February 20, 2025 • 22 mins
Paulie & Tony Fusco do a hard-hitting special report about the NBA All-Star Game DISASTER and tell you exactly went wrong, even though they didn't actually watch the game. Then they open up the Fusco Hot Take Hotline to get some "interesting" ideas from callers on how to fix the game (other than canceling it, which is the obvious solution). Plus, they react to the breaking Patrick Mahomes hair news which shows he's TOTALLY COPYING the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right, right, you come and TOYO live from Philly.
It's the number on errated Polly and Tony four Star show.
Yo as always Polly First Go, heir with Tony First
Go and Tony YO. Very important show today. You know,
while we'd love to continue talking about the Eagles and
(00:25):
that total domination of that no talent hack, Patrick Mahomes,
it is that time of year when we must turn
our attention to the NBA, even though nobody wants to.
Nobody wants to, but there's just tons of uproar about
the NBA All Star Game, which sucked for the twenty
seventh consecutive year at least. Yeah. Yeah, this is many
people calling on the NBA to come up with ways
(00:47):
to fix the game other than canceling it forever, which
is the obvious solution. Yes, that would be the best
solution anyway, but exactly so, anyway, today we are going
to do a deep dive into everything wrong with the
All Star Game in the NBA in our special report
NBA in Crisis, NBA in Crisis. Not only will we
(01:08):
break down why the NBA sucks so much, we're going
to open up the Verizon Hot Take hot Line ideas
from you out there on ways to fix the All
Star Game again besides canceling it forever, which is still
exactly still the best thing to do. But again, just
to be clear, we know our ideas are way better
than yours. But just for the record, you're not coming
(01:30):
to you because we need that information. We're coming to
you because Verizon paid us millions to do something called
the hot Take Hotline. So it just takes us a
few minutes. We got to listen to your dumb ideas
and we get paid at a rate of well, I
don't want to disclose it, but let's say it's in
the ten zeros exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And you know that also helps the pain of us
having to sit through all of your takes.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Right, that helps the money. But first, before we get
into basketball, Tony, there is one NFL story just broke
hit that sounders. According to just release new photos, Patrick
Mahomes has cut his ugly looking muppet hair after losing
the Super Bowl. Now, Doty, what were we saying. We've
(02:14):
been telling you ever since Nick Sirianni shaved his head.
We said there is a direct correlation between hair length
and winning. Yeah, look at Jalen hurts.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
He has that sweet nineties kid in play short buzz
cut fade which allows him to move faster and scramble
faster because of the aerodynamics. Meanwhile, look at Trevor Lawrence
with his long, luscious flowing hair. No wonder he's throwing
all those picks. The hair is clearly getting in his
eyes and he can't see the field or any of
(02:46):
his receivers. I think it's clear that instead of the
Jaguars getting him a new coach, they need to get
him a barber.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Great follicle analysis is always doty and that's our breaking news. Okay,
so there we go, got down out of the way,
and well now it's time to begin our special report.
NBA in crisis, NBA in crisis again. Just so much
went horribly wrong over the NBA All Star Break. Now,
(03:14):
we'd love to tell you dissect everything that went wrong,
but frankly, we didn't watch a single second of it. Now,
of course, we had tickets to see Billy Joel at
the Vegan Sun exactly. So honestly, all that takes from
clips we saw on Twitter blog posts and also just
takes we're recycling from the last All Star game we
watched in twenty thirteen. But still all these points are
(03:35):
very relevant, and Tony, you had a great one. You
told me in the car ride back.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Tell the people, Well, first of all, you know so
many people call it the All Star break. Well, we
all know employees don't want to work when they're on break.
A much smarter idea would be to call it the
NBA All Star Work Retreat. You know that way these
lazy gen z, the NBA players know that it's fun
(04:03):
but also work related and therefore mandatory is dictated by
the terms of their employer.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Great point, don'y I mean, what is the most important
event in all of basketball? The dunk Contest?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And the lineup of the dunk Contest with three no
names in Mac McClung, who's not even a professional basketball
player now he's in the G League. How can you
call this the All Star weekend when it's not all stars? Sense?
You can't?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I mean, shouldn't it be called like half Star weekend then?
Or you know, maybe like a three to eight star weekend. Yeah,
if I'm a consumer or the FCC, I would sue
the NBA for false advertising. You know, at least when
people went to this year's Pro Bowl. They got to
see actual NFL stars like Joe Burrow, and you know
(04:56):
there was also.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Josh Allen. No, no, he declined to participate. That's right,
Lamar Jackson he was there. No, no, he also declined
to participate. Manning was there. I mean he wasn't on
the field. Yeah, he was there totally. That's Burrow. I
mean that's a name, that's a big name exactly. Anyway, right, well, look,
(05:23):
you know there are other problems with the All Star Game.
Draymond Green. You know, he came out on the broadcast
and he said the game's boring, terrible, and then you know,
Charles Barkley came back at him and said, well, it's
Draymond Green's generation. You're ruined the All Star Game. And
you know this is just so true, Tony. Basketball's gone
totally downhill since Barkley left, totally.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You know, the game of basketball was so much more
exciting during Charles Barkley's generation. You know, people didn't tune
in back then just to see who would win and
who would lose, but who would be hospitalized or even murdered.
You know, people forget that in the late eighties and
early nineties, people would literally root for athletes to kill
(06:07):
each other.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
But then OJ Simpson, you know, murdered two civilians and
then people were like, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's too far,
and that led to the PC anti murder sports world
that we're in right now.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Just such a terrible drop off, fan, Tony, and you know,
you know it's so true because you know, you look
at the reception that the NHL All Star Game got
this year, where there was basically, you know, ninety eight
percent fighting in two percent hockey. Perfect that exactly. That
used to be what the NBA was all about, until
the league just totally lost its way, don't you agree,
(06:39):
one hundred percent?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
We all know the number one metric for all sports
fan gae engagement exactly. And there was no greater example
of fan engagement than the Malice at the Palace. You know,
fans not only got to come on the court, but
they got a chance to actually punch players in the face.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It was the ultimate fantasy camp.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I mean, who wouldn't want to come to the stadium
and have a chance to punch Lebron James in the throw?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Just terrific points all around, Tony and you know, this
is what made Charles Barkley so great. He was a
master of fan engagement. Just engaged with fans all the time,
you know, throwing them through ball windows, restaurant windows, hotel windows,
assaulting them in the streets randomly, shoving them into gutters
(07:28):
and having such of their girlfriends right in front of
them while they cried. You know, just giving them such
memorable experiences all around, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Making memories for the fans that would last a lifetime.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
You know, and Tony I got to agree with Charles
Barkley and all the points he made because you know,
when I watched basketball these days, it's just terrible. There's
there's too much scoring. I mean, I see some of
these scores, one hundred and seventy nine through one hundred
and sixty seven. Is this a basketball game or a
bowling match? What's going on now?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You know, the NBA was so much better in the
eighties and nineties, when U had scores like sixty two
to fifty nine. You know, tight defensive battles where teams
shot nineteen percent from the field because they were afraid
of being decapitated by Dennis Rodman.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
All the games came down to a tense edgy.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
You see free throw battle in the last two minutes,
and you know each free throw was so important because
accounted for like eleven twelve percent of the team's total score. Yep,
that was real stakes and real tension.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Just such great basketball analysis all around that, Dody. And
you want to talk tension, I gotta say I'm a
little tense about what we got coming up next time.
You know, as we've said before, we don't like opening
up the phone lines because you know, you never know
what you're gonna get. Well you're doing, it's all terrible.
So what we've done is we've come up with this
(08:53):
thing called the hot Take Hotline, where people know they
can send us that takes email video. And yet some
people struggle with those very complex instructions. Tony. We received
a lot of type emails, yeah, a lot of texts.
Maybe our audience is full of like Stephen Hawkings or
something that's what's going on out Well, they're just all
AI who knows, but you know, you never know these days, Tony. Anyway,
(09:17):
So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go ahead
right now and we're gonna open up the Verizon Hot
take hotline. Yeah, all right, so this is what we
did the other day. We sent out a tweet whatever
from my Instagram wherever, and it said, give us your
smartest ideas to fix the terrible NBA All Star Games.
(09:37):
So we haven't bothered listened to any of these because
you know, we're very busy, and also we kind of
don't care. But a producer, he apparently narrowed these down
to the most interesting ones, best ones, not horrible ones. Producer,
what what's first up?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
First one is from Simon and his brother?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Okay, well, what's his brother's name? Does his brother have
a name? Brother?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I don't know, No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Sorry, we forgot to ask you to do this simple
job of finding out who the videos are sending. Okay,
go ahead, play, Just go ahead and hit play. All right.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You know, so you're asking how we should fix the
All Star Game, and what we really should do is
we have to make a one v one tournament with players.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
In the NBA.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Let's entertain like the catch should make it better.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
All seventy six ers players and it gets better announcing
Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley because they know ball.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
They know ball.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
They're great ball.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Like, you know, I would personally invite Nick Foles.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
He knows how to win.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
He's a winner.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
He knows how to win. That's how you make the
All Star Game better and win, you know, Tony, Uh,
I do appreciate that creativity close. The problem is is
that if you put Nick Foles in any athletic competition,
he's just gonna win. By a mind, He's just gonna win,
and it's not gonna be competitive at all. Like exactly,
he went and played pickle ball, as we told you
(10:58):
how the past episode these he's the greatest pickleball player
of all time. Just a great multi sport athlete.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And also, you know, the problem too is if you
have Nick Foles there on a basketball court, you know,
it creates a safety issue because you know they might
trip over.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
You know that that's so true, Tony. You know, when
he's in the football gear, the long pants totally safe
for everybody. But in those short NBA pants, it's like
gonna you're gonna have like an anchor on the frost
there running tripping paper. So you know, again, you know,
I gotta commend them. They're thinking outside the box, maybe
too far outside the box. But all right, thank you,
(11:34):
thank you, Simon, Simon, and whoever that other person was,
all right, produce. So who's up next? Nathaniel is next? Okay,
let's go.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
So my idea to fix the NBA All Star Game
is you take all of the players in the first
half of the season who have the most technical fouls.
You get all of those players on a team and
have them play a full regulation game against all of
the nb A refs, and whoever loses that game gets
(12:04):
fined fifty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
All right, you know, not bad. You know, he had
me in the first half there with that the technical foul.
Then he kind of lost me because you know what,
do we know that every you need steaks, Tony? What's
fifty million dollars? Nobody cares about what I care. What
you do is you have the technical fouls people, they
play against a team of correctional officers, right exactly, and
(12:33):
then they go back and flay.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, and then what happens is the losing team gets
put on death row.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Now facts, those are steaks right there exactly. That it's
life of death. I may watch a quarter of one
hundred million, the fourth quarter I'd watch not the first.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
The end of the fourth quarter, like the last two
minutes exactly. But all right, that some d simple effort,
noble efforts. Have credit that to Nathaniel. Okay, yeah, all right,
next one, producer.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
We got Tom from Chicago.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Tom from Chicago. So now now we've the producer has
now gone. He took our note. Now we're getting a
little more biographical information on these staple Okay, all right,
Tom from Chicago. Hit play eight, PAULI eight.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Tony, it's Tom from Chicago. You're a big fan of
the show. Guys, congrants on the super Bowl win. There's
only one way to save the NBA game for next year.
Magnet shoes. Okay, when we're all playing basketball, we're having
a good time. It's when the celebrities, Kevin Hat, mister
Beast try to come on the court, things go to shit.
So put magnet shoes on all the celebrities. When they
(13:43):
try to come on magnet floor, they get stuck and
they can't move. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Fix it for you guys. What the hell was that
accent Tony had?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
It was like he went back and forth from like
a Chicago accent to like a Swedish accent.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I felt like he was like making fun of people
from Chicago, Like I actually kind of found it offensive
to people from Chicago, And therefore I really wasn't listening
to most of what he was saying, except when I
did realize he had totally stolen one of our takes
from right from who said madness, who said yeah that
we could stop court storming in college basketball by putting
(14:24):
magnet shoes not on the on the people in the stands,
And now he's turning it around into this other thing. Yeah,
you know, it's just very offensive to put on an
accent of someone you're very clearly not well. Anyway, Yay,
let's move on the more serious call as I who
we got up next?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Oh, we got Elliott Elliott.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Let's go, Hello, Fusco show.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
I'm Elliott Seisman, proud Dallas Cowboy fans, the twenty twenty
five Super Bowl winners. My idea on how to fix
the NBA All Star Game season bands for air balls.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
It would get rid of.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
These weird shots from nowhere that are very unimpressive. But
I understand there's bets on half court shots. How's Vega
is gonna make its money if you make a half
court shot, you win the NBA.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I'll be out my take. I don't know about you, Tony,
but when I saw that he was wearing a Cowboys
jersey and an Ezekiel Elliott jersey, I immediately knew this
was not someone worth listening though. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
As soon as he said Cowboys twenty twenty five champions,
I immediately turned out.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I didn't even hear that. By that, I can't even now.
I'm like, exactly, let's forget just move one, all right,
next one?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well, this one, I'll read it to you. It's an email.
There was no video.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
What was it sent from eighteen ninety six? What's going
on here?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I don't know. It's do you want to hear it?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Not really, but go.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
A couple points one at a retired player five versus five, one.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Versus oh sorry, there was like a dramatic pause that
keep going, okay.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
One v one tournament with reward being better contract eligibility,
so like Max to a super max contract.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Is there a PowerPoint? There was? Sam? Is this a
power point? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
East versus West, with winners of the game getting contract upgrades.
Just like I said before.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
You thought that was good content? That last two minutes.
It felt like whatever you just.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I just want to apologize to Noah. I didn't hear
one word because produce a Jay reading the email was the.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
It was the worst thing I've ever experienced. Can we
go back to this being a hotline segment? Can you
get some video audio something? Please?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
We have a voicemail from Bennett.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
All right, beg all right, let's see that Bennett to go.
Speaker 8 (16:51):
This is how I propose we fixed All Star weekend.
We need to implement a sacrificial event. We haven't done
sacrifices in five hundred years, but people used to die
for that stuff. They wouldn't stop watching it. We need
to bring that back. Just we could sacrifice anyone Derek
(17:14):
Lively see you see ya? Just sacrifice him so many
people will.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Watch, you know, Donnie, Okay, So that's he has on
the something there. I mean, it's a terrible idea, something
for the awesome game. But I see what you're thinking.
I know this for this show exactly might work. Like
at the end of the show was murder someone. So
we need to do is find someone to murder. There
(17:40):
we go. We just need to find someone to Although
the gods may be angry at us for sending him
up to them. You know that's fire right anyway, all right,
let's move on to the next one. Thank you, Bennett.
I guess all right, what's the next one?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
One?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Audio clip from Western from DC.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
That's very confusing, shouldn't it be? Easton is in DC?
Are you sure his name is Weston?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Western?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Alright? Whatever? Play it, all right?
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Go hi, Paulie and Tony, love you guys. Fuck you
producer Jay. I'm Western from DC and to fix the
All Star Game. You guys remember that Britney grinder for
the Russian arms dealer swap. We need to have political
prisoners on the line, so we can have Team Lebron
and the bad guys versus Team Embiid and the good guys.
We can win back an American hero, a soldier that's
been captured. Maybe we pay some sketchy guys to capture
(18:34):
one of our true American heroes a week before the
All Star Game every year, and then we can put
up a bad guy that we've captured in a war,
in prison, whatever it may be.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
But put that on the line.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
There's some real stakes to it.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
The players will have to try. Wow. I gotta say,
I gotta say, Tony, I'm kind of flawed right now.
I was not lost, you know, I thought our audience
was clearly all just total morons. But I gotta say it,
I think we found the one smart boy and we're
gonna give it up for him. What's his name again? Easton? Easton?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
West?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
All right? Well, West and there you goton you national
an play the anthem play because you know what you
are a true hero of shorts knowledge and good job,
you know you, Sylvia. You don't win anything for this.
But Adam Silvia, you who listens to the show, we
know he's watching. We will wait to see that you've
(19:32):
just probably fixed the All Star game forever and no game.
By the way, the way you started with producer Jay,
just the chef's chef's kiss and on that, let's end
this segment. Close up, the up, close up, the close up,
the hot take, hotline sponsored Diverizon close it go all right,
(19:54):
Well that was just you know there. We did go
out on a high note there, but that was just
a West and nobody else, not a produced and of
course wait want to thank our sponsor Verizon. They by
going out and ten you know, we need to do
a Fusco cold line and that's what comes in from
from j Exactly what is it? What?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
What corrections? You said? Mac McClung shouldn't be in the
dunk contest because he's not a professional NBA player.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Uh, G league, Bro, amateur hour, Bro.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
G League players are professional basketball players. They make money.
So what you said is just ignorant.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Oh yeah, well you're in the G League as in
G Why the is this guy dogging?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah, you're gonna win the dunk contest in my pool
when I drown you.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Oh great, one, We still still going what you said.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
In the NBA in the nineties, scoring was so low
that a free throw would count for eleven to twelve
percent of a team's total score.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Uh yeah, bro, very tight contest, bro. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
No, for a free throw to count eleven or twelve percent,
teams would have to be scoring like eight or nine
points per game. That never happened.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Oh yeah, Well, after the show, I'm going to free
throw you into my incinerator.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
And speaking of low scoring, your social life.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Oh okay, wait for that.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Oh and guess what, Tony again the greatest double booking
in the History of sports doc next week on the
show two Super Bowl MVPs.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Nick Foles and Jalen Hurts will both in the meantime,
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Speaker 3 (22:04):
H
All right, right, you come and TOYO live from Philly.
It's the number on errated Polly and Tony four Star show.
Yo as always Polly First Go, heir with Tony First
Go and Tony YO. Very important show today. You know,
while we'd love to continue talking about the Eagles and
(00:25):
that total domination of that no talent hack, Patrick Mahomes,
it is that time of year when we must turn
our attention to the NBA, even though nobody wants to.
Nobody wants to, but there's just tons of uproar about
the NBA All Star Game, which sucked for the twenty
seventh consecutive year at least. Yeah. Yeah, this is many
people calling on the NBA to come up with ways
(00:47):
to fix the game other than canceling it forever, which
is the obvious solution. Yes, that would be the best
solution anyway, but exactly so, anyway, today we are going
to do a deep dive into everything wrong with the
All Star Game in the NBA in our special report
NBA in Crisis, NBA in Crisis. Not only will we
(01:08):
break down why the NBA sucks so much, we're going
to open up the Verizon Hot Take hot Line ideas
from you out there on ways to fix the All
Star Game again besides canceling it forever, which is still
exactly still the best thing to do. But again, just
to be clear, we know our ideas are way better
than yours. But just for the record, you're not coming
(01:30):
to you because we need that information. We're coming to
you because Verizon paid us millions to do something called
the hot Take Hotline. So it just takes us a
few minutes. We got to listen to your dumb ideas
and we get paid at a rate of well, I
don't want to disclose it, but let's say it's in
the ten zeros exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And you know that also helps the pain of us
having to sit through all of your takes.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Right, that helps the money. But first, before we get
into basketball, Tony, there is one NFL story just broke
hit that sounders. According to just release new photos, Patrick
Mahomes has cut his ugly looking muppet hair after losing
the Super Bowl. Now, Doty, what were we saying. We've
(02:14):
been telling you ever since Nick Sirianni shaved his head.
We said there is a direct correlation between hair length
and winning. Yeah, look at Jalen hurts.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
He has that sweet nineties kid in play short buzz
cut fade which allows him to move faster and scramble
faster because of the aerodynamics. Meanwhile, look at Trevor Lawrence
with his long, luscious flowing hair. No wonder he's throwing
all those picks. The hair is clearly getting in his
eyes and he can't see the field or any of
(02:46):
his receivers. I think it's clear that instead of the
Jaguars getting him a new coach, they need to get
him a barber.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Great follicle analysis is always doty and that's our breaking news. Okay,
so there we go, got down out of the way,
and well now it's time to begin our special report.
NBA in crisis, NBA in crisis again. Just so much
went horribly wrong over the NBA All Star Break. Now,
(03:14):
we'd love to tell you dissect everything that went wrong,
but frankly, we didn't watch a single second of it. Now,
of course, we had tickets to see Billy Joel at
the Vegan Sun exactly. So honestly, all that takes from
clips we saw on Twitter blog posts and also just
takes we're recycling from the last All Star game we
watched in twenty thirteen. But still all these points are
(03:35):
very relevant, and Tony, you had a great one. You
told me in the car ride back.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Tell the people, Well, first of all, you know so
many people call it the All Star break. Well, we
all know employees don't want to work when they're on break.
A much smarter idea would be to call it the
NBA All Star Work Retreat. You know that way these
lazy gen z, the NBA players know that it's fun
(04:03):
but also work related and therefore mandatory is dictated by
the terms of their employer.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Great point, don'y I mean, what is the most important
event in all of basketball? The dunk Contest?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And the lineup of the dunk Contest with three no
names in Mac McClung, who's not even a professional basketball
player now he's in the G League. How can you
call this the All Star weekend when it's not all stars? Sense?
You can't?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I mean, shouldn't it be called like half Star weekend then?
Or you know, maybe like a three to eight star weekend. Yeah,
if I'm a consumer or the FCC, I would sue
the NBA for false advertising. You know, at least when
people went to this year's Pro Bowl. They got to
see actual NFL stars like Joe Burrow, and you know
(04:56):
there was also.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Josh Allen. No, no, he declined to participate. That's right,
Lamar Jackson he was there. No, no, he also declined
to participate. Manning was there. I mean he wasn't on
the field. Yeah, he was there totally. That's Burrow. I
mean that's a name, that's a big name exactly. Anyway, right, well, look,
(05:23):
you know there are other problems with the All Star Game.
Draymond Green. You know, he came out on the broadcast
and he said the game's boring, terrible, and then you know,
Charles Barkley came back at him and said, well, it's
Draymond Green's generation. You're ruined the All Star Game. And
you know this is just so true, Tony. Basketball's gone
totally downhill since Barkley left, totally.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You know, the game of basketball was so much more
exciting during Charles Barkley's generation. You know, people didn't tune
in back then just to see who would win and
who would lose, but who would be hospitalized or even murdered.
You know, people forget that in the late eighties and
early nineties, people would literally root for athletes to kill
(06:07):
each other.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
But then OJ Simpson, you know, murdered two civilians and
then people were like, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's too far,
and that led to the PC anti murder sports world
that we're in right now.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Just such a terrible drop off, fan, Tony, and you know,
you know it's so true because you know, you look
at the reception that the NHL All Star Game got
this year, where there was basically, you know, ninety eight
percent fighting in two percent hockey. Perfect that exactly. That
used to be what the NBA was all about, until
the league just totally lost its way, don't you agree,
(06:39):
one hundred percent?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
We all know the number one metric for all sports
fan gae engagement exactly. And there was no greater example
of fan engagement than the Malice at the Palace. You know,
fans not only got to come on the court, but
they got a chance to actually punch players in the face.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It was the ultimate fantasy camp.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I mean, who wouldn't want to come to the stadium
and have a chance to punch Lebron James in the throw?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Just terrific points all around, Tony and you know, this
is what made Charles Barkley so great. He was a
master of fan engagement. Just engaged with fans all the time,
you know, throwing them through ball windows, restaurant windows, hotel windows,
assaulting them in the streets randomly, shoving them into gutters
(07:28):
and having such of their girlfriends right in front of
them while they cried. You know, just giving them such
memorable experiences all around, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Making memories for the fans that would last a lifetime.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
You know, and Tony I got to agree with Charles
Barkley and all the points he made because you know,
when I watched basketball these days, it's just terrible. There's
there's too much scoring. I mean, I see some of
these scores, one hundred and seventy nine through one hundred
and sixty seven. Is this a basketball game or a
bowling match? What's going on now?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You know, the NBA was so much better in the
eighties and nineties, when U had scores like sixty two
to fifty nine. You know, tight defensive battles where teams
shot nineteen percent from the field because they were afraid
of being decapitated by Dennis Rodman.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
All the games came down to a tense edgy.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
You see free throw battle in the last two minutes,
and you know each free throw was so important because
accounted for like eleven twelve percent of the team's total score. Yep,
that was real stakes and real tension.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Just such great basketball analysis all around that, Dody. And
you want to talk tension, I gotta say I'm a
little tense about what we got coming up next time.
You know, as we've said before, we don't like opening
up the phone lines because you know, you never know
what you're gonna get. Well you're doing, it's all terrible.
So what we've done is we've come up with this
(08:53):
thing called the hot Take Hotline, where people know they
can send us that takes email video. And yet some
people struggle with those very complex instructions. Tony. We received
a lot of type emails, yeah, a lot of texts.
Maybe our audience is full of like Stephen Hawkings or
something that's what's going on out Well, they're just all
AI who knows, but you know, you never know these days, Tony. Anyway,
(09:17):
So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go ahead
right now and we're gonna open up the Verizon Hot
take hotline. Yeah, all right, so this is what we
did the other day. We sent out a tweet whatever
from my Instagram wherever, and it said, give us your
smartest ideas to fix the terrible NBA All Star Games.
(09:37):
So we haven't bothered listened to any of these because
you know, we're very busy, and also we kind of
don't care. But a producer, he apparently narrowed these down
to the most interesting ones, best ones, not horrible ones. Producer,
what what's first up?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
First one is from Simon and his brother?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Okay, well, what's his brother's name? Does his brother have
a name? Brother?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I don't know, No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Sorry, we forgot to ask you to do this simple
job of finding out who the videos are sending. Okay,
go ahead, play, Just go ahead and hit play. All right.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You know, so you're asking how we should fix the
All Star Game, and what we really should do is
we have to make a one v one tournament with players.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
In the NBA.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Let's entertain like the catch should make it better.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
All seventy six ers players and it gets better announcing
Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley because they know ball.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
They know ball.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
They're great ball.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Like, you know, I would personally invite Nick Foles.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
He knows how to win.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
He's a winner.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
He knows how to win. That's how you make the
All Star Game better and win, you know, Tony, Uh,
I do appreciate that creativity close. The problem is is
that if you put Nick Foles in any athletic competition,
he's just gonna win. By a mind, He's just gonna win,
and it's not gonna be competitive at all. Like exactly,
he went and played pickle ball, as we told you
(10:58):
how the past episode these he's the greatest pickleball player
of all time. Just a great multi sport athlete.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And also, you know, the problem too is if you
have Nick Foles there on a basketball court, you know,
it creates a safety issue because you know they might
trip over.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
You know that that's so true, Tony. You know, when
he's in the football gear, the long pants totally safe
for everybody. But in those short NBA pants, it's like
gonna you're gonna have like an anchor on the frost
there running tripping paper. So you know, again, you know,
I gotta commend them. They're thinking outside the box, maybe
too far outside the box. But all right, thank you,
(11:34):
thank you, Simon, Simon, and whoever that other person was,
all right, produce. So who's up next? Nathaniel is next? Okay,
let's go.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
So my idea to fix the NBA All Star Game
is you take all of the players in the first
half of the season who have the most technical fouls.
You get all of those players on a team and
have them play a full regulation game against all of
the nb A refs, and whoever loses that game gets
(12:04):
fined fifty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
All right, you know, not bad. You know, he had
me in the first half there with that the technical foul.
Then he kind of lost me because you know what,
do we know that every you need steaks, Tony? What's
fifty million dollars? Nobody cares about what I care. What
you do is you have the technical fouls people, they
play against a team of correctional officers, right exactly, and
(12:33):
then they go back and flay.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, and then what happens is the losing team gets
put on death row.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Now facts, those are steaks right there exactly. That it's
life of death. I may watch a quarter of one
hundred million, the fourth quarter I'd watch not the first.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
The end of the fourth quarter, like the last two
minutes exactly. But all right, that some d simple effort,
noble efforts. Have credit that to Nathaniel. Okay, yeah, all right,
next one, producer.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
We got Tom from Chicago.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Tom from Chicago. So now now we've the producer has
now gone. He took our note. Now we're getting a
little more biographical information on these staple Okay, all right,
Tom from Chicago. Hit play eight, PAULI eight.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Tony, it's Tom from Chicago. You're a big fan of
the show. Guys, congrants on the super Bowl win. There's
only one way to save the NBA game for next year.
Magnet shoes. Okay, when we're all playing basketball, we're having
a good time. It's when the celebrities, Kevin Hat, mister
Beast try to come on the court, things go to shit.
So put magnet shoes on all the celebrities. When they
(13:43):
try to come on magnet floor, they get stuck and
they can't move. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Fix it for you guys. What the hell was that
accent Tony had?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
It was like he went back and forth from like
a Chicago accent to like a Swedish accent.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I felt like he was like making fun of people
from Chicago, Like I actually kind of found it offensive
to people from Chicago, And therefore I really wasn't listening
to most of what he was saying, except when I
did realize he had totally stolen one of our takes
from right from who said madness, who said yeah that
we could stop court storming in college basketball by putting
(14:24):
magnet shoes not on the on the people in the stands,
And now he's turning it around into this other thing. Yeah,
you know, it's just very offensive to put on an
accent of someone you're very clearly not well. Anyway, Yay,
let's move on the more serious call as I who
we got up next?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Oh, we got Elliott Elliott.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Let's go, Hello, Fusco show.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
I'm Elliott Seisman, proud Dallas Cowboy fans, the twenty twenty
five Super Bowl winners. My idea on how to fix
the NBA All Star Game season bands for air balls.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
It would get rid of.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
These weird shots from nowhere that are very unimpressive. But
I understand there's bets on half court shots. How's Vega
is gonna make its money if you make a half
court shot, you win the NBA.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I'll be out my take. I don't know about you, Tony,
but when I saw that he was wearing a Cowboys
jersey and an Ezekiel Elliott jersey, I immediately knew this
was not someone worth listening though. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
As soon as he said Cowboys twenty twenty five champions,
I immediately turned out.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I didn't even hear that. By that, I can't even now.
I'm like, exactly, let's forget just move one, all right,
next one?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well, this one, I'll read it to you. It's an email.
There was no video.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
What was it sent from eighteen ninety six? What's going
on here?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I don't know. It's do you want to hear it?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Not really, but go.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
A couple points one at a retired player five versus five, one.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Versus oh sorry, there was like a dramatic pause that
keep going, okay.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
One v one tournament with reward being better contract eligibility,
so like Max to a super max contract.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Is there a PowerPoint? There was? Sam? Is this a
power point? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
East versus West, with winners of the game getting contract upgrades.
Just like I said before.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
You thought that was good content? That last two minutes.
It felt like whatever you just.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I just want to apologize to Noah. I didn't hear
one word because produce a Jay reading the email was the.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
It was the worst thing I've ever experienced. Can we
go back to this being a hotline segment? Can you
get some video audio something? Please?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
We have a voicemail from Bennett.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
All right, beg all right, let's see that Bennett to go.
Speaker 8 (16:51):
This is how I propose we fixed All Star weekend.
We need to implement a sacrificial event. We haven't done
sacrifices in five hundred years, but people used to die
for that stuff. They wouldn't stop watching it. We need
to bring that back. Just we could sacrifice anyone Derek
(17:14):
Lively see you see ya? Just sacrifice him so many
people will.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Watch, you know, Donnie, Okay, So that's he has on
the something there. I mean, it's a terrible idea, something
for the awesome game. But I see what you're thinking.
I know this for this show exactly might work. Like
at the end of the show was murder someone. So
we need to do is find someone to murder. There
(17:40):
we go. We just need to find someone to Although
the gods may be angry at us for sending him
up to them. You know that's fire right anyway, all right,
let's move on to the next one. Thank you, Bennett.
I guess all right, what's the next one?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
One?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Audio clip from Western from DC.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
That's very confusing, shouldn't it be? Easton is in DC?
Are you sure his name is Weston?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Western?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Alright? Whatever? Play it, all right?
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Go hi, Paulie and Tony, love you guys. Fuck you
producer Jay. I'm Western from DC and to fix the
All Star Game. You guys remember that Britney grinder for
the Russian arms dealer swap. We need to have political
prisoners on the line, so we can have Team Lebron
and the bad guys versus Team Embiid and the good guys.
We can win back an American hero, a soldier that's
been captured. Maybe we pay some sketchy guys to capture
(18:34):
one of our true American heroes a week before the
All Star Game every year, and then we can put
up a bad guy that we've captured in a war,
in prison, whatever it may be.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
But put that on the line.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
There's some real stakes to it.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
The players will have to try. Wow. I gotta say,
I gotta say, Tony, I'm kind of flawed right now.
I was not lost, you know, I thought our audience
was clearly all just total morons. But I gotta say it,
I think we found the one smart boy and we're
gonna give it up for him. What's his name again? Easton? Easton?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
West?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
All right? Well, West and there you goton you national
an play the anthem play because you know what you
are a true hero of shorts knowledge and good job,
you know you, Sylvia. You don't win anything for this.
But Adam Silvia, you who listens to the show, we
know he's watching. We will wait to see that you've
(19:32):
just probably fixed the All Star game forever and no game.
By the way, the way you started with producer Jay,
just the chef's chef's kiss and on that, let's end
this segment. Close up, the up, close up, the close up,
the hot take, hotline sponsored Diverizon close it go all right,
(19:54):
Well that was just you know there. We did go
out on a high note there, but that was just
a West and nobody else, not a produced and of
course wait want to thank our sponsor Verizon. They by
going out and ten you know, we need to do
a Fusco cold line and that's what comes in from
from j Exactly what is it? What?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
What corrections? You said? Mac McClung shouldn't be in the
dunk contest because he's not a professional NBA player.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Uh, G league, Bro, amateur hour, Bro.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
G League players are professional basketball players. They make money.
So what you said is just ignorant.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Oh yeah, well you're in the G League as in
G Why the is this guy dogging?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah, you're gonna win the dunk contest in my pool
when I drown you.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Oh great, one, We still still going what you said.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
In the NBA in the nineties, scoring was so low
that a free throw would count for eleven to twelve
percent of a team's total score.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Uh yeah, bro, very tight contest, bro. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
No, for a free throw to count eleven or twelve percent,
teams would have to be scoring like eight or nine
points per game. That never happened.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Oh yeah, Well, after the show, I'm going to free
throw you into my incinerator.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
And speaking of low scoring, your social life.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Oh okay, wait for that.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Oh and guess what, Tony again the greatest double booking
in the History of sports doc next week on the
show two Super Bowl MVPs.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Nick Foles and Jalen Hurts will both in the meantime,
don't forget go rate and review this podcast five star
Apple Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and you go to the merch
store and you buy over merch and Tony, great job
as always, Same to you, Pauie. Another flawless show. They
go see people next week see yo
Speaker 3 (22:04):
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