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November 11, 2025 43 mins

Number, Word and Song of the Day. LA Times Prep Insider Eric Sondheimer on the high school football playoffs. Flip Top Story on Lincoln Riley really pushing the USC Homecoming game and local college hoops coach wants his players to be kleptomaniacs on the court.

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(01:08):
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(02:32):
Danny Canal. Sandy is coming up. He has not tweeted
to promote it like he usually does. I don't know why,
but you can check everything on the iHeartRadio app for
your smartphone. Okay, Matt, we were just doing this, so
word of the Day, I was gonna his word the

(02:54):
word of the day. I was going to pay play
the payoff the pageant story with the sound of the
guy Nawat in Thailand calling Miss Mexico a dumbhead. I
was going to do that, but I had to shelve it, Matt,
because what channel are we watching right now?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
KTLA?

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Right?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
But did we get it?

Speaker 3 (03:15):
We got it. We were watching We were watching Channel
five in a commercial break, and we were watching a
news report about something that is concerning about near where
Matt lives, which is the violence. I go there all
the time at Belmont Shore. There's violence at Belmont Shore.
The happy gay neighborhood is turning violent for some reason.

(03:37):
Much you know. Look, I'll never forget it. In the
late nineties, right at the turn of the last century,
the Hermosa Beach, Hermosa Beach was nothing like it is
now in twenty twenty five. When I was growing up.
When I was growing up, Hermosa Beach was a town
for burnouts. It had rent control. It wasn't like Manhattan,

(04:00):
which was a lot more residential and not as snooty
as it is now. And it was rent control. There
wasn't a whole bunch of bars. There were a few bars,
like Barnacles and Fat Face Fenners and the poop Deck
and the Mermaid now it's called It was Fat Face Fenners,
and then it was Fat Face Fener's Falloon, and then

(04:20):
Fat Face Fener's Fish Shack was open actually for quite
some time. But the point is Hermosa became different. They
got rid of the rent control, and they built that
pier Avenue a walk street. Used to be able to
drive right up to the pier, but they built a
walk street, and then all those bars, Patrick Malloy's, Sharky's,

(04:40):
the Hannasis, all of that stuff went in there. And
for the first couple of years it was all local
people that were from Mara Coasta High or Ridondo High
or Peninsula or whatever, and you were just like, Wow,
I can't believe there's bars here, and it's like a
social scene.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
Cool.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
And then after a few years, everybody along the one
oh five freeway all the way till the end in
Norway and everything got word that there was a nighttime
scene in Hermosa Beach and it became a little bit
of a different vibe. In fact, we all knew it
was over, kind of like Altamont in the sixties. We

(05:19):
all knew it was over when somebody was peeing in
a urinal at Patrick Malloy's and got shot in the ass. So, uh,
it seems like that fate.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, Belmont, sure. I mean, you know a bunch of
people that grew up there Panama Joe's and those spots
have been there forever. Yeah, they will tell you tales
of growing up in high school. They all partied down there,
down there.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
And drink after. You know, if we were really ambitious
and we didn't want to go to the beach cities
when we were kids, after the restaurant, we'd drive down
and go over the bridge and go over to Second Street.
But things are getting a little sketchy down there. You're
getting bad four million dollars for your house and it's
popping off, yeah, on the street. But the funny part.

(06:04):
It's not funny to have violence, but it is funny
to listen to local news reports.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
The old guys that have been living there for thirty years.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, they're interviewing some of the day drinkers at Belmont
and these old guys and they're telling tales to the
foot soldier at Channel five and it's a great This
is a great piece that we just picked up from
Channel five.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
Well, we're here on Laverne Avenue where residents are still
rattled from a shooting that happened right here just over
two weeks ago that took the life of Jeremy Andrew Spears,
and residents saying that it isn't even the first time
something violent like this has happened here, and if action
doesn't take place right now, something will happen again.

Speaker 7 (06:43):
Something has to be done, because you just get the
vibe that is something not done, things will escalate.

Speaker 6 (06:49):
Lomby's residents in Belmont short fed up with what's happening
in their neighborhood. Well, the problem is a female, I
would not go out after dark, noil, it's not safe.

Speaker 8 (06:57):
But I'm losing respect for our local law enforcement.

Speaker 6 (07:01):
It comes after violent incidents that have happened in and
around Second Street, a popular bar and restaurant scene.

Speaker 7 (07:06):
They parked the car and drinking the car, and I'm
always taking up the empties on my street all the time,
and they're always empty.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
These aren't beer people.

Speaker 7 (07:14):
These are shots and vodkas and something that saw boom shock.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
I lock right now.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Wait, hold on, it's a boom shock a lot. These
are beer people. Are beer people better, but the boom
shock a lock of drinks make you work.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
If I'm if I am to understand what he is describing,
I would guess because I see a.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Lot of those.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Or yeah, the boom are the orbs. That's like a
yellow shots like a green or a pink or a red.
That to me is exactly this guy is describing.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Exactly right. If it was the eighties, it would be
those club cocktails with a white cat, white cat. But no,
the boom shock a lock the number one Chief rocks.

Speaker 7 (07:54):
They parked their car and drinking the car, and I'm
always taking up the empties on my street all the time.
They are always empty. These aren't beer people. These are
shots and vodkas and something that saw boom shot.

Speaker 8 (08:06):
I lock eye right, Now there are folks that get
fired up, and when folks are fired up liquored up,
they tend to make bad decisions, and you just don't
want to be part of that.

Speaker 6 (08:16):
In the early morning hours of Saturday, October twenty fifth, a.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Shooting turn deadly.

Speaker 6 (08:21):
First responder is seen trying to save the life of
a man shot to death on Laverne Avenue.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
We're blaming the liquor shot.

Speaker 6 (08:32):
To death on la Verne Avenue.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
I don't know what's going on that. We've had three
homicides in a two year period.

Speaker 6 (08:37):
Police saying the shooting stemmed from an incident that started.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
At a local bar.

Speaker 6 (08:41):
Residents shaken by what happens steps from their front door.

Speaker 8 (08:44):
A gentleman was killed one hundred yards from my doorstep.
But that's it's enough for me, right, and it's not
the first, and my concern is it won't be the last.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
Now, many who live on Laverne Avenue going up for
tonight's city council meeting where they play on voicing need
for change.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
In my mind, we need to set up to you.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
I checked your point.

Speaker 7 (09:03):
I think a greater police presence would would be really
good on.

Speaker 6 (09:07):
The agenda tonight. One option brought by council member Christina Dugan,
who represents the area, exploring a temporary midnight curfew on
bars and increasing police presence in the area.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
For liquor license now ty curfew, what are we talking about?
I mean both shock a lack.

Speaker 6 (09:29):
One option brought by council member Christina Dugan, who represents
the area, exploring a temporary midnight curfew on bars and
increasing police presence in the area.

Speaker 8 (09:37):
I met with a very responsible bar owner and they
all claim to be doing what they can, but but
it's not their job to enforce the law.

Speaker 6 (09:52):
Well, others have little faith anything will be done to
effect change. I don't have any hope that any city
officials really care enough to help.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
We don't do anything.

Speaker 6 (10:01):
And the city council meeting is happening tonight at Long
Beach City Hall. It starts reporting from Belmont Shore. Anyways,
were almost kas forty.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Minutes away almost from that from that meeting.

Speaker 7 (10:13):
Boom shaka la on my street all the time. There
are always these aren't beer people, These are shots and
vodkas and something that's saw boom, shocky lock. I am
right now they are called buzzballs. Yeah, those things are
called boom, not boom shock of loacka.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
These aren't beer people.

Speaker 7 (10:30):
These are shots and vodkas and something that's saw boom
shocky lock.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
I am boom shocka loaga. Now what I got drunk
at Panamia's twenty years ago and I ran down Belmont
with my puzzol swunging back and forth.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
That was all in good fun, but it's with the boom.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
These aren't beer people.

Speaker 7 (10:49):
These are shots and vodkas and something that's saw boom
shocky lock I am.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
I'll tell you what if you want to if you
want to get law enforcement get going in Belmont, show
are all you have to do is park illegally.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
You let'll get your ticket.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
I don't know if shooting a guy gets you in trouble,
but if you park like if an inch of the
nose of your bumper is in a red take a time,
boom shock a lock, it's right on your windshield.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
These aren't beer people.

Speaker 7 (11:16):
These are shots and vodkas and something that's saw boom
shocky lock I.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Right now, what are you having tonight? Boom shock of lock.
I want it to happen right now.

Speaker 7 (11:28):
Something that's all boom shocky lock I.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Right now, Alisia Delvae has texted and says, the buzz
balls are pretty nasty.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, glad she tried one.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
Boom shocky lock I.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Right now, right now, Alicia, we got the buzzball lime Rita,
the buzzball Chocko chiller.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Who would have ever.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
Guessed boom shocky lock i? Right now?

Speaker 2 (11:48):
I think you know, I remember when White Claws hit
the scene and I was like, what the hell are
all these cans laying around the beach that are not
beer cans but they're White Claws or trus truly's before
I knew what the hell was going on there, and
now I see all the That's all I see are
the buzzballs.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
Boom shocky lock I right.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Now, Espresso, Martini's Berry Cherry limaids fifteen percent alcohol by volume,
so it's basically like, you know, boom shock that's not
a beer drinking.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
That's not shock i lock i right now, it's four.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Course lights in that little buzzball right now. Right Well,
I guess that was better than the pageant on my street.
I mean, the Thailand is a lot further away than Belmont.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
These aren't beer people.

Speaker 7 (12:32):
These are shots and vodkas and something that saw boom,
shocky lock I right now.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
All right, I remember a more innocent time when I
was a kid in Belmont Shore and they'd have like
the classic car thing where they where they rope off
the streets North Shore. Yeah, and I went over to
uh Ziggi O'Neil Ziggiy O'Neil's father took us out there
and he's like, you go, it's gonna love it. They're
got sausage showarges. Look out, these Chevy Chevy chavetts.

Speaker 9 (13:00):
Gone to the days where you forget to pay your
tab and you get chased down in the street. And
yet shot, these.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Aren't beer people.

Speaker 7 (13:05):
These are shots and vodkas and something that saw boom,
shocky lock I it right now.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
I was chased into the street like I like I
dined in ditch yes, after doing a remote.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
And that was that was a two pronged problem. One
the sales account that had us do the live remote.
They're not paying our tab, which is what every responsible
sales executive does when we go somewhere. And two the
owner of the establishment not recognizing and we just it

(13:37):
just brought you guys about seventy people.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
We just filled your establishment full of drunks.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Maybe just go ahead, two o'clock. Maybe just go ahead
and pick that one up. We weren't aware that we
were first time we've ever been handed.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
At least we never went back there. Oh no, we did.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
These aren't beer people.

Speaker 7 (13:54):
These are shots and vodkas and something that saw boom,
shocky lock I it right now.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
It's time for the number of the day. Here's my number.
Number of the day.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
The number of the day is We'll go with five.
It seems like this is about the fifth of these.
So injury reports in the NFL understand were introduced for
the gamblers in order for people to make early bets
if they liked the early line. They wanted to know
who is participating in Monday and Tuesday practice so they

(14:28):
can get ahead of the public. The Sharks are like, hey,
I like this team at minus three and a half.
That's gonna shift, but I got to know whether or
not this guy that rolls. So the idea of the
media peppering coaches for injury reports. I don't know why

(14:48):
it has taken on such significance, but coaches have for
whatever reason, they don't want to tell you. They want
to hide the injuries as long as they can, so
teams have the game plan for maybe that player's plan
or that player's not playing. But the NFL stepped in
and said, no, you need to let the public know,
and so that emboldened the media to continue to pepper

(15:10):
coaches about the state of their players Monday, Monday, after
the game on Sunday Tuesday, when they get their first
injury report Wednesday, Thursday, before Friday's final designation of questionable, doubtful,
or out. Well, Rich Simini, who's been covering the Jets
for a long time earlier decided to post that Garrett
Wilson has got an injury that will likely keep him

(15:32):
out for a significant amount of time. And apparently head
coach Aaron Glenn much like head coach to Sean Foster,
who was not happy with the media about reporting on
his players and who was playing and who wasn't and
so he's going to shut down practice.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
You're not getting anything out of us, nothing. I'll be
fired before you're done covering this team in twenty twenty five,
but you will get nothing remain.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
And much like Deshan Foster, as he was experiencing a
miserable season. Aaron Glenn is going through a two to
seven season of his own right now.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
I didn't think they were gonna win the two.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
I believe Justin Fields was six of eleven passing in
the Sunday contest that they just won for like nineteen yards.
So there's that. But here he is at his press
conference today addressing the situation surrounding injuries and what questions
will and won't be answered anymore.

Speaker 10 (16:30):
I'm going to pass on talking about the injuries since
you're Rich.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
He's not here.

Speaker 10 (16:37):
He has all the answers, so you can, guys can
get all the injuries from Rich. So I'll go right
into the air game.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Who's Rich?

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Rich Semini who has covered the Jets for probably the
better part of two decades. Coach, that's Rich's job. If
Rich gets a nugget from someone on your staff or
Garrett Wilson's agent, or Garrett Wilson himself, because he's built
these relationships from doing this job for two decades.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
So it wasn't like a guy like a guy with
a stethoscope on that comes out like doctor Rich and
tells everybody who's hurt. Hello, everybody, he's trying to clown
Rich to media.

Speaker 10 (17:10):
Yes, I'm going to to pass on talking about injuries
since you're Rich. Oh, he's not here, has all the answers,
so you can, guys can get all the injuries from Rich.
So I go right into the air game.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, coach, we don't want to get the answers from Rich.
That's not why we're here. We're here at the present.
Rich isn't even here, so we can't even get the
answers from him. But you understand, there are different paths
where information travels, and sometimes it's an agent that's pissed
off and wants to leak that to Rich so he
can post. Hey, Garret Wilson's been playing with a busted
up ankle for the last two weeks and now finally

(17:44):
they're gonna put him on eye whatever. Not his fault,
not the rest of the assembled media's fault. She can't
just say I'm not gonna talk about it. Ask Rich
since he's the one that's got all the answers.

Speaker 10 (17:55):
Isn't their protocols and play I'm going to to pass
on talking about the injuries. He said, you're Rich, he's
not here, he has all the answers.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
I heard riches on the opposite coast to Belmont Shore.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
These aren't beer people.

Speaker 7 (18:08):
These are shots and vodkas and something that saw boom
shocky lock I.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
Right now, my.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Work is done this week. I got the injury report out.
I'm going out here and dragging ripples boom shot to
lock it up. So what what what's the fallout? Oh,
it'll be fallout. NFL will find it on him. Yeah,
I would assume you want to find him, find him. Yeah,
you know you're coming off of win and feeling embolden. Right,
we were one in seven number two and seven? How

(18:35):
great is this? Didn't he do like a pimp walk
after they blocked a kick for a touchdown, but then
they ended up losing.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
It, losing the game?

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, gets Miami or so yeah, all right, boom shock
a lock bad.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
Look, those aren't beer people.

Speaker 7 (18:47):
These are shots and vodkas and something that's saw boom
shocky lock I right now, right now, right now, this is.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
The song of the day. All right.

Speaker 6 (19:00):
The song of the day is the Sun hasn't left
by modest Mouse, which is poor timing as the sun
is leaving, because well, yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
I get stark early kind of depressing. That's why you
have great sports talking, the petrols of money shows, great
sports talk. Happy Veterans Day, and thank you for your
service to all the great veterans out there. I know
where some veterans hang out.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
These aren't beer people.

Speaker 7 (19:21):
These are shots and vodkas and something that's all boom shoty,
lock I it right.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Now, right now.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Nobody could get more out of a Channel five foot
soldiers report about a shooting in Belmont Shore than us.
I mean, imagine how slow of a news day it
is down to Channel five where they're like, what happened?
What do we got? Somebody got shot two weeks ago
in Belmont Shore. Why don't you go down there and
interview some of the old barnacles at the bar.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
These aren't beer people.

Speaker 7 (19:47):
These are shots and vodkas and something that's.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
All boom shot. Lock I it right now, listen, missy
I am. I'm a beer person, so I'm not gonna
shoot anybody. That's why I'm sitting here and talking to you,
sophisticated man. I'm a beer person, but well he's Vodkauz.
He shots boom shot along might shoot each other later
in the day.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
These aren't beer people.

Speaker 7 (20:08):
These are shots on vodkas and something that saw boom shot.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
I lock right now, running it right now, they're running
it again.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
I run it live, rerunning it.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
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Speaker 3 (20:55):
The great Eric Sondheimer joining us right now, quite simply
the greatest high school sports writer that ever live period.
LA Preps, Southern California preps from Paracleet to Chula Vista.
Sondheimer does it all. The high school playoffs are heating up,

(21:16):
and the CIF and the Seed. Nobody covers it like
our friend Eric Sondheimer. So with all the games popping off,
and I guess you know they say once. The second
round is when it really goes down. The second round
it goes down. So here to tell us what's happening
Our friend from the La Times, the Immortal Eric Sondheimer,
on your Southern California Toyo to Dealer celebrity hotline. What's cracking, Eric?

(21:38):
How are you?

Speaker 5 (21:40):
I'm good? Thank you very much. I'm waiting to see
if Lincoln shows up for the Santa Margaria Sierra Canyon
game because there's gonna be six USC players in that game. Wow,
and there'll be very little scoring, however, so I think
the Kickers are going to dominate.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Have you seen a lot of Lincoln Riley now that
he's made like a new turnover, a new leaf to
recruit better in Southern California? Have we've seen more of
him this year?

Speaker 5 (22:08):
Eric, I've seen more of his assistant coaches. They've really
done a good good job identifying top players, and I
really there's nothing to criticize them. They've done a great job.
If they all show up, they should have a terrific
recruiting class.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Tell Us you mentioned Santa Margharita, My old teammate, Carson Palmer,
what can you say about the job him and his
staff are doing down there in Coda Dekasa area. Well.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
The expectations certainly were high. They lost their opener seven
to six. Blame the offense on the Blame the lack
of offense on the head coach, I guess you could say,
but they've gone better. They have a great defense. His
big good decision was to keep last season's defensive coordinator,
and they have Trent Moseley. At any point in the game,

(22:57):
he could break for a long run. He could it's
a pass, he could do anything, a return of punt.
He's a game breaker. He's another one of those kids
going to USC.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Eric They speaking of Santa Margarita. They knacked off modern
Day Modern Day got handled by Centennial. Kind of we
expect it to always be Modern Day Bosco when the
dust settles. Are those still the two best teams in
this open Division?

Speaker 5 (23:23):
It's a good question. Nobody's won the open the division
one since twenty fifteen other than Bosco and Modern Day,
and that was Corona Centennial. I think there's a chance
for a couple of teams. Centennial really has an approved defense.
Matt Logan has passed the three hundred win mark. Did
you have Sierra Canyon. This team is the secondary. All of

(23:46):
them are going to be playing top level football. They
have a great defensive line. I just don't know whether
the offense is going to be able to deliver. And
of course you have Misson Viel who has the best
quarterback in the state and Loop, but hey, they're going
to have to outschool Modern Day and the Opener. It's possible,
but I still think Modernday's physicality will get to them.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Is the Modern Day boss? I mean, I know Modern
Day and Bosco are still very good, but the days
of them dominating everybody and not even bothering to play,
is that kind of over? Is this year a bit
of an anomaly. It feels like there's people around town
that we're mentioning that they're catching up.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
Yes, I think there's some signs of other teams catching
up with Modern Day. The question is they've had two
straight years where their freshmen teams were not very good,
so that could be a sign of people having an
opportunity to deal with them. Of course, they can always
get transfers and pick it up. This is our new life,

(24:47):
transfers in high school, transfers in college. But I think
next season, there's going to be an opening for somebody
to break in there.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Eric, do you like the new setup or I don't
know how new. It is a few years old where
they use the computer and the cif. It seems like
you end up with some rough matchups early, but it's
better than the old model. Would you agree with that.
We're not really sure. We need your guidance. You're shirpa
like guidance.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
It's better because the games are closer. The computer does
a good job trying to put competitive teams together. It's
not perfect. I don't like the fact that it doesn't
take into consideration head to head battles. I mean, we
have teams playing in the same league as the first
round and somebody who beat the other maybe not getting
the host. So there's areas to improve on. But this

(25:38):
is the way to go. It's great to base it
on this currency. And previous years they would do it
based on the last two years of results, and that
was terrible. The teams changed every year.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Eric.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
We had our friend Tom Telesco on a couple of
weeks ago and he's been coaching up wide receivers at
CDM and kind of walk well. I think Petros understands
it better than I do, but walk us through the
You know, when you get bumped up, you play well
in your division, you get bumped up into Division two,
and then you go out there and get absolutely housed
by Murray at a value fourteen, Like what is that?

(26:13):
Is that the right way? Because doesn't that impact the
way you get slotted the following year? Like these teams
that do really well and in their division and then
they get bumped up, like it seems like that's a
rough go for.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Them, Right, it's for the teams that rarely have a
great team and then suddenly one year they do have
that great team and they think they're going to win
a championship, and then they get stuck in a division
they just really don't belong in. That's what I who
I feel sorry for. You know, they're actually doing it
the right way. Building from specimen the senior year. I

(26:46):
hate to say it, but the teams that never lose
are always in the same division. They're getting transfers, they're
replacing their senior class every year, so they're never going
to have a rebuilding year. You know, somebody's doing it
the right way when they're having rebuilds years. That means
they're not going out and trying to get players. But yeah,
it's it's definitely town. Corona Del Mar got pulled up

(27:07):
there and it was a tough And they're in division too.
It's a tough division. Every team in that division is good.
And Mary had a Valley. They have a great offensive line,
a terrific running back in Watson, and they just run
over you. They don't have Bear Bachmeyer this year, but
they just run over their physical.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
The great Eric Sondheimer from the La Times, there's nobody better.
He doesn't just follow around Sierra Canyon. He goes everywhere
in high school. So where are you going this weekend? Eric?
What are you the most looking forward to?

Speaker 5 (27:36):
Well, bad timing. I am't going this year again for
the Anna Margarita game. I'm going there because these are
the two best defenses around. If it's raining, they better
get me an umbrella out there, otherwise I'm going to
be in trouble.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
You can't provide your own I'm trying to keep staff
at the same time.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
Good multitasking, multitasking so but there's a lot of good
games out Division two and Division three, tremendous matchups. I
like palas Verdi's in a couple of weeks to meet
to shift a Smart Pacific on a game where if
you score forty nine points, the first team the forty
nine points will win that game. So you'll be out

(28:16):
there petals because you like Pallas Verdi.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yeah, I like the quarterback. He's a good kid, and
he's going to play. He's going to be the very
first here's here's an article for you. He's going to
be the very first guy ever. Now, we've had plenty
of guys who played quarterback that went on to play
college football on the hill, but none of them have
ever played quarterback in college. This is going to be
the fort Rakowski, the kid at Palas Verdies. He's going

(28:42):
to be the first kid ever from Pallas Verdies I think,
to start an FBS football game at quarterback. So yeah,
I agree.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
I agree. And that he will be there for four years,
which is even more stunning.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah, he's gonna have one more year. That it's been
a special thing. You think that they have the juice
to go all the way I do in.

Speaker 5 (29:01):
That division Division three, they lucked out didn't get in
Division two. So Division three, I think They're going to
win the next two games and then play Pacific and
we'll see who wins the offensive shootout. They have a
great quarterback, a junior named Taylor Lee, so that will
be a tough matchup if they get there.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Beautiful, what quick one? Selfishly Sandy? Speaking of Division two,
does my local squad Los Alamidos have a shot to
get out of there? Are they lucky just to win
one game?

Speaker 5 (29:28):
I love that team. That is a neighborhood team. The
coach loves his players, the players love each other. They
have a shot. I really think chemistry plays a role
in the playoffs in that division. You're not in Division one,
they would have no chance. But in Division two, it's
all about just being ready finding an individual can lift them.
Lenny I. Barr is a terrific kid. He's going to Army.

(29:51):
Everybody said, go out and let's see him once. He's unbelievable.
The way he runs, the way he tackles, the way
he leads. He's perfect for army, and we'll see if
he can Los Alamados, Beautiful.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Is there one public school or city school out there
that you got your eye on that no one's talking about?

Speaker 5 (30:06):
Eric Well, the city Sesson starts his playoffs, and obviously
Pallisse is a great story. They pretty much lost their
campus all year. They're ten and zero. They keep playing
and winning these close games, which I don't understand how
they're doing it. But Jack Thomas has forty two touchdown passes.
He's a quarterback. He lost his house, so that'll be

(30:29):
something I'll be looking forward to. They're playing Garfield, that'll
be a tough game for them to win because Garfield
runs the ball and Polly has no defense.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
All good stuff. Well, Pally's had a rough year. We
love you, Eric, and that's great stuff. La Times. If
you're not reading Eric Sondheimer's prep stuff, do you even
understand sports in southern California? Thank you, Eric, and have
a wonderful weekend and stay dry out there.

Speaker 5 (30:52):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
What a star the best?

Speaker 3 (30:54):
What a Nestorday. Boomshocka lock right now, let's talk high
school right and we'll return beers. Boom shock lock.

Speaker 7 (31:02):
These aren't beer people, these are shots and vodkas and
something that's.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Saw boom shocky lock it right now.

Speaker 9 (31:09):
Oh, Carson's ready for Sirah Canyon. By the way, Petros,
you know they have got DJ the entire game playing
music up until like the snap of the ball.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
It's a real real productions here is it? Lebron's DJ
problem Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
And then the barber's giving you a haircuts in a stand,
haircuts in a stand.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
At every every game is Taco Tuesday.

Speaker 9 (31:30):
Plays pizza everywhere.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Everybody's got a bad back. Sciontica brought his sideline reporter
out from Cleveland. Oh that's cool. Yeah, and then she
she works the sideline.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
She's a good looking lady. But don't make any assumptions.
Boom shock a lot.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
These aren't beer people.

Speaker 7 (31:44):
These are shots and vodkas and something that's saw Boom
shocky lock I it right now.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
I'm just saying, an attractive man, a beautiful woman. I
never make assumption.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
Boom shocky lock I it right now.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Right now, We'll be right back with the flip top
story of the day. Hello, PMS listener, did you know
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Speaker 2 (32:21):
Wap Petro some money in five seven LA Sports Live
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full three to seven show. But if you are well
interested in the Clippers snapping their five game losing street,
but tomorrow could be the day. Denver Nuggets is who

(32:42):
they will be taking on in an effort to try
to stop the slide.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
That well, they're not good, they don't have like the
best player in the NBA or anything.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
I think the Clippers could win it.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Watching them a few times this year, I gotta be honest,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
It's it's painful. It's a painful watch. But that Into
It Dome is beautiful.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
It is a great play, great place. You don't want
to turn down tickets to the Into It Dome. No,
And we got him to give away on Monday lot
from the BJ's and Irvine starting at one o'clock.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Whatever you may think of the way the Clippers brand
of basketball is playing these days, at least get to
that Into It Dome and enjoy what is the best
basketball arena in the world.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yeah, No, one's saying that you have to root for
the Clippers. You root for progress, progress in arena building.
That's what you root for, and that's what the Clippers
have to offer so far early in the twenty twenty
five twenty twenty six basketball season. All right, Matt, we'll
call this the flip top story of the day. Why not.
Who's to say I'll clip you out, I will look
you out. This is the flip top story of the day.

(33:46):
USC football's got three big games left. They got Iowa,
then they got Oregon in autsin and then fight don't
fight all fight all Ucla at the Coliseum. Now, despite
you as see football being on the Big ten network
versus Iowa at twelve thirty at the Coliseum, it is

(34:08):
homecoming and despite it being on the Big ten network.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
That pretty good coverage, don't they.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Yeah, but it's not Fox. It's not just Iowa USC.
You'd think Big Noon, ABC, UBC, frid Time ABC Game, NBC,
or you'd think the the NBC or CBS. They all
have a piece of the Big ten. Fox sold them all.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Yeah, Ucla Ohio State on NBC. Guys, all right, all right, sorry.

Speaker 9 (34:34):
The Peacocks got the big thirty and a half point
spread game.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Right, it is homecoming, so I guess you know, they
really do a great job of reaching out to former players.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Like to say, you like to go back for homecoming
every year every year.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
But I gotta say, Matt, if I was ever going
to come back, I'd come back for this one because
nobody lays a scene thicker than Lincoln Riley. Talk about
a motivational coach. Okay, here he is on the USC
week show talking about what it's going to be like
if the fans are going to show up and support
the team on Saturday in the Colise.

Speaker 11 (35:08):
I know our fans are excited about this game. I
know our players are excited about this game. I know
our former players are excited about this game, like play Wait,
wait this is going.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
To unless he's doing his nails with Caleb Williams. Other
than Matt Lionert, I don't know one former player that
talks to Lincoln Ryley that one. I mean, I mean
maybe I mean guys that played for him, maybe the
last couple of years. But it's just it's interesting for
me to hear Lincoln Riley talk for the former players

(35:36):
at USC who I don't believe any of them have
met him, or he's done any kind of outreach, or
he's not Mick Cronin. No, no, he's not even Ben Howland.
What former players does he talk to? Probably Lionert pretty
juiced up. I'm sure for the Iowa game. O, wait,
go ahead and play. Sorry, sorry about that. Go ahead,
you can finish, Lincoln. I'm sorry.

Speaker 11 (35:56):
I know our fans are excited about this game. I
know our players are excited about.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
This What fans do you talk to? Like, you don't
talk to anybody, You're barely barely.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Are the ones that write the big checks? You know
they get to come say.

Speaker 11 (36:07):
I know our fans are excited about this game. I
know our players are excited about this game. I know
our former players are excited about this game, like like
this is going to be one of those days that
you know, if you care at all about USC football,
you do not want to miss this. And it's and
it's been a lot of hard work for a lot
of people to get to that point. So we can't
wait for this game. It's going to be an epic

(36:29):
atmosphere in the coliseum. I already know it. Our team
knows it. We're going to prepare hard, be ready to play.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
I'm sold.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
So everybody is excited, I guess for the big Iowa game.
You heard Danny Canal talk about it a little bit earlier.

Speaker 5 (36:40):
True.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
And then here was Lincoln Riley's answer on the controversial
Damon Heward fake punt jersey swap play very Pete Carroll
twenty oh nine when he took a knee and then
Rick new Heisl UCLASC game called the time out. So
then Pete Carroll threw a touchdown pass. Was like, hey,

(37:03):
we just really like how they played out. I mean,
we thought we had a great chance and we did.
We did. We executed it. Man, That's kind of Lake
and Rollig's approach here. And remember we had not a
legal play. We had the great Dean Blandino come on
yesterday and I believe him, and he said it's not legal.
But here we go.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
You know, we had a good scheme drawn up.

Speaker 11 (37:20):
You know, give credit to you know, Coach Doherty, and
we had several people involved on that one, and and
and you know, really it was about execution though at
the end of the day, you know, they ended up
bringing an overload there to the left side, and you
know had one more guy than we were able to block,
and you know, Sam stood in there and made a
really nice throws, get a great touch by Tanook, and yeah,
it was another huge momentum play. You know, anytime you

(37:43):
can get a chance to pull something like that off
and you know, continue a drive and then go cap
it off, I mean that's it was. It was a
big play. So yeah, cool to see the guys execute it.
We had a lot of confidence going into the game.
And uh, you know, I know there's been a bunch
of stuff on the outside about it. It's a perfectly
legal play and our guys executed it at.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
A high level. No, right there at the end, you know,
his position is that it is perfectly legal. Dean Blandino says,
not legal.

Speaker 11 (38:10):
Yeah, I know, there's been a bunch of stuff on
the outside about it. It's a perfectly legal play, and
our guys executed it at a high level.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
Well, there it is.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
It doesn't seem like it's the execution of completing the pass.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Well, they had it overloaded on the other side and
Stewart stood in there.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Every wearing the number eighty with kicking.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
Shoots on Damon Heward.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Guys, what we're talking about around COVID.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Sam Heward was a five star recruit and I should
know his name, Matt. I did like three or four
of his games, and he is Brock Heward's nephew, and
his uncle is also the other uncle is the OC
at USC, but doesn't call the plays. Sam Heward was
a five star recruit who washed out at Washington and

(38:53):
you're like, okay, well then go play somewhere else. He
ended up at cal Pauly with his high school football
coach at his OC. They fired his high school football
coach at OC, so he ends up. I mean, you're
a five star recruit and now you're the third or
four string quarterback at USC because your uncle's.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Anyway, and you're wearing kicking shoes.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Yeah, hey, we like what we saw. That overloaded it.
He's stood in there.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Yeah, that's not the point. It's a guy wearing the
same number as the punter who's wearing kicking shoes.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
That's what ruskin here. Now you know who doesn't respect
USC much. I mean you just think about the style
and lot is Kirk Ferrence, the dean of college football. Kirks,
you might as well be Howard Schnellenberger up there in
God's Country in Iowa. Here's ference not mentioning Lincoln Riley,
but talking about his philosophy versus the philosophy of some

(39:42):
of the new people out west that are new to
the conference.

Speaker 12 (39:45):
Yeah, I think thank of a guy that entered the
conference recently that came with widely acclaimed you know, offensive
stats and all that. And that's usually how those guys
to become well known because of their you know, whatever
they're doing, throwing it, running a wishbone, you know. Then
you look a little deeper, So what's this guy's wins
per game? And there's usually a correlation, you know, people
that just throw the ball around, you know, it's it

(40:06):
makes it tougher to win. It makes it tougher to
be on good defense, good on defense. I think Phil
would tell you that. So there is a team conspects
concept here that is is really important to me. It's
the only way we can win in my opinion, my opinion.
And come right back to it.

Speaker 13 (40:22):
Uh, I lost my train of thought. Okay, yeah, but yeah,
it still gets other wins per game, like you know, oh,
I know the other one. There's school on the West
coast right now that's going to recommit to defense. You know,
you have a forty two to two wlane last year
in a bowl game, so you know a place where
like you know, running on play, So I just find it.

(40:43):
You know, now they're going to think about defense like
you know, to me that that was the first thing
we thought about.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
To thank you.

Speaker 12 (40:49):
That ain't change like that just ain't going to change.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
Lost my train of thought there.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
Damn damn.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
You know what I'm going to pack us some more
what I was thinking.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
Well, remember the last time USC played in Iowa was
in twenty nineteen. They played in the Holiday Bowl against
the Clay Helton team that had a mon Ross Saint
Brown and Pittman and Drake London at wide receiver. And Iowa,
a very challenged team offensively generally put up forty nine

(41:20):
and blue USC out beat their ass Kurk Farrence. So
that'll be interesting. And Matt your last SoundBite, we will
switch to basketball. Maybe Lincoln Rodley doesn't move the needle
for us on the Petterson Money Show very well, you
know what I mean. But there is a coach at
USC that does. Eric Musselman, certainly the basketball coach. As

(41:40):
much as we love McK Cronin we do. We also
love Eric Musselman, our old buddy, and he is always
online trying to fire everybody up. Do this and that,
geek up the football team. But they're up and running.
They beat cal Paly, they beat Manhattan. They have another
game coming up against a lightweight type this week. But

(42:02):
here's our old buddy, Eric Musselman in the locker room
for USC before the game, trying to fire up his team.
He puts on a battle clava and he says they're
gonna be like kleptos and they're gonna take from their opponent.
Listen to the speech.

Speaker 14 (42:16):
Tonight's thing I clepto medium. It's the urge to simply
take something because you can, with no hesitation, no remorse,
and zero concern for whoever's.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
Left empty handed. So tonight we have got to take
everything cla we can.

Speaker 14 (42:39):
We've gotta be Clipto maniacs, and we gotta take.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
The Trunson's three one two three the maniacs with no remorse.
God bless Eric Musselman. That's some good stop.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
That is good stuff.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
So not not so great from but I can just
show you that you can coach at USC and be
fired up.

Speaker 11 (43:05):
Yeah, I know, there's been a bunch of stuff on
the outside about it. It's a perfectly legal play and
our guys executed it at a high level.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
That's going to fire me up.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
As opposed to a guy to Ballaclada with.

Speaker 14 (43:15):
No repitation, no remorse, and zero concern.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
For whoever's left. That's a math. All right, We'll be
right back. We got a whole other hour at two
hours of great sports Talk. We got a talk great
sports talk about the NFL coming up next. We got
a film Noir Corner, All the Way to the Dead,
and the Live Guy Birthday of the Day. We're on
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