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August 29, 2025 22 mins

Paulie & Tony tell you why the Micah Parsons trade from the Cowboys to the Packers was actually a total ACCIDENT, why there's VERY GOOD NEWS for Browns QB Shedeur Sanders, and why they WILL NOT TALK about the Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift news. Plus, Fantasy Life so-called "expert" Matthew Freedman gives such terrible advice about a Philadelphia Eagles LEGEND that he gets KICKED OFF THE SHOW!!

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right, all right, you damn until your life from Philly.
It's the number one rated Polly Tony Fosto show, Yo Yo,
as always Pullie Fools, go here with Tony foost Go
with Tony Huge Show.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Today.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
You know we're going to bring you up to speed
on all the late breaking news about you know, the
Cowboys and the Browns, which you know we'll have virtually
no impact on anything, but you know, still do it,
of course. And you know every yet Tony paper coming
up to us asking for our fantasy advice at this
time of year, of course, you know, because we've won
our pool for twenty seven consecutive years. You know, in fact,

(00:42):
many people credit us, you know, with inventing fantasy football.
And and by the way, you know you're all aware
that this month we launched our guests where the idea,
you know, was to have a guest every week this
month and we'll uh do to our producer over there,
completely useless, useless, not booked a guest all month. You

(01:03):
want to explain.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yourself because everybody said no.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Everybody said no, is how I would describe your sex life?

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Oh got him? Anyway, Well lucky for you, loser. Some
guy I named Pete at the new company Fantasy Life
that Matthew Berry started. Well, he reached out to us
because this guy clearly does his job unlike you. And well,
you know, he came to us because he knows we
got that huge audience, you know, millions of paper, and

(01:33):
he asked if we could do him. And you know,
Matthew was solid by having this so called number one
fantasy expert on the show. Okay, well his name is
Matthew Friedman and according to his Twitter bio, he claims
he is the number one NFL Mack drafter since twenty
twenty exactly according to him, I guess exactly. Now, by

(01:57):
the way, you know, some very smart people out there
gotta commend you did actually rate and review this show
on behind for you, But there were only a handful,
which means, you know, we still got millions of you
out there who are just you know, sitting on your
asses doing nothing. So here's what you're gonna do right now.
All right, you're gonna hit pause on this show. Okay,
you're gonna you're gonna leave the review, then you're gonna

(02:18):
come back, and you're also gonna comment and subscribe on YouTube.
So go ahead and hit pause now, Yeah, okay, we're back,
all right. Good job doing that, good job, took the time,
all right, God, no more pauses, Tony. Let's get right
into our top story. All right. First out the gate,

(02:44):
rough news for Shade Sanders, as he was named the
Browns third string QB behind Joe Flacco and Dylan Gabriel.
And well, Tony, this just has to be a shot
to the rookies confidence, doesn't it. Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Absolutely, you know, I know should do was hoping to
start week one, but now it looks like he'll have
to wait until week three or four, after Joe Flacco
gets injured and Dylan Gabriel gets pinched because you know,
nobody has any interest in seeing him play quarterback. Those
few weeks are gonna be a hard, long wait for Shador,
but it'll be a good test of patients. Besides, Chaudor

(03:20):
is all but guaranteed to start week one next season,
you know, not for the Browns but for the Jets.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Just terrific analysis that, Dony. And oh we got some
big breaking news. Hit that sounder, Dony, This just didn't
the Dallas Cowboys. I've traded Mike up Boston's to the
Green Bay Packers. Wow. Wow, uh your your instant reaction, Dony.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Honestly, I was afraid this was gonna happen. My sources
told me the other day that Jerry Jones is so
old and his hearing has gotten so bad. He thought,
Micah Parson said, call a trade to the Packers. But
what Micah actually said was call a trainer.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
My back hurts. Just a total misunderstand or just a
total misunderstanding. And you know, Dony, now suddenly a lot
of the recent coalboy moves are making a lot more sense,
you know, absolutely all right, where's that breaking? Those now
to some other trade? Those the Browns have traded former
Eagles quarterback Kenny Thickett to the Raiders, And well, you know,

(04:32):
the Raiders, you gotta say, Tony are now the favorites
in that division because you know, Pickets won a Super
Bowl more recently than Mahomes. In fact, put up that
stat Look at this, this is most Super Bowl wins
since twenty twenty four. Picket and Hurts tied for first,
and Mahomes gooseg along with the other QB's in that division,

(04:52):
Bone Nicks and Justin Herbert, and well, stats don't lie
do late, Tony, No.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
And what's the most important skill for a quarterback?

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Ball control? Exactly.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
And Kenny Pickett demonstrated such impressive ball control under pressure
in the Super Bowl, holding the ball so perfectly in
those clutch kneel downs which sealed the win for the Eagles.
When people say he didn't win the Super Bowl and
shouldn't get the win, well, who was the QB on
the field when the Eagles took the winning snap?

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Kenny Picket? Exactly. There you go, case closed, case closed.
Talking about news, Tony a story we absolutely refused to
talk about. Okay, Travis Galcey, Daylas Swift and David you
know which is big news if you're a woman. Yeah,
but if you're tuned into this show, you know, hoping

(05:46):
for a reaction, well you cannot tune away. Yeah, why
don't you go watch Oprah something exactly. Yeah, Although Tony,
I will say, you know, I don't think this show
that kind have lost their sense at priorities. I mean,
what's the most important thing in this business? Rated exactly. Yeah.
People say they should have gotten engaged on the podcast. No,
that's that's a small audit. What they clearly should have

(06:08):
done is you do it in the end zone. That's
when you do the proposal, you know, right after a DD.
That way, you're on national TV during you know, the
afternoon Sundays, you get that big ratings bump, you know,
I exactly.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
And also the other thing, you save money because you
don't have to pay for a photographer or a videographer
or even catering, because you know they already got those people.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
They actually they're already there in the stated Yeah, great boy, Donny.
But again we're not.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
We're not.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
That's the last We're going to talk about this no more.
But you know, I do have one thing more to say.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
You know, I think it was a terrible career move
for Taylor Swift. You know, all her big hits are
breakup songs, so if she's married, that could hurt her
pain induced creative spark. You know, I'm only kind of
familiar with the catalog and well you know there's rule summer,
as someone once told me, and yeah, all too well

(07:04):
again so I've heard also, you know, blank Space, I
knew you were trouble. I can do it with the
broken heart again. So I've been told I'm not that familiar.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, I'm not that familiar either, So I can't comment
on that, although I must say, you know, I do
think we should mention is It over Now? Which I've
also has drawn comparisons to her twenty fourteen single Out
of the Woods due to its similar themes about escaping
toxic relationships. Again, so I've heard, don't quote me on
this too, and again we don't want to waste time

(07:40):
discussing this at all. Just no, we're not getting into it.
This is a sports sports show exactly. Besides, we got
more breaking those coming across this. Just in from Pro
Football Talk, the Raiders have cut sixth round the pick
Tommy Malott Tony. What impact do you will see this having.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
This is the first time I've ever heard of this person,
But I will say this is both good and bad news.
You know, getting cut from an NFL team is bad news,
but getting cut from the Raiders that's great news. You know,
just thinking off the top of my head here, you know,
it's a little like being circumcised. You know, it's a

(08:23):
cut and it hurts initially, but in the long run,
it's a good thing, and you know, you don't have
to spend so much time cleaning your penis so.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
True, just such great football and also anatomical analysis that Derby.
Yes that sound you know what that means. It's time
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Speaker 4 (08:53):
This is my one hundred percent lock pick for Week
one Cowboys Eagles.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yep, what do we always say in the NFL?

Speaker 4 (09:02):
You're only as good as your last game, That's right.
And in the Eagles last game, they crushed the Chiefs
forty to twenty two, although really it was forty to
six if you don't count all those garbage time crap
points the Chiefs squad. Meanwhile, in the Cowboys last game,
they lost to Washington's backup squad twenty three to nineteen.

(09:25):
So when I ran that through my computer, it predicted
the final score of Thursday night's game to be Eagles
one hundred and thirty two, Cowboys negative three.

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Speaker 3 (09:58):
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Speaker 1 (09:58):
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This guy, well, according to his Twitter bio, he's the
quote number one NFL mock drafter since twenty twenty and

(11:58):
a six time up twenty Fantasy Football ranker. Now, I
don't know who keeps track of this stuff, it's certainly
not us, So we are not wasting our time fact
checking that he's now with this new platform called The
Fantasy Life started by Matthew Berry. You know, they wanted
to promote it, so they came to us, our huge audience,

(12:19):
Matthew Friedman. And as you can see for viewers here,
he's wearing a Cowboys at so. Yeah, how couldn't you
be an expert at football while looking like a dulfus
like that?

Speaker 2 (12:31):
I mean, look, I was born and raised in Texas.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
You know it would be bandwagon of me to jump
off at this point, you know what I mean. So
you stick with your team, you're loyal, and you just
accept the years of pain.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
That's what the people on the Titanic said. They said,
we need to stay on this too. Yeah, we're loyal
to this ship. We're loyal to the boat. Yeah, let's
get to hear what we're going to talk about here.
Of course, it's fantasy season. You know, people come to
us for advice. You're this expert. We're led to believe.
Who is when you look at all the players, who's
your first overall pick?

Speaker 5 (13:04):
I mean, Jamar Chase is awesome. Obviously he had the
Triple Crown in receiving last year. But I think Christian
McCaffrey is an underappreciated hold on.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
You know, you get your starting off all wrong. Yeah,
it was one. I wouldn't talk number everything he said.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
He rejected number one.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Okay, he's still talking, Tony. He doesn't understand how the
show works. Okay, First of all, number one pick is
Jalen Hurts. Yeah right, super Bowl MVP. Do you know
how to build a team, It's called rosta building.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, yeah, you know.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
In NFL, absolutely you would want Jalen Hurts as your quarterback.
In fantasy you would also want him, but you don't
have to draft him number one overall because in most
leagues he will go in the third or fourth.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
He went very quickly in a one. In fact, you know,
Tony and I we share a team because we agree
on everything. Let's just take a look. We want to
show you this was our rosta that we drafted in order.
It's a number one, Jalen Hurts, tools, Squon Barkley third,
the Eagles defense, you know, because they it's basically like
having an offense. Yeah, score, then kicker Jake Elliott, fourth round,

(14:11):
the fifth pick AJ Brown, sixth pick DeVonta Smith. Then
Dallas got it, and then uh Aj Dillon. Your thoughts
on this isn't this? Why are you different guys from
different teams? It makes no sense? Why not just the
team has already been created by Howie Roseman. Why don't
you just go with that? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (14:28):
Yeah, yeah, you know what, You're making a lot of sense.
I'd say, unfortunately, you can't draft all Eagles because you
might be in a league with other people and they
also might draft some of the Eagles, so then you
might need to diversify a little bit.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
No, how many Cowboys are on your fantasy dam yeah?

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Zero, I don't want to here.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Okay, good, I now see why the Twitter, the Twitter
bio is starting to make some sense.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
This guy has got a brown noise at all.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
You're doing, You're doing well so far, very good. All right, Well,
you know a lot of people they like to hear
about sleep of picks. Okay, who do you have? Who's
your sleeper at running back?

Speaker 2 (15:09):
I mean sleeper at running back?

Speaker 5 (15:10):
And again, I I hate to talk about another NFC
East team, but Jacorey Crosskey merit as the seventh round
rookie for the Washington Commanders.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
That's not a sleeper hold on everybody knows him?

Speaker 5 (15:22):
Yeah, I mean ja Cory Krossky Marror is still a
guy who's a seventh round rookie who most people really
don't know about. The diehards know about him, A lot
of people don't know it.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
How do you spell his name? Again? I just want
to make sure we're talking about the same guy. Let
me just I just want to make one hundred percent
a c O R.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Why right?

Speaker 1 (15:41):
I know that from the Alabama State Hornets and Man
and the New Mexico Lobos. I mean, everybody knows that
guy really, you know, come sleep? Come on, you know
if you're gonna give sleep, is you gotta go more
off the map? All right? Let's yeah, that was a
little bit misstep for you. Let's try sleeper at give
me why receiver? Okay, who's a sleeper at wide receiver?

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Okay? Do you guys know who Marvin Mims is?

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Of course Marvin, Yeah, that's the mom and Dims. Right,
hold on, I just got to type an email here
one second. Hold on, just sending an email. Don't mean
to be doing it but the show. But yes, of
course Marvin Mins playing you know Marvin Mins Junior. Is
his real name? Say his real name?

Speaker 3 (16:23):
You know?

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Twenty three years old at of Frisco, Texas. Played at
lone Star High School before going to the Oklahoma Sooners.
Of course, of course everybody knows.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
Yeah, everybody knows, so that that maybe wouldn't be a
great pick. I would say, is there a guy on
the Eagles maybe who's like a fourth string.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
Doesn't work. That it doesn't work. I see again, showing
your lack of knowledge there. Okay, you know I.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
How about this?

Speaker 5 (16:52):
How about John Metchi, the third who is new to
the Eagles, So maybe some people don't know about him
because he's just rand new to the team, but he's
got the upside of being on the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
How about just yes again, very familiar with Sorry, hold on,
I just need to text men went through my computer.
Hold on just a moment, yehohn, you got to return
to mechi Uh how do you spell that name again?
Is there a double seat?

Speaker 2 (17:17):
What?

Speaker 1 (17:17):
What is that? Is it like the fro Yo man.
She's trying to think and send a text at the
same time. You know, it's complicated.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, Metchi M E T C.

Speaker 5 (17:28):
H oh right, come on, bro.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Of course Hallwey the Canadian born player orthough born in Taiwan,
really if you count that, you know, born in two
thousand in Taiwan and then won the John Corners Trophy
of course, you know, twice, but was selected by the
Texans in the in the second round of the twenty
two NFL Drive. Of course, John Metchi.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
Yeah, we called Howie we said, you gotta take this guy.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah again, just you know, you need more depth of
knowledge if you're going to do fans. You know, he
doesn't know any sleepers brouhy the way. What's the whole
Can you just briefly dellas because you know your friend
beat that will get mad at us. What's this whole
fantasy life there?

Speaker 3 (18:05):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (18:07):
So?

Speaker 5 (18:08):
You know, we're just a site that provides content, data, tools, projections,
everything for people who like to play fantasy sports. We've
got some fantastic tools that people can use to sink
their leagues. And also we have Guillotine Leagues dot Com,
which I think can tools.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Are the tools like things people get, are the tools
people on your network? I just want to make what's
these of them? We have a tool produces, you know,
because we have a tool on our network. He produces
the show there he is Yeah, okay, all right, sorry,
keep going with your promotion.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (18:43):
And then there's also guillotine Leagues dot Com, which is
a platform where people can play I think one of
the coolest forms of redraft fantasy out there, where you know,
instead of head to head, it's the situation where the loser,
which I think you guys feel you guys were maybe
like this idea. The loser each week be headed gets
kicked out of the league, so.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
I was hoping for because then.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
We would also suggest how a producer then in that
case for the guilletee.

Speaker 5 (19:09):
Yes, well he gets shopped. The loser gets shopped. So
if you guys want to take it literally, you know
you could do too, but that's really high stakes.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Okay, let's just move on here. I what you know,
people they put together like do not draft list? Right?
Who would be at the top of your do not
draft list? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (19:30):
I mean, look, Saquon Barkley might be a little overvalued
this year.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Excuse me? What did you say? I think there's something
wrong with my headphones? Can you repeat?

Speaker 4 (19:39):
That?

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Must have been the connection. Do you say Barkley's overvalued? Explain?

Speaker 5 (19:45):
Yeah, well, he scored a lot of touchdowns last year,
but it might be harder for him to score some
of those touchdowns this year because a lot of them
could go to other guys like Jalen Hurts.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
The touchdowns guess well, you know who's going to be
going to other guys? Yeah? Yo, because you're not welcome
around these guys. Yes, what Matthew Friedman, what setting you
free from the show from the show off again? The
show boys shows? What kind of brains is he? Off

(20:17):
the line? Hey, hang up the phone. You know, normally
i'd blame my producer for such a terrible booking, but
you'll you'll too beat from fantasy life.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
It's on you.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
You want to talk fantasy. My fantasy is to never
have him on the show again.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
There you go, good one though, and let's not let
him ruin you know, which was otherwise? It's a terrific
bang up show. It was. Of course, we want you
to visit our sponsors, Fresh Clean Threads. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
this is a nightmare. Yeah what you want? What show?

Speaker 2 (20:51):
You said?

Speaker 3 (20:51):
The Eagles are going to beat the Cowboys by one
hundred and thirty five points.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, book it, take it to the bank. Bro.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
Well, the latest Vegas odds show that the Eagles are
about a six point favorite. So I think that's never
gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Oh yeah, well I'll show you six points on my
knife set when I stab you.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Yeah, you know what's never gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
You losing your virginity? Oh, I still don't talk?

Speaker 3 (21:23):
And what you said, you don't know any Taylor Swift songs,
and yet you were able to name like eight of.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Them because someone told us about them. Bro, Yeah, but
never listened to them, of course.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
You know no, I think you clearly have. In fact,
I saw your Spotify search history and it was all
her songs.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Oh well, you know what's never ever getting back together
your body and spine after I dismember you.

Speaker 4 (21:52):
Yeah, and when you pull down your pants, you know what,
you see a blank space?

Speaker 1 (22:01):
You know, here's a blank space that just got filled.
Guess for next week? Tony just came in super Bowl
hero Eagles legend Nick Foles. Well, we got to talk
about the Eagles Week one victory because yes, we will
be coming to after the game, after the victory. Until then,
don't forget your rate and review on Apple Podcasts. Right

(22:23):
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