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Out on that I am an ask me. My Mom's gonna be like ky kivy, he stay, what does that mean? What did that mean?
What do you mean you're an ass man? What does that mean? I can't wait to tell that to my mom.
Mommy she's not listening. Now she might.
She's actually flying out to Costa Rica tonight, so I think she's probably running around like a chicken with her head cut off for the moment, getting the you know, the bags packed and all of that, and leaving the house clean. You know how moms are.
Oh okay, yes, I bet you were on. I just don't know if she's listening. I bet you we are on. She's probably just not paying attention like that.
Oh okay, did my daughter just say my name on the air? She just say my name on the air. Yeah, Now is she going to place bets for you overseas?
And she's gonna go see family?
We're Costa Rican? I figured, okay, yeah, our whole family is there. I literally only have my brothers and my parents here. All eighty cousins are over there, all you know what I'm saying.
So it's gonna be it.
She's gonna go party bad mouth you. Monci never comes back.
I am the one who least comes back, That's true. I haven't been there in a couple of years.
Yeah, you never come back.
Like all the time they got like three times a year.
Okay, yeah you go this time. I'm good, I got it. We got games going on. Yeah, the NFL Draft is in a week. I can't do it. Hey, It's like it's like when everybody you know, and here's I feel bad about this, but I'll pull the curtain back because I don't think. Okay, I don't think some of my family listening, so I can say this is that? And any time where there's like a like a wedding that I don't want to go to or some sort of event, I go, is it is? It? Is it around something big where I can say I can't get I can't go because of this something around that. Can I can I do? I can't care. Now, It's happened a couple of times in the past where I just couldn't do it because you know, hey there's something big is going on. I can't do it. But there are times I go, oh, that's gonna be one of those Oh can we say, oh oh the draft, the draft? Yeah, I can't. I can't get out the draft. Draft.
I gotta I gotta be paying attentions.
I can't do it.
Draft, can't do it. No, Okay, the drafts A big deal, big deal, the draft, big deal, A big, big, big deal, big deal. But I thought the draft was like no, no, no, it's still going, still going, still going.
It's a whole week, the whole week process.
But I thought it started on thirty. It didn't it end on Sunday. No, no, No, they're in around thirteen now yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's still coming in.
It's just a mixt.
It's post came out the draft d Now it's still good. It's still gone. Really yeah yeah yeah. Because because here's the thing. I guarantee you this, and this is another part of my family. If if the last time I saw everybody, we had a family re union about seven or eight years ago. That's when everybody was there and still you know, my whole life. I guarantee you if like when we would go back, if I see my family on Staten Island now or Syracuse wherever they are, they would all say to me.
You were aware, now are you where are you now?
You were at ESPN? No, And then now that's it's been a Fox for ten years, Fox are ten Oh right right, right right right, I'm not up that late. No, No, I get it, I got You're where you're But then I realized it's okay, because you asked me what some of my cousins do, I go, I don't know, No doubt they do. I don't even know the name is all my cousins. Oh yeah, the family gets too big. I'm like, I don't even know. I don't even know how many cousins.
I like, babies of the cousins.
Yeah, yeah, that's It's like, who's that one related to see?
Yeah?
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I need never seen Veep but Devil Worst Prada and Hathaway does.
That for Meryl Streep? Oh yeah, okay, I remember, Oh this gentleman is.
First Emily Blunt did it, and then she didn't do it well.
In her correct and now and so I got you. Yeah, but I've never seen veep.
That's all.
Yeah, that's all.
That's all. That's all speaking of, that's all.
That's all.
Let's talk about Aaron Rodgers. Oh, that's all because the Jet's told him. That's all. That's all. Today was a big day for Aaron Rodgers because we got the most out of him today and just an oh, by the way, free wheeling appearance on the Pat mcafe show, more than any of his other carefully crafted appearances of the last few months, because he has a couple of things to say today that was just like, oh my goodness. Now he talked about last hour that he sounds like a guy who's done. He's ninety five percent retired. He's just waiting to make it official so he can control as much of the news cycle and the decision as he can. He's not someone that's retiring because no one's signing him, right. He doesn't want that. So he's gonna wait until he's ready and make that announcement because if he wanted to play, he'd play. If you want he he knows team. This is when teams gear up, this is when teams signed players. I know, I know. So if he really wanted to play, he'd be playing. But he also had a really big let's throw the Jets under the bus moment where he talked about how he knew and found out he was getting let go by the Jets. Here he is explaining that the Jets called him and want him to come back to New York for a big meeting, and let Rogers tell you how things went from there.
I was kind of shocked. Now, not shocked because I didn't think that was a possibility. Listen, of course they want to move on, that's totally fine, but shocked because I just flew across the country. You could have told me this on the phone if we'ren't even to have a conversation. And this is verbatim exactly how it happened. So I said, huh, and he goes, we just want to know how you want it released the messaging, and I said, verbatim, I don't give it about the message And I said why, And then he said, I don't want to be up in front of the room saying something and have guys looking back at you.
Interesting, And I said, what does that even mean?
Are you assuming that I would be in the back of the room during the team meeting, undermining what you're saying.
I said, you don't know me.
And he said you don't know me, and then I said, exactly, which is why I flew across the country to have a face to face meeting with you to talk about my experience with the Jets.
So that was him talking about new Jets head coach Aaron Glenn. Right. That was the meeting they had, and that's how it went. Now, first things first, because this this is a this is a this is a big personal thing where Rogers goes in about They could have told me this on the phone. They had me fly to New York. Now, should the Jets have paid for his flight? Yeah, but Jet's gonna jet Aaron. Right. I told you, Aaron when you signed, you don't know where you're going. Nah, No, I'm good. Huh, you don't know where you're going? You know know, I'm telling you this is the Jets, Right, Jet's gonna if you're gonna bring a guy in to fire him, maybe pay for his flight. Right, Hey, you fly and we give you a lot of money. We did all this, but this is how you do it. You want to do it the right way. So that's the thing, but this hole. We could have done this on the phone. This is the biggest I'd say that criticizing that part of it. We see this very often in different walks of life, where oh, you're gonna fire me, You could have done it on the phone, and you had me come all way in and do this. That's weak, Whereas the same reaction could have been, I can't believe you fired me over the phone. You couldn't do it in person, face to face. Right, everybody is different, and everybody's going to be triggered by one side of that, no matter what, right, so, no matter what is Like I could see RT could have said you believe they did it on the phone, and Pat Mac said whoa man on the phone and on the phone, like That's how it could have went. But instead they decided to bring him it, which is the right default. Hey, if we don't know how to handle this the right let's do it in person, because that's always the right thing to do it. I don't think people can really get that upset. They are, of course they're going to be upset, but doing it, Hey, we did it the right way. We called you in, we talked to you, and we had a face to face conversation. Again, should have paid for his flight, absolu. That's kind, that's that's a case by case basis, and people get wound up one way or another, and it's really haphazard and some ways people would get mad no matter what they did. You're firing me. I'm just gonna be mad. I'm mad you called me in. What if he did on the phone, I'd be mad that you didn't call me in, Like that's how it would have went. So that part that is really overrated for me because just knowing how I see people get let go and how you believe they did it on the phone. Oh, that's no class man, that's terrible.
That's this.
Now that's a little bit of Okay. Aaron Rodgers is pushing that narratively. And again I'm not defending the Jets because again, Jet's gonna jet, and they could have they could have paid for his flight, could have had him come in, say let's do it at your earliest convenience and have this. And this conversation didn't sound like it went great, but the whole oh you could have done this on the phone. Yeah, then you would have found a way to say, can you believe they did it on the phone, and that would have been a big criticism as well.
Excellent point, Jason.
Throughout he was on the show for like forty five minutes, and he did seem relaxed and chatty for the most of it. Until this moment it looked like he tends step when talking about this.
Well, because he kept saying a hundred times going they don't want this out there, Like when the live ad was fritzing in and out, he kept saying, they don't want this out there. They're doing something. They're doing the Like, dude, what do you think the Jets, the have hacked into the feed. They don't want this story getting out there. They don't want this out or someone at ESPN is hacking in the feed. We don't want Aaron Rodgers saying something incendiary on our air. I mean, come on, man, Like Aaron, what are you doing? Dude?
He's doing is literally what you said.
The narrative, not just the narrative of his retirement that I think is happening in live time because nobody there is no good option for him to go to. Uh, We've talked about the Steelers. It doesn't seem like the right fit. So it's happening kind of forcing his hand to retire, but he's also trying to control the narrative of how things ended with the Jets. He's trying to have us have an opinion. But you're so right, I can't get I'm thinking about when I was fired one time and I said to the person, you could have done this over the phone. You made me come all the way in here.
To fire me. That happened I was when you brought that. I was like, you're right. I said that, yeah, because I was mad that I wanted to walk into it.
And if think did it over the phone, you would have said, yeah, you know, we waste me to come in. You're terrible.
You could tell me about face. That's what I would have said. But in that moment I was mad that they.
Yeah, you would have been mad no matter what, right, no matter what, you would have been mad, matter what, the only way you would have been mad. And this is why I like doing doing it doing it in person is because I think everybody who gets fired there should be a cake. Because you're still getting fired, but at least there's cake.
Let me tell you what it was being fired, And there was cake. Here's you would go flying. Here's your your fired cake, that would go flying. I mean your fire cake. You say thank you on it. We're just gonna have cake.
Yeah, no, that would go on someone's face.
Wow. Really?
Absolutely, you're giving me a cake and you're firing me.
Okay, if I'm not gonna eat it, I'd like to see that. I think that's pretty good. You know, like I would not handle that well. It'd be like one of those clip shows off his Cakes gone wrong. You would see what this woman did after she was fired. This is Monty Bolanos of Fox Sports Radio.
I don't know. I feel like I would be. I would feel so disrespected.
Hold on, you're firing me and then you had a cake forone to celebrate that you fired me.
Absolutely not.
She took a cake and threw it in Alex Tye, sir it's face and it wasn't even his decision. Would if someone brought in the cake. All right, let's say if someone got fired.
Someone brought in the cake because they got fired.
They're gonna be upset and maybe you're the closest person and he throw the cake in your face. Not that you would do anything, but you just happen to be closed. Let me have some of that. See that? That I think that I think is is is a sports show for like ESPN seven people throwing cake and you have whoever eats the most cake that's thrown after their face? Like that's that's a show. Okay, that's a show. I'm down, all right, that's the show.
Are you trying to catch the cake as it's being thrown like or.
You're catching it in your mouth? It's like blue man. They're throwing they're throwing the marshmallows and you got to catch them and eat them. Whoever eats the most amount of cake? You know that would think that's a thing already? Really is it that already happened? Like DJ does that Stevie? Ok? I think he throws cakes at people?
Really?
Yeah? But is there a contest about who can eat the most cake? No?
I think like people just want to get caked because it's just getting hit with the cake. Yeah, like they're in the audience like hitt me.
But but I'm taking it next level of now it's a contest about who can eat the cake that's thrown at that at you?
Yeah you got to catch it.
Yeah, you got to catch it, like if I try to throw a snack at you, But we're throwing cake, not an M and M.
Can we use cupcakes to that? Would that that?
That?
Hang on a second. Let's just get the cake down first, though, and then we can move on to span. They move on the cupcakes now, well, because cupcakes you could catch in your mouth.
Absolutely.
Oh okay, yeah, but cake is messy. It's harder to throw.
No, I want to I want to throw chunks of cake.
I want to like, I want to dig my hand in the cake and.
I want to throw cake. No, no, no, but you gotta dig your hand. It's got to have some kind of my hand in the cake.
And I want to throw it at someone.
Trestes Okay, sure, sure, there you go. That's a new show. That's a new show.
We're full of ideas tonight. Don't forget about our movie.
Oh right, no, no, no, we got the pyramid and you know, and the other the other part is this Alexandre Clencio, this show is going on show is amos? Uh yeah, all right?
Uh?
The other part, like you heard Aaron Rodgers say, hey, you know, I I I didn't really demand anything. I'm trying to get to know you, and and e C. We talks about how, oh you're worried. I'm going to uh be the fly in the ointment that I'm going to be able to I'm gonna try to u subserve your message that I'm going to be the real leader. And when you say something to the team, they're gonna look at me and go, what should we do? Aaron and the coach and and I get that part of it, right, I get that part of it. Does it seem weird that, Hey, I don't know what kind of guy you are? Uh? Yeah, but you know what, this is kind of how teams do it. They just don't tell you that, right, But other teams have done. Hey, when a new coach comes in, guess what he gets rid of guys who may not be performing enough, who may be a voice against them in the locker room, trying to build a culture. And guess what. The Jets culture sucked. You can blame Aaron Rodgers much as you want. The Jets' culture was terrible, right, it was terrible. So hey, I gotta come in and do my own thing. And you being the guy that comes in, and hey, everybody knew when I was missing camp, and I don't know what kind of hold you have on the team. We're starting over here. So like it normally, that's how it happens. It's just normally isn't said to your face. So if Roger's upset that they said that to his face, I get it. But dude, this is kind of a normal thing and how it happens across leagues.
Yeah, this is very normal, and he shouldn't be surprised. It's like Aaron Rodgers. You are a polarizing athlete, You're a polarizing player in the NFL.
You can't be.
Surprised that somebody knew taking over an organization may not want to deal with you. He cannot be surprised. But you know, his ego is a little bit hurt. Maybe I'm telling you, I really don't think he had retirement on his plan. I think he really intended to play, not necessarily with the Jets, but I really do think he intended to play another season and maybe stick it to the Jets, you know what I'm saying. And so this is just it's he's kind of being forced the hand. But I agree, you cannot be surprised, and he kind of said that he's like, not surprised that they did it, because they could do that, but you're surprised at what they said when it's quite honest what they said.
Yeah, like you you would be kind of a thorn here.
Yeah, like he made he made him say, hey, look at what they did. It's like, oh no, no, that was kind of matter of fact. I get why they did. I get why they did it exactly. I get it.
That's how it's surprised.
But they did it to me. Yeah no, I he got that. Yeah, yeah they did it. Yeah, but that's how things go. Like this is how I mean, may be new to him because how many times that been done to him over the courses are probably never, But now it happens when you're at the end and they're moving on all of a sudden, you kind of reap what you sell a little bit. Understand, the Jets weren't the big meanies and the big awfuls and all of this. I can't believe.
I'm no, they were being logical.
It's like the first un ever said that it's not the Jets fault, Like that's it's always the Jets fault. That is not the Jets' fault like Wow, not today, the world is upside down? Monsey all right, exit out bout a Fresca Exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith, Monsey and from Mike Harmon Tonight. Coming up next, NBA Analyst extraordinaire insider Mark Stein stops by Who's heading into the playoffs with wins tomorrow night? Is Zion really gonna get traded? What about Kevin Durant? Must listen? Coming up next, This is Fox Sports Radio.
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Well, here we go, set for the final games of the playing round. Tomorrow night is my dark horse pick of the Dallas Maverick's gonna get out of the playing Round with another big game from ad I called it Monci. I called it, you did. I didn't call the bulls though, beause they let.
Me down never again.
Joining us now on the hot line to break that down and more. Longtime NBA inside are longtime front of the show. You can follow him on Twitter at the Steinline. That is, at the Stein Line. It's Mark Stein. What's happening, man? How are you?
I am good? I hope everybody there is good?
So is everybody better in Dallas after winning the game last night? And everybody to forgive Nico, Harrison and man know the answers now, But is anything better after winning the game and getting set for the other game tomorrow night?
You've asked me the same question two weeks? How many? How many times are you gonna ask me this question?
Well?
I figure every time I ask you after a win, things have to get better at some point, right list.
Mark, he doesn't get it. He doesn't get it.
They need many many wins, many many many wins before people around here field. But no, Look, the players had nothing to do with this.
And there are still obviously a lot of MAVs fans who want on court success and they're going to celebrate wins.
But I mean it doesn't last. It doesn't last too long after the buzzer, all.
Right, but for tomorrow, so so for tomorrow's game, at least they'll have the two and a half hours of the game. John Morant questionable for this game tomorrow. The Grizzlies coming off that really heartrending loss to the Warriors. Is this a Mavericks win? Grizzlies get it done? How do you see this game?
War I do kind of think Dallas is going to come out of there with the win because, yeah, the players are pretty motivated because the noise hasn't been fun for them. I think they actually function better on the road at this point because you know, there's so much tension at and look, no homegame really that Luca game is what was one of a kind and not every home.
Game is like that.
But to go out on the road as a number ten seed, and you know, take the whole US against the World approach, and look, you know they went into Sacramento and played some really good defense. I mean they don't have they're very thin at guard right now because you know, no Kyrie Irving and the injuries they've had. But look, John Moran's gonna play I think we know he's going to try, but how offensive can he realistically be? I mean that ankle twist did not look good.
So I do think.
There is an opportunity here for the MAVs to win. And let's face it, a number ten seed in the history of the plan has never won the two games you need to advance, and so both Miami and Dallas have a chance to do it tomorrow and that spices up the final day of the play into some degree.
So for Jason, the dark horse in the Western Conference is the MAVs. Who is the dark horse in the Eastern Conference?
Mark Well, I mean, if we're going to widen the widen, there's Lens and you know, look beyond just the play and I think beyond yes, Troit Detroit in New York can be an interesting series and Jason's not going to want to hear that either.
I don't. I don't think the Pistons are going to win that series, but they have absolutely nothing to lose and it's going to be you know there. I think this is the first time since the year two thousand that both the Lions and the Pistons made the playoffs in the same season, So people in Detroit are really excited to have this opportunity, and you know, we know Detroit is a very physical team.
You know, I do think the Knicks will win the.
Series, but I think they're gonna have to work. Sorry, Jason, Hey.
I'm okay. Working to win is okay, as long as it's not like last year's second round series where every game we lose somebody because they get hurt. Now he lost down or no, but now we're going to lose this guy. As long as that happens, I'm okay with it.
Yeah, I mean, look, I think that's and I have to say, I think Indiana Milwaukee is another good first round matchup because those teams really don't like each other. And the Bucks appeared to get some promising news today with the you know, Damian Lillard has had this very scary blood clot situation and he's working his way back and they're not going to have him in Game one, but now it looks like they are going to get him back at some point in this series. But it's funny, you know, we never talk about the Pacers.
Jason always asked me about the Mavericks never, I don't think ever ever on the show, be about the Pacers.
But if you really pay attention to it, since the calendar flip to twenty twenty five, the Pacers have the fourth best record in the league, only the three sixty win teams. Only OKC, Cleveland and Boston have been better in the calendar year than the Pacers. They've really had a strong second half finished. So I think I think that series has a chance to be pretty good as well.
NBA.
Inside of Mark Stein, our guest here on Fox Sports Radio, all right, now, you had a really big bit today. I saw this on Twitter that sources were telling you that, hey, maybe it seemed like a FATA complete with the with the with the Phoenix. Suns want to you know, blow torch things and start over next year, and everybody wants to put Kevin Durant on the Rockets. Uh, you have reported not so fast on that with Katie to the Rockets.
Yeah, that's It's really been a constant conversation all season. And the reason is because you know, the Rockets have control of multiple future first round picks. So if you're the Suns natural you'd want to get picks back. If you're going to be trading Kevin Durant so I have no doubt that on the Sun's wish list, if the Sons are really going to trade Kevin Durant, they would love to do it with the Houston Rockets.
And that is not to it's not meant to suggest.
I mean the Rockets obviously, you know who doesn't like Kevin Durant. And Ema Udoka, their coach, is close to Kevin Durant. He coached him as an assistant in Brooklyn, and they're tight. And you know, it's not a matter of the Rockets are not that they don't admire Kevin Durant. But the reality is the messaging out of Houston has been consistent all year long. The next major move they make. The first message was it's not going to be in season. They're not going to make a big in season change, and they held firm to that that didn't happen. They didn't want to do anything. They wanted to let this team have it the whole season to see what it could do. And the message has also been that when the Rockets do strike big, the next big move we see from the Rockets, they wanted to be for someone who was on the same timeline or at least closer to the same timeline as all these great young players that they have amassed, and you know, they have a slew of guys who are you know, twenty three and younger. So Kevin Durant is a Hall of Famer, but you know, he's also in his mid thirties. That's not the kind of target that I think Houston is going to be trying to acquire in its next big trade and certainly not giving up the super valuable draft capital that they've been able to get from Phoenix. So you know, they would have been interested in Donovan Mitchell, but Donovan Mitchell never made us the open market. The Cavs successfully signed Donovan Mitchell on a contract extension. But you know it, it keeps coming up. And part of the reason it comes up today, you know, Phoenix, Matt Ishbia, James Jones, Josh Bartlestein, they all spoke, They all did an end of the season media availability, and the Suns did not deny what is talked about pretty openly throughout the league. The expectation around the league is that the Sons will work with Kevin Durant to try to find him a new home via trade that he likes and people just constantly connect Katie to Houston, I think largely because of his relationship with im a Udoka. But I just I don't see the Rockets giving up a slew of assets to bring in Kevin Durant at this stage in his career. I think the Rockets are going into a series. I mean, talk about a really interesting matchup. You've got this young Houston, young, hungry, athletic, defensive minded Houston team. Yes they've got Van Vliet and Brooks and Steven Adams, but you know, there's not a lot of experience there playoff wise for their main young guys going up against the Warriors, who obviously have tons of experience. I mean, this is really going to be going to It's going for the Rockets. This is going to be like going to play off University to play the Warriors, even though the Rockets are the two seed and the Warriors of the seventh seed. I mean that series, you know, same thing in the West. You know two seven, Houston, Golden State four or five, Nuggets and Clippers, Lakers and Wolves three six, and we have some really good first round matchups.
Mark another player that's maybe on the trade block, Zion Williamson and the Pelicans, how much truth is behind that?
And also what is his real value?
He has not played many games throughout his career for various reasons.
He was a number one overall pick, but what is his real value?
What is a possible destination for Zion Williamson? What do you think.
You're starting to make me miss Jason's questions with a question that hard because I can't, I don't. I mean that it is a really hard question. I mean, you just laid out exactly why. I mean, you know, if if the Pelicans are going to move him, because he's a former number one overall pick, they're obviously going to try to get a quote haul for him, But how can they win? Four out of the six seasons that he's been in the NBA, he has not passed the thirty game mark in terms of games play. So I think Joe Dumars is going to go in there and you know, try to get the best read he can. Will he come to the conclusion that the best move is trading Zion Williams in presumably what he can get back in terms you.
Know, you know, can he get a haul back?
And if he can't, maybe they decide to bring him back and retool around. I mean the one, you know, the Pelicans, one thing they have going for them, even though they had an absolutely miserable season filled with injuries. Again, I mean, they started four in twenty nine and everyone on their team was heard.
It was not just Zion this season.
Jean Say Murray broke his hand in his Pelicans debut and it was just nothing but injuries after that the whole first half and even beyond the first half. There is a lot of talent there. I mean, the Pelicans do have a lot of optionality because they have a lot of good players, and though there's a lot of different directions they can go in terms of how to build their team. But I mean to tell to be able to pinpoint for you exactly what kind of offer, what kind of market the Pelicans could generate for Zion Williamson. I think that is one of the foremost tasks that Joe Dumar's face is now in taking on this job.
He's on Twitter at the Steinline. That is at the Steinline. Check out all his latest on Kevin Durant, that story involving that may or may not involve the Rockets substack as well, Mark has always appreciated, enjoyed the games. We'll talk to you next week.
And just to be clear, I only came on the show because Brionna is a titan.
Talk to you guys next week.
Well, Manti's a titan too, Mark, really.
See, I mean this is info I needed.
So two thirds of the cast has the proper pedigree.
You will work, We'll work on it.
I'll try, Mark, I'll try.
Take it.
Easybody, Yeah, I didn't know that. So everybody here went to cal State Fullerton apparently apparently apparently you went, and and Brianna went. Tysher didn't go to college. He went to defraud Institute Technology. No that's not true. No, you went to and at the end they gave you your own set of tools. I didn't qualify trying to get in. Oh okay, all right, all right, No, where'd you go to school?
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There's schools? What do you mean? Uhh yeah? Listen, Oh Po, By the way, you are all weak. Your week, Your week too, Brianna, your week? Two Monsie, none of you can remember your class prom song? How did none of you remember? It's it's not been long ago for you, guys.
I just throwing me off by prom.
No, your your your class song? Which is your prom song? Which becomes your song?
That play the pro interchangeable. I don't think they're the scene.
Did you say maybe it was David Cook?
Really?
Okay, it's better. It's better that you didn't remember it. If you're telling me David Cook.
Wait, I'm sorry, what did you have a Cook do to you?
American?
You have Taylor Hicks?
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So it could have been.
Taylor Hicks County is pretty questionable.
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Clay Aikin was actually like that was you know? He had like one good song, you know he did Invisible.
You can't make it to the end of of of American Idol and not have at least one good song.
But we can all agree that Kelly Clarkson is the best American.
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Was he the guy that yeah, she bangs, she banged?
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That was William Hung and the Hung jury from Arrested Development.
I think I think Carrie under Yeah, I think Carrie Underwood.
Kelly Clarkson Hot Tank for what Best American Idol Winner?
Okay, Williams, she moves.
I go crazy because she moves like you.
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Oh so we got the same song again though? All right, it's fine absolutely. Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with Monsey Belos in for Mike Harmon tonight, Looking for the Woman You're looking for the all right, this is my head line.
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Okay. I don't know how I did the thing, how it happened. I was there. It's kind of like Chicken Jockey all of a sudden became a thing.
You know.
It's a caller for the acuple. He just called in and he's like, what's that guy saying? He's like and we're like, what do you mean? He's like, it goes logg A photo one man lugging photo one. Yeah, and I just put it into our promo and he decided to say it. Yeah, so I just put in the promo. Okay, he sounds better than little Win anyways, chicken jockey.
All right, so, uh, big news today in the world of sports, Lee Corso retiring from ESPN. He's gonna do one more college game Day. Ninety years old. He's gonna do one more game day. First week of the season. He's got a couple of big games to choose from, right, he got Alabama, Florida State. Week one of the season, you got Texas. They have a couple of big games. And this is someone who has been synonymous with college football for the better part of the past fifty years. It's been Lee Corso. And I still remember when he did his very first I'm gonna make a pick and put the head of the mascot on, which was in nineteen ninety five.
That's crazy.
And the thing is, like, you know it, And this is why this is such genius, is that you know it's coming. You know he's gonna put one of the heads on, and still it's hysterical, like you know, you know, it's like you know it's a comedian where you know the punchline that's coming, you know what's gonna be said, and it's still funny anyway, And that takes a lot to pull something like that off. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter if he pulls out the home team head, if he pulls out the visiting team head, he puts it on, everybody goes crazy. It's just it's an incredible moment that he's able to replicate, you know, fifteen times a year for the for the past thirty five years. It's been an incredible run for.
Him, and it's just something that, you know, I feel like if somebody try to do that now, they'd be like, Oh, they just want attention. They're just doing it because they want attention. But doing it back then, that's not the first thing you think of. It was just like, this is funny, This isn't the moment. It was organic and for it to last so long because it was organic. Today, if somebody did that, I feel like Peo would be like, Oh, they're just trying to get attention, and it's gonna it's gonna suck to not see that anymore because it is icon. I remember the first time I saw it. I was like, what is he doing. He's just putting it on, and like, no, that's this thing he puts it on.
He makes a pack. I had no idea the first until the first time I saw it, I was like, oh, I love that. Yeah, I wish I would have thought of that.
I actually have a Lee Corso story class. It's the moment I knew when I was going to be a content person.
Okay, I knew.
So after I graduated from from Syracuse, I started. I interned with the marketing department at ESPN and New York City and that's right when I finished, they said, what do you want to do? I said, I want to interview in Bristol. I want to work at you know, I work in Sports Center all this. So that's that's how my career started. But I was I was an intern and one of the things we did was we were in charge of doing the big, the big promotion for ESPN for the fall, like we're covering all the games. So I went to Bristol with a bunch of you know, the directors of the commercial everything else, and we had a bunch of talent coming in recording them saying stuff to put together in promos that they can air. So we're on the It happened to be a Thursday night and it was the very first college football game of the year, right, so Thursday. This is like nineteen nineteen ninety three, so two years before Lee Corso did this and started doing this. And so we're sitting there and everybody's talking and they said, okay, you know, the game started, So now we have a half hour with Chris Fowler and Lee Corso and who are the A couple other people he needs. Okay, great, So we're just talking about stuff, right and we're talking about different things, and they talk, Oh, the game coming up next week and all of this. He goes, oh, yeah, then we got Syracuse on of course me serio, I go, Syracuse is gonna win the Big East this year? And Fowler looks at me and says, did you go there? I said, yeah, yeah, of course, I just graduated from there. And I said, I'm telling you got a great team this year. And that had a really good team. I think Marvin Graves is a quarterback. I said, I've got a really good team this year. And Leak Corsa just goes, no, Rutgers, and I said, what he says, Rutgers best defensive line, best kicking game in the Big East. Rutgers is going to win the Big East this year. He said, hey, hey, hey, he and he hits. Chris Fowler says, hey, write that down. I want to do that. I want to do that. There, I'm like, oh, I just created content for leak Corso, like all of a sudden, not even asking, I just said, oh you, Fowler goes ah, did you go to SERI? Yeah, I series Lee Corts goes no, Rutgers will win the Big East.
Okay, so now I have to ask who won the Big East.
Well, not Syracuse and not run Rutgers. Miami won the Big East.
Miami went at that.
It actually came down to the final game of the season. Syracuse needed to beat Miami to win, and Miami beat us by a touchdown.
Oh no, so you you were more on top of it than he was.
Yeah, I was closer, but the fact but he just said he just he just he hit the table and went no, no, Rutgers.
I love that.
Hey, I want to talk about that, like, I want that to be you ask he was gonna win the Big East. I want to talk about Rutgers. Oh okay, Rutgers gonna win the Big East this year? Okay, all right, fine, all of a.
Sudden, I'm producing.
Yeah, this out works, so like I get a future in this business here. I've just done the whole thing with Lee Corso he dis agreed with me. That was like first take, like, you know, fifteen years before it even started.
That's crazy.
You're no, Rutgers wins the Big East? And how about how about picking Rutgers to win the Big East?
And wow, yeah, no, that's surprising.
I was, I was, I was wondering who he was going to tell you no over over Syracuse.
But Rutgers, okay, yeah.
Yeah no no not Miami, no, no, no, no, no, Rutgers are going Okay. Now, speaking of people listening to the show, last night, we told you there was pretty solid evidence that the Giants listened to the show. Now I'm pretty sure another NFL team absolutely listens to the show. Wait'll we hear what they had to say today about the NFL Draft. That's next, Jason and Monsei Fox
