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Speaker 2 (02:23):
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Speaker 1 (02:28):
When you at Filipinos, no DJ stough they all have
it in him. They may have it in him, but
they have not expressed it, not openly to us yet.
Maybe that's Thursday, like when you're in college and those
sorority chase, you just know they're making out. They might
not have shown you, but you know you're mister Brightside.

(02:52):
You know what's going on deep down. We do have
a bunch of stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
In addition to the Chargers sweatshirt, Herbert Jersey, we got
blinderd Black, Matt Lioner. We held out for our last
show of twenty twenty five. But he's showing up. I
want to show shit.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
I want to give away Joe Davis. He's sitting over
there staring at me and that Joe Davis bottle head good.
Kate's take it. Take it here, sleeping the fetal position
with it. You act like it's untouchable. It is broken
in one spot. Where is it broken hand to part
where it has a soul that's right in his butthole. Yeah,
in the Dodger studio, Victor Brick's down Boostick is in

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Tim Conway used it in his hands to shake it
and give a little Dodger mojo, going, I can't give
away stand away.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
That is all right, the idea that you would even
broach that subject.

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I like the thought though, I want perge. I was
just looking around the studio. I want all day purge,
all day perche. I like the thought. And you know what,
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Maybe they want Apple to be a boy. And hunger
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Speaker 1 (05:48):
It's time for quick HITSMS, quick hits. Make it quick, y'all.
John Harry Ball, whoa been the head coach Baltimore since
two thousand and eight, we talked to Jim Harbaugh and
the next day his brother gets fired. Coincidence. Oh yes,

(06:12):
I don't know, kiss a death. I mean, guy misses
a field goal. He'll become a hot coaching candidate. Now
for a team that has an opening. Sometimes you just
get tired of it.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Mark Andrews drops a two point conversion. This guy misses
a field goal.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Tired of a guy's chin. You know that chin's been
jutting out at them since O six eighteen years. Oh wait,
excuse me. The Chargers are headed to New England to
play the Pats on Sunday night. The Pats a slight
three and a half point home favorite in Foxborough. We
did have Jim Harbaugh on the show yesterday, not knowing
that it would cause his brothers firing. Here is this

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What do you guys see from dray in a pretty
pot past this season.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah, yeah, just really effective and in uh every part
of the quarterback play. Throwing with accuracy, throwing to outside
the numbers, deep in in in the middle, athleticism, uh, poise, uh, toughness, durability,

(07:32):
everything has been Uh it's been been been a great
year for for him by any quarterback standard.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
I'm seeing to a hallmark and think of a mireat team.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
I don't know that I had that uh that answer,
uh you know for you, but uh, I mean the
thing that sticks out. I mean it's like his team's
played like he played. I mean I do notice that,
you know, tough, gritty, you know, physical, uh, smart, uh fast,

(08:10):
I mean they kind of like to hit like he
liked to hit.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
That.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Uh, I've noticed.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
What do you what do you think from the defense.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
In about I mean all the I mean the really
you know, the most important categories. I mean their top five,
top ten points per game, Uh you know run defense. Uh,
it's all and they do that. I mean it's not
not a lot of takeaways, you know, that's not in
the top ten, but it's it's just really good sound. Uh,

(08:44):
you know, able to play which which is really good
at a three to four team that can also play
as a four to three team, fourth three team that
can go to go to a five down line. Hallmarks
you know, uh in their coverages which they which they
play really well, play the single high, the split safety,

(09:07):
you know, all all all really good, really affected, very downhill,
very physical, very good tacklers, you know, really really sound
and player driven. I mean they put players in position
to be successful. They do a great job of that.
So long list of things that they do well. Just

(09:30):
excited for the game, excited, uh, you know, for the
opportunity alter competitive season. This is uh, this is this
is that time, you know, and yeah kind of that
put up a shut up time. You know, that's work
no matter when the games played. So ready uh ready
to have at it. That's the that's the kind of
energy that's in the building.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Good stuff there from coach, of course, a lot of
the same stuff that he told us yesterday. If you
did not hear that interview, be sure to visit the
iHeartRadio app, download Petros and Money on demand and check
out our five thirty PM Our three interview.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
I thought he was totally different, totally much more comfortable
different guy. The Rams are hitting the road, David for
a wild card matchup at the Carolina Panthers on Saturday.
Rams are ten and a half point favorites, and Matt
doesn't like the playoff structure at all. Sure, no, sir,
I don't, and I'm not going to give up. I will.
It's not gonna be quiet about No, I won't. The

(10:27):
Lakers are twenty two and eleven. They're in New Orleans
taking on Lakers. They're on the Smoothie King taking on
the Hernits as we speak, the SKC the Smoothie King Center.
I think the Lakers can win it if Lebron leaves
freaking weirdo with all I think the Lakers cryptic talk,
I think the Lakers can win it. Sure. The Clippers, though,

(10:48):
oh they are hot, seven in the last eight hot damn.
Now they hit the rude. They're in New York tomorrow
to face the Knicks. Here's Tylo after the win over
the Warriors last night on his teams turn around.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
A big part of it was just I thought the
early injuries. I thought them Kawhi and Brad went down
and missed those ten straight games. I thought it was
really hard on us. You know, from a scoring aspect,
and then defensively as well. And then Bogie went down
and then DJ went down. So you know, it happens
around the league as part of it. And we just
wasn't able to finish games. You know, it got got

(11:23):
down a stretch of games, close games, and we just
couldn't finished the game and we had to as Zoo
and Jane to do so much to even keep us
in the game, you know, down the stretch, I thought
they got tired a lot of times. You saw some
turnovers or some some misshots, and it was hard on us.
And then I think, you know, since we've been these
last seven eight games, I think defensively, you know, jbg's

(11:44):
done a great job of just you know, getting us
back in the lab, simplifying, making sure that you know,
we're playing to our personnel, not to what we did
last year, which has been a lot better for the guys,
you know, easier for those guys to to lock in
defensively and not playing in thought. And so that's a
huge reason why you know, we've been back to playing
pretty this Our defense has been really good, and so

(12:07):
I know Dante and you know JBG and Hole game
those guys are getting players on the floor every single day,
just working even after practice, after shoot around, just grabbing
guys to make sure to comprehending what we're trying to do.
And we've gotten a lot better than the defensive area.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Man. That Tyler is the heck of a coach. I
love how he sent Chris Paul home in the middle
of the night. You know what, you got to make
tough decisions, Yeah, you do. For a team that's struggling,
some tough decisions have to be made, and tylu is
the man to make them. Chris, I just called you
an uber to the airport. It'll be outside in three minutes.
Excuse me, you're a bad guy, Chris. Everybody knows it. Man,
you're a bad guy. Cliff Paul is just a lie.

(12:41):
We've got to We've got a Cliff Paul. Thank you,
thank you.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
It As a matter of fact, if you would like
to add that big days to the connection, it's Cliff Paul.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
My god. Well, we're gonna add it to the collection
semi finals of the playoffs or later this week, and
Matt we're gonna be there. Oh, we're gonna be on
a call. Well, we're not going to be at the
Fiesta Bowl might as well be. But we're going to
be in Siritos, which is Little Phoenix, Miami and Old
Miss Fiesta Bowl Miami's at three point FA Friday, it's Indiana,

(13:17):
Oregon and the peach in Atlanta, who's yours three and
a half point favorite. I believe Ole Miss will keep
Charlie Weise junior to he's gonna continue.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
They will keep their running backs coach, but they have
lost their wide receivers and their tight ends coach.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Those guys aren't gonna be able to play. They they
are gonna make their way unless you to see the tide.
Those guys won't know what's happening.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
And there there are claims and there are accusations of
nefarious moves by the coaches who are departing Ole Miss
for LSU and trying to continue to recruit players to
follow them as well. I think in today's day and age,
is really not much to that is how big your
check and how BIG's their check?

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Wow, there's something to it, man, you know, I don't
like what they're not. I don't like it. Mike. The
transfer portals open and fully operational. U c LA has
grabbed at least three sun Belt James Madison Tits. Oh,
those guys were on high demand. Well, there's three of
them work worked out for Indiana. Sure did Chesney? This
guy Chesney might know what he's doing. He's put together

(14:18):
a good staff. He's going around and daring himself to people.
It seems like he might have sounds like Lincoln Riley
Part two. Yeah, it seems like if it was some
part two, it might be a signetic Part two. Could
you imagine UCLA taking over college foot be pretty great
swing on their boots.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yes, I could imagine that. If Indiana can take over
college football, then I can imagine anybody taking over college football.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Right when we got rid of Ucla, they take off.
Kyle Whittingham is the new head coach at Michigan. Miss
me yet. He was on five seventy earlier today he
was with Dan Patrick. Yeah, talked about why he like
Rogan and Rodden. I was like, really out of those guys.

(14:59):
He his roommates with Rodney on his Mormon mission at Argentina.
He wanted to talk about the job at Michigan and
what a tough month it was, you know with the coach.

Speaker 5 (15:11):
Good run at Utah. It was a great experience thirty
two years in all, twenty one years as the head coach.
I figured I'd done pretty much all I could do there,
and I'm still not that old, sixty six. I guess that's,
you know, not that old. But I thought when I
stepped down, first of all, I didn't want to be
that guy that over state is welcome, you know, I don't.

(15:31):
I don't, you know, I've seen that happen too many times,
or guys stayed too long, get run out of town.
So didn't want to be that guy. But just felt like, Okay,
there's been a good run. Let's let's leave on a
positive note. And when I did step down, I had
an inclination in my mind that if there was about
you know, he count on one hand the amount of

(15:52):
schools that if they would have called, I would have
been receptive. And just so happens. About two or three
days later, some contact with Michigan and they were on
that list, and one thing led to another about a
weaker Ten days later, it was a done deal. The
place doesn't need a rebuild, it needs a reboot of

(16:13):
trust and get rid of the drama and just get
back to playing Michigan football without all the distractions.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
You know.

Speaker 5 (16:20):
The one thing is it didn't come from the players.
You know, the players were not involved. It wasn't some player,
you know, issue was it was, you know, just the peripheral.
And so guys here have a great attitude. I met
with every single one of them at the bull site
last week. Just quality young men, care about academics, Excited

(16:45):
to be at Michigan. But they've dealt with a lot
over the last years, and so that's where they're at.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Oh, we talked to Vassay about this, Matten, this cool.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Clayton Kershaw is probably going to get right back into baseball.
He retired following twenty twenty five season, but The Athletic
is reporting that the three times Cy Young Award winner,
MVP Award winner, World Series champion, and Dodger Great is
a top candidate for becoming the baseball analyst for NBC
Peacock next season. They will become the broadcasting destination for

(17:15):
Sunday Night Baseball. They're taking that away from ESPN. They
will also have the first round of the playoffs in
twenty twenty six, and as David Vasse just told us,
Kershaw routinely would play the role of Dick Deitsch and
critique all of the sports media broadcasters and personalities to
Dave and tell him what he thought, perhaps signaling that

(17:39):
in fact, this was in his immediate future following his retirement.
They say they don't know if it's booth or studio,
but Vass seems to think it is not studio that
he wants to be won the booth.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
A lot of people think that Clayton Kershaw most going
to be like like his comp in broadcasts. Right, everybody's
got a comp is vic Ro Big Fly? He's a
real piece ass. Yeah he is. We'll be back with
more great sports talks. Stay with us and I'm get

(18:11):
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Speaker 2 (18:36):
AM five seventy LA Sports live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
We are your home of the back to back World
Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers and here on January sixth,
twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Pere we here but a month away? Oh yeah, one
month away from talking about Glendale, Arizona. That's why we
got Dodge talked to night. It's right David Vasse at
seven o'clock. But that's not why we're bringing on great
Greg am Singer. We love him. He's been on a
few times MLB Network host. The reason we're bringing him

(19:14):
on is he's the tallest host on television. He's he
got Van Pelt. I think he does good for him.
We'll find out he's better looking in his hair's way, Ben,
no question. No, it's a TI day today. Who I
mean tomorrow, It's a Tony day tomorrow on the tries
one left center Field.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Did you go.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Show hey old Tony good stuff of legend. Hi, my
name is Joe Hale Tounny to watch bring singer friend
of the show. Tomorrow is January seventh, one seven. I

(20:05):
get it. So MLB Network is calling tomorrow show hate Day.
It's showtime whole day about TAWI themes. Programming will air
at six Pacific with MLB Network hosts the great Greg
Am Singer is a big part of the coverage, not
just physically, but his aura as well. Oh yeah, his

(20:27):
soul is basically he'll be the biggest as you pointed out.
He's also got a new MLB Network show called pack
in Time. But the next episode said for this Sunday
at ten thirty, featuring an interview with Larry Boa. Pack
in Time. It's a show about baseball. Came I wrote

(20:49):
the thing. He thought it was about wolves, but it's not.
Joining us in your southern California toyo to do this
celebrity hotline. It is Greg am Singer part of show
Hate Day tomorrow on one of our favorite network's, the
MLB Network. What's crag and Greg? How are you?

Speaker 6 (21:04):
You know?

Speaker 7 (21:04):
I'm just learning how to take a doctorate course on
guest intros. It doesn't get better than the two of you.
It really, honestly, you guys could literally make an entire
show of just introducing the guests. They could say hello
and goodbye and would kind of best segment ever.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Now we're done, what's it? Thanks for doing that with
the show, and way to go on the podcast. It's
really more about playing the music of the sound Greg
you know, whatever you say is just you know, but
tell us about show hey day, because this does seem
pretty fun. And I don't think there's any other baseball
player that you could do this for, is there.

Speaker 7 (21:42):
No, He's the best player in the planet. He's the
best player of all time. When people roll their eyes
at me about that, they just have a serious bias
over someone. I grew up in Saint Louis was a
pan of the Cardinals. I couldn't stand the Dodgers and
Tommy Lasorda will whyey hears Zog and Ozzie Smith would
play against the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
I was so.

Speaker 7 (21:58):
Happy when tom needs fear gave it up in the middle. Yeah,
I'm just being honest with you, But show Heytani. I'm
letting you know my bias as a kid. But I
can acknowledge that Shoe Otani is the greatest baseball player
of all time. He just is. And this should be
a national holiday. If you're a baseball fan. I don't

(22:19):
think anybody should be working in Los Angeles. You will
celebrate all day January seventh on the man that wears
one seven on his back every single night, entertaining the
millions of Dodger fans out there, show Heytani a day
dedicated to him. I get the host the special, which
I think is an honor, and within the day, I'm
going to give you my Greg list of the nine

(22:41):
greatest moments in show Hayes' career in my opinion, not
Showy's opinion, in my opinion.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
So that is Also, you're the host of the show
and it's your you know, your show, so do whatever
you want.

Speaker 7 (22:57):
Let me just say though, you know, even though I
named it Greg's list, so many people within the company
will like argue with me. That can't be number one, Bro,
that can't be number one. You know, why is that
number five? I'm like, do I need to remind you
it's Greg's Yeah, my list.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
It's not idiot graphics guy list exactly, truck monkey list.
Go back in the truck. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (23:23):
Yeah, I'm a Bashi baseball fan and this.

Speaker 6 (23:26):
Is my list.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
So are we.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
And that's why there's a chance that will bring you
back on to argue with you about Greg's list, because
that's the kind of guys we are not really now
that you have, now that you have been removed for
a couple months from it, as have we greg but
your sense of baseball history is considerably better than ours.
Not question was this was this the greatest World Series

(23:49):
that you'd ever witnessed with your own two eyes? I
am fifty two. I believe I'm the oldest of the
bunch here. I believe it to be the greatest World
Series I ever witnessed. Is that Does that still hold
for you?

Speaker 7 (24:00):
Yes, it's the greatest World Series I've ever witnessed, and
the closest to me would be twenty eleven. But that
was the greatest game. It was the greatest comeback in
Game six of that World Series of David Freeze at
the ball the other way, Neilson Cruz didn't catch the ball, YadA, YadA, YadA,
you walked it off. And remember there was a rainout,
and then there was Game seven. Game seven was a blowout,

(24:20):
so it wasn't very suspenseful Game seven. There have been
other terrific Game sevens in World Series history, but there
was nothing like this. There will be a movie made
about this Game seven, seriously, and you could pick the
movie up in the third inning or fourth inning of
the game, like you don't even need to start the game,
Like it's a movie.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
It is so good.

Speaker 7 (24:42):
One of the overlook heroes in the movie would be
Dave Roberts, who decided to bring Potas in to play
center field, and then minutes later he's diving over a
sprawled out key k Hernandez, who thought the game was
over to make a diving catch to extend a game.
It was one of the most incredible things I've ever witnessed.
I actually got to stand. We were waiting to do
the postgame show right after that game, and I'm standing.

(25:04):
If you're looking at the Fox cameras and if a
right handed hitter they do a single shot, a close
up shot of Laddie Guerrero Junior, you would be able
to see me in a walkway probably five rows behind
home plate. You got to see me. Al Lighter and
Chris Young were standing there waiting to go on to
the field. We're standing in that walkway and to watch
every single heart raising moment. That's about the Latty Guerrero moment.

(25:28):
I thought he walked it off three to zero count,
pitch up in the zone. He's been up there to
walk since at the center field. I thought the game,
the series was over. There were so many moments like
that it was an emotional rollercoaster. And I got to
tell you, guys, I was there. I had never seen
anything like it. A group of people celebrating on the mound, right,

(25:48):
so happy, Clayton kershar running from the bullpen, teers, so happy.
And yet you're hearing them. You can literally hear them
word for word as they're talking and giving all the
good graces to each other.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
Because it was silent. Fifty thousand people. You cause your
children crying. They say, I had never seen anything like it.
It was an awkward moment. The only thing I could
think of. I love living my life through analogy, so
forgive me on this. It's like playing in a state
championship game, right, but like one team shows up with

(26:23):
all their fans and they've got this all American, you know,
first team All State quarterback, and they're down by four
and he's running down the sideline and there's no time left.

Speaker 7 (26:32):
He's gonna score. Not only you stop him at the
one yard line, but they're bringing out a stretcher because
they think he broke his neck. So that you're celebrating
a state title, you won the state championship, there's an
ambulance on the field, and everyone's concerned about.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
The health of the quarterback. That's where it fell like.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
They're gonna get more analogies tomorrow. On Otani Day, it
is show Hay Day because that rhymes Otani Day does
not to celebrate his number seventeen. On one seven January seventh,
you said you had Greg's list the top nine because
there's nine innings in a game. Is when I'm assuming
show Hay moments, if I may just kind of is it.

(27:12):
Is it one moment the game pitched and the three
home runs? Are those separate moments? And if, in fact
that is one moment, ten strikeouts and in three home runs,
I would assume nothing's ever gonna top that.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Right.

Speaker 7 (27:26):
That's interesting because that was kind of the argument that
it made when people are like, wait a minute, if
it's show Hay's greatest moments, what do you think show
Hay would want to be number one? Which is an
interesting conversation. If it was show Hay's list, what do
you think would be number one on show Hay's lists?
If you gave show a truth theorem, there's a reason

(27:48):
he didn't sign with the Dodgers and the Yankees right
out of Japan. And I think he had heard that
Mike Strout's the greatest player in the world. He wanted
to play on the same team as the greatest player
in the world. Everyone he's actually the greatest player in
the world. And I think show Hayes number one would
be striking out Mike Trout to win the World Baseball Classic.

(28:08):
That moment showed a different level of exuberance and national pride.
That I another game we've ever seen since from Shoeo Tani.
He's had great games, great games, but that may have
been show hayes number one moment. It's not my number
one moment on my Greg's list. It's on the list,
it's not number one. Getting to what you said, and
I'll just be brief on this, that game is the

(28:30):
greatest baseball game that's ever been played. You go six scoreless,
ten strikeouts, and you hit three home runs. That's the
greatest singular baseball game of all time. We never have
to ask that question ever again. Who played the greatest
baseball game ever? I mean, what an obscure, generic question
that you could go down eighteen different rabbit holes and
come up with a game from nineteen twenty one, right,
You can't do that anymore. That's the greatest baseball game

(28:52):
that any humans ever played in a postseason game. Six scoreless,
ten strikeouts, three homers. My goodness, show hand.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
On tell us about pack in time, because this seems
like a really fun show to be able to work on.

Speaker 7 (29:05):
So here's the deal. I grew up in a huge family,
six boys and a girl, one of you know, a
bunch of boys, and we would play baseball card games,
and I was I'm obviously a huge baseball card nerd,
and I would want my brothers to know a lot
about all these obscure players. So I would pull a
card out and I would go, Okay, we're gonna play
a game. And I knew everything about all the players,

(29:25):
so I was like the judge. So I would go, Okay,
here you go, Rantsmolinich, tell me everything you know about them,
and they would get they have to study the baseball cards,
and then they would have to read facts that were
off the back of the baseball card to me, and
that would go to the next card. Okay, Greg Jeffrey,
tell me everything you know about him. And then I'd
pull another one out and it would be Frank the Pino,
not the third card. You have to interview, interview Frank Depino,

(29:48):
the lusty reliever of the Chicago Cubs. Okay, this is
the game I would play, and then I would act
like I'm Frank the Pino. So you gotta you gotta
ask some pretty good questions. So this is a This
is a show that's based on that freise. I randomly
pull out baseball cards. I spend three minutes telling you
everything I know about each baseball card each guy. So
it's like a history lesson of baseball cards. And then

(30:10):
the third whoever I pull is the third card. It's
only thirty minute show. That player will join me for
an interview, and that entire interview is about that about
their career. I'm not asking about current events. It's it's
and by the way, stipulations, I do not include any
current players or Hall of famers. They get tons of
love on MLB Network. So this is a chance to

(30:31):
talk to Sean Dunson, a chance to talk to Eric Davis,
chance to talk to Will Clark, a chance to talk
to Larry Boa, Mel Hall. It's so much more fun.
I think it's awesome, and I've so far have done
a few episodes and I absolutely love it.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Take me pack all the time Sunday ten thirty Pacific,
and that's the one with Larry Boa. Greg does great work.
Is Oscar Dambile still alive? I don't know, Matt, good question.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Because that's you know, that's like a that's a that's
a holy trinity of baseball cards, the Afro trifecta with
Gamble and Gary Templeton. You know that could be a
fun one.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Well maybe that. I know what Greg's doing when he
gets off the phone no longer. Sorry, I've blown the interview.
It's my fault again. I've ruined everything again. Tomorrow is
show hay Dan. You won't possibly be able to ruin
Show hay Dan. Uh. They are going to blow it
out for the greatest baseball player ever. Thank you, Greg,

(31:28):
and thank you for doing it to promote your stuff.
We really appreciate all the exuberance and great enthusiasm and insight.
Just a great interview. Thank you.

Speaker 7 (31:37):
Oh you guys are awesome. I appreciate your energy and
your love for the game.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
We'll do it again soon, Okay, for sure, nobody's more
seemed out than Matt and I come. We sure know
the game got dust in our teeth. Well stuff fu legend.
That's right, man show, Hey day, you gonna have a
lot of Steve Nelson on that. All right, all right,
we'll be back with more great sports talk, Great sports Talk. Hello,

(32:03):
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We will have Dodger Talk in the very next segment,
The time with the Dead Guy. Birthday of the Day.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Our Dead Guy Today was one of, if not the
driving force behind it. Often cited as the greatest senatorial orator,
his speeches the stuff of legend from our legislative branch.
Charles Sumner would have been two hundred and fifteen today,

(33:06):
Born in Boston. His father's Charles Pinkney Sumner, a lawyer
an opponent of slavery, exposed Sumner early to arguments about
justice equality, radical abolitionists. Indeed a big brain on. Chuck
went to Harvard and later Harvard Law School. He was

(33:26):
the star pupil of prominent legal scholar Joseph's story, top
of his class, excelled he throt and constitutional law, classical learning,
European intellectual traditions. After graduating, he took off for Europe.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yeah, not really a Southern accent guy. I' you switched
it out.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Yes, you hear the music, Yeah, and you just can't
help but fall into that. While he was in Europe,
he was surrounded by political ideas that would influence his
reformist outlook. Became one of the most influential and controversial
American states of the nineteenth century. A leading abolitionist US
senator from Massachusetts, played a central role in the political

(34:06):
battles over slavery civil rights. What was the meaning of
the Constitution? Before, during, and after the Civil War? Were
the questions he asked and tried to answer. Collected to
the Senate in eighteen fifty one, member of the Free
Soil Party opposed the expansion of slavery into Western territories.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Fast P and fast P.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
That's what they used to say. FSP is for me.
He argued that slavery obviously a moral tragedy, but legally
incompatible with the principles of the Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution. His speeches were lengthy, They were highly intellectual.
They drew on history, law, moral philosophy.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Back then, you know, people didn't have much to do. No,
don't go with a long ass speech.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
That, of course made of many enemies, particularly among the
Southern Senatus. There was a famous moment in eighteen fifty
six some that delivered a speech titled the Crime against Kansas.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Oh, bleeding Kansas Man, What a terrible time.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
He denounced the violence surrounding slavery in the Kansas territory,
harshly criticized pro slavery politicians, and Representative Preston Brooks of
South Carolina took issue with that and beat him mercilessly,
so badly.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
This is really, you know, one of the uh, one
of the things that really got it started. Yeah, this
was it. When he was bludget seriously injured, unable to
return to the Senate for years. Yeah, he really got
his ass kicks. It was the foreshadowing incident that shocked
the nation. Thatn't just happened in Korea. You know, when
you see all the guys in the House of Representatives

(35:38):
or whatever, no, you know, beating all each other up,
or the one guy's started to sign and everybody's grabbing
his hand. Happened right here.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Then it illustrated the deep sectional divide that would likely
not be resolved on the Senate floor and of course,
would soon lead to Civil war. When he did return
to the Senate, he became the leading figure among the
radical Blicans during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
He supported the.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
Union war effort. Obviously they had crazy ideas. He did
have some crazy idea, you know.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
I mean crazy radical ideas, like, hey, that slavery that
they ended in Europe, you know, decades ago, we should
do that too here here in the United States. That's
crazy talk now, and I'm gonna beat you. Since I
don't want that Nevada there and to have slaves.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
He called for the immediate abolition of slavery, and that
was achieved with the Thirteenth Amendment. He led the charge
on passing during Reconstruction he advocated strongly for equal civil
and political rights for formerly enslaved people.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Dropped the ball there, Well, he tried. Unfortunately, I'm not blaming,
so yeah, I mean he was freaking fsp I mean
was he was not silly before the war started, he
would not see that.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Unfortunately, the federal government and their moral responsibility to enforce
the quality under the way, he would not see that
come to fermition.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
However, South Carolina guy took a freaking bat to his
head like Otami was.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Unfortunately, he died in eighteen seventy four. His legacy, though,
is the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four, of
which his Civil Rights Bill was the framework. Sumner helped
shape the nation's commitment to civil rights and constitutional equality,
and he bore the scars his door to prove it.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
I don't like what you say. I wanna bop you.
Was he married, yes?

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Was it an awkward marriage because many believed he was
a homosexual that was in love with his best friend
who married a woman, and it broke his heart. So
he took the wife, who then accused her husband publicly
of not living up to his manly duties to consummate
a marriage Chuck Sumner, Charles Sumner our dead guy birthday

(37:46):
of today.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
All right, man, tomorrow's show Haltani day. But we'll celebrate
Japan for Otani and secondarily Yamamoto and Sasaki. We love
to sept to celebrate the stuff of legend, Old Tawny,
thank you, who's stud legend. We all celebrate the Japanese

(38:09):
as Guy jeans non Japanese people, but on the Otani station.
And we have Tim Kaits who's like Douglas MacArthur in Japan.
They love him. We can celebrate here and listen on
a seventy so today's birthday. A very popular actress in

(38:30):
Japan and beyond, Rinko Kikuchi, great Japanese actress forty five
today from Kanagawa. Discovered by a talent agent at fifteen,
first movie nineteen ninety nine. She's in many artsy well
received Japanese movies. By the two thousands, she liked the
Parker Posey of japan Gas. Maybe she doesn't have the

(38:55):
same comic chops. Okay. By the twenty two thousands she
was doing incredible to shut up. She was doing crossover
movies like forty seven Ronan with Keanu who She was nominated.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
Is she in the Last Samurai the finest Japanese film
of all time?

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Sexy? He was sexy? Sexy seeing y'all when she's dressing
him grebs his crotch. That's patted, y'all. No. She was
nominated for an Academy Award for a performance in Babble
of a Confused Deaf Girl. Fourth person in Academy Award
history to be nominated for a non speaking role. If

(39:40):
this was Don McClaine here today, he would ask who
were the other three? I do not know. It's what
I ran. Didn't care. Her first full English movie as
the main character as the Brothers Bloom. By then, she

(40:01):
had learned English from watching The Voice on NBC. In
twenty fourteen Kumiko the Treasure Hunter. It was a pretty
big movie and she was in Tokyo. Wece oh Tokyo Vice.
She dated Spike Jones for a couple of years. That's
pretty cool. Left Japan that lived in New York, married
a Japanese actor, now has two kids. A couple of

(40:23):
titles for you to take in, Matt, cause I like
to be interactive. Okay, ready to go? Mike Yokayama a
forest with no name.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
Soon there's a relation to Frank on Thursday, so of
course that gets.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Multiple funky forest the first contact not right, quite sure
what would constitute a funky forest. Bunch a weed getting grown,
dog be funky love strikes that's it. With an exclamation,

(40:58):
we are little zombies.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
I'd like to think it's little people in there, you know,
like a willow. You are right, zombies zombies high heels.
Don't think you can say that, Oh what happened? High Heels?
A fairy tale born of obsession.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
For the foot fetish folk out there. This one also
has an exclamation point at the end. Ah Chan, shake
your booty. No, really, don't see that in a title.
No Rinko Kikuchi everybody. David Vasse coming up next. Beloved
by the Japanese as well, like shoe a O Tani,
Roki Sasaki Yoshi. I'm a motive, but not as much

(41:41):
as Kate's. He's got Will Klein on the show. He's
not Japanese his hero game for the World series. He's
got a fu Manchulo. We talked to Will Klein. That's
right about we did? Oh I got on that, well,
said Matt. We'll be back on tomorrow. It's a flexiler,
so we'll start at one o'clock. Yeah, so one to

(42:02):
three thirty, that's that's the ticket, Matt, all right, climpers
one to three thirty climbers are hot checked out. Damn
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