A Frogman Friday (Hour 2) 1/9/26

Number, Word and Song of the Day. BFF Don MacLean on the Lakers, Clippers and UCLA hoops. Dead and Alive Guy Birthday of the Day.

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We're happy to be with you on AM five seventy
LA Sports. We are your home of Dodger Baseball. However,

(01:02):
it is the off season and the Dodgers haven't reunited
with Cody Bellinger. They haven't signed Bo Baschett, they haven't
signed who's the other.

Speaker 6 (01:12):
Guy, Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
Kyle Tucker, they haven't Nothing's happened when will it happen?
When can we expect it to happen?

Speaker 4 (01:22):
I have no clue.

Speaker 6 (01:23):
Well, Sat, it was on Dodger Talk last night and
I actually ran into Dave today and our big company
all hands on deck MEETIA at eleven.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Well, how did I know it was all hands on deck?
I didn't know. No one told me.

Speaker 6 (01:34):
I was looking for you at Petros, Ronnie and I
and David Vesse looking around the room.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
I heard everybody was there except for me.

Speaker 6 (01:40):
I mean, we can say all their names what we want,
but you know they were Big Boy was there, Valentine
was there. Wow, really, Menace was there. Good dude, by
the way. Uh, let's see who else was there. Cruz
was there. He's a really good dude. We stood right
next to him from ninety two to three, but did
not see you. And that was we'll see you there.

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But it was a great meeting. We also have our
jobs and looking forward to a great twenty twenty six.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
All right, Well, you know that is good. I wouldn't
assume they'd let me on the airwaves if I didn't
have my job, But here we are. Things have slipped
through the cracks in the past. You can podcast this
show We're even going to try to do it before
the show podcast today at some point. But you can
podcast the show on the iHeartRadio app for your smartphone,

(02:29):
and we'll be back on Monday for like a three
to six thirty show, and pretty normal shows next week,
and then on Thursday. A week from Thursday, we're down
for our final show at BJYS of the football season
at the BJS in Irvine. I think that show starts

(02:51):
at three o'clock the BJS in Irvine at the Marketplace.
Is that accurate information, Tim?

Speaker 6 (02:56):
That is Craig Petros. It's a three to six show
leading into a huge, huge LA showdown between the Clippers
and the Lakers. That's what our cell, huge huge showdown
that night. The twenty second add into it Dome Lakers
and Clippers.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
So what are we saying, Come and watch Lakers Clippers
with us, or watch the pregame show with us.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
Or just come hang out in South Orange County to
get ready for Clippers Lakers.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
All right, Well, I guess that's a ways off, So
we'll try to collect them to try this around here
and get it to the people. But right now, it's
time for the Word of the Day.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
His words the word of the day.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
Today's word of the day. This was tweeted out by
one of those Trojan football accounts, But it's all over
Twitter today. You know, USC Today's word of the day
is defensive coordinator. Now, you could, in my opinion, hire
Vince Lombardi to be USC's defensive coordinator or whoever the

(04:01):
greatest defensive mind of today. The coach at Seattle, the
Seahawks McDonald, you know, some great defensive mind. They they
couldn't even help us see that much. They hired Deanton Lynn,
who's supposed to be a great coordinator, and I don't
think anybody can help us see that much defensively because
of the way they practice, the mentality of the head

(04:23):
coach and the mentality of the offense. But you know, Tim,
that Deanton Lynn left in a very awkward way and
didn't coach in the bowl game.

Speaker 6 (04:33):
What was awkward about it him in a press conference
saying I'm here at the bowl game, and then literally
the next morning he was gone on a plane to
have all leaving for Pinston.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Okay, yeah, so yeah, his alma mater. But and they
gave him a better deal. But Deanton Lynn is no
longer the decordinator at US see Lincoln Riley can hire
the guy that called. Of course, the players just like
they wanted Dante wanted the guy who's already there. They
don't want anybody new coming and upsetting the apple cart.

(05:06):
But it is official and confirmed by multiple sources that
former TCU head coach Gary Patterson, the Old Hedgehog, has
expressed interest in the job and has been in talks
with USC about the open defensive coordinator position. Gary Patterson

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coached for twenty plus years at TCU and had unprecedented success.
There was one hundred and eighty one and seventy nine overall,
won four Mountain West Championships, a Big Twelve Championship, a
Conference USA Championship, and was one of the best secondary

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defensive coordinator, secondary oriented defensive coordinator, calling the plays on
the sideline, super engaged, hunched over. If you remember the
way he used to look calling games and when he
was at TCU, he was really talented. He's also a
very difficult personality and became more and more crotchety like

(06:19):
all of us and weird as time went on and
he continued at TCU.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
If you know what I'm saying, do you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
Oh, and he had a lot of success, but just
drove people crazy. And I've seen a few examples behind
the scenes of him just totally crashing out and doing
weird stuff that you don't normally see. And no one
else has really hired him since he left tc Remember

(06:48):
he did a Western album. Remember that he did an album.
He got sired in twenty twenty my dad, Yeah, twenty
twenty one, And then in twenty twenty two he worked
with sark as a special assistant an analyst, and then
he did the same job in twenty twenty four. So
maybe the TCU money's dried up now I don't know
the contract details, And now he wants a real job

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and he's ready to be a coordinator again and hasn't coordinated.
You know, he's been a head coach forever. And if
he goes back into somebody's program in Lincoln Riley's the
head coach, it's just hard to imagine how that would
work out. But you know, I mean, he had Sonny Comby,
who's the head coach at Louisiana Tech and a noted

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air raid Mike Leach.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
Guy.

Speaker 5 (07:36):
He had Sonny Comby, as his offensive coordinator at TCU
for a while, so maybe he's used to working with
air raid types from Leech's tree, like Lincoln Riley. But
there it is. Gary Patterson, one of the true characters
of college football, seemingly interested in the defensive coordinator job

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at USC.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
Now he's got West Coast ties. Remember he was a
defensive coordinator.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
He was at cal Pauly with a lot of those guys,
or maybe not cal Pauly, maybe Davis Cossacks.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah, he was at Davis too.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
Well, if he could rock the visor like he did,
I mean, I'm all for that. I love a good
visor on the head coach. He's one of my favorite coaches.
And I loved watching his secondary play. I mean, so
rarely would you ever see a guy uncovered in the secondary.
Quarterbacks would have to make really accurate throws into small
spaces because he was on top of it, and he

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would wait till the last second to put that secondary
call to the corners and safeties and linebackers when he
was coordinating the defense, so much so that sometimes they
would just wear a no call and play it in
vanilla because they snapped it too fast. And the guys
are waiting for the calling. He's a heck of a

(08:54):
technician on the defensive side. But I don't know how
that helps Lincoln Riley because of just the mentality of
the whole deal. But interesting as USC looks for a
new defensive coordinator as Deant and Lynn used them as
a stepping stone as well as UCLA.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
All right, it's time for the number of the days.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Top number of the day.

Speaker 6 (09:15):
Number of the day is not many? Yeah, not many
people have been going to UCLA basketball games this year.
Despite what's the top twenty five team that Mick Cronin
has shout out to.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Are they still top twenty five?

Speaker 6 (09:29):
They've now just been out of the top twenty five
after bat they lost like two straight. They lost it
at Iowa and they lost at Wisconsin.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
Over there, hasn't Josh Lewin been getting torn to pieces
on air?

Speaker 6 (09:40):
It was not pretty after the Iowa game, Like I
listened to it.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
That he was real friendly after Wisconsin to trying to
make up for it.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
I think. So that's what I understand. Mark huskas And
is this tweet link and it caught my attention just
about a half an hour ago, and his press conference
today with the Beat Riders. Not a lot of them
cover UCLA basketball, but Ben Boltch, Ben Bultch, is the
only one, our friend at the LA Times, still covers
the team. Yeah, he did ask a lot of questions
today and he asked him this question about attendance. Now,

(10:09):
I preferce this by the fact that UCLA has been
in and out of the top twenty five. UCLA is
ten and five on the season in college basketball. I
know a lot of people are we're not.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
Really paying attention to it because you're not working with UCLA,
like usually if you're up at night doing brewing talk
or something.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
You know, it's more part of our.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
Daily weekly routine, and we talk about how the Bruins
are doing. I don't really know, even though I consider
myself to be close personal friends.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
With Mick Cronin. No, but I don't really know what's
going on.

Speaker 6 (10:41):
No, they're ten and five on the season. They're two
and two in Big Ten play.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
So things could be going better, right.

Speaker 6 (10:48):
They beat Washington in Oregon before the holidays, that weird
start to the conference play. But since instance the start
of the new year, they went on the road, lost
at Iowa, lost to Wisconsin. They're home against Maryland tomorrow
night a Fox if you want to watch it. Dave
Roberts is the honorary captain. They're going to celebrate the
former UCLA outfielder and Dodger manager.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
They have like some dorky T shirt with him and
Mick on it.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
I kind of like it. So if you donate to
the Men of Westwood, you get a T shirt. So
if I can have twenty bucks, maybe Petros, I'll donate. Okay, Well,
today Mick was asked by Ben Bulch about the crowd.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
And I'm not giving bucks to the Man of Westwood.

Speaker 6 (11:24):
The crowded. Paul's been very underwhelming. Now they had a
winner break serly, Well, it's been this way forever. Yeah,
but you had two big ten games against Washington and
Oregon and they had about six thousand, seven thousand people
at those games.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
But it was Christmas break.

Speaker 6 (11:38):
Well it was actually before Christmas break the UC riverside
the UC Riverside game, they had forty four hundred people.
That was during Christmas break and they've been on the
road since. So it's been a little underwhelming the attendance
this year. With more than a little it's supposed to
be a big year. For UCLA basketball. They put a
lot of money in the nil it's a top twenty

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five team for the most part. Here's Mick Cronin asked
by Ben Bulch about that.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
What did he say? It's I don't hear anything.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
Now.

Speaker 6 (12:08):
He was asked about the crowd and he his quote
to Ben Bolch was you need to speak to Martin Jarmon,
the athletic director at u c l A. And then
he kind of walked it back a little bit and said, Hey,
you know, it's the winter break. It's tough with the crowds,
you know, but anytime you get a good crowd, especially
in college basketball, it's a winning experience and a great

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experience for the fans and the players. But we get it.
We're in a professional city and we're in a city
that you know, it's got the Lakers and the clip
it locked down. That's okay. Uh No. We got a
computer monitor though, making that that lockdown winning at half time.

(12:53):
We were winning a halftime Mick, and then my computer
froze up. And Ronnie's trying, and bless him, he's trying
to get this.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
When we can ask.

Speaker 6 (13:03):
Usually you do, coach, and you had a little bit
to say to the Ben Bolts of the La Times.
But yeah, he was asked about the crowd and his
first immediate response was great, go ask Martin Jarmon, the
athletic director. I don't know what Martin Jarmon's going to do, Petros.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
About lower the prices?

Speaker 6 (13:17):
I mean lower the price is lower. I mean what
is that really going to do to help out the
situation with the attendance.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
It's a way Ralfi gets going. Wait till you see
all the kids down at SELFI having the time of
their lives, like Sergeia.

Speaker 6 (13:32):
Well this is for college basketball. It's a different story.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
Now they should be able to get drink and walk
over there.

Speaker 6 (13:37):
Here's Mick, let's see what we got here.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
Here's here is you know what what could be done
to get it?

Speaker 7 (13:43):
Yeah, that's a Martin Jorman question.

Speaker 6 (13:46):
What does it.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Mean to have you've been there with great crowds?

Speaker 3 (13:50):
What does that mean when you do have it?

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Well?

Speaker 7 (13:52):
Well I would tell you this. There's it's the simplest
question ever. I mean, having a great home crowd is awesome.
Simplest question. Yeah, I don't think you can expect it
over your holiday break. Okay, all right, so you know,

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we've been on break for a long time, right, so
you know those you know, those type of games. But
when you're in a pro city, you're probably gonna have
to wait till conference play and your kids are back
at school.

Speaker 6 (14:24):
All right, there's men.

Speaker 7 (14:25):
That's just the way.

Speaker 6 (14:26):
Thank you, Right, that was awesome. Our computer froze up
and Ronnie fixed it.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
I appreciate this, says.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
The prices of most games at Polly are insanely high, really,
and they.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Don't let you go into the lower bowl even if
it's empty.

Speaker 6 (14:37):
Now that talk to Martin Jarman about that is ridiculous
if that's the case.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
So it's something to think about.

Speaker 6 (14:44):
If you're getting a Pauli pavilion that's a third full,
meaning two thirds of Paulie's empty, you're not letting people
just go down and sit in the one hunderd.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah, you better come up with the little Caesars pizza
pizza special to try to stimulate sales. You know, this
is one of the problems they have in San Diego.
At the San Diego State game. San Diego State football
built that new stadium and they hired a new coach
and they had a very good football team in twenty

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twenty five, they won like ten games with Sean Lewis,
and they couldn't put anybody in there. And the reason
is because the prices are so high. The community is
rejecting it because they're not they're not making it affordable
for people to.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
Go to the games.

Speaker 5 (15:33):
Here's then they have the soccer team down there that
plays in the same stadium. Prices aren't as high, and
they fill the thing up and they're shooting off fireworks
and it's a Latino fun fest. And somehow the stecas
can't find a way to pull that off. And part
of it is because the prices are too damp high.

Speaker 6 (15:50):
At Paulie there's the one hunter section, the lower bowl,
and then there's the upper section, the two hundred section.
The get in price for UCLA Maryland basketball tomorrow night
in a corner section two twenty four is thirty one dollars.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
That's not bad.

Speaker 6 (16:05):
That's a get in price set up in the tip
top corner. You want to sit in the lower bowl
the one hundreds, The cheapest one is in section one
O eight. You're behind a basket. I don't know which
row says limited availability one hundred and twenty seven dollars
too much, and fifty cents to sit in the lower bowl,
the cheapest lower bowl ticket.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
That's too much.

Speaker 5 (16:24):
Now you start, you're not gonna make any money if
there's nobody's ass in that seat.

Speaker 6 (16:27):
You want to get closer. They're gonna buy a hot dog.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
They're not gonna buy a popcorn. They're not gonna buy
a seven up.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
You want to sit behind one of the benches. Two
hundred dollars, You want to sit behind the scores table?
Three forty five?

Speaker 4 (16:38):
Geez the snaws, yes, forget it.

Speaker 6 (16:41):
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Speaker 8 (16:43):
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Speaker 6 (16:48):
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Speaker 5 (16:49):
Lower your prices and the same goes for you, San
Diego State. Don't complain about people not showing up if
you're not willing to meet them halfway, and lower your
prices and make it a little bit more accessible for everybody.
You only raise your prices when there's a line outside,
and everybody will pay whatever to get in.

Speaker 7 (17:09):
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Speaker 7 (17:15):
Why are you asking a question or bone.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
It was a pretty good question.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
It's time for the Song of the day run.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
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Speaker 8 (17:25):
New York City Ban the Strokes are behind today's song
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That'll begin with our friend Adam Oslin, who's in the
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Speaker 6 (17:54):
You know, Petrose, if Ronnie were a football player, I
think he'd be a safety. You should have seen him
running around in the studio to get that audio from
Mike Cronin. He had great closing speed on the computer.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
It was Alinella Malo.

Speaker 6 (18:07):
I mean he was, you know, twenty yards off the
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I not reflected his forty time, but when he gets
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Speaker 6 (20:25):
You think Donald pay two hundred and forty five bucks
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Speaker 4 (20:39):
What's cracking?

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Don?

Speaker 4 (20:40):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (20:42):
It's funny you mentioned tickets and ticket prices because I think,
for the first time in the last twenty two or
twenty three years, I actually went to a college game
that I didn't get paid for when Saint Mary's played
at Pepperdine last week.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
Oh with Trent, Yeah, how much was it?

Speaker 4 (21:06):
How much was what the tickets?

Speaker 2 (21:08):
No, the ticket was free. I'm saying, Pete, what what
you're misunderstanding? I went to a college team that I
didn't paid for, meaning I wasn't working. Yeah, Yeah, that's
what I meant.

Speaker 4 (21:22):
I got you.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
No, No, I understand. I wouldn't go to a game
if somebody wasn't at me either. I don't even know
if my if my kid was there, I don't even
know if i'd go.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
The one and.

Speaker 5 (21:32):
Only Don McClain is here. We're always happy to talk
to him. I was at a very famous deli in
San Pedro yesterday, Don the meat shop, and the guy
madd my sandwich said. I was listening to Chet Briquette
on your radio show, and he was spot on. He
knows everything about barbecuing. And this is a very very

(21:52):
reputable butcher shop down So you can if you can
impress those Baltic men, you can do anything. That very
Darko's Meat Shop very impressive.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Somed maybe I'll come get to meet from them.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
You want a leg, a lamb or something, come on,
come on down to Darko's. Don, it's the real art,
and they can have build a sandwich and we can
eat it together at White Point.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
Okay, that'd be nice, Ye, it would be nice. Uh.
UCLA has lost a couple straight.

Speaker 7 (22:25):
Don.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
We've been talking a little college basketball today and we
talked about Mick cronin a little bit. This is supposed
to be a big year for them. How good can
they be? And what do you think the story will
be as they get into the meat of the Big Ten.
They've lost two straight.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah, but I think the Big Ten is of Donkld
this year. Not that it isn't every year, but it's
just when you go on the road, man, it's it's different.
And I said this last year, Pete, and I think
I said it to you and Matt. You know, when
you get used to playing in the PAC twelve. And
this is in disrespecting the Pac twelve because I was
a part of that forever. But when you go to
and you play in front of three thousand people. You

(23:02):
go to Stanford there's fifteen hundred. You go to Washington
State there's two thousand, you kind of get used to that.
I know, guys aren't there forever, but even for a
year or two, and then you're going to these Big
ten arenas and they are packed fifteen thousand. So it's
a different deal. And I'm not reading too much into
them losing a couple of games on the road, but

(23:23):
I just think it's going to be like that. I
still think they're an NCAA tournament team. I still think
they're going to finish in the upper half of the
Big Ten. But there's no gimmeis in the Big Ten
like there was in the Pac twelve for years.

Speaker 6 (23:37):
Speaking of crowds, don that's a perfect lead in until
we were talking about Mick Cronin was asked by Ben
Boltz today about the lack of crowds at UCLA home
games this year despite having a really good team, and
his first response was, go ask Martin Jarmon, and then
he alluded a little bit and said, Yeah, it's tough
because we're on the quarter system and the long winter break,

(23:57):
and you know, we go on the road. As you
mentioned the Big Ten. They just had crowds at Iowa,
really big crowds on the road and lost. Now they
come back tomorrow and they face Maryland, a really good
team in the Big ten, and who knows who shows up?
Is there anything that can be done at Paul's at
the ticket prices? And then they got a good product
on the floor.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, I don't I don't know what happened because it's
been like that. It's been like a slow lead tim
for a long time. It really has. And there's a
couple of years in the Alford era where they didn't
win and then howling at the end where they didn't win.
But it's not like they haven't won and Mick has won.
I mean they went to a final four what three
years ago, So I don't I don't know what it

(24:37):
is is that the fan experience at the game is
that did a lot of really die hard UCLA fans
when I was playing, there were younger, they got older.
Are they still around? Do the kids that you know?
I'm assuming a lot of those families that have season
tickets got passed down in the family. Those kids just

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aren't basketball fans. I don't think it's one thing. I
think it's a lot of things. But you can't point
to the fact that they haven't won. I mean they're
you know, they're not top five in the country every year,
but they have one and been consistently winning with Mick
since he's been there.

Speaker 5 (25:17):
Doc McClain, our guest, you heard what he said to me. No,
I went to the game for free, paid.

Speaker 6 (25:25):
To sit in the lower bowl behind the scorers table,
and that section done at Polly It's two hundred and
forty five dollars again in price is thirty one to
sit up in the corners of Paul Pavilion. One of
the text dosors sent a text to Petrolsad, Yeah, fans
are priced out at Paul Pavilion for UCLA games.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, I mean two forty five seems a bit much
when the place is in full. You know, maybe maybe
restart that and lower the prices. See if people come back.
I mean it's worth it's I would say this because
Mick is a very good coach and we all love
him and he wins, So why not try something to
get people back in there, you know, watching lower the

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prices way down and then see what happens if everybody
starts coming back. Didn't you know it was the ticket
prices Start.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
With that, guys, that's Don McClain. He's an All American.
Charge him half price. Don McClay our guests on the
Peches and Buddy Show at m FI seventy LA Sports.
It's fun to talk a little college basketball. But I
don't know how much attention you've been paying to the

(26:35):
Lakers up in Eugene, Oregon and traveling around down but
it feels like they have somebody out every night.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
He Not to interrupt you, but I was actually in
your spot last night. I was it was like the
olden days. I did a game at gil Calliseem with
mikey Am last night, believe it or not.

Speaker 6 (26:55):
Where to state.

Speaker 4 (26:58):
Oh my god in corn Alice, you know, I've never
been in that building.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Really. No, it's a it's a it's a historical monument.
I guess they call it so it's pretty it's pretty original.
About five years ago they put in a new like
jumbo tron in the middle hanging from the ceiling, but
they can't touch the actual building. There's no air conditioning
in there. I think there's heating, but no air And

(27:26):
they can't do anything to the building because it's a
historical monument. I found that out like last year or
the year before.

Speaker 5 (27:33):
You and the Yam are sweating it out and corn Allie, Yeah,
that's pretty.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Good freeze outside eighty five inside.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (27:44):
Do you think it will will be a problem for
the Lakers down that they're just not consistently healthy and
you know, it doesn't seem like they're ever able to
kind of play together.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yes, And I also think consistently defending and consistently league,
you know, bringing maximum effort. I mean, they're not as
good as the teams above them in the West, so
if they are going to beat them, it's going to
have to be with effort, execution, defending, and so you
don't just turn that on. We've talked about that for

(28:15):
years at any level, but especially in the NBA, where
it's okay, it's almost April, let's turn it up and
be a really good defensive team. It doesn't really work
like that. So in terms of the Lakers, you know,
watching them, I don't watch them a lot that I
watch them occasionally. It just doesn't seem like there's the
urgency that's necessary to be a championship team. They're a

(28:36):
good team and they'll make the playoffs easily, but if
you're talking about the Lakers winning a championship, I just
don't think there's enough urgency, especially on the defensive end.

Speaker 6 (28:46):
Donnie, you got the Clippers and baw and Brooklyn to
take on the nets coming up later on this afternoon,
the clips of you know, starting to win a little bit.
There's still ten games under five hundred. But Tyleru was
asked about why this team has turned things around and
he says, it's easy. We're guys are starting to play
together a little bit more. Was that just the case?
You think early on the ins and out to the
guys in the lineup and the rotation was a big factor.

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They couldn't get any consistency.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
I don't really believe that they're one of the deepest
teams in the league. And yes they had a couple
of guys in and out, But when the reason you
have the deepest team or you want to have the
deepest team in the league, is your margin for error
gets bigger. So if a guy or two is out,
you can stand and win, Like I would get it
to him if they were five hundred, Yeah, maybe I

(29:32):
would get it right. Okay, Yeah he had some injuries
and bring us together and all that stuff, But the
way they started it wasn't that. And what I find
really fascinating and kind of the timing of it. And
I've been looked into his contract situation, but Kawhi Leonard
has led them in scoring the last twelve or thirteen games.

(29:53):
After seven years of being in LA or six years
or whatever, it's been all of a sudden, they're finally
getting what they paid for. In Kawhi Leonard leading them
and scoring every night. And you know, during the stress,
they haven't won every game, but I think they won
what six in a row. Yeah, And I think that's
what everybody thought was going to happen when they brought
him here. And it's just been, you know, one thing

(30:16):
after another and in and out of the lineup and
load management and playing not playing, and all of a sudden,
now he's playing and playing really well. I just find
that interesting.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
He's in year two of that three year extension that
he signed, so after next year, at the age of
thirty five, will be a free agent again.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Yeah, he seems to be scoring the basketball now.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
Look it.

Speaker 5 (30:39):
If you saw Don McLain and Pepperdine at that game,
I know it was well attended.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
Just know that that ticket was free.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Okay, it wasn't well attended. Petros I feel bad. And
Shilding's a good friend. He's the head coach at Pepperdine.
I've known for a long time. But there was If
there was no Saint Mary's fans, and I am not exaggerating,
if there was no Saint Mary's fans there there would
have been one hundred and fifty people there.

Speaker 9 (31:06):
Whoa let's go ways wow, good look well of that, note,
this is college basketball very healthy here in town.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Well right, they are hold on. I should say this though.
They are building a brand new or there's almost finished,
a brand new, state of the art facility, a rec center.
So it's a dual purpose where it's the arena for
Pepperdine basketball and volleyball and all that, but attached to
it as like a student rec center. Brand new. I
think it's five thousand seed arena. So it's good. It's

(31:41):
supposed to be really really nice. So hopefully that will
help them out.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Oh, they love you again, They love you again. Thank you, Don.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
I have a great weekend and we appreciate it, and
we will talk soon. The great Don McLain. Everybody, all right,
Don go and we'll be back.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
I think they're calling that the Matt money Smith Arena
there in Pepperdine because of all the money he's donating.

Speaker 5 (32:04):
Well, they don't like me there, even though I have
the voice of the Bolts. One day Pepperdine will open
its doors again to Matt, and that'll be.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
A great day.

Speaker 6 (32:17):
You and I have both spoken at Pepperdine before.

Speaker 5 (32:20):
Matt has I'm talking to Syracuse next week. What yeah,
the Cus.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
Wait, who's the I think I knew who the professor
is there? Did she used to do sports in La?

Speaker 4 (32:31):
No, it's a man. Oh okay, wear it just go Orange.

Speaker 5 (32:36):
Thanks, We'll be back with your Dead and Alive guid
Birthday in the day. It's a frog Man Friday. Everybody.

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(33:31):
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and the Patriots.

Speaker 5 (33:43):
We're not carrying a playoff game tonight. No, that's a
evil four letter thing.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
Yeah, that's better.

Speaker 6 (33:50):
To have the Clippers anyway, right, Yeah, more people are
interested in the Clippers Brooklyn regular season game in January
than the second semi final game to determine college football's
national championship.

Speaker 5 (34:02):
Don't forget to podcast the show and everything available on
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off and running in twenty twenty six and a very
successful event yesterday in Cerritos. A big thank you to
everybody who came out and was born. I don't think
we have much left to give away other than the

(34:24):
prizes people actually want that we normally give away. All right, Tim,
you've asked for the dead guy birthday of the Dad.
Bet you think it's pretty cool.

Speaker 6 (34:32):
Yeah, I'm very interested in this man, and I think
our listeners will kind of agree with me. Looked a
great life.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
Think the studio audience would agree with me.

Speaker 6 (34:40):
There, let's wry. Let's hear from the audience. Huh, Let's
go happy. Would have been one hundred and twenty sixth
birthday to Richard Halliburton, American traveler, writer, adventurer. Born in Brownsville, Tennessee,
his family moved to Memphis where he grew up. At
the age of fifteen, he developed a up in a
heartbeat and the parents freaked out, and they had a

(35:02):
little money, had a little bit of money, so they
sent him to Michigan to see a doctor there. Guess
where they sent him.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
The Battle Yep, the Kellogg Battle Creek don't Masturbate farm
that Matt loved so much with the cereal.

Speaker 6 (35:19):
The Battle Creek Sanitarium run by John Harvey Kellogg. He
spent time there for observation. He rebounded was given a
clean bill of health. After that, he would go on
to graduate from Princeton in nineteen twenty one, but he
found that he had a love for traveling in the ocean.
The words of Oscar Wilde inspired him to reject marriage

(35:40):
and family, the regular jobs in conventional respectability.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
All that the wild was gay, that's oh okay cool.

Speaker 6 (35:52):
He liked bachelor hoods, young adventurous things, and the thrill
of the unknowned like young adventurous things. In nineteen thirty,
at the age of thirty, he hired a aviator on
a handshake deal for no pay but unlimited expenses, to
fly him around the world in an open cockpit biplane.

(36:14):
The Steerman C three B was named the Flying Carpet
after the Matchic carpet of fairy tales. The pilot, yeah,
there was two seats, but they didn't need two seats.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
Oh wow.

Speaker 6 (36:25):
They embarked on one of the most fantastic and I'm
using quotes here, fantastic extended air journeys ever recorded in
quote eighteen months circumnavigating the globe thirty three thousand miles
every continent. They visited thirty four different countries. Halliburton's literary

(36:47):
career developed out of this. He log everything he did
in all his adventures. His first book, The Royal Road
to Romance, is a chronicle of his adventures at a
young age. And then he went to put out more
books and more literary pieces. He followed Ulysseses root through

(37:07):
the Mediterranean.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
Uh odisayas excuse.

Speaker 6 (37:12):
Me, h Lysses says Ulysses.

Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yeah, that's the Roman name for a Greek book.

Speaker 6 (37:17):
Oh okay, jeez, God, he swamed the Panama.

Speaker 5 (37:21):
The honesty, and you're gonna call him ulysses. I mean, honestly,
he swammed the Panama Canal. He ran from Marathon to Athens.
Is that a far run?

Speaker 6 (37:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (37:30):
And that's the original marathon? Whe it's the twenty six
point whatever, that's the marathon. He's why it's called a marathon.
He visited from Marathon to Athens.

Speaker 6 (37:39):
Devil Mytory, Major Us History, Devil's Island. He climbed the Matterhorn,
Mount Olympus, Mount Fuji, where my daughter's going to be
in ten days. These and other experiences became the basis
for his romantic narratives. He had movie star friends, writers, intellects, musicians, artist, politicians.

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He was with the who's who of the time. He
never married, though Petros Richard Halliburton never married, he dated
several women in his youth. He expressed intense affection for
several of them. However, his most lasting relationship was with
the journalist Paul Mooney, with whom he often lived and worked.

(38:24):
He died.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
Wait, so they was they were.

Speaker 6 (38:30):
Colleagues, Let me say they were gay and didn't say it.
I went to Britannica and I went through Wikipedia. March
nineteen thirty nine, at the age of thirty nine, Halliburton
left Hong Kong aboard a motor boat called the Sea
Dragon en route to San Francisco. Both he and the

(38:52):
boat never made it to San Francisco. They disappeared after
encountering a severe typhoon some twelve hundred miles west of
mid Way Island. He's presumed dead because of that typhoon.
The boat his body never found, so he died at

(39:17):
the age of thirty nine. Happy would have been That's
he got all that in one and twenty sixth birthday
if he were still alive to Richard Halliburton traveler.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
To see if Paul Mooney was gay?

Speaker 6 (39:29):
You know what I can do that real quick post?

Speaker 4 (39:32):
Is that what I read? I don't you know who
else went to.

Speaker 5 (39:38):
Kellogg's sanitarium and spent a lot of time there. And
it's a great excuse to play the Tarzan yell because
James Outman is a thing of the past for Dodger fans.
But the great Og Tarzan, Johnny Weiss, Mule Olympic swim

(40:00):
or Big Kellogg guy. Did you find out about the gays.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (40:06):
Historical accounts and biographical studies confirm that adventure author Richard
Halliburton was, in fact gay.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
I told you.

Speaker 6 (40:15):
He concealed it from the public well carefully. Once Oscar
Wilde to his friends. Oscar Wilde was the tip for me,
and it's great. You know, I'm glad he was.

Speaker 5 (40:27):
He found love with Paul, and he found death at sea.

Speaker 6 (40:32):
What a life. Man died at the age of thirty
nine trying to get from Hong.

Speaker 4 (40:35):
Kong Dragon Yeah to San Francisco.

Speaker 5 (40:38):
I'm on a motor boat. Okay, maybe if you could
swim like Johnny Weissmueler or our next I don't know.

Speaker 4 (40:47):
That's a tough situation at Typhoon. But the alive guy.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
Birthday of the Day, Jamaican dudes, it's Jamaica News.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
Today.

Speaker 5 (40:58):
We celebrate reggae Roy tim a direct descendant of Super
Cat in his dance hall reggae style, a real crossover
Jamaican star.

Speaker 6 (41:10):
Oh I know what you're talking about?

Speaker 4 (41:12):
Well, yeah, because I sent you the song Where's that too?

Speaker 5 (41:16):
Fifty three years old today, Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques
as Sean Henriquez fifty three years old Sean Paul from
Uptown Kingston, Chinese, English and Jamaican mother who was a
swimmer and a painter. His father Portuguese Jamaican. They supposedly

(41:43):
were the descendant descendants of Portuguese horse thieves who fled
Europe from bounty hunters and their ship sank in Jamaica,
so they were there.

Speaker 6 (41:55):
That's how they got there. Yes, pretty cool.

Speaker 5 (41:57):
And his grandfather was the first on the first Jamaican
national water polo team. Their family of swimmers. His father
was on the same national water polo team. He was
on the same water polo team. His father killed a guy,
went to jail for fifteen years, got out when John
Paul was nineteen manslaughter, got out on good behavior. Paul

(42:22):
quinn the national water polo team at twenty one to
pursue music and he won Best Reggae Album only once
for Dutty Rock the album, but he has eight full
length albums, lots of very popular crossover work from Beyonce

(42:43):
to Sia to Clean Bandit. Billions of us for that
song with Clean Bandit rock a Bye played himself in
the movie Belly in nineteen ninety eight. That's where I
first heard of Sean Paul, his high school sweetheart died
of a.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
Brain tumor.

Speaker 5 (43:04):
And he ended up marrying a Jamaican TV presenter named
Jody Stewart and they have two kids and they live
up town. Uh. For a time they were living next
door to Usain Bolt, and she was very very critical
of him on the hoa online comment posts appet year, Yeah,

(43:28):
the next door because you know they're kind of like
uptown Jamaicans and Usain Bolt is a little bit more
of a of a down country guy whatever, and they
did not seem to see eye to eye.

Speaker 6 (43:43):
Do you think it was music complaints?

Speaker 5 (43:45):
Like why is this star all night parties, all night
parties people and no sprints down the street like our
friend Mark Sanchez got We hope he's doing better. He
was in the last few years with Jamaican patties which
are like impanadas and his scorcher hot sauce calling them
scorcher patties and at Jamaican restaurant in the UK known

(44:08):
as port Royal for crossover reggae songs in the last
couple of decades. You got to say Sean Paul is
cooler than Shaggy and I will proclaim that from the mountaintops.

Speaker 6 (44:20):
He's actually in concert in San Francisco next month. If
I know he's playing in San Francisco Peer eighty along
with I think Tea Pain Wow and Peer eighty on
the second, you know, like he's a super Bowl weekend.
That's why.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
Yeah, yeah, he's one.

Speaker 5 (44:33):
Of the few dancehall artists that can really carry a
whole concert, and carry a whole album, and carry a
whole kind of persona. He does a great job, Sean Paul,
always positive vibes, and there's nothing we're more about than positive.

Speaker 6 (44:48):
He doesn't look Jamaican.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
You are of a darker shoe than me.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
No, he's not.

Speaker 6 (44:53):
He's not.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
Actually, well, you know I told you his mom is Chinese.
You know there's a lot of Chinese people in Jamaica.

Speaker 6 (44:59):
Now, what happens to that the boat doesn't go down
off the coast of Jamaica like they make it somewhere
else or the Bahamas wherever he lives.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
Who knows.

Speaker 5 (45:06):
They might not have survived, could have been like could
have died, and they could have died of the typhoid.
You know, the history takes many turns. We all do
every day, Kate, We'll be back with the fun fact,
the quick hits, and the lessons learned in great sports talk.
It's frog Man Friday on Petros and Money Clippers coming up.

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