April 25, 2025 • 47 mins
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to go until five. Throw it over to Jay Glazer
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But Clippers making a run here in the postseason. They
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get the five seed and they are playing tonight at
seven pm. So Clippers Nuggets tip off at seven. Oh
you know what that means? We go till six. That
means we are on for one hour of the NFL Draft,
which means the Petros and Money Show will be back
to our very unique Now there's only two drafts that
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Matt and I will cover in this way.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
It is the NFL Draft. If we are tasked like
because if the Clippers weren't playing as Matt just intimated,
we're tossing it. We hit the Jeck button, We're out
of here at five. That's why Kevin was told he
could leave it four. How many times? How many times
are going to pass the ball until we shoot it?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Four?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Four?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You got fifty six minutes, Kevin, fifty six minutes, that's right,
count it down.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Clippers basket. He's got a young family well, and he
wants to get out of here so he can meet
Adam a Adam Auslin down at the end to it though, Oh,
it's gonna be Kevin's like in the center of the wall.
It's gonna be fire tonight. That's unreal. That's what the
youth and youth like to say. It's gonna be fire.
He's got a costume and everything. It's incredible to see.
I can't wait for you to be part of it, Kevin,
and you deserve it. They knock me out like Clipper
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Derff to walking.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Maybe they would throw you a bootleg party in the
bows the stinking bowels of Staples Center got knocked out
into a trash instead of getting the one hundred million
dollars settlement that he had covered to him. Either way,
we are going to cover one hour of the NFL
Draft and the Petros and Money style. And there is
only one way that that style takes place, and it's
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an order. It's a tradition, much like the Eucharist at
a church or something.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Just like the youth.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well, I mean, I don't want a blaspheme, but what
I'm saying is it takes steps. You know, we take.
We have traditional steps that we take. And Matt, without
the tradition of great sports talk, who are great sports
talk just a couple of jaggs. Yeah, so we need structure,
we need tradition, we need our identity.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
This is a decade plus. Yeah so we've been aade
plus long time. It's a long time. Nobody knows how
to cover a draft like the Petros and Money show
that yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Body, So first, when the draft number comes up, you
hear the.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
We sounder we have that?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
We have that? Do we have that? Do we have
all the stuff? You could be honest, Ronnie. If it's
not all there yet, you can.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Know we don't have the sounder, but we do have
the flapping we do have, so it wouldn't be.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Sound, it would be it would be sound. When now, Ronnie,
can we are we going to be able to get
the sounder in time?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I think that is highly likely. Okay, okay, all right,
so now we have to sound. Imagine the sounder just fires.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
And then the wind of change flapping in a young
man's life.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
There it is. Then we go full volume to the TV.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Done it in a game since nineteen eighty?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Right now we're on the TV. Right, here's the pick.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
We pull down the pick, and then we describe, with
Matt's draft knowledge or maybe mine my limited football knowledge,
we will play the winds have changed, blowing in a
young man's life by the Great German metal band inspired
by the ending of the Cold War and the Berlin
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walls crumbling scorpions.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Wind of change.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Because not only does a draft describe a wind in
a certain way, wind is usually synonymous with change, and
what is more, abrupt than being drafted by an NFL
team and put into a town like Jacksonville, Florida.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So that's how we do. That's the order and that
pick analysis and Kevin figuring will be tipping back a
mimosa at into it dome, clinking glasses. It's getting a
sushi rito.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
With fully functional employee at him trying for sure, Yeah
that he'll be clink He'll be clinking something at at
Like by the time Matt and I get to that
first pick in the draft, figures will be three sheets
to the wind, with the winds of change blowing in
a young man's life.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I will become the wall myself. Envision yourself as the wall,
being absorbed by the wall and becoming parked if not
the wall, like yelling at Jokis, oh yeah, shirtless.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Haunting west Brook, calling him west Brick and upsetting him
giant Mohawk. I don't want to offend his family, but Matt,
I feel that we have done this long enough because
Tim Kates is out of town. With a graduation for
Ruby Kates and congratulations to Ruby Kates graduating from Grand
Canyon University OPS the thunder Dan Marley gave the address
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to the graduates today, I'm relatively positive. And his message was, Hey, kids,
you think I got a tan like this? Byepping around?
I'm thunder Dan Marley. You stupid little bastards, you snot
nose brats. You think you get a tan like this
just from slinking around town. I shoot threes and duck
with both hands.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I'm thunder Dirt.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Great address, one of the great graduates, not since Bill
Cosby addressed USC What what he did?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I was there? He addressed the university? You were there?
Fred was there? Both? Uh? What Bill Cosby was a
big get? Yeah? In that time. Oh, I guarantee Bill
Cosby made the commencement speaker round. Oh, come on, gear
on te.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
He made him at sc If I had walked in graduation,
I might have ended up violated by a pudding pop.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Woo?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Is he keeping those on ice up on stage? And
then one by one he pulls them out of the igloo,
and then he likes to count to see how long
it'll melt a little talk the draft begins in one
island fifty minutes. Yeah, figures, why are you going up
to the ind to it? Dope? Leaving the show?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Why are you doing it so anyway, we're going to
be covering the draft, and Matt and I relished the opportunity.
And since Tim Kates is out of town, the holy
Trinity of Great sports Talk, Matt, Great Sports Talk, Me
and Ronnie Fossio are going to do the draft ourselves.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Do we have the sounder yet so we can do
a full dress rehearsal because I want a full dress Okay,
full dress, full dress rehearsal.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So Ronnie's in our ear, he says, Fisher's walking to
the podium, and we got it here too, We got
it here. Yeah, so we're all in. We're all in sight.
No no, no, no, no, no no. The sounder the yeah,
this is but but you see, guys, this is why
we do the rehearse right, So we get that first,
then the flappers. Now, now we go to the pick
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sound up, didn't you? And then and then scorpse God,
I love this back perfect bang?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Hey, got one more, one more, one more, let's get
out to the party of math.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
What's the change? It out pretty well.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Perfect bang bang bang? And I like how you did
it fast? Then Ronnie, I like how you did it fast?
We're not gonna be that fast when we're doing it.
It's a play in four acts. Sounder flapper to the
read when to change, good call running, Let's do it
one more time.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Can't practice baller, faller, baller. They just drafted a baller.
Perfect love it. That is great. It is a play
in four acts. Lady Macbeth is dead.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Uh Sonny Kiff, I ain't calling us this year saying no, oh,
we're good and it's only going to be an hour.
So we're going to cover that and then we're going
to get to fully functional employee Adam for Game three
at the into It Dome. I do have a health
update for those of you that were worried about me.
A lot of nice and a lot of snarky texts
about my health. I expected I was a misdiagn not
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by me, Matt, I was really taking aback.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I was.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I went to urgent care on Sunday night with this
terrible rash on my arms and legs, or on one
arm and one leg, and I was diagnosed by the
urgent care doctor with shingles and went on shingles medicine
and went into a cave and was deeply depressed and isolated.
After a couple of days, my eye started getting read well.
(10:06):
Don Martin called me yesterday while I was sitting on
the toilet and he said, Mamian, I heard it.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You can go blind if you get him in your
eye and and right.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Well, I was irritated and I was like, oh my god,
I'm gonna go blind. So I went to a dermatologist.
And the dermatologist took a look at me and took
a look at me again and said, you do not
have shingles. You have been misdiagnosed. This is your You've
had an allergy attack, and this is blistering egzema, which
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you have dealt with before in your life. And she
gave me a shot of pet prednosone in my colo.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
And which is Greek. And then why did she give
you a shot in your colo? Uh? Prednozone for the itch,
steroids for the body body wide itch. And then some
ointment and told me that it was okay to go
back to work. When's the last time you had a
shot in your ass? I think I had to be
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less than ten years old. They would always just pound
it right in the arm. I don't know. I've never
had a pregnoisone shot, not in my ass. Really.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
The last time i've the last time I got a
pregno zone shot was when I went into anphylactic shock
around the time my wife was pregnant with my daughter.
So it's been a while, but I've taken a few
shots in the behind me in my time.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Man.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
And of course, you know whatever, i'd do my steroid gear,
you know, always strengthy the ass.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I used to have Kevin figures when he was an
intern here back in the day from seventy eighth in Vermont.
That was one of the first things you had to
do was shoot me up with the end var. I'd
come back from Mexico. That's how I got so fat.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It's a veterinary green, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I would shoot the veterinary great roads. I'd have figures
shoot me up back in fifteen forty, but I'd forget
to work out, so I'd eat a whole bunch and
i'd be all testosteroned out. But I just got really fat,
pulled both hammies. It's terrible, but thank you for all
the well wishes. I'm not one hundred percent, but I
don't have shingles either. And don Martin was like, why
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didn't you get the vaccine? And I was like, well
they don't. They don't offer it until I'm fifty years old.
You know, you have to pay a bunch to get them.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I'm dead it right now, Like okay, you know, like
I'm sitting here in pain. Why are you scolding me?
You're not even God, Hey, I'm just looking out for you.
But I still love you once you stay healthy, and
a lot of texts about it, take care of yourself,
you know, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
A lot of texts about Hartman and how great it
was to hear Hartman yesterday and the nostalgia that Steve
Hartman provides to all of us when we hear his voice.
The best texts I got yesterday. And I believe I
told you, Matt, when I told you the good news
about how I wasn't going to give you shingles and
I could come to work.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
It's very excited about that, right the.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Tech said Matt, and Hartman sounds like a real sports
talk show joke boy, choke boy, who's who's laughing now?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Joke?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
And then like a bunch of laughing faces and maybe
like a hashtag karma, which I appreciated, so thank you.
But we are back and it is a crunchy group. Thursday,
Tim Kats is out, Matt and I are here. We
are going to talk. We're going to talk to James
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Worthy in the very next segment, and James Worthy is
going to get us riled up for the next Laker
playoff game, which I believe is being played in May,
and I'm looking forward to that. I know Lebron will
be well read. I know the King is going to
show out in a couple.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Of weeks when they play Game three. I think it's
next week.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Well, I'm looking whenever it is. Yeah, it can't be
soon enough. Clippers tonight because I'm sure, well the Clippers,
who cares if they get tired. But I but I
really need Steph Curry to get a lot of rest,
and more importantly, I need the King to get a
lot of rest because I know what people are thinking.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I know what people are thinking that he can shoot threes,
shoot threes.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
That's the worst part of having shingles. When I thought
I had shingles was I'm just sitting there alone, isolated.
No one can or wants to touch me, and all
I'm thinking in my head is lebrocs Dell du Lebron
shoot three.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
And.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
That was very upsetting.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
But overall, I know what everybody was thinking because I
was thinking the same thing, and I want you to
know that it's wrong. You know, I was watching Kristap
Porzingis get hit upside the head and go down, and
almost immediately the blood started to flow through his flat top,
and you could see, and he popped up and had
a smile on his face and walked out and then
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walked back and was in good humor. And I thought,
and I know a lot of people thought this, because
I saw the memes. I thought, my god, they'd have
to metavac Lebron. If somebody cut his forehead like that
WWE style and he was bleeding, he would literally have
his arms across his chest with a helicopter spinning under
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a helicopter like s like it would be the most
dramatic thing that ever happened in the history of NBA basketball,
if somebody cut Lebron's forehead the way that Porzingis got
cut yesterday. And I thought that, and then then I
admonished myself for thinking it, because it's not good to
even have bad thoughts against the king. It's treason?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Is I put you in the gap the it's right
or the stocks, the stocks to the stockades and then
to the game. What's the thing where they put your
head in it and they put your hands in it
and then you're right in the middle of town and
everybody just kicks you with the ass on the way
out of the pub, like that's the stockade, right. I
don't know. That's why I'm asking, because that's what I
don't want to have bad thoughts medieval stockade. Yeah, that's
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what exactly. Yeah, bingo bingo appropriate for the Clipper game tonight.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I don't want to get stuck in the medieval stockade
for having trees in his thoughts against the kink. Oh
but I did think if somebody cut the king's forehead
like that, my.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
God death, they'd they'd read him his last rites. Yeah,
it would be. It would be a terrible, terrible, terrible
thing to happen. They might pull a hearse into the stable,
back in to the player's entrance in the tunnel. But
it's lovely to be back in studio. Uh, thank you
to Kevin Figures for agreeing to be here for the hour.
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I don't know how. I mean what we would do
if he was not here for the I wouldn't be
talking about his participation at the wall. No, I'm looking
forward to seeing your face out there to know he's
gonna be the purple teletubby. That's the outfit he's wearing tonight,
waving his arms, trying to get guys to his free throws.
Hey joking, you pay me enough, I'll do it, Tanky
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winky dipsy, come on, I'm not you know, I believe
this was one of my This is one of my
first instance instances of misdiagnosis. You know where a dot
one doctor tells you one thing and the other one's like, well,
I don't want to disparage another dog.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I don't think I've ever gotten a second opinion, that's
the problem. So I may have been misagnosed. Well, I
mean I was, you know, fine, just isolated and totally
and completely depressed until Don Martin called me and told
me I was going blind. You're gonna You're gonna go blind.
And that's what sent me to get my second opinion.
And I was like, what about my eye? They're like, yeah,
you have bad allergies. I was like I'm gonna go blind.
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They were like, wow, I went not from this. You
may staring at the sun too long, turning the clips
LeBrock and still dumb. All right, we'll be right.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Back and we will talk to the great James Worthy.
And don't forget. It's draft day and Matt and I
have you so excited. You don't have to do that, Matt.
We have to sound. You don't have to flap. That's
the tease of the sound. There it is.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
See we're gonna talk about that during the break. Was
it idiot? Color in his hair? Was it idiot? Let
his hair go gray? We make fun of all the
We make fun of all the guys with hair, hair
dye in. And then Kurt Warner pops up on the
screen and he's white as a ghost with his gray hair,
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and check out father Christmas not hair. Look at Papa Hevingway.
No one can win here. No, that's right. Figures.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
You don't go to the end to a dome. You
let us down, You do you let us down? Figures
is here for forty more minutes. We're here for another
two hours at forty Petro. Somebody on AMPI seventy LA sports.
You're home of the Dodgers. On a crunchy griven Thursday.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Petro, somebody going until six pm? We got Clippers playoff
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Speaker 3 (19:52):
The Lakers are in the playoffs. The heat is hot,
some might even call it hot hot heat enjoining us
right now, one of the all time great Lakers. His
jersey hangs in the rafters. The time that he played
basketball reminds us of a time that almost the whole
world was in love with the NBA.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It seems.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Tell you what people are in love with. Luka Doncic
after Game two. Ha ha, that's true. The one and
only James Worthy, our hero Spectrum Sports net LA and
a Hall of Famer, joining us once again on our show,
What's Cracking?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
James?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
How are you man? You're talking about hot? It's nineteen
eighty five playoff hot, It's twenty Tenelics Lakers. Oh yeah,
you know, playoff hot it hasn't been this intense. I
mean it wasn't tents a few years back when we
played Denver in the in the Western Conference finals, but
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not as complete as this entire playoffs our we're witnessing.
So yeah, it's it's it's intense. It's physical, man, I
like to have the physicality bat but yeah, it's testy
and and it's unpredictable right now.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, take us kind of through your you know what
your analysis slash takeaway? Is it that fourth quarter Lakers
only score thirteen points, but like you said, they get physical,
they bow up when they have to. On defense, they
get every stop they need to make. Like, is there
is there a bigger takeaway than just you know, they
won the game that they had to win, no matter
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which way they had to win it, or was something
bigger there kind of happening in that fourth quarter that
you saw.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Well two things. You know, the Lakers habitually will give
up leads. We've seen that the last few years where
they even against teams they should beat, even against below
five hundred teams, they give up twenty point leads, twenty
six point leads, you know, eight point leads, with four
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minutes to go in the fourth quarter, and they've lost
some of those games. So I give them credit for
still having a little bit of that, you know, I
don't know what it is, Lackadasacal playing the league. It's
still in there and it's dangerous a little bit. But
I give them credit also from learning how to you know,
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hang on to a lead, not lose the game per se.
So you know, it's it's it's dangerous. When you're gonna lead,
you can't start playing. I mean, look, leads will disappear
or they will be diminished with the three points, but
it can't be of your own doing. It can't be
if you turn the ball over, you know, missing defensive assignments,
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giving up offensive rebounds, allowing one player to get like
super hot, and not being able to make those adjustments.
Those are the problems and also the improvements that I've
seen them make, you know, you know, it's just this.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Passion year, James, when it comes to you know, kind
of the I don't know if you've heard this, I
would imagine someone's brought it up to you. I've kind
of seen it out there, just the style of play
of Luka Doncic and it's a style that's made him
a five time first team All NBA Player Finals participant
guiding the Mavericks. There just kind of the ball domination,
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hunting the matchup that he wants. It seems like it's
Rudy Gobert that he's looking for over and over again
on those screens, and just kind of how the Lakers
are to play off of that and how successful they
can be because he certainly scoring points, but it's certainly
different than what we saw prior to his arrival with
the way this offense was operating.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
I've never seen a player basketball player like Luca doncas
I just I've tried to compare him. Obviously, people saying,
oh he shoot like Larry Bird, Oh he passes like Maggie,
but he does it in a unique way that I've
never seen. You know. Look, I was young when Oscar
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Robinson was around, and they said he used to dominate
games like that without speeding the game up. Luca is
learning how to not be so dominant, especially early in
the game. I think I thought in Game one he
only had one assists, the Lakers only had fifteen assists.
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As a team. They need to be up in that
twenty five, twenty seven. They need Gay Visson to touch
the ball, they need Benny Smith to touch it, they
need vander Belt to touch it. They don't need to
necessarily have to score, and they will if the ball
is moving. But guys want to touch it. Some guys
want to make the hockey assists. It's amazing how those
little things get you going. So I think Lucas learning
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how to in the first quarter, particularly get other people
involved early. He can get his any time he wants to.
He looks for miss matchers. His ball handling skills are
like you know, Curly Neil. He can offset any defender. Yeah,
he can, Marcus Hayes, if you want to go way back,
he can offset any defender's footwork with his ball handling.
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Griars because we've never seen it. Unique style of how
he lunges forward like and then pulls back and changes
you know, directions and then soft touch floaters and you know,
launching threes. I've never seen it ever a player like that.
So he's still learning how to play with the Lakers.
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He's he's really done well with the lobs to like
Chris Hayes, and he'll find it open guys but man
twenty six years old. To build around that type of
talent in the future, if you know, hopefully, if we
can keep it. I think it's working out very well.
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And I think each game his intellect, he picks up
something new and adds it from game to game. That's
just how he can expedite, you know, the learning process
with with new players.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
James Worthy enjoying the playoff intensity. No doubts Draymond Green
clothes line and some dudes last night in the Golden
State game.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
James, what kind of what kind of adjustments do you
think Minnesota will make from Game two going back to
the to the midway.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
That's one thing I love about playoffs. You've got the
same team for seven games, and you know, you know,
it's not like you've got to prepare for different players.
I think they're going to go home with an attitude
that they achieve what they wanted to. They got Game one.
They're going to say, we almost, we could have come back,
and you know, probably one game two. That's the mindset
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they're going into that arena, and all you're going to
hear in that arena is, oh, oh yeah, the Wolves
all game long. The Wolves. They're going to be physical.
They're gonna be physical. And Edwards is the only player
I've ever seen that while the other team is warming up,
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he goes down to the other team's lineup and starts
talking trash to Luca, just just talking trash like. So
they're gonna be physical, Jayden nods go bear. They are
a really good defensive team. This might be the toughest
and I know I'm probably speaking you know early, but
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they did pass Minnesota. This might be the toughest that
they'll play a team that's this physical. They have guys
who are six eight sixty nine, who have wingspans that
are like seven feet and you know they they they
have a star in Edwards who at any moment can
(27:54):
can just put you on his shoulders. Light Lebron like Luca,
they have one too. But so this this game three
and four, we got to get home court manage back.
We gave it up. But they can expect a physical game.
So if guys like Ruie and Vandebilt and you know,
Benny Smith were gon, we're gonna have to match that
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on the road, and if you don't, it could get ugly.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
James Worthy with Us brought to you by your Southern
California for dealers, James the one. You know, if I
had an overriding concern, if you know, if I were
JJ Redick, which I'm not, it would probably be like
you should wear deep. Like how deep is this rotation
right now? I mean it looks like it's six and
a half guys right he's playing Jackson Hayes. And when
that thing gets a little sideways, he's gone never to
(28:44):
be heard from again. Like, is there a way to
overcome that? Or do you think that that they're all
right playing essentially two guys off the bench, Jackson Hayes
for about eight minutes and maybe one or two other
guys six seven minutes. It's been wild these first two
game games. How how then that rotation.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Is He's gonna he's gonna he's gonna play accordingly. And
that's the thing about the playoffs, you know, sometimes it
takes a couple of games to figure it out. I
think Jackson Hayes will get more time playing time. I
think he'll go back to that deep rotation. Even if
guys aren't getting a lot of minutes, there's gonna be that. Hey, look,
there's gonna be a few minutes. Well, he's gonna need
darnk connect to come in just to hit a couple
(29:24):
of threes. That's it, and then take him out. Uh.
You know, Jackson Hayes, I think he's our only rim
protected so I can't imagine him not playing. But I think, uh,
the the the chess game that you play those first
couple of games, if you kind of say, how can
I counter against Goldbert? Can I go smaller against Goldbert?
(29:46):
Do I can I pull Jackson Hayes out for a
little bit? You know, those are the those are the
moves that you're making. And so by game I always say,
by game two and three, it's just all about you know,
who's gonna play hard, who's gonna get the fifty to
fifty balls? The coaches will make it. Johnson would steal,
but I think JJ's just looking at what do I
(30:06):
have to do? What's the best scenario to put on
the floor, especially going into Minnesota. So I think he'll
get back to you know, you know, at least seven
you know, sometimes eight rotation when he needs it.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Do you think Lebron has a legendary game up his
sleeve in the next few coming It's been a little quiet.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I guess you know he does, and what a sacrifice
he's made from you know, look, we're talking about Lebron.
If they're record held up back in December, like man,
could he possibly be a candidate for MVP the way
he was carrying this team and his age. But when
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Luca comes in, he's smart, and my opinion, he's like, Okay,
I can kick the ball out of my hands. I
don't need to handle it as much in the fourth quarter. Uh,
I'm playing off ball. I'm getting some of these back
door cuts, and I'm just gonna allow Luca to to
engage because we need Luca. We need Luca to be
(31:12):
in in you know, in in harmony with everybody else.
So Lebron, in my opinion, he's allowedness to happen. But
when he has to, and trust me, he's he knows
his chances to win the championship are narrowing every year,
and I think he I think he thinks if they
can compete the way he thinks they can, but so yeah,
(31:33):
he'll he'll he'll allow it to happen. I'm sure he
you know, a game two, I mean, I'm sorry the
first game they you know, he kind of just they
had that week off, they got a little lapse, but
he'll he'll bring him back and you know, look, if
he needs to, he'll he'll get that ball. Then he'll
make something happen.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Last thing for you, James, just kind of big picture.
I know you mentioned you feel good if the Lakers
can get by the Timber Well's just in terms of
physicality and the bigs that they have. But how have
you been playing? Have you been paying close attention to
the other series? I mean, Oklahoma City looks like a buzzsaw,
and man, this Clippers nugget series has been something, and
it looks like we got if he stays healthy, that
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finals MVP level. Kawhi back on. These Clippers haven't only
played about twenty thirty games in the regular season. He
looks like he is kind of fully operational man. That
seems to be a bit of a scary thought for
the rest of the league.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Well, to me, the Clippers have become the most dangerous team,
you know, in the West. I know Oklahoma is projected.
They haven't seen what Kwhi has seen. They haven't seen
what ty Lu has seen. A great coach, and they're
now not giving Van Gundy enough credit. He's come in
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and shaped them up defensively. So I think they're the
most dangerous team right now in the West and maybe
you know, as a playoffs for Seed, if they can
get past Denver, they may be one of the most
dangerous teams in the league. That's just who they are.
And you know, with Kwi coming back, I don't think
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anybody expected this, but he's back to MVP levels. Zubob Powell,
they're a good team. They're good defensive team. So I
put them right up there. With the experience with Lebron
and Luca having you know, played in the finals last year,
you know, the Lakers are somewhat of a dangers team.
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Minnesota another team I don't think the top two teams are.
You know, they're really good. Oklahoma's really good, don't get
me wrong, and they deserve everything. But they were in
the Western Conference finals last year with a lot with
not a lot of expectations to win it all. This year,
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it's different. They have to win, and so it's a
different kind of pressure when you have to win so
and they don't have that experience ship the Clippers do,
the Lakers do. Minnesota, you know, they they they're they're
good with that group. Conley has a lot of experience
as a point guard. You have to look at things
like that. So the West is loaded, man, I think
(34:19):
I think that, you know, I do think the Celtics
would probably come out of the East unless Cleveland, you know,
makes a lot of noise, unless there's some upset looming somewhere.
But I do think the Celtics will come out. But
over here in the West, we're not gonna know until
we know.
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Speaker 3 (34:53):
The Great James Worthy. We love you James, and enjoy
these playoffs you guys. Yeah, games are like eight days apart.
Stupid ass schedule. Hey, man, I love it. We got
NHL playoffs, we got NBA playoffs, we got the NFL Up.
But if we got Dodgers Pirates over the weekend, Paul
Skeen's gonna be pitching tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Kidding me. What a time, What a time to be
a sports fan in Los Angeles. I think Kevin's getting
out of here, but I'm not excited about his schedule.
For all this play by play, I was excited about it,
and now I'm not slippers. Tonight, Lakers, tomorrow, Skiings tomorrow,
after that, after Matt NFL Draft today, tomorrow, Saturday, kings
(35:34):
up two. Oh on the oilers. You kidding me.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
I liked it a lot more until you became a
Carnival Barker.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
This is exciting.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Step right up. Come see the Kegs. Shut up, love
m King. We didn't even have them on the iHeart
app anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Man, Oh we don't. I didn't know that. Yeah, you
thought they were still working for us. They're not. They're
not Your boys aren't here. Though it's testaments. I love that.
I still love them, Still passionate. You're still a subject
to the Crown. Watch it every minute you're still I
am of that ground. I'm uncle to my seed. I
will be an uncle to his seed.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
We will return with some local knowledge. If you thought
Hartman brought back nostalgia, wait to you here, what's next?
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Getball? Tomorrow will have Dodger Baseball from the Gallping Motors
broadcast booths six o'clock, Dodgers on deck, first pitch at seven,
arguably the greatest pitching matchup of the season. Ya, I'm
amoto v Schemes tomorrow out at Dodger Stadium and we'll
have it right here as you're home of the World
(36:50):
Series champion Dodgers. I'm excited about that one tonight. I'm
excited about Clippers Nuggets. I mean, you're happy as a
clam in high time. I tell you, come on, Hey, iheartradios,
Wingo tango. Oh, we gotta sell this presented by Fiji Airways, Saturday,
May tenth, Huntington City Beach, just south of the pier.
(37:12):
We're going live that doja cat exactly right. I hope
she does that.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Bitch. I'm a cow, bitch. I'm a cow. I'm not
a cat. I don't save me ow. I go move, bitch, move.
That's a hit, bitch. I'm a cow bitch. I'm a cow.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
I am not a cat. I don't save me ow
I go Moveing a long run, I love it, Yeah,
I'll be there. I love the Megan Trainer. I can't
wait all about many more. Get your tickets now at
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it now, Bitch, I'm a cow, I'm not a cat.
(37:55):
I don't save me out, Okay, Matt.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Because the feeling nostalgia was so strong yesterday on the air,
and so many people were so excited to hear Steve, I'd.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Been living in dream have him in the studio since
twenty twelve. Can you believe it?
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Glorious hours of sports talk radio with Matt money Smith
yesterday that you could podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Steve
Hartman was in and that wasn't enough of a taste
of nostalgia for me.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Matt, Are you gonna go step further? I'm gonna take
a step further. Local knowledge is knowledge, common knowledge. It's
local knowledge. He's very knowledgeable on the things that you
come up with, as far.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
As for with your knowledge.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Because of the feeling of nostalgia, Matt, I went to
get ready for our big draft hour, and because I
had some time, and because I'm happy to be freed
from my home and my shingles cage, I went imprisonment.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Well, responsible, you're being a responsible human being. I went
some that I have not been in a long time.
That used to be a big topic on our show.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Now no, it's closed set and it torn down Nowadays,
if I go to have a little pick me up,
something to eat, maybe a diet tab on the on
the way to work, I go over to Teluca Lake,
Matt and visit the doghouse. Yes, there's hot dog place
which has a lot of grips and like sound people
(39:27):
that from Warner Brothers, you know, blue collar type, and
I feel comfortable. But I went back today to where
the creative types hang out across the street. If you
remember Matt the coffee commissary, the boogiest play commissary.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
I did. I went back. Now it has to have
been at least three years. At least.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
I used to go every once in a while. And
now let me tell you that place. It is a
super like if you think, like in my neighborhoo, there's
a real artisaal hipster place. This place is the most
hipstery place that it is a parade. It is a
fashion show of hipsters you have never seen.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
And Matt.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
I took it for granted when I first started going
in there, But now like yesterday, I was down on
my luck. Today, I'm sitting there and I could I
might as well have been.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Was this a spur of the moment decision or was
this fashion Fashion Week in New York. That's how my
eyes were like dinner plates. Couldn't believe what I saw.
I decided this morning, I said, I got time. I'm
not going to the Little Jewel of New Orleans. I'm
not going to MEXICALI Taco Company. I'm not going to Philips.
I'm not going to the Doghouse coffee commissary. Let me
(40:50):
tell you what I saw. What'd you see? I don't
want to be I don't want to be patronized. I'm
not patronizing you. It's not like the barista. I was like,
is there a cat for that?
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Yeah, man, they're right over there. It's like, sorry, I
haven't been here in a while. Baristo. First of all,
crazy barista neck tattoos. We're talking about white guys that
might weigh about as much as Matt does, but they're
next and they're like twenty four buck fifty two. I
waited in the exactly and their necks are blasted out
(41:24):
with ink and some of the most intricate ink designs
you're twenty four, and not only one of them, one
of the baristos. I think it's just Barista, no matter
what stucy neck tattoo. Come on, Steu's a child, a
young a young man in his twenty steuh Susie exactly.
(41:46):
It's an ironic Stucie for a job. I don't know
what it was, Matt.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
These people don't even understand irony. Then a whole brigade
of cyclists came in, all white dudes, same build as you,
with the most intricate, little tiny tattoos, like little tiny
little owl here and a little razor here. I mean,
so perfect. And then there was a light skinned black
chick that looked like Chrease summer with dreadlocks, all free
(42:11):
and easy, with like a poncho on and like a
flowing dress. And I was like, damn, it is unbooked.
There was a guy with a yarn embroidered yetti holder
over the shoulder YETI holder. Then there was another guy.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Wait a minute, what do you mean a yetti holder?
Like a hold is yetti but it was like a
yo thing. It wasn't a freaking snowman. I don't know
what you mean. An yeah, it was a baby yetti.
That's really Jesus.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Then there was another guy. He looked like more of
a roughneck but still a hipster, and he had like
a pack like he was the tomb raider, and it
looked like like almost like a like a World War
One style like canteen holder, but it was like a
act strapped to his leg, like a leather thing with
a flap.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
And I'm like, how does this guy go to work
like this? Why is something strapped to his leg? But Matt,
it's just such an amazing array of hipsters at the commissary,
and I really feel your lunch. I guess what they
had on special chick sandwich. No, on special tuna salad sandwich,
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my favorite.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
I was so excited. I've never been so exciting. But
if you ever ever want to see a parade of hipster.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Because the fish was going bad, you know what, do
you have to be there? Actually? You know what it said?
Uh no, they always have a special sandwich. You know
what it said, And you know what f you No, No,
it's not a terrible life. You can't ever not say
anything good about anybody's food. You're the worst.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
What it said was this you are it, said, Poul
caught so somebody caught it with the pole. Somebody's pull smoker,
I said, caught tuna. So somebody's pole caught bat tune.
I was like, what did you guys pull smokers too?
I can't believe it. The one of the odds. These
guys also smoked pole. Bad news, though, Matt, what aside
(44:17):
from the bad fish?
Speaker 2 (44:18):
You put the tuna fish sandwich in a bag on
the top. I learned my lesson. I had been patient.
I sat there and ate with patients.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
What happened.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
I got a parking ticket, which park.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
I thought I was. I thought I was clean, fair fight,
we was legal. But I was one one space off
chicken Ass Town.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
You were in the neighborhood. I was in the hood.
But there's like one driveway that in front of you
can park, and then there's one that you it's one
hour parking. I thought I was in that.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
You know, they could have been properly. You know what
might be a question for Sweet James. I could have
it could have been properly. You know what, I might
have to send that ticket to Sweet James.
Speaker 4 (44:56):
Not a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
I think I'm gonna have to you she could have
parked in the Wienerschnitzel parking lot. Well that's illegal. Well
if they're monitoring the street. I'm sure they're monitoring the Schnitzel,
and they monitor that they have at that mobile tow
you away, right, it's got to town it back or
violate you. Yeah, oh, I'll violate that.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
Drive reverse drive, reverse drive reverse, all right. So anyway,
back to the coffee commissary, Matt, I could not believe.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
I think this is the start of something new, the
hipster level. I mean, I was just nice to get
back to uh a place where used to go and
talk about. Right, and I'm happy to say that it
is still as pretentious as you could ever imatch. I
went once. It is unbelievably pretentious, but a nice recognize
these are not my people. They do not want me here.
I will never return. This is not for me. I
(45:48):
think you could pull it off. You could be like, hey,
I know, super Chunk, I could do something like that. Yeah,
they wouldn't know. They'd be like, man, this guy's got
a lot of depth. Tell them about Papa Roach. They'll
all bow down. Fair point. I'll bring him up. Latinum record.
Hold it right next to me. Check it out, guys,
I earned this. Let you hang it in the shop
if you want. I don't know why this guy brought
us record. She's like he was trying to brag. I'm
(46:09):
put it on loan. It would have really been sweet
if it wasn't for that ticket. It's the beard. What on,
Kurt Warner. Yeah, the hair is fine. It's the fact
that he's got the hair and the beard, so his
whole face is just surrounded by white. I love that
book Farewell to Arms that you wrote. All right, won't
(46:31):
be that much? Was the ticket? I don't know you
didn't look well. It has like a no. It doesn't
say yeah, it'll say on it all right, Well, I'll
give it to you here. Turn up the Ohio players.
So Matt the world expert on everything, how much it is?
Because you can just can't even have to wait for
the bill to come to Jacobean Myers is going to
take and this guy suck all their official attorneys of
(46:53):
the nudge right Hold on, wait, Ronnie, all right, there
we go. You have to clear your throat to look
sixty dollars if you pay it right now, if you
wait until May fifteenth, one hundred and twenty dollars. How
do I pay it? Right now? Do I have to
straight where they have? Yeah, you just hit the QR code,
bang QR code and suck. You're right there. Yeah that sucks.
(47:17):
Bank sucks. Yeah it does
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to go until five. Throw it over to Jay Glazer
and company for the NFL Draft on Fox Sports Radio.
But Clippers making a run here in the postseason. They
(01:08):
get the five seed and they are playing tonight at
seven pm. So Clippers Nuggets tip off at seven. Oh
you know what that means? We go till six. That
means we are on for one hour of the NFL Draft,
which means the Petros and Money Show will be back
to our very unique Now there's only two drafts that
(01:33):
Matt and I will cover in this way.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
It is the NFL Draft. If we are tasked like
because if the Clippers weren't playing as Matt just intimated,
we're tossing it. We hit the Jeck button, We're out
of here at five. That's why Kevin was told he
could leave it four. How many times? How many times
are going to pass the ball until we shoot it?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Four?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Four?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You got fifty six minutes, Kevin, fifty six minutes, that's right,
count it down.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Clippers basket. He's got a young family well, and he
wants to get out of here so he can meet
Adam a Adam Auslin down at the end to it though, Oh,
it's gonna be Kevin's like in the center of the wall.
It's gonna be fire tonight. That's unreal. That's what the
youth and youth like to say. It's gonna be fire.
He's got a costume and everything. It's incredible to see.
I can't wait for you to be part of it, Kevin,
and you deserve it. They knock me out like Clipper
(02:21):
Derff to walking.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Maybe they would throw you a bootleg party in the
bows the stinking bowels of Staples Center got knocked out
into a trash instead of getting the one hundred million
dollars settlement that he had covered to him. Either way,
we are going to cover one hour of the NFL
Draft and the Petros and Money style. And there is
only one way that that style takes place, and it's
(02:47):
an order. It's a tradition, much like the Eucharist at
a church or something.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Just like the youth.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well, I mean, I don't want a blaspheme, but what
I'm saying is it takes steps. You know, we take.
We have traditional steps that we take. And Matt, without
the tradition of great sports talk, who are great sports
talk just a couple of jaggs. Yeah, so we need structure,
we need tradition, we need our identity.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
This is a decade plus. Yeah so we've been aade
plus long time. It's a long time. Nobody knows how
to cover a draft like the Petros and Money show
that yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Body, So first, when the draft number comes up, you
hear the.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
We sounder we have that?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
We have that? Do we have that? Do we have
all the stuff? You could be honest, Ronnie. If it's
not all there yet, you can.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Know we don't have the sounder, but we do have
the flapping we do have, so it wouldn't be.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Sound, it would be it would be sound. When now, Ronnie,
can we are we going to be able to get
the sounder in time?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I think that is highly likely. Okay, okay, all right,
so now we have to sound. Imagine the sounder just fires.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
And then the wind of change flapping in a young
man's life.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
There it is. Then we go full volume to the TV.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Done it in a game since nineteen eighty?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Right now we're on the TV. Right, here's the pick.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
We pull down the pick, and then we describe, with
Matt's draft knowledge or maybe mine my limited football knowledge,
we will play the winds have changed, blowing in a
young man's life by the Great German metal band inspired
by the ending of the Cold War and the Berlin
(04:32):
walls crumbling scorpions.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Wind of change.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Because not only does a draft describe a wind in
a certain way, wind is usually synonymous with change, and
what is more, abrupt than being drafted by an NFL
team and put into a town like Jacksonville, Florida.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So that's how we do. That's the order and that
pick analysis and Kevin figuring will be tipping back a
mimosa at into it dome, clinking glasses. It's getting a
sushi rito.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
With fully functional employee at him trying for sure, Yeah
that he'll be clink He'll be clinking something at at
Like by the time Matt and I get to that
first pick in the draft, figures will be three sheets
to the wind, with the winds of change blowing in
a young man's life.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I will become the wall myself. Envision yourself as the wall,
being absorbed by the wall and becoming parked if not
the wall, like yelling at Jokis, oh yeah, shirtless.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Haunting west Brook, calling him west Brick and upsetting him
giant Mohawk. I don't want to offend his family, but Matt,
I feel that we have done this long enough because
Tim Kates is out of town. With a graduation for
Ruby Kates and congratulations to Ruby Kates graduating from Grand
Canyon University OPS the thunder Dan Marley gave the address
(06:15):
to the graduates today, I'm relatively positive. And his message was, Hey, kids,
you think I got a tan like this? Byepping around?
I'm thunder Dan Marley. You stupid little bastards, you snot
nose brats. You think you get a tan like this
just from slinking around town. I shoot threes and duck
with both hands.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I'm thunder Dirt.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Great address, one of the great graduates, not since Bill
Cosby addressed USC What what he did?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I was there? He addressed the university? You were there?
Fred was there? Both? Uh? What Bill Cosby was a
big get? Yeah? In that time. Oh, I guarantee Bill
Cosby made the commencement speaker round. Oh, come on, gear
on te.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
He made him at sc If I had walked in graduation,
I might have ended up violated by a pudding pop.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Woo?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Is he keeping those on ice up on stage? And
then one by one he pulls them out of the igloo,
and then he likes to count to see how long
it'll melt a little talk the draft begins in one
island fifty minutes. Yeah, figures, why are you going up
to the ind to it? Dope? Leaving the show?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Why are you doing it so anyway, we're going to
be covering the draft, and Matt and I relished the opportunity.
And since Tim Kates is out of town, the holy
Trinity of Great sports Talk, Matt, Great Sports Talk, Me
and Ronnie Fossio are going to do the draft ourselves.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Do we have the sounder yet so we can do
a full dress rehearsal because I want a full dress Okay,
full dress, full dress rehearsal.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So Ronnie's in our ear, he says, Fisher's walking to
the podium, and we got it here too, We got
it here. Yeah, so we're all in. We're all in sight.
No no, no, no, no, no no. The sounder the yeah,
this is but but you see, guys, this is why
we do the rehearse right, So we get that first,
then the flappers. Now, now we go to the pick
(08:23):
sound up, didn't you? And then and then scorpse God,
I love this back perfect bang?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Hey, got one more, one more, one more, let's get
out to the party of math.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
What's the change? It out pretty well.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Perfect bang bang bang? And I like how you did
it fast? Then Ronnie, I like how you did it fast?
We're not gonna be that fast when we're doing it.
It's a play in four acts. Sounder flapper to the
read when to change, good call running, Let's do it
one more time.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Can't practice baller, faller, baller. They just drafted a baller.
Perfect love it. That is great. It is a play
in four acts. Lady Macbeth is dead.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Uh Sonny Kiff, I ain't calling us this year saying no, oh,
we're good and it's only going to be an hour.
So we're going to cover that and then we're going
to get to fully functional employee Adam for Game three
at the into It Dome. I do have a health
update for those of you that were worried about me.
A lot of nice and a lot of snarky texts
about my health. I expected I was a misdiagn not
(09:39):
by me, Matt, I was really taking aback.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I was.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I went to urgent care on Sunday night with this
terrible rash on my arms and legs, or on one
arm and one leg, and I was diagnosed by the
urgent care doctor with shingles and went on shingles medicine
and went into a cave and was deeply depressed and isolated.
After a couple of days, my eye started getting read well.
(10:06):
Don Martin called me yesterday while I was sitting on
the toilet and he said, Mamian, I heard it.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You can go blind if you get him in your
eye and and right.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Well, I was irritated and I was like, oh my god,
I'm gonna go blind. So I went to a dermatologist.
And the dermatologist took a look at me and took
a look at me again and said, you do not
have shingles. You have been misdiagnosed. This is your You've
had an allergy attack, and this is blistering egzema, which
(10:40):
you have dealt with before in your life. And she
gave me a shot of pet prednosone in my colo.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
And which is Greek. And then why did she give
you a shot in your colo? Uh? Prednozone for the itch,
steroids for the body body wide itch. And then some
ointment and told me that it was okay to go
back to work. When's the last time you had a
shot in your ass? I think I had to be
(11:07):
less than ten years old. They would always just pound
it right in the arm. I don't know. I've never
had a pregnoisone shot, not in my ass. Really.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
The last time i've the last time I got a
pregno zone shot was when I went into anphylactic shock
around the time my wife was pregnant with my daughter.
So it's been a while, but I've taken a few
shots in the behind me in my time.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Man.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
And of course, you know whatever, i'd do my steroid gear,
you know, always strengthy the ass.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I used to have Kevin figures when he was an
intern here back in the day from seventy eighth in Vermont.
That was one of the first things you had to
do was shoot me up with the end var. I'd
come back from Mexico. That's how I got so fat.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It's a veterinary green, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I would shoot the veterinary great roads. I'd have figures
shoot me up back in fifteen forty, but I'd forget
to work out, so I'd eat a whole bunch and
i'd be all testosteroned out. But I just got really fat,
pulled both hammies. It's terrible, but thank you for all
the well wishes. I'm not one hundred percent, but I
don't have shingles either. And don Martin was like, why
(12:12):
didn't you get the vaccine? And I was like, well
they don't. They don't offer it until I'm fifty years old.
You know, you have to pay a bunch to get them.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I'm dead it right now, Like okay, you know, like
I'm sitting here in pain. Why are you scolding me?
You're not even God, Hey, I'm just looking out for you.
But I still love you once you stay healthy, and
a lot of texts about it, take care of yourself,
you know, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
A lot of texts about Hartman and how great it
was to hear Hartman yesterday and the nostalgia that Steve
Hartman provides to all of us when we hear his voice.
The best texts I got yesterday. And I believe I
told you, Matt, when I told you the good news
about how I wasn't going to give you shingles and
I could come to work.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
It's very excited about that, right the.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Tech said Matt, and Hartman sounds like a real sports
talk show joke boy, choke boy, who's who's laughing now?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Joke?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
And then like a bunch of laughing faces and maybe
like a hashtag karma, which I appreciated, so thank you.
But we are back and it is a crunchy group. Thursday,
Tim Kats is out, Matt and I are here. We
are going to talk. We're going to talk to James
(13:46):
Worthy in the very next segment, and James Worthy is
going to get us riled up for the next Laker
playoff game, which I believe is being played in May,
and I'm looking forward to that. I know Lebron will
be well read. I know the King is going to
show out in a couple.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Of weeks when they play Game three. I think it's
next week.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Well, I'm looking whenever it is. Yeah, it can't be
soon enough. Clippers tonight because I'm sure, well the Clippers,
who cares if they get tired. But I but I
really need Steph Curry to get a lot of rest,
and more importantly, I need the King to get a
lot of rest because I know what people are thinking.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I know what people are thinking that he can shoot threes,
shoot threes.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
That's the worst part of having shingles. When I thought
I had shingles was I'm just sitting there alone, isolated.
No one can or wants to touch me, and all
I'm thinking in my head is lebrocs Dell du Lebron
shoot three.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
And.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
That was very upsetting.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
But overall, I know what everybody was thinking because I
was thinking the same thing, and I want you to
know that it's wrong. You know, I was watching Kristap
Porzingis get hit upside the head and go down, and
almost immediately the blood started to flow through his flat top,
and you could see, and he popped up and had
a smile on his face and walked out and then
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walked back and was in good humor. And I thought,
and I know a lot of people thought this, because
I saw the memes. I thought, my god, they'd have
to metavac Lebron. If somebody cut his forehead like that
WWE style and he was bleeding, he would literally have
his arms across his chest with a helicopter spinning under
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a helicopter like s like it would be the most
dramatic thing that ever happened in the history of NBA basketball,
if somebody cut Lebron's forehead the way that Porzingis got
cut yesterday. And I thought that, and then then I
admonished myself for thinking it, because it's not good to
even have bad thoughts against the king. It's treason?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Is I put you in the gap the it's right
or the stocks, the stocks to the stockades and then
to the game. What's the thing where they put your
head in it and they put your hands in it
and then you're right in the middle of town and
everybody just kicks you with the ass on the way
out of the pub, like that's the stockade, right. I
don't know. That's why I'm asking, because that's what I
don't want to have bad thoughts medieval stockade. Yeah, that's
(16:20):
what exactly. Yeah, bingo bingo appropriate for the Clipper game tonight.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I don't want to get stuck in the medieval stockade
for having trees in his thoughts against the kink. Oh
but I did think if somebody cut the king's forehead
like that, my.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
God death, they'd they'd read him his last rites. Yeah,
it would be. It would be a terrible, terrible, terrible
thing to happen. They might pull a hearse into the stable,
back in to the player's entrance in the tunnel. But
it's lovely to be back in studio. Uh, thank you
to Kevin Figures for agreeing to be here for the hour.
(17:01):
I don't know how. I mean what we would do
if he was not here for the I wouldn't be
talking about his participation at the wall. No, I'm looking
forward to seeing your face out there to know he's
gonna be the purple teletubby. That's the outfit he's wearing tonight,
waving his arms, trying to get guys to his free throws.
Hey joking, you pay me enough, I'll do it, Tanky
(17:24):
winky dipsy, come on, I'm not you know, I believe
this was one of my This is one of my
first instance instances of misdiagnosis. You know where a dot
one doctor tells you one thing and the other one's like, well,
I don't want to disparage another dog.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I don't think I've ever gotten a second opinion, that's
the problem. So I may have been misagnosed. Well, I
mean I was, you know, fine, just isolated and totally
and completely depressed until Don Martin called me and told
me I was going blind. You're gonna You're gonna go blind.
And that's what sent me to get my second opinion.
And I was like, what about my eye? They're like, yeah,
you have bad allergies. I was like I'm gonna go blind.
(18:00):
They were like, wow, I went not from this. You
may staring at the sun too long, turning the clips
LeBrock and still dumb. All right, we'll be right.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Back and we will talk to the great James Worthy.
And don't forget. It's draft day and Matt and I
have you so excited. You don't have to do that, Matt.
We have to sound. You don't have to flap. That's
the tease of the sound. There it is.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
See we're gonna talk about that during the break. Was
it idiot? Color in his hair? Was it idiot? Let
his hair go gray? We make fun of all the
We make fun of all the guys with hair, hair
dye in. And then Kurt Warner pops up on the
screen and he's white as a ghost with his gray hair,
(18:57):
and check out father Christmas not hair. Look at Papa Hevingway.
No one can win here. No, that's right. Figures.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
You don't go to the end to a dome. You
let us down, You do you let us down? Figures
is here for forty more minutes. We're here for another
two hours at forty Petro. Somebody on AMPI seventy LA sports.
You're home of the Dodgers. On a crunchy griven Thursday.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Petro, somebody going until six pm? We got Clippers playoff
basketball tonight. James Worthy, brought to you by your Southern
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Speaker 3 (19:52):
The Lakers are in the playoffs. The heat is hot,
some might even call it hot hot heat enjoining us
right now, one of the all time great Lakers. His
jersey hangs in the rafters. The time that he played
basketball reminds us of a time that almost the whole
world was in love with the NBA.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It seems.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Tell you what people are in love with. Luka Doncic
after Game two. Ha ha, that's true. The one and
only James Worthy, our hero Spectrum Sports net LA and
a Hall of Famer, joining us once again on our show,
What's Cracking?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
James?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
How are you man? You're talking about hot? It's nineteen
eighty five playoff hot, It's twenty Tenelics Lakers. Oh yeah,
you know, playoff hot it hasn't been this intense. I
mean it wasn't tents a few years back when we
played Denver in the in the Western Conference finals, but
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not as complete as this entire playoffs our we're witnessing.
So yeah, it's it's it's intense. It's physical, man, I
like to have the physicality bat but yeah, it's testy
and and it's unpredictable right now.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, take us kind of through your you know what
your analysis slash takeaway? Is it that fourth quarter Lakers
only score thirteen points, but like you said, they get physical,
they bow up when they have to. On defense, they
get every stop they need to make. Like, is there
is there a bigger takeaway than just you know, they
won the game that they had to win, no matter
(21:36):
which way they had to win it, or was something
bigger there kind of happening in that fourth quarter that
you saw.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Well two things. You know, the Lakers habitually will give
up leads. We've seen that the last few years where
they even against teams they should beat, even against below
five hundred teams, they give up twenty point leads, twenty
six point leads, you know, eight point leads, with four
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minutes to go in the fourth quarter, and they've lost
some of those games. So I give them credit for
still having a little bit of that, you know, I
don't know what it is, Lackadasacal playing the league. It's
still in there and it's dangerous a little bit. But
I give them credit also from learning how to you know,
(22:23):
hang on to a lead, not lose the game per se.
So you know, it's it's it's dangerous. When you're gonna lead,
you can't start playing. I mean, look, leads will disappear
or they will be diminished with the three points, but
it can't be of your own doing. It can't be
if you turn the ball over, you know, missing defensive assignments,
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giving up offensive rebounds, allowing one player to get like
super hot, and not being able to make those adjustments.
Those are the problems and also the improvements that I've
seen them make, you know, you know, it's just this.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Passion year, James, when it comes to you know, kind
of the I don't know if you've heard this, I
would imagine someone's brought it up to you. I've kind
of seen it out there, just the style of play
of Luka Doncic and it's a style that's made him
a five time first team All NBA Player Finals participant
guiding the Mavericks. There just kind of the ball domination,
(23:20):
hunting the matchup that he wants. It seems like it's
Rudy Gobert that he's looking for over and over again
on those screens, and just kind of how the Lakers
are to play off of that and how successful they
can be because he certainly scoring points, but it's certainly
different than what we saw prior to his arrival with
the way this offense was operating.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
I've never seen a player basketball player like Luca doncas
I just I've tried to compare him. Obviously, people saying,
oh he shoot like Larry Bird, Oh he passes like Maggie,
but he does it in a unique way that I've
never seen. You know. Look, I was young when Oscar
(24:00):
Robinson was around, and they said he used to dominate
games like that without speeding the game up. Luca is
learning how to not be so dominant, especially early in
the game. I think I thought in Game one he
only had one assists, the Lakers only had fifteen assists.
(24:20):
As a team. They need to be up in that
twenty five, twenty seven. They need Gay Visson to touch
the ball, they need Benny Smith to touch it, they
need vander Belt to touch it. They don't need to
necessarily have to score, and they will if the ball
is moving. But guys want to touch it. Some guys
want to make the hockey assists. It's amazing how those
little things get you going. So I think Lucas learning
(24:43):
how to in the first quarter, particularly get other people
involved early. He can get his any time he wants to.
He looks for miss matchers. His ball handling skills are
like you know, Curly Neil. He can offset any defender. Yeah,
he can, Marcus Hayes, if you want to go way back,
he can offset any defender's footwork with his ball handling.
(25:07):
Griars because we've never seen it. Unique style of how
he lunges forward like and then pulls back and changes
you know, directions and then soft touch floaters and you know,
launching threes. I've never seen it ever a player like that.
So he's still learning how to play with the Lakers.
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He's he's really done well with the lobs to like
Chris Hayes, and he'll find it open guys but man
twenty six years old. To build around that type of
talent in the future, if you know, hopefully, if we
can keep it. I think it's working out very well.
(25:49):
And I think each game his intellect, he picks up
something new and adds it from game to game. That's
just how he can expedite, you know, the learning process
with with new players.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
James Worthy enjoying the playoff intensity. No doubts Draymond Green
clothes line and some dudes last night in the Golden
State game.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
James, what kind of what kind of adjustments do you
think Minnesota will make from Game two going back to
the to the midway.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
That's one thing I love about playoffs. You've got the
same team for seven games, and you know, you know,
it's not like you've got to prepare for different players.
I think they're going to go home with an attitude
that they achieve what they wanted to. They got Game one.
They're going to say, we almost, we could have come back,
and you know, probably one game two. That's the mindset
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they're going into that arena, and all you're going to
hear in that arena is, oh, oh yeah, the Wolves
all game long. The Wolves. They're going to be physical.
They're gonna be physical. And Edwards is the only player
I've ever seen that while the other team is warming up,
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he goes down to the other team's lineup and starts
talking trash to Luca, just just talking trash like. So
they're gonna be physical, Jayden nods go bear. They are
a really good defensive team. This might be the toughest
and I know I'm probably speaking you know early, but
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they did pass Minnesota. This might be the toughest that
they'll play a team that's this physical. They have guys
who are six eight sixty nine, who have wingspans that
are like seven feet and you know they they they
have a star in Edwards who at any moment can
(27:54):
can just put you on his shoulders. Light Lebron like Luca,
they have one too. But so this this game three
and four, we got to get home court manage back.
We gave it up. But they can expect a physical game.
So if guys like Ruie and Vandebilt and you know,
Benny Smith were gon, we're gonna have to match that
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on the road, and if you don't, it could get ugly.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
James Worthy with Us brought to you by your Southern
California for dealers, James the one. You know, if I
had an overriding concern, if you know, if I were
JJ Redick, which I'm not, it would probably be like
you should wear deep. Like how deep is this rotation
right now? I mean it looks like it's six and
a half guys right he's playing Jackson Hayes. And when
that thing gets a little sideways, he's gone never to
(28:44):
be heard from again. Like, is there a way to
overcome that? Or do you think that that they're all
right playing essentially two guys off the bench, Jackson Hayes
for about eight minutes and maybe one or two other
guys six seven minutes. It's been wild these first two
game games. How how then that rotation.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Is He's gonna he's gonna he's gonna play accordingly. And
that's the thing about the playoffs, you know, sometimes it
takes a couple of games to figure it out. I
think Jackson Hayes will get more time playing time. I
think he'll go back to that deep rotation. Even if
guys aren't getting a lot of minutes, there's gonna be that. Hey, look,
there's gonna be a few minutes. Well, he's gonna need
darnk connect to come in just to hit a couple
(29:24):
of threes. That's it, and then take him out. Uh.
You know, Jackson Hayes, I think he's our only rim
protected so I can't imagine him not playing. But I think, uh,
the the the chess game that you play those first
couple of games, if you kind of say, how can
I counter against Goldbert? Can I go smaller against Goldbert?
(29:46):
Do I can I pull Jackson Hayes out for a
little bit? You know, those are the those are the
moves that you're making. And so by game I always say,
by game two and three, it's just all about you know,
who's gonna play hard, who's gonna get the fifty to
fifty balls? The coaches will make it. Johnson would steal,
but I think JJ's just looking at what do I
(30:06):
have to do? What's the best scenario to put on
the floor, especially going into Minnesota. So I think he'll
get back to you know, you know, at least seven
you know, sometimes eight rotation when he needs it.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Do you think Lebron has a legendary game up his
sleeve in the next few coming It's been a little quiet.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I guess you know he does, and what a sacrifice
he's made from you know, look, we're talking about Lebron.
If they're record held up back in December, like man,
could he possibly be a candidate for MVP the way
he was carrying this team and his age. But when
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Luca comes in, he's smart, and my opinion, he's like, Okay,
I can kick the ball out of my hands. I
don't need to handle it as much in the fourth quarter. Uh,
I'm playing off ball. I'm getting some of these back
door cuts, and I'm just gonna allow Luca to to
engage because we need Luca. We need Luca to be
(31:12):
in in you know, in in harmony with everybody else.
So Lebron, in my opinion, he's allowedness to happen. But
when he has to, and trust me, he's he knows
his chances to win the championship are narrowing every year,
and I think he I think he thinks if they
can compete the way he thinks they can, but so yeah,
(31:33):
he'll he'll he'll allow it to happen. I'm sure he
you know, a game two, I mean, I'm sorry the
first game they you know, he kind of just they
had that week off, they got a little lapse, but
he'll he'll bring him back and you know, look, if
he needs to, he'll he'll get that ball. Then he'll
make something happen.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Last thing for you, James, just kind of big picture.
I know you mentioned you feel good if the Lakers
can get by the Timber Well's just in terms of
physicality and the bigs that they have. But how have
you been playing? Have you been paying close attention to
the other series? I mean, Oklahoma City looks like a buzzsaw,
and man, this Clippers nugget series has been something, and
it looks like we got if he stays healthy, that
(32:17):
finals MVP level. Kawhi back on. These Clippers haven't only
played about twenty thirty games in the regular season. He
looks like he is kind of fully operational man. That
seems to be a bit of a scary thought for
the rest of the league.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Well, to me, the Clippers have become the most dangerous team,
you know, in the West. I know Oklahoma is projected.
They haven't seen what Kwhi has seen. They haven't seen
what ty Lu has seen. A great coach, and they're
now not giving Van Gundy enough credit. He's come in
(32:53):
and shaped them up defensively. So I think they're the
most dangerous team right now in the West and maybe
you know, as a playoffs for Seed, if they can
get past Denver, they may be one of the most
dangerous teams in the league. That's just who they are.
And you know, with Kwi coming back, I don't think
(33:13):
anybody expected this, but he's back to MVP levels. Zubob Powell,
they're a good team. They're good defensive team. So I
put them right up there. With the experience with Lebron
and Luca having you know, played in the finals last year,
you know, the Lakers are somewhat of a dangers team.
(33:34):
Minnesota another team I don't think the top two teams are.
You know, they're really good. Oklahoma's really good, don't get
me wrong, and they deserve everything. But they were in
the Western Conference finals last year with a lot with
not a lot of expectations to win it all. This year,
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it's different. They have to win, and so it's a
different kind of pressure when you have to win so
and they don't have that experience ship the Clippers do,
the Lakers do. Minnesota, you know, they they they're they're
good with that group. Conley has a lot of experience
as a point guard. You have to look at things
like that. So the West is loaded, man, I think
(34:19):
I think that, you know, I do think the Celtics
would probably come out of the East unless Cleveland, you know,
makes a lot of noise, unless there's some upset looming somewhere.
But I do think the Celtics will come out. But
over here in the West, we're not gonna know until
we know.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
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Speaker 3 (34:53):
The Great James Worthy. We love you James, and enjoy
these playoffs you guys. Yeah, games are like eight days apart.
Stupid ass schedule. Hey, man, I love it. We got
NHL playoffs, we got NBA playoffs, we got the NFL Up.
But if we got Dodgers Pirates over the weekend, Paul
Skeen's gonna be pitching tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Kidding me. What a time, What a time to be
a sports fan in Los Angeles. I think Kevin's getting
out of here, but I'm not excited about his schedule.
For all this play by play, I was excited about it,
and now I'm not slippers. Tonight, Lakers, tomorrow, Skiings tomorrow,
after that, after Matt NFL Draft today, tomorrow, Saturday, kings
(35:34):
up two. Oh on the oilers. You kidding me.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
I liked it a lot more until you became a
Carnival Barker.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
This is exciting.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Step right up. Come see the Kegs. Shut up, love
m King. We didn't even have them on the iHeart
app anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Man, Oh we don't. I didn't know that. Yeah, you
thought they were still working for us. They're not. They're
not Your boys aren't here. Though it's testaments. I love that.
I still love them, Still passionate. You're still a subject
to the Crown. Watch it every minute you're still I
am of that ground. I'm uncle to my seed. I
will be an uncle to his seed.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
We will return with some local knowledge. If you thought
Hartman brought back nostalgia, wait to you here, what's next?
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Getball? Tomorrow will have Dodger Baseball from the Gallping Motors
broadcast booths six o'clock, Dodgers on deck, first pitch at seven,
arguably the greatest pitching matchup of the season. Ya, I'm
amoto v Schemes tomorrow out at Dodger Stadium and we'll
have it right here as you're home of the World
(36:50):
Series champion Dodgers. I'm excited about that one tonight. I'm
excited about Clippers Nuggets. I mean, you're happy as a
clam in high time. I tell you, come on, Hey, iheartradios,
Wingo tango. Oh, we gotta sell this presented by Fiji Airways, Saturday,
May tenth, Huntington City Beach, just south of the pier.
(37:12):
We're going live that doja cat exactly right. I hope
she does that.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Bitch. I'm a cow, bitch. I'm a cow. I'm not
a cat. I don't save me ow. I go move, bitch, move.
That's a hit, bitch. I'm a cow bitch. I'm a cow.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
I am not a cat. I don't save me ow
I go Moveing a long run, I love it, Yeah,
I'll be there. I love the Megan Trainer. I can't
wait all about many more. Get your tickets now at
axs dot Com. Prices go up May second. Get after
it now, Bitch, I'm a cow, I'm not a cat.
(37:55):
I don't save me out, Okay, Matt.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Because the feeling nostalgia was so strong yesterday on the air,
and so many people were so excited to hear Steve, I'd.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Been living in dream have him in the studio since
twenty twelve. Can you believe it?
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Glorious hours of sports talk radio with Matt money Smith
yesterday that you could podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Steve
Hartman was in and that wasn't enough of a taste
of nostalgia for me.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Matt, Are you gonna go step further? I'm gonna take
a step further. Local knowledge is knowledge, common knowledge. It's
local knowledge. He's very knowledgeable on the things that you
come up with, as far.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
As for with your knowledge.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Because of the feeling of nostalgia, Matt, I went to
get ready for our big draft hour, and because I
had some time, and because I'm happy to be freed
from my home and my shingles cage, I went imprisonment.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Well, responsible, you're being a responsible human being. I went
some that I have not been in a long time.
That used to be a big topic on our show.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Now no, it's closed set and it torn down Nowadays,
if I go to have a little pick me up,
something to eat, maybe a diet tab on the on
the way to work, I go over to Teluca Lake,
Matt and visit the doghouse. Yes, there's hot dog place
which has a lot of grips and like sound people
(39:27):
that from Warner Brothers, you know, blue collar type, and
I feel comfortable. But I went back today to where
the creative types hang out across the street. If you
remember Matt the coffee commissary, the boogiest play commissary.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
I did. I went back. Now it has to have
been at least three years. At least.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
I used to go every once in a while. And
now let me tell you that place. It is a
super like if you think, like in my neighborhoo, there's
a real artisaal hipster place. This place is the most
hipstery place that it is a parade. It is a
fashion show of hipsters you have never seen.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
And Matt.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
I took it for granted when I first started going
in there, But now like yesterday, I was down on
my luck. Today, I'm sitting there and I could I
might as well have been.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Was this a spur of the moment decision or was
this fashion Fashion Week in New York. That's how my
eyes were like dinner plates. Couldn't believe what I saw.
I decided this morning, I said, I got time. I'm
not going to the Little Jewel of New Orleans. I'm
not going to MEXICALI Taco Company. I'm not going to Philips.
I'm not going to the Doghouse coffee commissary. Let me
(40:50):
tell you what I saw. What'd you see? I don't
want to be I don't want to be patronized. I'm
not patronizing you. It's not like the barista. I was like,
is there a cat for that?
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Yeah, man, they're right over there. It's like, sorry, I
haven't been here in a while. Baristo. First of all,
crazy barista neck tattoos. We're talking about white guys that
might weigh about as much as Matt does, but they're
next and they're like twenty four buck fifty two. I
waited in the exactly and their necks are blasted out
(41:24):
with ink and some of the most intricate ink designs
you're twenty four, and not only one of them, one
of the baristos. I think it's just Barista, no matter
what stucy neck tattoo. Come on, Steu's a child, a
young a young man in his twenty steuh Susie exactly.
(41:46):
It's an ironic Stucie for a job. I don't know
what it was, Matt.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
These people don't even understand irony. Then a whole brigade
of cyclists came in, all white dudes, same build as you,
with the most intricate, little tiny tattoos, like little tiny
little owl here and a little razor here. I mean,
so perfect. And then there was a light skinned black
chick that looked like Chrease summer with dreadlocks, all free
(42:11):
and easy, with like a poncho on and like a
flowing dress. And I was like, damn, it is unbooked.
There was a guy with a yarn embroidered yetti holder
over the shoulder YETI holder. Then there was another guy.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Wait a minute, what do you mean a yetti holder?
Like a hold is yetti but it was like a
yo thing. It wasn't a freaking snowman. I don't know
what you mean. An yeah, it was a baby yetti.
That's really Jesus.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Then there was another guy. He looked like more of
a roughneck but still a hipster, and he had like
a pack like he was the tomb raider, and it
looked like like almost like a like a World War
One style like canteen holder, but it was like a
act strapped to his leg, like a leather thing with
a flap.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
And I'm like, how does this guy go to work
like this? Why is something strapped to his leg? But Matt,
it's just such an amazing array of hipsters at the commissary,
and I really feel your lunch. I guess what they
had on special chick sandwich. No, on special tuna salad sandwich,
(43:24):
my favorite.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
I was so excited. I've never been so exciting. But
if you ever ever want to see a parade of hipster.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Because the fish was going bad, you know what, do
you have to be there? Actually? You know what it said?
Uh no, they always have a special sandwich. You know
what it said, And you know what f you No, No,
it's not a terrible life. You can't ever not say
anything good about anybody's food. You're the worst.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
What it said was this you are it, said, Poul
caught so somebody caught it with the pole. Somebody's pull smoker,
I said, caught tuna. So somebody's pole caught bat tune.
I was like, what did you guys pull smokers too?
I can't believe it. The one of the odds. These
guys also smoked pole. Bad news, though, Matt, what aside
(44:17):
from the bad fish?
Speaker 2 (44:18):
You put the tuna fish sandwich in a bag on
the top. I learned my lesson. I had been patient.
I sat there and ate with patients.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
What happened.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
I got a parking ticket, which park.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
I thought I was. I thought I was clean, fair fight,
we was legal. But I was one one space off
chicken Ass Town.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
You were in the neighborhood. I was in the hood.
But there's like one driveway that in front of you
can park, and then there's one that you it's one
hour parking. I thought I was in that.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
You know, they could have been properly. You know what
might be a question for Sweet James. I could have
it could have been properly. You know what, I might
have to send that ticket to Sweet James.
Speaker 4 (44:56):
Not a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
I think I'm gonna have to you she could have
parked in the Wienerschnitzel parking lot. Well that's illegal. Well
if they're monitoring the street. I'm sure they're monitoring the Schnitzel,
and they monitor that they have at that mobile tow
you away, right, it's got to town it back or
violate you. Yeah, oh, I'll violate that.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
Drive reverse drive, reverse drive reverse, all right. So anyway,
back to the coffee commissary, Matt, I could not believe.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
I think this is the start of something new, the
hipster level. I mean, I was just nice to get
back to uh a place where used to go and
talk about. Right, and I'm happy to say that it
is still as pretentious as you could ever imatch. I
went once. It is unbelievably pretentious, but a nice recognize
these are not my people. They do not want me here.
I will never return. This is not for me. I
(45:48):
think you could pull it off. You could be like, hey,
I know, super Chunk, I could do something like that. Yeah,
they wouldn't know. They'd be like, man, this guy's got
a lot of depth. Tell them about Papa Roach. They'll
all bow down. Fair point. I'll bring him up. Latinum record.
Hold it right next to me. Check it out, guys,
I earned this. Let you hang it in the shop
if you want. I don't know why this guy brought
us record. She's like he was trying to brag. I'm
(46:09):
put it on loan. It would have really been sweet
if it wasn't for that ticket. It's the beard. What on,
Kurt Warner. Yeah, the hair is fine. It's the fact
that he's got the hair and the beard, so his
whole face is just surrounded by white. I love that
book Farewell to Arms that you wrote. All right, won't
(46:31):
be that much? Was the ticket? I don't know you
didn't look well. It has like a no. It doesn't
say yeah, it'll say on it all right, Well, I'll
give it to you here. Turn up the Ohio players.
So Matt the world expert on everything, how much it is?
Because you can just can't even have to wait for
the bill to come to Jacobean Myers is going to
take and this guy suck all their official attorneys of
(46:53):
the nudge right Hold on, wait, Ronnie, all right, there
we go. You have to clear your throat to look
sixty dollars if you pay it right now, if you
wait until May fifteenth, one hundred and twenty dollars. How
do I pay it? Right now? Do I have to
straight where they have? Yeah, you just hit the QR code,
bang QR code and suck. You're right there. Yeah that sucks.
(47:17):
Bank sucks. Yeah it does
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