A Frogman Friday (Hour 3) 6/21/24

Final Hour Fun Fact. Quick Hits. Top Story of the Day. Dead and Alive Guy Birthday of the Day.

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it's the Yeah, we're three facts, fun facts. Did you know,
Neil Armstrong, we are your astronautsSpace Exploration, the final frontier show
of record. I want people inthe sea, We want them in the
sea. Two. Getting that thingthat all the pinging was coming from,
y'all so compelled for all those weeks. It collapsed on itself, y'all.

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It's over. It's over, guys. The pinion stopped. There was just
one loud crunch. It's over.Neil Armstrong's NASA application was a week late.
His pal Richard Day Old Dicky Daysecretly slipped his friend Armstrong's application into

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the pile and he was accepted.Otherwise, due to his tardiness, would
have never been the first man towalk on the Moon. It would have
been Buzz Aldrin and we would havehad that crazy fool. It's just like
Kroy Bierman's wife, Kim Zulciac says, don't be tardy for the party.
Well, that's reportedly the mantra thatArmstrong lived by. Well, for whatever

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reason, this one just slipped throughthe wickets. It's time for quick.
It's everybody miss quick hits. Imake it quick, y'all. Oh yeah,
we told you, Dodgers Angels.We talked to Dave about it.
First time show hey has seen hisformer team lending kanak or nack on the

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mound first pitch at seven ten.Everybody knows that. Uh. The last
four games since Mookie's injury, Otani'smoved up to the lead ops spot.
He is eight for eighteen with twojacks, three doubles and six RBIs.
Maybe they ought to move him back. It's not too productive. It's not
your ear. It's not your year, Mookie. Some people thought it was

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gonna be your year. Nobody's talkingabout his Mooky. It's a logging and
unfortunately a dude from Kansas City haddifferent plans for you. He didn't like
the long odds on your MVP race. Instead Otani running away with it.
Now those two dogars in your absence, No, he poofed up your hands,

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so poofed if you're going to thegame or watching the game, you
want to have a mental picture hereon the radio. The Dodgers will be
wearing that City Connect uniform with thefun fetti tomorrow, so it's gonna be
sweet. Like, do you knowanyone that says they like him? Like?
Have you? We both have alot of Dodger fans in our lives.

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I think he just said that doyou like him? You really?
Do you legitimately like him? Yeah? I love him. They're the best.
See that, because I was goingto say, I don't know if
I just want to like them andthey're or they're starting to grow on me
because I can't really see the funfetti when they're on the players, the
weird l A D. And theI that I don't like. I don't

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like the L A D. MaybeI'm think maybe I'm coming around on the
script on the front a little bit, the L A with the the sort
of ava sort of star star trekTam. Yeah. Man, you know
you're one of those guys that gotoff the bus like Axel Rose on Sunset
Boulevard, went to the Seventh Veil, you reach for the stars. You're
one of those guys Lebron is expectedto opt out of his final year.

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What does this mean, Matt?What are we doing? I mean we
have some serious talk next about theJJ Redickhi, what is this? What
are we doing? Well, he'sgoing to make over fifty million bucks per
year. He already makes fifty onemillion bucks hopped out, and you're going
to jump that number to about fiftyfour to fifty six million dollars. So
why not pocket the extra four millionbucks that he will elect? According to

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Dan, he'll elect to remain withthe Lakers. He will simply get the
leverage. And I guess, youknow, you get a no trade clause,
you get which apparently you know,there was a big story about him
getting traded to Golden State at thetrade deadline. But that's the only way
he can get a no trade clauseis by opting out. So I guess,

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good luck to him and maybe getyour one hundred and sixty two million
bucks on a three year deal,because that's going to just bend over and
spread him like Jim Carrey is aceVentura wait to get nailed by King.
Yes, yes, Tim, Iknow he is aging and old and his
play is going downhill every single year. I get it. But a three
year deal, that's good, right, that's the limit he can sign because

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he's over the age of thirty eight, so that's kind of a blessing.
Right. They can't sign to along term deal and be stuck with him.
Fair point. I believe that's knownas the Chris Paul rule because he
was the head of the players Unionwhen they negotiated it, and they didn't
like the idea that he could sayplayers of a certain age could still get
five year contracts. Instead, theywere like, yeah, Chris Paul rule.
He's old and broken. You onlyget three years max. So spends

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a million dollars a year on hisbody. Oh, really takes care of
his body. Speaking of taking careof your body and going to the river
to think, we'll call it Gamesix of the Stanley Cup Finals tonight in
Edmonton, Alberta. The Oilers havewon two straight in that series, but
they're still down three to two.It's best to seven, of course,

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and they look to stave off eliminationagain tonight at home. Talk about the
drop like, I think you mighthave actually just just started somewhere in there
looking for something else to drop.I'm just looking for some movies. Couplers
girl. Actually my name is Kate, but Kate here we are. So
I've fall long and hard about whatI wanted to say that everybody, anybody

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who knows me knows that I'm oneof my favorite places. Right now,
Uh come here to do some thinking. We'll call it. But it's one
I would say. You could bethe most perfect godly person in the world.
You could save kittens from a riverif they were drowning. Someone's still
gonna hate you. So, youknow what, at the end of the

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day, I got drunk and withmy oilers game and they went viral.
You if you don't like it,who goal oilerslers? You know, I
was against Kate until I heard that, and I'd say, she makes a
really good point. And they doembrace Kate in their boots. Copa America,
Peru, and Chile are just nowunder in an opening round game in

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Dallas tomorrow. Two games is Ecuadortakes on Venezuela and Mexico El Tree faces
the Reggae Boys of Jamaica. TWUSAYou're Going Down. USA takes on Bolivia
on Sunday in Dallas, and that'sthe opening round game for the US in
Copa America. And what about thosesw Olympics, Matt, We got big

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Swo Olympic news too. Yeah,there's there's a lot going on out there,
you know, a lot going onout there, that's for sure.
Twenty twenty eight games. We'll behere in LA. Today. The organizing
committee announced venue locations for events.And you want to talk about a punch
in the gut for the Staple Centerinstead basketball going to be held at Steve

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Balmer's into it, thom, areal punch to the freaking gut. Oh,
just a deep punch to the bootsof the Staple Center, folks.
Now, Sofi said, we don'twant basket ball, we want swimming.
But Crypto has gymnastics. So Cryptodoes get gymnastics, which is also a
high level, a high level,highly desired event, that's for sure.

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But it's not Steve Bamber's basketball hoopdojo. Exactly right. Swimming so far
right in the athletics, your favoritepe I love the athletics. The pond
right outside is where they're going todo the swimming. It's gonna be great.
That's exactly right. We are yourOlympic Show of record. Although people
don't care as much. How aboutthis. I'm sorry I didn't see the

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Free Style San Fernando Valley. Wow, let's go San for Nandio's a Pulvita
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to the Tony Danzas celebrity softball park. Nick Cage is going to pop it

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off in honor of his film ValleyGirl. Well, okay, that is
quick hits, and coming up next, we're gonna talk JJ Reddick. We
had McLean on in the first hour, we got Matt Mindy Smith and the
third talking about the story of theday, the Lakers hire JJ Reddick so
stoked. Thanks for listening, everybody. Petrosen Money happy to be with you.

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the world. And now it's timefor the top story of the day,
top story of it that the dusthas settled. Yeah, we had a
couple of hours to react to theinstead of get an official hire. But
we're gonna have a press conference.I mean, you're gonna have a press
conference. At least at least theyallowed the Celtics that, right, We're

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not gonna have our press are onthe same day as your parade. We
may have usurped your domination of thesports talking heads show airwaves with our hiring
of a guide that's never been acoach before, but yes, that's I'm
gonna you know, Matt, I'mgonna take a phrase from you when a

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when a guest is talking for alot. You know I'm gonna hold you
right there, jump in, jumpin right here and say that JJ Reddick
has coaching experience, much like myson's little league coach Ben Archer. We
took the district championship this year,Matt look got Dave Roberts, Ben arch
is coming for your gig. Hellyeah, he's got experience. Or my

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friend Ryan Wagoner, who may haveblown his knee in the coach a softball
game. JJ Reddick has extensive coachingexperience at the U nine level. It's
not coach save his son's youth basketballteam. As I said, I don't
if you were to write in theLA Times today, Dan JJ Reddick has

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zero head coaching experience. I don'tthink anyone is going to come after you
and say you're going to have toprint a retraction. Dan, you know
we're going to not. Now theLA Times is going to have to print
a correction and a retraction because youfailed to mention that he coached his son's
youth basketball team. How could youwho had this who allowed this goat to
go to print? Now we're allscrewed. We've got to print a correction

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and retraction tomorrow. You idiots.We've got to apologize, We've got to
grovel. You didn't we failed tonote JJ's time coaching his youth's his son's
youth basketball team. Our apologies.He does have some coaching experience. They
paid him eight million bucks four years, thirty two million dollars. Where does
that put him in the top ten? Tied with NBA champion head coach Nick

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Nurse, NBA champion head coach MichaelMalone. He is making seven hundred and
fifty grand more than NBA champion headcoach Rick Carlisle and the same amount of
money as NBA champion head coach DocRivers. Oh, that is what and

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coach. There is no salary capon coaching salaries. But if you were
gonna give Dan Hurley, who mighthave been the most sought after head coach
if teams had known he was readyto make the jump to the NBA eleven
million dollars three million more, justseems like you might as well have given

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him five million more, since that'swhat Genie bus really had her her heart
set up. She was crushed back, Yes, she was crushed. Yeah,
you go instead of six for seventy, Maybe go ahead and you pay
him fifteen million bucks per year,and that's more than anybody not named Greg
Popovich or Steve Kerr and ends upmaking the jumping. Hey, that's Old's

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Dan's family and Andrea the Jersey Nativesthat they are are happy in Connecticut.
Their family is ecstatic to have themthere. Old man can come on over
from Bonnie's and watch him, andgood luck to them moving forward, and
the Lakers now have a four yearpack with JJ Reddick. Those that want
to push back, this is oneof the interesting ones, and I think

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it bears mentioning because it is compelling. I mentioned Doc Rivers has won an
NBA title. Our friend Howard Beckdug out an old relic that he said
made him feel one hundred years old. But when Doc Rivers was hired by
the Orlando Magic, he pulled outan old story that he wrote that had
the line, Doc Rivers has onlycoached his daughter's youth basketball team, and

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we'll be taking the Orlando Magic jobwith zero NBA, NC DOUBLEA or high
school coaching experience. And it certainlyworked out for Doc. So maybe maybe
JJ Reddick is the next Doc Rivers. Well, there you go, don't
They hate each other. I wouldn'tbe surprised. It seems like everybody hates

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JJ. That is that is theprevailing feat and everybody likes Doc, and
everybody likes Doc exactly. That isthe prevailing feeling that I get. The
Lakers reportedly, again, according tomultiple outlets, will be seeking multiple former
head coaches to be added at JJReddick's staff. Remember they wanted the old

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USC equivalent of that. Remember iswhat remember Lane Kiffin? You know they're
hiring JJ Reddick, but they're they'rebringing Scott Brooks. Okay, I consider
that. Uh. They say thatJJ made a compelling presentation to Rob Polinka

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and Jeanie Buss, going into specificdetails about what offense he would run,
about what defense he would like todeploy, how Anthony Davis, not Lebron
James, would be the center ofhis offense, and he believed his system,
the way he wants to play basketball, the offense that he would install,
would benefit Anthony Davis considerably, almostintimating that he had been misused these

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last couple of years and feels asthough he can unlock some things that Anthony
Davis has not been able to dowith the Lakers since the twenty twenty COVID
title run. And look, there'sa reason why that leaks out. And
I don't know if as many peoplewere paying attention to the Reddick podcast in
which he detailed his votes, becausehe gets a vote as a broadcaster for

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ESPN. He got votes for MVPand Coach of the Year and most Improved
Player and the All NBA teams andall that sort of stuff. And as
you probably know, and many peoplelistening probably know, players have incentives in
their contracts. Yes, they makea ton of money forty fifty million bucks
a year for Anthony Davis, butyou do have incentives for making all NBA
teams, All Defense, all NBADefense teams, Defensive Player of the Year,

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JJ Reddick, despite Anthony Davis finishingin the top three for Defensive Player
of the Year, left Anthony Davisoff of his All Defense team and defended
that position in a podcast. Andmany believe that perhaps, at least maybe
it's just me, believe that maybethis little story of him focusing everything around

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Anthony Davis was a bit of asalve to that open wound of him saying
that he did not think Anthony Daviswas one of the five best defensive players
in the league last year, andthis is his way of saying, oh
no, we're going to feature youman, and be so featured. People
aren't going to know the name LebronJames feature this. So that is apparently
the whiteboard made an appearance. Idon't know if the red wine did as

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well in the meeting with Rob Polinkaand Genie Buss and he was very good.
They said, he was very compelling. He made a strong pitch.
And perhaps this is the most interestingpart though, now that the dust is
settled in the many articles that havebeen written about how did the Lakers settle
upon JJ Reddick. I think itwas our friend Sam Amic from over there
at the Athletic that wrote the storythat Rob Polinka and JJ Reddick spent a

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considerable amount of time alone together inChicago while many of the talking heads were
fawning over Lebron James, his wifeSavannah and their appearance inside the Combine Halls
to watch their son Brini. Becauseyou know what, maybe I just like
talking about man who's out there supportinghis child. Maybe I find that seeing

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that, Maybe I like seeing thatI'm Ramona Shelbourne and I like it.
Maybe I like seeing that. MaybeI'm okay talking about that Kendrick. And
while that was happening, Rob Polinka, I don't know if you want to
say it was clandestine or if itwas you know, usurping the power of
Genie Buss, if it was surreptitious. Oh, I hear the ticking of
the clerk that that Apparently look hemay He claims he listens to our radio

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show and that he likes to leanon what we have to say, and
especially what the callers have to say. He likes to take that into consideration
every time before he makes a decision. But reportedly, while that may or
may not be true based on thestatements he gave to us and the characteristics
of our radio show and whether ornot we take callers that suggest what Rob

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Polinka Shuldar shouldn't do in his everydayduties as general manager. Apparently reportedly he
does, in fact like to consumepodcasts and the JJ Reddick Old Man and
The Three and Mine the Game withLebron James are two of the reasons why
he believes JJ has a brilliant basketballbrain and he became smitten with the idea

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of taking the big swing and puttinghis nuts on the line. And perhaps
Reddick was, in fact, muchto my chagrin, not wanting to give
the drekar nowar drenched sawtaid and oversalted neck and blouse of sham Sharania all
the credit. That perhaps he wasnever really that interested in anyone but Reddick,

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Danny Hurley included, and that hejust made that offer at the behest
of Genie Buss And some are evensaying saboteur intentionally knowing it was too low
as opposed to not doing his duediligence to bring in Danny Hurley Weetula,
who could perhaps and this is somethingyou regularly talk about, be what happens
at USC prior to hiring Lincoln Riley. What do they want to do with

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all those head coaches and don't wantto get rid of that control. They
don't want a head coach with aton of power and a reputation and a
massive eight year, one hundred andten million dollar contract to rest that power
away from Rob Polinka who's making acouple million bucks a year, somebody who's
got a chivato on every corner tellingyou what to do, what to think,
what to eat, exactly right.Instead, he gets the guy.

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And this is the other thing thatpopped up. If people saying that JJ
Reddick has realized what he had alwaysenvisioned as the next chapter of his professional
career, that he had made ita goal to be a head coach in
the NBA, to which I wouldsay, then then maybe you shouldn't be

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so arrogant as to not take agig as a coach on an NBA state
how important the three pointer is.To have one of his era's best three
point shooters on your coaching staff wouldprobably be an individual that a number of
teams would be interested in bringing onas either a shooting coach or an assistant.

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Yet never once did he pursue anyof those opportunities. Just assumed I
can go from hosting a podcast andtalking on a TV show and yelling at
Mad Dog and Steven A and talkingdown to anybody that dare challenge me,
that that would be his path toNBA head coaching. Startman, I guess
for that. Congratulations to him.He's absolutely right. Sam Cassell's been a

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damn assistant coach for fifteen years andhe can't shake juggling his balls up and
down the court to the tune ofa head coaching gig Jared Dudley toiling away,
not a head coach Adrian Griffin finallygot a gig in me at Milwaukee.
It lasted all like fifteen games beforeJannis I'm booted for Doc Rivers.
So maybe jj Reddick is in facta brainiac from Duke that's smarter than all

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of us and has the answers toahead of the test. And now he
gets to guide one of the mostfamous not just arguably the most famous brand
in all of the National Basketball Association, but one of the most famous sporting
brands on Earth before he turns fortywith zero head coaching experience. The one
thing that is missing from the DocRivers I'm shut a little bit, a

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little bit of coaching experience there.My mistake making big decisions with the U
nine, my mistake. I apologize. I can't seem to you chan't seem
to get that to stick. Yougotta shake that like Sam Gonzell's gotta shake
the Big Balls dance. I wouldlike to point out as I wrap this
up, for those that were shovingme Orlando magic story with Doc Rivers having
only coached his daughter's youth basketball teamin my face, and how he went

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on to be a great coach.I would simply push back slightly and say,
yes, he was hired by theOrlando Magic. He was not hired
by the Boston Celtics that came afterhis success in Orlando. He was not
hired by the Lakers, not hiredby the Chicago Bulls. He is not
was not hired by the New YorkKnicks. He was hired by the Orlando

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Magic as a eh, maybe thisguy will work. We're Orlando with the
hell Cares, And it ended upworking out. So made JJ blaze the
same trail as Doc Rivers and returnedthe Lakers to all of their glory.
That's good. That's good stuff,Matt. You know, walking back a

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few things and pushing back on afew others and pushing a few bats,
you know, taking a couple ofpawns back, moving a couple of bucks.
I did, you know, Ifeel like it was fair and balancedly.
I you know, was a littlelittle upset this morning when I got
the story started and I read thethe Dan piece in the La Times.

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But after that and I dug alittle deep and moved it around. Howard
Beck may feel pretty good, youknow, to Woch with a thirty two
million another piece there, Shams withhis dra car Noir sponsored appearance on a
McAfee show. A couple f bombshere, a couple of s bombs there.
Well, white bitch references there.You really had it, you know,

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just kind of glue it all together. Day you left me for a
white man. I've been aggregator ofall things JJ Reddick. Today we'll be
right back with your dead and alive guy Birthday of the Day, and
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Well we'll get some more ice therefor you. Mad at Brew reacts it's
actually hotter on the inside. That'sa different place, all right. We
look forward to that, Matt.You've done this dead guy before, I
think, but I've been to wakein the museum, so we'll do it
again. Charles Alderton, a pharmacistfrom Brooklyn, would have been one hundred

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and sixty seven years old today.English parents went to Framlingham College in England
actually, and then went to studymedicine at ut in Austin. Look him.

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He worked at Morris's Old Corner drugstore in Waco, Texas as the
pharmacist, and he had a sodafountain there. And when he saw the
customers getting tired, Matt tired ofthat same old dress, you know,
tired of the lemon flavor of thesasparilla and tired of the vanilla. He

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started experimenting and ultimately came up witha new flavor combo twenty three ingredients including
phosphoric acid to give it tang.First sold December one, eighteen eighty five.
To order doctor Alderton's special drink.You said, give me a shot

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of Waco, and he jerked thefountain and give it to you. Now
Alderton gave it, just gave itto Wade Morrison, the owner of Morrison's
drug Store in the corner there.It's all five a dime down there,
uh huh. And he named itDoctor Pepper because of the peppery taste and

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the fact that doctor Alderton, adoctor in fact a pharmacist, invented it.
This all preceded the invention of CocaCola Matt by Crazy part Right one
year only one year crazy. Buta few years after that the World's Fair
gave it such a boost in SaintLouis in nineteen oh six when the World's

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Fair was there, that they hadto big build a big bottling company right
there in downtown Waco, and thatwas open making Doctor Pepper until the sixties,
and then became the Doctor Pepper Museum, which is cool if you've ever
been to Waco. I try togive it the old top dom treatment whenever
we do a Baylor game. Sothere's a corner store exhibit, kind of

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like John Wooden's library room or hisden at the museum. Is it like
there's like the Lebron store in Akronin that mall. It's well, it's
not in a mall, it's inan old building, but like Lebron's store.
Yes, it celebrates the history ofdoctor Pepper. And there's a mannequin

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Doctor Alderton there, you know,serving you a soda. He was only
twenty four years old when he inventeddoctor Pepper, so he had a life
that's incredible. Well, yeah,he had a lifetime to watch it flourish
and become a thing. I mean, the drug store was his very first
job, and he created Doctor Pepperthere and became a soda magnate just because

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people were tired of the SA's perilla. I was married twice. One of
the wives died on him. Hedied at eighty three in Waco in nineteen
forty one. Doctor Charles Alderton henever lived to see Little Sweet you know,
for the tiet Doctor Pepper that's unfortunate. He never lived to see a
little hell of a marketing campaign orthe or the I'm a pepper, you're

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a pepper either, you know,I mean, you'd like to be a
pepper. Tho he didn't love tosee any of that. Well, I'm
sure he was a big enough celebrityin his day. Imagine, imagine being
the center of the celebration at aworld's fair. My god, if we
could, just if we could harnesswhat was created from one side of the

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globe to the other at the world'sfairs back in the Ots, Chicago,
Saint Louis, wherever the hell elsethey were, the two I remember.
Just imagine all the great things wecould accomplish together. But a last here
we are. Well, now wehave the Internet now exactly right. Now
we have the Hawk digit. Nowwe have the Hawk Tua girl. Now
that's what we have. That's right. We got Oiler Drill Kate, she

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went, she went viral, andwe have and we have Oiler Girl.
We have Oiler Girl, and wehave Hawk to a girl. You're you're
a live guy. It is myyoungest Preston's seventeenth birthday, birthday, So
honorable mention here for her happy birthday. She happened to release her latest song

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last night at midnight, did notintentionally have to coincide with her birthday.
It just happened to post that daycourtesy of the the folks over there at
the distro kid that spit it outto all the streaming platforms, so lined
up. Kind of nice to geta few bars here as we get into
our other alive guy birthdays of theday, someone that she's into here.
A lot of musicians that you canchoose from. Had to decide if Rebecca

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Black It's Friday, Lana del Rey, Juliette Lewis, Kip Winger, oh,
Brandon Flowers. I mean, there'sa lot, but I'm gonna go
at Joe Preston. When Preston's seventeen, You're gonna have to do Kip Winger,
right. Oh, that's fair point. She is seventeen today. Fat,
I know, how did I do? I blew it? Maybe because

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I don't want to connect those twothings. I mean, perhaps she's only
seventeen. I'd love to connect withthose freaking teeth the Pip Winger though,
dig those choppers. Wow, We'regonna go with Joey molland because there are
a lot of bands from the latesixties whose songs probably show up in our
listener's Pandora shuffle or maybe they hearon classic rock radio and just assume it's

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the Beatles. You brought up.Mata Hoopa the other day. All the
Young Dudes is one of those thata lot of people think was the Beatles.
No, but this one, BadFinger, Bad Finger. A lot
of hits that I think people justassume were Beatles songs, not Bad motor
Finger. No, not to beconfused with the Lemmy exactly, but come
and get it day after day.And this one, no matter what,

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Bad Finger, well, yeah,you know, Matt like the Pat Benatar
look at Ridgemont High. A lotof people in the sixties cultivated that sound.
They did. Yeah, well,hey, this is really working.
This is working better than anything else. So let's do that. Joey Mollin
had been playing for over fifty years, is playing, I should say it

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has been playing for over fifty years, still plays, tasty licks, colorful
chords. Lead guitarist, last survivingmember of Bad Fingers classic lineup, born
in Liverpool, got after it inhis late teens with Gary Walker, in
the Rain, not necessarily that popularin the UK, but very popular in
Japan and some other countries outside ofEngland, and Bad Finger was already rolling,

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but Ron Griffiths had a falling outwith some other members, so they
booted him. They hired Molland,and their first release with him, Come
and Get It, was a monsternumber one around the world, millions of
copies, and because they were signedto Apple Music, Joey was a hired
gun for the Beatles. He wason George Harrison's solo work pretty much all
of his solo work, played everytrack on every track on All Things Must

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Pass. He also did the guitarwork on John Lennon's imagine record I Love
You Too Jotted but I Love YokoBoy. But just like the Beatles and
how Linda McCartney and Yoko Ono ruinedeverything, they say it was Molin's wife
that destroyed Bad Finger. No Yeah, Kathy took an assertive role in the

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band's politics, like that switch fromStill Water and almost Famous exactly right.
The rest of the band couldn't takeit anymore. Before the start of rehearsals
for their October seventy four UK tour, Pete Ham just stood up in the
middle of the meeting and shouted,quote, oh don't we'll Kayie managing the
o leaving, and he left theband. He was gone three weeks before

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the record label and management demanded hereturned. And when he did, our
man Joey was like, all right, I guess that means I'm out of
here. I'm gonna take my wifeKathy with me. So see you guys
started his solo career. She's aCow and he's been doing that for the
last fifty years. He tours underthe moniker Joey Mallin's Bad Finger, the

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Festival and Fair Circuit and still chuggingalong at seventy seven. So happy birthday,
Joey Mallin and happy birthday Preston Smith. Check out The Angel on My
Shoulder wherever you procure your your SOMson whatever streaming platform. Another fabulous single
from Preston, and of course wegot Dodgers Angels coming up, brought to

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you by Shaky's Pizza. Go toshakys dot com and get that chicken and
Mojo. If you order it rightnow, it'll be there before first pitch.
Tim Kates will take you there.Well. The Drongo Casino, Dodgers
on Den mister Mojo rising, It'sright. Uh, It's Kannak tonight.

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Take it on. Kannak versus Sandoval. Who's the knack. Let's go,
We'll see y'all.