All The Smoke

Jeezy never planned on rapping. He wanted to be the CEO. Matt & Stak got into all of it with the Snowman: Magic City being his office early, pressing 25,000 free CDs for Birthday Bash after Trick Daddy and Jazze Pha called it the dumbest idea they ever heard, and the day T.I. checked under the bathroom stalls before giving him the talk that changed his life. Plus how Kanye ended up on "Put On," the Jay-Z call that came when he needed it most, why he won't touch a stage in 2026 without a tuxedo. Stak was in the A when all of this was happening, so this one's been a long time coming. If you’re in Vegas this winter, Jeezy has a residency. Legend of the Snowman runs November 6 through New Year's Eve.
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Cy Young winner and two-time World Series champion Jake Peavy joins Chris Young and Harold Reynolds at the World Series in Milwaukee. He tells the story of buying a $75,000 duck boat so his family could ride in the 2013 parade, how Willie Mays gave his grandfather the jacket off his back, trying to give Barry Bonds a homer in his final at-bat, and the painful pregame ritual he learned from Roger Clemens. Plus Greg Maddux, stealing strikes from umpires, and playing the Fillmore the same day he pitched for the Giants.

00:00 Welcome Jake Peavy
04:28 Breaking down the Brewers and Rays
07:35 Learning the changeup from Hoffman and Maddux
10:33 How Greg Maddux shaped his Cy Young
13:32 The veterans who shaped his career
18:28 What a World Series means to a city
20:58 Sponsors
23:19 2013 World Series memories
26:29 ABS challenges in the World Series
29:07 Yelling at Schwarber and stealing strikes
35:08 Facing Barry Bonds
39:01 Bonds' last at-bat in San Francisco
41:20 Todd Helton's final at-bat
42:24 Roger Clemens and the hot rub
47:14 Growing up in Mobile, Alabama
50:24 Willie Mays and Grandpa's jacket
57:43 Brotherhood in the clubhouse
1:01:36 The $75K duck boat
1:08:19 Music and Tim Flannery's guitar
1:15:41 End
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We've got Keyshawn Johnson back on Unplugged and he breaks news right from the jump: Key has cancelled his USC tickets. The former No. 1 pick and LA native sat down with Matt on All The Smoke Unplugged to tip his hat to UCLA, react to the Colts trading Quenton Nelson to the Seahawks, and rip Dan Campbell’s fourth-down call against the Packers. He also tells the story of his last season in Carolina, when injuries left him playing with his fourth quarterback, and why the Tokyo Dome felt like a cloud of smoke. Then it’s his top three receivers, a quarterback pick that is not Josh Allen, and whether the Heat should move Giannis if this thing keeps going sideways.
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Nancy Lieberman has a story about everybody and she brought a lot of them to ALL THE SMOKE. Matt & Stak got into all of it with Lady Magic: taking the A train to hoop at Rucker Park as a kid, the day Muhammad Ali pulled her aside and changed her life, and the summer Pat Riley didn't want her on the Lakers. Nancy also got real about coaching under George Karl in Sacramento, what Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese did for WNBA paychecks, and the BIG3 run that made her and Stak family.
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World Series MVP and two-time All-Star Jermaine Dye joins All the Smoke Dugout to talk about betting on himself out of junior college, his rookie World Series with the Braves, coming home to the Moneyball A's, and the handshake deal on a golf course that led him to the White Sox and a 2005 title. He also opens up about why his career ended earlier than he expected, choosing family over the game, and what today's teams can learn from old-school baseball.

0:00 Intro
1:44 Turning down football and betting on himself
5:05 Getting called up by the Braves
7:28 Playing behind Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz
8:26 Rookie in the 1996 World Series vs. the Yankees
11:56 Getting traded to Kansas City
15:17 Coming home to the Oakland A's
18:35 Moneyball and analytics
20:24 Taking less money to sign with the White Sox
22:01 Playing for Ozzie Guillen
23:18 2005 World Series MVP
25:01 His best season and back-to-back 300th homers with Konerko
26:45 Locker mate Ken Griffey Jr. and Buehrle's perfect game
31:17 Choosing family over the game
32:08 The state of baseball today
35:58 Quick hitters
38:13 End
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