A Frogman Friday (Hour 2) 5/3/24

Number, Word and Song of the Day. DVR with Vassegh. Kentucky Derby Preview with the great Michelle Yu. 

Episode Transcript

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Here they are on your home ofthe LA. Dodgers in sink and
down the grain, petrosin Money,petrosin Money. Oh yeah, Matt,
this quote pertains to our first hourof conversation. All right, what have
we got? A man may buildhimself a throne of bayonets, but he

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Broadcast Booth seven to ten PM.Dodgers on Decats six of the Bannet.
Quote got me thinking that period pieceGame of Thrones, the Thrones, Yeah,

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thet made all those melted swords,yeah yeah. And the period piece,
I don't know what period it was, and you could sit on it.
Yeah, So I guess it provesthe quote from william Ing's wrong,
so sorry, tip off at sixthirty. I just you know, listen
when you have, you know,a documentary series like that just kind of
characterizes what was going on in thesixth game. And get over to the

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Los Angeles Museum of History Natural Historyover there and you can see those those
dragon bones. That's right, justcorteous. But yeah, Clippers have and
Dodgers braves with Tim Kaits at sixo'clock Morongo Casino, Dodgers on deck.
The Lakers have fired Darvin Ham andwe had a long conversation about it,

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and it really took up most ofthe first hour of the show. Yeah,
but Matt, we do the latestfrom the gala where Jim Harbaugh and
Spanos and Otani in his big talkinghead suit and all kinds of people were
at last night, including David VassaKate's did Dodger Talk last night and had

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trouble getting Isabelle on. It wasriveting, guys. I went to her,
not once but twice, and shewas on hold. Punched her up
and Ronnie may have hit it onthe head. She may have either stepped
away or fell asleep. I thinkshe fell asleep personally, did you ever
If that's the case, you canhear her snoring, could not hear anything.
It was just stating it was justwhite noise. Yeah, okay,

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ambient sounded and I put him backon hold. She called back and I
was like, you know what notgoing back to you? Is he so
well? Dave Vassa was clinking tulipclasses with Mark Walter and Vicky Hatcher and
interviewing Harbaugh. You know we couldhave had that on the air instead.
You know, let's get out toIzy and Buyenna Park. Is he?

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Is he there? That's weird.She's there. I just can't hear.
It's weird. Yeah, so uh, anyway, that's what's happening in the
world tonight. We have double playby play. No gala, no gala,

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no nothing, just act nothing.I just turned from Isabelle. We
have an update. You tell them. I could hear him for shame.
So it's Ronnie. Next time Isee something. Oh, she's saying Ronnie
didn't have her up. Don't getin a fight with is he Ronnie,

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don't give her the Dawn McClain treatment. Lose situation. This comes from the
nine to five to one. Iwas listening fine, brought to you by
your so called Toyota dealers. Wemake it easy. I was listening and
I thought she might have been dead. It's terrible. That was my first
thought too. It's like, ohno, not as long as Dodger talks
on as he's gonna be right.Come on, And Tim did say that

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he's considering of a band. Apermanent ban on Isabelle for you did not
ones but twice you did that.But now that I know it was Ronnie's
fault, I'll take that ban off. Well, she Isabelle, She's she
is a furiously text. Why don'tyou call in all of them the lines
right now? It's yeah, Iwould love to get to I'm fine with

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that. Let's get to the bottomof it. Have her call in,
all right, jam who's a faulthere? But while she's calling, and
I'll deliver you the word of theday, Matt, what do you say
his words? The word of theday. We're talking about the graveyard of
Laker coaches. And really it goesback to something that they would have probably

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addressed on Winning Time if the showhad stayed on the air. Uh since
the pat Riley Showtime era with Magicand some other vets. I don't really
know. Shoved Ryle's out of theforum club door. Eighteen guys in thirty
five years have been the Laker coach. Matt with number nineteen to be hired.

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That's that's not good. That's anaverage, especially when you consider that
Phil Jackson was the coach for tenyears. Right. So we have the
Don Levy, Mike Dunlevy, right, Randy Fund funned Bill Burtka. Now
those are all interims. Mike Dunlevywasn't an interim. No, Mike Dunlevy

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wasn't. But Funding and Burka wereMagic Johnson interim basically Del Harris, not
Bill, Bill Burtka again, right, Kurt Rambis, Phil Jackson, Rudy,
Tom Jonovich, Frank Hamblin, PhilJackson again, Mike Brown, Bernie

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Bickerstaff, the Prinles guy parents,Scott to Luke Walton, Frank Vogel,
and now Darwingham And is he's ready? Is he? Are you blaming Ronnie?
No? No, no, I'mnot blaming anybody. Blame yourself.

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Yeah, I don't know what happened. I can't hear you, bully?
Could you? Twice? I was? Is he? There are you there,
are you there? You didn't saya word, and the blue carpet
with Otani in his big suit.I don't know, I can't. I'm
not. I'm not mad at anybody. You know what just happened? You
know? Did you say anything?Is he like when when Tim said are

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you there? Were you you weresaying something? Or no? Yeah?
Yeah? I would say yeah,I can't use you, Kim. I
would say that I don't believe you. I don't believe you. I don't
believe I mean, yeah, peoplelistening and blaming Ronnie, I don't you
know. I just Isabelle. Youknow we love you, but but we

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don't believe you. Well, Idon't know. I absolutely believe one of
two things happened. She she wasn'tpotted up, or her cheek could hit
the mute button by accident. Soit is your fault. So I'm not

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mad at anybody. I'm not madanybody. So I'm not. It's you
can blame. You can blame me. No, No, Ronnie, Hey,
Ronnie, you guys can't invite inmy busy party. I don't think
Ronnie, Ronnie. I could seeRonnie messing with her on one call and
keeping her down, but not toNo, not to, which means that

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means a mute that means a cheekmute button. That would be my guess.
That's a great call, you know, those of us jolly times.
When's the birthday party is? Hemay think I'm having the block of women's
we call the outlet. And Ididn't think you there. I know I

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sent it to you, Pete.You have responded to me. I want
to set it back in the pizzaplace. No, no, are you
kidding? Have to last your debacle. It was a debacle. I thought
it was good. I had youeat all the cheese pizza. No,

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no, no, yeah no,I'm going to see the out It a
different restaurants and you can eat ourstuy in the real night. It's one
of my favorite places right now.But yeah, I did. I did
send it and tell Peyton happy birthdayon Matt why I'm thinking about it?
Yeah, you share the birthday absolutelywill Yeah, thank you. Yeah,

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my birthday to you gotta be fiftyfive years O go and by the way,
came yeah it Dodge is seventy yearsschool road trip didn't be seventeen then
two and seven? I mean thebetter than that thing there. There's the
way I look. The Dodges areplaying good. They did better have the
better home spend this time, andthey better went on today on my bed.

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I retire, they don't. Imaybe I don't retire going What about
Walker Bueler making his debut in twentytwo months after surgery on Monday night.
Yeah yeah, now on my busyNo, but it's trying to push to
start Tuesday, she gets a Yamamotodate. You're you're in you're in good

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shape? Is he hasn't allowed torun in twelve straight inning, So you
got a Yamamoto against the stinky Marlins. I'm glad we got to the bottom
of that and the super slow MattSmith was able to figure out the mute
button on the cheek cheeky blinders.Okay, okay, well you guys,
don't pee, give me a callif we can all call you and we
can talk about it. Billie,my friends take will left to see you

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and he loves you, all right, Yeah, so okay, okay,
we'll talk this weekend. Pay'll makeyou to call you to move okay,
Okay, I'm waiting to hear fromyou. Okay, okay, all right,
thank you. I'm a good weekendguy right by. All right,

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now it's time for the number inthere. What he did? I didn't
think she was done? Yeah,he left her potted up the whole time,
just to stick our noses in it, like, oh oh I had
her potted down? Did I maybeone last thing? Yeah? Yeah,
you just kind of kept her upthere, saying by a hundred times.
By the way, Maddy, you'regoing to pick us up so we can

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go to the party. Yeah,We're going to Met's car. We love
you, is he and hopefully we'llsee you there. Your number of the
day is zero. I couldn't believethis one. I read it the Big
Nude Boat Cruise. It's going tolaunch from Florida. Of course next year,

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February. Book your reservation. Now. Is it a day cruise,
No? Is it an overnight,No, it's a weekend. No,
it is eleven days of nudity andthey nude cruise to it. Yeah,

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on the Norwegian Pearl. Now weare not your cruise show of record.
I have been on one cruise inmy life. It was miserable and it
was on the same boat, theNorwegian Jewel series. They have different names.
Depending on what part of the worldthey're in. I was on the
Norwegian Jade, which was in theMediterranean. The Pearl is the same boat,
and it is a massive boat.It is capacity twenty three hundred and

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forty four with one thousand and seventytwo crew for a nude eleven dacres.
Clothing is optional everywhere on the boat, in the buffet, in the five
hundred seat auditorium where they have showsevery night, at the jazz dangling around

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right pulling the sausages out of thehot plate. Good morning, and your
puzza's tangling. They have a habachi. They basically have a benianda there with
like ten habachis naked at the habachirogue, oil splashing all over the place,
two pools, two chikuzis. Thereis a basketball court. She can
get out there, get your puzzoflapping around with a bunch of dudes playing

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five on five full court basketball.It will embark from Miami and will include
an exclusive visit to anadyllic private island, the Bahamas. Another exclusive stop on
the way back, and you willstop in the Bahamas, Puerto Rico,
Saint Martin, Dominica, Martinique,and Saint Lucia. Here's a quote from

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the pitch. Two opportunities to enjoya new slice of Bearadice, coupled with
a beautiful selection of Eastern Caribbean islandstops, will make this a can't miss
big nude boat. Yeah, thepeople that want to be naked are not
the people that should You know that, you know, especially on a cruise
ship with a buffet. Yeah,it's gonna look like a bunch of naked

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high school principles, That's what it'sgonna look like. Yeah, you know,
well, I mean think about wholikes That's what any nude beach I've
ever been to, and I've beento more than I can ever imagine because
of growing up going to Greece inthe summers in the eighties, and Greece
was a lot different in the eighties. South of France. You're all right
outside of that your screen. Yeah, there's nobody even there, you know,

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like anywhere in Europe, there's nowhere. Most of the people on the
nude beach you don't want to seenaked. And that is the truth.
And that goes for any nudist colony, any nudist colonies, anything very rarely
is it like the show you theshow you order on on a late night

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hotel skin a vision back of theday nudist party where everybody's hot and banging.
It's not like that. Nobody's hotand nobody's banging. Eleven days eleven
days of seeing the same wrinkly Puzzo'sbombs. Why home cooking is the title

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of our song of the Day fromthe late great Nigerian drummer and composer Tony
Allen, because the Petros and MoneyShow has the recipe for cooking up three
hours of great sports talk on afrog Man Friday, as the Dodgers have
returned to the safe haven of DodgersStadium for some home cooking of their own,

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where they'll match up with the AtlantaRaves over the weekend and Tim Kates
will work up a good leather withyour Morongo Casino Dodgors on Deck show beginning
at six o'clock. Well, allright, indeed, sir, and we'll
be back with mar great sports talk, Kershaw News, Bueller News and Kershaw

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News. That's a double whammy.I'm glad we cleared up the Isabelle situation.
I just really like those two thingshappening at once. Kate's unable to
get Isabelle on because she's muted herphone or something, and Vassa and a
tux just laughing and having a greattime, Right Marta, co'm on a

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frog Man Friday, head coach ofthe Lakers begins. We'll keep tabs on
that throughout the course of the show. Michelle, you're going to join us
in the next segment talk about outthe Kentucky Derby tomorrow and why go into
Santa Nita is a good idea andwe had a lot of ham talking.
Now it's time to turn to theDodgers. The Home of the Dodgers off

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with an inside look at the Dodgers. This is the Vasse Reports with David
Vasse. There is only one DavidVase. He was at the Galla last
night, chopping it up with Harmaand O'tani at the Real Underscore DV,
Spectrum Sports Net and MLB Network,and right here on a five seventy LA
Sports. He is our best reporterin the world and he's embedded with the

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Dodgers on the so Call Toyota DealershipCelebrity Hotline. Hello Dave, Hey,
guys, Yeah, out here atDodgers Stadium. Dodgers are out here taking
batting practice, getting said for thebiggest series in Major League Baseball this weekend.
Dodgers graves the two best teams inthe league, best records in the
league, So it should be afun weekend out here at Dodgers Stadium.

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What's the news about Kershaw that wetease everybody with before we went to break.
I don't know what is the newswith Kershaw? Oh, you walked
right into it. Be is thereany news with Kershaw? I saw him
earlier. He didn't seem to bein a great mood. I'm not sure
what's going on, honestly. Okay, he threw his first bullpen session today.

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That was that's the news. Well, there you go, Yeah,
baby steps. I guess Bobby Milleralso threw a bullpen session today, So
yeah, I would say Bobby Millerthrowing a bullpen session. He's a lot
closer to returning than Kershaw. Butyeah, that's a big deal for Kershaw
to be on schedule, because hetold me a couple of homestands ago that

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May was going to be the monththat he got off the mount. So
certainly working towards coming back at theend of July, Dave, last time
we asked you about Walker Buhler,you kind of mentioned that it wasn't going
great. But obviously it seems tobe going good enough that he's going to
get out there. He's now onthe schedule Monday, he will throw against
the Marlins. As it stands rightnow, what can you tell us about

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maybe how that last outing went andwhy it's time to cut him loose?
Yeah, six rehab starts, Matt, that's a lot. Basically, he
went through a full spring training ofgames and after the first four he was
healthy, but the stuff wasn't therefrom what I understand from other scouts that

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were watching him, And in thelast two starts, especially in his last
one, it really all came together. And let's be candid here, right,
the Marlins is a very soft landingfor Walker Buehler to ease back into
major league baseball after missing the lasttwo years. Well, the Braves are
not that and Freddy Freeman used tobe a Brave and it was a huge

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story that involved Kershaw a while backwhen Freddie had a hard time kind of
getting over the fact that he usedto be a Brave and all the success
he had there, is that notmuch of a storyline at all anymore when
the Braves come around? Or isthere still some of that that exists?
Well, Freddie's out here taking battingpractice after Group one, which included my
pregame guest Max Mounsey. Freddie's outhere taking VP. So it's definitely a

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big series anytime the Dodgers great,even if Max Monthly wants to poop poo
it. Don't you want to poopooit? Monthly? What the hell are
you talking about about? The bigseries The Braves Dodgers come on live roudio
right here. It's another series.It's uh, you know, you gotta
go out there and play the game, you know, worry about who you're

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who you're talking, who you're planningit. You heard it from Monthly.
I think we'll Mike drop it rightthere. Guys got to run. Oh,
he's getting rid of us. Wewere supposed to have him till we're
supposed to have until four. Butwas mon Monthy's his interview today, Monty's
his pregame. Uh, you's gotto do that right, Yeah? I
didn't mean to walk you guys offthe ledge. There you did. You

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walked me right, me, rightinto the freaking iron Maiden. I guess
the biggest non Lebron Laker news todayis the fact that Dave Roberts announced twenty
minutes ago that Clayton Kershaw was throwinga bullpen session. Pretty big news if
you ask me. But he wasn'tin a very good mood. I mean,
Bobby Miller's gonna throw again. They'reDodgers starting to get healthy, thinks
is pretty big news. I didn'teven get redemption. I wanted redemption to

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say, hey, if Bobby Miller'sgetting healthy, does that mean James Paxton's
gonna get booted from the rotation.I was like trying to get the you
know, the non Rogan and Rodney. Yes, it's a great question,
dude, it's a great question.Meanwhile, Landon, that got some back
to the Oka. See he didnothing wrong. Kanak. Yeah, oh
that's unfunny. Well you got Bueller. I mean you want Kanak, you
want Bueller in there, Kates.You know, it is unfortunate because we

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tried to get Dave on a fewdifferent time slots today and we were swatted
down and rejected over and over again. He's got the Galla Globe only to
get him on live and have monosyllabicmonths. He show up and and our
interview prematurely. And you know whatDave said when he hung up, sorry,

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Max, saying to get rid ofthose lose I don't know if he
said that something like that. Ibet you probably just staring Daggers through him,
like, Hey, it's time todo the interview. Let's go.
Dave's like eight inches, you know, push him around a little, Dave,
You're twenty years older and eight inchestaller. I'd like to see Dave

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put the finger up, like,hey, hang on a second, maybe
a minute? Yeah, five minutes, Max, Big deal, easy hot
corner. You guys didn't get tothe questions about tonight. I mean fireworks
night, the first time they're doingfireworks all season rather than a drone show.
Wait, it's law enforcement night outof the ravine. Come, oh,
yeah, that's all we got fireworks. I have an idea of what
the theme of Dodgers on Deck isgonna be. Believe it's law enforcement.

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Are you gonna do Dodger talk justso you can say law enforcement front of
the line, go straight to thefront of the lines. First responders,
front of the line. Let's gotry to us right now. I was
the first guest on Dodger Talk tonight. Darrell Gates chores Captain Mike. He's
from Station twenty seventy. Joins usnow a fire and garment Noon goons are

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welcome. What is your job?I mean, law enforcement, sir.
I don't think noonoon's quality. We'renot taking We're not taking any noon gooonery.
No noon gooonery. But you know, Matt, you know a lot
of guys that are in law enforcement. Uh they do, like moonlight in
security. Oh yeah, they do. And a lot of them were just

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like standing around at UCLA, likelike Darvin Ham with their hands in their
pockets like their boss Their bosses sawhim. It's like, hey, didn't
I see you over there? Andthen they had to deny it, like
what Peter denied Christ three times?You're double dipping on me what not?
I'm pretty sure I saw you.You had your your you have that weird

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fluorescent phone cover that you always have. You had your phone. I was
at Habisu man, I was inmy uh A driver a raptor with the
two jet skis you know, outthere at Haasu got a house in a
river in a third rail. Youknow what it is, right, So
I was doing I can't but Ican't believe we got big time for Monsie.

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And in fact, because Dave alwayscalls the house and harasses my son,
because Munsey is my son's favorite player, inexplicably and he's always like,
it's the good So welva bull,you know, the same way he does
for my dad and outman. Youknow he's gone o case and you'll never
see him again. You know,he's really an antagonist. And then he

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just destroys us for Munsie. Well, as I said, guy was the
center of attention at the Galla lastnight. Got to bring the Wife,
was there live and in person foran Ed Sheeran show and Mark Walter's fifty
million dollar donation. I mean hewas in the middle of it. Yeah,
he feels like, why do Ihave to go back and slow it?

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Yeah, Garball gave him a fistpound Law Enforcement Night with Tim Kats.
No, come on, let's gofifty bucks for the first guy to
shoot at the moon. No,they're not giving Ammo out to the first
forty thousand people in attend It's Okay, stop with those tweets. You're just

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giving out forty thousand bullets. Onebullet for a person, one for you,
one for you. You get tasercharges. That's what you gets it
up. Dude. You know whoBill Plashki wants hired as the Laker coach?
Did you see his article? Oh? I most definitely have not seen
the article, but I can tellyou exactly who it is. Tell me
back. He's been politic politic foryears now. Are is it Harmon or

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Hammon? Back Hammon Hammon. He'sbeen pushing that her and Tyron lou Her
and lou he wants we'll show itback to the Clippers. According to Woads,
so Darvin Am has been fired.We've been on top of it.
We're gonna talk some Kentucky Derby.We got an F one report, we

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showed diversity, We've handled ham andwe'll get back to it here on a
frog Man Friday that shows some money. AM five seventy LA Sports. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio AB goingtil six pm. Big series in town
this weekend. Braves v. Dodgers. First game tonight, seven ten,

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First pitch, six o'clock Tim Katesgets you ready for all the action after
the day off yesterday with Dodgers ondeck, we also have Clippers Playoff.
It's a double up, a playby play in these parts. Clippers MAVs
six thirty one AM eleven fifty Asbig as those are, neither as big
as the biggest event in all ofsports happening this weekend. Pete, that's

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right. It's our dear friend withher sharp teeth and fabulous demeanor, horse
expert extraordinaire, the Great Michelle You. Of course, he's an analyst that
host at Santa Anita Tomorrow's at KentuckyDerby, but also a full day of
eleven races at Santa Anita that getsstarted around twelve thirty. Gates will be

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early and you can bet on everyrace at Churchill Downs. Here to discuss
it with us, our hero onto Yoda on your soakouts Toyota Dealer Celebrity
Hotline, the one and only MichelleYou and Hey, happy birthday, Michelle,
What a wonderful time to celebrate.Yeah, col congratulation and yes we
saw that on Twitter. How doyou go about celebrating your birthday with the

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Kentucky Derby isn't too busy for youto even do that, So it always
has been so because of that,I generally don't celebrate on my birthday,
so I celebrated it this last Wednesdayinstead. Okay, what do you do?
You do? You do like horseacrobatics or something. Yeah, how
does it? Well, let's saywhen I turned forty, we did like

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a week of wine tasting. Lastyear, we did go kart driving,
like a really nice lunch, andthen we went to the Magic Castle for
drinks, and then we did anescape room and tried to get a tattoo,
but the tattoo placed closed. Thisyear, we just went and had
sushi dinner. It wasn't anything exciting. Oh well, we can get your

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tattoo. You know those places areopen, you know, since that went,
we can find one that is openand get that tattoo that we had
longed for but took a pass.I know, I saw. I am
very nervous to get a tattoo ata place that, like, I don't
research because you know, it's justpermanent and whatnot. Let's stick with the
partying theme and while we know itis going to be a hell of a
party out at Santa Anita Park tomorrow, including that incredible meets you. A

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lot of rumble with the voodoo globskullsout there in the infield going to be
very exciting. I saw the thebooze menu there at Churchill Downs and would
love to know what, Michelle youwould select. Would you take the Woodford,
the Woodford Spire, the mint Julipor would you go with the hair
there a horseshoe margarita for twenty twobucks. Okay, Now I don't drink

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tequila, so that last one wouldbe a no go for me. My
friend, I have had the thousanddollars mint Julip and it's still tasted awful,
so I would probably Yeah, it'sawful, So I would probably just
get the lily, just a traditionallily. Although my problem is Churchill use
this Finlandia vodka. Can you knowhow I feel about like my certain liquors,

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So I'm probably to bring my own. You guys, well, I
mean, look, we all drawthe line at Finlandia. I think you
would drink that peace will the greatMichelle You is our guest and we're happy
to have her talking about Kentucky DerbyWeekend and it pops off at Sanna Anita
too. What is it like overthere for Kentucky Derby weekend? Does everybody

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dress up or is it just allthe race hounds that are always there?
Fun time on Saturday, especially whenwe have a rooting interest, and this
year we do. We have thesant I need a Derby winter stronghold,
so we're having like a Stronghold viewingparty. People do dress up. We've
got like a hat contest you mentioned, all the stuff. Go down to
the infield. We're gonna have somedrink specials and it'll be fun. There

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will be people dressed up in theirhats, in their finery. We I
don't have to do that right dayas well. I could wear jacket and
cast up. Okay, I don'tknow that can Oh yeah you could go.
It's not like Royal Asket where theyhave like a dress code. I
mean, if you want to goto Churchill and look like a scum,
you're welcome to. They don't care. Yeah, yes, scumbag. Hey

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uh slobby p that's me man,you know me stronghold. Help us make
sense. It is Michelle talking aboutthe race now that we all love to
bet, and you should bet itout there at Santite and have some fun
at the big party this weekend.But the post and where you go off
from. How big of a dealis that, like a no, no
horse is ever won from the fiveor something like that, the stronghold is

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in the eight. What are thepositions that we absolutely stay away from?
Right? It's Shenanigans. A lotof it was from before we used to
have two different starting gates at Churchill, So you had your main gate of
fifteen, then you had an auxiliarygate of five that they wielded, which
gift you. It left you ahuge gap between the rail and the first
slot, and then there was anothergap between the fifteen and the sixteen.
Right, So it just was afunky scenario. Now that they've gotten this

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huge gate, I think it's alot more fair. And every time we
say, oh, a horse hasnever won from x y or z,
guess what a horse stops up andwins from X Y or z. So
I mean there's some gates that basicallybecause of trip you might be like,
crap, that's a terrible draw.But overall I wouldn't chuck it out just
because of where a horse is drawnand which stronghold it's not like he needed

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a lead. He's not going tofall back. So he might end up
being parked a little wide, whichcould be unfortunate for him, but he
might have enough tactical speed to gethim up and just get him into a
good position sitting like seventh or so. So who's the overall favorite. The
overall favorite right now is between thefear Leon and Fierceness. Fierceness has by
far and away the best numbers.He's last years two year old champion,
but he is a feast or faminetype. He either wins by five or

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he chucks in the towel and canbarely stroll in at a walk. And
I think that the part of thatis because when he gets out there and
he's on the lead and he getssuper proud of himself, he does really
well. When someone looks him inthe eye and he feels that competition,
he's like, whoa, whoa,whoa. I do not appreciate this.
So because of that, I chuckedFierceness out of all of my tickets,

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because I think there's gonna be otherspeed in the race that's going to look
at him, So I threw outthat favorite. Although I did utilize Sierra
Leone as a favorite, and he'sgoing to be up against it, coming
from way off the pace. ButI just don't think sciercens is gonna get
things his way. And if hedoes and he repels all the chargers,
let me tell you what. Heis a legit shot for the triple Crown.

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So he's a front runner. Yes, yes, well we are.
We like fierceness or cowards when peoplelook us in the eye, so we
can relate to fierceness and what he'sgoing through. What about this, Michelle?
Here and here in southern California,in the city of Los Angeles,
we got Otani, We got Yamamotoon the Dodgers. Oh no, you're

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gonna ask me about baseball. No, I'm gonna ask you about the first
ever horse from Japan to win theKentucky Derby. Forever Young. I want
to be forever Young. Can foreverYoung win? Could forever Young win?
Yeah? He could. He isa legitimate contender. He's undefeated, perfect,

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five for five, he won twobig international races as a prep for
here. I think it's crazy theyopted to do that path because the UA
Derby has never given us a KentuckyDerby winner. But I have to hail
to the master. You know you, mister, youa hockey who is a
genius in Japanese horse racing. Thishorse has some quirks and some issues.

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They say he doesn't like dirt,but they have been training him in an
ultra secret way to get the kickback. He also does not change leads,
which I hate because if you thinkabout it, and you're like carrying your
luggage in one hand, right andhe gets starts to get tired, you're
running to the airport. What doyou do? You shift your luggage to
the other side, right right,and you feel better, renewed energy.

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The same thing with switching leads.You go from one lead to the other
lead. And this horse does notchange leads. He didn't change leads so
very very late in Saudi. Hedidn't change leads so very very late in
the UAE Derby. But I'm goingto hope he's improving because I watched him
train this week and he changed leadsperfectly. Oh he's like a tawny.
He can only pitch every six days. If you like this horse, I

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would not talk you off. Sowho do you like like? If I
have to go. You know,I always screw it up anyway. But
if who are you going to beton? Michelle? So I don't I'm
not in love with anybody. I'mprobably gonna play like a massive exact de
box. I'm going to use sierLeone forever Young, I'm gonna use just
a touch. I'm gonna probably incrudestrongholds underneath, and then I'm gonna go

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like eight deep in the derby.So I don't love anybody this year.
So I'm gonna spread all right,and we'll be able to get all that
on your social media feed, right, Michelle? Absolutely? So you want
to follow her at the Michelle,you that's why you and get your butt
out to San Anita. What aplace to party all weekend long and watch
the derby. We can have wecan have cocktails that you come out.

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Why not, let's do it.Voodoo glow skulls, car shows and beers
and luchadori wrestlers. I'm in thewrestling for me is very funny. Do
you think you guys would dress upin the wrestling gear? Kind of question
to say, I think, howdo you think we dress? Every day?
We roll around the studio and speedosand that if you guys bring if
you guys bring wrestling gear next time, I'll wear it, okay, all

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right, and we have really setthings up for down the road. Well,
happy birthday. I'm excited. Happybirthday, and have a great Kentuck
Derby weekend. Michelle, Thanks,thanks, you guys so much. Appreciate
the time there. Who knows Michelleyou the Queen of Santa Anita. Gates
are early tomorrow for everything popping offat Churchill Downs. We'll be right back

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with another hour of great sports talk.