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Hulk Hogan at seventy one, somebody who made an impact
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Dbass The Million Dollar Man about his friend Hulk Hogan
and his history with him. Speaking of Rogan and Rodney,
who couldn't finish their show all the way today, I
do have to self report, report.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Self report, self report.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Logo turned out to be a big success. People love
logo talk. I mean, you know, but Tim Kate's double
checking his list. He crossed off a couple, like you know.
I started the logo talk thing to kind of make
fun of Rogan and Rodney, and then and then I
realized that maybe not on their show, but for us,
this has legs and much like zz Top, it knows
(03:22):
how to use them.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And we had we had a lot.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Of conversation, maybe even we could have had more, but
we were doing other things as well, And I feel
like logo talk and I don't want to. I mean,
I made fun of Kevin Figures about it out of
seventy eighth and Vermont, and he knows. So that logo talk,
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which we made fun of Rogan and Rodney doing, actually
ended up carrying Matt.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And Eye on the opening segment for sure.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yeah, and then and then some uh some forty five
breaks as well. We didn't mean for it to be
that way, but the people spoke and logo Talk was
what it was, So I don't I mean if I
was going to come out and be a hypocrite and
make fun of them, and then we actually did like
a whole show on it. So I want to say
that is a self report for me. Because logo Talk
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turned out to be a resounding success, maybe Kevin figures
should follow Fred Rogan's instincts.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well, I think I could get that point. Yes, I
think Fred's position of opening the phone lines and soliciting.
You didn't like to hear the guy say you like
the Oriel face Oriel face they am and they be Yeah,
Well that was also great. I was fantastic. So I
just want to say the logo talk stuff was was
(04:51):
a big success. Now I heard Kate's took it to
the dinner table two nights ago. Oh yeah, all the girls.
He did a blind he did a blind ballot. All right,
everybody write it down fitting the cap three for Blue
Jays touch not an America team.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
We went baseball first, then we went NFL. Got a
little rough on the NBA because the girls don't run fall.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Well, Sadie got kind of weird because you put the
Sacramento surgeon there, and you wouldn't accept that in the
World League.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
So anyway, I just want to say self report, corrections
and retractions.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Logo talk was a success.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Now, corrections and retractions.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Is that an excuse to not finish your show two
days later?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
No, it is not. You're right, it is not an excuse.
They were off yesterday.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
You were apologize to him?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
No, yeah, off yesterday, three hours today.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
So we'll have Ted Dbis text Ted dB Assi what
the bleed out the clock?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
This is the bleed out the Clock segment.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
We're going to talk to dB as the million dollar man.
We'll have Sean Merriman lights out on today to talk
about Philip Rivers and talk about a little football and
talking about an event that he's got going on in
his lights out fighting And David Vassy is in Boston
with the Dodgers and Pantone.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Oh my god, that's so cool. What's the weather like, Dave?
Why did you look at the foot I want you
to go outside the hotel and go outside and look up.
Go outside the brown house and look up in the sky.
Don't tell me what it looks like from your hotel.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Room.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I want to know what it feels like. Is it humid?
Is it misty? I gotta know what we're gonna do.
And you're my only weather vein. You know it's all
over the internet. Shut look up in the sky. That's
John Martin ar old. Boss, I was prior to the
iPhone weather app, like you had to go to weather
dot com to get the ten day and but that
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was our boss's way of determining whether or not. Yeah,
we were gonna get cut looser.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Like a weather vein on top of a barn and
go to the rough of the four seasons. For God's sakes,
I bet I put you on the road with these guys.
At least you can do is go outside tell them
what you think.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It's hard. Boss.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
You guys want an update about Boston, Massachusetts tomorrow. Sure,
because I walked in on rugged to Rodney earlier while
you guys were in the prep zone, and Kevin had
weather dot Com already pulled up looking at tomorrow's weather
for fin went po, I mean, and what the outlet
looks like? Because you know they're invested because they have
a one hour show them.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Right, God help them if it was one hour and
ten minutes, they might just the whole boat might just
list over to the side.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Well, unless there are two guests were able to extend
their conversations.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Looking at the forecast tomorrow in the afternoon, gentlemen, scattered
thunderstorms in Boston. Then it turns into mostly cloudy right
around first pitch.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Okay, yeah, not worried about that, brother, Well, at least
at least R and R. Good, we're gonna we're gonna
get on the air at one to three.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
They're not going to do you know what that that's
not even I mean not to do schedule talk, as
we have scheduled talk here quite often what we do
because they if there's a I found this out and
you probably already know this because God knows. But if
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there is a weather delay, Vassay is now eager to
swoop in and do what they would call Dodger talk
there and then when the game ends after the weather delay,
all they do is Dodger Clubhouse one, two three Trojans.
So they don't want they don't want our help. You
notice that nobody's like, hey, you guys are on call. Well,
(08:43):
I just assumed that was the change of leadership, right, No.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It's because Vassa wants to swoop in. Am I wrong?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
I have no comment on this. I'm gonna stay out
of this one.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
But it's true.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
You're in the middle of a weather delay, you get
those breaks in, you take the calls.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
What about Kate?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Same thing?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
No, no, no, can Kate's call an audible? Can Kates be like,
hey man, we got a twelfth inning walk off win
on the road, the first time ever in Dodger history
that they walked it off on the road. I know
we already got if they walk it off on the road,
I know we already got Dodger talk in before. But
you know what, we're gonna double up. We're gonna give
him a second.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
One if that happens. I for sure would do it
if they.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Walked it off on the road, down on the road,
let's play two. Yeah, you'd have to do it. You'd
have to do what, you'd have to call it.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
You already got to do it.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Every commercial break is six first five commercials with Adrian
Gazalez or something like. You still gotta do it. Don't
forget about Key Camp Penelope Wow, of course, But yeah,
I think that's a good call. If they ever walked
it off on the road. You got it, and there
was a weather delay, you'd have to double up.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Scheduled talk case you ever get tempted to do it,
Dodger talk. If Dave's like, don't need to do it,
already done, already done it. Have you ever like you
know what, Dave, I'll do it. Don't worry about it,
you know what, Matt. Usually I'm long gone by then.
So your three march d tell the guys that the
cucko's that I want my number eleven to go. We're
playing two. They've walked off on the road.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Hector, can you put this in it's a go cup?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah you want to Roadie, Ted Dbasi, Sean Merriman, David
vasse all today it's gonna be a fine day in
great sports talk, but also to discuss I heard this, Matt,
great sports talk, and I'm pretty sure it was your
story that you came with this, and ever since.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Hat Burrito, ful Burrito. That was a yesterday that was
riveting listening. But today I'm only going to eat half
of this. Today we're going back to something you found.
I think you found it on the internet or whatever
in a story and the tone of it, probably because
it's a classically trained actor that we all know from
James Cromwell when he glued his hand to the Starbucks
(10:55):
desk and started yelling about vega, that was your story, right,
I believe it. Where did we get that one? I
think it was your starters. There's a word that it
was a number of the days. Yeah, so let's go.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
When will you stop charging us more for vegan milking?
When will you stop raking in huge profits? Cloud customers?
Animals and the environment suffered? When will you stop utalizing
people for their ethnicity or their morals? The senseless of
charge hurts animals.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
So that good stuff there from Cromwell. And did they
answer professional act? They ended the vegan upt They did.
They did so Cromwell's gluing his hand to the desk
effect them.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
It worked, that's Cromwell. I was in Babe Dudley Smith
from La Confidential. Now Starbucks, I did not know this,
but they're going through it with some of their employees.
Some of the baristas aren't happy with Starbucks. Oh, just
in general, Well, they're not happy with the company. Right,
(12:04):
And here is a baristole who's like been tasked with
being the voice of the baristas, and he's giving a speed.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
The Jimmy Hoffa of baristas.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Basically, yeah, it's like that movie Blue Collar with Richard
Dreyfus and Harvey Kittel. Uh Not Richard Dreyfus, Richard Pryor,
corrections and retractions more Dreyfuss. Later, you'll get your drive,
You'll get your dryfist today, you'll get it. But the
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barista that they hired to be their mouthpiece, mister, No,
the barista that Starbucks hired, Hey, here we go to
thee to be their mouthpiece, to be their Hoffa. If
Starbucks with teamsters and barista has killed people, sure, here is.
And I'm telling you, Matt, doesn't it sound Doesn't it
(13:01):
sound like he's channeling his inner Cromwell.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
We, your Green Apron partners, are the face of the
Starbucks experience, and we are the key to any potential
of the turnaround effort in the company every day.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
That's not real quick. I'm not saying he's as good
as Cromwell. I'm saying he's trying.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
He's at least he's belting out energy. He's you know,
trying to rally the troop, saying what they have to say. Here,
we go.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
Every day from early opens to lake closing. We keep
Starbucks stores operating. We are the ones who foster connections
with customers and keep them coming back back. But time
and time again, you are ignoring our demands and.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
Making our jobs harder.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
Your priorities are all wrong, while you spend money on
celebrity appearances at hush manager conferences in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I was very specific. He's against the managers, very specific
managers in Vegas. There's a manager conference in Vegas.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
This could be the rest of the UCLA football team
talking about Iamayava.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
While you're in a posh thing in Vegas, we're out
here in Westwoods, Java, running, running freaking dazards.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
While you spend money on celebrity appearances at hush manager
conferences in Las Vegas.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
Many of us are struggling to pay rent. And while
you're adding complicated new frappuccinos.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
To the venus, we're fighting through understaffing shifts that make
it impossible to get our drink.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
So with league.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Now just where it got very specific complicated FRAPs. Yeah,
understaff we're understaffed, yet here company twenty ingredients. Yeah, unicorn frap. Yeah,
and the worst is being behind somebody that's ordering one
of this go to.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
The that make it impossible to get our drinks out
within your newly declared four minute rule.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
We deserve better.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Starbucks promise to finalize contracts with our union in twenty
twenty four.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
You failed to do so because you.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Refuse to address our concerns about Steppie.
Speaker 9 (15:40):
And take hold pay. Now.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
You promised to get customers back with this fact to
Starbucks program to turn the company around.
Speaker 9 (15:51):
Please hear us.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
When hold on real thick, it's Starbucks struggling.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
They're building like a three story Starbucks on Hawthorne that
I just drove by today.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I'm gonna say it's probably one of the highest market
cap companies in the world, would be my guests. But
they're trying to get people back to Starbucks. What uh,
let's one hundred and six point four to eight billion
is their market caps.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Oh yeah, there's four Starbucks within one mile of our building,
by the way.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
So they're not they're not going by the way of
things like they're doing. Okay, straw hat pizza, let's hear let's.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Please hear us.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Let me say that unless you listen to bars us
about issues for facing in our short stuff. Stores can
take seriously our proposals.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
For fixing them. You will fail. Sarbucks won't thrive until
we do.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
The path that leads back to Starbucks begins with finalizing
a fair union contract.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
All right with the stepping copper, keep you going, keep
him going, running on a gas a little bit there
at the end.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
God, that's why over six hundred Starbucks edion stores and
priest us.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
This sounds a little like Cromwell to me, margaining.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
Just settle a fare contract. Let's get this contract.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
How long was that cats Two minutes and forty seconds?
Two minutes forty seconds of that might as well be
twenty five minutes to someone who can't deliver like that
young man could at that level. You heard him starting
to get a little scratchy there at the end. I
just got this text mat.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
It says, say what you want about the Starbucks guy,
but Deshaun Foster could learn a thing or two from me.
You know, more on that later, Yes, more on that
as the show continues, So you.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Know, it all comes to two and a half minutes
of that. When will you stop charging us for vegan milk.
You think this guy, when.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
Will you stop charging us more for vegan milk. Let's
get this contract now.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You think this guy has got a chance, Matt, to
lessen the amount of complex frappuccinos and get some more
people staffed there at the Starbucks. I think, I think
if I make critique, if I may his delivery or
just what they're asking, I think just one word needed
to be tweaked. The first thing he said was you
didn't listen to our demands. Should have used concerns there,
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which he used later in the speech. You say demands,
and now corporate gets a little defensive like, hey, you
put them back on their heel. We're not We're not
going to be There's no demands here.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
Let's get this contract now.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You know, I talked to a guy today. Concerns we got.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I talked to a guy today who had some concerns,
and he told me, you know what you guys should do.
You guys should do it like Gary and Shannon, they
do it right. And I was like, did he give
any specifics? Well, I would want to. I don't want
to tell tales out of school. I'll tell you during
the break, Okay, but I'll tell you, Matt, that was
like demands that I was like, oh oh, I was
(19:05):
like that meme of that white guy going h h oh,
you know, like the blinking kind of like what what's that?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I'm like that meme of that dude with the big
vein in his head who's freaking out. Oh really angry.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Well you probably will be, but uh yeah, I see that. Yeah,
demands is a little too hard. Yeah, don't want to
go you want to do concerns. Hey, we shared our concerns.
We're trying to help you. You try to have not that.
Pouring coffee and stuff is not a very very admirable work.
Any work is admirable. But when you say I'm making
demands and the Starbucks mermaid pops out of the water
(19:38):
and says, you do just pour coffee there right, check
out my shell boobs.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We're the ones to come up with the clever presentation
and marketing that caused people to come in here and
pay five times for a cup of coffee what they
could get at home.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
When she pops out of the water and throws a
conk shell off your blue hair, now what are you
gonna do?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Now? You've got to adjust, my friend. Now you've got
to think on your feet. I threw off your head.
I wonder how he got the gig? That guy? Were
their tryouts? Did he just snatch it? Like I'll prepare
a speech. Oh, I have to say. If that's the
most haston like barista, well, let's not forget kind of
(20:22):
you know. I mean, isn't there an actor? And that
was Downtown Disney by the way.
Speaker 9 (20:26):
Let's get this contract.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
No, pardon my lack of ability to hear. Let's get
this contract. Don It's like, is it done? Is it signed?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Is it?
Speaker 9 (20:41):
Let's get this contract? No?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
No, no. Do you think it was known?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I think says out.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Isn't out?
Speaker 9 (20:49):
Let's get this contract.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
No, no, no. They're trying to gain They're trying to
let their concerns be known.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Well, I think you look at the group of baristas
as a whole, and this is probably pretty representative, you
know what I mean? Like, I don't think you're gonna
have a guy get up there sounding like just because
it's top of mind. Hulk Hogan. Alright, brothers, we're tired
of steaming up your coffee. Brother, Like, that's not gonna happen.
It's probably gonna be. This guy was there when it
(21:19):
went down at Brother.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Let's get this contract down.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
What was there when they sold the old casey thunder Brother? Like,
that's not happening. You're gonna get this track. P No,
you don't think there's a more manly barist, don't. I
just don't think it would be representative of the majority
of barristos or baristas. Then why can't we get a
shrill woman? Maybe they thought this would be more effective.
It's a feminine man. Did you guys know about this
(21:46):
four minute coffee rule? It's new, that's what he said.
It's new. You're guaranteed to get your coffee in four minutes.
About that.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
That's like the old Domino's guarantee or your pizzas free.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Right, Guess what you get behind someone you know that's
pushing two fifty plus tax and they're getting six freaking
FRAPs and you're coming right behind him with just an Americano.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
You ain't getting four minut getting four minutes. You're not
getting those till the Bills win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
No fatty who should have been over a freaking basket
Robbins getting a damn shake is gonna get those six
FRAPs with extra caramel, double whipped cream and a freaking
spinach feta.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Pull the spinach.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
This is spinach extra feta. Yeah, that is my favorite.
Sounds good. But he didn't have the balls, the gluesst
boots on the table. And you're right about that too,
But that like it's their Starbucks, so that he'd have
to chip his boots on.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
Let's get this contract.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I think when he gets st there, I think the
real the real meat of the story. There is the
complex frappuccinos, right, and the four minutes drill, four minute drilling,
short staff well, and manager's getting perks. We got flown
to a posh Las Vegas resort with celebrity appearances that
cost millions. I'm the manager of the Starbucks on Kouwenga
(23:06):
and I met Sabrina Carpenter in Las Vegas.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
And while you're adding complicated new frappuccinos to the venus,
we're fighting through understeffing shifts.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
That make it impossible to get.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
Our drink so within your newly declared four minute rule.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Fair.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
When I think of the four minute rule, I think
of the four minute drill, which is run out the clock.
You know, in my time, you know, you'd have to wait.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Very effective at about two point fifty. Today you'd have
to wait for the ar You're right bleeding well, Matt.
You know why.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Rodney's a quarterback. All he can do is take a
knee for a loss. But Matt, I'm an ex short
yardage running back. You can get that first down. And
I'm I am not a fumbler. So you can send
me into the line of scrimmage over and over again,
and you can count on me, Matt, to lay there
until the last moment. Will the clock runs, and you
can count on the referee to have to ask me
(24:07):
for the football. Then I would give it to him
and then he can spot it. Such are the tricks
back in my time, before everything was more electronic. Of
the four minute drill. Four minutes seems pretty feasible to get,
like a cold brew.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Like if you order four FRAPs, does that make it
sixteen minutes? Those are great questions, you know, dude, Let's
get call the downtown Disney Starbucks. Let's get that guy
out the one over at the Boss Big Boy. Wherever
you park your carbody looks at you, like where you're
going you going to the boss, big boy, You're going
to the Starbucks.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
But that guy done, he's not the mouthpiece. Oh you
can't just call at a trucking place and talk to
Hafa or Debbie Dutson. Well, dudes and drama schools. The
best is the best.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Take it for me. He used to working in Yes,
Debbie Dunes.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
So now you're going in there trying to get a
free drink by ordering just a ridiculous drink, like I'm
gonna have almond milk, but just easy ice and three
pumps of this.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Oh, some people are insufferable.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Like the just lukewarm milk, just the tip of the
I just I think of that.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
That's the Starbucks managers like.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
All laughing, like haha in Vegas, like a light beer commercial.
And in the meantime, short staff trying to put together
this complicated frap.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Somebody pointing at their watch and screaming three minutes fifty seconds.
I better get my red unicorn frap in the next ten. Yeah,
like the old contract. Now, like the old order a
pizza guaranteed and then put a bunch of obstacles with
a pizza man, Sir, the gates La. That's not. Yeah,
(25:55):
it is, that's not you sense your dog after me? Yeah?
For minutes. Could you please call back? The German Shepherd.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Snow Where to Park Kent Double Park? Yeah, yes, Ken
tell a little bit of a Starbucks do it's very intriguing.
We're gonna talk to Ted Dbasse.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, million Dollar Man. Poor Hulk Hogan died and it's
sad and DBAs will remember the greatness of the Holkster.
Speaker 9 (26:20):
That's true.
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Discuss that he's been on a few times before. We
love this man, the Million Dollar Man, Ted Dbasse a
true legend in wrestling. Thirty times he held a championship
belt in wrestling, Headline WrestleManias and Summers. One of the
greatest villains in pro wrestling history. In real life, he's
(27:05):
not a villain at all. He's a good man who
works in outreach missionary work. He's a Hall of Famer
the WWE and the Pride of Omaha, Nebraska. Everybody's got
a price. The million dollar man, our hero. We're gonna
talk to him and remember Hulk Hogan and remember the
great days of wrestling. Joining us on your Southern California
(27:29):
Toyota Dealer Celebrity Hotline. It is Ted Dbassi on the
Petrosend Money Show. Ted, thank you so much for doing
it today. God bless you. We appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Hey, It's my pleasure, guys, you know, and for a
good cause. I mean, you know, you don't have to
give me too many reasons to talk about Hope.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Ok, Well, he got it started with him, you know what,
fifty forty years ago in Madison Square Garden the first
ever match that Hogan had and in the garden kind
of share with us, you know what, maybe a lot
of people don't remember those early years and the impact
you had, you know, kind of right when when he
arrived in the World Wrestling Federation.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Well when that first encounter that I had with with
Hogan was it was Madison Square Garden. And this is
back when wrestling was still regional. Vince McMahon senior was
still in charge and it hadn't gone national and this
was so so this was this was part of the
(28:31):
New York territory and of course part of the New
York territories Vsion Square Garden and so, uh guess McMahon
senior was still the boss. He came to me and
he said, then do we get this guy and I
that you're working with and we got high hopes for him,
and said I appreciated you. Just just put him over
really well. And I said, you got it and I
(28:52):
did and uh and then he came up to me
after the after the match in and he thanked me
and he basically he said, you know what, I can't
thank you enough. He said, he said, oh you want, well,
let's fast forward. So he goes on then but become
you know, I mean, the biggest name that in in
pro wrestling. I mean even now, you know, even now,
(29:16):
I was still ventured to say, you know, if you
think of you know, uh, you know, I made somebody
that that's had more visibility than Halkovid in wrestling. I
just don't think there is anybody and uh, so we
uh and I didn't see him against I don't know
(29:39):
how long. Uh. And so the next time I signed
was you know, now now, I'm I had just come
back into the the w w E as it is
now or was w w F, but it was Bence
Junior's you know, it's it's his story now. And uh,
hawkser walks up to me. He said, hey, henybuddy, good
(29:59):
to see and he says, guess why it's payback down.
And that was when I had that run when you
know me and uh uh you know, uh, Andre the
Giant you know, wrestled, We wrestled him, and we wrestled
him and Savage and we wrestled. I don't know, but
(30:20):
I mean, you know, it was it was like he
you know, he's not only a nice guy, he's a
man of his word and and you know, and then
eventually you know again like myself, uh you know, uh
took a lot of long, hard look at his life
and uh and like me, became a Christian and gave
(30:40):
gave his hearts price and uh uh just just a
good guy, just a good.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Guy, Tedbasi with us. I mean, I just think of
those four names, you know you mentioned yourself, Ted Debiassi,
Andre the Giant, Whole, Cogan, Randy Savage, and you think
about the million dollar man and a Macho Man and
Andrea giants different because he was a giant and it
was just crazy to look at him in relation to
other men. But what do you think it was that
that kind of I don't know, led to you having
(31:09):
that sort of impact, to Macho Man having that sort
of and then above everybody else, like you said, what
was it about Hogan that resonated?
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Well, I mean, you know, it's kind of like you know,
I tell everybody, it's like the the you know, if
I've seen guys get in the ring and wrestle, and
technically speaking they had a good match, but it was dull.
(31:38):
The one thing that you can't teach anybody is charisma.
You either have it or you don't. And if you've
got it, you can you can multiply it, you know,
you can make it bigger. But if you don't have it,
you don't have it. I mean, I mean, it's kind
of like one of the guys that's a good friend
of mine, that Terry Tate there was technically a real
(32:02):
good wrestler, but what and Terry never got the big break.
And the reason that Terry never got the big break
is he didn't have the charisma. He didn't have that fire.
It's an intangible You either have it or you don't.
And as big as Andre was, he had it and
you can't. It's something you can't teach anybody, you know.
(32:24):
And Hulk Hogan he had at big time.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Remembering Hulk Hogan with the great Ted Dbassi, the million
dollar man, legendary time in wrestling and a legendary time
in sports entertainment.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
When you guys were doing it Ted, like you mentioned,
you know, wrestling with all those different guys and the
charisma that you had to have to have success, and
not just wrestling and doing all the technical stuff like
you said, but looking into a camera and having a
personality and threatening a guy, you know through the camera.
You know, that was a lot of fun for all
(33:01):
of us to enjoy. Did you guys know the impact
you were having when you were doing it or or
were you just kind of in a little bubble doing
it well?
Speaker 6 (33:11):
I mean, I don't you know, I don't know how
I could put a measuring cup on that. I mean again,
it's like, you know, you either have it or you don't.
And you know, if you have charisma, then can you
enhance it? Yeah, you can, you can make it bigger,
but if you don't have it, you don't have it.
And uh and again that's like, uh, I mean he's
(33:35):
a good friend of mine. Terry Taylor was a good wrestler.
I mean, you know, he was good. He do everything.
He even became one of the coaches for the company,
you know. But I think the reason that Terry never
got the big break was, you know, his lack of charisma,
you know, And and that's that's that's what it was
(33:57):
all about, you know. And uh, you know and and hulp,
you know, you know, here's a guy who gets the spot.
You know, if there was ever a guy who got
the spot in professional wrestling, it was it was all
Covid and uh but was he Uh you know, it's
kind of like there's a lot of people that get
(34:18):
that spot, you oh man, you just never hear the
end of them. And they're they're they're this, they're that,
and they're everything else and whatever. But then that wasn't Hogan. Uh.
You know, Hogan appreciated the things that people did for him.
Then It's like I said when I when I came
back to New York, uh in eighty seven, Uh, first
(34:40):
first day in the dressing room that he was there,
he walked up, shook my hands, said, paid that time, buddy,
We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna have some fun and
and and the rest is history.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, no doubt ted Dbasi with us remembering uh truly
one of the most important athlete slash in painters of
the last fifty years in America, someone that really had
an impact even beyond obviously our borders. Just I would
love to hear ted just kind of those you were
talking about regional and how it was regional and it
(35:14):
was road shows and it was stadiums. You know, certainly
it was televised, but it was regional TV. How often,
Like what was your schedule? Like what were you and
what were hul? You know, what was Hulk doing? Is
it six days a week and twice on Sunday? Is
it three days a week you're wrestling? Like what does
it look like to be a professional wrestler in the
(35:36):
late seventies and early eighties?
Speaker 6 (35:40):
You wrestled every day? Well, we didn't have days off,
and then some some sometimes they would even you know,
because it was a weekend, like a Saturday and a Sunday.
They would be just attend that they were the time
of the year or whatever. But you would have like
a matt at one o'clock in the afternoon. And then
(36:02):
I can remember when I was working in mid South,
you know, uh, you know, cowboy Bill Watts would fly
us into Oklahoma City from like Baton Rouge, and you know,
and of course in Baton Rouge we had just you know,
we we ended up in Baton Rouge and then it
(36:23):
was last Baton Ridge to Oklahoma City and we would
have a mad name we had. We'd have a show
like at noon or one o'clock, which would be over
at like, you know, three, and then they would put
us in in uh vans and buses or brought you
know cars and drive us off from Oklahoma City to Tulsa,
(36:43):
and then we would do an evening show in Tulsa.
And then the next day we would get up and
either either fly back to Baton Rouge for our cars
or you know something. In some cases, you know, drive
and I have gone back to Tulsa and then and
(37:03):
then driven to Shreveport, Louisiana. Well just crazy, I mean
the miles, I mean I got paid by a mile
I'd be the multi million.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Dollar Man, one of the all time greats and great
memories about a great American icon and a wrestler, Ted
d Biassi, a man of God, the million dollar Man,
and a Hall of Famer. We love you, Ted, and
thank you so much for joining us and remembering Hulk
Hogan on what has to be a tough day for
all of you guys.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
It really is. And uh, you know, I just want
to I just want to thank the fans out there
that you could continue to support and uh you know,
and yeah, you know, just pause today and and uh
and say a prayer for for Hall COVID's family. Uh
you know, I mean he was as big as celebrity
(37:54):
as he was. He had, he had as big a
heart he really did.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Perfectly put beautifully, said the great Ted Dbiassi. Thanks so much, Ted,
We appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
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lot of dishes to wash, a lot of strands, and
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day three of a big ten media day, and today
is the.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Day Day three of media day. Yeah, well there's a
lot of teams, I know, but three days. Damn eighteen teams,
So it's be hard to get that done in two days.
Like the way they do these, it's like a Mountain.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
West has twelve and I just talked to the head
coach and I sit in a room and they bring
like head coach after a head coach, like twenty minutes
each and I was like, damn, there's six. And then
we took a break and then we did another six
and I didn't do any of the players like it.
Twelve takes two days. I'm just saying it feels like
a lot. But yet Doris is a cap in Vegas.
(39:55):
Were well, but you think about this, Matt, think about this.
You're from West Lafayette.
Speaker 6 (40:01):
I got you.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Yeah, We're gonna go to Vegas for three days, right, yeah,
Columbus Piscataway, Right, I got you, but state college. But
you're right, Matt.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
If somebody told me I had to go to Vegas
for three days, I'd spit my coffee before.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
No, I'm not doing it. I'll commute. I had a
driving home and coming back. I had a nervous breakdown.
It was killed by a boo. But for one day.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Last year, Deshaun Foster in twenty twenty four, of course,
speech of the year.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Little nervous, little nervous. Here it is what some would
call the speech of these I'm.
Speaker 11 (40:38):
Sure you guys don't know too much about UCLA but
our football program. But we're in LA when.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
You're stopping real quick. It's like, we're not that stupid, Like, yes,
we're the big ted media, but we know where UCLA is,
like literally in the name. We know about UCLA football,
like Troy Aikman like me, come on.
Speaker 11 (41:01):
Sure, you guys don't know too much about UCLA but
our program. But we're in LA. This is US in usc.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
We Oh that's rough. I'm just basically excited. Okay, that's it. Questions.
Let's go one, two, three, Bruins.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
So that was last year and it was very awkward,
and it led to Deshaun Foster canceling his appearance with
US at Tarantulas.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
BS Am I.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Wrong, Cads, No, you're not wrong, because he acted like
we were going to call him.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Out for that, which we were, because he had just
worn a T shirt making fun of him that day.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
We were going to have fun with it, yes, but instead, No,
Now now we.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Have a little bit of a different tone, don't we.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
Indeed, today, Matt, you can imagine Foster there we go.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
I mean he went up there. You've got some demons.
Now he's been staring at the mirror doing this because
he was ready.
Speaker 12 (42:00):
Well everyone, I'm back. Last year, I stood up here,
reminded everyone at UCLA is in LA, which looking back,
might have been the most obvious. Your few lessons in
Big Ten history. Slow down, but you know what important
things are worre stating clearly we are in LA, and
we're proud to be in La.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Okay, And this year we're ready to just hold on
real quick. Has anybody ever said they're gonna leave LA
or what like?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (42:28):
I mean, I know they're playing ok I know they
play in Pasadena, but has University of California Louisiana that's
what they're talking about?
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Has anybody made any And this.
Speaker 12 (42:38):
Year we're ready to show the Big Ten what LA
football looks like when it's firing on all cylinders?
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Hold on again, Did somebody say UCLA is gonna be
firing at all cylinders this year? And were I'll give
it to them. They won five games last year, and
that's five more than I thought they could win the
way they looked in the first game against Hawaii, and
I discussed that with Timmy Chang.
Speaker 12 (42:58):
And this year we're ready to show the Big Ten
what LA football looks like when it's firing on all cylinders.
That moment speaking to you last year taught me a
valuable lesson Authenticity resonates more deeply than perfection. Our players
saw me being human and it brought us closer together.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
We've been joking about it for.
Speaker 12 (43:18):
About a year now, approaches how we coach and build
this program. Speaking of building, we've had an incredible year
of progress, and I mean incredible.
Speaker 4 (43:32):
Hold on real quick. It feels like somebody's been writing
this for like six months.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Yeah, which takes a question today, where were you last year?
How did you not know we needed a statement last year?
And they just say a few words this last time.
It's like coach, I put a CALLBA in and then
I took it out. I took on this job.
Speaker 12 (43:51):
I inherited a program with tremendous tradition and an immense opportunity.
We're not just committed to restoring us a football, We're
committed to evolve me in this new era of college athletics.
Our recruiting has been outstanding, and I mean outstanding right now.
(44:11):
We've brought in young men who understand what it means
to be a bruin academically excellent.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
How much longer does this? Just better?
Speaker 12 (44:18):
And committed to being bigger than themselves.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
I do like the other one. He just he just
wiped the sweat off his brow. Okay, he's this public
speaking is not as true. That's what I mean. I
think it goes back to the point he made. I
was my authentic self. It was a human moment that
brought our team together. Now Here, I am in a
freaking suit, sweating, delivering a five minute speech is not
(44:40):
natural for me. I want to be right in front
of nine fine irishman.
Speaker 5 (44:44):
I want to hear about the program.
Speaker 6 (44:45):
Though.
Speaker 12 (44:46):
Our program has built off three pillars. Okay, discipline, respect.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Kind of enthusiasm. Oh dpe, I thought it was going
to be.
Speaker 12 (44:56):
It's the framework and how we expect our players to
conduct themselves on and off field. Discipline and preparation and academics,
and how you represent the university, respect for teammates, coaches,
opponents in this game we all love.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
All right, I must say last year was better. Let's
go around the room. Let's go around the room. Would
you rather have? I cannot speak. I cannot speak at all,
and I'm soft spoken, or I'm speaking more loudly than
(45:34):
I'm comfortable speaking. I'm in a suit and I'm a
little hot. Under the collar. Which would we prefer Kate's?
Was last year's speech better?
Speaker 6 (45:43):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (45:44):
Last year was way better.
Speaker 4 (45:45):
Ben the intern, you want to stop get off the phone, Ben,
last year better?
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Jeez? Well, and Ben's an sc guy. Ronnie love the
awkwardness of life last year?
Speaker 4 (46:01):
Well, if you want awkward, here's Lincoln Riley take it
on the big question about Notre Dame and its future.
Speaker 13 (46:11):
When I decided to night at my house right to
take the USC job, my first thought was I get
to coach in USC Notre Dame. It's a first thought
because before coach play or any of that. As a fan,
and so the rivalry, all these rivalries mean a great
deal to me. They mean a great deal to anybody
(46:33):
that cares about college football. Yes, I mean that's do
I want to play the game. Hell yeah, I want
to play the game. Absolutely. It's one of the reasons
I came here.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
It takes so long to say that.
Speaker 13 (46:44):
Also, agence and my loyalty is not the Notre Dame
and it's not to anybody else. I'm the head football
coach at USC, and I'm going to back USC and
I'm going to do everything possible that I can in
my power. To make USC as good as it can
and don't let anything stand him between that.
Speaker 4 (47:02):
So wait a minute, okay, uh, that is such a backtrack.
And at least he's doing that much. But Lincoln's the
one that's acted like he didn't want to play Notre dame.
USC has had to be relatively quiet about it because
they don't want to upset their head coach or act
like they're not on the same page. Lincoln's backing out
(47:25):
of this and that's about the best. I guess that's
about the best he can do without saying I'm an
idiot for saying anything about it. And also it sounds
like he sucked. He sucked down a big robusto last
night at some poker room.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
At the Mandolin Scratchy, A little gravel in that voice there.
Speaker 4 (47:39):
Yeah, little Charles Barkley at the All Star Game. Anyway,
I'm glad I'm not in Vegas for three days to
listen to those platitudes.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
I can't imagine. I can't imagine if it was day
three and I'm sitting there and Deshaun Foster is coming
with that, like, I let's do you met me at
this year? I'm here as well? How long is the
speech case. I see you have it open on YouTube.
How long is it?
Speaker 5 (48:07):
He spoke to the media for ten minutes and forty.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Oh my god, he took a question. Okay, no, that's
opening straight up.
Speaker 6 (48:15):
The end.
Speaker 12 (48:16):
Having an opportunity to compete against legendary programs and prove
that West Coast football belongs on the biggest state. We're
proud to be Bruins and we're ready to make it happen.
Starting now, I'm happy to take any questions.
Speaker 3 (48:29):
Six coach, we have on your first row on your
right side.
Speaker 2 (48:33):
Here we go.
Speaker 14 (48:33):
First question, Kennos Barry test sounds of changes.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
Coach, what life Kenneth married to changes?
Speaker 12 (48:40):
Proud to be Bruins, starting now, I'm happy to take
any questions.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
Thank you, coach. We have on your first row on
your right side.
Speaker 14 (48:50):
Kenneth Barry test sounds of tangents, Coach, what life less.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
Downs and changes? Touchdowns and chains? Touchdowns changes like move
the chains or what it.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
Was first throw?
Speaker 14 (49:04):
On your right side Kenneth Berry tesounds of changents, Coach,
what life lessens have you pulled on from everybody?
Speaker 2 (49:14):
I think everybody your second year.
Speaker 14 (49:15):
In the pros to help you now in your second year,
I said, coach, all right.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
I right, I kept all right, the kid's getting better. Hey,
let's follow up that speech with a banger of a
question from touchdown and changes. I want to play Notre Dame,
but I'm also the coach at the usc What do.
Speaker 5 (49:33):
You think the media from the first day and a
half are even still there? And it's maybe they're just
out by the pool we don't hear from.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
If you're covering usc UK yesterday, Mike McMurphy's gone. Now
we got touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (49:45):
Well, you know what, though a lot of there's a
lot of sharks swimming around for Lincoln Riley, so they
probably stuck around. That's a hot seat, no doubt about it.
Although it's going to cost one hundred million dollars to
eject the guy. Either way, Big ten media day mercifully
comes to it.
Speaker 5 (50:03):
And today maybe next year they put Ohio State in
Michigan on day three.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
Last Northwestern like her, we're still playing on the lake.
I'm gonna go with to Sean Foster. Come on, he
was before Lincoln. Actually, you know, last year I was
my authentic self. This year, this year seven minutes. Clearly,
I'm freaking out. I feel like I ate and ate,
(50:29):
like like like waiters on the plane, like I'm losing
my mind. I'm losing my mind.
Speaker 5 (50:39):
Last coach was Sharon Moore, speaking today from Michigan.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
Well, there you go. They did put Michigan on day three.
They know what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (50:45):
Yeah, Sharon, it's me touchdowns and chicken changes.
Speaker 2 (50:52):
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Oh, my favorite lot it I love it. Yeah, Red Sox,
Reds and Rays. So all Eastern time zone between tomorrow
and the following Sunday.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
So we will be here doing great sports talk but
doing it on a.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Flat great sports talk alert type of vibe, which is okay.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
You can always podcast the show on the iHeartRadio app
app app for your smartphone, or you can stream the
show live on the iHeartRadio app. Tim Katz, who is
a WWE and WWF superfan, has made sure that we
are covered when it comes to the untimely death of
(02:31):
Hulk Hogan at seventy one, somebody who made an impact
on all of our lives. If you were born at
a certain time, and we're going to talk to Ted
Dbass The Million Dollar Man about his friend Hulk Hogan
and his history with him. Speaking of Rogan and Rodney,
who couldn't finish their show all the way today, I
do have to self report, report.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Self report, self report.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Logo turned out to be a big success. People love
logo talk. I mean, you know, but Tim Kate's double
checking his list. He crossed off a couple, like you know.
I started the logo talk thing to kind of make
fun of Rogan and Rodney, and then and then I
realized that maybe not on their show, but for us,
this has legs and much like zz Top, it knows
(03:22):
how to use them.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And we had we had a lot.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Of conversation, maybe even we could have had more, but
we were doing other things as well, And I feel
like logo talk and I don't want to. I mean,
I made fun of Kevin Figures about it out of
seventy eighth and Vermont, and he knows. So that logo talk,
(03:53):
which we made fun of Rogan and Rodney doing, actually
ended up carrying Matt.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And Eye on the opening segment for sure.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yeah, and then and then some uh some forty five
breaks as well. We didn't mean for it to be
that way, but the people spoke and logo Talk was
what it was, So I don't I mean if I
was going to come out and be a hypocrite and
make fun of them, and then we actually did like
a whole show on it. So I want to say
that is a self report for me. Because logo Talk
(04:20):
turned out to be a resounding success, maybe Kevin figures
should follow Fred Rogan's instincts.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well, I think I could get that point. Yes, I
think Fred's position of opening the phone lines and soliciting.
You didn't like to hear the guy say you like
the Oriel face Oriel face they am and they be Yeah,
Well that was also great. I was fantastic. So I
just want to say the logo talk stuff was was
(04:51):
a big success. Now I heard Kate's took it to
the dinner table two nights ago. Oh yeah, all the girls.
He did a blind he did a blind ballot. All right,
everybody write it down fitting the cap three for Blue
Jays touch not an America team.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
We went baseball first, then we went NFL. Got a
little rough on the NBA because the girls don't run fall.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Well, Sadie got kind of weird because you put the
Sacramento surgeon there, and you wouldn't accept that in the
World League.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
So anyway, I just want to say self report, corrections
and retractions.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Logo talk was a success.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Now, corrections and retractions.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Is that an excuse to not finish your show two
days later?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
No, it is not. You're right, it is not an excuse.
They were off yesterday.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
You were apologize to him?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
No, yeah, off yesterday, three hours today.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
So we'll have Ted Dbis text Ted dB Assi what
the bleed out the clock?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
This is the bleed out the Clock segment.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
We're going to talk to dB as the million dollar man.
We'll have Sean Merriman lights out on today to talk
about Philip Rivers and talk about a little football and
talking about an event that he's got going on in
his lights out fighting And David Vassy is in Boston
with the Dodgers and Pantone.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Oh my god, that's so cool. What's the weather like, Dave?
Why did you look at the foot I want you
to go outside the hotel and go outside and look up.
Go outside the brown house and look up in the sky.
Don't tell me what it looks like from your hotel.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Room.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I want to know what it feels like. Is it humid?
Is it misty? I gotta know what we're gonna do.
And you're my only weather vein. You know it's all
over the internet. Shut look up in the sky. That's
John Martin ar old. Boss, I was prior to the
iPhone weather app, like you had to go to weather
dot com to get the ten day and but that
(06:50):
was our boss's way of determining whether or not. Yeah,
we were gonna get cut looser.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Like a weather vein on top of a barn and
go to the rough of the four seasons. For God's sakes,
I bet I put you on the road with these guys.
At least you can do is go outside tell them
what you think.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It's hard. Boss.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
You guys want an update about Boston, Massachusetts tomorrow. Sure,
because I walked in on rugged to Rodney earlier while
you guys were in the prep zone, and Kevin had
weather dot Com already pulled up looking at tomorrow's weather
for fin went po, I mean, and what the outlet
looks like? Because you know they're invested because they have
a one hour show them.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Right, God help them if it was one hour and
ten minutes, they might just the whole boat might just
list over to the side.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Well, unless there are two guests were able to extend
their conversations.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Looking at the forecast tomorrow in the afternoon, gentlemen, scattered
thunderstorms in Boston. Then it turns into mostly cloudy right
around first pitch.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Okay, yeah, not worried about that, brother, Well, at least
at least R and R. Good, we're gonna we're gonna
get on the air at one to three.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
They're not going to do you know what that that's
not even I mean not to do schedule talk, as
we have scheduled talk here quite often what we do
because they if there's a I found this out and
you probably already know this because God knows. But if
(08:21):
there is a weather delay, Vassay is now eager to
swoop in and do what they would call Dodger talk
there and then when the game ends after the weather delay,
all they do is Dodger Clubhouse one, two three Trojans.
So they don't want they don't want our help. You
notice that nobody's like, hey, you guys are on call. Well,
(08:43):
I just assumed that was the change of leadership, right, No.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It's because Vassa wants to swoop in. Am I wrong?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
I have no comment on this. I'm gonna stay out
of this one.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
But it's true.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
You're in the middle of a weather delay, you get
those breaks in, you take the calls.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
What about Kate?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Same thing?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
No, no, no, can Kate's call an audible? Can Kates be like,
hey man, we got a twelfth inning walk off win
on the road, the first time ever in Dodger history
that they walked it off on the road. I know
we already got if they walk it off on the road,
I know we already got Dodger talk in before. But
you know what, we're gonna double up. We're gonna give
him a second.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
One if that happens. I for sure would do it
if they.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Walked it off on the road, down on the road,
let's play two. Yeah, you'd have to do it. You'd
have to do what, you'd have to call it.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
You already got to do it.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Every commercial break is six first five commercials with Adrian
Gazalez or something like. You still gotta do it. Don't
forget about Key Camp Penelope Wow, of course, But yeah,
I think that's a good call. If they ever walked
it off on the road. You got it, and there
was a weather delay, you'd have to double up.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Scheduled talk case you ever get tempted to do it,
Dodger talk. If Dave's like, don't need to do it,
already done, already done it. Have you ever like you
know what, Dave, I'll do it. Don't worry about it,
you know what, Matt. Usually I'm long gone by then.
So your three march d tell the guys that the
cucko's that I want my number eleven to go. We're
playing two. They've walked off on the road.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Hector, can you put this in it's a go cup?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah you want to Roadie, Ted Dbasi, Sean Merriman, David
vasse all today it's gonna be a fine day in
great sports talk, but also to discuss I heard this, Matt,
great sports talk, and I'm pretty sure it was your
story that you came with this, and ever since.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Hat Burrito, ful Burrito. That was a yesterday that was
riveting listening. But today I'm only going to eat half
of this. Today we're going back to something you found.
I think you found it on the internet or whatever
in a story and the tone of it, probably because
it's a classically trained actor that we all know from
James Cromwell when he glued his hand to the Starbucks
(10:55):
desk and started yelling about vega, that was your story, right,
I believe it. Where did we get that one? I
think it was your starters. There's a word that it
was a number of the days. Yeah, so let's go.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
When will you stop charging us more for vegan milking?
When will you stop raking in huge profits? Cloud customers?
Animals and the environment suffered? When will you stop utalizing
people for their ethnicity or their morals? The senseless of
charge hurts animals.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
So that good stuff there from Cromwell. And did they
answer professional act? They ended the vegan upt They did.
They did so Cromwell's gluing his hand to the desk
effect them.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
It worked, that's Cromwell. I was in Babe Dudley Smith
from La Confidential. Now Starbucks, I did not know this,
but they're going through it with some of their employees.
Some of the baristas aren't happy with Starbucks. Oh, just
in general, Well, they're not happy with the company. Right,
(12:04):
And here is a baristole who's like been tasked with
being the voice of the baristas, and he's giving a speed.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
The Jimmy Hoffa of baristas.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Basically, yeah, it's like that movie Blue Collar with Richard
Dreyfus and Harvey Kittel. Uh Not Richard Dreyfus, Richard Pryor,
corrections and retractions more Dreyfuss. Later, you'll get your drive,
You'll get your dryfist today, you'll get it. But the
(12:37):
barista that they hired to be their mouthpiece, mister, No,
the barista that Starbucks hired, Hey, here we go to
thee to be their mouthpiece, to be their Hoffa. If
Starbucks with teamsters and barista has killed people, sure, here is.
And I'm telling you, Matt, doesn't it sound Doesn't it
(13:01):
sound like he's channeling his inner Cromwell.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
We, your Green Apron partners, are the face of the
Starbucks experience, and we are the key to any potential
of the turnaround effort in the company every day.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
That's not real quick. I'm not saying he's as good
as Cromwell. I'm saying he's trying.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
He's at least he's belting out energy. He's you know,
trying to rally the troop, saying what they have to say. Here,
we go.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
Every day from early opens to lake closing. We keep
Starbucks stores operating. We are the ones who foster connections
with customers and keep them coming back back. But time
and time again, you are ignoring our demands and.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
Making our jobs harder.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
Your priorities are all wrong, while you spend money on
celebrity appearances at hush manager conferences in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I was very specific. He's against the managers, very specific
managers in Vegas. There's a manager conference in Vegas.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
This could be the rest of the UCLA football team
talking about Iamayava.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
While you're in a posh thing in Vegas, we're out
here in Westwoods, Java, running, running freaking dazards.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
While you spend money on celebrity appearances at hush manager
conferences in Las Vegas.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
Many of us are struggling to pay rent. And while
you're adding complicated new frappuccinos.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
To the venus, we're fighting through understaffing shifts that make
it impossible to get our drink.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
So with league.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Now just where it got very specific complicated FRAPs. Yeah,
understaff we're understaffed, yet here company twenty ingredients. Yeah, unicorn frap. Yeah,
and the worst is being behind somebody that's ordering one
of this go to.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
The that make it impossible to get our drinks out
within your newly declared four minute rule.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
We deserve better.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Starbucks promise to finalize contracts with our union in twenty
twenty four.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
You failed to do so because you.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Refuse to address our concerns about Steppie.
Speaker 9 (15:40):
And take hold pay. Now.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
You promised to get customers back with this fact to
Starbucks program to turn the company around.
Speaker 9 (15:51):
Please hear us.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
When hold on real thick, it's Starbucks struggling.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
They're building like a three story Starbucks on Hawthorne that
I just drove by today.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I'm gonna say it's probably one of the highest market
cap companies in the world, would be my guests. But
they're trying to get people back to Starbucks. What uh,
let's one hundred and six point four to eight billion
is their market caps.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Oh yeah, there's four Starbucks within one mile of our building,
by the way.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
So they're not they're not going by the way of
things like they're doing. Okay, straw hat pizza, let's hear let's.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Please hear us.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Let me say that unless you listen to bars us
about issues for facing in our short stuff. Stores can
take seriously our proposals.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
For fixing them. You will fail. Sarbucks won't thrive until
we do.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
The path that leads back to Starbucks begins with finalizing
a fair union contract.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
All right with the stepping copper, keep you going, keep
him going, running on a gas a little bit there
at the end.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
God, that's why over six hundred Starbucks edion stores and
priest us.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
This sounds a little like Cromwell to me, margaining.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
Just settle a fare contract. Let's get this contract.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
How long was that cats Two minutes and forty seconds?
Two minutes forty seconds of that might as well be
twenty five minutes to someone who can't deliver like that
young man could at that level. You heard him starting
to get a little scratchy there at the end. I
just got this text mat.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
It says, say what you want about the Starbucks guy,
but Deshaun Foster could learn a thing or two from me.
You know, more on that later, Yes, more on that
as the show continues, So you.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Know, it all comes to two and a half minutes
of that. When will you stop charging us for vegan milk.
You think this guy, when.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
Will you stop charging us more for vegan milk. Let's
get this contract now.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You think this guy has got a chance, Matt, to
lessen the amount of complex frappuccinos and get some more
people staffed there at the Starbucks. I think, I think
if I make critique, if I may his delivery or
just what they're asking, I think just one word needed
to be tweaked. The first thing he said was you
didn't listen to our demands. Should have used concerns there,
(18:28):
which he used later in the speech. You say demands,
and now corporate gets a little defensive like, hey, you
put them back on their heel. We're not We're not
going to be There's no demands here.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
Let's get this contract now.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You know, I talked to a guy today. Concerns we got.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I talked to a guy today who had some concerns,
and he told me, you know what you guys should do.
You guys should do it like Gary and Shannon, they
do it right. And I was like, did he give
any specifics? Well, I would want to. I don't want
to tell tales out of school. I'll tell you during
the break, Okay, but I'll tell you, Matt, that was
like demands that I was like, oh oh, I was
(19:05):
like that meme of that white guy going h h oh,
you know, like the blinking kind of like what what's that?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I'm like that meme of that dude with the big
vein in his head who's freaking out. Oh really angry.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Well you probably will be, but uh yeah, I see that. Yeah,
demands is a little too hard. Yeah, don't want to
go you want to do concerns. Hey, we shared our concerns.
We're trying to help you. You try to have not that.
Pouring coffee and stuff is not a very very admirable work.
Any work is admirable. But when you say I'm making
demands and the Starbucks mermaid pops out of the water
(19:38):
and says, you do just pour coffee there right, check
out my shell boobs.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We're the ones to come up with the clever presentation
and marketing that caused people to come in here and
pay five times for a cup of coffee what they
could get at home.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
When she pops out of the water and throws a
conk shell off your blue hair, now what are you
gonna do?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Now? You've got to adjust, my friend. Now you've got
to think on your feet. I threw off your head.
I wonder how he got the gig? That guy? Were
their tryouts? Did he just snatch it? Like I'll prepare
a speech. Oh, I have to say. If that's the
most haston like barista, well, let's not forget kind of
(20:22):
you know. I mean, isn't there an actor? And that
was Downtown Disney by the way.
Speaker 9 (20:26):
Let's get this contract.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
No, pardon my lack of ability to hear. Let's get
this contract. Don It's like, is it done? Is it signed?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Is it?
Speaker 9 (20:41):
Let's get this contract? No?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
No, no. Do you think it was known?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I think says out.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Isn't out?
Speaker 9 (20:49):
Let's get this contract.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
No, no, no. They're trying to gain They're trying to
let their concerns be known.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Well, I think you look at the group of baristas
as a whole, and this is probably pretty representative, you
know what I mean? Like, I don't think you're gonna
have a guy get up there sounding like just because
it's top of mind. Hulk Hogan. Alright, brothers, we're tired
of steaming up your coffee. Brother, Like, that's not gonna happen.
It's probably gonna be. This guy was there when it
(21:19):
went down at Brother.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Let's get this contract down.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
What was there when they sold the old casey thunder Brother? Like,
that's not happening. You're gonna get this track. P No,
you don't think there's a more manly barist, don't. I
just don't think it would be representative of the majority
of barristos or baristas. Then why can't we get a
shrill woman? Maybe they thought this would be more effective.
It's a feminine man. Did you guys know about this
(21:46):
four minute coffee rule? It's new, that's what he said.
It's new. You're guaranteed to get your coffee in four minutes.
About that.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
That's like the old Domino's guarantee or your pizzas free.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Right, Guess what you get behind someone you know that's
pushing two fifty plus tax and they're getting six freaking
FRAPs and you're coming right behind him with just an Americano.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
You ain't getting four minut getting four minutes. You're not
getting those till the Bills win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
No fatty who should have been over a freaking basket
Robbins getting a damn shake is gonna get those six
FRAPs with extra caramel, double whipped cream and a freaking
spinach feta.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Pull the spinach.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
This is spinach extra feta. Yeah, that is my favorite.
Sounds good. But he didn't have the balls, the gluesst
boots on the table. And you're right about that too,
But that like it's their Starbucks, so that he'd have
to chip his boots on.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
Let's get this contract.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I think when he gets st there, I think the
real the real meat of the story. There is the
complex frappuccinos, right, and the four minutes drill, four minute drilling,
short staff well, and manager's getting perks. We got flown
to a posh Las Vegas resort with celebrity appearances that
cost millions. I'm the manager of the Starbucks on Kouwenga
(23:06):
and I met Sabrina Carpenter in Las Vegas.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
And while you're adding complicated new frappuccinos to the venus,
we're fighting through understeffing shifts.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
That make it impossible to get.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
Our drink so within your newly declared four minute rule.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Fair.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
When I think of the four minute rule, I think
of the four minute drill, which is run out the clock.
You know, in my time, you know, you'd have to wait.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Very effective at about two point fifty. Today you'd have
to wait for the ar You're right bleeding well, Matt.
You know why.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Rodney's a quarterback. All he can do is take a
knee for a loss. But Matt, I'm an ex short
yardage running back. You can get that first down. And
I'm I am not a fumbler. So you can send
me into the line of scrimmage over and over again,
and you can count on me, Matt, to lay there
until the last moment. Will the clock runs, and you
can count on the referee to have to ask me
(24:07):
for the football. Then I would give it to him
and then he can spot it. Such are the tricks
back in my time, before everything was more electronic. Of
the four minute drill. Four minutes seems pretty feasible to get,
like a cold brew.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Like if you order four FRAPs, does that make it
sixteen minutes? Those are great questions, you know, dude, Let's
get call the downtown Disney Starbucks. Let's get that guy
out the one over at the Boss Big Boy. Wherever
you park your carbody looks at you, like where you're
going you going to the boss, big boy, You're going
to the Starbucks.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
But that guy done, he's not the mouthpiece. Oh you
can't just call at a trucking place and talk to
Hafa or Debbie Dutson. Well, dudes and drama schools. The
best is the best.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Take it for me. He used to working in Yes,
Debbie Dunes.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
So now you're going in there trying to get a
free drink by ordering just a ridiculous drink, like I'm
gonna have almond milk, but just easy ice and three
pumps of this.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Oh, some people are insufferable.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Like the just lukewarm milk, just the tip of the
I just I think of that.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
That's the Starbucks managers like.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
All laughing, like haha in Vegas, like a light beer commercial.
And in the meantime, short staff trying to put together
this complicated frap.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Somebody pointing at their watch and screaming three minutes fifty seconds.
I better get my red unicorn frap in the next ten. Yeah,
like the old contract. Now, like the old order a
pizza guaranteed and then put a bunch of obstacles with
a pizza man, Sir, the gates La. That's not. Yeah,
(25:55):
it is, that's not you sense your dog after me? Yeah?
For minutes. Could you please call back? The German Shepherd.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Snow Where to Park Kent Double Park? Yeah, yes, Ken
tell a little bit of a Starbucks do it's very intriguing.
We're gonna talk to Ted Dbasse.
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ever match that Hogan had and in the garden kind
of share with us, you know what, maybe a lot
of people don't remember those early years and the impact
you had, you know, kind of right when when he
arrived in the World Wrestling Federation.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Well when that first encounter that I had with with
Hogan was it was Madison Square Garden. And this is
back when wrestling was still regional. Vince McMahon senior was
still in charge and it hadn't gone national and this
was so so this was this was part of the
(28:31):
New York territory and of course part of the New
York territories Vsion Square Garden and so, uh guess McMahon
senior was still the boss. He came to me and
he said, then do we get this guy and I
that you're working with and we got high hopes for him,
and said I appreciated you. Just just put him over
really well. And I said, you got it and I
(28:52):
did and uh and then he came up to me
after the after the match in and he thanked me
and he basically he said, you know what, I can't
thank you enough. He said, he said, oh you want, well,
let's fast forward. So he goes on then but become
you know, I mean, the biggest name that in in
pro wrestling. I mean even now, you know, even now,
(29:16):
I was still ventured to say, you know, if you
think of you know, uh, you know, I made somebody
that that's had more visibility than Halkovid in wrestling. I
just don't think there is anybody and uh, so we
uh and I didn't see him against I don't know
(29:39):
how long. Uh. And so the next time I signed
was you know, now now, I'm I had just come
back into the the w w E as it is
now or was w w F, but it was Bence
Junior's you know, it's it's his story now. And uh,
hawkser walks up to me. He said, hey, henybuddy, good
(29:59):
to see and he says, guess why it's payback down.
And that was when I had that run when you
know me and uh uh you know, uh, Andre the
Giant you know, wrestled, We wrestled him, and we wrestled
him and Savage and we wrestled. I don't know, but
(30:20):
I mean, you know, it was it was like he
you know, he's not only a nice guy, he's a
man of his word and and you know, and then
eventually you know again like myself, uh you know, uh
took a lot of long, hard look at his life
and uh and like me, became a Christian and gave
(30:40):
gave his hearts price and uh uh just just a
good guy, just a good.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Guy, Tedbasi with us. I mean, I just think of
those four names, you know you mentioned yourself, Ted Debiassi,
Andre the Giant, Whole, Cogan, Randy Savage, and you think
about the million dollar man and a Macho Man and
Andrea giants different because he was a giant and it
was just crazy to look at him in relation to
other men. But what do you think it was that
that kind of I don't know, led to you having
(31:09):
that sort of impact, to Macho Man having that sort
of and then above everybody else, like you said, what
was it about Hogan that resonated?
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Well, I mean, you know, it's kind of like you know,
I tell everybody, it's like the the you know, if
I've seen guys get in the ring and wrestle, and
technically speaking they had a good match, but it was dull.
(31:38):
The one thing that you can't teach anybody is charisma.
You either have it or you don't. And if you've
got it, you can you can multiply it, you know,
you can make it bigger. But if you don't have it,
you don't have it. I mean, I mean, it's kind
of like one of the guys that's a good friend
of mine, that Terry Tate there was technically a real
(32:02):
good wrestler, but what and Terry never got the big break.
And the reason that Terry never got the big break
is he didn't have the charisma. He didn't have that fire.
It's an intangible You either have it or you don't.
And as big as Andre was, he had it and
you can't. It's something you can't teach anybody, you know.
(32:24):
And Hulk Hogan he had at big time.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Remembering Hulk Hogan with the great Ted Dbassi, the million
dollar man, legendary time in wrestling and a legendary time
in sports entertainment.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
When you guys were doing it Ted, like you mentioned,
you know, wrestling with all those different guys and the
charisma that you had to have to have success, and
not just wrestling and doing all the technical stuff like
you said, but looking into a camera and having a
personality and threatening a guy, you know through the camera.
You know, that was a lot of fun for all
(33:01):
of us to enjoy. Did you guys know the impact
you were having when you were doing it or or
were you just kind of in a little bubble doing
it well?
Speaker 6 (33:11):
I mean, I don't you know, I don't know how
I could put a measuring cup on that. I mean again,
it's like, you know, you either have it or you don't.
And you know, if you have charisma, then can you
enhance it? Yeah, you can, you can make it bigger,
but if you don't have it, you don't have it.
And uh and again that's like, uh, I mean he's
(33:35):
a good friend of mine. Terry Taylor was a good wrestler.
I mean, you know, he was good. He do everything.
He even became one of the coaches for the company,
you know. But I think the reason that Terry never
got the big break was, you know, his lack of charisma,
you know, And and that's that's that's what it was
(33:57):
all about, you know. And uh, you know and and hulp,
you know, you know, here's a guy who gets the spot.
You know, if there was ever a guy who got
the spot in professional wrestling, it was it was all
Covid and uh but was he Uh you know, it's
kind of like there's a lot of people that get
(34:18):
that spot, you oh man, you just never hear the
end of them. And they're they're they're this, they're that,
and they're everything else and whatever. But then that wasn't Hogan. Uh.
You know, Hogan appreciated the things that people did for him.
Then It's like I said when I when I came
back to New York, uh in eighty seven, Uh, first
(34:40):
first day in the dressing room that he was there,
he walked up, shook my hands, said, paid that time, buddy,
We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna have some fun and
and and the rest is history.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, no doubt ted Dbasi with us remembering uh truly
one of the most important athlete slash in painters of
the last fifty years in America, someone that really had
an impact even beyond obviously our borders. Just I would
love to hear ted just kind of those you were
talking about regional and how it was regional and it
(35:14):
was road shows and it was stadiums. You know, certainly
it was televised, but it was regional TV. How often,
Like what was your schedule? Like what were you and
what were hul? You know, what was Hulk doing? Is
it six days a week and twice on Sunday? Is
it three days a week you're wrestling? Like what does
it look like to be a professional wrestler in the
(35:36):
late seventies and early eighties?
Speaker 6 (35:40):
You wrestled every day? Well, we didn't have days off,
and then some some sometimes they would even you know,
because it was a weekend, like a Saturday and a Sunday.
They would be just attend that they were the time
of the year or whatever. But you would have like
a matt at one o'clock in the afternoon. And then
(36:02):
I can remember when I was working in mid South,
you know, uh, you know, cowboy Bill Watts would fly
us into Oklahoma City from like Baton Rouge, and you know,
and of course in Baton Rouge we had just you know,
we we ended up in Baton Rouge and then it
(36:23):
was last Baton Ridge to Oklahoma City and we would
have a mad name we had. We'd have a show
like at noon or one o'clock, which would be over
at like, you know, three, and then they would put
us in in uh vans and buses or brought you
know cars and drive us off from Oklahoma City to Tulsa,
(36:43):
and then we would do an evening show in Tulsa.
And then the next day we would get up and
either either fly back to Baton Rouge for our cars
or you know something. In some cases, you know, drive
and I have gone back to Tulsa and then and
(37:03):
then driven to Shreveport, Louisiana. Well just crazy, I mean
the miles, I mean I got paid by a mile
I'd be the multi million.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Dollar Man, one of the all time greats and great
memories about a great American icon and a wrestler, Ted
d Biassi, a man of God, the million dollar Man,
and a Hall of Famer. We love you, Ted, and
thank you so much for joining us and remembering Hulk
Hogan on what has to be a tough day for
all of you guys.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
It really is. And uh, you know, I just want
to I just want to thank the fans out there
that you could continue to support and uh you know,
and yeah, you know, just pause today and and uh
and say a prayer for for Hall COVID's family. Uh
you know, I mean he was as big as celebrity
(37:54):
as he was. He had, he had as big a
heart he really did.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Perfectly put beautifully, said the great Ted Dbiassi. Thanks so much, Ted,
We appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
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(39:10):
lot of dishes to wash, a lot of strands, and
the old Duder's head. But Matt, as you know, it's
day three of a big ten media day, and today
is the.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Day Day three of media day. Yeah, well there's a
lot of teams, I know, but three days. Damn eighteen teams,
So it's be hard to get that done in two days.
Like the way they do these, it's like a Mountain.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
West has twelve and I just talked to the head
coach and I sit in a room and they bring
like head coach after a head coach, like twenty minutes
each and I was like, damn, there's six. And then
we took a break and then we did another six
and I didn't do any of the players like it.
Twelve takes two days. I'm just saying it feels like
a lot. But yet Doris is a cap in Vegas.
(39:55):
Were well, but you think about this, Matt, think about this.
You're from West Lafayette.
Speaker 6 (40:01):
I got you.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Yeah, We're gonna go to Vegas for three days, right, yeah,
Columbus Piscataway, Right, I got you, but state college. But
you're right, Matt.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
If somebody told me I had to go to Vegas
for three days, I'd spit my coffee before.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
No, I'm not doing it. I'll commute. I had a
driving home and coming back. I had a nervous breakdown.
It was killed by a boo. But for one day.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Last year, Deshaun Foster in twenty twenty four, of course,
speech of the year.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Little nervous, little nervous. Here it is what some would
call the speech of these I'm.
Speaker 11 (40:38):
Sure you guys don't know too much about UCLA but
our football program. But we're in LA when.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
You're stopping real quick. It's like, we're not that stupid, Like, yes,
we're the big ted media, but we know where UCLA is,
like literally in the name. We know about UCLA football,
like Troy Aikman like me, come on.
Speaker 11 (41:01):
Sure, you guys don't know too much about UCLA but
our program. But we're in LA. This is US in usc.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
We Oh that's rough. I'm just basically excited. Okay, that's it. Questions.
Let's go one, two, three, Bruins.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
So that was last year and it was very awkward,
and it led to Deshaun Foster canceling his appearance with
US at Tarantulas.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
BS Am I.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Wrong, Cads, No, you're not wrong, because he acted like
we were going to call him.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Out for that, which we were, because he had just
worn a T shirt making fun of him that day.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
We were going to have fun with it, yes, but instead, No,
Now now we.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Have a little bit of a different tone, don't we.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
Indeed, today, Matt, you can imagine Foster there we go.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
I mean he went up there. You've got some demons.
Now he's been staring at the mirror doing this because
he was ready.
Speaker 12 (42:00):
Well everyone, I'm back. Last year, I stood up here,
reminded everyone at UCLA is in LA, which looking back,
might have been the most obvious. Your few lessons in
Big Ten history. Slow down, but you know what important
things are worre stating clearly we are in LA, and
we're proud to be in La.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Okay, And this year we're ready to just hold on
real quick. Has anybody ever said they're gonna leave LA
or what like?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (42:28):
I mean, I know they're playing ok I know they
play in Pasadena, but has University of California Louisiana that's
what they're talking about?
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Has anybody made any And this.
Speaker 12 (42:38):
Year we're ready to show the Big Ten what LA
football looks like when it's firing on all cylinders?
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Hold on again, Did somebody say UCLA is gonna be
firing at all cylinders this year? And were I'll give
it to them. They won five games last year, and
that's five more than I thought they could win the
way they looked in the first game against Hawaii, and
I discussed that with Timmy Chang.
Speaker 12 (42:58):
And this year we're ready to show the Big Ten
what LA football looks like when it's firing on all cylinders.
That moment speaking to you last year taught me a
valuable lesson Authenticity resonates more deeply than perfection. Our players
saw me being human and it brought us closer together.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
We've been joking about it for.
Speaker 12 (43:18):
About a year now, approaches how we coach and build
this program. Speaking of building, we've had an incredible year
of progress, and I mean incredible.
Speaker 4 (43:32):
Hold on real quick. It feels like somebody's been writing
this for like six months.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Yeah, which takes a question today, where were you last year?
How did you not know we needed a statement last year?
And they just say a few words this last time.
It's like coach, I put a CALLBA in and then
I took it out. I took on this job.
Speaker 12 (43:51):
I inherited a program with tremendous tradition and an immense opportunity.
We're not just committed to restoring us a football, We're
committed to evolve me in this new era of college athletics.
Our recruiting has been outstanding, and I mean outstanding right now.
(44:11):
We've brought in young men who understand what it means
to be a bruin academically excellent.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
How much longer does this? Just better?
Speaker 12 (44:18):
And committed to being bigger than themselves.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
I do like the other one. He just he just
wiped the sweat off his brow. Okay, he's this public
speaking is not as true. That's what I mean. I
think it goes back to the point he made. I
was my authentic self. It was a human moment that
brought our team together. Now Here, I am in a
freaking suit, sweating, delivering a five minute speech is not
(44:40):
natural for me. I want to be right in front
of nine fine irishman.
Speaker 5 (44:44):
I want to hear about the program.
Speaker 6 (44:45):
Though.
Speaker 12 (44:46):
Our program has built off three pillars. Okay, discipline, respect.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Kind of enthusiasm. Oh dpe, I thought it was going
to be.
Speaker 12 (44:56):
It's the framework and how we expect our players to
conduct themselves on and off field. Discipline and preparation and academics,
and how you represent the university, respect for teammates, coaches,
opponents in this game we all love.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
All right, I must say last year was better. Let's
go around the room. Let's go around the room. Would
you rather have? I cannot speak. I cannot speak at all,
and I'm soft spoken, or I'm speaking more loudly than
(45:34):
I'm comfortable speaking. I'm in a suit and I'm a
little hot. Under the collar. Which would we prefer Kate's?
Was last year's speech better?
Speaker 6 (45:43):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (45:44):
Last year was way better.
Speaker 4 (45:45):
Ben the intern, you want to stop get off the phone, Ben,
last year better?
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Jeez? Well, and Ben's an sc guy. Ronnie love the
awkwardness of life last year?
Speaker 4 (46:01):
Well, if you want awkward, here's Lincoln Riley take it
on the big question about Notre Dame and its future.
Speaker 13 (46:11):
When I decided to night at my house right to
take the USC job, my first thought was I get
to coach in USC Notre Dame. It's a first thought
because before coach play or any of that. As a fan,
and so the rivalry, all these rivalries mean a great
deal to me. They mean a great deal to anybody
(46:33):
that cares about college football. Yes, I mean that's do
I want to play the game. Hell yeah, I want
to play the game. Absolutely. It's one of the reasons
I came here.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
It takes so long to say that.
Speaker 13 (46:44):
Also, agence and my loyalty is not the Notre Dame
and it's not to anybody else. I'm the head football
coach at USC, and I'm going to back USC and
I'm going to do everything possible that I can in
my power. To make USC as good as it can
and don't let anything stand him between that.
Speaker 4 (47:02):
So wait a minute, okay, uh, that is such a backtrack.
And at least he's doing that much. But Lincoln's the
one that's acted like he didn't want to play Notre dame.
USC has had to be relatively quiet about it because
they don't want to upset their head coach or act
like they're not on the same page. Lincoln's backing out
(47:25):
of this and that's about the best. I guess that's
about the best he can do without saying I'm an
idiot for saying anything about it. And also it sounds
like he sucked. He sucked down a big robusto last
night at some poker room.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
At the Mandolin Scratchy, A little gravel in that voice there.
Speaker 4 (47:39):
Yeah, little Charles Barkley at the All Star Game. Anyway,
I'm glad I'm not in Vegas for three days to
listen to those platitudes.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
I can't imagine. I can't imagine if it was day
three and I'm sitting there and Deshaun Foster is coming
with that, like, I let's do you met me at
this year? I'm here as well? How long is the
speech case. I see you have it open on YouTube.
How long is it?
Speaker 5 (48:07):
He spoke to the media for ten minutes and forty.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Oh my god, he took a question. Okay, no, that's
opening straight up.
Speaker 6 (48:15):
The end.
Speaker 12 (48:16):
Having an opportunity to compete against legendary programs and prove
that West Coast football belongs on the biggest state. We're
proud to be Bruins and we're ready to make it happen.
Starting now, I'm happy to take any questions.
Speaker 3 (48:29):
Six coach, we have on your first row on your
right side.
Speaker 2 (48:33):
Here we go.
Speaker 14 (48:33):
First question, Kennos Barry test sounds of changes.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
Coach, what life Kenneth married to changes?
Speaker 12 (48:40):
Proud to be Bruins, starting now, I'm happy to take
any questions.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
Thank you, coach. We have on your first row on
your right side.
Speaker 14 (48:50):
Kenneth Barry test sounds of tangents, Coach, what life less.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
Downs and changes? Touchdowns and chains? Touchdowns changes like move
the chains or what it.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
Was first throw?
Speaker 14 (49:04):
On your right side Kenneth Berry tesounds of changents, Coach,
what life lessens have you pulled on from everybody?
Speaker 2 (49:14):
I think everybody your second year.
Speaker 14 (49:15):
In the pros to help you now in your second year,
I said, coach, all right.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
I right, I kept all right, the kid's getting better. Hey,
let's follow up that speech with a banger of a
question from touchdown and changes. I want to play Notre Dame,
but I'm also the coach at the usc What do.
Speaker 5 (49:33):
You think the media from the first day and a
half are even still there? And it's maybe they're just
out by the pool we don't hear from.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
If you're covering usc UK yesterday, Mike McMurphy's gone. Now
we got touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (49:45):
Well, you know what, though a lot of there's a
lot of sharks swimming around for Lincoln Riley, so they
probably stuck around. That's a hot seat, no doubt about it.
Although it's going to cost one hundred million dollars to
eject the guy. Either way, Big ten media day mercifully
comes to it.
Speaker 5 (50:03):
And today maybe next year they put Ohio State in
Michigan on day three.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
Last Northwestern like her, we're still playing on the lake.
I'm gonna go with to Sean Foster. Come on, he
was before Lincoln. Actually, you know, last year I was
my authentic self. This year, this year seven minutes. Clearly,
I'm freaking out. I feel like I ate and ate,
(50:29):
like like like waiters on the plane, like I'm losing
my mind. I'm losing my mind.
Speaker 5 (50:39):
Last coach was Sharon Moore, speaking today from Michigan.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
Well, there you go. They did put Michigan on day three.
They know what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (50:45):
Yeah, Sharon, it's me touchdowns and chicken changes.
Speaker 2 (50:52):
So you're pro two years, second year of pros and
the coaches word number word number song coming up next?
Shut up? Yeah, shut up, Yeah, shut up.
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