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The Tony Kornheiser Show

“The great potato schism”

The Tony Kornheiser Show

This Show Stinks Productions, LLC

Sports, News

4.610.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Tony opens the show by giving an update on the potato crop, he reads a couple emails, and he talks about the Nats losing a close game, the hockey playoffs, and he also talks about the Knicks going up 2-0 in the Eastern Conference Finals, and about the sudden passing of Kyle Busch. Jason La Canfora calls in to talk about why the Orioles are struggling again, and he also talks about the latest news from the NFL this week. Pat Forde calls in to talk about a proposal to increase the college football playoffs to 24 teams, and about in interesting legal case involving Texas Tech, and Tony closes out the show by opening up the Mailbag. Songs : Phil Lentz “Late In The Game” ; “Bounce” To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Tony. On today's show, we'll go around the NFL and the Baltimore Orioles with Jason

0:04.6

Lock and Forre. He's down on the Orioles. And we'll talk to Pat 40 about the Big Ten lobbying to have 24

0:10.2

teams in the college football playoffs. But first, commerce.

0:16.2

Previously, on the Tony Cornheiser show.

0:19.8

The dispute is there is some reason to believe the potatoes have to be organic potatoes.

0:26.2

The potatoes that are in the pantry are not labeled.

0:29.9

I would have thought that everything was organic just by definition.

0:32.3

I think you leave the potatoes alone. They'll sprout.

0:34.4

Okay, well, that's what we're doing.

0:36.3

Don't you think we should put them in a brown paper bag? I put a brown paper bag next to them, which I think is good enough. That doesn't

0:41.6

mean anything. The Tony Cornizer show is on now. We have potato conflict here. We're not,

0:51.6

we're not all aligned. Nigel's moving in my territory. Nigel, number one son.

0:57.0

Why don't you, why don't you explain what you found? Well, we wanted to maybe get some,

1:03.0

some different potatoes late last week or early this week. And so I was going to the, I was going to

1:09.0

check that out. And I was talking with me, Mom, who's a big gardener, she said, we should try seed potatoes. You can get them at the hardware store. So I've never heard of that. So I walked in and the hardware store. I've heard of a hardware store. I never heard of seed potato. I didn't even have to ask a worker man. They were just right up front four or five boxes of different kinds. I said, oh, well, that was easy. They got the fancy Kenny Bunkport ones.

1:29.8

Yes.

1:30.3

And then when I opened, oh, well, that was easy.

1:28.0

They got the fancy Kenny Bunkport ones.

1:29.8

Yes, and then when I opened them up, I was... So we were ready to go, Memorial Day. We're ready to plant. Well, yes, but first I thought, well, these ones still say you have to put them like on a shelf with sunlight until the eyes sprout. Then you opened. I open them just to check out and see what they look like.

1:43.5

And all they've sprouted magnificently, all of them.

1:46.1

So I think they're ready.

1:47.4

Well... I sprout. Then you opened. I opened them just to check out and see what they look like. And all they've sprouted magnificently, all of them. So I think they're ready. Well, if they are seed potatoes, will they produce more seed potatoes or regular potatoes? Regular potatoes. Yeah, we think regular potatoes. So then we're ready to go. I think this just means they're not not gonna... They will produce the eye. They will be ready to go in the ground. So we're ready to go. I think so. And the other potatoes that we have that are up in a cool, dark, dry place, we can eat them as potatoes. Yeah, make a nice little gratin. You can have potatoes.

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