January 8, 2025 • 48 mins
A Flex Alert before the Clippers game in Denver. Petros and Money with the latest on the fires in Southern California and how it's affecting the sports teams. Flip Top Story of the Day on Mick Cronin angry with his team. Petros with his obstructions for Matt in Houston.
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So thanks for all who are joining us a little
bit early today as we get this thing rolling. We
just won't be defeated Wednesday Pee.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It's also a what am I gonna do with this guy? Wednesday?
And hopeful music at noon because we are flexed back
one hour for the listeners. Obviously hopeful music at noon,
our hope.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Hopeful music at noon.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It is for the safety and security of the people
of our city. Tough times, multiple fires burning overnight. We
got on the air when the Palisades fire was just
getting started, and all those politicians are out there for
a photo op. It got much worse. Hard to have
perspective on it. It's hard to think or not think
(01:54):
that the Palisades is just gone. I don't think all
of it has gone, but significant out out of it,
and Altadena is a mess because of the Eating fire
which exploded overnight and forced a lot of people to flee,
and the Hurst fire up in the Silmar area. So
it's a long night, long night for guys like Tim
Kats up in Burbank with really really high winds and
(02:17):
people really just sitting on eggshells all night hoping that
things like these tragedies didn't come their way. So very
difficult to watch for all of us. Matt and I
did a little bit of coverage of it yesterday making
fun of some of the media people because they are
such idiots.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So many of the politicians, local politicians. Oh god, I.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Just can't take it. But the people that are suffering
is no laughing matter. We do great sports talk and
we try to provide a bit of a respite in
these times for people that are struggling. I mean, everybody's
been glued to the TV for twenty four hours. So
if you're listening to us or podcasts in the show,
have some of our normal levity and try to do
(03:03):
some sports stories. But on AM six forty KFI, they
are covering this. They covered up Coast to Coast last night.
I can't I can't imagine the last time that happened.
I mean, George Nori to be covered up because is
deeply Ian. They play it twice, That's how nice. It's
so nice. I want to play the same show twice,
(03:25):
exactly right, uh And they covered up Coast to Coast.
Tim Conway went on from midnight to three AM. I
went on with him from two to three, uh to
just to help Tim out because they're on overnight. And
then uh, Neil savedra the Fork Report and Jesus came
(03:45):
in and took it to Bill Handles. So they're doing
Yeoman's work over at KFI like they always do when
there's a disaster, trying to bring people information, and our
hope is, like everybody else's hope, that the winds died
down and we can start to get to some kind
of healing process sooner than later. But right now, I mean,
(04:06):
I just hate saying it, like if it's zero percent
contained a thing, stop putting that up there, say give fire, you.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Hit it on the head.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I mean, just the overnight portion of it, when you're
trying to, you know, get down, get some rest, figure
out what you're facing in the morning, and instead you
probably can't get an ounce of sleep because you have
no idea on the fire trucks and the police cars
are going to start coming through your neighborhood saying get out, immediately,
grab everything you can that you can throw in your
car and leave. And we certainly know people that had
that happen to them overnight. I'm sure just about everybody does.
(04:38):
With every spots where this thing is going and.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
And free dramatically different places in the city of Los
Angeles really kind of microcosm of the city.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
It's u and I think you know, when people think
of Los Angeles nationally, I can only imagine the images
that are going.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
To be shared.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
It's it's pH it's the Pacific Coast Highway, and it's
the fact that they were at least as of right now,
able to save the Old Getting Museum and all of
those structures up and down pch being burned. But like
you said, you're talking about the Woodley fire, but they
eating fire. Two people lost their lives tragically. Like you said,
the Palisades has essentially been ravaged, and I don't know
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if it'll ever I don't know how it could possibly
ever be the same. But you do have some other
areas here in Los Angeles where these fires are starting
to pop up, and they're equally as devastating and maybe
not getting near the coverage or near the attention that
the Palisades fire is. And we're thinking about each and
every one of you, and hopefully, like you said, these
winds can die down. They're supposed to die down around
(05:36):
four to five o'clock today, and I hope in fact
that that forecast is correct, because like you said, overnight,
I mean, those winds were howling so hard you couldn't
get anything up there. There's just there's just letting the
thing burn and crossing your fingers.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, all the scuba divers were safe. No one was
gonna scoop them up and drop them onto a fire
like we talked about yesterday from that episode of CSI.
They couldn't get helicopters up, they couldn't get planes up.
It's just been an absolute definition of a disaster. And
then of course we have all our great local politicians
(06:08):
telling us that everything's okay. Very interesting, you know, because
there's always political hay being made, especially these days, especially
with the way social media works on these things. But
speaking of jump in the freeway, that political stuff jump
like Alex. I made fun of Alex a little bit
yesterday for being Gavin Newsom's kind of a coverage guy.
(06:32):
Maybe I didn't put it like that, but i'll tell
you what. Alex today was pissed. They had Joe Biden
and Newsom up there and they didn't take any questions.
They just made a weird statement and Biden said that
he was a great grandfather and everybody had this weird,
awkward platform while the city burns down, and Alex was like,
I thought I was gonna ask a lot of questions.
(06:53):
It was just a photo op that was nothing but
a photo op. Ye, goddamn Alex. Good Yeah, fight on, brother, Yeah,
they'll get after those politicians at.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I mean outside of them just announcing yes, we've got money,
we got federal aid coming. It's a state of emergency.
Here's how much money we're gonna be throwing it there,
National Guards and see you later.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Let's get back to the fire chief.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Let's get back to who can tell us where to go,
where the shelters are, which neighborhoods are being evacuated. And
thank you, mister President, thank you, mister governor. Be on
your way.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Leave us alone unless they're gonna take questions, you know.
And they didn't take questions. And it's pretty interesting because
I was doing the radio in the morning and overnight
the guy who lost the mayoral race, who paid the
ninety million dollars to fire Clay Hilton then hire Lincoln Riley,
which seemed like a real home run at the time. Man,
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I mean, everybody was excited back in twenty twenty one.
Rick Caruso, Caruso, Yeah, he started calling up He called
up Fox, he called up Alex, he called up Channel
four and started talking us and talking about how how
unprepared they were, and all this stuff. And Rick Caruso, yeah,
he was emotional. His daughter's house burned down. But unless
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he knew what was going on, and somebody told him
that they didn't fill the reservoirs and there was no
water pressure and all this different stuff, I don't think
you would have made those calls and gone off like that.
And I started attacking the mayor who just arrived home
from Ghana this morning. So very interesting stuff going on
and being covered at the same time. Wall the city
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is burning and the fires are nowhere near contained.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
So you don't want it crazy, you don't want it politicized.
You want it just solved. And obviously things that could
have been done prior are now being brought to light,
and you hope that they're doing so so it doesn't
happen again exactly. And so point it's like, hey, let's
do it this way next time. Let's try to route
some of this water down if we can. As much
as I love the salmon and the catfish and the
(08:53):
crappie and the bluegill, maybe let's just get some water
down this way. Well, let tenantses up, and we got
six tenths of one inch, and there's a way to
help alleviate that. I don't know if there is, but
if there is, let's see if we can figure that.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Well.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Put it like this, Matt, to put a sports spin
on it.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Let's say Caruso's right, and Mayor buzz Cut really screwed
this up. He pays another ninety million dollars fires, Lincoln
Riley hires Pete Carroll, or somebody saves usc football a
second time. John Cobalt Belt gets Mayor Bass Gray Davis
(09:31):
bang Caruso's back.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Bang.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
May the fires be put out sooner than later, as
opposed as zero percent contained, which is a real kick
to the balls.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, stop putting zero percent contained up there. It's disheartening,
there's no doubt about that. But for the latest on
the fires and everything going on political hay burning as well,
is all on AM six forty KFI. But I was
surprised at Ellie. We may do a little bit with
Sweet James. Lady, come on, Matt, we got Sweet James
(10:02):
coming on. We'll talk about fire insurance. And now the
insurance companies don't want to crap. California is all jacked up.
The insurance companies don't want to do business here. They're
all jacked up and dishonest. It's a bad scene for
everybody involved. So we'll discuss that with Sweet James. He
does have a team on hand if you have questions
(10:22):
about insurance or your car, or if your evacuation or
fire insurance, stuff like that. Eight hundred and nine million.
Sweet James is ready to rock and roll. So he's
going to join us in the next hour, and so
is James Worthy. We're going to talk to James Worthy
and James Yeah, and the Lakers took it l last night.
JJ Reddick's family has been evacuated. So a lot happening
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in the moment, there's no doubt about it, and not
evey easy to sort out. But Tim Kats made it
through the night while the wind was blowing. Didn't even
have any boards to board up his windows. He just
sat there with his fingers crossed while doing brewing talk
while Mick Cronin lost his mind.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Any truth to the rumor that Kate's fired bullets into
the wind to try to slow it down.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Well, that's the only reason Burbank was last night. It
was really hairy. Kates were able to be able to
plug that wind there a little bit.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
It's funny you mentioned that, Matt, because if you tried,
if you did try shooting, I think the bullet would
have just turned around and come right back at you,
because that when we had we had gusts of eighty
plus miles an hour in the Burbank Hills last night,
about ten o'clock ten thirty, so it was I.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Wasn't remember eighty mile an hour gusts ever ever. We
when we lived in Woodland Hills and we would get
some of these storms and that's when it would get
That was probably the worst that I've ever experienced.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
I don't ever remember anything like eighty noise it made
last night, Matt, was a screeching sound that it was
making around the house. It shook our house like an
earthquake a couple of different times when a strong gust came,
and I was just kept thinking, God, please don't want
this happen all night, because this house may not make it,
the hills may not make it. But dank Vill only
lost it a little while and it was back.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
To just being a really strong wind.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Right.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
It was nuts last night.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Uat it again, hopefully the I was just looking at
the news here, it looks like the gusts are in
like the thirty to forty mile an hour range right now,
So may that continue to tamp down? You said it, Pee,
I know, yes, sweet James is a partner of ours,
and certainly that you can take from this whatever you want,
(12:27):
But just no insurance companies. They sit at attention a
lot more when you have an attorney then when it's
just you. So just if you are trying to deal with.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Something, it's like that billboards everywhere, Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
It is a well known fact that they will try
to delay and deny. And I know that's taken on
a little bit of a different meaning with our friend
Luigi or not our friend with that guy Luigi out
in New York, but that has always been their approach.
And when you have an attorney, they tend to pay
attention a little bit quicker. So if you're dealing with it,
don't hesitate to give him a call and at least
(13:02):
get some advice on how you can go about sorting
out what's happening with you.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
How about Alex dude, I thought I was gonna be
able to ask some questions that day was nothing but
a photo op. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I was like, goddamn, stay up all night every night, Alex,
get after their.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Act right, be irritable.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
You were on the air for good two to three am. Petros, Yes,
you and Conway ding Dong uh huh.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
And and Chris Barry, the executive that's come in to
take charge of KFI and MPHI seventy. He came in
and went on to talk about how the lights were
out in his hotel and the drive to Burdbank. Much
of Burbank's power was out and there were like trees
and random trash cans and stuff in the middle of
(13:44):
the street. So Chris Barry painted a picture. He came
on and talked. Alex called in and talked.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
And would oh you got to talk to him on
the air. Huh yeah, did you tell him what you
liked him?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I want to talk to Alex. I asked him about Caruso.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
The professional and Woody Woody from The Woody Show came
on and that was That was the morning with Conway.
I don't know what they're going to do overnight tonight.
Hopefully there's no need to have fire coverage overnight tonight.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
I heard Matt and DJ are doing midnight to three.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Is that what you heard. Well, if they weren't in
football season, I'm quite sure.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
It doesn't matter if fire takes priority right.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Now, I'm quite sure that they would, but they are.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
I would also point out there's a lot of local
establishments probably you know, just ones that you know, feel
free to mention, But I know down this way, I
know the guys over it it Trusted Gutt Brewery in
Long Beach, and they're opening their refrigerators, they're parking lots.
Basically anybody that's been displaced. I would imagine a lot
of the local restaurants and a bunch of different neighborhoods.
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They always rally in moments like this, and they're going
to help you out if you've got to lift, you're
out of power, or whatever it might be. They're great
like this or community and the community always rally. So
if you're trying to figure out what direction to go
or where to look for answers, social media can be
great on that front.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Well, the Dream Center, our part Center.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Cream Center, or wide ass open for people and they
don't have IPAs like the breweries.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Actually, there's something to kind of adjust the attitude considering
what's going on.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Very much opposed to that, actually, but the dream Center
is open as well. But absolutely right, I mean hopefully,
I mean, you just can't you learn. The upsetting thing
about things like this is we all feel as if
we stand on this really solid, rocky ground with our
lives and our homes and these things that we've built,
and we all put up with this state and a
(15:43):
lot of the issues because it's such a beautiful and
wonderful place, and something like last night happens and you
realize just how flimsy everything is, and that you're just
standing there on jello And in many ways you can't
not even though they're hero and they try their best,
they can't be everywhere at once. You can't trust all
(16:05):
the first responders to help you. You can't always trust
the government to have your best interest, your insurance company.
Sometimes you have to depend on your friends and neighbors.
And in times like this, all of those things, the government,
the insurance companies, friends and neighbors, first responders, all of us,
great sports talk. We all got to rally together and
(16:28):
try to be a community, because man really sucks to
watch people because you think about your own home and
your own life you've built and what it means to you,
and you see it happening to people right in places
that you're quite familiar with, and it's gut wrenching, to
say the least, to watch this happen. But the latest
(16:48):
in the news part of it is on KFI. You know,
I have a friend who's a fire chief, Matt, and
I needed, you know, I mean, to go on to
radio and do hard news. I wanted a little bit
of perspective from him. And he told me that the app,
the app that the firemen use is called watch Duty,
(17:11):
and it's a free app and you can just click
on the fires and it tells you exactly what's going
on in every moment, like ahead of the news and
no spend, no nothing like that. So that's called watch Duty.
And I asked him. I also asked him for a
little perspective on you know, what, is this the worst
(17:33):
fire ever? You know, what are we looking at? Is
this is it really armageddon like people are saying? And
he said in some ways yes, but also remember you
know the Paradise fire destroyed an entire city and killed
eighty five people in twenty minutes. Yeah, I mean, and
you think about that, and then you think about what
happened up in the Wine Country a few years back,
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and just how quickly these things can happen, and you're
seeing it happen here in a very densely populated area,
and it feels just like that. It feels like like armageddon.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Very difficult, it is, And I think you said it
best when you mentioned anything you need, just go to KFI.
They are all over it. They're the best in the
business at covering these, you know, unfortunate moments here and
they have all the answers for you on their website,
through their social media channels, on the air. They've been
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doing it for decades and there's a reason why everybody
tends to go there. And radio can obviously be a
big help if you've been evacuated and you're not at
a TV all that sort of stuff. Granted, you can
stream shows now on your phones, but you mentioned the app.
Just kind of lean on them and hopefully we'll start
getting some good news if we can start getting these
things contained and the winds can die down a little
(18:52):
bit here this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, you just hope that the worst is over and
pray that the worst is over and Hopefully another night
like last night doesn't happen again. God help us in
our lifetimes here in southern California. But wow, what a night.
A big thank you to everybody who's here listening. Remember
you could podcast our show on the iHeartRadio app if
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you're not.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Up for it.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
In the moment, Colin Yee is in instead of Ronnie Fossio,
who is out this week. Hope Ronnie's doing okay. We
should shoot him a text if he's on a staycation.
And we will have Clippers coming up later. We'll do
a top story flip top story of the day in
the very next segment, and we have the James is
(19:38):
on in the very next hour, Matt.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
James Worthy, James Bergener. Going till five o'clock. We've got
play by play tonight Clippers Nuggets. We'll have play by
play Friday, UCLA, Maryland. I have a feeling we're gonna
hear a little bit from Mick after the contest last
night at poly Pavilion.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
What makes you say that?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Well, tend monitor these things here when a certain tone,
a certain line of conversation shows up, finds itself highlighted
in the afternoon drive show here on a five to
seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
This one jumped the freeway as well. I mean he
got into the main street, it did. All right, we'll
be back next Hang in there, everybody going.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Until five o'clock. Petro sand Money a five seventy LA Sports.
Thoughts with our friend Bill Plashke, who is in the
middle of the Eaton fire. Some of his neighbors have
already lost their homes and Bill is holding out hope
that his will make it through. So somebody who fills
in regularly, a guest of ours and an important part
(20:51):
of the Los Angeles sports scene, certainly thinking about Bill,
our friend and hopping.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
A part of our show. Absolutely huge part of our
show and a wonderful man. God bless you. Bill.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
We hope that you're safe and your neighbors are safe.
Rough time out there in Alta Dina. That's a rough one,
getting rougher. Hanging there, everybody, and KFI for the latest
news our sister station AM six forty. Right now, it's
time for the.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Top story of the day to story of this day.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
All right, Matt, Well, we were a little bit reticent
last night, as we should have been, because almost everything
today in town has been canceled. But the UCLA Michigan
game last night played, and we reasoned that. I mean,
if they thought that poly Pavilion or Westwood itself was
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in peril, they would never have played the game. But
if it was Longwood in town or something like that
and not Michigan, who's not going to cross the Mississippi
again scheduled this season, they probably would not have played
the game. But they played the game last night, and
maybe UCLA fans and Mick Cronan would have preferred they
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did not. UCLA faded down the stretch and Mick was furious,
absolutely furious. After the game. Of course, what happens the
Josh Lewin on court Tracy Murray Mick Cronan live. I
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don't know if it was PA to the stadium. We'll
have to hear it to the radio.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
It sounded like it. It sounded like there was an echo
as though it was on the PA.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah, so it always is. It's always on the PA.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
And poor Josh Lewin just is like a Christian being
eaten by lions in the coliseum. Everybody watches him just
get devoured, and he's just a land of the slaughter.
And Mick just you know what, Let's listen here at
poor Josh. He tries his best to make it as
(23:00):
diplomatic as possible.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Let's hear it.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Eighteen to four, you stomped out there and this building
got real loud.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
That was great to hear.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
The inability to system behind that was over deserting or
why didn't it sustain after that?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Or sold? That's simple.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
We're solved the problem. I told the guys, the toughest
guy in the room just is going to do the radio.
That's our problem right now. It's evening every day in practice,
it's been evan in all year. Frustrated with my staff,
extremely frustrated.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Right now, what would the message be.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Like, guys like you want to tell me I do
this for a living about who's gonna play? You got
all these guys, Oh really tell me who I have
on this team? That was an All league player last
year in any league?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Nobody who would ask.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Him stuff like that?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Jesus.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
The answer is none, answer is none. Okay, okay, so okay,
the problem didn't get guys think they're a lot better.
They are and that's the truth. And we're soft. Were soft,
but they got a great team.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Look okay, all right, compliment Michigan. Sure, that's all right.
That's just he turned it around a little bit. Let's
see where it.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Goes from it.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Were soft, but they got a great team. Look, they
got a great team. They shot the ball excellent. Danny
Wolf's the lottery pick.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
They go.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
You know, we're still it's crazy in this day and age.
You know, we don't have fifty and six year guys.
Every team does so and it shows. But we're soft guys.
You know, we get in the game and you know,
be tough enough to make a free throw. Don't miss eleven. Friends,
that's toughness. That's Tracy, Tracy, you said, Well, he's Tracy
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knows me. I'm just telling the truth. What's your opinion, Well,
I was talking about it when you walked out. They
allowed the guy to post up on the block. You
gotta fight for that block before he gets down there.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
We were just talking.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
How about when he just backs you down with six
dribbles and.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
So I understand that. Now you're talking to cry Josh, Yeah,
gotta fight.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Keep getting out rebounded.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You know, one for seven again from Dylan, same every game.
Sky's hole. He's playing hurt. Yeah, he got banged in
the shoulder and he's tried to fight through it tonight,
but it was hard for him.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
He looked like he couldn't lift his left shoulder.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, he's got a bruise. So it's structure that he's fine,
but he's in pain. All right, Ok, all right, win
go two for twenty from three guys. Look, he comes
from GMS and he won't get out scored. Right, forty
five to nine. I'm sorry, forty five to six. So
your minus thirty nine at a three point line.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Right, and that's coming right off Nebraska, same thing pretty much.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
No, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I gotta run on the court to get a guy
to pressure the ball. I'm running on the court, all right,
to try to gets to play hard enough to win.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, we pointed out Kobe Johnson got to steal like
literally as please go get his steal, right?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I mean, what happened to the game plan? But we
got you know, we got guys think they're great players.
We're gonna come out and shoot our way to victory.
Who you're gonna play? I don't have enough minutes. I
got so many great players. Wasn't that what everybody wanted
to tell me get up. I'm asking you the one
to ask the question, not mesh question.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I understand, all right now, it did continue Matt. You know,
Mick took his ire into the media room to face
down Ben Boltch and the like and Michigander, Michigander from Michigan.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And here's some highlights from there. We're soft.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
So don't tell me you want to win. Like, just
don't tell me you want to win. So don't just
don't tell me you want to win. It's crazy, you
know what.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
And it's every day.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I'm tired of it. I have the most energy of
all of anybody at practice. Every day I have. I'm
upset with every everybody in that locker room, my assistant
coaches and my players.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I mean, I don't need to do anything else. I
almost got five hundred wins. I'm only fifty three, jeez.
I mean, it's a joke. It's a joke.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
But yet I come in and I have more passion
and energy and pride than everybody in That's the problem.
So what the truth of it has been, it's really
hard to coach people that are delusional. Jesus, the hungry
dog gets the bone. We got guys that think they're
way better than they are. They're nice kids, they're completely
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delusional about who they are.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Wow. Now Mick Cronin bit into his team, his staff
and Josh Lewin like a dog bone and just wagged
his head back and forth. Now is that a great look?
Some people don't like it. Mick Cronin is very demonstrative,
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He is very very honest, and he is a friend
of the show. But it does it's done best by far,
but it does seem like every single year when the
team underperforms, he attacks Josh Lewin and then attacks the
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team through the media, and then they find a way
to turn it around, usually in this month of January.
Let's go back to twenty twenty, Matt. Now, I believe
in twenty twenty UCLA ended up making the Final four.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
The next year.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, so he's laying the foundation here. He is in
twenty twenty calling out the team and yelling at Josh
in the very same frash.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
And I told the guys, you know how upset I
was with him, And I was. I told him I
was gonna come out here and tell the truth. Yeah,
I'm tired of it, so say that you know it's embarrassing.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Is that something you hope will draw a positive response?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Everyone from that stops out, Just good night, coach. But
this was a happier time, right, Matt. I mean we're
talking about four years ago. Lewin is fresh faced, he's
excited that Cronin is the coach.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
This is this is mixed first year.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
It's mixed first year. So he doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
It's like he's got any right, It's like Connie's wedding
day in the Godfather. She doesn't know that Carlo is
gonna beat her ass and throw those plates around. You
get me, Bratt, You know right that she's pregnant with
a black eye and son he's gonna freak out.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
You know, she doesn't know that.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
You turny red Best and Michael, you waited until Deddy
was done a new but he could stop you, and
you did it.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Torney Pass.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Talia Shire former Petrolson money gap. So this was a
happier time for Lewin. Right, So he's jumping in like, hey,
we're gonna go back and forth. Let's see what happens.
A positive response that they'll be able to dig down
from that and and respond.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I hope you and I went to lottery tomorrow. Hoping
doesn't get the job done. You know, you all you
can do is demand certain things or don't play guys,
Like I said, no, we got to play games. You
got to put five guys out there, all right.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
So it is what it is, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
But Hoping ain't gonna do anything. You know, Sure it'd
be great, but if they would respond. But like I
told him, you know, we're out there teaching every day.
So you tell me what the difference is. Because the
teams I've coached are top ten at worst, top twenty
in the country on defense, and now they're not. So
you tell me what the difference is.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
I didn't change, you change you suck. So that that
was twenty twenty, you know, and in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I mean, he didn't threaten to do this last night,
but in twenty twenty, Matt, he threatened the old Norman Dale.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
But we have guys that, you know, right right now.
It was hard for me not to pull Normandale, to
be honest with you, because there's not five guys I
want that I believe deserve to be on the floor
right now. So right now, there's certain guys that are
in there that that you give the guy that shouldn't
be in there. To be honest with you, but you
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got to play five. So it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
My team's on the floor. Pull out the old normandale
now in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Last night he came off the court and said, you
know they were soft, but back then in twenty twenty
his message was that they were out class. Coach Conan
is kind enough to join us, and I know not
great circumstances, coach, but we appreciate you coming out.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
What was your assessment of what happened tonight?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
We were out classed, Simple as that happened. Unless you
have vision issues. You ever watched a basketball game, and
we were out class Holy third pink card at twenty
four they shot fifty one percent. We shot thirty nine percent. Uh,
they're just a better basketball team.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Josh Lewin goes a home vision problems.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Josh Lewin goes home and bathes in back teen after
he calls UCLA game that poor man. But it is
part of mixed tactic in January to have a nervous breakdown,
break the team down emotionally and verbally, abuse them, and
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then build them back and I mean that in the
in the most positive way possible. Verbal abuse is basically
what Matt and I do for a living. Uh And
then he will no doubt find week and they build
back back back stronger.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Look at this. I just got a text.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
The world is soft. Mick Cronin is the greatest. I
want him to come in and yell at my punk
ass teenage sons and his friends. Price is pretty high
for that.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
We're so you guys are soft.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
And so don't tell me you want to win, Like,
just don't tell me you want to win. So don't
just don't tell me you want to win.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
I want to win. Coach, shut up, So don't just
don't tell me you want to win. You don't want
to win. You're not willing to do. It's crazy, you know.
And it's every day.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I'm tired of it. I have the most energy of
all of anybody at practice. Every day I have. I'm
upset with everybody in that locker room, my assistant coaches
and my players.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, I mean, I don't need to do anything else.
I almost got five hundred wins.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
I'm almost fifty three, you know.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
And and if you don't know, Mick Cronin, you'd say, wow,
you know, it seems like he's blaming everybody but himself.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
And maybe he is, but.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
He's he is a loving coach and guys do enjoy
playing for him. And I believe this is a tactic. Now,
is Josh Lewin a victim of these tactics? There's no
doubt that he There's no doubt. Can't even be.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Questioned, can't be questioned. I'm just saying, maybe Tracy could
weigh in. Hey, Tracy, why don't you ask the first
question today? When coach comes out, I gotta go say hello,
and then you come with the first question.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
To sustain that? What was behind that? Was it just
over exerting or why didn't it sustain? After that?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
We're soft?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Now, weird, pause, make it awkward.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
That's simple.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
We're solved the problem. I told the guys the toughest
guy in the room is me. Just is going to
do the radio, don't.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
That's simple. That's simple.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Let's hope that this motivates this team of transfers handpicked
by Mick Cronin with a whole bunch of nil to
get it together. I don't know if it will. Everybody responds, differently,
you don't think so. Matt calling those guys soft not
gonna get him going.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
I feel like it's uh, well, you know what, because
he called him soft to Josh Lewin and Josh had
to wear it. Then, Yes, you're right, that's it. That's
the vehicle in which these guys get motivated by. He
told Bolts too, that's true. And when he went to
Boultch he called out his staff as well as you
would like to say, Matt, the staff is catching strays.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yes, what did I do?
Speaker 5 (35:25):
I feel like we're a loss away from coach grown
and circling back to the Hey, these guys get paid
a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I know, I think that's part of it. I don't
think he has very much sympathy for guys when they
make mistakes when they're getting paid.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Yeah, we're not paying you to go one for seven
from the field.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Care if your shoulder's falling off, you have.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
More turnovers and assist. We're not paying you to do that.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Mo.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Austin wasted his inheritance.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
On you, speaking of which I think, Mom, you know
sadly past. But he had arguably, you know, the nicest
house in Palisades. It was that first house all the
way up on the hill. Yeah, well a lot of that,
and that's that's gonna be. The Palisades is just strewn
with music business people and in Hollywood people, and I
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would assume.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
A lot of mas Famoso's Matt, Yeah, I know, Spielberg
lived like two streets below him. Old friend of yours. Yeah,
oh yeah, you know what.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Our friend Mark Gorlic, who brought Slash and Michael Bolton
and all those guys into the Petros and Money show,
also lived there in the Palisades. I've not reached out
to him yet, but hopefully his family is okay. And
I heard the real ind burn down one of the
first places I ever went to, Pepperdine. They used to
they used to bring us food. Love those guys, and
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that's just I mean, I think's been there forever. Great
mom and pop, little picnic tables, great seafood.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
The Malibu seed Bend burned down, Matt, where you used
to feed your horse and your lama nuts. Right, it's
not a law that's now packing you now pack you idiot,
stupid idiot, got no packet, you idiot, Look at yourself.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Put your stupid phone away. I'm just trying to take
a video. Shiit up, trying to take the piss. Pay Matt.
The guns are back out on Pico. Is that right? Yeah,
they got the missiles. The guns a navaronner back. Oh
I didn see that. I did see that.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Just we can't keep them tamped down for more than
twenty eight hours, not possible. Rays are in the tank.
Bring them back out.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
More to cume with that big rat.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
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sports going until five o'clock on a flex alert here
first hour two to three as the Clippers and Nuggets
going to get it going at six pm.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
So a pregame coming at five pm. Again.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
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Speaker 1 (38:31):
Well, Matt, you know I'm a little torn. We got
these fires and it's hard to have inspiration. Thank god
for mc cronin. He provided us with some of that
in the last segment there with the entertaining, though impactful,
and quite serious postgame conversation with Josh Lewin, and then
the collected media compared it to something that happened way
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back in twenty twenty and a lot of other interviews
where Mick was unhappy with his team, seemingly trying.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
To motivate them through the media.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Allah, the zen Master, that troom, Phil Jackson, damn straight,
if you forget the Poltroons. But Matt you're going to
Houston tomorrow? I think yeah, And uh, you know, we
have these obstructions and it's hard to find inspiration to
send you around Houston with all this stuff going on
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at home. Do we have the open for the obstructions
of Matsmith?
Speaker 2 (39:27):
See what he can and what he cannot do?
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Is he perfect enough or not?
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Entirely?
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Man Money Smith on the road with the Chargers.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
I would like to know something more about him.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Five obstructions.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
The perfect human that's just something we say.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Can he complete the tasks.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
While hoping he can do what we say he can do?
Speaker 2 (39:52):
That's what I hope.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
My hope is that Matt does what I say that
he can do. Really, he's just there to call a
foot with Daniel Jeremiah and Shannon Farrin, but inspired by
Lars von Trier and Jurgen Left and their filmmaking relationship.
We do like to give Matt playoff obstructions when he
travels to foreign cities with the Chargers. He's been doing
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the job now, maybe almost a decade. It's been a while.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
So what is this season?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Eight?
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Okay, so, so we've done this a few times. They
haven't made the playoffs every year. That would be that'd
be ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
It's only the third time since we're calling it okay,
so but not bad.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Three out of eight week Okay, sure, we're going. Well,
it's gonna change now with heart right, I can feel
it gonna change.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
I can feel it.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Uh So, what are the obstructions for Matt in Houston, Texas?
Not easy because we don't want to send him to Galveston,
to the Old Quarter, even though I'm inspired by Towns
van Zant that's fifty miles away. I'd also make him
surf in Galveston in that oily George Bushwater, but he's
not doing that either because that's too far away.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Lo Carafe is all that I could come up with
so far, And that's unfortunate, Matt, because you're leaving tomorrow
and you know, these fires and all this stuff. You know,
real life has gotten in the way of the idiocy
of great sports talk. But Lo Caafe is.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
The oldest one writing down lock. Now it's gonna be
I'm gonna be able to report almost immediately because I'll
be doing the show from Houston on Friday, leaving tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
So between l A C A R A f E.
It's the game on Saturday. Game is Saturday at one
thirty pm LA time. The old I will be in
Houston La Carafe.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Okay, Now Galveston I can maybe do not get up early,
get a car and start moving around. That feels like
looking at a live surf cam right now of Galveston.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Yeah, it feels like too much. Yeah, and then you'd
have to like rent a board and all that. It's
all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
But you know, I wouldn't mind mixing up the bacteria
that's already in my system. You know, like how how
those people would get like poop infusions to get different
uh different bacteria.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Yeah, and you know they used to do blood letting,
Yes they did.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
I didn't know they had a peer with like roller
coasters and sky drops and all that stuff in Galveston. Boy,
and there's murdoxe.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
Matt. It's like the Santa Cruz of Texas. Right, you
get stabbed out there. Uh, there's museums.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
I mean, I mean as anybody has anybody submitted anything?
Well not really Okay, No, yes, I.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Do have wait, I do have a submission here on
the secret Textoso line. So thank you for bringing that up, Matt.
I do have a submission, and it's one that I
can get.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
Line brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
We make it easy.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
This one says, hey, fool may I suggests an obstruction
for Houston, a place called o host Locos, Crazy Eyes,
Combo of Kulichi Town and Magic City. Fool Bbl's of plenty.
That would be big, beautiful Latina and excellent Mexican food
as well.
Speaker 4 (43:18):
So let's see o Host Locos Sports CANTEENA. Looks like
there are multiple locations around the greater Houston area.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
All right, I'd like maybe you know, that's a good suggestion.
My thing is like, if the Chargers go out there
and lay an egg, people are gonna blame me right
for not doing constructions obstructions. And then if the Chargers
move on, which they might, you know, and then you'll
probably be on the road again. We're gonna have to
create more obstructions. And you can't do the obstructions if
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you didn't do the obstructions week one. You know, you
can't play Zeke Elliott in week two if you didn't
get his legs going in week one. So what about
the NASA headquarters? Oh, that's too much of something you'd
want to do. Yeah, and you don't want me to
do anything I want to do. Never ever do I
ever want you to do. I want you to be miserable.
(44:15):
The NASA Headquarters does seem pretty uh, pretty good. Maybe
you can go in one of those things where James
Bond got caught in in Moonraker, you know, going round
and round and round.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Oh yeah, a little G force simulator.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
Yeah, that's maybe squashed My insides is that's what it's
called that you hate throwing up.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
Over our two hour show here on Friday. Yeah, I
can't stop g forces. I threw up in the air
and then it whipped me around and has slapped me
in the face.
Speaker 5 (44:40):
Yes, Kate, how about going and visiting Joel Olstein who's
in Houston. Maybe take a picture with him.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Joel Austin Is that is that his names Houston? I
thought he was a Denver. He's he's a huge Houston
met Well.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
I would imagine DJ could get me in there, considering
David Jeremiah's father is a prominent television pastor.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Oh look at this, Hare says, we have Joe, the
one that got caught with the dude. No, he was
the one that got caught with all the money and
like a safe.
Speaker 5 (45:07):
And then he went open the doors during a hurricane
down to Houston because they took over the place where
the Rockets played.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Uh, this says there is an o host Locos in Downey,
So we don't even need to do that because there's
one here.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Like that doesn't make sense. So O host Locos is out.
Speaker 4 (45:28):
Yeah, it's like a franchise. And I just I went
to their website. So I've I've got right now, I've
got Lacarrafe, I've got the Johnson Space Center as a
potential obstruction. I visited the o host Locos Sports Cantina
and it's it's very vic the brick where like all
the descriptions are in English with like a smattering of
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Spanish words like it so it says be and Veneto's welcome.
You've entered into the best Latin sports cantina and el
mundo in the world.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
That sounds like how I would talk.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
Yeah that I would send comita and our ice called
served by our chickuss.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
So a host Locos is also here, so you we
we can't. We can't do that.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
They say the best Mexican food in Houston is called
Loope Tortilla. Is a place called l u Pe Tortilla.
Maybe you can go there, Okay.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
NASA is far Now there's a loop as Okay, so
that's different. Nasa is far too.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
There is a strip club that retired James Harden's jersey.
But I feel like your wife might start to think
that you're becoming like one of those strip club lives
that eats at the strip club. And I've never told
anybody that you usually go to the buffet on Tuesdays
at the Spearmint Rhino on the ten.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
It's a great buffet. I've made it a secret. It's
a great cafe. And for eighteen ninety nine, along with
a two drink minimum and admission fee that totals somewhere
around seventy dollars, it's quite the value.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Oh and I'm sorry corrections and retractions. BBL is a
big busty latina, not a big beautiful latina. Los se Anotmonos.
Speaker 5 (47:19):
There's a park called Hinz water Wall Park that's got
a sixty four foot tall water wall that is described
as an impressive site to behold. There's a there's a
roller coaster around there called the Boardwalk Bullet. Can we
find out how far that is? Boardwalk Bullet? That is
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in kae m a h Keema.
Speaker 4 (47:45):
Keema, Texas. And I'm looking and that looks like that's
it's on its way to Galveston, all right, And it's
open right now. It closes at nine pm. It is
a wooden roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
I'd like to see your pootso balking around.
Speaker 4 (48:05):
On that opened in two thousand and seven. Only wooden
roller coaster in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
Sam, Why is your voice so high? Matt?
Speaker 1 (48:11):
Well, it's because I got bopped in the boots on
the Wooden roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
My balls took it. And then I got on the
G Force ride at Johnson Space Center.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
That's pretty far. And then I went to Loupes Tortillas.
It's Keema, Keema Texas.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
Kema Texas.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
All right, yeah, it's like a porn right here. We
got them all written down. We'll start upright Man's Galveston.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
Well you take a look, okay.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
I'd also like a picture of a like a statue
or a photo of Sam Houston.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
We'll make an official of the next segment. There we go.
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It is for the safety and security of the people
of our city. Tough times, multiple fires burning overnight. We
got on the air when the Palisades fire was just
getting started, and all those politicians are out there for
a photo op. It got much worse. Hard to have
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that the Palisades is just gone. I don't think all
of it has gone, but significant out out of it,
and Altadena is a mess because of the Eating fire
which exploded overnight and forced a lot of people to flee,
and the Hurst fire up in the Silmar area. So
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Kats up in Burbank with really really high winds and
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things like these tragedies didn't come their way. So very
difficult to watch for all of us. Matt and I
did a little bit of coverage of it yesterday making
fun of some of the media people because they are
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Speaker 3 (02:38):
So many of the politicians, local politicians. Oh god, I.
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(03:03):
some sports stories. But on AM six forty KFI, they
are covering this. They covered up Coast to Coast last night.
I can't I can't imagine the last time that happened.
I mean, George Nori to be covered up because is
deeply Ian. They play it twice, That's how nice. It's
so nice. I want to play the same show twice,
(03:25):
exactly right, uh And they covered up Coast to Coast.
Tim Conway went on from midnight to three AM. I
went on with him from two to three, uh to
just to help Tim out because they're on overnight. And
then uh, Neil savedra the Fork Report and Jesus came
(03:45):
in and took it to Bill Handles. So they're doing
Yeoman's work over at KFI like they always do when
there's a disaster, trying to bring people information, and our
hope is, like everybody else's hope, that the winds died
down and we can start to get to some kind
of healing process sooner than later. But right now, I mean,
(04:06):
I just hate saying it, like if it's zero percent
contained a thing, stop putting that up there, say give fire, you.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Hit it on the head.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I mean, just the overnight portion of it, when you're
trying to, you know, get down, get some rest, figure
out what you're facing in the morning, and instead you
probably can't get an ounce of sleep because you have
no idea on the fire trucks and the police cars
are going to start coming through your neighborhood saying get out, immediately,
grab everything you can that you can throw in your
car and leave. And we certainly know people that had
that happen to them overnight. I'm sure just about everybody does.
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With every spots where this thing is going and.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
And free dramatically different places in the city of Los
Angeles really kind of microcosm of the city.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
It's u and I think you know, when people think
of Los Angeles nationally, I can only imagine the images
that are going.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
To be shared.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
It's it's pH it's the Pacific Coast Highway, and it's
the fact that they were at least as of right now,
able to save the Old Getting Museum and all of
those structures up and down pch being burned. But like
you said, you're talking about the Woodley fire, but they
eating fire. Two people lost their lives tragically. Like you said,
the Palisades has essentially been ravaged, and I don't know
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if it'll ever I don't know how it could possibly
ever be the same. But you do have some other
areas here in Los Angeles where these fires are starting
to pop up, and they're equally as devastating and maybe
not getting near the coverage or near the attention that
the Palisades fire is. And we're thinking about each and
every one of you, and hopefully, like you said, these
winds can die down. They're supposed to die down around
(05:36):
four to five o'clock today, and I hope in fact
that that forecast is correct, because like you said, overnight,
I mean, those winds were howling so hard you couldn't
get anything up there. There's just there's just letting the
thing burn and crossing your fingers.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, all the scuba divers were safe. No one was
gonna scoop them up and drop them onto a fire
like we talked about yesterday from that episode of CSI.
They couldn't get helicopters up, they couldn't get planes up.
It's just been an absolute definition of a disaster. And
then of course we have all our great local politicians
(06:08):
telling us that everything's okay. Very interesting, you know, because
there's always political hay being made, especially these days, especially
with the way social media works on these things. But
speaking of jump in the freeway, that political stuff jump
like Alex. I made fun of Alex a little bit
yesterday for being Gavin Newsom's kind of a coverage guy.
(06:32):
Maybe I didn't put it like that, but i'll tell
you what. Alex today was pissed. They had Joe Biden
and Newsom up there and they didn't take any questions.
They just made a weird statement and Biden said that
he was a great grandfather and everybody had this weird,
awkward platform while the city burns down, and Alex was like,
I thought I was gonna ask a lot of questions.
(06:53):
It was just a photo op that was nothing but
a photo op. Ye, goddamn Alex. Good Yeah, fight on, brother, Yeah,
they'll get after those politicians at.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I mean outside of them just announcing yes, we've got money,
we got federal aid coming. It's a state of emergency.
Here's how much money we're gonna be throwing it there,
National Guards and see you later.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Let's get back to the fire chief.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Let's get back to who can tell us where to go,
where the shelters are, which neighborhoods are being evacuated. And
thank you, mister President, thank you, mister governor. Be on
your way.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Leave us alone unless they're gonna take questions, you know.
And they didn't take questions. And it's pretty interesting because
I was doing the radio in the morning and overnight
the guy who lost the mayoral race, who paid the
ninety million dollars to fire Clay Hilton then hire Lincoln Riley,
which seemed like a real home run at the time. Man,
(07:44):
I mean, everybody was excited back in twenty twenty one.
Rick Caruso, Caruso, Yeah, he started calling up He called
up Fox, he called up Alex, he called up Channel
four and started talking us and talking about how how
unprepared they were, and all this stuff. And Rick Caruso, yeah,
he was emotional. His daughter's house burned down. But unless
(08:06):
he knew what was going on, and somebody told him
that they didn't fill the reservoirs and there was no
water pressure and all this different stuff, I don't think
you would have made those calls and gone off like that.
And I started attacking the mayor who just arrived home
from Ghana this morning. So very interesting stuff going on
and being covered at the same time. Wall the city
(08:28):
is burning and the fires are nowhere near contained.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
So you don't want it crazy, you don't want it politicized.
You want it just solved. And obviously things that could
have been done prior are now being brought to light,
and you hope that they're doing so so it doesn't
happen again exactly. And so point it's like, hey, let's
do it this way next time. Let's try to route
some of this water down if we can. As much
as I love the salmon and the catfish and the
(08:53):
crappie and the bluegill, maybe let's just get some water
down this way. Well, let tenantses up, and we got
six tenths of one inch, and there's a way to
help alleviate that. I don't know if there is, but
if there is, let's see if we can figure that.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Well.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Put it like this, Matt, to put a sports spin
on it.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Let's say Caruso's right, and Mayor buzz Cut really screwed
this up. He pays another ninety million dollars fires, Lincoln
Riley hires Pete Carroll, or somebody saves usc football a
second time. John Cobalt Belt gets Mayor Bass Gray Davis
(09:31):
bang Caruso's back.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Bang.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
May the fires be put out sooner than later, as
opposed as zero percent contained, which is a real kick
to the balls.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, stop putting zero percent contained up there. It's disheartening,
there's no doubt about that. But for the latest on
the fires and everything going on political hay burning as well,
is all on AM six forty KFI. But I was
surprised at Ellie. We may do a little bit with
Sweet James. Lady, come on, Matt, we got Sweet James
(10:02):
coming on. We'll talk about fire insurance. And now the
insurance companies don't want to crap. California is all jacked up.
The insurance companies don't want to do business here. They're
all jacked up and dishonest. It's a bad scene for
everybody involved. So we'll discuss that with Sweet James. He
does have a team on hand if you have questions
(10:22):
about insurance or your car, or if your evacuation or
fire insurance, stuff like that. Eight hundred and nine million.
Sweet James is ready to rock and roll. So he's
going to join us in the next hour, and so
is James Worthy. We're going to talk to James Worthy
and James Yeah, and the Lakers took it l last night.
JJ Reddick's family has been evacuated. So a lot happening
(10:46):
in the moment, there's no doubt about it, and not
evey easy to sort out. But Tim Kats made it
through the night while the wind was blowing. Didn't even
have any boards to board up his windows. He just
sat there with his fingers crossed while doing brewing talk
while Mick Cronin lost his mind.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Any truth to the rumor that Kate's fired bullets into
the wind to try to slow it down.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Well, that's the only reason Burbank was last night. It
was really hairy. Kates were able to be able to
plug that wind there a little bit.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
It's funny you mentioned that, Matt, because if you tried,
if you did try shooting, I think the bullet would
have just turned around and come right back at you,
because that when we had we had gusts of eighty
plus miles an hour in the Burbank Hills last night,
about ten o'clock ten thirty, so it was I.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Wasn't remember eighty mile an hour gusts ever ever. We
when we lived in Woodland Hills and we would get
some of these storms and that's when it would get
That was probably the worst that I've ever experienced.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
I don't ever remember anything like eighty noise it made
last night, Matt, was a screeching sound that it was
making around the house. It shook our house like an
earthquake a couple of different times when a strong gust came,
and I was just kept thinking, God, please don't want
this happen all night, because this house may not make it,
the hills may not make it. But dank Vill only
lost it a little while and it was back.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
To just being a really strong wind.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Right.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
It was nuts last night.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Uat it again, hopefully the I was just looking at
the news here, it looks like the gusts are in
like the thirty to forty mile an hour range right now,
So may that continue to tamp down? You said it, Pee,
I know, yes, sweet James is a partner of ours,
and certainly that you can take from this whatever you want,
(12:27):
But just no insurance companies. They sit at attention a
lot more when you have an attorney then when it's
just you. So just if you are trying to deal with.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Something, it's like that billboards everywhere, Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
It is a well known fact that they will try
to delay and deny. And I know that's taken on
a little bit of a different meaning with our friend
Luigi or not our friend with that guy Luigi out
in New York, but that has always been their approach.
And when you have an attorney, they tend to pay
attention a little bit quicker. So if you're dealing with it,
don't hesitate to give him a call and at least
(13:02):
get some advice on how you can go about sorting
out what's happening with you.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
How about Alex dude, I thought I was gonna be
able to ask some questions that day was nothing but
a photo op. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I was like, goddamn, stay up all night every night, Alex,
get after their.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Act right, be irritable.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
You were on the air for good two to three am. Petros, Yes,
you and Conway ding Dong uh huh.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
And and Chris Barry, the executive that's come in to
take charge of KFI and MPHI seventy. He came in
and went on to talk about how the lights were
out in his hotel and the drive to Burdbank. Much
of Burbank's power was out and there were like trees
and random trash cans and stuff in the middle of
(13:44):
the street. So Chris Barry painted a picture. He came
on and talked. Alex called in and talked.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
And would oh you got to talk to him on
the air. Huh yeah, did you tell him what you
liked him?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I want to talk to Alex. I asked him about Caruso.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
The professional and Woody Woody from The Woody Show came
on and that was That was the morning with Conway.
I don't know what they're going to do overnight tonight.
Hopefully there's no need to have fire coverage overnight tonight.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
I heard Matt and DJ are doing midnight to three.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Is that what you heard. Well, if they weren't in
football season, I'm quite sure.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
It doesn't matter if fire takes priority right.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Now, I'm quite sure that they would, but they are.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
I would also point out there's a lot of local
establishments probably you know, just ones that you know, feel
free to mention, But I know down this way, I
know the guys over it it Trusted Gutt Brewery in
Long Beach, and they're opening their refrigerators, they're parking lots.
Basically anybody that's been displaced. I would imagine a lot
of the local restaurants and a bunch of different neighborhoods.
(14:51):
They always rally in moments like this, and they're going
to help you out if you've got to lift, you're
out of power, or whatever it might be. They're great
like this or community and the community always rally. So
if you're trying to figure out what direction to go
or where to look for answers, social media can be
great on that front.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Well, the Dream Center, our part Center.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Cream Center, or wide ass open for people and they
don't have IPAs like the breweries.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Actually, there's something to kind of adjust the attitude considering
what's going on.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Very much opposed to that, actually, but the dream Center
is open as well. But absolutely right, I mean hopefully,
I mean, you just can't you learn. The upsetting thing
about things like this is we all feel as if
we stand on this really solid, rocky ground with our
lives and our homes and these things that we've built,
and we all put up with this state and a
(15:43):
lot of the issues because it's such a beautiful and
wonderful place, and something like last night happens and you
realize just how flimsy everything is, and that you're just
standing there on jello And in many ways you can't
not even though they're hero and they try their best,
they can't be everywhere at once. You can't trust all
(16:05):
the first responders to help you. You can't always trust
the government to have your best interest, your insurance company.
Sometimes you have to depend on your friends and neighbors.
And in times like this, all of those things, the government,
the insurance companies, friends and neighbors, first responders, all of us,
great sports talk. We all got to rally together and
(16:28):
try to be a community, because man really sucks to
watch people because you think about your own home and
your own life you've built and what it means to you,
and you see it happening to people right in places
that you're quite familiar with, and it's gut wrenching, to
say the least, to watch this happen. But the latest
(16:48):
in the news part of it is on KFI. You know,
I have a friend who's a fire chief, Matt, and
I needed, you know, I mean, to go on to
radio and do hard news. I wanted a little bit
of perspective from him. And he told me that the app,
the app that the firemen use is called watch Duty,
(17:11):
and it's a free app and you can just click
on the fires and it tells you exactly what's going
on in every moment, like ahead of the news and
no spend, no nothing like that. So that's called watch Duty.
And I asked him. I also asked him for a
little perspective on you know, what, is this the worst
(17:33):
fire ever? You know, what are we looking at? Is
this is it really armageddon like people are saying? And
he said in some ways yes, but also remember you
know the Paradise fire destroyed an entire city and killed
eighty five people in twenty minutes. Yeah, I mean, and
you think about that, and then you think about what
happened up in the Wine Country a few years back,
(17:55):
and just how quickly these things can happen, and you're
seeing it happen here in a very densely populated area,
and it feels just like that. It feels like like armageddon.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Very difficult, it is, And I think you said it
best when you mentioned anything you need, just go to KFI.
They are all over it. They're the best in the
business at covering these, you know, unfortunate moments here and
they have all the answers for you on their website,
through their social media channels, on the air. They've been
(18:31):
doing it for decades and there's a reason why everybody
tends to go there. And radio can obviously be a
big help if you've been evacuated and you're not at
a TV all that sort of stuff. Granted, you can
stream shows now on your phones, but you mentioned the app.
Just kind of lean on them and hopefully we'll start
getting some good news if we can start getting these
things contained and the winds can die down a little
(18:52):
bit here this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, you just hope that the worst is over and
pray that the worst is over and Hopefully another night
like last night doesn't happen again. God help us in
our lifetimes here in southern California. But wow, what a night.
A big thank you to everybody who's here listening. Remember
you could podcast our show on the iHeartRadio app if
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you're not.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Up for it.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
In the moment, Colin Yee is in instead of Ronnie Fossio,
who is out this week. Hope Ronnie's doing okay. We
should shoot him a text if he's on a staycation.
And we will have Clippers coming up later. We'll do
a top story flip top story of the day in
the very next segment, and we have the James is
(19:38):
on in the very next hour, Matt.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
James Worthy, James Bergener. Going till five o'clock. We've got
play by play tonight Clippers Nuggets. We'll have play by
play Friday, UCLA, Maryland. I have a feeling we're gonna
hear a little bit from Mick after the contest last
night at poly Pavilion.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
What makes you say that?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Well, tend monitor these things here when a certain tone,
a certain line of conversation shows up, finds itself highlighted
in the afternoon drive show here on a five to
seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
This one jumped the freeway as well. I mean he
got into the main street, it did. All right, we'll
be back next Hang in there, everybody going.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Until five o'clock. Petro sand Money a five seventy LA Sports.
Thoughts with our friend Bill Plashke, who is in the
middle of the Eaton fire. Some of his neighbors have
already lost their homes and Bill is holding out hope
that his will make it through. So somebody who fills
in regularly, a guest of ours and an important part
(20:51):
of the Los Angeles sports scene, certainly thinking about Bill,
our friend and hopping.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
A part of our show. Absolutely huge part of our
show and a wonderful man. God bless you. Bill.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
We hope that you're safe and your neighbors are safe.
Rough time out there in Alta Dina. That's a rough one,
getting rougher. Hanging there, everybody, and KFI for the latest
news our sister station AM six forty. Right now, it's
time for the.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Top story of the day to story of this day.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
All right, Matt, Well, we were a little bit reticent
last night, as we should have been, because almost everything
today in town has been canceled. But the UCLA Michigan
game last night played, and we reasoned that. I mean,
if they thought that poly Pavilion or Westwood itself was
(21:44):
in peril, they would never have played the game. But
if it was Longwood in town or something like that
and not Michigan, who's not going to cross the Mississippi
again scheduled this season, they probably would not have played
the game. But they played the game last night, and
maybe UCLA fans and Mick Cronan would have preferred they
(22:05):
did not. UCLA faded down the stretch and Mick was furious,
absolutely furious. After the game. Of course, what happens the
Josh Lewin on court Tracy Murray Mick Cronan live. I
(22:26):
don't know if it was PA to the stadium. We'll
have to hear it to the radio.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
It sounded like it. It sounded like there was an echo
as though it was on the PA.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah, so it always is. It's always on the PA.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
And poor Josh Lewin just is like a Christian being
eaten by lions in the coliseum. Everybody watches him just
get devoured, and he's just a land of the slaughter.
And Mick just you know what, Let's listen here at
poor Josh. He tries his best to make it as
(23:00):
diplomatic as possible.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Let's hear it.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Eighteen to four, you stomped out there and this building
got real loud.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
That was great to hear.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
The inability to system behind that was over deserting or
why didn't it sustain after that?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Or sold? That's simple.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
We're solved the problem. I told the guys, the toughest
guy in the room just is going to do the radio.
That's our problem right now. It's evening every day in practice,
it's been evan in all year. Frustrated with my staff,
extremely frustrated.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Right now, what would the message be.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Like, guys like you want to tell me I do
this for a living about who's gonna play? You got
all these guys, Oh really tell me who I have
on this team? That was an All league player last
year in any league?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Nobody who would ask.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Him stuff like that?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Jesus.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
The answer is none, answer is none. Okay, okay, so okay,
the problem didn't get guys think they're a lot better.
They are and that's the truth. And we're soft. Were soft,
but they got a great team.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Look okay, all right, compliment Michigan. Sure, that's all right.
That's just he turned it around a little bit. Let's
see where it.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Goes from it.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Were soft, but they got a great team. Look, they
got a great team. They shot the ball excellent. Danny
Wolf's the lottery pick.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
They go.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
You know, we're still it's crazy in this day and age.
You know, we don't have fifty and six year guys.
Every team does so and it shows. But we're soft guys.
You know, we get in the game and you know,
be tough enough to make a free throw. Don't miss eleven. Friends,
that's toughness. That's Tracy, Tracy, you said, Well, he's Tracy
(24:45):
knows me. I'm just telling the truth. What's your opinion, Well,
I was talking about it when you walked out. They
allowed the guy to post up on the block. You
gotta fight for that block before he gets down there.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
We were just talking.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
How about when he just backs you down with six
dribbles and.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
So I understand that. Now you're talking to cry Josh, Yeah,
gotta fight.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Keep getting out rebounded.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You know, one for seven again from Dylan, same every game.
Sky's hole. He's playing hurt. Yeah, he got banged in
the shoulder and he's tried to fight through it tonight,
but it was hard for him.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
He looked like he couldn't lift his left shoulder.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, he's got a bruise. So it's structure that he's fine,
but he's in pain. All right, Ok, all right, win
go two for twenty from three guys. Look, he comes
from GMS and he won't get out scored. Right, forty
five to nine. I'm sorry, forty five to six. So
your minus thirty nine at a three point line.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Right, and that's coming right off Nebraska, same thing pretty much.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
No, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I gotta run on the court to get a guy
to pressure the ball. I'm running on the court, all right,
to try to gets to play hard enough to win.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, we pointed out Kobe Johnson got to steal like
literally as please go get his steal, right?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I mean, what happened to the game plan? But we
got you know, we got guys think they're great players.
We're gonna come out and shoot our way to victory.
Who you're gonna play? I don't have enough minutes. I
got so many great players. Wasn't that what everybody wanted
to tell me get up. I'm asking you the one
to ask the question, not mesh question.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I understand, all right now, it did continue Matt. You know,
Mick took his ire into the media room to face
down Ben Boltch and the like and Michigander, Michigander from Michigan.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And here's some highlights from there. We're soft.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
So don't tell me you want to win. Like, just
don't tell me you want to win. So don't just
don't tell me you want to win. It's crazy, you
know what.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
And it's every day.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I'm tired of it. I have the most energy of
all of anybody at practice. Every day I have. I'm
upset with every everybody in that locker room, my assistant
coaches and my players.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I mean, I don't need to do anything else. I
almost got five hundred wins. I'm only fifty three, jeez.
I mean, it's a joke. It's a joke.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
But yet I come in and I have more passion
and energy and pride than everybody in That's the problem.
So what the truth of it has been, it's really
hard to coach people that are delusional. Jesus, the hungry
dog gets the bone. We got guys that think they're
way better than they are. They're nice kids, they're completely
(27:33):
delusional about who they are.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Wow. Now Mick Cronin bit into his team, his staff
and Josh Lewin like a dog bone and just wagged
his head back and forth. Now is that a great look?
Some people don't like it. Mick Cronin is very demonstrative,
(27:57):
He is very very honest, and he is a friend
of the show. But it does it's done best by far,
but it does seem like every single year when the
team underperforms, he attacks Josh Lewin and then attacks the
(28:17):
team through the media, and then they find a way
to turn it around, usually in this month of January.
Let's go back to twenty twenty, Matt. Now, I believe
in twenty twenty UCLA ended up making the Final four.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
The next year.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, so he's laying the foundation here. He is in
twenty twenty calling out the team and yelling at Josh
in the very same frash.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
And I told the guys, you know how upset I
was with him, And I was. I told him I
was gonna come out here and tell the truth. Yeah,
I'm tired of it, so say that you know it's embarrassing.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Is that something you hope will draw a positive response?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Everyone from that stops out, Just good night, coach. But
this was a happier time, right, Matt. I mean we're
talking about four years ago. Lewin is fresh faced, he's
excited that Cronin is the coach.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
This is this is mixed first year.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
It's mixed first year. So he doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
It's like he's got any right, It's like Connie's wedding
day in the Godfather. She doesn't know that Carlo is
gonna beat her ass and throw those plates around. You
get me, Bratt, You know right that she's pregnant with
a black eye and son he's gonna freak out.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
You know, she doesn't know that.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
You turny red Best and Michael, you waited until Deddy
was done a new but he could stop you, and
you did it.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Torney Pass.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Talia Shire former Petrolson money gap. So this was a
happier time for Lewin. Right, So he's jumping in like, hey,
we're gonna go back and forth. Let's see what happens.
A positive response that they'll be able to dig down
from that and and respond.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I hope you and I went to lottery tomorrow. Hoping
doesn't get the job done. You know, you all you
can do is demand certain things or don't play guys,
Like I said, no, we got to play games. You
got to put five guys out there, all right.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
So it is what it is, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
But Hoping ain't gonna do anything. You know, Sure it'd
be great, but if they would respond. But like I
told him, you know, we're out there teaching every day.
So you tell me what the difference is. Because the
teams I've coached are top ten at worst, top twenty
in the country on defense, and now they're not. So
you tell me what the difference is.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
I didn't change, you change you suck. So that that
was twenty twenty, you know, and in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I mean, he didn't threaten to do this last night,
but in twenty twenty, Matt, he threatened the old Norman Dale.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
But we have guys that, you know, right right now.
It was hard for me not to pull Normandale, to
be honest with you, because there's not five guys I
want that I believe deserve to be on the floor
right now. So right now, there's certain guys that are
in there that that you give the guy that shouldn't
be in there. To be honest with you, but you
(31:12):
got to play five. So it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
My team's on the floor. Pull out the old normandale
now in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Last night he came off the court and said, you
know they were soft, but back then in twenty twenty
his message was that they were out class. Coach Conan
is kind enough to join us, and I know not
great circumstances, coach, but we appreciate you coming out.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
What was your assessment of what happened tonight?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
We were out classed, Simple as that happened. Unless you
have vision issues. You ever watched a basketball game, and
we were out class Holy third pink card at twenty
four they shot fifty one percent. We shot thirty nine percent. Uh,
they're just a better basketball team.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Josh Lewin goes a home vision problems.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Josh Lewin goes home and bathes in back teen after
he calls UCLA game that poor man. But it is
part of mixed tactic in January to have a nervous breakdown,
break the team down emotionally and verbally, abuse them, and
(32:32):
then build them back and I mean that in the
in the most positive way possible. Verbal abuse is basically
what Matt and I do for a living. Uh And
then he will no doubt find week and they build
back back back stronger.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Look at this. I just got a text.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
The world is soft. Mick Cronin is the greatest. I
want him to come in and yell at my punk
ass teenage sons and his friends. Price is pretty high
for that.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
We're so you guys are soft.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
And so don't tell me you want to win, Like,
just don't tell me you want to win. So don't
just don't tell me you want to win.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
I want to win. Coach, shut up, So don't just
don't tell me you want to win. You don't want
to win. You're not willing to do. It's crazy, you know.
And it's every day.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I'm tired of it. I have the most energy of
all of anybody at practice. Every day I have. I'm
upset with everybody in that locker room, my assistant coaches
and my players.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, I mean, I don't need to do anything else.
I almost got five hundred wins.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
I'm almost fifty three, you know.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
And and if you don't know, Mick Cronin, you'd say, wow,
you know, it seems like he's blaming everybody but himself.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
And maybe he is, but.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
He's he is a loving coach and guys do enjoy
playing for him. And I believe this is a tactic. Now,
is Josh Lewin a victim of these tactics? There's no
doubt that he There's no doubt. Can't even be.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Questioned, can't be questioned. I'm just saying, maybe Tracy could
weigh in. Hey, Tracy, why don't you ask the first
question today? When coach comes out, I gotta go say hello,
and then you come with the first question.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
To sustain that? What was behind that? Was it just
over exerting or why didn't it sustain? After that?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
We're soft?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Now, weird, pause, make it awkward.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
That's simple.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
We're solved the problem. I told the guys the toughest
guy in the room is me. Just is going to
do the radio, don't.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
That's simple. That's simple.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Let's hope that this motivates this team of transfers handpicked
by Mick Cronin with a whole bunch of nil to
get it together. I don't know if it will. Everybody responds, differently,
you don't think so. Matt calling those guys soft not
gonna get him going.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
I feel like it's uh, well, you know what, because
he called him soft to Josh Lewin and Josh had
to wear it. Then, Yes, you're right, that's it. That's
the vehicle in which these guys get motivated by. He
told Bolts too, that's true. And when he went to
Boultch he called out his staff as well as you
would like to say, Matt, the staff is catching strays.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yes, what did I do?
Speaker 5 (35:25):
I feel like we're a loss away from coach grown
and circling back to the Hey, these guys get paid
a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I know, I think that's part of it. I don't
think he has very much sympathy for guys when they
make mistakes when they're getting paid.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Yeah, we're not paying you to go one for seven
from the field.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Care if your shoulder's falling off, you have.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
More turnovers and assist. We're not paying you to do that.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Mo.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Austin wasted his inheritance.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
On you, speaking of which I think, Mom, you know
sadly past. But he had arguably, you know, the nicest
house in Palisades. It was that first house all the
way up on the hill. Yeah, well a lot of that,
and that's that's gonna be. The Palisades is just strewn
with music business people and in Hollywood people, and I
(36:17):
would assume.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
A lot of mas Famoso's Matt, Yeah, I know, Spielberg
lived like two streets below him. Old friend of yours. Yeah,
oh yeah, you know what.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Our friend Mark Gorlic, who brought Slash and Michael Bolton
and all those guys into the Petros and Money show,
also lived there in the Palisades. I've not reached out
to him yet, but hopefully his family is okay. And
I heard the real ind burn down one of the
first places I ever went to, Pepperdine. They used to
they used to bring us food. Love those guys, and
(36:49):
that's just I mean, I think's been there forever. Great
mom and pop, little picnic tables, great seafood.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
The Malibu seed Bend burned down, Matt, where you used
to feed your horse and your lama nuts. Right, it's
not a law that's now packing you now pack you idiot,
stupid idiot, got no packet, you idiot, Look at yourself.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Put your stupid phone away. I'm just trying to take
a video. Shiit up, trying to take the piss. Pay Matt.
The guns are back out on Pico. Is that right? Yeah,
they got the missiles. The guns a navaronner back. Oh
I didn see that. I did see that.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Just we can't keep them tamped down for more than
twenty eight hours, not possible. Rays are in the tank.
Bring them back out.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
More to cume with that big rat.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Oh God, Petro some money in five seventy l A
sports going until five o'clock on a flex alert here
first hour two to three as the Clippers and Nuggets
going to get it going at six pm.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
So a pregame coming at five pm. Again.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
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Speaker 1 (38:31):
Well, Matt, you know I'm a little torn. We got
these fires and it's hard to have inspiration. Thank god
for mc cronin. He provided us with some of that
in the last segment there with the entertaining, though impactful,
and quite serious postgame conversation with Josh Lewin, and then
the collected media compared it to something that happened way
(38:53):
back in twenty twenty and a lot of other interviews
where Mick was unhappy with his team, seemingly trying.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
To motivate them through the media.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Allah, the zen Master, that troom, Phil Jackson, damn straight,
if you forget the Poltroons. But Matt you're going to
Houston tomorrow? I think yeah, And uh, you know, we
have these obstructions and it's hard to find inspiration to
send you around Houston with all this stuff going on
(39:24):
at home. Do we have the open for the obstructions
of Matsmith?
Speaker 2 (39:27):
See what he can and what he cannot do?
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Is he perfect enough or not?
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Entirely?
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Man Money Smith on the road with the Chargers.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
I would like to know something more about him.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Five obstructions.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
The perfect human that's just something we say.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Can he complete the tasks.
Speaker 6 (39:49):
While hoping he can do what we say he can do?
Speaker 2 (39:52):
That's what I hope.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
My hope is that Matt does what I say that
he can do. Really, he's just there to call a
foot with Daniel Jeremiah and Shannon Farrin, but inspired by
Lars von Trier and Jurgen Left and their filmmaking relationship.
We do like to give Matt playoff obstructions when he
travels to foreign cities with the Chargers. He's been doing
(40:16):
the job now, maybe almost a decade. It's been a while.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
So what is this season?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Eight?
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Okay, so, so we've done this a few times. They
haven't made the playoffs every year. That would be that'd
be ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
It's only the third time since we're calling it okay,
so but not bad.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Three out of eight week Okay, sure, we're going. Well,
it's gonna change now with heart right, I can feel
it gonna change.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
I can feel it.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Uh So, what are the obstructions for Matt in Houston, Texas?
Not easy because we don't want to send him to Galveston,
to the Old Quarter, even though I'm inspired by Towns
van Zant that's fifty miles away. I'd also make him
surf in Galveston in that oily George Bushwater, but he's
not doing that either because that's too far away.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Lo Carafe is all that I could come up with
so far, And that's unfortunate, Matt, because you're leaving tomorrow
and you know, these fires and all this stuff. You know,
real life has gotten in the way of the idiocy
of great sports talk. But Lo Caafe is.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
The oldest one writing down lock. Now it's gonna be
I'm gonna be able to report almost immediately because I'll
be doing the show from Houston on Friday, leaving tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
So between l A C A R A f E.
It's the game on Saturday. Game is Saturday at one
thirty pm LA time. The old I will be in
Houston La Carafe.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Okay, Now Galveston I can maybe do not get up early,
get a car and start moving around. That feels like
looking at a live surf cam right now of Galveston.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Yeah, it feels like too much. Yeah, and then you'd
have to like rent a board and all that. It's
all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
But you know, I wouldn't mind mixing up the bacteria
that's already in my system. You know, like how how
those people would get like poop infusions to get different
uh different bacteria.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Yeah, and you know they used to do blood letting,
Yes they did.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
I didn't know they had a peer with like roller
coasters and sky drops and all that stuff in Galveston. Boy,
and there's murdoxe.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
Matt. It's like the Santa Cruz of Texas. Right, you
get stabbed out there. Uh, there's museums.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
I mean, I mean as anybody has anybody submitted anything?
Well not really Okay, No, yes, I.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Do have wait, I do have a submission here on
the secret Textoso line. So thank you for bringing that up, Matt.
I do have a submission, and it's one that I
can get.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
Line brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
We make it easy.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
This one says, hey, fool may I suggests an obstruction
for Houston, a place called o host Locos, Crazy Eyes,
Combo of Kulichi Town and Magic City. Fool Bbl's of plenty.
That would be big, beautiful Latina and excellent Mexican food
as well.
Speaker 4 (43:18):
So let's see o Host Locos Sports CANTEENA. Looks like
there are multiple locations around the greater Houston area.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
All right, I'd like maybe you know, that's a good suggestion.
My thing is like, if the Chargers go out there
and lay an egg, people are gonna blame me right
for not doing constructions obstructions. And then if the Chargers
move on, which they might, you know, and then you'll
probably be on the road again. We're gonna have to
create more obstructions. And you can't do the obstructions if
(43:54):
you didn't do the obstructions week one. You know, you
can't play Zeke Elliott in week two if you didn't
get his legs going in week one. So what about
the NASA headquarters? Oh, that's too much of something you'd
want to do. Yeah, and you don't want me to
do anything I want to do. Never ever do I
ever want you to do. I want you to be miserable.
(44:15):
The NASA Headquarters does seem pretty uh, pretty good. Maybe
you can go in one of those things where James
Bond got caught in in Moonraker, you know, going round
and round and round.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Oh yeah, a little G force simulator.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
Yeah, that's maybe squashed My insides is that's what it's
called that you hate throwing up.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
Over our two hour show here on Friday. Yeah, I
can't stop g forces. I threw up in the air
and then it whipped me around and has slapped me
in the face.
Speaker 5 (44:40):
Yes, Kate, how about going and visiting Joel Olstein who's
in Houston. Maybe take a picture with him.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Joel Austin Is that is that his names Houston? I
thought he was a Denver. He's he's a huge Houston
met Well.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
I would imagine DJ could get me in there, considering
David Jeremiah's father is a prominent television pastor.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Oh look at this, Hare says, we have Joe, the
one that got caught with the dude. No, he was
the one that got caught with all the money and
like a safe.
Speaker 5 (45:07):
And then he went open the doors during a hurricane
down to Houston because they took over the place where
the Rockets played.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Uh, this says there is an o host Locos in Downey,
So we don't even need to do that because there's
one here.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Like that doesn't make sense. So O host Locos is out.
Speaker 4 (45:28):
Yeah, it's like a franchise. And I just I went
to their website. So I've I've got right now, I've
got Lacarrafe, I've got the Johnson Space Center as a
potential obstruction. I visited the o host Locos Sports Cantina
and it's it's very vic the brick where like all
the descriptions are in English with like a smattering of
(45:51):
Spanish words like it so it says be and Veneto's welcome.
You've entered into the best Latin sports cantina and el
mundo in the world.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
That sounds like how I would talk.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
Yeah that I would send comita and our ice called
served by our chickuss.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
So a host Locos is also here, so you we
we can't. We can't do that.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
They say the best Mexican food in Houston is called
Loope Tortilla. Is a place called l u Pe Tortilla.
Maybe you can go there, Okay.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
NASA is far Now there's a loop as Okay, so
that's different. Nasa is far too.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
There is a strip club that retired James Harden's jersey.
But I feel like your wife might start to think
that you're becoming like one of those strip club lives
that eats at the strip club. And I've never told
anybody that you usually go to the buffet on Tuesdays
at the Spearmint Rhino on the ten.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
It's a great buffet. I've made it a secret. It's
a great cafe. And for eighteen ninety nine, along with
a two drink minimum and admission fee that totals somewhere
around seventy dollars, it's quite the value.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Oh and I'm sorry corrections and retractions. BBL is a
big busty latina, not a big beautiful latina. Los se Anotmonos.
Speaker 5 (47:19):
There's a park called Hinz water Wall Park that's got
a sixty four foot tall water wall that is described
as an impressive site to behold. There's a there's a
roller coaster around there called the Boardwalk Bullet. Can we
find out how far that is? Boardwalk Bullet? That is
(47:41):
in kae m a h Keema.
Speaker 4 (47:45):
Keema, Texas. And I'm looking and that looks like that's
it's on its way to Galveston, all right, And it's
open right now. It closes at nine pm. It is
a wooden roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
I'd like to see your pootso balking around.
Speaker 4 (48:05):
On that opened in two thousand and seven. Only wooden
roller coaster in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
Sam, Why is your voice so high? Matt?
Speaker 1 (48:11):
Well, it's because I got bopped in the boots on
the Wooden roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
My balls took it. And then I got on the
G Force ride at Johnson Space Center.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
That's pretty far. And then I went to Loupes Tortillas.
It's Keema, Keema Texas.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
Kema Texas.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
All right, yeah, it's like a porn right here. We
got them all written down. We'll start upright Man's Galveston.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
Well you take a look, okay.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
I'd also like a picture of a like a statue
or a photo of Sam Houston.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
We'll make an official of the next segment. There we go.
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