April 17, 2025 • 21 mins
Sports talk legends Paulie & Tony Fusco bring on NBA writer Mark Medina to expose the vast media conspiracy around the Los Angeles Lakers, but when he DENIES THE TRUTH and the interview becomes HORRIBLY BAD, they have no choice but to KICK HIM TO THE CURB. Also, they tell you about the Grizzles DUMB move in their loss to the Warriors, and why Saquon Barkley should replace J.D. Vance as Vice President.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right, alright, come me and Toyo Life from Philly.
It's the number one rated Polly and Tony four scoll show, y'all.
As always, Polly fools go here with Tony. Folks go
at Tony Huge show today. You know, lots of big
news from across the sporting world, and we're going to
(00:24):
give you the takes that the rest of the sad
pathetic media are just too terrified and also too lazy
to give you because they are terrible at their jobs.
And also NBA playoffs are here, buzz surrounding the Lakers. Well,
we're not falling for that trap, Tony. You know, we
don't worship at the Temple of Lebron like everyone else.
We're going to expose the vast media cover up going
(00:46):
on with the Lakers. And to do that and discuss that,
we're bringing on longtime Lakers NBA reporter Mark Medina, and uh,
we're gonna see if he's actually going to do his
job for once, said Tony.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, and if he doesn't admit the truth, well then
you'll know he's part of the vast media conspiracy and
you'll know exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, that's wow, But quick, Tony Unfortunately, we have a
development we have to talk about here. As you know,
our producer went missing last week, and well, unfortunately he
came back. You know. Yeah, we were hoping there was
a permanentification if you get dress. But hey, you you
want to apologize for the fact now that we didn't
(01:27):
get a single Sports Emmy nomination thanks to you.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Send you the form three months ago. I told you
to submit them, So that's on you.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh yeah, well I'm going to submit you to a beating. Yeah,
can you please go missing again? Yes, exact? Everybody along. Look,
we got a lot to get to, so just shut up. Yes,
So yeah, on the things we got to get to.
You have stuff to get through out there. Yeah, you
got to hit subscribe. If you're on the YouTube, hit subscribe,
and remember visit the official full Scope merch store where
(01:58):
April eighteenth, twenty three you can get ten when you
order three products or more. Just that's a terrific and
not at all convoluted deal for you. Anyway, All right,
there we go. Time, Yep, there you go. Let's get
into all of what's going on Tony and our top
story story. All right, First, out the gate boll. We've
(02:19):
seen that some of these NBA playing games. Well, I mean,
I we didn't see them. We read about them the
next morning because we're not going to stay. But right,
the Warriors, well they beat the Grizzlies and escaped losing there.
Now people are saying the Warriors deserve credit here. No, no,
clearly the blame is on the Grizzlies for their whole
dumb strategy, Isn't that right, Tony?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, you know, you really have to question the Grizzly
shooting strategy, not on the court, but off the court.
John Morant is one of the league's most prolific shooters.
He could have taken Steph Curry out of the game
before the game even started. And for the record, I'm
not advocating murder, no, you know, I'm just saying maybe
a little, you know, graze of the ankle, just to
(03:01):
keep him out of action for a few hours. You know,
it's the playoffs, so you got to do everything it
takes to win, including assault with a deadly weapon.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Terrific analysis that, Dony, And we'll staying in basketball. As
we all know, the w NBA Draft was held the
other night, and of course, you know, people they're looking
to us for our expert opinion on all the players
you know and what went down on draft night. So
right now, we're going to do a segment where we
rank each player in the draft and how we evaluate them.
(03:32):
It's a segment called would or wouldn't, would or wouldn't okay? Dony?
First up, Page Buckers would or wouldn't? Totally would me
to don'ty totally okay. Next up, Hayley Van Lift absolutely
would no question, yep, totally agree that Doty win. We're
(03:58):
in the middle of a segment.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
What are you doing? This segment is absolutely offensive. These
women are professional athletes that you should be ranking them
by their talent, not their looks.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Whoaa, whoa whoa? Who said anything about look was saying
whether or not we would have drafted them to a
w NBA fantasy teams. That's totally that was totally obvious.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Bro, No, it wasn't trust me.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Oh oh well, then Tony, our producer would or wouldn't
you want to stab him and throw his dead body
into a dumpster, and Burnet would and would celebrate me too, exactly.
There you go. You offended by you, Everyone's offended by you. Yeah, unbelievable,
moving on after that needless interruption. The NFL Draft is
(04:46):
now only two weeks away, and our sources inside the Eagles,
they're telling us that their scouts there are just working
day and night, criss crossing the country looking for all
the top talent out there. And that is what we're hearing, Tony,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yes, My sources tell me that the Eagle scouts are
looking everywhere for top talent. Georgia, Alabama, Middle Alabama, Southeastern Georgia,
North Central Georgia, Eastern Southern Alabama, and also Eastern Central,
northern Southern Georgia, just covering everywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Just terrific inside sourcing. There by you, Tony, and thank you. Well.
Now to some very big nose as expected, Jalen Hurts
has been named one of the one hundred most Influential
People by Dime magazine. He's on a list with celebrities,
world leaders, just naturally fits right with all of them.
But you know, there's just one problem with this list, Tony,
(05:45):
there's no ranking. How the hell do you put out
a list and not at least ranked the people on
the list, as it makes sense. It's such a part
of a PC's sensitive don't hurt feelings. Its comically anyway,
just a total miss there by dial anyway, Toty, you
went ahead and fixed this list. Tell him what you
came up with.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Number one naturally, Jalen Hurts, of course. Number two, of course,
the Pope. Number three, the Pope's doctor for keeping the
Pope alive. Absolutely, Number four us you know we weren't
on that list, but you know everybody knows exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And number five of course, John bon Jovi still on
the radio every day.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Just great work, Tony, Time Magazine that take note. That's
how you don You're welcome Time Magazines. That's how you
do journalism, all right, don Moving to a bizarre and
frankly troubling scene at the White House this week. Ohio
State was visiting to celebrate their national championship that nobody wanted.
When JD vanced the Vice President, well, he tried to
pick up the trophy and it just fell apart in
(06:52):
his hands. Wow, and Tony, we hate to say it,
but this is very disconcerting, isn't.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
It very You know, we need this country to be
in good hands. How can we trust JD vance with
national security if he can't even handle ball security?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That's why I'm calling on President Trump to replace jd
Vance with Saquon Barkley. Saquon's got great ball security and
we've seen him hold a ball trophy at the Super
Bowl and not break it into pieces. And you know
he's an Eagle. So America well said all around that, Tony.
(07:29):
And you know, you gotta wonder what about Jalen Hurts.
I mean, he's already the most influential person in the world,
exactly him and Saquon.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You got a great one two punch there. Maybe President
vice president, you know, perfect fit, just natural born leaders
to both of them. Yeah, maybe twenty twenty eight there, right. Anyways,
Staying in college football, reports out of Colorado say the
Colorado football team will be retiring the number two won
by former quarterback Shader Sanders. Now, some people they say
(07:57):
this makes no sense, But Tony, that necessarily the case,
is it?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
You know, this is where I need to get a
little more clarification. Are they retiring his jersey because he
was good or because he was awful? Because you know,
I've always said that it would make much more sense
to retire jersey numbers.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
For bad players.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
That way, you could forget all about them, like the
Raiders could retire number two, so they could forget all
about JaMarcus Russell.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Wait a second, what the what the fuck is with
my camera? Do you move my camera? What do you talk?
Going on? This guy's sabotage in the show? All right,
I guess I gotta fix my camera here, old guy,
I'll do your job for you. You just sit there and
shut up. Yeah, be quiet, you can't do anything. All right,
Well that's close enough, I guess. Anyway, is our guest
on the line.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
He's on the line.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
All right, good, well you should tell us that. All right,
let's go ahead and get him on the Fusco Satellite
Networks satellite. Okay, this guy, he is an NBA reporter
who's been covering the league long enough to remember when
the Kings were almost good. He's worked for a lot
of mainstream media organizations. In fact, people have called him
(09:06):
the Shaquille O'Neal of basketball reporting, not because of his talent,
but because he's worked for so many different organizations. Anyway,
we got to say his Lakes coverage out doubt. He
just recently it's been lacking, you know, and we got
to wonder as we read that, you know, if he's
clearly part of some widespread media cover up to protect
the Lakers. Anyway, we're going to get to the bottom
all this right now, Mark Medina, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
I would say thanks for the kind invite, but it
could have been better, I will say, if we're going
to use the Shack analogy, at least I have always
been in tip top shape.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Okay, I don't know. I'm looking at you right now. Way, Yeah,
you look like you're at buck sixty soaken wet.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Bro Yeah, I think I think you got to get
me on the scale at a few more pounds of muscle.
Watch me go to the gym here. I do a
lot of different CrossFit training. We can go head to
head Maco.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
You know. Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Want to.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I don't want to die. I don't want to die
on a press suit here.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I want to He had a good segue. That was
a good segue because we want to talk about weight
and conditioning. So we're going to start with of course,
Luka donka. You know when he went to the Lakers,
you know people were worried, you know that he was overweight.
You know at Dubble Harrison I'm talking, you know, be
(10:28):
more of a writer, which means fly it and sit there. Okay, So,
as I was saying before, you were ruely interrupted. All right, Luka,
doncs right, fat ass. Now he looks totally fine. You're
in the building. We want to know how many gallons
of ozempic are the teams doctors injecting with him daily.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
I can't confirm the exact amount, but I can't confirm
that he's in.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Tip top ship.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You know, no one's gonna mistake him for you same bold.
So he's out running, he's out going to win to
track me. But he's enough chip top shape to still
be a top five NBA player.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
And he's not Shaquille O'Neal at all. He's out healing
on company time. Instead, he's dominated on a couple of
company time.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Okay, but you didn't answer the question. Yeah, one gallon,
two gallons? What's going on there?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
You know there's something called there's something called hippo laws.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I don't think we can dig through people's medications and filing.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Cabinets all that. Yeah, huge journey laws, is you? Yeah? Yeah,
so there are there weren't fears of him becoming the
Kursey Alley of basketball. All those fears now laid well.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I will say this, when you're looking at the Luca
Dacas trade, the thought process was, this is a long
term play. They know who their next generational star is
after Lebron James. They could contempt for championships in the future.
I think in the short term it was just about
trying to get through the season, maybe make the playoffs.
But here, I don't think they were projected to be
(11:57):
a number three seats, so I think you can argue
they've overachieved expectations here a little bit said. You guys
are wearing Eagles jerseys there in a much better position
than the Philadelphia seventy six Yers to say the last no, No, the.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Six has expertly lost those last games. Fourteen losses out
of the last fifteen. Just great coaching. Then do we
get back. You're going in so many directions, You're like,
it's like you're driving on the freeways. Then look, you
know you just admitted that Lakers don't stand a chance
this see ar So when they do lose, when they
lose and flame out, what player do you think Adam
(12:33):
Silva is going to send to the team next to
you to keep it interesting. You know, our sources say
either Wemby or Jason Tatum. What are you hearing from
your sources? Hey, how a don't we throw Cooper flag
at the books? I mean, the NBA Draft lottery hasn't
been finalized yet. You're technically a mathematical chance that anyone
could have a shot at the flag sweepstake, so got
(12:54):
to keep the options open. Well, it'll be the sixes.
But you know this is because you know flag six
is America. Just make sense. But let's talk big picture here, okay,
because you admitted the Lakers no shot this year, Well,
you know when the last time they won a title
was twenty twenty, right in the bubble during COVID. Don't
(13:15):
you think that that right now the Lakers should be,
you know, working to release another virus right now in
order to help them win a title this year. Wouldn't
that be the right strategy?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Uh? I don't think. I don't think they. I don't
think they need to do that because here and they
don't want to do that.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
I was in the bubble, you know, as one of
my many gigs as an NBA writer. It was the
hardest Championship ever to win. You can say, oh, yeah,
they were. They didn't have to travel there. The room
service was bad one, well, let's let's room service is
one of many reasons they didn't get to see their
families at all.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
They didn't have the fans right.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
They didn't have these fans like you being able to
heckle their opponents to give themselves home court advantage.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
So there's a lot of disadvantages.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
They're getting sir crazy, having a lot of cab cabin
fever toward the end of it.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
There's a reason a lack of heckling. Yeah, that that
hurt them.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
There's a lot of Laker fans that heckle.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
They're opposing teams that coming to the building the same
way you're trying to heckle me.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
So you're saying when I go to games and I say, Lebron,
I'm going to murder you and your family after the game,
that helps them. I'm motivating him.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Though, if you're saying that so the Lakers opponents that
could help them, it would get in their head. What
I'm saying is Laker, the Lakers to not have the
equivalent of you guys in the stands going on their behalf.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
To be dodging the question. Yeah, it's very simple. Lake
is releasing a virus, yes or not. He's covering.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
He's covering for the Lakers because you know what, we
haven't seen Lebron in about.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
A week or so. Exactly. How do we know that
he's not in Wuhan right now? Do you know virus?
How do I know?
Speaker 5 (14:58):
I was at the Lakers practice for Ody yesterday and
he was practicing, So.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
He's our sources tell us all the hotel rooms that
Walt Disney World up book for.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
The next three months.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Explain that a lot of people love Mickey Mouse, a
lot of people love the golf in Orlando.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
A lot of people want to.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Disney organization.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
All right, I want to. I don't want lebron smoke
that he gave Steven A. Smith.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I got to be on good terms on that subject.
Let's talk about the plan for Bronnie in the playoffs. Okay,
how much playing time do you see him getting over
on the zero point five seconds?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I would take the under.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
The only caveat is if there's mop up duty, whether
the Lakers are blowing a team out or if they're
getting blown out, and I think that both scenarios can happen.
You'll see Bronny, but he's gonna play exactly zero meaningful
minutes in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Well, oh, I don't know about that. Your sourcing was good,
but Tony, you have your own sourcing Dellmark, so he
can understand absolutely.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You know, we have Bronnie's estimated playing time at minus
forty two minutes. Now you may be wondering, how can
you get a negative number? You see, they're not even
going to allow Bronni to participate in the pregame warm ups.
He won't be allowed to take up any precious space
in the layup line, and you have to count that
(16:18):
lost time against him.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Your sources are already wrong. He participated in yesterday's practice.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Doesn't count game. Okay, no, no, we met pregame pre game.
It's called active listening. Yeah, you know, and also active
active shutting up might help you don't But that's another story.
A little long win. Did you like a writer? You
know you're trying to hit your three thousand words. Let's
try another team exactly you know, maybe we need to
just switch subjects here, somewhere where you might have a
(16:46):
little more expectise you were close there. You know, last
year we just saw the Grizzlies lose to the Warriors
in the play, and you know, I think it was
totally clear Mark that Memphis just had the wrong shooting strategy.
You know, we're not talking on the court, but off
the court. You know, Job Morint is one of the
best off the court shooters in the game. Don't you
(17:08):
think Memphis could have done a better job, you know,
stopping Steph Curry before the game?
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Well you can always make the case for that. I
think that there was a movie that was made about
your strategy. It was called Celtic Pride. It was one
of Daniel Stern's worst movies ever.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Great movie, Yeah, great, Daniel, great talking about You know
what I think.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Of Daniel Curtin. I think a Rookie of the Year
obviously alone one. And well, you probably guys probably don't
like that. Maybe what I'm saying is that strategy has
already been tried and they wound up gaining arrested for it.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
So I don't think that Gurzleyes wanted to get arrested
for it.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Hold On, hold on, this is the second way are
you saying that's a bad strategy, but they lost. Don't
you think there could be a better strategy.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
There could have been a better strategy, but it doesn't
involve things that could get them arrested.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I think the better strategy is maybe.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
What it pays in. This is why you're on the
right now. You don't know about basketball, man, Come.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
On, you're right.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I've never I've never worked for multiple NBA outlets in
the last years.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I don't know. You know what I'm going to give you.
Show you get out, there's your outlet show. You're in
the outhouse. Get out of here. Mark my worst you
will be on the show again? Is he off the line? Jay,
hang up the phone. Just clearly bought the vast media conspiracy.
Don't say anything. Yeah, you don't even have to say
(18:38):
anything anyway, you know what. Let's not let him ruin,
which was just a terrific show all around. Yeah, I
guess we want to remind you to go to.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Our merchant.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Interrupting a pro for ours. You are sabotaging the show.
What do you want?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Corrections?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
What you called?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
You constant? Are in number one overall pick in the
w NBA draft, Paige Bukers. Yeah, Bro, it's pronounced Paige Beckers.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Oh yeah, well, you're gonna need to page a doctor
after I bludgeon you. Oh so it rhymes with girls
on dates with you pukers. O great one.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You said teams should retire bad players numbers so people
can forget about them.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah, bro, bad juju?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Bro, what didn't people notice the number is missing and
then wind up remembering that player more?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Oh well, you know what I'd love to notice missing you. Yeah.
And on the subject of things that are missing, your
penis Oh great, still going.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Why what you said Saquon Barkley or Jalen Hurts should
replace jd Vance as vice president because they're good at
ball security?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Makes sense?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Bro, total sense, Bro. No, even by this show's standards.
That's the most asinine take I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Oh yeah, well you know who's also good at securing balls?
Your mother. Yeah. The asinine is where I'm gonna bang
your mom tonight. Oh great one. Oh yeah, we got
big nose justin Tony. Look at this book for next
week's show. He'll be his super Bowl legend Eagles hero
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All right, alright, come me and Toyo Life from Philly.
It's the number one rated Polly and Tony four scoll show, y'all.
As always, Polly fools go here with Tony. Folks go
at Tony Huge show today. You know, lots of big
news from across the sporting world, and we're going to
(00:24):
give you the takes that the rest of the sad
pathetic media are just too terrified and also too lazy
to give you because they are terrible at their jobs.
And also NBA playoffs are here, buzz surrounding the Lakers. Well,
we're not falling for that trap, Tony. You know, we
don't worship at the Temple of Lebron like everyone else.
We're going to expose the vast media cover up going
(00:46):
on with the Lakers. And to do that and discuss that,
we're bringing on longtime Lakers NBA reporter Mark Medina, and uh,
we're gonna see if he's actually going to do his
job for once, said Tony.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, and if he doesn't admit the truth, well then
you'll know he's part of the vast media conspiracy and
you'll know exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, that's wow, But quick, Tony Unfortunately, we have a
development we have to talk about here. As you know,
our producer went missing last week, and well, unfortunately he
came back. You know. Yeah, we were hoping there was
a permanentification if you get dress. But hey, you you
want to apologize for the fact now that we didn't
(01:27):
get a single Sports Emmy nomination thanks to you.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Send you the form three months ago. I told you
to submit them, So that's on you.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh yeah, well I'm going to submit you to a beating. Yeah,
can you please go missing again? Yes, exact? Everybody along. Look,
we got a lot to get to, so just shut up. Yes,
So yeah, on the things we got to get to.
You have stuff to get through out there. Yeah, you
got to hit subscribe. If you're on the YouTube, hit subscribe,
and remember visit the official full Scope merch store where
(01:58):
April eighteenth, twenty three you can get ten when you
order three products or more. Just that's a terrific and
not at all convoluted deal for you. Anyway, All right,
there we go. Time, Yep, there you go. Let's get
into all of what's going on Tony and our top
story story. All right, First, out the gate boll. We've
(02:19):
seen that some of these NBA playing games. Well, I mean,
I we didn't see them. We read about them the
next morning because we're not going to stay. But right,
the Warriors, well they beat the Grizzlies and escaped losing there.
Now people are saying the Warriors deserve credit here. No, no,
clearly the blame is on the Grizzlies for their whole
dumb strategy, Isn't that right, Tony?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, you know, you really have to question the Grizzly
shooting strategy, not on the court, but off the court.
John Morant is one of the league's most prolific shooters.
He could have taken Steph Curry out of the game
before the game even started. And for the record, I'm
not advocating murder, no, you know, I'm just saying maybe
a little, you know, graze of the ankle, just to
(03:01):
keep him out of action for a few hours. You know,
it's the playoffs, so you got to do everything it
takes to win, including assault with a deadly weapon.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Terrific analysis that, Dony, And we'll staying in basketball. As
we all know, the w NBA Draft was held the
other night, and of course, you know, people they're looking
to us for our expert opinion on all the players
you know and what went down on draft night. So
right now, we're going to do a segment where we
rank each player in the draft and how we evaluate them.
(03:32):
It's a segment called would or wouldn't, would or wouldn't okay? Dony?
First up, Page Buckers would or wouldn't? Totally would me
to don'ty totally okay. Next up, Hayley Van Lift absolutely
would no question, yep, totally agree that Doty win. We're
(03:58):
in the middle of a segment.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
What are you doing? This segment is absolutely offensive. These
women are professional athletes that you should be ranking them
by their talent, not their looks.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Whoaa, whoa whoa? Who said anything about look was saying
whether or not we would have drafted them to a
w NBA fantasy teams. That's totally that was totally obvious.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Bro, No, it wasn't trust me.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Oh oh well, then Tony, our producer would or wouldn't
you want to stab him and throw his dead body
into a dumpster, and Burnet would and would celebrate me too, exactly.
There you go. You offended by you, Everyone's offended by you. Yeah, unbelievable,
moving on after that needless interruption. The NFL Draft is
(04:46):
now only two weeks away, and our sources inside the Eagles,
they're telling us that their scouts there are just working
day and night, criss crossing the country looking for all
the top talent out there. And that is what we're hearing, Tony,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yes, My sources tell me that the Eagle scouts are
looking everywhere for top talent. Georgia, Alabama, Middle Alabama, Southeastern Georgia,
North Central Georgia, Eastern Southern Alabama, and also Eastern Central,
northern Southern Georgia, just covering everywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Just terrific inside sourcing. There by you, Tony, and thank you. Well.
Now to some very big nose as expected, Jalen Hurts
has been named one of the one hundred most Influential
People by Dime magazine. He's on a list with celebrities,
world leaders, just naturally fits right with all of them.
But you know, there's just one problem with this list, Tony,
(05:45):
there's no ranking. How the hell do you put out
a list and not at least ranked the people on
the list, as it makes sense. It's such a part
of a PC's sensitive don't hurt feelings. Its comically anyway,
just a total miss there by dial anyway, Toty, you
went ahead and fixed this list. Tell him what you
came up with.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Number one naturally, Jalen Hurts, of course. Number two, of course,
the Pope. Number three, the Pope's doctor for keeping the
Pope alive. Absolutely, Number four us you know we weren't
on that list, but you know everybody knows exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And number five of course, John bon Jovi still on
the radio every day.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Just great work, Tony, Time Magazine that take note. That's
how you don You're welcome Time Magazines. That's how you
do journalism, all right, don Moving to a bizarre and
frankly troubling scene at the White House this week. Ohio
State was visiting to celebrate their national championship that nobody wanted.
When JD vanced the Vice President, well, he tried to
pick up the trophy and it just fell apart in
(06:52):
his hands. Wow, and Tony, we hate to say it,
but this is very disconcerting, isn't.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
It very You know, we need this country to be
in good hands. How can we trust JD vance with
national security if he can't even handle ball security?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That's why I'm calling on President Trump to replace jd
Vance with Saquon Barkley. Saquon's got great ball security and
we've seen him hold a ball trophy at the Super
Bowl and not break it into pieces. And you know
he's an Eagle. So America well said all around that, Tony.
(07:29):
And you know, you gotta wonder what about Jalen Hurts.
I mean, he's already the most influential person in the world,
exactly him and Saquon.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You got a great one two punch there. Maybe President
vice president, you know, perfect fit, just natural born leaders
to both of them. Yeah, maybe twenty twenty eight there, right. Anyways,
Staying in college football, reports out of Colorado say the
Colorado football team will be retiring the number two won
by former quarterback Shader Sanders. Now, some people they say
(07:57):
this makes no sense, But Tony, that necessarily the case,
is it?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
You know, this is where I need to get a
little more clarification. Are they retiring his jersey because he
was good or because he was awful? Because you know,
I've always said that it would make much more sense
to retire jersey numbers.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
For bad players.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
That way, you could forget all about them, like the
Raiders could retire number two, so they could forget all
about JaMarcus Russell.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Wait a second, what the what the fuck is with
my camera? Do you move my camera? What do you talk?
Going on? This guy's sabotage in the show? All right,
I guess I gotta fix my camera here, old guy,
I'll do your job for you. You just sit there and
shut up. Yeah, be quiet, you can't do anything. All right,
Well that's close enough, I guess. Anyway, is our guest
on the line.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
He's on the line.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
All right, good, well you should tell us that. All right,
let's go ahead and get him on the Fusco Satellite
Networks satellite. Okay, this guy, he is an NBA reporter
who's been covering the league long enough to remember when
the Kings were almost good. He's worked for a lot
of mainstream media organizations. In fact, people have called him
(09:06):
the Shaquille O'Neal of basketball reporting, not because of his talent,
but because he's worked for so many different organizations. Anyway,
we got to say his Lakes coverage out doubt. He
just recently it's been lacking, you know, and we got
to wonder as we read that, you know, if he's
clearly part of some widespread media cover up to protect
the Lakers. Anyway, we're going to get to the bottom
all this right now, Mark Medina, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
I would say thanks for the kind invite, but it
could have been better, I will say, if we're going
to use the Shack analogy, at least I have always
been in tip top shape.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Okay, I don't know. I'm looking at you right now. Way, Yeah,
you look like you're at buck sixty soaken wet.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Bro Yeah, I think I think you got to get
me on the scale at a few more pounds of muscle.
Watch me go to the gym here. I do a
lot of different CrossFit training. We can go head to
head Maco.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
You know. Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Want to.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I don't want to die. I don't want to die
on a press suit here.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I want to He had a good segue. That was
a good segue because we want to talk about weight
and conditioning. So we're going to start with of course,
Luka donka. You know when he went to the Lakers,
you know people were worried, you know that he was overweight.
You know at Dubble Harrison I'm talking, you know, be
(10:28):
more of a writer, which means fly it and sit there. Okay, So,
as I was saying before, you were ruely interrupted. All right, Luka,
doncs right, fat ass. Now he looks totally fine. You're
in the building. We want to know how many gallons
of ozempic are the teams doctors injecting with him daily.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
I can't confirm the exact amount, but I can't confirm
that he's in.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Tip top ship.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You know, no one's gonna mistake him for you same bold.
So he's out running, he's out going to win to
track me. But he's enough chip top shape to still
be a top five NBA player.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
And he's not Shaquille O'Neal at all. He's out healing
on company time. Instead, he's dominated on a couple of
company time.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Okay, but you didn't answer the question. Yeah, one gallon,
two gallons? What's going on there?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
You know there's something called there's something called hippo laws.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I don't think we can dig through people's medications and filing.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Cabinets all that. Yeah, huge journey laws, is you? Yeah? Yeah,
so there are there weren't fears of him becoming the
Kursey Alley of basketball. All those fears now laid well.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I will say this, when you're looking at the Luca
Dacas trade, the thought process was, this is a long
term play. They know who their next generational star is
after Lebron James. They could contempt for championships in the future.
I think in the short term it was just about
trying to get through the season, maybe make the playoffs.
But here, I don't think they were projected to be
(11:57):
a number three seats, so I think you can argue
they've overachieved expectations here a little bit said. You guys
are wearing Eagles jerseys there in a much better position
than the Philadelphia seventy six Yers to say the last no, No, the.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Six has expertly lost those last games. Fourteen losses out
of the last fifteen. Just great coaching. Then do we
get back. You're going in so many directions, You're like,
it's like you're driving on the freeways. Then look, you
know you just admitted that Lakers don't stand a chance
this see ar So when they do lose, when they
lose and flame out, what player do you think Adam
(12:33):
Silva is going to send to the team next to
you to keep it interesting. You know, our sources say
either Wemby or Jason Tatum. What are you hearing from
your sources? Hey, how a don't we throw Cooper flag
at the books? I mean, the NBA Draft lottery hasn't
been finalized yet. You're technically a mathematical chance that anyone
could have a shot at the flag sweepstake, so got
(12:54):
to keep the options open. Well, it'll be the sixes.
But you know this is because you know flag six
is America. Just make sense. But let's talk big picture here, okay,
because you admitted the Lakers no shot this year, Well,
you know when the last time they won a title
was twenty twenty, right in the bubble during COVID. Don't
(13:15):
you think that that right now the Lakers should be,
you know, working to release another virus right now in
order to help them win a title this year. Wouldn't
that be the right strategy?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Uh? I don't think. I don't think they. I don't
think they need to do that because here and they
don't want to do that.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
I was in the bubble, you know, as one of
my many gigs as an NBA writer. It was the
hardest Championship ever to win. You can say, oh, yeah,
they were. They didn't have to travel there. The room
service was bad one, well, let's let's room service is
one of many reasons they didn't get to see their
families at all.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
They didn't have the fans right.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
They didn't have these fans like you being able to
heckle their opponents to give themselves home court advantage.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
So there's a lot of disadvantages.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
They're getting sir crazy, having a lot of cab cabin
fever toward the end of it.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
There's a reason a lack of heckling. Yeah, that that
hurt them.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
There's a lot of Laker fans that heckle.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
They're opposing teams that coming to the building the same
way you're trying to heckle me.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
So you're saying when I go to games and I say, Lebron,
I'm going to murder you and your family after the game,
that helps them. I'm motivating him.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Though, if you're saying that so the Lakers opponents that
could help them, it would get in their head. What
I'm saying is Laker, the Lakers to not have the
equivalent of you guys in the stands going on their behalf.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
To be dodging the question. Yeah, it's very simple. Lake
is releasing a virus, yes or not. He's covering.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
He's covering for the Lakers because you know what, we
haven't seen Lebron in about.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
A week or so. Exactly. How do we know that
he's not in Wuhan right now? Do you know virus?
How do I know?
Speaker 5 (14:58):
I was at the Lakers practice for Ody yesterday and
he was practicing, So.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
He's our sources tell us all the hotel rooms that
Walt Disney World up book for.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
The next three months.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Explain that a lot of people love Mickey Mouse, a
lot of people love the golf in Orlando.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
A lot of people want to.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Disney organization.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
All right, I want to. I don't want lebron smoke
that he gave Steven A. Smith.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I got to be on good terms on that subject.
Let's talk about the plan for Bronnie in the playoffs. Okay,
how much playing time do you see him getting over
on the zero point five seconds?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I would take the under.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
The only caveat is if there's mop up duty, whether
the Lakers are blowing a team out or if they're
getting blown out, and I think that both scenarios can happen.
You'll see Bronny, but he's gonna play exactly zero meaningful
minutes in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Well, oh, I don't know about that. Your sourcing was good,
but Tony, you have your own sourcing Dellmark, so he
can understand absolutely.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You know, we have Bronnie's estimated playing time at minus
forty two minutes. Now you may be wondering, how can
you get a negative number? You see, they're not even
going to allow Bronni to participate in the pregame warm ups.
He won't be allowed to take up any precious space
in the layup line, and you have to count that
(16:18):
lost time against him.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Your sources are already wrong. He participated in yesterday's practice.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Doesn't count game. Okay, no, no, we met pregame pre game.
It's called active listening. Yeah, you know, and also active
active shutting up might help you don't But that's another story.
A little long win. Did you like a writer? You
know you're trying to hit your three thousand words. Let's
try another team exactly you know, maybe we need to
just switch subjects here, somewhere where you might have a
(16:46):
little more expectise you were close there. You know, last
year we just saw the Grizzlies lose to the Warriors
in the play, and you know, I think it was
totally clear Mark that Memphis just had the wrong shooting strategy.
You know, we're not talking on the court, but off
the court. You know, Job Morint is one of the
best off the court shooters in the game. Don't you
(17:08):
think Memphis could have done a better job, you know,
stopping Steph Curry before the game?
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Well you can always make the case for that. I
think that there was a movie that was made about
your strategy. It was called Celtic Pride. It was one
of Daniel Stern's worst movies ever.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Great movie, Yeah, great, Daniel, great talking about You know
what I think.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Of Daniel Curtin. I think a Rookie of the Year
obviously alone one. And well, you probably guys probably don't
like that. Maybe what I'm saying is that strategy has
already been tried and they wound up gaining arrested for it.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
So I don't think that Gurzleyes wanted to get arrested
for it.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Hold On, hold on, this is the second way are
you saying that's a bad strategy, but they lost. Don't
you think there could be a better strategy.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
There could have been a better strategy, but it doesn't
involve things that could get them arrested.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I think the better strategy is maybe.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
What it pays in. This is why you're on the
right now. You don't know about basketball, man, Come.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
On, you're right.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I've never I've never worked for multiple NBA outlets in
the last years.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I don't know. You know what I'm going to give you.
Show you get out, there's your outlet show. You're in
the outhouse. Get out of here. Mark my worst you
will be on the show again? Is he off the line? Jay,
hang up the phone. Just clearly bought the vast media conspiracy.
Don't say anything. Yeah, you don't even have to say
(18:38):
anything anyway, you know what. Let's not let him ruin,
which was just a terrific show all around. Yeah, I
guess we want to remind you to go to.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Our merchant.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Interrupting a pro for ours. You are sabotaging the show.
What do you want?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Corrections?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
What you called?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
You constant? Are in number one overall pick in the
w NBA draft, Paige Bukers. Yeah, Bro, it's pronounced Paige Beckers.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Oh yeah, well, you're gonna need to page a doctor
after I bludgeon you. Oh so it rhymes with girls
on dates with you pukers. O great one.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You said teams should retire bad players numbers so people
can forget about them.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah, bro, bad juju?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Bro, what didn't people notice the number is missing and
then wind up remembering that player more?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Oh well, you know what I'd love to notice missing you. Yeah.
And on the subject of things that are missing, your
penis Oh great, still going.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Why what you said Saquon Barkley or Jalen Hurts should
replace jd Vance as vice president because they're good at
ball security?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Makes sense?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Bro, total sense, Bro. No, even by this show's standards.
That's the most asinine take I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Oh yeah, well you know who's also good at securing balls?
Your mother. Yeah. The asinine is where I'm gonna bang
your mom tonight. Oh great one. Oh yeah, we got
big nose justin Tony. Look at this book for next
week's show. He'll be his super Bowl legend Eagles hero
(20:36):
Nick full Wow, you won't forget you subscribe to the
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(20:58):
We'll see your people next week. See you up.
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