March 27, 2025 • 22 mins
In this absolutely huge episode, Paulie & Tony react to the breaking news about Cowboys QB Dak Prescott (probably) heading to the Cleveland Browns. They also tell you what sports media IDIOTS got wrong about Bronny James, and why Rick Pitino made a MASSIVE mistake in the NCAA Tourney. Plus, they bring on Fanatics CEO of Events Lance Fensterman and ask a TOTALLY UNDERSTANDABLE question about the upcoming Fanatics Fest and then the segment goes off the rails (BECAUSE OF HIM).
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right, all ride God and Toyo live from Philly.
It's the number one rated toll your Tony Fosto show.
Yo as always, Polly Fosco here with Tony Fosco and
Dony just an absolutely huge human young to day. First off,
as you've all out there probably are by now, there's
(00:26):
only one perfect bracket remaining in all of America, and
naturally it belongs to Tony Fosco. Thank you, Tony. You
called it all, didn't you. Anyone who watches this show knows.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
For the last couple of months, I've been saying, look
out for McNeice, and sure enough they defeated Clemson and
a so called shocking upset, but not shocking to me.
I said, keep your eyes on the leading scorers Qugh
Copeland and see schumat You know they came through Clutch
(01:02):
as usual, totally called it boom.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I'm talking about predictions, Tony. Another thing we predicted, as
you all know out there, We've been saying for months,
look out for Bronnie j future superstar, you know, star
in the making, and now look just totally exploding. We
called it the Yeah, We'll tell you what. The stupid
blind media just failed to see right to their face.
Oh and also this Tony you know, very unusual guest
(01:27):
segment we're doing today. You know, as you know businesses
across America, they're just clamoring to be a part of
this show to get us to mention their products. You know,
I mean, we don't want to brag, but yeah, each
time we mentioned a brand on the show, the business's
market cap goes up by one billion dollars. Well, today
we have a great kind of to have on the show.
(01:48):
The CEO of Fanatics Events, Okay, Lance fenced him in
his name. He wants to come on and discuss the
upcoming Fanatics Veest in New York City June twentieth to
the twenty second at the Javit Center. And we are
just so happy to promote this event. So, I mean,
now that the lengthy and admittedly bit of negotiation we
(02:08):
had with them in their sales team and lawyers is over.
And you know why, while the deal is not officially done,
our lawyers assured us that the docu sign would be
emailed to us late at today hopefully soon. On the way,
you know, they sent us this packet Fanatics did with
all this info about what this Fanatics fest is and
I got to say, I know this slightly violates the
(02:28):
terms of what's in the DOCU sign, but I don't
think these people know what they're doing with this event.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
No, but you know, we always have ideas on how
to fix things and make them better, and we're willing
to do that for him and for fanatics. You know,
just as long as that docu sign is in our
mailbox within the next ten minutes or so.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Well, I got my email open at Tony, So how
about this, Why don't we just leave it open. We'll
see if it comes. Oh whoa, wha, wha, wha wait
a second, talk about coming through Tony. I'm reading some
breaking news. They hold on hit that sound those Dony.
This just came across. According to Cleveland sports personality Bruce Drennan,
(03:08):
the Browns are actively negotiating a trade with the Cowboys
for Dak Prescott. YEP, I can confirm.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It appears like got accidentally added to the Cowboys group
chat on signal. Oh they don't know I'm on here,
but Jerry Jones is on here, he added me. Steven
Jones is on here, and Dak Prescott is on here.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
They're all talking and it seems like it's about to
go down. And also we're about to bomb Guatemala. That's
another group chat I got added to. I'll stay tuned
to my phone and keep you posted. What a great
app signal is there? Just it's great on delivering the
latest information. All right, hit that sound up?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Okay? Oh a lot going on here, Dody, But on
a subject of a lot going on, you know, we
predicted so much right and got it all bango right
on the munis, It's time to do one of the
most popular segments where Polly and Tony were right, Where
Paulie and Tony were right.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
First out the gate, Rick Patito Saint John's Teve the
two seed got beat by John Calipari's ten seed Kansaw
and Tony totally saw this coming. Towards you did the
other thirty seven matchups, as we've already established. Yeah, breakdown
what you'll think went wrong for Patino here. You know,
it's really simple.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Patino just got out cheated, and it was clear watching
the game that he just didn't cheat at the same
championship level.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That he's used to cheating at. Yep, you know, I
was sitting there watching that game, thinking the same thing, Tony.
You know, ways players started to miss all those key shots.
I was thinking, you know, these don't look like players
who received the right coaching or bribing.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You know, you know, Patino clearly needs to go back
to the fundamentals. You're passing your defense offshore bank accounts,
you're dribbling your payments to an anonymous Venmo account, You're
shooting your broad doles, your organized orgys, rebounding, forging birth certificates,
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and of course three point shooting.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Just couldn't agree more all around, Dony all right. Next up,
where Pauli and Tony were right, we told you look
out for Brownie James right, gonna be a huge success
in this show, is that it's just a matter of time.
You know, could take anywhere from a few months to
eleven years and boom. We were backing right on the money, Toty.
(05:37):
And this just shows, you know, it shows, Toty, you
can't look at the stats right now. They get so
caught up in their stats. You know, just because a
guy is shooting what nineteen percent from the field and
as a plus minus of negative nine thousand does it
doesn't mean anything, right, don't exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
The most important stats are the stats that you can't measure,
like heart. Bronnie James has more heart than anybody. In fact,
he has so much heart that his actual heart became
too dilated and inflamed, you know, so much that his
doctor said, hey, he has too much heart and he
needs to have less heart. That's how much heart he has,
(06:15):
Just a record breaking amount of heart.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Just beautifully said Dony. And you know, I don't want
to bring down the whole show here on a somba note,
but it must be said. You gotta say it what
I've been saying for decades now. I've always maintained, as
you know, that len Bias died because he had too
much heart. Yet you know, autopsy report, smarttopsy report. Okay,
maybe there was a little bit of cocaine in there,
(06:39):
but it was really the heart that got him in
the end. Isn't that right, don't know?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Just so true and so beautifully said there by you Paulie.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Where Paulie and Tony were right all right. You know
there have been rumors swelling for years about Russell Wilson
going to the Giants. You know, we said it way
back in twenty twenty one. You can go back and
check the tape. We said, yeah, it's gonna happen, but
not after he goes from the Seahawks to the Broncos
to the Steelers and then the Giants. See, that's how
this game works, Doty, the business works. People just don't understand.
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You don't just go from one thing another. That would
make no sense.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Anyway, the Giants they signed him on a one year deal.
And you know, Tony, as much as we hate to
admit this, the timing does seem right here, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yes, you know, the Giants clearly knew their only hope
of winning the Super Bowl would be a miracle from God,
and well, they clearly went for the next closest thing
you could get. If you listen to Russell Wilson talk,
it's clear he has a very close relationship with God
and talks to him daily. And frankly, he has pulled
(07:44):
off a few miracles. Marrying Siarra, beaten Peyton Manning in
the Super Bowl possible.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, exactly. You know, that's two huge ones right there.
Great point, Donny, I mean, you know, when you break
down the next season, you know, Eagles clearly a lot
to go back to ballast. No, if that's the guy. Know,
we know because everybody listens. Yeah, show everywhere anyway. All right,
all right, let's hit that sound the next time where
Pauli and Tony were right. All right, we told you
(08:12):
the Chiefs are clearly gonna move off Patrick Mahomes hundred
ugly terrible, dreadful, horrible, embarrassing Super Bowl performances. Sure enough,
they went out and got a superior quarterback just now,
Gardner Minshew, And he's clearly the better option, isn't he throwning?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I always say look at the stats, because that's how
you can truly measure a player. And we all know
the stat that matters most for quarterbacks is k pick
or as it's more formally known, completed air yards per completion.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
As we all know, that's the measure of how much
a pass travels in the air past the line of
scrimmage prior to a completion. And Gardner Minshew absolutely wipes
the floor with Patrick Mahomes with a k pick of
four point five compared to mahomes as lowly and embarrassing
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four point two.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
So don't be.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Surprised if Mahomes is benched by week three or even
week two.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Just ad dight statistical analysis that Dody And oh wait,
was that the docu sign that just came in? Hold on,
let me check there. Well done. Oh no, it's just
a cool party for a free jersey Mike's sub Oh
that's not bad. Yeah, you're right, it's not that bad.
But yeah, what do we do? I mean, should we
bring the guy on the I mean, if we don't
have the docu signed, Tony, I don't know is he
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even on the line? Is he there? Yes?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
And frankly, it would be rude and totally unprofessional to
not bring him on the show.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Oh you want to see rude and unprofessional, go look
in a mirror.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, and then break it across your face. Loser, now
shout out it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Anyway, look, Tody, this out of good faith, as they say,
go ahead, let's bring him on the show. So let's
get him on the full SCO satellite network satellite. Okay,
we're now joined there by the CEO of Fanatics Events,
Lance fenced themen to discuss an event coming up this
summer in New York City. I am contractually obligated to
(10:11):
read this kind of when our contract actually comes through.
The event will be in New York City at the
Javit Center June twentieth to the twenty second. It is
called Fanatics Fest, hosted by Fanatics, and it's a chance
for sports fans to quote have the ultimate sports fan experience.
But we read through the plans for this event you're
(10:33):
putting on, and we're not sure you got everything right here.
We have a few bones to pick, as we say.
You know it says it features luminaries from across the
sports world and live podcasts. So our first question is,
why the fuck aren't we invited.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Well, I wouldn't say you're not invited. It's just we
haven't found an appropriate perch for you that will truly
accentuate the level of professionals them and polish that a
podcast of this nature has. So I would say just
just wait and see. Maybe don't overreact early on, because
we we do want you there.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
It's just okay, okay, correat, okay, find that perch. Otherwise
I'm going to find a perch for you. Let's just
say it might be on the side of that building
you're in. So I'm trying to wrap my head around
what this thing is you're putting on. All right, you
got says you got panels, shows, Q and as. It
sounds like it's one of these comic con things, except
not for loses and virgins. That sounds right.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Present company included directs.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Is a virgin? Is a virgins to many comic cons?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I assault, yes, absolutely, absolutely, So okay, in a nutshell,
think of it as comic con for sports, right, Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Every that's a terrible cell. Okay, so it's for losers.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Okay, Yes, every industry has a huge event like Coachella
or south By Southwest or or Philadelphia has its own
comic con actually as an example, So think of it
as are collecting in sports, fandom and pop culture all
come together into one amazing sort of amalgamation of goodness.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
That's still not a great self for me. Now, how
you know I'm looking at this. It says you've got
big names coming. All right, that's what it says, big names.
I'm writing down this list of names. Who are these
big names you're talking about?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I don't see any Tom Brady is going to be there.
I mean, he's a significant.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Did you hear the question? We meant like headline headline,
big names you know people that would get people excited
to say.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah right right, Like so you mean like like Dick
for Meal perhaps or someone like that.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
There you're going, I mean, you wouldn't be able to
get him. That's too big. You know, you want to
go down like a half a.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Notch, so maybe too big for you, you get?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
How about how about this? How about this WWE wrestlers
super stoked guy, Like, we have got a massive array
of some of the biggest names in wrestling that will
be at the show in June, which I think that's.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Exactly Okay, good little bit you get. You're finding your way.
Yeah that's better than Tom Brady, but okay.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Okay, an array of NFL players, like.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
So all right, name them? Let's see we.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Have the Manning brothers, both Peyton and Eli will be there.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Do you have active football players you know, anybody like
Eli Peyton? Yeah? Ten?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Twenty?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Is this taking place in twenty ten?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Were Caleb Williams too young? Jayden Daniels too young?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Too young?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Let's see who else might be?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I see Tyreek Hill is on the list. Is that
is that a name?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
He's a very fast person and he was going to
be there as long as we can catch him and
bring him in, which I think will be exciting.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Are you concerned at all about having Tyreek Hill they
you know? I mean, you know, I guess the women
people would be getting a souvenir to take home if
you catch my drift.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I don't know. I don't catch your drift. Actually I'm
not sure. Okay, you're really okay?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
All right? I guess they that went over his head? Yeah, yeah,
he's being cool, doesn't he doesn't read? But so I
want to know what what do I get to do?
So you say this is the ultimate fan experience? What
do I get to do with these athletes? Like you know,
you know, I see Eli Manning, I get the bunch
them in the face. You know. Tell me is that
part of the VIP package? Like Hi, you lie like
you suck.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, we don't have anything right now that includes like
like violence of brutality and bigness.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Bigness.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
But I suppose, like like considering you know, your audience,
if we really maybe want to appeal, maybe that's something
we should think about, like a dunk tank perhaps.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
See now you think, but see the problem is I
would I would like to throw the baseball directly at
instead of throw like throw it at the face. Can
I do that?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Well? I thought I can talk about maybe what the
show is comprised of, not not just what it's not
comprised of, or have a brainstorm like like, for example.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Holdd we're head. I give you ideas you should be
thanking us, like you know, I could tell you things
you could throw at ELI doesn't have to be a
base batteries appreciate.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I don't think I've ever had so many good ideas.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, well you're welcome. He's just jealousy. Didn't come up
with them exactly hit besides the dunk dank? Why else
should somebody come to this thing?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Okay, so this show? So think of every league, every
sports league virtually that you can imagine, from the NFL
to MLB to NBA to WWE to UFC to MLS,
go down. The list. Will all be there doing something
fairly amazing, like interactive experiences. They'll have athletes there so
(15:45):
you can walk around and run the forty yard dash
in the NFL booth or shoot three pointers in the
NBA booth. Fun exciting. They'll be collectibles, oh, cards and memory.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
A right, tell rinks what type of collectibles. What type
of collectibles can we expect there?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
You will have hundreds of millions of dollars of memorabilia,
of vintage baseball cards, famous players and collections.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Okay, well, hold on, hold on, hold on. Are you gonna
have something like this? Show them what you got right there?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Are you gonna have at your show something like this
right here? Look at that nineteen eighty eight Matt Matt
the Tigers.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Look at that, and it's got a trophy on it. Yeah,
that's how you know it's good.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
So what you do to ensure something like that.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Is it's not insurable? They they can't do it.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
How does that work? Does Lloyd's of London ensure something
of that?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
You don't know how collectibles work. You know what I
got right here? Look at this eight dust nineteen eighty
eight Juan Samuel and if you see on the back,
he had just come off leading the league in at bats.
So the numbers in bold and italics. You're gonna have
that at your show. You're gonna have that.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
You guys seem to be quite mind in the late eighties.
Is there a no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Don't box this in to the eighties. I got this,
I got early nineties. Look at this. Look at this.
Who's the biggest name in all of sports? The commissioner?
That's right, A Bartlett Giamatti.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, oh that's that's that's that actor's dad. Right, isn't
that correct? Like right? The guy from Sideways?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It's I think you're wrong. I don't think that.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I don't think I think if you, I will not
question your Philadelphia sports knowledge, I would not question my
low culture knowledge.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And that is well, that's what I want to know
about you. Let's talk about you. How do you who
put you in charge of this event? What do you
know about sports? Where they thought this guy?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, I spent fifteen years. I built a big pop
culture event company, doing comic cons and Star Wars events
and video games shows. And honestly, there's a guy that
built Fanatics, a guy named Michael Rubin, who's a well,
I mean he's from your area. Actually, I think you
probably like him because he's a Philly guy. UH used
to be involved with Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
We in fact, we gave him the idea for Fanatics.
I said, hey, hey, we said, stop with this nonsense.
You do it in other businesses. Whatever, what are you doing?
We need a T shirt company. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Well, he called me up one day and said, like,
why isn't there a massive festival for sports, and well sports, Well.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
We gave him that it was his idea. Yeah, we
told him that though.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, yeah, well, I mean, I'm not gonna lie he
took the credit for it. He didn't. He did not
give you guys any any credit.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
In fact, I got to say, I'm kind of pissed
at him still about that. You know, I said, I said, Michael,
I said, you know what are you doing? Like, Yeah,
all you gotta do is you just get some of
the biggest athletes in the world and the biggest content.
All you got to do is to get him in
a room and collectibles and podcasts and boom.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Boom and yeah, find a nerd to run it, right.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
You know what, I'm realizing, Dontyole our idea for all this.
In fact, I got some bad news for you. You
know what we're gonna announce right now, Donny, It's time
we do this. Yeah, June twentieth to the twenty second
Come to Fullsco Fest, Yeah, which will be located right
next to the Javits Center, right next location TBD. You
(19:14):
will be there. We will be there, and we're gonna
have all of this times ten, We're gonna have actual Lance.
We're in the super Bowl, who played recently and Matt
noakes cards? How Lance, I gotta ask you now that
you know this, this big announcement house terrified, sturdy Right now?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I have children. I have two young daughters. Oh I've
got to OK. We gotta make a living. I gotta
feed my face.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Oh good, guess what, bro because then you can go
home and make dinner.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Because guess what's what? Building a fence around the show
and you're on the other side. I guess you're off
the show. Is sure a time for your girls? Donny's
coming home. Donnie's off the show. Don't worry, You're getting
your mac and.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Cheese and Daddy's Is he off the line? Jay, hang
up the phone. I don't know what we were thinking
with that whole thing. Tony Lance fenced him and not
welcome on the show again. Yeah, exactly. We lanced him
like a boil. Yeah, all right, well let's wrap the
show that. Oh you kidding me? Do you have to
(20:19):
get the comic on or something? Are you? Lance fenced
him in to get a thicket. Is that why you
j what correction? I go?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
In the first part of the show, you said stats
don't matter. Yeah, and then like three minutes later you
said stats are the only way to properly judge a player.
So tell me, how do you reconcile that?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Uh? After the show, I'm going to reconcile your face.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, here's a stat zero percent. That's the amount of
penis you have.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Oh there you go. Great, and he's still talking. What
what you said?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Brownnie James had a plus minus of negative nine thousand.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, that's why you can't trust stats. Yep, can't trust
them at all.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
No, that's why we should never trust you. It's minus
two point five. You can't even have a plus minus
of negative nine thousand.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Oh sorry, I got confused. You see negative nine thousand
is what you got rated on hot or not? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
The doctor just called and you tested negative for having
a penis.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Great one going.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Why by the way, you said you have a perfect bracket, Tony, Yeah, rock.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Solid, bro, only one in America. Bro.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
No, I saw the bracket you filled out on Yahoo.
You had Duke losing in the first round to Mount
Saint Mary's.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I saw it.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Oh, yeah, well you know what, you've never seen a vagina.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah, and after the show, I'm going to Mount Saint
your mom.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
By the way, the McNeese player was not see shumante.
It's Christian shoe me.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Well, you could shoot yourself out here and go to
comic Coat or whatever, because we got bigger Nosy. You
want to talk about how your book big names, Toty,
this is when they should have at Fanatics test book
next week on the show, and probably at foolscofested a
couple of months. That's right, super Bowl Hero Eagles, Legend,
Nick four. You don't forget rate and review the show
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(22:26):
visit the merch store. You stop freeloading your stock by
the merch and uh yeah and that and if you
want to buy Fanatic stuff though, you could do that
once our deal has worked out our license actually, but
until then go to the spread shop or whatever it's called. Anyway,
great job as always, Doty, Same to you, Paulie. Another
floorless show. There you go. We'll see your people next week.
(22:48):
See your
All right, all ride God and Toyo live from Philly.
It's the number one rated toll your Tony Fosto show.
Yo as always, Polly Fosco here with Tony Fosco and
Dony just an absolutely huge human young to day. First off,
as you've all out there probably are by now, there's
(00:26):
only one perfect bracket remaining in all of America, and
naturally it belongs to Tony Fosco. Thank you, Tony. You
called it all, didn't you. Anyone who watches this show knows.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
For the last couple of months, I've been saying, look
out for McNeice, and sure enough they defeated Clemson and
a so called shocking upset, but not shocking to me.
I said, keep your eyes on the leading scorers Qugh
Copeland and see schumat You know they came through Clutch
(01:02):
as usual, totally called it boom.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I'm talking about predictions, Tony. Another thing we predicted, as
you all know out there, We've been saying for months,
look out for Bronnie j future superstar, you know, star
in the making, and now look just totally exploding. We
called it the Yeah, We'll tell you what. The stupid
blind media just failed to see right to their face.
Oh and also this Tony you know, very unusual guest
(01:27):
segment we're doing today. You know, as you know businesses
across America, they're just clamoring to be a part of
this show to get us to mention their products. You know,
I mean, we don't want to brag, but yeah, each
time we mentioned a brand on the show, the business's
market cap goes up by one billion dollars. Well, today
we have a great kind of to have on the show.
(01:48):
The CEO of Fanatics Events, Okay, Lance fenced him in
his name. He wants to come on and discuss the
upcoming Fanatics Veest in New York City June twentieth to
the twenty second at the Javit Center. And we are
just so happy to promote this event. So, I mean,
now that the lengthy and admittedly bit of negotiation we
(02:08):
had with them in their sales team and lawyers is over.
And you know why, while the deal is not officially done,
our lawyers assured us that the docu sign would be
emailed to us late at today hopefully soon. On the way,
you know, they sent us this packet Fanatics did with
all this info about what this Fanatics fest is and
I got to say, I know this slightly violates the
(02:28):
terms of what's in the DOCU sign, but I don't
think these people know what they're doing with this event.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
No, but you know, we always have ideas on how
to fix things and make them better, and we're willing
to do that for him and for fanatics. You know,
just as long as that docu sign is in our
mailbox within the next ten minutes or so.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Well, I got my email open at Tony, So how
about this, Why don't we just leave it open. We'll
see if it comes. Oh whoa, wha, wha, wha wait
a second, talk about coming through Tony. I'm reading some
breaking news. They hold on hit that sound those Dony.
This just came across. According to Cleveland sports personality Bruce Drennan,
(03:08):
the Browns are actively negotiating a trade with the Cowboys
for Dak Prescott. YEP, I can confirm.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It appears like got accidentally added to the Cowboys group
chat on signal. Oh they don't know I'm on here,
but Jerry Jones is on here, he added me. Steven
Jones is on here, and Dak Prescott is on here.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
They're all talking and it seems like it's about to
go down. And also we're about to bomb Guatemala. That's
another group chat I got added to. I'll stay tuned
to my phone and keep you posted. What a great
app signal is there? Just it's great on delivering the
latest information. All right, hit that sound up?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Okay? Oh a lot going on here, Dody, But on
a subject of a lot going on, you know, we
predicted so much right and got it all bango right
on the munis, It's time to do one of the
most popular segments where Polly and Tony were right, Where
Paulie and Tony were right.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
First out the gate, Rick Patito Saint John's Teve the
two seed got beat by John Calipari's ten seed Kansaw
and Tony totally saw this coming. Towards you did the
other thirty seven matchups, as we've already established. Yeah, breakdown
what you'll think went wrong for Patino here. You know,
it's really simple.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Patino just got out cheated, and it was clear watching
the game that he just didn't cheat at the same
championship level.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That he's used to cheating at. Yep, you know, I
was sitting there watching that game, thinking the same thing, Tony.
You know, ways players started to miss all those key shots.
I was thinking, you know, these don't look like players
who received the right coaching or bribing.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You know, you know, Patino clearly needs to go back
to the fundamentals. You're passing your defense offshore bank accounts,
you're dribbling your payments to an anonymous Venmo account, You're
shooting your broad doles, your organized orgys, rebounding, forging birth certificates,
(05:14):
and of course three point shooting.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Just couldn't agree more all around, Dony all right. Next up,
where Pauli and Tony were right, we told you look
out for Brownie James right, gonna be a huge success
in this show, is that it's just a matter of time.
You know, could take anywhere from a few months to
eleven years and boom. We were backing right on the money, Toty.
(05:37):
And this just shows, you know, it shows, Toty, you
can't look at the stats right now. They get so
caught up in their stats. You know, just because a
guy is shooting what nineteen percent from the field and
as a plus minus of negative nine thousand does it
doesn't mean anything, right, don't exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
The most important stats are the stats that you can't measure,
like heart. Bronnie James has more heart than anybody. In fact,
he has so much heart that his actual heart became
too dilated and inflamed, you know, so much that his
doctor said, hey, he has too much heart and he
needs to have less heart. That's how much heart he has,
(06:15):
Just a record breaking amount of heart.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Just beautifully said Dony. And you know, I don't want
to bring down the whole show here on a somba note,
but it must be said. You gotta say it what
I've been saying for decades now. I've always maintained, as
you know, that len Bias died because he had too
much heart. Yet you know, autopsy report, smarttopsy report. Okay,
maybe there was a little bit of cocaine in there,
(06:39):
but it was really the heart that got him in
the end. Isn't that right, don't know?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Just so true and so beautifully said there by you Paulie.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Where Paulie and Tony were right all right. You know
there have been rumors swelling for years about Russell Wilson
going to the Giants. You know, we said it way
back in twenty twenty one. You can go back and
check the tape. We said, yeah, it's gonna happen, but
not after he goes from the Seahawks to the Broncos
to the Steelers and then the Giants. See, that's how
this game works, Doty, the business works. People just don't understand.
(07:11):
You don't just go from one thing another. That would
make no sense.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Anyway, the Giants they signed him on a one year deal.
And you know, Tony, as much as we hate to
admit this, the timing does seem right here, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yes, you know, the Giants clearly knew their only hope
of winning the Super Bowl would be a miracle from God,
and well, they clearly went for the next closest thing
you could get. If you listen to Russell Wilson talk,
it's clear he has a very close relationship with God
and talks to him daily. And frankly, he has pulled
(07:44):
off a few miracles. Marrying Siarra, beaten Peyton Manning in
the Super Bowl possible.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, exactly. You know, that's two huge ones right there.
Great point, Donny, I mean, you know, when you break
down the next season, you know, Eagles clearly a lot
to go back to ballast. No, if that's the guy. Know,
we know because everybody listens. Yeah, show everywhere anyway. All right,
all right, let's hit that sound the next time where
Pauli and Tony were right. All right, we told you
(08:12):
the Chiefs are clearly gonna move off Patrick Mahomes hundred
ugly terrible, dreadful, horrible, embarrassing Super Bowl performances. Sure enough,
they went out and got a superior quarterback just now,
Gardner Minshew, And he's clearly the better option, isn't he throwning?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I always say look at the stats, because that's how
you can truly measure a player. And we all know
the stat that matters most for quarterbacks is k pick
or as it's more formally known, completed air yards per completion.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
As we all know, that's the measure of how much
a pass travels in the air past the line of
scrimmage prior to a completion. And Gardner Minshew absolutely wipes
the floor with Patrick Mahomes with a k pick of
four point five compared to mahomes as lowly and embarrassing
(09:04):
four point two.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
So don't be.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Surprised if Mahomes is benched by week three or even
week two.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Just ad dight statistical analysis that Dody And oh wait,
was that the docu sign that just came in? Hold on,
let me check there. Well done. Oh no, it's just
a cool party for a free jersey Mike's sub Oh
that's not bad. Yeah, you're right, it's not that bad.
But yeah, what do we do? I mean, should we
bring the guy on the I mean, if we don't
have the docu signed, Tony, I don't know is he
(09:32):
even on the line? Is he there? Yes?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
And frankly, it would be rude and totally unprofessional to
not bring him on the show.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Oh you want to see rude and unprofessional, go look
in a mirror.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, and then break it across your face. Loser, now
shout out it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Anyway, look, Tody, this out of good faith, as they say,
go ahead, let's bring him on the show. So let's
get him on the full SCO satellite network satellite. Okay,
we're now joined there by the CEO of Fanatics Events,
Lance fenced themen to discuss an event coming up this
summer in New York City. I am contractually obligated to
(10:11):
read this kind of when our contract actually comes through.
The event will be in New York City at the
Javit Center June twentieth to the twenty second. It is
called Fanatics Fest, hosted by Fanatics, and it's a chance
for sports fans to quote have the ultimate sports fan experience.
But we read through the plans for this event you're
(10:33):
putting on, and we're not sure you got everything right here.
We have a few bones to pick, as we say.
You know it says it features luminaries from across the
sports world and live podcasts. So our first question is,
why the fuck aren't we invited.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Well, I wouldn't say you're not invited. It's just we
haven't found an appropriate perch for you that will truly
accentuate the level of professionals them and polish that a
podcast of this nature has. So I would say just
just wait and see. Maybe don't overreact early on, because
we we do want you there.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
It's just okay, okay, correat, okay, find that perch. Otherwise
I'm going to find a perch for you. Let's just
say it might be on the side of that building
you're in. So I'm trying to wrap my head around
what this thing is you're putting on. All right, you
got says you got panels, shows, Q and as. It
sounds like it's one of these comic con things, except
not for loses and virgins. That sounds right.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Present company included directs.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Is a virgin? Is a virgins to many comic cons?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I assault, yes, absolutely, absolutely, So okay, in a nutshell,
think of it as comic con for sports, right, Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Every that's a terrible cell. Okay, so it's for losers.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Okay, Yes, every industry has a huge event like Coachella
or south By Southwest or or Philadelphia has its own
comic con actually as an example, So think of it
as are collecting in sports, fandom and pop culture all
come together into one amazing sort of amalgamation of goodness.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
That's still not a great self for me. Now, how
you know I'm looking at this. It says you've got
big names coming. All right, that's what it says, big names.
I'm writing down this list of names. Who are these
big names you're talking about?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I don't see any Tom Brady is going to be there.
I mean, he's a significant.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Did you hear the question? We meant like headline headline,
big names you know people that would get people excited
to say.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah right right, Like so you mean like like Dick
for Meal perhaps or someone like that.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
There you're going, I mean, you wouldn't be able to
get him. That's too big. You know, you want to
go down like a half a.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Notch, so maybe too big for you, you get?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
How about how about this? How about this WWE wrestlers
super stoked guy, Like, we have got a massive array
of some of the biggest names in wrestling that will
be at the show in June, which I think that's.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Exactly Okay, good little bit you get. You're finding your way.
Yeah that's better than Tom Brady, but okay.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Okay, an array of NFL players, like.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
So all right, name them? Let's see we.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Have the Manning brothers, both Peyton and Eli will be there.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Do you have active football players you know, anybody like
Eli Peyton? Yeah? Ten?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Twenty?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Is this taking place in twenty ten?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Were Caleb Williams too young? Jayden Daniels too young?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Too young?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Let's see who else might be?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I see Tyreek Hill is on the list. Is that
is that a name?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
He's a very fast person and he was going to
be there as long as we can catch him and
bring him in, which I think will be exciting.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Are you concerned at all about having Tyreek Hill they
you know? I mean, you know, I guess the women
people would be getting a souvenir to take home if
you catch my drift.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I don't know. I don't catch your drift. Actually I'm
not sure. Okay, you're really okay?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
All right? I guess they that went over his head? Yeah, yeah,
he's being cool, doesn't he doesn't read? But so I
want to know what what do I get to do?
So you say this is the ultimate fan experience? What
do I get to do with these athletes? Like you know,
you know, I see Eli Manning, I get the bunch
them in the face. You know. Tell me is that
part of the VIP package? Like Hi, you lie like
you suck.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, we don't have anything right now that includes like
like violence of brutality and bigness.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Bigness.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
But I suppose, like like considering you know, your audience,
if we really maybe want to appeal, maybe that's something
we should think about, like a dunk tank perhaps.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
See now you think, but see the problem is I
would I would like to throw the baseball directly at
instead of throw like throw it at the face. Can
I do that?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Well? I thought I can talk about maybe what the
show is comprised of, not not just what it's not
comprised of, or have a brainstorm like like, for example.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Holdd we're head. I give you ideas you should be
thanking us, like you know, I could tell you things
you could throw at ELI doesn't have to be a
base batteries appreciate.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I don't think I've ever had so many good ideas.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, well you're welcome. He's just jealousy. Didn't come up
with them exactly hit besides the dunk dank? Why else
should somebody come to this thing?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Okay, so this show? So think of every league, every
sports league virtually that you can imagine, from the NFL
to MLB to NBA to WWE to UFC to MLS,
go down. The list. Will all be there doing something
fairly amazing, like interactive experiences. They'll have athletes there so
(15:45):
you can walk around and run the forty yard dash
in the NFL booth or shoot three pointers in the
NBA booth. Fun exciting. They'll be collectibles, oh, cards and memory.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
A right, tell rinks what type of collectibles. What type
of collectibles can we expect there?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
You will have hundreds of millions of dollars of memorabilia,
of vintage baseball cards, famous players and collections.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Okay, well, hold on, hold on, hold on. Are you gonna
have something like this? Show them what you got right there?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Are you gonna have at your show something like this
right here? Look at that nineteen eighty eight Matt Matt
the Tigers.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Look at that, and it's got a trophy on it. Yeah,
that's how you know it's good.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
So what you do to ensure something like that.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Is it's not insurable? They they can't do it.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
How does that work? Does Lloyd's of London ensure something
of that?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
You don't know how collectibles work. You know what I
got right here? Look at this eight dust nineteen eighty
eight Juan Samuel and if you see on the back,
he had just come off leading the league in at bats.
So the numbers in bold and italics. You're gonna have
that at your show. You're gonna have that.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
You guys seem to be quite mind in the late eighties.
Is there a no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Don't box this in to the eighties. I got this,
I got early nineties. Look at this. Look at this.
Who's the biggest name in all of sports? The commissioner?
That's right, A Bartlett Giamatti.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, oh that's that's that's that actor's dad. Right, isn't
that correct? Like right? The guy from Sideways?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It's I think you're wrong. I don't think that.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I don't think I think if you, I will not
question your Philadelphia sports knowledge, I would not question my
low culture knowledge.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And that is well, that's what I want to know
about you. Let's talk about you. How do you who
put you in charge of this event? What do you
know about sports? Where they thought this guy?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, I spent fifteen years. I built a big pop
culture event company, doing comic cons and Star Wars events
and video games shows. And honestly, there's a guy that
built Fanatics, a guy named Michael Rubin, who's a well,
I mean he's from your area. Actually, I think you
probably like him because he's a Philly guy. UH used
to be involved with Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
We in fact, we gave him the idea for Fanatics.
I said, hey, hey, we said, stop with this nonsense.
You do it in other businesses. Whatever, what are you doing?
We need a T shirt company. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Well, he called me up one day and said, like,
why isn't there a massive festival for sports, and well sports, Well.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
We gave him that it was his idea. Yeah, we
told him that though.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Yeah, yeah, well, I mean, I'm not gonna lie he
took the credit for it. He didn't. He did not
give you guys any any credit.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
In fact, I got to say, I'm kind of pissed
at him still about that. You know, I said, I said, Michael,
I said, you know what are you doing? Like, Yeah,
all you gotta do is you just get some of
the biggest athletes in the world and the biggest content.
All you got to do is to get him in
a room and collectibles and podcasts and boom.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Boom and yeah, find a nerd to run it, right.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
You know what, I'm realizing, Dontyole our idea for all this.
In fact, I got some bad news for you. You
know what we're gonna announce right now, Donny, It's time
we do this. Yeah, June twentieth to the twenty second
Come to Fullsco Fest, Yeah, which will be located right
next to the Javits Center, right next location TBD. You
(19:14):
will be there. We will be there, and we're gonna
have all of this times ten, We're gonna have actual Lance.
We're in the super Bowl, who played recently and Matt
noakes cards? How Lance, I gotta ask you now that
you know this, this big announcement house terrified, sturdy Right now?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I have children. I have two young daughters. Oh I've
got to OK. We gotta make a living. I gotta
feed my face.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Oh good, guess what, bro because then you can go
home and make dinner.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Because guess what's what? Building a fence around the show
and you're on the other side. I guess you're off
the show. Is sure a time for your girls? Donny's
coming home. Donnie's off the show. Don't worry, You're getting
your mac and.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Cheese and Daddy's Is he off the line? Jay, hang
up the phone. I don't know what we were thinking
with that whole thing. Tony Lance fenced him and not
welcome on the show again. Yeah, exactly. We lanced him
like a boil. Yeah, all right, well let's wrap the
show that. Oh you kidding me? Do you have to
(20:19):
get the comic on or something? Are you? Lance fenced
him in to get a thicket. Is that why you
j what correction? I go?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
In the first part of the show, you said stats
don't matter. Yeah, and then like three minutes later you
said stats are the only way to properly judge a player.
So tell me, how do you reconcile that?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Uh? After the show, I'm going to reconcile your face.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, here's a stat zero percent. That's the amount of
penis you have.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Oh there you go. Great, and he's still talking. What
what you said?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Brownnie James had a plus minus of negative nine thousand.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, that's why you can't trust stats. Yep, can't trust
them at all.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
No, that's why we should never trust you. It's minus
two point five. You can't even have a plus minus
of negative nine thousand.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Oh sorry, I got confused. You see negative nine thousand
is what you got rated on hot or not? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
The doctor just called and you tested negative for having
a penis.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Great one going.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Why by the way, you said you have a perfect bracket, Tony, Yeah, rock.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Solid, bro, only one in America. Bro.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
No, I saw the bracket you filled out on Yahoo.
You had Duke losing in the first round to Mount
Saint Mary's.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I saw it.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Oh, yeah, well you know what, you've never seen a vagina.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah, and after the show, I'm going to Mount Saint
your mom.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
By the way, the McNeese player was not see shumante.
It's Christian shoe me.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Well, you could shoot yourself out here and go to
comic Coat or whatever, because we got bigger Nosy. You
want to talk about how your book big names, Toty,
this is when they should have at Fanatics test book
next week on the show, and probably at foolscofested a
couple of months. That's right, super Bowl Hero Eagles, Legend,
Nick four. You don't forget rate and review the show
on Apple Bodrive, hit subscribe on the you tube and
(22:26):
visit the merch store. You stop freeloading your stock by
the merch and uh yeah and that and if you
want to buy Fanatic stuff though, you could do that
once our deal has worked out our license actually, but
until then go to the spread shop or whatever it's called. Anyway,
great job as always, Doty, Same to you, Paulie. Another
floorless show. There you go. We'll see your people next week.
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