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o'clock. We will have Dodgers ondeck at three pm. Dodgers Reds through
Sunday, Memorial Day. They willbe in New York taking on the mats
a one ten pm first pitch.And we already gave away the Vegas trip,
did it at one oh four,right when we got on the air,
but Kates has forced us to waituntil this hour to give away our
Santa Anita prize pack Pete. Yeah, that's well some people see as unsavory.
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I'm not trying to overthink it,you know. I mean, I'm
glad the listeners get prizes even ifthey're in traffic because of a standoff on
the ninety one and unenthusiastic. Youknow, we got to push through all
these things. We have to pushthrough om boodsman who don't like the way
the show's being handled in its firstsegment. We have to fight against xenophobia
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and for it. I think that'sunfair on this Memorial Day weekend when we
should be supporting our Look, theonly reason we get the day off is
because of one true great American,a real sacrifice maker, Don Martin.
That's true. Not an Union holiday, guys, But I'll float it.
I'm gonna let it. I'm gonnalet it slide all right now, mat
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In the I'd like to be inthe Union meeting when they are going through
the holidays and Memorial Day now LaborDay. Nah. Now, just the
heads up for those of you thatlive in neighborhoods that looks like like some
of the people got who used tobe fat. Looks like they popped or
somebody at work like that South Parkis going to go after ozempic tonight.
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Yeah, and uh, very excitedabout that. The only guy that can't
get ozempic because he can't afford itis Cartman poor and so Cartman goes the
opposite way, which is body positivity, which in that episode tonight is called
the Lizzo. It's incredible. Theyare incredible. But Matt, I told
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you I'd take you to Europe andyou're gonna love this. Here's my number,
number of the day. Okay,fine, the word of the day.
There case with his words, theword of the day. Now,
Matt, you know that the CanFilm Festival is going on right now?
Right? You know that? Yes? You know? And along with the
big Grand Prix in Monaco, outin Monte Carlo, like this is other
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than Adam Driver and jewel knocking onwindows and a sailor what sailor and the
cop and an Indiana State trooper.There's a lot of people out in Europe,
and no, I do not relatewith going anywhere, let alone Monaco
or can. Indianapolis, which I'vebeen to for a big ten championship game
is pretty exotic for me. Butyou'll be happy to know that last night
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at a gigantic party in can RapperTravis Scott and Tiger got into a gigantic
fight on stage. Beautiful and guesswho got involved as well, Matt Collinson,
Alexander Edwards. Almost do you knowwho Alexander Edwards is? AKAAE?
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That's the thirty year old guy that'seffing scher. Oh okay, okay,
I know who that is? Uhhuh. They were at Richie Akiva's event.
Who's a producer? Tiger used todate Kylie Jenner. Travis Scott used
to date Kylie Jenner. When theDJ announced, Hey, these guys are
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here, Travis Scott did not likethat he was lumped in with Tiger,
so they got in a fistfight onstage. Okay, and Travis Scott brought
his friend into it, Southside andTravis Scott and Southside fought Tiger and Cher's
boyfriend almost to the death on stage. Actually no one was really hurt.
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I wish they would have fought tothe death. Ae was making out with
Share just hours prior at a gasred carpet and then he went out and
got in a huge fistfight. SoAmerica is doing a great job. Sergeant's
about to lose his f one seat, and we're out in France making no
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standing ovation for Lars von Trier thisyear, Matt, But we have a
rapper fistfight in because they didn't likehow they were introduced together. We're Americans.
Check out our neck tattoos, ourface tattoos, and our fist fights.
We're American. Guy is banging aneighty year old. We're Americans.
Of course we're banging share. We'reAmericans. Of course we have neck tattoos.
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Idiots, how do you bang share? How do you bang share and
walk around with your chest out whenyou're thirty years old and she's eighty.
I have no idea. I haveno idea. Hey, you gonna walk
around with them tattoos all over yourface? Whatever? Here's my number series
the name number the day. Pehwas like, we got on stage,
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we got Tiger, we got TravisScupton. How could you say my day
with his name at the same time? Ever, number the day is four.
I'm guessing you probably know this becauseI believe you still follow along.
But Big One this weekend, particularlytoday Pee the championship game is Tomorrow's the
final four the Semis, the finalPac twelve baseball tournament, and while we
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focused on basketball and football baseball headingto the Big Ten, to the Big
twelve, to the ACC and elsewheresucks. Oregon State is the most recent
NCAA College World Series champion from thePAC twelve from twenty eighteen. They won
it in AT six and OTS sevenas well. Of course, remember,
yeah, we remember the incredible runwith our friend John Savage in twenty thirteen,
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Arizona in twenty twelve with Andy Lopezwho won it with Pepperdine while I
was there in nineteen ninety two,not playing. I was a student today,
you were in us. Believe thatteam, Matt, You totally,
totally could have walked on. AlthoughI did live with a guy who does,
in fact have that story that everybodylikes to spin. He did walk
on to that World Series cham MattMillard walked onto that World Series championship team
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as a bullpen pitcher. I thinkyou were at SCE when Gillespie won it
right in ninety eight. Yes,that team, of course, as you
well know, dominated USC dominated throughthe seventies. Twelve total NC double eight
championships, ten of them by RonDado And that's the thing about baseball.
In the PAC twelve, Arizona hasthree, Arizona State has five. Dato
to Rod Dato's like the like theJohn Wooden of yes college baseball kind of
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similar eras, similar time frame andsimilar production of championships, and those records
are going to the Big ten Stanfordtwo. As of late, of course,
the SEC has dominated baseball. They'vewon the last four straight, but
today the semis hell of a Finalfour because number two Oregon State number three
Oregon are out. USC has caughtfire to close the season. They worked
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their way up to the four seed. They knocked off Utah in their final
series to get that four seed,and then in pool play they beat Utah,
they beat Oregon and now it isthe Petros Bowl. In about fifteen
minutes, Cal usc for a berthin the championship game tomorrow. Stanford has
a Cinderella run going right now.As the eight SID they would play Arizona
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tonight the number one seed at sevenpm. I've been to a couple of
USC games this year. I hopethey can blow out Cal today. It
would open the door for Pasadena's mikeyEbner to maybe get the start in tomorrow's
championship game. We've had Austin Overnon the show. I've been able to
meet a few of the kids.Great group, and this is the first
time they have head back to backthirty plus win season since two thousand and
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one and two thousand and two.That thing is on the right track.
Yeah, it's kind of inexplicable thatit not that they're good now, but
that they weren't for so long.It never made sense. But it's also
like, you know, when Iwas at SC in ninety eight, and
I knew all those guys, likeWest Coast baseball was something, and you
know Pepperdine, obviously, Long BeachState, Northridge, they all play Irvine
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Fullerton. They all play really reallyhigh quality college baseball. So the fact
that it's kind of shifted to theSouth and a bunch of guys hitting home
runs and watching the home runs andhot dogging all the time, like Burkhart
there in their puka shells, it'swrong. Steko Wentz has been great.
He's he's been great. Yeah,he's first year guy and he's having a
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great success. And he was aGrand Canyon guy who turned them into a
regional team, right they got Yeah, they got screwed last year. I
think that was last year, wasStankovic's first year. They got hosed.
They won thirty four games, didn'tget invited to the tournament. So chances
are they probably gott to win itall to punch their ticket. You mentioned
all those programs. We got Irvine, UCSB their locks to make it.
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Kel Polly has a shot. Theywon both their series against Irvine and UCSB
in the regular season to probably needto make a run in the Big West
Tourney. That's just getting started.So that's the way. Pretty cool.
Like back in the day, itwas, you know, Stanford was great,
usc was great. UCLA had greatplayers, but they didn't really compete
for titles for years and years,and no one was really playing significant Northwestern
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baseball. So the emergence of Oregondidn't even have a team. So that
the emergence of that in you knowState, yeah incredible. And then Oregon
State, Yeah, Oregon and Nikemoney and just creating a baseball program.
And then the fact that Oregon Statewon titles and competed in the World Series
year in and year out and becamereally hard to beat was also pretty cool.
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But it also, you know,it was a lot like the football
world in the early two thousands orafter Pete Carroll was gone. You know,
USC kind of was irrelevant and alot of the focus came to the
Northwest Washington Oregon teams like that.So it's good to see SE playing well
again. Andy's made SC relevant again. Yeah, I hope they get the
win. Be great if it wereArizona versus USC in the final ever Pac
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twelve Tournament championship game tomorrow, becauseUSC is heading to a conference that has
not had in NCAA World Series championsince nineteen sixty six. Well that could
change. You got Oregon Washington rightnow, USC, and everybody knows they
played meaningful baseball at Rutgers, socow baseball is a great story. You
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know. They've had to fight forthat, you know, I mean,
they've that would be great to seethem. You know, obviously USC vested
interest here, but cal I meanthey've had to fight for that program and
they try to get rid of ita couple of times for them to and
they haven't been good at all eitherfor a long ass time. And that's
that's the thing too, right,And who the hell do I care,
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but the idea that UCLA has togive them ten million bucks a year when
they have tried their damnedest to endall of their sports programs. Oh,
it's a confounding place. And whenyou're the dumbest thing ever, when you're
an athlete there, they make youfeel like you're a terrible person because that's
your vocation. It's yeah, it'sBerkeley, God bless it. Well,
good luck to the Trojans. Huhyeah, exactly started in about fourteen minutes.
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Thank you for listening. We'll beright back and we still got that
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up just after four pm. Ofcourse we are off on Monday as well
for Memorial Day weekend. And howabout this for a Memorial Day weekend,
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Events, but right now caller teneight six six nine eight seven two five
to seventy enjoy the event, andnow it's time to check in with the
Dodgers in Cincinnati. That's why we'reon so early. A great holiday weekend
in southern Ohio with David Massey withan inside look at the Dodgers. This
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is the Vassi Report with David Vassejoining us right now on the Southern California
Toyota Dealers Celebrity Hotline, A celebrityon television Spectrum sports Net all weekend.
Kates will do the Dodger Talk dutiesalong with Marango Casino Dodgers on deck.
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It is the great David vass Enjoyhim on television all weekend long, maybe
some MLB network as well, andhopefully he keeps himself in one piece.
Dave, what's cracking. How's itgoing out there? It's going great.
It's a beautiful sunny day here inCincinnati. No rain in the forecast today
Sunday there's some rain. Yes,sports Net LA tonight. Back on Dodger
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Talk tomorrow and we'll close it outon Sunday. And the last time I
was in Cincinnati, guys and wewere talking like this, Joe Burrow was
in the batting cage, the quarterbackfor the Bengals because OTA's were going on
at the same time. But nice, that's what I was reminded of standing
out here on the track behind thecage. Before we get into what's going
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on with this really long Dodger roadtrip. Something Tim Kates was talking about
last night on the off night DodgerTalk, Dave, while you were eating
Skyline Chili in Cincinnati with the team, was just how bad or how average
this team has been, especially basedon their standard on these getaway days and
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on Sunday. I think it waskind of like that last year. Can
you explain this, Dave, Icannot, But the average part, I
can explain. The last eight games. They've been exactly average. They've been
five hundred, and they're pitching isthe reason why they were five hundred,
or they would have been under.They're hitting in the month of May has
been ridiculously poor. They're hitting inthe bottom third of Major League Baseball in
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the month of May. They're chasinghome runs, They're striking out a lot.
Wednesday night at Dodgers Stadium multiple timeswith runners at third base and nobody
out couldn't get them in, orthird base in less than two outs,
couldn't get them in. So guyslike Will Smith are hitting. Will Smith
sitting one ninety, Mookie Betts hascooled off, he's hitting two sixty,
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Freddy's cooled off. Otani's the onlyguy that is still on another planet,
So they got to get these guysgoing here, Dave, should we be
at all concerned? I know it'stwo starts, but we know that he's
had issues staying healthy for an entireseason. Should we have concerns about Tyler
glasnow not making it out of thefifth in either of his last two stars.
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Yeah, I don't believe that it'sa health issue. I asked about
that yesterday and it wasn't for anyhealth reasons why he was taken out.
It was just the circumstances of thegame. He was down three to nothing,
he was getting close to that pitchlimit and they pulled the plug on
him. So No, at thispoint, there is no health concerns.
Now. A year or two fromnow, with that long term contract they
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gave him, maybe we'll talk aboutthat then. But everybody around the Dodgers
and around Major League Baseball is prettyconfident he'll stay healthy this entire year.
If you had to, you know, and maybe it's stupid to ask,
but based on the last two starts, if you had to pick the pitcher
that's pitching the best right now ofthe Dodgers. Is that still Glass?
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Noow is a guy with the Isit the guy with the sparkling you know,
win loss record in Paxton? Isit Bueler who had some electric stuff
last time? I'm like, who'sthe best pitcher on this staff right now?
I'd say the one is Yamamoto.I feel like he's been the one
that's pitched the best in the lastthree or four starts, so that would
be my choice. Glass now obviouslyis the anchor to the rotation. He's
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just had very, very human likestarts the last two times out. After
what we've seen from him this year, he's still the best. But the
guy that's pitching the best is Yamamoto. Check out David Vasse on TV tonight.
Is that no TV on Sunday orTV on Sunday? Dave? What
are we doing on Sunday? Saturdayis a national broadcast, so there's no
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Sports at LA coverage Tomorrow Sunday,Back on it, back on it,
okay on Sunday. Joe Burrow's notcoming out of that dugout tonight, So
who plays for the Reds as faras right now, other than the guy
that struck out four thousand times whenhe was out here gta ed Mono loco.
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Yeah, Ellie da la Cruz.He has cooled off significantly after that
four hit night at Dodgers Stadium.They held him hitless the remainder of that
series and he only has three hitssince that night. So he's in the
slump right now. And I rememberbeing at the game with you for that
one inning and you told Fletcher,I'm not getting you your Dodger dog until
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I see Ellie da La Cruz hit. So even you want to see Ellie
play, I do remember that that'sthe place I wanted to see him.
And he's struck out like five times, and I don't think he's not gonna
hit since. But Hunter Green shovedit up the Dodgers Callo a little bit
on that day. Is he goingto be around this weekend? Yeah,
he's actually pitching tomorrow. It's gonnabe a great pitching matchup on a national
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stage, Hunter Green against Walker Bueller. You don't get those type of pitching
probables that often anymore, so HunterGreen will have the national stage against his
hometown Dodgers and Walker Bueller coming offhis best start since coming off the IL.
It's going to be a great pitchingmatchup, you would believe. Here
in Cincinnati and Walker obviously from Louisville, Kentucky. He used to come to
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Great American Ballpark a lot to watchMajor League Baseball, so he's in his
own backyard. That'll be fun forhim too. When you mentioned the offense,
Dave, you know the outfield atBay issue, and obviously that's why
Outman's no longer with the club.Pa has is, you know, certainly
cooled down considerably since his hot start. We know they don't wait for the
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trade deadline all the time. Imean, they'll make deals all the time.
They've been doing it so far thisseason, some sign kind of minor
deals. Could you see them makinga trade for an outfielder. I could
see them making a trade for anoutfielder. I don't know if that'll happen
before the July thirtieth trade deadline,because that's where all the impact trades are
made. But definitely the Dodgers arekeeping their finger on the pulse of the
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outfield market. The Angels, TaylorWard is probably is going to be available.
He's a guy that the Dodgers obviouslyhad interest in a couple of years
ago because he was part of thetrade that fell apart between the Dodgers and
Angels with Ross Strippling, Jock Petersonand Andy PAHs part of that deal for
Taylor Ward and Louis Renhifo. SoI would imagine they had interest in him
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then they still have interested in himnow. The one and only David Vasse
his messages, the Dodgers have beenaverage, and they're hitting has been below
average, and they got to pickit up in Cincinnati. Dave, do
you like that park? It feelslike it always gives you a little pep
in your step, opposite to theway Matt feels about Cincinnati. I believe.
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Yeah. Actually I told people Itake Cincinnati over Pittsburgh and Saint Louis
any day. And this ballpark isgreat for hitters because it's a bandbox.
The Dodgers, I can't remember ifit was twenty nineteen or twenty seventeen,
hit eight home runs in this ballparkone game. So there's pros and cons
to coming here. Because as aleft handed hitter, you may be tempted
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to hit it down the left fieldline three twenty five and chase the home
run, so three twenty eight downthe lines in left field as well.
So teams have come out of slumpshere and they have gone into slumps here
chasing the long ball. So we'llsee which direction goes for these Dodgers.
Well, it demands a follow up, Dave. Everybody knows Saint Louis is
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an absolute dump of a city.But Pittsburgh really Cincinnati? You like?
Is that just the ballpark or thecity as a whole, the road trip
as a hole? You like Cincinnatibetter than Pittsburgh. You don't hear that
often now, the whole package,the ballpark, the proximity from hotel to
ballpark, to be able to walkhere, the city itself, I like
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it as well. They got ahipster area called over the Rhine, which
they have really taken to another level. Pittsburgh, unfortunately, guys, one
of those downtowns that was hit reallyhard by the pandemic and it was coming
to life, and then the pandemichit. Everything shut down and it's gone
backwards five steps unfortunately. Yeah.Fabulous travel insight from David Vase, a
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baseball journeyman. No doubt Dave,have a great night on TV. Will
be watching and stay healthy out there, all right, you'd be safe on
the streets out there, Matt,the real Underscore DV. Yeah, protect
your net and we'll be back withyour dad and a live guy Birthday of
the Day on a flex back PetrosenMoney Show on a Frogman Friday, Dodgers
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in Cincinnati. Will wrap it upnext Thanks for listening, everybody on a
Frogman Friday, and please have asafe and happy Memorial Day weekend. Matt
and I will return on Tuesday foranother big flex alert as the Dodgers are
hitting the road for a significant amountof time in the Eastern time Zone and
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only a quick respite back at homestarting a week from today, so we
will keep up with everything with theschedule talk. Nobody does schedule talk better
than the Petrosen Money Show. Andyes, and next week when we're back
on Tuesday, we'll still be givenaway those wonderful trips to the Fontaine Blue
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Hotel in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada. Now, Matt, I believe we
had the dead Guy Birthday of theDay, and don't forget to podcast the
show. Everybody on the iHeartRadio appwhen you miss us over the long weekend,
I do. We are your Sweettooth show of record, driven mostly
by Tim Kates and the favoritist candyin each and every state these days is
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Reese's Peanut butter Cups. So let'swish a huge happy one hundred and forty
fifth of the man that made thathappen, Henry, I should say Harry,
not Henry. Harry Burnett Reese bornin York County, PA, on
a dairy farm. Only child gotto work. That was his education,
working on a farm, figuring outangles to put some extra scratch in his
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pocket. Milking the cows was easy. While selling milk in town, he
heard restaurants were looking for frogs,so he built a pond on the farm
property, raised frogs, sold themto make more money. A frog farm,
I get like a frog pond.I guess you know, built upon
frogs, your farming frog. Yeah, Baltimore area. They loved his frog
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besse. He got married young twentyone and manned did they get after it?
Oh? Edna started spittingnot kids likecrazy, sixteen of them thirteen that
survived into adulthood. His father inlaw owned the cannery, and he managed
the fishing operations down in Virginia whilemanaging his family's dairy farm in Woodbine.
And yet still that was not enoughmoney to feed almost mile. This the
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way to take a factory job inNew Freedom, Pennsylvania. In nineteen sixteen,
he saw an advert from Milton S. Hershey seeking people to manage his
dairy farms out in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Obviously he was qualified, he applied,
he was hired to manage his premierfarm. It was known as round
barn, cutting edge technology for thetime, milking machines, production methods.
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Reese managed it all just as Hersheyhad asked, that's pieces around because of
the way the barn was. That'sexactly what it was. It's a round
barn. That gave him the idea. So he did what he was asked,
and then hers She was like,Yeah, this costs too much,
I'm shutting it down. So he'sout of a gig. He leaves all
of his other jobs for this one. He's got all those miles to feed.
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I think he had nine kids atthe time. So he's like,
fitt, I'm shoot my shot.And he started R and R Candy Company
he bought an old canning factory inHumblestown, Pennsylvania, manufactured milk, chocolate,
covered almonds, and raisins. Thelocal stores loved him bought them up.
He had momentum. He issued stockin his new company, raised about
three hundred grand and today's dollars,pumped it back into the company, buying
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high quality, state of the artmanufacturing equipment to boost his production. Yet
still wasn't making enough money to feedeleven kids at the time, so he
worked at the paper mill. Hewas the town butcher and on weekends at
the local factory canning vegetables. Dude, bet he's steak. Oh yeah,
had no time to shower. Hisfirst two bar paper Mill, matt paper
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Mill, the Slaughterhouse. Exactly right. His first two bars were named after
his two oldest children in The LizzieBar and the Johnny Bar. Both had
the same ingredients coconut caramel, molasses, cocoa, butter, and honey.
But guess what Johnny's had nuts.Yeah. In twenty three he incorporated the
Reese Candy Company and they started sellingchocolate, twelve varieties in total that he
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would pack into five pound boxes forthe holidays. Made quite a bit of
money doing that, and all thefeedback was the peanut butter cups were the
favorite of all the candies. Notthe covered butter, not the milk chocolate
covered butter creams, or the marshmallowor the cream caramels, or the chocolate
peanut clusters. No peanut butter cups. So he invented the standalone and much
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larger reces peanut butter cup after oneof his customers said, hey, you
know that that confection in Hushy itshut down. The equipment's no good anymore,
So we need something, all right, And that's when he's like,
all right, I'll fill the Hedeveloped the peanut butter cup, sold them
for a penny per cup. Hisslogan was made in Chocolate Town, so
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they must be good. He expandedthe size of the cup in nineteen forty
three, and that was a fivecent peanut butter cup. The sales of
Recy's peanut butter cups doubled every fouryears before he died. In nineteen fifty
six, he began construction on hissecond factory, and right before he passed
away died of a heart attack.Left his kids a company that had just
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merged with Hershey and a tax freestock merger for six hundred and sixty six
thousand, three hundred and sixteen shares. Today, after all the splits,
the family still owns the stock sixteenmillion shares worth four point four billion dollars
that pays out annual dividends of eightyeight million dollars, and it's now the
number one candy brand in the US. Well, that's a lot of great
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information about recent exactly right. It'stotally different relationship around here since my daughter
developed a violent peanut allergy. Understandable. Not a lot of cups. Some
house sniff it out and ruin everybody'slife. And the ePIE pins and the
shame and the guilt. All right, Matt celebrating me alive. But the
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old this week, this man isstill alive. Archie Shepp eighty seven years
old, a great jazz man fromFort Lauderdale, which we talked about yesterday,
Fort Lauderdale, just like Monica exactly. That's sorry, tax shelter,
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But Archie Shep was really raised inPhiladelphia. Lifetime musician. His dad taught
him to play the banjo. Hewent to Goddard College in Vermont, where
he studied theater, but he wasa player in the sixties. He started
with Latin jazz, but then hehooked up with an avant garde pianist named
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Cecil Taylor and became a coveted horn, coveted by who you may ask by
who, coveted by John Coltrane.Never heard of him? Well, I'm
sorry, I'm trying to do ajazz story and you got to play along
a little. He was on fourfor Train, he was on A Love
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Supreme. Those are pretty important jazzalbums. If you've never heard of Coltrane,
it's it's like Screaming into a Canyon? Is he like three Doors Down?
A little bit like that? Youhave? Okay, I'd probably like
him. Then his big album innineteen sixty five with his own name on
it was fire music, getting politicaland avant garde, Malcolm X type of
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stuff. Oh yeah, he's alot like Pharaoh Sanders. You've heard of
Malcolm X. Okay, he wasa lot like Pharaoh Sanders. Saw Lebron
reading his biography and then it ishard to read a biography that is,
you know, like a good heavybook and have no creases in the spine,
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just not one crease in the spine. What if I'm just going to
sit there and flip the pages andlook very serious. It's like it's like
a Cholo's Dickies on a Sunday,you know, not one crease, not
a lot. Like Pharaoh Sanders,Archie Shep kind of went to the connection
with African culture, sort of stuffwith jazz, which wasn't a thing before
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the sixties. Not really a prolificdiscography. My favorite album he does is
called Going Home with a noted exPatriot jazz star named Horace Parlan, a
pianist. It's ballads and spirituals.His website is still fully functional. Archie
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Shep's is and you can still bookArchie Shep, but it looks like he
still lives in There's like three extranumbers on the on the phone, so
I don't know that'll do it.And he's pretty old, so I think
if you're in Europe you can stillbook Archie ship. But we have at
least like three guys in Europe totext me, so he also go check
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on Archie right, check them out. He also wrote plays as a young
man. One was called The Communist. He taught it Suny Buffalo and U
mess Amherst Home of the Minute Man. That Going Home album looks a lot
like Blue Train, same kind ofcover it is. Yeah, it's a
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it's an ex Patriot. A longtime ago a listener sent me a a
radio kind of documentary, just likea radio piece about expatriot jazz guys who
are dying or very old out inSweden or the Netherlands. And Horace Parlan
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was one of them, and theyinterviewed him and stuff, and he's quite
old living in a nursing home.And he made mention of this the album
he did with Archie Shaff And thiswas like maybe five six years ago a
listener sent it. So I boughtthe album and it is a fabulous album,
but quite slow, quite slow.So you've heard a Blue Tray exactly.
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I don't know the artists, youknow, I just collect. I
got you Giant Steps. No,Nah, you ever heard of Shaky's Because
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and those ribs, you have Shaky'shere in southern California. James Packson on
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M hm, the patron said,Mindy show we're telling back on tomorrow. Mm hmm
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o'clock. We will have Dodgers ondeck at three pm. Dodgers Reds through
Sunday, Memorial Day. They willbe in New York taking on the mats
a one ten pm first pitch.And we already gave away the Vegas trip,
did it at one oh four,right when we got on the air,
but Kates has forced us to waituntil this hour to give away our
Santa Anita prize pack Pete. Yeah, that's well some people see as unsavory.
(01:12):
I'm not trying to overthink it,you know. I mean, I'm
glad the listeners get prizes even ifthey're in traffic because of a standoff on
the ninety one and unenthusiastic. Youknow, we got to push through all
these things. We have to pushthrough om boodsman who don't like the way
the show's being handled in its firstsegment. We have to fight against xenophobia
(01:38):
and for it. I think that'sunfair on this Memorial Day weekend when we
should be supporting our Look, theonly reason we get the day off is
because of one true great American,a real sacrifice maker, Don Martin.
That's true. Not an Union holiday, guys, But I'll float it.
I'm gonna let it. I'm gonnalet it slide all right now, mat
(02:04):
In the I'd like to be inthe Union meeting when they are going through
the holidays and Memorial Day now LaborDay. Nah. Now, just the
heads up for those of you thatlive in neighborhoods that looks like like some
of the people got who used tobe fat. Looks like they popped or
somebody at work like that South Parkis going to go after ozempic tonight.
(02:30):
Yeah, and uh, very excitedabout that. The only guy that can't
get ozempic because he can't afford itis Cartman poor and so Cartman goes the
opposite way, which is body positivity, which in that episode tonight is called
the Lizzo. It's incredible. Theyare incredible. But Matt, I told
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you I'd take you to Europe andyou're gonna love this. Here's my number,
number of the day. Okay,fine, the word of the day.
There case with his words, theword of the day. Now,
Matt, you know that the CanFilm Festival is going on right now?
Right? You know that? Yes? You know? And along with the
big Grand Prix in Monaco, outin Monte Carlo, like this is other
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than Adam Driver and jewel knocking onwindows and a sailor what sailor and the
cop and an Indiana State trooper.There's a lot of people out in Europe,
and no, I do not relatewith going anywhere, let alone Monaco
or can. Indianapolis, which I'vebeen to for a big ten championship game
is pretty exotic for me. Butyou'll be happy to know that last night
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at a gigantic party in can RapperTravis Scott and Tiger got into a gigantic
fight on stage. Beautiful and guesswho got involved as well, Matt Collinson,
Alexander Edwards. Almost do you knowwho Alexander Edwards is? AKAAE?
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That's the thirty year old guy that'seffing scher. Oh okay, okay,
I know who that is? Uhhuh. They were at Richie Akiva's event.
Who's a producer? Tiger used todate Kylie Jenner. Travis Scott used
to date Kylie Jenner. When theDJ announced, Hey, these guys are
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here, Travis Scott did not likethat he was lumped in with Tiger,
so they got in a fistfight onstage. Okay, and Travis Scott brought
his friend into it, Southside andTravis Scott and Southside fought Tiger and Cher's
boyfriend almost to the death on stage. Actually no one was really hurt.
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I wish they would have fought tothe death. Ae was making out with
Share just hours prior at a gasred carpet and then he went out and
got in a huge fistfight. SoAmerica is doing a great job. Sergeant's
about to lose his f one seat, and we're out in France making no
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standing ovation for Lars von Trier thisyear, Matt, But we have a
rapper fistfight in because they didn't likehow they were introduced together. We're Americans.
Check out our neck tattoos, ourface tattoos, and our fist fights.
We're American. Guy is banging aneighty year old. We're Americans.
Of course we're banging share. We'reAmericans. Of course we have neck tattoos.
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Idiots, how do you bang share? How do you bang share and
walk around with your chest out whenyou're thirty years old and she's eighty.
I have no idea. I haveno idea. Hey, you gonna walk
around with them tattoos all over yourface? Whatever? Here's my number series
the name number the day. Pehwas like, we got on stage,
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we got Tiger, we got TravisScupton. How could you say my day
with his name at the same time? Ever, number the day is four.
I'm guessing you probably know this becauseI believe you still follow along.
But Big One this weekend, particularlytoday Pee the championship game is Tomorrow's the
final four the Semis, the finalPac twelve baseball tournament, and while we
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focused on basketball and football baseball headingto the Big Ten, to the Big
twelve, to the ACC and elsewheresucks. Oregon State is the most recent
NCAA College World Series champion from thePAC twelve from twenty eighteen. They won
it in AT six and OTS sevenas well. Of course, remember,
yeah, we remember the incredible runwith our friend John Savage in twenty thirteen,
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Arizona in twenty twelve with Andy Lopezwho won it with Pepperdine while I
was there in nineteen ninety two,not playing. I was a student today,
you were in us. Believe thatteam, Matt, You totally,
totally could have walked on. AlthoughI did live with a guy who does,
in fact have that story that everybodylikes to spin. He did walk
on to that World Series cham MattMillard walked onto that World Series championship team
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as a bullpen pitcher. I thinkyou were at SCE when Gillespie won it
right in ninety eight. Yes,that team, of course, as you
well know, dominated USC dominated throughthe seventies. Twelve total NC double eight
championships, ten of them by RonDado And that's the thing about baseball.
In the PAC twelve, Arizona hasthree, Arizona State has five. Dato
to Rod Dato's like the like theJohn Wooden of yes college baseball kind of
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similar eras, similar time frame andsimilar production of championships, and those records
are going to the Big ten Stanfordtwo. As of late, of course,
the SEC has dominated baseball. They'vewon the last four straight, but
today the semis hell of a Finalfour because number two Oregon State number three
Oregon are out. USC has caughtfire to close the season. They worked
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their way up to the four seed. They knocked off Utah in their final
series to get that four seed,and then in pool play they beat Utah,
they beat Oregon and now it isthe Petros Bowl. In about fifteen
minutes, Cal usc for a berthin the championship game tomorrow. Stanford has
a Cinderella run going right now.As the eight SID they would play Arizona
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tonight the number one seed at sevenpm. I've been to a couple of
USC games this year. I hopethey can blow out Cal today. It
would open the door for Pasadena's mikeyEbner to maybe get the start in tomorrow's
championship game. We've had Austin Overnon the show. I've been able to
meet a few of the kids.Great group, and this is the first
time they have head back to backthirty plus win season since two thousand and
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one and two thousand and two.That thing is on the right track.
Yeah, it's kind of inexplicable thatit not that they're good now, but
that they weren't for so long.It never made sense. But it's also
like, you know, when Iwas at SC in ninety eight, and
I knew all those guys, likeWest Coast baseball was something, and you
know Pepperdine, obviously, Long BeachState, Northridge, they all play Irvine
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Fullerton. They all play really reallyhigh quality college baseball. So the fact
that it's kind of shifted to theSouth and a bunch of guys hitting home
runs and watching the home runs andhot dogging all the time, like Burkhart
there in their puka shells, it'swrong. Steko Wentz has been great.
He's he's been great. Yeah,he's first year guy and he's having a
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great success. And he was aGrand Canyon guy who turned them into a
regional team, right they got Yeah, they got screwed last year. I
think that was last year, wasStankovic's first year. They got hosed.
They won thirty four games, didn'tget invited to the tournament. So chances
are they probably gott to win itall to punch their ticket. You mentioned
all those programs. We got Irvine, UCSB their locks to make it.
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Kel Polly has a shot. Theywon both their series against Irvine and UCSB
in the regular season to probably needto make a run in the Big West
Tourney. That's just getting started.So that's the way. Pretty cool.
Like back in the day, itwas, you know, Stanford was great,
usc was great. UCLA had greatplayers, but they didn't really compete
for titles for years and years,and no one was really playing significant Northwestern
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baseball. So the emergence of Oregondidn't even have a team. So that
the emergence of that in you knowState, yeah incredible. And then Oregon
State, Yeah, Oregon and Nikemoney and just creating a baseball program.
And then the fact that Oregon Statewon titles and competed in the World Series
year in and year out and becamereally hard to beat was also pretty cool.
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But it also, you know,it was a lot like the football
world in the early two thousands orafter Pete Carroll was gone. You know,
USC kind of was irrelevant and alot of the focus came to the
Northwest Washington Oregon teams like that.So it's good to see SE playing well
again. Andy's made SC relevant again. Yeah, I hope they get the
win. Be great if it wereArizona versus USC in the final ever Pac
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twelve Tournament championship game tomorrow, becauseUSC is heading to a conference that has
not had in NCAA World Series championsince nineteen sixty six. Well that could
change. You got Oregon Washington rightnow, USC, and everybody knows they
played meaningful baseball at Rutgers, socow baseball is a great story. You
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know. They've had to fight forthat, you know, I mean,
they've that would be great to seethem. You know, obviously USC vested
interest here, but cal I meanthey've had to fight for that program and
they try to get rid of ita couple of times for them to and
they haven't been good at all eitherfor a long ass time. And that's
that's the thing too, right,And who the hell do I care,
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but the idea that UCLA has togive them ten million bucks a year when
they have tried their damnedest to endall of their sports programs. Oh,
it's a confounding place. And whenyou're the dumbest thing ever, when you're
an athlete there, they make youfeel like you're a terrible person because that's
your vocation. It's yeah, it'sBerkeley, God bless it. Well,
good luck to the Trojans. Huhyeah, exactly started in about fourteen minutes.
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Thank you for listening. We'll beright back and we still got that
Santa I Nita thing to give away. David vasse Nix, Dodgers Reds coming
up just after four pm. Ofcourse we are off on Monday as well
for Memorial Day weekend. And howabout this for a Memorial Day weekend,
p it is time to give awayour Santa Anita Park whatever you want to
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Events, but right now caller teneight six six nine eight seven two five
to seventy enjoy the event, andnow it's time to check in with the
Dodgers in Cincinnati. That's why we'reon so early. A great holiday weekend
in southern Ohio with David Massey withan inside look at the Dodgers. This
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is the Vassi Report with David Vassejoining us right now on the Southern California
Toyota Dealers Celebrity Hotline, A celebrityon television Spectrum sports Net all weekend.
Kates will do the Dodger Talk dutiesalong with Marango Casino Dodgers on deck.
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It is the great David vass Enjoyhim on television all weekend long, maybe
some MLB network as well, andhopefully he keeps himself in one piece.
Dave, what's cracking. How's itgoing out there? It's going great.
It's a beautiful sunny day here inCincinnati. No rain in the forecast today
Sunday there's some rain. Yes,sports Net LA tonight. Back on Dodger
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Talk tomorrow and we'll close it outon Sunday. And the last time I
was in Cincinnati, guys and wewere talking like this, Joe Burrow was
in the batting cage, the quarterbackfor the Bengals because OTA's were going on
at the same time. But nice, that's what I was reminded of standing
out here on the track behind thecage. Before we get into what's going
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on with this really long Dodger roadtrip. Something Tim Kates was talking about
last night on the off night DodgerTalk, Dave, while you were eating
Skyline Chili in Cincinnati with the team, was just how bad or how average
this team has been, especially basedon their standard on these getaway days and
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on Sunday. I think it waskind of like that last year. Can
you explain this, Dave, Icannot, But the average part, I
can explain. The last eight games. They've been exactly average. They've been
five hundred, and they're pitching isthe reason why they were five hundred,
or they would have been under.They're hitting in the month of May has
been ridiculously poor. They're hitting inthe bottom third of Major League Baseball in
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the month of May. They're chasinghome runs, They're striking out a lot.
Wednesday night at Dodgers Stadium multiple timeswith runners at third base and nobody
out couldn't get them in, orthird base in less than two outs,
couldn't get them in. So guyslike Will Smith are hitting. Will Smith
sitting one ninety, Mookie Betts hascooled off, he's hitting two sixty,
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Freddy's cooled off. Otani's the onlyguy that is still on another planet,
So they got to get these guysgoing here, Dave, should we be
at all concerned? I know it'stwo starts, but we know that he's
had issues staying healthy for an entireseason. Should we have concerns about Tyler
glasnow not making it out of thefifth in either of his last two stars.
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Yeah, I don't believe that it'sa health issue. I asked about
that yesterday and it wasn't for anyhealth reasons why he was taken out.
It was just the circumstances of thegame. He was down three to nothing,
he was getting close to that pitchlimit and they pulled the plug on
him. So No, at thispoint, there is no health concerns.
Now. A year or two fromnow, with that long term contract they
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gave him, maybe we'll talk aboutthat then. But everybody around the Dodgers
and around Major League Baseball is prettyconfident he'll stay healthy this entire year.
If you had to, you know, and maybe it's stupid to ask,
but based on the last two starts, if you had to pick the pitcher
that's pitching the best right now ofthe Dodgers. Is that still Glass?
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Noow is a guy with the Isit the guy with the sparkling you know,
win loss record in Paxton? Isit Bueler who had some electric stuff
last time? I'm like, who'sthe best pitcher on this staff right now?
I'd say the one is Yamamoto.I feel like he's been the one
that's pitched the best in the lastthree or four starts, so that would
be my choice. Glass now obviouslyis the anchor to the rotation. He's
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just had very, very human likestarts the last two times out. After
what we've seen from him this year, he's still the best. But the
guy that's pitching the best is Yamamoto. Check out David Vasse on TV tonight.
Is that no TV on Sunday orTV on Sunday? Dave? What
are we doing on Sunday? Saturdayis a national broadcast, so there's no
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Sports at LA coverage Tomorrow Sunday,Back on it, back on it,
okay on Sunday. Joe Burrow's notcoming out of that dugout tonight, So
who plays for the Reds as faras right now, other than the guy
that struck out four thousand times whenhe was out here gta ed Mono loco.
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Yeah, Ellie da la Cruz.He has cooled off significantly after that
four hit night at Dodgers Stadium.They held him hitless the remainder of that
series and he only has three hitssince that night. So he's in the
slump right now. And I rememberbeing at the game with you for that
one inning and you told Fletcher,I'm not getting you your Dodger dog until
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I see Ellie da La Cruz hit. So even you want to see Ellie
play, I do remember that that'sthe place I wanted to see him.
And he's struck out like five times, and I don't think he's not gonna
hit since. But Hunter Green shovedit up the Dodgers Callo a little bit
on that day. Is he goingto be around this weekend? Yeah,
he's actually pitching tomorrow. It's gonnabe a great pitching matchup on a national
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stage, Hunter Green against Walker Bueller. You don't get those type of pitching
probables that often anymore, so HunterGreen will have the national stage against his
hometown Dodgers and Walker Bueller coming offhis best start since coming off the IL.
It's going to be a great pitchingmatchup, you would believe. Here
in Cincinnati and Walker obviously from Louisville, Kentucky. He used to come to
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Great American Ballpark a lot to watchMajor League Baseball, so he's in his
own backyard. That'll be fun forhim too. When you mentioned the offense,
Dave, you know the outfield atBay issue, and obviously that's why
Outman's no longer with the club.Pa has is, you know, certainly
cooled down considerably since his hot start. We know they don't wait for the
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trade deadline all the time. Imean, they'll make deals all the time.
They've been doing it so far thisseason, some sign kind of minor
deals. Could you see them makinga trade for an outfielder. I could
see them making a trade for anoutfielder. I don't know if that'll happen
before the July thirtieth trade deadline,because that's where all the impact trades are
made. But definitely the Dodgers arekeeping their finger on the pulse of the
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outfield market. The Angels, TaylorWard is probably is going to be available.
He's a guy that the Dodgers obviouslyhad interest in a couple of years
ago because he was part of thetrade that fell apart between the Dodgers and
Angels with Ross Strippling, Jock Petersonand Andy PAHs part of that deal for
Taylor Ward and Louis Renhifo. SoI would imagine they had interest in him
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then they still have interested in himnow. The one and only David Vasse
his messages, the Dodgers have beenaverage, and they're hitting has been below
average, and they got to pickit up in Cincinnati. Dave, do
you like that park? It feelslike it always gives you a little pep
in your step, opposite to theway Matt feels about Cincinnati. I believe.
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Yeah. Actually I told people Itake Cincinnati over Pittsburgh and Saint Louis
any day. And this ballpark isgreat for hitters because it's a bandbox.
The Dodgers, I can't remember ifit was twenty nineteen or twenty seventeen,
hit eight home runs in this ballparkone game. So there's pros and cons
to coming here. Because as aleft handed hitter, you may be tempted
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to hit it down the left fieldline three twenty five and chase the home
run, so three twenty eight downthe lines in left field as well.
So teams have come out of slumpshere and they have gone into slumps here
chasing the long ball. So we'llsee which direction goes for these Dodgers.
Well, it demands a follow up, Dave. Everybody knows Saint Louis is
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an absolute dump of a city.But Pittsburgh really Cincinnati? You like?
Is that just the ballpark or thecity as a whole, the road trip
as a hole? You like Cincinnatibetter than Pittsburgh. You don't hear that
often now, the whole package,the ballpark, the proximity from hotel to
ballpark, to be able to walkhere, the city itself, I like
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it as well. They got ahipster area called over the Rhine, which
they have really taken to another level. Pittsburgh, unfortunately, guys, one
of those downtowns that was hit reallyhard by the pandemic and it was coming
to life, and then the pandemichit. Everything shut down and it's gone
backwards five steps unfortunately. Yeah.Fabulous travel insight from David Vase, a
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baseball journeyman. No doubt Dave,have a great night on TV. Will
be watching and stay healthy out there, all right, you'd be safe on
the streets out there, Matt,the real Underscore DV. Yeah, protect
your net and we'll be back withyour dad and a live guy Birthday of
the Day on a flex back PetrosenMoney Show on a Frogman Friday, Dodgers
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in Cincinnati. Will wrap it upnext Thanks for listening, everybody on a
Frogman Friday, and please have asafe and happy Memorial Day weekend. Matt
and I will return on Tuesday foranother big flex alert as the Dodgers are
hitting the road for a significant amountof time in the Eastern time Zone and
(23:38):
only a quick respite back at homestarting a week from today, so we
will keep up with everything with theschedule talk. Nobody does schedule talk better
than the Petrosen Money Show. Andyes, and next week when we're back
on Tuesday, we'll still be givenaway those wonderful trips to the Fontaine Blue
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Hotel in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada. Now, Matt, I believe we
had the dead Guy Birthday of theDay, and don't forget to podcast the
show. Everybody on the iHeartRadio appwhen you miss us over the long weekend,
I do. We are your Sweettooth show of record, driven mostly
by Tim Kates and the favoritist candyin each and every state these days is
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Reese's Peanut butter Cups. So let'swish a huge happy one hundred and forty
fifth of the man that made thathappen, Henry, I should say Harry,
not Henry. Harry Burnett Reese bornin York County, PA, on
a dairy farm. Only child gotto work. That was his education,
working on a farm, figuring outangles to put some extra scratch in his
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pocket. Milking the cows was easy. While selling milk in town, he
heard restaurants were looking for frogs,so he built a pond on the farm
property, raised frogs, sold themto make more money. A frog farm,
I get like a frog pond.I guess you know, built upon
frogs, your farming frog. Yeah, Baltimore area. They loved his frog
(25:07):
besse. He got married young twentyone and manned did they get after it?
Oh? Edna started spittingnot kids likecrazy, sixteen of them thirteen that
survived into adulthood. His father inlaw owned the cannery, and he managed
the fishing operations down in Virginia whilemanaging his family's dairy farm in Woodbine.
And yet still that was not enoughmoney to feed almost mile. This the
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way to take a factory job inNew Freedom, Pennsylvania. In nineteen sixteen,
he saw an advert from Milton S. Hershey seeking people to manage his
dairy farms out in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Obviously he was qualified, he applied,
he was hired to manage his premierfarm. It was known as round
barn, cutting edge technology for thetime, milking machines, production methods.
(25:53):
Reese managed it all just as Hersheyhad asked, that's pieces around because of
the way the barn was. That'sexactly what it was. It's a round
barn. That gave him the idea. So he did what he was asked,
and then hers She was like,Yeah, this costs too much,
I'm shutting it down. So he'sout of a gig. He leaves all
of his other jobs for this one. He's got all those miles to feed.
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I think he had nine kids atthe time. So he's like,
fitt, I'm shoot my shot.And he started R and R Candy Company
he bought an old canning factory inHumblestown, Pennsylvania, manufactured milk, chocolate,
covered almonds, and raisins. Thelocal stores loved him bought them up.
He had momentum. He issued stockin his new company, raised about
three hundred grand and today's dollars,pumped it back into the company, buying
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high quality, state of the artmanufacturing equipment to boost his production. Yet
still wasn't making enough money to feedeleven kids at the time, so he
worked at the paper mill. Hewas the town butcher and on weekends at
the local factory canning vegetables. Dude, bet he's steak. Oh yeah,
had no time to shower. Hisfirst two bar paper Mill, matt paper
(27:00):
Mill, the Slaughterhouse. Exactly right. His first two bars were named after
his two oldest children in The LizzieBar and the Johnny Bar. Both had
the same ingredients coconut caramel, molasses, cocoa, butter, and honey.
But guess what Johnny's had nuts.Yeah. In twenty three he incorporated the
Reese Candy Company and they started sellingchocolate, twelve varieties in total that he
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would pack into five pound boxes forthe holidays. Made quite a bit of
money doing that, and all thefeedback was the peanut butter cups were the
favorite of all the candies. Notthe covered butter, not the milk chocolate
covered butter creams, or the marshmallowor the cream caramels, or the chocolate
peanut clusters. No peanut butter cups. So he invented the standalone and much
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larger reces peanut butter cup after oneof his customers said, hey, you
know that that confection in Hushy itshut down. The equipment's no good anymore,
So we need something, all right, And that's when he's like,
all right, I'll fill the Hedeveloped the peanut butter cup, sold them
for a penny per cup. Hisslogan was made in Chocolate Town, so
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they must be good. He expandedthe size of the cup in nineteen forty
three, and that was a fivecent peanut butter cup. The sales of
Recy's peanut butter cups doubled every fouryears before he died. In nineteen fifty
six, he began construction on hissecond factory, and right before he passed
away died of a heart attack.Left his kids a company that had just
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merged with Hershey and a tax freestock merger for six hundred and sixty six
thousand, three hundred and sixteen shares. Today, after all the splits,
the family still owns the stock sixteenmillion shares worth four point four billion dollars
that pays out annual dividends of eightyeight million dollars, and it's now the
number one candy brand in the US. Well, that's a lot of great
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information about recent exactly right. It'stotally different relationship around here since my daughter
developed a violent peanut allergy. Understandable. Not a lot of cups. Some
house sniff it out and ruin everybody'slife. And the ePIE pins and the
shame and the guilt. All right, Matt celebrating me alive. But the
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old this week, this man isstill alive. Archie Shepp eighty seven years
old, a great jazz man fromFort Lauderdale, which we talked about yesterday,
Fort Lauderdale, just like Monica exactly. That's sorry, tax shelter,
(29:33):
But Archie Shep was really raised inPhiladelphia. Lifetime musician. His dad taught
him to play the banjo. Hewent to Goddard College in Vermont, where
he studied theater, but he wasa player in the sixties. He started
with Latin jazz, but then hehooked up with an avant garde pianist named
(29:57):
Cecil Taylor and became a coveted horn, coveted by who you may ask by
who, coveted by John Coltrane.Never heard of him? Well, I'm
sorry, I'm trying to do ajazz story and you got to play along
a little. He was on fourfor Train, he was on A Love
(30:21):
Supreme. Those are pretty important jazzalbums. If you've never heard of Coltrane,
it's it's like Screaming into a Canyon? Is he like three Doors Down?
A little bit like that? Youhave? Okay, I'd probably like
him. Then his big album innineteen sixty five with his own name on
it was fire music, getting politicaland avant garde, Malcolm X type of
(30:45):
stuff. Oh yeah, he's alot like Pharaoh Sanders. You've heard of
Malcolm X. Okay, he wasa lot like Pharaoh Sanders. Saw Lebron
reading his biography and then it ishard to read a biography that is,
you know, like a good heavybook and have no creases in the spine,
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just not one crease in the spine. What if I'm just going to
sit there and flip the pages andlook very serious. It's like it's like
a Cholo's Dickies on a Sunday,you know, not one crease, not
a lot. Like Pharaoh Sanders,Archie Shep kind of went to the connection
with African culture, sort of stuffwith jazz, which wasn't a thing before
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the sixties. Not really a prolificdiscography. My favorite album he does is
called Going Home with a noted exPatriot jazz star named Horace Parlan, a
pianist. It's ballads and spirituals.His website is still fully functional. Archie
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Shep's is and you can still bookArchie Shep, but it looks like he
still lives in There's like three extranumbers on the on the phone, so
I don't know that'll do it.And he's pretty old, so I think
if you're in Europe you can stillbook Archie ship. But we have at
least like three guys in Europe totext me, so he also go check
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on Archie right, check them out. He also wrote plays as a young
man. One was called The Communist. He taught it Suny Buffalo and U
mess Amherst Home of the Minute Man. That Going Home album looks a lot
like Blue Train, same kind ofcover it is. Yeah, it's a
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it's an ex Patriot. A longtime ago a listener sent me a a
radio kind of documentary, just likea radio piece about expatriot jazz guys who
are dying or very old out inSweden or the Netherlands. And Horace Parlan
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was one of them, and theyinterviewed him and stuff, and he's quite
old living in a nursing home.And he made mention of this the album
he did with Archie Shaff And thiswas like maybe five six years ago a
listener sent it. So I boughtthe album and it is a fabulous album,
but quite slow, quite slow.So you've heard a Blue Tray exactly.
(33:27):
I don't know the artists, youknow, I just collect. I
got you Giant Steps. No,Nah, you ever heard of Shaky's Because
the Dodgers and the redsit pop itoff. Forget Mick Cronin's favorite Montgomery In
and those ribs, you have Shaky'shere in southern California. James Packson on
the mound and you know you canget your game day meal on at Shakey's
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Pizza Parlor. Order your Shaky's chickenand mojos right now at Shaky's dot com,
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M hm, the patron said,Mindy show we're telling back on tomorrow. Mm hmm
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