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the yeah we're.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Three bush something for you and your father. If he's
listening the popular phrase it sounds like Greek to me,
or it's all Greek to me, or that's Greek to me.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I was on with Tim Conway last night for about
an hour? Is that right? Yeah? You turns out your
football coach dies. He can stretch that into an hour
an hour? Yeah, it only took said bub, can you
stick around for one more? Bup only started talking about
you know, marine land and the third that's rid bub. Yeah.
Usually and uh, he said that five or six times.
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He's like, Hey, your dad's restaurant. Wasn't it called It's
all Greek to me? It's like, no, it wasn't the name.
Are you sure?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Are you sure that I'm gonna try this joke one
more time?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It was called it's all Greek to me, right.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
So it's all Greek to me?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It was not called that, No, although I've heard the phrase.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Shakespeare Julius Caesar is where it made its debut. However,
the idiom it suggests a person who says it is
having difficulty understanding something. Uh is not what's said in
other languages. This appears to be Spanish, is what they
say in Germany. This is Russian to me the Dutch,
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it's German to me, Philippines, it's Hebrew the.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, because Greek wouldn't be that confusing to Russians.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's Chinese to me Hebrew.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Well, because I mean, let's talk about opposite sides of
the spectrum.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
And in China these are chicken intestines.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
This is bs loring at it, right, makes sense? Yeah,
but it's all Greek to me, Matt, I'm no Shakespeare on.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
The name of your dad's restaurant, right, Bob? Can you
hang on?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Well?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Actually all right, I'm gonna push you on, Hope.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
It wasn't the name, but it was all Greek to me, right,
that was it? Right by?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Can you stick around for one more baboo?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
An hour? An hour?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Ten?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Well it was all it was beautiful, hour long tribute
to it.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Coach Robins says shit about John Robinson and then he
just did his normal thing. He just abused me. It's
time for quick hits. Everybody, come tms quick hits. I'll
make it quick, y'all. Oh yeah, usc has been slapped
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with a year of probation and a fifty thousand dollars
five for having eight o CHO analysts engage in coaching
activities from two to twenty twenty three, eight eight of them.
If you don't understand what that means, you're not supposed
to at the college level. You're not supposed to be
able to practice with a football or with your assistant
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coaches out on the field outside of spring ball and
camp and when the season begins. So that's something everybody
used to try to work their way around. We used
to go deep into the depths of the pe building
at USC, into the racquetball courts where Mike Riley would
produce one football secretively wrapped in a towel from a
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double bag. I'm sure that was a violation too. It
in fact, it was. But this isn't great the rules.
He's saying that some of the violations occurred before January
twenty twenty three, and the rules changed because he wasn't
personally involved.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
That plausible to not ability has nothing. It's all Greek
to me.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about here.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
But I mean the only reason this is interesting to
people is because he might be able to be fired
for cause. Correct, So Seth, Chad.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Can we fire this guy?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Cause now he's the conversation he has. That's Jen Cohen
asking Chad, the new interim president at USC.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Do you do it?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Uh? Actually, if I were Lincoln Riley, if and I
get pulled over, you know they're going to plant a kilo,
be like, oh, what's this o quilo and cocainelo? Oh
you live on the cliffs for a reason. I'm trafficking
drugs with a cartown. USC's four and favo for all.
They're two and five into Big ten. They're looking for
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a way to get out into the Lincoln Riley contract.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Bob, I think this guy just threw a punch out.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Now they are nine and a half point favorites. Did
you turn off your body camp? Yes? I did.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
They're nine and a half point home favorites. With Jade Mayaba,
the former UNLV starter taken over at quarterback.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
They're going to lose that game. I just figured i'd say.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
That it's possible. It's possible. They are going to play
and every time they play and guess what, it's a toss.
That's possible. They could lose. Now you see a la
On the other hand, Wow, they're four and five, three
and four into Big Ten, but they're surging. They're in
Seattle on Friday night to take on Washington. They're three
and a half point underdog to the Dogs by the
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Lake on the road despite winning three in a row.
Kickoff is at six on AM eleven fifty. We've been
promoting that throughout the day.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I know it's been uh discussed and it's we're well
passed it. I mean, it was last Friday, for God's sake,
But I think Deshaun Foster's Friday night outfit might be
one of the greatest by a college football head coach
in the history of the sport. Just the the unwillingness
to snap the starter jacket at any point to kind
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of keep that presentation clean. The hat never dipped low.
It stayed nice and tall entire game. Right, it's a
nineties man who appreciates nineties fashion.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
We got a problem. We got a problem. I think
he did.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
The U was that menace to society, the boys in
the hood.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yes, the Lakers are six and four. They're at home
tomorrow versus the Memphis Grizzlies, who do not like the Lakers.
John Morant not a fan, and that guy Edie's a
pretty good speaking of We got a problem. We got
a problem brandishing a weapon, John Joys that jump on
the boat. The Clippers catamaran is six and five. They're
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in Houston tomorrow. We talked about that. The Chargers host
Bengali and platforms the Cincinnati and Ellen DeGeneres their quarterback.
On Sunday night, the Chargers are playing well one and
a half point home favorites listen to the game, of course,
but the voice of the Bolts Dodger on Alt ninety
eight to seven. The Rams had to Foxborough to face
(09:15):
the three and seven Patriots. They're a five point road favorite,
even though they lost last night. Whoo and despite some
veterans coming forward and saying bench the quarterback right, how
about that?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I would have never seen that come in, told us
to pick up our trash, cleaned up the locker room
right after you brought in some new fashion that they
haven't seen in Chicago. Quarterback.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Do you know he cleaned up the city and they
oustded him. That's what they're doing. Shane Waldron has been
fired as the Bears.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
OC I'm sorry, Shane, I can't betch the quarterback. You're
gonna have to be fired. But everybody likes me, not him,
and he's a weirdo teter you or me, Shane, so
obviously it's gonna be you bad body language.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Caleb lives to find another day. Shane does not. He
is the uh OC who's gone ten months after getting
the job. The offensive passing coordinator Thomas Brownd has been promoted.
And what about the Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Not good? He is going to undergo surgery on Wednesday
his injured hamstring and will be out for the season. However,
Jerry Jones, I believe. I think it's a direct quote
said after the surgery, it'll be wonderful. I've never quite
heard a hamstring surgery recovery described as wonderful.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Oh you haven't really had a real hammy then yet
back because after I blew Miami wonderful, I was like,
you know what, I've never felt better, wonderful, this weakness
deepened by bustle, It's gonna be wonder I love it. Matt.
The NFL woke up and said, what's the furthest away?
We could take one of our football teams and still
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have a bunch of meadheaded white people there to enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
You can kick off. I believe the way it would
work is you could kick off in Australia like noon
and it would be the Sunday night football game here. Right,
It's almost impossible to do Asia, but they're like, we
can do Australia. Crikey, crokey, we're going down to Yes,
our teams have to sit on an airplane for twenty
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two hours. But whatever, if we could put this thing
in prime time and it's a nooner down under Kurt
Clayshaw's back, be damned. We're gonna get you guys some
lay flats and it's gonna be great. Now the staff
is gonna have to go two for one in the
back seats. But hey, you guys are all getting Lai fat.
They'll be five.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
They're gonna leave two weeks early on a Chinese junk.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That's exactly what we're gonna do. The earliest gonna have
a dragonhead on the front.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Ah. The earliest it could happen is twenty twenty six.
Sydney in Melbourne. Melbourn are believed to be the two
cities in play The NFL is also looking into the
idea of playing the Pro Bowl Game Australia at some
point in the future too, because then that'll make them tackle.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
You know what, guys, I wasn't going to go to
the Pro Bowl this year, but now that you tell
me it's a mere eighteen hour flight away, the idea.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I always wanted to go.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I've always wanted to go.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Let's go. Just smile and hand me a Vengjamine sandwich.
It's delicious. More international news, Berlin City's government launch an
official bid to host NFL games over a five year
period starting next year. Nobody loves football and breaking the
Nazi insignia in half more than the Berlin Bear.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Now I have heard, and don't quote me on this,
but I have heard. Half of the field is going
to be in West Germany. It's going to be plush, glorious,
not a blade out of place grass.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
And then the other half's going to look like snapdragon.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
It's just going to be cement. It's just going to
be cement and painted in East Germany a couple of
chalk lines for bodies. You will have to exchange your technology,
advanced helmets and uniforms for a leather helmet and basically pajamas.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I think that's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Show the start difference.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And there's gonna be some serious checkpoint type of stuff
in the fifth that's right. I mean you think Cross
of the fifty used to be easy.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
You got to escape the shots from the tower if
you want to get into plus territory. We're all over this.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, we are on top of this. It's Bunicht and Frankfurt.
That's one thing I.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Believe it is courtesy of the owner approval. Eight international
games beginning next season, so they have a number of
different places there now, Australia, Spain, Ireland, East and West Germany.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
My little brother lived in Berlin and I got a
lot of pictures of a lot of billboards of the
Berlin Bear saying, hey, don't be a Nazi, breaking the
Nazi insignia. I'll be like, right, just like showing you
being a nazis bad.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
No bear's gonna kill you.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Listen to the Berlin Bear, don't be a Nazi. Very
effective free agent slugger wand Soto's market is heating up quickly, Matt.
This is a thing that we've been talking about with
a Boris and the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Six hundred million over fourteen years. A lot of people
pointing to the Dodgers as a possibility that the last
big long term obviously outside of Otani was Yamamoto because
he was only twenty five. Soto's only twenty six. Toronto, Boston,
the Mets, the Yankees all get to pitch Sodo. It's
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gonna cost over six hundred million bucks. And some say
the Dodgers, even though they may take a meeting, not
viable because of Shohail Tani, the designated hitter and won
Sodo's limitations defensively. The Rays not gonna be able to
play at the Trop. It's sad Na twenty twenty five
is off the schedule twenty six at the earliest. To
replace the roof from the Hurricane. It's gonna cost over
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fifty million bucks. With the race set to move into
a new ballpark in twenty eight, they got to figure
out if it's worth fifty million to fix the trop
so they can play there for two seasons. If they can't.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Montreal, Wow, bring back the JB which is really just
a three colored dead That's right, all right, We'll be
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Speaker 4 (17:17):
It would be kind of cool to throw on that
get up and fire off that musket at a football game. Yeah,
maybe I should ask him if I could do it.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
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it was a big uproar. We're rescinding the commitment. However,
we will resubmit it if in fact you can meet
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Speaker 1 (17:33):
You know, Donna, you have great perspective on this stuff
and you've done a great job of kind of walking
the line. I mean, you've had MVP high school level
suns for years here, but Trent is the guy who's
getting big time power for offers and all of that.
And we've been talking to you throughout this time, and
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of course we're very happy. But how different is it?
I mean, you were a huge recruit out of Seemi
Valley High back in the day. What's the process been
like in your perspective today and how much different is
it from back when you were coveted by Diamond Jim Herrick.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Yeah, you know what, Pee, it's a great question because
I've learned so much because it is so different. You know,
I was a top ten kid, so it was easy.
I had pretty much every high major and I had
to sort through that and narrow it down. But it's
different now, and that's what I had to learn because
of the portal. It has changed high school recruiting Now,
if you're a top twenty five, top four kid, it's
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kind of still the same as it's always been. But
if you're not, then it's much different. They just don't
value freshmen or incoming freshmen and high school players as
much as they used to because everyone's trying to get old.
How do you get old. You get old in the portal.
And so that springtime where if you weren't sure or
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you were a late bloomer like Trent is in coming
on you're late, you would wait till the spring. You
can't wait till the spring anymore. And if you do,
you're really rolling the dice because now all these schools
are looking in the portal for what they need to
get older. And so because Trent was late, he probably
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didn't have as many options as I guess we thought
he would have, but he had good options, like really
good options. So now it becomes fit to me. And
that's where I think it hasn't changed because of what
I do, because I'm still involved in the game. Because
I see all these colleges practice and shoot grounds and everything.
I understand what fit means. And I think a lot
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of kids just go to their best offer, and looking
at it from afar, you'd say, well, Trent just went
to his best offer. Well, there's a reason why West Virginia,
of all places, was really recruiting him. They were on
him the hardest the last two months out of anybody,
and it's because they understood Trent's fit for them and
I and we understood trends fit for them. And so
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that's why people are texting me. I've gotten more text
today and I think I've ever gotten in one day,
like why West Virginia. Well, because of the fit and
the other thing I've learned. And I knew this and
you guys probably know this as well. Basket, if you're
a Division one athlete or Division one basketball player, your
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life is eighty percent basketball. So the other twenty percent
is the campus, the facilities, the people, whatever. But if
that eighty percent isn't right, it doesn't matter what that
other twenty percent is. You could be anywhere. And so
getting that fit right and giving yourself a chance to
go to a place where a system fits you, to
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give yourself a chance to play and play a lot
at some point was the reason why he's going from
Westlake Village, California, all the way to Morgantown, West Virginia, Dona.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Not to belabor it, but just curious, as you mentioned,
and I bring it up because Mick basically told us
as much. He's like, look, we want to bring freshmen in,
but it's just not you know, sort of what's going
on in college basketball if you want to win and
you're a UCLA, So how like how many schools could
he have basically walked on anywhere? Like any school in
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the nation, Like, hey, we would love to have you
as a walkout, but I got to use these scollies
for the portal. Is that kind of what this has
turned into a little.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Bit, No, it depends on It's more of a big
picture thing, Matt. Like, it's in general, like not everyone's
in the portal like crazy, but the pool is smaller
now for high school players because of the portal. And
so like West Virginia, this guy, Darren Devriez as a
first year head coach, was at Drake for five years
but was an assistant at Creighton for a long time,
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I think fifteen or sixteen years, and so in his
first year he told us I have to go on
the portal to have a roster because a lot of
guys left because a new coach was coming in. But
what he wants to do is value high school players
a little bit more. Bring three or four high school
guys in I think I said this last week, try
and retain five or six guys in the program, and
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then one or two portal guys to fit to bring
in any need that you have at a position. And
so it's just the bigger picture part is a lot
of schools, let's say they have five guys returning well,
instead of going and getting three high school guys, they
just go get seven portal guys and get old. So
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that's kind of the difference in terms of you're not
going to walk on when you're good enough to get
a scholarship. So that's why it was interesting to watch
when he got to the Sokal Academy, the prep school,
there's college coaches there every day of practice. The tournaments
they play in, there's coaches there every tournament, and he
was finally valued for what he does really well in
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the system. Into how West Virginia plays is that they
value a four guy that they can make decisions and shoot,
and that's what Trent does. He's not a great defender,
at least not yet, but he could really shoot. He's
got a high Q so he can make good decisions
with the ball, and so it looks like if he
can get stronger and get some experience, then it should
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be a good fit sooner or later for him at
West Virginia.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, you go where you could play the next Kyle
Korver and fast, the next Jerry West. The tray down
of McClain. A hero to the people, and we're always
happy to have him. You see, La hoops. You had
him last night against the Terriers and they won decisively,
but a setback against New Mexico. As Mick Cronin kind
of tries to figure out what sort of team he
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has every year, I guess it's a new identity flush
for everybody, but more so than ever, what do you
make of them? And Tim Kates says that they're going
to be in the final four. He says he's going
to die on that hill even if there's no sustenance
your thoughts.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Well, in this day and age, as you guys know,
everybody panics and jumps the gun after one, and you
know they just you know, they ran into the Mexico
team that was hungry, hungrier than they were. And look,
when you have this many portal guys that the ucilly
has had, which they've never had, but high level players
that have had a lot of experience and a lot
of success at other schools. Coming in, I think they
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were feeling pretty good about themselves that they could waltz
into that place in Henderson, Nevada and just beating New Mexico,
and turns out they couldn't, and last night they got
back on track. Look, mixed teams have to guard, they
have to play hard, they have to guard, and they
can't turn it over. They had twenty one turnovers against
New Mexico. And so I think this team offensively will
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continue to grow the more they get to know each other,
the more you know, I think the coaching staff gets
to know these guys and put them in places where
they can succeed offensively. But at the end of the day,
it has to look defensively how it looked last night,
high energy, high intensity, tension to detail and just overwhelming
people with their ball pressure and you know, getting turnovers
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and you know, going the other way on offense. So
I don't think it's any anything to read into, at
least for me, that New Mexico game. But I do
think they're going to continue to get better and I
think they're going to contend in the Big Ten. I'm
not going to go as far to say they're going
to be in the final four.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
You don't want it a part of deisticates on the
Final four Ucla Hill.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
No, I don't, at least not yet. Maybe at some point,
but I do think they're going to contend in the
Big ten.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
But we'll see what I know.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
You know, it's kind of the way it's been for
a while. Ben Holland certainly did it, But like, what
do you get don And I don't mean this as
a shot, I'm just kind of asking, like, what do
you want to see when you're you know, prior to
conference play, schedule is Lehigh and Idaho State and Tall
State Fullerton some people like to call it Fullerton State
and Southern Utah. Like what what do you want to
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take away from those games?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Well, most coaches schedule to the By that, I mean
you got all these new guys. Man, you can't be
taken on at least early because in December, Matt, they
have the Arizona Gonzaga in North Carolina, So like this
is the warm up. November is the warm up for them,
And I get it. I think it was smart because
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of all these new pieces, and like I said, offensively,
they still got room to gel and come together. So
hopefully by the end of November they've done that and
now they're ready for those three because those are monster games.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
In December.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
All three of those teams are ranked in the top ten.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
The one and only Don McClain a here of the people,
always ranked in our top ten. On the Petros and
Money Show, we will talk some NBA basketball at this point, Don,
where it can be a cup. Oh, are you excited
about the like? Remember last night the Cup? Remember last year, Don,
where Matt and I were very skeptical, skeptical about the Cup,
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and you came back and you told us how stupid
we were. You hit us hard like Ronnie over the
Columbine trees. What are your feelings here in twenty twenty four,
twenty twenty five about that NBA Cup the Lakers hung
the banner at all?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Yeah, the same I feel about it last year. But
I think we've learned more in the sense that if
you win the NBA Cup, it doesn't matter for long
term success, right, That's what we learned last year. I
still think it's a great idea. I think it's a
way to chop up the regular season and not make
it seem so long. I think it draws interest to
the NBA before Christmas, which usually there's not, and so
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I still like it. But I just think any fan
base that's hanging their hats on winning the Cup and
that translating into an NBA championship was proven wrong last
year for sure.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Thoughts on on the G League the South Bay Lakers
selling out Now, it's only seven hundred seats, but the
excitement around the G League and Brownie James playing a
handful of minutes and two secondary market tickets there.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Yeah, I'm not surprised, Matt.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I told you guys.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
I saw it when Trent played with Bryce James, not
Bronnie James, Bryce James two years ago, and the amount
of attention on that team because of Bryce and Lebron
and all that. I couldn't believe it. And I know it,
like I know how big of a guy Lebron is
and one of the greatest of all time and all that,
but I could not believe the amount of attention for
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high school games. And this was two years ago for
Bryce James. So Bronnie James more of a name and
more of a player than Bryce. I'm not surprised at all.
I'm surprised they're not moving the games to a bigger.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Venue, right, Oh, seriously the position he wants.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
The seriously, Yeah, like, and I think that I'm not
saying they'd sell a bigger venue out, but they would
certainly get a lot more people in there. I mean,
it's you know, look, Bronnie's a big deal. I feel
bad for the kid because of all the attention he
gets and the expectation on him. And we'll see what
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kind of player he turns out to be. But I'm
hoping that he can put all this stuff aside and
just get to work in the G League and really
work on what he needs to work on so that
one day he can eventually become an NBA player. But yeah,
I'm not surprised by that for one second.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I know it's early, way early, don I mean ten
games eleven? Some teams are twelve in. Do you take
anything away from the Lakers and Clippers sitting in the
playing round as it stands right now and the teams
that are ahead of them thunder Suns, Warriors seem to
be playing really good basketball right now? Yeah, have you
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seen enough? Probably not.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I think the hard part in evaluating the Clippers is
Kawhi hasn't played yet and we don't know when he's
going to play. I think you can start evaluating the
Clippers once Kawhi gets a rip of games in there
and he's back and playing. But you got to give
ty loon a staff credit that they're in Jeff van
Gundy for sure, that they're you know, above five hundred
without Kawhi and they realize that they're going to have
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to play defense every.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Night and guard people.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
I think that record's a little better than people probably
expected without Kawhi and what they lost in the offseason.
And I think the Lakers, you know, I think JJ
Reddick hasn't had enough time. I think, and I think
I've always told you guys, I start like fans, I
start really evaluating where teams are at, you know, mid
December ish, right before Christmas. You kind of have enough
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games then. But I think you can take away from
some of the teams that are doing, like Cleveland is
going to be a factor in the East. I think
it's safe to say that nobody goes twelve to zero anymore,
and they are, so they're obviously really good. And Kenny
Atkinson knows what he's doing. And the teams in the West,
I think we assume that, we assume the thunder would
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be good. We'll see how they do without home Grin
for a while, But yeah, I think I think in
mid December is when we can start really making some
some real evaluations on teams that have things that are
you know, like JJ being a new coach, Kawhi not
playing yet.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
The important things. The great Don McClain, big congratulations on
the Mountaineers, keep climbing. Morgantown Motown, West Virginia so close
and it's got its own Primanny Brothers with a big
Jerry West painting on the wall. You just can't beat it. Beautiful,
Don congrats, what a wonderful thing.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
I appreciate it, guys, and you guys giving Trent the
love you've given them over the last couple of years.
And I don't know this for sure, but next year
I may go Pee and Matt to Morgantown and may
never come back.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
You might not. You know, he's opening an axe runt place.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
You put on those leathers.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
And I'm gonna buy.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Me a cabin on the I'm gonna buy me a
cabin on the Shenandoah and doa and I'll sit on
my porch all day looking at the river.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
And is McLean home? I don't know. Do you see
any smoke coming out of his chimney? Fly fishing, guys,
That's what it's all about, fly fishing. Those are a
long pair of fly fishing pants. Don you're the best man. Congrats,
it's a wonderful thing to see that happen. And all
the success to Trent and all the McLean's. As always,
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we'll talk to you soon next week.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Alright, guys, thanks to when we return one last segment,
You're Dead and a Live Guy Birthday of the Day,
a full four hour Petro sand Money Show before we
pass it along to Brian Fendley and Brow an insider.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Thanks for listening, everybody. The Petros and Money Show mercifully
coming to an end tonight after four hours of great
sports talk live everywhere.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Great sports Talk on the.
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Make sure that you podcast the show if you miss us.
Your Dead Guy Birthday of the Day today is Jamaican News.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
It's Jamacca Newszig.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Today we celebrate the late Harold Brown. Yes, moved to
the UK when his dad turned into a bobby out
there boby. Yeah, one of those guys. Been one of
those hats.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yeah, it's a sweet hat.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
They don't carry guns, but they bop you on top
of the head with a fist, almost like a cartoonish
kind of right. This guy was first a clerk, but
he was known as a funk man and a reggae man.
His big break in music came in nineteen sixty nine.
He had Give Piece a Chance, a John Lennon cover.
(34:00):
Let it approved him, okay after he was sent a
copy of the song to Apple Records, not Apple Records now,
where he paid twenty bucks a month to stream every
song that's ever been made.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yeah, but they'll automatically download the U two album to
your device. So that's kind of cool of you.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
You know, that's something that's long forgotten, all right, those
of us that use Apple Music use to forget about
that moment. It was the real Apple Records, you know,
the Beatles one the green Apple, not the company we're
all addicted to the white Apple of death and an apathy. Anyway,
he was the leader of the band Hot Chocolate, and
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they had a great British funk career all the way
up until nineteen eighty four when Errol Brown went solo.
He did some singing solo, charted many songs, and he
was the primary songwriter of Hot Chok Hot Chocolate, which
was a great English fuck band, not quite James Brown
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of the Jabs.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
But for the UK.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Queen Elizabeth loved Errol Brown and named him an MBE
for service to music and the UK. And that's nothing
to sneeze at For a young man born in Jamaica
whose father was a bobby.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
I'd prefer to ignore sneezes for the foreseeable future immediate
as well.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Well, I'm sorry, Matt the fact that your throat exploded
on the air about two days ago for all the
hear He shaved his head once as a joke and
he was like, oh, you like it. So he lived
like that for the rest of his life, with the
shaved clean dome. He died from cancer into Bahamas at
the age of seventy one. He loved his townhouse and
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his racing horses he had.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Typically those two things aren't going to go together. I
don't know, do I got to the stable behind the townhouse.
How is my next door neighbor that's attached to me?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Mitchell? He bonthered a townhouse and racing horses each meal
she ate was a dozen courses. He owned National Hunt
racing horses and he won the Ritz Club Trophy at
Chetnham in nineteen eighty seven. So his horse career nothing
to sneeze at either again, Starry, I'm gone. I'm sorry, Matt.
(36:19):
You know I have a deviate adceptum. I can't even
breathe through my nose. Sit here, Matil hurts.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Monday, I still got a crick him about. All right,
you're a live guy.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Birthday.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
That a good day. But let's celebrate Booker T. Jones.
He can play, he can write, he can produce, he
can arrange his ass off. One of the most talented
musicians of the last sixty years.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
You could leave it on too. You can leave on
Booker T.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
And the MG's let it run.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah, they got a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Oh you hear this here beautiful and an exceptionable band,
the exception exceptional band that he put together. Born in Memphis,
father not a Bobby, science teacher, junior musical Abadachi.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
About his physically intimidating yes.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Before he was ten he could play the piano, organ,
double bass, trombone, sacks, and obo. At thirteen he was
collaborating with Isaac Hayes with Maurice White of Earthwind and Fire,
and by sixteen he'be going pro. Stacks Records had him
on staff. He played everything. Used to hang out at
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the famous Satellite Record shop and that is where he
would form the mg. Steve Krapa worked for the Register
there g Car Louis Steinberg on bass before he left
and Donald Duck Dunn replaced him. L Jackson Junior on drums.
He was sixteen headed cats when he wrote this one,
Yes green onions. You don't think you know it, but
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you know it within two notes, and he wrote the
song when he was sixteen two years old. He went
to IU, Indiana to study music composition, but would travel
back to Memphis on the weekends to play with the MG's.
He wrote hits for Eddie Floyd, Otis Ready and Albert King.
Moved to la in nineteen seventy because even though Stacks
was paying him a fortune and hung a VP title
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on him, said they were taking advantage of his band
and didn't like the way they were being treated, so
I pulled them all out here.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Donald Duck, Doug's gotta buy his own corn, cop fight.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
That's not okay.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
You guys are paying for their own perms.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
I'm taking him from his stacks. We're moving to La.
He would marry Riata Coolige's sister, Priscilla. They would put
out records as a duo. Won his first Grammy in
ninety five, and ducked into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame in ninety two, got the Grammy Lifetime Achievement
Award in ninety seven, and He's Got Great Taste two
thousand and nine. He hired the Drive By Truckers to
be his backing band for his solo release that won
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a Grammy for Best Instrumental Album. He played keys for Rancid,
for bos Skags, for Bill Withers, for Elton John. His
records have Questlove the Roots, Jim James, lou Reed, Anthony Hamilton,
Clark Junior. It's an incredible roster. He's a musician's musician.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
That's all we talk.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
That's all we talk about here for Grammy.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
You know, hear us talking about Olivia Rodrigo.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Hall of Fames. His most recent release, twenty nineteen Happy
eightieth booker T Jones.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Yeah, a few of them dudes in that band were
in the Blues Brothers band too.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Title Duck Dunn widely overlooked for his performance on screen,
just dynamic facial expression.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
And cropper as well. Crapa not to mention Murph and
the Magic Oh the best. All right, well, thank you
for listening. We appreciate everybody's patronage here in the world
of great sports Talk. Matt and I Sports Talk will
return tomorrow. But remember tomorrow's show is a flex alert.
(39:48):
Why because the Clippers. The Clippers are taking on the
Houston Rockets, and that's very important. A big thank you
to Don McClean, a big thank you to Carson Swesssinger,
the great linebacker from UCLA. Ronnie Fossio, our engineer, and
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our executive producer, Tim Kates. Find us at Pettersen Money,
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