Podcast Summary: The Herd with Colin Cowherd — Joe and Jada: Fat Joe & Jadakiss React to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Nod, Mark Sanchez Arrest, ESPN NBA Rankings
October 7, 2025 | iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Episode Overview

This vibrant episode of The Herd’s “Joe and Jada Show” — hosted by hip-hop legends Fat Joe and Jadakiss — delivers unfiltered, high-energy takes on today’s biggest sports and pop culture stories. Joe and Jada dive into Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime selection and the racial undertones of its backlash, raucously debate ESPN’s new NBA player rankings (with plenty of Knicks love), discuss Mark Sanchez’s recent arrest, and share wild personal stories from the road, the jails, and backstage. The duo’s chemistry and real talk are on full display, mixing laugh-out-loud tales with sharp cultural commentary.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Life, Wealth, and Status Symbols (00:34–02:38)

• Fashion Flexes: Joe and Jada banter about luxury streetwear and high-end resale value.

• On Watches as Investments:

  “Even when you go into the watch collection, the one thing you know you got besides money is watches. That shit straight cash, whatever.” – Fat Joe [02:16]

• Resale Realities:

  • Fat Joe vents about being “stuck” with brands resellers don’t want.

• Friendship & Loans:

  • Fat Joe jokes about “DJ Khaled won’t give me a dollar” [02:25].

2. Jada’s Experience Visiting Prisons (02:41–06:43)

• Visits to Marcy Correctional Facility & Mid State:
  • Jada participates in Second Chance University with Andre Norman, interacting with inmates across age groups.
  • The program gets both inmates and correctional officers (COs) to see each other’s perspectives.
• On Systemic Issues:

  “If they just look at you already as a piece of shit, they not even hearing your problems.” – Jada [05:22]

  • Jada notes severe understaffing and the National Guard filling in. COs often dismiss inmates’ needs outright.

3. Fat Joe’s Abu Dhabi Adventures & Conspiracy Theories (06:44–19:49)

• Performing and Networking:
  • Joe performs at the NBA preseason in Abu Dhabi, hobnobs with “His Royal Highness” and celebrities like Steve Harvey.

  “They want you to sit next to them. I’m with the Royal Highness… these guys are my guys.” – Fat Joe [09:19]

• NBA Legends on the Plane:
  • Encounters with Mark Jackson, Patrick Ewing, John Starks, Andre Iguodala.
• On Food Abroad:
  • Brooklyn Chopouts in Abu Dhabi is “better than New York food.”
• Robot Greeters & AI Paranoia:
  • Fat Joe delivers a hilarious, paranoid riff about the emotionless, robot-like “greeters” at Dubai airport.

  “I think they got AI greeters in Dubai already working… I swear to God, by the third one, we just started going, yo, these dudes is AI or what?” – Fat Joe [17:00]

  • Jada adds: “They said some of the birds is cameras over there.” [17:47]

4. NBA, Wembanyama, and ESPN’s 2025 Rankings (20:06–28:50)

• Wemby Hype & Future of NBA:

  “I watched this guy Wimba Yamba come down… He gonna win like six, seven chips by himself.” – Fat Joe [20:22]

• Debate Over ESPN’s Top 10 NBA Players
  • Fat Joe and Jada give their unfiltered reactions:
    • #1 Jokic gets respect (“You can’t have a problem with that” – Jada [21:47])
    • Luka Doncic at #3 is “not valid” (Fat Joe [22:19])
    • Giannis at #4 is “not putting in that work” [22:19]
    • Anthony Edwards deserves higher than #6 (should be top five, possibly #3) [23:34–23:40]
    • Steph Curry at #7: “Greatest of all time” but not his year [23:51]
    • Jalen Brunson is criminally underrated [24:23]

      “What kind of respect you got for my man? … You got the man, JB. He better than them. He top five.” – Fat Joe [24:24, 25:26]

  • Critique of NBA rankings as “lifetime achievement awards” rather than reflecting current performance.

5. Gat about Money and NBA Contracts (27:12–28:50)

• Players Getting Paid for Low Production:

  “There’s guys getting $100 million to score 11 points… They pay you a hundred [million], you getting 10.7 [million] for 11.” – Fat Joe [27:54, 28:39]

• Call-back to overpaid NBA contracts as a hip-hop parallel:
  • “How much did Desiigner earn? He got one song.” (referencing hip-hop’s one-hit wonders) [28:56]

6. Bad Bunny, Race, and America’s Super Bowl Stage (34:15–40:34)

• Supporting Bad Bunny’s Halftime Selection:

  “Let’s be clear about this. He’s the number one streaming star in the world… He made the whole world go to Puerto Rico.” – Fat Joe [34:49]

• Race & Cultural Backlash:

  “The problem with America is so racist that if we’re celebrating art, we’re celebrating culture, we’re doing a halftime performance, somebody gotta perform… Why does race have to always, always come into everything?” – Fat Joe [35:05]

  • Jada: “They’ve been bringing every single thing since I’ve been born… It’s everything.” [36:52]
• Apple’s Tech for Multilingual Halftimes:
  • Apple will offer real-time translation via iPods for those who don’t speak Spanish [37:26].
  • Fat Joe jokes about phone upgrades and being “played out” with tech.
• On Super Bowl Halftime’s Evolution:

  “I used to think halftime was only for the Rolling Stones and U2… now, ever since they put the black guys, they’ve been winning Emmys, ratings up.” – Fat Joe [39:06, 39:31]

  • Recognition of Roc Nation and JAY-Z for modernizing the show.

7. Road Stories: Touring, Security, and Robbery in Mexico (41:12–46:08)

• On Traveling Like John Madden:
  • Fat Joe never used to fly: “I was the John Madden of hip-hop.” [40:52]
• Spring Break in Mexico:
  • “We got stuck up seven times [by] the police, the fucking policia.” [42:34]
  • Bribes, fears, and a memorable moment of grabbing a Bible after almost being robbed at gunpoint [44:11].

8. Wild Studio Antics & Hip-Hop History (46:08–50:40)

• Battery Studio Memories:
  • Tales of pranks with Big Pun and Tony Sunshine; firing a prop gun to scare an engineer [48:23–49:08].
  • “If Tony Sunshine was the leader, we’d all be in jail for 30,000 years.” – Fat Joe [49:42]
• Hotel Ban Stories:
  • Getting banned from the Mandarin Oriental after Tony Sunshine slaps a server for cold food [49:50].

9. Mark Sanchez’s Incident & Reflections on Age, Respect, and Violence (50:40–59:20)

• Mark Sanchez Arrest Story:
  • The “ketchup” incident: legendary footballer gets maced during an altercation with a 70-year-old man [50:40–54:13].

  “He gave him all pepper straights… The old man gave him ketchup. Legend.” – Fat Joe [52:22, 53:05]

• Generational Reflections on Conflict:
  • Fat Joe gets reflective, making it clear fights are no longer for him: “My crew gonna dance on you or my security gonna shoot your face… There’s no one on ones.” [54:59]
  • Lessons from elder statesmen, like J Prince: Let the young guys handle it [55:20].
• Early Life Story:
  • Fat Joe recounts waking his brother to handle unfinished business, leading to a fair one with a Golden Gloves champ—a nod to a different era’s code [58:04].

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [02:16] Fat Joe: “Even when you go into the watch collection, the one thing you know you got besides money is watches.”
• [05:22] Jada: “If they just look at you already as a piece of shit, they not even hearing your problems.”
• [09:19] Fat Joe: “They want you to sit next to them. I’m with the Royal Highness… these guys are my guys.”
• [17:00] Fat Joe: “I think they got AI greeters in Dubai already working… I swear to God, by the third one, we just started going, yo, these dudes is AI or what?”
• [20:22] Fat Joe on Victor Wembanyama: “He gonna win like six, seven chips by himself.”
• [24:24] Fat Joe on Jalen Brunson: “What kind of respect you got for my man? … You got the man, JB. He better than them. He top five.”
• [35:05] Fat Joe on Super Bowl & race: “The problem with America is so racist that if we’re celebrating art, we’re celebrating culture, we’re doing a halftime performance, somebody gotta perform… Why does race have to always, always come into everything?”
• [39:31] Fat Joe: “Ever since they put the black guys, they’ve been winning Emmys every year. Guess what? The rating's been up.”
• [42:34] Fat Joe: “We got stuck up seven times [by] the police, the fucking policia.”
• [52:22] Fat Joe (on Sanchez incident): “He gave him all pepper straights… The old man gave him ketchup. Legend.”
• [54:59] Fat Joe: “There’s no fair ones. There’s no one on ones in the face. No, no. Shoot your face, Scarface. He shoots your face.”

Timestamps for Major Segments

• Luxury/Resale & Watch Talk: 00:34–02:38
• Prison Visits & Reform Discussion: 02:41–06:43
• Abu Dhabi Tales & AI Greeters: 06:44–19:49
• NBA/Wembanyama & Ranking Debate: 20:06–28:50
• Bad Bunny/Super Bowl & Race Commentary: 34:15–40:34
• Road Life & Police in Mexico: 41:12–46:08
• Wild Studio Memories: 46:08–50:40
• Mark Sanchez, Violence, and Age: 50:40–59:20

Tone & Language

The show crackles with brash humor, New York street wisdom, and old-school hip-hop storytelling. Joe and Jada are raw, direct, and playful, switching from serious reflections on race or prison reform to ribald inside jokes and wild anecdotes. Their perspective is unapologetically that of OGs who’ve “seen it all” but remain invested in both the culture and the current sports landscape.

Recommended for listeners who crave real, unfiltered sports talk, street-wise life lessons, and unpredictable stories from two of hip-hop’s most respected voices.