
to lift a finger, go subscribe on YouTube, you know,
follow us on TikTok all our social media platforms, listen
to our back episodes.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
And Tony, we didn't do much, but we did it great.
Especially you.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Absolutely same to you, Paullie. Another flawless clip show.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
There you go. We'll see your people in sometime. See
All right, all right yo, yeah, so your life from Philly.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's the best for the Molly and Tony Foolsco Show, yo,
y'all as always Polly Foolsco here with Tony Fosco and Tony.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yo. Not a normal show today, is it?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
No? No, very unusual. But don't worry.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
We're gonna walk you through what's going on so you
don't get confused at all.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Exactly, people, because we know you're doning it in right now.
You know you want to hear us smart takes and
all the big stories going on in sports right now.
Well you know that's actually on you. That's your mistake
because you should know there are no big stories going on,
you know, July.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
People, what do he want us to do?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
You know, be like ESPN and do like a college
football preview show.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, here's a preview of that. You're bored exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
See, it's gonna be much better for you wait and
also for us because you see, this episode is what
they call in the business a clip show. Okay, and
now you're probably wondering, you know what is a clip show?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
You get ficked out your pants and pencils because we're
given another education over here.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, that's what we do. So, yeah, what a clip
show is, we'll let you behind the curtain. It's when
we play you clips from previous episodes. Now here's why
clip shows are so good. Not only because they're jam
packed with entertainment, you know, because we've been number one
in this business for twenty three d isn't counting, as
you all know. But the other reason clip shows are
so good is, see what we do is we just
(01:33):
have some nerd edited cobble together a bunch of old clips.
You re listen to them, and then Fox Sports Radio
pays us the exact same amount they would had we
done an.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Actual show, and then boom, easy money.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, well except for our editor because you know, we
told them to choose our best dakes and well, how
do you even choose, Tony?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Look, you can't, you can't choose because they're all perfect.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, we also know how much you people out there
like when we lay into an idiot producer back there,
so we told our Rady to throw in a good
some of those good clips from that though.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, lots of zingers in there. We got him good.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And since this is a clip show that applies to
the ads too, so right now we're going to run
a sponsored message from a company that was so pleased
with the message we did for them that they actually asked.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Us to rerun it. So here, run that.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Again, run it again. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Have you ever tried Australian food, Well, believe it or not,
it's not as weird and off putting as it sounds.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
In fact, Tony, you have your own story here tell
the people.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
A couple of weeks ago, I got my aunt Marie
and her boyfriend Nunzio a gift card to Outback Steakhouse. Well,
I saw them the other night, and Nunzio seemed so happy.
He told me he really enjoyed eating out down on
though with my aunt. I asked him what he ordered
that out back, and then he seemed confused. He said
(02:58):
he'd never eaten there and didn't even know what Outback was.
And I said, but you talked about eating out down
Under with my hand.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Oh uh, forget what I was saying. Let's just move on.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Terrific story, Tony. Anyway, a special treat for.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Our listeners, visit outback dot com now and to the
promo code fusco and get point zero two percent off
any gift card purchase of seven.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Hundred dollars a more off of only valid in Alaska. Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So now that we got that business out of the way,
it's time to look at some of our greatest takes
from this past year.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
So here we go with top takes. What takes.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Such a sad turn of events as we saw at
the Super Bowl, Tony, a great game overshadowed by one
bad call, and now we feel just terrible.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
For the Eagles and also the Chiefs, don't we, Tony?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Yeah, Now, all anyone's gonna remember from this game is
that bad call. No one will remember who won, or
who lost, or who won MVP. They will probably remember
the rush tds that Jalen Hurts had because that set
a record, yep. But other than that, everything else just forgotten.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So true, Tony, there are just certain times when you
shouldn't make that call. You need to let the players
on the field play the game, Isn't that right, Dony.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Of course, we can't be reinforcing rules all the time.
Imagine if the cops pulled over everyone who was speeding,
the cops would be so busy giving tickets.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
All the murderers would go murder. So if you say
all rules.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Should be enforced at all times, then basically your pro murder.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So elegantly put Tony.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And another thing we must point out is that the
refs didn't call holding the entire game until that final
call right there.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So you know, don't you.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Think that the players must have been looking around thinking, hey,
they're not calling hold.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Holding must be legal in this game. Of course they did.
You know, people always say there's an exception to every rule. Well,
how is anybody gonna know what the exception is and
what's not. It's very confusing and frankly, it's a mixed
message to players.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Okay, we got to defend someone who is once again
being unfairly adapt Of course, Ja Moranto again, for some reason,
is in hot water just for flashing a gun on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I don't get it, Tony, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Explain to the people why you know, John Morant lives
in Memphis.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
The team is called the Grizzlies.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
If you live in an area prone to grizzly attacks,
then it would be stupid not to carry a gun.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Frankly, when I saw the video, I was shocked because
I thought he should be carrying something bigger, like a
rifle or a bazooka or something. Do you ever see
the movie The Relevant with Leonardo DiCaprio that one scene.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's terrifying, terrific point that Tony and you know Ja
Moran's critics out there, these idiots, you know, they're.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Saying that this is not how a role model.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Should behave excuse me, Oh yeah, well, why don't you
tell that to John Wayne?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, a real Harry Why at ark the best?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You know, people they're already up in arms about this
NFL schedule because it includes a Friday night game for
the first time. They're going to be playing on Black Friday,
November twenty fourth, and so that people are saying that
adding another night of football as they always do, They
say it adds to the injury risk. You know, yeah,
read that danger. You know, we listen on this show
(06:45):
to complaints. We hear the people. But what we do
that separates us as we come up with solutions. And Tony,
you said something the other day that was just so smart.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
It was just such a simple solution. Go, don't tell
the people.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Here's my solution.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
If the players need more days to rest, then there's
clearly a simple fix, add more days to the week.
If weeks had eight days instead of seven, there would
be no problem. So I propose that during NFL season
we add a day called Moosday, which comes between Monday
and Tuesday. Now you're probably saying, won't this add more
(07:22):
days to the year. No, because just simply remove seventeen
days from August. Nobody likes August anyway. It's boring and
hot and everyone's over it. So there add Moosday plus
take away half of August.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Problem solved.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Just an absolutely brilliant solution by you, Tony, and thank you.
Don't be surprised people when September rolls around and you're
all rushing out to buy new calendars.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah, and get used to saying tgim yeah Moosday there.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Okay, just a terrible week for ESPN. Two shocking incidents
occurring during the Morning Show first take, and we're gonna
talk about one of them right now.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It occurred on the segment where Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Smith was asking long time New York sports broadcast of
Michael Kay to name who he thought would be the
next New York team to win a championship.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Let's go ahead, and play that clip.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Which team in New York do you think wins a
championship next?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Rangers?
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Oh lord, come on, Patrick, they don't count, don't They
don't count.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
The only thing I know about hockey that black and
I love Gary's my button.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
It is no disrespect to the Rangers, aunt to Patrick
kne of course, but just just for Steve Football.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Wow, I still can't believe it. Just so disrespectful, disrespectful.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
You know you're here even a they're.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Totally shutting down the hockey conversation, trying to shift the
conversation of football, baseball, basketball.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
The NHL has always been considered one of the four
major sports.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
You know, it's right up there with NFL, NBA, and MLB.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Totally. Nothing competes with it absolutely.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I mean, you know, well unless you count NASCAR, but.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
That's only in the South regional.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, and uh maybe UFC, but that's on pay per
view elitist. Yeah, and uh maybe golf with Tiger Woods,
but he's out of the picture now, peg leg And
I guess you got to throw in.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
College football and college basketball.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Too, which is not pro, not not pro.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And well maybe you got to throw in little league
baseball because that.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Does do big numbers for about a month each year.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Yeah, that's true. And also poker also true. Horse racing,
Yeah that's fair. But it's animal sports. So you know, Asterick, well.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
Other than that, you know, hockey is a Big four sport.
It's undispotally can't argue on the subject of arguing. Another
great transition there by you, Dony theristic.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, that leads to another.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Incident we saw on First Take this week, brewha breaking
out between JJ Reddick and Kendrick Perkins.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
You know, Reddick fired back at Perkins.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Because he thought Perkins was accusing the NBA MVP voters
of being kind of racist. I guess because they gave
MVP awards to Nicola Jokick, Dirk Nowitzki, and Steve Nash
and now they appear to be giving the awards a
Joe kick once again. And you know, Tony, it is
an interesting point that Kendrick Perkins is making here, but
(10:45):
you felt he missed the point kind it, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Unfortunately, Yes, you see, Kendrick Perkins was on the right
track with his criticism of NBA MVP voting, but a
closer look reveals that the real reason Nicola Joe keeps
getting named MVP. Is that in sports media there's clearly
a strong pro Serbian bias. You think it's bad with
(11:09):
the NBA MVP, just look at the award for ATP Tennis.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Player of the Year. Every year they got Novak Djokovic
winning over and over again, as you can see more
evidence of clear Serbian bias.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Terrific journalism and research that Dodika truly.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The biggest story in all of basketball.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
And no, it's not the Denver Nuggets making the NBA Finals,
Nobody cares. And it's definitely not Lebron possibly retiring please
get good riddance to him. Yeah, exactly. And it's definitely
not Carmello Anthony retiring.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I thought he retired like five years ago.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, same here.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Anyway, the biggest story is clearly what's going on in
the WNBA. Britney Griner's w NBA return to the Phoenix
Mercuries was the league's most watched.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Game since nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
It scored six hundred and eighty three thousand viewers, you know,
which is so virtually nothing, but you know, in WNBA.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Terms, that's fruet ball numbers exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Anyway, Tony, don't be surprised, you know if other leagues
take notice.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Of this, right absolutely, you know, if I'm NHL Commissioner
Gary Bettman, I have to consider copying the Britney grind
of strategy to juice ratings. You take that conom McDavid guy,
and you send him over to Russia and have him
imprisoned in a Russian jail for only a year or so.
Then we trade him back to America for a Russian
(12:39):
war criminal and bada binglada bum. Everyone's watching oiler games again,
record ratings exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And you know you look at the NBA right now,
you know you got this possible Nuggets heat turd of
a final that nobody wants to watch. Yeah, Adam Silver
right now has got to be considering having North Korea
maybe capt Jamal Murray, you know, just for a few days,
you know, just before the series starts, and maybe you
know you think about it right at game time, you know,
Jamal Murray just parachutes down into the arena like a
(13:10):
fan man.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You know, the ratings would be.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Your ratings through the roof. In fact, the PGA Championship
just got its lowest ratings since two thousand and eight.
Don't be surprised that before the US Open Rooks Koepka
winds up being captured by a Venezuelan drug cartel or
maybe a roving band of sea pirates.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Terrific points Tony bound to happen O Skip Dayls and
Shannon show Ye you know, get your divorce because they
seem to clearly hate each other any way. You know,
people are saying that this is all Skip's fault, that
Shannon's right to believe in all this. What you know,
this is what I totally hate about sports TV these days.
(13:51):
You know, this idea that these former athletes can come
on and be better at sports talk than journalists and
seasoned radios. It's just predict us and frankly rude to
our proud profession, isn't it, right, Tony.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
You know, it's a toxic situation because these Hall of
Fame athletes on TV now, they just naturally assume they
know more about sports because they, you know, we're in
locker rooms and actually on the field, and that's a
real problem.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
It's just terrible, you know, ruining the whole foundation of
what our proud industry of sportstock radio is built.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
On.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
You know, we understand and Skip Bayless understands tool that
the only way to have con perspective on sports is
to have no direct association with it at all.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
That's how you remain.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Objective, exactly. You gotta be objective, Skip Bayless.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
He's looking for a replacement who won't argue with him
so much, won't you know, debate him.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
As so much fun?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, we totally agree with what Skip is doing here absolutely.
Who why would anyone in their right minds want to
have a co host on their own show who disagrees
with everything they say?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Oh you want that, Tony?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
No?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I mean that makes absolutely no sense, right one.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I mean, you can have compelling, interesting conversation just like
the one we're having right now and agree on everything.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Right, you'll hit the nail smack on the head as usual.
I got nothing further to add because you nailed it.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
There you Goere you go. That's how it's done.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
We saw an absolutely terrific take on Jampet this week
from just a brilliant observer of sports. Of course, I'm
talking about Chris mad Dog Russo, who said, boldly and correctly,
mind you, that this year's Nuggets team was totally overrated
and that the nineteen eighty six Celtics would sweep the
Nuggets four row, no contest, and Tony mad Dog Russo
(15:48):
is so right here is it?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Absolutely this year's Nuggets team would stand no chance against
the eighty six Celtics. All you gotta do is look
at the number of Hall of Famers on each team.
That's the ultimate way to judge a team. That eighty
six Celtics had six Hall of Famers, the Nuggets have none.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
That's a glaring difference.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Such a great point that Dony, and you know another
angle here that you know, I can't believe the media,
or maybe I can believe that the media is just too.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Chicken to talk about. You'll hear it on this show people.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Doesn't anybody find it a little strange that in the
span of a week we've seen two athletes with major
championships from a country that nobody's heard of. You got
Novak Djokovic Serbian when in the French Open. Then you
got Nicola Jokik, also Serbian, with in the NBA finals,
(16:46):
and nobody in our business seems to bat and I
find and find this weird.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
It's it's very disconcerting, isn't it, Tony Very.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
You know, I don't get my information from the Internet
because I'm not dumb and gullible. I go to trust
sources like Encyclopedias. I went to my most trusted world book,
Encyclopedia that I've had for thirty years. And what's so
strange is that there's no mention of a country called Serbia.
But now everyone's talking about Serbia this and Serbia that.
(17:18):
Isn't it just a little strange how this quote unquote
country is so important all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Just terrific perspective and research that Dony, and thank you.
What I'm about to say is controversial, but you know
it's a duty as journalists it must be said.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
What about Chernobyl.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
You know you had all that nuclear radiation springing all
over the place like forty years ago or so.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
You look now at what's going on.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
All of a sudden, You got these monster athletes sprouting
up everywhere in this country over there.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
You know we've seen this before. Just look at the
incredible hulk.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
The radiation transformed Bruce Banner and made him huge. You absolutely,
one hundred percent have to consider that maybe all those
gamma rays from Chernobyl got into their DNA and gave
them super strength.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You absolutely have to.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, you know, this is what they call them, the
business people, investigative journalism.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
We do real news on the show.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Wow, Wow, incredible. I got geese bumps just listening to those.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
And you know that was just one percent of all
the great days that didn't even that was just you know,
not even the tip of the iceberg. But like is
above the dip anyway, by now public demand.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You know people out there.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You also like that part where you know, our producer
Jay interrupts with his stupid corrections and you know we.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Tell them what it is.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, so well, yeah, let's go ahead and play some
of those clips right now.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
He said, Jamaran needs a gun to protect himself from
Grizzly Bears running around Memphis.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah. Bro, yeah, the team's called the Grizzly bro.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
They're called the Grizzlies because they originally played in Vancouver.
There are no Grizzly Bears in Memphis.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Oh yeah, well, you know what's gonna be grizzly when
I murder you?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah, next time we talk bears, it's gonna be where
to bury your body boom, that's it.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
We're done. Unts.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
You keep saying the Nuggets player is Nicola joke Kick.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah it's his name.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, No, it's.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Nicola Jokic, not joke Kick. Maybe you should try watching
a Denver Nuggets game.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Oh yeah, well, I'm gonna joke kick you in the
Nuggets if you catch my drift.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah you know what, I can't wait to watch your funeral.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Oh, James Bradbury did admit that he held juju Smith Schuster,
so so what So if a player admits that he
committed a penalty, there should be no discussion after that.
It's over.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You're right. The only thing we should discuss is where
to bury your body.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Yeah, there's only one penalty we should discuss with you,
the death penalty.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Oh got them.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
You basically slammed ESPN for not talking hockey on their
debate shows.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, it's shameful of them, totally.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
You guys never talk hockey on this show. In fact,
I don't think i've heard you talk hockey ever.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Oh yeah, well I don't think i've ever heard you
shut the up.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, hockey reminds me of your love life. Cold as ice, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
You said, serbian athletes are so dominant because of the
nuclear effects of Chernobyl.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah, bro crazy upsetting, but true.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Yeah, if that even was true, Nuclear radiation doesn't make
it stronger. You only see that happen in comic books,
not in real life.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Oh yeah, well you know what else you only see
in comic books, nerds like you.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah, and you know what's also not in real life?
Your girlfriend? Yeah, he's done. Shit, let's get out of
it here, we're done.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
By the way, what you do realize why there's no
such country called Serbia thirty years ago?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It's mysterious, bro very mysterious.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Serbia was part of Yugoslavia then it declared independence in
two thousand and six. But I shouldn't be surprised if
you don't know that though.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh yeah, well, speaking of surprises, wait until you start
your car tonight.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Yeah, forget Yugo Slavia.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
It's gonna be you go kaboo me yea, you're done.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Great, he's done.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
You know, Tony, we really need to get a new
producer on this show. It's just because, yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I mean, what are we doing? This supposed to be
a best of show, not a worst of? Why we
even playing producingj in the show.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Great point, Tony, we should have just played our parts,
you know, and you just left him out. Yeah, but anyway,
it didn't ruin what was otherwise a terrific clip show
because you know, it made it so great.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
We didn't have to do a single thing. We didn't
have to lift a finger.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
In easy money for us all day.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
So anyway, in the meantime, you you know you want
to lift a finger, go subscribe on YouTube, you know,
follow us on TikTok all our social media platforms, listen
to our back episodes.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
And Tony, we didn't do much, but we did it great.
Especially you.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Absolutely same to you, Paullie. Another flawless clip show.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
There you go. We'll see your people in sometime. See
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