January 10, 2025 • 48 mins
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Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, it's flex alert, so that means two things, and
it's calling Yee all week long on the Petrosen Money Show.
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Speaker 3 (01:54):
Bang up job? Did Ella hit that button? Or did
Kates hit that button?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Oh? You know it was Kate's that call and plays
the Shinobi for himself. So and the PMS photoshop banded
in a beautiful shnobi head with Colin's eyes, you know,
peeking out one of his finest efforts. I thought it
was just gorgeous. But Colin Yee has been here all
week at Colin Yee ten it's been a well, a
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crazy week in great sports talk. Been a crazy week
for everybody in the city and just a nightmare week
for some people and families. And Colin Yee has done
a great job and we appreciate you calling Yee. But
here on Friday, you know there are a koutra mall
that from the listeners expect. Yeah, there's that, but it's
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also a hopeful music at noon And if we ever
needed hope, we do need some hope. Hopeful music Wow
noon Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Fastest ever, that was a quick.
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Ful music at noon, big Iron. He trew on, let
they're real quick, I mean Dan, So we're only going
to be on for two and a half hours. Like
Matt said, we are hopeful. Speaking of that, the Dream Center.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
LA and iHeartMedia La stepping up as you would expect
to help those affected by the devastating fires. I saw
this all over the place, not just here at iHeart
but the fires sweeping across La County. They made this
announcement today, it was all over the news. You can
help and donate now at m FI seventy LA sports
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dot com keyword donate. A lot of people have texted
and asked us so where they should go to donate.
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donate and that will provide immediately relief and stop the
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Dream Center in downtown LA personally and drop off any goods. Hey,
you see that happening around town too, Matt. If you'd
like to.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Donate, you know, yeah you do. And people don't just
need money. That's then going to go to a charitable cause.
It's going to provide the goods and services they need.
But they need the goods and services. Goods you may have,
and you can get into their hands a lot quicker
if you drop them off yourself. There's a whole list available.
Red Cross has it, obviously, five somebody LA Sports will
have the link to the Dream Center. They'll have it.
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But the other thing of the Dream Center, and it's
something they have done repeatedly, is they open their doors
and you know it is a shelter. They have rooms
and they want everybody to know if you are looking
for a place, they are open and they are welcoming
you if you need to get somewhere and you need
to get a break, and you need to get out,
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you're evacuated and you're looking for a place to stay.
They are open twenty four to seven. Dreamcenter dot Org.
Pastor math You're going to take care of you along
with his staff and then want to make sure everybody
knows that if you trying to find a place to
go that they are there for you.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, there's a massive movement in town led by people
in the community around the Rose Bowl where Brian Blackmore,
one of our bosses, walks around and round and round
and round and round and round and round. You'd think
you'd find like another round at a certain point, but anyway,
that beautiful community in the historical Royal Seko. People are
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drop dropping off stuff and donating and it does make
you feel great that there are people out there who
who want to help and care and people dropped out.
It was overwhelming at Loyola High for a lot of
the students and people's families that go to because it's
up private school, so people come from all over a
lot of palisades people who were affected so crazy time.
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But also something we talked about also a time to
be grateful for your community and depend on your friends
and neighbors because a lot of that is well, a
lot of that is just necessary because some of our
infrastructure has not been able obviously to handle what has happened,
and we all got to look out for each other.
So the Dream Center AMPI seventy la sports dot com
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Don mcclan and I were on yesterday and the fire
popped up not far from his house, and it was
kind of a gnarly day, and David Vasse got evacuated
and was at his mom's condo and did Dodger Talk
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from there and joined the show. Matt, much like Snake Plisken,
escaped from the city of Los Angeles on the Chargers
charter and he is in the city of Houston, Texas
as we speak. As we speak the big playoff game
in the city of Syrup, where the weather I heard
is also frightful. Matt.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
It is rainy. It was dumping rain when we arrived yesterday.
It has been overcast today. It is unseasonably cold for
the city of Houston. It's in the thirties. I have
a beautiful view outside my window of a roof that
looks like it's going to collapse in on itself because
there's a lake on top of it that is not
drained properly.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You see some of that in Houston, the downtown area,
and it always reminded me of South Beach. You know.
It's like, man, people talk about South Beach and all that,
but here's a hotel that costs like one thousand dollars
a night, and right across the street is a building
that's been completely blown out and there's nobody there, and
there's like squatters and weirdos, and you know, you see
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that in downtown La, I guess now, but you don't
expect it in Houston, Texas. You think that one of
the you know, like a big guy, like big text
with a big cowboy hat's gonna come out of every
building with big shiny boots.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I mean, we're surrounded by high end luxury goods stores,
by a public storage that has got to be no
less than fifteen stories tall, a CBS, and a Walgreens,
which you typically find in you know, certain neighborhoods. The
drug stores.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But yeah, I go somewhere to get your lean. Exactly right,
I'm not gonna get They're not gonna bring the provantesy
to your house.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I got to get my lean, and I got to
get my readers, and I'm sending you p im texting
you the video from my window so you can appreciate
what my view is here and why I can't take
my eyes off this one particular apartment building that truly
has a puddle of water that looks like it's got
to be at least a foot deep. Genuinely concerned about
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the safety. But yes, in Houston, electricity flowing through these
hallways with these players on the flight out, on the buses,
in in the meal rooms. I don't I don't remember
it being this way in twenty twenty two when we
played Jacksonville for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
But now, Matt, you always like, you know, to be fair,
you know the moment. Well, no, that's not what I'm saying.
But you you're not like Lou Holtz. You know when
Lou Holtz was that I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Not top ninety.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Well, yeah, that's true, that's part of it.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
You're right, You're not, you know, like I've got a
mouthful of marbles.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
You know you're not You're not six feet tall, but
you're not five foot one either, and uh, and you're
not a very Hall of Fame college football coach.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
But most definitely not.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And he was a Jets coach and he wrote a
fight song for the Jets, but oh Jets. And I'm
not talking about Lou Holtz versus Ryan Day, Like, where
the hell is Lou Holtz? I'll beat his ass. I'll
pull him out of his wheelchair right now. How Darius
say that about us? And depending on what happens tonight,
we could have Lou Holtz versus Ryan Day Part two?
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And Lou Holtz is not a very team But no,
Lou Holtz when he was the coach at Notre Dame
and he got all his Title nine guys or whatever
you call it, not Title nine, but he got some
of the problem. Yeah. Yeah, that wouldn't help with.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Tony Rice, probably not coach Barnett.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The proposition that helped you get guys that couldn't pass
the SAT You got a certain amount of those guys
like U. Holtz really was able to massage the administration
and Notre Dame in a way that no one was
before in that era. We've kind of lost a lot
of that in college football. I was talking to it
about with Don McClain, like, when was the last time
you heard about anybody like, oh, this guy's academically ineligible likewifteen, Yeah,
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happened all the time. You know, this guy's not going
to class. We've got a problem here. It's like, and
that does not happen anymore at all. It's like all
these guys might almost be brilliant, they're they're just going
to class. It must be different now. But anyway, Lou
Holtz when they were really really good back in those days,
like the eighties and they won it all in eighty eight,
would be like, you guys got Navy this week, they're
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zero to eight and you're the best noted name team.
Have you seen Navy cavalry? You know, like lou Holtz
was like really overly complimentary, and then they'd win like
sixty to nothing. I don't think you're like Lou Holtz,
not that you're the coach, I mean, you know, but
as the play by play man, you are very positive.
I'm not saying you massage the stats, but you're very
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you know, you find a way to make it look
good for the Chargers generally fair, you know, I feel
like that's you know, but but and I just feel
like that universally, And of course part of that is
your job, of course, But this game, this team, this coach,
this quarterback, your safety, and then the linebackers and all
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those different guys running around out there on every level
of the defense. I feel like, Matt, I feel like
your confidence boner cannot be hidden by any pair of
Lululemon pants.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
It.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Oh no, I'm not wearing my luluse I Warm yesterday. Today,
I'm wearing my Travis Matthew jeans, which are a little tight,
so it would show off a bout.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, And I'll tell you why, confidence boner. That's what
They're not usually that type.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I think for me, it feels so like this team
feels so different than the previous seven that that I
have called games for, and that maybe lends itself to
an irrational and certainly an unwelcomed level of confidence. I
just did not see a single game this year that
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they gave away. The only one you might be able
to point to is Arizona, where they had like four
hundred yards of offense and yet couldn't score a single
touchdown and had to settle for five field goals and
lost seventeen to fifteen. But even that felt like, well, yeah,
they haven't even scored a touchdown and they're winning fifteen
fourteen right now, and then one explosive play later lost.
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But like that was three or four games every single
year that would just stick in the back of your
mind of how did they lose that game? And there's
a reason why. You know, Jim Harbaugh has won everywhere
he's been. He's coming off, you know, exactly a year
ago yesterday's national championship. Here, it's like he wins. He
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convinces these guys they can win. He convinces the play
by play to go on the radio and then speak
with irrational levels of confidence. It works, you know, it works.
And whether or not they win, that'll have to be
decided tomorrow starting at one thirty. But it feels like
these guys are playing at a level that I have
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not seen them play at before, even the twelve and
four season when they won the wild card round against
Baltimore Man. There were so many weird, quirky breaks in
that season that led to the twelve and four record,
and there just really hasn't been much of that, right,
It's been kind of like it's they've just what the
games are supposed to do. There's that, yeah, I mean
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the doink that would be like the one like, oh
really a doint as you heard on the play by
play that we yeah here I twisted, Well why don't you?
The doink was one of those weird moments. But yeah,
I think I think it's a team that would relish.
I mean what team wouldn't, right, you want to stay
alive in the playoffs, so they would relish a chance
to try to get a third opportunity to see if
they can be the team to end this incredible run
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by the Chiefs in a row.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, then you have but the Chiefs. You know, he
still got to beat Houston and he got down, I
mean c J. Stroud who's had a down year compared
to last year, and both of their bodies herds are
heard and I heard, and then in the hotel, like
before you start walking down the hall, you do like
a little giddy up like and then you start walking
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like a strut, you know what I mean, like.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
A you know what I do is I jump and
I kicked my heels together. Yeah, you gotta move. I
get a little blue and you don't know where to go.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I could just I could. Can't you feel it? Kate's
and calling? I mean, can you feel it? Can you
feel it coming in the air for Matt Smith? Can't
you feel his confidence?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I can hear it coming through the microphone right now.
The confidence all wee feeling it.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Coach might choke me out if he hears that, because
he has done nothing but shower praise. He's he is
the loot Holtz. He is the one that says, you
know that he tried to recruit CJ. Stroud, that he
made the trip out the cow California, rented a car
at Lax drove Derancho Cucamongo, watched him play football, offered
him an opportunity to play at the University of Michigan,
which he declined. Uh and recognized him as one of
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the toughest guys he'd ever recruited, and that he is
an elite quarterback and that.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Have you seen Western Michigan. Do you know what they
can do to our defense?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
That has been Coach Harbaughs and it should be you
know They've got Daniel Hunter and Will Anderson probably the
best bookend edge rushers in the league. They've got an
incredible secondary. Uh Kaylan, you're uh Kaylen Bullock from the
USC who's just not asked to tackle. Hey, let's play
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to his strengths. We're not going to ask this guy
to tackle. We're gonna ask him to make plays on
the ball. And he's got five picks and he's kind
of been that high safety that Demiico Ryans loves. And
Kamari Lassiter, who was on the team with Lad McConkey
at Georgia and I'm sure they faced off in practice,
was just announced he's going to be put in the slot,
So those two are going to get to go at it.
It has been an accept corner so far all season long,
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his rookie year.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
He's gonna play corner. He's gonna be out there, ding guys.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Up, I promised you that you gonna be out there.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Hey, Stanford might only have one win and we're in
late November, but have you seen that quarterback.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
That's they are a good team. They are a good
team that has that has played its worst football at
the worst time going into the postseason. But they're certainly
in that.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Hols Opo Holtz, Matt Smith.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I don't know why they're showing up.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Somebody's gonna take your hat and run away with it
like the kid did the Lou Holtz on the sideline.
I could see Matt. Couldn't you see Matt opening up
the going into the because Kates knows how the press
boxes are configured, so does call him? Ye, you know,
can't you see Matt opening up the home radio door
for Houston and just sticking his head in. All I
wanted to.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Say was, Hey, good luck losers, and what types of
tea time on Sundays that's going.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
On Va Cason next week? How far are you guys
from South Padre? Hey?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Voice of the text is one two three cocoon.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Or or or he goes in there with double horns
down horns down, bitch like that? Like that?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I for sure, no, I do not have They're two
good teams, They're two very good teams. It'll be a
tight game. There's a reason why the spread is as
small as it is two and a half points. Uh.
It is played in their home field, Reliant Stadium. I'm
sure will be packed with Texan fans. Don't know if
the Rams will be as fortunate with a home game
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in Arizona to have Glendale State Farm Stadium packed with
Rams fans. I think you could end up seeing a
blanket of purple, considering it's where many Minnesotans and Midwesterners
spend their winters.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
In Arizona from Minnesota. Yeah, that's why Arizona has a
little edge.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
That's exactly right. It's that Midwest edge that there's so
many people smoking out. There's not being able to go
in there from California. It's all in the Westerners smokes.
It's a pissed of Midwest attitude. It's like, Hey, I'm
gonna smoke. I'm gonna smoke on this patio during happy
I don't give a damn. I'm from the Midwest. I
got new ports. They're not even legal here, but I
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brought them with me. That's what they could be. It's
a that will not surprise me. So the Chargers will
have to overcome the crowd. I'll have to try to
take them out of it early, and they're certainly gonna
have to deal with some very very talented players on
the defensive side of the ball in order to protect
Herbert and get this run game going, they get that
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guy back that tried to kill Trevor Lawrence al Shah here.
He tried to take his head off and he's like whatever, man, Yeah,
he was just making football play for the left six
to go.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
I have a ticket update for you guys from Phoenix.
Courtesy of our friend Gary Klein at the La Times.
The Rams say season ticket holders for them have purchased
over twenty five thousand tickets for Monday night game Arizona
in the first hour and a half of the window,
and they went on sale this morning. Per the team,
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that numbers expected to rise. Also, according to the NFL,
fifty two thousand tickets already have been sold between Rams
and Cardinals season ticket holders who they're opening it up
to as well. They're in Glendale, Arizona, so it'll be.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Those are those are transient people? You know. One thing
that is being pointed out is I got a Larry
Center's Jersey.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Southwest of These airlines are not are not lowering their prices.
Maybe some people thought they were gonna all of a
sudden drop their prices to help people fly over there.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
They are not.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
It's it's about six hundred dollars right now. Per Pompson
to fly round trip to get to the gaming.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
What if I fly to Tucson and take That's a
smart move, that's a power move right there, take the
ha take the hour drive.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Should I?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Well, you can fly to the Mesa airport.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You know, you know I'm feeling pretty comfident after my
grand rapids move paid.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Right. I'll tell you what I would do. I would
find a real Tim Kates type that looks you in
the eye and says I'll drive. I'll drive us, I'll
drive us. I'll be the man, I'll do it right.
I'd be looking for a Tim Kates type that when
we're stuck in the airport and our flight's been delayed
two hours, that he looks us in the eye and says, hey, guys,
I'll drive us.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
If I didn't see him backwards in the uh Eloy
Loco drive through after midnight, I would maybe believe that
these baby driver Kates well.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
And when Tim Kates stared us in the eyes and
said I'll drive us, I think each of us had
a bucket of like vodka sodas in our hands as well.
You'd be the guy that would have to drive us.
You were not going to be either of us. I
was much less gullible.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
If we were the Rams Station, which were not. If
this was the Chargers being forced to play over in Phoenix,
I would legitimately see about getting a deal with the
motorhome company here in southern California, and I would drive, yeah,
ten to twelve fifteen fans in that motor home and
get you over there.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Little Mark Thompson RV action something like that.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Huh yeah, Hey, what happened to your stupid pipe dream
about our motor home trip? It's dead.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
It's not dead, it's on life support.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
What was that for, Kate's what were we going to
bring training?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah? Yeah, just trying to bother me manipulate my emotions.
That's all that was.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
The baddles are in the hand, ready to bring that
thing back to life.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Dude, it is.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Ready you go. That is all it was about.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
That's not what it was. What's happened. Requested one with
a satellite link so we can broadcast while we're on
the road and a little bit harder to come by,
but they are still trying to seek one out and
find it secure and once that happens, we're good.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I talked to elon. We're good. We got a starlink.
We're good to go.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Oh, starlink, starling forever.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
You know what's on right now? I got on? What
do you got Navy seals with sheen. Oh, he's just
cut a guy's throat underwater, and now they all popped
up and they're all hugging each other, floating around in
the seat.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Like celebrating that he split that dude's throat.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
It is a frog Man Friday. I cover the waterfront.
I'm watching the sea. Yes, in the frog Man Friday,
the Petros somebody show appreciates you, the listener. We also
appreciate the greatness of one Mike Nelson. We appreciate the
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Pacific Ocean. I don't think that's where she is here. Ope,
the lifeguards, the first responders.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
She's in the Gulf of America.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Copy the Coast Guard that protect us, the National Guard
and our police, the fire department working so hard, working
in the spirit of the great Lloyd Bridges playing the
great character of Mike Nelson in the fabulous show Sea Hunk.
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Here's Bill.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Suddenly an anchor came crashing down from topside instantly by issues.
The man in the anchor line rendered me playfully. It
wasn't funny. Underwater is no place for practical jokes. And
if I could have talked at it, shoot them out
right there.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
They'll plash What are you nuts? We're still gonna take
that to Florida? You know what that's like?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
These days?
Speaker 6 (23:09):
You got the f and Navy everywhere. You got frogmen,
you got E C two's with the satellite tracking, you
got the effing Bell two O nine assault choppers. We're
losing one out of every nine loans. That's no duck
walk anymore. ME tell you forget about the money. What
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do you suggest that it is reasonable?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
We're thinking of our friend Bill plashki around that eating fire.
Poor Bill. He's okay, Yeah, he's okay. I talked to
him a couple of days ago or yesterday. As of
yesterday he was okay. So maybe I better check back, Seela.
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The Rams aren't chartering fifteen buses for fans. Okay, it's
a six hour ride, but I.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Don't I can get you there at five and a half.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
O Kate's I heard your get you there and a half.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I got a rest stop that's right on the way,
right on the table.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
The Rams should permission you to drive one of the buses.
I heard Sam Legano's driving the other, and there's four more.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Every rest stop.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Who's buss?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Oh, guys, come on, Kate's.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Every rest drop. We're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Who's boss? You guys?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I mean geez, I thought he was setting me up.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I thought I was.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Getting the softball swinging a miss. No, it wasn't a
swing and a miss. It was two idiots bunking their
heads against it.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Coming up next, we'll talk a little college football, as
the playoffs started last night, and we'll continue the final
four of the playoffs started last night. We'll continue tonight.
We'll be off the air and onto UCLA, Maryland before that.
That's what you'll be listening to, of course on am
II seventy LA Sports, especially the Josh Lewen mccronin interview
(25:30):
after the game. Thanks for being part of great sports stock. Today.
We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Got Ucla basketball this afternoon. That's why we're on here
in the two o'clock hour, going until four thirty pm
for UCLA pregame and then a tip off at five
as they try to get off the schneide after disappointing
losses against Nebraska and Michigan. UCLA trying to get things
right on their Big ten slate with the Turps tip
off five pm and tomorrow at his back on all
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ninety eight point seven and right here on AM five
seventy LA Sports Chargers versus Texans kicks off at one
point thirty. We'll have the pregame at eleven thirty.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Chargers. Somebody has geeked about the Chargers. Somebody's got the
electric spoon and the collo treatment.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
It's been there all day.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
You got mister personality here on the phone.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, not even thinking about his obstructions. Hide in the hotel.
What about them obstructions? Uh?
Speaker 3 (26:35):
The water wall will be visited tomorrow morning. I believe
I'm gonna go with my cousin Jeff tonight to one
of the breweries.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
All right, that's Saint Arnold's exactly right. I will not
be ignored, Matt, not ignoring you. It's time for the
hold up in this damn room all day. Flip top story.
I'll flip you out. I will put you out. This
is the FlipTop story of the day. Great football game
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last night. Two blue bloods doing battle. Two dual threat
limited quarterbacks trading interceptions down the stretch. There was even
a few in there.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
You see that guy left the Titans. He's going to
the balls. My Keith did see that. I enjoyed the game.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
And as confounding as it is for lots of people
like me, West Coast college football types, or really any
college football type that's not Catholic or from Chicago or
the state of Indiana, you find yourself just really liking
this Notre Dame. You find yourself enjoying watching the Irish play.
(28:07):
And even though my eyes are not Irish, Matt, they
were smiling me. A real Tommy Trojan. Not easy to
say that, A real Tommy t you know what it's like.
But this Notre Dame team is easy to root for.
Boris Matt would say, root, you gotta root for him.
Your emotion left tell you, Pe, your emotions tell you.
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Marcus Freeman is easy to root for. A star linebacker
from Ohio all big ten two years second team at
Ohio State, quit the NFL after it played for three
teams in the NFL one practice squad and then two teams,
and then he had to quit football after one year
because of an enlarged heart, and then he started climbing
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the Midwest Coaching Ladder, Ohio State as a GA because
that's as i'ma monter, Kent State perdue. Then he hooked
up with Luke Fickle at Cincinnati and that Matt if
you don't know his history, because I didn't know all
of that. That is when Commodore Chestnut Brian Kelly poked
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him with his parasol to come and work in South Bend.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
And here we are, cre bend your ear for a moment, So.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Would you please meet me in the Paula so we
can polay and Notre Dame was without a lot of
guys last night. Are you gonna backup? Quarterback came in
and went like six for seven and let a field
goal drive. Jeremiah Love, the running back had a big,
(29:45):
bulky ass knee brace on and was still like doing
the Super Mario hops out.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
There, breaking him four tackles for that touchdown.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
He yeah, showed great power and well to win. Hey, No,
lots of heroic performances from the Catholic like Joan of Arc,
just like Jonah art Ryan totally now I know how
Joan of Arc felt. And for Penn State, I mean
(30:16):
The one thing is like, why even have the wide
receivers out there? I mean, I know Tyler Warren is
a very special player, but geez, why even have those
guys out there? Just let's load up the box with
some h backs and tight end. See how many linebackers
Notre Dame really asked? See who the real horse is? Ill?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Who the horse is?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I have a kidding, but obviously Drew Aller struggled, But
yeah you did. How about that quarterback waggle to the
left with a right handed dude on third and three
to great House. Pretty sweet from left hand waggle, come
(30:59):
on right handed quarterback? Was very exciting. And now you know, Matt,
A lot of people talk a lot of ass about
Notre Dame because they're You're making a lot of money,
and they're a blue blood and they have their own
TV deal and they make their own schedule.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
As an India, I think that Jesus only wants them to.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Win, sir. But Notre Dame played four Big ten teams
this year. At the end of the night, as Don
Martin our boss would say, they beat USC Indiana, Poor, Purdue,
and Penn State, and they might be five and zero
when all of a sudden done if they beat Ohios Dad.
(31:40):
If Ohio State wins, not too shabby, congratulations to coach Freeman.
They've become a Cinderella story, which is really odd. And
you know, why are the Irish eyes smiling? Matt? Why
do people love the Irish that aren't Notre Dame fans
who really, as you know, aren't that likable in real life.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Nice uniforms.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
No, oh, I'll give you one more guest because I
like the first guest. They do have nice uniforms.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
The only thing to keep popping in my mind because
ESPN dot COM's peppered me with is they just like
the idea of transfers.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Well, they don't really have, No, it's because they're not
in the SEC exactly right right, people hate like so
many people resent ESPN and happy and then the ESPN's
in bed with the SEC, which doesn't seem to line
up politically with what they do at ESPN. Sanke keeps
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the SEC network like ESPN kind of was in the nineties,
so they seem happy with that. But it's just weird.
It seems like everybody hates the SEC, at least everybody
that I know that.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Covers football it's a great point. I wouldn't never watched
the show first take, but I do follow the Doggie
on ESPN. I mean on a matter. I did see
a clip that he tweeted out of him arguing with
Paul Finebaum. All he was asked was do you think
it's good for college football to have Notre Dame in
the National Championship. It's a softball question, It's an easy
(33:17):
thing to answer, and he went on a three minute
ran about how much he hates Notre Dame for not
joining the ACC after they extended an olive branch during COVID,
and good on Doggy for interrupting him and saying.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
It's not the question.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Is it good for college football to have Notre Dame
in the final?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
That's the question.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Paul answered that.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
We had Mantitao on yesterday and he was great. It
was a lot of fun. Second time he's been on
Matt and I interviewed him when he was a Charger.
But Mantiitayo made a great point. He said, Look, you
can go anywhere in the world with a Notre Dame
logo on and people know what it is. And I mean,
you can say that about Texas. Is there second to
Notre Dame as far as brand wreck ignition in college football?
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But it's a distant second. Of course. It's a good thing.
But ESPN can't admit it. They have a hard time, man,
they have a hard time giving credit to somebody that
they're not making money off of.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
That's stupid, right, like just it is. It's stupid.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
It's football called the game.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
As far as the sports leader, yea, the sports leader,
not KNBR, They're a sportsb is. I'm mistad would never.
I don't want to get sued for trademark infringement.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
A good point as far as a to night in
Texas goes matt As we discussed yesterday. Uh, I like Blackbeard,
the shadowy pirate Ryan Day, and I like the Buckeyes. Now,
I did like Penn State last night to win and
I was back and forth, back back forth and fourth
it was a good game. What could you do? But
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you think about Texas. They let Clemson hang around. They
obviously needed fourth down help and a gnarly no call
to beat the sun Devils.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Bs man.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
The Buckeyes right now look more consistent and ready to
win down in and down out. And I think Chip
Kelly will find a way to out maneuver the Texas
d And as I said yesterday, Matt, you do have
to give Blackbeard the Bucko Ryan Day a lot of credit,
especially if he can impale Steve Sarkisian and leave Sarkisian
(35:34):
a carcass and run him through on his pirate sword tonight.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Yeah, that pirate was supposed to be was supposed to
walk the plank a month ago.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Copy that Blackbeard used that very negative Michigan loss and
the surrounding tumult in his program and found a way
to motivate his very talented football team. I think that
deserves a drink up me, Hardy's your home.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Drink up me, Harty's your home.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
No, I mean we all have Cotton Bowl action at
four point thirty, of course, but most of us will
be linked emotionally to UCLA Maryland here on a seventy
LA spots. Apparently, the betting on the Buckeyes, Matt, as
a consensus Favarito is really lopsided, and I wouldn't be
(36:32):
surprised if a pirate casino didn't pop up on the
strip in Las Vegas. Many people have bet on Ryan
Day's Blue black Beard of Darkness to win this game?
Is there a pirate themed casino.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Used to be Treasure Island?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Is it? Is it gone?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
But it is? Remember they would have The Pirate Show
was remember the Mirage next year Pirates Show is waiting
to park though too. Right there is right next to
where they were striking at medieval times. Remember those workers
were striking and the Pirate Show was like, hey, well
you had a show where you can eat food with
your hands. Right over here, Treasure Island was knocked down.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
It's gonna be the new side of the Las Vegas As.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Yes, is that right? Is that right? You're being a
smart ass, ktes I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Right. I want a TV update about UCLA versus Maryland.
Fox eleven was supposed to carry the game, but locally
they're not gonna because of the wildfires, so they're gonna
kick it up to Channel thirteen. It's gonna be on
between Martin and Malcolm and Eddie on Channel thirteen. Enjoy.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
That's a good bookend, right there, man, good book ends.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
We'll be right back with some listener reaction. Thanks for
being with us, everybody.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Go until four thirty on a flex alert here because
of UCLA basketball in Maryland taking on the terps as
they continue the Big Ten slate that has not started
off so great losses at Nebraska and at home to Michigan.
See if they can write that ship tonight again. They
will tip it off at five. They'll have a pregame
at four thirty. And we can't say it enough. If
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Speaker 1 (39:00):
All right, We got a few textosos.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
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Speaker 1 (39:07):
We make it easy. Uh, I have some textosos mad.
A lot of reaction to what we've been doing and
talking about around here, a lot of corrections and retractions.
On Cocono's Kates. Treasure Island is still barely kicking. So
if Ryan Dawins and all, they're going to have a
pirate party there the Tropos I said it was gone,
(39:30):
but it is still there. Okay, but the Tropicana is
where they're building the Vegas.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
A's right, that's what I thought. It was strip, That.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Is what I thought. So what about the flaming Oh
whatever happened anyway?
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Fair?
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Uh haye, p. It's not the Charger surging into the
playoffs that's causing money's pep in his step. He's probably
popped an extra blue chee or Nugenics that's causing the
surge in his pants. Nothing wrong with it, money, and
remember she'll like it too.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
I can get behind that. Yeah, you don't chouldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Try to do it. You're not gonna need any blue shoe.
When the Chargers beat the Texans and then it's let's
get che.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
I'm gonna have to hit up an emergency room papism.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Hey Pete, why did you get money started massaging the
Chargers balls right out of the gate? Ain't nobody got
time for that? I got bronchitis. Listen, he's in Texas.
It's a game that's being played. I mean, everything else
is hanging in the balance. We don't know anything about it. So,
I mean, what he wasn't here yesterday? We had to
(40:43):
catch up. It's a big game. Did you massage that ward?
What do you want? I feel something poking me in
the back. Is it Matt and his priapism, confidence and excitement? Yes?
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Probably is?
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Hey p Why the hell does every stinking commentator have
to say player A as a transfer from here and
did this? Like they're not Notre Dame guys or some bs,
like these guys have no love for ND Like this
is somehow like this isn't really a Notre Dame team.
Why does this team in Notre Dame get no credit
(41:26):
or respect? Because ESPN is not making money off of them.
If you want Notre Dame to get credit and respect,
you can tune in to NBC when they're playing a
home game, and you will hear credit and respect like
you've never believed when somebody's calling a football game. And
(41:49):
I think Fox, if they have them in a Big
Ten game, or the or something, does a good job.
But yes, and the college football playoff, ESPN and McDonough
and especially Greggie McElroy, they would all prefer for it
to be Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Texas, A and M somebody
(42:11):
who's balls that they can massage. Yet those teams suck
Kate's Yes.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
At what point will the announcers stop saying this guy
transferred from Wake Forest, this guy transferred Texas or.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Is that now that I like to say where a
guy's from, But then I also like to get their
hometown too. I mean, I think where a guy transferred
from is part of the story, you know, sometimes more
than others because everyone's transferring the well, football is about people,
I mean, and if you know this guy or that guy,
this coach or that coach, you know you if you
can connect the transfer like, oh, well he came over
(42:47):
with this coach when when they both left this place,
that's a story. But what about multiple transfers like oh,
this guy started at Georgia, Like to say.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
This guy knows a lot of fight songs. See when
people zig. I liked the zag, And what I do
is I share how much they got in nil and
what they bought with that money. I'm like, hey, well,
Mali Nelson and he bought his mom a birkin bag.
That's what I like to do in the broadcast. I
think it, you know, helps provide some color and some
background that he said.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
I don't know if it was a burkin, but he
did say it was her dream back, her dream bag. Yes,
and it's hard to imagine that, you know, of dream
bag not being.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
This guy got eight hundred grand and he bought one
of those Ashton Kutcher uh Street legal semis to drive
around town with that money.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Castak versus Pacific Ocean. That's the California Championship.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
By the way, can we put this to bed? They
were using both. Okay, yes, they started with the Ocean
because they needed to get quick drops.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
I don't believe it. Matt's gun is digging into my.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Hip packing heat there. Oh you could call it heat.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Nobody is more excited to watch Matt turn on the
power than our listeners, who are going to be all
over it tomorrow on FI seventy LA Sports, and the
Charger Texas game also is going to be on ninety
eight seven because they canceled all what's it called her
alter ego? I was gonna call it alt Nation, but
(44:24):
I think that's something different. Oh. This is from Isabelle,
our number one listener. Here we go. We love is
he Pee, Please tell money good luck on the Chargers.
I'll be listening. And she put a little emoji of
an ear even I, even though I am a Rams.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
Fan, I appreciate that. Izzy.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Thank you. Yeah, you know I heard that guy Schumann
say he would have preferred that the Rams and Raiders
figured out.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
Now you know what, Phil, as the voice of the Chargers,
I'm gonna go ahead and politely disagree with you on
that one. All right, Well that's going to wrap up
our conversation. When we return, I'm gonna talk about the homeless.
Deborah Marks, He's okay, what's going on with the homeless?
Is there something I missed?
Speaker 1 (45:07):
It was a great day and great sports talk yesterday
with our guests Matt because we did have heavy football
talk with Eric Allen about the Raiders and he got
into Tommy t and a little ASU action and Bill
Belichick and Pete Carroll and an old head coach versus
a young head coach and all that. And we had
(45:29):
Mantiteo on who was great talking about the Chargers and
Jim Harbaugh and kind of what he's brought to that situation.
And just like you, we didn't think much about the
Texans at all.
Speaker 3 (45:44):
I think plenty about I believe the Texans are going
to put up a formidable defense in the Wildcard rounde
and it will be a tight game that everybody will
have to execute as perfectly as possible in order to
get out with the victory.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Both teams played hard, right, Matt, Right, that's right now.
Great deeds being done by people all over the place,
and we see it top to bottom in our community.
Matt was talking about iHeart connection with the Dream Center
and that you can go to AMPI seventy LA sports
dot com right now, keyword donate and give. But Freddie
(46:20):
Freeman and his wife Chelsea got this, donating three hundred
thousand dollars one hundred thousand to each Los Angeles Fire
Department Foundation, a Pasadena Fire Department, and the Salvation Army
for Wildlife. Fire relief efforts in Los Angeles. Freddie Freeman
real prince in the city, coming off one of the
(46:40):
great performances injured in the World Series, especially that game won.
My goodness, very exciting for everybody who loves the Dodgers.
To see what Freddy Freeman did and to see him
giving back in the community always makes you feel good.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
I mean, man, three hundred gees from a single family.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Pretty good.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
Yeah, that is impressive. But there's a reason why city
loves him. Get the Freddie Chance regularly out at Dodger
Stadium and obviously having provided one of the two or
three most iconic moments not only in Dodger history but
baseball history in that game one.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
I also want you to know, Matt, that Marcus Freeman's
mother's name is Chong. Okay, it's not just the first
black an African American coach to be in the National Title,
but also Asian.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
I appreciate him doing that. You know.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
That scream you heard from Lahabra last n hour Alhambra?
Excuse me, the scream you heard from Alhambra? The Yeah,
what's fellow Asian calling? Yee?
Speaker 3 (47:59):
Indeed, very excited.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
We'll be right back with your word, number, song, and
then we'll do a top story Dead and alive, but
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Bang up job? Did Ella hit that button? Or did
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Speaker 1 (01:57):
Oh? You know it was Kate's that call and plays
the Shinobi for himself. So and the PMS photoshop banded
in a beautiful shnobi head with Colin's eyes, you know,
peeking out one of his finest efforts. I thought it
was just gorgeous. But Colin Yee has been here all
week at Colin Yee ten it's been a well, a
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crazy week in great sports talk. Been a crazy week
for everybody in the city and just a nightmare week
for some people and families. And Colin Yee has done
a great job and we appreciate you calling Yee. But
here on Friday, you know there are a koutra mall
that from the listeners expect. Yeah, there's that, but it's
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also a hopeful music at noon And if we ever
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noon Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Fastest ever, that was a quick.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Ful music at noon, big Iron. He trew on, let
they're real quick, I mean Dan, So we're only going
to be on for two and a half hours. Like
Matt said, we are hopeful. Speaking of that, the Dream Center.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
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to help those affected by the devastating fires. I saw
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Go there, Mfi seventy LA sports dot com because we
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Dream Center in downtown LA personally and drop off any goods. Hey,
you see that happening around town too, Matt. If you'd
like to.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Donate, you know, yeah you do. And people don't just
need money. That's then going to go to a charitable cause.
It's going to provide the goods and services they need.
But they need the goods and services. Goods you may have,
and you can get into their hands a lot quicker
if you drop them off yourself. There's a whole list available.
Red Cross has it, obviously, five somebody LA Sports will
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and they want everybody to know if you are looking
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you if you need to get somewhere and you need
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They are open twenty four to seven. Dreamcenter dot Org.
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knows that if you trying to find a place to
go that they are there for you.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, there's a massive movement in town led by people
in the community around the Rose Bowl where Brian Blackmore,
one of our bosses, walks around and round and round
and round and round and round and round. You'd think
you'd find like another round at a certain point, but anyway,
that beautiful community in the historical Royal Seko. People are
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drop dropping off stuff and donating and it does make
you feel great that there are people out there who
who want to help and care and people dropped out.
It was overwhelming at Loyola High for a lot of
the students and people's families that go to because it's
up private school, so people come from all over a
lot of palisades people who were affected so crazy time.
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But also something we talked about also a time to
be grateful for your community and depend on your friends
and neighbors because a lot of that is well, a
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Don mcclan and I were on yesterday and the fire
popped up not far from his house, and it was
kind of a gnarly day, and David Vasse got evacuated
and was at his mom's condo and did Dodger Talk
(06:29):
from there and joined the show. Matt, much like Snake Plisken,
escaped from the city of Los Angeles on the Chargers
charter and he is in the city of Houston, Texas
as we speak. As we speak the big playoff game
in the city of Syrup, where the weather I heard
is also frightful. Matt.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
It is rainy. It was dumping rain when we arrived yesterday.
It has been overcast today. It is unseasonably cold for
the city of Houston. It's in the thirties. I have
a beautiful view outside my window of a roof that
looks like it's going to collapse in on itself because
there's a lake on top of it that is not
drained properly.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You see some of that in Houston, the downtown area,
and it always reminded me of South Beach. You know.
It's like, man, people talk about South Beach and all that,
but here's a hotel that costs like one thousand dollars
a night, and right across the street is a building
that's been completely blown out and there's nobody there, and
there's like squatters and weirdos, and you know, you see
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that in downtown La, I guess now, but you don't
expect it in Houston, Texas. You think that one of
the you know, like a big guy, like big text
with a big cowboy hat's gonna come out of every
building with big shiny boots.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I mean, we're surrounded by high end luxury goods stores,
by a public storage that has got to be no
less than fifteen stories tall, a CBS, and a Walgreens,
which you typically find in you know, certain neighborhoods. The
drug stores.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But yeah, I go somewhere to get your lean. Exactly right,
I'm not gonna get They're not gonna bring the provantesy
to your house.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I got to get my lean, and I got to
get my readers, and I'm sending you p im texting
you the video from my window so you can appreciate
what my view is here and why I can't take
my eyes off this one particular apartment building that truly
has a puddle of water that looks like it's got
to be at least a foot deep. Genuinely concerned about
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the safety. But yes, in Houston, electricity flowing through these
hallways with these players on the flight out, on the buses,
in in the meal rooms. I don't I don't remember
it being this way in twenty twenty two when we
played Jacksonville for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
But now, Matt, you always like, you know, to be fair,
you know the moment. Well, no, that's not what I'm saying.
But you you're not like Lou Holtz. You know when
Lou Holtz was that I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Not top ninety.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Well, yeah, that's true, that's part of it.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
You're right, You're not, you know, like I've got a
mouthful of marbles.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
You know you're not You're not six feet tall, but
you're not five foot one either, and uh, and you're
not a very Hall of Fame college football coach.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
But most definitely not.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And he was a Jets coach and he wrote a
fight song for the Jets, but oh Jets. And I'm
not talking about Lou Holtz versus Ryan Day, Like, where
the hell is Lou Holtz? I'll beat his ass. I'll
pull him out of his wheelchair right now. How Darius
say that about us? And depending on what happens tonight,
we could have Lou Holtz versus Ryan Day Part two?
(09:35):
And Lou Holtz is not a very team But no,
Lou Holtz when he was the coach at Notre Dame
and he got all his Title nine guys or whatever
you call it, not Title nine, but he got some
of the problem. Yeah. Yeah, that wouldn't help with.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Tony Rice, probably not coach Barnett.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The proposition that helped you get guys that couldn't pass
the SAT You got a certain amount of those guys
like U. Holtz really was able to massage the administration
and Notre Dame in a way that no one was
before in that era. We've kind of lost a lot
of that in college football. I was talking to it
about with Don McClain, like, when was the last time
you heard about anybody like, oh, this guy's academically ineligible likewifteen, Yeah,
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happened all the time. You know, this guy's not going
to class. We've got a problem here. It's like, and
that does not happen anymore at all. It's like all
these guys might almost be brilliant, they're they're just going
to class. It must be different now. But anyway, Lou
Holtz when they were really really good back in those days,
like the eighties and they won it all in eighty eight,
would be like, you guys got Navy this week, they're
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zero to eight and you're the best noted name team.
Have you seen Navy cavalry? You know, like lou Holtz
was like really overly complimentary, and then they'd win like
sixty to nothing. I don't think you're like Lou Holtz,
not that you're the coach, I mean, you know, but
as the play by play man, you are very positive.
I'm not saying you massage the stats, but you're very
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you know, you find a way to make it look
good for the Chargers generally fair, you know, I feel
like that's you know, but but and I just feel
like that universally, And of course part of that is
your job, of course, But this game, this team, this coach,
this quarterback, your safety, and then the linebackers and all
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those different guys running around out there on every level
of the defense. I feel like, Matt, I feel like
your confidence boner cannot be hidden by any pair of
Lululemon pants.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
It.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Oh no, I'm not wearing my luluse I Warm yesterday. Today,
I'm wearing my Travis Matthew jeans, which are a little tight,
so it would show off a bout.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, And I'll tell you why, confidence boner. That's what
They're not usually that type.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I think for me, it feels so like this team
feels so different than the previous seven that that I
have called games for, and that maybe lends itself to
an irrational and certainly an unwelcomed level of confidence. I
just did not see a single game this year that
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they gave away. The only one you might be able
to point to is Arizona, where they had like four
hundred yards of offense and yet couldn't score a single
touchdown and had to settle for five field goals and
lost seventeen to fifteen. But even that felt like, well, yeah,
they haven't even scored a touchdown and they're winning fifteen
fourteen right now, and then one explosive play later lost.
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But like that was three or four games every single
year that would just stick in the back of your
mind of how did they lose that game? And there's
a reason why. You know, Jim Harbaugh has won everywhere
he's been. He's coming off, you know, exactly a year
ago yesterday's national championship. Here, it's like he wins. He
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convinces these guys they can win. He convinces the play
by play to go on the radio and then speak
with irrational levels of confidence. It works, you know, it works.
And whether or not they win, that'll have to be
decided tomorrow starting at one thirty. But it feels like
these guys are playing at a level that I have
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not seen them play at before, even the twelve and
four season when they won the wild card round against
Baltimore Man. There were so many weird, quirky breaks in
that season that led to the twelve and four record,
and there just really hasn't been much of that, right,
It's been kind of like it's they've just what the
games are supposed to do. There's that, yeah, I mean
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the doink that would be like the one like, oh
really a doint as you heard on the play by
play that we yeah here I twisted, Well why don't you?
The doink was one of those weird moments. But yeah,
I think I think it's a team that would relish.
I mean what team wouldn't, right, you want to stay
alive in the playoffs, so they would relish a chance
to try to get a third opportunity to see if
they can be the team to end this incredible run
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by the Chiefs in a row.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, then you have but the Chiefs. You know, he
still got to beat Houston and he got down, I
mean c J. Stroud who's had a down year compared
to last year, and both of their bodies herds are
heard and I heard, and then in the hotel, like
before you start walking down the hall, you do like
a little giddy up like and then you start walking
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like a strut, you know what I mean, like.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
A you know what I do is I jump and
I kicked my heels together. Yeah, you gotta move. I
get a little blue and you don't know where to go.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I could just I could. Can't you feel it? Kate's
and calling? I mean, can you feel it? Can you
feel it coming in the air for Matt Smith? Can't
you feel his confidence?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I can hear it coming through the microphone right now.
The confidence all wee feeling it.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Coach might choke me out if he hears that, because
he has done nothing but shower praise. He's he is
the loot Holtz. He is the one that says, you
know that he tried to recruit CJ. Stroud, that he
made the trip out the cow California, rented a car
at Lax drove Derancho Cucamongo, watched him play football, offered
him an opportunity to play at the University of Michigan,
which he declined. Uh and recognized him as one of
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the toughest guys he'd ever recruited, and that he is
an elite quarterback and that.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Have you seen Western Michigan. Do you know what they
can do to our defense?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
That has been Coach Harbaughs and it should be you
know They've got Daniel Hunter and Will Anderson probably the
best bookend edge rushers in the league. They've got an
incredible secondary. Uh Kaylan, you're uh Kaylen Bullock from the
USC who's just not asked to tackle. Hey, let's play
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to his strengths. We're not going to ask this guy
to tackle. We're gonna ask him to make plays on
the ball. And he's got five picks and he's kind
of been that high safety that Demiico Ryans loves. And
Kamari Lassiter, who was on the team with Lad McConkey
at Georgia and I'm sure they faced off in practice,
was just announced he's going to be put in the slot,
So those two are going to get to go at it.
It has been an accept corner so far all season long,
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his rookie year.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
He's gonna play corner. He's gonna be out there, ding guys.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Up, I promised you that you gonna be out there.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Hey, Stanford might only have one win and we're in
late November, but have you seen that quarterback.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
That's they are a good team. They are a good
team that has that has played its worst football at
the worst time going into the postseason. But they're certainly
in that.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Hols Opo Holtz, Matt Smith.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I don't know why they're showing up.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Somebody's gonna take your hat and run away with it
like the kid did the Lou Holtz on the sideline.
I could see Matt. Couldn't you see Matt opening up
the going into the because Kates knows how the press
boxes are configured, so does call him? Ye, you know,
can't you see Matt opening up the home radio door
for Houston and just sticking his head in. All I
wanted to.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Say was, Hey, good luck losers, and what types of
tea time on Sundays that's going.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
On Va Cason next week? How far are you guys
from South Padre? Hey?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Voice of the text is one two three cocoon.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Or or or he goes in there with double horns
down horns down, bitch like that? Like that?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I for sure, no, I do not have They're two
good teams, They're two very good teams. It'll be a
tight game. There's a reason why the spread is as
small as it is two and a half points. Uh.
It is played in their home field, Reliant Stadium. I'm
sure will be packed with Texan fans. Don't know if
the Rams will be as fortunate with a home game
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in Arizona to have Glendale State Farm Stadium packed with
Rams fans. I think you could end up seeing a
blanket of purple, considering it's where many Minnesotans and Midwesterners
spend their winters.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
In Arizona from Minnesota. Yeah, that's why Arizona has a
little edge.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
That's exactly right. It's that Midwest edge that there's so
many people smoking out. There's not being able to go
in there from California. It's all in the Westerners smokes.
It's a pissed of Midwest attitude. It's like, Hey, I'm
gonna smoke. I'm gonna smoke on this patio during happy
I don't give a damn. I'm from the Midwest. I
got new ports. They're not even legal here, but I
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brought them with me. That's what they could be. It's
a that will not surprise me. So the Chargers will
have to overcome the crowd. I'll have to try to
take them out of it early, and they're certainly gonna
have to deal with some very very talented players on
the defensive side of the ball in order to protect
Herbert and get this run game going, they get that
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guy back that tried to kill Trevor Lawrence al Shah here.
He tried to take his head off and he's like whatever, man, Yeah,
he was just making football play for the left six
to go.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
I have a ticket update for you guys from Phoenix.
Courtesy of our friend Gary Klein at the La Times.
The Rams say season ticket holders for them have purchased
over twenty five thousand tickets for Monday night game Arizona
in the first hour and a half of the window,
and they went on sale this morning. Per the team,
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that numbers expected to rise. Also, according to the NFL,
fifty two thousand tickets already have been sold between Rams
and Cardinals season ticket holders who they're opening it up
to as well. They're in Glendale, Arizona, so it'll be.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Those are those are transient people? You know. One thing
that is being pointed out is I got a Larry
Center's Jersey.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Southwest of These airlines are not are not lowering their prices.
Maybe some people thought they were gonna all of a
sudden drop their prices to help people fly over there.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
They are not.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
It's it's about six hundred dollars right now. Per Pompson
to fly round trip to get to the gaming.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
What if I fly to Tucson and take That's a
smart move, that's a power move right there, take the
ha take the hour drive.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Should I?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Well, you can fly to the Mesa airport.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You know, you know I'm feeling pretty comfident after my
grand rapids move paid.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Right. I'll tell you what I would do. I would
find a real Tim Kates type that looks you in
the eye and says I'll drive. I'll drive us, I'll
drive us. I'll be the man, I'll do it right.
I'd be looking for a Tim Kates type that when
we're stuck in the airport and our flight's been delayed
two hours, that he looks us in the eye and says, hey, guys,
I'll drive us.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
If I didn't see him backwards in the uh Eloy
Loco drive through after midnight, I would maybe believe that
these baby driver Kates well.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
And when Tim Kates stared us in the eyes and
said I'll drive us, I think each of us had
a bucket of like vodka sodas in our hands as well.
You'd be the guy that would have to drive us.
You were not going to be either of us. I
was much less gullible.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
If we were the Rams Station, which were not. If
this was the Chargers being forced to play over in Phoenix,
I would legitimately see about getting a deal with the
motorhome company here in southern California, and I would drive, yeah,
ten to twelve fifteen fans in that motor home and
get you over there.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Little Mark Thompson RV action something like that.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Huh yeah, Hey, what happened to your stupid pipe dream
about our motor home trip? It's dead.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
It's not dead, it's on life support.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
What was that for, Kate's what were we going to
bring training?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah? Yeah, just trying to bother me manipulate my emotions.
That's all that was.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
The baddles are in the hand, ready to bring that
thing back to life.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Dude, it is.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Ready you go. That is all it was about.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
That's not what it was. What's happened. Requested one with
a satellite link so we can broadcast while we're on
the road and a little bit harder to come by,
but they are still trying to seek one out and
find it secure and once that happens, we're good.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I talked to elon. We're good. We got a starlink.
We're good to go.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Oh, starlink, starling forever.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
You know what's on right now? I got on? What
do you got Navy seals with sheen. Oh, he's just
cut a guy's throat underwater, and now they all popped
up and they're all hugging each other, floating around in
the seat.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Like celebrating that he split that dude's throat.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
It is a frog Man Friday. I cover the waterfront.
I'm watching the sea. Yes, in the frog Man Friday,
the Petros somebody show appreciates you, the listener. We also
appreciate the greatness of one Mike Nelson. We appreciate the
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Pacific Ocean. I don't think that's where she is here. Ope,
the lifeguards, the first responders.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
She's in the Gulf of America.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Copy the Coast Guard that protect us, the National Guard
and our police, the fire department working so hard, working
in the spirit of the great Lloyd Bridges playing the
great character of Mike Nelson in the fabulous show Sea Hunk.
(22:46):
Here's Bill.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Suddenly an anchor came crashing down from topside instantly by issues.
The man in the anchor line rendered me playfully. It
wasn't funny. Underwater is no place for practical jokes. And
if I could have talked at it, shoot them out
right there.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
They'll plash What are you nuts? We're still gonna take
that to Florida? You know what that's like?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
These days?
Speaker 6 (23:09):
You got the f and Navy everywhere. You got frogmen,
you got E C two's with the satellite tracking, you
got the effing Bell two O nine assault choppers. We're
losing one out of every nine loans. That's no duck
walk anymore. ME tell you forget about the money. What
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do you suggest that it is reasonable?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
We're thinking of our friend Bill plashki around that eating fire.
Poor Bill. He's okay, Yeah, he's okay. I talked to
him a couple of days ago or yesterday. As of
yesterday he was okay. So maybe I better check back, Seela.
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The Rams aren't chartering fifteen buses for fans. Okay, it's
a six hour ride, but I.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Don't I can get you there at five and a half.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
O Kate's I heard your get you there and a half.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I got a rest stop that's right on the way,
right on the table.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
The Rams should permission you to drive one of the buses.
I heard Sam Legano's driving the other, and there's four more.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Every rest stop.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Who's buss?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Oh, guys, come on, Kate's.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Every rest drop. We're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Who's boss? You guys?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I mean geez, I thought he was setting me up.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I thought I was.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Getting the softball swinging a miss. No, it wasn't a
swing and a miss. It was two idiots bunking their
heads against it.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Coming up next, we'll talk a little college football, as
the playoffs started last night, and we'll continue the final
four of the playoffs started last night. We'll continue tonight.
We'll be off the air and onto UCLA, Maryland before that.
That's what you'll be listening to, of course on am
II seventy LA Sports, especially the Josh Lewen mccronin interview
(25:30):
after the game. Thanks for being part of great sports stock. Today.
We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Got Ucla basketball this afternoon. That's why we're on here
in the two o'clock hour, going until four thirty pm
for UCLA pregame and then a tip off at five
as they try to get off the schneide after disappointing
losses against Nebraska and Michigan. UCLA trying to get things
right on their Big ten slate with the Turps tip
off five pm and tomorrow at his back on all
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ninety eight point seven and right here on AM five
seventy LA Sports Chargers versus Texans kicks off at one
point thirty. We'll have the pregame at eleven thirty.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Chargers. Somebody has geeked about the Chargers. Somebody's got the
electric spoon and the collo treatment.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
It's been there all day.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
You got mister personality here on the phone.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, not even thinking about his obstructions. Hide in the hotel.
What about them obstructions? Uh?
Speaker 3 (26:35):
The water wall will be visited tomorrow morning. I believe
I'm gonna go with my cousin Jeff tonight to one
of the breweries.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
All right, that's Saint Arnold's exactly right. I will not
be ignored, Matt, not ignoring you. It's time for the
hold up in this damn room all day. Flip top story.
I'll flip you out. I will put you out. This
is the FlipTop story of the day. Great football game
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last night. Two blue bloods doing battle. Two dual threat
limited quarterbacks trading interceptions down the stretch. There was even
a few in there.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
You see that guy left the Titans. He's going to
the balls. My Keith did see that. I enjoyed the game.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
And as confounding as it is for lots of people
like me, West Coast college football types, or really any
college football type that's not Catholic or from Chicago or
the state of Indiana, you find yourself just really liking
this Notre Dame. You find yourself enjoying watching the Irish play.
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And even though my eyes are not Irish, Matt, they
were smiling me. A real Tommy Trojan. Not easy to
say that, A real Tommy t you know what it's like.
But this Notre Dame team is easy to root for.
Boris Matt would say, root, you gotta root for him.
Your emotion left tell you, Pe, your emotions tell you.
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Marcus Freeman is easy to root for. A star linebacker
from Ohio all big ten two years second team at
Ohio State, quit the NFL after it played for three
teams in the NFL one practice squad and then two teams,
and then he had to quit football after one year
because of an enlarged heart, and then he started climbing
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the Midwest Coaching Ladder, Ohio State as a GA because
that's as i'ma monter, Kent State perdue. Then he hooked
up with Luke Fickle at Cincinnati and that Matt if
you don't know his history, because I didn't know all
of that. That is when Commodore Chestnut Brian Kelly poked
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him with his parasol to come and work in South Bend.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
And here we are, cre bend your ear for a moment, So.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Would you please meet me in the Paula so we
can polay and Notre Dame was without a lot of
guys last night. Are you gonna backup? Quarterback came in
and went like six for seven and let a field
goal drive. Jeremiah Love, the running back had a big,
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bulky ass knee brace on and was still like doing
the Super Mario hops out.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
There, breaking him four tackles for that touchdown.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
He yeah, showed great power and well to win. Hey, No,
lots of heroic performances from the Catholic like Joan of Arc,
just like Jonah art Ryan totally now I know how
Joan of Arc felt. And for Penn State, I mean
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The one thing is like, why even have the wide
receivers out there? I mean, I know Tyler Warren is
a very special player, but geez, why even have those
guys out there? Just let's load up the box with
some h backs and tight end. See how many linebackers
Notre Dame really asked? See who the real horse is? Ill?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Who the horse is?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I have a kidding, but obviously Drew Aller struggled, But
yeah you did. How about that quarterback waggle to the
left with a right handed dude on third and three
to great House. Pretty sweet from left hand waggle, come
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on right handed quarterback? Was very exciting. And now you know, Matt,
A lot of people talk a lot of ass about
Notre Dame because they're You're making a lot of money,
and they're a blue blood and they have their own
TV deal and they make their own schedule.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
As an India, I think that Jesus only wants them to.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Win, sir. But Notre Dame played four Big ten teams
this year. At the end of the night, as Don
Martin our boss would say, they beat USC Indiana, Poor, Purdue,
and Penn State, and they might be five and zero
when all of a sudden done if they beat Ohios Dad.
(31:40):
If Ohio State wins, not too shabby, congratulations to coach Freeman.
They've become a Cinderella story, which is really odd. And
you know, why are the Irish eyes smiling? Matt? Why
do people love the Irish that aren't Notre Dame fans
who really, as you know, aren't that likable in real life.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Nice uniforms.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
No, oh, I'll give you one more guest because I
like the first guest. They do have nice uniforms.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
The only thing to keep popping in my mind because
ESPN dot COM's peppered me with is they just like
the idea of transfers.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Well, they don't really have, No, it's because they're not
in the SEC exactly right right, people hate like so
many people resent ESPN and happy and then the ESPN's
in bed with the SEC, which doesn't seem to line
up politically with what they do at ESPN. Sanke keeps
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the SEC network like ESPN kind of was in the nineties,
so they seem happy with that. But it's just weird.
It seems like everybody hates the SEC, at least everybody
that I know that.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Covers football it's a great point. I wouldn't never watched
the show first take, but I do follow the Doggie
on ESPN. I mean on a matter. I did see
a clip that he tweeted out of him arguing with
Paul Finebaum. All he was asked was do you think
it's good for college football to have Notre Dame in
the National Championship. It's a softball question, It's an easy
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thing to answer, and he went on a three minute
ran about how much he hates Notre Dame for not
joining the ACC after they extended an olive branch during COVID,
and good on Doggy for interrupting him and saying.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
It's not the question.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Is it good for college football to have Notre Dame
in the final?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
That's the question.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Paul answered that.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
We had Mantitao on yesterday and he was great. It
was a lot of fun. Second time he's been on
Matt and I interviewed him when he was a Charger.
But Mantiitayo made a great point. He said, Look, you
can go anywhere in the world with a Notre Dame
logo on and people know what it is. And I mean,
you can say that about Texas. Is there second to
Notre Dame as far as brand wreck ignition in college football?
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But it's a distant second. Of course. It's a good thing.
But ESPN can't admit it. They have a hard time, man,
they have a hard time giving credit to somebody that
they're not making money off of.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
That's stupid, right, like just it is. It's stupid.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
It's football called the game.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
As far as the sports leader, yea, the sports leader,
not KNBR, They're a sportsb is. I'm mistad would never.
I don't want to get sued for trademark infringement.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
A good point as far as a to night in
Texas goes matt As we discussed yesterday. Uh, I like Blackbeard,
the shadowy pirate Ryan Day, and I like the Buckeyes. Now,
I did like Penn State last night to win and
I was back and forth, back back forth and fourth
it was a good game. What could you do? But
(34:56):
you think about Texas. They let Clemson hang around. They
obviously needed fourth down help and a gnarly no call
to beat the sun Devils.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Bs man.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
The Buckeyes right now look more consistent and ready to
win down in and down out. And I think Chip
Kelly will find a way to out maneuver the Texas
d And as I said yesterday, Matt, you do have
to give Blackbeard the Bucko Ryan Day a lot of credit,
especially if he can impale Steve Sarkisian and leave Sarkisian
(35:34):
a carcass and run him through on his pirate sword tonight.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Yeah, that pirate was supposed to be was supposed to
walk the plank a month ago.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Copy that Blackbeard used that very negative Michigan loss and
the surrounding tumult in his program and found a way
to motivate his very talented football team. I think that
deserves a drink up me, Hardy's your home.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Drink up me, Harty's your home.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
No, I mean we all have Cotton Bowl action at
four point thirty, of course, but most of us will
be linked emotionally to UCLA Maryland here on a seventy
LA spots. Apparently, the betting on the Buckeyes, Matt, as
a consensus Favarito is really lopsided, and I wouldn't be
(36:32):
surprised if a pirate casino didn't pop up on the
strip in Las Vegas. Many people have bet on Ryan
Day's Blue black Beard of Darkness to win this game?
Is there a pirate themed casino.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Used to be Treasure Island?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Is it? Is it gone?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
But it is? Remember they would have The Pirate Show
was remember the Mirage next year Pirates Show is waiting
to park though too. Right there is right next to
where they were striking at medieval times. Remember those workers
were striking and the Pirate Show was like, hey, well
you had a show where you can eat food with
your hands. Right over here, Treasure Island was knocked down.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
It's gonna be the new side of the Las Vegas As.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Yes, is that right? Is that right? You're being a
smart ass, ktes I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Right. I want a TV update about UCLA versus Maryland.
Fox eleven was supposed to carry the game, but locally
they're not gonna because of the wildfires, so they're gonna
kick it up to Channel thirteen. It's gonna be on
between Martin and Malcolm and Eddie on Channel thirteen. Enjoy.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
That's a good bookend, right there, man, good book ends.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
We'll be right back with some listener reaction. Thanks for
being with us, everybody.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Go until four thirty on a flex alert here because
of UCLA basketball in Maryland taking on the terps as
they continue the Big Ten slate that has not started
off so great losses at Nebraska and at home to Michigan.
See if they can write that ship tonight again. They
will tip it off at five. They'll have a pregame
at four thirty. And we can't say it enough. If
(38:23):
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Speaker 1 (39:00):
All right, We got a few textosos.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
Brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
We make it easy. Uh, I have some textosos mad.
A lot of reaction to what we've been doing and
talking about around here, a lot of corrections and retractions.
On Cocono's Kates. Treasure Island is still barely kicking. So
if Ryan Dawins and all, they're going to have a
pirate party there the Tropos I said it was gone,
(39:30):
but it is still there. Okay, but the Tropicana is
where they're building the Vegas.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
A's right, that's what I thought. It was strip, That.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Is what I thought. So what about the flaming Oh
whatever happened anyway?
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Fair?
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Uh haye, p. It's not the Charger surging into the
playoffs that's causing money's pep in his step. He's probably
popped an extra blue chee or Nugenics that's causing the
surge in his pants. Nothing wrong with it, money, and
remember she'll like it too.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
I can get behind that. Yeah, you don't chouldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Try to do it. You're not gonna need any blue shoe.
When the Chargers beat the Texans and then it's let's
get che.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
I'm gonna have to hit up an emergency room papism.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Hey Pete, why did you get money started massaging the
Chargers balls right out of the gate? Ain't nobody got
time for that? I got bronchitis. Listen, he's in Texas.
It's a game that's being played. I mean, everything else
is hanging in the balance. We don't know anything about it. So,
I mean, what he wasn't here yesterday? We had to
(40:43):
catch up. It's a big game. Did you massage that ward?
What do you want? I feel something poking me in
the back. Is it Matt and his priapism, confidence and excitement? Yes?
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Probably is?
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Hey p Why the hell does every stinking commentator have
to say player A as a transfer from here and
did this? Like they're not Notre Dame guys or some bs,
like these guys have no love for ND Like this
is somehow like this isn't really a Notre Dame team.
Why does this team in Notre Dame get no credit
(41:26):
or respect? Because ESPN is not making money off of them.
If you want Notre Dame to get credit and respect,
you can tune in to NBC when they're playing a
home game, and you will hear credit and respect like
you've never believed when somebody's calling a football game. And
(41:49):
I think Fox, if they have them in a Big
Ten game, or the or something, does a good job.
But yes, and the college football playoff, ESPN and McDonough
and especially Greggie McElroy, they would all prefer for it
to be Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Texas, A and M somebody
(42:11):
who's balls that they can massage. Yet those teams suck
Kate's Yes.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
At what point will the announcers stop saying this guy
transferred from Wake Forest, this guy transferred Texas or.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Is that now that I like to say where a
guy's from, But then I also like to get their
hometown too. I mean, I think where a guy transferred
from is part of the story, you know, sometimes more
than others because everyone's transferring the well, football is about people,
I mean, and if you know this guy or that guy,
this coach or that coach, you know you if you
can connect the transfer like, oh, well he came over
(42:47):
with this coach when when they both left this place,
that's a story. But what about multiple transfers like oh,
this guy started at Georgia, Like to say.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
This guy knows a lot of fight songs. See when
people zig. I liked the zag, And what I do
is I share how much they got in nil and
what they bought with that money. I'm like, hey, well,
Mali Nelson and he bought his mom a birkin bag.
That's what I like to do in the broadcast. I
think it, you know, helps provide some color and some
background that he said.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
I don't know if it was a burkin, but he
did say it was her dream back, her dream bag. Yes,
and it's hard to imagine that, you know, of dream
bag not being.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
This guy got eight hundred grand and he bought one
of those Ashton Kutcher uh Street legal semis to drive
around town with that money.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Castak versus Pacific Ocean. That's the California Championship.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
By the way, can we put this to bed? They
were using both. Okay, yes, they started with the Ocean
because they needed to get quick drops.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
I don't believe it. Matt's gun is digging into my.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Hip packing heat there. Oh you could call it heat.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Nobody is more excited to watch Matt turn on the
power than our listeners, who are going to be all
over it tomorrow on FI seventy LA Sports, and the
Charger Texas game also is going to be on ninety
eight seven because they canceled all what's it called her
alter ego? I was gonna call it alt Nation, but
(44:24):
I think that's something different. Oh. This is from Isabelle,
our number one listener. Here we go. We love is
he Pee, Please tell money good luck on the Chargers.
I'll be listening. And she put a little emoji of
an ear even I, even though I am a Rams.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
Fan, I appreciate that. Izzy.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Thank you. Yeah, you know I heard that guy Schumann
say he would have preferred that the Rams and Raiders
figured out.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
Now you know what, Phil, as the voice of the Chargers,
I'm gonna go ahead and politely disagree with you on
that one. All right, Well that's going to wrap up
our conversation. When we return, I'm gonna talk about the homeless.
Deborah Marks, He's okay, what's going on with the homeless?
Is there something I missed?
Speaker 1 (45:07):
It was a great day and great sports talk yesterday
with our guests Matt because we did have heavy football
talk with Eric Allen about the Raiders and he got
into Tommy t and a little ASU action and Bill
Belichick and Pete Carroll and an old head coach versus
a young head coach and all that. And we had
(45:29):
Mantiteo on who was great talking about the Chargers and
Jim Harbaugh and kind of what he's brought to that situation.
And just like you, we didn't think much about the
Texans at all.
Speaker 3 (45:44):
I think plenty about I believe the Texans are going
to put up a formidable defense in the Wildcard rounde
and it will be a tight game that everybody will
have to execute as perfectly as possible in order to
get out with the victory.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Both teams played hard, right, Matt, Right, that's right now.
Great deeds being done by people all over the place,
and we see it top to bottom in our community.
Matt was talking about iHeart connection with the Dream Center
and that you can go to AMPI seventy LA sports
dot com right now, keyword donate and give. But Freddie
(46:20):
Freeman and his wife Chelsea got this, donating three hundred
thousand dollars one hundred thousand to each Los Angeles Fire
Department Foundation, a Pasadena Fire Department, and the Salvation Army
for Wildlife. Fire relief efforts in Los Angeles. Freddie Freeman
real prince in the city, coming off one of the
(46:40):
great performances injured in the World Series, especially that game won.
My goodness, very exciting for everybody who loves the Dodgers.
To see what Freddy Freeman did and to see him
giving back in the community always makes you feel good.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
I mean, man, three hundred gees from a single family.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Pretty good.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
Yeah, that is impressive. But there's a reason why city
loves him. Get the Freddie Chance regularly out at Dodger
Stadium and obviously having provided one of the two or
three most iconic moments not only in Dodger history but
baseball history in that game one.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
I also want you to know, Matt, that Marcus Freeman's
mother's name is Chong. Okay, it's not just the first
black an African American coach to be in the National Title,
but also Asian.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
I appreciate him doing that. You know.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
That scream you heard from Lahabra last n hour Alhambra?
Excuse me, the scream you heard from Alhambra? The Yeah,
what's fellow Asian calling? Yee?
Speaker 3 (47:59):
Indeed, very excited.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
We'll be right back with your word, number, song, and
then we'll do a top story Dead and alive, but
we're going all the way till four thirty. Don't worry.
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