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is and you know, we have those field suites, so
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Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, Dodgers in Philly in the NLDS Game one on
Saturday in Philly. Earlier in Philly, shoe El Tani met
the media with his translator Will the thrill and hearing it?

Speaker 7 (05:32):
What do you think is just going through the emotions
of you taking the mound tomorrow for your first time in.

Speaker 8 (05:36):
The POSTSEASONSI I'm just really looking forward to it.

Speaker 9 (05:42):
Sure, hey, you've been in this environment before. People talk
about being intimidated or the stage being too big for
other players, But in your case, do you actually live
for these type of moments, being in these hostile environments
to perform at your best?

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Must get on.

Speaker 8 (06:21):
I'm sure I'll be nervous, nervous at times, but more
than that, I'm just really grateful that I get to
play baseball, and you know, at this time of the year,
and you know, just be healthy is really important to me,
So I'm just grateful for for that.

Speaker 10 (06:37):
Sure, Hey, how important was that start you had against
the Phillies a couple of weeks ago, just in terms
of being able to be that good against a team
that's that talented? And was that like the first time
you really felt like you had moved out of the
rehab phase of your pitching progression this year.

Speaker 8 (06:59):
That's about Jimny, not today about Yeah, I'm very glad
that I was able to end the rehab progression at
that moment, and specifically about the postseason and facing the Phillies.

(07:24):
You know, they're a really good team. With that being said,
we're coming up through the wild card side, so we're
in a position to be the challenger.

Speaker 11 (07:33):
So Hey, Jason Dumas six ABC here in Philadelphia, what
do you know about the Philadelphia fan base if if anything,
and what are you expecting out of the atmosphere tomorrow?
I'm gonnaccuse you when you have it's about us.

Speaker 8 (07:58):
They're known to be very past fans. The atmosphere I'm
sure is going to be passionate and rocking as well.
And one thing I do know is that they say
really good Phillies cheese steak at the clubhouse.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Some highlights from that. Shoe Hay says he'll be a
little nervous but excited about making his first pitching performance
in the postseason. Shoe Hey when asked about what he
knows about Philly fans. They're very passionate, he said, and
also that he loves the cheese steaks they serve in
the visiting clubhouse.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
I think that's pretty right down the middle, right, pardon
the pun. Yes, the Philly fans are passionate right.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Right there, man. I mean, you know what, there's no
bullet board material there.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
No the cheese steaks are good.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Unless you lost the contract for the clubhouse cheese steaks.
You know, maybe hit some Baltimore material. We hear ass
so good. Let's hear it for Roger Dodger manager Dave
Roberts and some of his media time earlier in the
Citizens Bank Ballpark.

Speaker 9 (09:01):
Dave, have you made any determination on what Will Smith's
role will be in this series? Can he catch? Do
you plan on carrying all three catchers?

Speaker 3 (09:11):
Again?

Speaker 12 (09:13):
He's getting better each day.

Speaker 13 (09:16):
He's gonna take a live participate in live batting practice
here shortly, so we'll gather more information, but if it
goes well, we'll carry three catchers and then you know,
as far as availability, not sure yet, but he will

(09:36):
be available to catch. Just trying to you know, be
mindful of haven't caught in a long time, and then
kind of looking at the series and what he could
the capacity he could take on. So those are things
that are kind of going through our heads right now.
But yeah, expecting this live VP to go well, him active,

(09:58):
and then from that point on we'll kind of figure
out from there.

Speaker 9 (10:00):
We've all assumed how you may line up your rotation
in this series, but how do you see Game two
in game three?

Speaker 12 (10:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (10:10):
So I think that you know, we're thinking about Yamamoto
or Snell than Yamamoto, and I think just having the
ability for Glass to be available game one is huge
and then pitch a potential Game four is also huge.

Speaker 12 (10:29):
So that's kind of what we're thinking right now.

Speaker 9 (10:31):
Do you see Kershaw fitting into this series at all?

Speaker 13 (10:34):
Yeah, he's he'll be on the roster and he's going
to be out of the pen and used as such.

Speaker 7 (10:42):
Dave, you've spoke about using Rokie and leverage after the
wild Card series, how you know, would you put him
in a safe situation.

Speaker 12 (10:53):
I would I would.

Speaker 13 (10:55):
I think that the way he's handled himself up to
this point, there's been no signs for me, which I
had assumed that the moment would be too big, and
I have full confidence in whatever leverage role we put
them in.

Speaker 7 (11:12):
Do you think that the way that Roki has risen
to the occasion and kind of adapted to this new
relief role so quickly can kind of spark the rest
of the bullpen in a sense?

Speaker 12 (11:24):
I think so. I think, I hope so.

Speaker 13 (11:28):
I hope it's something that energizes the guys in the pen,
motivates them, because you know, everyone wants innings and opportunities,
and so hopefully with what Roki's done, motivates guys to
go after guys and pitch well and so they can
earn those opportunities as well.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
I would say, also, no bulletin board material there now
just right down the pike.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Matt, You've talked about the Padres in your top story
last hour. A video has merged of Padres players Xander
Bogart's and Jose Iglesias getting in a heated confrontation with
a home played umpire DJ Rayburn as the latter exited
the field through the San Diego Dugout at Wrigley Field,
which is a real baseball stadium, just like Dodger Stadium.

(12:18):
Following the Padres Game three loss to the Cubs on Thursday,
the tension got to the point that Iglesias had to
be held back as Go Cubs Go plays in the background.

Speaker 5 (12:30):
It is an interesting backdrop. You got all the drunk
screaming that stupid song. He's trying to tear the umpire's
head off. The umpire's barking back at him.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
There's some pretty insufferable fan bases, including ours. Yeah. Left,
you got the Cubs hanging around, the Yankees, hanging around,
the Phillies, hanging around the people in Seattle. Get so drunk,
you know, right after first pitch of Game one. I mean,
they can't handle it. Oh come on, dude.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
Here's the thing, Hey, Chicago, what do you say the
Cubs are gonna win to day? They they I guess
because they play it after the wins. Well, the Cubs
have already won. The Cubs are gonna.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Ride well, you know, you're splitting hairs. You know. It's
maybe it's something they play on the way to the
game as they're all day drunk. You know.

Speaker 5 (13:18):
Yeah, it's disaster. Enough with the Eddie Vedder, enough with
the Eddie Vetter.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Well, you don't like us in their facelift.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
I mean looks good. You know, I'm sure he paid
for it. You know that that seems I don't give
away those things work. Yeah, that thing seems like top
shelf work. Lets look like an animal human hybrid.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Tip off the preseason to night versus the Suns in
Palm Desert. No Lebron, no Luca, what are we doing?
Oh god No. The decision to hold a twenty six
year old star was made by Don Chic and the
Lakers performance team, taking into consideration his euro Basket part.
It's like basketball players can't play basketball for five minutes.

Speaker 5 (13:56):
No, he I mean that the euro Basket was like
a month ago.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
They want to keep the long term in mind. Lakers
will also set out Marcus Smart, MAXI Kleeber and I
do Ceio. If you like Brownie, Oh, I do, get
ready and then he's gonna hit some long He's gonna
go out to the sun Rise Country Club and hit
some drive.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
I got the bug, man, I got the bug. Can't
get rid of it. It's so mentally challenging, and you
know me, I love anything that's mentally challenging.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Media kid, I didn't know nothing about it.

Speaker 14 (14:29):
People said, if you ever get into the game and
the bug grab you is over it, and I definitely
have it.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Man.

Speaker 12 (14:35):
I started.

Speaker 14 (14:36):
I literally started playing in July for the first time
in my life, and I love everything about it.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
I think the best thing that I've.

Speaker 14 (14:41):
Gotten out of it, besides like the how competitive and
hard it is and the mental challenge, which I love.
Anything that's mentally challenging I love. But how just you
just get away from the world. You out there on
the green, no phones, no phones. My phone stays in
the cart the whole time. I check it from time
to time. But it's just like I play my music,
come out there with my guys, you out there and

(15:02):
just in the world, and uh, I can lose my
mind into the game of golf.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Media can't find you, Lebron.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Bro.

Speaker 5 (15:09):
Medi media can't find you, Lebron.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Media, media can't find you, Lebron. Jeez, try to keep
it in your pants. Media can't find you.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Lebron.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
Clippers tip off the preseason next Sunday twelve versus the Nuggets. Media,
can't find you Theron, he won't be there. I'm breathless.
Can't Chargers host the commanches on Sunday? Excuse me? The
Commanders at SOFI one five kickoff on AM. Six Raiders

(15:45):
take on the Colts on Sunday ten am kickoff from
Indy tight end Brock Bowers as a knee and Michael
Mayer as a concussion. All are questionable to play.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
I don't know if you remember the jeep Commanchee. It's
like a truck back in the day. Everybody loved that
thing with the big four four tires on it.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
It was no issusu amigol, but it was nice, so
it was no super rude bratt. The Rams lost last
night and overtime to the Niners. Sean mcvayh oyve.

Speaker 15 (16:17):
Out thought about maybe trying to draw him off sides.
I took one, they took the other, and it was
a poor decision by me right there. But you know,
you give the Niners credit. They made enough plays to
be able to win the football game. We had plenty
of chances throughout this game. You know, we stayed in it.
We fought, we battled, But there's a lot of things
that we have to be able to clean up and
a lot of football left. But I'm pretty sick right now.

(16:39):
I'm sick of the spot that I put our group
in to end the game. But hey, these are the
tough beats that you got to be able to learn
from and move forward.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
And that's what we're gonna do.

Speaker 5 (16:47):
There we go. That's right, And Matt Sean McVay ain't
the guy that fumbled at the one yard line.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
The NFL.

Speaker 5 (16:56):
Is going to find some stuff out exposed. Yeah, we're
gonna find some stuff out out. A Supreme Court unanimously
seven zero rejects the NFL's request to rehear its decision
to allow John Grudd's lawsuit against the league to proceed
in public. Gruden sued the league sued Commissioner Goodell in
twenty twenty one, claimed it was a malicious and orchestrated
campaign to destroy his career by leaking his old emails

(17:21):
that included offensive language. The lawsuit was filed shortly after
Gruden resigned as Raiders coach, as he was fired for cause,
meaning he doesn't get his salary. And on top I'm
sure Mark Davis figured something out to try to smooth
that thing over as best as possible. At the same time,
this thing goes to Discovery, and that means you're gonna

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get a lot.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
They're gonna settle with him.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
Yeah, they're going to have to cut a big check
I think to get grudin to forget about this thing.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
All right, I'll forget it.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
Ah.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
Have you seen my son out there working with Colton Miller.
You've seen my son out there. He's assist in strength
coach with the Raiders. Now it's gonna work over there.

Speaker 6 (18:03):
If coach Cruden was smart, what do he do is
he's opening these boxes on social media from all these
schools that sit a.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Box of cash. Oh look who it is? It the
bilvelope from the NFL. Let's open it? Shall we twenty
seven million dollars?

Speaker 5 (18:17):
It's gonna be it's gonna be more than that. Yeah,
this guy, Uh, you want to keep all your secret secret?
How about a hundred million bucks? Each team's chipping in
three girls. Yeah, that's that's it. Hey, each team, you're
on the hook for three mil. We're giving him ninety
six million bucks. We screwed this call of to day. Sorry,
I'm Roger Goodall and I'm an idiot.

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Speaker 16 (20:33):
Dave? Hey, I'm out here at Citizens Bank Park. The
Dodgers are working out for another hour and a half. Again,
I'm actually lifting the morale of the training staff and
the training and the strength staff. Coach Travis Smith is
to my left and one of the legendary coach Travis
Smith of course, and coach Possum Nakajima also is here

(20:56):
as well.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
So, Dave, the trip went smoothly.

Speaker 16 (21:00):
You were out last night oppressed?

Speaker 3 (21:02):
No, Hey, way to go down those guys speech. I
don't know why their morale needs to be lifted. Why
are they upset? Did they not get to go to
that bar with you last night? What's the deal?

Speaker 16 (21:14):
Yeah, exactly, they did not show up. But yeah, Blake
Snell's going to start Game two, that's right. Show Hey,
o Tani is going to start Game one, and Yamamoto,
on a full week of rest, will be pitching Game three,
the first home game for the NLDS and the Dodgers.

Speaker 5 (21:30):
Dave, how much how much if any do you take
away from the regular season meetings between these two. I
know there's some good, there's some not good. You had
the Blake Snell shut out in the final game of
that series, you know, a couple of weeks ago. You
have what looks like in the two starts that that
Sanchez wasn't that great. I didn't remember. It wasn't that
dominant against this team like he was so many others.

Speaker 16 (21:54):
Well, when you look at the just the matchups of
this series, the good news for the Dodger is Blake Snell,
who's going to be pitching Game two, really matches up
well and held down this lineup. And it's all about
the timing of the season, right John Manningly used to
talk about this. Dave Roberts talks about it now. It's
about the timing and when you're catching a team, and

(22:15):
right now, Yamamoto is one of the hottest pitchers and
all of the majors.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
Who's messing with you? Who's messing with you?

Speaker 16 (22:24):
Dave got to seal my microphone. We need you gave
boy toys.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
I got to move away, get away from the Philly
fanatic over there or whatever the hell's happening.

Speaker 16 (22:32):
I will. Yeah, see it's like the Philly fanatic of
the Dodgers. That's right. But really, the matchups of this
of this series I think really favor the Dodgers, and
not a lot of people are talking about how good
the Dodgers are. You read different things about just what
their flaws are and how good the Phillies are. At
some point there's got to be some sort of acknowledgment

(22:53):
of the talent the Dodgers have and how well they've
been playing coming into this series. They've worn seven in
a row coming into the NLDS. I think everybody fails
to recognize that as well.

Speaker 5 (23:05):
Playoff roster for the Ds. Dave, how much Clayton Kershaw
do you think we're going to see?

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (23:12):
Great question, I asked Dave Roberts in the press conference
whether or not Kershaw is indeed going to be part
of the NLDS roster, and he said, yeah, he's going
to be part of the roster, and he's going to
be part of the Dodger bullpen. The other big question
as far as the Dodger roster goes is Will Smith
and his availability. I've been told that there's a very

(23:34):
good chance that Will Smith could start behind the plate
tomorrow night, but it's all contingent on how he comes
out of what the workout looks like tonight, and how
he wakes up tomorrow morning. So Will Smith is going
to be part of the roster, it's just a big
question about whether or not he's going to be able
to catch.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
What did you make of Otani speaking today? It's going
to be his first start in the postseason as a pitcher.
Did it seem any different than he usually is? Do
you think he'll I mean, he's such a machine. Do
you think it'll affect him at all?

Speaker 16 (24:09):
Petros, If there's one guy that I don't believe this
environment will affect is show Heo Tani. I've asked him
on several different occasions about hitting, pitching, pitching somewhere, pitching
at home, first time pitching. He's just really good at
compartmentalizing things, and I think we saw that last year,

(24:29):
you know, with everything that went down in Korea and
just how he completely blocked that out. And he says
he separates the pitcher show, HEO Tani away from the
hitter show, HEO Tani, and he understands what the environment
is going to be like here. But I think also
we have to recognize he's the best player on the planet,

(24:50):
and guys like that don't crumble in these type of settings.
They actually thrive and live for trying to silence the crowd.
And I think that's what we're going to see tomorrow night.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
They've agree with this or not, because you mentioned it
with Snell and just you can kind of see it
when he was talking in the post game how dominant
he was out there. Feel like Game one is absolutely
mandatory for the Phillies to win if they're going to
win this series. Kind of thoughts on that, if Otani
can knock out their cy young candidate and then you

(25:21):
get that ball to Snell on Monday.

Speaker 16 (25:24):
Money Being here in Philadelphia, there's a lot of talk
that this may be the last opportunity for these core
group of Phillies to have a chance to win the
World Series together. If they don't win, there's a likelihood
that Kyle Schwarber is not re signed. There's a lot
of moving parts where this team would look a lot

(25:45):
different next year. So if the Dodgers come in here
and steal game one from the Phillies in a short series,
there's a lot of pressure on the Phillies and I
I'm frankly after just getting the pulse of the city
and being here all day, it would be a very

(26:07):
anxious crowd to start Game two if the Dodgers are
able to steal game one, and I think that's what
the Dodgers are looking at.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
Can you give the listeners an idea of what Schwarber
is like, what kind of player he is if they
haven't seen that much of him, and how you would
compare him to maybe somebody that we know a little
bit better out here, you know, like Otani or another
dominant hitter over the years, you know, Bellinger or something.

Speaker 16 (26:33):
Yeah. I mean I talked to Kevin Long, the Phillies
hitting coach, and Howie Kendrick, who's actually a roving instructor
with the Phillies now, and they just talked about how
Kyle Schwarber since coming to Philadelphia has just changed his
approach at the plate, and that's the reason why he
was able to hit fifty six home runs. He obviously

(26:55):
has a lot of holes and does strike out, but
he's using the bigger part of the field. He's going
to left field more than he ever has in his
career because he kind of something clicked for him in
that respect. But he's a guy that I still think
has more flaws in his game than o'tani does as

(27:15):
a hitter, and the Dodgers have you know, I think
another dynamic and subplot to this series is the fact
that o'tani is probably he's super competitive and probably upset
and resentful over the fact that Kyle Schwarber hit one
more home run than him during the regular season. And
I feel like it's such a unique situation. How you

(27:37):
have one guy that hit fifty five home runs as
the pitcher facing the guy that hit one more fifty six,
and I think he's going to take it personal. And
you know, I don't want to say he's going to
try to embarrass Shoorber to begin the game, but I
think he's going to try to embarrass him with a
couple of different pitches.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
Dave the I think it's safe to say the X factor,
not that you know we would expect any less, but
Tao in that wild Card round and just the two
home runs and the clutch hitting in the game two
after the misque and the first inning. What about this series?
Who are you looking at? I mean, I guess Will
Smith would be an easy one to look at if
he's right. The guy was damn near the batting champ

(28:16):
in the National League. But what player are you kind
of keeping an eye on that you think might be
a good matchup against these Phillies.

Speaker 16 (28:22):
Yeah, I think the Dodgers Andy pa Has he seemed
to be trying to do too much in that a
wildcard series. I think he could be an X factor
in this series. And from the Philly side, Harrison Bader,
who when he got traded to the Phillies hit over
three hundred and has been a big reason why the
Phillies outfield has been so much better since the trade deadline.

(28:46):
So I'm looking if you're looking at two guys that
nobody are not household names in either city, I'm going
to pick the two outfielders Paz and Bader that could
change the way this series outcome plays out.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Do you listen to the streets of Philadelphia on your
headphones when you walk around out there?

Speaker 16 (29:09):
I listened to Atlantic City. See look at that song
off Nebraska.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Hm. Great minds?

Speaker 5 (29:18):
Yeah you called it p I just said, they're not,
you know, the streets of Philadelphia, And Dave's snapping photos
that say Philly after dark, and I'm like, I wonder
if he's just kind of taking it easy and relaxing
and getting deep.

Speaker 16 (29:31):
Into pressing movie. Very Luckily, my health is knock on
wood very good right now. But if my health was ailing,
maybe I would.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
I don't know why. Why would you? I was bruised
and I was bad? Geez? Are you gonna go see
that Springsteen movie? You dork?

Speaker 16 (29:51):
I asked my kids if they would go with me.
They said absolutely not, so I might be that loser
in the movie theater, all alone in the back tramps
like us go see the Superman movie with me? Either?
And I watched that on the way that Philly. I
loved it.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
When are you What are you gonna do? Tonight?

Speaker 16 (30:08):
I got a reservation at one of my favorite Italian
restaurants here in Philadelphia. You go downstairs and there's like
a cave like setting to be able to eat your.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
Dinner like Lesorda would go there.

Speaker 16 (30:23):
Lasorda used to go to this place in South Philly
called the Staloon, cash only restaurant, no taxes.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
All right, Dave, we love you. Have a great time
out there, enjoy yourself and we will talk on Monday.
Have a great weekend, and thank you so much for
all the great, invaluable coverage that you provide. Appreciate it, brother.

Speaker 16 (30:45):
Thank you guys yesterday for opening the show with so
many nice things. I'm not used to that, so I
was waiting for the punchline, but it never came, so
I appreciate it well.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
After that. Today we're bruised in bad I don't get
used to it, all right, bruised in.

Speaker 16 (30:59):
Bed Okay, Thank you, Dave.

Speaker 5 (31:03):
Enjoy Philadelphia, man.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
A real scene set, which is why you needed it twice.
We are your Dodger station and we have to get
you ready for the game tomorrow. Thank you to David
Vasse for all the great coverage. We'll be right back
and wrap up the show with a dead and a
live guy. Birthday of the Day, A big thank you
to Ronnie Fossio at Ronnie Fossio on Twitter. You can
check the playlist at Tim Kats on Twitter. No scam tomorrow,

(31:26):
but he will have college football Dead and Alive coming
up next.

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Speaker 3 (32:01):
Okay mercifully coming to an end with the Dodger game
looming tomorrow, Prove first pitch at three point thirty eight pm.
Pregame starts at two thirty. It's all laid out for us,
Matt like a patient EA theorized on a table.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
Indeed, it is the divisional round is set. It is Dodgers,
Phillies and Cubs versus Brewers. So should the Dodgers advance,
it'll be somebody out of the Central a team that
they had to work through when they went to the
World Series in the past. Should be a hell of
a series. Something you don't want to pay close attention
to especially with shoe Hail Tany making his first ever

(32:39):
playoffs start tomorrow against Christopher Sanchez. Going to be a great,
great series, a great game, and no doubt with all
the stuff Scam's been doing, we're doing here. David Vasse
on Dodger talking, Tim Kates on Dodgers on deck. What
a time to be the home of the World Series
champion Dodgers. My god, it's great to be alive.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
Even Fred and Rodney, you know though.

Speaker 5 (32:59):
Yeah, oh that's right, what friend, Rodney, you're doing those guys.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Too, Sorry, no, don't be Tomorrow Clemson versus North Carolina,
Kates will be on that Tabbo versus Bill All Kates
all the time.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
I'll take my scooter from one studio over to the other.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
And then Sunday we got Chargers Commanders here dog George
in beautiful Los Angeles kick off at one twenty five
on KFI A M six forty. That's Matt, Shannon and
Daniel of course, Matt, your dead guy. Birthday of the
day before we say goodbye to a fruitful week in
great sports talk.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
Jamaican dow Oh you got the pig instead, It's.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Jamaica news seek out ros doing fine. I've only eaten
chicken today. The father the popularity globally of reggae music
is a Chinese guy. It's a story. Well, it's a
story we often tell whether it's him or his son Clive,

(34:07):
or his wife Patty. But he would have been eighty
seven today, Randy Chin, and it really is an amazing story.
Born in Kingston and he died back in two thousand
and three. Chinese guy. His father was a carpenter who
left China and moved to Cuba and permanently settled in

(34:27):
Jamaica in nineteen twenty. In the fifties, teenage Randy Chin
oversaw the stalking and overseeing of jukeboxes in bars around
the island for a businessman who owned a bunch of bars.
He kept the excess and the doubled records and used

(34:56):
them to open Randy's record store. It was just an
early place selling Caribbean records, which was rare, and that
was on East and Tower Street in Kingston. Keeping the
records and having the foresight to do it was the
foundation of his business and the success of reggae. It

(35:18):
turns out all over the world. I mean all your
white guy reggae bands in San Diego have this Chinese
guy to think. He then started recording local artists and
selling local music in Jamaica. That he had early success
with a Calypso singer named Lord Creator, and then a

(35:38):
guy who became a huge reggae star, the song that
tied as high as his John Holt and Alton Ellis.
He moved the store to an old ice cream parlor
on North Parade Street with his wife Patty, and they
built a recording studio up above, and that was the
Studio seventeen, and that took off. That's where where Lee

(36:01):
Scratch Perry recorded, Bob Marley and the Whalers. That's where
Slide Dunbar was discovered. Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown, Johnny Nash,
the guy who saying I can see clearly now, Augustus Pablo,
they all got their start there. His son, Clive Chen
is still going today and the wife, Miss Patty, are

(36:23):
still going today. Because of violence in Jamaica in nineteen
seventy nine, they moved the whole business out of Jamaica
to New York Queens, Jamaica Queens of course, New York,
and they opened VP Records of the V for Vincent
his first name, and P for Patty the wife, and

(36:46):
that is the largest distributor of reggae music on Earth.
They have a vent. Yeah, they acquired Green Sleeves. They
did a deal with Atlantic, a distribution deal, and they
still are number one reggae label in the world. And
it's still run by the Chin family. That is VP

(37:07):
Records all from Randy's Records way back in Jamaica in
the fifties. Randy had diabetes and died in Miami after
leaving New York and retiring there in two thousand and three.
But the Randy's Records really is an amazing story and

(37:28):
continues to this day. But in New York City there you.

Speaker 5 (37:32):
Go, well, we're gonna keep it a music centric p
or a live guy. Chris Collingwood love Fountains of Wing.
It was the final frontier of alternative before the Oscar
the Grouch Rock took over the Lincoln Parks the Limp
Biscuits nineteen ninety five. Fountains of Wayne founded in the

(37:52):
big town. Collingwood from Pottstown, PA, went to Williams College.
That is where he and co founder Adam Slessinger hooked up.
The kind of went through a couple different incarnations before
settling on Fountains of Wayne. The name came thanks to
a lawn ornament store in Wayne, New Jersey that actually
made an appearance in The Sopranos. It was a real

(38:13):
if I remember it well. In ninety five, I was
an intern at Ireland and their demo tape was a
thing of legend. It was a huge bidding war. Atlantic
got them self titled Dating Randy Chin, Two Randy Chin
and Fountains of Way. You tell me which one had
a bigger impact. That debut is awesome. I love radiation

(38:36):
vibes sync to the bottom of this album. Track was
my favorite, Leave the Biker just incredible, bubblegum indie pop.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
It went gold.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
It didn't crush it at radio or MTV, but it
set up what everyone thought was going to be their
next record that was going to send them into the stratosphere.
But being the musicians they are, they zagged Utopia Parkway. Great,
great record. It's very carzy, probably how I would describe it.
Got a track from that that will play here in
a second concept record. Atlantic hated it. They wanted them

(39:07):
to sell millions and millions of records. It wasn't the
follow up they wanted. They were so pissed they dropped them,
and that had a serious effect on our live guy
Birthday to day Collingwood. He kind of fell into the
bottle and sort of went on hiatus from Fountains of Wayne.
Adam was the guy that was writing all the stuff
for like that Thing You Do and Josie and the

(39:28):
Pussycats and all that sort of stuff, but wanted to
kind of pull Chris out of his funk, so he said, hey,
we got this request for a Kink's tribute album, and
again one of their favorite bands. So they did better
things and it was a great cover and that kind
of launched the second chapter of Fountains of Wayne. But
nobody wanted them. Atlantic had dropped them. Other labels were like, yeah,

(39:51):
maybe you can do some more demos. Let's see what
you got. So they scraped together some cash, they found
a studio in upstate New York, and on there they
recorded Welcome Interstate Managers and cobbled together some equipment that
was laying around the studio, and next thing you know,
they released Stacy's Mom and it becomes one of the
biggest Records of the Year, Huge at Alternative, huge at Pop.

(40:16):
It becomes the number one video with Rachel Hunter Start
still huge on MTV, And it was just basically like
a double middle finger to Atlantic and all the other
record labels that said, hey, do some demos and let's
see what we can do, because they put it out themselves,
they paid for it themselves. Colinwood still wasn't right. He
was on a bender in Tokyo and six Mental Breakdown,

(40:39):
canceled shows, all that sort of stuff, but got himself right.
They put out their fourth and fifth records and seven
in twenty eleven, broke up. In twenty thirteen solo for Chris.
He called it Look Park and then sadly. I'm sure
many people know the story. Adam Slessinger was one of
the famous sort of deaths from COVID. John Prian remember,

(41:03):
died during COVID, but Sleshener was just fifty two years
old and ended up dying in April of twenty twenty.
So the band got back together, did a benefit concert
for his family and raising money for the New Jersey
Pandemic Relief Fund to honor him, and that kind of
got him back together. So they still play, have not
really put on any new music, but they play the

(41:23):
festival circuit and I would assume that's always going to
be pretty kind to them with, you know, a song
as big as Stacy's mom to kind of hang your
hat on. He's married, lives in New England, and again,
not a lot of new music, but the old stuff's
pretty darn great. If you're into that sort of vibe.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
Well you're into the sports talk vibe. I'll bet Fox
Sports Radio coming up next. We appreciate everybody listening, hanging
on all week to every word, every turn of the screw.
We'll be back on Monday this crunch early, so stay tuned.

(42:05):
We'll post the start time on Twitter.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Good betcho said, Monday show, We're told me back on tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
Glass, it's Friday.
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