February 11, 2025 • 44 mins
A FLEX ALERT before the UCLA-Illinois game. A So Cal destination has an epiphany. What a debut for Luka Doncic and the new look Lakers. Top Story of the Day. Secret Textoso Roundup
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Sports Live everywhere on a flex alert. Here at two
pm going until four thirty pm. We have UCLA basketball today.
A tired of the last Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yes, all the us Mendina des del Mundo, The whole
world is a lie.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It is a well sadly the game has left us unfortunately.
A Leftuia Tuesday and an S two Edamno Tuesday what well.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I mean, but we did have one up the DJ
for if you want to play two Edimnal Tuesday and
do the whole deal. I mean, I don't know. We
could play it with Ronnie. I don't know. Uh, we
played it with Colin and it went pretty well. I mean,
it's not gone.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
No, it's not gone.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We're on hiatus, you know, trying.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
To figure it out. You know, you have a show
that's wildly successful and maybe the first season goes great,
second season fine, by the third or fourth you're like, okay,
we got to come up with some compelling content here.
How do we do well? I mean, look, how do
we keep this thing alive?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm hopeful that hope full music at Noon, Hopeful music
at new Hopeful Matt, that we can put together a fabulous,
great sports talk show without going around and round in
a nonsensical game indeed with Victor Brick Jacobs or anybody.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Just a vehicle for elder abusive or being honest with one.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It was in some ways, it didn't start that way.
But anyway, it is a Tuesday. It is a to
Edemano Tuesday. Here we're still your brothers, and you know,
Lance Romance doesn't come on the show, but he could
come back maybe Friday, Valentine's Day. You know what I mean.
(02:37):
These things don't go away completely, but they are dormant,
like volcanoes and the small little earthquakes that are happening
in Santorini. Speaking of traveling abroad, Matt is in Austin,
Texas tonight for a Big Texas basketball game on Compass Media.
We have our own college basketball game tonight, which is
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why we are flexed back all the way to two
o'clock because UCLA is gonna get started at four point
thirty in a place Matt just was, Illinois, home of
the fighting a Lion. I taking on the Bruins and
correct me if I'm wrong, Matt, I mean usually they're
no slouch. Not necessarily a blue blood, of course, but
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Illinois very strong basketball program.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, they have a lottery pick in Casparus yakachonas lot
Va and I believe Lithuanian.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
You're telling me they got a Lithuanian guy with yak
and his chones.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yes he is. Yeah to the Nines, Yakas to the
freak out good team eight and six right now in
the Big has the Big Ten very much like the SEC,
A lot of eating your own and perhaps booting a
team or two out of the tournament or putting them
on the tournament bubble. That were they in a different
conference with all of these mega conferences, now life would
(04:02):
be a lot easier for them. But Illinois desperate for
a victory after alternating wins and losses pretty much for
the last month or so, so should be a spirited
atmosphere for Mick Cronin, who was climbed all the way
up to nine and four, tied with Wisconsin for fourth
in the conference. And there are no easy trips, as
he has told us many times before, and the Big Ten.
(04:25):
And this will be a little Midwest interlude, right, You
do the Illinois and then you hang out and you
head over to Indiana for a Friday night game at
or a Friday afternoon game at Assembly Hall in Bloomington.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Well, you're the one that gets into that kind of stuff, Matt.
You know, with your Midwest two step, you can go
back to Indianapolis with that.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Ass I will be going there for a week as
a matter of fact, for Purdue at Indiana on the
twenty second. I will be staying there for the combine
staying there until I fly to Houston for Kansas Houston.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And what time is your game tonight, Matt.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Late one, six pm Local time? Eight I should say
eight pm local time here six pm back home? Alabama
right now number one in the coaches poll, number two
in the AP pole and Texas struggling a little bit,
have lost three or four incredibly competitive against Auburn when
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they were number one, They had to take on Tennessee
when they were number one, and now they will take
on an Alabama team that is coming in as the
number one team in the nation. So rough go for
Rodney Terry and his Longhorns. But they have perhaps the
best freshman, or at least one of them in the nation,
a guy by the name of Trey Johnson who is
going to likely be a top ten pick in the
NBA draft.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Well, I'm looking forward to listening wherever I can find it,
and I am also looking forward to seeing what Yakachons
can do against the UCLA vaunted defense. Those things being said, obviously,
the Lakers were a huge thing last night, and the
Lebron James and Luka Doncic. Could you believe how selfless
(06:00):
Lebron was out there. I just couldn't believe it. I
expected him to be like I roll his eyes and
give the mean mug like he ended up doing to
you know, Dwayne Wade, Anthony Davis, Kyrie Irving and all
those guys. But he seems so joyful out there. And
there's breaking news that Alex lenn is expected to clear
waivers in the next I don't know, four minutes, and
(06:21):
the Lakers want to sign him.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He's you know, the Ukrainian is going to be the
big man.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
He's old. I guess Alex thirty one?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, I mean I might as well.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
He did us as I thought.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It's not like Lucliana. But yeah, the stiff white that
you were calling for yesterday, well, according to Twitter here
seems to be that guy. Hey, Kate's eat your heart out?
How about me? With that breaking news off of Twitter?
And I checked. It's not like NBA sentel, you know,
like one letters out and you get duped like an idiot.
(06:59):
Never happens to but it happens to others.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Wait to go, Petro's way to break the Alex lenn news.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
You heard it here first on the Petros and Money Show.
Eat your Heart out Rogan and Rodney, all your Laker
talking and jaw wagging, and we get the Alex lenn News.
How do you like that, Matt? That's like when Joel
Myers took the night off and Billy Mack came in
and he called Kobe's eighty point game.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
It's just like that. It was exactly like that. We've
got the big Alex lenn News was reported to be
signing with the Pacers earlier today. Instead looks like he
has chosen cho chosen the Lakers, who seemed to be
all right, get your heart out on the pace last night,
a couple alley oops, but certainly they need the big body,
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and that is what Alex lenn is. He is a
very large individual, seven foot to fifty two hundred and.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
So, so that's what you were calling for yesterday, Matt.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So you need there's your big gasp?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Is it because I broke the news that you're not
taking the stiff white victory lap right now? Because this
is what you called for. I want to stiff white.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I wanted it to sit until the top story next hour.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I'm sorry, Matt, but I just seen it. I seed
it right there. He's gonna cure waivers in the next
sixteen minutes. Matt, within sixteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
He waivers, and he will be a Lakers. What you're saying,
you're the guy breaking that news.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I got it.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Credit to Matt though, I mean I follow Shams, I
follow all these guys are NBA insiders, and Matt Wait,
I mean, he hit it right on the head. Seven
foot white guy is what they need, and that's exactly
what they got right.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Said yesterday, And that's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I'm I'm given that flowers.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
The enthusiasms. I don't know where give him the flowers.
I don't know where it hours.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Well, thank you that you guys. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I'm not you know, I'm not. I'm the one that
broke the news.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
You broke the news that it's Alex lenn I'm the
one that gets white guys out there out and you
did not get cheated. You're you're the one that brought
this topic up. Now, look, we're discussing it, but.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
We're just holding mad up like he's the top of
a bass and cheerleading, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
No, Okay, yeah, but jump weight.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
You're the base and I'm all the way on the top. Yeah,
we're holding up, we're giving foot and pulling it up.
You're getting all the celebration mid section.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
All right, fine, Matt, if you want to save it
to the top story of the day, next, I have
another story for you.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
No, that's great news, stiff white guy. You got to
deal with chet Holm Grin, and you gotta deal with
Hertenstein Hustle, and you gotta deal with Nikola Jokic.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Your lack of enthusiasm is noted.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Or as I noticed Chris mad Dog Russo called on
the other day, Nikola jocketch appreciate a jocket.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
You don't get a lot of player in the NBA
the last three or four years. You don't hear about
a lot of jockeytch anymore. It's like a lot of
loomy and stuff like that. That people what.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I just got a text message from somebody who said,
it's all white dudes on the Lakers right now.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, exactly, Well, who's right about that? Mister, isn't gonna
bother anybody bother.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
That's what I said to the guy. It's like what
we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
It's like that sign at the supermarket that says, exciting
whites right over like the chardonnays it's pretty sweet.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
On a racist Tuesday. You kidding me, Alex.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
They're not like white guys kates that are doing like
YouTube videos, like the guy that Kristin Cavalieri was having
sex with. They're like they're Euros. They're blackheaded, totally different.
It's a totally different.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Austin Reeves is a blockhead Euro. No, he is a
white guy. Is a white guy.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Those are a couple of whites, you're right, But the
rest are full on Baltics and much more apt to
wear a sweatsuit than maybe even a black guy.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
That's right, Well you remember wearing the other day.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Oh, there's nothing like And it stretches from the UK
all the way through to China and and and stops
at the border of Russia in China. There is a
white man sweatsuit obsession throughout Europe and always has been.
And it's a wonderful thing and even more apt to
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wear a sweatsuit than the black guys. Now you know
the run DMC days and all that with the Adida sweatsuit,
we all love and remember it.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Russians are more identified with any other culture on Earth.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Now, the Euros have kept the sweatsuit culture going, and
we owe a debt of gratitude to them, because if
you haven't seen two guys kicking a soccer ball back
and forth in Kappa sweatsuits in front of like a
gigantic public estate in London where like a thousand people
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live like rats.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
See, I was thinking, like in Chernobyl in front of them.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Well, well, Matt, that's the thing. You get it all the.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Way, you get it on both ends of the spec.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
So a wonderful thing. It really is. So good luck
to all the Euros. Maybe the team is too white.
I'm sure that will be addressed. We have thousands of people,
we have a lot of people to pay attention to
that kind of thing. Now, Matt, this is something I
saw last night and I found it to be quite interesting.
Was a headline from KTLA, the station that Hal Fishman built,
(12:23):
and it said Disney reportedly concerned about affordability of its parks.
I tweeted over it at the Old p OH for real,
David Vassay insulting my profession, says four Chiros and Disneyland
(12:45):
is a college football broadcast for the Old p and
He's right. Four cheierros would put a dent in my check.
The princely sum that I make to call college football
games on Fox or Fox Sports one more specific now, Matt,
(13:06):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
There is a tipping point there were We've reached the
tipping point for two things that I have lived through
that were at one time a fort Well actually no,
college was never affordable in the era of my children. Uh,
it is embarrassing now what they ask for in terms
of tuition.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Even they teach you last.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
And they teach you less in the Degres Major. Yeah, worse,
worthless than it ever has been. In Disneyland. The wife
used to take the kids, the girls. We would get
the Southern California annual pass. It was ninety nine dollars. Well,
that mean why very few blackout dates? Well, I don't
now It's like I don't think five hundred dollars and
(13:45):
everything is blacked out racist Tuesday dudes.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
That mean only black people go.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
No, they're out, Oh you're out. It's not blacks out,
it's blacked out.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I know. I know, Matt. For a fat about your
Disney history and being an Orange County with the young
girls when you were now they're not as young. No,
and I thought that you would find that interesting. Interesting
to me in regards to this story is it's almost like,
(14:22):
you know, it's almost like stabbing yourself on the leg
repeatedly and saying, you know what, I'm concerned about my thigh.
It's like who bikes up? Who makes it so a
corn dog costs like a filet mignon?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Disney?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Who makes it so waiting in line? The privilege to
wait in line behind some fat ass and a who
farted tank top drinking a two liters a mountain dew
on the pirates of the Caribbean. Who decided to raise
that the day rate to like one hundred dollars? Or
is it more than that?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It way more than that.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
How much is it to get into Disney tool?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I think the park hopper is like three hundred dollars
for like a one day you get into both Let's see.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I'm just I'm a little bit concerned that Disney didn't
see this coming.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
So here we go, here, man, no one's coming here anymore.
I wonder why, uh is tier zero? I don't know
if that means you just get parking or what. But
Tier zero is one hundred four dollars. Tier six is
two hundred six dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Is Tier six where you get like the cut into
line or you have to throw more money at that.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I would I wish I knew. Here we go, let's see,
here's a nice little uh oh, that's Hong Kong. We
don't want that one.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
What do you do there?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I'm just trying to find a little a little graphic here.
It looks like here we go, old price, new price
one day Disneyland Resort one and four for Tier zero
all the way up to one hundred seventy nine is
the new increase. It jumped up nine percent.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
And then here's just mean blackout dates like Tier six
most expensive, no blockout dates.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
So that's what it is. So that's too much. So
if you want to go during Christmas vacation or spring
break or something like that, when the kids are out
of school, that's what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I think, even though he's notoriously the cheapest amongst us,
maybe Tim Kaits still is a more frequent visitor of
Disneyland than the rest of us.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
It's been a while. Outside of the Free Company trip
to California adventure, we got rid of our Disneyland passes
because they raised the rates before COVID, so we haven't
been in a while.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Has Disneyland locally jumped the shark, as they say, and
has that opened up the a gap for Saquon Barkley
to run through for the greatest amusement park in the
history of America? And yes, the Globe not it's very fun.
We can park.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
We can only hope that not takes advantage of the
lane that has opened and they run through it. Alas
as much as I love Camp Snoopy, the kids maybe
just not quite as excited about taking a photo with
Lucy and Linus as they are. Want to Ayel and Cinderella.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Oh, they don't even care about Airy Allen. Cinderella, Please,
Cinderella's not Cinderella anymore. It's the Lady of Rage, that
rapper that we used to off with their afro buffs,
the Moulan and Lilo and Stitch exactly.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
That's a very popular one. You're right, Petros. You asked
about the get ahead of the fat people to the
front of the line pass. Huh, that's the Genie Pass
and it's roughly thirty dollars, give or take the day
that you go and how it's easy. They are per person. Yeah,
thirty dollars per that's it. You sure, that's what that's
the middle price because I remember trying to buy the
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front of the line for Universal Studios when I had
the nephew's out and that was the same price as
the ticket to get in. It was like sixty five bucks,
and then it was sixty five bucks to do the
front of the line. It says the price of Disneyland
Genie varies by date attraction in park, but generally, yes, annual,
it cost is thirty dollars per day per person. That's
that you just said per attraction, Like you have to
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buy it per ride.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
It's five hundred bucks for the Genie Pass for the
day for everything.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, you're talking about just buying Space Mountain. Hey, thirty bucks.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Five hundred bucks to extend your middle finger to every
fat person on every ride and be like, I'm the
fat person getting in front of you fat people. My
body mass index, though it is the same as yours,
is somehow better. Movie.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I've got to get on my rascal.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I've thrown money at this problem.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Do they get to go to the front of the
line on the Rascal and they're thirty two ounce diye cokes.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
No, no, Disneyland has got on top of that. Really,
you got to pay for all of that. They're gonna
make you pay the poop watch.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Ain't that the truth? Magic Key Annual pass holders enjoy
reservation based admission discounts and special experiences. The SoCal Magic
Pass is now six hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
And you know, Matt, don't get a started on that
stupid ass club that all the real walls belong.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
To forty nine or thirty nine, thirty three sixty you go.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, anyway, good on Disneyland, as you would say, Matt
for saying, hey man, maybe everybody hates us because we
charge so effing much. And you've also ruined Marvel, and
you've also ruined Star Wars Very True and Snow White
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and you rule. They they're modern day destroyers. They're terrible people.
But we all still like the park and they've ruined
that too. Happy Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, I think the grave miscalculate was the supply and demand. Well,
we're sold out and people are saying, yeah, they're only
coming once, they're not coming back again. That's that's the
problem for people would come back multiple times because they
could afford to do that by your job, which, by
the way, it is pretty damn good corn dog. I
will give you that.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
It's a great corn dog. Yeah, but I don't want it.
I don't want it to feel like they're sticking a
catheter in me when i'd have to pay for it. Right,
they made their catheter too wide, and they didn't lub
it up, lub it and it's not pleasant for us anymore,
us man to pay for it, and ladies of course.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Man, now I'm thinking about that corn dog.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
It is a heck of a corn dog, it really is.
But it's like twenty five bucks.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, like you can't do it. You're like, it's a
corn dog, man, Like I can't do it. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
All right. We'll be back with the top story the day.
We'll talk about that great historic night last night at.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
The Lebron Benevolent Lebron selfless.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Such a great guy. Thanks for being with us, everybody.
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Speaker 2 (21:44):
I know you're a literature guy, but my youngest daughter
is now old enough. Thankfully, all my daughters have been readers.
But Preston's now in the Stephen King mode. She likes
reading some Stephen King because she's you know, she was
sixteen seventeen. She likes Stephen King. I like Stephen King
when I was sixteen seventeen. You know, I collected them
(22:06):
all the stand and It and Tommy Knockers and all
of that. I'm watching ESPN right now in the hotel
room and their draft analyst Matt Miller. You know, you
get to curate your background, figure out what you want
to present about yourself. It's kind of like thirty Stephen
King books, like Bill Ryder. It's like you're a grown man,
(22:27):
like nothing against Stephen King, but what you want you're
a teenager, kind of like having Harry Potters and yeah,
it would be like exactly, it would be like having
the collection of Harry Potter books behind you is what
you want to present to the boat.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
But yeah, look at this guy, he's got everything. Yeah. Wow, right,
he looks like a total tool.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
He's a weird like of all the things. Check out
my Stephen King collection.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Uh yeah, good question, Matt. I don't know, sorry, Uh yeah.
Would it be worse to have like the Hobbit?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
No, be better, bet way better, right to have the
Hobbit in the Lord because then you're just a fantasy
dork and you know the chair R. Tolkien's are. No.
I guess it would probably still be bad, but not
like Steven Stephen King's Like, yeah, they're horror books. You know,
they're scary books, and you like him when you're young
because they're kind of scary.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yeah, this one's about a clowns in the sewer. Yeah,
this guy sucks. Yeah. Well, now I'm going to be
staring at this for the next ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
You're welcome the uh the Lakers love that is being
disseminated from the longest running afternoon drive show on the
AM or FM band in the city. That needs to
be adjusted, by the way. We appreciate you plugging us,
Dan Patrick, but we are not the longest running afternoon
drive sports show. We are the longest running afternoon drive
(23:41):
show period in the city of Los Angeles. Larry Elder
has had he is coming, he is gone.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Hey, Hey, John Pennes.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I appreciate the stage of South Central, but he had
a hiatus there from KBC for a little while. Uh
you no longer have and can It's now the John
Cobelt Show, and it's since moved to the late mid
days as Tim Conway is now your afternoon drive show
of record over at KFI. So I'd like to point out,
unless I am mistaken, I do believe we are the
longest running afternoon drive show, and all of this Lakers
(24:15):
love that has found its way between anywhere depending on
where we've been flexed one pm and seven PM is
beginning to seriously aggravate my internal constitution.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Why what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Well, I'm just trying to figure out what's happened. How
did we end up here? How did we end up here?
Where even the most skeptical of talking heads when it
comes to the Lakers, has bought in to this latest
incarnation because of the gift Luka Doncic that has fallen
(24:48):
into their lap. Has led to us doing nothing but
really showering the team with praise. There's no negative that
you can find with it. How did we arrive at
this point? And then I was like, well, kind of
dug fifteen years deep to their last straight title, not
the COVID Bubble Orlando Disney title, and was trying to like,
(25:11):
did they really, like do the fan base wrong? How
did it become a complete disaster? And like most things,
it's not easy, it's not simple, And really they didn't
do anything wrong until they did when they went to
kind of panic mode. And even panic mode came after
a massive family feud that transferred power from one kid
to another kind of flipped the apple cart and the
(25:32):
Bus family. And you know, the initial choices that were
made were bad ones. Understandable sort of but bad ones.
But like after winning the titles in two thousand and nine,
in twenty ten, and then you know that also followed
making but losing the finals in two thousand and eight, understandable.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Even has the clown bobblehead.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yes, yeh, yeah, a grown man. I'm a sports show.
I'm a big Stephen Kinky.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I did just get this. I know you're in the
midst of a that's okay. I did also get that
sham Sharani has a Justin Timberlake biography on his Manton.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Anyway, Matt, Yes, well, listen, this is going to ruin
the tour.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
The Lakers. The last fifteen years have been a bit
of a roller coaster Ritsons since the Doctor wasn't in
charge anymore.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
And you know what even understandable after twenty ten to
keep the team together. Maybe Kobe can lead the group
to one more title. They got bounced early in eleven.
We remember it well. They struggled in the first round
against the then New Orleans Hornets before they became the Pelicans,
but then got waxed in forward to Dallas, the old
Andrew Bynham ejection disaster where he ripped his shirt off.
But lamar Odin was the sixth man of the year.
(26:41):
They won fifty seven games the Pacific Division by seventeen
and why would you blow that up? All right? You
had a bad matchup against Dallas. The team was banged up,
they were hurt, they were tired, all that, and on
and on, and then what happens. You get a lockout,
and during the lockout you get some extra time and
maybe people get a little itch. And right before the
season was going to start in December, they traded Pow
(27:04):
and Lamar in a three team deal for Chris Paul. Now,
it's one thing to have Dalton connect and Cam Reddish
to have to come back and show up and sit
on the bench and straight clothes, but the rating six
Men of the Year, everyone's favorite teammate totally stable. Yes,
(27:24):
Lamar Odom, the guy who for the previous couple of
years made the basketball sacrifice of coming off the bench
despite being able to likely start for damn near every
other team in the league, along with a guy who
could have been and probably should have been the Finals
MVP from two thousand and nine, paw Gasol. It was
a disaster. Canceling the Chris Paul trade was so grossly
(27:45):
incompetent by the NBA allowing Mark Cuban and the dude
that owns the calves whose name is escaping me right now.
For some reason exactly, Dan Gilbert I was unforgivable and
it wrecked the team. I remember what you said, Lamar
couldn't get over it. What you did to me was
worsej Lamar was sent to Dallas for nothing. The team
(28:09):
still won the Pacific, but it was over. There was
no coming back, or so we thought. And then a
year and a half later, they take their big swing,
huge swing, bold, brilliant cover of Sports Illustrated, supposed to
be the greatest team ever assembled, and it blew up.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Oh yeah, it's hard to remember that one, right, because
Steve Nash was healthy for like a quarter and then
everybody realized, oh wow, Dwight Howard is a nightmare and
nobody likes being around him.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
It was a one year swing and an incredible miss.
Nash cooked Howard. Idiot Kobe got into it. They had
the wrong coach and Mike D'Antoni, but it was bold
and it was a big swing, and you know, teams
were protesting that they put all this talent together. Why
(28:57):
do the Lakers get all these nice things and we don't.
Lakers did it again, and it failed miserably, and that's
when the wheels came off. They did not react to adversity. Well,
they panicked, like really really panicked. Everybody hated Mike D'Antoni
so much, the guy in Phoenix that mocked the Lakers
(29:17):
and mocked Kobe and mocked Phil Jackson, that they went
back to that former Laker playbook and it backfired spectacularly.
They thought they had a shot at premier free agents
with Byron Scott as their head coach, a man who
had lost twenty nine consecutive games at one point in
(29:37):
his career. Byron didn't win forty games in two years,
not in one in two years. He couldn't hit forty wins.
Part bad luck, part bad selections, crappy drafts, Julius Randall,
Brandon Ingram. They decided to give Luke Walton a shot
based on like eight games of coaching in Golden State Disaster.
(30:01):
They paid Kobe like a five hundred percent premium for
the gate, not the end court.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah, that was an issue.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
That was an issue, And you know what, Kobe was
worth five hundred percent at the gate. Oh, she wasn't
worth it on the court.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
But that was the album. He was all beat up,
and it just kind of it ground down.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Jim and Jeanie were fighting, ground them down, probably she
had to kick him out before the trade deadline because
she was afraid he was going to sabotage the team.
That set him back a year. Bringing in Magic in
a decision making Roles set him back years taking Lonzo
Ball over Tatum and Fox, which no one was into
(30:40):
except for the fans, which is understandable. Mesmerized by Lonzo
in high school and how exciting Paulie was with him
on the floor, but compared to those other players at
the top of the draft, nobody was like, yeah, Lonzo
was better than them. No, nobody said that Strawberry Pancakes though,
And basically it was a five year stretch of just
the wrong guys selling the Young Corps of the Angelo
(31:01):
Russell and Lonzo and Brandon Ingram and Julius Randall and
just stick with us. We're going to grow and they're
gonna be Lakers, and it's.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Called the Young Corps. I remember the Young Corps? Yeah,
what about.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
And that's why when Lebron says I'm coming and we
knew we said it, like out of the Lebron's, they're
not the Lakers anymore. They are now going to be
the Lebrons. We saw why Pat Riley kicked him out
of Miami because he didn't want them to be the
Miami Lebrons, so he went back to Cleveland, made him
the Cleveland Lebrons. And now things have been so bad
(31:34):
for five six years that we're going to let it
be the Los Angeles Lebrons.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
I guess that's what people are most excited about, that
they're not going to be the Lebrons anymore.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I think that's what it is. They won in the Bubble,
but outside of that, missed the playoffs first year. Then
they win in the Bubble, they lose in the first
round the following season, missed the freaking playoffs with Lebron
and Anthony Davis the year after that, and then we
had the most competitive sweep in the Western Conference finals ever,
followed by the gentlemen's sweep last year, and that's what
(32:04):
set it up for this. And again the reaction when
Lebron showed up was like, yeah, whatever, man, six years,
it's been a nightmare. They can't draft, we had a
family feud, we've had god awful coaches. Just freaking get
it fixed. And they did, and then they realized, oh no,
(32:24):
this was this was a bad idea. This was a
really bad idea the kids. And I mean like from
the second he arrived. He was supposed to make Lonzo
Ball and Brandon Ingram into professionals, like he always made
his teammates better. Oh that's the thing about Lebron. He
makes everybody better around him. And now you're going to
drop him in here with Lonzo and with Brandon Ingram
(32:45):
and they're going to be great, just like Kyrie Irving
was great, you know, And that's what we're looking at here. No,
he knewked it almost immediately when he didn't show up
at Blaze Pizza and we covered it live with Adam
Oslin down there giving us the play by play, only
to have thousands of people left holding the bag, holding
their seas in their hand, like, wait a minute, where's
(33:05):
my pizza? Where's my Lebron?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Terrible moment in LA history, terrible, huge betrayal of the
people of the city.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
And he betrayed the kids that he was supposed to
make better because he's the greatest teammate. No, y're out,
ad Inn. They win in the bubble and there was
a grace period, I guess, until they realized, no, this
Lebron's not really, it's not really a Laker where the
Los Angeles Lebrons, he was a Kobe rival. And yeah,
(33:33):
the twenty twenty title was cool, but uh, it became
incredibly polarizing.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Oh they'd made that fake Laker all access lunch about
leadership between Genie Buss and Rich Paul of god right,
just insufferable stuff. And then it became the Lakers are
letting Lebron down. The Lakers aren't getting him the help
he deserves. They're wasting Lebron's twilight years. He's still good
enough to win a title, but Rob Polinka and Genie
(33:59):
Bus refuse use to make this trade or trade this draft.
Everybody's always a wrecked player. Everybody's always wrecking everything for Lebron.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
And now it's over. And now with the Luca trade
culminating with his debut last night, and by the way,
smart by the Lakers, it was probably supposed to be Saturday.
And then they were like, you know what, that's pretty
good Indiana team. It's a really good defensive team. They
got a great head coach in Rick Carlisle. Let's put
him out there against Utah, one of the worst teams
in the league instead, And that allowed Luca to go
(34:27):
five for fourteen with a few turnovers, and the Lakers
still run away with the game, and he and Lebron
are co authoring some pretty great plays. Lebron gets to
be the hero. Hey introduced Luca last I'm gonna put
on this number seventy seven share. Isn't this great? Appearing
as though he wanted to take a back seat on
Luca's night, while of course knowing all along that by
(34:49):
not wanting to be in the spotlight, he was going
to be in the spotlight of great guyas Hey, here's
the great guy spotlight And even though it's not the
spotlight for what everybody else has their eyes on. Look
what I'm watching. Yeah, it's Ron being a great guy.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
That that spotlight's gonna get very cold. And and if
I had to guess, very envious quite quickly.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
No doubt. Well, I'm sure after the All Star break,
because our next game will be in Utah and then
they will break for the All Star festivities, which I'm
very excited about. The four teams or the three teams.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
And the day in the basement.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah, just think about a team screwing up a trade
for a big man at the deadline that they desperately needed.
A guy who's played eighty games in three seasons. He's hurt,
he's always been hurt, and then after the deadline passes,
when you give him a physical, you determined, hey, this
guy's hurt, and you miss your window to add a
legit big man to help your title chase this year
instead of getting after Polinka for that. Everyone's like, whatever, well,
(35:52):
that's pretty great that he realized that, you know, this
isn't a deal they wanted to know. That is gross
negligence that a guy that is always hurt ends up
failing your physical because perhaps a lack of due diligence
or whatever the hell happened. Like, that's not okay. But
the Luca thing is so big that everyone's like, oh,
it's pretty great. You know Rob was able to hold firm.
(36:14):
And now the Hornets are trying to push back and
they are saying that the trade should still go through,
and that's going to be investigated by the NBA because
I think the physical is bs and yeah, that should
be like criticized and like, wait, what the hell are
we doing? How do you not know a guy that's
played eighty games in three seasons, is hurt and might
not pass the physical. Now, look last night you saw
(36:37):
the atmosphere. Did Luca look great? No, he looked fat
and slow and he was getting dusted on the defensive end.
But you know what, who cares. He always looks fat
and slow and he always gets dusted on defense. But
it's the wow moments, the step back three, that first
alley you passed? Then no, look to the corner for three,
the one where he's attacking left. What's the end one?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
What three? Don chitch? Because he's got to get his
sea legs back. He has not played since Christmas. For free,
lo go, welcome to the Laker. There it is, man, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Got sea legs back. That's what I got.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Well, at least they're not the La Lebrons anymore.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
It's exactly right, the blockheads. That's why everybody was excited,
and it worked. It worked against one of the worst
teams in the league. Everybody wins. People are now talking
about the Lakers being a finals caliber team. It's gonna
get amplified because we're gonna have all All Star Break
coming off too likely lopsided victories over Utah, well even
(37:39):
to Marion.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Even when the Lakers don't have a chance, and they
I don't know if they do or not. I don't know.
Len is gonna put him over the top.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Maybe Alex len.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
But even when they don't have a chance, they talk
twenty four to seven about the Lakers having a chance
because they moved the needle.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
So meanwhile, Mark Cuban is mf and fans, Jason Kidd
is skipping press conferences, and Dallas is on fire.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
You see, they kicked that poor fat guy out for
mouthing fired Nico.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Yeah, like you can do that. I thought it was
a or guy that traded uh luka Doncic by saying
he's fat.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
I was like, I didn't know that Orson Wells is
a Dallas fan. Thereat the Laker well A fabulous trip
down memory lane, and we didn't even have to talk
about mos golf or lou Al Dang.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Oh Mos goff twelve oh one, lou Al Dang. We'll
be right back, Petro some money going until four thirty.
We got UCLA basketball tonight against Illinois. They'll tip that
off at five. They'll play again on Friday against Indiana.
(38:51):
Same sort of deal going on two to four thirty.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
No one and only Matt Muddy Smith with the tops
story of the day on the Lakers and the last segment,
we have no guests today for shi No, no, we
know how to carry the load.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Don't eat it carry that weight.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
We do depend on some listener interactions.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Context fine brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
We make it easy. Hi. Oh, while catching up on
yesterday's show, you'd be admired to know I'm now absolutely
convinced that the pole Smokers are indeed your mouth organ
show of record. Thank you. Yes, we celebrated the harmonica
(39:38):
yesterday for the dead guy birthday of the day. This
is in regards to the top story by the one
and only voice of the Bolts, Matt Smith in the
last segment, and it says, old ass Lebron knows it's over,
takes the good guy role in money, still lashes on him.
He's a relentless hater. And then you know, but it
(39:59):
was like a picture of a happy face like he
liked it. Yeah, Okay, Rodney Pete just said for all
the Lebron haters, and that's including folks on this network,
Rodney has the Lebron strogeen fever. That's a new one
(40:19):
to me.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Is that a play on estrogen?
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:22):
I believe. So, Okay, that's a hormonal you know.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
You know statement there are Lebron haters on this network
and it's not a network, it's just a local station.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Yeah, that's the thing. That's one thing.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
I was like, I was kind of like, wow, that's
a trip to me. But anyway, I've worked at Sierra
Canyon and I just want to confirm Kelly Stafford is
a nightmare, Thank you, sir. And people can tell tales
out of school all they want to the secret text
(40:55):
OsO line. I am very receptive. You know how much
I love high school? Matt Pee? What I mean?
Speaker 2 (41:04):
It's it's it's it consumes the majority of our conversation here. Yeah, totally,
I love high school. I love high school.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
We love the kids, we love the noonngons, we love
the principles, we love everybody involved, especially the athletics. How
many Laker fans care that Luca drunk? It drunk? Its
is here?
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Pee?
Speaker 3 (41:26):
What I think everybody cares?
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Yeah, that's a that would be an inaccurate statement. A
lot of people like Luca drunk.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Why is Matt so upset? Oh? Well, this was last week.
You know, I read the Dodger promotions, which are wildly
wildly It was our highest rated segment. Why is Matt
so upset about bibbleheads? You guys are life sized bibbleheads
when you're smoking pool. And a lot of people, Matt,
(42:01):
not just one, have made the connection between Alex len
and Lenz steal my sunshine.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
I know it's to me if you steal my sunset,
if you deal my sunset.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
Remember that I do.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
That was a long song that was a like a
almost a five minute song, steal my Sunshine.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
A lot of people are calling for steal my sunshine,
which means we're not gonna hear it. A fat, drunk
and a senior citizen are about to dominate the NBA,
that's true.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
I mean, they're gonna dominate the conversation. But as far
as the Western Conference goes, there are some pretty big
stumbling blocks that sort of know how to play together
and maybe aren't as fat or as drunk or as old,
maybe a little bit better constructed, maybe more experienced head coach.
I don't know, I don't know what I'm sam. It's
too stupid, you know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Saying, listen, the guy wants to drink beer, Just let
him drink his beer.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
Michael Finley coming over there taking his beer.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
What are you doing? Finley? The guy drink a beer
looks like Andre the Giant with that tiny little thing
in his hand. Then you notice that like when he
takes I'm like yeah, and that looks like a really
small can of beer.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
Well, you know big handed NBA types, Matt, you.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Know, big handed Baltic blockhead.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
It's like when you shake hands with Tony Robbins and
it's like grabbing a big bushel of bananas. Right, recent
guest on the show, by the way, Tony.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Robins, how you like that? People? Huh?
Speaker 3 (43:39):
Petrosen Money show makes for some strange bedfellows.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Take that. Lebron's or jin and.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Katrick Mahomes is going to join us next week. We're
working on him. Well, and this Stephen King Dork. We'll
be back with more. We got your word number, Song
of the Day, We have a Bachelor Report Dad and
a live guy Birthday of the Day, Quick hits and
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A tired of the last Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yes, all the us Mendina des del Mundo, The whole
world is a lie.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It is a well sadly the game has left us unfortunately.
A Leftuia Tuesday and an S two Edamno Tuesday what well.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I mean, but we did have one up the DJ
for if you want to play two Edimnal Tuesday and
do the whole deal. I mean, I don't know. We
could play it with Ronnie. I don't know. Uh, we
played it with Colin and it went pretty well. I mean,
it's not gone.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
No, it's not gone.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We're on hiatus, you know, trying.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
To figure it out. You know, you have a show
that's wildly successful and maybe the first season goes great,
second season fine, by the third or fourth you're like, okay,
we got to come up with some compelling content here.
How do we do well? I mean, look, how do
we keep this thing alive?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm hopeful that hope full music at Noon, Hopeful music
at new Hopeful Matt, that we can put together a fabulous,
great sports talk show without going around and round in
a nonsensical game indeed with Victor Brick Jacobs or anybody.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Just a vehicle for elder abusive or being honest with one.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It was in some ways, it didn't start that way.
But anyway, it is a Tuesday. It is a to
Edemano Tuesday. Here we're still your brothers, and you know,
Lance Romance doesn't come on the show, but he could
come back maybe Friday, Valentine's Day. You know what I mean.
(02:37):
These things don't go away completely, but they are dormant,
like volcanoes and the small little earthquakes that are happening
in Santorini. Speaking of traveling abroad, Matt is in Austin,
Texas tonight for a Big Texas basketball game on Compass Media.
We have our own college basketball game tonight, which is
(02:59):
why we are flexed back all the way to two
o'clock because UCLA is gonna get started at four point
thirty in a place Matt just was, Illinois, home of
the fighting a Lion. I taking on the Bruins and
correct me if I'm wrong, Matt, I mean usually they're
no slouch. Not necessarily a blue blood, of course, but
(03:22):
Illinois very strong basketball program.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, they have a lottery pick in Casparus yakachonas lot
Va and I believe Lithuanian.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
You're telling me they got a Lithuanian guy with yak
and his chones.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yes he is. Yeah to the Nines, Yakas to the
freak out good team eight and six right now in
the Big has the Big Ten very much like the SEC,
A lot of eating your own and perhaps booting a
team or two out of the tournament or putting them
on the tournament bubble. That were they in a different
conference with all of these mega conferences, now life would
(04:02):
be a lot easier for them. But Illinois desperate for
a victory after alternating wins and losses pretty much for
the last month or so, so should be a spirited
atmosphere for Mick Cronin, who was climbed all the way
up to nine and four, tied with Wisconsin for fourth
in the conference. And there are no easy trips, as
he has told us many times before, and the Big Ten.
(04:25):
And this will be a little Midwest interlude, right, You
do the Illinois and then you hang out and you
head over to Indiana for a Friday night game at
or a Friday afternoon game at Assembly Hall in Bloomington.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Well, you're the one that gets into that kind of stuff, Matt.
You know, with your Midwest two step, you can go
back to Indianapolis with that.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Ass I will be going there for a week as
a matter of fact, for Purdue at Indiana on the
twenty second. I will be staying there for the combine
staying there until I fly to Houston for Kansas Houston.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And what time is your game tonight, Matt.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Late one, six pm Local time? Eight I should say
eight pm local time here six pm back home? Alabama
right now number one in the coaches poll, number two
in the AP pole and Texas struggling a little bit,
have lost three or four incredibly competitive against Auburn when
(05:17):
they were number one, They had to take on Tennessee
when they were number one, and now they will take
on an Alabama team that is coming in as the
number one team in the nation. So rough go for
Rodney Terry and his Longhorns. But they have perhaps the
best freshman, or at least one of them in the nation,
a guy by the name of Trey Johnson who is
going to likely be a top ten pick in the
NBA draft.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Well, I'm looking forward to listening wherever I can find it,
and I am also looking forward to seeing what Yakachons
can do against the UCLA vaunted defense. Those things being said, obviously,
the Lakers were a huge thing last night, and the
Lebron James and Luka Doncic. Could you believe how selfless
(06:00):
Lebron was out there. I just couldn't believe it. I
expected him to be like I roll his eyes and
give the mean mug like he ended up doing to
you know, Dwayne Wade, Anthony Davis, Kyrie Irving and all
those guys. But he seems so joyful out there. And
there's breaking news that Alex lenn is expected to clear
waivers in the next I don't know, four minutes, and
(06:21):
the Lakers want to sign him.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
He's you know, the Ukrainian is going to be the
big man.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
He's old. I guess Alex thirty one?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, I mean I might as well.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
He did us as I thought.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It's not like Lucliana. But yeah, the stiff white that
you were calling for yesterday, well, according to Twitter here
seems to be that guy. Hey, Kate's eat your heart out?
How about me? With that breaking news off of Twitter?
And I checked. It's not like NBA sentel, you know,
like one letters out and you get duped like an idiot.
(06:59):
Never happens to but it happens to others.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Wait to go, Petro's way to break the Alex lenn news.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
You heard it here first on the Petros and Money Show.
Eat your Heart out Rogan and Rodney, all your Laker
talking and jaw wagging, and we get the Alex lenn News.
How do you like that, Matt? That's like when Joel
Myers took the night off and Billy Mack came in
and he called Kobe's eighty point game.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
It's just like that. It was exactly like that. We've
got the big Alex lenn News was reported to be
signing with the Pacers earlier today. Instead looks like he
has chosen cho chosen the Lakers, who seemed to be
all right, get your heart out on the pace last night,
a couple alley oops, but certainly they need the big body,
(07:48):
and that is what Alex lenn is. He is a
very large individual, seven foot to fifty two hundred and.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
So, so that's what you were calling for yesterday, Matt.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So you need there's your big gasp?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Is it because I broke the news that you're not
taking the stiff white victory lap right now? Because this
is what you called for. I want to stiff white.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I wanted it to sit until the top story next hour.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I'm sorry, Matt, but I just seen it. I seed
it right there. He's gonna cure waivers in the next
sixteen minutes. Matt, within sixteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
He waivers, and he will be a Lakers. What you're saying,
you're the guy breaking that news.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I got it.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Credit to Matt though, I mean I follow Shams, I
follow all these guys are NBA insiders, and Matt Wait,
I mean, he hit it right on the head. Seven
foot white guy is what they need, and that's exactly
what they got right.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Said yesterday, And that's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I'm I'm given that flowers.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
The enthusiasms. I don't know where give him the flowers.
I don't know where it hours.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Well, thank you that you guys. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I'm not you know, I'm not. I'm the one that
broke the news.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
You broke the news that it's Alex lenn I'm the
one that gets white guys out there out and you
did not get cheated. You're you're the one that brought
this topic up. Now, look, we're discussing it, but.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
We're just holding mad up like he's the top of
a bass and cheerleading, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
No, Okay, yeah, but jump weight.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
You're the base and I'm all the way on the top. Yeah,
we're holding up, we're giving foot and pulling it up.
You're getting all the celebration mid section.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
All right, fine, Matt, if you want to save it
to the top story of the day, next, I have
another story for you.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
No, that's great news, stiff white guy. You got to
deal with chet Holm Grin, and you gotta deal with
Hertenstein Hustle, and you gotta deal with Nikola Jokic.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Your lack of enthusiasm is noted.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Or as I noticed Chris mad Dog Russo called on
the other day, Nikola jocketch appreciate a jocket.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
You don't get a lot of player in the NBA
the last three or four years. You don't hear about
a lot of jockeytch anymore. It's like a lot of
loomy and stuff like that. That people what.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I just got a text message from somebody who said,
it's all white dudes on the Lakers right now.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, exactly, Well, who's right about that? Mister, isn't gonna
bother anybody bother.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
That's what I said to the guy. It's like what
we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
It's like that sign at the supermarket that says, exciting
whites right over like the chardonnays it's pretty sweet.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
On a racist Tuesday. You kidding me, Alex.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
They're not like white guys kates that are doing like
YouTube videos, like the guy that Kristin Cavalieri was having
sex with. They're like they're Euros. They're blackheaded, totally different.
It's a totally different.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Austin Reeves is a blockhead Euro. No, he is a
white guy. Is a white guy.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Those are a couple of whites, you're right, But the
rest are full on Baltics and much more apt to
wear a sweatsuit than maybe even a black guy.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
That's right, Well you remember wearing the other day.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Oh, there's nothing like And it stretches from the UK
all the way through to China and and and stops
at the border of Russia in China. There is a
white man sweatsuit obsession throughout Europe and always has been.
And it's a wonderful thing and even more apt to
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wear a sweatsuit than the black guys. Now you know
the run DMC days and all that with the Adida sweatsuit,
we all love and remember it.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Russians are more identified with any other culture on Earth.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Now, the Euros have kept the sweatsuit culture going, and
we owe a debt of gratitude to them, because if
you haven't seen two guys kicking a soccer ball back
and forth in Kappa sweatsuits in front of like a
gigantic public estate in London where like a thousand people
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live like rats.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
See, I was thinking, like in Chernobyl in front of them.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Well, well, Matt, that's the thing. You get it all the.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Way, you get it on both ends of the spec.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
So a wonderful thing. It really is. So good luck
to all the Euros. Maybe the team is too white.
I'm sure that will be addressed. We have thousands of people,
we have a lot of people to pay attention to
that kind of thing. Now, Matt, this is something I
saw last night and I found it to be quite interesting.
Was a headline from KTLA, the station that Hal Fishman built,
(12:23):
and it said Disney reportedly concerned about affordability of its parks.
I tweeted over it at the Old p OH for real,
David Vassay insulting my profession, says four Chiros and Disneyland
(12:45):
is a college football broadcast for the Old p and
He's right. Four cheierros would put a dent in my check.
The princely sum that I make to call college football
games on Fox or Fox Sports one more specific now, Matt,
(13:06):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
There is a tipping point there were We've reached the
tipping point for two things that I have lived through
that were at one time a fort Well actually no,
college was never affordable in the era of my children. Uh,
it is embarrassing now what they ask for in terms
of tuition.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Even they teach you last.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
And they teach you less in the Degres Major. Yeah, worse,
worthless than it ever has been. In Disneyland. The wife
used to take the kids, the girls. We would get
the Southern California annual pass. It was ninety nine dollars. Well,
that mean why very few blackout dates? Well, I don't
now It's like I don't think five hundred dollars and
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everything is blacked out racist Tuesday dudes.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
That mean only black people go.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
No, they're out, Oh you're out. It's not blacks out,
it's blacked out.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I know. I know, Matt. For a fat about your
Disney history and being an Orange County with the young
girls when you were now they're not as young. No,
and I thought that you would find that interesting. Interesting
to me in regards to this story is it's almost like,
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you know, it's almost like stabbing yourself on the leg
repeatedly and saying, you know what, I'm concerned about my thigh.
It's like who bikes up? Who makes it so a
corn dog costs like a filet mignon?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Disney?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Who makes it so waiting in line? The privilege to
wait in line behind some fat ass and a who
farted tank top drinking a two liters a mountain dew
on the pirates of the Caribbean. Who decided to raise
that the day rate to like one hundred dollars? Or
is it more than that?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It way more than that.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
How much is it to get into Disney tool?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I think the park hopper is like three hundred dollars
for like a one day you get into both Let's see.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I'm just I'm a little bit concerned that Disney didn't
see this coming.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
So here we go, here, man, no one's coming here anymore.
I wonder why, uh is tier zero? I don't know
if that means you just get parking or what. But
Tier zero is one hundred four dollars. Tier six is
two hundred six dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Is Tier six where you get like the cut into
line or you have to throw more money at that.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I would I wish I knew. Here we go, let's see,
here's a nice little uh oh, that's Hong Kong. We
don't want that one.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
What do you do there?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I'm just trying to find a little a little graphic here.
It looks like here we go, old price, new price
one day Disneyland Resort one and four for Tier zero
all the way up to one hundred seventy nine is
the new increase. It jumped up nine percent.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
And then here's just mean blackout dates like Tier six
most expensive, no blockout dates.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
So that's what it is. So that's too much. So
if you want to go during Christmas vacation or spring
break or something like that, when the kids are out
of school, that's what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I think, even though he's notoriously the cheapest amongst us,
maybe Tim Kaits still is a more frequent visitor of
Disneyland than the rest of us.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
It's been a while. Outside of the Free Company trip
to California adventure, we got rid of our Disneyland passes
because they raised the rates before COVID, so we haven't
been in a while.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Has Disneyland locally jumped the shark, as they say, and
has that opened up the a gap for Saquon Barkley
to run through for the greatest amusement park in the
history of America? And yes, the Globe not it's very fun.
We can park.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
We can only hope that not takes advantage of the
lane that has opened and they run through it. Alas
as much as I love Camp Snoopy, the kids maybe
just not quite as excited about taking a photo with
Lucy and Linus as they are. Want to Ayel and Cinderella.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Oh, they don't even care about Airy Allen. Cinderella, Please,
Cinderella's not Cinderella anymore. It's the Lady of Rage, that
rapper that we used to off with their afro buffs,
the Moulan and Lilo and Stitch exactly.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
That's a very popular one. You're right, Petros. You asked
about the get ahead of the fat people to the
front of the line pass. Huh, that's the Genie Pass
and it's roughly thirty dollars, give or take the day
that you go and how it's easy. They are per person. Yeah,
thirty dollars per that's it. You sure, that's what that's
the middle price because I remember trying to buy the
(17:56):
front of the line for Universal Studios when I had
the nephew's out and that was the same price as
the ticket to get in. It was like sixty five bucks,
and then it was sixty five bucks to do the
front of the line. It says the price of Disneyland
Genie varies by date attraction in park, but generally, yes, annual,
it cost is thirty dollars per day per person. That's
that you just said per attraction, Like you have to
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buy it per ride.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
It's five hundred bucks for the Genie Pass for the
day for everything.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, you're talking about just buying Space Mountain. Hey, thirty bucks.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Five hundred bucks to extend your middle finger to every
fat person on every ride and be like, I'm the
fat person getting in front of you fat people. My
body mass index, though it is the same as yours,
is somehow better. Movie.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I've got to get on my rascal.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I've thrown money at this problem.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Do they get to go to the front of the
line on the Rascal and they're thirty two ounce diye cokes.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
No, no, Disneyland has got on top of that. Really,
you got to pay for all of that. They're gonna
make you pay the poop watch.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Ain't that the truth? Magic Key Annual pass holders enjoy
reservation based admission discounts and special experiences. The SoCal Magic
Pass is now six hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
And you know, Matt, don't get a started on that
stupid ass club that all the real walls belong.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
To forty nine or thirty nine, thirty three sixty you go.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, anyway, good on Disneyland, as you would say, Matt
for saying, hey man, maybe everybody hates us because we
charge so effing much. And you've also ruined Marvel, and
you've also ruined Star Wars Very True and Snow White
(19:47):
and you rule. They they're modern day destroyers. They're terrible people.
But we all still like the park and they've ruined
that too. Happy Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, I think the grave miscalculate was the supply and demand. Well,
we're sold out and people are saying, yeah, they're only
coming once, they're not coming back again. That's that's the
problem for people would come back multiple times because they
could afford to do that by your job, which, by
the way, it is pretty damn good corn dog. I
will give you that.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
It's a great corn dog. Yeah, but I don't want it.
I don't want it to feel like they're sticking a
catheter in me when i'd have to pay for it. Right,
they made their catheter too wide, and they didn't lub
it up, lub it and it's not pleasant for us anymore,
us man to pay for it, and ladies of course.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Man, now I'm thinking about that corn dog.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
It is a heck of a corn dog, it really is.
But it's like twenty five bucks.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, like you can't do it. You're like, it's a
corn dog, man, Like I can't do it. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
All right. We'll be back with the top story the day.
We'll talk about that great historic night last night at.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
The Lebron Benevolent Lebron selfless.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Such a great guy. Thanks for being with us, everybody.
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All right, it is time for the top story of
the day, Top story of it.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I know you're a literature guy, but my youngest daughter
is now old enough. Thankfully, all my daughters have been readers.
But Preston's now in the Stephen King mode. She likes
reading some Stephen King because she's you know, she was
sixteen seventeen. She likes Stephen King. I like Stephen King
when I was sixteen seventeen. You know, I collected them
(22:06):
all the stand and It and Tommy Knockers and all
of that. I'm watching ESPN right now in the hotel
room and their draft analyst Matt Miller. You know, you
get to curate your background, figure out what you want
to present about yourself. It's kind of like thirty Stephen
King books, like Bill Ryder. It's like you're a grown man,
(22:27):
like nothing against Stephen King, but what you want you're
a teenager, kind of like having Harry Potters and yeah,
it would be like exactly, it would be like having
the collection of Harry Potter books behind you is what
you want to present to the boat.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
But yeah, look at this guy, he's got everything. Yeah. Wow, right,
he looks like a total tool.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
He's a weird like of all the things. Check out
my Stephen King collection.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Uh yeah, good question, Matt. I don't know, sorry, Uh yeah.
Would it be worse to have like the Hobbit?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
No, be better, bet way better, right to have the
Hobbit in the Lord because then you're just a fantasy
dork and you know the chair R. Tolkien's are. No.
I guess it would probably still be bad, but not
like Steven Stephen King's Like, yeah, they're horror books. You know,
they're scary books, and you like him when you're young
because they're kind of scary.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yeah, this one's about a clowns in the sewer. Yeah,
this guy sucks. Yeah. Well, now I'm going to be
staring at this for the next ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
You're welcome the uh the Lakers love that is being
disseminated from the longest running afternoon drive show on the
AM or FM band in the city. That needs to
be adjusted, by the way. We appreciate you plugging us,
Dan Patrick, but we are not the longest running afternoon
drive sports show. We are the longest running afternoon drive
(23:41):
show period in the city of Los Angeles. Larry Elder
has had he is coming, he is gone.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Hey, Hey, John Pennes.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I appreciate the stage of South Central, but he had
a hiatus there from KBC for a little while. Uh
you no longer have and can It's now the John
Cobelt Show, and it's since moved to the late mid
days as Tim Conway is now your afternoon drive show
of record over at KFI. So I'd like to point out,
unless I am mistaken, I do believe we are the
longest running afternoon drive show, and all of this Lakers
(24:15):
love that has found its way between anywhere depending on
where we've been flexed one pm and seven PM is
beginning to seriously aggravate my internal constitution.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Why what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Well, I'm just trying to figure out what's happened. How
did we end up here? How did we end up here?
Where even the most skeptical of talking heads when it
comes to the Lakers, has bought in to this latest
incarnation because of the gift Luka Doncic that has fallen
(24:48):
into their lap. Has led to us doing nothing but
really showering the team with praise. There's no negative that
you can find with it. How did we arrive at
this point? And then I was like, well, kind of
dug fifteen years deep to their last straight title, not
the COVID Bubble Orlando Disney title, and was trying to like,
(25:11):
did they really, like do the fan base wrong? How
did it become a complete disaster? And like most things,
it's not easy, it's not simple, And really they didn't
do anything wrong until they did when they went to
kind of panic mode. And even panic mode came after
a massive family feud that transferred power from one kid
to another kind of flipped the apple cart and the
(25:32):
Bus family. And you know, the initial choices that were
made were bad ones. Understandable sort of but bad ones.
But like after winning the titles in two thousand and nine,
in twenty ten, and then you know that also followed
making but losing the finals in two thousand and eight, understandable.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Even has the clown bobblehead.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yes, yeh, yeah, a grown man. I'm a sports show.
I'm a big Stephen Kinky.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I did just get this. I know you're in the
midst of a that's okay. I did also get that
sham Sharani has a Justin Timberlake biography on his Manton.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Anyway, Matt, Yes, well, listen, this is going to ruin
the tour.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
The Lakers. The last fifteen years have been a bit
of a roller coaster Ritsons since the Doctor wasn't in
charge anymore.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
And you know what even understandable after twenty ten to
keep the team together. Maybe Kobe can lead the group
to one more title. They got bounced early in eleven.
We remember it well. They struggled in the first round
against the then New Orleans Hornets before they became the Pelicans,
but then got waxed in forward to Dallas, the old
Andrew Bynham ejection disaster where he ripped his shirt off.
But lamar Odin was the sixth man of the year.
(26:41):
They won fifty seven games the Pacific Division by seventeen
and why would you blow that up? All right? You
had a bad matchup against Dallas. The team was banged up,
they were hurt, they were tired, all that, and on
and on, and then what happens. You get a lockout,
and during the lockout you get some extra time and
maybe people get a little itch. And right before the
season was going to start in December, they traded Pow
(27:04):
and Lamar in a three team deal for Chris Paul. Now,
it's one thing to have Dalton connect and Cam Reddish
to have to come back and show up and sit
on the bench and straight clothes, but the rating six
Men of the Year, everyone's favorite teammate totally stable. Yes,
(27:24):
Lamar Odom, the guy who for the previous couple of
years made the basketball sacrifice of coming off the bench
despite being able to likely start for damn near every
other team in the league, along with a guy who
could have been and probably should have been the Finals
MVP from two thousand and nine, paw Gasol. It was
a disaster. Canceling the Chris Paul trade was so grossly
(27:45):
incompetent by the NBA allowing Mark Cuban and the dude
that owns the calves whose name is escaping me right now.
For some reason exactly, Dan Gilbert I was unforgivable and
it wrecked the team. I remember what you said, Lamar
couldn't get over it. What you did to me was
worsej Lamar was sent to Dallas for nothing. The team
(28:09):
still won the Pacific, but it was over. There was
no coming back, or so we thought. And then a
year and a half later, they take their big swing,
huge swing, bold, brilliant cover of Sports Illustrated, supposed to
be the greatest team ever assembled, and it blew up.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Oh yeah, it's hard to remember that one, right, because
Steve Nash was healthy for like a quarter and then
everybody realized, oh wow, Dwight Howard is a nightmare and
nobody likes being around him.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
It was a one year swing and an incredible miss.
Nash cooked Howard. Idiot Kobe got into it. They had
the wrong coach and Mike D'Antoni, but it was bold
and it was a big swing, and you know, teams
were protesting that they put all this talent together. Why
(28:57):
do the Lakers get all these nice things and we don't.
Lakers did it again, and it failed miserably, and that's
when the wheels came off. They did not react to adversity. Well,
they panicked, like really really panicked. Everybody hated Mike D'Antoni
so much, the guy in Phoenix that mocked the Lakers
(29:17):
and mocked Kobe and mocked Phil Jackson, that they went
back to that former Laker playbook and it backfired spectacularly.
They thought they had a shot at premier free agents
with Byron Scott as their head coach, a man who
had lost twenty nine consecutive games at one point in
(29:37):
his career. Byron didn't win forty games in two years,
not in one in two years. He couldn't hit forty wins.
Part bad luck, part bad selections, crappy drafts, Julius Randall,
Brandon Ingram. They decided to give Luke Walton a shot
based on like eight games of coaching in Golden State Disaster.
(30:01):
They paid Kobe like a five hundred percent premium for
the gate, not the end court.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah, that was an issue.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
That was an issue, And you know what, Kobe was
worth five hundred percent at the gate. Oh, she wasn't
worth it on the court.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
But that was the album. He was all beat up,
and it just kind of it ground down.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Jim and Jeanie were fighting, ground them down, probably she
had to kick him out before the trade deadline because
she was afraid he was going to sabotage the team.
That set him back a year. Bringing in Magic in
a decision making Roles set him back years taking Lonzo
Ball over Tatum and Fox, which no one was into
(30:40):
except for the fans, which is understandable. Mesmerized by Lonzo
in high school and how exciting Paulie was with him
on the floor, but compared to those other players at
the top of the draft, nobody was like, yeah, Lonzo
was better than them. No, nobody said that Strawberry Pancakes though,
And basically it was a five year stretch of just
the wrong guys selling the Young Corps of the Angelo
(31:01):
Russell and Lonzo and Brandon Ingram and Julius Randall and
just stick with us. We're going to grow and they're
gonna be Lakers, and it's.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Called the Young Corps. I remember the Young Corps? Yeah,
what about.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
And that's why when Lebron says I'm coming and we
knew we said it, like out of the Lebron's, they're
not the Lakers anymore. They are now going to be
the Lebrons. We saw why Pat Riley kicked him out
of Miami because he didn't want them to be the
Miami Lebrons, so he went back to Cleveland, made him
the Cleveland Lebrons. And now things have been so bad
(31:34):
for five six years that we're going to let it
be the Los Angeles Lebrons.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
I guess that's what people are most excited about, that
they're not going to be the Lebrons anymore.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I think that's what it is. They won in the Bubble,
but outside of that, missed the playoffs first year. Then
they win in the Bubble, they lose in the first
round the following season, missed the freaking playoffs with Lebron
and Anthony Davis the year after that, and then we
had the most competitive sweep in the Western Conference finals ever,
followed by the gentlemen's sweep last year, and that's what
(32:04):
set it up for this. And again the reaction when
Lebron showed up was like, yeah, whatever, man, six years,
it's been a nightmare. They can't draft, we had a
family feud, we've had god awful coaches. Just freaking get
it fixed. And they did, and then they realized, oh no,
(32:24):
this was this was a bad idea. This was a
really bad idea the kids. And I mean like from
the second he arrived. He was supposed to make Lonzo
Ball and Brandon Ingram into professionals, like he always made
his teammates better. Oh that's the thing about Lebron. He
makes everybody better around him. And now you're going to
drop him in here with Lonzo and with Brandon Ingram
(32:45):
and they're going to be great, just like Kyrie Irving
was great, you know, And that's what we're looking at here. No,
he knewked it almost immediately when he didn't show up
at Blaze Pizza and we covered it live with Adam
Oslin down there giving us the play by play, only
to have thousands of people left holding the bag, holding
their seas in their hand, like, wait a minute, where's
(33:05):
my pizza? Where's my Lebron?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Terrible moment in LA history, terrible, huge betrayal of the
people of the city.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
And he betrayed the kids that he was supposed to
make better because he's the greatest teammate. No, y're out,
ad Inn. They win in the bubble and there was
a grace period, I guess, until they realized, no, this
Lebron's not really, it's not really a Laker where the
Los Angeles Lebrons, he was a Kobe rival. And yeah,
(33:33):
the twenty twenty title was cool, but uh, it became
incredibly polarizing.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Oh they'd made that fake Laker all access lunch about
leadership between Genie Buss and Rich Paul of god right,
just insufferable stuff. And then it became the Lakers are
letting Lebron down. The Lakers aren't getting him the help
he deserves. They're wasting Lebron's twilight years. He's still good
enough to win a title, but Rob Polinka and Genie
(33:59):
Bus refuse use to make this trade or trade this draft.
Everybody's always a wrecked player. Everybody's always wrecking everything for Lebron.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
And now it's over. And now with the Luca trade
culminating with his debut last night, and by the way,
smart by the Lakers, it was probably supposed to be Saturday.
And then they were like, you know what, that's pretty
good Indiana team. It's a really good defensive team. They
got a great head coach in Rick Carlisle. Let's put
him out there against Utah, one of the worst teams
in the league instead, And that allowed Luca to go
(34:27):
five for fourteen with a few turnovers, and the Lakers
still run away with the game, and he and Lebron
are co authoring some pretty great plays. Lebron gets to
be the hero. Hey introduced Luca last I'm gonna put
on this number seventy seven share. Isn't this great? Appearing
as though he wanted to take a back seat on
Luca's night, while of course knowing all along that by
(34:49):
not wanting to be in the spotlight, he was going
to be in the spotlight of great guyas Hey, here's
the great guy spotlight And even though it's not the
spotlight for what everybody else has their eyes on. Look
what I'm watching. Yeah, it's Ron being a great guy.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
That that spotlight's gonna get very cold. And and if
I had to guess, very envious quite quickly.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
No doubt. Well, I'm sure after the All Star break,
because our next game will be in Utah and then
they will break for the All Star festivities, which I'm
very excited about. The four teams or the three teams.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
And the day in the basement.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah, just think about a team screwing up a trade
for a big man at the deadline that they desperately needed.
A guy who's played eighty games in three seasons. He's hurt,
he's always been hurt, and then after the deadline passes,
when you give him a physical, you determined, hey, this
guy's hurt, and you miss your window to add a
legit big man to help your title chase this year
instead of getting after Polinka for that. Everyone's like, whatever, well,
(35:52):
that's pretty great that he realized that, you know, this
isn't a deal they wanted to know. That is gross
negligence that a guy that is always hurt ends up
failing your physical because perhaps a lack of due diligence
or whatever the hell happened. Like, that's not okay. But
the Luca thing is so big that everyone's like, oh,
it's pretty great. You know Rob was able to hold firm.
(36:14):
And now the Hornets are trying to push back and
they are saying that the trade should still go through,
and that's going to be investigated by the NBA because
I think the physical is bs and yeah, that should
be like criticized and like, wait, what the hell are
we doing? How do you not know a guy that's
played eighty games in three seasons, is hurt and might
not pass the physical. Now, look last night you saw
(36:37):
the atmosphere. Did Luca look great? No, he looked fat
and slow and he was getting dusted on the defensive end.
But you know what, who cares. He always looks fat
and slow and he always gets dusted on defense. But
it's the wow moments, the step back three, that first
alley you passed? Then no, look to the corner for three,
the one where he's attacking left. What's the end one?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
What three? Don chitch? Because he's got to get his
sea legs back. He has not played since Christmas. For free,
lo go, welcome to the Laker. There it is, man, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Got sea legs back. That's what I got.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Well, at least they're not the La Lebrons anymore.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
It's exactly right, the blockheads. That's why everybody was excited,
and it worked. It worked against one of the worst
teams in the league. Everybody wins. People are now talking
about the Lakers being a finals caliber team. It's gonna
get amplified because we're gonna have all All Star Break
coming off too likely lopsided victories over Utah, well even
(37:39):
to Marion.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Even when the Lakers don't have a chance, and they
I don't know if they do or not. I don't know.
Len is gonna put him over the top.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Maybe Alex len.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
But even when they don't have a chance, they talk
twenty four to seven about the Lakers having a chance
because they moved the needle.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
So meanwhile, Mark Cuban is mf and fans, Jason Kidd
is skipping press conferences, and Dallas is on fire.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
You see, they kicked that poor fat guy out for
mouthing fired Nico.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Yeah, like you can do that. I thought it was
a or guy that traded uh luka Doncic by saying
he's fat.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
I was like, I didn't know that Orson Wells is
a Dallas fan. Thereat the Laker well A fabulous trip
down memory lane, and we didn't even have to talk
about mos golf or lou Al Dang.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Oh Mos goff twelve oh one, lou Al Dang. We'll
be right back, Petro some money going until four thirty.
We got UCLA basketball tonight against Illinois. They'll tip that
off at five. They'll play again on Friday against Indiana.
(38:51):
Same sort of deal going on two to four thirty.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
No one and only Matt Muddy Smith with the tops
story of the day on the Lakers and the last segment,
we have no guests today for shi No, no, we
know how to carry the load.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Don't eat it carry that weight.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
We do depend on some listener interactions.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Context fine brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
We make it easy. Hi. Oh, while catching up on
yesterday's show, you'd be admired to know I'm now absolutely
convinced that the pole Smokers are indeed your mouth organ
show of record. Thank you. Yes, we celebrated the harmonica
(39:38):
yesterday for the dead guy birthday of the day. This
is in regards to the top story by the one
and only voice of the Bolts, Matt Smith in the
last segment, and it says, old ass Lebron knows it's over,
takes the good guy role in money, still lashes on him.
He's a relentless hater. And then you know, but it
(39:59):
was like a picture of a happy face like he
liked it. Yeah, Okay, Rodney Pete just said for all
the Lebron haters, and that's including folks on this network,
Rodney has the Lebron strogeen fever. That's a new one
(40:19):
to me.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Is that a play on estrogen?
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:22):
I believe. So, Okay, that's a hormonal you know.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
You know statement there are Lebron haters on this network
and it's not a network, it's just a local station.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Yeah, that's the thing. That's one thing.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
I was like, I was kind of like, wow, that's
a trip to me. But anyway, I've worked at Sierra
Canyon and I just want to confirm Kelly Stafford is
a nightmare, Thank you, sir. And people can tell tales
out of school all they want to the secret text
(40:55):
OsO line. I am very receptive. You know how much
I love high school? Matt Pee? What I mean?
Speaker 2 (41:04):
It's it's it's it consumes the majority of our conversation here. Yeah, totally,
I love high school. I love high school.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
We love the kids, we love the noonngons, we love
the principles, we love everybody involved, especially the athletics. How
many Laker fans care that Luca drunk? It drunk? Its
is here?
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Pee?
Speaker 3 (41:26):
What I think everybody cares?
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Yeah, that's a that would be an inaccurate statement. A
lot of people like Luca drunk.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Why is Matt so upset? Oh? Well, this was last week.
You know, I read the Dodger promotions, which are wildly
wildly It was our highest rated segment. Why is Matt
so upset about bibbleheads? You guys are life sized bibbleheads
when you're smoking pool. And a lot of people, Matt,
(42:01):
not just one, have made the connection between Alex len
and Lenz steal my sunshine.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
I know it's to me if you steal my sunset,
if you deal my sunset.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
Remember that I do.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
That was a long song that was a like a
almost a five minute song, steal my Sunshine.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
A lot of people are calling for steal my sunshine,
which means we're not gonna hear it. A fat, drunk
and a senior citizen are about to dominate the NBA,
that's true.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
I mean, they're gonna dominate the conversation. But as far
as the Western Conference goes, there are some pretty big
stumbling blocks that sort of know how to play together
and maybe aren't as fat or as drunk or as old,
maybe a little bit better constructed, maybe more experienced head coach.
I don't know, I don't know what I'm sam. It's
too stupid, you know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Saying, listen, the guy wants to drink beer, Just let
him drink his beer.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
Michael Finley coming over there taking his beer.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
What are you doing? Finley? The guy drink a beer
looks like Andre the Giant with that tiny little thing
in his hand. Then you notice that like when he
takes I'm like yeah, and that looks like a really
small can of beer.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
Well, you know big handed NBA types, Matt, you.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Know, big handed Baltic blockhead.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
It's like when you shake hands with Tony Robbins and
it's like grabbing a big bushel of bananas. Right, recent
guest on the show, by the way, Tony.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Robins, how you like that? People? Huh?
Speaker 3 (43:39):
Petrosen Money show makes for some strange bedfellows.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Take that. Lebron's or jin and.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Katrick Mahomes is going to join us next week. We're
working on him. Well, and this Stephen King Dork. We'll
be back with more. We got your word number, Song
of the Day, We have a Bachelor Report Dad and
a live guy Birthday of the Day, Quick hits and
fun facts. There's a lot of great sports talk to come.
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