July 3, 2025 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me me. That which
is false troubles the heart, but the truth brings tranquility
the bone, the youth spectrow.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Somebody n five seventy HeLa Sports Live Everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app Dodger White Sox first pitch seven ten PM.
Game starts seven ten, always starts seven to ten from the gap.
Everybody knows that.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Breaking news about Monsie the ext That's right. The doctor,
the radio doctors are wrong. He did not blow out
his whole knee, which is what I thought when I
saw it, and I've seen a lot of spinals, dude.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
But it's only a bone bruise, left knee, bone bruise.
That's what is being reported. So don't know the entirety
of the scan, but you would assume if it was
something structurally unsound that would have been reported instead.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, you know, they got an X ray, that'd be different.
But they did an MRI and that I believe that
takes a good look at the ligaments, and if the
ligaments are intact, that's better news for Max months and
now I have seen guys miss a whole season with
like a deep ass bruise, like a really deep, deep
deep thigh bruise or something like that. I mean, it's
(01:24):
not great to have your knee knocked off by a
flying guy in your into your leg. But I think
this is great news compared to what what I thought
and what most people I believe believe.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, I mean we thought like, oh, it's acl mcl pateller,
all of it. Get there instead bone bruce. Now again,
like you said, we don't know the severity of the
bone bruce. There was no timeline given. But I think
when being told that you wouldn't want to watch a
replay because it was too gruesome to witness, well, yeah,
(02:00):
and trying to parse out some of the other angles
that were shared on some other networks and still and
post it on x and the reddits and all that,
and being like, oh, yeah, man, that must have.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Looked really bad.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
This isn't good. You know, a guy that had an
ops of eleven hundred for the month of June and
losing him for the rest of the season would have
been a serious blow. But it sounds like maybe reason
for optimism, very much.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
A reason for optimism. And we talked to David Vasse
in the last hour and they do have key k
and Rojas. They can hold it down over there as
long as Mookie Betts, who is not hot hitting the ball,
is playing shortstop, and Haysong Kim can play shortstop as well.
So I think they're in better shape than we thought
(02:45):
they'd be when the show started. That's for sure, no doubt.
All Right, So now we have that established.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Good other breaking news guys, business what I mean? I
thought you guys were gonna go with the other breaking
news when you're like, oh, you know, big news happening
right now, I mean Max Munty Bone Bruce that is big.
But intern Ben is literally running down the hall right
now with Laker news.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Oh did they sign Sebastian Telfair or something?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Well, even better, guys, they have re signed Jackson Hayes
to a one year deal. The big man is back.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
He didn't play what like literally the game that they
lost against Minnesota that could have changed the fortunes of
the first round series was because he wouldn't play Jackson Hayes.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
And he never played fit second Matt found him to
be unplayable. Sean Sheroni had just tweeted out. Hayes emerged
as the Lakers starting center last season and shot a
career high seventy two percent from the field and finished
top ten in field goal percentage allowed as contesting defender
on lambs and dunks among players to contest two hundred
and fifty plus shots.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That's the most asinine statement I've ever heard about an
individual that wasn't allowed on the floor in the postseason.
He played eight minutes, and it's per game on average,
four minutes, nine minutes, nine minutes, eight minutes. That's what
you're played.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Are you trying to pour water on this blooming moment
for the young man?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
One point three rebounds, two points, one rebound, two points,
one rebound, two points, well, three rebounds.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
But you can't quantify in words or stats playing for
a coach that really likes you, and JJ Reddick really
likes this guy.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Chose not to play him at all, like at all,
sat him out. The season's on the line, you know
what I mean, Like, Hey, seasons on the line. I
feel like we kind of need a big you know
what I mean. I think you're right, but I'm gonna
(04:53):
sit him out. He's gonna get zero minutes in this
game six. That's kind of how it played out.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Man, I think your stats of points and minutes are
I don't know, we can kind of overlook those that
are not very important. Contesting defender on layups and dunks
amongst players to contest two hundred and fifty shots, top
ten in that field.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I mean, come on, gets dunked on a lot?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
A rent protector top ten in field goal percentage allowed
at contesting defender on layups and dunks amongst players who
contest me and fifty plus shots.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
If you're Jackson Hayes, you gotta be like, hey, agent guy,
there's really nothing else out there for me. There's nothing,
you know, I got. I didn't play in games.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Five agent man secrets.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
They determined that I wasn't good enough to play in
the playoffs. That's and and I'm coming back. Yeah, that's
all we got, man.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So that are we are we eating for eighting? In
the next segment, we are we're gonna eat for eight? Well,
let's we'll talk. I mean, come on, I mean, in turn,
Bend's gonna get his fill of Lakers Center talk. All right,
it's time for the Word of the day.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
The Word of the day.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Today's Word of the Day is travel trip Matt I
believe is by far the most traveled currently of of
the like of the people amongst us that travel, Ronnie
takes secret trips to New Orleans, Kate's drives back and
forth with Arizona with the demands of the women and
his family. But Matt travels with the Chargers and beyond.
(06:28):
And I don't know when. I don't know when your
next free travel trip. I mean, I know you've got
to go to Brazil on the Hall.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Of Tay to go to Canton this month.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well yeah, but yeah, Well you're gonna want to get
your ass to the Hudson News because the cover I
know you do the cover of the US Weekly. Along
with your bottle of water and your hand sanitizer, You're
gonna US Weekly. The cover is Aaron Rodgers and it
(06:58):
says the most sterious man in sports. You ready, you
gonna get it?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You want me to go to Usweekly dot com.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Controversial quarterback has become famous for his polarizing opinions, family fallouts,
high profile romances, and use of psychedelic drugs. Now that
he's revealed he's secretly married, those closest to the star
tell us about the man behind the headlines, Shah.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Do you think Aaron Rodgers is popular in the high
society gossip circles?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
High society?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Like, I can't imagine people wanted to Press Weekly being
interested in Aaron Rodgers and.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
The real You think the chicks are in the Real
Housewives get invited to high society things. No, they're a
side show. They's gonna be a war on the streets.
But I just want you know, Matt, I'm just trying
to help you fill the time. You can only watch
so many movies from Bangladesh, So there you go. Okay,
just trying to be.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
A friend for Thank you, thank you for looking up
for me.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
No, I don't want to know.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Have fun making fun of Jim Wolfall he's doing curls,
staring in the mirror. Well, he's doing curls right now.
Pissed it you, okay, shuck it down. At nine, he's
got a picture up on the wall like Kate Fear.
He's doing pull up. Oh yeah, it's time for the
number of the day.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Here's my number.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Number of the day. Number the day is eighteen forty seven.
Funny you do travel well, I guess it was sort
of a sidebar to the true to.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Say, you could pick up the magazine because you love
Aaron Rodgers so much, roll it up and stick it
in your back pocket.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Flight of the Day is eighteen or flight of the
Day number the day is eighteen forty seven. Is in
flight eighteen forty seven. As you mentioned, I just I
do travel, whether it's thankfully with the chargers wherever they
may go, but I do travel on my own. I
got a daughter that lives in New York. The wife
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likes to move around a little bit, so we take
some trips here and there. Traveling's not easy. Traveling stressful.
Traveling is hard, and once you get in your seat
on the plane, I feel like, for me, at least,
there is a giant exhale. Once that door closes and
we start taxing, it's like, all right, here we go.
I'm through all of those obstacles. Now I can sit back, relax,
(09:29):
and get to my destination. I can't imagine how I
would feel. First of all, the sheer panic that will
come across when the pilot gets on the PA and says,
ladies and gentlemen, we have to turn around and return
to the airport. There's an emergency, something's come up. We're safe,
(09:50):
but we want to make sure that you're safe as well.
So we're just going to go back to San Juan
instead of continue this trip to Dallas. So now immediately
you're dressed out. They're freaking out about what might be wrong.
Am I going to be safe? Well, we returned to
San Juan and get back safely. It did land safely
at Sju and then all of the passengers were briefed.
(10:16):
Law enforcement was was was brought on board, and they
realized the flight was turned around because a passenger was
reading the text of the fellow passenger and the seat
next to them a stranger and read the letters RIP
(10:38):
and then got up and interpreted as a threat to
the flight told the flight attendant. The flight attendant told
the pilot. The pilot turned the plane around, you know,
about an hour into the flight, forced everybody to get off.
The person to be interrogated and say no private investment,
private conversation. I was told that a family member passed away,
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and that's what I was responding with, and that's that's
why we've now wasted two hours of everybody's time. Everybody's
freaked out and that's how this flight was diverted.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Was the guy text in rip suspicious looking like he
looks shady, like like from Delta Force or something, you know,
like the movies we grew up watching.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You're reading my text as a passenger, my private text
to a fellow family members who I've just been informed
of a death in our family, and you've now caused
my flight home to Dallas to turn around to San Juan.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I can't believe you texted that about me. Why are
you reading my text?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
That person would be on the Donat fly list for
the rest of their life. Hey, you're taking a boat back.
You're taking a boat back to the States from San Juan. Okay,
pal an abundance of caution? Okay, what if it was
a guy?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
What if abundance of caution?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I was reading this guy's text and it said, all RP.
I'm freaking out, man. I think we're going down.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Pretty infuriating, no doubt about it, totally.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I think we're going Hey, what do we know? What
you know? I don't know you. I was just I
was snooping on your texts. I wanted to get a
peak of what your tacks were saying.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
And what I saw really upset me, Ronny.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
This is a song of the day.
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Top Story of the well.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Despite it being breaking news yesterday courtesy of our intern
Ben and him wanting us to tell he was right.
Dive deep dive into DeAndre eight and signing Clayton Kershaw
chasing three thousand strikeouts was a bit of a better
headline for the PMS show to focus on it.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It was, you know, and then we had more trouble.
But I do have to say, you know, looking at
social media, a lot of people feel like DeAndre Eaton
is the missing piece that meets the big O. I
mean they think that Aidon is about to eat.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That's what they're thinking. Well, they're gonna start calling him
DeAndre Eating because he's gonna be eating up rebounds he
thought he ate We start here in the top story
the day with the endpoint, How do we get to
the former number one overall pick from seven years ago
being bought out of a thirty five million dollars salary
for twenty five twenty six only to sign a two
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year deal worth eight million per must be something seriously bad.
So I figured we go back to September twenty seventh,
twenty twenty three, less than two years ago.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Something really If you're hearing this right now.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Something must have really gone wrong. If you're listening to this,
u Ayton was moved by the Sons to the Blazers
in a three team trade that netted the Suns Keon Johnson,
Nasir Little, and Yrsif Nurkic.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Nurkic Nurkis is good was.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Traded after a season and a half to the Hornets
for a bag of shells. Keon Johnson was waved before
ever playing a single minute for Phoenix in the trade,
and Nasir Little barely played that season and was waived
the following off season. Point being why the hell would
Phoenix trade eight and in a deal that, based on
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history or the way it played out, suggests they just
wanted to get out of the max contract that they
thought was a huge mistake that they had handed over.
Kind of baffling from a basketball sense. I think the
Sons were coming off a second round loss to the
eventual NBA champion Denver Nuggets. They busted up the Clippers
for to one in the opening round, a series where
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eight And averaged sixteen and eleven. A good big band's
hard to find, right and understandably he struggled like everyone
did that season with Nikola Jokich. You ate him up
and any Suns player that tried to stop him thirty
five points, thirteen rebounds and ten assists. He averaged a
triple double in the conference semifinal. In the series to
eight ands, eleven points, eight rebounds, and four files per game. Yes,
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he got severely outplayed, not the greatest effort for eighton,
but again it was Jokic who had ascended to become
the best player at basketball. In the following series, in
one of the most, if not the most competitive sweep
in NBA history, he went up against what many said
was the best defensive big in the game, Anthony Davis,
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and averaged you guessed it, a triple double twenty eight points,
fifteen rebounds and twelve assists. And considering they swept even
though it was a competitive sweep the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Oh well, yeah, don't forget that. Don't forget that important
talking point.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It was one of the most dominant Western Conference Final
performances in league history just two seasons prior to that
eight and was a critical piece of the Phoenix march
to the finals. Sixteen points on sixty six percent shooting,
twelve rebounds over a block per game against the Lakers
in the first round, he outplayed Anthony Davis sixteen and
eleven to Davis's seventeen and six, had fourteen and ten
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versus Jokich and the Nuggets in a four game sweep,
and in the conference finals, he had the best player
efficiency rating of any sun in their six game win
over the Clippers, averaging eighteen and fourteen to go with
two blocks per game on seventy percent shooting Eighten was
working his way into the conversation as the best young
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big man in the game. What happened at twenty twenty
two They handed the former number one pick a four year,
one hundred and thirty two million dollars deal. That's what
happened made sense now. It was clear Doncic should have
been the pick in hindsight, especially since they had just
hired his former Slovenian national team coach as their new
head coach, Igor Kokoskov. Strange they took eight in anyway,
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but Aiden was playing great. He nearly won an NBA
title for Phoenix, the first ever, so why not hand
over thirty three million bucks a year to what looked
like a franchise cornerstone instead. Less than a year later,
they did everything they could to get out from underneath
the three years remaining at thirty three million per and
when it was May, when the trade was consummated, everybody
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was like, oh, place's got a park former number one
pick for pretty much Nurkic and Filler and just taking
on that salary. He was twenty four years old in
a drafted a solid nucleus, a wing and guard players
to build around him. There was cause for excitement, but
much like Phoenix, after that first year at thirty three mil,
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it was clear some wasn't right. How do we know? Well,
they drafted Donovan Klingen with their number seven overall pick,
a seven foot two close to the basket center with
limited offensive range, when they already had a thirty three
million dollars a year seven footer who was clocking in
at two hundred and fifty pounds. Now, Aydon didn't play poorly.
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He didn't miss almost thirty games the year prior with
injury and had some run ins with the staff. But
when he played he was pretty good seventeen and eleven
to assist a block of steal. Last year, he missed
over half the season, played in just forty games, and
a couple days ago Portland Trailblazers decided it would be
better to pay him twenty three million dollars to go
away than thirty three million to keep him in Portland
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and see if they could figure it out.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But LA is gonna be good for him. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I think Portland felt like the fool me once. Shame
on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Uh. He
got into it with money Williams in Phoenix. He got
on the bad side of Chauncey Billups in Portland two
by all accounts, players coaches. So how do we think
it's gonna go with the incredibly affable JJ Reddick. Well,
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you know people are calling this deal low risk, and yeah,
financially it's low risk to you.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Playing with Shane Gillis and he's a fun.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yacht Oh fun guy, mister fun guy right here. Uh
uh uh uh. Yeah, it's financially low risk. But unless
there's another center out there that they're planning on signing
who could play heavy minutes and critical games, particularly in
the postseason, should eate and experienced some of the mess
that he delivered in Portland, late for flights, skipping practice,
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tantrums in the locker room, missing the game, sorry, coach
couldn't make the game. There was ice on the road. Uh,
they'll still have no size. They'll still have to play
to bron Lames at center.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Defense though.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
But guess what your draft status sticks to you? If
Aden was the seventeenth pick in the twenty seventeen draft
instead of number one, he would be talking about today
or yesterday by Big Ben our intern as a guy
that takes too many mid range jumpers for a seven
footer has a horrific free throw rate. Again, he is
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seven feet two hundred and fifty pounds and he attempts
two point three free throws per game for his career.
That is freaking pathetic to put to put that number
in perspective and to make sure it's not just a
number that's floating out there his new head coach. A
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shooter by trade, a career forty two percent three point shooter,
a sharp shooter average two and a half free throw
attempts per game over a big man who's seven feet
two hundred and fifty pounds three point shooting ass JJ
Reddick went to the line more than eight and per
game in his career. He doesn't play like a big
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He floats on defense, he settles on offense, and in
Portland without a Chris Paul to ride him all the time,
he did not literally did not show up far too often.
So what are the Lakers fans take from the so
called coup of getting a five star talent and a
former number one pick for eight million bucks? I don't
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think it's our big man. Worries are over No. And
the thing about this is all the talking head shows.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Intern Ban is wilting right now like a like a
tulip in the sun. He doesn't want to hear.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
That hating ass hater, that's what he's saying.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, all the morning hate A report at on ax
at hay to report.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
They they took the approach you would expect, right like, hey,
does this move? Does this move the needle for Lebron?
Is he gonna now want to stay in La after
that weird statement? Rich Paul? But how do we think
DeAndre Ayton is enough in La Ravia? Are enough to
keep Lebron happy and not demand a trade? Is this
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in sync with the Lebron timeline or is this more
of the Luca timeline? And is Jabron Lames gonna be
pissed off and demand a trade. Again, I cannot say
this enough. In a Meatball's Bill Murray's style, it just
doesn't matter. He took their money. He took the fifty
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two million bucks. He has zero leverage. They are not
going to hand him fifty million dollars in a buyout
or forty million or thirty million in a buyout. So
he can go wherever he wants. If he wanted to
go somewhere to win a title and for a roster
that he like the construction of more than what the
Lakers have, he doesn't opt in. He as a man
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who's supposedly worth a billion dollars, he opts out and
goes and gets ten to fifteen to twenty or twenty
five million dollars somewhere else and leaves the twenty five
million on the table. So, like the better question to
try to spend this somewhat positive I'm a try is
can he do what he has done so many times
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in his career? Can he make DeAndre Ayton work as
hard as Andersen Vera Shaw, as Matthew della Vadova? Can he?
Because he has gotten a lot of guys paid in
this league a lot of money because he is a
very good passer and a very good teammate on the
court at times like it's not a one way Lebron
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James Street, where oh is this good for Lebro? No,
this one goes the other direction. You know, this is
can Lebron do for DeAndre Ayton what he has done
for other bigs in the past. You know how many
press conferences have we heard from Lebron where he reminds
us he says it as this team's leader, well, you know,
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as a leader of his team. Lead, lead. It seems
as though the only issue surrounding eighton is what's between
his ears. That someone with his size and his lateral
quickness and his ability and his athleticism should be one
of the five best centers at worst in the league.
And the only thing that's gotten in the way is
a serious battitude and an embarrassing work ethic. And so
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you're fifty two point six million dollars so called goat
that's on him. Get it out of him. You know, yes,
you get fifty three million dollars to score points. Certainly,
Karl Anthony Towns by no means has ever been described
as a galvanizing force in a locker room He's just
a guy who's really tall and shoot. So he got
fifty three million bucks for that. But for someone to
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all us fat that's right, can't keep an eye on
his lady friend. But for someone that has his own
podcast and repeatedly preaches some sort of basketball gospel of
how the game is, I believe that the title of
the podcast is mind the game, right, Well, mind the
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game and mind your guy Ayton and earn your money.
This is how you cement a legacy. Kid, Luke, You've
got one of the five best players as your running mate.
He's even better than you and Luka Doncic. And now
you have a former number one pick who helped carry
the Phoenix Suns to the NBA Finals before the arrival
of Kevin Durant with Chris Paul and Devin Booker. So
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try to pull that out of him as opposed to
what can Ayton do? Hey, ask not what DeAndre Ayton
can do for Jabron Lames. Ask what Jabron Lames can
do for dere Ayton.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
A great American message, approaching a great American holiday. We'll
have some American history, Matt, some local knowledge coming up
in the very next segment. I hope. In turn, band
accepted that as an even handed reaction to the DeAndre
Ayden signing. Stay with us. It's Petros and money on
a crunchy group Thursday.
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On our friends over at Surfside there vodka and iced tea.
We're giving away Dodger tickets, a trip to Vegas, and
an MGM resort, not to mention a host of other
prizes that we will continue to amass throughout all of
next week. So set your schedules. July eleventh, three to
six pm, making our way deep up the two ten
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freeway to Haven Avenue. In September's Taperman Eatery and Matt.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Hit me with a very hard dose of reality the
other day, and he's right. You know we are going
to be unable to book Spade Cooley for that show.
And the answer is why as many people want to know,
and they also want to.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Know why, what's up with Spade? He's too good for
us well?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
And they want to know who is Spade Cooley? And
because we're headed to the east and the thoughts of
western southern California music come to mind, but not all
the way to Bakersfield, it makes me think inevitably of
Spade Cooley. Let's get some local knowledge.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Is knowledge, common knowledge, his local knowledge.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
He's very knowledgeable on the things that you come up
with as far as for with the knowlogy, just.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Like Jim Gray, who authored the great Lebron James Exit
to South Beach. Spade Cooley has a star on the
Hollywood Walker Fair, the King of Western Swing. And who
is Spade Coolie? Well, he was born in Oklahoma, who
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came out here to La played the fiddle for guys
like Roy Rogers, and ended up in a whole bunch
of movies. In the nineteen forties, Spade Cooley's second wife, Elma,
a singer, suspected Spade Coolie of infidelity. He suspected Elma
of the same. He told her, if you ever leave
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Spade Coolie, Spade Coolie will find you and he'll kill you.
In nineteen sixty retired Terrible in nineteen sixty retired and
drunk and hopped up on antipsychotics. Lma was hospitalized for
a nervous breakdown. In nineteen sixty one, Spade Cooley beat
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her to death. His excuse was that she fell in
the shower. It was not accepted by the authorities. Cooley
got life in prison, but because of his ill health,
many of his friends from Hollywood, including the governor at
the time and former President now Ronald Reagan, got Cooley paroled,
(31:33):
and Cooley's parole was about to take effect, he was
furloughed for two days to go to Oakland and play
the Deputy Sheriff's Association Gala, and he played it during
(31:53):
the intermission after a standing ovation, Spade Cooley had a
heart attack and went down. Before he was paroled, so
he was still basically in custody, but died backstage at
a concert. Not quite the Grand Old Opry and Hank Williams,
but as far as Western La lore Matt, we take
(32:16):
what we can get now. Spade Cooley has shown up
in three awesome James Elroy books, including the legendary La Confidential.
John Gilmore, the gonzo writer from the sixties, wrote about
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Spade Cooley. He was in over forty movies and his star,
despite the murder of his wife, is still on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame. Have you seen it?
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I have not, But I also have not seen a
lot of the stars on the Walk of Fame as
I tend to stay away from gentlemen in dingy, dirty
spider Man costumes and crackheads.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Well, yeah, but I mean a lot of the time
they're on top of the stars and you can't see
through them, you know. Yeah, but how about this. Spade
Coolie was also the host of The Spade Coolie Show
on kt LA Channel five.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Spade, We're gonna give you a show and we're willing
to look the other way on the murder, right, lay.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Gentlemen, would like to start our program tonight with the
tune entitled swimming Channel five and of like this.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah, Swimming Channel five. This was pre murder. This show,
The Spade Coolie Show was recorded broadcast from the Santa
Monica Ballroom on the pier. You know, the pier was
didn't used to be covered with dingy Spider Man either.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Mad right, classy. I believe the ballroom is what now
hosts the Carousel. Yeah, that's the former ballroom.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Back then, Spade Coolie roamed the ballroom and put on
his show. The show won two local Emmys, ran for
eight years, boasted guests like Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra. Wow,
a real figure in La noir lore. Spade Coolie the
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king of Western swing. He was a fiddle player and
a singer, and a murderer, right, and a prolific wife beater.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
This probably shouldn't be celebrating.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Well, not celebrate. I'm just telling you the story is.
We're just telling a story. We're not celebrating story inn
La Confidential or one of the books, the Elroy books.
They have to fish Spade Coolie out of a Chinatown whorehouse.
That sounds right, and he's like on a bender, on
a Mescalin bender, and he's in there for weeks, three
day vender Spade Coolie. Everybody, will he join us? No?
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Will we have some Spade Coolie bumper music? Perhaps? And
you know Spade Cooley got in a fight with one
of his band leaders and that guy went on to
make that song Smoke Smoke, Smoke, smoke that cigarette. Remember
that song.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Oh, I do remember that. I loved that smoke, Smoke, Smoke.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
That was a big blow to Coolie because that was
a big hit. All Right, we'll be back. There's a
little history for you. We will talk F one and
of course the quick hits. We'll swoop all around the
world of sports in the very next segment, the final
hour fun fact, and you're dead in a live guy
birth the other day before we say goodbye. For the
fourth of July weekend
Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me me. That which
is false troubles the heart, but the truth brings tranquility
the bone, the youth spectrow.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Somebody n five seventy HeLa Sports Live Everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app Dodger White Sox first pitch seven ten PM.
Game starts seven ten, always starts seven to ten from the gap.
Everybody knows that.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Breaking news about Monsie the ext That's right. The doctor,
the radio doctors are wrong. He did not blow out
his whole knee, which is what I thought when I
saw it, and I've seen a lot of spinals, dude.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
But it's only a bone bruise, left knee, bone bruise.
That's what is being reported. So don't know the entirety
of the scan, but you would assume if it was
something structurally unsound that would have been reported instead.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, you know, they got an X ray, that'd be different.
But they did an MRI and that I believe that
takes a good look at the ligaments, and if the
ligaments are intact, that's better news for Max months and
now I have seen guys miss a whole season with
like a deep ass bruise, like a really deep, deep
deep thigh bruise or something like that. I mean, it's
(01:24):
not great to have your knee knocked off by a
flying guy in your into your leg. But I think
this is great news compared to what what I thought
and what most people I believe believe.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, I mean we thought like, oh, it's acl mcl pateller,
all of it. Get there instead bone bruce. Now again,
like you said, we don't know the severity of the
bone bruce. There was no timeline given. But I think
when being told that you wouldn't want to watch a
replay because it was too gruesome to witness, well, yeah,
(02:00):
and trying to parse out some of the other angles
that were shared on some other networks and still and
post it on x and the reddits and all that,
and being like, oh, yeah, man, that must have.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Looked really bad.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
This isn't good. You know, a guy that had an
ops of eleven hundred for the month of June and
losing him for the rest of the season would have
been a serious blow. But it sounds like maybe reason
for optimism, very much.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
A reason for optimism. And we talked to David Vasse
in the last hour and they do have key k
and Rojas. They can hold it down over there as
long as Mookie Betts, who is not hot hitting the ball,
is playing shortstop, and Haysong Kim can play shortstop as well.
So I think they're in better shape than we thought
(02:45):
they'd be when the show started. That's for sure, no doubt.
All Right, So now we have that established.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Good other breaking news guys, business what I mean? I
thought you guys were gonna go with the other breaking
news when you're like, oh, you know, big news happening
right now, I mean Max Munty Bone Bruce that is big.
But intern Ben is literally running down the hall right
now with Laker news.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Oh did they sign Sebastian Telfair or something?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Well, even better, guys, they have re signed Jackson Hayes
to a one year deal. The big man is back.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
He didn't play what like literally the game that they
lost against Minnesota that could have changed the fortunes of
the first round series was because he wouldn't play Jackson Hayes.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
And he never played fit second Matt found him to
be unplayable. Sean Sheroni had just tweeted out. Hayes emerged
as the Lakers starting center last season and shot a
career high seventy two percent from the field and finished
top ten in field goal percentage allowed as contesting defender
on lambs and dunks among players to contest two hundred
and fifty plus shots.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That's the most asinine statement I've ever heard about an
individual that wasn't allowed on the floor in the postseason.
He played eight minutes, and it's per game on average,
four minutes, nine minutes, nine minutes, eight minutes. That's what
you're played.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Are you trying to pour water on this blooming moment
for the young man?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
One point three rebounds, two points, one rebound, two points,
one rebound, two points, well, three rebounds.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
But you can't quantify in words or stats playing for
a coach that really likes you, and JJ Reddick really
likes this guy.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Chose not to play him at all, like at all,
sat him out. The season's on the line, you know
what I mean, Like, Hey, seasons on the line. I
feel like we kind of need a big you know
what I mean. I think you're right, but I'm gonna
(04:53):
sit him out. He's gonna get zero minutes in this
game six. That's kind of how it played out.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Man, I think your stats of points and minutes are
I don't know, we can kind of overlook those that
are not very important. Contesting defender on layups and dunks
amongst players to contest two hundred and fifty shots, top
ten in that field.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I mean, come on, gets dunked on a lot?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
A rent protector top ten in field goal percentage allowed
at contesting defender on layups and dunks amongst players who
contest me and fifty plus shots.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
If you're Jackson Hayes, you gotta be like, hey, agent guy,
there's really nothing else out there for me. There's nothing,
you know, I got. I didn't play in games.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Five agent man secrets.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
They determined that I wasn't good enough to play in
the playoffs. That's and and I'm coming back. Yeah, that's
all we got, man.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So that are we are we eating for eighting? In
the next segment, we are we're gonna eat for eight? Well,
let's we'll talk. I mean, come on, I mean, in turn,
Bend's gonna get his fill of Lakers Center talk. All right,
it's time for the Word of the day.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
The Word of the day.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Today's Word of the Day is travel trip Matt I
believe is by far the most traveled currently of of
the like of the people amongst us that travel, Ronnie
takes secret trips to New Orleans, Kate's drives back and
forth with Arizona with the demands of the women and
his family. But Matt travels with the Chargers and beyond.
(06:28):
And I don't know when. I don't know when your
next free travel trip. I mean, I know you've got
to go to Brazil on the Hall.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Of Tay to go to Canton this month.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well yeah, but yeah, Well you're gonna want to get
your ass to the Hudson News because the cover I
know you do the cover of the US Weekly. Along
with your bottle of water and your hand sanitizer, You're
gonna US Weekly. The cover is Aaron Rodgers and it
(06:58):
says the most sterious man in sports. You ready, you
gonna get it?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You want me to go to Usweekly dot com.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Controversial quarterback has become famous for his polarizing opinions, family fallouts,
high profile romances, and use of psychedelic drugs. Now that
he's revealed he's secretly married, those closest to the star
tell us about the man behind the headlines, Shah.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Do you think Aaron Rodgers is popular in the high
society gossip circles?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
High society?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Like, I can't imagine people wanted to Press Weekly being
interested in Aaron Rodgers and.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
The real You think the chicks are in the Real
Housewives get invited to high society things. No, they're a
side show. They's gonna be a war on the streets.
But I just want you know, Matt, I'm just trying
to help you fill the time. You can only watch
so many movies from Bangladesh, So there you go. Okay,
just trying to be.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
A friend for Thank you, thank you for looking up
for me.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
No, I don't want to know.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Have fun making fun of Jim Wolfall he's doing curls,
staring in the mirror. Well, he's doing curls right now.
Pissed it you, okay, shuck it down. At nine, he's
got a picture up on the wall like Kate Fear.
He's doing pull up. Oh yeah, it's time for the
number of the day.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Here's my number.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Number of the day. Number the day is eighteen forty seven.
Funny you do travel well, I guess it was sort
of a sidebar to the true to.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Say, you could pick up the magazine because you love
Aaron Rodgers so much, roll it up and stick it
in your back pocket.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Flight of the Day is eighteen or flight of the
Day number the day is eighteen forty seven. Is in
flight eighteen forty seven. As you mentioned, I just I
do travel, whether it's thankfully with the chargers wherever they
may go, but I do travel on my own. I
got a daughter that lives in New York. The wife
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likes to move around a little bit, so we take
some trips here and there. Traveling's not easy. Traveling stressful.
Traveling is hard, and once you get in your seat
on the plane, I feel like, for me, at least,
there is a giant exhale. Once that door closes and
we start taxing, it's like, all right, here we go.
I'm through all of those obstacles. Now I can sit back, relax,
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and get to my destination. I can't imagine how I
would feel. First of all, the sheer panic that will
come across when the pilot gets on the PA and says,
ladies and gentlemen, we have to turn around and return
to the airport. There's an emergency, something's come up. We're safe,
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but we want to make sure that you're safe as well.
So we're just going to go back to San Juan
instead of continue this trip to Dallas. So now immediately
you're dressed out. They're freaking out about what might be wrong.
Am I going to be safe? Well, we returned to
San Juan and get back safely. It did land safely
at Sju and then all of the passengers were briefed.
(10:16):
Law enforcement was was was brought on board, and they
realized the flight was turned around because a passenger was
reading the text of the fellow passenger and the seat
next to them a stranger and read the letters RIP
(10:38):
and then got up and interpreted as a threat to
the flight told the flight attendant. The flight attendant told
the pilot. The pilot turned the plane around, you know,
about an hour into the flight, forced everybody to get off.
The person to be interrogated and say no private investment,
private conversation. I was told that a family member passed away,
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and that's what I was responding with, and that's that's
why we've now wasted two hours of everybody's time. Everybody's
freaked out and that's how this flight was diverted.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Was the guy text in rip suspicious looking like he
looks shady, like like from Delta Force or something, you know,
like the movies we grew up watching.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You're reading my text as a passenger, my private text
to a fellow family members who I've just been informed
of a death in our family, and you've now caused
my flight home to Dallas to turn around to San Juan.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I can't believe you texted that about me. Why are
you reading my text?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
That person would be on the Donat fly list for
the rest of their life. Hey, you're taking a boat back.
You're taking a boat back to the States from San Juan. Okay,
pal an abundance of caution? Okay, what if it was
a guy?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
What if abundance of caution?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I was reading this guy's text and it said, all RP.
I'm freaking out, man. I think we're going down.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Pretty infuriating, no doubt about it, totally.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I think we're going Hey, what do we know? What
you know? I don't know you. I was just I
was snooping on your texts. I wanted to get a
peak of what your tacks were saying.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
And what I saw really upset me, Ronny.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
This is a song of the day.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Legendary Los Angeles og punk rock band X perform today's
song the day dust In this one off.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It's an annual.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
It's called Fourth of July, a festive tune for the Red, White.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And Blue on a crunchy groove.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Thursday or an extended Fourth of July holiday weekend is
upon us and the Petro said Money Show is celebrating
America with three hours of great sports talk with the
Dodgers providing the fireworks. Looking for a suite but the
Chicago White Sox at the stadium. That will get started
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(12:55):
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see no Diagres on deck program that begins.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
At six o'clock.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I think that's racist, Saint Colin. He's gonna let off fireworks.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's better than a drone show, right, all the drone
shows back, I mean any of your right, though the
Chinese do love firework and Italian fire I'm bigging the
boot all right, everybody. I'm a great moment. Get ready
(13:28):
to eat with eight this weekend, but be safe, we
blow stuff up. We're gonna eat with DeAndre eight Max
Comminate man, what one.
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(15:11):
Top Story of the well.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Despite it being breaking news yesterday courtesy of our intern
Ben and him wanting us to tell he was right.
Dive deep dive into DeAndre eight and signing Clayton Kershaw
chasing three thousand strikeouts was a bit of a better
headline for the PMS show to focus on it.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It was, you know, and then we had more trouble.
But I do have to say, you know, looking at
social media, a lot of people feel like DeAndre Eaton
is the missing piece that meets the big O. I
mean they think that Aidon is about to eat.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That's what they're thinking. Well, they're gonna start calling him
DeAndre Eating because he's gonna be eating up rebounds he
thought he ate We start here in the top story
the day with the endpoint, How do we get to
the former number one overall pick from seven years ago
being bought out of a thirty five million dollars salary
for twenty five twenty six only to sign a two
(16:05):
year deal worth eight million per must be something seriously bad.
So I figured we go back to September twenty seventh,
twenty twenty three, less than two years ago.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Something really If you're hearing this right now.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Something must have really gone wrong. If you're listening to this,
u Ayton was moved by the Sons to the Blazers
in a three team trade that netted the Suns Keon Johnson,
Nasir Little, and Yrsif Nurkic.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Nurkic Nurkis is good was.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Traded after a season and a half to the Hornets
for a bag of shells. Keon Johnson was waved before
ever playing a single minute for Phoenix in the trade,
and Nasir Little barely played that season and was waived
the following off season. Point being why the hell would
Phoenix trade eight and in a deal that, based on
(16:59):
history or the way it played out, suggests they just
wanted to get out of the max contract that they
thought was a huge mistake that they had handed over.
Kind of baffling from a basketball sense. I think the
Sons were coming off a second round loss to the
eventual NBA champion Denver Nuggets. They busted up the Clippers
for to one in the opening round, a series where
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eight And averaged sixteen and eleven. A good big band's
hard to find, right and understandably he struggled like everyone
did that season with Nikola Jokich. You ate him up
and any Suns player that tried to stop him thirty
five points, thirteen rebounds and ten assists. He averaged a
triple double in the conference semifinal. In the series to
eight ands, eleven points, eight rebounds, and four files per game. Yes,
(17:43):
he got severely outplayed, not the greatest effort for eighton,
but again it was Jokic who had ascended to become
the best player at basketball. In the following series, in
one of the most, if not the most competitive sweep
in NBA history, he went up against what many said
was the best defensive big in the game, Anthony Davis,
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and averaged you guessed it, a triple double twenty eight points,
fifteen rebounds and twelve assists. And considering they swept even
though it was a competitive sweep the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Oh well, yeah, don't forget that. Don't forget that important
talking point.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It was one of the most dominant Western Conference Final
performances in league history just two seasons prior to that
eight and was a critical piece of the Phoenix march
to the finals. Sixteen points on sixty six percent shooting,
twelve rebounds over a block per game against the Lakers
in the first round, he outplayed Anthony Davis sixteen and
eleven to Davis's seventeen and six, had fourteen and ten
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versus Jokich and the Nuggets in a four game sweep,
and in the conference finals, he had the best player
efficiency rating of any sun in their six game win
over the Clippers, averaging eighteen and fourteen to go with
two blocks per game on seventy percent shooting Eighten was
working his way into the conversation as the best young
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big man in the game. What happened at twenty twenty
two They handed the former number one pick a four year,
one hundred and thirty two million dollars deal. That's what
happened made sense now. It was clear Doncic should have
been the pick in hindsight, especially since they had just
hired his former Slovenian national team coach as their new
head coach, Igor Kokoskov. Strange they took eight in anyway,
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but Aiden was playing great. He nearly won an NBA
title for Phoenix, the first ever, so why not hand
over thirty three million bucks a year to what looked
like a franchise cornerstone instead. Less than a year later,
they did everything they could to get out from underneath
the three years remaining at thirty three million per and
when it was May, when the trade was consummated, everybody
(19:49):
was like, oh, place's got a park former number one
pick for pretty much Nurkic and Filler and just taking
on that salary. He was twenty four years old in
a drafted a solid nucleus, a wing and guard players
to build around him. There was cause for excitement, but
much like Phoenix, after that first year at thirty three mil,
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it was clear some wasn't right. How do we know? Well,
they drafted Donovan Klingen with their number seven overall pick,
a seven foot two close to the basket center with
limited offensive range, when they already had a thirty three
million dollars a year seven footer who was clocking in
at two hundred and fifty pounds. Now, Aydon didn't play poorly.
(20:35):
He didn't miss almost thirty games the year prior with
injury and had some run ins with the staff. But
when he played he was pretty good seventeen and eleven
to assist a block of steal. Last year, he missed
over half the season, played in just forty games, and
a couple days ago Portland Trailblazers decided it would be
better to pay him twenty three million dollars to go
away than thirty three million to keep him in Portland
(21:00):
and see if they could figure it out.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But LA is gonna be good for him. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I think Portland felt like the fool me once. Shame
on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Uh. He
got into it with money Williams in Phoenix. He got
on the bad side of Chauncey Billups in Portland two
by all accounts, players coaches. So how do we think
it's gonna go with the incredibly affable JJ Reddick. Well,
(21:28):
you know people are calling this deal low risk, and yeah,
financially it's low risk to you.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Playing with Shane Gillis and he's a fun.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yacht Oh fun guy, mister fun guy right here. Uh
uh uh uh. Yeah, it's financially low risk. But unless
there's another center out there that they're planning on signing
who could play heavy minutes and critical games, particularly in
the postseason, should eate and experienced some of the mess
that he delivered in Portland, late for flights, skipping practice,
(21:57):
tantrums in the locker room, missing the game, sorry, coach
couldn't make the game. There was ice on the road. Uh,
they'll still have no size. They'll still have to play
to bron Lames at center.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Defense though.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
But guess what your draft status sticks to you? If
Aden was the seventeenth pick in the twenty seventeen draft
instead of number one, he would be talking about today
or yesterday by Big Ben our intern as a guy
that takes too many mid range jumpers for a seven
footer has a horrific free throw rate. Again, he is
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seven feet two hundred and fifty pounds and he attempts
two point three free throws per game for his career.
That is freaking pathetic to put to put that number
in perspective and to make sure it's not just a
number that's floating out there his new head coach. A
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shooter by trade, a career forty two percent three point shooter,
a sharp shooter average two and a half free throw
attempts per game over a big man who's seven feet
two hundred and fifty pounds three point shooting ass JJ
Reddick went to the line more than eight and per
game in his career. He doesn't play like a big
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He floats on defense, he settles on offense, and in
Portland without a Chris Paul to ride him all the time,
he did not literally did not show up far too often.
So what are the Lakers fans take from the so
called coup of getting a five star talent and a
former number one pick for eight million bucks? I don't
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think it's our big man. Worries are over No. And
the thing about this is all the talking head shows.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Intern Ban is wilting right now like a like a
tulip in the sun. He doesn't want to hear.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
That hating ass hater, that's what he's saying.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, all the morning hate A report at on ax
at hay to report.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
They they took the approach you would expect, right like, hey,
does this move? Does this move the needle for Lebron?
Is he gonna now want to stay in La after
that weird statement? Rich Paul? But how do we think
DeAndre Ayton is enough in La Ravia? Are enough to
keep Lebron happy and not demand a trade? Is this
(24:23):
in sync with the Lebron timeline or is this more
of the Luca timeline? And is Jabron Lames gonna be
pissed off and demand a trade. Again, I cannot say
this enough. In a Meatball's Bill Murray's style, it just
doesn't matter. He took their money. He took the fifty
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two million bucks. He has zero leverage. They are not
going to hand him fifty million dollars in a buyout
or forty million or thirty million in a buyout. So
he can go wherever he wants. If he wanted to
go somewhere to win a title and for a roster
that he like the construction of more than what the
Lakers have, he doesn't opt in. He as a man
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who's supposedly worth a billion dollars, he opts out and
goes and gets ten to fifteen to twenty or twenty
five million dollars somewhere else and leaves the twenty five
million on the table. So, like the better question to
try to spend this somewhat positive I'm a try is
can he do what he has done so many times
(25:29):
in his career? Can he make DeAndre Ayton work as
hard as Andersen Vera Shaw, as Matthew della Vadova? Can he?
Because he has gotten a lot of guys paid in
this league a lot of money because he is a
very good passer and a very good teammate on the
court at times like it's not a one way Lebron
(25:53):
James Street, where oh is this good for Lebro? No,
this one goes the other direction. You know, this is
can Lebron do for DeAndre Ayton what he has done
for other bigs in the past. You know how many
press conferences have we heard from Lebron where he reminds
us he says it as this team's leader, well, you know,
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as a leader of his team. Lead, lead. It seems
as though the only issue surrounding eighton is what's between
his ears. That someone with his size and his lateral
quickness and his ability and his athleticism should be one
of the five best centers at worst in the league.
And the only thing that's gotten in the way is
a serious battitude and an embarrassing work ethic. And so
(26:37):
you're fifty two point six million dollars so called goat
that's on him. Get it out of him. You know, yes,
you get fifty three million dollars to score points. Certainly,
Karl Anthony Towns by no means has ever been described
as a galvanizing force in a locker room He's just
a guy who's really tall and shoot. So he got
fifty three million bucks for that. But for someone to
(26:58):
all us fat that's right, can't keep an eye on
his lady friend. But for someone that has his own
podcast and repeatedly preaches some sort of basketball gospel of
how the game is, I believe that the title of
the podcast is mind the game, right, Well, mind the
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game and mind your guy Ayton and earn your money.
This is how you cement a legacy. Kid, Luke, You've
got one of the five best players as your running mate.
He's even better than you and Luka Doncic. And now
you have a former number one pick who helped carry
the Phoenix Suns to the NBA Finals before the arrival
of Kevin Durant with Chris Paul and Devin Booker. So
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try to pull that out of him as opposed to
what can Ayton do? Hey, ask not what DeAndre Ayton
can do for Jabron Lames. Ask what Jabron Lames can
do for dere Ayton.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
A great American message, approaching a great American holiday. We'll
have some American history, Matt, some local knowledge coming up
in the very next segment. I hope. In turn, band
accepted that as an even handed reaction to the DeAndre
Ayden signing. Stay with us. It's Petros and money on
a crunchy group Thursday.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Hello PMS listener, did you know Am five seventy LA
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Speaker 2 (28:44):
On our friends over at Surfside there vodka and iced tea.
We're giving away Dodger tickets, a trip to Vegas, and
an MGM resort, not to mention a host of other
prizes that we will continue to amass throughout all of
next week. So set your schedules. July eleventh, three to
six pm, making our way deep up the two ten
(29:05):
freeway to Haven Avenue. In September's Taperman Eatery and Matt.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Hit me with a very hard dose of reality the
other day, and he's right. You know we are going
to be unable to book Spade Cooley for that show.
And the answer is why as many people want to know,
and they also want to.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Know why, what's up with Spade? He's too good for
us well?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
And they want to know who is Spade Cooley? And
because we're headed to the east and the thoughts of
western southern California music come to mind, but not all
the way to Bakersfield, it makes me think inevitably of
Spade Cooley. Let's get some local knowledge.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Is knowledge, common knowledge, his local knowledge.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
He's very knowledgeable on the things that you come up
with as far as for with the knowlogy, just.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Like Jim Gray, who authored the great Lebron James Exit
to South Beach. Spade Cooley has a star on the
Hollywood Walker Fair, the King of Western Swing. And who
is Spade Coolie? Well, he was born in Oklahoma, who
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came out here to La played the fiddle for guys
like Roy Rogers, and ended up in a whole bunch
of movies. In the nineteen forties, Spade Cooley's second wife, Elma,
a singer, suspected Spade Coolie of infidelity. He suspected Elma
of the same. He told her, if you ever leave
(30:39):
Spade Coolie, Spade Coolie will find you and he'll kill you.
In nineteen sixty retired Terrible in nineteen sixty retired and
drunk and hopped up on antipsychotics. Lma was hospitalized for
a nervous breakdown. In nineteen sixty one, Spade Cooley beat
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her to death. His excuse was that she fell in
the shower. It was not accepted by the authorities. Cooley
got life in prison, but because of his ill health,
many of his friends from Hollywood, including the governor at
the time and former President now Ronald Reagan, got Cooley paroled,
(31:33):
and Cooley's parole was about to take effect, he was
furloughed for two days to go to Oakland and play
the Deputy Sheriff's Association Gala, and he played it during
(31:53):
the intermission after a standing ovation, Spade Cooley had a
heart attack and went down. Before he was paroled, so
he was still basically in custody, but died backstage at
a concert. Not quite the Grand Old Opry and Hank Williams,
but as far as Western La lore Matt, we take
(32:16):
what we can get now. Spade Cooley has shown up
in three awesome James Elroy books, including the legendary La Confidential.
John Gilmore, the gonzo writer from the sixties, wrote about
(32:40):
Spade Cooley. He was in over forty movies and his star,
despite the murder of his wife, is still on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame. Have you seen it?
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I have not, But I also have not seen a
lot of the stars on the Walk of Fame as
I tend to stay away from gentlemen in dingy, dirty
spider Man costumes and crackheads.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Well, yeah, but I mean a lot of the time
they're on top of the stars and you can't see
through them, you know. Yeah, but how about this. Spade
Coolie was also the host of The Spade Coolie Show
on kt LA Channel five.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Spade, We're gonna give you a show and we're willing
to look the other way on the murder, right, lay.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Gentlemen, would like to start our program tonight with the
tune entitled swimming Channel five and of like this.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah, Swimming Channel five. This was pre murder. This show,
The Spade Coolie Show was recorded broadcast from the Santa
Monica Ballroom on the pier. You know, the pier was
didn't used to be covered with dingy Spider Man either.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Mad right, classy. I believe the ballroom is what now
hosts the Carousel. Yeah, that's the former ballroom.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Back then, Spade Coolie roamed the ballroom and put on
his show. The show won two local Emmys, ran for
eight years, boasted guests like Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra. Wow,
a real figure in La noir lore. Spade Coolie the
(34:27):
king of Western swing. He was a fiddle player and
a singer, and a murderer, right, and a prolific wife beater.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
This probably shouldn't be celebrating.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Well, not celebrate. I'm just telling you the story is.
We're just telling a story. We're not celebrating story inn
La Confidential or one of the books, the Elroy books.
They have to fish Spade Coolie out of a Chinatown whorehouse.
That sounds right, and he's like on a bender, on
a Mescalin bender, and he's in there for weeks, three
day vender Spade Coolie. Everybody, will he join us? No?
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Will we have some Spade Coolie bumper music? Perhaps? And
you know Spade Cooley got in a fight with one
of his band leaders and that guy went on to
make that song Smoke Smoke, Smoke, smoke that cigarette. Remember
that song.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Oh, I do remember that. I loved that smoke, Smoke, Smoke.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
That was a big blow to Coolie because that was
a big hit. All Right, we'll be back. There's a
little history for you. We will talk F one and
of course the quick hits. We'll swoop all around the
world of sports in the very next segment, the final
hour fun fact, and you're dead in a live guy
birth the other day before we say goodbye. For the
fourth of July weekend
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