January 8, 2025 • 38 mins
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Clipper free game tip off at six against the Nuggets.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Clipper's Nuggets tonight. Fully functional employee Adam will be around
at five o'clock for all of you Clipper types that
want to sail the ship tonight and forget your worries
and your troubles. Obviously, disasters here in Los Angeles pretty unprecedented.
You can check out our sister station. They're doing hard work.
They were up all night and covered up coast to coast.
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So listen to KFI for the latest. Listen to A
five seventy for great sports talk, which is what great
sports talk we're trying to do today. But thoughts are
with everybody out there fighting the fires and everybody who
has been relocated, inconvenienced and their lives have been trampled on.
It's a tough thing to watch locally, there's no doubt
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about it. But hey, at least we have all these
local luminaries and politicians to make us feel better about it.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And their photo Oh thank you, guys, appreciate that awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Palisades is burning down while Matt and I are on
the show yesterday and they're all out there taking pictures.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I bill us be away literally saw a high five,
literally saw a high five.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Have had But, like Matt said, follow us on social
media if you wanted more snarkiness. And uh, I just
flew in from Ghana this morning. I love that that
Ghanaian weathers way better than what we got going over here.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Way better.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It's time of the fun fact in effect. Yeah, we're
three fun facts. Fun fact.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Did you know every pawn on the chessboard from its
oldest origins was given a name, a commoner's occupation. The
leftmost pawn was known as the gambler or the low life. Oh,
the city guard was in front of the left side
night as Knight's trained city guards. The innkeeper was ahead
of the bishop, the doctors in front of the Queen,
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the merchant in front of the king, the clerk in
front of the right side bishop, the blacksmith in front
of the right side night.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Nowadays, the doctor would be back with the king and queen.
You know, but back then people didn't have as much
respect for that profession.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
No, that's why the doctor's in front of the queen.
He's in the king that runs the joint needs to
have the guy with all the cash like whatever, you
may die, but at least you've got money to throw
around to get stuff done around here. And the worker
farmer was all the way to the right. So when
you're playing chess with your kids next time, p maybe
share that with them.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
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But super quick hits, quick hits come, make it quick, y'all. Well,
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according to the NFL Network, and we'll have some more
NFL talk on the next segment. But multiple teams have
inquired about whether Bill Belichick would reconsider his move to
college football, including the Raiders. Maybe Tom Brady. Tom Brady
wants a better ending with his old head coach. We
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had so much success with per league sources. I went
on in Seattle today, they're very upset and because Steve
Belichick was the Washington defensive coordinator and skip town to
North Carolina where he's like the coach in waiting, And
if Bill Belichick leaves before June, Steve Belichick becomes the
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head coach. And according to my sources in Seattle, Steve
Belichick makes Bill Belichick look like a fuzzy teddy bear
to the media.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Really, who the hell's he think he is? I don't know,
you're Steve Belichick. You don't get to be an a hole.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Him and Brennan Carroll get run out of town again.
Geez uh So, I don't know if that's gonna happen,
but wow, it would be pretty.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I mean, talk about fun in the AFC West Andy Reid,
Sean Payton, Bill Belichick, and Jim Harbad.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Jesus, it'd be a lot or Pete Carroll.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Now, right, guys, come on, let's go blow the dip
off the sphere.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Come home. We'll talk about the Chargers in Houston Saturday
taking on the Texans. There are two and a half
point road favorite. Listen to the game here on am
FI seventy LA Sports. The Rams host the Vikings on
Monday night at Solfi Stadium. They're a one and a
half point underdog, and hopefully things will be cleared up
in town. They got four days to do it. The
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NFL said they're monitoring the fires. Thanks and the smoke
O blanket keep it. Thanks, so are we.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I'm closer Rye than you are.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Gavin lux is now a member of the Cincinnati Reds.
Are so proud of him and he went on the
MLB Network earlier today and talked about the Dodgers trading
them away a lot of emotions.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Man, I'm sure if anyone can attest to that, if
you've gotten traded, it's you know, you're excited, you're nervous.
You know, it's a new place, a place you've never been,
and you know, obviously the last nine ten years, Dodgers
is the only thing I've ever known, so you know,
it's slave of emotions. But I'm excited to get over
there and then get with that group of guys. There's
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a lot of really good young talents, so I'm excited
to get over there and help as you guys win
in any way, Ken, I.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Want to ask you what did you learn in the
Dodgers system. Obviously they brought you through, but what was
one of the key couple of key things that you
know will sustain you as a ballplayer.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, I think just the preparation piece.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I think, know just how to game plan against pitching,
what like doing homework on on different hitters and where
they hit the ball on certain pitch types. And I
think just the preparation before every game, so you know,
you once the game starts, you just you play the
game and you don't got to think, and then you're prepared.
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And I think, you know, I think that was a
huge takeaway was, Man, these guys put a lot into
into preparation and and and going over the analytics on
on pitchers, and I think that's a big thing I
learned was just how to you know, go through that
data and use what I want And you know, how
can whatever I'm taking from that data, how can it
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help me? And how can I use it?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
You played with show, Hey, Mookie and Freddy. It doesn't
get much better than that. And I want to know
what maybe those three guys individually or collectively had conversations
with you something you might have learned talking to them,
watching them the preparation. Maybe a lot of times you
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emulate swings. I don't know what did you get from
maybe those three.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I mean, I played with Mookie and Freddy for you know,
three four years, so I think, you know, I took
a lot from all those guys. But I think, you know,
Freddy's first year was what twenty twenty two with the Dodgers,
and I was probably annoying him. Man, I'm watching him
and doing it, like literally sitting down watching his cage
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routine go out. I'm watching his VP routine, his defense routine,
like I'm trying to do whatever Freddy does, because, like
you know, he's about as good of a left handed
hitter as you can be. Histor power does damage, it's
his controls the treg zone. It's like, this is the
ultimate left handed hitter. So whatever he's doing, why don't
I try to do it? So I would just just
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kind of watch and pick his brain as much.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
As I could.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And then you know, obviously MOOKI and Show too, you
take stuff from everybody over the years, and but man,
it's it's so fun watching Freddy hit me bang, just
hit you know five line, drives right at the short
stop seat and then walk out and that's it.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Well miss him.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Well, he won a World Series, you know, had to
be a hit in the in the clinching game, So yeah,
way to go.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
The La Kings take on the Calgary Flamers tonight or
that's been postponed because of the fires. The Lakers are
home tomorrow night versus the Hernets. You think they'll play
that one?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Probably at least. I hope if they play him, then
that means things are better, right, So that's that's the hope.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The Clippers are twenty and sixteen and they're in Denver
to take on House Nuggets. Kawhi Leonard is not with
the team. He's taken a temporary lead from the team
to be with his family who had to evacuate because
of the fires. JJ Reddick and his family had to
evacuate in the Palisades as well. And the Two Pros
and a Cup of Joe's show is in Florida. I
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learned they had an echo that turned Vic into mouse today.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah? They're in like a radio row college football.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Playoffs or I was like, why are they? I got you?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well, you've got I mean Brady Quinn represents Ohio State
and Notre Dame. LaVar's got Penn State. Joe, I mean,
you know Joe Klatt said, us, he is really close.
I'm right on the bubble. I could have gone right
on the bubble. Matt close.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I'm sorry he said what.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
He said us, he's pretty close to what to victory? Brother?
What are they close to? I don't know. Go look
at his Twitter. I can't help you. Yes, how quickly
you guys forget us?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
He is close to the four or five guys.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Colin, Thank you, Colin. I appreciate that you saw the
coliseum from the four five final.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Make sure you say that I'm a gentleman and professional
in there. Don't mention anybody else. Just say that I'm cool.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Oh, I'm surprised you didn't do one of those selfie
cigar smoking videos of victory like he would do it
halftime when USC was up on Penn State. Just enjoying
the news here at COSM, smoking my cigar. The Notre Dame.
What are they? Two point favorites?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yes, and Ohio State and Texas and the Katone Bowl
where the Buckeyes are a six point favorite in AT
and T Stadium, and Puma filed a last minute notice
of opposition against Tiger Woods brand, saying the Sunday red
logo resembles the emblem that Puma has been using for
fifty six years since they stopped using a swastika.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
And now, now, wait a minute. In Puma's defense, that
was the Dossler brother. Wow, that was anti Nazi, but
they both hauled out his brother Addie for being pro
Actually maybe it was the other way.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I think it was. Yeah, they both Booma was the Nazi.
They both have some Nazi tenancies, let's be honest, tenancies.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
But one certainly more so than the other. It was
Addie and Rudy. I can't remember which was the Nazi.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I think it's Puma. But this halts Sunday Rad's attempt
to trademarkt symbol. Puma filed an invoice against Woods Brand,
claiming consumer confusion is likely to happen between the leaping
cat logos.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I would have thought, like, yeah, I get it, it's
it's in a pail company. But man, if I'm Latig Gray,
I'm picked exactly right. That's the Latig Gray logo, not
the Puma logo.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Where's Lati?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Where is the Tigray in all of this?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Her lawyers like a fat guy who's asleep.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
On his desk exactly right with like a Bavarian pretzel,
a giant pretzel city saying.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Where's our lawyers sleep at the switch? Well, thank you
for listening, everybody hanging there out there, and we will
be back with more great sports talk. Paddle AASA on
AMBI seventy LA Sports coming up next, the top story
of the day. We got Clippers, Nuggets coming up, the
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Obviously very chaotic day and night in the city and
the high winds until a couple hours after the show ends,
So be safe out there and check with KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (14:07):
Playoffs are here. They start with the Bolts on Saturday
that won't be here, that'll be in Houston. And certainly
for the Chargers for the best, yes, for the Rams,
for the Charges, and for the Rams who practice out
in Woodland Hills. Certainly these teams dealing with fires at
a considerably less way, less almost not even worth mentioning,
less impact level than the tens of thousands of Los
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Angeles area residents that have had to evacuate, find a
place to shelter, have lost their homes. We sadly have casualties. Now.
It's awful, it's terrible. It's the worst fire we've seen
in this area in a long ass time. And with
that disclaimer, understand I'm not trying to not recognize what
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many are going through. But as we say, when things
like this come up, we are a sports show. KFI
has got your fire coverage, exceptional fire coverage right now,
and I'm sure maybe some people that are listening to
us in this moment are trying to get just a
slice of a distraction to just avoid actively avoid the
destruction and despair that has engulfed their area. So with
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that said, it is an odd week to be headed
into the playoffs for both of these teams because it
looks like they're not going to be able to practice.
They got outside a little bit yesterday, but they are
not able to get outside today to get a ladder,
to get a sweat, to get their body moving, to hit,
to tackle, to run plays, to go against a scout team,
to have a normal routine. The air quality in Inglewood,
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just seventeen miles as the crow flies from Pacific Palisades,
is way too bad to have guys outside just outside period,
let alone outside working out, breathing heavy from a workout.
No doubt, it's not ideal. You want things to be
as normal as possible on any given week, but especially
going into a playoff game where it's not your normal week.
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It's elimination round now has begun, but these guys have
played seventeen games of football together. The Rams rested their
guys against the Seahawks because, as Sean McVay said, health
to him was more important than seeding. And now those
guys aren't gonna be able to get ouside on a Wednesday.
But I'm wondering if these teams are going to think,
especially the Rams, if they're going to think about finding
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a place to go tomorrow. If we might take off
a little bit earlier. Right now, we're not leaving until
kind of mid afternoon. If the schedule, if I get
a text or an email a little bit later tonight
that you know what, we're going to take off a
little early and have practice in Houston once we land.
I could see that and whether or not the NFL,
depending on what the your quality is from Monday night
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here in Los Angeles for that Rams Vikings game, what
they're gonna do. I'll never forget the game we played
in Oakland on November eleventh, twenty eighteen. The Butte Fires, remember,
broke out November eighth.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
It was because Joe Davis the Aaron Rodgers went to
junior college in Montana.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Oh at Montana.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I got a laugh out of that team.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I'll never forget getting off the plane, make mistake, but
pute Montana. We got off the plane and the second
you stepped like right at the or to go down
the steps, they handed you a mask. You know, this
is pre COVID, so you're not used to these sort
of things. It's not what we think of with a
mass day, but they handed you this mask that looked
like a painter's mask. They said, put it on. Immediately.
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You put it on, and the air was still so
freaking dense and smoke filled that I remember players all
just looking at each other going really like, we're really
going to play in this, and they did. It was
part of that twelve and fourth season that the Chargers
had when they won the wild card game against the
Ravens loss to the Patriots in the divisional round. But
I remember them going, there's no way we're playing in this.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I mean, we get to the hotel back, I mean
you know, I mean we were playing high school football
and they had the raining. It was like this, it
was raining soot and we played. I mean that was
it's kind of unheard of. Like your loves, who cares?
Go play? We all whatever, we all smoke cigarettes. Who cares?
It's a ninety.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
But I bring it up because people are like, well,
maybe they'll have to move the rams. They're not moving
that game. They're not gonna move a Monday night playoff
game at Sofi Stadium. There's no chance. Not After having
been through that, when everybody got to the hotel and
they said, hey, by the way, don't go outside. We
don't want you outside breathing in the air. Well. Yeah,
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but tomorrow at one o'clock, it's gonna be okay to
play a football game. And we can't even walk outside
of our hotel. No, no, you can't. So for all
the speculation that the Rams and Vikings might not play,
that's they're playing. It's the NFL. They they will keep
it going and they will make sure the playoff schedules intact.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
You know, they don't. They don't do a lot of
weather delays in the NFL, probably about ninety five percent
exactly that, you know, And it's because they they they
bend their knees to make sure they get the games
in and make sure they get him in a certain
amount of time and make sure that they're scheduled correctly.
It is hard to move a football team a day early,
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you know, it is really hard to logistically shift those things.
So it'll be interesting to see what happens.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
As four both teams and what we could be looking
at quickly. We mentioned this yesterday because it happened yesterday
right before the show. The Chargers signed Ezekiel Elliott. Big names,
of course, always get a lot of attention a lot
of excitement surrounding them because of what they've done in
their past. If I had to guess, Elliott will play
if Gus Edwards is not able to go. He's been
dealing with an injury the last three weeks he's been out.
And this is something that Joe Ortiz has done all
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season long. If you can become incrementally better, slightly better
in season, he has churned this roster week after week
when it comes to the practice squad. One of the
rules that he and the Ravens all those years he
was with the Ravens really leaned into that you can
keep up to six veterans with unlimited amount of service time.
Before you could never have anyone beyond two years on
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the practice squad. They changed that with the COVID and
they expanded with the COVID season, and they've made really
a heck of a lot of a lot of positivity
for this team because of that rule. He's been spending
Dean Spanos' his money like crazy this year, signing all
these guys week in and week out. They did not
make a single in season transaction last year, and this year,
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every single week they make one. They signed Eddie Jackson
to the practice squad on December twenty thirty, and he
played forty snaps on December twenty seventh, and those were
forty important snaps because Elijah Molden got hurt and Derwin
James didn't have to move up to Free States a
high safety and said he could stay, you know, as
the big nickel because Eddie Jackson was able to go
out there and basically replace Molden. It's Jalen Rager, It's
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Leviscus Channault, It's Marcus May, It's tight end Eric Tomlinson
when Disley got hurt. And that's just a few of
the players that have had this impact. So Zeke Elliott
looks to be the latest guy. He's got all of
twenty one carries since November eighteenth. It's hard to I
couldn't believe he's only twenty nine. It feels like zee Kelly,
it's like forty, but he's only twenty nine years old.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
He talked about that, you know, the running back.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, I mean a little bit.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Like a Cameron's dad's car. You know you can't take
those miles.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Off, No, you can't. You cannot put it in reverse.
But maybe what do you like to call it back
that hasn't run the rock a lot, MC fresh legs.
Perhaps it's mc fresh legs, you know back, Oh, I've seen.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
It a thousand times. Even if you're old, you can
be mc f right.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Maybe it's like a beach lifelike slot, you know, for
like third base. You know, like, hey and done in
a while. But we got fresh legs. I'm going to
come out here and Pete and I's going to be
in his fur coat with his cane. He's gonna look
good out.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
There, show up in the playoffs in the NFL, and
next thing you know, you're Cocaine Charlie Garner running down
the field.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I would love it.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I would love it if you could be Cocaine Charlie Garner.
The one thing you can say about him over the
course of his career is that he has been exceptional
in pass protection, and that is one of the most
important things when it comes to what Greg Roman and
Jim Harbaugh ask of their running backs in this offense.
One of the reasons why they brought in JK. Dobbins.
He's fantastic at It's one of the reasons why ASN
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Haskins has got a lot more snaps than their rookie
Kamani Videll, just because he's better at it, and to
them that's number one priority.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, you see that, you know, throughout football, unless you
have Alvin Kamara, who's you know, on a hot route
every time you throw the ball from the backfield, you
have to you can't play young people that don't understand
blitz pick up. And it happens in college, and it
happens in the pros. And when I saw JK. Dobbins
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playing the other day, I didn't know about the incentive
thing on the contract until I heard you say it
on the radio. But I was like, God, they must
just have him out there for pass pro because Herbert's playing.
But it turned out he needed some yards to make somebody.
But he's very good at blitz pick up. I've noticed
that throughout the year.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
As for, you know, the way Harbaugh and his staff
are feeling, I'm sure they're not crazy about all the
talking heads painting a picture that the Chargers should should
have their way with the Texans that on all the
Pickham shows it's overwhelmingly Chargers.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Well that's what you said, Matt, You know you said
the Texans are down. You know they're down.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
They're not playing it, you know, like.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Texans, man, you guys look down, I said, Texans.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Maybe they have a chip on their shoulder that nobody
believes in us despite being division champs, having a home game,
they won in the playoffs last year, knocked off Flacco
in his storybook season with the Browns, but ultimately none
of that matters. Chip on the shoulder and that sort
of stuff. Harball, though, has certainly taken pleasure and pointing
out that very few people thought the Chargers were going
to make the playoffs, even fewer thought they would reach
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eleven wins. Yet here they are his favorites in the
wildcard round with some of the best players in the
NFL playing some of the best football in the NFL
right now, like Derwin and Herbert and Khalil Mack and
Joey Bosa and obviously their offensive lineman looks like Rashaun
Slater's okay, he's been back at practice and just to
put a bow on it. As people are doing their
top ten lists at the end of the year and
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handing out their awards for regular season MVP, Rookie of
the Year, Executive of the year coach of the Year.
I'll just build in a little bit more charger bias here,
but Joe Alt has not allowed more than two pressures
in a single game. He has allowed one or less
in nine games this season. Last week, he was told
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thirty minutes before kick that he had to move to
left tackle after having played right tackle all season. The
coaches said, that's not a big deal for Joe Alt.
It's like riding a bike. But still, he gave up
zero pressures simply. But he's been one of the five
to seven best right tackles in football. It's particular and
probably a top ten tackle overall in his rookie season
at one of the hardest positions in the NFL. And
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yet you look at these top ten rookies for the
twenty twenty four season and you will be hard pressed
to find him on any of them. Not to take
anything away f from receivers and quarterbacks. Ah, you know
how it is, Matt, But tip of the cap to
Joe Walt and his sensational season since no one else
is going to give it to him. So yes, the
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teams have, you know, are trying to figure out how
to get back on schedule. With the inability to practice
outside small compared to everything else. So positive energy thoughts
to the fire department personnel, all those heroes, all the
people that are dealing with figuring out where to go,
haven't been evacuated or maybe having lost their homes. Positive
thoughts made the Santa Ana Wins die down to aid
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that cause.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
In a matter of minutes, they're going to die down, Matt,
after hearing your deep godlike voice.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
That's right. May listen, Saint Anne, you get your ass
out of here.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And we four days, you know, before the Monday night game.
Hopefully yeah, it'll be fine. Well, hopefully things will be
a little bit more at least under control. God help us.
We'll be right back. We've got your dead and alive
kid birthday of the Day, and then we'll give way
to Adam Osland No kawhi tonight he stepped away because
they evacuated his family. All the latest on our natural
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disasters and wildfires here in Los Angeles on our sister
station at kfive. But Matt, we are on our.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Way out in Denver, so Adam Awsen will be along
next with your pregame tip off at six. And then
Friday we got UCLA Basketball UCLA at Maryland. They hit
the road other side of the country after a wildly
disappointing effort. You heard from At Croner a little bit
earlier in the show against Michigan at poly Pavilion last night.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And we gotta know, uh, I didn't talk to us
at this point. Josh Lewinz just got to be shaken
like a leaf. But the game's over. He's just a
gigantic punching bag for Mick to get his message across.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I don't know he's got to buy Tracy her if
he's got to get confrontational. Just can you help me?
Can you do something? Can you not wait for Mick
to bring you into the conversation as I'm sitting here
twisting in the wind, just taking one haymaker after another?
Can you help me slightly? So quit asking me stuff
like that. Yeah, your col get back to their winning
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ways out there against the Harold.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Oh they will. This is what they do. Mick Cronin
freaks out that Josh lewd and the team turns it around.
Answer is none to tail as old as time.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Josh. I'm sorry, but you're the one that's got to
wear it because I got to get my team right,
and nothing says let's rally around the bruins like I'm
piling on Josh.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
So after eighteen four.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
You stomped out there and this building got real loud.
That was great to hear. The inability to sustain that.
What was behind that? Was it just over exerting or
why didn't it sustain after that?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Or soft Thomas guy in the roams about to go
take it out of Judge Lewis.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Browns mutual coach.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
We got the dead guy birthday of the day before
we get to the clipper gate.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yes we do. Bill Graham done him before, but why
not do it again? Would have been ninety four to day.
Died in ninety one at sixty sadly tragic accident while
leaving a benefit concert for the victims of the Oakland
Hills fire. As a matter of fact, back in nineteen
ninety one a Huey Lewis benefit show at Concord Stadium,
he was killed in a helicopter crash. But one of
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the most important promoters in rock and roll history quite
simply born in Berlin, his father died two days after
his birth. With that, along with the increasing Nazi persecution
of the Jews. Graham's mom was able to get Bill,
at the time known as Wolfgang Rajanka, along with his sister.
I can see how he ended up with Bill brand
exactly into a Berlin orphanage, and they then sent he
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and his sister off to France in a pre Holocaust
exchange for Christian orphans. When France fell in nineteen forty,
Graham was ten at the time. I'm uh, and he
was put on a ship sent to the US. Sadly,
his sister fell ill. She did not survive the difficult
journey trailing Matt. Why don't you I'm just saying, that's
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this is like this guy uplifted. They did well, that's
this is a story that will uplift you all. Al yes,
but all of these things. His mother was murdered at Auschwitz.
At ten, he's an orphan in the Bronx. He changes
his name to Bill. Graham said he has no idea
why he picked Bill Graft, but he did. He gets
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his business degree from the City College of New York.
He's drafted into the US Army at twenty one. He's
fighting in the Korean War. He gets the Purple Heart.
He Earns. The Bronze Star comes back and he starts
working in the cat Skills. He did a bit of everything,
a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
My wife please.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Tito Plante was his guy. He said they were very close.
As a waiter, as a host, he dealt poker for
the celebrities. He was an MC for the shows.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You know, I always do the last dance of the season.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
And he moved to San Francisco, and while in San Francisco,
he starts promoting concerts and he makes friends with an
African American gentleman named Charles Sullivan who ran an auditorium
called the Filmore in a predominantly black neighborhood corner of
Fillmore and Geary, to say a Sonnoy brother Sullivan booking
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the best r and b Ax around James Brown, Duke
Ellington the Temptations, and Graham was like, hey man, I'm
gonna bring you the freaking hippies. Sullivan's like, all right,
let's do it. So they're humming along and he takes
another hit, Sullivan Murder nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Well it's zero popping off of the loin, right.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
So Graham now has to figure out the business of
promoting trying to get permits to keep the Filmore open
and had no idea that Sullivan didn't really have one.
It was just booking shows. Is he's doing that. There's
eleven other promoters trying to lay claim to the Fillmore
from under him. So he goes through the neighborhood and
asks the people to sign a petition to vouch for
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him as someone they knew the support of the neighborhood
would be the right choice to take over the film Moore.
It worked. He gets a three year lease. The Paul
Butterfield Blues Band kicks off his run and after that
he starts booking everyone he will. He manage Jefferson Airplane,
so he starts booking them in There Country, Joe and
the Fish, the speaking engagements, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ginsburg.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
My favorites, y'all really depraved.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
That's right, Vig. But of course the big boon is
the great folding. It became essentially their home venue. He
launched Fillmore Records and from there it grew. He became
the promoter of record in the Bay Area. Massive events
at keys are Ah love Keysar, I know you do,
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it's right. I put it story well you know that's.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Gonna have a big event. Bay. He got right off the.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Hate Zeppelin, Neil Young, Dylan, Santana. Pretty much any and
every important counterculture act of that time was booked by Graham.
He partnered with Geldoff to put on Live Aid. He
was very good friends with a lot of folks in Hollywood.
Had a small role in Apocalypse Now. He was Lucky
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Luciano and Bugsy and like we said, Benning and Warren Batty,
Warren Bady vehicle exactly right we mentioned. Sadly, he was
killed following that benefit show for the Oaklandhills fire victims.
Huey Lewis in the news concert. He was married twice,
two kids, and as crazy as it may seem, Bill
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Graham Presents was the name of his concert promoter company.
When he died, his two sons sold it. Today Bill
Graham Presents is known as Live Nation. Whoa yeah, the
world's largest concert promoter. That is what Bill Graham built.
He would have been ninety day.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
How about that, well, Matt, you know you think it
was popping off from the loin in sixty six when
they killed the Fillmore guy. In twenty twenty four, they
shot one of their wide receivers for the niners out there.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
And he wants to find the guy and say I
forgive you. I don't forget feel that way.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
All right, Matt beating out. Jenny Lewis a great singer
in her own right. Is another Welsh diva British news,
but she's Welsh, still alive, eighty eight today from Cardiff, Wales,
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an og Cardiff Kook, half Black, half Welsh. She had
a strong voice when she was a young child, but
no one cared in the choir. They told him to
stop second so loud. She finished school at fourteen and
worked at a factory and sang in pubs and clubs.
Of course, I'm talking about Shirley Bassie eighty eight years
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old today. Her career began in the fifties. She beat
Tom Jones the charts as the first Welsh singer to
have a number one in the UK. What's New Pussy Catton?
She took it all on Vegas, London. She now lives
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at Monaco. Like Charletclair. Bassie had twenty seven top forty
hits in the United Kingdom and was best known, especially
in this country, for her Bond themed songs. Sure I
could have played Goldfinger Matt for nineteen six Thing where
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Diamonds Are Forever from seventy one. Let's just go right
to the best, just like we did with Beach Life yesterday.
We went right to Big Head Todd of the Monster.
Let's get right to the best. Moon Raker nineteen seventy nine.
She even had a nineteen ninety seven number one hit
Matt History repeating by the propeller Heads.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I worked that rucker.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I worked the propeller Heads in Shirley Bassey.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You made her a star again.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
No, Alex did Alex Michaelson. I don't remember what his
last name was. I just remember Alex. Because we had
to cross the Canadian to the US border. I had
to fly into Vancouver, pick them up at a show,
and then drive them into Seattle for another show. And
as we crossed the border, they let me know that
they may have had some contraband on their person. That
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would have been great had they told me before we
pulled into our slot to have our conversation with customs
at the time. So you canna tell me that now
right now?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
This is well, you know, you get jack for drugs
and customs. That is a little bit of history repeating
all the time. Seventy year career. She is a dame
in nineteen ninety nine. That's like a night for a chick.
Not like South Pacific. There's nothing like a dame. Overall,
Bassie has sold one hundred and forty million records worldwide
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at a top forty album in seven decades. She's slowing
down in eighty eight though now no a little bit.
She's not getting the raider job like big girl.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Hey man, come on, hey, oh right, not once. Want
to get back in the game. Man, I got the
energy game.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
She had a scandalous affair when married with an actor
Peter Finch, and then she was married to the Excelsior
hotel manager in Venice, Italy, and one of her daughters
died and she thought for sure it was a murder,
but inquiry said otherwise. And gold I know right.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
And Goldfingers, we're really bringing the heat today, aren't we?
That one?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
You know, what do you want from me? The song
Goldfingers in the Grammy Hall of Fame, Matt but it
is no moon raker, just like hey, I'm looking forward
to see him train. But they are no big head
taught at the monsters.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
I know I was. I was very happy to get
text with you throughout the night about how excited you
wore the train was being.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
This iteration of Beach Life.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Hayesel's sister play that mister mister on the radio, bitch,
when I was texting you all night?
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Is he gonna be able to put pat man?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
I'd want to talk to him. That'd be great. So
who's this singer, this hot young singer on the propeller
Head song. Well, it's Shirley Bennet.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Trust me. In my younger years, I was devastated that
that was the single we worked instead of Take California.
It's like, can we just work this take California? I
think that's what it was. Yeah, they're like, no, we're
working the Shirley Best. You kidding me. It's Shirley be
trying to get this thing played in my number one day,
freaking limb Biscuit.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
It's the number one hit.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Yeah, you did your job.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Why don't you hang that one up? Clippers at Nuggets
pregame and five jump off at six coming up backs,
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Speaker 1 (01:25):
Clipper's Nuggets tonight. Fully functional employee Adam will be around
at five o'clock for all of you Clipper types that
want to sail the ship tonight and forget your worries
and your troubles. Obviously, disasters here in Los Angeles pretty unprecedented.
You can check out our sister station. They're doing hard work.
They were up all night and covered up coast to coast.
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So listen to KFI for the latest. Listen to A
five seventy for great sports talk, which is what great
sports talk we're trying to do today. But thoughts are
with everybody out there fighting the fires and everybody who
has been relocated, inconvenienced and their lives have been trampled on.
It's a tough thing to watch locally, there's no doubt
(02:10):
about it. But hey, at least we have all these
local luminaries and politicians to make us feel better about it.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And their photo Oh thank you, guys, appreciate that awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Palisades is burning down while Matt and I are on
the show yesterday and they're all out there taking pictures.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I bill us be away literally saw a high five,
literally saw a high five.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Have had But, like Matt said, follow us on social
media if you wanted more snarkiness. And uh, I just
flew in from Ghana this morning. I love that that
Ghanaian weathers way better than what we got going over here.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Way better.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It's time of the fun fact in effect. Yeah, we're
three fun facts. Fun fact.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Did you know every pawn on the chessboard from its
oldest origins was given a name, a commoner's occupation. The
leftmost pawn was known as the gambler or the low life. Oh,
the city guard was in front of the left side
night as Knight's trained city guards. The innkeeper was ahead
of the bishop, the doctors in front of the Queen,
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the merchant in front of the king, the clerk in
front of the right side bishop, the blacksmith in front
of the right side night.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Nowadays, the doctor would be back with the king and queen.
You know, but back then people didn't have as much
respect for that profession.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
No, that's why the doctor's in front of the queen.
He's in the king that runs the joint needs to
have the guy with all the cash like whatever, you
may die, but at least you've got money to throw
around to get stuff done around here. And the worker
farmer was all the way to the right. So when
you're playing chess with your kids next time, p maybe
share that with them.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I will, I'll tell them about I'll try to remember
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But super quick hits, quick hits come, make it quick, y'all. Well,
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according to the NFL Network, and we'll have some more
NFL talk on the next segment. But multiple teams have
inquired about whether Bill Belichick would reconsider his move to
college football, including the Raiders. Maybe Tom Brady. Tom Brady
wants a better ending with his old head coach. We
(04:31):
had so much success with per league sources. I went
on in Seattle today, they're very upset and because Steve
Belichick was the Washington defensive coordinator and skip town to
North Carolina where he's like the coach in waiting, And
if Bill Belichick leaves before June, Steve Belichick becomes the
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head coach. And according to my sources in Seattle, Steve
Belichick makes Bill Belichick look like a fuzzy teddy bear
to the media.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Really, who the hell's he think he is? I don't know,
you're Steve Belichick. You don't get to be an a hole.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Him and Brennan Carroll get run out of town again.
Geez uh So, I don't know if that's gonna happen,
but wow, it would be pretty.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I mean, talk about fun in the AFC West Andy Reid,
Sean Payton, Bill Belichick, and Jim Harbad.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Jesus, it'd be a lot or Pete Carroll.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Now, right, guys, come on, let's go blow the dip
off the sphere.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Come home. We'll talk about the Chargers in Houston Saturday
taking on the Texans. There are two and a half
point road favorite. Listen to the game here on am
FI seventy LA Sports. The Rams host the Vikings on
Monday night at Solfi Stadium. They're a one and a
half point underdog, and hopefully things will be cleared up
in town. They got four days to do it. The
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NFL said they're monitoring the fires. Thanks and the smoke
O blanket keep it. Thanks, so are we.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I'm closer Rye than you are.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Gavin lux is now a member of the Cincinnati Reds.
Are so proud of him and he went on the
MLB Network earlier today and talked about the Dodgers trading
them away a lot of emotions.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Man, I'm sure if anyone can attest to that, if
you've gotten traded, it's you know, you're excited, you're nervous.
You know, it's a new place, a place you've never been,
and you know, obviously the last nine ten years, Dodgers
is the only thing I've ever known, so you know,
it's slave of emotions. But I'm excited to get over
there and then get with that group of guys. There's
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a lot of really good young talents, so I'm excited
to get over there and help as you guys win
in any way, Ken, I.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Want to ask you what did you learn in the
Dodgers system. Obviously they brought you through, but what was
one of the key couple of key things that you
know will sustain you as a ballplayer.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, I think just the preparation piece.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I think, know just how to game plan against pitching,
what like doing homework on on different hitters and where
they hit the ball on certain pitch types. And I
think just the preparation before every game, so you know,
you once the game starts, you just you play the
game and you don't got to think, and then you're prepared.
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And I think, you know, I think that was a
huge takeaway was, Man, these guys put a lot into
into preparation and and and going over the analytics on
on pitchers, and I think that's a big thing I
learned was just how to you know, go through that
data and use what I want And you know, how
can whatever I'm taking from that data, how can it
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help me? And how can I use it?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
You played with show, Hey, Mookie and Freddy. It doesn't
get much better than that. And I want to know
what maybe those three guys individually or collectively had conversations
with you something you might have learned talking to them,
watching them the preparation. Maybe a lot of times you
(08:03):
emulate swings. I don't know what did you get from
maybe those three.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I mean, I played with Mookie and Freddy for you know,
three four years, so I think, you know, I took
a lot from all those guys. But I think, you know,
Freddy's first year was what twenty twenty two with the Dodgers,
and I was probably annoying him. Man, I'm watching him
and doing it, like literally sitting down watching his cage
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routine go out. I'm watching his VP routine, his defense routine,
like I'm trying to do whatever Freddy does, because, like
you know, he's about as good of a left handed
hitter as you can be. Histor power does damage, it's
his controls the treg zone. It's like, this is the
ultimate left handed hitter. So whatever he's doing, why don't
I try to do it? So I would just just
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kind of watch and pick his brain as much.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
As I could.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And then you know, obviously MOOKI and Show too, you
take stuff from everybody over the years, and but man,
it's it's so fun watching Freddy hit me bang, just
hit you know five line, drives right at the short
stop seat and then walk out and that's it.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Well miss him.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Well, he won a World Series, you know, had to
be a hit in the in the clinching game, So yeah,
way to go.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
The La Kings take on the Calgary Flamers tonight or
that's been postponed because of the fires. The Lakers are
home tomorrow night versus the Hernets. You think they'll play
that one?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Probably at least. I hope if they play him, then
that means things are better, right, So that's that's the hope.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The Clippers are twenty and sixteen and they're in Denver
to take on House Nuggets. Kawhi Leonard is not with
the team. He's taken a temporary lead from the team
to be with his family who had to evacuate because
of the fires. JJ Reddick and his family had to
evacuate in the Palisades as well. And the Two Pros
and a Cup of Joe's show is in Florida. I
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learned they had an echo that turned Vic into mouse today.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah? They're in like a radio row college football.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Playoffs or I was like, why are they? I got you?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well, you've got I mean Brady Quinn represents Ohio State
and Notre Dame. LaVar's got Penn State. Joe, I mean,
you know Joe Klatt said, us, he is really close.
I'm right on the bubble. I could have gone right
on the bubble. Matt close.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I'm sorry he said what.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
He said us, he's pretty close to what to victory? Brother?
What are they close to? I don't know. Go look
at his Twitter. I can't help you. Yes, how quickly
you guys forget us?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
He is close to the four or five guys.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Colin, Thank you, Colin. I appreciate that you saw the
coliseum from the four five final.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Make sure you say that I'm a gentleman and professional
in there. Don't mention anybody else. Just say that I'm cool.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Oh, I'm surprised you didn't do one of those selfie
cigar smoking videos of victory like he would do it
halftime when USC was up on Penn State. Just enjoying
the news here at COSM, smoking my cigar. The Notre Dame.
What are they? Two point favorites?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yes, and Ohio State and Texas and the Katone Bowl
where the Buckeyes are a six point favorite in AT
and T Stadium, and Puma filed a last minute notice
of opposition against Tiger Woods brand, saying the Sunday red
logo resembles the emblem that Puma has been using for
fifty six years since they stopped using a swastika.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
And now, now, wait a minute. In Puma's defense, that
was the Dossler brother. Wow, that was anti Nazi, but
they both hauled out his brother Addie for being pro
Actually maybe it was the other way.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I think it was. Yeah, they both Booma was the Nazi.
They both have some Nazi tenancies, let's be honest, tenancies.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
But one certainly more so than the other. It was
Addie and Rudy. I can't remember which was the Nazi.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I think it's Puma. But this halts Sunday Rad's attempt
to trademarkt symbol. Puma filed an invoice against Woods Brand,
claiming consumer confusion is likely to happen between the leaping
cat logos.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I would have thought, like, yeah, I get it, it's
it's in a pail company. But man, if I'm Latig Gray,
I'm picked exactly right. That's the Latig Gray logo, not
the Puma logo.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Where's Lati?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Where is the Tigray in all of this?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Her lawyers like a fat guy who's asleep.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
On his desk exactly right with like a Bavarian pretzel,
a giant pretzel city saying.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Where's our lawyers sleep at the switch? Well, thank you
for listening, everybody hanging there out there, and we will
be back with more great sports talk. Paddle AASA on
AMBI seventy LA Sports coming up next, the top story
of the day. We got Clippers, Nuggets coming up, the
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Petros and Money Show on AM five seventy LA Sports.
Obviously very chaotic day and night in the city and
the high winds until a couple hours after the show ends,
So be safe out there and check with KFI AM
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story of the day. To story of this.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Playoffs are here. They start with the Bolts on Saturday
that won't be here, that'll be in Houston. And certainly
for the Chargers for the best, yes, for the Rams,
for the Charges, and for the Rams who practice out
in Woodland Hills. Certainly these teams dealing with fires at
a considerably less way, less almost not even worth mentioning,
less impact level than the tens of thousands of Los
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Angeles area residents that have had to evacuate, find a
place to shelter, have lost their homes. We sadly have casualties. Now.
It's awful, it's terrible. It's the worst fire we've seen
in this area in a long ass time. And with
that disclaimer, understand I'm not trying to not recognize what
(14:51):
many are going through. But as we say, when things
like this come up, we are a sports show. KFI
has got your fire coverage, exceptional fire coverage right now,
and I'm sure maybe some people that are listening to
us in this moment are trying to get just a
slice of a distraction to just avoid actively avoid the
destruction and despair that has engulfed their area. So with
(15:14):
that said, it is an odd week to be headed
into the playoffs for both of these teams because it
looks like they're not going to be able to practice.
They got outside a little bit yesterday, but they are
not able to get outside today to get a ladder,
to get a sweat, to get their body moving, to hit,
to tackle, to run plays, to go against a scout team,
to have a normal routine. The air quality in Inglewood,
(15:36):
just seventeen miles as the crow flies from Pacific Palisades,
is way too bad to have guys outside just outside period,
let alone outside working out, breathing heavy from a workout.
No doubt, it's not ideal. You want things to be
as normal as possible on any given week, but especially
going into a playoff game where it's not your normal week.
(15:58):
It's elimination round now has begun, but these guys have
played seventeen games of football together. The Rams rested their
guys against the Seahawks because, as Sean McVay said, health
to him was more important than seeding. And now those
guys aren't gonna be able to get ouside on a Wednesday.
But I'm wondering if these teams are going to think,
especially the Rams, if they're going to think about finding
(16:19):
a place to go tomorrow. If we might take off
a little bit earlier. Right now, we're not leaving until
kind of mid afternoon. If the schedule, if I get
a text or an email a little bit later tonight
that you know what, we're going to take off a
little early and have practice in Houston once we land.
I could see that and whether or not the NFL,
depending on what the your quality is from Monday night
(16:40):
here in Los Angeles for that Rams Vikings game, what
they're gonna do. I'll never forget the game we played
in Oakland on November eleventh, twenty eighteen. The Butte Fires, remember,
broke out November eighth.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
It was because Joe Davis the Aaron Rodgers went to
junior college in Montana.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Oh at Montana.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I got a laugh out of that team.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I'll never forget getting off the plane, make mistake, but
pute Montana. We got off the plane and the second
you stepped like right at the or to go down
the steps, they handed you a mask. You know, this
is pre COVID, so you're not used to these sort
of things. It's not what we think of with a
mass day, but they handed you this mask that looked
like a painter's mask. They said, put it on. Immediately.
(17:26):
You put it on, and the air was still so
freaking dense and smoke filled that I remember players all
just looking at each other going really like, we're really
going to play in this, and they did. It was
part of that twelve and fourth season that the Chargers
had when they won the wild card game against the
Ravens loss to the Patriots in the divisional round. But
I remember them going, there's no way we're playing in this.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I mean, we get to the hotel back, I mean
you know, I mean we were playing high school football
and they had the raining. It was like this, it
was raining soot and we played. I mean that was
it's kind of unheard of. Like your loves, who cares?
Go play? We all whatever, we all smoke cigarettes. Who cares?
It's a ninety.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
But I bring it up because people are like, well,
maybe they'll have to move the rams. They're not moving
that game. They're not gonna move a Monday night playoff
game at Sofi Stadium. There's no chance. Not After having
been through that, when everybody got to the hotel and
they said, hey, by the way, don't go outside. We
don't want you outside breathing in the air. Well. Yeah,
(18:26):
but tomorrow at one o'clock, it's gonna be okay to
play a football game. And we can't even walk outside
of our hotel. No, no, you can't. So for all
the speculation that the Rams and Vikings might not play,
that's they're playing. It's the NFL. They they will keep
it going and they will make sure the playoff schedules intact.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
You know, they don't. They don't do a lot of
weather delays in the NFL, probably about ninety five percent
exactly that, you know, And it's because they they they
bend their knees to make sure they get the games
in and make sure they get him in a certain
amount of time and make sure that they're scheduled correctly.
It is hard to move a football team a day early,
(19:08):
you know, it is really hard to logistically shift those things.
So it'll be interesting to see what happens.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
As four both teams and what we could be looking
at quickly. We mentioned this yesterday because it happened yesterday
right before the show. The Chargers signed Ezekiel Elliott. Big names,
of course, always get a lot of attention a lot
of excitement surrounding them because of what they've done in
their past. If I had to guess, Elliott will play
if Gus Edwards is not able to go. He's been
dealing with an injury the last three weeks he's been out.
And this is something that Joe Ortiz has done all
(19:37):
season long. If you can become incrementally better, slightly better
in season, he has churned this roster week after week
when it comes to the practice squad. One of the
rules that he and the Ravens all those years he
was with the Ravens really leaned into that you can
keep up to six veterans with unlimited amount of service time.
Before you could never have anyone beyond two years on
(20:00):
the practice squad. They changed that with the COVID and
they expanded with the COVID season, and they've made really
a heck of a lot of a lot of positivity
for this team because of that rule. He's been spending
Dean Spanos' his money like crazy this year, signing all
these guys week in and week out. They did not
make a single in season transaction last year, and this year,
(20:22):
every single week they make one. They signed Eddie Jackson
to the practice squad on December twenty thirty, and he
played forty snaps on December twenty seventh, and those were
forty important snaps because Elijah Molden got hurt and Derwin
James didn't have to move up to Free States a
high safety and said he could stay, you know, as
the big nickel because Eddie Jackson was able to go
out there and basically replace Molden. It's Jalen Rager, It's
(20:46):
Leviscus Channault, It's Marcus May, It's tight end Eric Tomlinson
when Disley got hurt. And that's just a few of
the players that have had this impact. So Zeke Elliott
looks to be the latest guy. He's got all of
twenty one carries since November eighteenth. It's hard to I
couldn't believe he's only twenty nine. It feels like zee Kelly,
it's like forty, but he's only twenty nine years old.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
He talked about that, you know, the running back.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, I mean a little bit.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Like a Cameron's dad's car. You know you can't take
those miles.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Off, No, you can't. You cannot put it in reverse.
But maybe what do you like to call it back
that hasn't run the rock a lot, MC fresh legs.
Perhaps it's mc fresh legs, you know back, Oh, I've seen.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
It a thousand times. Even if you're old, you can
be mc f right.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Maybe it's like a beach lifelike slot, you know, for
like third base. You know, like, hey and done in
a while. But we got fresh legs. I'm going to
come out here and Pete and I's going to be
in his fur coat with his cane. He's gonna look
good out.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
There, show up in the playoffs in the NFL, and
next thing you know, you're Cocaine Charlie Garner running down
the field.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I would love it.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I would love it if you could be Cocaine Charlie Garner.
The one thing you can say about him over the
course of his career is that he has been exceptional
in pass protection, and that is one of the most
important things when it comes to what Greg Roman and
Jim Harbaugh ask of their running backs in this offense.
One of the reasons why they brought in JK. Dobbins.
He's fantastic at It's one of the reasons why ASN
(22:10):
Haskins has got a lot more snaps than their rookie
Kamani Videll, just because he's better at it, and to
them that's number one priority.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah, you see that, you know, throughout football, unless you
have Alvin Kamara, who's you know, on a hot route
every time you throw the ball from the backfield, you
have to you can't play young people that don't understand
blitz pick up. And it happens in college, and it
happens in the pros. And when I saw JK. Dobbins
(22:38):
playing the other day, I didn't know about the incentive
thing on the contract until I heard you say it
on the radio. But I was like, God, they must
just have him out there for pass pro because Herbert's playing.
But it turned out he needed some yards to make somebody.
But he's very good at blitz pick up. I've noticed
that throughout the year.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
As for, you know, the way Harbaugh and his staff
are feeling, I'm sure they're not crazy about all the
talking heads painting a picture that the Chargers should should
have their way with the Texans that on all the
Pickham shows it's overwhelmingly Chargers.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Well that's what you said, Matt, You know you said
the Texans are down. You know they're down.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
They're not playing it, you know, like.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Texans, man, you guys look down, I said, Texans.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Maybe they have a chip on their shoulder that nobody
believes in us despite being division champs, having a home game,
they won in the playoffs last year, knocked off Flacco
in his storybook season with the Browns, but ultimately none
of that matters. Chip on the shoulder and that sort
of stuff. Harball, though, has certainly taken pleasure and pointing
out that very few people thought the Chargers were going
to make the playoffs, even fewer thought they would reach
(23:44):
eleven wins. Yet here they are his favorites in the
wildcard round with some of the best players in the
NFL playing some of the best football in the NFL
right now, like Derwin and Herbert and Khalil Mack and
Joey Bosa and obviously their offensive lineman looks like Rashaun
Slater's okay, he's been back at practice and just to
put a bow on it. As people are doing their
top ten lists at the end of the year and
(24:05):
handing out their awards for regular season MVP, Rookie of
the Year, Executive of the year coach of the Year.
I'll just build in a little bit more charger bias here,
but Joe Alt has not allowed more than two pressures
in a single game. He has allowed one or less
in nine games this season. Last week, he was told
(24:29):
thirty minutes before kick that he had to move to
left tackle after having played right tackle all season. The
coaches said, that's not a big deal for Joe Alt.
It's like riding a bike. But still, he gave up
zero pressures simply. But he's been one of the five
to seven best right tackles in football. It's particular and
probably a top ten tackle overall in his rookie season
at one of the hardest positions in the NFL. And
(24:51):
yet you look at these top ten rookies for the
twenty twenty four season and you will be hard pressed
to find him on any of them. Not to take
anything away f from receivers and quarterbacks. Ah, you know
how it is, Matt, But tip of the cap to
Joe Walt and his sensational season since no one else
is going to give it to him. So yes, the
(25:13):
teams have, you know, are trying to figure out how
to get back on schedule. With the inability to practice
outside small compared to everything else. So positive energy thoughts
to the fire department personnel, all those heroes, all the
people that are dealing with figuring out where to go,
haven't been evacuated or maybe having lost their homes. Positive
thoughts made the Santa Ana Wins die down to aid
(25:36):
that cause.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
In a matter of minutes, they're going to die down, Matt,
after hearing your deep godlike voice.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
That's right. May listen, Saint Anne, you get your ass
out of here.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And we four days, you know, before the Monday night game.
Hopefully yeah, it'll be fine. Well, hopefully things will be
a little bit more at least under control. God help us.
We'll be right back. We've got your dead and alive
kid birthday of the Day, and then we'll give way
to Adam Osland No kawhi tonight he stepped away because
they evacuated his family. All the latest on our natural
(26:16):
disasters and wildfires here in Los Angeles on our sister
station at kfive. But Matt, we are on our.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Way out in Denver, so Adam Awsen will be along
next with your pregame tip off at six. And then
Friday we got UCLA Basketball UCLA at Maryland. They hit
the road other side of the country after a wildly
disappointing effort. You heard from At Croner a little bit
earlier in the show against Michigan at poly Pavilion last night.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And we gotta know, uh, I didn't talk to us
at this point. Josh Lewinz just got to be shaken
like a leaf. But the game's over. He's just a
gigantic punching bag for Mick to get his message across.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I don't know he's got to buy Tracy her if
he's got to get confrontational. Just can you help me?
Can you do something? Can you not wait for Mick
to bring you into the conversation as I'm sitting here
twisting in the wind, just taking one haymaker after another?
Can you help me slightly? So quit asking me stuff
like that. Yeah, your col get back to their winning
(27:21):
ways out there against the Harold.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Oh they will. This is what they do. Mick Cronin
freaks out that Josh lewd and the team turns it around.
Answer is none to tail as old as time.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Josh. I'm sorry, but you're the one that's got to
wear it because I got to get my team right,
and nothing says let's rally around the bruins like I'm
piling on Josh.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
So after eighteen four.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
You stomped out there and this building got real loud.
That was great to hear. The inability to sustain that.
What was behind that? Was it just over exerting or
why didn't it sustain after that?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Or soft Thomas guy in the roams about to go
take it out of Judge Lewis.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Browns mutual coach.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
We got the dead guy birthday of the day before
we get to the clipper gate.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yes we do. Bill Graham done him before, but why
not do it again? Would have been ninety four to day.
Died in ninety one at sixty sadly tragic accident while
leaving a benefit concert for the victims of the Oakland
Hills fire. As a matter of fact, back in nineteen
ninety one a Huey Lewis benefit show at Concord Stadium,
he was killed in a helicopter crash. But one of
(28:28):
the most important promoters in rock and roll history quite
simply born in Berlin, his father died two days after
his birth. With that, along with the increasing Nazi persecution
of the Jews. Graham's mom was able to get Bill,
at the time known as Wolfgang Rajanka, along with his sister.
I can see how he ended up with Bill brand
exactly into a Berlin orphanage, and they then sent he
(28:52):
and his sister off to France in a pre Holocaust
exchange for Christian orphans. When France fell in nineteen forty,
Graham was ten at the time. I'm uh, and he
was put on a ship sent to the US. Sadly,
his sister fell ill. She did not survive the difficult
journey trailing Matt. Why don't you I'm just saying, that's
(29:12):
this is like this guy uplifted. They did well, that's
this is a story that will uplift you all. Al yes,
but all of these things. His mother was murdered at Auschwitz.
At ten, he's an orphan in the Bronx. He changes
his name to Bill. Graham said he has no idea
why he picked Bill Graft, but he did. He gets
(29:34):
his business degree from the City College of New York.
He's drafted into the US Army at twenty one. He's
fighting in the Korean War. He gets the Purple Heart.
He Earns. The Bronze Star comes back and he starts
working in the cat Skills. He did a bit of everything,
a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
My wife please.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Tito Plante was his guy. He said they were very close.
As a waiter, as a host, he dealt poker for
the celebrities. He was an MC for the shows.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You know, I always do the last dance of the season.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
And he moved to San Francisco, and while in San Francisco,
he starts promoting concerts and he makes friends with an
African American gentleman named Charles Sullivan who ran an auditorium
called the Filmore in a predominantly black neighborhood corner of
Fillmore and Geary, to say a Sonnoy brother Sullivan booking
(30:26):
the best r and b Ax around James Brown, Duke
Ellington the Temptations, and Graham was like, hey man, I'm
gonna bring you the freaking hippies. Sullivan's like, all right,
let's do it. So they're humming along and he takes
another hit, Sullivan Murder nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Well it's zero popping off of the loin, right.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
So Graham now has to figure out the business of
promoting trying to get permits to keep the Filmore open
and had no idea that Sullivan didn't really have one.
It was just booking shows. Is he's doing that. There's
eleven other promoters trying to lay claim to the Fillmore
from under him. So he goes through the neighborhood and
asks the people to sign a petition to vouch for
(31:10):
him as someone they knew the support of the neighborhood
would be the right choice to take over the film Moore.
It worked. He gets a three year lease. The Paul
Butterfield Blues Band kicks off his run and after that
he starts booking everyone he will. He manage Jefferson Airplane,
so he starts booking them in There Country, Joe and
the Fish, the speaking engagements, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ginsburg.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
My favorites, y'all really depraved.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
That's right, Vig. But of course the big boon is
the great folding. It became essentially their home venue. He
launched Fillmore Records and from there it grew. He became
the promoter of record in the Bay Area. Massive events
at keys are Ah love Keysar, I know you do,
(31:59):
it's right. I put it story well you know that's.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Gonna have a big event. Bay. He got right off the.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Hate Zeppelin, Neil Young, Dylan, Santana. Pretty much any and
every important counterculture act of that time was booked by Graham.
He partnered with Geldoff to put on Live Aid. He
was very good friends with a lot of folks in Hollywood.
Had a small role in Apocalypse Now. He was Lucky
(32:27):
Luciano and Bugsy and like we said, Benning and Warren Batty,
Warren Bady vehicle exactly right we mentioned. Sadly, he was
killed following that benefit show for the Oaklandhills fire victims.
Huey Lewis in the news concert. He was married twice,
two kids, and as crazy as it may seem, Bill
(32:50):
Graham Presents was the name of his concert promoter company.
When he died, his two sons sold it. Today Bill
Graham Presents is known as Live Nation. Whoa yeah, the
world's largest concert promoter. That is what Bill Graham built.
He would have been ninety day.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
How about that, well, Matt, you know you think it
was popping off from the loin in sixty six when
they killed the Fillmore guy. In twenty twenty four, they
shot one of their wide receivers for the niners out there.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
And he wants to find the guy and say I
forgive you. I don't forget feel that way.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
All right, Matt beating out. Jenny Lewis a great singer
in her own right. Is another Welsh diva British news,
but she's Welsh, still alive, eighty eight today from Cardiff, Wales,
(33:45):
an og Cardiff Kook, half Black, half Welsh. She had
a strong voice when she was a young child, but
no one cared in the choir. They told him to
stop second so loud. She finished school at fourteen and
worked at a factory and sang in pubs and clubs.
Of course, I'm talking about Shirley Bassie eighty eight years
(34:10):
old today. Her career began in the fifties. She beat
Tom Jones the charts as the first Welsh singer to
have a number one in the UK. What's New Pussy Catton?
She took it all on Vegas, London. She now lives
(34:33):
at Monaco. Like Charletclair. Bassie had twenty seven top forty
hits in the United Kingdom and was best known, especially
in this country, for her Bond themed songs. Sure I
could have played Goldfinger Matt for nineteen six Thing where
(34:56):
Diamonds Are Forever from seventy one. Let's just go right
to the best, just like we did with Beach Life yesterday.
We went right to Big Head Todd of the Monster.
Let's get right to the best. Moon Raker nineteen seventy nine.
She even had a nineteen ninety seven number one hit
Matt History repeating by the propeller Heads.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I worked that rucker.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I worked the propeller Heads in Shirley Bassey.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You made her a star again.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
No, Alex did Alex Michaelson. I don't remember what his
last name was. I just remember Alex. Because we had
to cross the Canadian to the US border. I had
to fly into Vancouver, pick them up at a show,
and then drive them into Seattle for another show. And
as we crossed the border, they let me know that
they may have had some contraband on their person. That
(35:47):
would have been great had they told me before we
pulled into our slot to have our conversation with customs
at the time. So you canna tell me that now
right now?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
This is well, you know, you get jack for drugs
and customs. That is a little bit of history repeating
all the time. Seventy year career. She is a dame
in nineteen ninety nine. That's like a night for a chick.
Not like South Pacific. There's nothing like a dame. Overall,
Bassie has sold one hundred and forty million records worldwide
(36:21):
at a top forty album in seven decades. She's slowing
down in eighty eight though now no a little bit.
She's not getting the raider job like big girl.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Hey man, come on, hey, oh right, not once. Want
to get back in the game. Man, I got the
energy game.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
She had a scandalous affair when married with an actor
Peter Finch, and then she was married to the Excelsior
hotel manager in Venice, Italy, and one of her daughters
died and she thought for sure it was a murder,
but inquiry said otherwise. And gold I know right.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
And Goldfingers, we're really bringing the heat today, aren't we?
That one?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
You know, what do you want from me? The song
Goldfingers in the Grammy Hall of Fame, Matt but it
is no moon raker, just like hey, I'm looking forward
to see him train. But they are no big head
taught at the monsters.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
I know I was. I was very happy to get
text with you throughout the night about how excited you
wore the train was being.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
This iteration of Beach Life.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Hayesel's sister play that mister mister on the radio, bitch,
when I was texting you all night?
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Is he gonna be able to put pat man?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
I'd want to talk to him. That'd be great. So
who's this singer, this hot young singer on the propeller
Head song. Well, it's Shirley Bennet.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Trust me. In my younger years, I was devastated that
that was the single we worked instead of Take California.
It's like, can we just work this take California? I
think that's what it was. Yeah, they're like, no, we're
working the Shirley Best. You kidding me. It's Shirley be
trying to get this thing played in my number one day,
freaking limb Biscuit.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
It's the number one hit.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Yeah, you did your job.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Why don't you hang that one up? Clippers at Nuggets
pregame and five jump off at six coming up backs,
fully functable floy out of a joint. Stay safe,
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