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Speaker 2 (00:11):
All right, yo, yo yo, and.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Go your line from Phil. It's the number one rated
Tolly Tony Fosco show always Bally Foosto here with Tony Fosco.
And on that note, we got great news about who's
not here. Yeah, it's like a day off. He told
us he was going to some I conference or something. Yeah,
(00:36):
I wish it was an I Die conference.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
He's going to hope that there's some like AI that
maybe you know, he can get finally get a girlfriend,
is something exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
He's going to try an AI a girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
That's what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
If AI knows better, a I would be like no,
thank you exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Anyway, on today's show, we're gonna actually come to the
defense of Caleb Williams. You know, you know, we said
some negative things about him in the past. Sure, you know,
all right, he wears fingernail polish and you know, we
wears pink things and other things that men shouldn't do
at all if they want to save himself from total embarrassment.
But you know, we got to defend them on something
there's there's something. There's something totally different here. And also,
(01:16):
you know lebron James and this Bronnie James situation. You know,
we got a solution. I can't believe nobody's seen anyway.
You know what, he didn't even bother this. The jade
didn't leave. He didn't leave any ad copy for us.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, so irresponsible.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
He just took off, and he didn't make sure all
his you know uh ducks were sitting in the line
before he left.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah. Well, anyway, he's going to need the duck when
I shoot at him when he gets back. Yeah. Right, anyway,
let's just get into the show. Got him time for
our top story. Wait, hold done, he's not We got
nobody to hit the button there? How do we do
this thing? Top? You just hit the top story. There's
a guy back there. Looks like it just hit the thing.
(01:58):
That's his top story story? All right? Anyway, our top
story Caleb Williams. All reports say that he had a
terrible practice with the Bears. Yeah, and you know, Tony,
we've been very critical of Caleb the nail polish, which
he did deserve. But the media these days, they just
(02:20):
get so carried away. You know all he did. He
had one bad day. That's it, right, Tony?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, isn't everyone.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Entitled to a bad day? I mean that that just
means that you're human. I mean, look at oj he
had a bad day. Should that have marred his whole
terrific playing career.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
That's a great point. You know a lot of people
they say, oh, well it was years, the trial and
the suspicion and all that. No, that was all because
of one bad day.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, and not.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Even a bad day. It was less than a bad day, right,
it was just it was ten minutes. Yeah, look at
a guy. Here's another example. Look at John Lennon. Right,
John Lennon was shot in the head. Well, that was
one bad day.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, we're going to throw away he's high a musical
career just because one bad day?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
What about uh, you know NASA and the Challenger?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
That was one bad day, one bad day?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Right? Not?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
You know? Yeah, you know what are we going to
throw away all space shuttles because of one bad one
that went wrong?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Exactly? It was not even again, not even a bad day.
It was like two minutes bad two minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
You know, you gotta have perspective here, Tony it's the
problem with me, don't perspective? Yeah, to move on one
bad day? Yeah, all right to the next story. You
know Lebron James' son, Bronnie James. You know you may
have heard of him. He sucks at basketball. You know,
he says he's going to stay in the draft even
though he sucks. And you know people that are like, well,
why is he doing this? You know he sucks in
(03:46):
the well, you know, Tony I was thinking the other day,
isn't this just more of a poor decision by Lebron,
you know, to have a kid and try to teach
him basketball, because you know, if you have the kid, right,
you got to teach the kid first, he got to
feed the The kid's gotta grow that it takes time. Yeah,
all that stuff takes time. Waste the money all that.
Then finally then and you don't know if they're gonna
(04:07):
be good at basketball. Totally suck. But you know, if
sucks and he sucks. But ye know, if Lebron had
just done the simple thing up, you know, you clone yourself, well,
then first of all, the clone grows. You know, you
got you got your instant clone right there, and then
you know, you know, he's gonna be well at least
okay at basketball. You know. But you know Lebron wasn't
(04:28):
thinking about this. He really should have thought this through.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Shouldn't be And it's not like we don't have the
cloning technology.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
You remember that movie with Michael Keaton, The Terrific One,
Mister Mom.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, and he makes himself a mom, right, and he's
the mom and he's the dad. And then it's like,
you know that the blonde woman's there that at first
what was the name, Lonnie Anderson's from Cincinnati. Yeah, she's there,
and she's like, hey, why are you cloning yourself to
be the mom?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Anyways? Like I can vacuum, I can do everything.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, you know, this is what people don't understand about
the human reproductive process. Yeah, cloning people. No, see, if
you have that kid, well that kid, you don't know,
it's probably gonna be a shittier version of everything you are. Yeah,
I mean just look at Luke Walton. You know, I
hate to say it this week, but you know exactly,
you know, one of the rings Bill Walton, you know,
(05:19):
great player, but I got to say, as part of
his legacy fathering was not exactly is you know again,
I don't want to be controversial at don't no human being.
But when it came to fathering basketball players, you know,
he cloning and it's not out it's we say, hey,
you know you could still do it. Tony Bill Walton's
(05:39):
DNA is still sitting right there, still still somewhat acting.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, Lebron, we all knew.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
We're like, oh, you know, seeing the kid like three
years old, like he's gonna spell, you can tell, you know,
you knew right away, like, oh, look at him.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
He sucks.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Even though he has one of those like little like
pee wee Fisher Price basketball sets.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
He sucks, clearly.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
You know, Bron wasted his time, wasted everybody's time.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Should have just cloned himself.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Angel Hernandez. Let's move on here, right. Do you see
that the Angel Hernandez retired. Yeah? I swaw that, you know,
and I saw. I feel some people out there they
have this take that this is actually bad for baseball
because you know, he was such a terrible empire umpire, umpire, empire. Well,
it was an empire. It was a rain, It was
an empire of.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Badnessyeah, it was. It was a reign of terror, a
lot of teams.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So that's why that is not a mistake that was
on purpose.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
No.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You know, I see people saying that this is good
for baseball because Angel Hernandez was such a shitty empire,
and I got to agree with them, Tony. I mean,
you know what makes the game. People think baseball is
all about hitting, no runs, fielding. No, it's about the controversy.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It's about exact.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
You know, you go to the game, is this manager
gonna get thrown out?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You know that your tension exactly?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You know, hey, this pitch has got a perfect game going.
Is the umpire gonna blow a call and blow the
perfect game? You know?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You know when you look at that one with the
Armando Galaaga whatever they you know, people say that was ruined.
I thought that was actually made it better.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
He made history.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah. Do we talk about other perfect games? No?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I can't even name one off the top of my one.
No name one that one we talk.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
About, because exactly it was an imperfect perfect game. Thatc's
what made it better and.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Now it's etched in our minds of history forever.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
And you have that umpire yep to think.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Exactly, you know, and then look at all the social
media accounts terrible umpires and all this. They have their
own accounts showing highlights. There's no account of great umpiing.
Nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
You know, great point, don't you know when you think
about it, maybe all umpires should be bad. Wouldn't that
be great? You know, like someone gets a hit and
then you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa Wait just the second
you don't know exactly it's fair.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I don't know. Just make it fair, yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
And then even if it goes, if it's a foul ball,
they call it a home run. That makes the game
more unpredictable and exciting. So true, yep, there you go,
Rob Manfred free Tony.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Is that people they want things to be streamlined, like
everything the go is planned. That's not what sports are about.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
No, you killing me.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Everyone knows that the unexpected. You know, a picture throws
a ninety eight mile per hour fastball, you know, straight
over the plate. You know, if that's a strike all
the time, Well, that's that's boring.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It's boring. It's the same thing over and over.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
You know, why do people why does racing have such
a cult following for the crashes?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You know, exactly. I turned it on.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I'm like, oh my god, forty laps, How can anyone
watch this?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Then it was like boom, oh, day we go.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
You know, I gotta admit something on it. It's very,
very kind of embarrassing, but you know, we're honest with
our audience. Yeah, we got to keep it really at people.
I didn't know who Dale earn Hard was until he died.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
That same I'm like, you knows this guy?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I never heard of him once, never heard of him once.
Then I've done it on CNN and I see this
whole thing. I'm like, is this somebody I should know about?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And there you go, and again apologies. You know, I
guess he was had a big career, but I did
not know about him.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I turned on you know, the Indy five hundred and
I said, oh, are you kidding me? I'm not wasting
my time. Then lap one boom, accident.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I said, oh.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Okay, and I watched another lap before I turned it off.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah, that kept your glued exactly exactly. Otherwise I would
have just kept flipping.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
See that's what we need.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
More bad calls, more controversy, and more ratings.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
They you go talking about ratings. Did you see Jim
Rome the other day on X He was on this
that X platform and he got like, you know, he
had millions of viewers.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You know, I'm just thinking, this is so great that
this eel I'm musk guy is bringing back these sportscasters.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
That would be great.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
You know, you got Jim Rome back, well, you know,
why not bring George Michael. George Michael sports.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Machine the best ever? You kidding me?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Sunday nights and he had that big machine and he'd
be like, let's go out. Yeah, the Veteran Field bo.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
You turn on Twitter, it's it's Jim Rome, then George
Michael sports Machine and then you have up close with
Roy Firestone.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
That's how it off.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
And what about our favorite show growing up, The Reporters?
Oh right, that would be unbelievable. I never understood why
they got rid of that show.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I love the Sports Report. I mean you'll remember there
was nothing better than you know, after a game seven,
how like five days later you'd sit down and you
get to hear what they thought after they processed all
the thoughts. Oh, you know, do what I loved is like,
you know these shows, these days they have these big
sets and whatnot. That was so great. It was just
(10:59):
like they got or four chairs from like our rooms
to go remember, and they just like put them as
close as possible. Oh, I mean it was gripping television,
you know, I know, you know, I was always tuning
in every week, you know, to say what what column
Mitch Album was working on for that week? You know,
like I you know, is he gonna write about the
Fadres this week? Is he gonna write about the salary cap?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Exactly?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You know, I wonder what Mike Lupeka is gonna say
about the nineteen seventy eight Nicks that you know came
up short.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Anyway, Usually here we die, you know, grow to a guest,
but I'll lose a producer didn't even bother the book one,
although you know, we should probably thank him for that,
you know exactly, probably should just thank him for not
being here. Made the show totally better.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
We don't have producer Jay interrupting us.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
He's probably sleeping with his fake girlfriend right now. Yeah, exactly,
he's probably knee deep in AI right now.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, with his hand.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Anyway, we'll reveal our contest win the next week. Call
that let's us wrap it in.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yup, it might have been our most flawless show yet
because of no producer Jay exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Well, that's the show for today.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
We'll see you, see you
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