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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (01:08):
Davidssay has got Will Smith tonight for Dodger Talk. I
guess that evil poisoned pen letter that Clyle sent Will
Smith and his wife didn't affect David Vasse's ability to
get an interview with the back to back World Series
Champion Catcher.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Ha, how you like that? Huh? Turns out Will and
David get along famously. Real nice stick to your cast rules,
Say Matt, what were you doing over there at the
remote arguing with an old lady that can't walk for
about fifteen minutes? What are you up to? Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
You know, just sitting here giving away hand me down.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
We each have our rules, yeah, we sure do, man,
when we got to fill them.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
It is time for the Final Hour Fun Facts Funny Effects.
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Speaker 2 (02:15):
Our fun fact The WBC is underway tonight. We have
Australia versus Chechia. As you know, in nineteen thirty two
and Australia, the Great Emu War took place, addressing a
public concern of too many EMUs destroying crops in the
Campian district of Western Australia. Get some brines. This here's
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an alpaca coming out of World War One. The Royal
Australian Artillery, armed with Lewis guns were called in, thinking
they could herd the EMUs into an ambush situation, but
the EMUs were quick to adapt. Yeah, dude, they had
those big, long ass necks. They would split into small groups.
They would spread out, making it hard to target. So
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they mounted the guns ontos, but the EMUs were so
fast that driving over the rough terrain made it too
hard to keep up to get off an accurate shot.
Their dreams of point blank fire into masses of EMUs
soon dissipated as the EMUs broke into groups, had one
bird keep watch as their general and then send signals
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when it sensed that something wrong was afoot. They were
supposed to kill tens of thousands of EMUs. How many
did they get? Fifty? Oh? Come on, guys. The emu's
one and the Australian Army had to surrender after two months, saying.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Crockett's if you sent mel Gibson and that other guy
from Gallipoli, they would have had it taken care of him.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That I couldn't. But I have said, well, how are you?
They killed fifty? Well? Their claims were two hundred. But
they were supposed to kill like ten thousand, right, yeah,
they could. They couldn't rain death on him from a
helicopter or something. I believe, like twenty years later they
did the raining death from a helicopter. Guess what twenty
years later, smaller event, Charley, old man, I'm doing it
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for you. They have made a fool of you.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
But it's like starship troopers or they're all getting killed
by the bugs, crickets.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Toms quickets. I'll make it quick, y'all. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Today, in the desolate desert of western Phoenix, Goodyear, Arizona,
the Dodgers face the Reds monthly worst deep Max Munsey
hit a jack.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Max swings and hammers this sweer center field to the
right of the battle's eye and wag on. Max Macy
with a home run, his first of the spring, and
it's now six to two.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Same.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Max is feeling better than he did a few days ago,
who was under the weather.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
It's his first since he homer in the eighth inning
of Game seven in the five World Series. Doyers Dave
Roberts said before the game that because of injuries to
Tommy Edmond and Keith Kay Hernandez. Second baseman Santiago Espinal
is likely to make the opening day roster. Espinal hit
two home runs today.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
And he's just got another one.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Oh my goodness, Santiago Espinal with a three run home run.
He has driven in five runs and given in the
Dodgers their first lead of the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
The table was shot and Espinal showed up ready to eat.
Remember Dave told us about Espinal way way way before
Jack Harris wrote about it. How could I forget? I remember?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Daniel Hudson, Matt Aaron Judge is talking. He is said
he wear that gap in his teeth.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
As we have discussed, none of the players are gonna
take on the Dodgers, considering the CBA is coming up
and everyone's trying to avoid a salary cap on the
player's side. Judge asked about the Dodgers quote trying to
get the best product on the field, finding a way
to maximize whatever they can to get the best players.
I wish a lot more teams found a way to
do that. He wasn't the only Yankee to show praise
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for the Dodgers. Former bruint Garrett Cole said, quote maximizing
their efficiency, getting contracts that make them better quality. It's
within the rules and belly, the former Dodger said, quote,
Obviously I was lucky enough to start my career there
and see how it all operates even when I was there.
It's a well oiled machine from top down, drafting, scouting,
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the trades they make, and obviously they have the finances
to spend. It's better what they do having all these
assets and not spending. Allocate your resources promote the best
product on the field. That's really good. It would be
really bad if it was the other way around.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I can't believe this guy's a baseball player. He should
have gotten into some kind of public oration like Chaucer.
You guys are like Chaucer, Matt. The Lakers are in
Denver taking on.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
House nuggets, exactly what we're like. They're the sixth seed
in the West. I think the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
He wasn't telling us we were like Chaucer. It was
Charlie and Rick who were like Chaucer. That's what Don Martin,
that was the Don Martin Chaucer comparison. It wasn't you
and I.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
No, that would never happen. We're just a couple. You're
and you're the Miller's tile. I think the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I don't know what those things are, but I'm gonna
make a Chaucer reference. The Clippers are thirty and thirty one.
They beat the Pacers last night.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Oh, they get that win over the Spurs, Man, and
you're gonna hit it before the end of the year.
Ning Ning Ning Ning Ningling ning Ning. Darius Garland had
twelve points and eighty cents in the wind. Now he
looked good.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
The Clippers are nine seed in the West. They were
in San Anton tomorrow to take on the Spurs. Here's Tylo.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I thought it was good. You know, got to get
the ball in his hands more, you know, Butt a
lot of guys was deferring than being because it's his
old team and he was playing well, you know, so
just you know, got to gave him up to speed,
get his rhythm, his timing. But he overall thought was
pretty good.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Thanks ty that was very insightful. You know what I
would do with that sort of information emergency YouTube pod
in the wee hours of the morning to get all
the way to listen. I just wanted to do the
emergency pod. I had some things to say after the game,
about Darius carl and I thought it was time to
do an emergency pod.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I know, Freddie, I'm over here on YouTube side doing
the sablecast right.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Now, doing a simulcast. But you cut a little crossfire.
How are you like, you know, just doing a simul
here on the tube on the tube side, you know, hello, hello, hullo.
Get it made him out to be Napoleon Diner.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
That's what he sounds like. The Buffalo Bills traded a
second round pick for Bears wide receiver Dj Moore, and
all eyes are still on Max with two exes Crosby
and if he will be traded so we mentioned earlier,
the Cowboys thought they had a deal done and Max
was going to be wearing the star on the side
of his helmet. Instead, they held and realized other teams,
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recognizing a deal was possibly about to be consummated up
the ante, either trying to force the Cowboys to pay more,
or they may be willing to meet the reader's price
of two first round picks in exchange for one of
the best defensive players in all the land. Sound from
Max Crosby's conversation with Jerry Jones on the phone is
as follows.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Hello, Hello, split us. That's a thing man of buets
and work.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Not the NC double A booth is going down to
the grove and cutting down their chandelion. Trinidad Chamberler's preliminary
injunction is getting appeal by the NC double A, which
granted him eligibility for twenty twenty six. In the six
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hundred and fifty eight page filing to the Mississippi State
Supreme Court today, it's just game log the NC double
A all of his game logs from the magical, asking
the court it actually documents every tough breath when he
had trouble breathing a few years back.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Every single breath he took and then he took documented
and it was labored, and then he took it labored.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
They're asking the court to overrule the injunction and expedite
the ruling.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Now you're gonna let these Yankees down here to Mississippi
and try to instill their law, maybe from Farris State,
but he is ours. Now, last time I checked, this
is a Mississippi problem, a Mississippi case and a Mississippi verdict,
and we will stand by said verdict and a Mississippi plan.
(11:19):
So I do not care. If I earned my juris
doctorate from the University of Mississippi, it had absolutely zero
bearing on my decision. Sir Sir, I did receive my masters.
I will not have your Yankee ass come on down
here and tell us how to conduct our legal affairs.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
A judge in a bankruptcy lawsuit filed against Shiloh Sanders
has denied Shiloh and his request to dismiss a complaint
alleged he violated bankruptcy law. This is way back from
twenty fifteen. Remember Shiloh Sanders beat up a security guard
at his high school in Texas really badly and was
ordered to pay twelve million dollars, but filed for bankruptcy,
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claiming he had no money and no income. Since he
filed for bankruptcy, Shiloh got paid nil at Colorado.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And it may makes sense because you know, he was
a highly desired college football player. That's Shiloh Sanders. So
I'm sure the million dollars that he got paid by
Colorado to go there was earned.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
None of the money went to the injured security guard.
And he's saying, hey, I can't hear over here. I
was beaten senseless by that high school players out there
dancing like a hillbilly.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Driving a Lamborghini. I don't like wearing a fancy watch.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
So not a great situation though with Shiloh Sanders, although
this has been looming over him.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
What is with the Sanders family since high school? Like?
What is now? That the inaugural magical season? Now what
shaudor just sped around a little bit? It's nuts? Should
door never beat anybody senseless or silly that we know of.
But after their incredible start to the season knocking off
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a top five rank coming out of the national semifinal TCU.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
That was the very first game, first game. Then TCU
ended up being quite mediocre that year.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Because I think they won four games that year if
I remember right, the Colorado team, and because it fell
apart quickly correct after their hot start, they got blown
out by Stanford at home stuff like that. The next
year they win like eight games I think, and go
to almost won the Alamo Bowl. Almo retired Shador's number,
and Travis Hunter h Shiloh Theclaires bankruptcy driving the Lamborghini
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pilot of all ten parking tickets with Travis Hunter.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
When I say this, I want you to think of
Coach Prime and his big stupid hat and his big
stupid glasses and his big stupid car heart overalls.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I forgot about the glasses that he made millions of
corrallers on coming out of the tunnel. A lot of
hat no count.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah, but they made a lot of money and everybody
got their TV ratings for a couple year, And much
like a Dodger reliever, everybody's ready to deposit the buffs
where buffalo chips belong.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
We all regret things that we say. I just wonder
if we'll ever regret regret saying something as much as
a certain someone regrets saying It's not about what Coach
Prime can do for Colorado. It's about what Colorado can
do for Coach Prime. If you want him to stick.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Around, well, what they can do is bring out a
little porta potty for him, because get it sponsored. Tomorrow
is the NHL trade deadline.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Chains might make a move. Well, they've already made a
move by installing an interim coach after mister Hiller was
showing the door the Ducks. Mister Hiller, here's the door,
top five team in the Western Conference, and are looking
to add a vet Kings will play tonight. Ducks. I
like when they do this. Ducks skate tomorrow at home
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versus Leis habbiton the montree All Canadians.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
As Canadian guy tried to rape the Flamingo out and uh,
I wouldn't say it so proudly.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
We did discuss that earlier. That is unfortunate Las Vegas
flaming all.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
We'll be back with more Petros and Money Dan and
a live Guy Berta the day at six forty five
and at seven Dodger Talk with Dave.
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AM five seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app had clips last night. Took care of the Pacers.
They will play again tomorrow, a step up in competition
with the Spurs tipping off at six thirty right here
on AM five seventy LA Sports. Last night he was.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Just hanging around, But the night before that UC LA
Nebraska he was calling it. Our dear friend Don McLay,
the leading score in the history of the University of
California in Los Angeles, a hero to us all to
discuss basketball. He's been joining us for the twenty years
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that the show has been on. That wearing snake is
his Twitter. Maybe we'll effort a post FS one, c AA,
Big ten network, not in that order.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
On the Southern California Toyota.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Neither celebrity hotline more Toyota soakoun I'm not sure which
one goes first.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Don. We hope you're well? How are you?
Speaker 7 (16:41):
How dare you say? I was just hanging around last night.
I had you're alma mater in Seattle?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh my god? How did they look without the site?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
You, bob?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Not so much?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
No fight, I'll fight out what happened?
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Don?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
What happened up there in the Emeralds.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
It was actually a really good game for about twenty
five minutes, and then Washington blew him out at the end.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Oh, sprinkle sprinkled is very dust all over him? Hey there,
what has to happen for? You know, I don't know
if you want to share the details if you know
the details, But how bad does it have to get?
If you've paid a guy, you know, a million bucks
or something. He's twenty six and he's your leading scorer
and Big ten tournaments about to start, and he decided
to move on from him.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Well, first of all, it's more than a million bucks.
Second of all, I think there's been stuff going on
all year, like we don't know exactly what, but just
kind of being around the program and doing as many
of their games as I have. There's he's an emotional player,
and I think an emotional kid, and he's been he's
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at his six school, he's twenty six years old, and
I just think that, you know, it had to have
been something that or some things, because before they let it,
you know, let him go. I mean, they were squarely
on the bubble and had a chance to get into
the NCAA tournament and losing last night pretty much takes
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them out of it. It have to beat Ucla and
then on Saturday and then probably win four or four
games at least in the Big Ten tournament to get in.
So unfortunate situation.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
But I guess they just had enough of them and
I would assume on the flip side of that showdown
on Saturday, UCLA feels like they punched their ticket with
that victory over Nebraska to go with the wins over
Purdue and Illinois at home. Does that feel right, No.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Doubt, No, doubt I did that game the other night,
I said it. They won that game, they were in,
they were already in. But I think that just made
it so there wouldn't be any nervousness on selection Sunday.
That went over Nebraska. But to me, more importantly, that
was their best game of the year for forty minutes.
Nebraska is a really good team, and they handled them defensively. Offensively,
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they look great. And the biggest thing for me on
the offensive side is bill it oh only I think
had six points and they still blew out Nebraska. So
that's a good sign that everybody else playing well. And
you hope they can keep the momentum going into the
Big Well Saturday against UFC and then into the Big
Ten Tournament, then hopefully in the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
One off the menu. There don outside of the Big Ten,
U C, L, A USC the big story in college
basketball is Miami of Ohio and do they have to
win their tournament? And how can you keep a team
that's gonna win thirty games out of the tournament. And
people are saying it's the problem with the super conferences
and the Big Ten's now got to get eight teams
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and the SEC has to get ten teams. Hey, Wally
Serbiak's now walking through that tunnel. Man, where do you
come out on the shade being thrown at Miami of
Ohio versus a team like, you know, Auburn or whatever
Big ten team you want to choose getting in with
like eighteen wins.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Yeah, it's just such a hard argument because you'd love
to see Miami of Ohio play one of those teams
and just see what it looks like. Are they overmatched?
Like if they played a Big ten team or an
SEC team, would it not look right? Because you know
that's the argument. Well, Auburn and whoever plays a much
difficult schedule, the conference schedule, and so they're a better team.
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But I think you have to reward this Miami of
Ohio team for the season they've had, you know, and
you know this, The selections now are so data driven,
and we had a call a couple of weeks ago,
and like it was way over my head all this stuff.
There's so many analytics and metrics and all this stuff.
And I guess that point's away from Miami of Ohio.
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But if they don't lose a game, like you have
to put them in the tournament. I don't care what
the metrics say.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Me too, I feel the same way. It's also the
cradle of coaches football. They have a statue of Sean McVay.
It's three feet high. The great Don McClain is our guest,
the one and only leading scorer in the history of
the PAC twelve. And everybody knows McClain knows who's in
or out of the tournament. UCLA's in, USC's out. North
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Ridge never had a chance.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Hey, Don, You're going to the Big ten tournament next week?
What is that like for you? Have you gotten used
to going to the Big ten conference tournament as opposed
to Vegas in all those years for the PAC twelve,
it's different.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
But I will say, you know, and this is no
knock against the old PAC twelve, because I love the
conference and played it in property.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
You had a pool party, Don, You had a pool party. Yeah,
annual pool party last year.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
It felt different than a PAC twelve tournament because in
the old PAC twelve there were a few teams that
travel pretty well. But like this man, like Arizona travel
like when Arizona was playing t mobile was full. Last year,
every game was full, and so in the proximity. It
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was an indie last year. This year it's in Chicago.
I get it that. Maybe it's a little closer, but
it's just it's it's bigger. It feels bigger, it's louder.
Some could argue there's more on the line for more teams.
I mean, that's not even an argument. There is versus
the old Pac twelve. But it's fun. Last year I
did studio. This year, I'm going to be doing games,
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so I'm looking forward to that. On Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Look, hey, you know, maybe a drink out with Matt
money Smith. You know a lot of people want to
be with Matt, but I'm sure he could fit you in.
We had a drink last year, and I'm sure he
could fit you into his schedule this year. Don I mean,
very exciting for everybody involved.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
I don't mind. I don't mind grabbing a drink. You
can say that.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
All right, Well we'll have that clip though. I thought
he was gonna follow, but I'm not having dinner with
that kid.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, well, you know, maybe if you take her to
the park approved. Don The Lakers seem to be just
as good as whoever they're playing, right or or or
if they're or as bad as whoever they're playing. If
it's somebody good, they're bad. If it's somebody bad, they're good. Hey,
are we just gonna toil like this for the rest
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of the season with nothing to talk about until.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
They start fighting?
Speaker 7 (23:22):
That's interesting you say that piece. So if that is
the case, what you just said, what's the what's the
denominator that makes that happen? Defense?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, there we go. That was I was going to
say it, but you said it first.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Defense. When you're when you're not great defensively, you beat
the crap out of they're not so good teams. But
when you run into good teams, you have problems because
you have to rely on your defense when playing the
upper echelon in the NBA, and they're just we've been
talking about all years, they're just not consistently good enough
on the defensive end to be consistently beating the good teams.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Does Luca like, does he have a disease about complaining
to the refs? I mean it's almost like he's lost
his mind, like he can't control himself at all. Is
that who he always was?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Well?
Speaker 7 (24:13):
I think so. I think it's gotten a little. I
feel like it's gotten a little worse. But coaches are
like that too, you know. I Mean there's guys that
they get after the officials no matter what, whether whether
you know, any call that goes against them, They're going
crazy on the officials, and it's like every call against
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your team can't be wrong. And the same with Luca,
Like every time you go to the basket, you can't
you can't expect a foul. And so I just think
that's that's the way they do it, that's the way
they've always done it, and that's who they are.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Does it surprise you? And I don't know how much
because you're so deep into the college basketball season, don
and I don't know if you have time to watch
the talking heads as it pertains to the NB, But
does it surprise you that Luca is taking the amount
of incoming that he's taking this season, people, you know,
talking about how much he complains about the officials, talking
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about how he doesn't play defense, that his teams aren't
beating other great teams. Is that fair? Is it not fair?
Is this still a team that was built around Lebron
and the pieces don't fit around Luca? Or are these
things that maybe the Mavericks had figured out and decided
they just didn't want to be in business with him anymore.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Well, i'll tell you this, Matt, and you're right. I
don't watch a lot of the talking heads, but I
kind of see what they say. But I will tell
you this, and I never talked about when I played,
but sometimes it's appropriate. So I was a guy that
got after the officials. A lot people don't like it.
They don't like watching it, they don't like you doing it.
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And on much lower scale I did it. But at UCLA,
you know, I got technicals and all that, and it
really turned a lot of people off. And so I
think that's why nobody wants to watch a great player
play great but bitch at the officials the entire game,
like literally, And so I kind of know that from
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my own experience. Now I got better at it because
I have to. I never played at the level Lucas
is in the NBA, but I have a feeling that's
what it is. Is guys were really turned off watching
him complain the entire game. That's not once in a while,
it is literally the entire game.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Well to turn us off, don you would have to
go full Sharon More, which is a pregnant, a fat
white girl break into her house.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I don't know if I would say, fat.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Gee, ow, she's got a winter coat on and it's
called out there, and hold a butter knife to your
throat and threaten to kill yourself and her.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
And we only put you on every other Yeah, and then.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
We'd be like, I don't know if Don can be
a weekly we might have to cut his pay, but
I mean, that's what you would have to do, Don
to turn us off. We don't care how much you're
complaining to the officials, But how do you make a
guy stop if he can't control himself?
Speaker 7 (27:07):
You don't. I mean, that's the thing when when players
get to that level in the NBA, his level, there's
nothing you can do. What are you going to find
him twenty grand every time he gets a tech? I mean,
I don't even know what techs are anymore, what they
find players for, but it's probably laughable compared to what
they make. It used to be five grand, like it
was two grand, and it was five grand for the
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next whatever, for the next one in a game. I
don't know what it is anymore, but I'm sure Guys
making fifty million aren't even flinching when they get ten
grand taken out of their check for a technical you know. So,
I don't know how you stop it.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
To be honest, no matter how bad it gets, no
matter where it is, you can always say it's not
as bad as cal State Bakersfield. No, thank you, Don
d What do you mean, fixed, Don? Did you hear
about cal State baco Don?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I did not. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
One of their assistant coaches was pimping cross for state.
He had a bunch of math and weed, and old
coach Barnes had to step down.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Really yeah, yeah, wow. So I'm glad that they I'm
glad that they.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Look in his defense. An assistant at cal State Bakersfield
doesn't make very much money.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Three thousand month, that's what it was. You got to
supplement that income.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
This was a very very questionable side hustle, and I'm
just glad Trent didn't end up as a roadrunner. Appreciate
you done. Have a great night, Don McClain. Ladies and gentlemen,
The best of the best coming up next Dead and
a Live Guy Birthday of the Day and then Dodger
Talk with Will Smith.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
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on Demand.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Thanks for listening everybody, Petros and Money happy to be
with you.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Tomorrow. We will be on a Flex Alert.
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Alert tat Perfect Flex our favorite two to five thirty
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Speaker 2 (29:38):
You know there's a big show on Sunday too, Matt
uh the State of Michigan Showdown, and that is huge.
Here in LA tip off at one thirty pm. Tim
Kate's going to be on the pre half the post coverage.
What a coincidence. So Michigan v. Michigan State, number three
Michigan versus number eight Michigan State will do battle at
(29:59):
one our Big Ten college hoops as they get ready
for the Big Ten tournament to commence next week. You'll
hear that right here on.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
HANFI seventy LA Sports. All right, your dead guy birthday
of the day would have been ninety nine today, but
he's been dead.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
For a while.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
John Joseph Edward Cassidy to Jack American actor, director, singer,
and a flamboyant man of the theater. Father of David
Cassidy and Sean and Patrick Cassidy, who are the half
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brothers of David Cassid. Born in New York, started out
as a star on Broadway. He won a Tony for
She Loves Me, and on TV he was Strong, Gun, Smoke, Bewitched,
Get Smart, Hawaii five, Oh Damn Barnaby Jones. I know
(31:07):
one show would love, one show that would really react
to that better.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Than you did.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Three Columbos. He was Ted Baxter, Barnaby Jones.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
On Mary Tyler Moore.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
He was Ted Baxter from seventy to seventy seven, even
though he died in seventy six. I loved him as
a flamboyant informer in Clint Eastwood's The Eiger Sanction, and
that is what I remember him from. If we could
listen to the clip from The Eiger Sanction, one of
(31:42):
your favorites, man, I'm sure he plays the gay assassin
the Best who upset Clint Eastwood because he.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Kills his partner.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
He was involved and here he is talking to Clint
Eastwood at the pool at the Eras on a resort
where Clint Eastwood is learning training to climb Tiger.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Who's a world champion.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
But they all, Oh, it.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Must seem odd to you that I've looked you up
after all these years, did you see, Jonathan, I'm.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I'm grown very tired of waiting for you to step
up behind me one day and relieve me of existing
stepping up behind your method miles ooo, right into your face. Yes,
I'm sure you would. However, that does not enhance my.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Cool lobby over Soon, Funnily enough, I find myself in
a very strong bargaining position.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Forget it that even curs.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
You've betrayed the book listen, Asia, and we live no
thanks to you.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Now you people have killed insuring I didn't actually kill him.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
You know, well I probably won't actually kill you.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
See it's fair little comfort.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Ton Rie was a worthless alcoholic and I abhor sloppy drugs. Yeah,
his first marriage, what's the Evelyn Ward? Who is David
Cassidy's mom? The teen idol? Then he married the star
shirty Jones. Oh, she had three other sons with him.
(33:31):
Cassidy was bisexual, kept his same sex affairs real low,
real low.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
No, he could do that back then, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
But apparently he had one with composer Cole Porter. Oh
when he's forty nine, he burned himself to death on
a naga Hyde couch when he dropped a cigarette while
he was asleep.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Are you okay, man, it's just nauga hide? You know
that's what got you kind of the you know, fancy
word for vinyl. If you're what's his name, John Joseph
Edward Jack Cassidy, famous Jack cas I was trying to
use all four You would like to think that maybe
you could have a real leathers opposed to a nagae couch.
(34:23):
That saw that kind of took me back. Well, maybe
he was, like, you know, in the back room of
a bar or something, and not his home. Now it
was in his apartment in West Hollywood. This nauga hide
is easy to clean. There is a durable, high.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Performance artificial leather brown developed in nineteen fourteen.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Well, you shouldn't have a cigarette on it, I know, clearly.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
I mean they had to identify him by his fraternity
rail Terrible. Later in life, he was often seen stark
naked watering his lawn. He was bipolar. Grammy and Tony
nominated for two Primetime Emmys.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Jack Jack Jack Cassiley, all right, Pee, you're a live guy.
I like that. Michael Lewis Moneyball, Big Short, Liars, Poker,
all very very popular the writer, but going infinite I
believe to be the best of all his books. About
Sam Bankman Freed ore a live guy birthday to day?
Was he a con artist, a financial criminal or a
(35:29):
wildly altruistic let's make all kinds of money and use
it to save the world. Good guy that just caught
a bit of bad luck. The book lot sewn DeLorean
and well he was entrapped. The story is told you
want to read a Delorian. I know a guy on
both sides and here years later after reading it, still
(35:53):
can't decide about Bankman Freed, So let's talk about it.
Thirty four today he is incarcerated, named fraudster. According to
the courts. Sam Bankman Freed born in Stanford. Both parents
were professors at the university. Incredibly bright kid, as you
would imagine, mit two degrees, but you know light work,
physics and math. In twenty thirteen he landed a coveted
(36:16):
internship at Jane Street Capital. Quickly outthought and outperformed. Full
salaried long tenured employees. When it came to high frequency
trading in arbitrage, he was offered a position the moment
he graduated. After a few years, decided he was tired
of making hundreds of millions of dollars for those folks
and instead wanted to save the world. Took a job
(36:39):
at the Center for Effective Altruism and from there he
co founded Alameter Research. Under the same principles, he gets
into crypto early again, focuses heavily on arbitrage, took advantage
of price differences for cryptocurrencies across the different exchanges, practiced
what was called the kim Chiep premium. Bitcoin traded at
(37:02):
significantly higher prices in South Korea than other markets, so
he would buy crypto elsewhere and sell it there before
the clocks could catch up. Made huge profits. So he
launches FTX in twenty nineteen and well it took off
his exchange FTX. The crypto exchange gained a reputation for
(37:23):
offering advanced trading features like derivatives, leverage tokens, also market
itself aggressively Tom Brady super Bowl commercials, and within a
couple of years it was the largest crypto exchange in
the world.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Most not as big as his flag football in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Nothing's as big as his flag football in Saudi Arabia. Sorry,
A lot of people were skeptical of exchanges at the time.
They were run out of places like Hong Kong by
international entities. So an American, an MIT grad, We're going
to get this thing regulated through the US was a
monster pitch to people that thought, I need to get
into crypto before that train leaves the station. And as
(38:02):
he promised, he was in fact giving away that money.
Gifts of fifteen million dollars fourteen million, five million, single
million dollar gifts were doled out and confirmed through the
Center of Effective Altruism, making headlines and all is well.
Peak of the crypto boom twenty twenty one. He was
the face of crypto now. He was an odd bird,
(38:25):
rolled around a T shirts and shorts and messy hair,
soft spoken. He would do his interviews while playing video
games on a separate screen. Spectrum vibes were strong. What
does that mean, Matt's? You know, a little spectrum action
here from our man Sam Bankers free autistic similar to
(38:46):
the uh Brian Gutierra. You go over there at.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
The uh West Covina City Council.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
He was promoting the philosophy of effective altruism, though arguing
that people should earn large amounts of money and then
donate it to causes that will do the most good.
November twenty two, however, arrives and the relationship between FTX
and Alameter research. How are customer funds being handled? The
Ponzi type scheme was uncovered. There's a run confidence loss
triggered massive withdrawals, and it collapses. FTX files for bankruptcy,
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billions of dollars in customer assets missing, shock waves throughout
the crypto industry. He steps down. He faces multiple criminal charges.
His plea was he needed the funds from Alameda to
get through a rough patch. Nothing fraudulent involved. Instead, it
was a rival international exchange that sabotaged. It became one
(39:39):
of the most striking financial scandals over the last fifty years.
He was convicted on seven counts, sentenced to twenty five years,
and he is currently living You guessed it on Terminal Island.
Sam Bakmon fright. That place is closing quite soon. I
think that means he's going to be free to go.
Anybody that's there when we close, turns out you catch
your break, grab.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
A you don't. You guys don't have to go back
to yourself.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
You don't figure to just leave. It's a helicopter right
there to take it to Kettle. I don't think it
works like that. Conch, how's your own adventure?
Speaker 3 (40:14):
David Massay's got Will Smith coming up next Dodger Talk.
I hope you have a great night everybody, and we'll
be back on tomorrow at two for the Clippers take
off the Spurs.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
As Friday checked out, this conchigu
On air at AM five seventy LA Sports and I'm
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Speaker 3 (01:08):
Davidssay has got Will Smith tonight for Dodger Talk. I
guess that evil poisoned pen letter that Clyle sent Will
Smith and his wife didn't affect David Vasse's ability to
get an interview with the back to back World Series
Champion Catcher.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Ha, how you like that? Huh? Turns out Will and
David get along famously. Real nice stick to your cast rules,
Say Matt, what were you doing over there at the
remote arguing with an old lady that can't walk for
about fifteen minutes? What are you up to? Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
You know, just sitting here giving away hand me down.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
We each have our rules, yeah, we sure do, man,
when we got to fill them.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
It is time for the Final Hour Fun Facts Funny Effects.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, we're three fun.
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Speaker 2 (02:15):
Our fun fact The WBC is underway tonight. We have
Australia versus Chechia. As you know, in nineteen thirty two
and Australia, the Great Emu War took place, addressing a
public concern of too many EMUs destroying crops in the
Campian district of Western Australia. Get some brines. This here's
(02:37):
an alpaca coming out of World War One. The Royal
Australian Artillery, armed with Lewis guns were called in, thinking
they could herd the EMUs into an ambush situation, but
the EMUs were quick to adapt. Yeah, dude, they had
those big, long ass necks. They would split into small groups.
They would spread out, making it hard to target. So
(02:58):
they mounted the guns ontos, but the EMUs were so
fast that driving over the rough terrain made it too
hard to keep up to get off an accurate shot.
Their dreams of point blank fire into masses of EMUs
soon dissipated as the EMUs broke into groups, had one
bird keep watch as their general and then send signals
(03:22):
when it sensed that something wrong was afoot. They were
supposed to kill tens of thousands of EMUs. How many
did they get? Fifty? Oh? Come on, guys. The emu's
one and the Australian Army had to surrender after two months, saying.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Crockett's if you sent mel Gibson and that other guy
from Gallipoli, they would have had it taken care of him.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That I couldn't. But I have said, well, how are you?
They killed fifty? Well? Their claims were two hundred. But
they were supposed to kill like ten thousand, right, yeah,
they could. They couldn't rain death on him from a
helicopter or something. I believe, like twenty years later they
did the raining death from a helicopter. Guess what twenty
years later, smaller event, Charley, old man, I'm doing it
(04:14):
for you. They have made a fool of you.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
But it's like starship troopers or they're all getting killed
by the bugs, crickets.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Toms quickets. I'll make it quick, y'all. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Today, in the desolate desert of western Phoenix, Goodyear, Arizona,
the Dodgers face the Reds monthly worst deep Max Munsey
hit a jack.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Max swings and hammers this sweer center field to the
right of the battle's eye and wag on. Max Macy
with a home run, his first of the spring, and
it's now six to two.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Same.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Max is feeling better than he did a few days ago,
who was under the weather.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
It's his first since he homer in the eighth inning
of Game seven in the five World Series. Doyers Dave
Roberts said before the game that because of injuries to
Tommy Edmond and Keith Kay Hernandez. Second baseman Santiago Espinal
is likely to make the opening day roster. Espinal hit
two home runs today.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
And he's just got another one.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Oh my goodness, Santiago Espinal with a three run home run.
He has driven in five runs and given in the
Dodgers their first lead of the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
The table was shot and Espinal showed up ready to eat.
Remember Dave told us about Espinal way way way before
Jack Harris wrote about it. How could I forget? I remember?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Daniel Hudson, Matt Aaron Judge is talking. He is said
he wear that gap in his teeth.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
As we have discussed, none of the players are gonna
take on the Dodgers, considering the CBA is coming up
and everyone's trying to avoid a salary cap on the
player's side. Judge asked about the Dodgers quote trying to
get the best product on the field, finding a way
to maximize whatever they can to get the best players.
I wish a lot more teams found a way to
do that. He wasn't the only Yankee to show praise
(06:34):
for the Dodgers. Former bruint Garrett Cole said, quote maximizing
their efficiency, getting contracts that make them better quality. It's
within the rules and belly, the former Dodger said, quote,
Obviously I was lucky enough to start my career there
and see how it all operates even when I was there.
It's a well oiled machine from top down, drafting, scouting,
(06:56):
the trades they make, and obviously they have the finances
to spend. It's better what they do having all these
assets and not spending. Allocate your resources promote the best
product on the field. That's really good. It would be
really bad if it was the other way around.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I can't believe this guy's a baseball player. He should
have gotten into some kind of public oration like Chaucer.
You guys are like Chaucer, Matt. The Lakers are in
Denver taking on.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
House nuggets, exactly what we're like. They're the sixth seed
in the West. I think the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
He wasn't telling us we were like Chaucer. It was
Charlie and Rick who were like Chaucer. That's what Don Martin,
that was the Don Martin Chaucer comparison. It wasn't you
and I.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
No, that would never happen. We're just a couple. You're
and you're the Miller's tile. I think the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I don't know what those things are, but I'm gonna
make a Chaucer reference. The Clippers are thirty and thirty one.
They beat the Pacers last night.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Oh, they get that win over the Spurs, Man, and
you're gonna hit it before the end of the year.
Ning Ning Ning Ning Ningling ning Ning. Darius Garland had
twelve points and eighty cents in the wind. Now he
looked good.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
The Clippers are nine seed in the West. They were
in San Anton tomorrow to take on the Spurs. Here's Tylo.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I thought it was good. You know, got to get
the ball in his hands more, you know, Butt a
lot of guys was deferring than being because it's his
old team and he was playing well, you know, so
just you know, got to gave him up to speed,
get his rhythm, his timing. But he overall thought was
pretty good.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Thanks ty that was very insightful. You know what I
would do with that sort of information emergency YouTube pod
in the wee hours of the morning to get all
the way to listen. I just wanted to do the
emergency pod. I had some things to say after the game,
about Darius carl and I thought it was time to
do an emergency pod.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I know, Freddie, I'm over here on YouTube side doing
the sablecast right.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Now, doing a simulcast. But you cut a little crossfire.
How are you like, you know, just doing a simul
here on the tube on the tube side, you know, hello, hello, hullo.
Get it made him out to be Napoleon Diner.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
That's what he sounds like. The Buffalo Bills traded a
second round pick for Bears wide receiver Dj Moore, and
all eyes are still on Max with two exes Crosby
and if he will be traded so we mentioned earlier,
the Cowboys thought they had a deal done and Max
was going to be wearing the star on the side
of his helmet. Instead, they held and realized other teams,
(09:36):
recognizing a deal was possibly about to be consummated up
the ante, either trying to force the Cowboys to pay more,
or they may be willing to meet the reader's price
of two first round picks in exchange for one of
the best defensive players in all the land. Sound from
Max Crosby's conversation with Jerry Jones on the phone is
as follows.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Hello, Hello, split us. That's a thing man of buets
and work.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Not the NC double A booth is going down to
the grove and cutting down their chandelion. Trinidad Chamberler's preliminary
injunction is getting appeal by the NC double A, which
granted him eligibility for twenty twenty six. In the six
(10:30):
hundred and fifty eight page filing to the Mississippi State
Supreme Court today, it's just game log the NC double
A all of his game logs from the magical, asking
the court it actually documents every tough breath when he
had trouble breathing a few years back.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Every single breath he took and then he took documented
and it was labored, and then he took it labored.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
They're asking the court to overrule the injunction and expedite
the ruling.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Now you're gonna let these Yankees down here to Mississippi
and try to instill their law, maybe from Farris State,
but he is ours. Now, last time I checked, this
is a Mississippi problem, a Mississippi case and a Mississippi verdict,
and we will stand by said verdict and a Mississippi plan.
(11:19):
So I do not care. If I earned my juris
doctorate from the University of Mississippi, it had absolutely zero
bearing on my decision. Sir Sir, I did receive my masters.
I will not have your Yankee ass come on down
here and tell us how to conduct our legal affairs.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
A judge in a bankruptcy lawsuit filed against Shiloh Sanders
has denied Shiloh and his request to dismiss a complaint
alleged he violated bankruptcy law. This is way back from
twenty fifteen. Remember Shiloh Sanders beat up a security guard
at his high school in Texas really badly and was
ordered to pay twelve million dollars, but filed for bankruptcy,
(12:02):
claiming he had no money and no income. Since he
filed for bankruptcy, Shiloh got paid nil at Colorado.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And it may makes sense because you know, he was
a highly desired college football player. That's Shiloh Sanders. So
I'm sure the million dollars that he got paid by
Colorado to go there was earned.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
None of the money went to the injured security guard.
And he's saying, hey, I can't hear over here. I
was beaten senseless by that high school players out there
dancing like a hillbilly.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Driving a Lamborghini. I don't like wearing a fancy watch.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
So not a great situation though with Shiloh Sanders, although
this has been looming over him.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
What is with the Sanders family since high school? Like?
What is now? That the inaugural magical season? Now what
shaudor just sped around a little bit? It's nuts? Should
door never beat anybody senseless or silly that we know of.
But after their incredible start to the season knocking off
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a top five rank coming out of the national semifinal TCU.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
That was the very first game, first game. Then TCU
ended up being quite mediocre that year.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Because I think they won four games that year if
I remember right, the Colorado team, and because it fell
apart quickly correct after their hot start, they got blown
out by Stanford at home stuff like that. The next
year they win like eight games I think, and go
to almost won the Alamo Bowl. Almo retired Shador's number,
and Travis Hunter h Shiloh Theclaires bankruptcy driving the Lamborghini
(13:38):
pilot of all ten parking tickets with Travis Hunter.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
When I say this, I want you to think of
Coach Prime and his big stupid hat and his big
stupid glasses and his big stupid car heart overalls.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I forgot about the glasses that he made millions of
corrallers on coming out of the tunnel. A lot of
hat no count.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah, but they made a lot of money and everybody
got their TV ratings for a couple year, And much
like a Dodger reliever, everybody's ready to deposit the buffs
where buffalo chips belong.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
We all regret things that we say. I just wonder
if we'll ever regret regret saying something as much as
a certain someone regrets saying It's not about what Coach
Prime can do for Colorado. It's about what Colorado can
do for Coach Prime. If you want him to stick.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Around, well, what they can do is bring out a
little porta potty for him, because get it sponsored. Tomorrow
is the NHL trade deadline.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Chains might make a move. Well, they've already made a
move by installing an interim coach after mister Hiller was
showing the door the Ducks. Mister Hiller, here's the door,
top five team in the Western Conference, and are looking
to add a vet Kings will play tonight. Ducks. I
like when they do this. Ducks skate tomorrow at home
(14:56):
versus Leis habbiton the montree All Canadians.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
As Canadian guy tried to rape the Flamingo out and uh,
I wouldn't say it so proudly.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
We did discuss that earlier. That is unfortunate Las Vegas
flaming all.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
We'll be back with more Petros and Money Dan and
a live Guy Berta the day at six forty five
and at seven Dodger Talk with Dave.
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AM five seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app had clips last night. Took care of the Pacers.
They will play again tomorrow, a step up in competition
with the Spurs tipping off at six thirty right here
on AM five seventy LA Sports. Last night he was.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Just hanging around, But the night before that UC LA
Nebraska he was calling it. Our dear friend Don McLay,
the leading score in the history of the University of
California in Los Angeles, a hero to us all to
discuss basketball. He's been joining us for the twenty years
(16:15):
that the show has been on. That wearing snake is
his Twitter. Maybe we'll effort a post FS one, c AA,
Big ten network, not in that order.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
On the Southern California Toyota.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Neither celebrity hotline more Toyota soakoun I'm not sure which
one goes first.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Don. We hope you're well? How are you?
Speaker 7 (16:41):
How dare you say? I was just hanging around last night.
I had you're alma mater in Seattle?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh my god? How did they look without the site?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
You, bob?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Not so much?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
No fight, I'll fight out what happened?
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Don?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
What happened up there in the Emeralds.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
It was actually a really good game for about twenty
five minutes, and then Washington blew him out at the end.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Oh, sprinkle sprinkled is very dust all over him? Hey there,
what has to happen for? You know, I don't know
if you want to share the details if you know
the details, But how bad does it have to get?
If you've paid a guy, you know, a million bucks
or something. He's twenty six and he's your leading scorer
and Big ten tournaments about to start, and he decided
to move on from him.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Well, first of all, it's more than a million bucks.
Second of all, I think there's been stuff going on
all year, like we don't know exactly what, but just
kind of being around the program and doing as many
of their games as I have. There's he's an emotional player,
and I think an emotional kid, and he's been he's
(17:50):
at his six school, he's twenty six years old, and
I just think that, you know, it had to have
been something that or some things, because before they let it,
you know, let him go. I mean, they were squarely
on the bubble and had a chance to get into
the NCAA tournament and losing last night pretty much takes
(18:14):
them out of it. It have to beat Ucla and
then on Saturday and then probably win four or four
games at least in the Big Ten tournament to get in.
So unfortunate situation.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
But I guess they just had enough of them and
I would assume on the flip side of that showdown
on Saturday, UCLA feels like they punched their ticket with
that victory over Nebraska to go with the wins over
Purdue and Illinois at home. Does that feel right, No.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Doubt, No, doubt I did that game the other night,
I said it. They won that game, they were in,
they were already in. But I think that just made
it so there wouldn't be any nervousness on selection Sunday.
That went over Nebraska. But to me, more importantly, that
was their best game of the year for forty minutes.
Nebraska is a really good team, and they handled them defensively. Offensively,
(19:05):
they look great. And the biggest thing for me on
the offensive side is bill it oh only I think
had six points and they still blew out Nebraska. So
that's a good sign that everybody else playing well. And
you hope they can keep the momentum going into the
Big Well Saturday against UFC and then into the Big
Ten Tournament, then hopefully in the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
One off the menu. There don outside of the Big Ten,
U C, L, A USC the big story in college
basketball is Miami of Ohio and do they have to
win their tournament? And how can you keep a team
that's gonna win thirty games out of the tournament. And
people are saying it's the problem with the super conferences
and the Big Ten's now got to get eight teams
(19:49):
and the SEC has to get ten teams. Hey, Wally
Serbiak's now walking through that tunnel. Man, where do you
come out on the shade being thrown at Miami of
Ohio versus a team like, you know, Auburn or whatever
Big ten team you want to choose getting in with
like eighteen wins.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Yeah, it's just such a hard argument because you'd love
to see Miami of Ohio play one of those teams
and just see what it looks like. Are they overmatched?
Like if they played a Big ten team or an
SEC team, would it not look right? Because you know
that's the argument. Well, Auburn and whoever plays a much
difficult schedule, the conference schedule, and so they're a better team.
(20:30):
But I think you have to reward this Miami of
Ohio team for the season they've had, you know, and
you know this, The selections now are so data driven,
and we had a call a couple of weeks ago,
and like it was way over my head all this stuff.
There's so many analytics and metrics and all this stuff.
And I guess that point's away from Miami of Ohio.
(20:54):
But if they don't lose a game, like you have
to put them in the tournament. I don't care what
the metrics say.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Me too, I feel the same way. It's also the
cradle of coaches football. They have a statue of Sean McVay.
It's three feet high. The great Don McClain is our guest,
the one and only leading scorer in the history of
the PAC twelve. And everybody knows McClain knows who's in
or out of the tournament. UCLA's in, USC's out. North
(21:24):
Ridge never had a chance.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Hey, Don, You're going to the Big ten tournament next week?
What is that like for you? Have you gotten used
to going to the Big ten conference tournament as opposed
to Vegas in all those years for the PAC twelve,
it's different.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
But I will say, you know, and this is no
knock against the old PAC twelve, because I love the
conference and played it in property.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
You had a pool party, Don, You had a pool party. Yeah,
annual pool party last year.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
It felt different than a PAC twelve tournament because in
the old PAC twelve there were a few teams that
travel pretty well. But like this man, like Arizona travel
like when Arizona was playing t mobile was full. Last year,
every game was full, and so in the proximity. It
(22:11):
was an indie last year. This year it's in Chicago.
I get it that. Maybe it's a little closer, but
it's just it's it's bigger. It feels bigger, it's louder.
Some could argue there's more on the line for more teams.
I mean, that's not even an argument. There is versus
the old Pac twelve. But it's fun. Last year I
did studio. This year, I'm going to be doing games,
(22:32):
so I'm looking forward to that. On Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Look, hey, you know, maybe a drink out with Matt
money Smith. You know a lot of people want to
be with Matt, but I'm sure he could fit you in.
We had a drink last year, and I'm sure he
could fit you into his schedule this year. Don I mean,
very exciting for everybody involved.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
I don't mind. I don't mind grabbing a drink. You
can say that.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
All right, Well we'll have that clip though. I thought
he was gonna follow, but I'm not having dinner with
that kid.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, well, you know, maybe if you take her to
the park approved. Don The Lakers seem to be just
as good as whoever they're playing, right or or or
if they're or as bad as whoever they're playing. If
it's somebody good, they're bad. If it's somebody bad, they're good. Hey,
are we just gonna toil like this for the rest
(23:18):
of the season with nothing to talk about until.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
They start fighting?
Speaker 7 (23:22):
That's interesting you say that piece. So if that is
the case, what you just said, what's the what's the
denominator that makes that happen? Defense?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, there we go. That was I was going to
say it, but you said it first.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Defense. When you're when you're not great defensively, you beat
the crap out of they're not so good teams. But
when you run into good teams, you have problems because
you have to rely on your defense when playing the
upper echelon in the NBA, and they're just we've been
talking about all years, they're just not consistently good enough
on the defensive end to be consistently beating the good teams.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Does Luca like, does he have a disease about complaining
to the refs? I mean it's almost like he's lost
his mind, like he can't control himself at all. Is
that who he always was?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Well?
Speaker 7 (24:13):
I think so. I think it's gotten a little. I
feel like it's gotten a little worse. But coaches are
like that too, you know. I Mean there's guys that
they get after the officials no matter what, whether whether
you know, any call that goes against them, They're going
crazy on the officials, and it's like every call against
(24:34):
your team can't be wrong. And the same with Luca,
Like every time you go to the basket, you can't
you can't expect a foul. And so I just think
that's that's the way they do it, that's the way
they've always done it, and that's who they are.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Does it surprise you? And I don't know how much
because you're so deep into the college basketball season, don
and I don't know if you have time to watch
the talking heads as it pertains to the NB, But
does it surprise you that Luca is taking the amount
of incoming that he's taking this season, people, you know,
talking about how much he complains about the officials, talking
(25:10):
about how he doesn't play defense, that his teams aren't
beating other great teams. Is that fair? Is it not fair?
Is this still a team that was built around Lebron
and the pieces don't fit around Luca? Or are these
things that maybe the Mavericks had figured out and decided
they just didn't want to be in business with him anymore.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Well, i'll tell you this, Matt, and you're right. I
don't watch a lot of the talking heads, but I
kind of see what they say. But I will tell
you this, and I never talked about when I played,
but sometimes it's appropriate. So I was a guy that
got after the officials. A lot people don't like it.
They don't like watching it, they don't like you doing it.
(25:52):
And on much lower scale I did it. But at UCLA,
you know, I got technicals and all that, and it
really turned a lot of people off. And so I
think that's why nobody wants to watch a great player
play great but bitch at the officials the entire game,
like literally, And so I kind of know that from
(26:12):
my own experience. Now I got better at it because
I have to. I never played at the level Lucas
is in the NBA, but I have a feeling that's
what it is. Is guys were really turned off watching
him complain the entire game. That's not once in a while,
it is literally the entire game.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Well to turn us off, don you would have to
go full Sharon More, which is a pregnant, a fat
white girl break into her house.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I don't know if I would say, fat.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Gee, ow, she's got a winter coat on and it's
called out there, and hold a butter knife to your
throat and threaten to kill yourself and her.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
And we only put you on every other Yeah, and then.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
We'd be like, I don't know if Don can be
a weekly we might have to cut his pay, but
I mean, that's what you would have to do, Don
to turn us off. We don't care how much you're
complaining to the officials, But how do you make a
guy stop if he can't control himself?
Speaker 7 (27:07):
You don't. I mean, that's the thing when when players
get to that level in the NBA, his level, there's
nothing you can do. What are you going to find
him twenty grand every time he gets a tech? I mean,
I don't even know what techs are anymore, what they
find players for, but it's probably laughable compared to what
they make. It used to be five grand, like it
was two grand, and it was five grand for the
(27:29):
next whatever, for the next one in a game. I
don't know what it is anymore, but I'm sure Guys
making fifty million aren't even flinching when they get ten
grand taken out of their check for a technical you know. So,
I don't know how you stop it.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
To be honest, no matter how bad it gets, no
matter where it is, you can always say it's not
as bad as cal State Bakersfield. No, thank you, Don
d What do you mean, fixed, Don? Did you hear
about cal State baco Don?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I did not. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
One of their assistant coaches was pimping cross for state.
He had a bunch of math and weed, and old
coach Barnes had to step down.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Really yeah, yeah, wow. So I'm glad that they I'm
glad that they.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Look in his defense. An assistant at cal State Bakersfield
doesn't make very much money.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Three thousand month, that's what it was. You got to
supplement that income.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
This was a very very questionable side hustle, and I'm
just glad Trent didn't end up as a roadrunner. Appreciate
you done. Have a great night, Don McClain. Ladies and gentlemen,
The best of the best coming up next Dead and
a Live Guy Birthday of the Day and then Dodger
Talk with Will Smith.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Petros Papadakis that Money Smith, This is Petro send Money
on Demand.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Thanks for listening everybody, Petros and Money happy to be
with you.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Tomorrow. We will be on a Flex Alert.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Alert tat Perfect Flex our favorite two to five thirty
Clippers versus Spurs Tomorrow tip off six thirty AM, five
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Speaker 2 (29:38):
You know there's a big show on Sunday too, Matt
uh the State of Michigan Showdown, and that is huge.
Here in LA tip off at one thirty pm. Tim
Kate's going to be on the pre half the post coverage.
What a coincidence. So Michigan v. Michigan State, number three
Michigan versus number eight Michigan State will do battle at
(29:59):
one our Big Ten college hoops as they get ready
for the Big Ten tournament to commence next week. You'll
hear that right here on.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
HANFI seventy LA Sports. All right, your dead guy birthday
of the day would have been ninety nine today, but
he's been dead.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
For a while.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
John Joseph Edward Cassidy to Jack American actor, director, singer,
and a flamboyant man of the theater. Father of David
Cassidy and Sean and Patrick Cassidy, who are the half
(30:41):
brothers of David Cassid. Born in New York, started out
as a star on Broadway. He won a Tony for
She Loves Me, and on TV he was Strong, Gun, Smoke, Bewitched,
Get Smart, Hawaii five, Oh Damn Barnaby Jones. I know
(31:07):
one show would love, one show that would really react
to that better.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Than you did.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Three Columbos. He was Ted Baxter, Barnaby Jones.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
On Mary Tyler Moore.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
He was Ted Baxter from seventy to seventy seven, even
though he died in seventy six. I loved him as
a flamboyant informer in Clint Eastwood's The Eiger Sanction, and
that is what I remember him from. If we could
listen to the clip from The Eiger Sanction, one of
(31:42):
your favorites, man, I'm sure he plays the gay assassin
the Best who upset Clint Eastwood because he.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Kills his partner.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
He was involved and here he is talking to Clint
Eastwood at the pool at the Eras on a resort
where Clint Eastwood is learning training to climb Tiger.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Who's a world champion.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
But they all, Oh, it.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Must seem odd to you that I've looked you up
after all these years, did you see, Jonathan, I'm.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I'm grown very tired of waiting for you to step
up behind me one day and relieve me of existing
stepping up behind your method miles ooo, right into your face. Yes,
I'm sure you would. However, that does not enhance my.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Cool lobby over Soon, Funnily enough, I find myself in
a very strong bargaining position.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Forget it that even curs.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
You've betrayed the book listen, Asia, and we live no
thanks to you.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Now you people have killed insuring I didn't actually kill him.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
You know, well I probably won't actually kill you.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
See it's fair little comfort.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Ton Rie was a worthless alcoholic and I abhor sloppy drugs. Yeah,
his first marriage, what's the Evelyn Ward? Who is David
Cassidy's mom? The teen idol? Then he married the star
shirty Jones. Oh, she had three other sons with him.
(33:31):
Cassidy was bisexual, kept his same sex affairs real low,
real low.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
No, he could do that back then, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
But apparently he had one with composer Cole Porter. Oh
when he's forty nine, he burned himself to death on
a naga Hyde couch when he dropped a cigarette while
he was asleep.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Are you okay, man, it's just nauga hide? You know
that's what got you kind of the you know, fancy
word for vinyl. If you're what's his name, John Joseph
Edward Jack Cassidy, famous Jack cas I was trying to
use all four You would like to think that maybe
you could have a real leathers opposed to a nagae couch.
(34:23):
That saw that kind of took me back. Well, maybe
he was, like, you know, in the back room of
a bar or something, and not his home. Now it
was in his apartment in West Hollywood. This nauga hide
is easy to clean. There is a durable, high.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Performance artificial leather brown developed in nineteen fourteen.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Well, you shouldn't have a cigarette on it, I know, clearly.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
I mean they had to identify him by his fraternity
rail Terrible. Later in life, he was often seen stark
naked watering his lawn. He was bipolar. Grammy and Tony
nominated for two Primetime Emmys.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Jack Jack Jack Cassiley, all right, Pee, you're a live guy.
I like that. Michael Lewis Moneyball, Big Short, Liars, Poker,
all very very popular the writer, but going infinite I
believe to be the best of all his books. About
Sam Bankman Freed ore a live guy birthday to day?
Was he a con artist, a financial criminal or a
(35:29):
wildly altruistic let's make all kinds of money and use
it to save the world. Good guy that just caught
a bit of bad luck. The book lot sewn DeLorean
and well he was entrapped. The story is told you
want to read a Delorian. I know a guy on
both sides and here years later after reading it, still
(35:53):
can't decide about Bankman Freed, So let's talk about it.
Thirty four today he is incarcerated, named fraudster. According to
the courts. Sam Bankman Freed born in Stanford. Both parents
were professors at the university. Incredibly bright kid, as you
would imagine, mit two degrees, but you know light work,
physics and math. In twenty thirteen he landed a coveted
(36:16):
internship at Jane Street Capital. Quickly outthought and outperformed. Full
salaried long tenured employees. When it came to high frequency
trading in arbitrage, he was offered a position the moment
he graduated. After a few years, decided he was tired
of making hundreds of millions of dollars for those folks
and instead wanted to save the world. Took a job
(36:39):
at the Center for Effective Altruism and from there he
co founded Alameter Research. Under the same principles, he gets
into crypto early again, focuses heavily on arbitrage, took advantage
of price differences for cryptocurrencies across the different exchanges, practiced
what was called the kim Chiep premium. Bitcoin traded at
(37:02):
significantly higher prices in South Korea than other markets, so
he would buy crypto elsewhere and sell it there before
the clocks could catch up. Made huge profits. So he
launches FTX in twenty nineteen and well it took off
his exchange FTX. The crypto exchange gained a reputation for
(37:23):
offering advanced trading features like derivatives, leverage tokens, also market
itself aggressively Tom Brady super Bowl commercials, and within a
couple of years it was the largest crypto exchange in
the world.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Most not as big as his flag football in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Nothing's as big as his flag football in Saudi Arabia. Sorry,
A lot of people were skeptical of exchanges at the time.
They were run out of places like Hong Kong by
international entities. So an American, an MIT grad, We're going
to get this thing regulated through the US was a
monster pitch to people that thought, I need to get
into crypto before that train leaves the station. And as
(38:02):
he promised, he was in fact giving away that money.
Gifts of fifteen million dollars fourteen million, five million, single
million dollar gifts were doled out and confirmed through the
Center of Effective Altruism, making headlines and all is well.
Peak of the crypto boom twenty twenty one. He was
the face of crypto now. He was an odd bird,
(38:25):
rolled around a T shirts and shorts and messy hair,
soft spoken. He would do his interviews while playing video
games on a separate screen. Spectrum vibes were strong. What
does that mean, Matt's? You know, a little spectrum action
here from our man Sam Bankers free autistic similar to
(38:46):
the uh Brian Gutierra. You go over there at.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
The uh West Covina City Council.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
He was promoting the philosophy of effective altruism, though arguing
that people should earn large amounts of money and then
donate it to causes that will do the most good.
November twenty two, however, arrives and the relationship between FTX
and Alameter research. How are customer funds being handled? The
Ponzi type scheme was uncovered. There's a run confidence loss
triggered massive withdrawals, and it collapses. FTX files for bankruptcy,
(39:17):
billions of dollars in customer assets missing, shock waves throughout
the crypto industry. He steps down. He faces multiple criminal charges.
His plea was he needed the funds from Alameda to
get through a rough patch. Nothing fraudulent involved. Instead, it
was a rival international exchange that sabotaged. It became one
(39:39):
of the most striking financial scandals over the last fifty years.
He was convicted on seven counts, sentenced to twenty five years,
and he is currently living You guessed it on Terminal Island.
Sam Bakmon fright. That place is closing quite soon. I
think that means he's going to be free to go.
Anybody that's there when we close, turns out you catch
your break, grab.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
A you don't. You guys don't have to go back
to yourself.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
You don't figure to just leave. It's a helicopter right
there to take it to Kettle. I don't think it
works like that. Conch, how's your own adventure?
Speaker 3 (40:14):
David Massay's got Will Smith coming up next Dodger Talk.
I hope you have a great night everybody, and we'll
be back on tomorrow at two for the Clippers take
off the Spurs.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
As Friday checked out, this conchigu
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