November 25, 2024 • 48 mins
A FLEX ALERT before the Clippers-Celtics game. Petros is joined by BFF Don MacLean. Will Petros do his big Night Before Thanksgiving Disclaimer this years? What has happened to the Rivalry Game? Flip Top Story of the Day. How Was Your Weekend?
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Ago when I visited with the Lake. All right, sweet
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Speaker 3 (02:57):
Taking a back.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Recently, his son Trent McClain committed to the University of
West Virginia or West Virginia University excuse me to play
college basketball. Don played college basketball at UCLA, where he
is the leading scorer in the history of the Pac twelve,
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which now includes only two teams that played each other
on Saturday. Award winner in the NBA. You see him
on fan Duel Sports, Big Ten Network still works at CIA,
still has some hookups at Adidas. It is the one
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AMPI seventy LA Sports, your home of Ucla Hoops. We
got it all the way to Eddie Veddan there that time.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
We just thinking that it's good to be nice one
I can carve out some time during basketball season. I
do have a little bit more time these days than
I used to have, but that's fine.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It's been interesting though, in making this transition to the
Big Ten and the Big Ten Network, is the producers
I work with feel like they have to introduce introduce
me to the Big ten audience footprint audience, right like,
so there's a lot of pictures of me at UCLA
when I played, pictures I haven't seen in a very
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long time. And just how much I've aged in the
last thirty years.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, well, yeah, it's been that long. And you do
look pretty young in the face, you know, when most
pictures of you were taken when you're in college. You know,
it's kind of rough to look back and to google
yourself because it's either pictures of you playing a college
sport or pictures of you look at all old, yeah,
wearing a tie holding a microphone, like, hey look me,
(04:55):
I'm a big broadcast in dildo.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
It's just funny because for twelve years at twelve Network,
we never showed a picture of me ever.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well it was it was everybody knew who was doing
a game.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Right, and so it's just kind of been funny here
as we get this season started that pretty much every
game they feel compelled to throw up my resume with
a action shot at me doing something.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And what do you say, Yeah, yeah, that's that, you
know me.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I try and make fun of I don't know, I
make jokes about it. It's a little uncomfortable to be honest,
and what's it's necessary.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
What's your next move tomorrow night, UCLA, you're doing that one? Yep?
All right? And then and Kate's I heard begged off
Bruin talk for that one.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I wouldn't say begged off. I got family in town,
so a little Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So who's doing it?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Brian Finley will be doing it tomorrow night. So you
see he's five and one. Don How are they not
a top twenty five team at five and one.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Because they lost to New Mexico and they've beaten everyone
else by forty And I haven't looked at the metrics
of the teams they've beaten by forty, but I'm sure
they're ken Palm ratings aren't very high, but that's fine. Look,
he's got a whole new team and they're trying to
figure it out. Defensively, they're really good. Offensively, they're a
work in progress, I'd say, but they got good players.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Are they work in progress? When they have like all
these leading scores from other teams that have now become.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Tim You can't just throw a bunch of players together
and expect them to figure it out in in you know,
five games or six games.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Don I proclaim this team to be a Final four
team after the first time against Lee High, right, the problem.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Before we get into the Thanksgiving holiday and all that,
that is a little bit of a problem.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I loved what I saw in that first game.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
They played Lee High or something like that, and Kate's
went on the eleven fifty maybe he'd have you know,
he went on the postgame show.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Those are accusations, and.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
He said that this is a Final four team. He said, listen,
I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Say, hey, look, it could be.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It could be, but my god, I mean one half
against Lee High or two halves against Lee High, and
he's making that proclamation. And now we got to sit
here and deal with his twitching sphincter all college basketball
season because he made a crazy call.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
We will know if that if that's still in play
Final four by the end of December. They have Arizona
and Phoenix. They have North Carolina at the Garden, and
they have Gonzaga at the Intuit Dome, So we'll know
after those three games if this UCLA team is going
to be contending for Final Fours or not.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
How does that make you feel, Tim? Not good?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Because all three teams you just mentioned are really, really good.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And probably doesn't mean Ucla can't beat them, probably ranked two,
which Ucla is not. And that's what's rankling Tim because
he said what he said. Either way, we will have
that Ucla game tomorrow, but you won't have Tim Kates
to kick around on the postgame show. You mentioned, Tim
that you have family in town for Thanksgiving. How nice
for you.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Oh, they're not really in town from far away. It's
just like we're trying to find out different times to
meet with people because of work schedules. And oh wait,
so you don't have family in town. Well, I got
my daughters back in town from college.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Okay, where you out on the PSA? Now?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Pee?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Are you done with that? Still?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It's coming Wednesday, right, p because.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I have a lot of shows. I'll see.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I have baseball, everybody watch. We were all on the
couch watching the football game. Not all on the couch,
but in the family room watching the football game last night.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
All sitting together on the couch with the Simpson the
boys in row my age, and like we were just
talking about the week ahead, like because Blake's coming home tonight,
like what's happening?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
And my oldest Kyle threw out a name that I'd
never heard for the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, and because
i'd had a I'm trying to confirm what that was
right now? What he?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
What?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
They now? What twenty two year old call the night
before Thanksgiving? It was something crazy, desperate for attention, a
nostalgia night. No, it was so it was actually pretty good.
But we'll see.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Are you teaching him?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, I'm trying to find out. I'm trying to find out.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Call in, put them up, call the hotline. We got
nothing going on today. Uh yeah, it's kind of upsetting.
So Kate's you have that plan, and Ronnie's of course
gonna make his pies and down. Imagine you're gonna be
in town barbecuing your turkey or whatever. Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Trent is leaving on Thanksgiving to go to Atlanta for
a tournament. So we are actually having dinner Wednesday night
and then Thursday, I'm just going to barbecue.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Who's taken him to Atlanta?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
His team?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Okay, see, because I have to go and I'm just
lot right. No, Well, as you know, you know you
want us to pick you up. I have. As I've
continued to age and do this job, I've become just
increasingly agoraphobic and really weird about routine and being able
to be at home at night and all that. And
(09:47):
then for years I traveled and did college football and
went through me the craziest stuff, you know, overnights in
West Virginia and Oklahoma State and all these places that
you couldn't even have met. Middle Nesse State, Louisiana Tech, Marshall.
I mean, I've been around, you know, and I don't
(10:07):
do it anymore. Very much of the time I spend
now is calling games from the studio at Fox. I'm
one of the few people that does it. I'm the
West Coast guy, so late night West Coast games, I
usually work in the studio, and I'm comfortable doing that
and happy with it, regardless of how controversial some people
find it. I don't care. But I do travel from
(10:29):
time to time. Certain games. They'll say, this team is
ranked Ashton, Gent's a Heisman guy, so they send me
to Boise. And Fox is such a deal with the
Big Ten that if they have a Big Ten game,
whether it's on FS one or Big Fox, you go.
So I have the final game of the year to
go to East Lansing, Michigan State, where I've never been.
(10:53):
I've been, I've never been there, and they're playing Rutgers.
I have done a Rutgers game before. I've never never
done a Michigan State game before, which is pretty remarkable
after all these years I've never done. Yeah, I've done
Ohio State game, but I've never seen Michigan. I've I've
seen Michigan and I've never seen Michigan State. Jonathan Smith
is their coach. But anyway, I got that assignment last
(11:13):
week and it hit me like the Miley Cyrus song,
like a wrecking ball, and all I can think about
is going to Michigan State and trying to get home
over Thanksgiving weekend. Oh, calling the game, yeah, calling the game,
Oh no, wearing my Fox jacket with Dan Helly, doing
(11:34):
the whole deal, and I am well, I mean, people
do this all the time, and I used to do
it all the time, but I am embarrassed by how
much it is upsetting me.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I still remember that this day. I don't remember where
I was going, but I was only doing UCLA Radio
at the time, in some local TV UCLA. This was
twenty years ago. Probably I had to fly so oh,
I know what it was. UCLA was playing in a
Thanksgiving tournament in New York, and I remember pulling up
(12:04):
to Lax on Wednesday morning with the longest lines I've
ever seen in my life ever, And I said to myself,
if I can control my schedule somehow, I will always
never do a game out of town Thanksgiving weekend because
(12:24):
it's bad.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I can't control my schedule.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Right, you're not helping the cause, don right now, I am, Well,
what happened was this then?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
But your last it's your last game of the year.
That's how you have to think about it.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, last game of the year, and we're sending you
to East Lansing to die. I forget.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
How far is East Lancing from Detroit?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
About an hour?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah plus, so hen Arbor's like forty I think little close.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
But here here's my other thing. So Thanksgiving and I'm
just gonna explain my problems to people, because Hey, we're
on a flex alert. You know, we got two and
a half hours to fart around.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Hey, don to Kyle text you back in.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
They shut up. I'm telling talking about my life.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I'm curious to know.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
D No, not yet.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
What's in class?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
He's working?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Oh blackout Wednesday. I'm seeing a lot of on social media.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I think blackout was part of the term that he used.
Blackout wins something something something blackout something.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Because like black Friday is like a playoff that.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I think, you drink so much you blackout.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I get it. Okay, Well, originally I had my flight
book for Friday. It's a Saturday game. Okay, what time?
Kick three thirty local local local, Yeah, twelve thirty. Here
there's a flight out of Detroit. But I got to
fly southwest and connect to get home. But I'm getting
home that night.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
What times it What times it leaves nine thirty, three thirty,
six thirty?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, you're good, game's over at seven hour to get
there eight hour. To hate those though, I steer clear
of those. Now, well you can't.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I don't do there's any mor class ticket in the
morning where I have to get I have to get
to the airport after the game, and if it's within
a I don't do it.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
But here's the deal. I just stay, What am I
going to do? I don't look. Look, Sunday is a
terrible travel day. No, I know, Saturday is not after Thanksgiving,
Saturday at nine o'clock at night is not. But worse
than that. I was going to go in on Friday
and just fart around in East Lansing nothing to do
because the figure it's the weekend, we'll do zoom meetings. No,
(14:29):
Jonathan Smith's like, we want to meet in person at
twelve thirty here in East Lansing. That puts me on
the Red Eye Thanksgiving night. Why why why you don't
even need why why why?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Why why you don't even need first class for that trip,
because you could add the whole plane's gonna You're gonna
be the only person on that plane, which.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
One the Red Eye?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
The Red Eye?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Now there was only two spots. What, Yeah, that's weird.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
We went to the Maui Invitational years ago when I
was doing UCLA Radio. We flew back on Thanksgiving. There
was literally ten people on the flight.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah, it's amazing when that happened from time to time.
But anyway, that's my issue. I'm really struggling. I'm really
upset about it. What times did flight leave Thursday night
ten o'clock. You're good arrive in East Lancing around four
or five in the morning.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
It'll be a little fuzzy for the morning for the
in person meetings hopefully.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Well that needs to happen to me all the time.
When I go to West Virginia and I fly on
the Red Eye and then I get dragged to a
meeting like an hour later, and I'm sitting there across
from Dana Holgerson and he'd be like, why you always in
such a bad mood. And I'm like, because I have
to fly the Red Eye because you meet here at
this time because I live on the West coast. He's like, oh,
(15:46):
I understand now, Like yeah, dude, I'm miserable.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
That's a horrible hot by the way.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
To West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
No, your farthest trip of the year, and it's thanks
Giving weekend, Like that's awful.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I did that for West Virginia ones too. One year.
I just had to go off to cal It was
like a dance. Yeah, you know. But anyway, that's my problem.
Thank you for listening to my problems. Anybody has some
like breathing advice or anything for me, I will take it.
I do not enjoy holiday travel. I don't enjoy travel,
(16:22):
and I know. And then I got Tim and Matt
Muddy Smith negotiating like an RV trip to Dodger spring training.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
What, Yeah, that's fun, does it? Don? Arizona February?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
You're getting an RV here in road tripping to Yeah,
they're going to try to put like an RV. I
thought they're banning RVs in California once, But once you
get to Phoenix, you're not staying in the RV.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Well, there was some thought about maybe staying in the
RV together and kind of making a whole thing about
it close to Camelback Ranch. But if we need to
stay in a hotel, we can ditch the RV or
one of us will sleep in there.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I don't know what the number would be. I'll think
about it on the way home later today of what
it would take for me to stay in an RV
for more than.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
With my sleep mask a few hours. Matt and Matt
money Smith telling me everything that I'm doing is wrong and.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Tim, so are you envisioning Tim, like all three of
you staying in the RV and like setting up like
a barbecue out front, lounge chairs in the front, just
making it a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
On one hundred percent, will build a little fire pit
out there, we'll cook the food. You know, the little
auntie that comes off the side of the r V.
You can put the chair underneath it.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Maybe when I get back next week, if I get back,
you know, maybe maybe I can entertain that and be
like whatever, you know, I can you know in April
or whatever? Fine, great, you know, March, you know, great,
But but I have to sit here and listen to
it right now when I'm in the throes of desperation,
big ten desperation gotta make me very happy.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Don How how long are you planning on staying at
Dodger Spring Training in this RV?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I mean, if you're gonna drive out there, you got
to be out there a full calendar week, right, We
got to be out there from like a Sunday through Saturday. Oh,
we can park it in the parking lot of killing
that ranch. Players will drive up like, you know, hey,
good morning there, Clete. How you doing, buddy? Well?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Coffee. We did a thing once. We did a thing
once where we were out there for that long, maybe
five days, and I had this whole thing hooked up
to do an hour with Ned Coletti at the boot
store in Arizona to buy boots for TV for t
for him he loves boots, or I was gonna get
some boots too, and we literally the camera guy showed
(18:34):
up and I'm sure you know the camera guys one
of the Fox Times for years, and uh, well, excuse me,
fan duel guys. And he didn't have like a battery
for his camera or something. He's like, oh, and we're like, oh,
I guess we can't do it. Sorry, ned thanks, but
like we waited for an hour like for something to
maybe happen, and nothing ever happened. I don't want to
(18:54):
do it. Can't we just have the fans go for
the weekend and give away a trip and just act
like we were there and send Dave. I guess not.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
You just jumped on the phone.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
No, it's very upsetting anyway.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I don't know in your in your rating system, whatever
ratings you use, the trip to Michigan State or that
trip to spring training, Like, what which one's.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
The one that's longer is worse? The one that's longer, Yeah,
and the one that that puts me in an RV
with the radio show is I don't want to go
its way too long. I don't want to go on
an RV with anybody, let alone stay at an RV
with the people I work with, or like somehow park
it in the parking lot at the camel Back Ranch.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
The RV is big. It's not like we're all sitting
next to each other in like a twelve foot camper.
It's going to be a huge RV. You'll probably have
your own sleeping area.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
We could all be in separate parts of the RV
and not even talk to each other.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, but if you stay at a hotel, at least
you have like a pool. There's stuff to We've done
that before too. Is it drinks giving? No drinks giving? Good?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
That's good?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
No, dude, I I'm I can't believe he's not texting
me back.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I mean, Don McClain texts me. I text back right,
you know, like right away, Like I don't mess around.
But I guess it's a different world when you're Don
McClain's son. Yeah, exactly, Don.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Would you like to come with us even if we
like flew you back early. You don't have to stay
the entire week, but that'd be kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
He's so tall and his legs would be all long.
He can drive, No Matt behind the RV. He's not
going to allow that. You know Matt.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I can't drive behind the RV like the tour bus.
We'll play like a band's tour bus. I'm just driving behind.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
You're a band aide.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Like Christy Brinkley in vacation, is swooping around looking at us,
learning with Matt.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I love the great sports talk.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
You know, Matt would want to have to drive right
like Matt would. Matt would not allow.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
No. I think he allowed me to drive, but he
would navigate.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Matt would navigate, And no one's gonna let me drive
of course, hell right, because I'm not too clear behind
the wheel. Anyway, That's what's happening. I'm upset about the
trip to Michigan State. I shouldn't be. It's my job.
I need to be able to handle it maturely, and
dot I'm just not handling. I'm maturely right now. I'm
not gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Every day for the last week. Don So.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Kyle is distracted by his work. He said something longer,
but he just texts me it is blackout Wednesday. He
said something else last night, but I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Do you feel as if it's now a bit of
an anticlimax.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, because he said something last night and I remembered
it had blackout in it, but there's a few other
words before it. Maybe we can't repeat it on air.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Well, we're not going to know unless you tried. That's
all right, we'll be right back. We'll talk some hoops.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Blackout Wednesday. So you didn't answer the question are you
doing your PSA or not?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I'm so upset about the trip. It true, lancing that
it's hard to concentrate. It's hard to concentrate on anything.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Last year you said it was probably going to be
your last year, Petros because you're so old.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Now I remember that. I remember something.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I'm forty seven, and it's like, at what point do
I stop yelling at twenty year olds and tell them
what to do? Maybe never, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah, I always enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Well, I mean, my message is always the same, and
it's it's universal and it doesn't change even with social
media and the different ways people connected and communicate.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Now, over the years, I've been on a decent amount.
On that Wednesday, I remember doing one show. I was
in Tucson and it was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Were iHeart Tucson doing it or you were on the air,
like on the phone. Oh, it's on the phone with
you guys. Oh yeah, but you weren't. I was doing
a game there that night night, but you weren't like
co hosting that.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
No, but it was that day, and I remember the
discussion of the whole PSA and all that.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
My message is pretty standard. It's that you're going to
be disappointed. You're going to remember how much everybody sucks.
You're going to remember why you didn't talk to them
in the first place, and God help you if you
do go home with somebody. I never went to a
reunion either, meet neither. You'd be hard to miss at
a reunion.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yes, you want to go to yourn next reunion in
an RV. We can take you.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
That would be cool to pull up in an RV
if you were going to go to your reunion.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
What's the name of the RV place, Tim, Oh, there's
Mike Thompson and there's El Monte RV. Now isn't it
true that r v's are being like this. There's something
to happen to RVs where they're making it really really
hard for you to get them now.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Because they're not electric.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, basically too much gas or something I don't know,
leave you too much of a carbon footprint.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
We'll be right back with more great sports talk. I
think we'll tell I go see us clax. Did he
call it the nightmare before Thanksgiving? He did not.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I think he's hopefully when he gets less distracted, he
will text me what exactly he said last night? But
it really caught you well, I've just never heard it before.
The one to know, did you ever go to those
things on Wednesday night? Like, hey, Don McLean's here, check
it out. He's seven feet taller than the rest of us,
and he's back with a vengeance on Wednesday night before
(24:33):
Thanksgiving in the Semi Valley teaming bar scene. No, because
typically I was either playing or doing what I do now.
Really was ever just around on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
All right, Peta, how many texts are you getting?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Petros?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
People trying to guess what Kyle said, Like, oh, I
know he said this.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, I've gotten a few, and I've asked Don and
he shot all of them down.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Sorry, guys, Kyle will when he's I can tell he's busy.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
So the one and only Don McClain is our co host.
Matt's doing the Monday night game this afternoon where Harball, yes,
the Harball exactly, the brothers Harbaugh against each other. And
there is one interesting story that gives you a little
bit of the perspective between Jim and John Harbaugh. Jim Harball,
of course, you know, famous quarterback and all that stuff.
(25:31):
John Harbaugh a little bit more of a grinder, special
teams coach type of guy, and had coaching success in
the NFL before Jim Harbaugh did, kind of I'm not
exactly sure the timeline, but the funniest thing John Harbaugh's
ever said was, of course their father was a coach.
In fact, I've been to that Speaking of trips, I've
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been to Western Kentucky where the Hilltoppers, and that stadium
is called Jack Harbaugh Stadium. Yeah, it's named after him.
Who's got it better than us? Nobody. So the dad
was a longtime star football coach, and so they moved
around a lot, like any coaching family. And they asked
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John Harbaugh, what if that was hard, you know, to
move every three four years, and he says, well, that
was around the time that everybody started to hate Jim.
So it was really good that we would move because
Jim started to make too many enemies because he's such
a quirky, volatile and interesting guy. So there is a
real difference between the two guys. But both of them,
(26:34):
you can't argue, know how to get results and build
a pro football team, which is not easy in today's
day and age.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
So we will have su college team.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
No, yeah, no doubt. I mean that seems to be
even more difficult. But the Chargers versus the Ravens Monday
Night Football five fifteen kickoff at so far listen to
it on ALT ninety eight seven. All right, I'll pop
you out, I will look you out, toy. This is
a flip top story of the day, just really quick
before we get to an illustrious how was your weekend?
(27:05):
In the very next segment with Don McClain speaking of
college football, I called two college football games over the weekend,
San Jose State hosting UNLV playoff implications. There horrible rainstorm
up in the Bay area all weekend, as you know,
one of the nastiest, radiest games that I've ever done.
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And then the next night was a real slog Air
Force versus Nevada Air Force. You know what they were?
Eleven minute drives and the nuance of the tip top
for you to talk though, oh, no doubt love it.
Just love to talk, and so that's what I was doing.
But of course wall it was happening. Usc UCLA was
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raging in the Rose Bowl also known as the Empty
Seats Bowl by Scott Wolf. Was it super empty? It
filled up a little bit, right Tim on a cold
and drizzly night.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, I still saw some tarps out there though.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, they tarped it, but it was was the area
that didn't have the tarps filled with masses of humanity
like we were used to at SEUCLA. Or no, oh no, okay,
that's very depressing because.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I told Tim earlier, Pee, I didn't even know I
was listening to you guys on Thursday or no Friday.
This is how sad it's become. I didn't even know
the game was this weekend. Yeah, I didn't even know it.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
At the Fox Studio, there was like a table and
there was like a big poster board like someone made
it like in a high school, and it said celebrate
the first usc UCLA Big ten in the Big ten matchup,
and it was like a table full of cookies. But
by the time I got to work, all the cookies
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were gone.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
You want, the attendance for Saturday Night at the Rose
Bowl kind of fifty nine thousand, four hundred and seventy three.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Which means it was more like forty nine thousand, and
that's probably their best attended game of the year. I
would imagine they didn't have La You in there or
anything like that this year.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
So Tim, what does the Rose bull hold again?
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Well, well, we got the tarps up or not? No
tarpsy it's a hundred right, No, not anymore. I think
they knocked it down to like eighty five or something
like that. But still it's a little bit depressing. I mean,
you expect that game to be full. That game would
be full when I played in it and we were
five hundred level teams. Everybody would go anyway, it was
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something to do cold night. I wonder if that's nobody
got stabbed, though, which is good for the long long tailgate.
You know, somebody can get stabbed. Somebody got stabbed in
at O nine.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I don't want to start a whole long thing peek,
as you and I have done over the years when
I start something like this, But I just wondering, I know,
se and UCLA aren't aren't great this year at football,
but also know that like the Arizona Ucla basketball game
didn't sell out last year, and that's unhurt at Paul,
and none of the Arizona guys with their too small
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mic be jersey showed up. Well I'm sure they were there,
but they didn't fill the place up. But I'm wondering
if it's not just if your program's winning or losing
or not meeting expectations of the season that you're in.
Is it just people aren't going to games anymore.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Different town for games, no doubt about it. And if
you do go to a game, like you go to
SOFI or to a Rams or Chargers game, or maybe
the new Clippers situation, and I know it's this way
as Staples or whatever it's called crypto, the pro sports,
they just assault you with sound. I mean they kill
you like you're in a club and when you're calling
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the game, you don't really notice because you got your
headphones on and you're doing a broadcast, but it is
it's not pleasant. Like you go to the Dodger game
and yeah they played music, but they also have the
organ going. It's outside and it's outside and you kind
of feel a little bit more continuity with the people.
I don't know if we have that. I'm my whole
experience growing up was being at USC football games with
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my grandparents and my dad and all that. And I'm
sure there's still a lot of people that have that
as part of their the fabric of what they do
in Los Angeles. But You're right, it's a lot different,
and a lot of it is because the game on
TV and being able to flip around and watch the
game on TV, watch it on your phone. It is great.
I mean, people enjoy doing that and it's kind of
but I'd go to these places and I have for years,
(31:18):
and I'm going again. Like you go to Ames, Iowa,
and you look around on Friday, the day before the game,
and you say, you know, where is everybody? What is
this place? And then Saturday comes and you know, there's
sixty thousand people in the stadium. There is a c
of RVs like Kate's is trying to get us to
go in, and it's a whole different vibe. It's a
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whole culture that we don't have because they don't have
raging Waters, they don't have Disney California Adventure. They don't
have the Mendocino farms and every mall where you can
get the almost fried chicken sandwich.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
That's That's what I've noticed in starting with the Big
Ten network this year is keeping up with the Big
Ten And like you look at their attendance, I mean
Macki Arena Purdue is sold out, Yeah, for a November
seventh game against some low major teams hold out?
Speaker 2 (32:08):
What do you think the Mountaineers in West Virginia do?
Where Trent's gonna play? You know, at pitt there's a
waiting list for season tickets that's like twenty years long. Really,
it's like one of the craziest status symbols in the world.
It's like being a member at Mari Lago or something
very difficult to do, and we just don't. We don't
have that as part of our culture.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
When you played at Poly, was every game sold out?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Right, Yeah, it's changed, there's no doubt that it's changed.
And the usc UCLA game itself, the football game, it
was really hard to kind of decipher going into it,
who had momentum, who was going to be more efficient,
and neither team was very good at all all of
the things that people hate about USC reared their head.
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They had long, beautiful drives, couldn't convert in the red zone,
had to kick a bunch of field goals because Lincoln
refuses it seems to want to use his best player,
the running back what he marks. And UCLA they were
who they are. They made mistakes and they weren't they
weren't good enough in the moments they needed to be
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to win the game. And then there was this moment
at halftime where three personal fouls got called on UCLA
because they went halftime at halftime because they were all over.
The Rose Bowl has two tunnels, yep, right, one on
either side, so you go on your side to your
tunnel and you don't even have to cross, you just
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go on your side. It's actually pretty efficient, well done.
Like Michigan, the big House, they got big problems. Remember
those guys got to rested for assault a few years back.
I forget which team. They took the guy's shoe off
and beat him with it. And we got in a
huge fight once with Notre Dame in the tunnel in
nineteen ninety nine, I think, And because we're all in
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the same tunnel, Coliseum, same tunnel, so one team's got
to stop the other team. UCLA is not like that,
but somehow they got kind of intersected and they were
fighting over by the sc tunnel, which is why I
believe UCLA got the flags because they were all the
way over there. And here's Wayne cook your old classmate
at UCLA. Wayno, the quarterback on the sideline who does
(34:19):
a great job on the broadcast with Lewin and Matt
Stevens talking about how terrible the game was in the
first half and what was happening down on the sideline
at the end of the half.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Let's go to Wayne Cookies in the middle of all that.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
This is absolutely insane, and to be honest with you,
I don't think either team deserves to be talking any
smack Hell is one of the uglier first halfs I've watched.
Get in the locker room, talk to your coaches and
figure this thing out. But this is nuts. It happens
in this game. I get it, but they need to go.
Both teams need to go figure this out and play
better in the second half.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah tell them Wayne, Yeah, this is insane and ultimately
USC won game because Jade and Mayava was able to
do what they got him to do when they made
the change at quarterback for Miller Moss, which is extend
to play with his legs, run around a little bit,
and make the one play USC really needed to make.
(35:14):
I do have this corrections and retractions. Yeah, it's an
even year, so the Rose Bowls an even year. The
facial stabbing at the golf course on the game my
last game ever with Barry Tompkins for the Pac ten
Game of the Week or yeah Pac ten Game of
the Week twenty ten nine was at the coliseum, twenty
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ten facial stabbing? Why long tailgate? Seven o'clock kick and
now you're fighting in the tunnel and you get three
personal fouls and UCLA overcame that adversity and took a
lead and then everything fell apart. Were you upset down? No,
you didn't watch. I didn't watch. Sorry? What about Notre
Dame USC this week? Does that get you going thinking
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about waking up the echoes thinking about it?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
No? No, I'll turn it back on when the playoffs start,
the college football playoffs? What about championship weekend? Is USC
and line to get in the playoff.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
We'll see what happened against Notre Dame. So that's a maybe.
I think that that train has left Union Station.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Don The only playoffs Lincoln Riley's going to is the
CIF championship game with Bosco and modern Day.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
To recruit well, I mean that's you know, Lincoln Riley,
you got a lot of money, man, very disappointing. Got
a lot of money, but doesn't reach out to local teams,
does not recruit local stars well, does not embrace USC traditions,
and seems kind of detached from the program as a whole.
(36:47):
So things are great, and then you got to Sean Foster,
who's left something to be desired.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Would you say Pee that Oklahoma was probably the right
speed for Lincoln Riley.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
I would say Oklahoma had the right structure for him
to take over for Bob Stoops and coach guys and
win win Heisman's and stuff like that. But I think
the style of offense that he coaches and the way
he does it, it's not a great fit here. Not
Big ten Worthy, it's just not a great fit here either.
But yeah, when you lose at Minnesota, you lose at Maryland,
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you can't talk anymore. And that happened in October season's over.
We're on M five seventy LA Sports, your home of
the Dodgers. There is a little bit of Dodger news,
some angel news too. We'll get into it in a
quick hits. Don and I will be on all the
way until three. I'm just tired of that game, you know,
(37:45):
the Let's make Petros miserable and see how miserable we
can make him by making up a trip that we're
not even going to take. You know what I mean,
what do you mean? It's not funny. It's not funny
to make me miserable. I'm talking about the RV trip
I have to go to Michigan State?
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Would it you'd be fine if feels a regular flight
hotel trip.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
No, I mean I wouldn't be fine. I'm never fine,
but you know that's me. I'm sorry, Don.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
We got Tracy in sales now working on an RV deal.
Just yeah, they're selling RVs and we're thinking maybe we
get Elon to give us one of those star links
where you can get internet everywhere. We could do the
show from the road.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I mean the motion.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Couldn't we just buy the starlink?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I'm sure we could. I mean Elon Musk is not
gonna give us anything. No, no, not give us, but
do a little deal with them.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
When is this trip and what kind of deal are
you looking to do? Just something whenever? Spring training is
middle of February.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Middle of February.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yeah, oh yeah, because they're going to Japan to.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Start in Phoenix. That's right.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
That's why I have like a little fire outside the
chairs gathered around.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
So you know how to RV? Then, Tim, you've rved before.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I've never V in my life done. But I can
figure it out in the next two months.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
I'm sure Matt would become an expert overnight and we
would have that.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
I mean, do we need a special license like a
great age?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
But how to work everything? Like how do you get
rid of the toilet on board? Like how do you
do all that stuff? No clue exactly, no idea.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
They just give the keys back to the people at
the RV place to say, here you go.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Can we do How is your weekend? Please? I don't
want to go in an RV. Okay, second down and nine,
I'm gonna do what I do. The weekend is mine.
So how was your weekend? Okay, second down.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Too, Tim, do you think Tracy could get me like
a rental car to drive behind the r V to
absolutely Do you own a car? Yeah, but I want
like a cool like Mustang or something. You know, Oh, top.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Down, let's go.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
If this is where it's going, why don't we just
create a giant caravan like Burning Man, just have all
every idiot there you go, you know, gone and his
little Info Wars truck and you know, let's just let's
get every idiot behind us and just roll all away.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
I get a Domaklean wants to be Burt Reynolds. He
wants to be driving that fifty Transam transam. Meanwhile, everybody
else is Jerry Reid with all that beer in the back.
Okayar cana baby, Yeah, people are thirsty as Racy.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
She's got any any people at the transam dealership?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
I'm on it.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Yeah, And you know I'm allergic to dogs, so don't
be trying to put a basset hound on my on
my lap.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Wait, who makes transams? Pontiac Rod, Pontiac Rod is Pontiac.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Still no Pontiac, Michigan is not even a town anymore.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Efforting don to see they're still of their own.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
They are not burned.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Burning too, calt Jaylenno.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
He might have one in his garage.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Tops on the transamp.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
All right, let's get to how is your weekend? We
already did that, We already played the thing Kate's don
don how was your weekend? Oh?
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Usually when I come in in here on a Monday
more to report. Uh not a not a big weekend
at the McLean household Friday night did UCLA cal State
Fullerton got up. We had a family breakfast at the
local place, which was nice, and then me and the
wife did a little shopping. We had to get some stuff.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
What's the local place? The Westlake Yokhead Marmalade Cafee. Oh yeah,
you do a lot of your business right there. And
then one shopping center right there. And I went to
Core Power Yoga there once though. Yeah that too many mills,
too many mills Brook goes there. Yeah, I tumbled out
of there. Too many mills.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Saturday night, Uh hooked up with some friends for dinner
and then uh watch some football middle of the day
Saturday Sunday, not much hung around the house and then
made some try tips last night.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Wonderful.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Kate's had a busy weekend. Guys. Friday night, went to
Don Cucko's for dinner and enjoyed Don Kuco's after picking
the girls up from the airport. They're back home for
Thanksgiving from Arizona and at Don Kucko's. Just taking a
little longer than you know, I hope, because it was
a Friday night place was going off and looked up
and night. I got a text message from Zach here
at the station saying, hey, dude, UCLA game just ended.
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So I got it from the table, left, got an
uber and raced to go do brew and Talk and
got there just in time before Josh and Tracy signed
off to do brewin Talk on Friday night. Had a
great show, a lot of great calls.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
How many people called him too?
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Two calls? So, but uh, yeah, we're building, don it's
a slow build. We're going from zero to one to two.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
I was going to offer up to come on tim
like after the game on my way home. But if
no one's calling in, dude, what's the point.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
What are you talking about? What's the point. Oh, let's
wait to the we have to do the show.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Let's wait to the meat potatoes and your vegan. Let's
wait till you know the Gonzagas of the world in
the North Carolina games, so you know the real games,
not the Lee Highs and the Southern Idahoes of the world.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
So cal State Fulltune's got a really good notable alumni though.
You know who doesn't Southern Utah. He looked it up
for you. Listen, no one, let's just skip that segment
of the broadcast. Well they're gonna skip it anyway.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Saturday, I had to work Compass Media Networks College Football
Game of the Week while my wife and I I
will see me. My wife and girls got tickets to
the PBR. Yes, the Professional bull Riding out in Ontario.
You jumped on those. They went out there, the four
of them, thanks to Mario. At the PBR. They got in,
had some seats and loved it. They were there for
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a couple of hours during the PBR, had a great time,
absolutely loved it. The girls had gone in Arizona, so
the wife and other daughter went with them and they
had a blast at the PBR in Ontario. Sunday had
the Raiders broadcast. Raiders unfortunately lost a heartbreaker to the Broncos.
They're now two to nine. I think their playoff hopes
are just.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Right there with USCS playoff hopes.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
I'm not sure if they've officially been eliminated, but it
could be close to not making the playoffs again this year.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
So a lot of Copenhagen at that PBR a Tim, yep,
A lot.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Of zen floating around there, if you know what I mean.
Call them those things, yeah, little zens. Yeah, so at
a good time. The girls and the wife, they took
lots of pictures and uh yeah, the drinks are flowing, Ronnie.
Speaker 5 (44:23):
You know, for some reason, every time I hear PBR always,
I can't help it, Tim, I always think of perhaps
Blue Ribbon. I can't can't help it. Not sure why
they should be a sponsor. I think I had a
nice weekend. Didn't do really anything except for Saturday. I
kind of went to I went to the to the
Burdbank Empire Center, Okay, to go to Macy's to go
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pick up an order that I had placed that was ready.
And afterwards I came out and I saw all kinds
of like like people walking around the San Fernando Road there.
They shut down San Fernando Road adjacent to the bird
Bank Empire Center. They're having some sort of street fair.
They had a band set up and they had a
wine walk going on at the same time, so I
kind of integrated myself walking around there, visited a couple
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of the kiosks there, had a glass of wine, made
my way over to the yard house and I had
some beer and watched the rest of the Colorado game.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Went home.
Speaker 5 (45:17):
Let me see what did I do? I drank a
lot of beer and I do not remember falling asleep. Wow,
it was one of those nights I did wake up on. Well,
I didn't wake up kind of late on Saturday night,
not really knowing where I was or what time it was,
and it turned out it was like eleven thirty at night.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Geez.
Speaker 5 (45:36):
Yeah, it was one of those nights. I felt like
Matt money Smith there a little bit. Anyway, Sunday kind
of slept in a little bit, nursed a tiny bit
of a hangover, and just did stuff around the house,
watching NFL foods ball all day and trying to get better.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
Guys.
Speaker 5 (45:50):
Not a good way to end the weekend there, going
into Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Geez, yes, well what about you, petros Well, I just
I called.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
We didn't drink too much.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
No, well, maybe last night I had the two football
games to call. Uh. I went to yoga on Saturday. Oh,
Shannon Farron came to yoga from KFI and she ended
up right next to me, just because that's was the configuration.
And then I heard today that she complained about my
audible breathing. Yoga is a breathing complained, she noticed, but
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she talked about it on air. So you're a heavy breather,
no doubt, you know.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Whatever. Yeah, And did you have anything to notice about
her in the yoga.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
Other than she's a lovely lady and my apologies to her. No,
I did not just a lovely lady and my apologies
to her. Okay. And then on Saturday. On Sunday, I
went back to yoga, but yoga was so crowded that
I felt bad and I just rolled up my mat
and left and gave somebody my snot because it was
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a member.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
You know what's interesting about that, pe is Brooke. My
wife gives up on yoga this week.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
She won't get too big. Yeah that's very big. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
So what happens all the moms that go, their daughters
are home and they go with them. Yeah, so she's
like the hell with it? It's a real missile show.
And then last night we went out with the real
estate dad family, the Grannises of Fine Palace, Verdi's family,
and we went to the Bullpen, which is a place
you would appreciate in Redondo Beach, heavy pores, heavy poor
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steak place out of New York State.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
Digit. Yes, absolutely, all right, we'll be back. That's the weekend.
We'll have your word number song of the day. I'm sorry,
Ronnie that you got so drunk. You know, it's okay.
Speaker 5 (47:42):
I mean I had a good time, had a good time.
Well it lasted, but you know the price.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
I did pay the price.
Speaker 5 (47:47):
I'm okay now, not the first or the last.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
Yeah, it's a tough time of year. The holidays are
not easy for anybody.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
And after tomorrow night, I don't have another game till Sunday.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
I saw a seven foot guy staggering outside of Phinney's
waiting on an uber bumped his head getting into a tesla.
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Start ninety eight point seven with Matt money Smith, Daniel Jeremiah,
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is time for hopeful.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Music at mil Hopeful music at We're very close to noon,
hopeful music at noon. And the reason we're actually on
this early is because this afternoon the Clippers are taking
on the Boston Celtics. Pregame at three thirty, tip off
at four right here on Ami seventy LA Sports, and
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that's gonna be a big game. Whenever the Clippers take
the court in Boston, the eyes of the NBA world
shift to TD Bank North Garden, or at least that's
what it was called fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Ago when I visited with the Lake. All right, sweet
and tomorrow UCLA is taking on Southern Utah. But that's
neither here nor there. Matt is out, Don is here.
We will be on until three thirty, so two and
a half hours of great sports talk, and then that'll
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be that great sports talk, introducing our co host today
on your Southern California Toyota Dealers Celebrity Microphone in studio.
The next ass he kisses will be the first dressed
in his flannely grunge today.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Taking a back.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Recently, his son Trent McClain committed to the University of
West Virginia or West Virginia University excuse me to play
college basketball. Don played college basketball at UCLA, where he
is the leading scorer in the history of the Pac twelve,
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which now includes only two teams that played each other
on Saturday. Award winner in the NBA. You see him
on fan Duel Sports, Big Ten Network still works at CIA,
still has some hookups at Adidas. It is the one
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and only Don McClain on the Petterson Money Show on
AMPI seventy LA Sports, your home of Ucla Hoops. We
got it all the way to Eddie Veddan there that time.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
We just thinking that it's good to be nice one
I can carve out some time during basketball season. I
do have a little bit more time these days than
I used to have, but that's fine.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It's been interesting though, in making this transition to the
Big Ten and the Big Ten Network, is the producers
I work with feel like they have to introduce introduce
me to the Big ten audience footprint audience, right like,
so there's a lot of pictures of me at UCLA
when I played, pictures I haven't seen in a very
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long time. And just how much I've aged in the
last thirty years.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, well, yeah, it's been that long. And you do
look pretty young in the face, you know, when most
pictures of you were taken when you're in college. You know,
it's kind of rough to look back and to google
yourself because it's either pictures of you playing a college
sport or pictures of you look at all old, yeah,
wearing a tie holding a microphone, like, hey look me,
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I'm a big broadcast in dildo.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
It's just funny because for twelve years at twelve Network,
we never showed a picture of me ever.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well it was it was everybody knew who was doing
a game.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Right, and so it's just kind of been funny here
as we get this season started that pretty much every
game they feel compelled to throw up my resume with
a action shot at me doing something.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And what do you say, Yeah, yeah, that's that, you
know me.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I try and make fun of I don't know, I
make jokes about it. It's a little uncomfortable to be honest,
and what's it's necessary.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
What's your next move tomorrow night, UCLA, you're doing that one? Yep?
All right? And then and Kate's I heard begged off
Bruin talk for that one.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I wouldn't say begged off. I got family in town,
so a little Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So who's doing it?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Brian Finley will be doing it tomorrow night. So you
see he's five and one. Don How are they not
a top twenty five team at five and one.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Because they lost to New Mexico and they've beaten everyone
else by forty And I haven't looked at the metrics
of the teams they've beaten by forty, but I'm sure
they're ken Palm ratings aren't very high, but that's fine. Look,
he's got a whole new team and they're trying to
figure it out. Defensively, they're really good. Offensively, they're a
work in progress, I'd say, but they got good players.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Are they work in progress? When they have like all
these leading scores from other teams that have now become.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Tim You can't just throw a bunch of players together
and expect them to figure it out in in you know,
five games or six games.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Don I proclaim this team to be a Final four
team after the first time against Lee High, right, the problem.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Before we get into the Thanksgiving holiday and all that,
that is a little bit of a problem.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I loved what I saw in that first game.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
They played Lee High or something like that, and Kate's
went on the eleven fifty maybe he'd have you know,
he went on the postgame show.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Those are accusations, and.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
He said that this is a Final four team. He said, listen,
I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Say, hey, look, it could be.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It could be, but my god, I mean one half
against Lee High or two halves against Lee High, and
he's making that proclamation. And now we got to sit
here and deal with his twitching sphincter all college basketball
season because he made a crazy call.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
We will know if that if that's still in play
Final four by the end of December. They have Arizona
and Phoenix. They have North Carolina at the Garden, and
they have Gonzaga at the Intuit Dome, So we'll know
after those three games if this UCLA team is going
to be contending for Final Fours or not.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
How does that make you feel, Tim? Not good?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Because all three teams you just mentioned are really, really good.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And probably doesn't mean Ucla can't beat them, probably ranked two,
which Ucla is not. And that's what's rankling Tim because
he said what he said. Either way, we will have
that Ucla game tomorrow, but you won't have Tim Kates
to kick around on the postgame show. You mentioned, Tim
that you have family in town for Thanksgiving. How nice
for you.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Oh, they're not really in town from far away. It's
just like we're trying to find out different times to
meet with people because of work schedules. And oh wait,
so you don't have family in town. Well, I got
my daughters back in town from college.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Okay, where you out on the PSA? Now?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Pee?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Are you done with that? Still?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It's coming Wednesday, right, p because.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I have a lot of shows. I'll see.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I have baseball, everybody watch. We were all on the
couch watching the football game. Not all on the couch,
but in the family room watching the football game last night.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
All sitting together on the couch with the Simpson the
boys in row my age, and like we were just
talking about the week ahead, like because Blake's coming home tonight,
like what's happening?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
And my oldest Kyle threw out a name that I'd
never heard for the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, and because
i'd had a I'm trying to confirm what that was
right now? What he?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
What?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
They now? What twenty two year old call the night
before Thanksgiving? It was something crazy, desperate for attention, a
nostalgia night. No, it was so it was actually pretty good.
But we'll see.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Are you teaching him?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, I'm trying to find out. I'm trying to find out.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Call in, put them up, call the hotline. We got
nothing going on today. Uh yeah, it's kind of upsetting.
So Kate's you have that plan, and Ronnie's of course
gonna make his pies and down. Imagine you're gonna be
in town barbecuing your turkey or whatever. Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Trent is leaving on Thanksgiving to go to Atlanta for
a tournament. So we are actually having dinner Wednesday night
and then Thursday, I'm just going to barbecue.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Who's taken him to Atlanta?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
His team?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Okay, see, because I have to go and I'm just
lot right. No, Well, as you know, you know you
want us to pick you up. I have. As I've
continued to age and do this job, I've become just
increasingly agoraphobic and really weird about routine and being able
to be at home at night and all that. And
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then for years I traveled and did college football and
went through me the craziest stuff, you know, overnights in
West Virginia and Oklahoma State and all these places that
you couldn't even have met. Middle Nesse State, Louisiana Tech, Marshall.
I mean, I've been around, you know, and I don't
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do it anymore. Very much of the time I spend
now is calling games from the studio at Fox. I'm
one of the few people that does it. I'm the
West Coast guy, so late night West Coast games, I
usually work in the studio, and I'm comfortable doing that
and happy with it, regardless of how controversial some people
find it. I don't care. But I do travel from
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time to time. Certain games. They'll say, this team is
ranked Ashton, Gent's a Heisman guy, so they send me
to Boise. And Fox is such a deal with the
Big Ten that if they have a Big Ten game,
whether it's on FS one or Big Fox, you go.
So I have the final game of the year to
go to East Lansing, Michigan State, where I've never been.
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I've been, I've never been there, and they're playing Rutgers.
I have done a Rutgers game before. I've never never
done a Michigan State game before, which is pretty remarkable
after all these years I've never done. Yeah, I've done
Ohio State game, but I've never seen Michigan. I've I've
seen Michigan and I've never seen Michigan State. Jonathan Smith
is their coach. But anyway, I got that assignment last
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week and it hit me like the Miley Cyrus song,
like a wrecking ball, and all I can think about
is going to Michigan State and trying to get home
over Thanksgiving weekend. Oh, calling the game, yeah, calling the game,
Oh no, wearing my Fox jacket with Dan Helly, doing
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the whole deal, and I am well, I mean, people
do this all the time, and I used to do
it all the time, but I am embarrassed by how
much it is upsetting me.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I still remember that this day. I don't remember where
I was going, but I was only doing UCLA Radio
at the time, in some local TV UCLA. This was
twenty years ago. Probably I had to fly so oh,
I know what it was. UCLA was playing in a
Thanksgiving tournament in New York, and I remember pulling up
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to Lax on Wednesday morning with the longest lines I've
ever seen in my life ever, And I said to myself,
if I can control my schedule somehow, I will always
never do a game out of town Thanksgiving weekend because
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it's bad.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I can't control my schedule.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Right, you're not helping the cause, don right now, I am, Well,
what happened was this then?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
But your last it's your last game of the year.
That's how you have to think about it.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, last game of the year, and we're sending you
to East Lansing to die. I forget.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
How far is East Lancing from Detroit?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
About an hour?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah plus, so hen Arbor's like forty I think little close.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
But here here's my other thing. So Thanksgiving and I'm
just gonna explain my problems to people, because Hey, we're
on a flex alert. You know, we got two and
a half hours to fart around.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Hey, don to Kyle text you back in.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
They shut up. I'm telling talking about my life.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I'm curious to know.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
D No, not yet.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
What's in class?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
He's working?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Oh blackout Wednesday. I'm seeing a lot of on social media.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I think blackout was part of the term that he used.
Blackout wins something something something blackout something.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Because like black Friday is like a playoff that.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I think, you drink so much you blackout.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I get it. Okay, Well, originally I had my flight
book for Friday. It's a Saturday game. Okay, what time?
Kick three thirty local local local, Yeah, twelve thirty. Here
there's a flight out of Detroit. But I got to
fly southwest and connect to get home. But I'm getting
home that night.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
What times it What times it leaves nine thirty, three thirty,
six thirty?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, you're good, game's over at seven hour to get
there eight hour. To hate those though, I steer clear
of those. Now, well you can't.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I don't do there's any mor class ticket in the
morning where I have to get I have to get
to the airport after the game, and if it's within
a I don't do it.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
But here's the deal. I just stay, What am I
going to do? I don't look. Look, Sunday is a
terrible travel day. No, I know, Saturday is not after Thanksgiving,
Saturday at nine o'clock at night is not. But worse
than that. I was going to go in on Friday
and just fart around in East Lansing nothing to do
because the figure it's the weekend, we'll do zoom meetings. No,
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Jonathan Smith's like, we want to meet in person at
twelve thirty here in East Lansing. That puts me on
the Red Eye Thanksgiving night. Why why why you don't
even need why why why?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Why why you don't even need first class for that trip,
because you could add the whole plane's gonna You're gonna
be the only person on that plane, which.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
One the Red Eye?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
The Red Eye?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Now there was only two spots. What, Yeah, that's weird.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
We went to the Maui Invitational years ago when I
was doing UCLA Radio. We flew back on Thanksgiving. There
was literally ten people on the flight.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah, it's amazing when that happened from time to time.
But anyway, that's my issue. I'm really struggling. I'm really
upset about it. What times did flight leave Thursday night
ten o'clock. You're good arrive in East Lancing around four
or five in the morning.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
It'll be a little fuzzy for the morning for the
in person meetings hopefully.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Well that needs to happen to me all the time.
When I go to West Virginia and I fly on
the Red Eye and then I get dragged to a
meeting like an hour later, and I'm sitting there across
from Dana Holgerson and he'd be like, why you always in
such a bad mood. And I'm like, because I have
to fly the Red Eye because you meet here at
this time because I live on the West coast. He's like, oh,
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I understand now, Like yeah, dude, I'm miserable.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
That's a horrible hot by the way.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
To West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
No, your farthest trip of the year, and it's thanks
Giving weekend, Like that's awful.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I did that for West Virginia ones too. One year.
I just had to go off to cal It was
like a dance. Yeah, you know. But anyway, that's my problem.
Thank you for listening to my problems. Anybody has some
like breathing advice or anything for me, I will take it.
I do not enjoy holiday travel. I don't enjoy travel,
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and I know. And then I got Tim and Matt
Muddy Smith negotiating like an RV trip to Dodger spring training.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
What, Yeah, that's fun, does it? Don? Arizona February?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
You're getting an RV here in road tripping to Yeah,
they're going to try to put like an RV. I
thought they're banning RVs in California once, But once you
get to Phoenix, you're not staying in the RV.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Well, there was some thought about maybe staying in the
RV together and kind of making a whole thing about
it close to Camelback Ranch. But if we need to
stay in a hotel, we can ditch the RV or
one of us will sleep in there.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I don't know what the number would be. I'll think
about it on the way home later today of what
it would take for me to stay in an RV
for more than.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
With my sleep mask a few hours. Matt and Matt
money Smith telling me everything that I'm doing is wrong and.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Tim, so are you envisioning Tim, like all three of
you staying in the RV and like setting up like
a barbecue out front, lounge chairs in the front, just
making it a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
On one hundred percent, will build a little fire pit
out there, we'll cook the food. You know, the little
auntie that comes off the side of the r V.
You can put the chair underneath it.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Maybe when I get back next week, if I get back,
you know, maybe maybe I can entertain that and be
like whatever, you know, I can you know in April
or whatever? Fine, great, you know, March, you know, great,
But but I have to sit here and listen to
it right now when I'm in the throes of desperation,
big ten desperation gotta make me very happy.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Don How how long are you planning on staying at
Dodger Spring Training in this RV?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I mean, if you're gonna drive out there, you got
to be out there a full calendar week, right, We
got to be out there from like a Sunday through Saturday. Oh,
we can park it in the parking lot of killing
that ranch. Players will drive up like, you know, hey,
good morning there, Clete. How you doing, buddy? Well?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Coffee. We did a thing once. We did a thing
once where we were out there for that long, maybe
five days, and I had this whole thing hooked up
to do an hour with Ned Coletti at the boot
store in Arizona to buy boots for TV for t
for him he loves boots, or I was gonna get
some boots too, and we literally the camera guy showed
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up and I'm sure you know the camera guys one
of the Fox Times for years, and uh, well, excuse me,
fan duel guys. And he didn't have like a battery
for his camera or something. He's like, oh, and we're like, oh,
I guess we can't do it. Sorry, ned thanks, but
like we waited for an hour like for something to
maybe happen, and nothing ever happened. I don't want to
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do it. Can't we just have the fans go for
the weekend and give away a trip and just act
like we were there and send Dave. I guess not.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
You just jumped on the phone.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
No, it's very upsetting anyway.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I don't know in your in your rating system, whatever
ratings you use, the trip to Michigan State or that
trip to spring training, Like, what which one's.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
The one that's longer is worse? The one that's longer, Yeah,
and the one that that puts me in an RV
with the radio show is I don't want to go
its way too long. I don't want to go on
an RV with anybody, let alone stay at an RV
with the people I work with, or like somehow park
it in the parking lot at the camel Back Ranch.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
The RV is big. It's not like we're all sitting
next to each other in like a twelve foot camper.
It's going to be a huge RV. You'll probably have
your own sleeping area.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
We could all be in separate parts of the RV
and not even talk to each other.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, but if you stay at a hotel, at least
you have like a pool. There's stuff to We've done
that before too. Is it drinks giving? No drinks giving? Good?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
That's good?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
No, dude, I I'm I can't believe he's not texting
me back.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I mean, Don McClain texts me. I text back right,
you know, like right away, Like I don't mess around.
But I guess it's a different world when you're Don
McClain's son. Yeah, exactly, Don.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Would you like to come with us even if we
like flew you back early. You don't have to stay
the entire week, but that'd be kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
He's so tall and his legs would be all long.
He can drive, No Matt behind the RV. He's not
going to allow that. You know Matt.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I can't drive behind the RV like the tour bus.
We'll play like a band's tour bus. I'm just driving behind.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
You're a band aide.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Like Christy Brinkley in vacation, is swooping around looking at us,
learning with Matt.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I love the great sports talk.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
You know, Matt would want to have to drive right
like Matt would. Matt would not allow.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
No. I think he allowed me to drive, but he
would navigate.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Matt would navigate, And no one's gonna let me drive
of course, hell right, because I'm not too clear behind
the wheel. Anyway, That's what's happening. I'm upset about the
trip to Michigan State. I shouldn't be. It's my job.
I need to be able to handle it maturely, and
dot I'm just not handling. I'm maturely right now. I'm
not gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Every day for the last week. Don So.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Kyle is distracted by his work. He said something longer,
but he just texts me it is blackout Wednesday. He
said something else last night, but I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Do you feel as if it's now a bit of
an anticlimax.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, because he said something last night and I remembered
it had blackout in it, but there's a few other
words before it. Maybe we can't repeat it on air.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Well, we're not going to know unless you tried. That's
all right, we'll be right back. We'll talk some hoops.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Blackout Wednesday. So you didn't answer the question are you
doing your PSA or not?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I'm so upset about the trip. It true, lancing that
it's hard to concentrate. It's hard to concentrate on anything.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Last year you said it was probably going to be
your last year, Petros because you're so old.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Now I remember that. I remember something.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I'm forty seven, and it's like, at what point do
I stop yelling at twenty year olds and tell them
what to do? Maybe never, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah, I always enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Well, I mean, my message is always the same, and
it's it's universal and it doesn't change even with social
media and the different ways people connected and communicate.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Now, over the years, I've been on a decent amount.
On that Wednesday, I remember doing one show. I was
in Tucson and it was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Were iHeart Tucson doing it or you were on the air,
like on the phone. Oh, it's on the phone with
you guys. Oh yeah, but you weren't. I was doing
a game there that night night, but you weren't like
co hosting that.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
No, but it was that day, and I remember the
discussion of the whole PSA and all that.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
My message is pretty standard. It's that you're going to
be disappointed. You're going to remember how much everybody sucks.
You're going to remember why you didn't talk to them
in the first place, and God help you if you
do go home with somebody. I never went to a
reunion either, meet neither. You'd be hard to miss at
a reunion.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yes, you want to go to yourn next reunion in
an RV. We can take you.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
That would be cool to pull up in an RV
if you were going to go to your reunion.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
What's the name of the RV place, Tim, Oh, there's
Mike Thompson and there's El Monte RV. Now isn't it
true that r v's are being like this. There's something
to happen to RVs where they're making it really really
hard for you to get them now.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Because they're not electric.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, basically too much gas or something I don't know,
leave you too much of a carbon footprint.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
We'll be right back with more great sports talk. I
think we'll tell I go see us clax. Did he
call it the nightmare before Thanksgiving? He did not.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I think he's hopefully when he gets less distracted, he
will text me what exactly he said last night? But
it really caught you well, I've just never heard it before.
The one to know, did you ever go to those
things on Wednesday night? Like, hey, Don McLean's here, check
it out. He's seven feet taller than the rest of us,
and he's back with a vengeance on Wednesday night before
(24:33):
Thanksgiving in the Semi Valley teaming bar scene. No, because
typically I was either playing or doing what I do now.
Really was ever just around on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
All right, Peta, how many texts are you getting?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Petros?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
People trying to guess what Kyle said, Like, oh, I
know he said this.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, I've gotten a few, and I've asked Don and
he shot all of them down.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Sorry, guys, Kyle will when he's I can tell he's busy.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
So the one and only Don McClain is our co host.
Matt's doing the Monday night game this afternoon where Harball, yes,
the Harball exactly, the brothers Harbaugh against each other. And
there is one interesting story that gives you a little
bit of the perspective between Jim and John Harbaugh. Jim Harball,
of course, you know, famous quarterback and all that stuff.
(25:31):
John Harbaugh a little bit more of a grinder, special
teams coach type of guy, and had coaching success in
the NFL before Jim Harbaugh did, kind of I'm not
exactly sure the timeline, but the funniest thing John Harbaugh's
ever said was, of course their father was a coach.
In fact, I've been to that Speaking of trips, I've
(25:51):
been to Western Kentucky where the Hilltoppers, and that stadium
is called Jack Harbaugh Stadium. Yeah, it's named after him.
Who's got it better than us? Nobody. So the dad
was a longtime star football coach, and so they moved
around a lot, like any coaching family. And they asked
(26:13):
John Harbaugh, what if that was hard, you know, to
move every three four years, and he says, well, that
was around the time that everybody started to hate Jim.
So it was really good that we would move because
Jim started to make too many enemies because he's such
a quirky, volatile and interesting guy. So there is a
real difference between the two guys. But both of them,
(26:34):
you can't argue, know how to get results and build
a pro football team, which is not easy in today's
day and age.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
So we will have su college team.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
No, yeah, no doubt. I mean that seems to be
even more difficult. But the Chargers versus the Ravens Monday
Night Football five fifteen kickoff at so far listen to
it on ALT ninety eight seven. All right, I'll pop
you out, I will look you out, toy. This is
a flip top story of the day, just really quick
before we get to an illustrious how was your weekend?
(27:05):
In the very next segment with Don McClain speaking of
college football, I called two college football games over the weekend,
San Jose State hosting UNLV playoff implications. There horrible rainstorm
up in the Bay area all weekend, as you know,
one of the nastiest, radiest games that I've ever done.
(27:27):
And then the next night was a real slog Air
Force versus Nevada Air Force. You know what they were?
Eleven minute drives and the nuance of the tip top
for you to talk though, oh, no doubt love it.
Just love to talk, and so that's what I was doing.
But of course wall it was happening. Usc UCLA was
(27:48):
raging in the Rose Bowl also known as the Empty
Seats Bowl by Scott Wolf. Was it super empty? It
filled up a little bit, right Tim on a cold
and drizzly night.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, I still saw some tarps out there though.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, they tarped it, but it was was the area
that didn't have the tarps filled with masses of humanity
like we were used to at SEUCLA. Or no, oh no, okay,
that's very depressing because.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I told Tim earlier, Pee, I didn't even know I
was listening to you guys on Thursday or no Friday.
This is how sad it's become. I didn't even know
the game was this weekend. Yeah, I didn't even know it.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
At the Fox Studio, there was like a table and
there was like a big poster board like someone made
it like in a high school, and it said celebrate
the first usc UCLA Big ten in the Big ten matchup,
and it was like a table full of cookies. But
by the time I got to work, all the cookies
(28:44):
were gone.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
You want, the attendance for Saturday Night at the Rose
Bowl kind of fifty nine thousand, four hundred and seventy three.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Which means it was more like forty nine thousand, and
that's probably their best attended game of the year. I
would imagine they didn't have La You in there or
anything like that this year.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
So Tim, what does the Rose bull hold again?
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Well, well, we got the tarps up or not? No
tarpsy it's a hundred right, No, not anymore. I think
they knocked it down to like eighty five or something
like that. But still it's a little bit depressing. I mean,
you expect that game to be full. That game would
be full when I played in it and we were
five hundred level teams. Everybody would go anyway, it was
(29:28):
something to do cold night. I wonder if that's nobody
got stabbed, though, which is good for the long long tailgate.
You know, somebody can get stabbed. Somebody got stabbed in
at O nine.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I don't want to start a whole long thing peek,
as you and I have done over the years when
I start something like this, But I just wondering, I know,
se and UCLA aren't aren't great this year at football,
but also know that like the Arizona Ucla basketball game
didn't sell out last year, and that's unhurt at Paul,
and none of the Arizona guys with their too small
(29:59):
mic be jersey showed up. Well I'm sure they were there,
but they didn't fill the place up. But I'm wondering
if it's not just if your program's winning or losing
or not meeting expectations of the season that you're in.
Is it just people aren't going to games anymore.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Different town for games, no doubt about it. And if
you do go to a game, like you go to
SOFI or to a Rams or Chargers game, or maybe
the new Clippers situation, and I know it's this way
as Staples or whatever it's called crypto, the pro sports,
they just assault you with sound. I mean they kill
you like you're in a club and when you're calling
(30:34):
the game, you don't really notice because you got your
headphones on and you're doing a broadcast, but it is
it's not pleasant. Like you go to the Dodger game
and yeah they played music, but they also have the
organ going. It's outside and it's outside and you kind
of feel a little bit more continuity with the people.
I don't know if we have that. I'm my whole
experience growing up was being at USC football games with
(30:55):
my grandparents and my dad and all that. And I'm
sure there's still a lot of people that have that
as part of their the fabric of what they do
in Los Angeles. But You're right, it's a lot different,
and a lot of it is because the game on
TV and being able to flip around and watch the
game on TV, watch it on your phone. It is great.
I mean, people enjoy doing that and it's kind of
but I'd go to these places and I have for years,
(31:18):
and I'm going again. Like you go to Ames, Iowa,
and you look around on Friday, the day before the game,
and you say, you know, where is everybody? What is
this place? And then Saturday comes and you know, there's
sixty thousand people in the stadium. There is a c
of RVs like Kate's is trying to get us to
go in, and it's a whole different vibe. It's a
(31:40):
whole culture that we don't have because they don't have
raging Waters, they don't have Disney California Adventure. They don't
have the Mendocino farms and every mall where you can
get the almost fried chicken sandwich.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
That's That's what I've noticed in starting with the Big
Ten network this year is keeping up with the Big
Ten And like you look at their attendance, I mean
Macki Arena Purdue is sold out, Yeah, for a November
seventh game against some low major teams hold out?
Speaker 2 (32:08):
What do you think the Mountaineers in West Virginia do?
Where Trent's gonna play? You know, at pitt there's a
waiting list for season tickets that's like twenty years long. Really,
it's like one of the craziest status symbols in the world.
It's like being a member at Mari Lago or something
very difficult to do, and we just don't. We don't
have that as part of our culture.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
When you played at Poly, was every game sold out?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Right, Yeah, it's changed, there's no doubt that it's changed.
And the usc UCLA game itself, the football game, it
was really hard to kind of decipher going into it,
who had momentum, who was going to be more efficient,
and neither team was very good at all all of
the things that people hate about USC reared their head.
(32:54):
They had long, beautiful drives, couldn't convert in the red zone,
had to kick a bunch of field goals because Lincoln
refuses it seems to want to use his best player,
the running back what he marks. And UCLA they were
who they are. They made mistakes and they weren't they
weren't good enough in the moments they needed to be
(33:14):
to win the game. And then there was this moment
at halftime where three personal fouls got called on UCLA
because they went halftime at halftime because they were all over.
The Rose Bowl has two tunnels, yep, right, one on
either side, so you go on your side to your
tunnel and you don't even have to cross, you just
(33:35):
go on your side. It's actually pretty efficient, well done.
Like Michigan, the big House, they got big problems. Remember
those guys got to rested for assault a few years back.
I forget which team. They took the guy's shoe off
and beat him with it. And we got in a
huge fight once with Notre Dame in the tunnel in
nineteen ninety nine, I think, And because we're all in
(33:55):
the same tunnel, Coliseum, same tunnel, so one team's got
to stop the other team. UCLA is not like that,
but somehow they got kind of intersected and they were
fighting over by the sc tunnel, which is why I
believe UCLA got the flags because they were all the
way over there. And here's Wayne cook your old classmate
at UCLA. Wayno, the quarterback on the sideline who does
(34:19):
a great job on the broadcast with Lewin and Matt
Stevens talking about how terrible the game was in the
first half and what was happening down on the sideline
at the end of the half.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Let's go to Wayne Cookies in the middle of all that.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
This is absolutely insane, and to be honest with you,
I don't think either team deserves to be talking any
smack Hell is one of the uglier first halfs I've watched.
Get in the locker room, talk to your coaches and
figure this thing out. But this is nuts. It happens
in this game. I get it, but they need to go.
Both teams need to go figure this out and play
better in the second half.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah tell them Wayne, Yeah, this is insane and ultimately
USC won game because Jade and Mayava was able to
do what they got him to do when they made
the change at quarterback for Miller Moss, which is extend
to play with his legs, run around a little bit,
and make the one play USC really needed to make.
(35:14):
I do have this corrections and retractions. Yeah, it's an
even year, so the Rose Bowls an even year. The
facial stabbing at the golf course on the game my
last game ever with Barry Tompkins for the Pac ten
Game of the Week or yeah Pac ten Game of
the Week twenty ten nine was at the coliseum, twenty
(35:36):
ten facial stabbing? Why long tailgate? Seven o'clock kick and
now you're fighting in the tunnel and you get three
personal fouls and UCLA overcame that adversity and took a
lead and then everything fell apart. Were you upset down? No,
you didn't watch. I didn't watch. Sorry? What about Notre
Dame USC this week? Does that get you going thinking
(35:58):
about waking up the echoes thinking about it?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
No? No, I'll turn it back on when the playoffs start,
the college football playoffs? What about championship weekend? Is USC
and line to get in the playoff.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
We'll see what happened against Notre Dame. So that's a maybe.
I think that that train has left Union Station.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Don The only playoffs Lincoln Riley's going to is the
CIF championship game with Bosco and modern Day.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
To recruit well, I mean that's you know, Lincoln Riley,
you got a lot of money, man, very disappointing. Got
a lot of money, but doesn't reach out to local teams,
does not recruit local stars well, does not embrace USC traditions,
and seems kind of detached from the program as a whole.
(36:47):
So things are great, and then you got to Sean Foster,
who's left something to be desired.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Would you say Pee that Oklahoma was probably the right
speed for Lincoln Riley.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
I would say Oklahoma had the right structure for him
to take over for Bob Stoops and coach guys and
win win Heisman's and stuff like that. But I think
the style of offense that he coaches and the way
he does it, it's not a great fit here. Not
Big ten Worthy, it's just not a great fit here either.
But yeah, when you lose at Minnesota, you lose at Maryland,
(37:20):
you can't talk anymore. And that happened in October season's over.
We're on M five seventy LA Sports, your home of
the Dodgers. There is a little bit of Dodger news,
some angel news too. We'll get into it in a
quick hits. Don and I will be on all the
way until three. I'm just tired of that game, you know,
(37:45):
the Let's make Petros miserable and see how miserable we
can make him by making up a trip that we're
not even going to take. You know what I mean,
what do you mean? It's not funny. It's not funny
to make me miserable. I'm talking about the RV trip
I have to go to Michigan State?
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Would it you'd be fine if feels a regular flight
hotel trip.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
No, I mean I wouldn't be fine. I'm never fine,
but you know that's me. I'm sorry, Don.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
We got Tracy in sales now working on an RV deal.
Just yeah, they're selling RVs and we're thinking maybe we
get Elon to give us one of those star links
where you can get internet everywhere. We could do the
show from the road.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I mean the motion.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Couldn't we just buy the starlink?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I'm sure we could. I mean Elon Musk is not
gonna give us anything. No, no, not give us, but
do a little deal with them.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
When is this trip and what kind of deal are
you looking to do? Just something whenever? Spring training is
middle of February.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Middle of February.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yeah, oh yeah, because they're going to Japan to.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Start in Phoenix. That's right.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
That's why I have like a little fire outside the
chairs gathered around.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
So you know how to RV? Then, Tim, you've rved before.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I've never V in my life done. But I can
figure it out in the next two months.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
I'm sure Matt would become an expert overnight and we
would have that.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
I mean, do we need a special license like a
great age?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
But how to work everything? Like how do you get
rid of the toilet on board? Like how do you
do all that stuff? No clue exactly, no idea.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
They just give the keys back to the people at
the RV place to say, here you go.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Can we do How is your weekend? Please? I don't
want to go in an RV. Okay, second down and nine,
I'm gonna do what I do. The weekend is mine.
So how was your weekend? Okay, second down.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Too, Tim, do you think Tracy could get me like
a rental car to drive behind the r V to
absolutely Do you own a car? Yeah, but I want
like a cool like Mustang or something. You know, Oh, top.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Down, let's go.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
If this is where it's going, why don't we just
create a giant caravan like Burning Man, just have all
every idiot there you go, you know, gone and his
little Info Wars truck and you know, let's just let's
get every idiot behind us and just roll all away.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
I get a Domaklean wants to be Burt Reynolds. He
wants to be driving that fifty Transam transam. Meanwhile, everybody
else is Jerry Reid with all that beer in the back.
Okayar cana baby, Yeah, people are thirsty as Racy.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
She's got any any people at the transam dealership?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
I'm on it.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Yeah, And you know I'm allergic to dogs, so don't
be trying to put a basset hound on my on
my lap.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Wait, who makes transams? Pontiac Rod, Pontiac Rod is Pontiac.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Still no Pontiac, Michigan is not even a town anymore.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Efforting don to see they're still of their own.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
They are not burned.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Burning too, calt Jaylenno.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
He might have one in his garage.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Tops on the transamp.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
All right, let's get to how is your weekend? We
already did that, We already played the thing Kate's don
don how was your weekend? Oh?
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Usually when I come in in here on a Monday
more to report. Uh not a not a big weekend
at the McLean household Friday night did UCLA cal State
Fullerton got up. We had a family breakfast at the
local place, which was nice, and then me and the
wife did a little shopping. We had to get some stuff.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
What's the local place? The Westlake Yokhead Marmalade Cafee. Oh yeah,
you do a lot of your business right there. And
then one shopping center right there. And I went to
Core Power Yoga there once though. Yeah that too many mills,
too many mills Brook goes there. Yeah, I tumbled out
of there. Too many mills.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Saturday night, Uh hooked up with some friends for dinner
and then uh watch some football middle of the day
Saturday Sunday, not much hung around the house and then
made some try tips last night.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Wonderful.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Kate's had a busy weekend. Guys. Friday night, went to
Don Cucko's for dinner and enjoyed Don Kuco's after picking
the girls up from the airport. They're back home for
Thanksgiving from Arizona and at Don Kucko's. Just taking a
little longer than you know, I hope, because it was
a Friday night place was going off and looked up
and night. I got a text message from Zach here
at the station saying, hey, dude, UCLA game just ended.
(42:20):
So I got it from the table, left, got an
uber and raced to go do brew and Talk and
got there just in time before Josh and Tracy signed
off to do brewin Talk on Friday night. Had a
great show, a lot of great calls.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
How many people called him too?
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Two calls? So, but uh, yeah, we're building, don it's
a slow build. We're going from zero to one to two.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
I was going to offer up to come on tim
like after the game on my way home. But if
no one's calling in, dude, what's the point.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
What are you talking about? What's the point. Oh, let's
wait to the we have to do the show.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Let's wait to the meat potatoes and your vegan. Let's
wait till you know the Gonzagas of the world in
the North Carolina games, so you know the real games,
not the Lee Highs and the Southern Idahoes of the world.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
So cal State Fulltune's got a really good notable alumni though.
You know who doesn't Southern Utah. He looked it up
for you. Listen, no one, let's just skip that segment
of the broadcast. Well they're gonna skip it anyway.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Saturday, I had to work Compass Media Networks College Football
Game of the Week while my wife and I I
will see me. My wife and girls got tickets to
the PBR. Yes, the Professional bull Riding out in Ontario.
You jumped on those. They went out there, the four
of them, thanks to Mario. At the PBR. They got in,
had some seats and loved it. They were there for
(43:39):
a couple of hours during the PBR, had a great time,
absolutely loved it. The girls had gone in Arizona, so
the wife and other daughter went with them and they
had a blast at the PBR in Ontario. Sunday had
the Raiders broadcast. Raiders unfortunately lost a heartbreaker to the Broncos.
They're now two to nine. I think their playoff hopes
are just.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Right there with USCS playoff hopes.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
I'm not sure if they've officially been eliminated, but it
could be close to not making the playoffs again this year.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
So a lot of Copenhagen at that PBR a Tim, yep,
A lot.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Of zen floating around there, if you know what I mean.
Call them those things, yeah, little zens. Yeah, so at
a good time. The girls and the wife, they took
lots of pictures and uh yeah, the drinks are flowing, Ronnie.
Speaker 5 (44:23):
You know, for some reason, every time I hear PBR always,
I can't help it, Tim, I always think of perhaps
Blue Ribbon. I can't can't help it. Not sure why
they should be a sponsor. I think I had a
nice weekend. Didn't do really anything except for Saturday. I
kind of went to I went to the to the
Burdbank Empire Center, Okay, to go to Macy's to go
(44:44):
pick up an order that I had placed that was ready.
And afterwards I came out and I saw all kinds
of like like people walking around the San Fernando Road there.
They shut down San Fernando Road adjacent to the bird
Bank Empire Center. They're having some sort of street fair.
They had a band set up and they had a
wine walk going on at the same time, so I
kind of integrated myself walking around there, visited a couple
(45:07):
of the kiosks there, had a glass of wine, made
my way over to the yard house and I had
some beer and watched the rest of the Colorado game.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Went home.
Speaker 5 (45:17):
Let me see what did I do? I drank a
lot of beer and I do not remember falling asleep. Wow,
it was one of those nights I did wake up on. Well,
I didn't wake up kind of late on Saturday night,
not really knowing where I was or what time it was,
and it turned out it was like eleven thirty at night.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Geez.
Speaker 5 (45:36):
Yeah, it was one of those nights. I felt like
Matt money Smith there a little bit. Anyway, Sunday kind
of slept in a little bit, nursed a tiny bit
of a hangover, and just did stuff around the house,
watching NFL foods ball all day and trying to get better.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
Guys.
Speaker 5 (45:50):
Not a good way to end the weekend there, going
into Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Geez, yes, well what about you, petros Well, I just
I called.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
We didn't drink too much.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
No, well, maybe last night I had the two football
games to call. Uh. I went to yoga on Saturday. Oh,
Shannon Farron came to yoga from KFI and she ended
up right next to me, just because that's was the configuration.
And then I heard today that she complained about my
audible breathing. Yoga is a breathing complained, she noticed, but
(46:22):
she talked about it on air. So you're a heavy breather,
no doubt, you know.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Whatever. Yeah, And did you have anything to notice about
her in the yoga.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
Other than she's a lovely lady and my apologies to her. No,
I did not just a lovely lady and my apologies
to her. Okay. And then on Saturday. On Sunday, I
went back to yoga, but yoga was so crowded that
I felt bad and I just rolled up my mat
and left and gave somebody my snot because it was
(46:56):
a member.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
You know what's interesting about that, pe is Brooke. My
wife gives up on yoga this week.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
She won't get too big. Yeah that's very big. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
So what happens all the moms that go, their daughters
are home and they go with them. Yeah, so she's
like the hell with it? It's a real missile show.
And then last night we went out with the real
estate dad family, the Grannises of Fine Palace, Verdi's family,
and we went to the Bullpen, which is a place
you would appreciate in Redondo Beach, heavy pores, heavy poor
(47:27):
steak place out of New York State.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
Digit. Yes, absolutely, all right, we'll be back. That's the weekend.
We'll have your word number song of the day. I'm sorry,
Ronnie that you got so drunk. You know, it's okay.
Speaker 5 (47:42):
I mean I had a good time, had a good time.
Well it lasted, but you know the price.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
I did pay the price.
Speaker 5 (47:47):
I'm okay now, not the first or the last.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
Yeah, it's a tough time of year. The holidays are
not easy for anybody.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
And after tomorrow night, I don't have another game till Sunday.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
I saw a seven foot guy staggering outside of Phinney's
waiting on an uber bumped his head getting into a tesla.
We'll be back with more great sports talk on Ami
seventy LA Sports, your home of the Dodgers
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