May 1, 2025 • 44 mins
Petros and Matt reflect on the Lakers season coming to an end and also what the month of May means to a certain demographic of Great Sports Talk. BFF Don MacLean on the Lakers loss and what now with Luca and LeBron and can the Clippers win Game 6 vs the Nuggets. Secret Textoso Roundup
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Show, which is interesting that the Braves would for a
forty five minute flight to Miami fifty or now probably
an hour flight to Miami, that they would put them
as a nooner. But hey, way to go Dodgers. So
Dodgers Braves first pitch tomorrow for fifteen pm, and then
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The other teams do a lot more scheduling favors for
each other than the Dodgers do for other teams, certainly
because of their overall haughtiness and selfishness, being a blue
blood brand in the MLB for you can get away
with it one hundred plus years, Dodgers could win it.
I do think they could win it, because they did
win it. They are your World Series Champion Dodgers, and
(01:54):
they are defending oh World Series championship. Win it. I
do not.
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Are you sure?
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Yes, we're gonna have basketball commentary from the BFF of
the show. Well, you could keep on dreaming, because they're
out Steve, and I'll tell you what it was, glorious.
JJ Reddick melted down before the series was even over.
(02:23):
Melted down in the pregame against our friend ray Sean Haylock.
Unbelievable moments and then they looked old and tired late.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's a bad start.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And Rudy Gobert was just raining down hell fire from
the Seine. I mean it was really uh, he was
in their face at the beach. Something to behold.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
How do you like that?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Not since the Stranger from Albert Camu has somebody been
so mistreated on a beach by a Frenchman. Rudy Gobert
really taking it to the Lakers last night. And a
lot of people are very buzz hurt today. There's a
lot of hurt in the the back quarters. Yes, as
(03:07):
you would say, people are upset. But Matt, I got
great news.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
What do we got? Well, it's May, love May one
of my favorite months, if not my favorite month.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And you know what they say when May is upon you,
April never, I mean April never happened right right, like
you're not even thinking about.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It or thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
It's over. May is glorious, Like you could go over
April like pool hosts and still have a great career
and be a Hall of Famer. Yeah, April is a
time for adjustment, mistakes.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeh, spring forward.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Now May is here. But all we have probably after tonight.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Hey, don't you paint a negative picture.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I'm sorry, that's my job.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Don't you paint a negative picture. That game's on A
five seventy games on AM eleven to fifty. Disappointment, Okay,
game on AM five to seventy victory.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
That's quite an interesting distinction victory. I would expect somebody
like you, especially with your playoff dissertation yesterday, to go
back and find out how many Clipper games were actually
on AM eleven fifty and what their record was, and
how many Clipper games were on AM five seventy, and
what the record was just for twenty twenty five. And
then when you're done giving me that stat you're going
(04:27):
to say, and you know what p I did. I've
done a little deeper there, Pete. And it turns out
in the last ten.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Years, ten years, what they really want to do is
they want to be on four to thirty AM four
thirty is what they want.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I have great I have great news, though, Matt, something
that you've been calling for for quite some time. And
I saw this on Dodger Twitter. Isn't this great? Because
May marks the whole month.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Of black again, Indigenous people of color, Indigenous this is
Yan gay by transgender queen. That's next month, lesbian by
that's already playing as American clasuflander.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
That one. It says here on Dodger Twitter, Matt A
a p Ilander. I believe it's American correct, it says
Dodgers May is Asian, American and Pacific Islander.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Month Asian American CLASUFI.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Islander, islander islander.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So you might be in the car right now looking
in the rear view. Are you looking into your in
your face and you say, do I fall in that category?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
American Pacific islander. I'm an island americanlander.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Now, let me ask if I'm one of the Maori people.
I'm not talking about sister, sister. I'm talking about the
indigenous people of New Zealand. Are they Pacific Islanders. I mean,
that's an island that's the Pacific.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
There, but it's down under Southern Hemisphere versus Northern Oh.
I'm just asking a specific island. Simon is a Pacific islander.
A Tongan is a Pacific islander. The Philippines, even though
they have a islanders an amazing Spanish influence. I just
feel like, you know, the Taiwanese are they're like have
(06:44):
a real like Chinese vibe. Hong Kong is a melting pot.
Tim Kates knows all about Japan.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Next stop.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Interesting you bring it up.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
So American.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Garland and you've hit it on the head. Pee, New Zealand,
Taiwan both in there, Japan, Philippines. So you might be driving,
you might Micronesia.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Oh of course, you might find yourself in a shotgun
shack listening to the radio show and saying, what am
I does this month apply to me? Is this my month?
To get loose with it? And let Bruce Bruce hit it?
And yes it is.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, Papua New Guinea, French, Polynesia, Fiji. Now let's say
Marshall Islands.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Let's say I'm a white person, a bit of a towny,
haven't seen a dentist in a while, and I live
in Avalon.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I'm an island, and you're in the Pacific, and I'm a.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Pacific and you could not say I'm not an islander.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Asian American forland.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Me right, I go to my golf cart and go
to lou Al.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Larry's all right, let me ask you this question.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I'm here, I'm here for it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Let's say I'm a well to do person with beautiful teeth,
hair transplants, oh, plastic surgery where I too like to
get around town in a golf cart, but it is
a high performance level golf sure street legal. I'm out
there in Coronado, Oh my Pacific Islander.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Yeah yeah, plan American Colander.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
All right, let me say this. All right, let's say
back in the seventies, I know where you're going. I
think they put me in the looney bar. Oh in
cam Real, Okay, And I am one of the only people,
like Clint Eastwood from Alcatraz to escape from the looney
bin and swim out to the Channel Islands. Now I
live out there right in nature like Nacho Libre or
(08:47):
Robinson Crusoe. Oh yeah, am I Pacific Islander.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Headed cats American.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Calander.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
All right, you said it right there, you planted the seed.
Let's say I found myself. I've run a foul of
the low copy. It's the nineteen seventies, and I now
have been placed on the rock.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
You're on the rock, on the rock, it's over the
Where is that rock?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I'm incarcerated on Alcatraz, got it?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And I've served I've been serving ten years at Alcatraz.
What does that make me?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Asian American fasific Carlander.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I just got a text from a guy named Evan
Fuji Naga okay, FOOJS for short. He grew up on
the hill. Right, that's not an island. No, but he
goes the hill. But he is an Asian American. Yes,
so he's in. You're in.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Asian American FACIFA Carlander.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
All right, good stuff? Now, ponga.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Anybody insurance?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I got one for you? All right, insurance list. We're
throwing it around.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
I mean a book is written after this person in
the eighteen hundreds. They were Native American girl living on
an island off the coast of California all by herself.
The book called Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
What island was it?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
It's one of the.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Ones off the coast of the Channel Island.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Yeah, yeah, on of the Channel Islands.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Well, I think we already discussed the Channel Islands.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
You're in Asian American facisficalander.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Okay, okay, I got one for you. You want to go?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
No, you go? No, you're up? No you go's after you.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Let's say I've decided to get off the grid. Okay,
all right. I don't want to live on land. Sure,
I want to live on water. I've parked my boat
in the marina.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
You moored it?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I have, Yes, I have a mooring. I have moored
the boat. Technically, it's an island floating at sea. It's
my own little personal island. You are out there on
the Pacific? Am I No?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I can't die know. It's an island. So it's a boat.
It's a boat, but it's my own personal island. One
particular harbor. No, no, I one for you. I'm a
leper and I have been. I have been relegated to Molokai,
the leper island of Hawaii, off the coast of Maui.
(11:25):
Am I a Pacific islander?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I think it's that's an easy one.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yes, Asian American classistic lander.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
All right, how about this, I'm a dirty commie okay,
People's Republic of China, right, I have been relocated as
a civil engineer to one of their man made islands
to place pressure in the Cold War upon the United States.
(11:57):
I now live on what essentially is a iron flotilla.
But he is called an island like.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
An oil Derek, Yeah, are you you said, you're Chinese. Okay,
well you're racing America. You're all right. I got a
text now, Happy Asian American Pacific Islander month. By the way, everybody,
I am white and a redhead, but I ate it.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Ya.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I'm a shiro. Am I allowed to participate in Asian
Islanders celebrations. Great Moscow, muse Ya'm a shiro.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I bet the I bet they're great. Unfortunately, sir, you
are not allowed to participate. I got one, okay, long
beach all right behind the breakwater. Astronaut Islands. Yeah, I'm
out there tending tending to the derreck. These are man made,
man made, but but they're called the Astronaut Islands. The
(12:55):
word island is attached to them. You don't live there.
I do. I've paddled out on a kayak with a
tent and I've set up shop there.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
You don't live there, I do. It couldn't be allowed,
it's against federal regulation, but I figured it out. You
know where you could live if you work at the prison.
You live on Terminal Island. Oh, you are a Pacific Islander.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Asian American sister islander.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I mean if you're there twenty four to seven yeah, yeah,
I figured out.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I found a hole. I hide from the drone every
day and I come out and walk the island at night.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
This text says Island of the Blue Dolphin. I was
forced to read that book in middle school, and I
grew up spiteful, awful book, so boring.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Wait to go, o, Kate, You're welcome. We all had
to read it.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Here.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I have one for you.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
How about a gentleman that was born in Queens, New
York and later in Atlantic adopted the Asian culture into
his life.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
A lot, spent time in Guam, micro and yes, living landlocked.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
And then even later in life really really got into
the Japanese culture.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
No, Asian, American, Pacific Garland.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
And I feel like you put in the time where
America wakes up the cock dome. No, I don't know.
I think he could pass.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
For a Pacific islander.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Unless you have an address on the Pacific Islands, Matt,
you can't have it.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
We're in terms of the celebration. Who gets to celebrate.
I think he gets to celebrate. I think if he
rolls up with Yuko and he's in full garb and
he's got the big glasses on with the beard, and
I think he can get away with it feeling you exactly.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Has anybody else celebrated a ni a week besides Vic?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
No, American faufi Calander.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
This is a great question.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Man, he knows how to pronounce NIAGERI.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No, he does it? Uh, this comes from the nine
or nine And Matt, you can truly relate with this,
not because it's your life, just because it's relatable. I'm
a us he Trustafarian who inherited their great great grandfather's house.
And I sit around and eat at Balboa bars all day.
(15:20):
I drive my golf cart. Wonderful Newport Bay is my home.
Am I a Pacific Islander? Yes you are?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yes, you are, American, sister, Calander.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
So if I sell perfumes and colognes in Russia? Am
I Russian?
Speaker 6 (15:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
It was wacky. Now here's a great question.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I took the train.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
And this goes into the VIC line of questioning. My
wife is part Hawaiian. Since I tap, since I tap that, oh,
tap that oh?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
On Thursday?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Am I in? No? No, having sex with an Asian
person doesn't get you in. We'd all be in.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I know, I know it's a good exercise.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
It was Naples. Well, that's that's it's tough to say, Matt.
I mean, we're not talking about being a leper and Molokai.
We're not talking about being a scuba ace and Molokini.
We're talking about just living in Naples.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And Treasure Island just past Naples. Technically, I think you
might be able to get away with that. Not in
Naples itself, but I think particularly Treasure Island maybe, but
I think it's man made. I don't think that's well.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
You you you tried to make your man made oil
oil Derek's Pacific Islanders. Well, interesting exercise brain exercise and
iris shut geographical brain exercise? Should it do?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I live on the esther oil, Derek.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
That's what all the Bruce Willis guys were doing before
they saved the world in Armageddon? Yeah, roughnecks or was
that what it was called?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
The doing to close my eyes?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah, I don't want to fall asleep because I miss you, baby.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I haven't seen liv Tyler in a movie since he
know what.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Was the once she did after that? Lion Boys or
buzz Boys on the side, Boys on the side.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
No, I think that was Drew Barrymore. Yeah, oh it
she was in a Stealing Beauty.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It's about losing your virginity in Italy as a young woman.
Very relatable for me. Totally Yeah. We'll be back with more.
It's a Pendus in Money show. Don McLean will join
us in the very next segment and we will lament
the Lakers. Ouster and Matt will try to pop some
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hoping to the Clippers. You're on an island out there.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
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Speaker 6 (19:28):
The blood is gone? Pete? That was last Sunday, was
it not?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
But you still feel it though, like you're waking up
in a cold sweat every day. Yeah, thinking about it.
You know, it's like Vietnam.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Not really, it's actually the opposite. I'm waiting for the
next one.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah yeah, Well, you know every day that I sit
here in this hotel and saigone, my enemy gets stronger.
All right, Don, you saw the Lakers go out and
how they went out and the JJ Reddick criticism and
all that. You know, the way he coached in the playoffs,
What did your make? How it kind of played out
because a lot of people, almost everybody thought the Lakers
(20:03):
had a chance not only to win this series, but
make more of an impact on the playoffs.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Yeah, and I think this, And there's a lot of
talk about, you know, the higher if you go back,
that he'd never had a head coaching job previously, And
I think this is what if you're a Laker fan
you were concerned about, is the experience to get into
a playoff series and what adjustments you.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Make or don't make, and the thing.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
And I don't know this because obviously I haven't talked
to him or anyone on a Laker staff, but it
seems like the more we go along here, this stuff
is so analytics driven and decisions are made based on
analytics instead of common sense. And in JJ's you know instance,
his playing experience, I think it was overthought. I think
(20:49):
he tried to be different and I'm sure it was
analytics driven and it didn't work out. And I think
this is you know, look, I think he knows what
he's doing. I just think this experience is new and
there's nerves, and you know, you try to make good decisions.
But you know, he obviously didn't make the right decisions.
(21:10):
But I think that moving forward, he will learn from this.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Uh don It's look, he won fifty games, you know,
and had a gigantic trade mid season. I mean, it
was a hell of a regular season for JJ, no doubt.
I guess the one thing I'm trying because look, I
would assume a players never going to ask out of
a game, let alone a playoff game. I mean that'll
dog them for their entire career and beyond. So shouldn't like,
isn't there someone that can say, hey man, this is
(21:35):
not this is a tough ask. Twenty four straight minutes
the same five guys against the pretty physical team in
Minnesota just feels like there should be some sort of
checks and balances in there.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Right, Yeah, I think the decision to go small is
what I'm referring to in terms of the analytics. It
had to be driven by that, because you got Rudy Gobert, like,
if you're going to go small against any team, it's
not the te Wolves because go Bear and his effect
at his size and his length. And I'm just the
thing that I didn't that I couldn't figure out in
(22:06):
watching last night was there was no like, hey guys,
this really isn't working out. We better go to play
beat Jackson Hayes. We know you're not very good, but
get in there and let's see what happened, because this
clearly isn't working. And so I think, again, this goes
back to the experience, and I think JJ Reddick is
a smart basketball mind, and I think he's going to
(22:26):
figure it out. As you said, Matt, he had a
good regular season, which tells me eventually he'll be able
to figure out this playoff stuff.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
But yeah, they were.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
They were head scratchers for sure the last two games.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I never do the whole Oh they quit on the
I'm not saying that done, but I mean it's an
elimination game. And I know they took a lead in
the third and they had a quick lead there in
the fourth, But I mean, if you watch that game,
it was the Timberwolves had to miss thirty wide open
three pointers that could have been a twenty five to
thirty point blowout, and not to mention the offensive bounds.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Did it.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I don't know if it looked like it to you.
I just don't know if the guys were spent or
what it was. But it definitely just eyeball test to me,
look kind of like, yeah, this is a Lakers team
that just does not have anything left.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Well, it's an experienced group led by the most experienced
guy in the league and Matt If you don't believe
in the game plan, then you don't probably give it
to all because you know deep down it's not working
and it's not gonna work. And so I would point
to that more than anything. But here's the other thing,
and in doing what I do this time of year,
because a lot of this draft stuff is now analytics driven,
(23:33):
and I don't want to hear it. I know what
my eyes tell me, and I'll listen to the analytics,
but it's not making decisions for me. But we got
we got a couple of guys in our gym that
are going to get drafted higher than they should be,
and a lot of it's because their metrics are really
good at the college level. But at some point you
got to use some common sense and say, you know what,
(23:55):
does that I don't care about what he did in college.
Does this what I'm looking at translate to the NBA
based on what their draft range is? And to me,
the answer is no. And so like you can't measure
will toughness all that stuff, and Anthony Edwards you can
say whatever you want, and like he's kind of you know,
(24:16):
a wild card, but that mfort is tough and his
his his spirit and his will wear off on that
t Wolves team. And that's not measurable by any numbers whatsoever.
And so if you're driven by analytics and you're going
to lean on it and your decisions are made on
that because you don't want to take responsibility for actually
(24:39):
making the decisions. And now what's really bothers me about it?
It's like, I use analytics, So if anybody questions me on.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
It, I said, well, the analytics.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
The analytics told us that, yeah, And it's like, so
I just think that that Maybe that's part of the
experience as well with JJ Reddick and being like, Okay,
I have all this information because they have pages and
pages and pages of analytics information, maybe you don't use
it as much.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
The next time, the one and only Don McClain, maybe
just take a look out of it at it and yeah,
use your own eyes, eyes, and ears and brain. Don
McClain a fabulous guest and always honest about the world
of professional college and high school basketball. Even uh, Don,
(25:25):
where do you think the Lakers go from here? I
mean they got to pay two guys fifty million dollars.
I don't believe the whole Lebron thinks he's you know,
we're going to go through three weeks of Lebron saying
I don't know, but you know he's he's going to
come back and play for another fifty miil. Where do
they go from here?
Speaker 7 (25:41):
Well, I don't know their cap situation, but like you
just said, it can't be great if you're paying two
guys fifty million. I think it depends on ownership and
how willing they are to go into the tax and
into the apron. But they need a big and I
want to know, you know, hindsight's twenty twenty, so this
is kind of a low blow here. But like Mark
Williams finished the season for the Hornets, Yeah, what, Like
(26:05):
who blew up that trade? And if they had had him,
maybe they win this series? So that to me, you
go back to that now when it happened, I was like, really,
because he's played the last five games for the Hornets,
so it couldn't have been that bad. And it's not
like he's making fifty million Mark Williams, So that may
have been the beginning of the end of all this
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not having a big and you ran into the wrong
matchup with Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, and don you said it going yeah, and you
look at that with Mark Williams and it was just odd.
The deal was done and people were like, wow, that's
a lot to give up for Mark Williams and he
gets hurt a lot and the next thing you know,
the deal's not done. It was very strange the way
that worked out. Yes, yes, but you've been saying, you
said this from I don't know the last two three weeks,
if not even more than that, that the West is
(26:50):
wide open. You know that the listen, any of these
teams could come out of here and it just depends
on match. I mean, the Lakers were a three seed
with fifty wins. The Timberwolves were the sick seed with
forty nine. Like that's how tight it was. So do
you think maybe we just I don't know, fell in
love with the Superstar and the colors and the Lakers
lore and didn't realize like, yeah, you know what, there's
(27:12):
a lot of fun. And I'm not saying we that
you included, but just everybody in the media because they
were the third shortest odds to win the NBA championship.
I mean, they were the third favorites in all of this,
and man, it just they got played off the court.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
The media hype is a real thing these days across
the board, in all walks of life. And yes, I
agree with all that, man, and what never changed. And
I said this, I think last week or the week before,
just because Doncic got traded didn't mean all of a
sudden he became a good defensive player. Like we knew
he wasn't a good defensive player from day one and
so and that wasn't a major factor, but it was
(27:46):
a factor, and they went at him and they targeted him,
and you know, the Lakers were a better defensive team
down the stretch. But in the playoffs, it's different. It's
more physical. They don't call as much officiating. In my opinion,
it's been terrific in the playoffs so far. They're letting
them go, they're letting them play. Now it's escalating, probably
a little bit too much. A lot of series. We're
seeing almost fights, which has always been in the NBA.
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Not real fights, almost fights.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
And but I like it.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
I like the physicality and guys having to earn it.
There's less flopping, there's less all that, And I just
think the Lakers couldn't hold up defensively obviously, So in
terms of where they go, I'm not sure, but I'm
sure they have to do something. But getting back to
the whole media hype thing, it's like Shirhar Sanders is
the biggest example ever of that. Like, have we ever
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seen a guy that everyone thought, because of Colorado and
Dion and all the stuff was going number one, not
first round number one, and.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Then went in the fifth round? Come on, We've never
seen that.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Now it's and we've never seen a guy play his
whole team and never substitute on the whole second half.
I mean, it's a real it's a time of innovation.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Down there.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Speaking of that, don you had Halliburton right in your camp,
didn't you?
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Or you know him like I did I know him?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Dad?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
His towel at you.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
No, that was the year of COVID.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
We didn't do pre draft that year, so he was
we were doing like zooms and talking about what he
should be doing. But he never came out here because
of COVID.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
So you didn't have to deal with the Dad towel.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
No. I never dealt with the dad no or the
towel or the towel both?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Are you going to have a dad towel at Saint Mary's.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
If things are If things are.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Going well, congratulations on that don with trying to thank you. Yeah,
wonderful And what a great place for basketball and to
be close to home.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Yeah, I think in a weird way, and you know
it's cliche and all that, but things work out for
a reason, and I think this worked out for a reason.
And I think everyone's excited, especially Mom being a little closer,
and I think it's going to be a good thing,
and Trent's excited about it and ready to get going.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
It's gonna come home with a backpack full of vegamite
a teammates. I'm on, it's going.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I couldn't believe it. It went to Luke Longley's.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Ranch in uh one real quick don elimination game tonight,
Clippers backs against the Wall. I think everybody kind of
felt like this was a seven game series. Do we
still feel that way? How are you feeling about this thing?
Speaker 6 (30:28):
I do.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
I was a little surprised at how flat the Clippers
came out the other night, but yeah, I guess that's normal.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Maybe it's not normal in the in the playoffs, but
I expect I really expect the Clippers.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
To win tonight.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
I think they come out they they knew they didn't
play well in Game five.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
And they come out with the right disposition. I think
they take care of business tonight for sure.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Is there a way Luken can out coach this dude?
I mean he's a first time coach too, and he's
got weird cheeks. Adalman, how come Luke can't coach? You
coach around this guy?
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Well? I think he can.
Speaker 7 (31:03):
But it's about your players executing and coming out with
the right disposition. As I said, the right energy they
just send. Their energy wasn't right in game five. I
could tell right from the start and give Denver credit.
Jamal Murray, who's killed the Clippers in the playoffs in
the past, look like the old Jamal Murray the other night.
So I have a feeling there will be a better
defensive game plan for Murray tonight. There is no game
(31:25):
plan for Jokic, So lock in on Murray and you probably.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Win the game.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
All right, don looking forward to it. We'll have it
right here. Tip off at seven pregame at six and
then Game seven is what we're most definitely looking forward to.
We appreciate it. Enjoy your evening.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yep, all right, guys, FIA Happy Asian American and Pacific
Islander month.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Oh I got that bite in there before he said
bye to he was staring at that food, Like, man,
this interview cannot end fast enough.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Don't get food right before? You know you haven't interview
the worst.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Maybe you think it's sooner and then it doesn't and
it's a little bit late, and you're like, damn it,
damn it.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
We'll read some Textoso's next. Most of them are people
asking for Matt and I's judgment about whether or not
they can celebrate Asian and American Asian American Pacific Islander.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Monk, why do you think we're here? Why do you
think we do a radio show to help the people
public service?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
You think you go over to historic Filipino town waving
a flag around and you can't claim Pacific Islander citizenship.
Guess where you're going down on the other side of Wilshire.
You're getting out, That's where you're going. All right, Thanks
for listening, Petrson Money. We'll continue next.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
That's your some money in five seventy LA Sports Live
Everywhere on the iHeartRadio IPIG. Thank you to Don McClain.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Asia.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Joe Ortiz, general manager of the Chargers, will join us
in about forty five minutes. We're going to six pm.
Dodgers are off, but the Clippers are not. You will
hear Game six of the first round of the Western
Conference playoffs seven pm. Tips six pm. Audam Auslin pregame.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Get them with that zen She read Matt because we're
still celebrating our Asian American friends.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Zen She Sweet Life giving away two premium sweet tickets
to a game this month. Gourmet food, drinks, preferred parking.
That's a big deal. So to enter, all I getta
do is hit up a participating Rouse grocery store, find
that zen She counter, scan the QR code, enter for
(33:39):
your chance to win this once in a lifetime Zench
Sweet Life experience. All the details are at AM five
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and it's delicious the best.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
It's time for some listener Reaction's.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
A fine brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
We make it.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Easy, API and missing the last half of the first segment.
My girlfriend was in the living room, and after hearing
that dumb ass song for the twenty fifth time, she goes,
oh my god, turn it off. That's so a nying.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Give American Facific Carlander vision American fasisfick Carlander.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Let me ask you this, girlfriend of the listener who texted,
do you not think it's important to celebrate Asian American
Pacific Islander Month like the Dodgers are doing on their
social media feeds today and petros and money. We're right,
We're right in step with the Dodgers, lockstep with the
azul and if we see them doing something, you bet
(34:46):
your sweet ass Matt and I are going to pick
up the slat.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Well, if I may defend her, Perhaps she is encouraged
by us celebrating each and every one of those peoples,
but she'd prefer we do it without that woman singing
and beating her chest. Maybe that's all she sa saying, like, Hey,
I like what you guys are doing over there.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Well, I don't appreciate your decision to play the devil's advocate.
In that moment, I felt like I was on a roll.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Now I will give you a flip side of that
quyp How how would we know how to pronounce islander
if we didn't play that sound American.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Calander American Pacific calander.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
I'm good with just one round of that. By the way,
I don't need the double.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
This guy says, right as I start my car midward
shan American Pacific islander. Oh okay, here's a good question.
What if I set up a tent and live on
Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, does that make me a
Pacific islander? Now that is well, if you're a Chinese guy,
(35:58):
you're already in Asian Oh anyway, Yeah, we're talking special.
But like let's say you're like you're like a like
a Dane and you're living on Tom Sawyer Island, which
is supposed to be on the Atlantic, right, Yeah, I
don't believe it's in the Pacific. It's on the Pacific.
It's in the Pacific. It's in the Anaheim Pacific. Huh,
Anaheim Pacific. Matt. That's a tough one, dude. I don't
(36:25):
feel like that's a tough one at all. You're saying no,
I'm going to go No, You're saying no, I'm going
to go No, what about Jim What if he's there
with you on Tom Sawyer Island complicates things considerably. Yeah,
excuse me? What was his name in the ah? That's stupid,
(36:50):
that stupid song. It's giving me thoughts of hanging myself
or kick that chicken the nuts.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Stop Mark.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Got a request, he says, stop playing it over and
over again, for the love of God. And then he
sent one of those mad faces.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Oh the red face.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Yeah, not the clenched teeth. That's my that's I love
that meme, the one where you're like er cringe er
jj reddick walks out er.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
It's a weird assumption.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
What if I'm Mexican but my twenty three and me says,
I'm fourteen percent Pacific Islander. I'm not Peruvian with that
Asian blood in me, but can speak Spanish. Am I
in p fourteen percent? Oh?
Speaker 4 (37:46):
You American Pacific Islander. We have a.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Place in this world.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Shout out to the Raiders.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
They also posted join us in celebrating an American and
Pacific Highlander heritage month.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Oh, there can only be one Highlander. There's only one.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
I'm immortal. You gotta cut off the head of the
Highlander you'd think they'd want to be more inclusive. The Highlanders,
they really just celebrate one God have a place in
this world. Petros, What about if I'm a man with
(38:28):
a family in a mansion on Seal Beach and I
spend a lot of my time with my surfboard in
the Pacific, and I shower with a speedo full of
peanut butter with my dog, and I give edibles to
the neighboring pets. Is that a special exemption to be
a Pacific Hilander?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
I would say so an American Pacific islander.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Am I not Asian American eating at my local sushi establishment?
We've established that, No, you are not, and that's appropriation. Guys,
what are you gonna go the Samurai sword to Asian
America Knight at Dodger Stadium and act like an idiot?
Speaker 7 (39:04):
That's not cool?
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Act like Kareem in that Bruce Lee movie, Make a
fool of yourself.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Pretty awesome, I would say, though, if you do visit
your local Ralphs and you purchase some Zenchi sushi, then you're.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
In Hey, pee, are Russians considered Asians since they're in Asia? Yes?
And Indians? So if you're Indian. What and you got
your poofy pants and curvy sword and you want to
celebrate the Indio Rajas What? Get over to Dodge Stadium
(39:40):
because that's Asian. My guy Suda ready from down the street.
Oh yeah, I'm sending them over. What about ti Oscar?
Is he Pacific islander?
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Fair question? Where's ti Oscar from? No?
Speaker 3 (39:56):
No, that's no, No, that's not the Pacific, guys, it's
the Caribbean. Ask her Dominican. I don't remember Dominicano or
Venezuelan and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
Dominican Republic.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Yeah, he's Dominican. He is not a Pacific.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
I think we need Sweet James Counsel to clarify the
framework of Pacific islander authentication. I don't think so. We
do it right here, pretty sure. Matt and I got
it figured out. We're not dumb, you know. That's the thing.
You gotta have confidence in your own ability of discernment.
And that's what Matt and I have, especially when it
comes to racial profile.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
And incredible confidence. And it's not even Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
No, it's a crunchy groove Thursday. Keep playing that song.
I love how it annoys Matt and Kate's, well, Kates doesn't.
American Islander Mark Sanchez wondering about Tom Sawyer Island toobs
just at a text, I feel like they said, I'll
(40:56):
meet you over at San tom Soyler. I look, Matt,
we covered corn not al right, We covered Alcatraz, We
covered Talent Treasure Island at Naples Channel Islands, Balbo Island.
We got it covered. Kirby Yates Dodger Pitcher from Kawaii
La Hui, Pacific Islander, him and his brother, both the
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Yates brother Pacific Islander white as.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Ghosts, but still, which is why Vick is in Micronesia Guam.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
When spoken word, the amen is a hard A. When singing,
it's a soft A. That's a great call. Ah many
ah man, oh man.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
I think, I think I hear it amen?
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Right?
Speaker 2 (42:00):
What's better than an A A plus?
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Right? Is there something better than an A A plus?
Speaker 2 (42:06):
I guess no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
I thought she was referring to two different people, So
we're lumping in Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. I was thinking,
if you're from Asia or the mainland, that's one thing,
but throughout them in the middle of the Pacific, then
the Pacific highlander. Is there any clarity on that? Well
that yeah, that's the thing. It's pretty Uh, we're.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Putting it all together, folks, we're all piecing it together.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
I mean, if I'm a Chinese guy, right, and I'm like, listen,
China's pretty big deal. We got a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Yeah, China, India half the population of the world, right,
bing bang boom.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
And I don't want to be lumped in with the Indians.
I don't want to be lumped in with the Japanese
who I fought for years, or the Corrianos. I'm a
Chinese guy. There's billions of us. Can we just have
our own thing China month?
Speaker 2 (42:53):
But that's the beauty of AAPI is. It doesn't allow.
Now let's say I'm a New Zealand guy to be overshadowed.
Let's like you're in.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Let's say I'm a New Zealander with one of those
big chin stripe racing stripe tattoo, like those the Maori people. Yeah,
I'm not like a Chinese guy at all.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
No, but you're in.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
I'm not like a fighting little Filipino guy either.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
I think the idea what am I if you just
did Pacific Islander people like whatever. But the fact you
do Asian American Pacific Islander. Now you're in.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Now we have the power of Korea.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
They're the plus one Asian American is on the list.
Pacific Islander is there plus one.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
We already discussed this. What about the vatos locked up
on Terminal Island and Long Beach. Are they Asian?
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Yeah? Yes, Oh they're Pacific Islanders. Well they're not Asian American.
They're in there. May they may be Asian. If you're
Asian and you're locked up there, you're double double. It's
a big month for you. Extra cigarettes. Don't tell me
this show ain't got no heart.
Speaker 5 (43:55):
Some shows are taking people crying on the air talking
about the Lakers. You guys are solving real problems. It's stupid.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Listen. I'm not going to do this the whole show,
but why not. Can't do it? So I think we
covered it pretty well. We'll be right back with your
dead and a live guy birthday.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Where the show is not over.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
I want to leave.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
The show is not over. We got two hours.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
I'm out.
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four fifteen pm. Galpin Motors broadcast Booth, the first of
ten in a row, all on the road. Wow, there's Braves. Yeah,
Dodgers on deck at three pms.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
We're getting snipped in a real way. Next time tomorrow.
A lot of flex alerts Tomorrow, Tuesday straight on until
morning Wednesday. The Late Show, So Dodgers by late.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Show, which is interesting that the Braves would for a
forty five minute flight to Miami fifty or now probably
an hour flight to Miami, that they would put them
as a nooner. But hey, way to go Dodgers. So
Dodgers Braves first pitch tomorrow for fifteen pm, and then
they'll play Miami.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
The other teams do a lot more scheduling favors for
each other than the Dodgers do for other teams, certainly
because of their overall haughtiness and selfishness, being a blue
blood brand in the MLB for you can get away
with it one hundred plus years, Dodgers could win it.
I do think they could win it, because they did
win it. They are your World Series Champion Dodgers, and
(01:54):
they are defending oh World Series championship. Win it. I
do not.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Are you sure?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yes, we're gonna have basketball commentary from the BFF of
the show. Well, you could keep on dreaming, because they're
out Steve, and I'll tell you what it was, glorious.
JJ Reddick melted down before the series was even over.
(02:23):
Melted down in the pregame against our friend ray Sean Haylock.
Unbelievable moments and then they looked old and tired late.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's a bad start.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And Rudy Gobert was just raining down hell fire from
the Seine. I mean it was really uh, he was
in their face at the beach. Something to behold.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
How do you like that?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Not since the Stranger from Albert Camu has somebody been
so mistreated on a beach by a Frenchman. Rudy Gobert
really taking it to the Lakers last night. And a
lot of people are very buzz hurt today. There's a
lot of hurt in the the back quarters. Yes, as
(03:07):
you would say, people are upset. But Matt, I got
great news.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
What do we got? Well, it's May, love May one
of my favorite months, if not my favorite month.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And you know what they say when May is upon you,
April never, I mean April never happened right right, like
you're not even thinking about.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It or thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
It's over. May is glorious, Like you could go over
April like pool hosts and still have a great career
and be a Hall of Famer. Yeah, April is a
time for adjustment, mistakes.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeh, spring forward.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Now May is here. But all we have probably after tonight.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Hey, don't you paint a negative picture.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I'm sorry, that's my job.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Don't you paint a negative picture. That game's on A
five seventy games on AM eleven to fifty. Disappointment, Okay,
game on AM five to seventy victory.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
That's quite an interesting distinction victory. I would expect somebody
like you, especially with your playoff dissertation yesterday, to go
back and find out how many Clipper games were actually
on AM eleven fifty and what their record was, and
how many Clipper games were on AM five seventy, and
what the record was just for twenty twenty five. And
then when you're done giving me that stat you're going
(04:27):
to say, and you know what p I did. I've
done a little deeper there, Pete. And it turns out
in the last ten.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Years, ten years, what they really want to do is
they want to be on four to thirty AM four
thirty is what they want.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I have great I have great news, though, Matt, something
that you've been calling for for quite some time. And
I saw this on Dodger Twitter. Isn't this great? Because
May marks the whole month.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Of black again, Indigenous people of color, Indigenous this is
Yan gay by transgender queen. That's next month, lesbian by
that's already playing as American clasuflander.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
That one. It says here on Dodger Twitter, Matt A
a p Ilander. I believe it's American correct, it says
Dodgers May is Asian, American and Pacific Islander.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Month Asian American CLASUFI.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Islander, islander islander.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So you might be in the car right now looking
in the rear view. Are you looking into your in
your face and you say, do I fall in that category?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
American Pacific islander. I'm an island americanlander.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Now, let me ask if I'm one of the Maori people.
I'm not talking about sister, sister. I'm talking about the
indigenous people of New Zealand. Are they Pacific Islanders. I mean,
that's an island that's the Pacific.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
There, but it's down under Southern Hemisphere versus Northern Oh.
I'm just asking a specific island. Simon is a Pacific islander.
A Tongan is a Pacific islander. The Philippines, even though
they have a islanders an amazing Spanish influence. I just
feel like, you know, the Taiwanese are they're like have
(06:44):
a real like Chinese vibe. Hong Kong is a melting pot.
Tim Kates knows all about Japan.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Next stop.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Interesting you bring it up.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
So American.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Garland and you've hit it on the head. Pee, New Zealand,
Taiwan both in there, Japan, Philippines. So you might be driving,
you might Micronesia.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Oh of course, you might find yourself in a shotgun
shack listening to the radio show and saying, what am
I does this month apply to me? Is this my month?
To get loose with it? And let Bruce Bruce hit it?
And yes it is.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, Papua New Guinea, French, Polynesia, Fiji. Now let's say
Marshall Islands.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Let's say I'm a white person, a bit of a towny,
haven't seen a dentist in a while, and I live
in Avalon.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I'm an island, and you're in the Pacific, and I'm a.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Pacific and you could not say I'm not an islander.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Asian American forland.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Me right, I go to my golf cart and go
to lou Al.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Larry's all right, let me ask you this question.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I'm here, I'm here for it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Let's say I'm a well to do person with beautiful teeth,
hair transplants, oh, plastic surgery where I too like to
get around town in a golf cart, but it is
a high performance level golf sure street legal. I'm out
there in Coronado, Oh my Pacific Islander.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Yeah yeah, plan American Colander.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
All right, let me say this. All right, let's say
back in the seventies, I know where you're going. I
think they put me in the looney bar. Oh in
cam Real, Okay, And I am one of the only people,
like Clint Eastwood from Alcatraz to escape from the looney
bin and swim out to the Channel Islands. Now I
live out there right in nature like Nacho Libre or
(08:47):
Robinson Crusoe. Oh yeah, am I Pacific Islander.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Headed cats American.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Calander.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
All right, you said it right there, you planted the seed.
Let's say I found myself. I've run a foul of
the low copy. It's the nineteen seventies, and I now
have been placed on the rock.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
You're on the rock, on the rock, it's over the
Where is that rock?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I'm incarcerated on Alcatraz, got it?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And I've served I've been serving ten years at Alcatraz.
What does that make me?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Asian American fasific Carlander.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I just got a text from a guy named Evan
Fuji Naga okay, FOOJS for short. He grew up on
the hill. Right, that's not an island. No, but he
goes the hill. But he is an Asian American. Yes,
so he's in. You're in.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Asian American FACIFA Carlander.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
All right, good stuff? Now, ponga.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Anybody insurance?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I got one for you? All right, insurance list. We're
throwing it around.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
I mean a book is written after this person in
the eighteen hundreds. They were Native American girl living on
an island off the coast of California all by herself.
The book called Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
What island was it?
Speaker 6 (10:20):
It's one of the.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Ones off the coast of the Channel Island.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Yeah, yeah, on of the Channel Islands.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Well, I think we already discussed the Channel Islands.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
You're in Asian American facisficalander.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Okay, okay, I got one for you. You want to go?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
No, you go? No, you're up? No you go's after you.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Let's say I've decided to get off the grid. Okay,
all right. I don't want to live on land. Sure,
I want to live on water. I've parked my boat
in the marina.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
You moored it?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I have, Yes, I have a mooring. I have moored
the boat. Technically, it's an island floating at sea. It's
my own little personal island. You are out there on
the Pacific? Am I No?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I can't die know. It's an island. So it's a boat.
It's a boat, but it's my own personal island. One
particular harbor. No, no, I one for you. I'm a
leper and I have been. I have been relegated to Molokai,
the leper island of Hawaii, off the coast of Maui.
(11:25):
Am I a Pacific islander?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I think it's that's an easy one.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yes, Asian American classistic lander.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
All right, how about this, I'm a dirty commie okay,
People's Republic of China, right, I have been relocated as
a civil engineer to one of their man made islands
to place pressure in the Cold War upon the United States.
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I now live on what essentially is a iron flotilla.
But he is called an island like.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
An oil Derek, Yeah, are you you said, you're Chinese. Okay,
well you're racing America. You're all right. I got a
text now, Happy Asian American Pacific Islander month. By the way, everybody,
I am white and a redhead, but I ate it.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Ya.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I'm a shiro. Am I allowed to participate in Asian
Islanders celebrations. Great Moscow, muse Ya'm a shiro.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I bet the I bet they're great. Unfortunately, sir, you
are not allowed to participate. I got one, okay, long
beach all right behind the breakwater. Astronaut Islands. Yeah, I'm
out there tending tending to the derreck. These are man made,
man made, but but they're called the Astronaut Islands. The
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word island is attached to them. You don't live there.
I do. I've paddled out on a kayak with a
tent and I've set up shop there.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
You don't live there, I do. It couldn't be allowed,
it's against federal regulation, but I figured it out. You
know where you could live if you work at the prison.
You live on Terminal Island. Oh, you are a Pacific Islander.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Asian American sister islander.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I mean if you're there twenty four to seven yeah, yeah,
I figured out.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I found a hole. I hide from the drone every
day and I come out and walk the island at night.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
This text says Island of the Blue Dolphin. I was
forced to read that book in middle school, and I
grew up spiteful, awful book, so boring.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Wait to go, o, Kate, You're welcome. We all had
to read it.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Here.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I have one for you.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
How about a gentleman that was born in Queens, New
York and later in Atlantic adopted the Asian culture into
his life.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
A lot, spent time in Guam, micro and yes, living landlocked.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
And then even later in life really really got into
the Japanese culture.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
No, Asian, American, Pacific Garland.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
And I feel like you put in the time where
America wakes up the cock dome. No, I don't know.
I think he could pass.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
For a Pacific islander.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Unless you have an address on the Pacific Islands, Matt,
you can't have it.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
We're in terms of the celebration. Who gets to celebrate.
I think he gets to celebrate. I think if he
rolls up with Yuko and he's in full garb and
he's got the big glasses on with the beard, and
I think he can get away with it feeling you exactly.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Has anybody else celebrated a ni a week besides Vic?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
No?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
No, American faufi Calander.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
This is a great question.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Man, he knows how to pronounce NIAGERI.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No, he does it? Uh, this comes from the nine
or nine And Matt, you can truly relate with this,
not because it's your life, just because it's relatable. I'm
a us he Trustafarian who inherited their great great grandfather's house.
And I sit around and eat at Balboa bars all day.
(15:20):
I drive my golf cart. Wonderful Newport Bay is my home.
Am I a Pacific Islander? Yes you are?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yes, you are, American, sister, Calander.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
So if I sell perfumes and colognes in Russia? Am
I Russian?
Speaker 6 (15:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
It was wacky. Now here's a great question.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I took the train.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
And this goes into the VIC line of questioning. My
wife is part Hawaiian. Since I tap, since I tap that, oh,
tap that oh?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
On Thursday?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Am I in? No? No, having sex with an Asian
person doesn't get you in. We'd all be in.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I know, I know it's a good exercise.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
It was Naples. Well, that's that's it's tough to say, Matt.
I mean, we're not talking about being a leper and Molokai.
We're not talking about being a scuba ace and Molokini.
We're talking about just living in Naples.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And Treasure Island just past Naples. Technically, I think you
might be able to get away with that. Not in
Naples itself, but I think particularly Treasure Island maybe, but
I think it's man made. I don't think that's well.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
You you you tried to make your man made oil
oil Derek's Pacific Islanders. Well, interesting exercise brain exercise and
iris shut geographical brain exercise? Should it do?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I live on the esther oil, Derek.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
That's what all the Bruce Willis guys were doing before
they saved the world in Armageddon? Yeah, roughnecks or was
that what it was called?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
The doing to close my eyes?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah, I don't want to fall asleep because I miss you, baby.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I haven't seen liv Tyler in a movie since he
know what.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Was the once she did after that? Lion Boys or
buzz Boys on the side, Boys on the side.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
No, I think that was Drew Barrymore. Yeah, oh it
she was in a Stealing Beauty.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It's about losing your virginity in Italy as a young woman.
Very relatable for me. Totally Yeah. We'll be back with more.
It's a Pendus in Money show. Don McLean will join
us in the very next segment and we will lament
the Lakers. Ouster and Matt will try to pop some
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hoping to the Clippers. You're on an island out there.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I'll tell you that I think the Lakers can win it.
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Speaker 3 (18:40):
In the midst of this busiest time of year, we
need Don McClain, the most a legend at a Simi Valley,
the leading scorer in the history of UCLA basketball and
the Pac twelve. His name is in the lights, his
statue in Lemon Park, Seemi Valleys. He works for Fan
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Duel Big Ten Network FS one, and this time of
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for the next ass he kisses will be the first.
And he's still got blood on his hand from the
last snake he had to take out and it was
threatening his family. Joining us on your Southern California to
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Dealer Celebrity Hotline, It's Don McClain. Hello, Don, how are you?
Speaker 6 (19:28):
The blood is gone? Pete? That was last Sunday, was
it not?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
But you still feel it though, like you're waking up
in a cold sweat every day. Yeah, thinking about it.
You know, it's like Vietnam.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Not really, it's actually the opposite. I'm waiting for the
next one.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah yeah, Well, you know every day that I sit
here in this hotel and saigone, my enemy gets stronger.
All right, Don, you saw the Lakers go out and
how they went out and the JJ Reddick criticism and
all that. You know, the way he coached in the playoffs,
What did your make? How it kind of played out
because a lot of people, almost everybody thought the Lakers
(20:03):
had a chance not only to win this series, but
make more of an impact on the playoffs.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Yeah, and I think this, And there's a lot of
talk about, you know, the higher if you go back,
that he'd never had a head coaching job previously, And
I think this is what if you're a Laker fan
you were concerned about, is the experience to get into
a playoff series and what adjustments you.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Make or don't make, and the thing.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
And I don't know this because obviously I haven't talked
to him or anyone on a Laker staff, but it
seems like the more we go along here, this stuff
is so analytics driven and decisions are made based on
analytics instead of common sense. And in JJ's you know instance,
his playing experience, I think it was overthought. I think
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he tried to be different and I'm sure it was
analytics driven and it didn't work out. And I think
this is you know, look, I think he knows what
he's doing. I just think this experience is new and
there's nerves, and you know, you try to make good decisions.
But you know, he obviously didn't make the right decisions.
(21:10):
But I think that moving forward, he will learn from this.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Uh don It's look, he won fifty games, you know,
and had a gigantic trade mid season. I mean, it
was a hell of a regular season for JJ, no doubt.
I guess the one thing I'm trying because look, I
would assume a players never going to ask out of
a game, let alone a playoff game. I mean that'll
dog them for their entire career and beyond. So shouldn't like,
isn't there someone that can say, hey man, this is
(21:35):
not this is a tough ask. Twenty four straight minutes
the same five guys against the pretty physical team in
Minnesota just feels like there should be some sort of
checks and balances in there.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Right, Yeah, I think the decision to go small is
what I'm referring to in terms of the analytics. It
had to be driven by that, because you got Rudy Gobert, like,
if you're going to go small against any team, it's
not the te Wolves because go Bear and his effect
at his size and his length. And I'm just the
thing that I didn't that I couldn't figure out in
(22:06):
watching last night was there was no like, hey guys,
this really isn't working out. We better go to play
beat Jackson Hayes. We know you're not very good, but
get in there and let's see what happened, because this
clearly isn't working. And so I think, again, this goes
back to the experience, and I think JJ Reddick is
a smart basketball mind, and I think he's going to
(22:26):
figure it out. As you said, Matt, he had a
good regular season, which tells me eventually he'll be able
to figure out this playoff stuff.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
But yeah, they were.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
They were head scratchers for sure the last two games.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I never do the whole Oh they quit on the
I'm not saying that done, but I mean it's an
elimination game. And I know they took a lead in
the third and they had a quick lead there in
the fourth, But I mean, if you watch that game,
it was the Timberwolves had to miss thirty wide open
three pointers that could have been a twenty five to
thirty point blowout, and not to mention the offensive bounds.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Did it.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I don't know if it looked like it to you.
I just don't know if the guys were spent or
what it was. But it definitely just eyeball test to me,
look kind of like, yeah, this is a Lakers team
that just does not have anything left.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Well, it's an experienced group led by the most experienced
guy in the league and Matt If you don't believe
in the game plan, then you don't probably give it
to all because you know deep down it's not working
and it's not gonna work. And so I would point
to that more than anything. But here's the other thing,
and in doing what I do this time of year,
because a lot of this draft stuff is now analytics driven,
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and I don't want to hear it. I know what
my eyes tell me, and I'll listen to the analytics,
but it's not making decisions for me. But we got
we got a couple of guys in our gym that
are going to get drafted higher than they should be,
and a lot of it's because their metrics are really
good at the college level. But at some point you
got to use some common sense and say, you know what,
(23:55):
does that I don't care about what he did in college.
Does this what I'm looking at translate to the NBA
based on what their draft range is? And to me,
the answer is no. And so like you can't measure
will toughness all that stuff, and Anthony Edwards you can
say whatever you want, and like he's kind of you know,
(24:16):
a wild card, but that mfort is tough and his
his his spirit and his will wear off on that
t Wolves team. And that's not measurable by any numbers whatsoever.
And so if you're driven by analytics and you're going
to lean on it and your decisions are made on
that because you don't want to take responsibility for actually
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making the decisions. And now what's really bothers me about it?
It's like, I use analytics, So if anybody questions me on.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
It, I said, well, the analytics.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
The analytics told us that, yeah, And it's like, so
I just think that that Maybe that's part of the
experience as well with JJ Reddick and being like, Okay,
I have all this information because they have pages and
pages and pages of analytics information, maybe you don't use
it as much.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
The next time, the one and only Don McClain, maybe
just take a look out of it at it and yeah,
use your own eyes, eyes, and ears and brain. Don
McClain a fabulous guest and always honest about the world
of professional college and high school basketball. Even uh, Don,
(25:25):
where do you think the Lakers go from here? I
mean they got to pay two guys fifty million dollars.
I don't believe the whole Lebron thinks he's you know,
we're going to go through three weeks of Lebron saying
I don't know, but you know he's he's going to
come back and play for another fifty miil. Where do
they go from here?
Speaker 7 (25:41):
Well, I don't know their cap situation, but like you
just said, it can't be great if you're paying two
guys fifty million. I think it depends on ownership and
how willing they are to go into the tax and
into the apron. But they need a big and I
want to know, you know, hindsight's twenty twenty, so this
is kind of a low blow here. But like Mark
Williams finished the season for the Hornets, Yeah, what, Like
(26:05):
who blew up that trade? And if they had had him,
maybe they win this series? So that to me, you
go back to that now when it happened, I was like, really,
because he's played the last five games for the Hornets,
so it couldn't have been that bad. And it's not
like he's making fifty million Mark Williams, So that may
have been the beginning of the end of all this
(26:25):
not having a big and you ran into the wrong
matchup with Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, and don you said it going yeah, and you
look at that with Mark Williams and it was just odd.
The deal was done and people were like, wow, that's
a lot to give up for Mark Williams and he
gets hurt a lot and the next thing you know,
the deal's not done. It was very strange the way
that worked out. Yes, yes, but you've been saying, you
said this from I don't know the last two three weeks,
if not even more than that, that the West is
(26:50):
wide open. You know that the listen, any of these
teams could come out of here and it just depends
on match. I mean, the Lakers were a three seed
with fifty wins. The Timberwolves were the sick seed with
forty nine. Like that's how tight it was. So do
you think maybe we just I don't know, fell in
love with the Superstar and the colors and the Lakers
lore and didn't realize like, yeah, you know what, there's
(27:12):
a lot of fun. And I'm not saying we that
you included, but just everybody in the media because they
were the third shortest odds to win the NBA championship.
I mean, they were the third favorites in all of this,
and man, it just they got played off the court.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
The media hype is a real thing these days across
the board, in all walks of life. And yes, I
agree with all that, man, and what never changed. And
I said this, I think last week or the week before,
just because Doncic got traded didn't mean all of a
sudden he became a good defensive player. Like we knew
he wasn't a good defensive player from day one and
so and that wasn't a major factor, but it was
(27:46):
a factor, and they went at him and they targeted him,
and you know, the Lakers were a better defensive team
down the stretch. But in the playoffs, it's different. It's
more physical. They don't call as much officiating. In my opinion,
it's been terrific in the playoffs so far. They're letting
them go, they're letting them play. Now it's escalating, probably
a little bit too much. A lot of series. We're
seeing almost fights, which has always been in the NBA.
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Not real fights, almost fights.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
And but I like it.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
I like the physicality and guys having to earn it.
There's less flopping, there's less all that, And I just
think the Lakers couldn't hold up defensively obviously, So in
terms of where they go, I'm not sure, but I'm
sure they have to do something. But getting back to
the whole media hype thing, it's like Shirhar Sanders is
the biggest example ever of that. Like, have we ever
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seen a guy that everyone thought, because of Colorado and
Dion and all the stuff was going number one, not
first round number one, and.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Then went in the fifth round? Come on, We've never
seen that.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Now it's and we've never seen a guy play his
whole team and never substitute on the whole second half.
I mean, it's a real it's a time of innovation.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Down there.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Speaking of that, don you had Halliburton right in your camp,
didn't you?
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Or you know him like I did I know him?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Dad?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
His towel at you.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
No, that was the year of COVID.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
We didn't do pre draft that year, so he was
we were doing like zooms and talking about what he
should be doing. But he never came out here because
of COVID.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
So you didn't have to deal with the Dad towel.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
No. I never dealt with the dad no or the
towel or the towel both?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Are you going to have a dad towel at Saint Mary's.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
If things are If things are.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Going well, congratulations on that don with trying to thank you. Yeah,
wonderful And what a great place for basketball and to
be close to home.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Yeah, I think in a weird way, and you know
it's cliche and all that, but things work out for
a reason, and I think this worked out for a reason.
And I think everyone's excited, especially Mom being a little closer,
and I think it's going to be a good thing,
and Trent's excited about it and ready to get going.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
It's gonna come home with a backpack full of vegamite
a teammates. I'm on, it's going.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I couldn't believe it. It went to Luke Longley's.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Ranch in uh one real quick don elimination game tonight,
Clippers backs against the Wall. I think everybody kind of
felt like this was a seven game series. Do we
still feel that way? How are you feeling about this thing?
Speaker 6 (30:28):
I do.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
I was a little surprised at how flat the Clippers
came out the other night, but yeah, I guess that's normal.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Maybe it's not normal in the in the playoffs, but
I expect I really expect the Clippers.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
To win tonight.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
I think they come out they they knew they didn't
play well in Game five.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
And they come out with the right disposition. I think
they take care of business tonight for sure.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Is there a way Luken can out coach this dude?
I mean he's a first time coach too, and he's
got weird cheeks. Adalman, how come Luke can't coach? You
coach around this guy?
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Well? I think he can.
Speaker 7 (31:03):
But it's about your players executing and coming out with
the right disposition. As I said, the right energy they
just send. Their energy wasn't right in game five. I
could tell right from the start and give Denver credit.
Jamal Murray, who's killed the Clippers in the playoffs in
the past, look like the old Jamal Murray the other night.
So I have a feeling there will be a better
defensive game plan for Murray tonight. There is no game
(31:25):
plan for Jokic, So lock in on Murray and you probably.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Win the game.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
All right, don looking forward to it. We'll have it
right here. Tip off at seven pregame at six and
then Game seven is what we're most definitely looking forward to.
We appreciate it. Enjoy your evening.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yep, all right, guys, FIA Happy Asian American and Pacific
Islander month.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Oh I got that bite in there before he said
bye to he was staring at that food, Like, man,
this interview cannot end fast enough.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Don't get food right before? You know you haven't interview
the worst.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Maybe you think it's sooner and then it doesn't and
it's a little bit late, and you're like, damn it,
damn it.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
We'll read some Textoso's next. Most of them are people
asking for Matt and I's judgment about whether or not
they can celebrate Asian and American Asian American Pacific Islander.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Monk, why do you think we're here? Why do you
think we do a radio show to help the people
public service?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
You think you go over to historic Filipino town waving
a flag around and you can't claim Pacific Islander citizenship.
Guess where you're going down on the other side of Wilshire.
You're getting out, That's where you're going. All right, Thanks
for listening, Petrson Money. We'll continue next.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
That's your some money in five seventy LA Sports Live
Everywhere on the iHeartRadio IPIG. Thank you to Don McClain.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Asia.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Joe Ortiz, general manager of the Chargers, will join us
in about forty five minutes. We're going to six pm.
Dodgers are off, but the Clippers are not. You will
hear Game six of the first round of the Western
Conference playoffs seven pm. Tips six pm. Audam Auslin pregame.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Get them with that zen She read Matt because we're
still celebrating our Asian American friends.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
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That's a big deal. So to enter, all I getta
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(33:39):
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Speaker 3 (33:50):
It's time for some listener Reaction's.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
A fine brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
We make it.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Easy, API and missing the last half of the first segment.
My girlfriend was in the living room, and after hearing
that dumb ass song for the twenty fifth time, she goes,
oh my god, turn it off. That's so a nying.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Give American Facific Carlander vision American fasisfick Carlander.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Let me ask you this, girlfriend of the listener who texted,
do you not think it's important to celebrate Asian American
Pacific Islander Month like the Dodgers are doing on their
social media feeds today and petros and money. We're right,
We're right in step with the Dodgers, lockstep with the
azul and if we see them doing something, you bet
(34:46):
your sweet ass Matt and I are going to pick
up the slat.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Well, if I may defend her, Perhaps she is encouraged
by us celebrating each and every one of those peoples,
but she'd prefer we do it without that woman singing
and beating her chest. Maybe that's all she sa saying, like, Hey,
I like what you guys are doing over there.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Well, I don't appreciate your decision to play the devil's advocate.
In that moment, I felt like I was on a roll.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Now I will give you a flip side of that
quyp How how would we know how to pronounce islander
if we didn't play that sound American.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Calander American Pacific calander.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
I'm good with just one round of that. By the way,
I don't need the double.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
This guy says, right as I start my car midward
shan American Pacific islander. Oh okay, here's a good question.
What if I set up a tent and live on
Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, does that make me a
Pacific islander? Now that is well, if you're a Chinese guy,
(35:58):
you're already in Asian Oh anyway, Yeah, we're talking special.
But like let's say you're like you're like a like
a Dane and you're living on Tom Sawyer Island, which
is supposed to be on the Atlantic, right, Yeah, I
don't believe it's in the Pacific. It's on the Pacific.
It's in the Pacific. It's in the Anaheim Pacific. Huh,
Anaheim Pacific. Matt. That's a tough one, dude. I don't
(36:25):
feel like that's a tough one at all. You're saying no,
I'm going to go No, You're saying no, I'm going
to go No, what about Jim What if he's there
with you on Tom Sawyer Island complicates things considerably. Yeah,
excuse me? What was his name in the ah? That's stupid,
(36:50):
that stupid song. It's giving me thoughts of hanging myself
or kick that chicken the nuts.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Stop Mark.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Got a request, he says, stop playing it over and
over again, for the love of God. And then he
sent one of those mad faces.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Oh the red face.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Yeah, not the clenched teeth. That's my that's I love
that meme, the one where you're like er cringe er
jj reddick walks out er.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
It's a weird assumption.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
What if I'm Mexican but my twenty three and me says,
I'm fourteen percent Pacific Islander. I'm not Peruvian with that
Asian blood in me, but can speak Spanish. Am I
in p fourteen percent? Oh?
Speaker 4 (37:46):
You American Pacific Islander. We have a.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Place in this world.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Shout out to the Raiders.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
They also posted join us in celebrating an American and
Pacific Highlander heritage month.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Oh, there can only be one Highlander. There's only one.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
I'm immortal. You gotta cut off the head of the
Highlander you'd think they'd want to be more inclusive. The Highlanders,
they really just celebrate one God have a place in
this world. Petros, What about if I'm a man with
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a family in a mansion on Seal Beach and I
spend a lot of my time with my surfboard in
the Pacific, and I shower with a speedo full of
peanut butter with my dog, and I give edibles to
the neighboring pets. Is that a special exemption to be
a Pacific Hilander?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
I would say so an American Pacific islander.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Am I not Asian American eating at my local sushi establishment?
We've established that, No, you are not, and that's appropriation. Guys,
what are you gonna go the Samurai sword to Asian
America Knight at Dodger Stadium and act like an idiot?
Speaker 7 (39:04):
That's not cool?
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Act like Kareem in that Bruce Lee movie, Make a
fool of yourself.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Pretty awesome, I would say, though, if you do visit
your local Ralphs and you purchase some Zenchi sushi, then you're.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
In Hey, pee, are Russians considered Asians since they're in Asia? Yes?
And Indians? So if you're Indian. What and you got
your poofy pants and curvy sword and you want to
celebrate the Indio Rajas What? Get over to Dodge Stadium
(39:40):
because that's Asian. My guy Suda ready from down the street.
Oh yeah, I'm sending them over. What about ti Oscar?
Is he Pacific islander?
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Fair question? Where's ti Oscar from? No?
Speaker 3 (39:56):
No, that's no, No, that's not the Pacific, guys, it's
the Caribbean. Ask her Dominican. I don't remember Dominicano or
Venezuelan and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
Dominican Republic.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Yeah, he's Dominican. He is not a Pacific.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
I think we need Sweet James Counsel to clarify the
framework of Pacific islander authentication. I don't think so. We
do it right here, pretty sure. Matt and I got
it figured out. We're not dumb, you know. That's the thing.
You gotta have confidence in your own ability of discernment.
And that's what Matt and I have, especially when it
comes to racial profile.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
And incredible confidence. And it's not even Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
No, it's a crunchy groove Thursday. Keep playing that song.
I love how it annoys Matt and Kate's, well, Kates doesn't.
American Islander Mark Sanchez wondering about Tom Sawyer Island toobs
just at a text, I feel like they said, I'll
(40:56):
meet you over at San tom Soyler. I look, Matt,
we covered corn not al right, We covered Alcatraz, We
covered Talent Treasure Island at Naples Channel Islands, Balbo Island.
We got it covered. Kirby Yates Dodger Pitcher from Kawaii
La Hui, Pacific Islander, him and his brother, both the
(41:20):
Yates brother Pacific Islander white as.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Ghosts, but still, which is why Vick is in Micronesia Guam.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
When spoken word, the amen is a hard A. When singing,
it's a soft A. That's a great call. Ah many
ah man, oh man.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
I think, I think I hear it amen?
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Right?
Speaker 2 (42:00):
What's better than an A A plus?
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Right? Is there something better than an A A plus?
Speaker 2 (42:06):
I guess no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
I thought she was referring to two different people, So
we're lumping in Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. I was thinking,
if you're from Asia or the mainland, that's one thing,
but throughout them in the middle of the Pacific, then
the Pacific highlander. Is there any clarity on that? Well
that yeah, that's the thing. It's pretty Uh, we're.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Putting it all together, folks, we're all piecing it together.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
I mean, if I'm a Chinese guy, right, and I'm like, listen,
China's pretty big deal. We got a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Yeah, China, India half the population of the world, right,
bing bang boom.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
And I don't want to be lumped in with the Indians.
I don't want to be lumped in with the Japanese
who I fought for years, or the Corrianos. I'm a
Chinese guy. There's billions of us. Can we just have
our own thing China month?
Speaker 2 (42:53):
But that's the beauty of AAPI is. It doesn't allow.
Now let's say I'm a New Zealand guy to be overshadowed.
Let's like you're in.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Let's say I'm a New Zealander with one of those
big chin stripe racing stripe tattoo, like those the Maori people. Yeah,
I'm not like a Chinese guy at all.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
No, but you're in.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
I'm not like a fighting little Filipino guy either.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
I think the idea what am I if you just
did Pacific Islander people like whatever. But the fact you
do Asian American Pacific Islander. Now you're in.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Now we have the power of Korea.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
They're the plus one Asian American is on the list.
Pacific Islander is there plus one.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
We already discussed this. What about the vatos locked up
on Terminal Island and Long Beach. Are they Asian?
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Yeah? Yes, Oh they're Pacific Islanders. Well they're not Asian American.
They're in there. May they may be Asian. If you're
Asian and you're locked up there, you're double double. It's
a big month for you. Extra cigarettes. Don't tell me
this show ain't got no heart.
Speaker 5 (43:55):
Some shows are taking people crying on the air talking
about the Lakers. You guys are solving real problems. It's stupid.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Listen. I'm not going to do this the whole show,
but why not. Can't do it? So I think we
covered it pretty well. We'll be right back with your
dead and a live guy birthday.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Where the show is not over.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
I want to leave.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
The show is not over. We got two hours.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
I'm out.
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