I'm A Horse Monday (Hour 3) 7/22/24

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

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love doing al Capone fun facts.I mean, you want to talk about
topical his armored limousine kind of syphilisis very prevalent. It is right now,
especially kids, you're not taking careof your genitals. Al Capone's armored
limousine, after being seized by theFEDS, was taken out of impound and
used to protect fd R after theattack on Pearl Harbor. It became his

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presidential vehicle. The armored Limousine ofal Capone. Is it now at South
Point Casino, right next to Bullyand clydes car it is. It's dangling
from the ceiling like the hard CrockCafe. Matt, that was sweet.
All right, It's time for quickhits. Everybody to the MS quick hits.

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Come make a quick y'all the Dodgers. We'll have a Dodger top story
of the Day next. They're fiftynine and forty one, they're three and
oh following the All Star Break.Gavin Lux is the National League Player of
the Week. Their lead of theNL West is eight games over the d

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Backs and Padres. Everything's fine,should have never panicked. Tonight they started
a four game series against the SanFrancisco Giants. River Ryan more on him
next makes his major league debut firstpitch at seven to ten and the Big
Dodger news Earlier today, the teamDFA James Paxson. He was eight and
two with a four point four tothree ERA and eighteen starts. Beat it

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creep. I don't know why he'sgotta be called it creep. He made
every turn through the rotation so farin this season. He did everything he
was asked to do. But theyneeded to clear a spot on the forty
man roster for River Ryan, andthey got Glass now and Kershaw coming back
this series as well. They gotten days to trade him or he becomes

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a free agent. I heard Saskatchewanis interested. The rough Riders are a
great franchise, and I'd have anice wheat silo for her to him to
live in. We got the sketchwe got Calgary got big Maples wheat silo
right here for you. And it'svery sad. Training camps open up across
the league, Chargers and Rams reportingfor full team workouts. And Matt,

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it's Olympic week on the Petrosen MoneyShow. I mean it is. Yeah,
I'll mean fire up the horns becausethe summer Games Friday night in Paris
and a little known athlete, wellcarry the flag, Matt, I mean,
we didn't fight the British for nothing, and then we just hand the
king the flag for the Olympics.Yeah, and it's I'd love to I

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really would love the crap all over. It might not have an Olympian,
someone of the trains for you know, the event, the pinnacle of which
is only every four years, somebodywith one arm. Yeah, instead Lebron
James. And it's the Olympians thatelect the individual to carry the flag.
So Lebron James was elected and selectedby his fellow American athletes as one of

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two US flag bearers for the openingceremony. That's like when I got voted
into the prom court. It wasa joke. They were kidding, are
you sure? Yes, They're goingup the poop River, the sin toward
the Eiffel Tower. Maybe that's whythey wanted to put him in there.
They're like, hey, man,pooping, don't light up the poop you're

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getting that you go on that craphighway, We're gonna be walking up here.
He said, quote it's an incrediblehonor to represent the United States on
this global stage, especially in amoment that can bring the whole world together.
And he made good on his beingtabbed to do it. Today.
The US was struggling against Germany untilLebron flipped the switch. They trailed eighty

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two to eighty one, and thenJames scored the final eleven points for Team
USA as they got a ninety twoto eighty eight victory in that pre Olympics
contest in London. He has playedplayed damn well against South Sudan, So
whatever the deal is with that guy, but seems to be doing alright in
the Olympics. Was not doing alrightwith the Lakers. The Summer League is

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over for both the Lakers and theClippers. Next up training camps in two
months. The son of an NBAgreat is still playing in Vegas as the
Memphis Grizzlies, playing the championship gamein the Vegas Summer League. Scotty Pippen
Junior. Oh, I see whatyou did there. Scottie Pippen and Larsa
Pippen and a former standout at SierraCanyon, triple doubled yesterday versus the Clippers.

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Twenty three points, ten rebounds,tennysists, six player to get a
triple double in Summer League history.Now, we have not heard much about
Scottie Pippen Junior. He's twenty threeyears old. He went to Sierra Canyon.
His mother is a woman of someloose morals. Some would say no
a few years before Browny did theSierra Canyon thing. He did, and

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he's been grinding away trying to makethe NBA since. He was undrafted at
a Vandy in twenty twenty two andspent most of last season and part of
the season after that with the LakersG League team South Bay Lakers. The
Grizzlies signed him to a two wayin January twenty twenty four, and unfortunately

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for Adam Oslin booted the Clippers rightout of the Summer League. So they
cannot hang a ban of the mopen. They open into its stage right on
a pile of cocaine, like,hey, here's coke. Here's Bruno and
check out this sweet Summer League Championshipbanner. We're raising our first ever at
the Intuitome. And it looks likeT and T Matt and the NBA are

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going to come to some kind ofagreement. They're gonna trade blows is probably
what they're gonna do. TNT claimingthey have matching rights in their broadcast agreement
that any deal would that means theyhave to come to an agreement. If
they had the rights, that meansthat the NBA submits all of their current
contracts for broadcast in the future.And if TNT's like, well, you

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can't just take it away from us. We got matching rights, and we're
going to match that eleven year packagethat you signed with Amazon Prime Video.
Reportedly, the NBA wants it onAmazon Prime Video, they do not want
it on TNT, So this islikely headed to the courts. The NBA
is going to decline TNT's right totake the package and they likely will head

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to court to determine whether or notTNT can get it or at the one
point eight billion dollar per year agreementis going to Amazon Prime Not so fast,
John Tesh. According to the Athletic. There's still no long term deal
between the PAC two or the twoPack, the Beeves and the Kugs,
and the Mountain West Conference for thetwo schools to play the Mountain West schools

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in football after this season. LastDecember, they made that one year deal
of a scheduling agreement, helping theBeeves and Coogs get six additional Mountain West
opponents for their schedule in exchange formore than fourteen million dollars. Now both
sides have set an agreement for twentytwenty five. Gotta happen before this season

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kicks. So, just like thebig maple, the clock is ticking on
all these people. Now you're atthe Bilacio. Sounds like the PAC two
is betting on itself. Hey,Pete, you know what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna bet on myself. I'mgonna take this sozempic. I'm gonna
lose some weight. Yeah, I'mgonna get over to CrossFit an orange theory.

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I'm gonna muscle up a little bit. I'm gonna be a much more
attractive individual come next year. Ifyou want to muscle up, don't take
the ozampic. But yeah, Matt, I mean you know you can see
it at casino, just like youcould at the Belagio. Those that were
really gamblers and the people that hadthat you know that Tim Conway vibe of
well maybe not being so successful.Well, good luck to both parties,

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everybody involved. May they find commonground. Wisconsin just found common ground with
Booze. They're gonna be selling alcoholin the general seating areas of Camp Randle
this season. Their decision, announcedon Monday, leaves only two schools in
the Big Ten as the only twothat do not allow general seating alcohol sales,

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and the now eighteen team Big Tenalcohol sales are also set to begin
this year at Michigan. That's veryexciting. May those old enough to drink
beer beer exactly or whatever else.Wisconsin, I believe the last state in
the Union to raise the drinking ageyears old. Yeah, hop was eighteen

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or get destroyed. Yeah, Imean Matt I did a game there and
I thought everybody was drunk, SoI guess they got drunk before. Yeah.
You can either, I guess,make money off the drunks or let
the drunks smuggle in their boots.Either way, they're gonna get drunk and
not a lot of parking or Imean most people walk to the game anyway.

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So anyway, just to food forthought. We'll be back with more
great sports talk Top Story of theDay next. Welcome back everybody, the
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don't forget We're You're Homo show Altani. On the Dodgers, they start tonight
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waste any time. We'll give awayDodger tickets right now. Eight six sixth
ninety seven, two five seventy.Collar number five is going to the Dodger
game k Wednesday night. Kates'll answerthe phone. Eight six sixth ninety seven,
two five seventy here come to sorryof it well, DV joined us
earlier. We touched upon it inthe clickkits, but it is certainly worth

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revisiting our boss Don Martin happy I'llneed a thread throughout the show, guys,
there's gotta be a topic that youcan thread all the way through,
uh knowing these next day days aregoing to be awfully interesting for the Dodgers
as trade talk trade talk, weget to that mind numbing trade talk to

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now, I would like to pointout that before we get to the trade
talk, this River Ryan, thelatest prospect that has got all the people
lathered up and excited about and downon the farm Tim Kats and joining us
earlier David Vase to make room forthis River Ryan. And if you want

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to learn anything about River Ryan,feel free to hit up the YouTube or
the Instagram or the TikTok because thereare a lot of well fleshy white dudes
in Dodger gear in front of simulatedbackgrounds. Maybe it's like the Tulsa Park
or the Great the Great Lakes Loonstalking about River Ryan to get you ready

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for his big start, trying totake the Tim Kates down on the farm
crad And the truth is they're reallylate to the park, real chronic taco.
It's exactly right. Your chronic Tacodudes, with your fake background and
your stupid gear and all your statsand all your little highlights and all your
clips of his interviews, you're lateto the River Ryan party because Kate's has

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been down on the farm repeatedly,and even David Vass was spring training Dodger
Talk told us all about River Ryan, even though he didn't make a spring
training start. Somebody who's missing,but a name you'll want to remember is
River Ryan. Kate said he's freshand he's ready for the second half because
he hasn't pitched that many in it. But he's throwing gas. Man,

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River Ryan is throwing gas, notmax ninety eight ninety eight on average for
his fastball, and he has whatevery pitcher covets, that five pitch mix.
That's right, that doct mix,the five pitch mix. So while

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you're listening to the broadcast tonight,whomever is on the call, our man
Steve Steven Nelson, don't be surprisedwhen you hear, oh little fastball,
well cutter, Nate Nelson calls Kate'stc TC a little split her therec TC.
What did got TC a circle change? Hey? You jealous? About
that. Hey TC as a slider. Hey TC, there's a slurve right

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there. Oh look at that,just a twelve to six curve snapped it
off. That's what they're gonna betalking about with River Ryan. And he
is beloved. Perhaps this is oneof the reasons why you find so many
River Ryan videos on the on theTikTok. He is beloved by the stat
community, So all the geeks thatlove telling you about stats plus and FIPP

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and babbit and all those things thatJoe Kelly likes to throw in our face,
even though we help make him asuperstar by telling him to post the
video of him breaking that window becauseit was on a private story if they
don't belonged only to his wife's followers. And he opened it up and he
became a superstar and started making thenational runs. Never thanked us once,
wife never even followed us back.That's the story for another day. That's

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true. But River Ryan is allover the social media because of that ninety
eight average fastball he's throwing cheese andthat five pitch mix. Now I was
promised trade talk, Well here itis. How do you make room on
the forty man roster for this youngdude who's arriving tonight to make his first

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ever Major league start. Tray tonn. They're booting James Paxton, the guy
that's made every single start when he'sbeen called upon, eighteen of them in
the rotation. Only he and GavinStone. Everybody else got Ali's they skip
a start, they get an option. All his sap. They tapped all

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the sap out of the big maplemac and that's what Dave told us.
He's all dry and there's no moremaple syrup inside of James beckst as an
expiration date syrup typically doesn't you getsome of that cheap syrup chalk full of
chemicals and artificial flavoring and all that, And yes it does have that log
cat whatever it may be that mayhave an expiration date. But James,

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he is a placeholder until they getsome of their other arms back. And
I didn't believe them, And shameon me for not believing. David Vasseur,
indrepid Dodger reporter who is always right. In fact, James Paxton was
a placeholder. Gave up three andfive innings yesterday, three and three and
a third to start before two startsprior to that that nightmare nine run and

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four innings outing in San Francisco.He is out ten days or a trade
or he will be booted see Clearswaivers. And he's really basically done.
And I guess they just like thekids. They like this Robleski kid through
four and a third of three hit, no run ball. Over the weekend,
NAC has been very similar to Paxton, and you got this River Ryan

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going tonight, very young, AdrianBeltray, like Manner, the bottom of
the order has come alive at thetrade deadline. Guys whose jobs could have
been a state at stake, Guyswho could have had reservations on the Okac
Express are starting to come alive.Will the Dodgers purge for positional players of

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the likes of Randia rose Arana?Well? Not with lux doing so well?
What what's gotten into Lucks? Whyis he doing so well? He's
had a terrible season, But nowall of a sudden he's come alive.
Feels like he's got something under hisass. Somebody ignited his fire and they

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did it down below. It's trickledall the way up to his beautiful swing
that's banging dongers all over the yard. They're trying to make it work,
perhaps with Paz, with Lucks,with Vargas who had a couple of home
runs prior to the All Star break, but it has not done so well
since until Muncie. But do youthink you're coming back? Max? No
idea? All right, Hayward,who just came back over the weekend.

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And you just wait until that bowlingball makes its way back to the bag
and that hand is removed from thatfan at the ball return, and our
man Mookie Betts, who was theleader in the clubhouse when he got injured
in the MVP race, makes hisway back to the lineup. Oh,
we're gonna hear it too. Whenthat bone links up, it's gonna sound

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like one of the Tony Bruno stonecold lead pipe blocks. Exactly right.
I believe it is you, theMookie. We have asked about it before
and we will mention it again.These guys are old. They don't have
kids anymore. Yeah, a bunchof these dudes that are in their mid
or past their mid twenties for Dodgerfarm years. They're young because the Dodgers

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never bring anybody up right. Landonnak Is twenty seven Rableski, Bobby Miller,
Galvargas, James Outman who just gotsent down. Piez, You're talking
about a bunch of t twenty four, twenty five, twenty six, and
twenty seven year olds. You gotto poop or get off the pot.
You got to be on the bigleague team, or you've got to be
exchanged for a player that is onthe big league team under otherwise you're squandering

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their value. You go to twentyseven to twenty eight. Nobody wants them
anymore if they have not produced atthe major league level, So they got
to do one or the other.The frustrating part I would imagine for the
front office is that each of themhave looked good at times, as is
the case of Bobby Miller, whoreally struggled this season but was exceptional last
year. But I don't know ifyou heard Man, he really had the
Bobby Miller gas working in his laststart. It's really working. That's word

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on the street. I don't thinkthere was any question the two catching prospects,
both inside of the top ten forthe Dodgers, Dalton Rushing being their
number one overall prospect, are goingto be asked for for one of these
starters, Crotchet or screwball. Crotchetor screwball, everybody wants them. Those
are the targets. Those are thetargets. Crotch hit and screwball, and

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everybody wants them. Case, ohwhat is it, Timmy. I'm sure
you're saying their name right, guys. But by the way, scoop Ball
is twenty seven years old. Crochetlike Dodger twenty one. Crochet is twenty
five years old. It's like Dodgerjust turned twenty five last month. So,
Matt, you mentioned guys that aretwenty four, twenty five, twenty

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six of the Dodgers have and arejust bringing up the guy that possibly trying
to trade for it is already twentyfive. Yeah, but Screwball is gonna
win this cy young and he tellseverybody what he's throwing. It's right there
in my name, Screwball. Hereit comes. Try to hit it if
you damn can't, and crotch it. It's one thing to take one between
the shoulder blades. You're taking oneand you're junk. These guys don't wear

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cups that could affect Listen, here'sthe thing about these kids, all right,
Like a woman whose seeds are dryingup at some point. Wow,
Matt, They've got to produce orthey will never find a suitor. Oh,
you will not find a suitor,all you childless listeners out there.

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That's right, just like sunshine ofyour love. Until my seeds are dried
up, that's the problem. Theirseeds will dry up and they will not
produce any offspring anything in return ifyou don't move these dudes sooner or later.
And that goes sadly p as wewrap it up, our man DV

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is not going to get his wish. Kenley blew the save over the weekend,
and he's blaming it on his health. So he's headed back to Boston.
He is not going. He didnot go with the Red Sox to
Colorado. He went back home,zero chance at his age, his history
blown save at Dodger Stadium. Eventhough Elvin Phillips has given up nine runs
in his last eight innings, hewas terrible over the weekend. I do

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not think we're going to have areunion between DV and his second favorite Dodger
ever, behind Andre Ethi or KenleyJansen. Well, that's a shame.
It's a damn shame. Nobody's exposedto this bigger hypocrites than Kenley Chanson back.
We wanted Dave and ken Lee tomake a return to the TNT studios
now that they're going to match theAmazon Prime offer. Meet his hero Shaquille

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O'Neil again. Dave be celebrated asnot only in the Intrepid Dodger Reporter,
but a man with connections all overtown any town in America. Nobody leaves
a town unless you got a heartproblem. Then you're probably gonna retire.
There's always rich Hill to make areturn to the Dodger. Oh that's right,
that's right. We pushed for thatlast week. Where did that go?
Talk about your seed finding no purchase? I forgot because the stone bones

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bone was so stoned in this lastouting. I forgot about Rich Hill.
I was like looking about freaking stone. That bone is freaking stone. You
know, there's a lot of artifactsyou could look up that look just like
a stone boner. Every time hepitches, you can tweet him out.
We'll be back with your dad anda live guy per day of the day.

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And then the second half Dodgers versusGiant second half during the week,
you know, like We're back tolike Monday, Tuesday, yah yah yah
yeah, oh yeah, well goodnight everybody. The Petros and Money Show
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six. If it could say anythingother than Otani Sano Sanotani San, you
would know that they're usually called thehated ones, dating back many years.
But it's hollow Toni Son now twoone is hammered deep bright center field,
way out of here, and o'tanijoins the home run party a thirty home

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run season for Shaw hel O tonysHa. You know, Matt, you
know that's a long spow I've everseen here and a lot because all you
gotta do is go on a YouTube. We didn't we didn't know you were
there, Clayton. We we failedto acknowledge you through two thirds of the
inning. Yeah, I've been herethe whole time, just kind of waiting
for you guys to bring me in. Well, all right, what a

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perfect time to bring you in.It's a good time to crack a modello,
Matt, darn right it is.We love modello and we love michiladas,
and today is a Modello, MicheladaMonday. It is not a met
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Our favorite barber on earth, Philly, Barbara King Garcia. Our favorite tattoo
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perfect mix. You know? Thefourth stop, as we announced on Friday
last and thank you everybody who cameout to El Segunda. We had a
heck of a time. The fourstop of the twenty twenty four petrol some
money. Summer tour got Campsite VibeFriday, August second at Campsite Brewing Company
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know you're also welcome in West Covina. We're a neutral party and we don't
have a beef in the conflict.Think of us as like a British guy
in the US observing the Civil Warand right and back and saying what's happened?

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Did you ever watch a video Isent you La in a minute about
the beef between Yes, we talkedabout it. When we ever go to
BJ and try to make up asore bad they hate each other, Cocka
takes understandable. I gona make myhomos sewer, I'm gonna hate you too.
I'm taking this west, I'm takingthis direction and I'm leaving. They're

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putting us on Front Street, Pete, That's right, We're right on Front
Street. Everybody's gonna know we're gay. Why are you gay? Three hundred
and twenty one East Front Street inCovina, easily accessible off to ten or
the two ten freeways. At Baranka, you can sign up to be a
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a great success when we go Inlandfor the summer tour, though it is
hot, and I believe parking isgoing to be at a premium. Ship
shape, Why are you making thatface? Why skinning up your face?
Tim? Tim? Why skinning upyour face? Maybe think about the uber
route white skinning. Perhaps there's ajet pack available, Sandi, good call

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to the Jetpackdola. Yeah, lookslike if you go online there are some
train tracks right behind it. Somaybe you could hop a freighter. Oh
okay, look we'll get all thebox cars. We're gonna get all the
box car Willie guys awesome foxcar.Bertha's Covin. So so there's that sandwich
perfectly between the ten and the twoten in Covina. See you there,

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would love to see you bring yourcamping gear, all right, Matt,
Your dadti birthday of the day wouldhave been eighty seven years old today.
I love this singer Chuck Jackson,the first guy to record a Bert Bacack
song back Iraq, went on tofame. Chuck Jackson made some bad decisions.

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Here's from Winston Salem North Carolina,Come on a Raise Up. Moved
to Pittsburgh at thirteen. Was amember of Del Viking, which is like
a doop deal. He was discoveredopening up for Jackie Wilson at the Apollo
before the Sandman swept him off thestage. His first single was his first

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hit, It's this song, thegreat Burnt back orac tune any Day Now,
which I heard some time ago.It was his signature and hit song,
which prompted his singing a lot ofsongs after he signed with Motown,

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which he said was the worst mistakeof my life. Well that doesn't sound
like a ringing endorsement of Motown.You know you feel like, hey,
I signed with Motown. Your careeris about to take off after that backac
hit, and instead it was theworst mistake of my life. It's like,
hey, how did that go afteryou transferred to Alabama? It was

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a terrible error. It ruined mylife, all right. The Portal only
a few singles after that Matt.In the late nineties, he had some
successful duet work with Dion Warwick.That's what friends are for, not that
one, but the adult R andB world knew him. How about this?

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He is the original singer of MichaelMcDonald's I Keep Forgetting, which I
did not know at all was acover. I did not either, Right,
it's his song I Keep Forgetting,and it was also covered by David
Bowie. So the Michael McDonald andDavid Bowie both covered I Keep Forgetting.
Nobody knows the Bowie version. Nobodyknows Michael McDonald's is a cover, and

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only do I not know it.I don't think I've ever heard the Bowie
version. I mean neither. Holyhell man. Oh, his song Breakaway
was covered by Big Pig and isthe opening song of Bill and Ted's Excellent
Adventure. Okay, I like BigPig. I tried to say that as

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straightest, even with your Jewish hereage. Guys, we want to we like
the music, we want to signyou. I just want to talk to
you about the name of the band, how he married the Big Pig.
Are you we already got Space Hogout there? Were completely married to it.
It's a deal breaker if we can'tkeep Big Pick. All right,
I guess we're going with Big Pig. He is in the R and B

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Hall of Fame. He died twoyears ago in Atlanta. Chuck Jackson.
You're a live guy. I wouldguess another musician here p for our people,
I would guess is Henley? Isit Henley? It is not Hendley.
I knew you passed Henley because ofthe way he treated Felder, So
I knew you do the right thing, Matt. I didn't even have to
think about it. I knew you'ddo the right thing. You won't be
celebrated here, Henley. I wouldimagine a good chunk of our audience knows

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the words to more of Alan menkinsongs than maybe any other I don't know
band out there, save their favoriteband, Happy seventy fifth to al.
He and his partner Howard Ashman weretasked with the Disney revival by Walt Disney
Studios that they set out to achievein the late eighties, spearheading the effort

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to return their animated films to thelevel of success that they had seen from
the nineteen thirties through the nineteen sixtiesthat had since faded away in the twenty
years prior. And they did itin space. People don't remember when it
came. They came back with theFist of Fury. That was a little
Mermaid. Yeah, people don't rememberhow big it was then and then hook

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nosed Hey Aladdin born in the BigTown. His father was I loved a
Laddin. I finally saw a characterwith a nose like mine, poor boy
Street Ratt mother was an actress,dancer, play right. He grew up
wanting to be Dylan, playing guitararound the Big Town, also played the

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piano, wrote songs while he wasa student at New Russia High School,
classically trained NYU and then onto theBMI Musical Theater Workshop, mentored by the
great Lehman. Engel landed a gigwriting songs for Sesame Street and wrote for
some reviews around town. He wasalso working on and trying to pump out
show ideas and songs for musicals,pitching them the production houses, none of

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which were picked up until his musicaladaptation of Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mister
Rosewater, and that became a bighit opened the door for him, and
he pitched what he had been tryingto pitch but no one would listen,
along with his partner Ashman, LittleShop of Horrors, and they opened at
the WPA Theater and eighty two doesokay, But the orpheume says, we

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want that, and over the nextfive years it becomes the highest grossing Off
Broadway musical ever. And it wasour man Alan that also made it into
the movie with Rick Moranis. Thatwas his doing and did the score for
that as well. And that's whenDisney came calling, Oh my god,
I just got to get out.Yeah, the sudden this. He wrote

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the music for The Little Mermaid ashis man Howard Ashman was the lyricist.
They won the Oscar for Under theSea Best Song, the Oscar for Best
Score. Nineteen ninety one. Beautyand the Beast won the Oscar for Best
Song. Three oscarnobs next to Aladdin. They swung a whole New World Street
Bett pocahonness, I don't buy thatOscar for the Best Song and Best Score,

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Hunchback of Notre Dame Hercules. Hedid them all enchanted, tangled.
These white men are dangerous. Hewent back to the went back to Broadway,
put together the Beauty and the Beastproduction. Seemed like that one did
pretty well thirteen years it ran startedin nineteen ninety four. He did the
same with Little Mermaid. One ofTony sister act Tony n sister act will

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Newsies. I know a guy whowas in Newsies won a Razzie for that
too. Right now he is workingas stage perduction two stage productions Night at
the Museum Okay and Animal Farm.Oh. Kind of opposite ends of the
spectrum there for our man, BigPig Menki starting the Walk of fame.

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He's got egot status. He haswon an Emmy, a Grammy, and
Oscar and a Tony, married,two daughters, Happy seventy fifth Allen Menkin.
I thought egot status was when youhave a big ass. Is what
the kids say? It's both oh, gi yacht status? Excuse me,
Shakey's Dodgers and Giants. First pitchat seventy ten river Ryot is on the

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mount. See you packson, Iguess. Thanks for the eight wins.
See you later, Big Dodger fansgetting anything on your way out? Huh
Shakey's Pizza Parlor. I heard that'swhat they gave Paxon for his flight.
Hey, hot pizzas from Shaky's Chickenand mojos. You can know what it
right now at Shakey's dot com andyou can be enjoying it before first pitch.

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Thanks for listening. Everybody. We'llbe back on tomorrow at three.
Jim King's coming up. Me backon tomorrow,