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December 20, 2024 • 44 mins
Petros and Matt are with you for the final time in 2024. Thank You to everybody who listens to Great Sports Talk! BFF Don MacLean on the Lakers, Clippers and UCLA hoops. PMS State of Hate.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:38):
Going on Outvic Petros Money in five seventy LA Sports.
We are alive everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. That is
our final show of the twenty twenty four calendar year.
Tomorrow UCLA basketball against North Carolina, two basketball blue bloods
from Madison Square Garden. We'll round out the week a nooner.

(01:03):
I know it because Tim Kates put it on the sheet, coach,
and that's on the sheet. Well, I don't have any
questions asked. I'm just telling people what's on the schedule.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Terrible, terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Well, I guess that brings us to the Clippers at Mavericks.
That'll tip off a sports with a pregame at four
to thirty, So a basketball doubleheader tomorrow. But most importantly
Pete today our final show of what has been an
incredible twenty twenty four Dodgers winning the World Series here
on your Home of the Dodgers, AM five to seven
to LA Sports and the Petros and Money Show putting

(01:40):
on another thanks to you, the listeners. Incredible summer tour series.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
What a summer tour. Maybe the greatest show we ever did,
the last one at Vans. We had a great time
at BJ's. We had a great time yesterday while the
Chargers were winning. We went out to West Covina the
Bjs there in the east In Center and had a
heck of a time. You know how many people like
to show up for that one great room, and the

(02:06):
people showed up in droves. It was a wonderful time.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Were there any prizes for the early people?

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Tim Kates was? Was he? Tim Kates claims balanced up
balanced prize giveaway uh tactics. However, there was some lamentation
from Tim Kates that we did not have enough prizes.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Oh if I.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Wouldn't have brought the books and the air buds and
the pms Vietnam Christmas? Uh what was that petro It's
like a decoration.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh yeah, the decoration of you and of me as
Rambo or Matt as Chuck Norris or whatever.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
That If I wouldn't have bought that rooster, yeah direct, yeah,
right in the corner there, If I wouldn't have brought
that in the lamp, I mean we just wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
The other thing that was the other very interesting kind
of development, Matt the lamp. Well, yeah, correction retraction. Bert
confiscated the lamp. What do you mean Like before we
got to giving it away or talking about the lamp,
Burt was like, oh, you're not going a frenzy for
this lamp. And he took it himself. And you know,

(03:15):
I mean, if Bert wants the lamp, it's like, what
are you gonna do? Say no to Bert? I mean
we felt obligated.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Bert's was was Craig there when we gave away the
last lamp, Like this is not the first lamp we've
given away on a remote.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Maybe Craig was there, yeah, because getting a gander at
that lamp, or maybe he was distracted by a steak
or a burger or a pizza or something. The last
time we gave away a lamp. This is the third,
the third or fourth lamp. Well it could after this steak,
you know, what else are you gonna do? But yeah,
Bert was smitten with the lamp and took the lamp,

(03:51):
which was also And the other thing that's really interesting
is this was a I mean, that is a great,
great location and a great town. And we talked about
West Covina and the sewage farm and the twenties and
all that. But we did have a promotions guy have
a backpack lifted from that BJS.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
That West Covina BJ's on a Rogan and Rodney.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Right, But it was not not us, I mean no,
just the dregs, the nooner dregs, people that just roll
out of bed crack a beer put on that had criminals. Yeah,
put on their cleanest dirty shirt and go see Rogan
and Rodney. But this was very interesting because that guy
who had his backpack taken, I believe had his ID

(04:35):
set to him, yes by a criminal with a conscience.
But yesterday there were allegations of theft again and it
turned out Matt.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
That Bert became accusatory.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Well, Bert said that somebody stole one of the sets
of headphones and.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Those are expensive, the yeah or whatever they are.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Let us all know those are undred dollars. Somebody came.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
And unhooked the headset and it cast a pall over
the end of the show, you know, you know, I
was walking out saying goodbye to everybody, but you know,
everybody had kind of had their face skinned up, and
this January had a look of concern. Now we've been
Jack twice at the West Covina. You know, David Weed sewer,

(05:24):
we se is looking around. It's not that sewer ended
up in Colvin a proper damn you. Of course West
Covina does have one of the largest landfills in the
world there.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Well.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Uh, but it turned out, Matt and you're going to
enjoy this that Bert did not. And it's great the
way that they figured out how there was actually not
a theft. Uh. Burt might be losing his mind. As

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our promotions guy, Dave, we said, hey, go back and
look at pictures from when the show started and see
how many headsets burnt put out there. So we did,
and guess how many headsets there were.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
I want to go with three or two?

Speaker 1 (06:19):
You talk, give me two two. He never put out
the third headset. You can't steal something that was not there.
West Covina, Bjays's eggs Ona right out like Principal Joe Clark,
where everybody passed the test and lean on me east

(06:39):
side high let's go, ghosts. Where are my white students?
All my white students stand up? These are my white children.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
We had listeners looking on the ground and around the
stage helping. Now we got one guy on his hands
and knees, looking down on a knee, scowering.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
The ground like a dog, a guy who paid his
dude to sit there with us and be amongst us,
scouring on the ground, scavenging like a dog. Because Bert's
memory is failing. They spit on me in my homeland, right.
Roddy did some fancy Vietnam christmasing yesterday. That was very nice.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
We all had a good time. Of course, miss Matt
Smith and many of our listeners asked about Matt Smith.
But we carried on and sojourned while the Chargers won
the biggest game, biggest game of the year for the
Chargers pulled off last night on Thursday Night football. But
thank you to everybody who came out to the Bjay's
Restaurant in brew House, and thank you to all of

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our great partners like Sweet James Bergener, Morongo Casino, Prize Picks,
Concordia University, Irvine, Toyota Seller's Advantage. We had a lot
of great friends, Matt.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
We do you mentioned a lot of them Galpin, our
friends over there at Galpin. And we cannot thank our
partners enough for again helping make it possible for us
to do things like our BJS. And thank you to
our partners at BJS that have us go out for
Monday football with the people we love, Miss January. We
love the happy hour specials, especially if we can break

(08:10):
the rules, break at the rules, break it the rules,
and turn that thing that.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Broke the rules instead of three o'clock yesterday. Rules were broken, Matt,
not really a rule that I don't like breaking.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
It was embarrassing, Matt, it was embarrassing. What Petrols did?

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (08:23):
What did you do? Would you do?

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Listener Nathan with the hat that office chair, Nathan, Miss
chair Nathan brought uh a hot little package of the
Taco Bell chicken tenders for a taste test with the sauces.
And you know it's the holidays, it's packed. Yeah, and

(08:46):
I did a quick little taste test.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oh boy, was Miss January upset? Well?

Speaker 1 (08:51):
No, well, well, I stood up on the table like
Vince Vaughan in Swingers and started saying, like this disgust me.
I would never eat this. Why would you bring this
to me at this beautiful place? Would you bring a
flank steak to Gina Georgetti's You know, I try to
play it off like that, right, But I would say,
I say, I say, I say pretty tasty, say Matt,

(09:14):
they were pretty damn good?

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (09:18):
You don't what to say.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
I don't want I didn't want to say in public.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
There like when we think about those.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Uh, the three dipping sauces were good. It had a
little bit of a unique kind of crusty crust.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
And yeah, was it like a McDonald chicken nugget or
was it like a different chicken strip?

Speaker 5 (09:36):
No?

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Neither, like a ball like a ball that's gross. Okay
it was a ball.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
No, but you know, more ball shaped than the others.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Pet putting the balls in his.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Mind, not like a yeah, I know you're gonna go
there chicken sack all day for me. Uh, but yeah,
it wasn't like a perfect sphere, you know, like it
came out of a gumball machine, right, not.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Like a cheetah no cheese ball. No.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
No, So I'm saying, I say, I say it was.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
What was the best of the sauces?

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Do you recall, well, Matt, I was, you know, running
on empty, operating pretty quickly. But the Halapanio one was
pretty darn good. Oh so, yes, that happened yesterday. Thank
you to everybody who showed up. We got play by play.
We got UCLA North Carolina tomorrow at noon, and after
that it'll roll into the Clipper game tonight. Matt and
I are going till seven. We're going to talk to

(10:26):
Don McClain, the BFF of the Petrosen Money Show. In
the very next segment, Danny Cannell will join us right
before the college football playoff game. We'll get Danny Cannell
on right before kick so you can hear from him.
And we appreciate you listeners. Like we said, it's been
a heck of a year, a lot of change, but
a lot has remained the same. Great sports talk, great

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sports talk, and our community is thriving. It's time for
a frog man Friday. Yes, On a frog Man Friday, Matt,
we like to celebrate the ocean and those who keep
us safe from its evil wrap, for the ocean does
not care how big or small you are. Deal with it.

(11:11):
We all have a sea inside. You can hear it?
Can you hear the ocean roaring? Also on the Pentrosen
Money Show, On a frog Man Friday, we love and
appreciate and embrace one of the greatest television shows ever produced,

(11:32):
right off the coast of Rancho Palace verd Is, starring
Lloyd Bridges as Mike Nelson under Sea Mercenary. We're talking
about the one and only Sea Hunt.

Speaker 6 (11:43):
This time I couldn't take the topside, not to let
job was done. Instead, I gave him some of my
hair and prayed that it would stall off the effects
of oxygen poisoning for a few minutes at least. I
don't know how Pete managed to keep going, but he
did get every excuse in the world to quit and
save his life. He stayed on a job.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
A lot of men todd lights of every thirteen five Max.
We still got to take that Florida sky right now.

Speaker 7 (12:13):
That's like these days, so I know where they get
the navy everywhere. You got frogmen, you got the e
C two's with the satellite tracking, you got the bell
two nine of salt choppers up the ass.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
We're losing one out of every nine loads. That's no
dunk walk anymore. Let me tell you, forget about money.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
What do you suggest that's reasonable?

Speaker 1 (12:35):
You know I heard you said little something about me.
Maybe you didn't say it, but somebody said it, and
I heard you giggle, but I heard you left.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
I know.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Den rule underneath Yon.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Water.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
So oh yeah, by your boarders. Oh your dollars, dollar dollars, Oh.

Speaker 6 (13:26):
Your filers, boilers.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Oh you you you.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
So it's the hatchet fully buried.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
Is it four feet deep? Is it? Did we cover
it with some quick crete so it can never be
dug up?

Speaker 4 (13:48):
I what had happened was this?

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Tim kits?

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Are we gonna do it? Wait? I don't know. I
mean he does not really doing this? Yeah, he does
not want us to not do there?

Speaker 1 (13:56):
What do you mean? I mean you didn't do anything, Kate,
that's not you set a text and he was like, hey, hey,
I remember what you said.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
We got Dom McClain coming up, guys, Oh, come on, man,
we got.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
To explain what happened.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Dieter is incredible, never had anything to do with us.
Fantastic Steve Sacks. That's why it should be up to
Kates and not us.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
No share.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Cases to share this story.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Meanwhile, while we were playing that song, Hey, Kates, Yeah,
we were playing that song. I thought you thought. I
saw your face smirking a little bit, kind of saw
you grim us a little bit, like you weren't happy.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
Absolutely was not. I was stone faced the entire time.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Well exactly, That's what I'm trying to say.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
You got to let him fight his fights. Okay, every
time the guy gets into a shoving match, you can't
jump in there and throw a hay maker.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
All right.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
I don't know one that didn't play Hey, and I
wasn't on and I wasn't laughing.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
It's the it's the holiday season.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
I heard you tell that joke.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
It's time to reconcile.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
Yes, thank you man.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Right, Well, I'm all for recond friends. That's why I
want everybody to know. I want every nobody to know
how silly it was in the first place. And I'm
not blaming Tim Kaits.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
I did nothing wrong. Nothing's nothing to talk.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
It's got a big show, final one of the year, guys,
looking forward.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
To the bad start our first segment of right Freaking twelve.
And this is what we got.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Oh sorry that the State of Hate is coming out
hit twenty minutes.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
That's really gonna change the tone.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
State of Hate.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Diet to rule. Who's he hates? He hates Tim?

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Oh that's mad. Oh, there you go, after all that,
after all that, he doesn't. It's Tim's story to tell.
It's his truth, Petros, Exactly. I'm gonna tell my truth.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
I want the world to hear my truth, because this
is my truth.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
I heard you guys talking about it.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
The truth is I did nothing wrong.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
I heard you that.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
I heard you guys talking about it, and I heard
you laughing. I don't think that's nice you leafing.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
Well, you know, it's just the morning show, and it's
what you do in the morning. The man off actually
go by, and you know you yuck it up, just
having some yucks.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
That's not how I took it. Well, Brothers to the bone,
hummock masters, not after this night? All right, Well, stay
to hate.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
The planet your Danny Canal. The college football playoffs, Danny
Canal it stops knowing in South Bend, it did, but
it was incredibly cold. Still, you know what the what
the south there gates? Do you have it on your

(16:51):
Apple app for total accuracy?

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Bob? Are we ready?

Speaker 2 (16:55):
We have?

Speaker 4 (16:56):
I can look that up right now.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
But thirty degrees there you go, uh off, it'll be
twenty six, Bob? Are we ready? But both of these
it's not like you got, you know, Florida coming up
to Notre Dame to play. I mean, both of these
teams are in these temperatures day in and day.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
What makes you say that that they're both playing in
the state that they're in.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yes, the Indiana is about two and a half hours
from Notre Dame.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
This game sold out, by the way, is the winner
break the students will not be there.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Oh by the way, cal lost the Vegas the La
Ball Matt you weren't around, and that puts them out
of the running for the They're out California State Championship.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
San Jose States still alive.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
San Jose State still claiming it for the regular season,
still very much alive, and so well. I guess USC
would be two if they win and San Jose State loses,
don't worry. I'll monitor this on the AX.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Got to during If Clay Helton's not around a monitor anymore,
you're gonna have.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
To Clay Helton's playing tonight or did he play last night?

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Hail Southern played last night?

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Damn it.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
And to answer your question, Kates, I do believe the
Notre Dame Indiana is the highest priced ticket on the
secondary market of the first round matchup.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
Oh how about that?

Speaker 3 (18:05):
I think get ins are like north of two hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Well, I mean it's a tough ticket for these people,
Like if you I'm gonna go to the Rose Bowl
and then I'm gonna go wherever we're gonna play next. Yeah,
it's like.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
I mean, it's not like IU is packed with Well
I guess they do.

Speaker 5 (18:22):
Well.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
It's one thing to bring a feud. It's one thing
to bring a few thousand basketball fans. Whole other thing
to try to fill a football stadium two three weeks
through the college football playoff exactly, all right, stay with us.
Don McLean will join us next. Great Sports Talk will
take you all the way till seven and that is
no further. We will take you no further in twenty

(18:42):
twenty four. We'll be back in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 8 (18:45):
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Speaker 1 (19:22):
Joining us right now on your Southern California Toyota Dealers
Celebrity Hotline is the BFF of the Petros and Money
Show and the final appearance of twenty twenty four. It'll
be right back week one of twenty twenty five, which
is not that far away. You see him on the
Big Ten Network Fan Duel Sports NBA Award winner the

(19:46):
next ass he kisses will be the first leading scorer
in the history of the PAC twelve, which is now
pretty much defunct. But there is a statue in Levin
Park in his hometown of Semi Valley that commemorates him.
That I received photographs of weekly on the secret text
us any on your Southern California Toyo to Dinner celebrity
hotline again is the one and only Don McClain, the

(20:09):
snake Killer himself. What's cracking down? Merry Christmas? How are you?

Speaker 6 (20:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (20:14):
Merry Christmas? Guys? Speaking of the PAC twelve interesting tomorrow,
and it's just another example of the weirdness of the
landscape of what we're in in college sports. I have Stanford,
Oregon tomorrow, which is a big ten ACC matchup in
San Jose. Like, think about that.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
The old ten ACC showed.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Popping off of the hallway.

Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yeah, it's like in ACC. Huh.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Where is it? The Sharks? Where the Sharks play?

Speaker 5 (20:48):
Yeah, the SAP Center downtown San Jose SAP. But fun
fact for you guys, which I've learned last year because
I always wondered why there was always neutral site games
and like road games, but more so like weird neutral
site games, Like why why didn't they just play this
game at Stanford? Right? Well, apparently the schools, if you
play a neutral site game, can pay for you to

(21:11):
go home for Christmas. But if you're at home and
play the last game, they can't pay for it.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
So they do the.

Speaker 5 (21:21):
Yeah, so that's why it's in San Jose, so that
they can pay for all the Stanford players and obviously
the Oregon players.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
To go home, do you know the way?

Speaker 3 (21:33):
And I guess that's why UCLA is going all the
way to Madison Square Garden to take on North Carolina.
Pretty interesting out of conference schedule prior to getting conference
action going here don against Nebraska on January fourth, And
when Mick joined us, he said, they're in IL games.
We need to play them because we make a lot

(21:53):
of money on them. Your thoughts on play in Arizona,
play in North Carolina, playing Gonzaga and what it'll do
for are making these guys before they start these Big
ten games?

Speaker 5 (22:02):
Well, it's both. I mean, yeah, they need they need
the money. Everyone needs money now in college sports. But yeah,
but it's also to get ready for the Big Ten.
And I think when I think about UCLA and USC
moving to the Big Ten in conference play starting after
the first of the year, it's just it's more consistently hard.
You know, let's be honest. There are some games in

(22:24):
the Pac twelve where you know you're probably gonna win those. Well,
you look across the Big Ten at least this year.
I mean maybe one, maybe two, but the other fifteen
teams you're playing like, you better be ready to play.
And so I think playing this tougher non conference schedule
for UCLA is really gonna gonna get them ready because
they didn't really play anyone in November, and then when

(22:46):
they went up and beat Oregon, I think I said
to you guys on the show, like it kind of
perked my ears up a little bit. And then they
follow that up with another good win. And so we'll
see what happens not only tomorrow but with Gonzaga next
week and where they're at starting that Big Ten conference.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Tim Kaits was very very bullish in November that you
just mentioned that UCLA was going to be a Final
four team. Don do they look like they have that
kind of caliber, that kind of potential as the year
would go on, or will Tim Kates go down in
flames again?

Speaker 5 (23:20):
Well, I would say this, I'm not ready to say
they're a final four team, but I would say that
we're far enough in now across the country that I
don't think there is a dominant team or teams where
you're like, well, there's this echelon and then everybody else.
And I think if we're saying the first echelon is
fifteen teams, I definitely think ucas in that first tier.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
What do you like, So they're about to get into
Big ten play? Obviously you've been watching a lot of
Big ten basketball. You know how important coaches are, how
big and do you think it's a big jump when
you're talking about the likes of Tom and Matt Painter
and even like Greg Gard at Wisconsin or Fran McCaffrey

(24:06):
at Ioway. Is this a big jump in competition from
the Pac twelve to the Big Ten?

Speaker 5 (24:12):
Yes, because of what I said earlier, Bat, there's this more.
I mean, first of all, it's an eighteen team conference now,
not a twelve team conference. You got coaches that have
been around forever. You mentioned pretty much all of them
that have been around, and so it's just the consistency
that you have to have if not only are you
going to win the Big Ten regular season, but like
get a good seed in the NC tournament. There's no

(24:33):
nights off. And I've said this since day one, and
I think I'm sure I've said it to you guys.
It's not so much the travel. For me, it's the
arenas that they're going to every night. Like you ain't
going to cal in front of twenty one hundred people
or Stanford or Washington State. You're going to Macki Arena
and fifteen thousand every night, Bloomington fifteen thousand every night.

(24:55):
And so that's going to be the challenge I think
for these players is getting used to these hostile environments
every single time they play on the road.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
The great Don McClain is our guest his final appearance
of twenty twenty four. He'll be in Santase over the
weekend for Oregon versus Stanford, and I'll tell.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
You big, big ten acc if you.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Ask, if you say, hey, where's the Silicon Valley, Don
will be able to say, right over there. We'll switch
to the pro ranks. Don. The Lakers are two and
oh since Max Christy has been starting, and it seems
like he plays defense. Is it that simple.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
I don't think it's that simple. I think you know,
there's ebbs and flows in an NBA season, and you
know they had lost a bunch in a row, or
at least a few in a row, and they get
back on track. We'll see how long they can sustain it.
But it's it's a long season. If you look at
the West standings, it's it's pretty interesting because you got
five teams with twelve losses and yet those five teams

(25:57):
are only like three games out of first place or
second place, and so there's a long way to go
in this And you know, I've said this before. Whoever
can get on a seven, eight, nine game win streak,
it's gonna probably find themselves in the one or two
slot in the West. So whichever team that is, we're
gonna find out. But I'm not sure it's it's you know,

(26:19):
there's no team I'm looking at. Maybe Oklahoma City seems
to be that team, but they were that team last
year in the West and they didn't they didn't end
up getting to the finals.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
So we'll see Max Christy speaking to him. He takes
the place of D'Angelo Russell, who's been I don't know,
is it fair to say, and I know it's kind
of a loaded question asking you, but like he's probably
one of the more frustrating players. I mean, you look
at the career earnings and you see nearly two hundred
million bucks in the way he's been paid and the

(26:49):
way that he's played, Like what do you what do
you do with like how do you read his career
and how important, if important, he is to a team
trying to win a championship.

Speaker 5 (26:59):
Look, I like DiAngelo. I've known him for a long time.
I don't speak to him that much anymore. But it's
not because of anything. We just don't and he's far
enough along in his career that he doesn't come back.
But you know, you just wonder. And I say that
because I'm not around him, so you don't know the
sense of urgency. Is there really that urgency to win?
Is there that urgency to try and help this team

(27:20):
win a championship? I don't know because I'm not in
there day to day. But if they made the change
and you know, they've got results, they won two in
a row, then you would you would think that maybe
he's better coming off the bench or maybe in a
different role. But you know, you give a guy like
Max Max Christy who is hungry and you know, has

(27:42):
a big sense of urgency, You're probably gonna get maximum
from him. And it looks like they have.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
The other story out of the Lakers, And I don't
know how I'm assuming you haven't seen it unless you're
busy just hugging down freaking G League highlights or G
League game games. But should we make anything out of
back to back good performance. I guess good performances at
least high scoring performances from Bronnie James and the fact
that he's traveling with the team and maybe now this

(28:11):
looks like it could be his path here for a
good chunk of the season.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
Certainly can't hurt. And that's you know, that's that's what
I said. This is exactly what he needs to understand
how to play the position or positions at the NBA level.
You know, it's against lesser competition, but still getting confident,
and then hopefully he gets some opportunities on the big
club and then you're doing it against real NBA players.

(28:37):
This is this is the process, not just for Bronnie James,
but Bronnie gets so much publicity and hype around him
that this is normal for a guard that came out
of college that was a second round pick, like all
of them, pretty much have to do it. There's not
many late second round picks that come into the league
and are on the big team, are in the rotation

(28:59):
and playing minutes. It's happened, but it doesn't happen very often,
so this isn't surprising, but it's good. If you're a
Brownie fan and a Laker fan, this is exactly what
he needed.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Yeah, you like that All Star Game? Tweak there, don
and tickle your interest.

Speaker 5 (29:14):
I'm not even sure I understand it, but yeah, I mean,
it's got to be better than last year's game?

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Should they just get rid of the All Star Game? Don?

Speaker 5 (29:24):
Well, I think that you guys are football guys. It
seems like the minute the NFL went away from the
just the real Pro Bowl game, it became more popular,
didn't it with the.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Yeah, with the game bills and the ass and yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:39):
I mean I think we're kind of in that era now.
Where is anyone really interested in one hundred and fifty
to one hundred and forty All Star Game? Want just
scrap it and go to something else? Because I don't think.
I mean, look, my boys are basketball people and they
watch games. They didn't even watch the All Star Game
last year, so I think trying something different I might work.

(30:01):
But even this format is still kind of competition in games?
How hard are guys going to play. I say, just
say to hell with it and do it like the
NFL and just have competitions and skill things and all that.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
I know.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
There was no Luca and no Kyrie last night, So
the Clippers end up blowing out the Kawhi either bad,
that's well, and that's exactly right. P no Kawhi.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
I want to make excuses for my clippership.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
You get the Big three?

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (30:30):
And the Big three includes our favorite Clipper of Viza Zubats.
Is there still not enough appreciation for a Viza or
is he as the kids like to say, don is
he getting his flowers now from the NBA types?

Speaker 5 (30:45):
I think he is. I think that the interesting thing
about him is he's different because he's old school in
the sense that he's a rebounding, rugged, you know, play
on the low block kind of guy, and those guys
there's not a whole heck of a lot of them anymore.
But I think the thing that I've tried to do
on our show when I'm on is to celebrate how

(31:07):
durable he is and how much he wants to play,
and that the efforts there every night and in this league.
We just had a conversation about somebody who may or
may not a couple of minutes ago. This guy comes
to play every night and he's gotten better every year
he's been in the league. And so I think the
NBA people appreciate that. And I think any team in
the league would love to have Zubots on their team.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Check them out over the weekend on the Big Ten Network.
And also, nobody loves Christmas more than Don McLain. Oh yeah,
he dresses up like Sanai. He has a big bell,
he's got a smile for everybody in the Westlake area.
Am I missing anything?

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Don?

Speaker 5 (31:48):
I think the bell, I don't really go with the bell,
but I do like Christmas. I do. And you know,
you've pointed out to the people on the show that
I hide from people and don't talk to people around town,
and that may or may not be true, but but
I do enjoy Christmas. I do get into the spirit.

(32:09):
So if there is that, maybe it lessens a little
bit this time of year.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Well, you know what, let me get one more in
here real quick. Then Pete for the dad out there
with the young'in and he's got to get the basketball
hoop for the house. He's got two choices because he's
got a limited amount of space here, don what would
you recommend get in the garage mount and that rim
is only going to clock in at around maybe nine

(32:33):
six to nine foot eight, or is he getting like
the mobile? That thing's ten foot but it's going in
the corner of the driveway and you might get at
most eighteen feet of depth on those jumps.

Speaker 5 (32:45):
Okay, you went down this road, Matt, how old's a kid?

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Kid is let's say ten years old. This is a
driveway flat driveway is slightly pitched, but not severely, just
slightly pitched.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
So if it's slightly pitched, and if the garage mount
is lesser less than ten feet, because you can't gauge
the ten feet. If you have a pitch driveway anyway,
you don't want to be shooting uphill. So if unless
your driveway is completely flat, you're taking the mobile one
out to the street on a flat surface, we're not

(33:20):
We're not repeating mechanics on a surface that we won't
ever be playing on in a real game.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
That's a great point. It's driveway.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Ever, you know, I was really well when we were
going downhill, but when I was going uphill.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
Harder If you got a flat driveway, you got options
if you If you don't have a flat driveway, you're
going to the street, period.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Okay, Don McClain.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Ladies and gentlemen love it. You'll know him driving around
the Ventura County area because of the mounted taxidermy reindeer
head on his grill in his car, and the big
smile on his face of course, and the ringing bell
goes on. We appreciate you, We love you. I have
a great holiday and a great trip up to the

(34:04):
hoe and we'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
Yeah, Merry Christmas. Guys, enjoy your time off.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Thank you, Don, and we'll be back with Mark. Great
sports talk. Everybody knows what's coming up next. State of
Hate coming up, Mack, big tank.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
You to Don McLean. We got a full four hour
show as our final show on the twenty twenty four
calendar year. Here hand it over to uh a little
big head, big Heading's clean dome exactly right, clean dome
and big head gonna come on at seven o'clock. But
we got four hours. Clean dome and cab hat that's right,

(34:48):
old bucket, heead and chrome dome. We love Jason Smith
and Madheart.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Wow who doesn't come on.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Appreciate them. Merry Christmas to that. Appreciate your holidays to
them and all of you, and Don McClain too. Danny
Canal's going to join us talk some college football before
the playoff gets underway.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Yeah, right before kick here, right.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
Before kick the frigid temperatures of northwest Indiana.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
But Matt, right now, it's time to percolate the hate.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
I went from a Nordstrom call center to being a
play by play aoutcer nice Vic guys, real.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
Piece, Yeah, pms, Happy holidays. Hate list.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Here we go. Time for the state of hate. We
started this the other day just to get the text.
Olso's rolling the.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Secret text us a fine brought to you by your
so called Toyota dealers.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
We make it.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Easy and we did the ground rules or this you
asked us, will you give us a name? We deliberate
on whether or not that person hates us, or all
of us individually collectively, or one of us.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Sometimes there's a split, Yeah, split, like Roger A Lodge,
big fan of you, and Tim hates me. Apparently Apparently
Fred Rogan split Tim Kates. I'm going Rogan Petros on
the challenge hates me.

Speaker 4 (36:13):
He asked you all the time to come on going.
Rogan didn't he never once.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Maybe he thought it was below here.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Yeah, probably fell You know me would I mean, I
turned down so much.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Never do this.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
I would never do this.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Eat these chicken balls here at PJAS.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
I'll be calling Kansas state, Oklahoma state in about three weeks.
That turned out nothing.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Hey, that's a big game in the Big twelve. Okay,
I know it is Duge catching up on the state
of hate. We need a Dodgers edition. Charlie Steiner and
Charlie Steiner does not like me. I mean he's not
He's struggled with some health problems. So, but he's not
a fan of my of mine. I'm sure he likes you, Matt.

(37:01):
You don't play guy fraternity.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
I believe he called us clowns.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
With an s rick Monday hates me? What about me?

Speaker 3 (37:13):
He's fine with you, although I think he's disgusted by you.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Why just because I ate a burrito real.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
Fast, two bites.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
It's tough, Chips, get back on the air.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
He treats you like a child. Here, play with the
I pad. Well, the grown ups talk.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
That's fine, that's true. He did give you his flight
simulate the.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Grown ups talk the grown ups that he hates Matt, but.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
He does it so he can humiliate me when I
give him my hot seam head takes.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
That's true. Joe Demasio was my batting coachy idiot.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
I throw out a name because I'm honestly confused on
where you guys stand with this not true?

Speaker 3 (37:48):
You you want to hear us say, yeah, he hates us.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Oh he's on this list. I don't think Joe Davis
hates us.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
No. I think we came across Joe a handful of
times during the playoffs and I did not feel any
any issue there.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
I see Joe all the time. Yeah, we work at Fox,
all right. Joe's great Tim Neverrett, author of the COVID curveball.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
That's a really good one. But I'm gonna go with no.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
I think he wants I think he wants our affection.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
I can't live without your love and effecttion. Joey Harrington
have not talked to him in twenty years.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Yeah, I don't think he cares.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
Last time he was on the show, he said fix
your phones.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Yeah, but he said he's just a selfish little guy.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
He didn't you had to put the little in there,
just to just.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Not physically listed, but emotionally small. Yeah, Steven Nelson hates you, guys,
what I don't think so, not at all, not true Stephenson.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
He loves Stephen Well, I guess it doesn't matter what
we do, matters what they do, you feel, matters how
they feel. I do not get the sense that Stephen
Nelson hates us.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
State of hate. Mike Tredell, No, he hates me. I
used to see I would see him all the time.
Our kids went to the same preschool for a short time, right,
and I would see he's like, literally, he's like four
feet tall, and he's all.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Like UFC out And then you want to know why
he well, I'm sorry, he's not very but he said
literally four feet he is not. He's five foot eight,
probably all right, five, he's fine. He might be five.
He might be five to six in the program, Matt
in the program, he might be five six, and he

(39:34):
would be like I would have said hi to him,
but he'd be wearing all this UFC gear like he's
about to go for wrestle. Like affliction, Yeah, like all
geared out. Maybe it was free. Maybe the affliction guy's
a big Laker fan and just float him up.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Man, that's fine. Just you know, I don't think he
likes me. Uh, George said, you're right, by the way,
I don't think he likes you, George Saddano, I mean
I made fun of if they don't care. Yeah, I
made fun of because you're trying to get a Little
league game moved legend, that's right, So that's on you.

(40:07):
Chris Myers. I called a game with him this year,
love him. I yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Don't think I think that was all. I do a
different sports talk than they do. What I just dont all.
I don't think it good benefits anybody to.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Have us cars II.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Liz Habib again long gone, but hates some well.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
Hates me.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
You insulted her.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
You know who it was.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
She stopped to say hello, and you said, come on,
keep it moving. What are you looking at? Idn't We'll
just stop to say hello. She's in a charity golf tournament.
She likes the show. She stops to say ay, and
she's greeted with, hey, come on, keep it moving. What
the hell are you looking at?

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Its deeper than that man.

Speaker 4 (40:47):
She actually took the sunglasses tilted them down to make
eye contact with you guys. That is true, and then
took off.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
But we but then we shared stories that we had
heard about her. In the Greater Tempe area, he.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Was kicked out of a bar and said, don't you
know who I am?

Speaker 3 (41:02):
That did have? That was alleged.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
No, the cops said that.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
But it was still a leg Well yeah, but it
wasn't like I'm just saying, like for the sake of
it was still a let was in the.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Article that I was read there in the article. It's true,
we read it on air. I mean you have to remember,
Colin Cowherd doesn't care, lives in a whole different world.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
Uh No, I think if you got him in an honest.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Moment, I don't think those people care. I think they
make so much money they don't care.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
I think there is that. But I do think if
you got him in an honest moment, he'd be like,
why don't I don't What did I do to those guys?

Speaker 5 (41:41):
Why?

Speaker 3 (41:41):
Why?

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Why are they Well, you're just insulting to the people
of Los Angeles when you talk about the areas.

Speaker 4 (41:48):
He would act like he doesn't know who you guys are.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
That's exactly right. Well, wait a minute, he knows who
you are. Didn't you talk to him at a Christmas party?
I've been on his show, like, yeah, four times.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
I still he would act like, oh, peter's your name? Odo, Petra,
you do what.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Padd O'Brien easy, Yeah, hates us, he even hates kates. Yeah,
and you hates Ronnie.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
He likes Matt, still follows, still allows Matt to follow.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
Ye, still follows and pay attention anymore.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
He's still he still blocks me. Paddle Brian, It's good.
You're a great company. Yeah, and indeed, I wouldn't want
it any other way. Laane, Kiffin and Sark I don't
think they care.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
And diff No, my god, they're making ten millions.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Yeah, they are onto the next like far in the
rear view, far in the rear view, as was their
implosion here at the University of Southern California. Jamie Maggio
hates me.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
We get along swimmingly.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Apparently she hates me, according to the text, does so,
I don't.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
I don't know about that. She doesn't hate me, Well,
everybody loves Matt Smith. I mean true. We just went
through a list of about ten people that hate me.
I don't think she hates you. She doesn't seem like
the hate kind of person. You know. Oh, I can
bring it out in somebody. A beeB, Yeah, I brought
it out in her. But don't you know I am

(43:09):
no Jason McIntyre the smurf hates me? Does he experienced
it firsthand? At a Super Bowl?

Speaker 1 (43:18):
What did you do? Just ignore you?

Speaker 3 (43:19):
Like I tried to mean mug me on my way
into an elevator.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
He's about maybe about an inch taller than Trudell. It's
not like your will. It's not like you're Wilt Chamberlain. Man,
that's not a big guy.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
I do not cut an imposing figure, that's for sure.
But it's like, really, you know, like they give me
the mean mug. Really and look at this.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
I like the way you talk about me. Sorry, I
don't like it at all? All right, Colin, what do
you think this says? Lissa beeB did say that she did?
We got more ham next ours when somebody shot and
find somebody l a

Speaker 3 (43:58):
Sports Oh my local TV
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