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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (01:33):
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(02:17):
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(03:04):
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They were marketed as an ornament that you would hang
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Speaker 3 (03:22):
I uh, I feel like I knew that only because
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Speaker 3 (03:51):
Why won't you put me on the show, but you
use my voice? Shuw. The Dodgers hit thirty one sixty
thirty two. They're off tonight. It's a three game series
versus the d Backs tomorrow before heading into the break show.
Hail Todi is scheduled to get the start tomorrow. Many
think it's reckless in the series opener versus the Snakes.

(04:14):
The Dodgers are fourteen games up on the Padres, fifteen
games up on the d Backs in the NL West.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
I have nothing to add. There is no panic. Roki
Sasaki threw six strong, allowed three even though the bullpen
was incredibly shaky. Vessia put twu on with no out.
He escaped the jam, and Riquez came in and struck
out a white hot Kyle Carros, who had already had
a home run and a double with that beautiful glomar

(04:45):
bat of his, and they escaped with the win.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I mean, that is plenty to say for a guy
that has nothing to say. He even dropped the glomar
had to. According to USA Soccer, Christian Pulisicch had been
diagnosed with a micro fracture and bone bruise of the
tibia and fibulae his right legs suffered during the match
against Belgium. US Soccer and ac Milan will be collaborating

(05:14):
on his recovery plan. Pregnant Carly Lloyd in a sundress said,
and Landon Donovan with his flume of pentecostal hair, is.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Also not holding back newly discovered claiming pentecostal hair.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, very erlacer esque. Players, staff and sponsors around the
US men's national team are fed up with Pulicic's camp.
He's a bitch.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
That's not the quote.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
It's more measured man. Maybe you should read it.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
He said. The teams are fed up with polistics camp quote.
I speak to people who are at US Soccer. I
speak to his sponsors, I speak to his teammates, I
speak to the staff and the coaches. People are fed
up with the way things are handled around him. And
it's not necessarily him, but his agents, his family, his
hangers on, the people that are influenced him, influencing him.

(06:13):
People are fed up with it. They treat people poorly,
they do things poorly. It's always a no whenever you
want to ask him to do an interview, it's always
a no. You can't get near him. And he's a
little bitch.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, he's a bit. That last part was alleged he's
a bitch, but re read between the lines.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Pregnant.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
She's like, yeah, read between the lines. And everybody's saying,
this guy is a real bitch.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Now if he was scoring seven goals in this World
Cup like Imbape and you know, messy and these.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Guys do what you want, but this guy's a bitch.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
But when you've disappointed at every turn after being hailed
as the great American soccer savior, you know he ain't
nothing but a batch.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Matt, Matt Morocco went down to France. A lot of
Moroccans on that French team. You heard that on AM
five seventy. So it's kind of like Morocco's still in
there and tomorrow a quarterfinal matchup between and you know
a lot of French guys, a lot a lot of
French guys on the Morocco team too. Man.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
I mean it was very very inad You know, you
move here, you move there. You guys play over there,
I'll play up here. You play in the back I'll
play in the front and everybody's good. Uh, tomorrow we
got a big one. Should have been Spain the US,
but Police Alyia, so it's Spain.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
It wasn't even close, though, Matt, I mean.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
I mean, I think I should say it should have been.
What we were looking forward to was another Petros in
Money summer tour stop that followed a big Team USA
victory like we had out of September's in Rancho Kook.
And instead we're going to be following Spain and Belgium. Yeah,
we're going to serve a bunch of paiea hard.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
To get people excited about that, throwing shrimp into the crowd.
Catch you know, we're not Benny Hannah.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
That will be at Sofi Stadium. It is the last
World Cup game in La a noon start. You'll hear
it right here instead of Rogan and Rodney. So mark
your calendars on five seventy LA Sports.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
All right, Matt, you CLA has signed two international players
front of them.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
It's not a clown, it's not clown.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
He's a star, super seventeen year old Serbian forward Nicola
Costa Rica, Costa Rica or Costa Ricaos. Yeah, he's a Tico.
Maybe he's right, Yeah, maybe he's a Guanaco and as
he just lives in Costa Rica, he's He's arguably the
best European prospect in his age group and an early

(08:42):
contender for the number one pick on the twenty twenty
eight NBA draft, which is, as Don McLean told us, exceptional.
Costa Rica turned seventeen years old in April. It's also
a really nice place to visit. You don't want to leave.
You don't want to go to Europe, but you want
to leave the country. You don't want to go to Mexico.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
Speeches.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
People love Costa Rica. It's a number one pick, number
one pick, two years from being eligible in the NBA.
He averaged twenty four points last week in the Phoeba
U seventeen World Cup in Turkey, Turkey a scoring thirty
seven in Serbia's loss to the USA in the gold
medal game.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
USA did not go down. That is not where they
were going.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
They did not and they thought they were playing Costa
Rica and they were surprised to see a Serbian team.
He's been at FC Barcelona in their system since twenty
twenty three, becoming the youngest youngest player ever to play
for the club's first team. Wow. Yeah, it's pretty easy.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
I think Ricky Rubio was like sixteen when he started
playing for him, so this.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
This guy was eight.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
He's expected to make an immediate impact for Mick Cronin
at UCLA, who did say he wanted some dirty euros
after he lost to Illinois. The Bruins returned three starters
from last year's twenty four and twelve team and welcome
four transfers from other Power Conference programs. And this one.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
How do you know that?

Speaker 3 (10:06):
It says on the thing from Costa Rica terrible, terrible.
I think it's great. Are you asking a question or ben? Nope.
I made a statement and I'm saying that I think
it's great. Welcome to college basketball, buddy. That's part of it,
getting euros and paying them big money. How do you
know that well at Daimarra, how do you know that

(10:28):
he left for a million dollars? I knew you were
going to come out here and ask me about offense.
I think he was a pretty good offensive player, but
also presence in the paint on d I say I'm
sorry that. Well, Michigan won at all. I can imagine
that that would frustrate me to Why do you know
that I just assumed that you'd be upset? Why? How
do you know that watching them win with your player

(10:50):
might upset you?

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Congratulations to Mick.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I don't know why so argument at him today. How
do you know that I thought he'd be happy?

Speaker 4 (10:58):
This is pretty ugly. The Clippers Raptors trade Kawhi Leonard
going to Toronto, brandon Ingram Grady Dick and some draft
picks coming here is not going to be.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
A purgatory theory.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
The NBA will not give it the green light until
their investigation into whether or not Kawhi and the Clippers
circumvented the salary cap is completed. Teams announced it today.
Each made their own statement after a green to a
trade on June thirtieth that would send Kawhi to Toronto
for again brandon Ingram Grady Dick a bunch of picks.
Clips in a statement said, it's just from the Clippers

(11:32):
that the trade can quote only be finalized if the
Raptors ownership group assumes the risk of penalties related to
Kawhi's contract that could theoretically result from the ongoing investigation.
Investigation end quote. The Raptors issued their own statements, saying
they would wait for the league's findings rather than assuming
that risk, but they quote remain eager to bring Kawhi

(11:55):
back to Toronto and look forward to a swift resolution
for our players, our organization, and our fans. I mean,
Kawhi misses like twenty games a year anyway, every year.
So if they suspend him for twenty and just look
at it as like load management, like hey, can we
like have him sit out three this week and then
have him play a bunch and then like three the
next week, you know, maybe they can set something up
like that and it's like just standard Kawhi regular season.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah, he's a polarizing figure in the game, there's no
doubt about it.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
And he doesn't like to play.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
And now after kissing his ass for so long, like
all the Lakers radio people kiss Lebron's ass for so long,
now that he's gone fully functional employee at him has
open season on Kawhi's ass. But then if Kawhi comes
back and he knows what.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Adam said, now, Tuca's got a real problem.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
That's like, you know, Lebron coming back to the Lakers,
it'd be like I know what you said, Mason.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
Hey, Ireland, get off the plane, bitch.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
You're a bitch like Pula Sitch.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
You're flying commercial bitch.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
That's what all the rappers are going to start saying, Matt,
because PUNI six is a bit use a bitch, Matt.
Big money for the Ducks?

Speaker 4 (13:06):
Oh did they f this up? Royally could have signed
their young center to a much less expensive extension, but
they thought if they let him explore free agency that
he would find no one was willing to hand over
the kind of money that he ultimately got. The Flyers
offered the restricted free agent five years ninety million dollars,

(13:29):
making him the highest paid player in NHL history. The
Ducks were forced to match because you don't let a
twenty one year old center that you draft like number
two overall leave. Now, they would have received four first
round picks as compensation, but they chose to keep their
franchise cornerstone. He was the number two pick on the
twenty twenty three draft. He had twenty nine games and

(13:51):
twenty nine goals I should say in thirty eight assists
last season, and again he's only twenty.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
The favorite of the Cats girls. All right, we'll be
right back. We'll come right back. I will to Don McLain.
Why because we like you, That's why.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Why Petros Papadakis that money Smith, This is Petro.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Send money up on demand.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
Petro some money. AM five seventy LA Sports Live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. Tomorrow World Cup returns. We had
France knocking off Morocco prior to our hitting the air
same tomorrow nooner Spain v. Belgium should have been Spain
v Us but they played like crap. And you will
hear World Cup matches here on AM five to seventy
LA Sports, also on the iHeartRadio app. It is the

(14:41):
official audio provider of the World Cup. In twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Six, plenty going on, so we had to dial up
Don McClain. If it's going on, you gotta call Don Putt.
Been a lot of work for CIA's draft every year
working for Multime Networks calling college basketball game the leading
score in the history of UCLA, the leading score in

(15:11):
the history of the Pack twelve, which is back yes,
joining us on the so Cal Toyota Celebrity Hotline. It
is the Baron of Box Canyon himself. What's cracking? Dawn
how are you.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
I'm great A lot going on.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Okay, Don, before we get to the pro basketball free
agency stuff and the Clippers and the Aspiration controversy with
Kawhi Leonard and that trade and all that. UCLA has
a new euro and he's like the number one euro
ever you heard about this guy.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
I haven't seen him, but I've heard he's really good.
And if you're talking about a kid that's potentially being
talked about for being the number one pick in the draft,
it's like it's different if you're here for Oh, he
could be a first round pick in a year or two.
You hear that all the time, but when you hear
number one pick, your ears kind of perk up. I'm
planning on kind of getting up to speak because I
haven't seen him, watching a little bit of film, just

(16:08):
because I'm curious. But certainly a really good get for UCLA.
Everybody in the country wanted him, and I'm really looking
forward to to showing up at UCLA practice here in
a month or two and checking them out.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
Not to put you on a spot here, Don, but
just kind of I mean, and all we know is
sort of the stats that are throwing at us. Tim
Kates did some digging around. He hung thirty seven and
nine rebounds on us on the US and Phoebus U
seventeen World Cup last week. But the way I understand
is because he's seventeen, like they've got him for multiple years, right, Like,

(16:40):
this is not a guy that can pop straight to
the NBA with some of the changes they made, right,
So this is a guy that's going to be around
for a minute.

Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yeah, you have to be nineteen. So I'm assuming if
he is that good, and by all accounts it seems
like he is. If people are throwing it's one thing
for people to throw around first round pick, that's one thing.
There's a lot of guys because there's thirty of them,
But if it's being thrown around that he could be
the number one pick in the draft, that means he's
really good. So hopefully, if he is that good, UCLA

(17:10):
has him for two years and he creates a bunch
of wins for them, and then he'll probably go to
the draft.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
How do you think they ended up kind of putting
this thing together? Is the collective getting better? Do they
have more money for anil? Did they figure out the
euroth because it seems like a lot of the Serbians
go to Illinois. Now they've kind of got a pipeline
over there with Underwood, Like, what do you think put
this thing together?

Speaker 5 (17:32):
I think it's all of it now, Matt. I think
everybody looks to the nil. But really, when you talk
about high major programs, if you want a guy, there's
a number for that, and if you can get to
that number, then you're in the running. But it can't
just be the money. And I know it's not that
because we had a couple of guys that went back
to school and all the money was pretty equal. It's
really about the opportunity. And all these Europeans come over

(17:54):
here because they want to play in the NBA or
at least get a chance to play in the NBA.
So what program is going to maximize that the most
so that I can be a high draft pick and
play in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
How much Don has because you work in the draft
and with young players, how much has and you work
with European players, work with players from all over the world.
How much has that changed? And how you do your
job European basketball talking to European people, understanding how they
develop basketball as opposed to how we do it here?

Speaker 5 (18:28):
Oh man, that could be a two hour conversation. Pee.
I think what strikes you, being involved, like I am,
is how much more fundamentally sound European players are when
they come over here than American players. Not to say
they're better, just that they're more fundamentally sound. They've been
taught from early age how to pass, how to dribble,
how to shoot, versus relying on athleticism a lot of

(18:52):
the time to be a really good basketball player. And
I think that's the thing that jumps off the page first.
And I think it is a case by case basis,
because there are guys that come here that really want
to play in the NBA, and then there's guys that
come over here that want to play in the NBA.
And that becomes clear too that a lot of the
Europeans don't really want to live here, contrary to what's

(19:14):
been going on with World Cup and all the people
that come over here. I think a lot of guys
that play have grown up playing in the European professional
leagues are comfortable there, and so that's been kind of
interesting to watch over the years too.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
All right, don to investigations, I'm not sure if you
saw it. I had assumed when I heard the trade
was on hold, that it was going to maybe be
a three teamer and can they figure out how to
move brandon Ingram or squeeze in Peyton Watson or something
like that. But now is being shared and each team
has made a statement, the Clippers and the Raptors that

(19:49):
this exchange for Kawhi Leonard is on hold until the
league finishes their aspiration investigation, until some sort of discipline
is handed down to either of Thelippers or Kawhi. The
Raptor's saying they are not going to agree to the
deal until they know kind of what the league's decision
is as it relates to his being available until next year.

(20:11):
What you you've worked with front offices before, like what
do you think ends up happening here? And how big
of a deal is this?

Speaker 5 (20:17):
Well, when I heard it, I was on hold. I
thought it was because Kawhi couldn't get enough load management
days from the Raptors.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
Uh, you know, this is a hard one because it's
an NBA investigation and they still haven't come down with
they're ruling and what's going to happen. And I get
it from the raptors perspective, you know, and it you know,
the question should be brought up or could be brought up.
Is that part of the reason why the Clippers wanted
to offload Kawhi was part of that, Like they think

(20:48):
he might be missing a bunch of games this year,
and so from the raptors perspective, I mean, he's still
making fifty something million this year. What if he's gone
for twenty five games or forty games or something like Dad,
Now you're paying them fifty million for half a season.
So it'll be interesting to see how it shakes out.
I'm sure they'll get it done because it would be
awfully awkward if the trade blew up and Kawhi had

(21:11):
to come back to.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
The Clippers, especially if it sounds like they've already agreed
why I don't know, to hand him that one hundred
and twenty eight million dollar extension, which is the reason
why he wanted to go there.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
I know this.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
I don't know if this is uh how you'd answer this,
But can you see the NBA looking at this like, ah,
and this thing gets really ugly if we bring a
hammer down on this.

Speaker 5 (21:34):
Yeah, But also I think I think, yeah, I think
the other owners though, are like, hey, man, like, we
can't have this in our league. Everybody starts circumventing the cap.
We got a major problem. So it's one of the Yes,
I agree, that's exactly right, Matt. But I think the
flip side is Adam Silver can't look at his other
owners in the eye and it's be like, hey, guys,
this doesn't look good for the league. Let's just sweep

(21:56):
it under the rug. I don't think that that can
happen because I don't think the other owners in league
are gonna let it happen. Something there we don't even know, like,
but if there is something there, no, I'm.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
Sure there's not. Come on, these are these These are
reputable people. Don you work in basketball. These are people
that are buttoned up. The one and only Don McClain
is our guest. He is our best guest and our
best friend, and we know him all too long and
talk about these things. Now, Don, you've always been a
white guy playing basketball, and not just a white guy,

(22:26):
but an American white which we established yesterday or last
week was a little different from the European white guys.
But the European white guys are certainly whiter than the
black guys, and that cannot be disputed. There has been
a little bit of an outcry on our station this
week that this team has too many white guys and

(22:47):
how could a team with so many white white guys
win a championship. We are always very nonchalant having a
good time about race around here. We say white guy,
Filipino guy, black guy, Mexican guy, waterball, and there's all
kinds of guys out there and down. So I mean,
as a white guy playing basketball in a time when
it was even less fashionable, what are your thoughts when

(23:10):
you hear all this white black talk.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
Well, I mean, I'm not sure. I haven't followed what
the fallout is. I saw what stephen A said, but
I don't know what happened after that. But I would
just say this, I don't think just because it hasn't
been done doesn't mean it can't happen. Yes, it hasn't
happened where the three main guys on an NBA team
were white and they won a championship. But I don't

(23:36):
think that means it can't happen. And I'm not saying
the Lakers are going to win a championship this year.
But I just think it's that it's that just because
it hasn't happened doesn't mean it can't happen.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Corrections on you don it did happen in nineteen fifty
three the George Mike and Lakers with three white guys.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Championship.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
But hey, okay, hell votre is But what you know,
just in terms of the way they decided to go
about this, I mean, that's a lot of money to
give the Walker Kessler, It's a lot of draft capital
to trade for Walker Kessler, and with the contracts for
Luca and Reeves, this is now your nucleus for probably
for the next four years. Do you like the pieces
they put around Luca? It certainly looks like this was

(24:18):
per his direction of what he wanted, and it kind
of reminds me of the Brunson thing, like, Hey, we've
got a star. Let's put the right pieces around him
and let's see.

Speaker 5 (24:25):
If we can do it exactly. And that, to me
is the real answer to your question. Pe is like,
you have one of the best players in the league
on your team. What does he need to win around him?
Austin Reeves good complimentary guy, can score, I can get
twenty five at any time. If they're loading up on Luca,
they needed rim protection, they needed presents in the middle.

(24:47):
Walker Kessler perfect. Those two guys just happen to be white,
but they are doing that. They're putting stuff around a
superstar player that hopefully is going to lead to them
winning more. Do I think they're championship team right now? No,
But I think this is a good foundation to keep
building around Luca that maybe you know, in another you know, year,
or two transactions, whatever happens, that they are a team

(25:10):
that can win a championship.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
You know, I I hope so, don I hope so
for all our sake, we're gonna take it. We're going
to march across the vince of Thomas Brook. Don Are
Were you disappointed about the US and the World Company?
Know that you got pretty into it and you could
get in France and Morocco.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
Yeah. I think the thing that was disappointing to me was,
you know, I thought the US could beat Belgium, and
it was clear in five minutes they were not beating Belgium.
And I don't know anything about soccer and strategy and
all that, but I've watched enough sports in my life
where you can see a team that is overmatched even

(25:52):
from the beginning, and they were. And I think the
most disappointing thing, and I know he's taken a lot
of incoming, is poolisic. Like, dude, if you're a star man,
you got to play like a star and if you're
gonna win big games, and that was a big game.
Either your star has to dominate in any sport, not
to soccer. Either your star has to dominate or one
or two other guys that you weren't expecting to have

(26:13):
gigantic games due. And it was none of that for
the US, which was disappointing.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
There he goes Don McClain, Ladies and gentlemen, he knows
it all, even the soccer. Don, thanks for doing it,
and we'll talk to you soon. And stay white.

Speaker 5 (26:27):
Yep, you guys all right, feeling.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
That good white pride this week for the Whites, we'll
be back with the dead and a live guy. Birthday
of the day. A big thank you to Don McClain.
Venge us some money on m FI seventy LA sport
this is.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
On demand.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Thanks for listening, everybody. Don McClain, a whole day of
great sports. Talk to be podcasted Dodger Talk. Do you
know Ebel will join David vas Say always gonna talk
to Dino Ebel always maybe five assod eight or nine

(27:10):
times a year. Also, Mike Serota Great Sports Talk playing
in the Futures game in Philly on Sunday is going
to join David Vasse. So you get a little to
the young and a little of the old. And that
is coming up next as far as we go. The
next time, we were on three o'clock at brew Rex
and Anahei. I'm gonna be a big party and we
expect you to be there. There are a lot of

(27:31):
prizes to give away and they will be given away.

Speaker 4 (27:34):
That's right. Big grand prize at fifty eight inch forour
k Ultra HDTV courtesy of our friend Brett at Westein House.
Also Henrik from Barbecues Galore gonna make his way out
to Brewery X. He has given us another oven plus
a cap and cook oven plus those things are five
hundred bucks.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
He's also given us two hundred and fifty dollars gift card.
We have Dodgers tickets, Dodgers merch kates and I earlier
today broke into the prize closet. If you are a
large individual and can fit into a double XL all
the way up to a quadruple XL polo, boy, do
we have Dodgers polos for you? And if you're a

(28:11):
big Clipper fan, we every.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
Once in a while, you know, I could a double
X T shirt. I'm like, okay, you know this, this
doesn't look that bad on me. But a double X
polo man, I cannot swein those you know, those sleeps.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
How about we got a four X So if you
are if you're if you're in the as you like
to say, p the spread.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Formation, well that's real spread.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
Then four X. We got a Terrence Man I don't
think he's been on the Clippers for three or four
years now, autographed Clippers jersey that we stole a Herbert jersey.
We stole a radio, a portable radio so you can
go to the Dodger game and listen to Steven Nelson.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Did you steal it? It belongs to the station. We're
of the station. It's not like Brian Gutieran's with that GoPro.

Speaker 4 (28:54):
And as we posted a little bit earlier on the Instagram,
Kate's was able to easter about two hundred la a
se la sports chapstick things a chapsticks. So that's right,
just put it right up in there. Man was able
to get those out of there, so I think they

(29:15):
expired probably like two years ago. But whatever, give it
a go, you know, let's see what happens.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Maybe apply some water, all right, Matt, you got We'll
see at Brewery X tomorrow at three O'clock's right, we
got the dead guy birth the other day, right now.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
Happy one hundred and thirty ninth to Alexander William Donovan,
important figure in American history and the opening of the
American West. A measured man, a valiant soldier.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
We are your American West show of record.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Not close.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
Kate's with the Tombstone.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
So I was hell of a ride there too, even
tougher one on the way back, our man.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Usually people's moods don't improve for a long day at Toombstone.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
That's all it was. That was the okay career.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Well, yes, it's a very small livery stables, sir.

Speaker 4 (30:04):
He in the line of duty, in the face of combat,
kept a cool head and let the law sort things out.
When maybe some of his colleagues were feeling a little Aggressive.
Born in Maysville, Kentucky, near the Ohio River, the youngest
of ten. His parents were Native Virginians. His father, Kates,

(30:25):
and Daniel boot Let's Go were childhood friends growing up.
Alex went to Augusta College was admitted to the bar
in eighteen thirty. He practiced law in Liberty, Missouri, always
serving as a defense attorney. One of the most famous
litigators in the state. Used that for a career in politics.
He served in the state legislature as a representative for

(30:46):
the Whig Party. Three separate occations.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Vassays now are representative of the Whig Party. Law Landon
Donovan as.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Well, Oh You Ain't Kidding partner at his firm, David
Atchison and was part of the Liberty Blues, the local militia,
and he convinced Donovan to join, so he took part
in what they called the Heatherly War eighteen a Colonel
Sam Allen wasn't so much a war as it was
a load of crap. The Heatherly Brothers sold whiskey to

(31:17):
a hunting party of Pottawatamie Indians. They then stole their horses.
When the Pots tracked them down, they killed three of
the brothers for the thievery, but the mother called in
the troops saying the Pots were on the war path,
when in reality her kids were real a holes and
they were the ones doing the killing and the stealing.
And that's something our man Alex figured out. He had

(31:40):
the Heatherly family arrested, tried, convicted, and war was avoided.
Next up he the Mormon War. Eighteen thirty one, Jackson County, Missouri,
Joseph Smith. About twelve hundred Mormons settled there. The people
don't like them, and they're getting kind of freaked out
by them. Things get a little sketchy. Smith appealed to

(32:04):
Donovan for protection in court, and while he was trying
to work on that, the Mormon War broke out. The
Battle of Crooked River led to Governor Liburn Bogs issuing
his extermination order, directing all Mormons either be exterminated or
driven from the state. The island's unsuccessful it was he

(32:24):
worked diligently to avoid the conflict. He believed the Mormons
were largely acting in self defense, and when General Sam
Lucas took custody at Joseph Smith in a kangaroo court
and declared Smith and others guilty of trees and sentenced
them to hang. Donovan indignantly refused, saying, quote, that is

(32:45):
cold blooded murder. I will not obey your order. If
you execute these men, I will hold you responsible before
an earthly tribunal.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
So help me God.

Speaker 4 (32:57):
So they were sent to Liberty Jail to await trial,
at which trial Donovan was appointed as their defense attorney.
Energetically defended them at the risk of his good reputation
and truly probably his life. People didn't like the Mormons
back then.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
Yeah, you know, well, you know it strike some gunns
as they say. You know, the Mormons done some decent things.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
And luckily for alex Jos so.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
You know, ambush some pioneers.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
They did do that and Indians. Joe escaped before trial
and when he made his way to Illinois he was
killed there. Now I mentioned the soldier part p Mexican
American War eighteen forty six, served in several campaigns, capture
a Santa Fe invasion of present day northern New Mexico.
He secured the city, was put in charge of the
New Mexico Territory, signed a peace treaty with the Utes,

(33:46):
won the Battle of al Brazito outside Modern Dale, Paso.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
Mexico, went down pretty easily.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Yeah, well, thanks to our guy. He was outnumbered four
to one, two to one in artillery. What did he lose?
One dead, eleven wounded. Mexican loss three twenty dead, five
sixty wounded, seventy two prisoners. Donovan marched his men nearly
fifty five hundred miles. It was considered the longest military

(34:15):
campaign since the times of Alexander the Great. He was
received with a hero's welcome when he arrived back home
in Missouri. After the Mexican American War. He returned to law,
wrote the Bill of Rights in New Mexico, and passed
away at seventy nine in Richmond, Missoo.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Wow, good thing he didn't get involved with the Confederates. Matt,
you know out there in Missoo.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
Oh yeah, got ugly. He said, I've done my service.
You guys could figure this out. I have done my service.
He actually left for Utah and was received with a
hero's welcome in Salt Lake. For like five years.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
He's like this, that's what Kyle Whittingham would have gotten
if he didn't leave from Michigan. All right, Matt You're alive.
Guy is Captain Leen Robinson. She's fifty two now fifty
three aka Claire from nine two one zero two, tone

(35:13):
hair and a bad attitude. Matt, this is a Canadian
news item because she is from Hamilton, Ontario. But we
won't go through it. We already have the song. She
went to Hillfield for high school, Go Trojans. She did
local theater and Canadian television. She did the Canadian sitcom
Manic Mansion.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
Oh that's a good one, I guess.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Her big break came in ninety four, as she was
cast as the uh Sassy Claire on nine O two
one zero four seasons two. Is a main character known
Claire was for being smart, her high IQ and the
daughter of the university's chancellor. She hooked up on the

(35:58):
show You Know on Screen with David Silver, the best
dancer at West Beverly High, and the juiced up Steve Sanders,
who recently fought an electric bite gang in Beverly Hills
and long and lost.

Speaker 4 (36:15):
That's a bummer when you get cast is a chick
on that show and you're like, really, I got bag
and I got Sanders.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
That's well, I mean, all right, you say what you say,
but I do have a clip. She left the show
she was she was too good for it.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
Yeah, too good for bag for.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
The movie Nowhere, opposite Luke Wilson in Dog Park. She
was in Hollywood Land with Big Nose Brodie Ton of
CV Lots of TV Law and Order CSI short lived
Fox legal drama Girls Club two. No, yeah, I don't

(36:52):
know why. Twenty eleven, she was cast in a main
and extremely sexual role in the star series Boss with
Kelsey Grammer. She played Gordy Howe's wife in a made
for TV movie.

Speaker 4 (37:12):
She'sati Is that? Yeah, I guess that's it makes makes sense.
That's that's in Canada there PRECB or something.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
Three seasons of murder in the first she works Okay
bat She writes and also develops things. She developed a
series around the Kevin Spacey Swimming with Sharks movie from
nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
Look, Canada needs TV too.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
Yeah this was This was streaming here and it only
lasted one season. But you know what. She's on Tracker
on CBS, and we're getting old enough to watch CBS.
She's married.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
She's married to a producer and they run a production company,
and they have kids, but I'll always know her as Claire.
Here's Brandon Walsh in college at some kind of weird
like university. You know, Walsh was always hanging out with
all the mucky MUCKs some kind of big university convention,

(38:14):
and you know her dad's the chancellor. And Walsh goes
into his room and gets who's in the shower in
a big row?

Speaker 4 (38:21):
Claire, what are you doing having a shower?

Speaker 2 (38:27):
How'd you get in here? O?

Speaker 6 (38:29):
My ways? Of course you do.

Speaker 7 (38:34):
Showers over Hey, haven't lost my hair yet? Okay, fine,
finish up and get dressed.

Speaker 6 (38:45):
Thanks, Brandon, much better than mine, Claire, weren't you dressed good?
I don't know I to give a speech in fifteen
minutes besides the mines more triblow natural.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Yeah, how'd you know I was ever going to be
up here?

Speaker 4 (39:04):
Anyway?

Speaker 6 (39:05):
I took a shot, figured you had to come up eventually.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
And what if I'd come in with your father?

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (39:14):
I hadn't thought of that. M H.

Speaker 4 (39:16):
Listen, Claire, Brandon.

Speaker 6 (39:18):
Would you just relax? I mean you should be enjoying yourself.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (39:23):
Here you are in Washington, d C. In a great
hotel and you're about to deliver a speech that my
father says, it's going to blow away the room, and
then when you're finished with that, you get to come
back up here and be with me.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (39:40):
Is that so terrible?

Speaker 5 (39:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (39:43):
Walsh, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
Sacks, we need that. Introduce sex and here comes to sex.

Speaker 5 (39:54):
I kip up.

Speaker 7 (39:56):
Good yeah, Claire, Oh eating that face.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
That's for you. Vess Enjoy David Show, Marango Casino, Dodgers
on Deck. Will be back tomorrow when we have a
show from Brewery X. That's right, Brewery X in Anaheim.
We will see you at three o'clock tomorrow. Get there early.
It's a great venue.
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