A Tu Hermano Tuesday (Hour 1) 4/16/24

The guys finally get to the root of the echo with VTB. Who was right, Ronnie or Cates? Secret Textoso Roundup with reaction to VTB. Top Story of the Day on the Lakers play-in game vs New Orleans.

Episode Transcript

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David Vassa will join us in thefour o'clock hour to detail exactly why,
what and how everything has gone sosour so soon. It is a tie
of the lies. Tuesday, though, Pe and we got a big day
ahead of us, s mentda destelmundo, sour so soon, s mentida
so love it, DoD It's bittersweet, Matt, but it's more sweet than

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better. But no, it's beenbeen sweet and that is sweet, but
it's not sweet. It's a lotof bitterness right now. And we'll get
to the bottom of it with Vassayand we'll get to Dodgers on Deck with
Tim Kates. It's not his faultthat they have problems in the bullpen,
holes in the lineup and terrible defensively. That's not Kate's fault. No,

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don't take it out on him onDodger Talk, on Dodgers on Deck,
on the Tim Kates social media feeds, as though he is the one that
has rostered these players, that hasfilled out these lineups, that has made
the calls to the bullpen and askingAlex Vessi to come back out. This
is not what Tim Kates does.He's simply a sounding board and personal attacks

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on him are not. Okay.Yeah, I'm not the guy who's one
for sixteen with runners in the scoringof position. Oh, Tony Son,
whoa shots fired at you, Vicright at your face. Oh, he's
down he's down because we're gonna gotto go through this. First. We
got to do the test. Wegot to get through this first. We
got to raw dog the test.Well, I think people need to know
why the test is happening. Ohthe great anger and consternation that's created whenever

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he joins us. Well, wellyeah, I mean it's a long story.
But first the sponsorship. Matt,certainly he dropped off a bunch of
crates of ice of green tea.Some drinking on ice. I know,
Colin, he has one per game. Well, the caffeine boost from Eto
and Iocha is unlike any other.It's green tea. It's Japan's number one

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green team. We love it,perfect source of caffeine. We all hit
low. Nothing to be ashamed ofthere. We work hard. We're America,
hardworking country. Right. Sometimes you'reburning at both ends. You need
a little pick me up, andthat's what Etho Niota does. Green Can

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Green Bottle available at your local Dizostores, Amazon, or as many people
like to shop these days. Pethe internet, Eto N dot com,
I t O e N dot com. And you know our own Tim Kats
who's found great solace in Eto andoi Ocha green tea because he's a man

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who needs caffeine, and he caffeinedhimself so hard with energy drinks that he
blew out his gall bladder and hadto have it removed. It's true story.
And now that he has found solaceabundance and has held a space of
tranquility in his soul with Eto andoi Ocha, and he is not one

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for or whatever with runners in scoringposition, seed nose Kates hits a home
run every night he does. Look, you want to poison your body with
a bunch of caffeine chemicals that weremixing somebody's bath tub with a canoe paddle?
Yeah, bye bye Walter White,right? Or do you want all

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natural? Do you want eto thinkof the brooks and the streams around Mount
Fuji? Exactly right? You wantto pump your body full of some MDMA
that's been cut with a bunch ofcrystal math? Or you want to just
you know, do nature's way.Well, now we spoke a little planet.

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Now we can't send the spot toEto, and why not? That's
a perfect parallel because you brought upmath. Well md m A. You
know we're playing the Asian music andyou know Vic and we're talking about an
Asian product and we're talking to usabout Otani And I don't know how much

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faith we have in the Lakers againstthe House Nuggets. And you know Vic
is just champing at the bitch.Oh he is. He's been yelling.
He's been yelling into his microphone ifthat's what he uses. Fighting this way
off a hole. But do weset it up or do we bring him
in? I think we have toset it up and discuss, or do
we bring him in for his victtakes first so people can kind of get

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a vibe of what what we're dealingwith here. We should have discussed this
pre show, like so many thingsthat because Vic already said gong me,
he already shared it. Well,we've got that in appearance. But Kate's,
uh, what because I don't know, Matt, because there's there's there
is conflict between Tim and Ronnie inthat other room today, is there not

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starting from yesterday? Yeah? Imean this is a real showdown. These
Neither of these individuals like to bewrong about anything, let alone you know,
an engineering quest question in a worldin which they've been professionals for decades.
You know that they are holding strongpositions on opposite sides of the radio

(06:10):
engineering spectrum that they are expected tohave answers for, Like, this is
something that is elementary, and Idon't want to utimentary. Yeah, I
don't want to upset anybody or gointo a long story. But the truth
is Vic won't leave the house apparentlyallegedly we can't get in there to fix
his mahina. We deal with apretty strong echo when we talk to Vic.

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We try to cover it up withmusic. But it has slowly,
like Chinese water torture, driven meinsane. I wish I could do better.
I want to do better. Andevery few months, Matt, I
guess, because how long has thisbeen. It's been a few years now,

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right, But but it does getbetter and then it gets worse.
But I don't think it ever iscured. We just figure out ways to
mask it in tolerated. It's likeshingles and uh, get your backs.
We every few months, I Ilose it. And yesterday we discussed the
situation and somebody, I don't knowwho, Ronney cracked his mic. Yeah,

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Ronnie. But there was the therewas a test that somebody said,
well, let's just do a test. Well, Ronnie cracked his mic and
said it's the headphones. Tim thenpushed back and said, no, it's
not right. And then that's whenwe said, all right, well we
can we can solve this. Wecan test it out to see if it's
the headphones or not. So didyou come up with the test idea?

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Yes, Okay, so that's whathappened. Uh So Ronnie and Kate's disagree,
and there has been in that roomall day. Kate's believes that it
is related somehow with Vick's bootleg machine. It's a feedback loop, is what
Kate see. We got a lotof disagreements, not only where is it
coming from, Well, what kindof equipment even has? Yeah, and

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then there's all kinds of listeners thathave an engineering background that are chiming in
I can't even tell you on thetextoso and making a hole to do of
it and speaking you say, doyou speak of my language? Speaking all
kinds of weird engineering jive to us. Matt and I don't understand what they're
saying. Oh, they just smiledand give us a bit of their venu

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of my sandwich. That's right.And uh, Ronnie thinks it's purely a
headphone issue. He says he hascorrected it in the past, correct and
that Vic is simply a stubborn muleand he won't and he won't turn it
down right. And if that's thecase, then well then our problems are
solved. Dude. We get theUSB adapter, we buy him some some

(08:43):
MD eighties, and we send himthe studio headphones with a strong seal,
and we're good. Yes, andVic has to agree not to be a
g damn mule anymore. Yes,but I think he's got a headset mic
though. I don't think he's gotjust a stick microphone. I think so
like to play by playtime. Thesad part about this conversation is some people

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are are entertained by it. Othersfind it to be a waste of time.
And the thing that really is upsettingis we do it every six or
eight months. It's like going toIt's like going back to RecA. It's
us. It's like hearing your voiceover and over again in your ear,
bringing it back from a break.You know what I'm saying, Matt,
So what we're going to do?Well, that girl from ESPN freaked out.

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I went f this and just becauseof one echo, just because of
one little echo, And I meanit's a whole segment for us. Imagine
if we just turned off our mics, pulled out our headphones and went at
this and I don't know what gooff. I don't know what Rogan and
Rodney do or how they deal withit. Now. The other issue is
some people on the podcast hear it, some people don't, some people can't

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take it. Some people are relativelyentertained by it. Either way, it
exists for us, and like Isaid, Chinese water torture, it's slowly
driven us in the sane. Sohow are we going to do this test?
I think we just bring him on. Well, there's a fight between
Vic and I mean Ronnie and Kate, yes, So I think we need
to bring him on first and assessbecause Engineer Matt is not here, the

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man that set this whole thing up. And so had I actually been a
responsible host, I would have reachedout to Matt yesterday and said, hey,
what kind of equipment does he havebecause we all have pretty much some
form of the equipment. See,he's either got the comrades that you and
Kate's has have, or he's gotthe Microsoft surface got past road cast or

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that I have, that's what hehas. So if that's what he has,
then I'll be able to walk himthrough it. But and we'll be
able to figure out if he turnshis headphones down, as Ronnie said,
he has had him doing the pastand the echo has gone away, problems
are solved. I just don't feellike we're all I don't feel like we're
all on the same page here.We can't all be on the same page.
Is Ronnie and Kates are in confidence? Which is what makes this really

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that is the centerpiece of this segmentnow, is that we've got two engineers,
two guys that have been doing radiofor a long time in the other
room, a producer and an engineer. Which one of them's right? I
am? I think I think it'sthe headphones and a rare departure from from
Kates. I believe that this tobe the headphone I side with Tim,
Tim Kates and emit the feedback loop. Thank you, Matt, appreciate that.

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And and you are more of anengineer, now, aren't you.
Oh you're an engineer now are you? Aren't you? I just have to
believe that if it were the headphones, we would have had this thing too
too easy, Yeah, way tooeasy. Like the guy that figures out
it was his smoke detector making thatnoise, driving him crazy for five years,
and it's like, yeah, easysolution, But what an idiot you've

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been for five years? Like thatkind of thing. That's my thing is.
It just feels like the headphone answeris way too easy, Like when
I figured out Shop g and HumptyHump were the same guy, right,
and God an idiot? God restboth their souls. What if we we
bring Vig on and let him explainwhat's sitting in front of his lap here
wherever he's sitting inside the zendo,he's gonna sidewalk. Let's just start right

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that he's not going to do that. Start with the equipment, see what
he's got. Kind of go fromthere. Let's go that's not gonna happen.
He's not gonna happen. Vic,you're off hold, there's to go.
God is bad and what so what? We dropped the music out like
we are going raw, This israw live, pull back the curtain.
And usually I don't speak to Vicin my real voice on the radio because

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I hear it back too loud,but now you could hear it. Look
at that? All right? SoVic, what's in front of you?
First off, mad love to youguys. Side step the equipment, the
equipment, Vic and I love thegreen tea segment. Put for God's sake,
Vic, would you get to themeat and potatoes of the matter.

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This? Okay? Here my headso it has a microphone attached to it.
Okay, Hi, So it's asend hi, sir. It's got
the little maroon burgundy stripe on theoutside headphone there, and it's like got
a little flexible action to it witha mic that bends in front of you.
That's what we got. Let mecheck it out looking for a brand

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name, Vic, right the startwith an s sendhi, ser Here we
go. He's checking it out there. M mp ow headsets boot leg.
That is pretty good, p olwDoes it like the fifteen dollars headphones?
You buy it Tar Center? Itsnumber one problem. We don't even have
a paracent high Are you kidding me? These are like fourteen bucks at Walmart

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with a microphone attached. That couldbe it's yeah, it's that is my
That is my headshet is an MPOWsixty five. You said, Vic,
is that what it is? Don'thave a number? Okay? Does it
have two things so you can hearon both ears or what just one?
Like you're at a McDonald's drive through, I have, I have, I

(14:01):
have dual ear. Okay, butwe can all just agree that it's cheap.
Yeah, it's no way now,okay, all right, what's the
next step? And my com rex, my com rex which has been unbelievably
efficient, you know, working,Uh, but I don't I don't relish
the concept that p you know,is is upset over the audio, like

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we can't have that where everyone everyonehas to be comfortable, you know.
And and Serene, Well, I'vejust been trying to solve the problem for
years and no one cares. Now, Vic, do you have a then
the machine? We now know thatyou've got bootleg, cheap ass headphones,
and that's a step in there,that's further than we've never been before.
That's point for Ronnie, that's pointfor headphones. Maybe the sheet they have

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no seal. The sound is bleedingout of the lack of seal around his
ears. Does Kates look worried?Matt he does? Does he start to
like Kate's is googling. He's likehe's shaking his head like, oh no,
these things are a piece of crap. I might be going down here.
Ronnie might be getting a sandwich outof this. Ronnie's got a big
ass s eaton grin on his face. Hey told you, I told you.

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Vic. Do you have a comRex? Is that what you're looking
at? Or is it like acomputer sort of thing? I'm looking at
a com Rex. It's it's calledin quality. I n quality. In
Quality. That is the name ofthe of the com Rex brand. Air.
Where's that fro? All right?Vick? Is it an iPad?

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Do you have an iPad in frontof you? Is that what you don't?
I do not know? Cerquality,USB s IP coder touch. Okay,
now here to the most important part. Is there a volume button for
your headphones on that thing? Letme I have been adjusting it. Let

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me adjust it once again. Holdon, let me turn it like halfway
down. Okay, I have foundVic's machine at USB SIP codec touch.
Yes, three hundred and fifty dollarsmachine. It looks as though you've got
a level for your mic on theleft. How is is I am?
I have been I have been adjustingthe audio levels. Have Is there any

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difference? How is that your helmet? You've been adjusting the levels in your
headset? Did you turn your headsetdown? That's what we want. We
want your headphones to be turned down. The volume in which you are hearing
us, turn it down incredibly lowall the way like, Also, we
don't hear you, echo, Vic, we hear us echo? Okay,
this, I have my audio downto its minimum, and you could hear

(16:37):
us. Still. I hear you, guys much lower, but it is
very very low in my headset.Okay, Vic, I want you to
be back. Do you still hearthe echo? Vic? I want you
to be very quiet. Right now, I am going to speak at a
very high level, and the echohas dissipated much it is. I've been
trying to tell you guys, well, I believe you all alone. Ronnie,

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No, you didn't. You saidyou were with kas. I still
don't believe. I don't understand howthis could happen. The echo is gone,
but now he's breathing, like,is there is there an impact?
Considerable impact? Vic? Wow,there is a considerable impact, so much
impact that if we bring up ourzen music and you stop breathing like Mike

(17:22):
Tyson in round four. We mightwe might have the making. It's still
there. I don't know what youguys are smoking. It's still there.
Oh, there it is. It'sthere now. It's probably he probably turned
it. She just hey, Vic, did you just turn your ears back
up again? Bag? Did youjust turned it? I turned it up
a notch? Yes, this ismaybe not Maybe turn it down. Turn

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it down completely so you can't thing, so you can't hear a thing.
We're trying to assess if we needto buy you new headphones. Vic,
that's what we want. You answeryour phone, Vic, phony phone call.
Okay, this is the best thingever. No echo, echo,
I can't hear you, guys.No echo, no echo, not a

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one. It's a headphone, Ronniehead engineering all over it. Vic.
You're stubborn, is a goddamn youhave taken this to you realize that.
And I've been trying to tell you, guys, you have been, you
have been, but we just refuseto believe that Vic is that stubborn.
We we didn't want to believe youhave. I've been I've been exhausting.
The echoes back, echoes back,because Vic turned it backup because he said

(18:30):
he have to hear it. Icouldn't hear you. Guys. You know
what I'm saying this right now,If we send him a parasit heisers s
Heiser, our troubles are over.I think what we need to figure out
though, here's the is. Yeah, it's the male and the female so
it's not a quarter range. It'sjust a single USB plug in. We
can buy adapters, but he's gotthe mic. That's what we got to

(18:53):
figure out. We need well.Don Martin bought me a mic, right,
so we need well. I'm notin the business of the cow many
chords going your machine just one one. Yeah, it's all on one.
It's it's simple, it's efficient,but there is that sound issue. Absolutely
love to solve that issue. It'sa gaming headset, so Vick might as

(19:15):
well be playing Call of Duty.That's what that is. Pathetic. He
gave me that headset. Vic.The headset has been has been here since.
This is a This is a clearchannel issued headset microphone combo. Yes,
yes, I can't believe our engineeringstaff would give you a cheap ass
little headset that sounds to be looksto be the case. Ten dollar headset

(19:37):
in ez. Ronnie, easy,Ronnie. So if you had a Ronnie
just won a big victory he's got. I don't want to give him a
fifteen yard taunting penalty. You don'tworry about it, Tim, You don't
know me. A sandwich. Good, it's all good. Don't be like
that, Ronnie. Don't be likedon't be like that, Ronnie. Be
a good winner. You'd be agood winner. And you take that sandwich.

(20:00):
We're all gonna get along. We'rejust happy. Four and four pieces.
No, can't we just be happythat we solve the problem. Is
the problem really solved? Is itsolved considerably? I mean, turn onto
a zend music and test it out. Okay, you guys are gonna see.
But he's gonna turn it all theway down. Keep it down,
Vic, and don't turn it up. Stop breathing, Vic and stop breathing.

(20:22):
So God, Now there are thereare other gaming headsets that are just
higher end than this fifteen dollars cheapo thing that he's got. Well,
yeah, but can't we just buyhim a par of scendeisers. I'd like
to think so not compatible. Youhave to see this machine, Petros,

(20:45):
It's just it's not the same.It's not a standard microsor like the Nash
skateboards of comerxes. You know what. Maybe it's like maybe a Vera flex,
you know, not quite as badas a nas you know what.
Hep you have a great vacation.I'll check and see if Mario Lopez has
returned to his comrades so we canuse that for Vic. So, hey,

(21:07):
Vic, I bet you're excited aboutthe plan. I mean, I
heard it, but that's not thatbad. I'm pumped up for Knowlen's tonight.
Jambalayah ushah. Not bad at all. Listen, I think I think
we've gotten to the core of theissue we have. Vic. You're a

(21:27):
stubborn mule, just like Ronnie describedyou as yesterday. He said, Listen,
Vic is stubborn as a mule.I'm always telling him to turn the
volume down, and throughout the courseof a segment, after he turns it
down and it sounds great, he'llslowly crank the volume up to where the
echo returns. Vic, true orfalse, you're stubborn as a mule.
I am stubborn, but I'm alsoflexible. And I started searching field lot

(21:52):
of Cox there's a lot of lookat it for the dials and started,
you know, started adjusting and playingwith the dials. Consider this an intervention,
you know. I love it.The family got together and said,
look, we got a problem.We've got a problem. You're drinking has
affected me in this anyways. Ilove it. And what I'm saying right
now is, if we get anotherheadset over there that's better than this one.

(22:15):
Should we get the one with thecarders and we bandage it to his
head and hold those hold those earthings. Yes, the Cartiers, if
they're better quality, I think so. I think we should start with the
Caddiers. The Tony Gods. I'mhaving to drop the seventy nine bucks or
whatever it is on the Caddiers.If Vic's willing to wear it and post
on social media that that's the headsetthat solved this. I think Tim Kaye

(22:37):
has the answer. Compatibility is Timokay or is he digging a grave?
How about we do this? Vicand guys, whatever the levels are at
right now, don't effing touch them. Well, but he can't help it,
Uh, I don't know. Allday we want you down a little
bit. There's still a little bitof an echo. We'd like it to

(22:59):
go down, and I'm gonna putit down one one notch. Hold on,
I mean you can still totally hearus. Why does it have to
be so loud? How is howhow am I on my levels? I
went down to the minimal minimalist level. Here he can't even hear himself talk.
I told you he's deaf. Whatis minimalist minimal Now? Ronnie,

(23:22):
now this is we're borderline abusive.That's a little Ronnie's in his underwear right
now, just running around. Comeon, he's his nipples like like like
farmer tad at the end of theend of the water boy reached of the
nines. Listen, I hear new, guys, a new if this,

(23:44):
if this is compatible for you guys, well, it's just sad that we've
endured this for years with that therethat you've got a twenty five dollars like
it's got a little it's got alittle capsule right that has the volume on
it and stuff VIC at the attachedto the cord where you turn it up.
Is that is that kind of whatthe deal is? There is nothing
attached to the headset that would uhadjust the volume. Oh there is not

(24:07):
that you have to do that onthe com Rex. I'm doing it on
the com Rex exactly. Interesting onthe in quality, in quality, in
quality, USB sip Codec Touch exactly. And this model has been wonderful.
It's incredibly efficient. So what kindof conclusions have we reached here? Guys?

(24:34):
Well, that he needs a newheadset might combo not something that you
buy a toys r us, youknow, on an end cap as you're
checking out with your Activision cartridge.And what kind and what kind of he's
got food stamp headset? I guess, And what kind of sandwiches is going
to be purchased? That's probably whatdo you want? What kind of sandwich?

(24:56):
What foot? If you want anice spicy Italian? Are we doing
like Tino's? What are we doing? No? You know there's a Jersey
Mikes down the street, or orthat Tony's Tony's Italian saw Tony is a
good Italian sub Magno sent her itdone and he's mixed cold mixed cold cuts

(25:17):
running. I said, a spicyItalian Vico. Wow, I mean,
gee, you can't have any Vick, I just gotta take I just got
text messages said how many years haveyou guys been doing an argument about this
three three younger, it's three couldbe eight. Well, look, Vic

(25:41):
went away, then COVID came andthen they dug out his colo again,
and he doesn't leave the house.So like there was like a year that
he took off. I think it'sbeen three years. Hey, Vic,
if if somebody to drop off aPelican box which is industry term for of

(26:02):
those travel boxes that's got an actualcom Rex in it, broadcast engineering equipment
with real headphones and a microphone,like a real broadcast since they said it's
like the six, well know thatyou would have to go in there and
set it out. Tim, Oh, absolutely, come on in. Look
at that, Tim, Why Okay, come on in and let's do it.

(26:29):
You know, Roddy's a little bitlike the Cubs or the Red Sox
after they want a world series.Yeah, it's kind of like insufferable.
Now it's like, wow, thisguy, Hey freaking hey, everybody,
it's Mario Lopezmorrow. You are done. Your com Rex is in the dust.
It's making its way to wait ayear. You know what, Vassa's
old cob Rex is up for grabs. That's the what I'm gonna take too,
Is that right? Yeah, nobody'susing it. No, he turned

(26:52):
it in and they gave him anew one for the Dodger season, So
so dust that off. Well,they're thinking about giving it to one of
Covino's kids to start his own podcast. Makes sense. You sure that Dwayne
Wade's not using it for The Wise? The Wise? Why why? Why?
Well, Larsa and Michael Jordanskin aren'tdoing their podcast. They have broken

(27:14):
out to turn their stuff. Youcan get theirs. You know, we've
done a lot of things on theair over the years. We've had John
Wooden on our show. I mean, I can't even begin to count our
many accolades and very West. We'renot that down at the top of the
hour. Yeah, we're not thattype of show to do a Jim Leland
World series Victory Lap. But Iwould say that this moment of the solving

(27:40):
of the problem, look at you'retalking to no Echo and the opening of
it's this is like when Richard Dixonopened up China. This is a huge
moment in our history. I'm blissingout. I'm very happy. It's incredible.
I could never I could not behappy. It is incredible, come
to find that it was nothing buta rinky dink bar be playhouse style headset

(28:02):
that led to all of our allof our consternation. That's not all bad.
There's also the Vickers stubborn mule.Yes, and could have just turned
it down, but he struggles tohear. I am just happy this harmony
is there, though, Vic.Are you comfortable. I'm very comfortable.
You can hear us. Yes,and Kate's you've been gracious in defeat here.

(28:32):
Yeah. Well, look, theuh, peaceful transfer of power is
important here in the United States,and that sandwich is going to be transferred.
No, it's Kate's gonna buy sandwichesfor all of us. Let's not
get crazy, Matt, all right, just don't throw it out there,
Matt, for your sch just drinkthe green tea with a sandwich. It's

(28:56):
right it. We love it.The way of tea. Green tea,
y'all high antioxidants. Yeah, youget six minutes by yourself and the rubbin
tuck. Wait, do I getanything for walking across the aisle and supporting

(29:17):
Ronnie Ronnie? That's up to RonniePetros for supporting me. Maybe he'll give
one nice half Sando. Yeah,I'll give you a half a sandwich.
And what about punishment for Matt forbacking the wrong horse in this regard?
Well, that's you know, that'swhat happens. You backed the wrong horse
and now the horse has to beput down. That's okay. Matt changes

(29:37):
his mind at the last weaking moment, I did. I was just a
guy looking for answers, you know, That's all I was. Really,
You're an opportunist, that's exactly.But I don't know if we need to
take him down the new Comrax Kates. I think we may just need to
U go to engineering and say,hey, let's get vic this USB sip
codec zero starter kit with a legitimatemicrophone, a legitimate set of headphones,

(30:02):
and our problems are solved. Dude, sounds good to me. Oh,
you know what, if you're gonnabe that way about it, if you're
gonna be all all angry about it, Kate's come on, we told you
this was gonnap. I mean,we knew that, Pete. We knew
this was gonna happen, Like weknew one of them was gonna be almost
borderline unable to continue for the remainderof the show. Desponded, Yes,

(30:29):
like completely and totally shocked that itdid not go their way. That's how
I feel all the time. We'llbe right back, Yeah, Vick.
Problem solved, everybody. It's abetter Days talk. That's show, some
money and five seventy eight sports Liveeverywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Went a

(30:51):
little long in the opening segment.Understandable. When you're making a push for
Marconi consideration, sometimes you gotta goa little long. And that's what we
did. Thank you, Vic,Thank you Ronnie tim Kates Engineering, who
have already reached out and said they'reon it. Oh god, we had

(31:12):
to publicly shame them. This islike the end of Gooni's. It just
all comes together. Don't sign problemsare solved, dude, It's all come
together. Unbelievable, hell of us. Start to the show. If you

(31:32):
missed it, you missed everything.Let's just put it that way. You
better, you better subscribe and downloadthe podcast because that's where you're gonna have
to get it moving forward. Letme read you some of some texts,
Matt. The secret text us asign brought to you by your so called
Toyota dealers. We make it easy, they said, do you speak of
my language? This opening might bebetter than your covid Era and Ninja star

(31:56):
throwing opening. Well, let's notget crazy. No, the Ninjas stars
were a great gift that kept ongiving. Let's not bring a let's not
be a prisoner to the moment.Okay, people, you're right, we
had we had hatchets being thrown atone coven Ara Ninjas Stark, covin Era
hatchet. Yeah, I gotta getmy hatchet out, wheeled that around.
It's been a while. We'll getsome respect around here. Let's take a

(32:17):
little bit off the knee. Thankyou, Vic. I can't stand the
echo lipsmacking. A nice clean callis lovely. Thank you for letting Tim
come in to set you up.Is that what Tim's gonna do? Try
to wittier all make the drive youYeah, you know, Vic said,
come on down by the way.Vic texts me thank you for your patience.

(32:39):
Problem solved my audio on com Rexturn way down. YEA, what
problem solved? I kind of feellike the problem has been solved a few
times, but Vic just keeps recreatingit. Right, That is exactly what
you said yesterday, Ronnie, thatyou have had him turn it down.
The echo has gone away. Hishearing issues lead to his maybe inadvertently,

(33:06):
maybe he's not stubborn as a mule, maybe he just does it well.
This text says it all. Mattvic is definitely stubborn as a mule.
He turned the volume up three timeswhile you were doing the test. God,
I love this so much. Theguy right, that is a true
story he did. I just turnedit up a smidge, that's all.
I just I couldn't hear you.You know. During the commercial break,
Victor Brick sent me a text messageand he said how did I sound,

(33:30):
which leads me to believe that hecouldn't hear a word. That he was
saying he could not hear a word. He needs new headphones. And if
engineering has already reached out guys,we are sprinting toward the finish line.
Here's one more text and then wegot to talk play in. We got
to get that in before it startswith the top story of the day.
Vassa is gonna join us next hour. This says power Mad. Ronnie is

(33:54):
the best Ronnie. Also, Tony'sis fantastic stick. I believe Kate's has

(34:17):
been gracious in defeat during the break, I don't know, I'm not there.
Matt Tony's already been contacted. Hewent to the fridge and brought Ronnie
a nice cold sat here, alittle something for the effort. So it
flipped them in anice green can ofgreen tea. Seems as they're getting along
swimmingly. Yeah, this says,Tell Ronnie to be careful in the studio.

(34:39):
He's gonna be leaving dense all overthe place with that erection. Everybody
goes straight to the puzzo talk asdo we this bar night, Ronnie gets
a foot long for lunch. Well, he drags his foot long all over
the studio. What do you mean? What's the matter with everyth All right,

(35:00):
we will talk about basketball. Theplaying is tonight and the Lakers are
in. As Vic tried to sayit, all cool, New Orleans the
biggest team of the year, y'all. That would be big for Ronnie too,
if the Pelicans can knock off theLakers. Oh, has he got
any Laker tattoos? No, gotany Orleans tattoos? Bet your ass he

(35:23):
does, doesn't, so do I? Pelicans to the nine? I mean
you and freaking Joe Myers thickest thieveswe are. I'll tell him you said
hello, thank you, Eddie.I'll do you a good stack. That's
right. I wanted you to producelakers. We looted. We'll be right
back. What I'm gonna do isI'm gonna take calls at the boarding bdbody

(35:47):
spent at the top story of theday while we get some hoops going,
problems solved, Troubles are over,Dude, Sun these guys from here on
out. Wow, Hey, thanksfor listening, everybody. It's Petrosen Money
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Get tickets now at Beachliffestival dot com. It's time with the top story of
the day. Kids, Cow TrustingMoney AM five seventy LA Sports. Lines
get blurred, they get blurred.PEP sory of what happened. Nothing.

(36:53):
I just got a little confused.During the break there was was chatting with
someone and sometimes reality imagination the linegets blurred and I get confused. My
great apologies. Your top story oftoday is this, lady, you were
talking to Tim? You know it'sit's it's funny. I will uh,
I'll share it with you. Iwas just discussing something with someone off the

(37:13):
air, and I got, uh, you know, just kind of got
lost. I lost track of time. Ah, have great apologies. Here,
it's the top story. I thoughtmy thing broke. You're good,
everybody's good. I felt like MarioLopez ringside. Why is someone talking to
my ear? What is going on? Uh? Here we go. Lebron

(37:35):
and Steph. We got two playinggames tonight. We got the Golden State
Warriors, four titles, we gotthe Lakers. Lebron James, four titles,
multiple MVPs. The two guys inthe conversation as the greatest player of
their era now granted. James spanstwo generations, the back half of the

(37:58):
Kobe Tim Duncan generations, slash eraon all those titles, and the entirety
of the Steph Curry Golden State,multiple MVPs four titles head to heads.
Steph came into the league six yearspost Lebron James, and as at that

(38:20):
point, by the time he arrived, Lebron had already piled up five All
NBA teams and an MVP Award,something Steph didn't get too until five years
into his career and never looked back. And yet both of them are in
the play in tournament tonight. Theydo not get a week's rest before the
playoffs start, both on the road, the oldest guys, the oldest,

(38:45):
two of the oldest guys in theleague, the oldest and most venerable,
and both on the road Steph andthe Warriors trying to prevent the beam from
being lit and their season being over, despite many of the participants like Thompson
Draymond Green An's the aforementioned Steph Currysaying, Oh, we think we can
win it. Yeah, we're theten seed. You didn't even belong in

(39:06):
the playoffs except for this new fangledplaying thing that Adam Silver's got going.
But we think we can win thewhole damn thing. We've just had lulls
this season, but dollars to donutsyou tell me we're not one of the
four best teams in this tournament,You're crazy. Yeah that. Going on
one end of the country, Capitolof California here, and then over in

(39:29):
New Orleans, you got the Lakersand Lebron taking on the Pelicans for the
second time in three days, ateam that they have roughed up all regular
season long. Now what do Iexpect? I expect to see Stephan the
Warriors winning Sacramento, Lebron and theLakers win in New Orleans, and then
of course the Golden State Warriors willhave to win one more against the aforementioned

(39:51):
Pelicans, who just knocked them offand opened the door for the Lakers to
be the eight seed and not thenine or the ten, and then they'll
both be in the playoffs. Andwe'll continue these conversations. But as I
look at the bottom of the bracket, I ask myself this question. Both
are likely going to be on theAll NBA team this year. Steph once

(40:13):
again shot forty one percent from three, averaged twenty six, five and five
per game. He is still oneof the most feared weapons in the NBA
and one of the rare players thatyou simply cannot account for. There are
things that can happen in a gamein which Steph Curry plays that you just
go, yeah, we just nothingyou can do. Guy got hot from
thirty five feet, banged seventy threepointers as soon as he crossed half court

(40:38):
and we lost the game. It'swhat happens. On top of that,
you got Lebron James, and we'veheard it regularly. He will be an
All NBA second teamer. His numbersare ridiculous considering how long he's been doing
it and his age. Twenty sixpoints, seven rebounds, eight assists,
and yet they're the eight seed.And what do we always talk about out

(41:00):
when it comes to the NBA andwhy these guys are kind of hard to
like because it's an individual game.It's become that Matt, it's not the
same kind of game. But Worthyand Coop and Magic talk about how much
they love each other and play forthe cap. So the question is,
in an individual game where typically theteam with the best player wins on any

(41:23):
given night, how is it thatthese two guys And I get that they're
old, and I know there's twosides to the floor, but how is
it's one thing to be good orto be a volume score or something like
that. But these are two ofthe most feared weapons in the league.
If you were to have a draftof any player, they both likely would

(41:45):
go in the top ten. Ascrazy as that would sild, but that
would be your all NBA, right, your top fifteen players. These guys
are going to be on one ofthose three teams, and yet one is
in the ten hole and the otheris in the eight hole. And it
really begs a question, how didwe get here? How is it in
an individual game with individual talent whereAnthony Davis is cited as one of the

(42:08):
three best big men in the gamealong with Nikola Jokic and Joe l Embiid,
and Lebron James is cided as perhapsthe biggest brute and most difficult to
deal with all around player despite hisage. He's a real brutus he cut.
Hey, that guy gets a headfull of steam. You better get
out of the way, Yes,you should. You're gonna get a run

(42:29):
over. And Steph Curry is thebest shooter in the league and the most
you you could probably say, themost feared offensive weapon in the league,
and one is playing for his playofflife tonight, they lose in Sacramento and
Golden State goes home, arguably themost disappointing team of the twenty three to
twenty four campaign. And if Lebronloses here and Golden State wins, one

(42:52):
of them is going to eliminate theother. While teams from Minnesota from Oklahoma
City are going from Dallas where theyplay no defense, yet we'll probably have
the MVP. I would assume LukaDoncic has a real good shot to win
that as opposed to giving it toNikola Jokic for the third time in a
row, Like, how does itcome to that? How do the Pelicans

(43:13):
advance? How do how are theOklahoma City Thunder the number one seed right
now? On a team that isbad enough that legitimate media personalities are suggesting
the Lakers sit Anthony Davis and LebronJames tonight just to win a game for
the number eight seed so they cantake on the Thunder, in which they

(43:36):
would likely wipe the floor with,advancing to take on the winner of the
Clippers Mavericks series. That is amuch far more appealing path to the NBA
Finals than having to face the DenverNugget should they win the game tonight.
I get it's crazy to think thatthe regular season has played out the way
that it has, and yet thesetwo have played at such a high level,
and we're going to be watching themtonight and not Anthony Edwards and not

(43:58):
Brandon Well, we are going tobe watching any and not Sega. But
it's not a surprise with the waythe season played out, right, Like,
it's not like where we are,It's not like, wow, oh
my god, I can't believe thishappened. It's kind of like this is
the way it's been all season long. Yeah. And the crazy thing about
that is maybe it's not such anindividual game. Maybe the highlights of Steph

(44:22):
Curry and Lebron every night don't tellthe true story what's really going on in
today's NBA of today, in thiscurrent time. Yeah, right now.
And you know that it's an erathat the Golden State Warriors ushered in.
Yes, Steph game changing MVP,but they had the glue, the defensive
captain. They do everything whatever needsto be done. I'll fill in the

(44:45):
cracks. Draymond Green a competent.They shouldn't say competent, that's a that's
a bit of an insult an exceptionalsecondary shooter in Klay Thompson. And without
those, you know, they're asgreat as Step is. They don't win
those four titles, no doubt aboutit. But it seemed like the Lakers
had it all this year, andit's why they were a popular preseason pick,

(45:07):
as long as Anthony Davis and Lebroncould stay healthy, which they did.
And yet here we are tonight withpeople saying, oh, they should
lose, they should lose this gamebecause there's no they got no chance.
Steve Hartman Fred Rogan's style, nochance, no chance, the Sun's got
no chance. I mean, it'sthat era of basketball that we're talking about

(45:29):
with the Denver Nuggets. It's crazyfor me to think that that's where we're
at now, that we're going toget the MVP announced, that we're going
to get the All NBA teams announced, and both of those guys are going
to be on it, and yettheir teams are the eighth and the tenth
seed in the playoffs, and thattypically does not happen with all NBA performers.
And so, as you just said, it begs the question, where

(45:50):
the hell do these teams go fromhere? If these guys can play at
that level, at an all NBAlevel, and all at gets you is
the eight and the ten seed,how do you run it back next year
with Raymond Green and Klay Thompson orwith Lebron James and Anthony Davis. Right,
I don't know what's going on.And the bigoty Bigody, oh or
excuse me, the Baghdad by theBay. But they should have never left
Oakland, That's exactly it. PeThey moved to San Francisco and now they've

(46:13):
turned a crap that could be itliterally, although I steppen crap on the
way to the stadium and it's adisaster. I think they did win a
title or two there, but Ithink that's a conversation for another day.
I think the Lakers, on theother hand, have just got to listen
to Lebron and do exactly what hesays again and run it back again,

(46:34):
because nobody's better than the King.People like getting nailed by the King.
I've been nailed by the King somuch I'm in a trance, feel like
I like it now. By theway, the other side of that,
they shouldn't lose the game intentionally.Argument, Yeah, we don't need that.
I think everybody knows it's one ofthe dumbest things to suggest that they're

(46:54):
in a tank a game in theplay in in order to take an easier
path. Just oh, yeah,we did this on purpose so we don't
have to face the Nuggets. We'reLebron James and Anthony Davis. Would the
NBA? Would the NBA frown uponthe slightly? Oh, they sat,
they sat. I'm sorry they did. What because why can they subtly tank
it? The goat suggested the guywho is the self proclaimed king, and

(47:16):
the goat said, no, wedon't want to play the defending champs in
the first round. We'd rather seeif somebody can knock them off so we
can have an easier path to achampionship. It is kind of interesting when
you see the commercials for the playin and all the teases for it.
It's all like Lebron putting on hiscrown and step shooting like a deep three.
And it's a good point, Matt. It is kind of a shock

(47:37):
to see those two guys there,right, they're royalty. This is supposed
to be Pat Beverly dancing on adesk in front of the non Paul George
Clippers, Like, that's what theplaying should be, right, it's the
dregs and instead, for the secondyear in a row, it's Lebron James.

(47:58):
It probably is where Kobe have beenat the end of his career.
Yeah, if they had one,which is also weird to think about.
It never ends, pretty Matt.We didn't let Vic talk about it,
but maybe, just maybe, tonightis the start of one of the most
historic epic playoff runs in which theLakers franchise has ever in bod It's set

(48:27):
up to be exactly that Pig ClippersLakers in the Conference finals. Kawhi Leonard
played a quarter of practice today.Get excited. Oh, there he is
walking into the You watching Lebron's tunnelwalk back. I am very exciting.
Oh and there's Zion tunnel walking.Oh, Zion's got Jesus on his shirt.

(48:50):
He's got a Jesus face. Werescrewed? Whose we My plan for
the Hallway showdown in the final yearof the hall a potential if if the
Pelicans win tonight, is Joel gonnagive him a That's all folks. Oh,
harken back to a wardrobe choice froma stylist. That was ill timed.

(49:15):
I didn't mean no disrespect. Yeahyou did well. We end what
was an historic hour in great sportstalk with great sports talk, heavy NBA
talk from Matt Muney Smith. We'llbe right back with your word Number song
David Vassawel Jonnas as well