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our fun factpe the term mocha for your coffee.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
The origin the origin of it has nothing to do
with chocolate, no, Instead, a mocha coffee was named as
such because of the beans that were used in mocha
spelled mkh A Yemen. Mocha Yemen a prominent country in
the coffee trade from the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. When
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coffee drinking spread to Europe, the Euros referred to the
Arab beans as mocha's. They did have a chocolatey flavor
to them, but just a tinge. Today, as we know it, it's.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
A geographical tim Kaits master of geography, very interested in this.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
The Italians would screw it up. In nineteen twenty they
introduced espresso with milk and cocoa, and for whatever reason,
they decided to name that a mocha and that caught
on putting the end to the mocha yemen beans being
referenced as a mocha.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
But we still have the word today.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
We still have it today as that chocolate. Oh, I'll
take I'll take a nice chocolate.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It tastes the.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Same as macchiato, which is like a mark, the mark
of the that they put the mark in the coffee.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Is that what it?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I felt like you ordered the macchiato and then you
were marked mark for death.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Oh, Matt, all right, it's time for quick hits. Come
to be mss quick hitch. I'll make it quick, y'all. Yeah,
I will jog around the sports world. We'll talk to
Mick Cronin in the next segment. What are the headlines?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Big day for you? I mean a big day for
you me. You've been chasing what are the headlines for
a while when all the naysayers would suggest this is
arc bs, this is not real. Even look, I participated
in that. This can't last. He's a fool, she's a
global icon. And what world does this make any sense?
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And what are the headlines? I mean here we are
what should the headline be today?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Sports that's all we think about.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Here's the other story nobody's talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
You know, I'm not a racist. I mean, I hope
you do. He's a bad headline. What are the headlines?
Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift are engaged, perhaps because of
the rise and p popularity and attention for Madison Beer
and Justin Herbert or Justin a Bear, depending on.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
It.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Could be that we referenced Beer and Herbert in the
quick hits yesterday, and you know, you talked about your
daughters being aware of it. Matt, Kate's talked about the
same thing, and.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Oh you think they felt like they were giving up ground? Okay,
we cannot see the high ground.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
NFL power couple, a younger, more attractive couple making a move.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I mean we're starting on national a national broadwell, a
YouTube broadcast, not national TV. But I mean the eyes
of the football world will be on Chiefs Chargers September fifth,
from sal Paolo, Brazil. You feel like the timing is
not coincidental, Matt.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
She's going to be out in the streets of Brazil
and you're going to be Scott free because no one's
gonna be worried about you. No You're gonna be able
to do whatever you want exactly right.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yes, there is something there. The last twenty four hours
has all been about Madison Beer and Justin Herbert the.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Bottle of Wine were decided to do this.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
I mean, taketok. The Instagram rules are going crazy. I
had all three of my daughters text me about this separately.
Everybody's talking about it, and then the board game Club,
Alove Club, Rubby Cube. Now twenty four hours later, Taylor
Swift's engaged.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I mean, come on, come on, come on, yeh, anybody
can order a Trellis of flowers and have it delivered
in a minute.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
All right, you want to trell us, I'll get your Treilla's.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I got you covered.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Today was cut down day around the league. Rosters trimmed
down to fifty three players at one o'clock Pacific.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, a couple of the big thing for the Chargers
obviously was not putting Najie Harris, who had the and
I'm doing the air quote superficial eye injury after the
fireworks accident, even though he has not practiced since July
fourth on the the NFI list, so he is going
to be active week one for the game in Brazil.
I guess he was able to overcome what his agent
called a superficial eye injury, and maybe that's all that
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it was. For the Rams, they cut or waved thirty
two guys, and for the Raiders, of course, the big
one was the trade for Kenny Pick after Aidan O'Connell
went down with the injury, and of course signing to
Marii Cooper yesterday sort of made the big news yesterday,
late afternoon into the evening. Otherwise, a lot of undrafted
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free agents and older folks that you really don't know.
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
MLB announced the twenty twenty sixth schedule and the Dodgers
first game will be March twenty six at home versus
the d Backs. I'm sure we'll be out there. And
it looks like the Cardinal Way has changed, Matt.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Well, they supposedly the Cardinal Way is in part and
parcel due to what some say are the smartest and
best fans in baseball. But how things have changed. Saint
Louis hit a bit of a tough streak as of late.
Cardinals Pirates at Bush Stadium an announced crowd of seventeen thousand,
six hundred seventy five. That is literally the smallest crowd
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since they did the remodel of Bush Stadium, the first
time they have ever sold fewer than twenty thousand tickets
to a game. Again, down season, down season last year,
sixty five and sixty seven. They are seventeen back of
the Brewers in the NL Central, and they are five
and a half games back of a National League wild
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card spot.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well, that's unfortunate. I figured you would enjoy reading that, Matt.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Thank you, I appreciate it. We feel terrible for those fans.
They seem so kind.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
There are three Top ten matchups this weekend, including Ohio
State Texas, which we have that game here on AM
five seventy kickoff at nine from Columbus. Depending on the
Dodger schedule September and October, we're going to carry some
of the best college football games each Saturday right here
on AM five seventy.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
One of those games is not USC Missouri State. USC
is a thirty five point home favorite.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Sounds compelling.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
How about this even more compelling? UCLA hosts Utah on
Saturday night at the Rose Bowl. They're six point home
dogs to the Utes. Here's Deshaun Foster very rare media
appearance after practice yesterday.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Just from the way they looked this morning, it was
pretty they were pretty locked in. I just think that
they're ready for another opponent. You know, it's been it's
been along along road just going against each other, and
you know, tempers are getting up there, and you know,
guys are finally ready to really get to go against
somebody else. This is a pretty it's a good time
that it's finally gotten here.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well, that was funny.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Nothing to criticize them, No, seemed pretty straightforward.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
On Labor Day, we got TCU North Carolina here on
AM five seventy. Tim Kats will have the pre half
and posted at college coaching debut of Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Oh my god, with the tar heels. How about that
for a college football schedule? Yeah, Texas Ohio State followed
by Bill Belichick's debut.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And one has a Dodger game before, and one has
a Dodger game after. No Dodger game on Monday. Well,
Kate's does like to work. Oh there is no Dodger
game on Monday.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
They gave him Labor Day all wow, never happens. Caitlin
Clark has a new distinction to her resume, she's a
Nike Signature athlete. She now has her own logo. Like
the jump Man, the logo features interlocking seas and a
smaller hidden sea. According to the Nike release.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Why is there a small is her middle name Cee
Cee see.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
It represents her magnetic connection with fans around the globe,
who are drawn to her unwavering confidence, steadfast commitment, and
remarkable shooting ability, and how her game was built from
the inside out, a product of her passion for the sport,
relentless drive, and constant pursuit of perfection.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Three.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I'm looking at the logo right now and I feel
like it's something where I've got to like blur my
eyes and it's going to turn into like a laser gun.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Yeah, the sailboat.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, it's like a schooner, you idiot. It's got it
almost looks like the old Universal Studios logo or so.
I don't, man, that's a weird looking logo.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Online they're saying it's very eighties esque CBS Universal. It's
kind of a weird look.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, that's that's That's what I'm feeling. But I'm an
old man, so that would that would certainly fit into.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I like the Sophie Cunningham Roast Beef Sandwich RB's logo
better if you're.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Do you see the hidden sea? I don't.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah, it's in the middle.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It's in the middle. See see see we'll be right back.
I feel like chainsaw filling out my test.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
We're going to talk to Summer School Reference. Yeah, we're
gonna talk to Mark Harmon. Oh there it is there
see uh see see mc cronin also with a c
coming up next.
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Speaker 3 (12:49):
And joining us right now, Matt and a show of solidarity.
We might not be a UCLA station, but we are
a Mick Crownin station, no doubt about that. And also
with the Reds in town, a proud Cincinnati man, but
now an LA guy and a Dodger supporter. UCLA coming
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back in twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six, loaded going
into his seventh season. We are proud to have UCLA
head coach and a real figurehead here in southern California.
Seven years. On your Toyota Dealer Celebrity hotline, it is
Nick Cronin on the Petrosen Money Show. What's cragging? Coach?
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How are you my boys?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
How's the summer going?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
All Right's all right? We're getting ready. I'll be in
the tom Izzo Football Complex at the end of the
week to visit the Michigan State Spartans. Matt's got to
go to Brazil with the Chargers in a couple of weeks.
So we got a lot going on. But you got
the Reds in town. Do you do? You bring the
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whole team to the game. How does it work?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
No? I may. What I do is my step son.
He loves the Reds, so I checked. He's at college
back near Cincinnati, at Miami of Ohio. So I text
him all night about how how the Reds were going
to lose, and you know, you're just rubbing it into
him all night last night. We're ever going to get
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a hit because you know, we're getting health. The Dodgers
are getting healthy. I mean Coach Roberts, I think he's
just been playing possum all year and we're getting ready
to go on an unprecedented run here.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It's very exciting for us as as we have all
the games. Sadly we won't have the games coming up
starting in November. But of course, you know how much
we love and appreciate you and man you put together,
and this is something that we've been talking about with
you for years ever since you've been coming on coach
just to schedule bravely to get Gunzaga in there, Arizona.
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That that non conference is so darn exciting. And I love also,
and I'll start with this. I like when when the
local teams play, you get Pepperdine in there, you get
Cal Poly in there. I do think there's you know,
I don't know, just for for local people. It's great
value to kind of have, you know, those showdowns as well.
What a great you know, first five ten games that
you got going here.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Yeah, you know, we got cal at Arizona State. So
you throw in some pack tell stuff, you know, maybe
hoping they put it to put the league back together.
I think there's enough money for that.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Nope.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
But you know, look, it's good to always give some
of the in state schools a chance for their coaches
or teams to play at Pauly Pavilion. You know, Matt,
I get that a lot, like I get the messages
from coaches around the country. You know, please please play
us one time. I just want to. I want to
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which one game in Pauly Pavilion. Obviously because of the tradition,
the history, and that's more because of Kareem and Bill
Walton and coach Wooden than me. But I do get
that a lot. They just want to play coaches nationwide,
they want to play one game in Paul Pavilion. But
for the California kids that are, like you said, maybe
at Pepperdine or you know, cal Poly and some of
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the other places that we try to rotate beforeth and
last year and give just give those programs a chance
to play in PAULI. It's a cool thing.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
The one and only mc cronin the coach at UCLA
and a dear friend of the Petros and Money Show
on AM five seventy LA Sports is our guest. We're
seeing the second year of the Big ten about to
unfold in the football world. You know, whenever anybody's a
first year coach, they say all the right things, and
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then in the second year they say, yeah, you know,
I'm a lot more comfortable, I know where to park
and all that. Is it the same way with a
conference and all of those different things or or is
it a new approach every year because the team changes
every year.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Yeah. I mean, look, I think it's way harder on
first year head coach, especially at the high levels. It's
just a tough putt. Fortunately I was able to be
at Murray State back in my day and three is
my first year as a head coach. The Paduca Son
was the only paper that could catch if I did
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something stupid and write about it, so you know, it
wasn't like I was under the microscope. So I would
say the look the Big Ten is, uh, it is
just the reality of now right, monster conferences. There's two
of them in the SEC and the Big Ten, even
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the Big twelve was expanded. So in basketball it's the
travels different than in football. We played way more games,
so that you know, that's a challenge. But the way
I look at it is the answer is have better players.
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Just have better players. You know, I always go back
to Coach Wood and he was so smart. The guy
with the best players usually wins, it doesn't matter where
the game's at. And I think he's right. He was
dead right on that. And I mean, we've we've got
some great players. We're a lot older. We retained our
best players, and we had an All American point guard
that's just a super player in Donovan Dent and some
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veterans around him. Three graduate transfers we brought in and
in this era, like I mentioned, you know retain Tyler Billados,
Sky Clark and Eric Daily. So for us when it's
unlike football, like look like you're not going to lose
get one hundred and five now on scholarship, you're not
going to lose them all. But in basketball, coach leaves.
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So there's a coach and saying you're losing your whole team. Now,
I mean they're you know, Indiana's got a whole new team.
Year before USC had all new teams. Uh, you know,
you got twelve guys, you're gonna they're all going into portal.
So it's it's year to year and we were the
key for us. Trent Perry State is a young, building
black guy for us, along with the three guys that
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were uh three leading returning scores h and add to it,
we got a chance. We got a real chance, guys.
I mean we we've got a talented team with returning
players and we've got some guys with like I said,
pro potential. When you can add an all American tier
tier team, that's hard to do. So you know, Donovan
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Dent's and All American guy average like twenty and ten
and a smart player. I just wish I was smart
enough to have signed him out of high school instead
of letting me go.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Into the He wanted to be at Albuquerque. You know,
it's a good town.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Everybody loves it.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Everybody loves Albuquerque.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
It's easy to start with with Dan. But you mentioned
Trent Perry. I'd love for you to if you could
just kind of like expand on that a little bit,
because here's, you know, super high profile recruit and we
know how you operate there, and it looks like he
took to your coaching. I'm sure he'd probably had his
phone ringing a little bit. Just kind of the fact
that that that young man is coming back, that he
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fought with the minutes that he was provided, and I'm
assuming you're expecting a pretty big jump from him this year.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Yeah, Trent's gonna have him. He's just got more opportunity
and he's a good player. Now he's a better player
because he's a year older. But yeah, like you think
you mentioned, you know, phone ringing, you know, for listeners
out there. I mean, look, it just kind of is
what it is. I mean, everybody knows players can do
in the portal, and there's some people that follow the
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rules and a lot of people that don't. So you know,
you have agents shopping players around during the entire season. Fortunately,
Trent Perry has first class, big time parents.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
And he's a great kid. And him being local helps
understanding the value of a UCLA degree. Uh, you know
and get and look understanding. I had older players last
year and we needed to get back in the NCAA tournament.
It was just I had to do what I had
to do from a playing time standpoint. And he's gonna
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get a lot more opportunity this year. And I was
a year older. So and it's just the world of
old in college basketball with the portals. So but it
takes people with I think that that are have some
foresight and to see big picture that are in your camp,
so to speak. And his case, his parents are the best.
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So to keep your eye on what's important in your improvement.
And like I met with Trent today and I said,
you know, like Donovan Dent probably was, I'm gonna still
be practic this today when the media was there, and
so the articles are going to come out tomorrow. But
he's the next coming because I'm going to think he
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was seven for eight from three and about twelve or
fifteen from the field with five assists. And I said,
you know, Trent, he Donovan Dent didn't start a New
Mexico as a sophomore, not UCLA New Mexico. He didn't
start as a sophomore. So you got to give you know,
there's still a lot to given a talented guy that
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works hard a chance to get older and get better.
And that's going to as it's happened for Sky Clark
or Donovan Dent or Tiger, I may it'll happen for
Trent Perry as well. But Matt I, you know, you
bring up a guy like that, because that's the concern
with recruiting high school guys in this era because people
one instant success or they're going to jump ship.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yeah, and you know Donovan Dent you mentioned three years
at New Mexico. When you see kind of like it
come together in the tournament, how much how much weight
do you put into that? You know, because we know
what what college basketball is. I mean, the eyes of
the sporting nation are upon you when you're playing in
those games. And and I know we had a he
had a great run against Marquette and like you said,
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here's a twenty point score. Guy, that's a fifty to
forty I think nearly eighty guy. You know, I go
in the NBA, they say ninety, but I mean this
is a dude that does it all from distance and
and everywhere. Like, what does it mean when you see
your guys perform in the tournament? Does that change anything
the way you feel about them?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Well, that's that's when it matters for sure. You know.
I think we just mentioned are Dodgers, right, I mean, yeah,
that's that's uh. I mean you know Hernandez probably got
one of the Hernandez guys got the new contract because
how he performed in the in the postseason. Yeah, I
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mean that that's Look, that's that's uh. They hang banners
for how you play in the postseason. So absolutely, uh.
And just you know the fact that the guy's got
experience Matt in the postseason that matters. You know the guys,
you know, guy's actually been on a team that's played
in the tournament and wanted, you know, want a little
bit in the tournament. Uh. I can't do anything but
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help you going forward. And you just have look, you
you have to evaluate not just yourself but others and look,
look who's winning. You know, old is winning. Florida was
had the oldest backcourt in the country last year, they
win the title. All you know, all fifth year guys,
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extra year guys. We did not have any of those
guys last year. Those guys playing in their fifth year
or their sixth year, and we'll have a few of
them this year. And Steven Jemerson uh and Jamar Brown
guys are transferred in their graduates, they're going to be
in our rotation there that they're gonna get the extra year,
you know. In Jamar's case, uh, the Pavia Juco rule,
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you know. And in Steven's case, he didn't play as
a freshman is this a student and then played three
years at San Diego and graduated. So it helps to
have older guys. Any advantage you can get is something
that can help it at the college level. And you know,
you hear other coaches crying about it because they play
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a lot of young guys. But you could solve it.
Just play. Just get older guys and you don't have
to cry about how other people love.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
The world to the old. The unbelievable Mick cronin Friend
of the Show last thing for your coach. You've described
to us over the years how you fought hard to
keep Travis Kelcey eligible back at the Cincinnati days.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Getting married, I just.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah, you does it warrant a wedding invitation? Do you
think you'll get invited to the wedding of the century coach?
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Well, yeah, there's no doubt I should, right because of
the Cincinnati roots. I mean, how many basketball coaches knew
a guy in high school? His high school coach and
I were very close, and then I had to be
as counselor his entire time at Cincinnati while he was
a football player, whether whether it was Brian Kelly or
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Butcher Jones, I was the guy they sent him to
to try to talk sense into him. So yeah, there's
no question I should. But the problem is I believe
in the Larry David rule. Okay, I don't believe in
destination weddings. Ah yeah, now we Chrissy, my significant other,
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would be very upset that I would turn down that invitation.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That I truly there's no way you turn it down
if it's a destination. There's no way.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Now you don't know me, there's zero chance I'm going
to like Lake Cuomo, Italy to go to some wedding.
I mean, coach Cronin doesn't leave southern California. I have
vacation in del Mar, up and down the five. That's it,
end of story. I haven't been to Cincinnati in a
year and a half. I had to go to a
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wedding back there, but that was that was a relative
And you know, I just believe in the Larry David rule. Okay,
you know, so Trey, you tell, let's Travis gets married
in Malibu. I will not be there.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Wow, great stuff from u c L A head coach
looking great this year. Our friend Mick Cronin. Uh tell
your steps on. Good luck tonight, coach, and we know you're.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
On the red Hawks play tonight.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
No, no, you know Cincinnati versus the Red Man. I
don't know if the are the cradle of coaches. Is
that activated tonight? I don't know if it is. I
don't think so.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah, No, they who knows where the Miami Their football
team's not bad, but the Dodgers are rolling. Uh just
just get on train, guys, we're getting healthy. Coach Roberts
has been he's been laying low. He's turning up to heat.
Right now, he's turning up to heat like like General McAllister,
lethal weapon. It's time to turn up to heat.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Let's go the great Mick cronin our destination weddings. No
destination weddings, not even in Lake Cuomo. The best of
the best. Oh gosh. We appreciate him and we will
continue our solid relationship with Coach Cronan for whenever and
however we need to promote and want to promote him
and UCLA basketball. Thank you, coach.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
You guys are the best. Take care man.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Pours up and we'll be back with more petros and money.
You're dead in a live guy birthday other day kursh
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Speaker 2 (29:24):
So we're not doing the World Champion anymore.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Boss, I'm sorry. We're your home of the world champion
first place. There we go, Los Angeles Dodgers. We're stacking titles, guys.
Stacking titles is right, Dodgers on Decad six, first pitch
at seven ten. We will be on tomorrow at two o'clock.
So that is a flex alert for Usert and Matt.
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We got a big game on Saturday off the station.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
We got the game of potentially the year. Speaking of
World Series Champion, we have your NCAA Football champion, Ohio
State buck Eyes playing host to the number one in
the nation preseason poll. Arch Manning te sip Texas horns down.
I can't do that. They would take that, they'd take
it away from us. You can horns up. Arch Manning,
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Texas Longhorns. You'll hear it right here. Kick off at
nine am. Get your Saturday started with the game of
the year potentially Texas at Ohio State number one versus
number three this Saturday on your home will play by play.
We got all the games on the station. Guys. We
got Dodgers reds tonight. We got Texas Marsus Ohio State
on Saturday. Let the whole world know.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
So we look forward to that. Get them all, guys,
lot lot of action, a lot of action on the
board all weekend long. And then who knows what's going
to happen when Matt goes to Brazil?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I mean anything, man?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Wow? Man freaked out? All right? Your dead guy. Birthday
of the day to day Auto Binder from Michigan would
have been one hundred and fourteen today. German Lutheran family
parents were from Austria, settled in Chicago as a young man,
Him and his brother Earl in the nineteen twenties, which
(31:16):
was a golden age for science fiction and Martians and
stuff like that. Was enthralled by science fiction and science
fiction stories. He began writing in partnership with Earl, and
they sold their first story, The First Martian, to Amazing
Stories in nineteen thirty It didn't really make a lot
of money for him. They worked in Ironworks. Auto moved
(31:39):
to New York and got into comics in nineteen thirty nine,
where he worked at Fawcett Comics on Captain Marvel, Captain
Marvel precedes Marvel Comics.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Just so.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Marvel Comics came from Captain Marvel well because.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
He Fawcett and went to Timely Comics eventually, which became
Marvel Comics. Interesting where he worked on Captain America, the
Human Torch, a lot of other guys. The Wizard whoever
that is? Wow, guy with the prodigious bladder, that's who.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
It seems like it just a very active bladder.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Uh. He worked for DC Comics, and that's where he
made his comic book name, creating Supergirl. Where would we be,
Matt without Supergirl. It's a good question, right.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I mean, I assume there's no wonder Woman if there's
no Supergirl.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
I mean I think Supergirl came after wonder Woman, all.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Right, so there's definitely wonder Woman if there is no Supergirl.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
He also created Crypto the super Dog Oh Come, Oh God,
which did not make Mike francessa happy at all.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
No, that is okay.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
He did not like that. He did not He wanted
to see Superman beat people up, not Superman get his
ass whooped.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I mean, look, Crypto. I don't think Crypto was scrappy do,
but it certainly is was not well received.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
He also created Lois Lane's younger sister, Lucy Lane, who
was one of the one of the people who took
on the mantle of Supergirl over the years. Oh He
won to the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in ninety nine, posthumously,
(33:35):
the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in two thousand and four,
the Bill Finger Award in twenty ten. He's referenced in
the first episode of the twenty fifteen television series Supergirl.
Sadly though, he had a daughter killed in an accident
and oh yeah, I saw at the end of course,
(33:58):
and him and his wife kind of just fell apart
after that and died shortly after.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Well, you're a live guy on a much lighter note.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Hey, I get it.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
You know, you get to the end and it's like,
oh no, and hey, that's part of their story.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Man.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
You know that Supergirl TV shows Grolling, Crypto the super Dog.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
And Lucy Lane. Good one. Here, let's you know what,
let's start a little bit of audio. Go ahead, cakes,
look at that.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
We get out of here.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
No, I can't watch.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Scrawled in Blood's see.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
You next Wednesday, o'la ray.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Michael Jackson's girlfriend Ola Ray in the thriller video. She
is sixty five years old today. Ola Ray born in
Saint News. Oh yeah, give it to me, michaels.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
I wasn't scared.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Here, you were scared.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Six brothers, two sisters moved to Sacramento when she was
a kid. They then took off for Tokyo and she
was a sophomore in high school. Father raw and Air
Force guy. And in Tokyo she was a performer. She
starred as The family started a dance group called the
Puppets over in Tokyo and it took off. They had
(35:39):
a year long residency at the Big Together Club in
Shinjuku District and that landed them on some TV commercials.
It got them a record deal from CBS Japan. She
was signed to the Eddy Arab modeling agency and was
as big as any model in the country of.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Your She's a favorite of yours.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Oh yeah, doing shoots for all the big department stores,
Daimaru my favorite, Matsuya and Parko and Olaray got so big.
P The family was like, you know what, wowa to
Ola to come back to the States, because we want
(36:23):
you to chase big Japan Already she's bigger than the island. Right,
already big in Japan, tonight big in Japan. So what
does she do as soon as she gets back family?
Thank you, pulled up steaks, left Japan where we've been
for the last five ten years. I'm going to be
(36:43):
the playmate of the month. Oh, Playboy Magazine June nineteen
eighty Welcome home, Welcome home Ola. Now from there she
was able to land some Johnson and Johnson ads. Particularly,
she was the face of their Classy Curl line, and
that was a big deal. All Classy Curl products, magazine advertisements,
(37:06):
TV commercials, posters, all all array bigger deals would follow.
She became a pretty big commercial star Coors McDonald's legs
with two g's, nylons, Milk Coca Cola. She then got
some Body. She got some movies, Body and Soul, where
(37:26):
she played Hooker number one and Night Shift. She was
down the Hooker forty eight hours with Eddie Murphy and
Nick Nolty. I don't think she was a hooker, but
I'm not entirely sure. And then the big one, of course,
(37:47):
the Thriller nineteen eighty three. Out of that, she got
a bunch of TV and some more movies, she was
Intent to Midnight with Bronson, she was in Fair I
think some films that might make their way into the film,
the Warcorn. I mean, you got Ten to Midnight with Bronson,
you got Feer City, The Night Stalker. She's in all
of those. And again kind of back to her calling.
(38:09):
She was a playboy playmate in Beverly Hills Cop two.
Her big break, unfortunately, p never happened because she starred, well,
she didn't start. She appeared in a couple episodes of
Gimme a Break, and they liked her so much they
tried to run a spin off, put together a pilot
where she was the star, but as we know, because
well it was forty years ago, that did not make it.
(38:34):
As far as Thriller goes, Ola Ray complained that she
was never paid royalties for her work in the Thriller video,
and it took her until yeah, May of two thousand
and nine, when she finally filed suit against Michael Jackson,
thirty years almost after her appearance. Jackson, unfortunately, as you
fool well know, because he died on June twenty fifth,
(38:56):
would die less than a month later of her filing
that suit. Ultimately, the estate would settle with Ola and
pay her out how much don't know, but she's sixty
five today.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Ola Ray interesting. I hope she got some money, I
would think.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
So.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
It was a pretty prominent role.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
I would say, the most prominent other than MJ and
Vinnie Price.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
And that wolf that MJ turned into is that a
different guy? I mean, I'm guessing Michael was clocking in
at about ninety thous at that time, and that wolf
was like, Oh, it's real scary.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Yeah, Dodgers read tonight. Do you know what side McK
cronin's on. We'll be back on tomorrow at two day
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treatment on this one. It's possible.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
It is possible.
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Yeah, gonna keep it going.
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our fun factpe the term mocha for your coffee.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
The origin the origin of it has nothing to do
with chocolate, no, Instead, a mocha coffee was named as
such because of the beans that were used in mocha
spelled mkh A Yemen. Mocha Yemen a prominent country in
the coffee trade from the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. When
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coffee drinking spread to Europe, the Euros referred to the
Arab beans as mocha's. They did have a chocolatey flavor
to them, but just a tinge. Today, as we know it, it's.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
A geographical tim Kaits master of geography, very interested in this.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
The Italians would screw it up. In nineteen twenty they
introduced espresso with milk and cocoa, and for whatever reason,
they decided to name that a mocha and that caught
on putting the end to the mocha yemen beans being
referenced as a mocha.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
But we still have the word today.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
We still have it today as that chocolate. Oh, I'll
take I'll take a nice chocolate.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It tastes the.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Same as macchiato, which is like a mark, the mark
of the that they put the mark in the coffee.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Is that what it?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I felt like you ordered the macchiato and then you
were marked mark for death.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Oh, Matt, all right, it's time for quick hits. Come
to be mss quick hitch. I'll make it quick, y'all. Yeah,
I will jog around the sports world. We'll talk to
Mick Cronin in the next segment. What are the headlines?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Big day for you? I mean a big day for
you me. You've been chasing what are the headlines for
a while when all the naysayers would suggest this is
arc bs, this is not real. Even look, I participated
in that. This can't last. He's a fool, she's a
global icon. And what world does this make any sense?
(04:40):
And what are the headlines? I mean here we are
what should the headline be today?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Sports that's all we think about.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Here's the other story nobody's talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
You know, I'm not a racist. I mean, I hope
you do. He's a bad headline. What are the headlines?
Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift are engaged, perhaps because of
the rise and p popularity and attention for Madison Beer
and Justin Herbert or Justin a Bear, depending on.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
It.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Could be that we referenced Beer and Herbert in the
quick hits yesterday, and you know, you talked about your
daughters being aware of it. Matt, Kate's talked about the
same thing, and.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Oh you think they felt like they were giving up ground? Okay,
we cannot see the high ground.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
NFL power couple, a younger, more attractive couple making a move.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I mean we're starting on national a national broadwell, a
YouTube broadcast, not national TV. But I mean the eyes
of the football world will be on Chiefs Chargers September fifth,
from sal Paolo, Brazil. You feel like the timing is
not coincidental, Matt.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
She's going to be out in the streets of Brazil
and you're going to be Scott free because no one's
gonna be worried about you. No You're gonna be able
to do whatever you want exactly right.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yes, there is something there. The last twenty four hours
has all been about Madison Beer and Justin Herbert the.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Bottle of Wine were decided to do this.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
I mean, taketok. The Instagram rules are going crazy. I
had all three of my daughters text me about this separately.
Everybody's talking about it, and then the board game Club,
Alove Club, Rubby Cube. Now twenty four hours later, Taylor
Swift's engaged.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I mean, come on, come on, come on, yeh, anybody
can order a Trellis of flowers and have it delivered
in a minute.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
All right, you want to trell us, I'll get your Treilla's.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I got you covered.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Today was cut down day around the league. Rosters trimmed
down to fifty three players at one o'clock Pacific.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, a couple of the big thing for the Chargers
obviously was not putting Najie Harris, who had the and
I'm doing the air quote superficial eye injury after the
fireworks accident, even though he has not practiced since July
fourth on the the NFI list, so he is going
to be active week one for the game in Brazil.
I guess he was able to overcome what his agent
called a superficial eye injury, and maybe that's all that
(06:51):
it was. For the Rams, they cut or waved thirty
two guys, and for the Raiders, of course, the big
one was the trade for Kenny Pick after Aidan O'Connell
went down with the injury, and of course signing to
Marii Cooper yesterday sort of made the big news yesterday,
late afternoon into the evening. Otherwise, a lot of undrafted
(07:13):
free agents and older folks that you really don't know.
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
MLB announced the twenty twenty sixth schedule and the Dodgers
first game will be March twenty six at home versus
the d Backs. I'm sure we'll be out there. And
it looks like the Cardinal Way has changed, Matt.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Well, they supposedly the Cardinal Way is in part and
parcel due to what some say are the smartest and
best fans in baseball. But how things have changed. Saint
Louis hit a bit of a tough streak as of late.
Cardinals Pirates at Bush Stadium an announced crowd of seventeen thousand,
six hundred seventy five. That is literally the smallest crowd
(07:55):
since they did the remodel of Bush Stadium, the first
time they have ever sold fewer than twenty thousand tickets
to a game. Again, down season, down season last year,
sixty five and sixty seven. They are seventeen back of
the Brewers in the NL Central, and they are five
and a half games back of a National League wild
(08:18):
card spot.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well, that's unfortunate. I figured you would enjoy reading that, Matt.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Thank you, I appreciate it. We feel terrible for those fans.
They seem so kind.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
There are three Top ten matchups this weekend, including Ohio
State Texas, which we have that game here on AM
five seventy kickoff at nine from Columbus. Depending on the
Dodger schedule September and October, we're going to carry some
of the best college football games each Saturday right here
on AM five seventy.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
One of those games is not USC Missouri State. USC
is a thirty five point home favorite.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Sounds compelling.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
How about this even more compelling? UCLA hosts Utah on
Saturday night at the Rose Bowl. They're six point home
dogs to the Utes. Here's Deshaun Foster very rare media
appearance after practice yesterday.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Just from the way they looked this morning, it was
pretty they were pretty locked in. I just think that
they're ready for another opponent. You know, it's been it's
been along along road just going against each other, and
you know, tempers are getting up there, and you know,
guys are finally ready to really get to go against
somebody else. This is a pretty it's a good time
that it's finally gotten here.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well, that was funny.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Nothing to criticize them, No, seemed pretty straightforward.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
On Labor Day, we got TCU North Carolina here on
AM five seventy. Tim Kats will have the pre half
and posted at college coaching debut of Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Oh my god, with the tar heels. How about that
for a college football schedule? Yeah, Texas Ohio State followed
by Bill Belichick's debut.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And one has a Dodger game before, and one has
a Dodger game after. No Dodger game on Monday. Well,
Kate's does like to work. Oh there is no Dodger
game on Monday.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
They gave him Labor Day all wow, never happens. Caitlin
Clark has a new distinction to her resume, she's a
Nike Signature athlete. She now has her own logo. Like
the jump Man, the logo features interlocking seas and a
smaller hidden sea. According to the Nike release.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Why is there a small is her middle name Cee
Cee see.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
It represents her magnetic connection with fans around the globe,
who are drawn to her unwavering confidence, steadfast commitment, and
remarkable shooting ability, and how her game was built from
the inside out, a product of her passion for the sport,
relentless drive, and constant pursuit of perfection.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Three.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I'm looking at the logo right now and I feel
like it's something where I've got to like blur my
eyes and it's going to turn into like a laser gun.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Yeah, the sailboat.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, it's like a schooner, you idiot. It's got it
almost looks like the old Universal Studios logo or so.
I don't, man, that's a weird looking logo.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Online they're saying it's very eighties esque CBS Universal. It's
kind of a weird look.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, that's that's That's what I'm feeling. But I'm an
old man, so that would that would certainly fit into.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I like the Sophie Cunningham Roast Beef Sandwich RB's logo
better if you're.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Do you see the hidden sea? I don't.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah, it's in the middle.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It's in the middle. See see see we'll be right back.
I feel like chainsaw filling out my test.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
We're going to talk to Summer School Reference. Yeah, we're
gonna talk to Mark Harmon. Oh there it is there
see uh see see mc cronin also with a c
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Speaker 3 (12:49):
And joining us right now, Matt and a show of solidarity.
We might not be a UCLA station, but we are
a Mick Crownin station, no doubt about that. And also
with the Reds in town, a proud Cincinnati man, but
now an LA guy and a Dodger supporter. UCLA coming
(13:15):
back in twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six, loaded going
into his seventh season. We are proud to have UCLA
head coach and a real figurehead here in southern California.
Seven years. On your Toyota Dealer Celebrity hotline, it is
Nick Cronin on the Petrosen Money Show. What's cragging? Coach?
(13:36):
How are you my boys?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
How's the summer going?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
All Right's all right? We're getting ready. I'll be in
the tom Izzo Football Complex at the end of the
week to visit the Michigan State Spartans. Matt's got to
go to Brazil with the Chargers in a couple of weeks.
So we got a lot going on. But you got
the Reds in town. Do you do? You bring the
(14:01):
whole team to the game. How does it work?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
No? I may. What I do is my step son.
He loves the Reds, so I checked. He's at college
back near Cincinnati, at Miami of Ohio. So I text
him all night about how how the Reds were going
to lose, and you know, you're just rubbing it into
him all night last night. We're ever going to get
(14:26):
a hit because you know, we're getting health. The Dodgers
are getting healthy. I mean Coach Roberts, I think he's
just been playing possum all year and we're getting ready
to go on an unprecedented run here.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It's very exciting for us as as we have all
the games. Sadly we won't have the games coming up
starting in November. But of course, you know how much
we love and appreciate you and man you put together,
and this is something that we've been talking about with
you for years ever since you've been coming on coach
just to schedule bravely to get Gunzaga in there, Arizona.
(15:00):
That that non conference is so darn exciting. And I love also,
and I'll start with this. I like when when the
local teams play, you get Pepperdine in there, you get
Cal Poly in there. I do think there's you know,
I don't know, just for for local people. It's great
value to kind of have, you know, those showdowns as well.
What a great you know, first five ten games that
you got going here.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Yeah, you know, we got cal at Arizona State. So
you throw in some pack tell stuff, you know, maybe
hoping they put it to put the league back together.
I think there's enough money for that.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Nope.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
But you know, look, it's good to always give some
of the in state schools a chance for their coaches
or teams to play at Pauly Pavilion. You know, Matt,
I get that a lot, like I get the messages
from coaches around the country. You know, please please play
us one time. I just want to. I want to
(16:00):
which one game in Pauly Pavilion. Obviously because of the tradition,
the history, and that's more because of Kareem and Bill
Walton and coach Wooden than me. But I do get
that a lot. They just want to play coaches nationwide,
they want to play one game in Paul Pavilion. But
for the California kids that are, like you said, maybe
at Pepperdine or you know, cal Poly and some of
(16:23):
the other places that we try to rotate beforeth and
last year and give just give those programs a chance
to play in PAULI. It's a cool thing.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
The one and only mc cronin the coach at UCLA
and a dear friend of the Petros and Money Show
on AM five seventy LA Sports is our guest. We're
seeing the second year of the Big ten about to
unfold in the football world. You know, whenever anybody's a
first year coach, they say all the right things, and
(16:54):
then in the second year they say, yeah, you know,
I'm a lot more comfortable, I know where to park
and all that. Is it the same way with a
conference and all of those different things or or is
it a new approach every year because the team changes
every year.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Yeah. I mean, look, I think it's way harder on
first year head coach, especially at the high levels. It's
just a tough putt. Fortunately I was able to be
at Murray State back in my day and three is
my first year as a head coach. The Paduca Son
was the only paper that could catch if I did
(17:30):
something stupid and write about it, so you know, it
wasn't like I was under the microscope. So I would
say the look the Big Ten is, uh, it is
just the reality of now right, monster conferences. There's two
of them in the SEC and the Big Ten, even
(17:50):
the Big twelve was expanded. So in basketball it's the
travels different than in football. We played way more games,
so that you know, that's a challenge. But the way
I look at it is the answer is have better players.
(18:11):
Just have better players. You know, I always go back
to Coach Wood and he was so smart. The guy
with the best players usually wins, it doesn't matter where
the game's at. And I think he's right. He was
dead right on that. And I mean, we've we've got
some great players. We're a lot older. We retained our
best players, and we had an All American point guard
that's just a super player in Donovan Dent and some
(18:35):
veterans around him. Three graduate transfers we brought in and
in this era, like I mentioned, you know retain Tyler Billados,
Sky Clark and Eric Daily. So for us when it's
unlike football, like look like you're not going to lose
get one hundred and five now on scholarship, you're not
going to lose them all. But in basketball, coach leaves.
(18:56):
So there's a coach and saying you're losing your whole team. Now,
I mean they're you know, Indiana's got a whole new team.
Year before USC had all new teams. Uh, you know,
you got twelve guys, you're gonna they're all going into portal.
So it's it's year to year and we were the
key for us. Trent Perry State is a young, building
black guy for us, along with the three guys that
(19:17):
were uh three leading returning scores h and add to it,
we got a chance. We got a real chance, guys.
I mean we we've got a talented team with returning
players and we've got some guys with like I said,
pro potential. When you can add an all American tier
tier team, that's hard to do. So you know, Donovan
(19:39):
Dent's and All American guy average like twenty and ten
and a smart player. I just wish I was smart
enough to have signed him out of high school instead
of letting me go.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Into the He wanted to be at Albuquerque. You know,
it's a good town.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Everybody loves it.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Everybody loves Albuquerque.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
It's easy to start with with Dan. But you mentioned
Trent Perry. I'd love for you to if you could
just kind of like expand on that a little bit,
because here's, you know, super high profile recruit and we
know how you operate there, and it looks like he
took to your coaching. I'm sure he'd probably had his
phone ringing a little bit. Just kind of the fact
that that that young man is coming back, that he
(20:16):
fought with the minutes that he was provided, and I'm
assuming you're expecting a pretty big jump from him this year.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Yeah, Trent's gonna have him. He's just got more opportunity
and he's a good player. Now he's a better player
because he's a year older. But yeah, like you think
you mentioned, you know, phone ringing, you know, for listeners
out there. I mean, look, it just kind of is
what it is. I mean, everybody knows players can do
in the portal, and there's some people that follow the
(20:45):
rules and a lot of people that don't. So you know,
you have agents shopping players around during the entire season. Fortunately,
Trent Perry has first class, big time parents.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
And he's a great kid. And him being local helps
understanding the value of a UCLA degree. Uh, you know
and get and look understanding. I had older players last
year and we needed to get back in the NCAA tournament.
It was just I had to do what I had
to do from a playing time standpoint. And he's gonna
(21:24):
get a lot more opportunity this year. And I was
a year older. So and it's just the world of
old in college basketball with the portals. So but it
takes people with I think that that are have some
foresight and to see big picture that are in your camp,
so to speak. And his case, his parents are the best.
(21:46):
So to keep your eye on what's important in your improvement.
And like I met with Trent today and I said,
you know, like Donovan Dent probably was, I'm gonna still
be practic this today when the media was there, and
so the articles are going to come out tomorrow. But
he's the next coming because I'm going to think he
(22:08):
was seven for eight from three and about twelve or
fifteen from the field with five assists. And I said,
you know, Trent, he Donovan Dent didn't start a New
Mexico as a sophomore, not UCLA New Mexico. He didn't
start as a sophomore. So you got to give you know,
there's still a lot to given a talented guy that
(22:28):
works hard a chance to get older and get better.
And that's going to as it's happened for Sky Clark
or Donovan Dent or Tiger, I may it'll happen for
Trent Perry as well. But Matt I, you know, you
bring up a guy like that, because that's the concern
with recruiting high school guys in this era because people
one instant success or they're going to jump ship.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yeah, and you know Donovan Dent you mentioned three years
at New Mexico. When you see kind of like it
come together in the tournament, how much how much weight
do you put into that? You know, because we know
what what college basketball is. I mean, the eyes of
the sporting nation are upon you when you're playing in
those games. And and I know we had a he
had a great run against Marquette and like you said,
(23:14):
here's a twenty point score. Guy, that's a fifty to
forty I think nearly eighty guy. You know, I go
in the NBA, they say ninety, but I mean this
is a dude that does it all from distance and
and everywhere. Like, what does it mean when you see
your guys perform in the tournament? Does that change anything
the way you feel about them?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Well, that's that's when it matters for sure. You know.
I think we just mentioned are Dodgers, right, I mean, yeah,
that's that's uh. I mean you know Hernandez probably got
one of the Hernandez guys got the new contract because
how he performed in the in the postseason. Yeah, I
(23:52):
mean that that's Look, that's that's uh. They hang banners
for how you play in the postseason. So absolutely, uh.
And just you know the fact that the guy's got
experience Matt in the postseason that matters. You know the guys,
you know, guy's actually been on a team that's played
in the tournament and wanted, you know, want a little
bit in the tournament. Uh. I can't do anything but
(24:12):
help you going forward. And you just have look, you
you have to evaluate not just yourself but others and look,
look who's winning. You know, old is winning. Florida was
had the oldest backcourt in the country last year, they
win the title. All you know, all fifth year guys,
(24:33):
extra year guys. We did not have any of those
guys last year. Those guys playing in their fifth year
or their sixth year, and we'll have a few of
them this year. And Steven Jemerson uh and Jamar Brown
guys are transferred in their graduates, they're going to be
in our rotation there that they're gonna get the extra year,
you know. In Jamar's case, uh, the Pavia Juco rule,
(24:58):
you know. And in Steven's case, he didn't play as
a freshman is this a student and then played three
years at San Diego and graduated. So it helps to
have older guys. Any advantage you can get is something
that can help it at the college level. And you know,
you hear other coaches crying about it because they play
(25:20):
a lot of young guys. But you could solve it.
Just play. Just get older guys and you don't have
to cry about how other people love.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
The world to the old. The unbelievable Mick cronin Friend
of the Show last thing for your coach. You've described
to us over the years how you fought hard to
keep Travis Kelcey eligible back at the Cincinnati days.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Getting married, I just.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah, you does it warrant a wedding invitation? Do you
think you'll get invited to the wedding of the century coach?
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Well, yeah, there's no doubt I should, right because of
the Cincinnati roots. I mean, how many basketball coaches knew
a guy in high school? His high school coach and
I were very close, and then I had to be
as counselor his entire time at Cincinnati while he was
a football player, whether whether it was Brian Kelly or
(26:17):
Butcher Jones, I was the guy they sent him to
to try to talk sense into him. So yeah, there's
no question I should. But the problem is I believe
in the Larry David rule. Okay, I don't believe in
destination weddings. Ah yeah, now we Chrissy, my significant other,
(26:41):
would be very upset that I would turn down that invitation.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That I truly there's no way you turn it down
if it's a destination. There's no way.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Now you don't know me, there's zero chance I'm going
to like Lake Cuomo, Italy to go to some wedding.
I mean, coach Cronin doesn't leave southern California. I have
vacation in del Mar, up and down the five. That's it,
end of story. I haven't been to Cincinnati in a
year and a half. I had to go to a
(27:13):
wedding back there, but that was that was a relative
And you know, I just believe in the Larry David rule. Okay,
you know, so Trey, you tell, let's Travis gets married
in Malibu. I will not be there.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Wow, great stuff from u c L A head coach
looking great this year. Our friend Mick Cronin. Uh tell
your steps on. Good luck tonight, coach, and we know you're.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
On the red Hawks play tonight.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
No, no, you know Cincinnati versus the Red Man. I
don't know if the are the cradle of coaches. Is
that activated tonight? I don't know if it is. I
don't think so.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah, No, they who knows where the Miami Their football
team's not bad, but the Dodgers are rolling. Uh just
just get on train, guys, we're getting healthy. Coach Roberts
has been he's been laying low. He's turning up to heat.
Right now, he's turning up to heat like like General McAllister,
lethal weapon. It's time to turn up to heat.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Let's go the great Mick cronin our destination weddings. No
destination weddings, not even in Lake Cuomo. The best of
the best. Oh gosh. We appreciate him and we will
continue our solid relationship with Coach Cronan for whenever and
however we need to promote and want to promote him
and UCLA basketball. Thank you, coach.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
You guys are the best. Take care man.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Pours up and we'll be back with more petros and money.
You're dead in a live guy birthday other day kursh
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Ap Petro saying money. Happy to be with you on
AM five seventy LA Sports. We are your home of
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so everybody knows.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
So we're not doing the World Champion anymore.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Boss, I'm sorry. We're your home of the world champion
first place. There we go, Los Angeles Dodgers. We're stacking titles, guys.
Stacking titles is right, Dodgers on Decad six, first pitch
at seven ten. We will be on tomorrow at two o'clock.
So that is a flex alert for Usert and Matt.
(29:53):
We got a big game on Saturday off the station.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
We got the game of potentially the year. Speaking of
World Series Champion, we have your NCAA Football champion, Ohio
State buck Eyes playing host to the number one in
the nation preseason poll. Arch Manning te sip Texas horns down.
I can't do that. They would take that, they'd take
it away from us. You can horns up. Arch Manning,
(30:20):
Texas Longhorns. You'll hear it right here. Kick off at
nine am. Get your Saturday started with the game of
the year potentially Texas at Ohio State number one versus
number three this Saturday on your home will play by play.
We got all the games on the station. Guys. We
got Dodgers reds tonight. We got Texas Marsus Ohio State
on Saturday. Let the whole world know.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
So we look forward to that. Get them all, guys,
lot lot of action, a lot of action on the
board all weekend long. And then who knows what's going
to happen when Matt goes to Brazil?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I mean anything, man?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Wow? Man freaked out? All right? Your dead guy. Birthday
of the day to day Auto Binder from Michigan would
have been one hundred and fourteen today. German Lutheran family
parents were from Austria, settled in Chicago as a young man,
Him and his brother Earl in the nineteen twenties, which
(31:16):
was a golden age for science fiction and Martians and
stuff like that. Was enthralled by science fiction and science
fiction stories. He began writing in partnership with Earl, and
they sold their first story, The First Martian, to Amazing
Stories in nineteen thirty It didn't really make a lot
of money for him. They worked in Ironworks. Auto moved
(31:39):
to New York and got into comics in nineteen thirty nine,
where he worked at Fawcett Comics on Captain Marvel, Captain
Marvel precedes Marvel Comics.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Just so.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Marvel Comics came from Captain Marvel well because.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
He Fawcett and went to Timely Comics eventually, which became
Marvel Comics. Interesting where he worked on Captain America, the
Human Torch, a lot of other guys. The Wizard whoever
that is? Wow, guy with the prodigious bladder, that's who.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
It seems like it just a very active bladder.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Uh. He worked for DC Comics, and that's where he
made his comic book name, creating Supergirl. Where would we be,
Matt without Supergirl. It's a good question, right.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I mean, I assume there's no wonder Woman if there's
no Supergirl.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
I mean I think Supergirl came after wonder Woman, all.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Right, so there's definitely wonder Woman if there is no Supergirl.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
He also created Crypto the super Dog Oh Come, Oh God,
which did not make Mike francessa happy at all.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
No, that is okay.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
He did not like that. He did not He wanted
to see Superman beat people up, not Superman get his
ass whooped.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I mean, look, Crypto. I don't think Crypto was scrappy do,
but it certainly is was not well received.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
He also created Lois Lane's younger sister, Lucy Lane, who
was one of the one of the people who took
on the mantle of Supergirl over the years. Oh He
won to the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in ninety nine, posthumously,
(33:35):
the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in two thousand and four,
the Bill Finger Award in twenty ten. He's referenced in
the first episode of the twenty fifteen television series Supergirl.
Sadly though, he had a daughter killed in an accident
and oh yeah, I saw at the end of course,
(33:58):
and him and his wife kind of just fell apart
after that and died shortly after.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Well, you're a live guy on a much lighter note.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Hey, I get it.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
You know, you get to the end and it's like,
oh no, and hey, that's part of their story.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Man.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
You know that Supergirl TV shows Grolling, Crypto the super Dog.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
And Lucy Lane. Good one. Here, let's you know what,
let's start a little bit of audio. Go ahead, cakes,
look at that.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
We get out of here.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
No, I can't watch.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Scrawled in Blood's see.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
You next Wednesday, o'la ray.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Michael Jackson's girlfriend Ola Ray in the thriller video. She
is sixty five years old today. Ola Ray born in
Saint News. Oh yeah, give it to me, michaels.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
I wasn't scared.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Here, you were scared.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Six brothers, two sisters moved to Sacramento when she was
a kid. They then took off for Tokyo and she
was a sophomore in high school. Father raw and Air
Force guy. And in Tokyo she was a performer. She
starred as The family started a dance group called the
Puppets over in Tokyo and it took off. They had
(35:39):
a year long residency at the Big Together Club in
Shinjuku District and that landed them on some TV commercials.
It got them a record deal from CBS Japan. She
was signed to the Eddy Arab modeling agency and was
as big as any model in the country of.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Your She's a favorite of yours.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Oh yeah, doing shoots for all the big department stores,
Daimaru my favorite, Matsuya and Parko and Olaray got so big.
P The family was like, you know what, wowa to
Ola to come back to the States, because we want
(36:23):
you to chase big Japan Already she's bigger than the island. Right,
already big in Japan, tonight big in Japan. So what
does she do as soon as she gets back family?
Thank you, pulled up steaks, left Japan where we've been
for the last five ten years. I'm going to be
(36:43):
the playmate of the month. Oh, Playboy Magazine June nineteen
eighty Welcome home, Welcome home Ola. Now from there she
was able to land some Johnson and Johnson ads. Particularly,
she was the face of their Classy Curl line, and
that was a big deal. All Classy Curl products, magazine advertisements,
(37:06):
TV commercials, posters, all all array bigger deals would follow.
She became a pretty big commercial star Coors McDonald's legs
with two g's, nylons, Milk Coca Cola. She then got
some Body. She got some movies, Body and Soul, where
(37:26):
she played Hooker number one and Night Shift. She was
down the Hooker forty eight hours with Eddie Murphy and
Nick Nolty. I don't think she was a hooker, but
I'm not entirely sure. And then the big one, of course,
(37:47):
the Thriller nineteen eighty three. Out of that, she got
a bunch of TV and some more movies, she was
Intent to Midnight with Bronson, she was in Fair I
think some films that might make their way into the film,
the Warcorn. I mean, you got Ten to Midnight with Bronson,
you got Feer City, The Night Stalker. She's in all
of those. And again kind of back to her calling.
(38:09):
She was a playboy playmate in Beverly Hills Cop two.
Her big break, unfortunately, p never happened because she starred, well,
she didn't start. She appeared in a couple episodes of
Gimme a Break, and they liked her so much they
tried to run a spin off, put together a pilot
where she was the star, but as we know, because
well it was forty years ago, that did not make it.
(38:34):
As far as Thriller goes, Ola Ray complained that she
was never paid royalties for her work in the Thriller video,
and it took her until yeah, May of two thousand
and nine, when she finally filed suit against Michael Jackson,
thirty years almost after her appearance. Jackson, unfortunately, as you
fool well know, because he died on June twenty fifth,
(38:56):
would die less than a month later of her filing
that suit. Ultimately, the estate would settle with Ola and
pay her out how much don't know, but she's sixty
five today.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Ola Ray interesting. I hope she got some money, I
would think.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
So.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
It was a pretty prominent role.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
I would say, the most prominent other than MJ and
Vinnie Price.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
And that wolf that MJ turned into is that a
different guy? I mean, I'm guessing Michael was clocking in
at about ninety thous at that time, and that wolf
was like, Oh, it's real scary.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Yeah, Dodgers read tonight. Do you know what side McK
cronin's on. We'll be back on tomorrow at two day
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