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Boomer & Gio

Hour 1 - ESPN, Ads, and NBA Scandal

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

NBA scandal explodes! Stephen A. Smith blames Trump, Kash Patel fires back, and Gio thinks ESPN’s NBA ties explain the spin. Brian Windhorst drops a bomb about Terry Rozier’s faked injury, while Chris Russo shrugs it off. On the field, Chargers crush Vikings and Wentz apologizes for helmet toss, plus the winless Sharks shock the Rangers at MSG. Gio calls out the nonsense about sports hosts reading sportsbook ads.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN.

0:04.8

And we're coming you live for the Villed 4 Tough Studio.

0:08.1

Boomer Assize and Greg Gianotti.

0:09.6

It's Boomer and Gio on the fan, simulcast across the country on CBS Sports Network.

0:14.8

And wherever you are in the free Odyssey app.

0:17.3

Good Friday.

0:18.9

Morning, it is a feel good football Friday. We experienced lots of losing yesterday.

0:25.1

The Vikings got killed by the Chargers, the Rangers lost to a windless sharks team.

0:31.3

Boomer and I lost to Wally Zerbiak and Greg Buttle, but we're washing that off today.

0:36.1

We're forgetting about that. Mike Tomlin says there's a reason why the windshield is bigger than the rearview mirror because we're looking ahead. And we're looking ahead to the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles. We are looking ahead to maybe quite possibly a jet. No, they're not going to win. They're not going to win. Come on. What are we talking about here?

0:56.2

They're not going to win. And then Saus Gardner's not going to play. It's a complete disaster there. But we're going to have some fun today. And we've got to get more into the gambling scandal that came out yesterday as well. Good morning. Boomer. How are you? Yeah, good morning, Jim.

1:08.2

Kind of like you.

1:08.9

Your Vikings got torched last night.

1:10.6

My Rangers lost to that winless team, the sharks, last night.

1:13.6

And, yeah, so I'm not really happy this morning, but I'm not going to let it affect a feel-good Friday because, you know, there is a lot of football to be talked about. And yes, there is a lot more now that has come out with this NBA gambling fiasco.

1:31.8

And one of the interesting things this morning, I don't know if you saw this, I woke up to it this morning.

1:32.4

I did not see it yesterday because we were playing golf yesterday and yes, we did lose the

1:36.6

Walliam Buttubtle, but it was a great day nonetheless.

1:41.0

But, you know, here's the thing.

1:42.7

I wake up this morning and I see that Cash Patel,

1:45.0

the FBI director, basically torching Stephen A. Smith. Yeah. And I'm like, all right. Torched.

1:51.7

Unloaded. So now we're getting into this. And, and I guess that Stephen, I did not say it. I only

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