April 2, 2025 • 36 mins
Number, Word and Song of the Day. Hall of Famer James Worthy on the Lakers, LeBron and Luca. Dead and Alive Guy Birthday of the Day.
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All right, Matt, We got to get to it because
we got a lot to do. Dead and alive. James
Worthy word number So so let's do it right now.
One for one, Ken done. Time for the word of
the day. With his words the word of the day.
We're going to talk to James Worthy. Next Lakers play
the Warriors tomorrow. Should be an exciting game. Yeah baby.
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Last night the Dubs beat the Grizzlies. Steph Curry had
fifty two near perfect first quarter, but the game turned
heads because troubled but talented guard Ja Morant did a
gun gesture ford Buddy Heel, like a double gun, like
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he was gonna shoot him with a long gun. Now,
as you know, John Morant was suspended in twenty twenty
three for having a gun in a Denver nightclub That
was a good one, and then brandishing a gun in
a car eight games the first time twenty five of
the second. Anyway, John Morant was apparently shooting his fake
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long gun at Buddy Heel, but Buddy Healed faked the
long gun at him. So essentially they were like children
going pew pew puw pew at each other.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I like that one poo on the court.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah. Now Morant and Healed got double tax. The game
was essentially over at the time this happened, but have
imploded and fired their coach recently, even though they were
in the five spot. And John Morant has been implicated
in the fire. And yes, Matt, I also thought of
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the guy with the shotgun blast celebration in the usc
LSU gave last August in Vegas when the guy scored
a touchdown and then went up to the dB and
went sah right in his face and that was also penalized.
That was last August. So the Lakers Warriors tomorrow, no
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fake guns are shooting at each other. Please. Now, it
wasn't bad when like Russell Westbrook. Now I know it
very rarely happens, and he blew djokitches night last night.
But I mean I remember Russell Westbrook would make like
a three and then do like the guns like and
then holster his guns. But he didn't go up to
somebody's face and like Comela, you know what I mean, right,
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a bluie. I helped the grinds get it together because
I was once at the Memphis Headpoint and I wanted
to play guns little die by inexcess the sky. So
a lot of guns out there.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Comelow.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
We'll see a buddy heel tries that on the Lakers.
It's time for it. Number number of the day.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Number of the day is ninety. I do my best.
I try.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
It's been a while since I spent money on something stupid,
something I have no idea how much I'll use, if
at all. But I mentioned in how was your weekend?
How Preston and I went to Long Beach Skate that
her her skate deck had finally had enough and the
tail was chipping, so we hit it up. She didn't
even get a new skateboard, she just needed to get
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grip tape to put grip tape on a deck that
she had bought a while back.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You think you could just.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Get that online, but somebody wanted to go to Long
Beach Skate.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, like, I don't want to get it online. Let's
go in. Let's goods see what they got and what
did that? Do you know?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Now?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
They even throw in some grip tape from me to
use on an old Mike Valley Barnyard reissue. I had
zero dollars. But it's just it's to see and I
don't know if this happens to you. When you take
Fletcher to the comic store, you just start browsing.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You start looking at I don't go anywhere road board.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You're on your own kid, figure it out.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
But then I find myself on the internet and I'm
looking at the old schmid Sticks reissues.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You bought another skateboard? Yeah, well, how many skateboard decks
do you have up in your house now? Like twelve?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
You know, happened to be in the room where they're
all at.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I've got the you know, the six on the wall,
then one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,
got the there's the Gator, there's the there's the blender,
there's the Indiana.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
How many boards?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Thirteen? Right here in front of me as decoration? I
have seven up as decoration.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And and just six streaming about so people can break
their legs, like.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
No, No, thirteen, Jesus damn. Soon to be.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Fourteen because I had to get the Alva Street Fire retro.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
So you bought a new skin. But you didn't need
a news skateboard that most definitely didn't need it, But
you bought this doesn't even count like the six I
have built that I skate around. Get. I buy a
little plastic Joe Strummer action figure and I get made
fun of Get.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
It is the first.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
It is the first skateboard I bought in a long time,
in years, but like two years. Yeah, I think two's right.
Two sounds right. And that one I bought two years
ago never been used.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Well, no, they're decorations, Matt, Yeah, just like my Joe
Strummer action figure. Yeah, which I'm very proud.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Of, as you should be. I'm very proud of the
The album that I purchased is too. You know, you
can't get over those early to mid eighties Elvis that
they rarely re. So had had to chase that down because, yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
God forbid that I God forbid that I have some
nostalgia over dethtro and the Baroness make it out on
Gi Joe. I'm not allowed to enjoy deathro and the
Baroness not. You can have all the fun you.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Want, Yes, fourteen, tired of this double standards. Well it's
only been nineteen years of it, so you know, I
had barely been around Roddy.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
This is the song of the day.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Why yes, Petros we do. It's from the great top
hat wearing Leon Russell, who was a musician, songwriter, singer
and producer who we paid tribute to on his birthday
with our song of the day called roller derby rolling
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Wow Man breaked down.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
A baseball cards.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, well Kates can do that on social media. And
are you gonna post a picture of your skateboard on
your new deck on social media?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I don't know if you.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I mean you talked about it on air.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, I guess I should. When it arrives, I will,
I will post a photo of it.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Oh, so you were inspired by the trip to the
skateboard shop.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, I got all excited. They had the retro.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Boards there and ordered something online.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah, well they didn't have the albus. I love this
like going to the brothel, going home and then having
a call.
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Speaker 3 (10:08):
Well. The Lakers have a big game tomorrow night against
the Golden State Warriors could be a preview of an
early playoff matchup here to discuss it. One of the
all time great Lakers people and basketball players straight out
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of Gastonia, North Carolina. I don't know how far that
is from Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. Closer
than we are here, certainly Emmy Award winner, Spectrum Sportsnet
and just a hell of a nice guy, always cool,
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his victory clap and cigar synonymous with happiness. In Los Angeles.
It's James Worthy on the Petros and Money Show. What's cracking? James?
How are you?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
What's cracking? Yeah? I know Conway, South Carolina. Gastonia is
more inland.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Man.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
I moved to California and lived in Plyia there right.
Took me three minutes to get to the beach. When
I was growing up, I had to drive five or
six hours.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Man.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Yeah, but yeah, I know Conway, South Carolina, buddy.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah no, there was a story, thank you. There was
a story out of Conway where it's only like two
hundred and fifty bucks for season tickets to Chanticleer's Football
and you get unlimited free hot dogs, popcorn, fountain drinks
and Nachos had a pretty good deal.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Yeah, and they give you a discount on Jennie Craig afterday.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
That's right, That's.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Exactly right, James.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
You know you got the Warriors coming and Steph Curry
is still a very impactful player, and you know you
got lebron As for years old doing crazy things like
he's doing. But what is your vibe on this version
of the Golden State Warriors since there's so much talk
about the Lakers versus them and what they are compared
to I guess what they used to be.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
They're a dangerous team for a team that look like,
you know, after the Tlay Thompson trade, they looked like
they were looking, you know, toward the future to see
just to see if they could just maybe have one
more strike at it. And they do, they'd be one
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of the hottest teams. They're a different team with the Butler.
Butler's not so much a three point player, but he's
a defensive player and he gets to the free throw
line a lot. So with Moody and guys like that,
the role players, they're dangerous right now. And there's nobody
more experienced than Steph Curry. When I take a Lebron
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at forty. Hell, I'm waiting to see what Steph Curry
is gonna be. Like, Ay, now, you know what I mean.
These guys just keep getting better and better. So I
think the Lakers can overcome Golden State. But they're a
different team with Butler and Moody shooting the three, and
you know with Steph they're always be lethal when he's
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on the floor.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Yeah, thirty seven ain't that far from forty and what
he's doing, and you just assumed that his game was
going to age well because of the way he plays.
But you know, we talk about Jokic now in particular,
and Giannis is another one that you're just like, man,
how do you stop that guy? But it still seems
like James, of all the players in the NBA, the
one that would give you know, your defensive coaches the
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most headaches would be Steph, right, just because I mean,
how far out do you have to go? And what
does that do for the rest of the defense when
you're spaced that far out to worry about what that
guy's going to do and where he's going to shoot from.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Kay, it won't be long before he shoots one from
the three point line. On the opposite the court. He's
gonna get a rebound, take a couple of dribbles and
just launch one. Hey man, look yo, kids, you kind
of have to wait for him to get into his area,
you know. You know three point line and Yan it's
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the same thing. You can set up walls for them,
you know. Sometimes you can double tip a team. Steph
without the ball is the most dangerous guy on the
on the floor. Now with the ball, he's extremely dangers
Without the ball, you can't find him. He's elusive. He's
like Flash Gordon. He's you're looking at him one second
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and then the one second lader he's over there, and
he's over there, and then the threat of the shot.
You have to be ready to defend it. So when
he catches it, you're going in the air. Every pump
fake you have to go for. With Steph Curry, you
you have no choice because he's such a great shooting.
When he gets you a little pump fake, steps to
the side, and then when he hits a b four
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or five threes in your face, then he goes in
and hits about three or four layouts, which most people don't,
you know, think of him as that kind of player,
but he gets to the cup pretty good, So they're
gonna be tough. They have experience, they have a coach
that knows how to think on his feet, and they
have Draymond Green, who's toughest nails in the playoffs, and
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along with Butler and the rest of that crew, they
could you know, they're dangerous.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
James when you kind of see the way that now
that they've played enough games together, you know, with Reeves
and and Luca and Lebron kind of walk us through.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Is someone who was sort.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Of part of a big three, you know, and if
it was you and Kareem and Magic or you and
Byron and Magic, is Kareem is kind of going down.
Like what that means for the rest of the players
and how they get their shots and even though they're open,
just like the challenges that you might have as a
Finny Smith or a Vincent when you're getting you know,
five six. Maybe because these other guys are playing at
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that level where they're taking eighteen twenty two per game
and taking the majority of the shots on the offensive end,
what does that do for those players and how do
they stay in rhythm?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Well, I think what we saw in the Houston game
is a good example of what I think they need
to do more of. You have teams in the NBA
who's bench is scoring forty thirty five plus points, and
the Lakers do it sporadically. But I think what we
saw with Gabe Vinson getting twenty and Annie Smith getting
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twin Now, I don't think they can get twenty every time,
but I think fifteen, I think that bench is going
to have to give us thirty to thirty five points
in order to keep up with other teams benches. Now,
we've had a flurry of injuries where we had Gabes
had to start sometime they had other guys out and
guys have had to start. So I know, I benched
production has been a little bit inconsistent because of the injuries.
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But I think going to the playoffs, they're going to
need to, you know, be the dogs that they are defensively,
and then Reddick, I think the coach of staff is
gonna have to realize that the way they played the
other night where Vinnie was hitting threes. You know, Gabe
Vincent has emerged. He's had a good month, like he's
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played like he played in Miami before he came here,
So they're going to have to look for shots, make
sure that they keep the defense honest. And I think
Vinnie shooting threes, Gabe shooting threes. You know, Vanderbilt gets
his differently steals and whatnot. I don't know what the
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playing time is going to be for Dalton going down.
I mean, it just seems to like he's a rookie.
We have to remember that he is a rookie and
so but if called upon, he's another guy that can
take advantage of that. So they're going to need I
think twenty five to thirty points a game off the bench,
especially in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
If he grew up by the beach, maybe he would
not have had as much time to practice basketball. The
Great James Worthy joining us right now on the Petro
Send Money Show. James, where do you come out on
volume shooting? You know, Luka Doncicch now that he's been
a Laker for a little while, you see guy takes
a lot of shots. You know, he misses some shots too.
How does that work? You know, as far as your
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philosophy goes, and I remember Kobe was very much like that.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Well, when you're hot, we're going to look for you
when you're not, you got to get other people involved,
and I think that's going to be I think Lebron
gets it. Lebron has been around long enough to kind
of know how to allow players to you know, get
involved offensively. And I think Luca understands it. But he
comes from a different mindset of holding onto the ball
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maybe for the last to the last second. And he
still gets you know, the assist off with the volume shooting.
If he's making them, you know, that's good. But even
if he's making some, his responsibility is still to pick
and choose. You know, when can I get gave a shot?
When can I get you know, a lob to Hayes.
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You know, when can I get you know, Vanderbilt on
a back door or something like that? You got to
you know, and the Magic was really good at that
Magic had the opportunity to take a lot of shots.
But you know, he knew he had to get Byron
Scott a shot. He knew he had to. Even even
kirk ramis every now and then we get him a
step in lay up. Because kirk ramis defensive, man would
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always cheat off of him to help out on Kareem,
and so we would we would run one player game
or two to get Kurt an easy lay up and
then that would you know, free up Kareem to go
ahead and roll in there and shoot the sky hook.
So it's up to Luca to kind of figure out.
I mean, he can get his he didn't have to
work for a shot that much. So it's critical that
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he realizes and I think that's why. I think that's
why I like the s see the ball in Austin
Reeve's hands even in the even in the ladder of
the fourth quarter. I think Austin Reeves, you know, he's
more efficient and getting to the cup or getting a file.
So they have to figure that out. They got three
guys that can handle the ball, and that's that could
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be tough, or they could just decide it's going to
be you know, Luca and Austin. You know, Lebron doesn't
have the blow by speed like he used to. I
mean they tried to. I saw them in the I
think it was a Houston game. A little fumbles after
after two or three dribbles and you know, defensive pressure
sometimes you know, he cofts it up. So that's something
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that the coaching staff is going to have to figure
out who's going to handle it down the stretch and
who can get other players involved.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
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game and a half back of the Nuggets. They got
seven to play. Just kind of your thoughts on chasing
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the three seed versus the four seed, you know, maybe
tangling with Houston in that second round instead of getting
the thunder in the second round. Is that something that
coaches that players are looking at or at this time
with seven games left in all those minutes on your legs,
especially a forty year old Lebron, are you more interested
in kind of figuring out how to get some rest
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minutes before the playoffs start.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Well, I'm going to go out on a blind answer here,
just I don't know for sure, but it sure looks
like teams kind of want to see themselves, you know,
in the last few years, you know, they're like trying
to avoid you know certain teams. I think the Lakers
farewell against Houston in the second round, I think, but
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I think they need to really be geared up to play,
to play well. You know, they they should have won
a game in Indiana, you know, on the road, Chicago
on the road, so they I mean, their record at
home is better. But I think in that that second round,
I mean, if you can avoid Oklahoma, uh naturally, I mean,
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that'd be awesome, but if you have to sit out
a few guys, uh to get some rests and you know,
you you that's part of the strategy now from what
I've seen. So you're gonna have to see him at
some point. My philosophy is that damn is gonna have
to see him at some point. Let's se him first.
Get it over with, you know what I'm saying. So, uh,
don't run from the fire. I mean, I mean, well,
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you do have to run from the fire, you know
what I'm saying. But don't don't run from teams that
you're gonna have to see anyway, you know what I mean.
You you you be the one to take them down. So, uh,
you're gonna have to see him at some point, and
you you know, it's kind of mind. It's kind of
chicken to want somebody else to knock them out.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, well yeah, well there there's a reason
that we're all nostalgic for the NBA of your time,
the great James Worthy hero to us all James, have
a great night and have a great night tomorrow. Lakers
Warriors will be watching and uh, we'll talk to you soon.
You got it, and Matt will be right back with
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Speaker 4 (23:23):
To buy them out of bankruptcy. We're gonna buy the trademark.
We're gonna want No Better.
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Well, right to Carson, right at the heart of it.
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Right there we'll be.
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We'll be right back with your dad and a live guy.
Birthday of the day. Big thanks to James Worthy. Well,
a big thank you to James Worthy again, a great conversation.
We are rolling toward the final game of the Dodgers
series Dodgers on Deck with Tim Kaits and Dodger Talk
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and Dodger Clubhouse Tonight with Tim Kase Firs pitch at
five thirty eight, it is Snell' Zilla day as Blake
Snell makes his second start of the season, which is
why we weren't able to get ahold of Dave. He
is absolutely catatonic and of course O TWI Bobblehead night.
It is justin it is chaos.
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Dave's nervous. He recognizes the implications if snell Zilla is
the one that blows this thing, you know, coming on
yesterday and throwing dustin May under the bus, saying tonight's
the night they lose perfection and then snell Zilla is
gonna save the series tomorrow. He really pulled his boots
out and threw it on the table.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
All right, well, you know, I feel like you're starting
to cockfight with a Brewster with a longer shift.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
It comes to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
But it is Snell's Villa day and we have Clippers
tonight the Barn. Dave, all right, well, yeah, there's no
doubt about that, Matt. You've made yourself very clear. Indeed,
Clippers host the Pelicans pregame at six point thirty. You know,
with all the love you give Matt, you think the
Dodger brass would show us more love when they're walking by.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
You'd like to think, you know what I mean, you'd
like to think, right, But no, I mean, at least
you got a fist bump from freaking lawn and he
just looked at me like I was.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Special. It's time for the dead guy birthday day.
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You let's say, case guy look like, oh, let's look
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it's strong. I'll take you on. You're a dead guy
birthday of the day.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Neither one of us have ever pushed the Dodge or
the Chrysler. I've been a galloping man my entire radio career,
so predominantly Ford, a little bit of Mazda, my man
Dave gillhim over there at Honda.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
But no Chryslers.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
When I think back to when I was a kid, Ralph,
my old man Ralph never really had a lot of
love for the Chrysler. Even have a LeBaron in the
no like I do. Recalled him comic. We had a
Buick too, We had a bug Electra. But the LeBaron convertible,
the Leiah Coca Special. They put him back on the
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map in the eighties. It was kind of briefly a
big deal. But it turned out that trash.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
That Chrysler, that Chrysler convertible that people only got on vacation.
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Like all, oh, yes, the or whatever it is, the
sea bring, Yes, the Chrysler.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I believe Seabring was there past.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
It's actually bought one of those. Oh God rest his soul,
because he rented one once and he was like, hey,
I like this girl.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Yeah, no, that's a now, that's a good pull. By
the way, in searching for the Sea bring to pull
out the old Pontiac Sunbird, another fine vehicle from the
nineteen eighties that looking back, you're like, wow, people really
bought those, huh. I saw Fierro driving around the streets
the other day and got kind of excited. But Yeah, Chrysler,
(27:23):
whether it was the Laser or the Conquest that couldn't
touch the Mustang or the Camaro, the Imperial or Fifth Avenue.
You mentioned you had a buick, you know, that couldn't
touch the Park Avenue or the Electra. But we'll celebrate
him anyway, the old ass Chrysler's your grease monkey show
of record, your gearhead show of record. Happy would have
been one hundred and fiftieth today to Walter Chrysler born
(27:45):
in Wamego, Kansas.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Our show echoes throughout garages all over the country.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Everybody knows it. Spark plugs, man right calipers.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
He grew up in Ellis, Kansas, his childhood home. He's
a Chrysler museum in ls Kansas. Walt was a freemason.
He was a machinist. He was a railroad mechanic who
took correspondence courses out of Scranton and mechanical engineering and decided,
I'm gonna cut out of town and I'm gonna head west,
and I'm gonna use these fancy skills of mine to
work and survive along the way. Started in western Kansas,
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made his way to Denver, Colorado, Cheyenne Wyoming, working his
way up the rank on the railroad before becoming the
foreman general master mechanic in Fort Worth, and then was
hired by the American Locomotive Company just outside Pittsburgh as
their general works manager. He became a force in the
railroad industry. And that is when the gentleman that ran
(28:44):
Alco mentioned, you know, I got a buddy. His name's
Charles Nash. He's the president of Buick Motor Company. He's
looking for a production chief. And I said, I got
a real sharp guy you might be interested in.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (28:57):
And he's like, uh, give it a listen. Well, Walt
and Chuck hit it off. Chrysler moved to Flint. He
saved Buick piles of money by finding inefficiencies in their
manufacturing process. Five years later, the bank sells and William
Durant buys. Chrysler was not crazy about having a new boss.
(29:18):
He liked his old bosses, so he decided to just
resign and moved to New York and figure out what
the heck he was going to do. But Durant chased
him down there begged him to stay with an unheard
of at the time offer. Three years in today's dollars.
He offered him three hundred grand per month with a
fifteen million dollar bonus at the end of each year.
(29:41):
That is in today's dollars. Durant said that Walt would
have full run of Buick, report to nobody, and have
zero interference from anyone. In shock, he said, can I
can you repeat that offer please? He then took it
For the next three years. Buick was a powerhouse. Chrysler
became one of the richest men in America by nineteen
nineteen after starting it Buick in nineteen eleven at a
salary of six thousand dollars per year. After that, he
(30:04):
was hired by a startup auto company in Toledo, Willie's Overland,
for and this is in nineteen nineteen money one million.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Dollars per year at Willi's.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
At Willie's he did that for two years, but they
did not grant him the power to do what he wanted,
so he decided to quit. He bought the Maxwell Motor
Company out of almost bankruptcy, and he created the Chrysler
Corporation in Detroit in nineteen twenty five. He simultaneously launched
Plymouth and DeSoto, and two years later bought Dodge Brothers, dropped.
(30:39):
The Brothers renamed it Dodge underneath the Chrysler umbrella.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
They were recently involved in an LA car chase. The
Dodge Brothers, they were it was a hell of a cart,
reckless as hell.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Indeed, he quickly financed the construction of the Chrysler building
in New York. He was named Time Magazine's Man of
the Year in twenty eight. He cut the ribbon on
the skyscraper in nineteen thirty. A freaking stud. He retired
in nineteen thirty six. And it just goes to show
you some of us men. We just need to work.
Man in great.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Health, like whole life, like Bear Bryant.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Yeah you got like, don't retire. Guy was a working man.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
He retires in thirty six and in nineteen forty, in
nineteen thirty eighty has a stroke and he dies a
year and a half later at sixty five.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Just cruise it along.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
I'm sorry, retires, bang, Keep working kids happy. It would
have been one hundred fifty. Keep contributing, man, you need
the grind.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Just keep paying your taxes forever. That's right.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Walter Persley, Chrysler, Matt.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
We just don't play enough country. The wordency emergency country
music meeting with our boss Don Martin still echo in
my mind. And Brian Blackmore was there too, nodding along
and acting we were so stupid because we don't play
that much country music like Tim Kaits Get Me Back
(32:07):
to God's Country, Morgan Wallen country music. Yeah, that's what
they were taking here, That's what they were talking about.
I can't believe we're still on the air, Matt, because
we really didn't go country like they wanted us to.
We really did have a meeting where they wanted us
to go country.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Gouy's k Frog is number one in this book, and
it's by a wide margin.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
It's the most reactionary meeting I've ever been.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
In my life. We talk for of the segment.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yeah, country music, like the Torpedo bat is the wave
of the future. So today we'll celebrate pretty old guy
for a live guy. Sonny throg Morton's eighty four years
old from well born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, but raised
in Wichita Falls, Texas, and in the sixties, because he
(33:04):
was a young musician, moved to San Francisco to do
rock and roll. But like Beyonce, realized there wasn't much
for him in the rock world. So turn two country.
How did it work out for Beyonce? She's beloved on
an album that no one has heard.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
But a ton of awards.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Yeah, a ton of awards award winning album. You're telling
me Beyonce gets to win those kind of country awards.
And Charlie Pride, a great black man.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Cannot not okay love Charlie Pride.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Well Sonny was a real hit songwriter. He had one
hundred and fifty of his songs recorded in nine months
when he got could not write fast enough songwriter the
year in Nashville seventy eight, seventy nine and eighty. Between
seventy six and eighty, one of his songs appeared on
(34:04):
the country charts almost every week. More than one thousand
of his songs have been recorded. Willie Nelson, we're not
talking about recorded by idiot bands either. Matt Willie, George
strait Merle Haggard, Jerry Lee Lewis another rocker who sought
(34:25):
refuge in the country world. Holy heck, they don't care
so much about the marrying of your cousin fourteen years
old in the country world.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
A different time or a different place.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Well, I mean, Jerry Lee Lewis was I mean maligned
for it in the rock world. But country opened their
arms and said, Jerry Lee, we got this great song
that Sonny Frogmorton wrote for him, many many others Oakridge Boys.
Sonny had some minor success of his own. That's him
(34:58):
singing as a and leader in the nineteen seventy eights,
The Last Cheaters, Waltz in nineteen eighty six's Southern Train.
He retired in eighty eight at forty seven, but miraculously
did not die right after. He's still alive. He retired
(35:20):
at my age I'm forty seven, to care for his
father on a Texas ranch. But people still record his songs.
He even wrote I Wish I was eighteen again that
George Burns recorded in the eighties. George Burns, Yes, an
unlikely country song from George Burns songwriting Hall of Fame
(35:44):
Sonny throg Morton. And we will return with more great
sports talk. That's right. We got the fun fact and
a very eventful quick hits with some crazy stories, some
about Adai Marra's demands rumored demand uns four.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I would have agreed to all of them. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
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on one sixty two and zero and we just won't
be if we do.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Wednesday.
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Otani Bablehead Night.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Day in line.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
First of four MVP Otani Biblehead Night Holding an MVP award.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
All right, Matt, We got to get to it because
we got a lot to do. Dead and alive. James
Worthy word number So so let's do it right now.
One for one, Ken done. Time for the word of
the day. With his words the word of the day.
We're going to talk to James Worthy. Next Lakers play
the Warriors tomorrow. Should be an exciting game. Yeah baby.
(01:51):
Last night the Dubs beat the Grizzlies. Steph Curry had
fifty two near perfect first quarter, but the game turned
heads because troubled but talented guard Ja Morant did a
gun gesture ford Buddy Heel, like a double gun, like
(02:14):
he was gonna shoot him with a long gun. Now,
as you know, John Morant was suspended in twenty twenty
three for having a gun in a Denver nightclub That
was a good one, and then brandishing a gun in
a car eight games the first time twenty five of
the second. Anyway, John Morant was apparently shooting his fake
(02:35):
long gun at Buddy Heel, but Buddy Healed faked the
long gun at him. So essentially they were like children
going pew pew puw pew at each other.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I like that one poo on the court.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah. Now Morant and Healed got double tax. The game
was essentially over at the time this happened, but have
imploded and fired their coach recently, even though they were
in the five spot. And John Morant has been implicated
in the fire. And yes, Matt, I also thought of
(03:13):
the guy with the shotgun blast celebration in the usc
LSU gave last August in Vegas when the guy scored
a touchdown and then went up to the dB and
went sah right in his face and that was also penalized.
That was last August. So the Lakers Warriors tomorrow, no
(03:35):
fake guns are shooting at each other. Please. Now, it
wasn't bad when like Russell Westbrook. Now I know it
very rarely happens, and he blew djokitches night last night.
But I mean I remember Russell Westbrook would make like
a three and then do like the guns like and
then holster his guns. But he didn't go up to
somebody's face and like Comela, you know what I mean, right,
(04:00):
a bluie. I helped the grinds get it together because
I was once at the Memphis Headpoint and I wanted
to play guns little die by inexcess the sky. So
a lot of guns out there.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Comelow.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
We'll see a buddy heel tries that on the Lakers.
It's time for it. Number number of the day.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Number of the day is ninety. I do my best.
I try.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
It's been a while since I spent money on something stupid,
something I have no idea how much I'll use, if
at all. But I mentioned in how was your weekend?
How Preston and I went to Long Beach Skate that
her her skate deck had finally had enough and the
tail was chipping, so we hit it up. She didn't
even get a new skateboard, she just needed to get
(04:51):
grip tape to put grip tape on a deck that
she had bought a while back.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You think you could just.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Get that online, but somebody wanted to go to Long
Beach Skate.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, like, I don't want to get it online. Let's
go in. Let's goods see what they got and what
did that? Do you know?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Now?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
They even throw in some grip tape from me to
use on an old Mike Valley Barnyard reissue. I had
zero dollars. But it's just it's to see and I
don't know if this happens to you. When you take
Fletcher to the comic store, you just start browsing.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You start looking at I don't go anywhere road board.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You're on your own kid, figure it out.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
But then I find myself on the internet and I'm
looking at the old schmid Sticks reissues.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You bought another skateboard? Yeah, well, how many skateboard decks
do you have up in your house now? Like twelve?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
You know, happened to be in the room where they're
all at.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I've got the you know, the six on the wall,
then one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,
got the there's the Gator, there's the there's the blender,
there's the Indiana.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
How many boards?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Thirteen? Right here in front of me as decoration? I
have seven up as decoration.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And and just six streaming about so people can break
their legs, like.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
No, No, thirteen, Jesus damn. Soon to be.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Fourteen because I had to get the Alva Street Fire retro.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
So you bought a new skin. But you didn't need
a news skateboard that most definitely didn't need it, But
you bought this doesn't even count like the six I
have built that I skate around. Get. I buy a
little plastic Joe Strummer action figure and I get made
fun of Get.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
It is the first.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
It is the first skateboard I bought in a long time,
in years, but like two years. Yeah, I think two's right.
Two sounds right. And that one I bought two years
ago never been used.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Well, no, they're decorations, Matt, Yeah, just like my Joe
Strummer action figure. Yeah, which I'm very proud.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Of, as you should be. I'm very proud of the
The album that I purchased is too. You know, you
can't get over those early to mid eighties Elvis that
they rarely re. So had had to chase that down because, yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
God forbid that I God forbid that I have some
nostalgia over dethtro and the Baroness make it out on
Gi Joe. I'm not allowed to enjoy deathro and the
Baroness not. You can have all the fun you.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Want, Yes, fourteen, tired of this double standards. Well it's
only been nineteen years of it, so you know, I
had barely been around Roddy.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
This is the song of the day.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Why yes, Petros we do. It's from the great top
hat wearing Leon Russell, who was a musician, songwriter, singer
and producer who we paid tribute to on his birthday
with our song of the day called roller derby rolling
up our sleeves and flexing some muscle with an early
start for the Petros and Money Show because of the
Dodgers who are getting ready to play the Atlanta Braves
(08:09):
hoping to bring out the brooms in Sweet the Braves.
Right out of job Is Ravine and Tim Kates will
be stepping in with your Marongo Casino Dodgers on Deck
program that's coming up at four thirty.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Running Kate's also has Dodger Talk and Dodger Clubhouse break past.
Wow Man breaked down.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
A baseball cards.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, well Kates can do that on social media. And
are you gonna post a picture of your skateboard on
your new deck on social media?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I don't know if you.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I mean you talked about it on air.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, I guess I should. When it arrives, I will,
I will post a photo of it.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Oh, so you were inspired by the trip to the
skateboard shop.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, I got all excited. They had the retro.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Boards there and ordered something online.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah, well they didn't have the albus. I love this
like going to the brothel, going home and then having
a call.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Girl right well, then just going on. Holyfans, let's go.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
OnlyFans in line for the Altani bobblehead tonight, forty thousand
being given away. There are aerial shots of the stadium,
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on AMI seventy LA.
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Speaker 3 (10:08):
Well. The Lakers have a big game tomorrow night against
the Golden State Warriors could be a preview of an
early playoff matchup here to discuss it. One of the
all time great Lakers people and basketball players straight out
(10:30):
of Gastonia, North Carolina. I don't know how far that
is from Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. Closer
than we are here, certainly Emmy Award winner, Spectrum Sportsnet
and just a hell of a nice guy, always cool,
(10:53):
his victory clap and cigar synonymous with happiness. In Los Angeles.
It's James Worthy on the Petros and Money Show. What's cracking? James?
How are you?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
What's cracking? Yeah? I know Conway, South Carolina. Gastonia is
more inland.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Man.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
I moved to California and lived in Plyia there right.
Took me three minutes to get to the beach. When
I was growing up, I had to drive five or
six hours.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Man.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Yeah, but yeah, I know Conway, South Carolina, buddy.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah no, there was a story, thank you. There was
a story out of Conway where it's only like two
hundred and fifty bucks for season tickets to Chanticleer's Football
and you get unlimited free hot dogs, popcorn, fountain drinks
and Nachos had a pretty good deal.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Yeah, and they give you a discount on Jennie Craig afterday.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
That's right, That's.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Exactly right, James.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
You know you got the Warriors coming and Steph Curry
is still a very impactful player, and you know you
got lebron As for years old doing crazy things like
he's doing. But what is your vibe on this version
of the Golden State Warriors since there's so much talk
about the Lakers versus them and what they are compared
to I guess what they used to be.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
They're a dangerous team for a team that look like,
you know, after the Tlay Thompson trade, they looked like
they were looking, you know, toward the future to see
just to see if they could just maybe have one
more strike at it. And they do, they'd be one
(12:35):
of the hottest teams. They're a different team with the Butler.
Butler's not so much a three point player, but he's
a defensive player and he gets to the free throw
line a lot. So with Moody and guys like that,
the role players, they're dangerous right now. And there's nobody
more experienced than Steph Curry. When I take a Lebron
(12:56):
at forty. Hell, I'm waiting to see what Steph Curry
is gonna be. Like, Ay, now, you know what I mean.
These guys just keep getting better and better. So I
think the Lakers can overcome Golden State. But they're a
different team with Butler and Moody shooting the three, and
you know with Steph they're always be lethal when he's
(13:18):
on the floor.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Yeah, thirty seven ain't that far from forty and what
he's doing, and you just assumed that his game was
going to age well because of the way he plays.
But you know, we talk about Jokic now in particular,
and Giannis is another one that you're just like, man,
how do you stop that guy? But it still seems
like James, of all the players in the NBA, the
one that would give you know, your defensive coaches the
(13:42):
most headaches would be Steph, right, just because I mean,
how far out do you have to go? And what
does that do for the rest of the defense when
you're spaced that far out to worry about what that
guy's going to do and where he's going to shoot from.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Kay, it won't be long before he shoots one from
the three point line. On the opposite the court. He's
gonna get a rebound, take a couple of dribbles and
just launch one. Hey man, look yo, kids, you kind
of have to wait for him to get into his area,
you know. You know three point line and Yan it's
(14:16):
the same thing. You can set up walls for them,
you know. Sometimes you can double tip a team. Steph
without the ball is the most dangerous guy on the
on the floor. Now with the ball, he's extremely dangers
Without the ball, you can't find him. He's elusive. He's
like Flash Gordon. He's you're looking at him one second
(14:38):
and then the one second lader he's over there, and
he's over there, and then the threat of the shot.
You have to be ready to defend it. So when
he catches it, you're going in the air. Every pump
fake you have to go for. With Steph Curry, you
you have no choice because he's such a great shooting.
When he gets you a little pump fake, steps to
the side, and then when he hits a b four
(15:00):
or five threes in your face, then he goes in
and hits about three or four layouts, which most people don't,
you know, think of him as that kind of player,
but he gets to the cup pretty good, So they're
gonna be tough. They have experience, they have a coach
that knows how to think on his feet, and they
have Draymond Green, who's toughest nails in the playoffs, and
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along with Butler and the rest of that crew, they
could you know, they're dangerous.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
James when you kind of see the way that now
that they've played enough games together, you know, with Reeves
and and Luca and Lebron kind of walk us through.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Is someone who was sort.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Of part of a big three, you know, and if
it was you and Kareem and Magic or you and
Byron and Magic, is Kareem is kind of going down.
Like what that means for the rest of the players
and how they get their shots and even though they're open,
just like the challenges that you might have as a
Finny Smith or a Vincent when you're getting you know,
five six. Maybe because these other guys are playing at
(16:01):
that level where they're taking eighteen twenty two per game
and taking the majority of the shots on the offensive end,
what does that do for those players and how do
they stay in rhythm?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Well, I think what we saw in the Houston game
is a good example of what I think they need
to do more of. You have teams in the NBA
who's bench is scoring forty thirty five plus points, and
the Lakers do it sporadically. But I think what we
saw with Gabe Vinson getting twenty and Annie Smith getting
(16:34):
twin Now, I don't think they can get twenty every time,
but I think fifteen, I think that bench is going
to have to give us thirty to thirty five points
in order to keep up with other teams benches. Now,
we've had a flurry of injuries where we had Gabes
had to start sometime they had other guys out and
guys have had to start. So I know, I benched
production has been a little bit inconsistent because of the injuries.
(16:57):
But I think going to the playoffs, they're going to
need to, you know, be the dogs that they are defensively,
and then Reddick, I think the coach of staff is
gonna have to realize that the way they played the
other night where Vinnie was hitting threes. You know, Gabe
Vincent has emerged. He's had a good month, like he's
(17:18):
played like he played in Miami before he came here,
So they're going to have to look for shots, make
sure that they keep the defense honest. And I think
Vinnie shooting threes, Gabe shooting threes. You know, Vanderbilt gets
his differently steals and whatnot. I don't know what the
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playing time is going to be for Dalton going down.
I mean, it just seems to like he's a rookie.
We have to remember that he is a rookie and
so but if called upon, he's another guy that can
take advantage of that. So they're going to need I
think twenty five to thirty points a game off the bench,
especially in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
If he grew up by the beach, maybe he would
not have had as much time to practice basketball. The
Great James Worthy joining us right now on the Petro
Send Money Show. James, where do you come out on
volume shooting? You know, Luka Doncicch now that he's been
a Laker for a little while, you see guy takes
a lot of shots. You know, he misses some shots too.
How does that work? You know, as far as your
(18:23):
philosophy goes, and I remember Kobe was very much like that.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Well, when you're hot, we're going to look for you
when you're not, you got to get other people involved,
and I think that's going to be I think Lebron
gets it. Lebron has been around long enough to kind
of know how to allow players to you know, get
involved offensively. And I think Luca understands it. But he
comes from a different mindset of holding onto the ball
(18:50):
maybe for the last to the last second. And he
still gets you know, the assist off with the volume shooting.
If he's making them, you know, that's good. But even
if he's making some, his responsibility is still to pick
and choose. You know, when can I get gave a shot?
When can I get you know, a lob to Hayes.
(19:12):
You know, when can I get you know, Vanderbilt on
a back door or something like that? You got to
you know, and the Magic was really good at that
Magic had the opportunity to take a lot of shots.
But you know, he knew he had to get Byron
Scott a shot. He knew he had to. Even even
kirk ramis every now and then we get him a
step in lay up. Because kirk ramis defensive, man would
(19:33):
always cheat off of him to help out on Kareem,
and so we would we would run one player game
or two to get Kurt an easy lay up and
then that would you know, free up Kareem to go
ahead and roll in there and shoot the sky hook.
So it's up to Luca to kind of figure out.
I mean, he can get his he didn't have to
work for a shot that much. So it's critical that
(19:56):
he realizes and I think that's why. I think that's
why I like the s see the ball in Austin
Reeve's hands even in the even in the ladder of
the fourth quarter. I think Austin Reeves, you know, he's
more efficient and getting to the cup or getting a file.
So they have to figure that out. They got three
guys that can handle the ball, and that's that could
(20:17):
be tough, or they could just decide it's going to
be you know, Luca and Austin. You know, Lebron doesn't
have the blow by speed like he used to. I
mean they tried to. I saw them in the I
think it was a Houston game. A little fumbles after
after two or three dribbles and you know, defensive pressure
sometimes you know, he cofts it up. So that's something
(20:40):
that the coaching staff is going to have to figure
out who's going to handle it down the stretch and
who can get other players involved.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
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game and a half back of the Nuggets. They got
seven to play. Just kind of your thoughts on chasing
(21:09):
the three seed versus the four seed, you know, maybe
tangling with Houston in that second round instead of getting
the thunder in the second round. Is that something that
coaches that players are looking at or at this time
with seven games left in all those minutes on your legs,
especially a forty year old Lebron, are you more interested
in kind of figuring out how to get some rest
(21:30):
minutes before the playoffs start.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Well, I'm going to go out on a blind answer here,
just I don't know for sure, but it sure looks
like teams kind of want to see themselves, you know,
in the last few years, you know, they're like trying
to avoid you know certain teams. I think the Lakers
farewell against Houston in the second round, I think, but
(21:53):
I think they need to really be geared up to play,
to play well. You know, they they should have won
a game in Indiana, you know, on the road, Chicago
on the road, so they I mean, their record at
home is better. But I think in that that second round,
I mean, if you can avoid Oklahoma, uh naturally, I mean,
(22:15):
that'd be awesome, but if you have to sit out
a few guys, uh to get some rests and you know,
you you that's part of the strategy now from what
I've seen. So you're gonna have to see him at
some point. My philosophy is that damn is gonna have
to see him at some point. Let's se him first.
Get it over with, you know what I'm saying. So, uh,
don't run from the fire. I mean, I mean, well,
(22:36):
you do have to run from the fire, you know
what I'm saying. But don't don't run from teams that
you're gonna have to see anyway, you know what I mean.
You you you be the one to take them down. So, uh,
you're gonna have to see him at some point, and
you you know, it's kind of mind. It's kind of
chicken to want somebody else to knock them out.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, well yeah, well there there's a reason
that we're all nostalgic for the NBA of your time,
the great James Worthy hero to us all James, have
a great night and have a great night tomorrow. Lakers
Warriors will be watching and uh, we'll talk to you soon.
You got it, and Matt will be right back with
(23:14):
more Petros and money. We have what you like to
call the the No Better Meating Meat segment. Oh yeah,
coming up in uh at four o'clock.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
To buy them out of bankruptcy. We're gonna buy the trademark.
We're gonna want No Better.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Yeah, another one of our failed ventures here on the
Petros and Buddy Show. We get more than Megan Markle Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
And then we'll open it Whereger used to be.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Well, right to Carson, right at the heart of it.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Right there we'll be.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
We'll be right back with your dad and a live guy.
Birthday of the day. Big thanks to James Worthy. Well,
a big thank you to James Worthy again, a great conversation.
We are rolling toward the final game of the Dodgers
series Dodgers on Deck with Tim Kaits and Dodger Talk
(24:04):
and Dodger Clubhouse Tonight with Tim Kase Firs pitch at
five thirty eight, it is Snell' Zilla day as Blake
Snell makes his second start of the season, which is
why we weren't able to get ahold of Dave. He
is absolutely catatonic and of course O TWI Bobblehead night.
It is justin it is chaos.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Dave's nervous. He recognizes the implications if snell Zilla is
the one that blows this thing, you know, coming on
yesterday and throwing dustin May under the bus, saying tonight's
the night they lose perfection and then snell Zilla is
gonna save the series tomorrow. He really pulled his boots
out and threw it on the table.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
All right, well, you know, I feel like you're starting
to cockfight with a Brewster with a longer shift.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
It comes to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
But it is Snell's Villa day and we have Clippers
tonight the Barn. Dave, all right, well, yeah, there's no
doubt about that, Matt. You've made yourself very clear. Indeed,
Clippers host the Pelicans pregame at six point thirty. You know,
with all the love you give Matt, you think the
Dodger brass would show us more love when they're walking by.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
You'd like to think, you know what I mean, you'd
like to think, right, But no, I mean, at least
you got a fist bump from freaking lawn and he
just looked at me like I was.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Special. It's time for the dead guy birthday day.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
You're special. I'm a ghost because I didn't even get seen.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, that's right. I love you guys hosting Dodger Talk
at Dodger Clubhouse tonight, and you've been hosting Morondo Casino
Dodgers on Deck for like more than half a decade.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
You let's say, case guy look like, oh, let's look
at the media guy. There's a picture of him. Hey,
it's strong. I'll take you on. You're a dead guy
birthday of the day.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Neither one of us have ever pushed the Dodge or
the Chrysler. I've been a galloping man my entire radio career,
so predominantly Ford, a little bit of Mazda, my man
Dave gillhim over there at Honda.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
But no Chryslers.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
When I think back to when I was a kid, Ralph,
my old man Ralph never really had a lot of
love for the Chrysler. Even have a LeBaron in the
no like I do. Recalled him comic. We had a
Buick too, We had a bug Electra. But the LeBaron convertible,
the Leiah Coca Special. They put him back on the
(26:37):
map in the eighties. It was kind of briefly a
big deal. But it turned out that trash.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
That Chrysler, that Chrysler convertible that people only got on vacation.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Like all, oh, yes, the or whatever it is, the
sea bring, Yes, the Chrysler.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I believe Seabring was there past.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
It's actually bought one of those. Oh God rest his soul,
because he rented one once and he was like, hey,
I like this girl.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Yeah, no, that's a now, that's a good pull. By
the way, in searching for the Sea bring to pull
out the old Pontiac Sunbird, another fine vehicle from the
nineteen eighties that looking back, you're like, wow, people really
bought those, huh. I saw Fierro driving around the streets
the other day and got kind of excited. But Yeah, Chrysler,
(27:23):
whether it was the Laser or the Conquest that couldn't
touch the Mustang or the Camaro, the Imperial or Fifth Avenue.
You mentioned you had a buick, you know, that couldn't
touch the Park Avenue or the Electra. But we'll celebrate
him anyway, the old ass Chrysler's your grease monkey show
of record, your gearhead show of record. Happy would have
been one hundred and fiftieth today to Walter Chrysler born
(27:45):
in Wamego, Kansas.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Our show echoes throughout garages all over the country.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Everybody knows it. Spark plugs, man right calipers.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
He grew up in Ellis, Kansas, his childhood home. He's
a Chrysler museum in ls Kansas. Walt was a freemason.
He was a machinist. He was a railroad mechanic who
took correspondence courses out of Scranton and mechanical engineering and decided,
I'm gonna cut out of town and I'm gonna head west,
and I'm gonna use these fancy skills of mine to
work and survive along the way. Started in western Kansas,
(28:21):
made his way to Denver, Colorado, Cheyenne Wyoming, working his
way up the rank on the railroad before becoming the
foreman general master mechanic in Fort Worth, and then was
hired by the American Locomotive Company just outside Pittsburgh as
their general works manager. He became a force in the
railroad industry. And that is when the gentleman that ran
(28:44):
Alco mentioned, you know, I got a buddy. His name's
Charles Nash. He's the president of Buick Motor Company. He's
looking for a production chief. And I said, I got
a real sharp guy you might be interested in.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (28:57):
And he's like, uh, give it a listen. Well, Walt
and Chuck hit it off. Chrysler moved to Flint. He
saved Buick piles of money by finding inefficiencies in their
manufacturing process. Five years later, the bank sells and William
Durant buys. Chrysler was not crazy about having a new boss.
(29:18):
He liked his old bosses, so he decided to just
resign and moved to New York and figure out what
the heck he was going to do. But Durant chased
him down there begged him to stay with an unheard
of at the time offer. Three years in today's dollars.
He offered him three hundred grand per month with a
fifteen million dollar bonus at the end of each year.
(29:41):
That is in today's dollars. Durant said that Walt would
have full run of Buick, report to nobody, and have
zero interference from anyone. In shock, he said, can I
can you repeat that offer please? He then took it
For the next three years. Buick was a powerhouse. Chrysler
became one of the richest men in America by nineteen
nineteen after starting it Buick in nineteen eleven at a
salary of six thousand dollars per year. After that, he
(30:04):
was hired by a startup auto company in Toledo, Willie's Overland,
for and this is in nineteen nineteen money one million.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Dollars per year at Willi's.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
At Willie's he did that for two years, but they
did not grant him the power to do what he wanted,
so he decided to quit. He bought the Maxwell Motor
Company out of almost bankruptcy, and he created the Chrysler
Corporation in Detroit in nineteen twenty five. He simultaneously launched
Plymouth and DeSoto, and two years later bought Dodge Brothers, dropped.
(30:39):
The Brothers renamed it Dodge underneath the Chrysler umbrella.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
They were recently involved in an LA car chase. The
Dodge Brothers, they were it was a hell of a cart,
reckless as hell.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Indeed, he quickly financed the construction of the Chrysler building
in New York. He was named Time Magazine's Man of
the Year in twenty eight. He cut the ribbon on
the skyscraper in nineteen thirty. A freaking stud. He retired
in nineteen thirty six. And it just goes to show
you some of us men. We just need to work.
Man in great.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Health, like whole life, like Bear Bryant.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Yeah you got like, don't retire. Guy was a working man.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
He retires in thirty six and in nineteen forty, in
nineteen thirty eighty has a stroke and he dies a
year and a half later at sixty five.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Just cruise it along.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
I'm sorry, retires, bang, Keep working kids happy. It would
have been one hundred fifty. Keep contributing, man, you need
the grind.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Just keep paying your taxes forever. That's right.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Walter Persley, Chrysler, Matt.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
We just don't play enough country. The wordency emergency country
music meeting with our boss Don Martin still echo in
my mind. And Brian Blackmore was there too, nodding along
and acting we were so stupid because we don't play
that much country music like Tim Kaits Get Me Back
(32:07):
to God's Country, Morgan Wallen country music. Yeah, that's what
they were taking here, That's what they were talking about.
I can't believe we're still on the air, Matt, because
we really didn't go country like they wanted us to.
We really did have a meeting where they wanted us
to go country.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Gouy's k Frog is number one in this book, and
it's by a wide margin.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
It's the most reactionary meeting I've ever been.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
In my life. We talk for of the segment.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yeah, country music, like the Torpedo bat is the wave
of the future. So today we'll celebrate pretty old guy
for a live guy. Sonny throg Morton's eighty four years
old from well born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, but raised
in Wichita Falls, Texas, and in the sixties, because he
(33:04):
was a young musician, moved to San Francisco to do
rock and roll. But like Beyonce, realized there wasn't much
for him in the rock world. So turn two country.
How did it work out for Beyonce? She's beloved on
an album that no one has heard.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
But a ton of awards.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Yeah, a ton of awards award winning album. You're telling
me Beyonce gets to win those kind of country awards.
And Charlie Pride, a great black man.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Cannot not okay love Charlie Pride.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Well Sonny was a real hit songwriter. He had one
hundred and fifty of his songs recorded in nine months
when he got could not write fast enough songwriter the
year in Nashville seventy eight, seventy nine and eighty. Between
seventy six and eighty, one of his songs appeared on
(34:04):
the country charts almost every week. More than one thousand
of his songs have been recorded. Willie Nelson, we're not
talking about recorded by idiot bands either. Matt Willie, George
strait Merle Haggard, Jerry Lee Lewis another rocker who sought
(34:25):
refuge in the country world. Holy heck, they don't care
so much about the marrying of your cousin fourteen years
old in the country world.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
A different time or a different place.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Well, I mean, Jerry Lee Lewis was I mean maligned
for it in the rock world. But country opened their
arms and said, Jerry Lee, we got this great song
that Sonny Frogmorton wrote for him, many many others Oakridge Boys.
Sonny had some minor success of his own. That's him
(34:58):
singing as a and leader in the nineteen seventy eights,
The Last Cheaters, Waltz in nineteen eighty six's Southern Train.
He retired in eighty eight at forty seven, but miraculously
did not die right after. He's still alive. He retired
(35:20):
at my age I'm forty seven, to care for his
father on a Texas ranch. But people still record his songs.
He even wrote I Wish I was eighteen again that
George Burns recorded in the eighties. George Burns, Yes, an
unlikely country song from George Burns songwriting Hall of Fame
(35:44):
Sonny throg Morton. And we will return with more great
sports talk. That's right. We got the fun fact and
a very eventful quick hits with some crazy stories, some
about Adai Marra's demands rumored demand uns four.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I would have agreed to all of them. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
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