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we have another story after this, but right now we
got to get to it. The top story of the
story of.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It was scrolling on the internet earlier today and I
saw I want to make sure I credit the gentleman
that posted this, Mike Leslie. He is a local sports
anchor on a local network affiliate in the Dallas area.
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As things are rolling, times are hard, Times are hard.
Things are rolling for the Lakers. Luca's arrival as tempered
the polarizing pick A side vibe around them. Instead, they're
dominant force. People on there TVs watching them jump around
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and passes and shoot baskets, And.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We talked about it yesterday. Man, it's the worst at
times in the metroplex.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
What a disaster. Here is the timeline. He decided to
chronicle by date what's happened the last thirty three days
in Dallas. Feb one, out of nowhere, a complete shock
to everyone that pays attention to professional basketball, the Dallas
Mavericks trade Luka Doncic to the Lakers. The following day,
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Nico Harrison and Jason Kidd, but mostly Nico Harrison, the
general manager, holds a press conference where he basically says,
Luka Doncic is fat, stupid, and drunk, and that's why
we traded him.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
There's no way to go through life.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Feb four, Lakers introduced Luca rob Polenka is wearing a
very weird looking coat and really an outfit altogether.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Still has a terrible haircut. Hard to believe that that
guy and that Harrison guy figured out this trade. Kept
it so quiet.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
That same day, the Mavericks traded another player, Quentin Grimes,
to the seventy six ers Fab seven. They introduced Anthony Davis.
It's very likable. Yeah, suggests, I hope you guys will
accept me. I'm excited to be here. And then the
very next night, what does he do. He goes out
and he dominates twenty seven points sixteen a couple blocks.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It was really something. And then.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
In that same game the very next night, Dirk Nowitzki
says it hurt to do it, but he knew how
much emotional pain Luka Doncic was in because he thought
Dallas would be his forever home and that the Dallas
Maverick fan base would be his forever fans, and he
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wanted to be there for emotional support, even though he
does not like the Lakers, did not want to support
the Lakers, but felt he needed to do it for Luca.
That same night, the Mavericks had a game and they
ejected fans not for having a sign, but for chanting
fire Nico.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He mouthed it, just mouthed it. He mouthed it. During
the karaoke he deceived them. He took the mic like
he was gonna do the next line of karaoke. Instead
he said fire Nico.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And everybody went whooah. On the twelfth of February, the
SMU student section broke out a fire Nico chant when
Nico Harrison was seen attending a game there. Feb. Fifteen,
Mavericks assistant Darryl Armstrong arrested for aggravated assault. I feel
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like Daryl's catching some strays there, but hey, you know
you're gonna throw hands. I guess you're gonna get part
of this time right. Feb twenty one, they post that
weird music video with the players edited out and like
the box over Luca's head. Same day, Fab twenty one,
Dirk on a local sports talk radio station with a
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pair of hosts that were probably ranked higher than us
in the Barrett Media rankings, hosted Dirk Nowitzky, who talked
about how weird all of this has been. Fab twenty five,
Luca makes his debut against the Mavericks old team, leads
the Lakers to a victory and posts a triple double.
Fab twenty eight. A Rogue Glorious large Luka Doncic mural
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was unveiled in Dallas March first. Quentin Grimes scored forty
four points for the seventy six March third MAVs raised
their season ticket prices on average eight point.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Six percent covered that.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
That same night, Kyrie Irving goes down with a knee injury,
heroically stands in order to knock down both free throws
before being helped off the court, and March fourth, yesterday
on Instagram, shares with the world that he has torn
his acl and his left knee, ending his twenty twenty
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four season, twenty four to twenty five season, and likely
a very large portion of his twenty five twenty twenty
sixth season. That's the MAVs.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You could even go all the way back to or
he could have got all the way back to Christmas
Day when Luca blew as Calves both of them.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We are now entering bizarro territory for the Lakers. Anthony
Davis is not a nobody, and that is, by the way,
a double negative that works kids. Went healthy, which he
has been the last year and a half until he
blew his groin in his Dallas debut, which I mean,
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you couldn't write it in Hollywood because nobody would believe it.
He has been, without question went healthy, a top twenty player,
most likely a top fifteen player, and you can probably
get away with calling him a top ten if you
furrow your brow and you squint, especially if you value
both ends of the court. As it stands. In the
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popular and respected per player efficiency rating statistic, the Josh
holl the John Hollinger Creation, he is ranked fifth this season, fifth,
Lebron is currently eleventh, Luca is twelfth. Is that a
perfect statistical measure of a player's value? No, I mean,
no stat really is. It's not gonna tell you the
full story of somebody's worth on a court. But the
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per the per right now has a top three of Jokic, Shai, Gil,
Just Alexander and Yana, So not totally out of whack
enough to say at least okay, this is kind of weird.
AD five. So Anthony Davis is fifth this season, and
straight up stats, he has been a twenty seven point
twelve rebound, three and a half assist guy on fifth
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fifty three percent shooting on the offensive end. Of those
twelve rebounds, a quarter of them are offensive rebounds. On
the other side, two and a half blocks per game.
His rebounding, his ball on ball, and post defense make
him one of the five best defenders in the game.
He is regularly a first team All NBA defense inclusion,
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and again he has been healthy all of last season,
all of this season this year. So what the hell?
How since February one in that timeline we talked about
with the Mavericks are the Lakers twelve and two?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It's all part of the script to get the Mavericks
to move to Las Vegas and to get the King
another jewel in his crown and to set up the
Lakers and the greatness of the Lakers for the future.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's from the five spot to the two spot. They
have scored over one hundred and twenty points in half
their games since then. Their average margin of victory is
set at eleven point nine points per game. They are
routing teams. How in the hell were the Lakers so
completely and totally mediocre with Ad out there with this
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same supporting cast the last half decade? Is JJ Reddick
that good? Is he that good of a coach? That
they've been in the play in every single freaking year
following their Bubble championship? And now with Luca? What is
it about Luca that now Lebron James is top three MVP.
I mean, it's a buzzsaw. Like last night, the Pelicans
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never stood a chance. It's the first time in fifty
years a pair of Lakers are doing what Doncic and
Lebron are doing. It's like Wilt Chamberlain Jerry West level stuff.
Statistic You damn sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Oh my god, you son of a bitch. You did it.
You did it. You've done it. You've opened up the floodgates.
You don't know what's gonna hit you that. How dare
you compact?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
They are talking about that. Since Jerry and Wilt shared
a floor together, we have not seen two players post
the numbers that Lebron and Luca are posting.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Obviously, the sample size is smaller fourteen games.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, but hey, this was supposed to be this that well,
I shouldn't say it. Disaster. This is supposed to be
a mess on one side of the floor, right, you're
supposed to have.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
They can't play defense minus defense. They both bought ball
dominant players.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, Austin Reeves, Lebron and Luke on the court at
the same time. You will not survive. They couldn't. Why
did they trade Max Christie. They should have traded Austin Reeves.
They need that on ball defender. He was the best
perimeter defender they have and he's part of the trade. Look,
it's gonna look better on offense, we think, I don't
know if they can share the ball, it's gonna be
kind of weird, but it's gonna suffer on the other end,
and pretty much unless they find it big, there's no
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way it's gonna happen this year. But hey, look forward
to next year. That's when it's gonna They are beating
the hell out of teams. The post All Star Break
gauntlet was supposed to put them back in check and
ease the excitement. Two with the Clippers, the Nuggets, the Wolves,
the Mavericks that are supposed to be better than them
in the now but not the future. All wins, all wins,
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and the next four of five will include the Knicks, Celtics, Nuggets,
and Bucks. I have no idea what those games are
gonna look like if they do come crashing back to
Earth with dominant players like the Celtics have, like the
Nuggets have, with an opportunity to adjust to what JJ
Reddick threw at them, like Giannis and Dame Lillard. I
don't know. One thing I do know is all those
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myopic Laker fans that make their pilgrimage to Las Vegas,
before the regular season starts and put down their futures
bet for the Lakers to win the NBA Championship. But
fifteen to one are feeling pretty good about their dumb
ass bet that they make every year and never hits.
So I don't know whether or not that's possible the
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NBA Championship. What I do know is, man, it looks
unlike anything we could have ever anticipated. And look, maybe
Mike Malone, he's no dummy in a seven game series.
He's still got Jokic and Murray and Gordon, and obviously
the thunder have been incredible. They've got fifty wins already
against eleven losses. No one's catching them for the one
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seed and the Warriors six and one. Since picking up
Jimmy Butler, they've gone from the ten spot to the six.
How or why it's happened, we cannot explain. It does
not make sense to trade away a guy that was
fifth in per and immediately win twelve out of your
next fourteen games by an average of twelve points per game.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
It very well could have been a hail Mary to
save the league from a vampire, which was alleged on
the Monday after the trade on this.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Air, it was vampire Blood is strong.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
But well at last through the playoffs. One can only
wait and see.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
February fifteenth, MAVs assistant Darryl Armstrong arrested for aggravated assault.
That's an interesting one to put in there.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
We'll be right back with a little college football talks.
Stay with us.
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Speaker 1 (14:59):
All right, Matt, Well, it's not really a time of
year for college football. We did detail the other day
that spring football though, it is happening all over. Nobody
wants anybody to know what's happening in their spring football
this year or ever again. Because of the Second Transfer Portal,
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people are canceling their spring games around the blue bloods,
including USC. People were doing those stupid spring showcases leading
up to that, but they're no longer contractually obligated to
do that. So spring football is going to happen. The
second Transfer Portal is going to open. But will there
be a lot of news about it. Probably not, because
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people don't want to be like an elephant in the
Cameroon poached. And that's what happens in the modern time.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Poaching, a huge poaching.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
But here's something sort of interesting. First, let's check with
our friends in West Virginia. Matt Special Place to assault, Morgantown,
West Virginia. Well here in the States, you know, everybody
loves West Virginia. Reminds them of going home drinking moonshine.
And of course Don McClain's son, the Trent, is committed
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to the Mountaineers. Now, let's say that coach gets hired
somewhere else. He might jump. But a local story about
modern college football at a high level that is quite
interesting to me. I saw it on Eric Sondheimer's Twitter
last night. Frondy a quarterback from Narbonn, originally Jalen j
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Money Henderson who transferred from Narbonn to the nod Shamanad.
I met him and his family there during that COVID
spring that I worked. Lovely kid, dual threat quarterback, big
and strong and not to be confused with Jaden Daniels
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who lit up LSU and the Commanders. I wish they
were The Commandos won a Heisman, Rookie of the Year
all that, or Jalen Daniels who's from Londale, who's playing
at Kansas and making a lot of nil money there. No,
Jaylen Henderson was at Fresno with Jeff Tedford could not
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break through, went to A and M to back up.
Was their three games starter. In twenty twenty three, started
the Texas Bowl and got hurt on the first play
of the game. I know you remember that, twenty twenty three, Yeah,
twenty twenty three Texas. Yeah, didn't play last year at
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twenty twenty four, and now who knows, he may start
for rich Brod as he is transferring to West Virginia
to play with Trent McLean in beautiful Morgantown. So if
you're keeping track for j Money, narbonn Gauchos, Shamanad Fresno
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State in the Mountain, West Texas, A and M in
the SEC, and now the West Virginia Mountaineers in Morgantown.
Like Sondheimer said on Twitter, and like Matt money Smith
during the college basketball season, he finger America.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
So does Narbon still have the bolo there on the mural?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Oh? Yeah, nice, right on Western Avenue. Nice, can't miss it.
And of course the NOD still has the blue field.
And Henderson played for the ornery Ed Crossen who's now
not there anymore. But the Nod is still a great destination.
But this is more interesting, Matt. That's just a little appetizer.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Did I get some Sherbert to cleanse my palette before
the main course?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I'd like to refer to think of it as like
a campari. But yeah. In more local news, USC, as
you know, has hired a new GM, Yes, a new
GM to make up for Lincoln Riley's deficiencies as a leader.
They hired Chad Boden. Now, when you look at his
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name and when he was first hired especially if you're
not all into front office stuff. It looked like they
hired Bobby Bowden's grandson, because that's how it's spelled. But
he's actually Jim Boden's She put him on a get Oh,
why don't you guys do that? Why don't you put
on Jim. Jim Bowden of front office Baseball Hall of
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Fame with the Cincinnati Reds built some World Series teams
who David Vesse, as Matt just chronicled, does not like.
But Jim was the Reds guy for years and you
can't take that away from him.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Nod and.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Still money we all know. And Chad, his son, who's
a real Chad was at Notre Dame as their first
GM four years and did great. And before that he
was in Cincinnati, which makes sense with Luke Fickle. Now,
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this seems Matt deep down, especially if you hear the
words coming out of this guy's mouth recently, the boat
and higher as the GM. Now, we didn't used to
have GMS when I played college football back in my day.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Now every school's got to have one.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Every school's got to have one. We had recruiting coordinators
and they did the same thing, and they distributed money,
but it was under the table, and then they'd be
fired over controversy, and then the next would take over.
But this does seem very much like a Jen Cohen
hire based on what he has said about recruiting the area,
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and he's talked about recruiting the area like Pete Carroll did.
He said, look back at Pete Carroll's classes two, three, four,
over eighty nine percent were from the state of California.
History repeats itself, it always does. Now, that does not
sound like Lincoln Riley at all, not in the least right.
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He also discussed building heavy, constant recruiting relationships in and
around recruiting hubs in southern California. Now, Lincoln Riley seemed
kind of like a child being forced to go to
church when tasked with going to Bosco or modern Day
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which our religious institution, or really just leaving the hill
in general, or out of his office reportedly. So these
are different words. It's not like Lincoln Riley said leaving
my house. But that's kind of the vibe that he's
put out for years, and that's what the recruiting classes
have reflected. So this, Matt, I think you would agree,
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seems like a new direction.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Feel like it's a move in a positive direction. Right,
Get a guy to communicate with the community and the people.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Seems so not going to be your head coach. It's
making ten million bucks a year.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
And as he should. When he was asked about Lincoln
Riley as a recruiter, Boden said, he's the best I've
ever seen, which is smart. Yeah, you know this guy
recruits for USC. Is the GM that's saying the right thing.
Boden's message to the USC fans is very Mike Damon,
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wherever you are, that's the place to be. Isn't this great? Yes?
And that's what us he is supposed to seem like.
If it's going to be a smart destination for West
Coast superstars, isn't this great? Keep them out of the
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sec and things like that. Right, it seems like Chad
is there, as you would like to say, Matt, to
be the cult to the cracks that Lincoln Riley has
displayed so far as the head coach at USC.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Well, I would guess that our friend Colin Coward's not
going to like this move because he is already back
to the idea of not recruiting southern California, Right, we don't.
That's the dumbest thing you could ever do. These patchs
was soft. That was what a Colhurtz takes. These Southern
California kids. You don't want to recruit this state.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Well, Lincoln Riley has not displayed these things well so far,
not recruiting well locally, not building a fence around the
region like the Geo fence. You don't have to recruit
USC like it's Norman, Oklahoma, where you're running all over
the place like wee Willie Winky in your nightgown in
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Texas and stuff, trying to dig people out. Oh Willie,
up the stairs and down the stairs.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Matt, a man in a nightgown.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Dress more of a dressing shirt, but yeah, sleeping shirt.
That's what Lincoln Ronn is doing all around the country.
Whaten all he has to do is drive to Vista Marietta.
The path to success at USC lies in local domination
and recruiting and development of offensive and defensive line period.
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That's it. And I'm sure all this talk of the
USC recruiting base in March really gets you going. Matt
greases up your pood.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Finally had this dude, Bowden in there saying let's build
a fence around this. He's saying, oh, so he's like
the heir to the Boudin fortune. Vot those fancy restaurants.
I can get a nice soup and like that.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Here's a thief. He stole from the Dominicans. Jim Booten, you.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Guys want to put it on it, but just nice persona.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I've grown up anyway. Voted, voted did say that about
Lincoln Riley's recruiting. He said, Look, he's a great recruiter.
He recruits the whole player. And then Notre Dame fans
are now in the last seven or eight hours, super
butt hurt. Their publications are fuming, saying that it's a
shot at the highly successful Marcus Freeman, the Irish head coach,
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because what about him is a recruiter? What about him?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I'm sure Boudin would say that he too is a
good recruiter.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Well, there does seem to be an alleged rift between
the Bodines a great band. Oh come on, Jim Bowden
and Marcus Freeman.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
That's the Indigo girls. You're right closer to Free Bodine.
Very important to make sure I got that reference clear
for everybody.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
They said to Matt, you know, I mean, you've been
doing this a long time. You know what's right. That's right. Uh,
but yeah, there seems to be a rift between Marcus
Freeman and his old GM who's now at USC. I mean,
the guy ended up at USC, which is your rival.
You just played for the national title and ripped through
the first college football Playoff. Pretty damn impressive, and you
leave to try to rebuild USC. That doesn't seem like
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there's a light at the end of the tunnel for them.
Yet you leave anyway, and it started what they called
the Bowden exit, which means they lost players, coaches, and
front office people once this guy Chad left. So something
to keep an eye on Chad around, right, It makes
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you feel but we don't have one, and that's why
we have low morale.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
That's exactly right. We'll be right back to the new
midday show, Chad and Chad. We're feeling good.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Oh, Chad and Chad's good. I can't wait. Well after
the Chads, Petros and Money won't have to flex anymore.
That's right. We'll be back with more Great Sports Talk next.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Great Sports Talk.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Got your dead and a live guy, Birthday of the Day,
and we're going all the way till six thirty. It's
our favorite. Thanks for listening, everybody. We got one more
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Speaker 2 (27:44):
I forgot about that till you just said it. What
did you think, man, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I just uh that we were going to Marongo Casino
Dodgers on deck because we ain't.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I did. Yeah, I think as we were watching the
Dodger game earlier in the prep zone for some reason,
I just had Dodgers on the brain.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I got it. It's kind of like kill Bill, where
you're like, you know, did you really think it would
be that easy? Yeah? I kinda did.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I kind of did.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
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Speaker 2 (28:32):
Love the Clippers, and I'm so happy they push their
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people to pack into the Intuit Dome for tonight's Pistons
Clippers game that extra half hour with the rain coming
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Speaker 1 (29:39):
You know, Matt, your dead guy. Birthday of the day today.
Kind of a Bohemian beat Nick type. A guy named
Irving Fisk born Irving Fishman would have been one hundred
and seventeen years old today. Fisk was a playwright, an author,
and a speaker. Born in Brooklyn. He was Jewish and
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he went to Cornell. My kind of guy sounds sounds
oddly familiar. Not Brooklyn, but wacky Bohemian family. His brother
was born on the same day as Mozart and dedicated
his life to Mozart. First. The publication that Fisk wrote
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for was Menkin's hl Menkin's publication American Mercury. He married
another profoundly important Bohemian of that time, a real weird
intellectual and a cartoonist and painter who got involved early
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with the Harvey comics. They put out the Old Green
Hornet and they built a farm and called it Quarry Hill,
the Quarry Hill Creative Center, kind of like a hip commune.
But the truth is it's still there and it does
have homeowner fees.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
We are your commune chauffeur.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
But it's not a commune.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
They got homeowner, gotcha yet, commune not gonna have hoa.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
But it still is the oldest and biggest community of
its sort in all of New England, one hundred and
forty acres, a bunch of houses. They had two kids.
He fought alongside Alan Ginsburg defending free speech at beat
Generation coffee houses when the Prudes in New York tried
(31:36):
to stop the swearing when they were doing their poetry slams.
He won the case, well known in the East village.
If we had Vic, and Vic wasn't doing a podcast,
maybe we could get him to chime in.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Gomley us.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
That's all we have left. Called me you. He had
a controversy. He was oh no, yeah, well he owned
no no, no, no, no, no, no, I've got no no.
It wasn't like that. He owned a cabin in the
Alcola Forest in Florida and it burnt. It was burnt
(32:17):
by arsonist because he was such an outspoken hippie and
there's a lot of squares down there in o'calla, and
authorities would not give him the permit to rebuild and
he went crazy, launched a legal and media battle, got
the permit, saying that they were against his youth and
(32:38):
his long hair and his long haired friend.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Oh long haired freaky people need not apply exactly right.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
No shoes, no shirt, no diet. He sued Alfred Hitchcock
and carry Grant over a Hamlet remake and lost and
had to pay their legal fate fees. But he did.
They never made the Hamlet movie they were going to make,
just because it got scrapped, not because they got sued.
But he did translate Hamlet and it was also, believe
(33:06):
it or not, controversial. Harold it with love from Orson
Wells and Huxley and Henry Miller. And he helped write
the works Progress Administration's Guide to New York City, which
is still in print today. New York City, Somebody Get
a Root. A real alt lifestyle guy known in the
(33:30):
village Greenwich, of course, as the Forest Wizard and o'calla
as the Socrates of O'calla, died of a stroke in
nineteen ninety a character of the twentieth century. We don't
have the outspoken long hairs anymore that write hardcore articles
(33:51):
and have a voice in the coffeehouses, Matt, that's gone.
All we have is James Cromwell gluing his hand to
the counter at Starbucks about VTA, when will you stop
charging us more for vegan Milt?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
And we appreciate that. Crimwell, you know though, I kind
of got the company to move.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Damn it. I miss the hippie with the glasses and
the tied ice shirt doing an Indian style seated in
front of a bulldozer. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Well, you're Berkeley days you miss I miss it? Yeah,
I missing You're alive.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
That's six weeks I spent at cal really affected me.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
This could be slightly offensive, but I'm gonna I'm gonna
go with it.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
British News, it's time for PMS, British News, United Kingdom,
English News, it's time for British News. Straight get out.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Isn't more offensive than what you'd hear in one of
the coffee houses.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
And granted, well it's the British West Indies, it's Guiana,
so it's oh, let's go Giana coisation. We need to
play this song at least once a month. I decided
that when I listened to it about four different times
this morning, all right, I'll happy seventy seventh any Grant.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Keep that in mind, Matt. You know Edny Grant very strong.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Never live in your poor heart alone. His father was
a famous musician trumpeter in the locally successful outfit Nello
and the Luckies. But you know what the British news
thing is okay, because he moved to London at eleveno
his parents made their way over there ahead of Eddie.
They set up shop, they were sending money back to
him and finally had enough to bring him over. So
(35:20):
your parents are professional musicians. They make their living playing music.
And yet Eddie says, when I saw Chuck Berry at fourteen,
that's when I knew I wanted to make my living
in musa. It's a bit of an insult to your father.
At seventeen, he forms his first band, The Equals. He's
(35:41):
not the front man, he was lead guitar and background vocals.
Nineteen they score. He's nineteen years old when they score
the UK number one Baby Come Back, same one that
Pato Bonton and Ali Campbell did as a cover version
in nineteen ninety four that they took the number one
Another Equals hit Police on My Back.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Yeah, the one that Clash covered. Potto has not a
not really thrived since the eighties.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
No, when he was twenty two, we had a heart
attack Eddie Grant, so we had to quit the equals.
He had to stop touring, stop performing, but he loved music,
so he opened a studio and thankfully Grant could ride.
He penned a bunch of hits for other artists, but
he missed the juice from performing, so he went solo
in seventy five, played all the instruments a couple mid
charters before topping the charts again in nineteen eighty with
(36:29):
do You Feel My Love. He moved to Barbados and
that's where he released Electric Avenue in eighty two, number
two on the Hot one hundred, number two in the
UK as well. And I had no idea that this
song Romance in the Stone was cut from the film.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
I do remember cut from the film. I might have
tried to celebrate Eddie Grant as Jamaican news, just because
you know, he's always been Jamaica in my it in
my mind, like mister nice guy, and yeah, never made
it in.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
But it's odd because the video.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yeah, is all about the mis It's all close from
the movie.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
So it was a big hit here in the UK.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
It's fair. That's all I ever saw years before I
ever saw the movie on VH.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
It was never a hit in the UK. Even though
Eddie was huge in the UK, did not have much
success after that. He kept pumping out albums no traction.
Thankfully he was making money with the studio Stinging Stones,
Elvis Costello, All.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Used Displaceoh in Barbados is pretty pretty popular to this day.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah, most recent release twenty seventeen, Happy seventy seven. Eddie Grant.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Does he have the great dreadlocks like Billy Ocean? Now?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I would imagine. So I did not look up Eddie
Grant twenty twenty four. It looks like he's kind of
stopped doing everything these days.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Like to see what he looked like last year.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Let's see Eddie Grant twenty twenty five now and image search.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
He still wears the big hat. If I wasn't Jamaican,
then why would I wear this hat?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
She just got All the images are him in a
hat and they look a little bit older.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
All he wears the he wears he's all hat. No
cattle might wear the hat, and there's no dreads in there.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Yeah, it looks like there's dreads in there, but it
all looks like but he's.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Not a bobo. He doesn't have it wrapped up. It's
like the big dread hat.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
It's a cool hat. Well, come on, I wish I
could wear a hat like that.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
If I wasn't from Jamaica, why would I wear this hat?
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we have another story after this, but right now we
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story of.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It was scrolling on the internet earlier today and I
saw I want to make sure I credit the gentleman
that posted this, Mike Leslie. He is a local sports
anchor on a local network affiliate in the Dallas area.
(02:38):
As things are rolling, times are hard, Times are hard.
Things are rolling for the Lakers. Luca's arrival as tempered
the polarizing pick A side vibe around them. Instead, they're
dominant force. People on there TVs watching them jump around
(02:59):
and passes and shoot baskets, And.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We talked about it yesterday. Man, it's the worst at
times in the metroplex.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
What a disaster. Here is the timeline. He decided to
chronicle by date what's happened the last thirty three days
in Dallas. Feb one, out of nowhere, a complete shock
to everyone that pays attention to professional basketball, the Dallas
Mavericks trade Luka Doncic to the Lakers. The following day,
(03:31):
Nico Harrison and Jason Kidd, but mostly Nico Harrison, the
general manager, holds a press conference where he basically says,
Luka Doncic is fat, stupid, and drunk, and that's why
we traded him.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
There's no way to go through life.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Feb four, Lakers introduced Luca rob Polenka is wearing a
very weird looking coat and really an outfit altogether.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Still has a terrible haircut. Hard to believe that that
guy and that Harrison guy figured out this trade. Kept
it so quiet.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
That same day, the Mavericks traded another player, Quentin Grimes,
to the seventy six ers Fab seven. They introduced Anthony Davis.
It's very likable. Yeah, suggests, I hope you guys will
accept me. I'm excited to be here. And then the
very next night, what does he do. He goes out
and he dominates twenty seven points sixteen a couple blocks.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It was really something. And then.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
In that same game the very next night, Dirk Nowitzki
says it hurt to do it, but he knew how
much emotional pain Luka Doncic was in because he thought
Dallas would be his forever home and that the Dallas
Maverick fan base would be his forever fans, and he
(04:54):
wanted to be there for emotional support, even though he
does not like the Lakers, did not want to support
the Lakers, but felt he needed to do it for Luca.
That same night, the Mavericks had a game and they
ejected fans not for having a sign, but for chanting
fire Nico.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He mouthed it, just mouthed it. He mouthed it. During
the karaoke he deceived them. He took the mic like
he was gonna do the next line of karaoke. Instead
he said fire Nico.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And everybody went whooah. On the twelfth of February, the
SMU student section broke out a fire Nico chant when
Nico Harrison was seen attending a game there. Feb. Fifteen,
Mavericks assistant Darryl Armstrong arrested for aggravated assault. I feel
(05:46):
like Daryl's catching some strays there, but hey, you know
you're gonna throw hands. I guess you're gonna get part
of this time right. Feb twenty one, they post that
weird music video with the players edited out and like
the box over Luca's head. Same day, Fab twenty one,
Dirk on a local sports talk radio station with a
(06:07):
pair of hosts that were probably ranked higher than us
in the Barrett Media rankings, hosted Dirk Nowitzky, who talked
about how weird all of this has been. Fab twenty five,
Luca makes his debut against the Mavericks old team, leads
the Lakers to a victory and posts a triple double.
Fab twenty eight. A Rogue Glorious large Luka Doncic mural
(06:30):
was unveiled in Dallas March first. Quentin Grimes scored forty
four points for the seventy six March third MAVs raised
their season ticket prices on average eight point.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Six percent covered that.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
That same night, Kyrie Irving goes down with a knee injury,
heroically stands in order to knock down both free throws
before being helped off the court, and March fourth, yesterday
on Instagram, shares with the world that he has torn
his acl and his left knee, ending his twenty twenty
(07:12):
four season, twenty four to twenty five season, and likely
a very large portion of his twenty five twenty twenty
sixth season. That's the MAVs.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You could even go all the way back to or
he could have got all the way back to Christmas
Day when Luca blew as Calves both of them.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We are now entering bizarro territory for the Lakers. Anthony
Davis is not a nobody, and that is, by the way,
a double negative that works kids. Went healthy, which he
has been the last year and a half until he
blew his groin in his Dallas debut, which I mean,
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you couldn't write it in Hollywood because nobody would believe it.
He has been, without question went healthy, a top twenty player,
most likely a top fifteen player, and you can probably
get away with calling him a top ten if you
furrow your brow and you squint, especially if you value
both ends of the court. As it stands. In the
(08:16):
popular and respected per player efficiency rating statistic, the Josh
holl the John Hollinger Creation, he is ranked fifth this season, fifth,
Lebron is currently eleventh, Luca is twelfth. Is that a
perfect statistical measure of a player's value? No, I mean,
no stat really is. It's not gonna tell you the
full story of somebody's worth on a court. But the
(08:39):
per the per right now has a top three of Jokic, Shai, Gil,
Just Alexander and Yana, So not totally out of whack
enough to say at least okay, this is kind of weird.
AD five. So Anthony Davis is fifth this season, and
straight up stats, he has been a twenty seven point
twelve rebound, three and a half assist guy on fifth
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fifty three percent shooting on the offensive end. Of those
twelve rebounds, a quarter of them are offensive rebounds. On
the other side, two and a half blocks per game.
His rebounding, his ball on ball, and post defense make
him one of the five best defenders in the game.
He is regularly a first team All NBA defense inclusion,
(09:20):
and again he has been healthy all of last season,
all of this season this year. So what the hell?
How since February one in that timeline we talked about
with the Mavericks are the Lakers twelve and two?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It's all part of the script to get the Mavericks
to move to Las Vegas and to get the King
another jewel in his crown and to set up the
Lakers and the greatness of the Lakers for the future.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's from the five spot to the two spot. They
have scored over one hundred and twenty points in half
their games since then. Their average margin of victory is
set at eleven point nine points per game. They are
routing teams. How in the hell were the Lakers so
completely and totally mediocre with Ad out there with this
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same supporting cast the last half decade? Is JJ Reddick
that good? Is he that good of a coach? That
they've been in the play in every single freaking year
following their Bubble championship? And now with Luca? What is
it about Luca that now Lebron James is top three MVP.
I mean, it's a buzzsaw. Like last night, the Pelicans
(10:34):
never stood a chance. It's the first time in fifty
years a pair of Lakers are doing what Doncic and
Lebron are doing. It's like Wilt Chamberlain Jerry West level stuff.
Statistic You damn sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Oh my god, you son of a bitch. You did it.
You did it. You've done it. You've opened up the floodgates.
You don't know what's gonna hit you that. How dare
you compact?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
They are talking about that. Since Jerry and Wilt shared
a floor together, we have not seen two players post
the numbers that Lebron and Luca are posting.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Obviously, the sample size is smaller fourteen games.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, but hey, this was supposed to be this that well,
I shouldn't say it. Disaster. This is supposed to be
a mess on one side of the floor, right, you're
supposed to have.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
They can't play defense minus defense. They both bought ball
dominant players.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, Austin Reeves, Lebron and Luke on the court at
the same time. You will not survive. They couldn't. Why
did they trade Max Christie. They should have traded Austin Reeves.
They need that on ball defender. He was the best
perimeter defender they have and he's part of the trade. Look,
it's gonna look better on offense, we think, I don't
know if they can share the ball, it's gonna be
kind of weird, but it's gonna suffer on the other end,
and pretty much unless they find it big, there's no
(11:54):
way it's gonna happen this year. But hey, look forward
to next year. That's when it's gonna They are beating
the hell out of teams. The post All Star Break
gauntlet was supposed to put them back in check and
ease the excitement. Two with the Clippers, the Nuggets, the Wolves,
the Mavericks that are supposed to be better than them
in the now but not the future. All wins, all wins,
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and the next four of five will include the Knicks, Celtics, Nuggets,
and Bucks. I have no idea what those games are
gonna look like if they do come crashing back to
Earth with dominant players like the Celtics have, like the
Nuggets have, with an opportunity to adjust to what JJ
Reddick threw at them, like Giannis and Dame Lillard. I
don't know. One thing I do know is all those
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myopic Laker fans that make their pilgrimage to Las Vegas,
before the regular season starts and put down their futures
bet for the Lakers to win the NBA Championship. But
fifteen to one are feeling pretty good about their dumb
ass bet that they make every year and never hits.
So I don't know whether or not that's possible the
(12:55):
NBA Championship. What I do know is, man, it looks
unlike anything we could have ever anticipated. And look, maybe
Mike Malone, he's no dummy in a seven game series.
He's still got Jokic and Murray and Gordon, and obviously
the thunder have been incredible. They've got fifty wins already
against eleven losses. No one's catching them for the one
(13:15):
seed and the Warriors six and one. Since picking up
Jimmy Butler, they've gone from the ten spot to the six.
How or why it's happened, we cannot explain. It does
not make sense to trade away a guy that was
fifth in per and immediately win twelve out of your
next fourteen games by an average of twelve points per game.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
It very well could have been a hail Mary to
save the league from a vampire, which was alleged on
the Monday after the trade on this.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Air, it was vampire Blood is strong.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
But well at last through the playoffs. One can only
wait and see.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
February fifteenth, MAVs assistant Darryl Armstrong arrested for aggravated assault.
That's an interesting one to put in there.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
We'll be right back with a little college football talks.
Stay with us.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
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Speaker 1 (14:59):
All right, Matt, Well, it's not really a time of
year for college football. We did detail the other day
that spring football though, it is happening all over. Nobody
wants anybody to know what's happening in their spring football
this year or ever again. Because of the Second Transfer Portal,
(15:20):
people are canceling their spring games around the blue bloods,
including USC. People were doing those stupid spring showcases leading
up to that, but they're no longer contractually obligated to
do that. So spring football is going to happen. The
second Transfer Portal is going to open. But will there
be a lot of news about it. Probably not, because
(15:45):
people don't want to be like an elephant in the
Cameroon poached. And that's what happens in the modern time.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Poaching, a huge poaching.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
But here's something sort of interesting. First, let's check with
our friends in West Virginia. Matt Special Place to assault, Morgantown,
West Virginia. Well here in the States, you know, everybody
loves West Virginia. Reminds them of going home drinking moonshine.
And of course Don McClain's son, the Trent, is committed
(16:20):
to the Mountaineers. Now, let's say that coach gets hired
somewhere else. He might jump. But a local story about
modern college football at a high level that is quite
interesting to me. I saw it on Eric Sondheimer's Twitter
last night. Frondy a quarterback from Narbonn, originally Jalen j
(16:44):
Money Henderson who transferred from Narbonn to the nod Shamanad.
I met him and his family there during that COVID
spring that I worked. Lovely kid, dual threat quarterback, big
and strong and not to be confused with Jaden Daniels
(17:06):
who lit up LSU and the Commanders. I wish they
were The Commandos won a Heisman, Rookie of the Year
all that, or Jalen Daniels who's from Londale, who's playing
at Kansas and making a lot of nil money there. No,
Jaylen Henderson was at Fresno with Jeff Tedford could not
(17:29):
break through, went to A and M to back up.
Was their three games starter. In twenty twenty three, started
the Texas Bowl and got hurt on the first play
of the game. I know you remember that, twenty twenty three, Yeah,
twenty twenty three Texas. Yeah, didn't play last year at
(17:50):
twenty twenty four, and now who knows, he may start
for rich Brod as he is transferring to West Virginia
to play with Trent McLean in beautiful Morgantown. So if
you're keeping track for j Money, narbonn Gauchos, Shamanad Fresno
(18:11):
State in the Mountain, West Texas, A and M in
the SEC, and now the West Virginia Mountaineers in Morgantown.
Like Sondheimer said on Twitter, and like Matt money Smith
during the college basketball season, he finger America.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
So does Narbon still have the bolo there on the mural?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Oh? Yeah, nice, right on Western Avenue. Nice, can't miss it.
And of course the NOD still has the blue field.
And Henderson played for the ornery Ed Crossen who's now
not there anymore. But the Nod is still a great destination.
But this is more interesting, Matt. That's just a little appetizer.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Did I get some Sherbert to cleanse my palette before
the main course?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I'd like to refer to think of it as like
a campari. But yeah. In more local news, USC, as
you know, has hired a new GM, Yes, a new
GM to make up for Lincoln Riley's deficiencies as a leader.
They hired Chad Boden. Now, when you look at his
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name and when he was first hired especially if you're
not all into front office stuff. It looked like they
hired Bobby Bowden's grandson, because that's how it's spelled. But
he's actually Jim Boden's She put him on a get Oh,
why don't you guys do that? Why don't you put
on Jim. Jim Bowden of front office Baseball Hall of
(19:47):
Fame with the Cincinnati Reds built some World Series teams
who David Vesse, as Matt just chronicled, does not like.
But Jim was the Reds guy for years and you
can't take that away from him.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Nod and.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Still money we all know. And Chad, his son, who's
a real Chad was at Notre Dame as their first
GM four years and did great. And before that he
was in Cincinnati, which makes sense with Luke Fickle. Now,
(20:25):
this seems Matt deep down, especially if you hear the
words coming out of this guy's mouth recently, the boat
and higher as the GM. Now, we didn't used to
have GMS when I played college football back in my day.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Now every school's got to have one.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Every school's got to have one. We had recruiting coordinators
and they did the same thing, and they distributed money,
but it was under the table, and then they'd be
fired over controversy, and then the next would take over.
But this does seem very much like a Jen Cohen
hire based on what he has said about recruiting the area,
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and he's talked about recruiting the area like Pete Carroll did.
He said, look back at Pete Carroll's classes two, three, four,
over eighty nine percent were from the state of California.
History repeats itself, it always does. Now, that does not
sound like Lincoln Riley at all, not in the least right.
(21:28):
He also discussed building heavy, constant recruiting relationships in and
around recruiting hubs in southern California. Now, Lincoln Riley seemed
kind of like a child being forced to go to
church when tasked with going to Bosco or modern Day
(21:48):
which our religious institution, or really just leaving the hill
in general, or out of his office reportedly. So these
are different words. It's not like Lincoln Riley said leaving
my house. But that's kind of the vibe that he's
put out for years, and that's what the recruiting classes
have reflected. So this, Matt, I think you would agree,
(22:11):
seems like a new direction.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Feel like it's a move in a positive direction. Right,
Get a guy to communicate with the community and the people.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Seems so not going to be your head coach. It's
making ten million bucks a year.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
And as he should. When he was asked about Lincoln
Riley as a recruiter, Boden said, he's the best I've
ever seen, which is smart. Yeah, you know this guy
recruits for USC. Is the GM that's saying the right thing.
Boden's message to the USC fans is very Mike Damon,
(22:47):
wherever you are, that's the place to be. Isn't this great? Yes?
And that's what us he is supposed to seem like.
If it's going to be a smart destination for West
Coast superstars, isn't this great? Keep them out of the
(23:07):
sec and things like that. Right, it seems like Chad
is there, as you would like to say, Matt, to
be the cult to the cracks that Lincoln Riley has
displayed so far as the head coach at USC.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Well, I would guess that our friend Colin Coward's not
going to like this move because he is already back
to the idea of not recruiting southern California, Right, we don't.
That's the dumbest thing you could ever do. These patchs
was soft. That was what a Colhurtz takes. These Southern
California kids. You don't want to recruit this state.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Well, Lincoln Riley has not displayed these things well so far,
not recruiting well locally, not building a fence around the
region like the Geo fence. You don't have to recruit
USC like it's Norman, Oklahoma, where you're running all over
the place like wee Willie Winky in your nightgown in
(24:07):
Texas and stuff, trying to dig people out. Oh Willie,
up the stairs and down the stairs.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Matt, a man in a nightgown.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Dress more of a dressing shirt, but yeah, sleeping shirt.
That's what Lincoln Ronn is doing all around the country.
Whaten all he has to do is drive to Vista Marietta.
The path to success at USC lies in local domination
and recruiting and development of offensive and defensive line period.
(24:43):
That's it. And I'm sure all this talk of the
USC recruiting base in March really gets you going. Matt
greases up your pood.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Finally had this dude, Bowden in there saying let's build
a fence around this. He's saying, oh, so he's like
the heir to the Boudin fortune. Vot those fancy restaurants.
I can get a nice soup and like that.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Here's a thief. He stole from the Dominicans. Jim Booten, you.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Guys want to put it on it, but just nice persona.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I've grown up anyway. Voted, voted did say that about
Lincoln Riley's recruiting. He said, Look, he's a great recruiter.
He recruits the whole player. And then Notre Dame fans
are now in the last seven or eight hours, super
butt hurt. Their publications are fuming, saying that it's a
shot at the highly successful Marcus Freeman, the Irish head coach,
(25:45):
because what about him is a recruiter? What about him?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I'm sure Boudin would say that he too is a
good recruiter.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Well, there does seem to be an alleged rift between
the Bodines a great band. Oh come on, Jim Bowden
and Marcus Freeman.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
That's the Indigo girls. You're right closer to Free Bodine.
Very important to make sure I got that reference clear
for everybody.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
They said to Matt, you know, I mean, you've been
doing this a long time. You know what's right. That's right. Uh,
but yeah, there seems to be a rift between Marcus
Freeman and his old GM who's now at USC. I mean,
the guy ended up at USC, which is your rival.
You just played for the national title and ripped through
the first college football Playoff. Pretty damn impressive, and you
leave to try to rebuild USC. That doesn't seem like
(26:37):
there's a light at the end of the tunnel for them.
Yet you leave anyway, and it started what they called
the Bowden exit, which means they lost players, coaches, and
front office people once this guy Chad left. So something
to keep an eye on Chad around, right, It makes
(26:58):
you feel but we don't have one, and that's why
we have low morale.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
That's exactly right. We'll be right back to the new
midday show, Chad and Chad. We're feeling good.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Oh, Chad and Chad's good. I can't wait. Well after
the Chads, Petros and Money won't have to flex anymore.
That's right. We'll be back with more Great Sports Talk next.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Great Sports Talk.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Got your dead and a live guy, Birthday of the Day,
and we're going all the way till six thirty. It's
our favorite. Thanks for listening, everybody. We got one more
segment after this. Yes, it's our favorite start time.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
I forgot about that till you just said it. What
did you think, man, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I just uh that we were going to Marongo Casino
Dodgers on deck because we ain't.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I did. Yeah, I think as we were watching the
Dodger game earlier in the prep zone for some reason,
I just had Dodgers on the brain.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I got it. It's kind of like kill Bill, where
you're like, you know, did you really think it would
be that easy? Yeah? I kinda did.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I kind of did.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Yes, you can podcast
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Just hit the final button on the app, so you
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stream it live or listen later. We have an event
coming up, and I know you're excited, Matt. We got
(28:30):
Clippers tonight.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Love the Clippers, and I'm so happy they push their
start time back to seven point thirty, allowing all those
people to pack into the Intuit Dome for tonight's Pistons
Clippers game that extra half hour with the rain coming
down and traffic building, give them that extra time to
get their asses in those seats, because I hear the
wall has got it all. Clippers Pistons coming up at
(28:52):
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(29:16):
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Speaker 1 (29:39):
You know, Matt, your dead guy. Birthday of the day today.
Kind of a Bohemian beat Nick type. A guy named
Irving Fisk born Irving Fishman would have been one hundred
and seventeen years old today. Fisk was a playwright, an author,
and a speaker. Born in Brooklyn. He was Jewish and
(30:02):
he went to Cornell. My kind of guy sounds sounds
oddly familiar. Not Brooklyn, but wacky Bohemian family. His brother
was born on the same day as Mozart and dedicated
his life to Mozart. First. The publication that Fisk wrote
(30:24):
for was Menkin's hl Menkin's publication American Mercury. He married
another profoundly important Bohemian of that time, a real weird
intellectual and a cartoonist and painter who got involved early
(30:47):
with the Harvey comics. They put out the Old Green
Hornet and they built a farm and called it Quarry Hill,
the Quarry Hill Creative Center, kind of like a hip commune.
But the truth is it's still there and it does
have homeowner fees.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
We are your commune chauffeur.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
But it's not a commune.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
They got homeowner, gotcha yet, commune not gonna have hoa.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
But it still is the oldest and biggest community of
its sort in all of New England, one hundred and
forty acres, a bunch of houses. They had two kids.
He fought alongside Alan Ginsburg defending free speech at beat
Generation coffee houses when the Prudes in New York tried
(31:36):
to stop the swearing when they were doing their poetry slams.
He won the case, well known in the East village.
If we had Vic, and Vic wasn't doing a podcast,
maybe we could get him to chime in.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Gomley us.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
That's all we have left. Called me you. He had
a controversy. He was oh no, yeah, well he owned
no no, no, no, no, no, no, I've got no no.
It wasn't like that. He owned a cabin in the
Alcola Forest in Florida and it burnt. It was burnt
(32:17):
by arsonist because he was such an outspoken hippie and
there's a lot of squares down there in o'calla, and
authorities would not give him the permit to rebuild and
he went crazy, launched a legal and media battle, got
the permit, saying that they were against his youth and
(32:38):
his long hair and his long haired friend.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Oh long haired freaky people need not apply exactly right.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
No shoes, no shirt, no diet. He sued Alfred Hitchcock
and carry Grant over a Hamlet remake and lost and
had to pay their legal fate fees. But he did.
They never made the Hamlet movie they were going to make,
just because it got scrapped, not because they got sued.
But he did translate Hamlet and it was also, believe
(33:06):
it or not, controversial. Harold it with love from Orson
Wells and Huxley and Henry Miller. And he helped write
the works Progress Administration's Guide to New York City, which
is still in print today. New York City, Somebody Get
a Root. A real alt lifestyle guy known in the
(33:30):
village Greenwich, of course, as the Forest Wizard and o'calla
as the Socrates of O'calla, died of a stroke in
nineteen ninety a character of the twentieth century. We don't
have the outspoken long hairs anymore that write hardcore articles
(33:51):
and have a voice in the coffeehouses, Matt, that's gone.
All we have is James Cromwell gluing his hand to
the counter at Starbucks about VTA, when will you stop
charging us more for vegan Milt?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
And we appreciate that. Crimwell, you know though, I kind
of got the company to move.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Damn it. I miss the hippie with the glasses and
the tied ice shirt doing an Indian style seated in
front of a bulldozer. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Well, you're Berkeley days you miss I miss it? Yeah,
I missing You're alive.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
That's six weeks I spent at cal really affected me.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
This could be slightly offensive, but I'm gonna I'm gonna
go with it.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
British News, it's time for PMS, British News, United Kingdom,
English News, it's time for British News. Straight get out.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Isn't more offensive than what you'd hear in one of
the coffee houses.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
And granted, well it's the British West Indies, it's Guiana,
so it's oh, let's go Giana coisation. We need to
play this song at least once a month. I decided
that when I listened to it about four different times
this morning, all right, I'll happy seventy seventh any Grant.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Keep that in mind, Matt. You know Edny Grant very strong.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Never live in your poor heart alone. His father was
a famous musician trumpeter in the locally successful outfit Nello
and the Luckies. But you know what the British news
thing is okay, because he moved to London at eleveno
his parents made their way over there ahead of Eddie.
They set up shop, they were sending money back to
him and finally had enough to bring him over. So
(35:20):
your parents are professional musicians. They make their living playing music.
And yet Eddie says, when I saw Chuck Berry at fourteen,
that's when I knew I wanted to make my living
in musa. It's a bit of an insult to your father.
At seventeen, he forms his first band, The Equals. He's
(35:41):
not the front man, he was lead guitar and background vocals.
Nineteen they score. He's nineteen years old when they score
the UK number one Baby Come Back, same one that
Pato Bonton and Ali Campbell did as a cover version
in nineteen ninety four that they took the number one
Another Equals hit Police on My Back.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Yeah, the one that Clash covered. Potto has not a
not really thrived since the eighties.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
No, when he was twenty two, we had a heart
attack Eddie Grant, so we had to quit the equals.
He had to stop touring, stop performing, but he loved music,
so he opened a studio and thankfully Grant could ride.
He penned a bunch of hits for other artists, but
he missed the juice from performing, so he went solo
in seventy five, played all the instruments a couple mid
charters before topping the charts again in nineteen eighty with
(36:29):
do You Feel My Love. He moved to Barbados and
that's where he released Electric Avenue in eighty two, number
two on the Hot one hundred, number two in the
UK as well. And I had no idea that this
song Romance in the Stone was cut from the film.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
I do remember cut from the film. I might have
tried to celebrate Eddie Grant as Jamaican news, just because
you know, he's always been Jamaica in my it in
my mind, like mister nice guy, and yeah, never made
it in.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
But it's odd because the video.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yeah, is all about the mis It's all close from
the movie.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
So it was a big hit here in the UK.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
It's fair. That's all I ever saw years before I
ever saw the movie on VH.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
It was never a hit in the UK. Even though
Eddie was huge in the UK, did not have much
success after that. He kept pumping out albums no traction.
Thankfully he was making money with the studio Stinging Stones,
Elvis Costello, All.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Used Displaceoh in Barbados is pretty pretty popular to this day.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah, most recent release twenty seventeen, Happy seventy seven. Eddie Grant.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Does he have the great dreadlocks like Billy Ocean? Now?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I would imagine. So I did not look up Eddie
Grant twenty twenty four. It looks like he's kind of
stopped doing everything these days.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Like to see what he looked like last year.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Let's see Eddie Grant twenty twenty five now and image search.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
He still wears the big hat. If I wasn't Jamaican,
then why would I wear this hat?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
She just got All the images are him in a
hat and they look a little bit older.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
All he wears the he wears he's all hat. No
cattle might wear the hat, and there's no dreads in there.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Yeah, it looks like there's dreads in there, but it
all looks like but he's.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Not a bobo. He doesn't have it wrapped up. It's
like the big dread hat.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
It's a cool hat. Well, come on, I wish I
could wear a hat like that.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
If I wasn't from Jamaica, why would I wear this hat?
All right, we'll be back with more great sports talk.
We will have your quick kits and your final hour
fun fact, and then we will jennison you to the
Clipper game. Yes, we
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