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Only a smidge of play by play that is coming Thursday,

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and it will not be Thursday Night Football Instead. Clippers v.
Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets out in Houston on
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week from Thursday, because that will be our final live
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a packed house, always a great enthusiastic crowd in West
Covina at the BJ's Restaurant in brew House three until
seven pm. And our collection of big brains over here
was able to knock heads together and come up with
a hell of a lot of prizes for people that
want to come vis That's right, Matt.

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We've emptied out the office, so there will be a
great deal of stuff, some of it trash, some of
it treasure. And one man's trash is another man's treasure.
So go figure.

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Hey, you won't leave empty handed to look at it.
Is it a T shirt you really wanted? Maybe not,
but at least I wanted in a Surf Side Vodka
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a Westinghouse HDTV. That's the new development since the weekend.
That and the fact that we will not have Ronnie
Fossio's karaoke machine. She said, no, that's what we were
told yesterday. It is time for the final hour fun fat.

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holiday season. Between Black Friday.

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You're not talking about tuberculos not talking about Doulos is
also prevalent during the holiday.

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Yes, between Black Friday, not black Lung, Black Friday and
Christmas Eve. Lego sells twenty eight Lego sets per second.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Wow, it's a great way to occupy your mind as
a child.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Huh, twenty eight per second.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Of those we have, one hundred have gone since we've
been done, just like that, almost one thousand, now ten thousand.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Not it's insanity.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
It is time for the quick ants TMS quick hits, y'all.
Oh yeah, the Dodgers today made a splashy sh Dodgers
could win it. Well, you'd be right to say that
they're probably the favorite in the last two years, a

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big splash and free agency, reportedly agreeing to terms with
Edwin Diaz three years, sixty nine million dollar deal. DAZ nine.
It's thirty one years old.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
I heard they offered him seventy and as I can
no man give me sixty nine.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
And we are way too old for that. I heard
they offered him sixty seven sixty seven. You yes. He
has three All Star games logged and a one point
sixty three ERA and converted twenty eight of thirty one
save chances for the Mets last season. Andy has a

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song and he blew out his knee celebrating in the
World Baseball Classic. The Cautionary Tale about the World Baseball Classic.
He really is best closer entrance song ever. I don't know,
I'd really love California Love. That sucks, but ken Lee
Janssen doesn't touch this. But California Love specifically with ken

(05:28):
Lee right, I thought was really impactful in its moment
in time the kids loved when they heard it.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Did they? Oh?

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Put that question.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Rodger Stadium, when this thing comes on. I was gonna say,
it's gonna be great when we're there, but there's no
chance for staying till the.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Mountain never show.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Hey.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Otani has won the Associated Press Male Athlete of the
Year for the fourth time. When he was told this
man wow, man freaky, walked right past his wife and
made out with his dog, breaking a tie with Michael Jordan,
he now ties Lance Armstrong.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Well, that's Lance Armstrong's really held up in that category.
So is Lebron James really held up Tiger Woods?

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Well? Uh, for most wins all time among Mael Honarees.
But Otani's never had any controversy surrounding him. Pers no
big deal, that's personal.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Hey, where's that one?

Speaker 5 (06:36):
Do that?

Speaker 3 (06:37):
That's right?

Speaker 4 (06:38):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Sixty months in jail?

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Quickly receiving this award multiple times is something truly special,
Otani said last year, I said I wanted to win
this award again, and I will work hard so that
I can win it again next year as well.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Be huge, because then he would pass Tiger Woods, Lance
Armstrong and Lebron James.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Tim Kates prophesied this yesterday when we were doing quick hits.
He said, there's no way, no way Schwarber doesn't end
up Swars he says, he stays, they're gonna have to
sign him. He led that clubhouse with Bryce Harper. He's
beloved in Philly. He's a Philly guy. That's what Kate said.
And lo and behold, look Kyle Schwarber and the Philadelphia

(07:21):
Phillies are finalizing a five year, one hundred and fifty
million dollar contract. Schwarp stays man, stays and lifts weights
in his home gym in Philadelphia.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Now the Lakers, wasn't Schwarber at one point freaking steamhead
Kate's wasn't he designated for assignment?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Schwarbs? Yeah, I believe so. He's been up and down
the ladder, Matt. I mean he reinvented his.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Body though, Matt. And see how chiseledee is now and
oh oh he looks kind of portly.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
No, Matt, he's swollen, is he? Yeah? Just not everybody
has the two percent body fat and flappy hair like you. Okay,
Now the Lakers are seventeen and six. A lot of
skinny guys on that team. Matt, you'd appreciate their home
on Wednesday to host Wemby, very skinny guy and the
San Antonio Spurts.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Very tall. I don't know if you heard about this Wemby.
They say that he's listed it like seven to two,
but he's really seven five right, And.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
You know a lot of these basketball players are pretty
tall and long, but he really sets himself apart in
length and tallness.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Football players want to list themselves as being taller. Basketball
players want to list themselves as being short.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
I don't look. I want people to know that I'm tall,
but I don't want people to think I'm a freak.
But you are a free giant bug out there.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
I do not like it.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
So Rich Paul, the guy who runs Clutch Sports. Rich
Paul runs Clutch Sports and Max Kellerman. See now, Max
Kellerman is valuable to Rich Paul because Max Kellerman's existence
pisses off stephen A Smith.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
So and Lebron and steven A had that little run.
They had a beef and you know steven A was
going to throw down with Lebron. Yeah they got now
I was ready to step up.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Rich Paul and Kellerman have a podcast together to upset
steven A, which it already has. And of course when
you start something new, you need something to draw people
to listen.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
So hot take.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well, it wasn't just the anger between steven A and
Max Kellerman, but now Rich Paul talking about Lebron James
and the Lakers not having enough to win a title, Like, I.

Speaker 6 (09:29):
Personally don't think the Lakers are good enough to be contenders.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Right now, not right now.

Speaker 7 (09:33):
When you say contenders, what do you mean, I.

Speaker 6 (09:34):
Don't think they have enough to get to the Western Conference.
Fint I don't think they have enough to get to
really contend. From that person, So the whole casey isn't
a class by themselves very much. They won a million
games last year, they won the title. They have one
loss in twenty three in one now, can't keep count, right,
So it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
They're really good.

Speaker 7 (09:53):
And I always thought even last year week, they're this
good and they're gonna get Chet Holmgren at a certain point,
like that's a lot, right, that's a lot, And and
here they are. They're rolling now, they're confident because they
just won the championship. They're maturing, they're getting better. You
think the Lakers don't fit in with the rest of
the pack. They got the second best record right now, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
But we've seen that afforded.

Speaker 6 (10:14):
That doesn't mean I think when you look at we've
seen it right, we've seen you have the talent up
top that they have.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Those guys can win games.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Okay Lebron and Luca, but also Austin.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Step.

Speaker 6 (10:29):
But then things start to really when you come to
back half of the season where guys are really now
they have their conditioning.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
It's one thing.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
Then when you go into the playoffs, we've seen last
year they ran into athleticism and length they struggle. So
when you look at it now, athleticism, length, shooting speed, right,
because now can the Lakers play fast?

Speaker 2 (10:59):
I don't think think so. I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
There you go. So isn't two thirds of the roster
all clutch sports guys. He's planting seeds us he's saying
his guys aren't good. That's the seed planting expedition you
just heard.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
That was not compelling in the least. What are you
talking about? He's planting the seeds. That's terrible. The only
thing I kept thinking of was the opening a straight
out of Compton. You are now about to witness the
strength a street violence and then it hits.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
It's not a posse, it's my group of friends.

Speaker 6 (11:38):
Like I personally don't think the Lakers are good enough
to be contenders right not right now.

Speaker 8 (11:43):
It's hot.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Resent representatives usually.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
They avoid the media like, Hey, I called there for
a comment, and they here's the podcast.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Here's what I'm going to say. What I say? Uh,
the Chargers big win last night, coming off of win
and four over the Eagles Monday Night football last night,
going to Kansas City to face the Chiefs on Sunday,
a rematch of the Brazil game.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
They won that one.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
I remember, it's a big win.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
I know.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Now the Rams have won ten. They're ten and three
and they're at home on Sunday versus Stafford's old team,
the Detroit Lions. I hope that Kelly Stafford is protected
from those evil Detroit fans. That will be very likely.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
In that she should do a podcast in the stadium,
talk about the internal conflict she's having. Well, you know,
my three kids were born in today. They've got a
good streak going without her podcast. Yeah, so they might
want to keep that going. She's got to express herself.
You're not supposed to keep these things inside. You get
all pent up and it affects your mental health. You
got to have a real you know it. She needs
a release, She needs the podcast.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
UCLA introduced their new head coach today. Well here's part
of his introduction.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
But alignment was a word that continued to show up
over and over and over again, and I think.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
They got a new s idea over there.

Speaker 5 (13:04):
Get around guy and the opportunity you have when you
think you can't succeed or would like to succeed. It
takes three things from the people really above you that
you're asking for. And the first one is do they understand.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Is this better worse than Sean Foster?

Speaker 5 (13:18):
What you're actually going through? Its chests, fun the things that.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
We just kind of distracting forward and hardly hear the messagers,
the behind the audience, and Martin certainly does that they.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
Have sense taking this video off of YouTube.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
But we were able to do the cash as the
kids like to say, oh I cashed that S and
here it is.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Bob Chesney's five years speaking of cash from Twitter, but
I cashed that S. Cashing it in is thirty three
point seventy five million dollar contract for him to make
an annual salary of six point seventy five million. WHOA,
that's a lot.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
That's I mean, he could be an actual duke with
that kind of money as opposed to just coaching the dukes.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
You cannot buy a title. I'm sorry you used to
be able to. Not anymore, Matt.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
You scratched out a check to the pope and next thing.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
You know, you've got to be great at some You
get great enough at UCLA football to get the Queen
or the King or whoever to recognize you as a sir,
and then that's about as close as you're gonna get
an MB right British Empire.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Now we got the Duke of sports here at the station.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
He's self crowned like lebron Is crowning himself.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
He took on Sam amk That's something a duke would do.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
He's flying back to Virginia to coach James Madison against
Oregon in the first round of the College Football.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Player They're gonna beat the Ducks in Oregon's going to
get a lesson about what's coming their way when he
takes over at UCLA.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
You know, you never know what's going to happen in
college football, but I would say it's not likely.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
No, I believe they're thirty five point favorites.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
USC is going to the Alamo Bowl. Well, they faced
TCU on December thirtieth in San Antoo. At least they're
playing in a bowl, which is more than we can
say for the Irish. Notre Dame ad Pete Bavaqua said
that the ACE right, we're not going to help you
guys make money after you screwed us and dangled us
around kidting us in the Pop Tarts Bowl, We're out.

(15:07):
And he's also mad at the ACC. They engaged in
sustained targeted social media campaigns against the school and the
football teams late in the season and that has forever
changed the relationship between Notre Dame and the ACC. Bavaqua said.
The ACC, in the process of promoting football member of
Miami for the College Football Playoff inclusion also damaged Notre Dame,

(15:30):
which lost the season opener to the Canes.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
Or Thevaqua who could hit water if he fell out
of a boat, Can I guarante to you this. When
I pitched and I was going to pitch against some
team that had guys on it, like the Baqua. I
set a limousine to get to make sure he was
in the lineup because I kicked that any day in

(15:55):
a week. He's a big mouth. I'll tell you that.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
It's red box.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Very contentious between Bavaqua and the ACC. I think they're
gonna send They called him a sea sucker. Pavaqua outlined
a multi week social media campaign during which he communicated
with the ACC. He sent an initial post from the
ACC's official X account that appeared on November tenth, which
included a side by side comparison to Miami in Notre Dame,

(16:21):
caught his attention, but he attributed it to an individual
staffer maybe overstepping.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh, those social media managers, they're young and crazy.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Quite frankly, I was kind of expecting a phone call saying, hey, Bavoqua,
sorry about that. It won't happen again, Bavaqua said. But
then it did happen again, and we started to communicate
with the ACC. Text that I sent, emails that I sent,
and it continued to happen. You won apologize to him.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
No, Pavaqua, who could hit water if he fell out
of a boat.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
It's always a great opportunity when you get a guy
named Bavaqua on your Dodger station, no doubt, to remember
the greatness of Tom Millasorta and a C. Sucker lack
Lefe or a guy like Fing Bavaqua, and we'll be
back with more great sports talk as our show continues
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Well joining us right now. One of the all time
great fullbacks football players in the history of the world,
Lorenzo O'Neil period, perhaps the greatest fullback and fell history
true block for a thousand yard running back and eleven
straight seasons straight out of the know.

Speaker 8 (18:08):
That's right going.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
He knows the ninety nine top to bottom. He does
the podcast with Matt for the Chargers. He works for
the forty nine Ers up in the Bay Area. He
is the one and only Lorenzo O'Neill on the Petrosen
Money Show on your Southern California Toyota Dealers Celebrity hotline.
Not only is the quarterback for the team that he covers,

(18:33):
the Chargers, a baller and a hero, but his old
quarterback coming back, Philip rivers at forty four, Lorenzo, what's happening?
How are you?

Speaker 8 (18:45):
That's true? I love it. I love that tagline money.
I'mnna have to use that more often. That's true. That's
the true great legendary, I'm legendary. I had a rough
night last night, guys. I was just sweating like the
same same probably the same place you guys were on
the edge of your seat. Boy did we were we impressed?
And was that not an unbelievable game? Yeah? I know

(19:06):
it was sloppy, a lot of turnovers, lots of sacks,
but that game was unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
It was a lot of fun. What can you say
about Justin Herbert and his performance with that big flappy
hand and just no tackles getting sacked like you mentioned
every play, that's pretty gutsy performance.

Speaker 8 (19:26):
Unbelievable. I think the guys just a man, just a man.
He is not scared, He's built the right way, He's tough,
he's fearless. The Chargers are lucky to you know, they
go from Drew Brees to freaking you know, Philip Rivers,
who's coming out of retirement, you know, forty four years old,
coming to play for the coach. It says something about
just the organization and just being lucky from Dan Fouts.

(19:48):
I mean, just think about who Justin Herbert is in
the quarterback legacy that the Chargers. I mean, Drew Brees
Hall of Famer, Philip Rivers would be a Hall of
Famer Justin Herbert and Herbert it definitely going to be
a Hall of famer. The way that he plays the
game with the physical, with the physical opponent, and the
way he just runs over guys. I mean, playing with

(20:09):
the broken hand in the overtime, he said, okay, let
me just take over. I don't care if my hand's broken.
I'm rubbing it on the sideline. I don't care what happens.
I'm gonna use my stiff for them. I'm going to
use the hand that's broken the shield of the fender
off me. What can you say about this guy besides
just just tough as tough as they come, man, tough

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as they come.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
You hear the players say it. Tony Jefferson said it
after the game, low that you know, you see what
Justin's going through. I saw Tarheb say it as well,
and you're like, well, how can I not play whatever
to this level? But I would assume you guys are
doing that anyway. Is there something to that? Like if
you're out there playing with you know, Philip and he's
got a torn acl and the AFC Championship game, does
that make you play harder?

Speaker 1 (20:53):
You know what.

Speaker 8 (20:54):
I don't know if it makes you play harder, but
it lets you know, Hey, look, I gotta suck it up.
Who to go around moping head down when you see
guys like this playing a tough position to go out
there and play as guts as he did and the
willless team to win the victory?

Speaker 6 (21:11):
You do?

Speaker 8 (21:12):
You do say, you know what, I gotta get back
on the field. You have to say, I gotta find
a way to get back on the field, especially guys
when at your quarterback and everyone talks about sometimes the
quarterback can be a little soft, be a freeman, Donna,
not justin Herbert. This guy's stuff as they come.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
You know, Lorenzo, I got to ask you because the
rules have changed in football since you were the greatest
fullback that ever lived. And I'm not talking about Tom Rathman.
I'm talking about you. I'm not talking about Moose either.
But when you're walking around just in the world, and
you see people walking by, you know, and they're not

(21:46):
protecting their legs, do you ever think about just cutting
that person down and just cutting them right there? Does
that ever cross your mind? Or does it not anymore? Hey?

Speaker 8 (21:56):
You know what, I'll tell you what it does. Every
time I get around the Chargers. Every time I come
round their tail Money Matt Money Smith's trying to get
a get me and Nick Hardwick. Every time I swamp
by Nick Carwick, I'm thinking about taking him down. You know,
he's a wrestler. I'm a wrestler. I wrestled in college.
He did it. He had a couple of tea in
college for wrestling. He doesn't know. He's not ready for me, brother,
Because when I come out there, brother, it's gonna go down.

(22:18):
Me and Nick Hardwick under the lights, Matt money Smith,
he's gonna rep it and he's gonna announce it. It's
gonna be legendary.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Well, i'd like to see that. Actually we should. We
could organize. That'd be a great thing for the offseason.
As far as the actual season with the Chargers go,
we know their limitations without both their tackles. We see
the quarterback beaten to hell and running for his life.
What are realistic expectations for this team moving forward? Even
though they've won nine games, they're in a pretty good

(22:45):
position here.

Speaker 8 (22:47):
I think they're in a really good position. I think
the way that they fight, anything's possible. You know, the
biggest thing for me if this team can say, if
the defense plays as well as it's playing as late, look,
don't turn the ball over. Get rid of the ball
quick go. You know last night they ran the ball

(23:08):
fairly well. When they needed to run, they had to run.
If you don't turn the ball over the way that
this defense is playing, you can be in any game.
The biggest thing that the Chargers have to do is
don't give teams short fields. That's what puts your defense
sometimes behind the eight ball when you're given opposition a
short field to work with. That's when this Charger team

(23:29):
can get in trouble and that's when the wheels can
fall off because of the fact that they got a
short field to work with. So if this team plays
the way that it's capable of playing, even though they
have some limitations up front, I'm not going to sit
here and say, oh, this team can win a Super Bowl.
I'm saying you can win a playoff game. You can
make some things happen. And if you jump on some teams.
You look at the AFC, let's be let's be let's

(23:50):
be fair. In part, they've Denver, They've beaten. Denver's quarterback
has been inconsistent. I know bow knicks and everyone talks
about what he's been able to do. Yes, they got
a good defense, they can run the ball. Does Indianapolis
scare you with Philip Rivers coming out of retirement? Okay,
who scares you is New England Patriots is doing Patris
War beaters. I don't think the AFC, Oh my god,

(24:14):
this is a for sure loss. I think they can
play with anyone in AFC. It's just a matter of
can they protect the quarterback? And right now, they've shown
that they can't protect him on a consistent basis. But
if you don't turn over this ball and you play
field position, they're still a tough out.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Lo.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
What's just to take us into the other locker room? Like,
what's going on if you're the Eagles and you've got
Saquon Barkley running for seven yards clip and on that
final drive, he's barely touching the ball. Jalen Hurts has
thrown it all over the place and he throws his
fourth interception of the game. I mean, their identity en
route to a super Bowl last year was running the ball,

(24:50):
and in that game it seemed like whenever they ran
the ball they were pretty damn effective. And yet Jalen
Hurts is out there throwing it all over the place.
What goes on after a game, especially when you got
a four and a half hour, our five hour flight
home to try to figure out how the heck you
lost that one.

Speaker 8 (25:05):
Yeah, guys are very disappointed. I tell you you got
to be a Philadelphia Eagle fans, you know they're disappointed.
The players are disappointing, But opportunity has never lost given
to someone else. Both teams didn't look like they want
to win that game. Either team could have won that game.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
We know that.

Speaker 8 (25:19):
So let's you know, the Chargers happened just to come
up on the better end of that stick. That game
could have win either way. But if you're you're Jalen Hurts,
if you're Jalen Hurts, you're looking at yourself and say,
dogg it, Hey he threw one ball. You know you
got a receiver, a big time receiver. He's got to
make that Levin's got to make that catch. It gets
popped up in there in Purns, it's an interception. The
Chargers didn't capitalize on a lot of those turnovers. So yeah,

(25:41):
but if you're if you're if you're a Philadelphia player
and you're on that team, you're like, why did we
not give the ball more to twenty six? You got
to ride with him. You don't expect him to just
do it all on one play. And he showed you
that he still has it. But they got to block better.
There's some things that they have to do. And I
don't think it's just all Jalen Hurts. Without a doubt,
he's ruggled last night. But I think that offensive line

(26:03):
has n't created a new line discrimmage as well for
the run game.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
His number is retired at Valley Children's Stadium, Beautiful Fresno, California.
The place is Alma, man. That could use a little
bit of an upgrade. I was just there doing a game.
I'm sure that Lonil is given enough to the program
in blood, sweat and tears. But somebody needs to come
through and fix up that stadium. But will you be

(26:27):
traveling to the to Tucson for the Snoop dogg Arizona
Bowl to cheer on matt Ence and your Fresno State
Bulldogs this year, lo'neil.

Speaker 8 (26:38):
You know, matt Ens is a great guy. I've come
to his team and talked to the team several times.
He's always won of me around hig like matt Ins.
He's tough, he's a physical guy. He's old Nebraska kid.
He's old Cornhusker. He's tough, physical from a small town.
But you know what, I'm gonna pass them. I'm not
gonna go down there to Zona. I'm gonna let Snoop
Doggy Dog have it.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
I'm a bass Okay.

Speaker 4 (26:58):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
That's an honest answer from an honest man. That's right,
A man who made his bones in the A Gap
in the B Gap.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Now a Freshno State made the NCAA Championships in wrastling.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
It'd be a little different, you know.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Damn well, I'm there, I'm there, I'm.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
There in the singlet, ready to rock and roll, no doubt.
We love you, Loan Neil and we'll check the podcast
with Matt money Smith. Thank you, thanks for doing it,
and thanks for doing it on short notice. We sure
appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (27:22):
No worries, guys, cheers, thank.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Thank you to Lorenzo Neil. When we return. One more
segment You're dead and a live guy birthday that in
remember David Abass. Top of the Hour with Winter Meetings
Dodger Talk.

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Gloria knows as well that that's a two to four show,
and that's a flex alert me. We'll be back though

(28:16):
on Friday with another full show, full shows all week.
Your dead guy Birthday of the Day, Matt Billy Ed
Wheeler would have been ninety five today, much like me
m and the hat Fields. He was from Boom County,
West Virginia. Went to Warren Wilson College Let's go Als

(28:38):
and Berea College, Let's Go Mountaineers. Served in the Navy,
went to the Yale School of Drama. That's a good one, right,
and majored in playwriting. Bill Wheeler wrote this famous song Jackson,
which was first recorded by the Kingston Trio and then

(28:58):
Flat and Scrugs. But it was Johnny Cash and June
Carter in nineteen sixty seven that made a big number
one hit out of it. This is them doing it
at San Quentin. They cut a verse out of it
at San Quentin for some reason. Let the hell out
of here. Let's get June off the stage.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
These incarcerated gentlemen are getting a little diitchy with June
up there. Now.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
I did not know that Jackson was also a successful
pop song for Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood that they
did their own version.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
I didn't know that either.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
You never hear it. That reached number fourteen on the
Hot one hundred.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Okay, that's a hit.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Wheeler went off and asked the question which Jackson said
that he had no Jackson in mind. He just liked
the sharp consonant sound of the word Jackson as opposed
to Nashville Johnny Cash always figured it was Jackson, Tennessee.

(29:56):
Wheeler did other tunes, a lot of tunes that charted,
and did a lot of good things for a lot
of stars. High Flying Bird, the Reverend, mister Black. His
songs were recorded by everybody from Elvis to Judy Collins.
Never heard of which one, Judy Collins or Elvis? The
first one Elvi's what's his name, Belvez Elviz. She said, no,

(30:24):
don't make it know. It's a holiday season. I know,
you know, we got to wear the highlight. There's negatives
and there's positive there's it's.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Just there's a theme. That's the theme of the remote.
She said, no, Ed Wheeler, No means no.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
Ed Wheeler also wrote and composed eight plays and musicals,
including the Hatfields and McCoy's, which is performed annually in
West Virginia in the Grand View cliff Side Amphitheater.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Is it like the Purge where violence is permitted for
that one night when you go Shakespeare?

Speaker 3 (30:57):
They had the Hey, they the families come together every
year they do it. They do a marathon, they do
a lot of potlucks. Right, They've signed multiple treaties over
one hundred years. We've had peace on the Tug River. Okay, Matt,
so you know it would not. Is it terrible? It's

(31:19):
a terrible, bloody feud that lasted thirty years. Matt, just
horrible and devil ance Hatfield and Randall McCoy's. Shame on
both of them for not burying the hatchet before a
lot of blood was spilt, innocent blood.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Is that what the productions about potlucks and coming together?
It's the few exactly right? Exactly right.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
Doesn't mean you want people's blood spilled with the theater.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
He published a book about his memoirs entitled Hotter than
a Pepper Sprout Hill Billy Poet's journey from Appalachia to
Yale to write and hits for Elvis Johnny Cash and more. Okay,
Billy ed Wheeler.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
To be an interesting read.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Yeah, Hail Billy Pollet, You're alive.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Guy is British News.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
It's time for PMS, British News, lighted Kingdom English News.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
It's time for British News. Cheerio straight get out.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
An all time great and favorite. My first gold record
was Portershead Dummy. Beth Gibbons is the face of the band,
but Jeff Barrow is the foundation and the brains of it.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
But let's be fair, you're the face of the gold record.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
I mean without you, I mean what they wouldn't have
had any success. Most people say that, I mean, that's
what people say. It's the same with Elvaz and the
current right.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
What Matt did at college radio with Portishead Dummy is
still talking to.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
In the.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
CMJ world today. He was born in Walton and when
he was a wee lad you guessed that he moved
to said started out playing drums in some local rock bands.
Was also d Jane and some hip hop groups. He
landed a gig at the famous Coach House studios as
a tape operator tip guy, tapeop low level entry job,

(33:16):
but you're working with some seriously big time.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Somebody over at ABC for about seven years.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Tape Hop nineteen ninety one, while he was working on
Massive Attacks, Blue Lines hit it off with the band.
They allowed him to use their spare studio time to
get his own ideas on tape and it would be
a chance meeting scraping for money and attending a government
program called Enterprise Allowance that would pay unemployed folks forty

(33:49):
pounds per week to set up their own small business.
He was on a coffee break.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
And started to back back. Then they called a smoke
o Matt.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
That's right, he was on a smoko and he and
Beth Gibbons start a conversation. They formed Portishead. They add
musician Adrian Utley. They record the song it Could Be Sweet,
did everything at the coach House Studios in Bristol. Result
was Dummy, released in nineteen ninety four. Outlead co produced
the album performed on nine of the songs. Co Rode
eight became an official band member shortly after took off.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Immediately you were out there in Bristol right with them
like slighting their cigarettes. Well what I was doing being like, Hey,
I want this to sound more scratchy. I was laying
the ground you know, you need some records scratching.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
I was laying the groundwork at KXLU and KSCA.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
You know.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
They did not like doing you know it does. They
did not like doing radio, They did not like making videos.
They did not like doing anything.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
I like smoking.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
They did like smoking. People didn't care. Dummy was described
by Melody Maker as quote musique noir for a movie
not yet made Top five hundred Greatest Albums of all
t here's a good lot.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
You guys could use musique noir for a movie that's
yet to be made. That was brilliant credit uh, copy Boy.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
It is considered one of the greatest trip hop albums
of all time, seminal release in the genre.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Those were those days back. Yes, it was every time
Porter Said or Matsive Attack or Tricky came out with
an album, It's gold.

Speaker 6 (35:24):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
I figured everything was gonna be like Porter Seid. It
was the first record I worked, and then they gave
me Hagfish and the Meiss and Steel Pole, Bathtub and
Lincoln and Drugstore and the list goes on and on,
and I just kept thinking back to man, that was
cool when we had Porta said, uh again, they didn't
like doing anything. They won the brit Award. This is

(35:46):
from their historic Roseland live show that came after their
sophomore effort. Porter said. Porter said this would be Glory Box.
It's fantastic. The whole Roseland thing is awesome. Barrow and
Bat We're like, we don't really like working, so he
just started doing studio stuff. Paul Weller, Depeche Mode, Tricky
and Nana Cherry had a couple of side projects back Quakers,

(36:09):
and then he started scoring film. He did Ex Machina.
It was probably his most famous. He is fifty four
years old today. Highly recommend if you are not familiar
with the band. Listening to Porto said, they are fantastic.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Jeff Berrel and think of Matt's smirking face while you
bob your head right like I did this.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
You're not playing, Porto said, Okay, I'll tell you.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
What we're not gonna have is anybody doing Porto said
karaoke night.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
We could have a nice cover of numb. What their
only means that it's be a big head in West Cobina.
She said, Now said.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Kate's ass, like, Hey, what's the spectrum of songs available
everything and but if nothing, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
You can have it, but you can't have it. You
could have it all my fire after at Karen's house
will have everything. Yes, West Covina, nothing, keep working on
It was really the attitude.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
All right. We'll be back all tomorrow for another four hours.
Have a great night everybody and Dodger Tom coming up
next with David Mass with the latest on Timmy Trumpet
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