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April 22, 2025 39 mins
Ronnie's song of the day, Top Story of the day, Dead and Alive Guy Birthday of the Day. 
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(01:02):
We'll be going till three thirty, so a little over
in hour left. It is an early one for the Dodgers.
Same almost the same schedule tomorrow from the Galpin Motors broadcast,
but for forty first pitch today tomorrow it'll be a
four o'clock as it is a getaway day for the Dodgers,
just a short two game. I remember Dorodgers Cubs started
over there in Tokyo four to two, so had three here.

(01:23):
He's the final two of their series with one another.
So they'll be back start a series with the Buckos
on Friday, as a matter of fact, out at Dodgers Stadium,
So doing that and then Thursdays, we've got play by
play every single day this week. Last night we had
an incredible Clippers game here with Carlo on the call,
fully functional employee Adam on the pre half and post.

(01:44):
And then we'll have the same thing Thursday. So Dodgers today, Tomorrow,
Clippers Nuggets game three Thursday out there at Intuitdome, and
then Friday back to Dodgers, Buckos carrying us throughout the weekend.
Dave Damashek is here for Petros, who is out today
and tomorrow or hopefully enjoying the desert. Yesterday shared he

(02:04):
came down with an acute case of shingles.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Makes it harder to enjoy the desert.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
I would say, so, he said, it is that it
is painful and uncomfortable, and while his family has already
made their way out uh, he is. He was still
debating whether or he was going to be able to
do this.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Same would you rather go? So the Dodgers are in
Wrigley as the sun sets on the north side over
there in Chicago? Right, yeah? You but you were a
south side Chicago guy. Were you allowed that the old
man let you travel up north? Take the red line?
We did? You did?

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, we did, My brother and I did when we
were little.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
And were you a split rooting interest?

Speaker 1 (02:42):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:43):
No, uh, we just to see we should have been south.
We should have been White Sox fans. I was actually
a bat boy for the White Sox for a little
bit of a minute there. I went to school with
the team doctor's daughter, and so they were able to
wedge me in there to those Jerry Harston, Bobby Thigpens,
Steve Lyons, very last year of Carlton Fisk. I think

(03:03):
was Ron Kittle. I think ron Kittle might have still
been on Albanes, Yeah, al Banes was I think al
Bains was gone anyway. Richard Dotson, Yes, so we were.
My grandmother was a huge Cubs fan and she would,
you know, the games run at two twenty, so we
would watch when he came home from.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
S good times watching two classics.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oh yeah, Dodger fans, you want to circle a spot
to go, no doubt about it. Not Classic Grigley is
a spot you want to check out.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I think the dangerous team, and I am sure that
Silver on down. And if you're a conspiracy theorist and
you think that some chicanery went down that allowed Luca
to move from Dallas to la otherwise, I get all
the buzz about these Lakers. We'll see how they do
on Tuesday night. But in the meantime, this is not

(03:51):
me changing my opinion. I've been saying this for six
weeks after Kawhi put together a few games in a row.
I don't imagine that he's got two months worth of
this in them, But if he's got a fortnite of
this in them for even a month, it's quite fun.
I mean it's more than fun. It's scary for the
rest of the West. Oh yeah, I mean, all of
a sudden, if you inject Kawhi left this Kawhi into

(04:15):
things after what you've been watching for the last couple
of years, all of a sudden, well that's not the Clippers.
This is a different team. And they are officially as
dangerous as any team this side of OKCE.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
I think, I mean the odds say as much. You know,
they they were down, they were down one zero to
the Nuggets, and the odds shifted in their favor to
win the series. They lost game one. I think they
were plus one point fifty and I think the odds
dropped to plus one eighteen after they lost Game one.

(04:48):
That is how good I mean they look. I get
it based on this. Russell Westbrook can't do that every night.
But also I do have to take a second to
say as again, I am one of society's great paths
and give a shout out to Russ because it was
not eighteen months or three years ago that we were
having this conversation. It was eight or ten years ago

(05:11):
that we were saying, well, this isn't sustainable to play
the way Russ does with that build.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
He'll be out of the league soon. He was supposed
to be the West Coast Derek Rose right, his career
path should be identical to Derek Grosse, given the way
they play the exact same. I'm going hard at.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
The rim, explosiveness, relentlessness.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
It's amazing that he's still relevant in the Year of
the Lord twenty twenty five. If you think about those
conversations and how far in the rear view mirror they
were like, well, he can't keep this up. I mean,
look at me, Spindley.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
The most interesting thing to me about Russ is that
to have the ability to tune out the outside noise
and the criticism, just the unanimous criticism about your piss,
poor dish decision making in the waning moments of games,

(06:03):
and to just not give a damn. You've been on
seven different teams, and on every single one of those teams,
no matter who the best player on the team is,
what the situation is, you're still like, yeah, I know,
there's there's sixteen seconds left in the game, thirteen seconds
on the shot clock, but fit, they're giving me a lane,
so I'm just gonna attack the rim here and see

(06:25):
what happens. And it's it is crazy that he has
done it at.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
A center in the NBA in the last decade on
your team, like.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Dannon right there, he's standing right there now, gonna shoot
this eighteen footer with twelve on the shot clock and
see how it works out. We're up one with forty
seconds to go, but I'm gonna bang this eighteen footer.
It is wild that he that to this day, after
all these years, an MVP award, a Finals appearance, that
he still does it.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
I covet that level of confidence, right, I mean, it
is the thing I wish I had the most, is
that ability to just like, yep, I'm the guy. That's right.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
That's what else? What did he say when he banged
the three in Game one? That's what I do sometimes. No,
it's nothing, as a matter of fact, no career twenty
eight percent shooter from three and you're left wide open.
That might be the most wide open I have ever seen.
I'm not like kidding. Like in a set defense where

(07:27):
all five players in game one, where all five players
are on that side of the court, it's not transition
to have somebody that where there was not a defender
on that half of the floor. Like, yeah, man, it's
all you. We'll cut you off if you get to
itin fifteen feet, but you want the three to we'll
call it fifteen to sixteen feet all yours, dude, knock

(07:48):
it out.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
My senior year in high school, they installed the three
point line nationally. It was a public high school thing
across the land, I guess, and I really wanted to
make one, of course, and I really refined my shot.
I didn't have a full game, not you know, but
you get two minutes at the end there, that's right, Yeah,
that's right. So what so what what were you doing?

Speaker 1 (08:12):
You?

Speaker 3 (08:13):
You were the star, exact same thing I think I
got into. The only reason I played basketball is because
my baseball coach insisted that I'd be on the basketball team,
because he was like, you're getting too much.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Listen, don't go modest with me. It's very Chicago money.
Here's the thing you deserve some some legit credit for
is you were a good golfer. You're some fancy pants
down there in the OC, swinging the clubs with caros
and otherwise hold your own. Then one day you decide
I'm gonna move the seal beach and you become a surfer.

(08:44):
And I mean, I can't tell from the still shots,
but you look like you know what you're doing. You
cut the part at least up. What do they think
of you back in Chicago media? What happened to this guy? Well?

Speaker 3 (08:57):
If I look at my watches, though, there's a year
on there.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
It has been thirty five years, so.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
It's been quite some time. It has been thirty five years.
So yes, they're quite used to the seventy degrees and
beautiful all day, every day and embracing that atmosphere.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
The question is, though, as we're a little all over
the place, as you set it up, we have a
great night of television for the LA sports fan And
I'm ashamed, hey.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Because I want to do this when we have I mean,
we're all ready against it, okay, because that's what happens.
So we should squeeze in really for well, we'll put
a pin. Let's put a pin in the word in number,
and we'll do that at the back end of this
hour or somewhere. Maybe maybe at the top of next
hour or something. But let's get to Ronnie's song of
the day.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
This is the song of the day.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Why, thank you, Matt.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
I appreciate it absolutely.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Today's song of the Day is called Windy City from producer, composer,
and multi instrumentalist Sean Lee. Because the Petros and Money
Show is on a super flex alerts with the Dodgers
in the Windy City getting ready to begin a series
with the Cubs at Wrigley, but not.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Before Matt Smith along.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
With special guest and friend of the show Dave Damashek,
a real Pittsburgher who is here to bring you two
hours of great e sports talk. Why didn't you up
to David Basse and you were Moronggo Casino Dodgers on
Deck program beginning at three thirty.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
Thank you're running, Dave Damashek. We'll do word number somewhere.
My number is a bit of grab Ass as well,
which is why we love having Dave here. It becomes
a couple couple hours at grab Ass. We're going till
three thirty, so about an hour left before we turn
it over. Who's doing Dodgers on Deck? Is a bass
that's doing it? Yeah, it is David Vasse, Thank you

(10:47):
running Vassay is doing it tomorrow. By the way, one
to three show, you know what, we'll save that for
the number of the day. Hell of a development for
tomorrow's one to three show. Here on a super flex
off the air before we're even supposed to start one
to three today, technically a twenty five minutes in Petros

(11:09):
and money real estate. As we go to three thirty, by.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
What do you think about this as you go to
break the teas worst. Hey, my man, you gotta hook
them so they stay through the commercial. Hou, We're gonna
hook them. Worst era and genre of music of our
lives popular music. See, I don't like that. Why not?

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Because music is an emotional connection. It's an experience, so
everybody experiences it differently.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
My answer ready to go.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, Like, I'm just I don't like that. You know,
it's an emotional connection. We connect with the music of
our time, you know. Over I mean, I'm driving down
the street with the windows down and the volume cranked
and I'm playing Boys in the Hood.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Kidding me. Oh, I thought for a second you were
on some ISAWUASCAR or something the way you were talking.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
We'll come back with your top store today and then
I'll clippers Kings. Yeah, less than an hour. As we're
on nearly a super flex today. Remember the iHeart Radio
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(12:19):
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your smartphone.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
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(12:43):
through the iHeartRadio app. And that's good for today because
first pitch is at four forty pm Dodgers Cubs. Tomorrow's
going to be a four o'clock start. Thursday is going
to be Clippers Nuggets tip off at seven pm. Let's
go with our cops stories today, Sorry of it? Were
you starting go down the road of Clippers? Is that
where we were going when I when I said that,

(13:04):
let's let's pause, Well, no, I was going, I was going,
how I should set this up?

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Or last night? Where are you going with it? The
sports night? I thought it was grand stuff with the
clips anticipating tonight's game for the Lakers and then the Kings.
I made a big mistake. I'll I'll just wear it.
I flipped over.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Four nothing, twelve seconds left in the second period. Four nothing.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Then I look out it's five to two. I know
that Mcjesus and dry Cydle are on big oil, but
five you're not gonna blow that in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
In game you're not gonna do it. So I'm gonna
flip over and focus in on some other stuff. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
So this is I don't know whatever, it's racist Tuesday.
We might as well make it misogynist Tuesday, because perhaps
this is a misogynist opinion.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
It's an observation, it's anecdotal. It's my home. But I
do feel like I have friends that have the same experience.
Do you have this experience? Because last night it was
a real flippity flip, you know, I mean I really
flipping it, like going crazy with the previous channel, you know,
over and over and over again. Because so you gotta.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Be like George Michael's sports machine. That's what you've got
to do in your layer. You need to get like
a wall of TV's up.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
There, which I don't have. Ye Now, if you follow
Scott Hansen on Twitter. He's gonna let you know, hey,
check me out.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
That's how he lives. Otherwise he'd be a phony. If
he were just doing that on Sundays, he'd be a fraud.
He's got to he's steeped in it. Check out my setup.
He's like bang, He's like bang. Oh, oh, you think
you will, You'll think you were. I was born into
having seventeen televisions on at any one time. Irons, that
is what we have. No, it's not the time for

(14:47):
fear or antial third periods. That's what I decided.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Now I only have one TV. Now I suppose I could,
you know, sprint between rooms, you know, and and like
maybe try to stand at the bottom of the stairwell,
see if and get one little corner of what you're in.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Picture didn't quite work the way it should. It seems
so great and as big as the TVs are. Now,
you know, I bought the TV I bought downstairs. What
do I do?

Speaker 3 (15:08):
I go to the Costco and I find the biggest TV.
Westing House. We love our friends over at Westinghouse. Bread
over at westing House always takes care of the petros
and money show. They put our mugs on a box
of a TV. I'm gonna find the affordable TV with
the most size because as far as I can tell
with my eyes and my cataract surgery, you know that's

(15:31):
given me eagle vision in my left eye. Though I
can't tell the difference. You're telling me how many?

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Amen?

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Right? Just save your money for the difference. It's the
biggest one for the least amount of money. Right, Get
the lobster at the fancy seafood place versus the pedestrian one. Right,
that's where you spend the money. Right. I am with you.
On the flat screens they get. They dupe me every
time I go in for one. Every time it's I
need a new TV every half decade or whatever. I'll

(15:59):
go in there and they'll say, yeah, that's a clear image,
but look at this one, right, and you swoon. You're like,
I gotta have this one. Doesn't make a gd difference, No,
not when you're back at home. So I've got the
big TV. Where was I going with this?

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah, you'd like to think that I could just split
it in.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Half, right, But you can't because you need two tuners,
which I think I have. I got the fire TV
on the one I got the TV tuner on the
other I should be able to split it, but I can't.
So I'm a flip and a flip back and forth
drives the wife crazy, like she cannot take it. Can
you just watch one game?

Speaker 2 (16:35):
We should get the wives together and you and me
can watch ball, right, because I get the same business.
Don't you understand You're You're in the presence of a master.
I'm one of the ten great remote control operators I've
ever known. And you don't respect that. You don't appreciate
how it's fortunate.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
It really drives. It drives, and everyone I've ever brought
it up to says, oh, yeah, drives my wife crazy.
She just wants like whatever, check the score of the
Clipper game.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Later.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
The wife's a big Kings fans. She's like, why are
we turning this off? Well, because it's for nothing, and
the Clippers game is kind of back and forth here.
You know, we got eighteen ties and twelve lead changes,
so quite entertaining. I'm kind of trying to have one
foot in and one foot out here, you know, master
of my domain.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
And she was getting.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Really upset about about the flippities, but I was like,
we win you see care we win. We got the Kings,
and I got stuck on the King. I'll admit when
when you know when it's and it was fort to two,
See you popped in when it was five. Yes, I
saw the very last goal at the end of the
second period, and then I flip over for twenty minutes

(17:41):
because of the intermission. And then by the time I
come back, bang seventeen minute mark, it's now four to two,
and I'm like, oh no, this is not good. Wow,
I'm locked.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, listen, these are these are the good times when
you can flip around multiple channels, multiple games. Yeah, in
the same sport, let alone some baseball on the mix
in with the puck and the NBA playoffs, all of it.
You know, April underrated sports month for sure. With the
draft on its way on Thursday. The history that the

(18:12):
Clippers are shooting for, which is to be relevant in
the playoffs for once. They still have a long way
to go before they achieve that. The Kings are the
more compelling watch in the short term. And here's why.
To me, if they eliminate the Oilers, you will be
one more season deeper into the combined careers of Connor
McDavid and Leon Drye Sidle, who stand as, without exaggeration,

(18:37):
two of the five best players in the NHL and
have been for at least the last half decade. I
say here and now, assuming that they never win a
Stanley Cup, which once you get up to thirty you're
starting to get pretty far away from your chances of
doing it.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Had a chance last year, couldn't close the deal.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
They went to a game seven against Florida. They didn't
do it. I think that dry Cidle limics g Jesus
now outstrip Otani and Trout as the saddest duo of
greatness to never win a title. Otani and Trout were
together for a while the playoffs. They never won the division.
They never got close to the playoffs, which is a shame.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
That's the difference. At least those two got to a
Stanley Cup final. I hear you at another Western Conference final,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Like, at least think about this, you know, do but
think about two right, You're right, Otani and Trout stand
as not just two of the five best in the
game when they were both really going good. I'm talking
about right. I feel like now that we have seen
the best days of Mike Trout come and go, and
he's still a great ballplayer and all of that and

(19:42):
to be appreciated down down in the OC. But I
feel like his career has not been as regarded.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
As the he's the best player in baseball for a
half decade.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
People always do the thing people used to always do
the thing like, oh, Mike Trout could walk down the
street and know who he is. His career, the best
of his career is already coming gone. He is on
par in terms of talent with Willie Mays or Barry
Bonds or anybody else that you would throw out there.
And really we've made it through his career. People really
do not know much of it. He is maybe the

(20:16):
all time legend among the four major sports in North
American sports, Who is the least known? Is that fair?
Is that too much to say? Is that hyperbolic? Well? Uh,
the least known all time?

Speaker 3 (20:30):
Suits postseason success absolutely zero. Never won a playoff game.
He made one playoff. They were swept, So that's going
to contribute to it.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
But baseball, that let's out of your control more than
it is in any other sport.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
Is a hockey you run into a hot goalie in
your host, right, like it's just your host.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
No, not true. In history, if you go through it,
who are the all time greats in the NHL? They
all have won to Stanley Cup. Mcjesus is the looming
name that's out there now. Everybody who is regarded as
one of the top twenty players is it is has
won a cup. That's true in football, with the exception
of Day and Marino a Vetkan got a cup. He

(21:10):
got it against the Knight, so it only counts for half.
They beat Las Vegas in right Vegass first year?

Speaker 3 (21:19):
Where was I going with this? Great points? I'll play
a sound bite.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Why are you I I'm just answering your guy?

Speaker 1 (21:27):
You are I asked you a question, I gave you
an answer, not very good one.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Make sure I squeeze that in there. One of our
all time favorites. Why are you so pissy?

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Nice Canadian? Exactly right.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
This is the thing about I've said this forever back
from my my k Rock days. Uh, they may not
have as many, but and this is why I would
be in tune with the Kings. I said it yesterday
in my playoff preview, you know, promoting the NHL playoffs
is the best postseason out there. Check out the Deuce,

(22:05):
Listen to the Clipper game on the radio with Carlow
and Adam Oslin here on five seventy, and put your
eyes on the Kings on the TV. That's how you
balance it out. Smart. I said, if the Kings can
get through the Oilers, I firmly believe they can win
the Stanley Cup. That this is a hump that they

(22:25):
just have got to get past. And if they can
with the goaltending they've gotten this year, with the balance
they have line and line out, with the additions they may.
I'm not gonna pretend to be some sort of puck savant.
That's not what I'm doing here. I'm pointing out that
this is a team that has just been just scratching
so close. The brand of hockey that they play fits

(22:48):
the Stanley Cup playoffs. It fits it's a but they've
run into the freaking juggernaut that is Dry Sidle and McDavid,
and they just they're.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Gonna be I got good news. They're gonna beat Big
Oil what stands in their way. The Knights are going
to survive their first round series, So they're good. They're
a legit team and then the other. To me, Stars
and Aves are both dangerous, but one of those two
goes away by the end of that series. So I
absolutely think that this spring, this spring could be special

(23:18):
because I really do think that the Clippers have a
chance to make some hay that very good chance. They
gotta get around these nugs though a very good sho
got it. It feels like they.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
Get on the clutch of fires right now in these
two games, two fifteen to two fourteen. Through two games,
it's it's probably going to be a game seven, and
it's can they stay healthy? Can James Harden avoid having
the James Harden game that he has? We went through
this like a week ago. The Sky's game fives in
his history are brutal, and it's always like, hey, they're

(23:50):
tied to two and Harden is two for seventeen and
a minus twenty nine, Like if he can avoid that.
We talked about Austin Reeves is like that two and
a half almost three for a big three, like Zubots
is probably closer to being the three than the two
and a half that Austin Reeves is being the three

(24:11):
from a two and a half, Like that's what that's
that guy is.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, I agree with you about you talk about under harolding, right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Like he's getting votes for Defensive Player of the Year,
you know, and he's gonna very he's got a very
good chance to be on the All Defensive team, maybe
an All NBA team. Is the third All NBA team center.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Imagine if you could get him at the rim with
the Lakers, that that's what they lack. Yeah, and it
does beg the question the thing that I want to
see from Mike Muskala. How much do you think that
the Lakers feel urgency right now?

Speaker 3 (24:44):
I don't think they do. I think they just look
at it like, damn it, did we step in it?
Lazy slow, no rotations, just fix this stuff up. And
because look they just it was all defensive, right, Like
they could not close out on any three point sho
and it was just how many wide open threes are
you going to give these guys? They'll make that adjustment,

(25:05):
I assume, and if they, I would be floored if
they lost tonight.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
I hate the guy. I hate the old man, and
I don't want to sound like the old man who
does the thing of like he prefers women's basketball because
they play fundamentally soundball, and he appreciates that. I'm just
saying the guy who says things like that, I prefer
the ladies game. You know, they're also patronizing about the
sport that they prefer because they they play it with

(25:30):
discipline and all that. Guy. I hate to say this
and sound so simplistic, but if you watch a game one,
I wonder if your eye caught this, because I do
regard you Money as one of the better pro basketball
analysts out there. It straight up looked like they were
playing a different game than their foe was. Straight up.
I mean a lot of I understand, you know, surround,

(25:54):
surround the perimeter and try and catch and shoot, but
they were really standing around and right it looked like
two different stuffs.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
Start for the first ten minutes. Like the first ten
minutes you're like, okay, Watchamer's gonna hit these threes and
they got no answer for Luca, and here we go.
And then all of a sudden, it's like just the
air got taken out of the sail, their feet got
stuck in mud, they're not rotating it. They got bullied
and pushed around, and everybody's looking for fouls. Now, Luca's
just dribbling the hell out of the.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Ball, right, Luca is because he's twenty four, So you think, well,
they're not. It's not a matter of age, but Luca's
brand a ball predisposes them to that. And I do
wonder if not just in the short term here, people
have high hopes for these Lakers with Lebron, and he
gets a year older, he becomes probably a little more

(26:43):
diminished by next spring and all of that. But building
around Luca is fraught to some extent, right, I mean,
I I mean he is. What the comps with him
and Larry Bird as defenders is laughable, right, because they're
both white guys who can lie. It was a great defender, Yes,
he was an adequate defender at least. Look, Luca is
one of the five best players in the league. You know,

(27:04):
it's just the way he does it, and the way
he carried the MAVs to the NBA Finals last year
is that way. It's like, hey, I'm gonna hunt, man,
I'm just gonna hunt these picking rolls until I get
the matchup that I want and then either I'm going
to bully the smaller guy because they can't contend with
you know, kind of my strength and my ball handling
skills or I'm just gonna freaking take the step back
three and can it because I'm shooting at forty percent.

(27:24):
And it's just like I think, you get this is
a team in the Lakers that have moved the ball
well that you know. Lebron is an unselfish player, and
he piles up all these assists and I think he
gets kind of he's a weirdo and a nightmare when
it comes to being credited for being the guy that's
driving the bus as opposed to somebody that's riding in

(27:45):
the passenger seat. So I think he got all butt
hurt through that game and it got weird. And Austin
Reeves was a huge defensive liability, you know, and it's
just it kind of just all showed up in that game.
But like Nasried's not going to shoot eleven for thirteen,
Jalen McMillan's not going to shoot whatever he was twelve
for fourteen, Like it's just not gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
No.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
It does feel to me though, that Lebron is who
they turn to to check who they feel like they
need this sto. That's a lot to put on the
old man to have to carry the day. Defensively, they
don't have a rim protector. Max Christy was their number
one perimeter defender. He's now gone. Like Finny Smith and Vanderbilt,
you know, they're good perimeter defenders.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
They can take that. You know, they can make that work.
It's just like I said this yesterday. I was like,
the thing about the Clippers is they've got moves they
can make. Like after that loss, it's like, well, you know,
clean up the turnovers and what happened? It reversed, right,
The Nuggets turned the ball over twenty times, the Clippers
turned it over eleven. In Game one, Clippers turned it
over twenty the Nuggets turned it over eleven. And it's

(28:47):
a single possession game to win. But like, they had
moves they can make. It's like, hey, how about two
minutes from Ben Simmons and ten minutes from Derek Jones
and just play a little smaller as opposed to ten
minutes it's from Ben Simmons in two minutes from whereas
the Lakers. It's like this, this is what they are.
You just these guys just got to play better, you know,

(29:07):
they gotta you know, and it's like, hey, how about
how about a little more Norman Pole not bringing the
ball up the floor, and just more catch and shoot,
and how about a little bit more It's like all
of those things you can tweak, and it just feels
like the Lakers are, Hey, this is what we are
execute and will win because we got the two best
players on the floor.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
And well, it's it's unacceptable to say we're going to
go a quarter without Lebron being a factor. Is a
weird spot to find yourself in. If you had to
bet a digit on your off hand, not you're right,
and it.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Always have you with the finger man, and you lost
one and you never cut it off.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
I please don't, no, please, let's I'm trying to maintain
the illusion that I actually cut off one of my digits.
Let's say, from your left hand, you have to lose
a digit of your choice. I don't care which one.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
You choose my thumb. Who goes further?

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Who goes? Who goes? You have to bet who goes further,
Clippers or Lakers. In twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
Five, My great hope is that they meet for the
first time.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Oh well, that would be delicious.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
And I projected on Friday that I believe that is
not just in the cards, but I think a very
likely scenario.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Oh let's go.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
So that's that's my hope is not which one goes further,
but that they can both make the conference finals. That
the Clippers could man okay, see looks like a buzzsaw,
but that they could with their size, with Zoo in
the middle, with Kawhi locking down, you know, like that
they could trade blows with the Thunder. It would not

(30:32):
be easy, but I could see it, you know. And
that the Lakers have I think a much easier path,
you know, with the potential either Rockets or Warriors, and
the and the.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
It is funny, remember the NBA season. This was the
worst NBA season in recorded history, and all of that
four months ago. Then Luca comes to the Lakers and
everything falls into place. Jimmy Butler winds up with the Dubs,
and now we're tracking towards If you get Lakers clip
at any point, excellent. If you get.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Lakers Warriors in the next round, yeah yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Mean you see Steph Curry and company against Lebron and company. Fantastic.
Just keep the Celts on the other side. Tracking towards
the finals and if you get, if Yo get you
and company Maker run all those are great storylines and
no one will remember that. In January, everybody decided that
the NBA may as well just be sent out the

(31:26):
pasture because it stinks.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
Now.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Yeah, the the Oklahoma City Clipper thing is also like
an underrated, wild sort of matchup just because of the trade.
The fact that Paul George is even here anymore. Thank God,
that freaking energy suck of a freaking basketball player isn't here.
But you know, shake Gil just Alexander Clipper traded for
Paul George. I believe Jalen Williams was selected their second

(31:49):
leading score with a pick from the Clippers those five
first rounders plus pick swaps that they sent to the Thunder.
So it's like here it comes. You know, this is
this is why you made that trade and you sent
away someone that Jerry West said you will rue the
day you trade this kid. He is going to be
an All NBA player, And they sent him out anyway

(32:10):
for Paul George, who was an absolute disaster of a
Clipper for his half decade here. But it would be
I think intriguing, entertaining, not nearly as big of a
headline as Lakers dubs. That's as Warriors, for sure, But
I still I still believe it's very possible. I suspect
the Lakers will win tonight. I don't even remember what

(32:31):
I was getting at, something I had had noted. Oh,
take a guess. I was just just to put a
rap on this. Take a guess. How do we do
we have? We got to go right? Take a guess.
How many people went to the King's Stanley Cup parades?
Nobody cares about the Kings. I was at both parades,

(32:53):
and I was like, damn, there's a lot of people
out here. I went back to the archive and check
the La Times RT.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
I remember you Slight. You were not offended, but you
shot back pretty good. You put me in my place
when the Kings won the Cup and I said it
would have been better if they would have done it
in purple and gold. You shot back, I mean social media, yeah,
f and buzzkill or something like that.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
You called me how many people you think turned out
for that parade? Half a mill three hundred thousand.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
I'm sorry. I should have gotten small.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
I should I should have set it up by pointing
out the Rams parade had estimates between twenty and fifty thousands.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Oh well, all are all parades, dwarf. When the Ducks
won the Stanley Big One and they had the bribe
people to there. Hey, if you show up, free coca
cola and a Wiener and the governator will be there.
That's right. And Petertermeyer and forty seven people appeared. That's right.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
What was our jiggy? What was the goalie's name? Jean
le js jsg Gobert right, John Sebastian she gere jsg
All right, word number, song, fun fact, keep it going.
Check's here we blow through the clock. Our apologies everybody, all.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Right, so this is the snerdly.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
We running a little bit late, so this is the
final segment of the two o'clock hour. We should just
be coming back and doing the fun fact and all that,
but real quick, sheck, because our dear friend at PMS
Dead and Alive likes to get these in. Let's do
our deadninal live guy birthday to day quickly, your dead guy,
your adventur or show of record, make a grip of cash,
figure out crazy ways to spend it, while celebrating your

(34:39):
bravery and enthusiasm for the rest of your life. Show
of record. We are both of those things. Well to me,
that iron Maiden easy one today James Stephen Fawcett should
have been eighty one. But those playing sometimes don't like
to stay in the air. He died sadly, tragically doing
what he loved, flying so quickly. Born in Tennessee, he

(35:02):
grew up though, right up the road here and Garden Grove,
went to Garden Grove High School, and like the kids
that were born at that time, boy scout exploring the
wonderful terrain of southern California hiking, becomes an Eagle Scout
becomes an Order of Arrow, best of the best, and
goes to Stanford. Adventure doesn't stop there. Swims to Alcatraz
to hang a sign that says beat cal for big Game.

(35:25):
And after he graduates he gets his MBA and then
he goes to work on the Chicago Board of Trade
at the New York Stock Exchange. He makes tens of
millions of dollars and gets into flying gliders, sailboats, balloons
around the world. He's the guy all of those virgin gliders, balloons,
This is the guy that piloted all of those things
and I bring it up because Fawcett did a circumnavigation

(35:49):
of the globe in seventy six. Hold on twenty two hours?
Where is it? It was two and a half days
almost Yeah, seven hours in a seven foot cockpit. What
never stopped? The refuel flew at fifty thousand feet about
three hundred and fifty miles an hour? Did the Globe

(36:10):
died in a plane crash? Sadly Steve Fawcett dead woman.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Not of the day. But in nearby the Burbank Airport,
when you're walking through just pass security on your way
to your gate, there is a large statue of Amelia Airhart. Yeah,
probably don't want to talk about it before, but I mean,
I mean, is the list longer than five of people
you would not want to see? I want to think
about it before you're getting on a plane. Besides Amelia Airheart.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
I was flying back from Chicago after the Big Ten
Tournament in the Midway Airport and they had CNN on
in the bar and it was an hour long special
of air disasters on two TVs, and I was like,
I'm not going to say anything. I want to see
if anybody else brings it up, because I found it humorous,
but I'm like, do you not recognize because it was like,
you know, when we had those couple plane crashes at

(36:58):
the start of the year, and I was like, don't
you recognize We're all about to get on a plane
and you're running an hour long special of like Terror
in the Skies on CNN.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
I'd like, the big if you watch a plane disaster
movie while you're on the plane, I think that inoculates
you from actual disaster. Right, you can't. It's like having
a famous versus too ironic. We can can't, right, the
irony would be too great. Quant I'm a live guy.
Birthday of the Day. Happy seventy fifth to Peter Frampton Jordan.
Raised in England. You know who he was. He was

(37:28):
a successful child singer and in nineteen sixty six he
became a member of The Herd. He was the lead
singer and guitarist of the band, which had a bunch
of British pop hits. Frampton was named the face of
nineteen sixty eight by teen magazine Rave. In sixty nine,
when Frampton was eighteen, he joined Steve Marriott to form

(37:50):
Humble Pie. They did four studio albums and one live
album with Humble Pie. Then Frampton left the band went
solo in seventy one several albums, including the big breakthrough,
the live recording Frampton Comes Alive. Talk about irony or coincidence.
It's a live Guy of the day, and we're talking
about the guy whose most famous record is Coming Alive.

(38:13):
Frampton is also known for the signature song show Me
the Way Do You Feel?

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Oh yeah wo wo wo wo wow.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
I'm in you in this song you Hear Baby, I
Love Your Way. All of these songs remain staples on
classic rock radio. He also worked with various other acts
like Ringo star John Entwistle of The Who, and Bowie.
He has also appeared in television shows like The Simpsons,
Remember Family Guy, and Madam Secretary. Frampton was inducted into

(38:49):
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just last year.
He's been married three times and has three kids. In
twenty nineteen, he announced he's been living with the muscle
wasting disease known as IB. He's continued to perform and
actually played Yamava Theater in June. Happy seventy fifth, There
we Go, Pete Frampton.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Happy Birthday. Frampton Happy would have been birthday faucet. When
we return final segment, Man, were we late, But that's
what happens. That's what happens when you got too much content.
We'll come back to a little bit of quick HiT's
your fun fact all of that, and then pass you
along to Adam or to David Vesse for Dodgers on Deck.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Great
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