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February 11, 2025 • 36 mins
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(01:11):
tries to extend their seven game win streak, very excited
about that.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
We had some heavy Laker talk in the last hour.
We also talked about Disneyland, and some people corrected and
retracted us on something. Well the I guess the corn
dogs are thirteen dollars. Okay, that's fine, it's still you know,
still fine for re course. I guess maybe the corn

(01:36):
dog shouldn't be our focus of anger, right, but Disneyland
is saying, hey, maybe we're a little too expensive. Who's
responsible for that? You?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
You?

Speaker 3 (01:47):
You dirty bastards, and you wreck Star Wars and you
wreck Marvel. You suck. Anyway, we talked about that.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
People will always point out the twenty four dollars meach
a lot it when we tach prices. So I just
figured the thirteen dollars corn dog not bad in that context.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
It's thirty two, it's sixty five. Now, Matt, I had
this today, and it is this. This is a story
for us. I don't usually count.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Me with his words the word of the day.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
I usually don't tout the word of the day like
you do or Kate's always does. If you're out, like,
oh my god, wait to you hear the word Today's
word of the day is Mack, because is you know, Matt,
we go pretty deep with Marquis Mark, Mark Wahlberg, the

(02:43):
famous actor, lifestyle guru, super school, not too tall, freaking entourage. Matt.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
You know about mock, right, Mock.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
You're so awesome, Mock. Let's do a podcast together, Mock.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
I don't think Mac has ever been on our show?
Has he?

Speaker 4 (03:02):
No?

Speaker 2 (03:03):
The only Mac that we we were told he was
going to be on our show. Well, we were told
he was going to be on our show when we
were out at Marongo to promote the grand opening of Wallburger's.
That's what we were told.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
He's been forced upon us at Marongo because they really
want us to eat his Wallburger and we always want
to eat the fatbor.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
But did you know that Mac Wahlberg has a clothing
brand and it's a store, and it's called Municipal. No,
it's like a clothing brand. And their flagship store is
on pch in Oceanside, North County as they call it.

(03:43):
Really yeah, and ocean Side is a lot nicer than
it used to be. And Wallburg and his big store,
Municipal in Oceanside has a sixteen thousand foot building and
Mack has a cafe for Asa e bolls a Baba
shop in there to cut a hair. And the store,

(04:09):
you know, the big ass store. They're flagship store. Yeah,
there's only one other store. There's a little store in
West Hollywood. Okay, that's way smaller than I'd never heard
of either. But they're Mark Wahlberg Store. And they sell
like their own shoes, workout clothes. It's like Travis Matthew.
They have their own like celebrity endorsers like Bregman and

(04:33):
Ryan Scheckler the skateboarder, right, and Miles Garrett. Pretty big deal, right,
But matt sadly some of the locals and ocean side
are pushing back. Oh good, Mark is getting pushed back
from locals. Last week the store was doused in gasoline.
WHOA not good? And this week the building has been Vandliz.

(05:00):
Somebody wrote in gigantic graffiti three different fate phrases. I
will read you them in order. The number one phrase
graffitied on Max Store was we really need another Assai franchise?
Dash said no one so kind of a sarcastic right,

(05:24):
like probably not like a big pants tagger from the
early nineties, putting that one up. You know, we really
need another Assai franchise, said new Rook. The next one
a little bit more to the point, Matt says, Mark
Wahlberg is a small turn and gigantic letter and the

(05:49):
last one very local, says go Home Coops. So not
only has the building been doused in gasolina, Mark Wahlberg
is also getting a ton of pushback with graffiti, the
sarcastic we really need another a Sai restaurant, the Go

(06:10):
Home Kooks, and of course Mark Wahlberg and they didn't
even call him Marky Mark, which I thought was respectable
because that they really he really hates that small turt. Yeah,
Mark Wahlberg is a small turt. It gets a golf
it's like a golf lifestyle brand. I'm surprised you hadn't
heard of it.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
No, sounds like like you said though, even though Oceanside is,
you know, definitely more upscale than it was as late
as ten years ago, still no room for Marky Mark
to try to have a flagship store.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
But he has it there and at sixteen thousand square feet. Yeah,
and they're not they're not gonna budge. And this is
our second story about San Diego in as many weeks.
Last week we talked about the evil La Joya Ace
Rogers who who harassed them. Yeah, and I've gotten five.
There were six texts from San Diegons who were like,
I live down the street from that guy and it's

(07:04):
all one hundred percent correct.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
And worse, so like to pull his poots out and
pull it.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, any of you ocean side types who are listening,
let us know what's going on at Wild Bangers and uh,
whether or not you guys are into the municipal brand.
They got Bregman and they got an Indian chef.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
You're not Travis Matthew. Get over yourself, Municipal.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Here's my number.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Number the day is ten thousand. Arenas typically are arenas, right,
they all kind of look the same. You get inside
as a bunch of seats. If they're you know, you'd
hope recently seats, you hope, yes, their seats, and if
they're recently updated, they're suites. And if they're recently recently updated,
there's like cool clubs that have seats attached to them

(07:56):
and like, hey, i' musa sit right there. But if
I don't want to sit right there, I can go
hang out in this club during the game. Earlier today,
I was able to visit the brand new Moody Center
here in Austin, home of the Texas basketball team and
all of their indoor sports.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
I hope you're.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yes, I'll be going back back to go back tonight.
S I d though, way on top of it. I've
arranged a private meeting for you and coach Terry. Come
on down, meet some players, shoot around.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
That's Texas Texas sports information class, right. It's hard to
make up for Sark trying to choke out all those people.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
You know.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
And I'll tell you got a tour of the Moody
Center and I have never seen anything like it. That
it is a college on campus. Granted it's in the
center of the city of Austin, the state capitol of Texas,
but that this is a college facility is absurd, sublime, incredible.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
They're known for their spending of the money.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
It's nicer. I have not been doing to it, don't yet,
should probably get over there. But it is nicer than
Staples well Crypto, it is nicer than pretty much any
arena I have been to ever. And it's the video
boards that line the ceiling so you don't have to
crack your neck to get an It's three hundred and

(09:23):
sixty degrees of video boards that are at a forty
five degree angle mounted to the ceiling, massive like hundreds
and hundreds of feet tall and wide that circles the
entire interior. It's got the double sided scoreboard and the
center and it has got countless numbers of suites that
are appointed with fine leather. It looks like you're in
a judge's chambers, private chambers with the you know what

(09:49):
do they call that when they put all the the
old leather with the buttons in the middle of it,
and like the brass tacks, with the brass tacks around
the the the back of the spine and on the
arm rest and all of that, Like it is ridiculous.
And then I started digging and I was like, oh, well,
it's it's more than just a basketball arena. The Spurs

(10:10):
are coming here to play two games in about two weeks.
They have Kates, The iHeart Country Festival is here. Oh yeah,
so you can come down and see Brooks and Dunn,
Cole Swindell, Sam Hunt, Megan Morony, Bailey Zimmerman, Nate Smith,
and you can meet up with our friend Bobby Bones.

(10:33):
How about that he sat in for us once when
we were syndicated. Remember that he does a podcast with
Matt Castle, So there's that. Is Shaboozie going to be there?
Who exactly? Oh come on, Matt, No, but Rascal Flats
is So there's that. And they did that song for
the Cars movie. Remember. But yes, if you have an

(10:54):
opportunity and you want to see what some schools do
when it comes to college venues, go ahead, put your
eyes on what the universe Texas has done with the
Moody Center, because it's it's just stupid.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Nobody spends money like Texas, No, nobody. Bruce Dark Granarole
had a municipal market mark shirt on when he reported
to camp this week.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Cash me on s not cool, brucetar, Hey, man, you
know what's wrong?

Speaker 3 (11:17):
While we gotta hate on Mack, he can't have his
own brand. No, it's all a little it's all too
small for any of us. That's his big complaint.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
You know.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
He likes really tight sleeves for the muscly arms.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
This is the song of the day.

Speaker 6 (11:37):
Today's song of the Day is called ASoP Dreamed of
Lions from Guided by Voices. New music is what you're
listening to from the brand new record titled Universe Room
that came out this past Friday. It's the forty first
full length studio record for the veteran band from Dayton, Ohio,
fronted by musical genius Robert Pollard who keeps that music

(11:59):
factory Chernin Just like the Petrosen Money Show on a
Tuesday afternoon, go at full speed with two and a
half hours of great sports talk that'll get you to
UCLA basketball at Illinois, where Josh Lewin and Tracy Murray
will have the Bruins pregame at four thirty.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Thank you Running, Thank You.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Kate's gonna have the post game when they're gonna row
and man them. Line's gonna be packed.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yet, the lines will be packed, and they'll be packed
into Kate's nose as well. Oh we'll be lines with
a Bachelor report coming up next.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Basketball tonight, they are in the Midwest taking on Illinois
in Champagne at the State Farm Center. Tip off at
five pm.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
That means, what's that across the street there, Matt right
there over there.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
It's the Ie Hotel and convention Center with a Hula
Hans attached while also having a separate entrance. And if
you are attending to games tonay, you know you might.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Be coming from down the street. You know, at the
Memorial Stadium you come into Hula Hans in the front door.
But if you're staying at the hotel with Sam, you're
coming in the back door. Look at you.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
And I would say also for those of you that
circled this date and said, you know what, I'm going
to travel to see a UCLA game on the road
and Champagne is my place. That's where I'd like to
go at least two hours away from the nearest airport
I can fly into.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
But you're so central between Saint Louis and you're very
close to Indy with the time change right there, and
of course Chicago.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Right So if you decided to do that and maybe.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Over two hours every ways over two hours.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, And if you didn't stay at the Eye Hotel,
know this, they do not monitor their free breakfast. See,
you can go in there tomorrow morning and get a
free meal before you head out to come back here
to La After circling Champagne as the road destination, you
wanted to hit. There's still places in game like.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
That, Matt. There's still places in the world.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Leg yeah, very few. It feels like the rest of them.
They shock your balls. You show up for a free meal.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
You've seen the Hampton end Joe Clatton, Gussa Johnson flip
your table.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
That's right, they do a fist.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Bump walking out, big tad. All right, man, it is
time for the Bachelor. Report yourself in the Bachelor Report.
I gotta say, Matt, I mean a real flash to
the face when I saw that the Bachelorette was not
going to happen this summer, that everybody sucked too hard
in this cast. And maybe that's the beginning of the end, Matt.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
I hope so. And when we've already lost the bip, right,
or do you just stop covering?

Speaker 3 (14:52):
No? No, they still do it.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Okay, we just stopped covering.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
But that could be the beginning of the end, you know,
like when sc left the Pac twelve and then they
are now all of a sudden, Boise's in the PAC twelve.
All right, we.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Still decided the Golden Bachelor was better and they don't
want to over.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
That's a great call. And maybe even better than you think,
because it's prevalent to this episode. Wow, Matt, what a
brain you have on you. We have Grant who doesn't
just do music, he's also involved in finance. They got
like three group dates and one one on one. They

(15:31):
had a couple of those cash grab machines in like
a financial group date theme kind of thing, Grant Bucks
where you can buy his time later in the night
with these hundred dollars bills with his face on it.
But uh, there's always somebody upset that they aren't getting
enough attention, and soon that's probably going to be Lebron

(15:54):
James in all honesty, but not in this case.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's what he did last night, you know, oh selfless.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
I mean, it's almost like he's not even a man,
you know. It's like he's come to the status of
a gap. But Lebron is not the one upset about
not getting attention this time, although we do expect that soon.
It's the Statuesque Zoe. Somebody said Zoe's dress was too short.

(16:22):
She told Grant that she heard somebody say that, and then,
like Bob Marley's album, there is a confrontation.

Speaker 7 (16:30):
There are twelve women on this date today and I
am no detective, but I know it's Zoe.

Speaker 8 (16:36):
That's just like skip, like wasting.

Speaker 7 (16:38):
The breath here, Zoe, did you have a conversation with
him about it?

Speaker 5 (16:43):
I'm want to shot whatever, we want to chot, I.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Want to check whatever, I want to chat. Oh, we
will have to figure that one out.

Speaker 5 (16:50):
Then, I guess.

Speaker 7 (16:54):
We know who it was now I want to know
what did she say?

Speaker 5 (17:00):
It wasn't about it as don't exactly what I expected
to know, exactly exactly, every.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
One of you, what's going one?

Speaker 5 (17:11):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (17:11):
Yeah, we're just like, do you genuinely feel a certain
type of way?

Speaker 5 (17:16):
You know? I just feel like it's been a long day.
If we can sleep and regroup, there's no regrouping.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
No bad's so mean?

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah they are.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Everyone's definitely on edge because of Zoe.

Speaker 6 (17:32):
I don't love being a part of drama.

Speaker 8 (17:34):
That's just like not what I want.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
Do you think because you started off on the wrong foot.

Speaker 7 (17:37):
They got really dirty and very nasty very quickly.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
Because now Graham definitely has some decisions to make based
off of what was said tonight.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
So yeah, it's a really scary week. I genuinely don't
know what's gonna.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Happen next knops.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
And then they all start crying, like they start. They
all start crying for like two days. Uh. He goes
on a date with the Puerto Ricana Carolina. They go
on a private jet to Vegas and jump off the strat.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
That doesn't sound fun.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
I mean it sounds like something you and I would do.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
That's a good point. What are we watching on the
private jet on the way home? When you put your
eyes on there, it's your naked city show of record.
That's what they do. And that goes pretty well. But
the Puerto Ricana afterwards, you know, because she gets all
the utensia on that night and then she comes right
back to the house right he takes out three more moheads.

(18:39):
She starts to get a little cello, so Matt and
that could be a theme for the for the remainder
of the next few episodes. Here's Caroline.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Today was rough.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
I was already questioning everything, and then camera.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
I had a conversation with Rose. She told me something strange.
She said that last.

Speaker 7 (19:08):
Week on our group date, when me and Grant danced together,
he told Rose when he was dancing with me, he
was thinking about her. What like, I feel cringey at
this point, and you know, I have a rose, so

(19:30):
I'm safe. I'm not happy, and I don't want to
do all these things if I know for a fact
that I'm wasting my time.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
God.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
And by the way, that's that's not her snorting, that's
Tim Kates with this mic opening the studio getting ready
for Bruin Talk tonight after. As we always say when
it comes to Tim Kates, no snow, no show. That's
that's not cool. Oh come on. Then they have another
group the girls from Puerto Rico. She's a plant that Kanyea. Yeah,

(20:10):
she has a heavy you know, she can she can
speak the englace beauty. Yeah, well you know it's part
of America. She's from Newport Beach, you know. Sweet James
sounds like that he lives in a He lives in
Puerto Rico, that great point and he used to live
in Newport Beach too.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
They have another group date. They go on a dog
shelter with the chick from the Real Housewives and the
vander Pump Rule Show, Lisa vander Pump and uh. He
picks one girl out of the kennel and gives her
a Rose, a woman named Litilla. I wouldn't call her
a long leg a jump shooter, Matt, but but a
thirty one year old swing player maybe kind of like

(20:47):
a swingman out there, Okay? And uh, they do like
a prom. And guess what they do for the prom?
They bring in the Golden bachelorette guys. Oh boy, the
old silver foxes to barbecue and hang out with the chicks,
and Grant's there and they have a dance party. But
the Puerto ricaneya can Aleena is consumed with jealousy in

(21:13):
her hot blood makes her go to Grant demand unexplaination.
I don't know for what happened that? Did you say
to Rose the nurse, the Asian nurse, that you were
thinking about her when you were dancing with me? Don't

(21:34):
you turn your back on me? And Dan Grant strides
over to Rose and Rose has like Taylor Swift wearing
those booze at the Super Bowl, has just got to
sit there and wear it.

Speaker 8 (21:49):
Did you tell Carolina that I told you that when
I was on stage dancing with her that I was
thinking about here.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
No, I thought that was something that I love, you said.

Speaker 8 (22:02):
Why would I say that?

Speaker 5 (22:04):
Yeah, I'm not gonna say, yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
That's that's disrespectful to you. That looks bad on my character, right,
I'm not.

Speaker 8 (22:11):
I wouldn't do that for me to be little somebody
else that I have a connection with, that's some that's
like some player, and I'm not trying to I'm not
a player like so you know, I'm not running game.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
I'm not doing any of that.

Speaker 8 (22:26):
So and it makes me look like I'm not here
to really find a wife.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
If i'm I think we were in a place where
we were kind of spiraling, and I think we were
comparing notes, and that wasn't a good moment for me.
I'm not talking about it.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
That's what I text Matt after every show. You know,
that wasn't a good moment for me.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
We were both spiraling and we were comparing.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
Notes and that wasn't a good moment for me, and
we were talking about it, and honestly, we're both I
think in a position where we both care about you
and we like you, and I could have easily made
that mistake where I really thought that you said something
like that and I was just wrong. I'm really I

(23:17):
think the only thing that I can do is apologize
for I can own my words, and I can also
say that that was a mistake and I'm sorry that
that Archer character because that's not what my intention was.
It wasn't anything like her.

Speaker 8 (23:31):
Yeah, we'll talk, We'll talk about it.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
All right, Ros you're out.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
Well this upset. The rest of the girls has wilted.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
You know, they're all trying to get their time with
him and he's sitting there sorting out this Ukraine Russia
war cold.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
And that wasn't a good moment for me.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
No, it was not. It did your spirit?

Speaker 5 (23:52):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
He sent social media Bailey home, He sent my new
Jersey chick home, the boxing trainer with the bulbs. I
liked her. And he sent my plus size model.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Oh no, I remember Chloe. That's the only one I remember.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
Broke my heart and uh, you know the sad The
thing I really didn't like is after he made Rose apologize,
he went to Caroline and was like, hey, you know,
I talked to her, had confronted her, and she Caroline was.

Speaker 9 (24:23):
Like, well, don't let it happen again. Red flag, trust me,
red Flag. But he kept Rose, kept her even though
she lied allegedly off Tim.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Rose lies when she cries. She can never go back,
never go back.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
Our references are just getting old. They you know, it's
not like extracting someone from Saigon anymore. We have to
say extracting somebody from Afghanistan. Okay, we'll be back. We're
gonna do your Dan and Alive guy birthday and the
day Kate's is gonna do a gummer. And we're gonna
get to the UCLA game around four to twenty five. Well,

(25:09):
we got one more segment after this one, the one
from Pico and Fairfax.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Oh no, better meat, yes, and then.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
And then we will give way to UCLA in a
place Matt just was enjoying a baked potato soup at
the bar and hula hands at the Eye Hotel right
across from the arena in Illinois.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Ucla versus Illinois as they pound the Big ten trail,
then they'll make their way about an hour and a
half east of Bloomington. I'm sure Mick not entirely excited,
but also not too upset.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
Probably even winning games.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, exactly, you're winning and it's not too big of
a deal.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Well, I don't know, you get beat, you get you know,
a bus breaks down, mixed, its true absolute nervous breakdown,
but today is a flex alert. Tomorrow we'll be back
on at three o'clock and Matt will be back from Austin, Texas,
and you can check out his basketball game to night
night on the Compass Media Networks. I just know one thing,

(26:14):
Shaka Smart will not be there.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
No, No, Rodney Terry and Nate Oates will be there.
I think Shaka Marquette. Now that's right, there we go.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
He took a gentleman's exit. Matt. You got the dead
guy birthday of the day?

Speaker 2 (26:29):
I do. And our dead guy birthday of the day
is British.

Speaker 8 (26:32):
News, British United King Dog, English News.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
It's time for British News.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Cheeryish guy, dude that you'll be in two p I'm
sure you may even know a little bit about him.
Indiana Jones a crown described as a cross between Indiana Jones.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
I mean, I know, I think about Indiana Jones. I'll
tell you that right now.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Geez, you know a little something about James Bond.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
We're named a dog Indy. Oh yeah, I know about
James Bondo.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
And you certainly know a little something about Graham Green.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Graham Green, the Power and the Glory, the.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Third Man they say this is across our dead guy today.
Sir Patrick Michael Lee Firmer born in London. His father
was Sir Lewis Lee Firmer, a distinguished geologist who traveled
the world. When Doug got Simon in India, Sir Lewis,
mom and his two sisters all left and they left
Patty behind for four years. That led to well a

(27:29):
childhood of torment in trouble. He went to a school
for difficult children. He was then expelled from the King's
School in Canterbury for being described as quote a dangerous
mixture of sophistication and recklessness. Self taught, voracious consumer of literature,
he insisted on reading in native languages, so a polyglot

(27:52):
he was fluent in Greek and Latin. Tried to make
it as an author in his late teens, but was
broke doing the couch tour around London with his pals
and decided, you know what, I'm just going to start
walking and at eighteen now going by Lee Farmer on
December eighth, nineteen thirty three, few close handful of letters
of introduction the Oxford Book of English Verse. He wanted

(28:15):
to walk all of Europe. He slept in barns and
shepherd's huts. He made friends on his travels of England,
though like he had to. Yeah, I think he voted. Okay,
you know what I'm saying, right, vote across the channel
and then get moving.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
I mean he he walked, he swam. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
He worked his way into important circles of the gentry aristocracy,
along with finding hospitality and a number of monasteries along
the way. He arrived in Istanbul in January nineteen thirty five,
then continue to travel around Greece, where he was involved
in the campaign of Royalist forces in Macedonia against an
attempted Republican revolt.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
What do you think you know about macadoney? You say
you know about macrdoneiy A, you do, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
In Athens he fell in love with a noblewoman. They
moved to Romania.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
I bet you had a big ass nose.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
I bet annastash, he wrote, Hey, hey, And he lived
a quiet life until the autumn of nineteen thirty nine,
when he learned Britain had declared war on Germany. So
he immediately leaves Romania for home and lists in the army.
He would not see that love of his life again
for nearly thirty years. His knowledge of modern Greek led

(29:25):
to his becoming a liaison officer in Albania. He fought
in Crete mainland, Greece, and during the German occupation. He
returned to Crete three times, once by parachute, and was
the leader of a special operations executive unit posted to
organize the island's resistance to the occupation, disguised as a

(29:46):
shepherd nicknamed Micalis Micaulis, Yeah there you go, or Filey deem.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Micaullis the shepherd who's really a secret agent organizing the
Cretans rights pretty strong.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
He lived in the mountain for two years, with Captain
Bill Stanley Moss as his second in command. He led
the party that in nineteen forty four captured and evacuated
the German commander, Major General Heinrich.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Get out of there, Heinrich, Get out bloody harbor of
hed Ocleon.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
He was decorated after the war with awards with celebration.
In nineteen fifty he published his first book, The Traveler's Tree,
which won the Aemann Foundation Prize for Literature and established
his career. Was quoted extensively and Ian Flemings live and
let die. He married a noble woman, Joan Elizabeth Rayner
in nineteen sixty Chick, I think he just ditched her.

(30:38):
They lived part of the year in a house in
an olive grove in the southern Peloponnese, and then the
other part of the year in Gloucestershire. He wrote in
longhand did not use a typewriter. He was noted for
his strong physical constitution, even though he smoked eighty to
one hundred cigarettes a day.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
Wow, well must have been the walking must have really
counterbalanced that.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
Yeah, they said.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
He was physically fit up until the day of his death.
He dined at a table the last evening of his life.
When death was near, according to local Greek friends, he
expressed a wish to visit England to big goodbye to
his friends there, and be buried next to his wife.
He traveled to England on well. He arrived in England
on June tenth, twenty eleven, and would pass away the

(31:26):
very next day at ninety six years old.

Speaker 4 (31:29):
Wow, what a story, LEEH.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Brimmer.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
Well, Matt, usually you're the prog rock guy around here,
but years ago I found a band called Aria with
a Greek lead singer from Italy that was real prog
rocked and you had not heard of it. I felt
proud of myself. I think you probably heard of this.
But these guys were pretty weird and the music was

(31:52):
quite strange. And you are mister prog rock. So we
will have Scottish news here.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
Ah yeah we boy, it's Coltish News. Young thus the
news Ittish.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
What's your wished?

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Hi? Do you have an understand the word that I'm saying?

Speaker 4 (32:06):
Got your sal II?

Speaker 2 (32:08):
You owned with the Scotish News?

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Is that Latin? Seventy eight years old today?

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Matt?

Speaker 3 (32:16):
What did you ever do? Derek Schulman as this is
right up your alley? Matt prog rock born in Gorbels, Glasgow. Yeah,
Him and his brother Phil and Ray and five other
guys eventually created the prog rock super band Gentle Giant.

(32:40):
I'm talking about names, complexity, matts, sophistication in the music.
Derek and Phil sang Phil the jazz and folk, Derek
the blues and rock. The other brother, Ray, who has passed,
produced The Sundays and the Sugar Cubes b York was

(33:01):
in the band. He died.

Speaker 5 (33:03):
That was.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
And they really did cover it all Matt the Romantic,
the Baroque and we are your Baroque show of record.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Not close.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
In twenty fifteen they run the Progue Rock Lifetime Achievement
Award at the Progue Rock Festival, which is held yearly
in Phil Collins front yard.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
That'd be kind of cool.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
I'm just kidding about that part. In the sixties, the
Schulman Brothers, known as Simon Dupree and the Big Sound,
featured Elton John as a pianist, and they also had
Dudley Moore as a singer and Matt. They had success

(33:48):
in psychedelia, kind of poppy psychedelia, which was big and
swinging London in those times, a few top tens, but
it bothered the Schulman Brothers so much because they saw
themselves as blue eyed soul prog rockers like Daryl Hall,
and they started making clandestine music as a different band

(34:10):
called the Moles, which was rumored not to be them,
but to actually be the Beatles under a false name.
So much was this rumor prevalent throughout London in those times.
Ringo Starr had to come out and say it's me
Ringo Star on my birthday.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
And say that it's not us. It's not the Beatles.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Gentle Giant came out of the brothers disdain for commercial success.
Their best album is supposed to be called Octopus. They
once supported Black Sabbath on a world tour and were
enormously unpopular, enormously to the Black Sabbath concert goers a

(34:58):
bunch of albums. Derek went on to a successful career.
This guy and they're called Gentle Giant, probably because he
looks like an O lineman, a successful career in PolyGram
and Mercury, and became president of Roadrunner Records.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
Oh nickel Becker.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
The band refuses to reunite, though there are many many
calls for them to do so. Gentle Giant has one
of the most comprehensive Wikipedia pages I have ever seen,
no doubt, put together by a great prog rock historian.
Who that person is, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Well, they're checking the Gentle Giant Wiki page. I would
imagine hourly. Well.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
I hope they enjoyed my portrayal of Derek Schulmann, lead
singer of Gentle Giant. Oh scoolish news, some real prog
rock man. Yeah, they ended up in London, just like
your boy Firmer. Okay, we'll be right back. We gotta
do more. We gotta do more. That's not enough, we
gotta do another twenty minutes. You'd think that Josh Lewin

(36:05):
and UCLA has so much momentum that they could eke
out an hour pregame show between him and Tracy and
Finley and Kate's. But they can't.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Well, they don't want to interview Mick twice. So if
they do interviewe they would want to, they would have
to do a pre endit post and they're like, we're
not doing the pre Sorry, we'll.

Speaker 4 (36:25):
Just tell you we're gonna add a half hour.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
We need to interview you three times. You bring boltch On.
I mean, there'd be a lot, there's a lot of true.
All right, we'll be back with the meat and meet.
As Matt calls it, get on down to Pico and Fairfax,
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