September 19, 2025 • 38 mins
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Agong the Uspetro saying Monday, we got Dodger Baseball tonight
final regular season start at Dodger Stadium for Clayton Kershaw
announced his retirement yesterday. You'll hear it all from the
Galpin Motors broadcast booth. They first pitch at seven to
ten pm. Dodgers on deck. Going to be a hell
of a Clayton Kershaw celebration that starts one hour from now.
And the Dodgers, I guess, not necessarily born importantly, but
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to the on the field situation, have got that three
game lead now over the Padres as they lost to
the Mets yesterday, dropped two to three to the New
York Mets, so just nine games to play, and that
means the Padres would need to go eight and one
if the Dodgers simply went four and five in their
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want to stay home, listen to or watch or watch
and listen to the Clayton Kershaw start tonight.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Like an FDR fireside chat, Come on.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Right, where were you? Which means you could be ordering
some pizza to be delivered to the house instead of
cooking and taking your eyes off the screen, or going
out for dinner and having to try to find the game.
Did you know prior to Dominoes, a lot of places
still use this method. By the way, takeout pizza predominantly
came on a cardboard base under the pizza inserted into
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a paper sleeve that was stapled shut. In the early
nineteen sixties, Dominoes, yes, that Domino's Pizza was the pizza
joint that developed the modern pizza box created with corrugated cardboard.
They never patented it, so that's why it became the
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industry standard and not Dominoes and Dominoes alone.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Oh see, because I know for a fact that like
the microwave pizza came from a place called Dejoorno, Italy,
and then they also early placed with the microwave pizza.
A lot of people don't know this. Tim Kates went
there with Joe McDonald Tombstone. They'd cook the microwave pizza
and then they go have a gunfight and they get
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buried up at boot Hill. All right, it's time for
CRIICKETSMS crickets.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I'll make it quick, y'all.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yeah. The Dodgers are eighty six and sixty seven on
the season. The House the San Francisco Giants tonight played
in Curshaw Megan his final regular season started Roger Stadium
here is Kershaw. Yesterday at his press conference, when chided
by our own David Vasse about his final start, anticipating
tomorrow night, making your final old great rest.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Season, scientistic pitching, good, Dave, all right, I mean this
is not you know, this is this game matters, you know,
for both teams where everybody's still in it. We got
to win these games. So it's good to get this
out of the way today. And you know it'll be heightened,
I'm sure, but I got a job to do, so
I need to go out there and do my job,
and thankfully I'll have that to distract me for sure.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Hall of famer and one of Matt's countrymen, Sandy kofax
Oh more on Sandy. In the next segment, he spoke
to Sports Illustrated about Clayton Kershaw as great of a
pitcher as he is or was or whatever the timing is. Now,
that's as great a person as he is. He's one
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of these people who your teammates want to win for
and that they think they're going to win because of you,
and that to tribute to him as a human being,
look at that.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
See beautiful, Sandy, way to put it in perspective. He's fantastic.
He's a better guy, he's a great teammate. He's an
exceptional human being. This man is more than a large,
long armed human that can throw a spherical object north
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of ninety miles an hour and make it move in
wild direct.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yeah, but if he couldn't, nobody would care. And Sandy
Kofak is probably gonna be there tonight. I mean if
he's gonna say, give a quote a sas Assa. Right,
The Chargers are two and oh. They're at home versus
the bron Keito's on Sunday. They're looking to go three
and oh to start the season for the first time
since twenty oh two. Justin Herbert love Bird with Madison Beer.
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Happy to be helped finally.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
You know, we always enjoy playing and so far we have,
you know, such a great fan base and definitely a
great environment to play in, and we're definitely looking forward
to it. But I think it's been great the past
couple of weeks to go play and you know, it's
challenges opportunities for us to go play on the road
and to be the team that we want to be.
We need to go play and win games like that,
but to stay at home and limit some of the travel,
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it's always good for us.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
They're exactly right. Oh gosh, I just wanted to add
that we'd love to hear them talk. Wanted to add
that that's exactly right. I figured you'd had something to
It was great.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
To be on the road, but it is good to
be at home.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
And you know who's hitting the road, the Goats, the
Rams two and zero in Philly on Sunday to take
on the Eagles. It's not going to be so easy,
is at Rams. So rematch of the NFC Divisional Round
game last year, rematch which the Eagles won by going
off sides.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It wasn't odd finish that fourth down throw, Remember from
Matthew Stafford, who can forget it? That would have won
them the divisional round. But it wasn't anywhere near the receiver,
So I don't quite know how it would have won
them the divisional when it's not like it was, you know,
Mark Andrews dropping the two points, like just really close.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah. Yeah, It's just kind of a weird sort of
position to take, if you want to know about it.
There's a certain podcast. The Washington Commanders quarterback jayde and
Daniels been ruled out for Sunday's matchup against the Las
Vegas Raiders due to a knee injury. Coach Dan Quinn
announced Friday, Vetaano Marcus Mariota we'll get the start in
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place of Daniels. That's two great human beings, one playing
quarterback for the other, I believe with an overbearing mother.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yes, Mario to former Raider right Kates.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yeah, a year and a half falcon. Yeah, Mariota is
a really great guy. By the way. I don't know
if you're being funny or not, but like I'm not,
he's a really good dude. I watched that Netflix show
about it. Hey, you know what, Hey, don't get all
puffed up with me, Puffy. I like this guy.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
He's a good dude.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
All right, fine, Mariota guy, she's a nice girl.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
You know, you get all flippant with it talking trying
to pair him up with Jayden Daniels and his overbearing mother.
Jadan's great when it comes to his dating life, Mario.
It is a great guy, exceptional human. Like Sandy Kofax
describe Clayton Kershaw, That's how Tim Kates would describe Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
One of my favorites. Fran Brown and Syracuse Syracuse used
to be Greece as well. On the island of Sicily,
Syracuse head coach fran Brown offering a warrant the Real
New Jersey principal Joe Clark. Fran Brown offering a warning
to coaches and programs trying to poach his players illegally.
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Here he is on the I Am Athlete podcast. I
don't care broo. Nah's like, dudees be trying to push
up on my wife.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
She bet right right, So it's like, I mean, I
ain't she don't even got to tell me.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, It's like, man, I just know who not to
talk to.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
And she's like, man, this guy it's just it's just
the game, right, that's what they do for me.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I don't care, but like, don't don't.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Let me find out. And then I see this ain't
no bitch right.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Excuse my language, but you take it that personal.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
If like a school comes in and gets.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
A guy, if they if they came and they did
it illegally and I find out, I'm not gonna go
tell on you, but like I'm gonna come at you,
like what's up, Like we'ma see you.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Right.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
There's a couple of dudes I called and they tried
to hey, lose my lawn. You been like shut up,
shut up. But I wanted, like, yo, we in college,
y'all stop. Ain't no, I ain't no anxious anxious in this.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
But you all got the principals though. Principles is right,
and I think of one principle that Fran Brown is exactly.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Like, I'm on all the white students to stand up.
All my white students stand up right now, stand up.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Come on, all my white students.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Stangn up, stign up.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I said, come on, stand up.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
These are my white children, and they're the same as
all of you. They've got no place to go. If
they had, they would have abandoned us a long time
ago like everybody else did. But they couldn't. So here
they are at east Side High just like the rest
of us.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
You can sit down.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You can sit down. Ain't no bids, no bids.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
You can sit down.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Coming after my wife. You know, Matt, Steve Bablo, he's the.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Best bank records. He is not letting up. No this
this is his cause, celeb and he is making sure
that Steve Balmer and the Clippers are going down, and
he is trying to take the entire NBA with them.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
He now has bank going down to Chinatown.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Bank records showing investments made by the Clippers and Aspiration,
the company who gave Clippers star Kawhi Leonard a no
show job worth at at least twenty eight million dollars
in exchange for carbon credits. The investments were made just
before and on the exact dates that Leonard received payments
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from Aspiration. The total value of Clipper investments and Aspiration
now stands at one hundred and eighteen million dollars, and
that money came at a time when nobody else was
investing in the company, which is exactly what Mark Cuban
told Tory might have happened if Balmer and the Clippers
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were doing something shady with the company. He did an
appearance on a previous pod that Poblotory was hosting and
just kind of said, Wow, as a billionaire, this is
kind of how these things would work, So this is
what you would want to track down. Poblotory continues to
find things about this awkward and interesting relationship between Leonard Balmer,
the Clips, and the now bankrupt Aspiration. The leap is
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the Clippers circumvented the NBA salary cap by funneling extra
money to Kawhi Leonard with that endorsement in twenty twenty three,
Balmer and the team invested gave one hundred and eighteen
million dollars total, including the twenty one million just before
Leonard's first seven million dollar quarterly payment from them an investor.
As an insider, the claim was cap EVAs I to
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say no. Mark Cuban, now we know is the guy
who tipped off, and he is no longer the owner
of the Mavericks. He was bought out, but he's the
guy that tipped off. Reporter Pablo Torre, who uncovered all
the details the sources, the docks, and as we said,
if Minnesota got docked, I think it was maybe two
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or three first round picks and millions of dollars for
just doing a handshake deal with Joe Smith outside of
the rules of the salary cap and free agency.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Nothing's going to happen. And you know it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
This is a SMU style death penalty. Well that would
be no, he's worth too much money. I think the
All Star Game is coming there this year.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Too big to fail. All right, let's do it. Let's
give away that pair for tomorrow. To get that Clayton
Kershaw bobblehead and watch Tyler Glass now pitch against the
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Speaker 2 (14:31):
Boots and the Voice of the City is what our
top Story of the Day centers around. Bill Plashki does
hell of a job. He's the best sports columnist in
the nation. He's a dear friend of the show. He
writes thought provoking pieces. Damn there every single day and
today was no different. But I would submit in the
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Top Story of the Day today. He could have taken
the opposite approach. Still got the clicks, u H. Still
stirred the conversation all all, and I think and look,
it would have been I think considerably more effective than
the declaration that he posted. And he's probably right. And look,
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a columnist's story is one man's opinion or woman's opinion,
depending on the columnist and the city. So who really cares?
But I think someone has respected as Bill could have
maybe done a great service to the sports fan to
introduce a little nuance to an otherwise tiring if you
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want to call it that, or dominating if you want
to acknowledge that, it really is the number one thing
that drives these sports talking heads shows that have devolved
into a this or that, argue to the death programming
(15:59):
that really is all we have anymore?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Well, Matt, will you say something like that? You know
it's the non player. No, you're right, something that involves
further than the talking hands guys, the best guys, the best, Yes,
who's the Rogan and Rodney took calls today on who's
the best Dodger of all time?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And that is what Bill posted, that Clayton Kershaw is
the greatest Dodger ever. And come you can make the case,
of course you can. You got longevity, you've got production,
you've got hardware, championships, best player in all of baseball?
On one occasion, which is not easy to accomplish as
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a pitcher, to win the m v P. So it's
all there off the field. You heard the guy get
the question in there. Hey, let's talk about the Kershaw
Challenge man, the Foundation and those millions that they have
raised for the less fortunate. It was so impactful that
we know Clayton's wife by name Ellen. How many we did.
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There are not many players that have such an impact
on the city of Los Angeles that you know and
can visualize in your mind's eye their wife and their family.
And to show up as a nineteen year old, babyfaced teenager,
perform to the insane expect insane expectations that were placed
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on him when he arrived, and then well beyond that
is even more incredible. And then to do it while
raising a family with I believe the word that was
used yesterday was grace and beauty is pretty rare. And
you can acknowledge all of that while also recognizing and
introducing the conversation that this is an organization with some
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of the most important players in baseball history.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
If you were going to bring Bill a bottle of wine,
like an expensive one, right, would it be the present
because he's a prisoner at the moment.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Perhaps And listen, look it starts with Jackie Robinson. Bill's
column was the greatest Los Angeles Dodger of all time,
so obviously he recognized that that's what we're talking about,
the Los Angeles Dodgers. Jackie never played here, but Don
Drysdale did all but his first two seasons, and he
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won three World Series titles, and Sandy Kofax did and
is often cited as just from a dominance and stuff
that hitters could not hit. Standpoint, he is the greatest
pitcher in the history of the league. He won three
Cy Youngs and an MVP over a four year span
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when he abruptly retired at thirty after winning two back
to back cy Youngs in back to back years where
he went fifty three and seventeen with a sub to
era over a come bind three hundred and fifty nine innings.
In the half decade between sixty two and sixty six,
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he put together what is arguably, if not absolutely, the
greatest stretch by a pitcher in the history of baseball.
He led the National League in every single one of
those seasons in innings in complete games, in shutouts in
strikeouts in Whip. The Dodgers went to three World Series
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in those five years and won two championships. In nineteen
sixty five, Sandy kofex through twenty four innings in the
World Series, and that included six in his first start
and back to back complete games in Game five and
three days later Game seven. And if you introduced nuance,
you can have that conversation of how fortunate the city
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of Los Angeles is to have this franchise with all
of these players that meant so much in their window
of time. And because sports is unforgiving to some, and
because injury or mental anguish can sap a player from
his superpowers, they all don't get eighteen years. And by
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no means is this something to cast anything other than
a spotlight, a celebration and acknowledgment of the most one
of the most incredible runs in the history of baseball
as Kershaw will make his last start in the regular
season and maybe his last start ever as a Dodger
and someone who should be considered and probably would be
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most people's name that they would say is the greatest
Dodger ever. But like to me, it's just just point
out that that's the company he's in that he gets
to share it with Don Drysdale with if you want
to go the Dodgers, you know, organization as a whole,
Don Newcomb and Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson and
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all of those, but Willie Dave, all the players that
just pop into your mind depending on how old you are.
And that's the other thing is you know, it's kind
of like, uh, it's kind of like music and whatever
music hit you in that particular window of your life
when you could be most impacted by music.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
You're saying, Kershaw is like ABBA to to Bill Plashki Kershaw.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
See now, yes, yeah, well I would think for for Bill,
his abba would be in the era of well yeah, well.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I mean if he says his favors his favorite best
Dodger ever, it's his abbas would your dad complicate it?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Know what I'm getting at is like your dad wouldn't
say that Kershaw's the greatest Dodger ever. He would probably
lean into somebody that was really really good when he
was young.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
James Atman, that's very true.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You know, your favorite Dodger is probably gonna be so
I would assume, And who knows but you know someone
in the Fernando.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Jerry, Tim Belchier, Jerry exactly. You get my point.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
So it's like it's not as simple as hey, look
at look at this list. Look at Clayton Kershaw twenty
eleven through twenty fourteen led the league in era for
the five years war three of the five years, complete games, twice,
strikeouts three times three, just like Kofax, three Cy Youngs
and one MVP in a five year run. It was
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a ridiculous run. Eighteen seasons as a pitcher.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Tell him who your favorite is, Matt, Minnie Gris, Mark
Krish Klani.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
No, I mean you know, oh, you know what I
found out a couple of years ago. It's Sean Green.
And it's not even close.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Come on, because you're a quarter Jewish, that's exactly right.
We all relate to something. What about Kofax? Matt, I mean, hey,
live when he when he when he he throws a
gnarly spinning star of David in there. Yes he does.
But unfortunately I was not alive to see.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I was alive to see Sean Green and all those
home runs and I and it spoke to me.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
You didn't know why at the time, I didn't know
why at the time, because you never really identified as
a Jewish man. Ever.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Over those eighteen seasons and that ridiculous run, he never
Clayton Kershawn never, never, ever. He had an ERA over
four twice his rookie year four two six and last
year when he was beat up all year only thirty
innings four five zero. He only had three season. That's
that's three seasons over a three ra So out of
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eighteen years, a guy that would log hundreds of innings
every single season had a sub three ERA in fourteen thirteen.
I'm sorry, thirteen of those eighteen years. It's a hell
of a run. And there is nothing wrong with saying
that Clayton Kershaw is the greatest Dodger ever, but to
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proclaim it as as an untouchable as well. Look at
the stats, look at the longevity. Look at this run
the Dodgers have been on since twenty thirteen, and they're
likely to extend it, you know, this year again, which
will be what twelve Division titles in thirteen years, hopefully
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another trip to the World Series which would make it five,
and hopefully another win which would make it three over
that span with Kershaw as one of, if not their
most impactful player.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
It's nothing wrong with being one of the greatest Dodgers
of all That's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Can we just do the he is in the pantheon
if you want to do the dumb sports radio mount round,
all right, I won't.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I won't say it. You can get you know it
two twenty twenty two, Red blend the Prisoner for thirty
nine to ninety nine and drop it off over it Bills.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Every goo will take that the bill and we're going
to drink it. You're prisoner of the moment, Bill, A
spirited debate and you know who else is going to
show up with us, b ron say, because the fact
that he's not in these conversations more is a damn shame.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
I can't believe I'm not in the conversation. Damn shame. Hey,
Ron Harvey, what do you think about Steve Garvey going
to the Hall of Fame? Garvey? What about me? The Penguin?
What about me?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Truly went the great moment in the history of the Petrols.
I went to seven straight All Star Game?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Yeah, what okay? What do you ever do for us? Sorry?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Ron?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Hey, Hey, he was right, that's see that's that's what
the byeline should have been. Clayton Kershaw retires as the
greatest Dodger ever, just barely edging out Ron Say, and
that then could stir some debates.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Sliding right past the penguin on the glacier of greatness.
Exactly right. All right, We'll be back with more great
sports talk, Dad and I'll Guy burnt day and the day,
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not listening to that particular broadcast. Teams there is well,
the Dazzler will be working. The Dazzler's working, but and
he's very excited to do this game from what I understand.
But there is already for those of us that have
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Apple TV, there is already a panel or whatever you
would call it, Matt, Yeah, tab at the bottom as.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
That you can listen. You don't have to doctor your
radio with your phone iHeartRadio app and doctor that and
time it up. You can just do it. They time
it up for you, those very innovative Silicon Valley types.
So we've got that going for us. We also have
great football all week in Long Michigan, Nebraska Tomorrow at
(28:41):
twelve thirty on that one Cats No, I've got Indiana
Illinois later on the Border War, look at that Hoosiers
versus the ALIONI two top twenty teams. And Sunday if
you want to listen to the Voice of the Bolts
and Daniel Jeremiah and Shennon Farrin versus Broncos kickoff at
one oh five on KFI AM six forty, and don't
(29:05):
forget the Dodgers all weekend Long and a big Clayton
Kershaw celebrate Saw tonight. I plan on pitching well, Dave. Okay,
your dead guy. Birthday of the day is British News.
It's time for PMS, British News, United Kingdom, English News.
It's time for British News. Cheerio straight Matt. We will
(29:30):
celebrate today from Cornwall, England. And you know we love
the Cornish Matt.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
We have long been supportive of the corner.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
They can't say we don't for sure love their hens.
I like when the hens are of a certain type
of competition, a game hen, so's me. Sir William Golding,
son of a science teacher, went to his dad's school
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where his dad was the science teacher, went to Oxford
to study science, and then got out of the science
and got into English and literature. He became an English teacher.
It's interesting if people are interested in his work. He
kept a journal his entire life. He wrote millions and
millions and millions of words in this journal about his life,
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and a lot of it is about his inspiration for
certain things and how he came about writing the stuff
he wrote. One passage in his journal was about him
as a teacher setting up his students in two groups
in a middle school to fight each other, which became
the promise for his book about prepubescent British boys stranded
(30:46):
on an uninhabited island. Yes, his debut novel and most popular,
The Lord of the Fly.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Oh cases, just bouncing in the studio right now.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I mean he did hold up a gigantic conk shell
and start screaming, shirtless and painted his face. But other
than that, Matt, you're a ten man piggy And I
was nineteen fifty four, and after that he had a
prolific writing career. But for here, for those of us here,
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it's really The Lord of the Flies, although he had
like a dozen other works of fiction, some nonfiction, some
poetry in there. He won the Booker Prize for Rights
of Passage, which was his first novel in what became
called the Sea Trilogy, and all three of the trilogy
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won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in nineteen eighty three.
So it's about like nineteenth century sailing around to Australia
and stuff like that. But those books were very popular
and very held in the Times, which much much like
The Open in the UK is the London Times, but
(32:08):
just known as the Time. The Times, Yeah, listed him
in every book or in every book listing of British
authors they've ever done, as the number three most popular
British author of all time and best Yeah, but would
have been one hundred and fourteen years old. A terrible
a family man, but a terrible binge drinker, a lot
(32:32):
of rufeful problems with alcohol. Sir William Golding, the writer
of Lord of the Flies. You wonder what it would
have been like if all the guys from your middle
school got dropped in the middle of nowhere like that
show Yellowjackets. All you have to do is read Lord
of the Flies. Golding has already done the research.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I think everybody that read I read it in eighth grade,
and I do feel like that is exactly what everyone
did right. You tried to fait, okay, who's Piggy, Who's Ralph?
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Who am I? As a young asthmatic I did not
have to go far to find my character Matt in
The Lord of the Fly. You're a live guy.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Nile Gregory Rogers Junior, one of the greatest songwriters, one
of the greatest producers of the last fifty years, and
one of the driving forces behind one of the most
popular tracks of the last quarter century. I'm gonna let
this run for two minutes and then we'll do a
quick bio because it is fascinating. There are a million
Instagram videos and YouTube videos of Nile Rogers talking about
(33:35):
how he writes music. And this is Nile Rogers on
his studio session with Daft Punk when they brought him
in to play guitar on Get Lucky, and he wrote
all of his parts. They just kind of give him
pieces of the song and then they say, you do
what you do, Nile, and it starts with him sharing
the first question that Daft Punk had for him when
he arrived, did.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
You guys make cheat records?
Speaker 10 (33:57):
And this was the perfect song to demonstrate to them
how we did it. We take the basic harmony and
then I come up with a part that's very simple,
(34:27):
but that's not what I play on the record. I
play something more like and to get the Sheikh recorded sound,
(34:51):
I always have that counterpart going next to.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
Which marries to it. So I play.
Speaker 10 (35:22):
So that allows me to groove and jam and I
feel free and play free.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
It also allows me to accompany the other guy.
Speaker 10 (35:30):
It's like having two guitar players in the band that
know what each other is doing. So the end result
comes out of is get lucky, and when I have
to play it on stage, what I do is I
do a hybrid of both parts, so I'll play.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Incredible.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Nile rogers So born on the Lower East Side of
the Big Town and he grew up a single family home.
His dad pretty much wasn't around ditched the family I
grew up with. Mom played percussion, guitar, flute, clarinet, played
with African Persian Latin jazz booloo bands. He was the
Lower Manhattan branch leader of the Black Panther Party. He
(36:28):
formed Chic in nineteen seventy. In between This one, Good Times, Lafreak,
I Want Your Love and Everybody Dance, they wrote some
of the most iconic songs of the nineteen seventies, just incredible.
And then beyond all of that and all the daft
punk stuff, which is really cool that kind of brought
him back into the spotlight is all of his production credits.
(36:52):
He produced and co wrote the album Like a Virgin
with Madonna, one of the biggest selling releases of all
time million copies.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
We all know she wasn't no virgin.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
No, and she really wanted a piece of Nile. As
he has told that story as well, and he was like, no,
thank you, but no. He is in every music related
Hall of Fame BMI Songwriters, Rock and Roll, National Academy
of Recording Arts, Grammy Hall of Fame, a star amongst stars,
one of the greatest guitars, greatest producers, songwriters of all time.
(37:25):
And he is seventy three today.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Nile Rogers, Clayton Kershaw's getting pitch tonight. Tim Kats is
taking over please podcast our show. I thought we had
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Speaker 5 (37:48):
Good.
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Sure bot thus far, enjoy the football this week, then,
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final regular season start at Dodger Stadium for Clayton Kershaw
announced his retirement yesterday. You'll hear it all from the
Galpin Motors broadcast booth. They first pitch at seven to
ten pm. Dodgers on deck. Going to be a hell
of a Clayton Kershaw celebration that starts one hour from now.
And the Dodgers, I guess, not necessarily born importantly, but
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to the on the field situation, have got that three
game lead now over the Padres as they lost to
the Mets yesterday, dropped two to three to the New
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want to stay home, listen to or watch or watch
and listen to the Clayton Kershaw start tonight.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Like an FDR fireside chat, Come on.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Right, where were you? Which means you could be ordering
some pizza to be delivered to the house instead of
cooking and taking your eyes off the screen, or going
out for dinner and having to try to find the game.
Did you know prior to Dominoes, a lot of places
still use this method. By the way, takeout pizza predominantly
came on a cardboard base under the pizza inserted into
(02:53):
a paper sleeve that was stapled shut. In the early
nineteen sixties, Dominoes, yes, that Domino's Pizza was the pizza
joint that developed the modern pizza box created with corrugated cardboard.
They never patented it, so that's why it became the
(03:13):
industry standard and not Dominoes and Dominoes alone.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Oh see, because I know for a fact that like
the microwave pizza came from a place called Dejoorno, Italy,
and then they also early placed with the microwave pizza.
A lot of people don't know this. Tim Kates went
there with Joe McDonald Tombstone. They'd cook the microwave pizza
and then they go have a gunfight and they get
(03:39):
buried up at boot Hill. All right, it's time for
CRIICKETSMS crickets.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I'll make it quick, y'all.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yeah. The Dodgers are eighty six and sixty seven on
the season. The House the San Francisco Giants tonight played
in Curshaw Megan his final regular season started Roger Stadium
here is Kershaw. Yesterday at his press conference, when chided
by our own David Vasse about his final start, anticipating
tomorrow night, making your final old great rest.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Season, scientistic pitching, good, Dave, all right, I mean this
is not you know, this is this game matters, you know,
for both teams where everybody's still in it. We got
to win these games. So it's good to get this
out of the way today. And you know it'll be heightened,
I'm sure, but I got a job to do, so
I need to go out there and do my job,
and thankfully I'll have that to distract me for sure.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Hall of famer and one of Matt's countrymen, Sandy kofax
Oh more on Sandy. In the next segment, he spoke
to Sports Illustrated about Clayton Kershaw as great of a
pitcher as he is or was or whatever the timing is. Now,
that's as great a person as he is. He's one
(04:53):
of these people who your teammates want to win for
and that they think they're going to win because of you,
and that to tribute to him as a human being,
look at that.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
See beautiful, Sandy, way to put it in perspective. He's fantastic.
He's a better guy, he's a great teammate. He's an
exceptional human being. This man is more than a large,
long armed human that can throw a spherical object north
(05:26):
of ninety miles an hour and make it move in
wild direct.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yeah, but if he couldn't, nobody would care. And Sandy
Kofak is probably gonna be there tonight. I mean if
he's gonna say, give a quote a sas Assa. Right,
The Chargers are two and oh. They're at home versus
the bron Keito's on Sunday. They're looking to go three
and oh to start the season for the first time
since twenty oh two. Justin Herbert love Bird with Madison Beer.
(05:52):
Happy to be helped finally.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
You know, we always enjoy playing and so far we have,
you know, such a great fan base and definitely a
great environment to play in, and we're definitely looking forward
to it. But I think it's been great the past
couple of weeks to go play and you know, it's
challenges opportunities for us to go play on the road
and to be the team that we want to be.
We need to go play and win games like that,
but to stay at home and limit some of the travel,
(06:17):
it's always good for us.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
They're exactly right. Oh gosh, I just wanted to add
that we'd love to hear them talk. Wanted to add
that that's exactly right. I figured you'd had something to
It was great.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
To be on the road, but it is good to
be at home.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
And you know who's hitting the road, the Goats, the
Rams two and zero in Philly on Sunday to take
on the Eagles. It's not going to be so easy,
is at Rams. So rematch of the NFC Divisional Round
game last year, rematch which the Eagles won by going
off sides.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It wasn't odd finish that fourth down throw, Remember from
Matthew Stafford, who can forget it? That would have won
them the divisional round. But it wasn't anywhere near the receiver,
So I don't quite know how it would have won
them the divisional when it's not like it was, you know,
Mark Andrews dropping the two points, like just really close.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah. Yeah, It's just kind of a weird sort of
position to take, if you want to know about it.
There's a certain podcast. The Washington Commanders quarterback jayde and
Daniels been ruled out for Sunday's matchup against the Las
Vegas Raiders due to a knee injury. Coach Dan Quinn
announced Friday, Vetaano Marcus Mariota we'll get the start in
(07:25):
place of Daniels. That's two great human beings, one playing
quarterback for the other, I believe with an overbearing mother.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yes, Mario to former Raider right Kates.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yeah, a year and a half falcon. Yeah, Mariota is
a really great guy. By the way. I don't know
if you're being funny or not, but like I'm not,
he's a really good dude. I watched that Netflix show
about it. Hey, you know what, Hey, don't get all
puffed up with me, Puffy. I like this guy.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
He's a good dude.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
All right, fine, Mariota guy, she's a nice girl.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
You know, you get all flippant with it talking trying
to pair him up with Jayden Daniels and his overbearing mother.
Jadan's great when it comes to his dating life, Mario.
It is a great guy, exceptional human. Like Sandy Kofax
describe Clayton Kershaw, That's how Tim Kates would describe Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
One of my favorites. Fran Brown and Syracuse Syracuse used
to be Greece as well. On the island of Sicily,
Syracuse head coach fran Brown offering a warrant the Real
New Jersey principal Joe Clark. Fran Brown offering a warning
to coaches and programs trying to poach his players illegally.
(08:38):
Here he is on the I Am Athlete podcast. I
don't care broo. Nah's like, dudees be trying to push
up on my wife.
Speaker 8 (08:46):
She bet right right, So it's like, I mean, I
ain't she don't even got to tell me.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, It's like, man, I just know who not to
talk to.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
And she's like, man, this guy it's just it's just
the game, right, that's what they do for me.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I don't care, but like, don't don't.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Let me find out. And then I see this ain't
no bitch right.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Excuse my language, but you take it that personal.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
If like a school comes in and gets.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
A guy, if they if they came and they did
it illegally and I find out, I'm not gonna go
tell on you, but like I'm gonna come at you,
like what's up, Like we'ma see you.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Right.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
There's a couple of dudes I called and they tried
to hey, lose my lawn. You been like shut up,
shut up. But I wanted, like, yo, we in college,
y'all stop. Ain't no, I ain't no anxious anxious in this.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
But you all got the principals though. Principles is right,
and I think of one principle that Fran Brown is exactly.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Like, I'm on all the white students to stand up.
All my white students stand up right now, stand up.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Come on, all my white students.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Stangn up, stign up.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I said, come on, stand up.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
These are my white children, and they're the same as
all of you. They've got no place to go. If
they had, they would have abandoned us a long time
ago like everybody else did. But they couldn't. So here
they are at east Side High just like the rest
of us.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
You can sit down.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You can sit down. Ain't no bids, no bids.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
You can sit down.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Coming after my wife. You know, Matt, Steve Bablo, he's the.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Best bank records. He is not letting up. No this
this is his cause, celeb and he is making sure
that Steve Balmer and the Clippers are going down, and
he is trying to take the entire NBA with them.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
He now has bank going down to Chinatown.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Bank records showing investments made by the Clippers and Aspiration,
the company who gave Clippers star Kawhi Leonard a no
show job worth at at least twenty eight million dollars
in exchange for carbon credits. The investments were made just
before and on the exact dates that Leonard received payments
(11:13):
from Aspiration. The total value of Clipper investments and Aspiration
now stands at one hundred and eighteen million dollars, and
that money came at a time when nobody else was
investing in the company, which is exactly what Mark Cuban
told Tory might have happened if Balmer and the Clippers
(11:33):
were doing something shady with the company. He did an
appearance on a previous pod that Poblotory was hosting and
just kind of said, Wow, as a billionaire, this is
kind of how these things would work, So this is
what you would want to track down. Poblotory continues to
find things about this awkward and interesting relationship between Leonard Balmer,
the Clips, and the now bankrupt Aspiration. The leap is
(11:59):
the Clippers circumvented the NBA salary cap by funneling extra
money to Kawhi Leonard with that endorsement in twenty twenty three,
Balmer and the team invested gave one hundred and eighteen
million dollars total, including the twenty one million just before
Leonard's first seven million dollar quarterly payment from them an investor.
As an insider, the claim was cap EVAs I to
(12:22):
say no. Mark Cuban, now we know is the guy
who tipped off, and he is no longer the owner
of the Mavericks. He was bought out, but he's the
guy that tipped off. Reporter Pablo Torre, who uncovered all
the details the sources, the docks, and as we said,
if Minnesota got docked, I think it was maybe two
(12:44):
or three first round picks and millions of dollars for
just doing a handshake deal with Joe Smith outside of
the rules of the salary cap and free agency.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Nothing's going to happen. And you know it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
This is a SMU style death penalty. Well that would
be no, he's worth too much money. I think the
All Star Game is coming there this year.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Too big to fail. All right, let's do it. Let's
give away that pair for tomorrow. To get that Clayton
Kershaw bobblehead and watch Tyler Glass now pitch against the
Giants collar number five at eight six, six, nine eighty seven,
two five seventy. We got Dodger tickets. We've been giving
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for the Top Story of the Day, George. Top story
from the Voice of the.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Boots and the Voice of the City is what our
top Story of the Day centers around. Bill Plashki does
hell of a job. He's the best sports columnist in
the nation. He's a dear friend of the show. He
writes thought provoking pieces. Damn there every single day and
today was no different. But I would submit in the
(14:52):
Top Story of the Day today. He could have taken
the opposite approach. Still got the clicks, u H. Still
stirred the conversation all all, and I think and look,
it would have been I think considerably more effective than
the declaration that he posted. And he's probably right. And look,
(15:15):
a columnist's story is one man's opinion or woman's opinion,
depending on the columnist and the city. So who really cares?
But I think someone has respected as Bill could have
maybe done a great service to the sports fan to
introduce a little nuance to an otherwise tiring if you
(15:38):
want to call it that, or dominating if you want
to acknowledge that, it really is the number one thing
that drives these sports talking heads shows that have devolved
into a this or that, argue to the death programming
(15:59):
that really is all we have anymore?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Well, Matt, will you say something like that? You know
it's the non player. No, you're right, something that involves
further than the talking hands guys, the best guys, the best, Yes,
who's the Rogan and Rodney took calls today on who's
the best Dodger of all time?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And that is what Bill posted, that Clayton Kershaw is
the greatest Dodger ever. And come you can make the case,
of course you can. You got longevity, you've got production,
you've got hardware, championships, best player in all of baseball?
On one occasion, which is not easy to accomplish as
(16:42):
a pitcher, to win the m v P. So it's
all there off the field. You heard the guy get
the question in there. Hey, let's talk about the Kershaw
Challenge man, the Foundation and those millions that they have
raised for the less fortunate. It was so impactful that
we know Clayton's wife by name Ellen. How many we did.
(17:04):
There are not many players that have such an impact
on the city of Los Angeles that you know and
can visualize in your mind's eye their wife and their family.
And to show up as a nineteen year old, babyfaced teenager,
perform to the insane expect insane expectations that were placed
(17:24):
on him when he arrived, and then well beyond that
is even more incredible. And then to do it while
raising a family with I believe the word that was
used yesterday was grace and beauty is pretty rare. And
you can acknowledge all of that while also recognizing and
introducing the conversation that this is an organization with some
(17:48):
of the most important players in baseball history.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
If you were going to bring Bill a bottle of wine,
like an expensive one, right, would it be the present
because he's a prisoner at the moment.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Perhaps And listen, look it starts with Jackie Robinson. Bill's
column was the greatest Los Angeles Dodger of all time,
so obviously he recognized that that's what we're talking about,
the Los Angeles Dodgers. Jackie never played here, but Don
Drysdale did all but his first two seasons, and he
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won three World Series titles, and Sandy Kofax did and
is often cited as just from a dominance and stuff
that hitters could not hit. Standpoint, he is the greatest
pitcher in the history of the league. He won three
Cy Youngs and an MVP over a four year span
(18:44):
when he abruptly retired at thirty after winning two back
to back cy Youngs in back to back years where
he went fifty three and seventeen with a sub to
era over a come bind three hundred and fifty nine innings.
In the half decade between sixty two and sixty six,
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he put together what is arguably, if not absolutely, the
greatest stretch by a pitcher in the history of baseball.
He led the National League in every single one of
those seasons in innings in complete games, in shutouts in
strikeouts in Whip. The Dodgers went to three World Series
(19:30):
in those five years and won two championships. In nineteen
sixty five, Sandy kofex through twenty four innings in the
World Series, and that included six in his first start
and back to back complete games in Game five and
three days later Game seven. And if you introduced nuance,
you can have that conversation of how fortunate the city
(19:53):
of Los Angeles is to have this franchise with all
of these players that meant so much in their window
of time. And because sports is unforgiving to some, and
because injury or mental anguish can sap a player from
his superpowers, they all don't get eighteen years. And by
(20:16):
no means is this something to cast anything other than
a spotlight, a celebration and acknowledgment of the most one
of the most incredible runs in the history of baseball
as Kershaw will make his last start in the regular
season and maybe his last start ever as a Dodger
and someone who should be considered and probably would be
(20:38):
most people's name that they would say is the greatest
Dodger ever. But like to me, it's just just point
out that that's the company he's in that he gets
to share it with Don Drysdale with if you want
to go the Dodgers, you know, organization as a whole,
Don Newcomb and Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson and
(20:58):
all of those, but Willie Dave, all the players that
just pop into your mind depending on how old you are.
And that's the other thing is you know, it's kind
of like, uh, it's kind of like music and whatever
music hit you in that particular window of your life
when you could be most impacted by music.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
You're saying, Kershaw is like ABBA to to Bill Plashki Kershaw.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
See now, yes, yeah, well I would think for for Bill,
his abba would be in the era of well yeah, well.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I mean if he says his favors his favorite best
Dodger ever, it's his abbas would your dad complicate it?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Know what I'm getting at is like your dad wouldn't
say that Kershaw's the greatest Dodger ever. He would probably
lean into somebody that was really really good when he
was young.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
James Atman, that's very true.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You know, your favorite Dodger is probably gonna be so
I would assume, And who knows but you know someone
in the Fernando.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Jerry, Tim Belchier, Jerry exactly. You get my point.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
So it's like it's not as simple as hey, look
at look at this list. Look at Clayton Kershaw twenty
eleven through twenty fourteen led the league in era for
the five years war three of the five years, complete games, twice,
strikeouts three times three, just like Kofax, three Cy Youngs
and one MVP in a five year run. It was
(22:29):
a ridiculous run. Eighteen seasons as a pitcher.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Tell him who your favorite is, Matt, Minnie Gris, Mark
Krish Klani.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
No, I mean you know, oh, you know what I
found out a couple of years ago. It's Sean Green.
And it's not even close.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Come on, because you're a quarter Jewish, that's exactly right.
We all relate to something. What about Kofax? Matt, I mean, hey,
live when he when he when he he throws a
gnarly spinning star of David in there. Yes he does.
But unfortunately I was not alive to see.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I was alive to see Sean Green and all those
home runs and I and it spoke to me.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
You didn't know why at the time, I didn't know
why at the time, because you never really identified as
a Jewish man. Ever.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Over those eighteen seasons and that ridiculous run, he never
Clayton Kershawn never, never, ever. He had an ERA over
four twice his rookie year four two six and last
year when he was beat up all year only thirty
innings four five zero. He only had three season. That's
that's three seasons over a three ra So out of
(23:42):
eighteen years, a guy that would log hundreds of innings
every single season had a sub three ERA in fourteen thirteen.
I'm sorry, thirteen of those eighteen years. It's a hell
of a run. And there is nothing wrong with saying
that Clayton Kershaw is the greatest Dodger ever, but to
(24:03):
proclaim it as as an untouchable as well. Look at
the stats, look at the longevity. Look at this run
the Dodgers have been on since twenty thirteen, and they're
likely to extend it, you know, this year again, which
will be what twelve Division titles in thirteen years, hopefully
(24:24):
another trip to the World Series which would make it five,
and hopefully another win which would make it three over
that span with Kershaw as one of, if not their
most impactful player.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
It's nothing wrong with being one of the greatest Dodgers
of all That's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Can we just do the he is in the pantheon
if you want to do the dumb sports radio mount round,
all right, I won't.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I won't say it. You can get you know it
two twenty twenty two, Red blend the Prisoner for thirty
nine to ninety nine and drop it off over it Bills.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Every goo will take that the bill and we're going
to drink it. You're prisoner of the moment, Bill, A
spirited debate and you know who else is going to
show up with us, b ron say, because the fact
that he's not in these conversations more is a damn shame.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
I can't believe I'm not in the conversation. Damn shame. Hey,
Ron Harvey, what do you think about Steve Garvey going
to the Hall of Fame? Garvey? What about me? The Penguin?
What about me?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Truly went the great moment in the history of the Petrols.
I went to seven straight All Star Game?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Yeah, what okay? What do you ever do for us? Sorry?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Ron?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Hey, Hey, he was right, that's see that's that's what
the byeline should have been. Clayton Kershaw retires as the
greatest Dodger ever, just barely edging out Ron Say, and
that then could stir some debates.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Sliding right past the penguin on the glacier of greatness.
Exactly right. All right, We'll be back with more great
sports talk, Dad and I'll Guy burnt day and the day,
and then we'll wrap it up and get you to
the big game tonight.
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Thank you for listening, everybody. On a Frogman Friday, the
Petros and Money Show, saying good night, thank you for
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Speaker 2 (26:53):
No doubt it is the last, It could be the last.
Start We keep saying last regular seasons start, you want.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
To say, but you know, you know, we all know
the ridings on the wall, even though it's an invisible ink.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
So you know, big, big cause for celebration, A huge
opportunity for Dodger fans in town to be at that ballpark.
So proud we could give away all of those tickets
yesterday on the show. If you are your home of
the Dodgers, and tonight history will be made. If you
don't have a way to watch the game on Apple TV,
remember it. You can listen to it, and you can
(27:27):
listen to it on the radio AM five seventy on
the AM band, or if you're not near a radio
and you're stuck at work or something along those lines,
listen to it on the iHeartRadio app. If you're in
the Greater LA area, you have access to Dodger games
through your smart device if you have a signal and
the AM five to seventy LA Sports tab, So be
sure to tune in. And you know what, even if
you're gonna watch it on Apple, at least turn the
(27:49):
volume down and pot up the radio broadcast so you're
not listening to that particular broadcast. Teams there is well,
the Dazzler will be working. The Dazzler's working, but and
he's very excited to do this game from what I understand.
But there is already for those of us that have
(28:09):
Apple TV, there is already a panel or whatever you
would call it, Matt, Yeah, tab at the bottom as.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
That you can listen. You don't have to doctor your
radio with your phone iHeartRadio app and doctor that and
time it up. You can just do it. They time
it up for you, those very innovative Silicon Valley types.
So we've got that going for us. We also have
great football all week in Long Michigan, Nebraska Tomorrow at
(28:41):
twelve thirty on that one Cats No, I've got Indiana
Illinois later on the Border War, look at that Hoosiers
versus the ALIONI two top twenty teams. And Sunday if
you want to listen to the Voice of the Bolts
and Daniel Jeremiah and Shennon Farrin versus Broncos kickoff at
one oh five on KFI AM six forty, and don't
(29:05):
forget the Dodgers all weekend Long and a big Clayton
Kershaw celebrate Saw tonight. I plan on pitching well, Dave. Okay,
your dead guy. Birthday of the day is British News.
It's time for PMS, British News, United Kingdom, English News.
It's time for British News. Cheerio straight Matt. We will
(29:30):
celebrate today from Cornwall, England. And you know we love
the Cornish Matt.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
We have long been supportive of the corner.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
They can't say we don't for sure love their hens.
I like when the hens are of a certain type
of competition, a game hen, so's me. Sir William Golding,
son of a science teacher, went to his dad's school
(30:02):
where his dad was the science teacher, went to Oxford
to study science, and then got out of the science
and got into English and literature. He became an English teacher.
It's interesting if people are interested in his work. He
kept a journal his entire life. He wrote millions and
millions and millions of words in this journal about his life,
(30:24):
and a lot of it is about his inspiration for
certain things and how he came about writing the stuff
he wrote. One passage in his journal was about him
as a teacher setting up his students in two groups
in a middle school to fight each other, which became
the promise for his book about prepubescent British boys stranded
(30:46):
on an uninhabited island. Yes, his debut novel and most popular,
The Lord of the Fly.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Oh cases, just bouncing in the studio right now.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I mean he did hold up a gigantic conk shell
and start screaming, shirtless and painted his face. But other
than that, Matt, you're a ten man piggy And I
was nineteen fifty four, and after that he had a
prolific writing career. But for here, for those of us here,
(31:25):
it's really The Lord of the Flies, although he had
like a dozen other works of fiction, some nonfiction, some
poetry in there. He won the Booker Prize for Rights
of Passage, which was his first novel in what became
called the Sea Trilogy, and all three of the trilogy
(31:47):
won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in nineteen eighty three.
So it's about like nineteenth century sailing around to Australia
and stuff like that. But those books were very popular
and very held in the Times, which much much like
The Open in the UK is the London Times, but
(32:08):
just known as the Time. The Times, Yeah, listed him
in every book or in every book listing of British
authors they've ever done, as the number three most popular
British author of all time and best Yeah, but would
have been one hundred and fourteen years old. A terrible
a family man, but a terrible binge drinker, a lot
(32:32):
of rufeful problems with alcohol. Sir William Golding, the writer
of Lord of the Flies. You wonder what it would
have been like if all the guys from your middle
school got dropped in the middle of nowhere like that
show Yellowjackets. All you have to do is read Lord
of the Flies. Golding has already done the research.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I think everybody that read I read it in eighth grade,
and I do feel like that is exactly what everyone
did right. You tried to fait, okay, who's Piggy, Who's Ralph?
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Who am I? As a young asthmatic I did not
have to go far to find my character Matt in
The Lord of the Fly. You're a live guy.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Nile Gregory Rogers Junior, one of the greatest songwriters, one
of the greatest producers of the last fifty years, and
one of the driving forces behind one of the most
popular tracks of the last quarter century. I'm gonna let
this run for two minutes and then we'll do a
quick bio because it is fascinating. There are a million
Instagram videos and YouTube videos of Nile Rogers talking about
(33:35):
how he writes music. And this is Nile Rogers on
his studio session with Daft Punk when they brought him
in to play guitar on Get Lucky, and he wrote
all of his parts. They just kind of give him
pieces of the song and then they say, you do
what you do, Nile, and it starts with him sharing
the first question that Daft Punk had for him when
he arrived, did.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
You guys make cheat records?
Speaker 10 (33:57):
And this was the perfect song to demonstrate to them
how we did it. We take the basic harmony and
then I come up with a part that's very simple,
(34:27):
but that's not what I play on the record. I
play something more like and to get the Sheikh recorded sound,
(34:51):
I always have that counterpart going next to.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
Which marries to it. So I play.
Speaker 10 (35:22):
So that allows me to groove and jam and I
feel free and play free.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
It also allows me to accompany the other guy.
Speaker 10 (35:30):
It's like having two guitar players in the band that
know what each other is doing. So the end result
comes out of is get lucky, and when I have
to play it on stage, what I do is I
do a hybrid of both parts, so I'll play.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Incredible.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Nile rogers So born on the Lower East Side of
the Big Town and he grew up a single family home.
His dad pretty much wasn't around ditched the family I
grew up with. Mom played percussion, guitar, flute, clarinet, played
with African Persian Latin jazz booloo bands. He was the
Lower Manhattan branch leader of the Black Panther Party. He
(36:28):
formed Chic in nineteen seventy. In between This one, Good Times, Lafreak,
I Want Your Love and Everybody Dance, they wrote some
of the most iconic songs of the nineteen seventies, just incredible.
And then beyond all of that and all the daft
punk stuff, which is really cool that kind of brought
him back into the spotlight is all of his production credits.
(36:52):
He produced and co wrote the album Like a Virgin
with Madonna, one of the biggest selling releases of all
time million copies.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
We all know she wasn't no virgin.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
No, and she really wanted a piece of Nile. As
he has told that story as well, and he was like, no,
thank you, but no. He is in every music related
Hall of Fame BMI Songwriters, Rock and Roll, National Academy
of Recording Arts, Grammy Hall of Fame, a star amongst stars,
one of the greatest guitars, greatest producers, songwriters of all time.
(37:25):
And he is seventy three today.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Nile Rogers, Clayton Kershaw's getting pitch tonight. Tim Kats is
taking over please podcast our show. I thought we had
a great week of shows. We went to the desert
and then we came back.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Good.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Sure bot thus far, enjoy the football this week, then,
and the baseball on seventy We'll be back on Monday.
Chapters con secret at two o'clock. Flex A larned for
(38:09):
football on Monday.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
We'll tell me back on tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (38:16):
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