October 2, 2025 • 43 mins
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around there you'll get Dodgers on deck an hour before
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as the Dodgers try to defend their World Series championship
against the one team that many say could be the
largest obstacle on their path to the first repeat in
a quarter century in the Major League.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Wow, and they've lost to a lot of teams that
are worse than that. True in the postseason, we'll see
what happens. You heard from Spilly, He was not as
confident as far as what we saw last night carrying.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Over Destiny fly. He teem a destiny yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
And you talked about the fan ass and he basically
told you, yes, save that for after the game.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Hey, maybe it's fantas yet, is okay?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, the decks will be cleared on Sunday, so the
Chargers will take on the Washington Commanders kick off at
one twenty five. Matt will be here in La at
one twenty five on kf I AM six forty with
Shannon and Daniel Jeremiah. And we are happy that the
Dodgers are moving on. Scam is moving on. There's gonna
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be another seriesers.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Do yours oops, dolliers.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Our boss is gonna make some money. There's a way
to get Scam on the app on the Clipper streaming side,
why does Dan Patrick need that much help?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Well, I think he swings a big stick pee, you know,
and perhaps somebody, look, you got scam or you got DP.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
What are you gonna do in LA? It's not even close? Right,
Someone gets a little sensitive.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, I mean sorry that people are excited about the
Dodgers for excuse us for living geez. Well, anyway, it
is time for the final hour fun fast effect.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, we're three fans.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah.
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and actually did sort of change their name to the
Blue Jays. Interesting a fan contest was held to find
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spent literal decades of losing, were a punchline to all
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used and had a blue Jay patch on their uniform
for two seasons, but the uniform still said Phillies on
the front, so while they were sort of the Blue Jays,
they weren't the Blue Jays. And then they ended up
winning the pen and in nineteen fifty they did the
Blue Jay and leaned into the Phillies fully once again.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It's interesting yesterday when we were walking around the stadium,
I noticed and remembered that at the turn of the
last century, the Brooklyn Dodgers were named the Brooklyn Superbus,
which is a pretty interesting name.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I kind of like it better than the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Oh come, man, the Superbas no hats and the Superbus.
It is superb. How good are you? We're not good?
See we're superb, that's how good. I was like, who
the hell are the Superbas?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I know they had the B on the hat, but
the name of the team was the the.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Superbas or the in cred Ables.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
In cra ably. All right, it is time for crickets.
Everybody come to.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You in this crickets.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Come make it quick, y'all.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Oh yeah, last night a very special night in the city.
And to see you DoD Dodgers and Phillies in the
NLDS game. One Sunday in the city of brotherly loved Lawyers.
One of the greatest baseball players that any of us
have ever seen. In fact, he is the greatest baseball
player any of us have ever seen. It's hard not
to take it for granted. Show Al Todi, we'll be
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on the mound in the series opener. Here is Dave
Roberts after the win versus the Reds last night, very
happy while they were partying in the batting cages, not
in the clubhouse area.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
You know, guys stayed positive, stayed within in themselves, kept
taking good at bats, and you know, Yoshi stepped up,
you know, once again, and Addison pitches that first inning,
but you know he was locked in and for him
to get us into the seventh was huge, and us
tack on offensively, defensively, we're playing great, and you know
it's good to see rookie finish that game too.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Is rookie your closer now?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Yeah, I trust and he's gonna be pitching and leverage.
So that was you know, the more you pitch guys
and play guys, you learn more. So like I said
about Yamamoto, I don't think the moment's going to be
too big for rookie.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I mean every year is different.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
But how far do you think this team can go?
And would you like to get back to the World
Series and play the Yankees again?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
I think we can. We can win it all. I
think we're equipped to do that. We certainly have the pedigree,
we certainly have the hunger. We're playing great baseball, and
in all honesty, I don't care who we play, I
just want to, you know, be the last team standing.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Just what have you seen out of the offense the
last couple of nights to kind of keep piling on runs,
finding different ways to score like they did kind of
and then the later innings today.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I think that what we're seeing is, you know, winning pitches,
using the whole field, fighting and you know, not trying
to just slug. I think we're taking team at bats,
situation Situationally, we've been fantastic and even roared at the bottom.
You know, whether it's a sacrifice, the fight to slap
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an O two double to the other way to get
on base. You know, we're just doing things, whether it's
to sackfly, we're doing whatever it takes, even show hey
in the situation getting a guy over to allow set
the stage for Mookie. So just team baseball, team at.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Bets and then in that eighth inning, just kind of
what were you seeing out of Emmett? What prompted you
to kind of make the move there, and kind of
how do you view him going forward after this?
Speaker 6 (07:28):
You know, I just yeah, I mean, I still I
trust him. It was his first kind of real cracket
kind of late leverage. He wasn't sharp, But I believe
in him, I really do. And I think for me,
is you know, to think that he can get through
Benson although he had count leverage, to then feel like
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he can get through mcclaim, he would have been over
thirty pitches and I just didn't think the stuff was
a sharp And so for me, I just kind of
had a gut feeling that, you know, give Vessie a
chance to get count leverage versus andu Hall or if
they leave Benson in and I liked him against McClean
and then Freedom, So that's kind of my thought. And
you know, but Emmatt did a fine job. It's just
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kind of just it just wasn't sharp tonight.
Speaker 9 (08:12):
Mookie's turn around this year has just been kind of insane.
Can you just kind of talk about what kind of
player he is to have that start and then now
come through like he always has and be one of
the best players in the world.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
I think it started when he just kind of just
gave up on chasing, you know, having a career year,
you know, chasing an MVP or whatever it was. I
think he just kind of was resolved to just let
that go, play for the present and the future and
play to help the team win. And I think that
just took a little bit a lot of pressure off
him and then everything kind of unveiled and he got
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to be the player that he was and freed himself up.
And so, yeah, he's playing fantastic baseball.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
That's a good amount of stuff, meaty, but full of
great information.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
We need to have it. We need to get everybody
ready for the Dodgers. JJ Reddick, says Lebron Jays Terryo
Marcus Smart Kleeber will not play in the Laker preseason
game tomorrow versus the Suns in Palm Desert. The hell
I bought my great grandparents tickets to that they will
(09:19):
still see the premier player for your Los Angeles Lakers
and the franchise player, which is Luka Doncic face.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Of the league, according to DeAndre Ayton.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Could end up being a point of contention for a
jealous and petty Lebron James and Lebron James camp.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
We can only hope.
Speaker 10 (09:41):
I know Lebron's battling a glute injury, but if I'm Genie,
I can't be happy that we're going on this tour
around Southern California Vegas, doing the whole preseason thing, putting
the Lakers out there on display. And Lebron's gonna be
riding the bench with his son, Well, his son might pleasure.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
That's probably gonna play a lot, oh boy, And I
would wonder, as he has shared on multiple podcasts and
with multiple interviews, on multiple interviews, now is he going
to be out there swinging the club in Palm Desert?
Is it going to be trying to get out, you know,
on one of those fancy courses all the Lake Entha
or something of the Madison Club, one of those fancy.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Morning side exclusive spots.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Not good enough to play in an exhibition game for
three minutes, but good enough the cruise around in play eighteen.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Well, we'll see what happens with the Laker preseason tomorrow
in the desert.
Speaker 11 (10:36):
People said, if you ever get into the game and
the bove grab you is over it, bud grab me.
I definitely have it.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Man.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I started.
Speaker 11 (10:43):
I literally started playing in July for the first time
in my life.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
And I love everything about it.
Speaker 11 (10:47):
I think the best thing that I've gotten out of it,
besides like the how competitive and hard it is and
the mental challenge, which I love. Anything that's mentally challenging.
I love. Well, how just you just get away from
the world. You out there on the green, no phone,
no phone. My phone stays in the cart the whole time.
I check it from time to time. But it's just
like I play my music. I'm out there with my guys,
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you out there and just in the world, and I
can lose my mind into the game of golf.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Media can't find you, Lebron. No, they can't find me.
I got it. We gotta get it. Updated. Media can't
find you, Lebron. That's worse than any of them. Golf
media can't find you, Lebron. Oh, it's so good men.
You can't edge. The media can't find you, Lebron. Lebron's
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the one that wants to find the media. Lebron's the
one that puts out the workout videos and says all
the stupid stuff. Media can't find you, Lebron.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And Geter.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Guess who's in the media. Geter, Media can't find you, Lebron.
The first number twenty four jersey worn by Kobe Bryant
with the Lakers recently sold for eight and eighty nine
thousand dollars, including a buyer's premium at Southeby's. Kolbe wore
the jersey while posting twenty three points, one hundred and
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eighteen one hundred and twelve victory over the SuperSonics of
all teams. How about that on November third, two thousand
and six.
Speaker 10 (12:17):
It's autographed too, So it's not just the jersey you're
gain it's an autograph from Kobe.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
It is the game warn So that's how you get
to nine hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Nine hundred though Thursday night game at Sulfi Tonight, Rams
taking on the forty nine Ers. But what about the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Home game Sunday.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
After the loss to the Giants, they continue their tour
of the NFC East. Jaden Daniels full participant in practice
after missing the previous two. He'll be out there for
the commanders, and that means our Jim Harbaugh presser delivered
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Speaker 8 (13:02):
You want to learn from it and and grow and
move forward, and in a lot of areas that uh,
that's where we we feel like we come out of
that game, you know, chasing perfection and so continue to
do that.
Speaker 11 (13:23):
What the biggest chapter.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
Uh, he's a great player. He's he's and all all
facets of of quarterback play, you know, really really really
good dual threat or uh just great, really good threat.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Yeah, was it a twenty that this is both for
her to improve in terms of his speed and just
his ability to get out.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
There's nothing there.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
He's always had that talent. He's he's very athletic, and
it impacts the game. I am positive way for us.
Speaker 11 (14:03):
What can you say about his performance on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Of course Sacks developing.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Yeah, spectacular, Uh, the way he impacted the game and
and just really really good, really consistent, you know, the
four sacks, the pressures, the the way he impacted the game.
Probably unfortunately got a little lost, you know, uh because
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we didn't win the game. But yeah, he was he
was somebody that was, uh, you know, played really well.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
A little bit of an understated Jim Harbaugh. This week
going to be a great quarterback matchup US. He has
a bye week u c l A home on Saturday
versus Penn State Nitney Lyons Or only a twenty five
and a half point favorite. Uh, that line might move
though now that the blueout has been announced.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Could could go up the twenty seven and a half.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I thought it would go the other way.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
But oh.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Now this is what we had Don McClain on to
talk about, and he's gonna come on in the next
segment the NCUBLEA Tournament. Matt.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Yeah, they have talked about expansion and it sounds like
now it's gonna happen. It's not finalized, but the proposed
format with the television partners is to expand from sixty
eight to seventy six eight games expected, and they will
add it to what is known as the First Four.
It'll become the First eight set of four games featuring
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the four lowest seeded automatic qualifiers and the last four
at large teams in the NCAA tournament field. The new
first twelve, actually they're gonna add eight would be referred
to as the opening round, So you get twenty four
teams playing in twelve games over the first two days.
They would take place at two different sites, but a
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way to get out of what's really some pretty ho
hum matchups in the first four might have one or
two good ones in there to what could be a
full on, full fledged get to Vegas a day early
first round of the tournament.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
So we'll see how that plays out. And we haven't
talked hockey well in weeks, maybe months, but here we are.
Thanks for talking to hockey.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
The Anaheim Ducks have extended Jackson Lacon keep part of
their rebuilding team on a long term contract extension. Lacombe
Lacombie Lacon twenty four, signed an eight year deal. However
you pronounced his name, carries a nine million dollar average
annual data that would suggest he's one of the best
players in the league. It is the largest contract ever
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given out by the Anaheim Ducks.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Congratulations to the Ducks. Maybe inspired by the Organ Ducks
and the amount of money that they spent.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
That's fair.
Speaker 10 (16:53):
Probably not who think spends more money? That's a great question.
The Anaheim Ducks Are the Oregon Ducks the Organ Ducks?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, you think so, though, No.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I don't know. I mean, well, the Organ how much
they spend a nil is not officially disclosed, so it's
kind of hard to tell.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
The Anaheim Ducks in twenty twenty. No, it is definitely
the Anaheim Ducks. They are going to spend eighty two
million dollars on players for the twenty five twenty six season.
Do you think they would spend eighty two million bucks
on players at Oregon?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yes, all right, maybe it's the Organ doze, but I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I don't know for sure. When I found out how
much the long snapper made at Michigan State, my head
almost rolled off my shoulder.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It's a hell of a launch snapper though.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, but still, you know, guys did that for free
for years, not anymore. You're right. We'll be right back
with Don McLain on the new tournament expansion in the
beginning of the Clipper season and the Lakers season and
the NBA right here on AM II seventy LA Sports,
your home of the Dodgers, starting out on Saturday against
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Speaker 4 (18:22):
Hum of the Dodgers, your World Series champion Dodgers advanced
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Speaker 3 (18:44):
It's time to talk to our bff, the one and
only Don McClain. He was here last Friday, did a
great job filling in like he always does. Basketball is
getting fired up, and there is news in the NCAA
as well, not just Clippers and Lakers and everybody else
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getting started. He is the leading scorer in the history
of the PAC twelve. You see him on the Big
Ten Network at FS one. He also works at CAA.
There is only one Don McClain. The next ass he
kisses will be the first. The baron of Box Canyon,
a decorated NBA player and once again the best friend
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of the Petros. Somebody show on You're Southern California Toyota Dealer,
celebrity hotline. What's cracking?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Don?
Speaker 12 (19:36):
How are you here? We go with the Thursdays again?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I'm sorry, Don, Tomorrow we needed you today. Tomorrow is
a Baseball net prep.
Speaker 12 (19:49):
Yeah, I know, and I wonder. I'm wondering Pee and
you and I talked about it off the year. If
people have noticed that you've forgot not for God, but
not including one of the time as I used to have.
And I guess we should address it now that I'm
no longer doing the Clipper shows. Unfortunately contract was renewed
and they're moving in a different direction. But I just
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want to say, you know, I work with so many
great people on that show. I did it for over
twenty years, starting with half John Heffner, who all your
listeners know, Micah King and those guys in the front office,
if you will. But a lot of camera people, people
on air that I worked with a lot of people
behind the scenes. We did really good work for a
long time. And as you guys know, the business is changing,
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and the Clipper shows have changed hands a couple of
times already, and so not surprising that they're going in
a different direction. But I just wanted to make sure
that I thanked all those people that I work with
for so long, especially Darryl Lewis, who produced that show
for almost as long as I was on it, did
a great job and still continues to do a great
job on angels and other stuff he does. But yeah,
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we're moving on. I won't miss the drive, but I'll
miss a lot of the people.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yeah, well, out of yeah, I was going to say
that drive down the one on line.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
It was one of the reasons to watch. It was
really the main reason to watch Clipper basketball.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yeah, to watch Don mccloss and his insights before and
middle and after the game, and especially back when there
was different left leadership and Don used to do the
fourth quarter or do a different quarter with Ralph Lawler.
A lot of stuff. What is your I mean, We're
going to continue to talk and ask about the Clippers
and the Lakers and all that here on the show.
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But what what what do you think is the most
impactful thing you'll remember about working there or working with
all these different people, ownership changes, the whole crazy Donald story.
Speaker 12 (21:39):
You know, I've thought about it, Pee, and I think
that that that one sticks out the most was the
ownership change in that whole ordeal with Donald Sterling and
what happened and led to him being bounced out of
the NBA and Steve Baldmer coming in. I think I'll
remember that the most. I feel like those were you
know we used to goof around a lot on that
show in the early day, is because the Clippers weren't
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very good, and so yeah, we used to have free
reign to do whatever we want. And it seemed like
once Steve Balmer got involved, he got serious because he
was spending money and bringing in good players, and they
had Chris Paul and Lob City and all that stuff,
and so it turned into more of a real basketball
show at that point. But it doesn't mean it was
better or worse. It just meant that it was more
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serious because the Clippers were contenders. Unfortunately they haven't gotten
over the hump all these years, but it looks like
they have a chance this year. But yeah, I remember
a lot of that stuff, you know, from the playoff
games and uh but really that that's the one time
that really stands out if I think back over twenty years.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
So it's an interesting moment for them, don And you know,
you're I don't know how this thing is going to
get resolved. If it's going to get resolved, they don't
want to talk about it. Uh, Yet everybody continues to
ask the questions, do you think the league will come
out and make some sort of definitive statement. Do you
think they'll try to just ignore it and hope it
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goes away? Ultimately? How do you think it ends? With
the Clippers and Kawhi and this Pablo Torri is not
given up. Man, He's now tying charity checks of one
point eight million to the Sandberg guy who ran the
company's charity fund that tied directly to KWII. It's getting
gnarly now.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
It is mad.
Speaker 12 (23:22):
But I just have this weird feeling that it just
goes away. I mean, maybe there's enough evidence that Adam
Silver gets put in the bind and he's got to
come down with some with some punishment. But here's what
I wonder, and we don't know because no one's really
spoke on except for Cuban, but he's not an owner anymore.
Is Adam Silver getting pressure from the other teams? That's
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the question, you know, is he getting pressure from all
these teams? Say, wait a second, if they circumvented the cap,
there has to be punishment or else we're going to
do it. So that's the hard part in all this
is what are all the other teams thinking and saying
to the NBA in Adam Silver, Like you, there's enough
evidence out there that you have to punish him, But
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we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Maybe Steve Bomber gives them somebody too.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
That would work.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
He's got enough of it, you know, maybe he could
give the WNBA some money and then that way, you know,
it's just kind of this three way deal.
Speaker 12 (24:14):
That works out exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
We were playing some sound from Laker Media Day last week.
I ort know it was earlier this week. Actually was
DeAndre Ayton and he was talking about I don't know
if you were listening to the show at the time,
but the clip was basically ate and talking about the offense,
and he said, well, you know, it's a two man game.
It's it's me and Luca. And then he talked about
how they were in the same draft and how lucas
the face of the league and how his job is
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to make it easy for Luca. Do you think there's
any that there could be any issue with Lebron? And
because Maxi Kleeber then came in and gave that same
sort of thing and tried to circle back and bring
up Lebron as well. Do you think that in his
twenty third season, Lebron is the kind of person that
would say, yeah, I'm forty years old, it's you know
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this the guy? Or do you think that could be
an issue for the Lakers.
Speaker 12 (25:03):
I don't think he's the kind of I don't think
he's at the point in his career. Matt Well he'll
come out and say anything. The question is in the
locker room what's being said. But I do think this,
I think Lebron, I mean, twenty three years is incredible
for any guy in any sport to still be playing.
I think what Lebron really wants, and he's a smart guy.
What he wants is this to transition into Lucas team.
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But he wants to win going out, And I do
think for all the and I've said this and you
guys have said it for years, how polarizing Lebron is.
But I do think that, you know, listening to him
all these years, I do, I would bet that that
is his stance that look, yeah, I'm not the main guy,
Luca is, but let's win this thing before I retire.
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That that has to be kind of his stance on
all this.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
You've mentioned it, don don McLean joining us right now
on petros and money. The Clippers do look pretty good,
like that do all the time going into the season.
We talk about the Lakers at nauseam, everybody does which
team looks better going into the season right now?
Speaker 12 (26:08):
I think the Clippers are, assuming everyone's healthy and ready
to go. They're so deep. But what they did in
the offseason with Beal and Brook Lopez and John Collins,
I mean they are deep one through fifteen pretty much,
and so we know things go wrong. We know guys
get hurt, we know guys' rest, we know all that.
And if you have a really deep team, your margin
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for air becomes much bigger. And I just think the
Clippers have a really big margin for air with the
roster that they built in the improvement Zuba about how
the good he's gotten hardened kind of not resurrected, but
had a monster year last year. And so I just
think they got all the pieces. But the biggest thing
to me is the depth that they have across the board.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
The it's not depth, but it's I guess it's a
collection of either passed accomplishments right with the Lakers when
because to me, I look at it, I'm like, yeah,
they really needed Marcus Smart. So is Marcus Smart still
the player that I think he is don a former
Defensive Player of the Year, because they need that so
desperately since nobody else is playing any defense on the perimeter.
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And I mean, like we talked about before when they
signed eight and I was like, man, I remember that
Ayton and that can be really good if he gets
his head on right. Yeah, more likely or less likely
that those are the guys we are going to see.
Speaker 12 (27:27):
See here's the thing, man, there's guys that are good
defenders that aren't talked about as being really good defenders.
Why because they're in a culture of non defense. And
I'm not saying that's the Lakers right now, but My
point is if your culture across the board in that
locker room, starting with the head coach, is we are
going to guard. We're going to be a good defensive team,
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then you get the best out of guys on the
defensive end, even guys that aren't known as good defenders.
If everyone else is guarding and you're the only one
that isn't, well, either you're not going to play or
you're going to really guard. And so I think it's
important for JJ Reddick to set the tone that, look,
we got enough offense with all these guys, we have
to be really good defensively. And if that's the case,
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I think a guy like Marcus Smart could raise back
to the level that he was at at one point
as a defender.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Don McClain with us see believe it or not. While
we are in the midst of the Dodgers march to
a World Series championship, basketball is back. The Lakers are
doing their standard barnstorming tour the Desert, Vegas, Santa Barbara,
all that sort of thing. The Clippers will get going
in about a week. Is it the usual? Is it
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the Celtics in the East, Is it the thunder in
the West? Or do you think it's a little more
wide open And it's not that simple.
Speaker 12 (28:46):
I think the East is wide open. I mean wide
open because no Jason Tatum, he's saying it may come
back this year, but it ain't going to be like
before the All Star Break. I wouldn't imagine. So I
think Cleveland's got a really good chance. I think Orlando
improved themselves this offseason. The West is hard. I mean,
you have to say that the thunder of the Favorite,
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But like the Clippers got better, the Lakers got better,
teams have gotten better, the Warriors even got better. And
so yes, yes, the thunder of the Favorite right now.
But I think the West is going to be incredibly competitive,
and I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't the thunder
the number one seed in the West down.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
By the time you stopped calling college basketball games. The
tournament's going to have more teams than are playing in
Division One. They're expanding the tournament. It looks like they're
talking about expanding the tournament even more. I don't know
if these neutral site arenas are going to attract fans
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for you know, the fortieth seed, but what do you
make I mean Obviously there's money to be made with
postseason college sports. We see it with the football playoff,
and the tournament is a huge money maker. But is
this watering it down too much?
Speaker 12 (30:03):
Well, you just said it.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Pee.
Speaker 12 (30:04):
They don't care. They don't care if it waters it
down or not. They're going to make money off the
TV deal. Even if ten people show up to these
regional sites, they're still getting the TV money and that's
all they care about. And so it's unfortunate that that's
what it's come to in all of college sports, that
we don't care what the product really is as long
as we can make more money. But the tournament as
perfect as it is. You know, I think that the
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first four in games are fine, but now you're stretching
it to even more of those.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
A separate tournament for the tournament.
Speaker 12 (30:35):
Yeah, yeah, Like it doesn't make any sense. We all
know why they're doing it, But you know, what's the fallout?
Are people not going to watch it? Probably not? So
why not we go ahead and do it? Make more
TV money?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:48):
I think you know, the way that it's being described
is that it would be twelve games, Like the opening
round isn't four, it's twelve, So it's a full on
two day, six games a day, and I guess the
one is I'm trying to sort of I don't know
if you want to call it putting lipstick on a
pig or glasses half full. I do feel don and
(31:09):
I don't know if you would agree. I feel like
college basketball is better. You know, the money that these
guys are getting paid. Some guys are staying back. It
feels like we got more teams that are a little
bit better. I really thought the tournament was incredibly compelling
this last year. Do you think that's fair, Like, hey,
maybe more games because I feel like it's a better
product than we had when these guys were all one
(31:30):
and done.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
And it was just.
Speaker 12 (31:33):
But this is like an hour conversation, man, you know
what I mean. It's like there's so many different angles
and ways to look at it. Is it better that
college basketball players are making over a million dollars a year?
Some would say yes, some would say no. I do
think you're right in the sense that it's more competitive.
Teams are better because you're playing with twenty two and
twenty three year olds. You're not playing with eighteen year olds,
(31:54):
so their experience of matter how many schools they've already
been at. They understand college basketball because been in it
for four or five years, and so that seems like
it's going to continue. They're talking about having this new
five years no matter what. So you don't have to
have a grad year. There's no more COVID year. So
now if you get five years, like, everybody's going to
(32:14):
be old, especial if you're making money. And so I
think from that, just what you said, Matt, that standpoint,
I think the product is better because you have guys
that have been in college for longer.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Great stuff. The product's always better when Don McClain joins
the show.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Especially on a Thursday. True, well, I don't know if
it feels that way.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Don enjoy the playoffs and we'll talk next week. Thanks
a lot for doing it, Okay, guys. Classy stuff on
the Clippers too.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Indeed, you know me, I wouldn't have been classy. I'd
have been petty.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
That's a true statement.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I haven't handled the challenge thing that well.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Yeah, I would have thought you'd have been a little
more gracious. They are celebrating twenty years, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Yeah, where's my where's my gratitude.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Just to ask Mario, He'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
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Speaker 3 (33:39):
Mercifully coming to an end is the Petros and Money Show,
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You can stream it on the Clippers. I heeart app
(34:00):
that that was some very interesting pushback that we received yesterday,
and the pushback was.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Ill can see well, I think, uh, you know, you
have a David Vass that's wagging his thing in our
face for a while, you catching strays on that front,
and uh, you have a Dodger victory. Everybody's feeling pretty good.
I think it opens the door for some dragon of
the d across the dirt.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Let me walk in like a rooster. I am styling
seven innings, nine strikeouts, winning Game one.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Whoa, whoa, it really was yeah, amazing.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
He took a he took a soda bottle level stream
to the face from Blake trying.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Oh, it was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I mean it was a fire rose of shame.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Were playing it on Spoks on Sports Center.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
It was so it was a fire hose of champagne
to his face from trying. And it's definitely warned.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I mean it was like we truly was.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
We've discussed it like it was like watching a Woody
woodpecker or bugs Bunny show where this show.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
What he said when he did it. There's your exclusive time,
soa explain you know a lot of frustration and that
bullpen matters. So what a great day for the Dodgers yesterday.
We'll have four hours again tomorrow that starts at three
(35:31):
o'clock and the series begins on Saturday. But don't forget
scam tomorrow at six a m. Tim Kates and Steve
Sacks getting you ready with a cheese steak taste test
or some kind of Philly Philly accent comparison that's.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
A good one, right, like a Rocky impersonation.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
But right now it is time for the Dead Guy.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Birthday of the Dead Guy pe one of the better ones.
Jack Parsons Happy would have been one hundred and eleventh
to the and we've done them before, but god, I
love the story. American rocket scientist, inventor, occultist. Parsons born, raised,
died in Los Angeles. He was born Marvel white Side Parsons,
(36:22):
but he went by Jack. I should have done that.
I always wanted to be a Jack. I don't know
how you get Jack out of Marvel or white Side,
but he did. From a young age, he was way
into science fiction and space and the idea of traveling
to space, and he wanted to build rockets that could
reach the stars. And remember, back then it's pre Space Program,
(36:43):
nineteen twenties, nineteen thirties, it was a foolish thought that
rockets were anything more than a fantasy. But nineteen thirties
Jack Parsons began building and testing rocket engines with a
couple pals in Pasadena, like in a field, testing a rocket,
launching it to the skies. Just a couple of dudes.
(37:05):
He never earned a college degree. His skills, though, in
chemistry and explosives, made him and earned him entry into
the scientist community, where he was very respected. He was
the co founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which we
obviously know, well, we got some listeners in there, just there.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
In a flint ridge lacka yatamasel.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
JPL of course still and later would help build rockets
for NASA. He also helped start a company called Aerojet,
which made rocket engines for the US military. So despite
the lack of education, this dude knew what he was doing.
Parsons made a lot of important discoveries in rocket science.
His work basically laid the foundation for the space race
(37:48):
and future space exploration.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
But a big butt well what happened?
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Not brilliant scientist, but he was also a bit rebellious
and a little weird.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
A guy that builds rockets and is brilliant is a
little rebellious and weird. Who would have guessed he had
a like a guy that has a rocket that comes
back to Earth and caught by two giant robot arms.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
A little weird.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
He had a deep interest in the occult. Oh yes,
way into the supernatural.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Is this the guy with the weird Church in Silver Lake.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
This is our guy was that became close with l
Ron Hubbard. That's how we know Parsons. He joined a
group called the Ordo templey Orienteese the teachings of p
Aleister Crowley, the famous controversial occultist. He believed that science
magic and science and magic could work together. Exploring both
(38:45):
would help people reach their full potential. And it was
nineteen forty five when he meets l. Ron Hubbard, the
science fiction writer. Of course, for those that don't know,
I'm sure everybody does, but he's the founder of the
Church of Scientology. Hubbard also interested in the occult. He
and Parsons become close friends. They do magic together series
of ceremonies called Babylon Working. Parsons believe they were going
(39:07):
to summon a powerful goddess to bring a new age
into the world. This is what you're dealing with in science. Anyway,
he trusted Hubbard. He entered a business deal basically gave
him all of his money and sadly, his girlfriend Sarah Northrop.
They were investing in a boat selling company, but Hubbard
(39:28):
disappeared with the loot with Sarah. It crushed Parsons emotionally financially,
tried to sue to get his money back, couldn't and basically,
even though he continued to work in rocketry and magic,
he could not find stable work. The word was out
that he was a weird hoo hanging out with Hubbard
into the occult, and the government, of course at that time,
(39:50):
suspicious of people for anything, let alone people that were
into the occult. He died in fifty two at thirty
seven years old, when his laboratory or he exploded during
an accident. Some though, say that Hubbard did it, and
that's what some say. They say, maybe maybe Jack Parsons
(40:10):
was murdered. Wow, what a weird story that would have
been one hundred fourteen today. But that's Jack Parsons JP
of JPL, that's the dude. That is basically it's jet propulsion,
but it was also Jack Parsons laboratory.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Well for the Alive guy. Singer songwriter out of Athens, Alabama,
Britney Howard is only thirty seven years old. She got
started pretty young as far as being in everybody's line
of sight. A right tackle of a woman, half black
(40:48):
family home was in a junkyard and the family home
once burned down due to a lightning strike. She had
an older sister that died when she was young, which
is sad from retinal blastoma, but the sister taught her
piano and poetry. Brittany Howard also had the disease retnal
(41:10):
blastoma like her sister, but survived with partial blindness in
one eye. She went to East Limestone High in Athens,
where she met what would be the bassist for her
first band, The Alabama Shaks, Zach Cockrell, and after high school,
(41:30):
she went into the workforce, becoming a male carrier, a
postman postperson.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yeah, I think you know, I think you had it,
first postal.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
Carrier, then a full time career in music as the
lead singer of Alabama Shaks. Alabama Shaks took off after
playing bars and doing covers. Their first album of original
stuff two twelve was Boys and Girls and became an
(42:03):
indie crossover hit, and their next album was very good
the sophomore effort, but they only have and that sound
in color. Alabama Shakes only has two albums. She was
in various other projects, two solo albums. She has a
band called Thunderbitch and a hardcore punk project called Kumite
(42:31):
or Kumaite that started from earlier this year. I've not
heard Kite, Yeah, a hardcore punk project. Have you heard Thunderbitch?
That one's on heavy rotation in the car?
Speaker 4 (42:44):
I do not think I have heard that either. I
do love the Alabama Shakes and.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Just two albums. They haven't done anything for ten years
that's been solo. She won a Grammy for Best Rock
Song in twenty twenty one, a solo song. She hails
from the Aisle and was married to a lady, but
only for a year. It's hard to be married to
(43:08):
an alignment.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
I always felt like she bears a resemblance to Rashaun Slater.
He's a left tackle, so you think she's more of
a right Yeah, you like her on the right side.
Her kickback is not as strong at s. Big lady
and a great singer. Seems like a nice person.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
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hour show today and tomorrow. As you're home of the
World Series champion Dodgers, who not pick up the divisional
round until Saturday. Game one, show hailed Pawnee from the
Gaping Motors Broadcast booth six or six thirty PM. Right
around there you'll get Dodgers on deck an hour before
(01:18):
as the Dodgers try to defend their World Series championship
against the one team that many say could be the
largest obstacle on their path to the first repeat in
a quarter century in the Major League.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Wow, and they've lost to a lot of teams that
are worse than that. True in the postseason, we'll see
what happens. You heard from Spilly, He was not as
confident as far as what we saw last night carrying.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Over Destiny fly. He teem a destiny yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
And you talked about the fan ass and he basically
told you, yes, save that for after the game.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Hey, maybe it's fantas yet, is okay?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, the decks will be cleared on Sunday, so the
Chargers will take on the Washington Commanders kick off at
one twenty five. Matt will be here in La at
one twenty five on kf I AM six forty with
Shannon and Daniel Jeremiah. And we are happy that the
Dodgers are moving on. Scam is moving on. There's gonna
(02:17):
be another seriesers.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Do yours oops, dolliers.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Our boss is gonna make some money. There's a way
to get Scam on the app on the Clipper streaming side,
why does Dan Patrick need that much help?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Well, I think he swings a big stick pee, you know,
and perhaps somebody, look, you got scam or you got DP.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
What are you gonna do in LA? It's not even close? Right,
Someone gets a little sensitive.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, I mean sorry that people are excited about the
Dodgers for excuse us for living geez. Well, anyway, it
is time for the final hour fun fast effect.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, we're three fans.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah.
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(03:21):
and actually did sort of change their name to the
Blue Jays. Interesting a fan contest was held to find
a new nickname because the team was so terrible, had
spent literal decades of losing, were a punchline to all
the other Major League Baseball clubs, So missus Elizabeth Crooks
submitted the name blue Jays. The team designed and actually
(03:44):
used and had a blue Jay patch on their uniform
for two seasons, but the uniform still said Phillies on
the front, so while they were sort of the Blue Jays,
they weren't the Blue Jays. And then they ended up
winning the pen and in nineteen fifty they did the
Blue Jay and leaned into the Phillies fully once again.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It's interesting yesterday when we were walking around the stadium,
I noticed and remembered that at the turn of the
last century, the Brooklyn Dodgers were named the Brooklyn Superbus,
which is a pretty interesting name.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I kind of like it better than the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Oh come, man, the Superbas no hats and the Superbus.
It is superb. How good are you? We're not good?
See we're superb, that's how good. I was like, who
the hell are the Superbas?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I know they had the B on the hat, but
the name of the team was the the.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Superbas or the in cred Ables.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
In cra ably. All right, it is time for crickets.
Everybody come to.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You in this crickets.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Come make it quick, y'all.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Oh yeah, last night a very special night in the city.
And to see you DoD Dodgers and Phillies in the
NLDS game. One Sunday in the city of brotherly loved Lawyers.
One of the greatest baseball players that any of us
have ever seen. In fact, he is the greatest baseball
player any of us have ever seen. It's hard not
to take it for granted. Show Al Todi, we'll be
(05:21):
on the mound in the series opener. Here is Dave
Roberts after the win versus the Reds last night, very
happy while they were partying in the batting cages, not
in the clubhouse area.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
You know, guys stayed positive, stayed within in themselves, kept
taking good at bats, and you know, Yoshi stepped up,
you know, once again, and Addison pitches that first inning,
but you know he was locked in and for him
to get us into the seventh was huge, and us
tack on offensively, defensively, we're playing great, and you know
it's good to see rookie finish that game too.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Is rookie your closer now?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Yeah, I trust and he's gonna be pitching and leverage.
So that was you know, the more you pitch guys
and play guys, you learn more. So like I said
about Yamamoto, I don't think the moment's going to be
too big for rookie.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I mean every year is different.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
But how far do you think this team can go?
And would you like to get back to the World
Series and play the Yankees again?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
I think we can. We can win it all. I
think we're equipped to do that. We certainly have the pedigree,
we certainly have the hunger. We're playing great baseball, and
in all honesty, I don't care who we play, I
just want to, you know, be the last team standing.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Just what have you seen out of the offense the
last couple of nights to kind of keep piling on runs,
finding different ways to score like they did kind of
and then the later innings today.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I think that what we're seeing is, you know, winning pitches,
using the whole field, fighting and you know, not trying
to just slug. I think we're taking team at bats,
situation Situationally, we've been fantastic and even roared at the bottom.
You know, whether it's a sacrifice, the fight to slap
(07:04):
an O two double to the other way to get
on base. You know, we're just doing things, whether it's
to sackfly, we're doing whatever it takes, even show hey
in the situation getting a guy over to allow set
the stage for Mookie. So just team baseball, team at.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Bets and then in that eighth inning, just kind of
what were you seeing out of Emmett? What prompted you
to kind of make the move there, and kind of
how do you view him going forward after this?
Speaker 6 (07:28):
You know, I just yeah, I mean, I still I
trust him. It was his first kind of real cracket
kind of late leverage. He wasn't sharp, But I believe
in him, I really do. And I think for me,
is you know, to think that he can get through
Benson although he had count leverage, to then feel like
(07:48):
he can get through mcclaim, he would have been over
thirty pitches and I just didn't think the stuff was
a sharp And so for me, I just kind of
had a gut feeling that, you know, give Vessie a
chance to get count leverage versus andu Hall or if
they leave Benson in and I liked him against McClean
and then Freedom, So that's kind of my thought. And
you know, but Emmatt did a fine job. It's just
(08:09):
kind of just it just wasn't sharp tonight.
Speaker 9 (08:12):
Mookie's turn around this year has just been kind of insane.
Can you just kind of talk about what kind of
player he is to have that start and then now
come through like he always has and be one of
the best players in the world.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
I think it started when he just kind of just
gave up on chasing, you know, having a career year,
you know, chasing an MVP or whatever it was. I
think he just kind of was resolved to just let
that go, play for the present and the future and
play to help the team win. And I think that
just took a little bit a lot of pressure off
him and then everything kind of unveiled and he got
(08:47):
to be the player that he was and freed himself up.
And so, yeah, he's playing fantastic baseball.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
That's a good amount of stuff, meaty, but full of
great information.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
We need to have it. We need to get everybody
ready for the Dodgers. JJ Reddick, says Lebron Jays Terryo
Marcus Smart Kleeber will not play in the Laker preseason
game tomorrow versus the Suns in Palm Desert. The hell
I bought my great grandparents tickets to that they will
(09:19):
still see the premier player for your Los Angeles Lakers
and the franchise player, which is Luka Doncic face.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Of the league, according to DeAndre Ayton.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Could end up being a point of contention for a
jealous and petty Lebron James and Lebron James camp.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
We can only hope.
Speaker 10 (09:41):
I know Lebron's battling a glute injury, but if I'm Genie,
I can't be happy that we're going on this tour
around Southern California Vegas, doing the whole preseason thing, putting
the Lakers out there on display. And Lebron's gonna be
riding the bench with his son, Well, his son might pleasure.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
That's probably gonna play a lot, oh boy, And I
would wonder, as he has shared on multiple podcasts and
with multiple interviews, on multiple interviews, now is he going
to be out there swinging the club in Palm Desert?
Is it going to be trying to get out, you know,
on one of those fancy courses all the Lake Entha
or something of the Madison Club, one of those fancy.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Morning side exclusive spots.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Not good enough to play in an exhibition game for
three minutes, but good enough the cruise around in play eighteen.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Well, we'll see what happens with the Laker preseason tomorrow
in the desert.
Speaker 11 (10:36):
People said, if you ever get into the game and
the bove grab you is over it, bud grab me.
I definitely have it.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Man.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I started.
Speaker 11 (10:43):
I literally started playing in July for the first time
in my life.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
And I love everything about it.
Speaker 11 (10:47):
I think the best thing that I've gotten out of it,
besides like the how competitive and hard it is and
the mental challenge, which I love. Anything that's mentally challenging.
I love. Well, how just you just get away from
the world. You out there on the green, no phone,
no phone. My phone stays in the cart the whole time.
I check it from time to time. But it's just
like I play my music. I'm out there with my guys,
(11:08):
you out there and just in the world, and I
can lose my mind into the game of golf.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Media can't find you, Lebron. No, they can't find me.
I got it. We gotta get it. Updated. Media can't
find you, Lebron. That's worse than any of them. Golf
media can't find you, Lebron. Oh, it's so good men.
You can't edge. The media can't find you, Lebron. Lebron's
(11:33):
the one that wants to find the media. Lebron's the
one that puts out the workout videos and says all
the stupid stuff. Media can't find you, Lebron.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And Geter.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Guess who's in the media. Geter, Media can't find you, Lebron.
The first number twenty four jersey worn by Kobe Bryant
with the Lakers recently sold for eight and eighty nine
thousand dollars, including a buyer's premium at Southeby's. Kolbe wore
the jersey while posting twenty three points, one hundred and
(12:07):
eighteen one hundred and twelve victory over the SuperSonics of
all teams. How about that on November third, two thousand
and six.
Speaker 10 (12:17):
It's autographed too, So it's not just the jersey you're
gain it's an autograph from Kobe.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
It is the game warn So that's how you get
to nine hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Nine hundred though Thursday night game at Sulfi Tonight, Rams
taking on the forty nine Ers. But what about the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Home game Sunday.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
After the loss to the Giants, they continue their tour
of the NFC East. Jaden Daniels full participant in practice
after missing the previous two. He'll be out there for
the commanders, and that means our Jim Harbaugh presser delivered
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Speaker 8 (13:02):
You want to learn from it and and grow and
move forward, and in a lot of areas that uh,
that's where we we feel like we come out of
that game, you know, chasing perfection and so continue to
do that.
Speaker 11 (13:23):
What the biggest chapter.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
Uh, he's a great player. He's he's and all all
facets of of quarterback play, you know, really really really
good dual threat or uh just great, really good threat.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Yeah, was it a twenty that this is both for
her to improve in terms of his speed and just
his ability to get out.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
There's nothing there.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
He's always had that talent. He's he's very athletic, and
it impacts the game. I am positive way for us.
Speaker 11 (14:03):
What can you say about his performance on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Of course Sacks developing.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Yeah, spectacular, Uh, the way he impacted the game and
and just really really good, really consistent, you know, the
four sacks, the pressures, the the way he impacted the game.
Probably unfortunately got a little lost, you know, uh because
(14:31):
we didn't win the game. But yeah, he was he
was somebody that was, uh, you know, played really well.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
A little bit of an understated Jim Harbaugh. This week
going to be a great quarterback matchup US. He has
a bye week u c l A home on Saturday
versus Penn State Nitney Lyons Or only a twenty five
and a half point favorite. Uh, that line might move
though now that the blueout has been announced.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Could could go up the twenty seven and a half.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I thought it would go the other way.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
But oh.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Now this is what we had Don McClain on to
talk about, and he's gonna come on in the next
segment the NCUBLEA Tournament. Matt.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Yeah, they have talked about expansion and it sounds like
now it's gonna happen. It's not finalized, but the proposed
format with the television partners is to expand from sixty
eight to seventy six eight games expected, and they will
add it to what is known as the First Four.
It'll become the First eight set of four games featuring
(15:32):
the four lowest seeded automatic qualifiers and the last four
at large teams in the NCAA tournament field. The new
first twelve, actually they're gonna add eight would be referred
to as the opening round, So you get twenty four
teams playing in twelve games over the first two days.
They would take place at two different sites, but a
(15:54):
way to get out of what's really some pretty ho
hum matchups in the first four might have one or
two good ones in there to what could be a
full on, full fledged get to Vegas a day early
first round of the tournament.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
So we'll see how that plays out. And we haven't
talked hockey well in weeks, maybe months, but here we are.
Thanks for talking to hockey.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
The Anaheim Ducks have extended Jackson Lacon keep part of
their rebuilding team on a long term contract extension. Lacombe
Lacombie Lacon twenty four, signed an eight year deal. However
you pronounced his name, carries a nine million dollar average
annual data that would suggest he's one of the best
players in the league. It is the largest contract ever
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given out by the Anaheim Ducks.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Congratulations to the Ducks. Maybe inspired by the Organ Ducks
and the amount of money that they spent.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
That's fair.
Speaker 10 (16:53):
Probably not who think spends more money? That's a great question.
The Anaheim Ducks Are the Oregon Ducks the Organ Ducks?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, you think so, though, No.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I don't know. I mean, well, the Organ how much
they spend a nil is not officially disclosed, so it's
kind of hard to tell.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
The Anaheim Ducks in twenty twenty. No, it is definitely
the Anaheim Ducks. They are going to spend eighty two
million dollars on players for the twenty five twenty six season.
Do you think they would spend eighty two million bucks
on players at Oregon?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yes, all right, maybe it's the Organ doze, but I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I don't know for sure. When I found out how
much the long snapper made at Michigan State, my head
almost rolled off my shoulder.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It's a hell of a launch snapper though.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, but still, you know, guys did that for free
for years, not anymore. You're right. We'll be right back
with Don McLain on the new tournament expansion in the
beginning of the Clipper season and the Lakers season and
the NBA right here on AM II seventy LA Sports,
your home of the Dodgers, starting out on Saturday against
(17:58):
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Speaker 4 (18:22):
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Speaker 3 (18:44):
It's time to talk to our bff, the one and
only Don McClain. He was here last Friday, did a
great job filling in like he always does. Basketball is
getting fired up, and there is news in the NCAA
as well, not just Clippers and Lakers and everybody else
(19:08):
getting started. He is the leading scorer in the history
of the PAC twelve. You see him on the Big
Ten Network at FS one. He also works at CAA.
There is only one Don McClain. The next ass he
kisses will be the first. The baron of Box Canyon,
a decorated NBA player and once again the best friend
(19:30):
of the Petros. Somebody show on You're Southern California Toyota Dealer,
celebrity hotline. What's cracking?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Don?
Speaker 12 (19:36):
How are you here? We go with the Thursdays again?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I'm sorry, Don, Tomorrow we needed you today. Tomorrow is
a Baseball net prep.
Speaker 12 (19:49):
Yeah, I know, and I wonder. I'm wondering Pee and
you and I talked about it off the year. If
people have noticed that you've forgot not for God, but
not including one of the time as I used to have.
And I guess we should address it now that I'm
no longer doing the Clipper shows. Unfortunately contract was renewed
and they're moving in a different direction. But I just
(20:11):
want to say, you know, I work with so many
great people on that show. I did it for over
twenty years, starting with half John Heffner, who all your
listeners know, Micah King and those guys in the front office,
if you will. But a lot of camera people, people
on air that I worked with a lot of people
behind the scenes. We did really good work for a
long time. And as you guys know, the business is changing,
(20:32):
and the Clipper shows have changed hands a couple of
times already, and so not surprising that they're going in
a different direction. But I just wanted to make sure
that I thanked all those people that I work with
for so long, especially Darryl Lewis, who produced that show
for almost as long as I was on it, did
a great job and still continues to do a great
job on angels and other stuff he does. But yeah,
(20:54):
we're moving on. I won't miss the drive, but I'll
miss a lot of the people.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yeah, well, out of yeah, I was going to say
that drive down the one on line.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
It was one of the reasons to watch. It was
really the main reason to watch Clipper basketball.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yeah, to watch Don mccloss and his insights before and
middle and after the game, and especially back when there
was different left leadership and Don used to do the
fourth quarter or do a different quarter with Ralph Lawler.
A lot of stuff. What is your I mean, We're
going to continue to talk and ask about the Clippers
and the Lakers and all that here on the show.
(21:28):
But what what what do you think is the most
impactful thing you'll remember about working there or working with
all these different people, ownership changes, the whole crazy Donald story.
Speaker 12 (21:39):
You know, I've thought about it, Pee, and I think
that that that one sticks out the most was the
ownership change in that whole ordeal with Donald Sterling and
what happened and led to him being bounced out of
the NBA and Steve Baldmer coming in. I think I'll
remember that the most. I feel like those were you
know we used to goof around a lot on that
show in the early day, is because the Clippers weren't
(22:01):
very good, and so yeah, we used to have free
reign to do whatever we want. And it seemed like
once Steve Balmer got involved, he got serious because he
was spending money and bringing in good players, and they
had Chris Paul and Lob City and all that stuff,
and so it turned into more of a real basketball
show at that point. But it doesn't mean it was
better or worse. It just meant that it was more
(22:22):
serious because the Clippers were contenders. Unfortunately they haven't gotten
over the hump all these years, but it looks like
they have a chance this year. But yeah, I remember
a lot of that stuff, you know, from the playoff
games and uh but really that that's the one time
that really stands out if I think back over twenty years.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
So it's an interesting moment for them, don And you know,
you're I don't know how this thing is going to
get resolved. If it's going to get resolved, they don't
want to talk about it. Uh, Yet everybody continues to
ask the questions, do you think the league will come
out and make some sort of definitive statement. Do you
think they'll try to just ignore it and hope it
(23:02):
goes away? Ultimately? How do you think it ends? With
the Clippers and Kawhi and this Pablo Torri is not
given up. Man, He's now tying charity checks of one
point eight million to the Sandberg guy who ran the
company's charity fund that tied directly to KWII. It's getting
gnarly now.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
It is mad.
Speaker 12 (23:22):
But I just have this weird feeling that it just
goes away. I mean, maybe there's enough evidence that Adam
Silver gets put in the bind and he's got to
come down with some with some punishment. But here's what
I wonder, and we don't know because no one's really
spoke on except for Cuban, but he's not an owner anymore.
Is Adam Silver getting pressure from the other teams? That's
(23:43):
the question, you know, is he getting pressure from all
these teams? Say, wait a second, if they circumvented the cap,
there has to be punishment or else we're going to
do it. So that's the hard part in all this
is what are all the other teams thinking and saying
to the NBA in Adam Silver, Like you, there's enough
evidence out there that you have to punish him, But
(24:04):
we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Maybe Steve Bomber gives them somebody too.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
That would work.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
He's got enough of it, you know, maybe he could
give the WNBA some money and then that way, you know,
it's just kind of this three way deal.
Speaker 12 (24:14):
That works out exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
We were playing some sound from Laker Media Day last week.
I ort know it was earlier this week. Actually was
DeAndre Ayton and he was talking about I don't know
if you were listening to the show at the time,
but the clip was basically ate and talking about the offense,
and he said, well, you know, it's a two man game.
It's it's me and Luca. And then he talked about
how they were in the same draft and how lucas
the face of the league and how his job is
(24:39):
to make it easy for Luca. Do you think there's
any that there could be any issue with Lebron? And
because Maxi Kleeber then came in and gave that same
sort of thing and tried to circle back and bring
up Lebron as well. Do you think that in his
twenty third season, Lebron is the kind of person that
would say, yeah, I'm forty years old, it's you know
(24:59):
this the guy? Or do you think that could be
an issue for the Lakers.
Speaker 12 (25:03):
I don't think he's the kind of I don't think
he's at the point in his career. Matt Well he'll
come out and say anything. The question is in the
locker room what's being said. But I do think this,
I think Lebron, I mean, twenty three years is incredible
for any guy in any sport to still be playing.
I think what Lebron really wants, and he's a smart guy.
What he wants is this to transition into Lucas team.
(25:26):
But he wants to win going out, And I do
think for all the and I've said this and you
guys have said it for years, how polarizing Lebron is.
But I do think that, you know, listening to him
all these years, I do, I would bet that that
is his stance that look, yeah, I'm not the main guy,
Luca is, but let's win this thing before I retire.
(25:46):
That that has to be kind of his stance on
all this.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
You've mentioned it, don don McLean joining us right now
on petros and money. The Clippers do look pretty good,
like that do all the time going into the season.
We talk about the Lakers at nauseam, everybody does which
team looks better going into the season right now?
Speaker 12 (26:08):
I think the Clippers are, assuming everyone's healthy and ready
to go. They're so deep. But what they did in
the offseason with Beal and Brook Lopez and John Collins,
I mean they are deep one through fifteen pretty much,
and so we know things go wrong. We know guys
get hurt, we know guys' rest, we know all that.
And if you have a really deep team, your margin
(26:29):
for air becomes much bigger. And I just think the
Clippers have a really big margin for air with the
roster that they built in the improvement Zuba about how
the good he's gotten hardened kind of not resurrected, but
had a monster year last year. And so I just
think they got all the pieces. But the biggest thing
to me is the depth that they have across the board.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
The it's not depth, but it's I guess it's a
collection of either passed accomplishments right with the Lakers when
because to me, I look at it, I'm like, yeah,
they really needed Marcus Smart. So is Marcus Smart still
the player that I think he is don a former
Defensive Player of the Year, because they need that so
desperately since nobody else is playing any defense on the perimeter.
(27:14):
And I mean, like we talked about before when they
signed eight and I was like, man, I remember that
Ayton and that can be really good if he gets
his head on right. Yeah, more likely or less likely
that those are the guys we are going to see.
Speaker 12 (27:27):
See here's the thing, man, there's guys that are good
defenders that aren't talked about as being really good defenders.
Why because they're in a culture of non defense. And
I'm not saying that's the Lakers right now, but My
point is if your culture across the board in that
locker room, starting with the head coach, is we are
going to guard. We're going to be a good defensive team,
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then you get the best out of guys on the
defensive end, even guys that aren't known as good defenders.
If everyone else is guarding and you're the only one
that isn't, well, either you're not going to play or
you're going to really guard. And so I think it's
important for JJ Reddick to set the tone that, look,
we got enough offense with all these guys, we have
to be really good defensively. And if that's the case,
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I think a guy like Marcus Smart could raise back
to the level that he was at at one point
as a defender.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Don McClain with us see believe it or not. While
we are in the midst of the Dodgers march to
a World Series championship, basketball is back. The Lakers are
doing their standard barnstorming tour the Desert, Vegas, Santa Barbara,
all that sort of thing. The Clippers will get going
in about a week. Is it the usual? Is it
(28:37):
the Celtics in the East, Is it the thunder in
the West? Or do you think it's a little more
wide open And it's not that simple.
Speaker 12 (28:46):
I think the East is wide open. I mean wide
open because no Jason Tatum, he's saying it may come
back this year, but it ain't going to be like
before the All Star Break. I wouldn't imagine. So I
think Cleveland's got a really good chance. I think Orlando
improved themselves this offseason. The West is hard. I mean,
you have to say that the thunder of the Favorite,
(29:06):
But like the Clippers got better, the Lakers got better,
teams have gotten better, the Warriors even got better. And
so yes, yes, the thunder of the Favorite right now.
But I think the West is going to be incredibly competitive,
and I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't the thunder
the number one seed in the West down.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
By the time you stopped calling college basketball games. The
tournament's going to have more teams than are playing in
Division One. They're expanding the tournament. It looks like they're
talking about expanding the tournament even more. I don't know
if these neutral site arenas are going to attract fans
(29:45):
for you know, the fortieth seed, but what do you
make I mean Obviously there's money to be made with
postseason college sports. We see it with the football playoff,
and the tournament is a huge money maker. But is
this watering it down too much?
Speaker 12 (30:03):
Well, you just said it.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Pee.
Speaker 12 (30:04):
They don't care. They don't care if it waters it
down or not. They're going to make money off the
TV deal. Even if ten people show up to these
regional sites, they're still getting the TV money and that's
all they care about. And so it's unfortunate that that's
what it's come to in all of college sports, that
we don't care what the product really is as long
as we can make more money. But the tournament as
perfect as it is. You know, I think that the
(30:26):
first four in games are fine, but now you're stretching
it to even more of those.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
A separate tournament for the tournament.
Speaker 12 (30:35):
Yeah, yeah, Like it doesn't make any sense. We all
know why they're doing it, But you know, what's the fallout?
Are people not going to watch it? Probably not? So
why not we go ahead and do it? Make more
TV money?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:48):
I think you know, the way that it's being described
is that it would be twelve games, Like the opening
round isn't four, it's twelve, So it's a full on
two day, six games a day, and I guess the
one is I'm trying to sort of I don't know
if you want to call it putting lipstick on a
pig or glasses half full. I do feel don and
(31:09):
I don't know if you would agree. I feel like
college basketball is better. You know, the money that these
guys are getting paid. Some guys are staying back. It
feels like we got more teams that are a little
bit better. I really thought the tournament was incredibly compelling
this last year. Do you think that's fair, Like, hey,
maybe more games because I feel like it's a better
product than we had when these guys were all one
(31:30):
and done.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
And it was just.
Speaker 12 (31:33):
But this is like an hour conversation, man, you know
what I mean. It's like there's so many different angles
and ways to look at it. Is it better that
college basketball players are making over a million dollars a year?
Some would say yes, some would say no. I do
think you're right in the sense that it's more competitive.
Teams are better because you're playing with twenty two and
twenty three year olds. You're not playing with eighteen year olds,
(31:54):
so their experience of matter how many schools they've already
been at. They understand college basketball because been in it
for four or five years, and so that seems like
it's going to continue. They're talking about having this new
five years no matter what. So you don't have to
have a grad year. There's no more COVID year. So
now if you get five years, like, everybody's going to
(32:14):
be old, especial if you're making money. And so I
think from that, just what you said, Matt, that standpoint,
I think the product is better because you have guys
that have been in college for longer.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Great stuff. The product's always better when Don McClain joins
the show.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Especially on a Thursday. True, well, I don't know if
it feels that way.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Don enjoy the playoffs and we'll talk next week. Thanks
a lot for doing it, Okay, guys. Classy stuff on
the Clippers too.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Indeed, you know me, I wouldn't have been classy. I'd
have been petty.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
That's a true statement.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I haven't handled the challenge thing that well.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Yeah, I would have thought you'd have been a little
more gracious. They are celebrating twenty years, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Yeah, where's my where's my gratitude.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Just to ask Mario, He'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
We'll be right back. Petro some Money on M five
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Speaker 3 (33:39):
Mercifully coming to an end is the Petros and Money Show,
a four hour show, a lot of fun. Great to
talk to Spilly, great to talk to Don McClain by
scam coming up in the morning at six a m.
You can stream it on the Clippers. I heeart app
(34:00):
that that was some very interesting pushback that we received yesterday,
and the pushback was.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Ill can see well, I think, uh, you know, you
have a David Vass that's wagging his thing in our
face for a while, you catching strays on that front,
and uh, you have a Dodger victory. Everybody's feeling pretty good.
I think it opens the door for some dragon of
the d across the dirt.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Let me walk in like a rooster. I am styling
seven innings, nine strikeouts, winning Game one.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Whoa, whoa, it really was yeah, amazing.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
He took a he took a soda bottle level stream
to the face from Blake trying.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Oh, it was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I mean it was a fire rose of shame.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Were playing it on Spoks on Sports Center.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
It was so it was a fire hose of champagne
to his face from trying. And it's definitely warned.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I mean it was like we truly was.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
We've discussed it like it was like watching a Woody
woodpecker or bugs Bunny show where this show.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
What he said when he did it. There's your exclusive time,
soa explain you know a lot of frustration and that
bullpen matters. So what a great day for the Dodgers yesterday.
We'll have four hours again tomorrow that starts at three
(35:31):
o'clock and the series begins on Saturday. But don't forget
scam tomorrow at six a m. Tim Kates and Steve
Sacks getting you ready with a cheese steak taste test
or some kind of Philly Philly accent comparison that's.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
A good one, right, like a Rocky impersonation.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
But right now it is time for the Dead Guy.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Birthday of the Dead Guy pe one of the better ones.
Jack Parsons Happy would have been one hundred and eleventh
to the and we've done them before, but god, I
love the story. American rocket scientist, inventor, occultist. Parsons born, raised,
died in Los Angeles. He was born Marvel white Side Parsons,
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but he went by Jack. I should have done that.
I always wanted to be a Jack. I don't know
how you get Jack out of Marvel or white Side,
but he did. From a young age, he was way
into science fiction and space and the idea of traveling
to space, and he wanted to build rockets that could
reach the stars. And remember, back then it's pre Space Program,
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nineteen twenties, nineteen thirties, it was a foolish thought that
rockets were anything more than a fantasy. But nineteen thirties
Jack Parsons began building and testing rocket engines with a
couple pals in Pasadena, like in a field, testing a rocket,
launching it to the skies. Just a couple of dudes.
(37:05):
He never earned a college degree. His skills, though, in
chemistry and explosives, made him and earned him entry into
the scientist community, where he was very respected. He was
the co founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which we
obviously know, well, we got some listeners in there, just there.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
In a flint ridge lacka yatamasel.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
JPL of course still and later would help build rockets
for NASA. He also helped start a company called Aerojet,
which made rocket engines for the US military. So despite
the lack of education, this dude knew what he was doing.
Parsons made a lot of important discoveries in rocket science.
His work basically laid the foundation for the space race
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and future space exploration.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
But a big butt well what happened?
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Not brilliant scientist, but he was also a bit rebellious
and a little weird.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
A guy that builds rockets and is brilliant is a
little rebellious and weird. Who would have guessed he had
a like a guy that has a rocket that comes
back to Earth and caught by two giant robot arms.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
A little weird.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
He had a deep interest in the occult. Oh yes,
way into the supernatural.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Is this the guy with the weird Church in Silver Lake.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
This is our guy was that became close with l
Ron Hubbard. That's how we know Parsons. He joined a
group called the Ordo templey Orienteese the teachings of p
Aleister Crowley, the famous controversial occultist. He believed that science
magic and science and magic could work together. Exploring both
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would help people reach their full potential. And it was
nineteen forty five when he meets l. Ron Hubbard, the
science fiction writer. Of course, for those that don't know,
I'm sure everybody does, but he's the founder of the
Church of Scientology. Hubbard also interested in the occult. He
and Parsons become close friends. They do magic together series
of ceremonies called Babylon Working. Parsons believe they were going
(39:07):
to summon a powerful goddess to bring a new age
into the world. This is what you're dealing with in science. Anyway,
he trusted Hubbard. He entered a business deal basically gave
him all of his money and sadly, his girlfriend Sarah Northrop.
They were investing in a boat selling company, but Hubbard
(39:28):
disappeared with the loot with Sarah. It crushed Parsons emotionally financially,
tried to sue to get his money back, couldn't and basically,
even though he continued to work in rocketry and magic,
he could not find stable work. The word was out
that he was a weird hoo hanging out with Hubbard
into the occult, and the government, of course at that time,
(39:50):
suspicious of people for anything, let alone people that were
into the occult. He died in fifty two at thirty
seven years old, when his laboratory or he exploded during
an accident. Some though, say that Hubbard did it, and
that's what some say. They say, maybe maybe Jack Parsons
(40:10):
was murdered. Wow, what a weird story that would have
been one hundred fourteen today. But that's Jack Parsons JP
of JPL, that's the dude. That is basically it's jet propulsion,
but it was also Jack Parsons laboratory.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Well for the Alive guy. Singer songwriter out of Athens, Alabama,
Britney Howard is only thirty seven years old. She got
started pretty young as far as being in everybody's line
of sight. A right tackle of a woman, half black
(40:48):
family home was in a junkyard and the family home
once burned down due to a lightning strike. She had
an older sister that died when she was young, which
is sad from retinal blastoma, but the sister taught her
piano and poetry. Brittany Howard also had the disease retnal
(41:10):
blastoma like her sister, but survived with partial blindness in
one eye. She went to East Limestone High in Athens,
where she met what would be the bassist for her
first band, The Alabama Shaks, Zach Cockrell, and after high school,
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she went into the workforce, becoming a male carrier, a
postman postperson.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yeah, I think you know, I think you had it,
first postal.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
Carrier, then a full time career in music as the
lead singer of Alabama Shaks. Alabama Shaks took off after
playing bars and doing covers. Their first album of original
stuff two twelve was Boys and Girls and became an
(42:03):
indie crossover hit, and their next album was very good
the sophomore effort, but they only have and that sound
in color. Alabama Shakes only has two albums. She was
in various other projects, two solo albums. She has a
band called Thunderbitch and a hardcore punk project called Kumite
(42:31):
or Kumaite that started from earlier this year. I've not
heard Kite, Yeah, a hardcore punk project. Have you heard Thunderbitch?
That one's on heavy rotation in the car?
Speaker 4 (42:44):
I do not think I have heard that either. I
do love the Alabama Shakes and.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Just two albums. They haven't done anything for ten years
that's been solo. She won a Grammy for Best Rock
Song in twenty twenty one, a solo song. She hails
from the Aisle and was married to a lady, but
only for a year. It's hard to be married to
(43:08):
an alignment.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
I always felt like she bears a resemblance to Rashaun Slater.
He's a left tackle, so you think she's more of
a right Yeah, you like her on the right side.
Her kickback is not as strong at s. Big lady
and a great singer. Seems like a nice person.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
Don't forget to wake up early and get your Dodger
fixed with scam as. We got Dodgers dogs, Tilly Saturday
and great sports talk Till there have a great night, everybody, Sir,
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