May 13, 2026 • 39 mins
Number, Word and Song of the Day. Top Story of the Day on the Lakers and LeBron and what happens next. Local Knowledge on the City of Downey
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Loneliness was an unsatiated thirst for illusion.
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night tomorrow at Dodger Stadium, so keep on listening. Will
do one this hour, one next hour, next hour. David
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best Say will join us as well from Dodger Stadium
as the Dodgers try to snap this historic ninety years
since they have been Peter be.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Alive and be a Dodger fan. Matt and the Lakers
are in disarrayed, and I can't believe what they did
to Lebron. What they did to Lebron was worse than
was worse than Oja. What they did the Lebron not
giving him that game ball instead giving it to JJ Wrett.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Well, think about the milestone passing Kareem in points or victories,
victories and point the regular stopped the world to melt
with us, right, Yeah, victories in the postseason and the
regular season twenty third year.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, you've seen the difference, and it's not getting better.
They stopped the world to melt with Lebron the last time.
They didn't stop the world to melt with him this time.
And he got butt hurt, and he left in his
Uni and his chafing balls and walked all the way
back to Holmby Hills.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And he didn't even take twenty four out of imagineery
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Speaker 2 (02:29):
Now, Ronnie, I think Ronnie's gonna do the song of
the day, but I think he's gonna run down and
blow into this room like Kramer to.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah. So uh, and then we'll figure things out as
the day goes on. But uh, thank you everybody for
listening to great sports talk. Don't forget we're at BJ's
restaurant on on Friday and that starts at two. That's
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Our little follow up Matt on the out.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
His words the word of the day.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Not since the Siege of Vicksburg has the state of
Mississippi been under attack so much. Lame Kiffin with his
choice words after taking their money, knowing that they had
the Confederate flags their uniform, And then and then Sarkisian
piling on talking about basket weaving, which is rich coming
from you, big head Armenian sark But we wondered who
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who will stand on the rubble of the dead South
and defend Ole miss and defend Ole Miss, who indeed
Archie many Yeah, arch No arch plays for Sark, but
his granddad, Archie made Right, who played at Old Miss,
said this, I'm very proud of my school. My school
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had to make changes years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
And did.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I know so many people who send their kids to
oh Miss and have a great experience. It's my school
and it always will be. And then he said, that's.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
How will Ride did not say that last part. Archie
did not say that last part.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
John wilt Booth.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
He did, however, have Dixie playing in the back.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well, he did. He did start by saying, oh wish
I was in the land of cutting. So anyway, that
is the the the pointed response, very gentlemanly from the
Garden District of New Orleans from Louisiana, where arch E
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Manning had to defend his alma mater, Very tenuous because
you know his grandson is playing for big Head Armos
Art and that's not.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
He got to walk that line.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Since has somebody walked such a fine line? Mess Lace,
that's right, all right, it's time for the number of
the days. My number.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Number of the day is for this historic losing streak
by the Dodgers, having not been seen since the nineteen thirties.
Have lost four straight by at least four runs. That
is how dominant, even at their lowest points, the Dodgers
have been as an organization. So we ask what has
gone into this slump? Why are all the players slumping
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at the same time? And I ask you coincidence? For
the first time, the players, the players Association, the owners,
and Rob Manfred, Commissioner of Baseball, have met to start
negotiating their new collective bargaining agreement.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You think that looming agreement has got the Dodgers down
in the mouth.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
What has been the top topic of all players and owners?
The players saying Dodgers aren't bad for baseball. They had
bumps and perils on their path the World Series glory.
They probably should have lost on two separate occasions to
the Toronto Blue Jays. It's not that big of a deal.
The owner's saying, back to back seasons, we've got a
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team with the highest payroll or second highest payroll winning
it all. This We need cost certainty. And the Dodgers say,
you know what, guys, We're going to take one for everyone.
That's what we're gonna do right here. We're going to
find ourselves in such a funk in overpaid, disgusting. These
players are too old, they don't have it anymore, will
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be financially handcuffed. Look at the penalties the Dodgers are paying.
It is a self fulfilling prophecy. Spend wildly and you
will pay owners. We can keep what we want to
keep and move forward in this successful venture. That is
what Bruce Meyer is putting forth as the union's lead
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negotiator for the MLBPA today, tomorrow, and next week. Thanks
to the Dodgers in this moment of negotiating time, making
sure they aren't too dominant, and posting thirty wins en
route to one hundred and twenty come October. Way to go, guys.
I know what you're doing, and I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I think that's a conspiracy theory. That does not that
lends very little explaination.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
We need the Dodgers here, pe. We can't be missing
any games next year.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
That's a great point.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Got have them.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We did mention the Mannings without mentioning Cooper Manning.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Oh now, he is the most talented man and boys,
had he not had.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
The spot running, where are you run?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
This is the song of the day.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Connections and Disconnections is our song of the day from
the band Funkadelic, because fai He's one of the current
deconstruction process of our studios is underway and we've been
disconnected from the main KLAC studio and connected through an
internal routing process to the Dodgers studio where Petros and
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Matt will be doing the radio program for some time
to come. And despite some minor adjustments, the Petros and
Money Show has come together for a three hour radio
program leading the Dodger Baseball trying to get off the
skids and get some sort of victory.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Tonight with Tim Kats and.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Your Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck show making an appearance
at six o'clock.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Tell you Ronnie, we will get a top story of
the day, focus in on who would have guessed Lebron
James in the news two days after being swept out
of the postseason.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
What they did then was.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Check. We'll get to that next time.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Petros Papadakis, that money snare. This is Petro send Money
on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Welcome back everybody, Petro saying money. We will talk downy
in local Knowledge in the next segment because Matt and
I will be at the BJS in Downey from two
to five thirty before Dodgers Angels. We got Dodger tickets,
We got bj gift cards and tickets to see the
biggest MMA night ever at the end to it. So
don't miss our show. Flex Alert two o'clock BJS, Downy,
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Vikings and Bears. We will see you there. And also
don't forget it's very important. We have tickets to give away.
Do you want to do it? Do you feel like
you have to do it? No, you feel like you
have it? Don't make him wait till the skin Net
smoke wagon. Wait, sorry I edit that case. Yeah, all right,
let's do it.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Eight six six nine seven two five seventy eight six
six nine eighty seven two five seventy call it. You're
going to Star Wars Night. That's tomorrow, Dodger Stadium, Dodgers
Giant Series finale before they head down to Anaheim to
take on the Angels. Caller ten eight six six nine
eight seven two five to seventy.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
All right, Matt, you've got the tough story of the
top story of it.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Well, we thought it with coincide with maybe the Conference
finals or the NBA finals or the MVP announcement now
just two days after their season ended with a whimper
shoot from the playoffs by way of a sweep, looking
completely and totally outclassed by the new kings of the castle,
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the new rulers of the roost, so dominant are the
thunder that they have ceased to be one of those
great stories that every American should be able to get behind.
No glitz, no glamour, no coasts, no major markets, no
celebrities sitting court side Middle America, no hills, no hills
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where it's the heart that matters more.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It's flat as far as the eye can see. That's
all Maha.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Shrewd trade might as well be over all the city,
no hills, America's treadmill when you get on those interstates
in this part of the country. Shrewd trade. See of
Paul George, Welcome Shay Gilgess Alexander in five first round picks,
big home run swings in the lottery. Chet Holngren, so
fragile at Gonzaga set out your rookie year. We still
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believe brilliant mid, late even second round picks that turn
into gold. Overpaying free agents with single digit and major
category stats. So they're willing to move from the big
town to Oklahoma and delivering titles. But after running rough
shot over the league the last two years, after looking
like an unstoppable force, and the title returning to the
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big friendly being FATA Compley fans are frustrated and they're
looking for anyone to knock them off their perch. The Spurs,
they're already five titles with a French superstar is somehow
the people's favor, the people's chimp and should and it's
looking like they will. The Knicks make the final as
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intolerable as the Lakers court side seats can be. The
Knicks are not far behind, if not even worse.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Not to interrupt, but I think if the Knicks won
it all, that would be a little bit like everybody
was so excited when the Red Sox broke the curse
and then it took about three weeks and everybody's minutes,
Oh god, what if we look at these Bostonian massholes
and then the Cubs, Cubs turning to the lovable losers
to completely unlikely live from deep dish hell. I mean,
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it would just never and it became almost immediately insufferable
that didn't happen with okay See because it's such a
small mark. Yeah, but people don't want to see him
win again. I feel like it would happen with the Knicks. Oh,
if they win. I think if the Knicks, if people
have become disillusioned with the way okay See plays, even
though they're very impressive.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yes, uh, if the American way.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
If the Knicks won, it would almost be it would
be worse than the Cubs and the Red Sox maybe combined.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
So think about right now, the Knicks are the favorites
to win the East. You're going to have the face
of the NBA Victor Wembin Yama go up against the
defending champs. And you click on the evil four letter
And what is the headline the top story above the
fold in bold black letters and a white background. What
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Lebron needs to return to La and why it's not simple.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
This is why we get nailed by the king. Yeah,
this is why it never ends. It's like I thought
it would take a week maybe two with the enemy.
He found her in that random place and she had
to shoot him.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Dave mcmanimon shot us with this story.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
He won't leave us alone.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Mcmanimon was on the Lakers beat with Kobe and Pow.
He was then sent to Cleveland when the Lakers sucked
after Kobe retired to cover Lebron, and then he returned
to Los Angeles with Lebron as he odyssey, signaling that
he had an inn with the James Camp continued his
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odyssey and remember, uh, you're not going to cover Lebron,
and they're not going to put you on the Lebron
beat unless you get access to the guy to get
some scoopage, as Jay Glazer would call it. But he's
also well liked by the Lakers, had enough Kobe era
reps to have an inn with the front office with
ownership to get a bit of their side of things.
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When he's trying to balance out the story, but the
tone leans severely Lebron's done everything possible for this team
and they need to show him some respect.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It's a disgusting wash.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
A number of things are chronicled in here on a
number of moments that we've heard about before yet being
rehashed again. Perceived slights, voluntary and involuntary sacrifices that one
of the all time greats has made.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Look what He's done.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Right, despite perhap as a being somehow below someone of
his stature, and the ultimate conclusion that this piece arrives at.
If you don't want to take it all in, and
I would recommend that you probably don't, Lebron needs the
Lakers the time. Lebron needs the Lakers. The Lakers need Lebron,
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to which I wholeheartedly disagree with both premises. Let's start
with Lebron needs the Lakers. There are two reasons why
I could make that case. He wants to continue living
in Los Angeles, understandable, and he wants to make a
lot of money to play basketball, also understandable. It is
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simply a proximity way for him.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
If you're going to be in LA with a gas prices,
you better get your fifty mil living in LA. It
goes back eight years when he signed here, when everybody
was farting Lebron James confed parties. He said he wanted
to wear that purple gold and he wanted to restore
the glory to a franchise that was in the dups
for the last decade.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Hogwash, I say hog wash. He wanted to move his
family out of Cleveland to Los Angeles. That is it.
His kids were entering their high school ages. He wanted
to come to the best high school sports scene in
the nation. Combine them all and it's not close. I
suppose he could have gone back to the Heat and
sent the kids to IMG, but to have them at
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home at a sort of local high school, he could
go watch them play. He could have the media watch
him watch them play and chronicle that part of his
off court life. Fatherhood, the dedicated father, and being part
of his children's journey.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Truly, it can't be this manufactured Matt.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
He launched Lebron Media TV shows, House Party podcasts, oh
and don't forget to chain his agency open to their
offices here Clutch Sports. It was a personal with a
family and a business play. And when he retires, I'm
assuming he will stay here. Maybe he'll move to Florida
for tax purposes. He's got enough money though it seems
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like he's got the resources to skirt some tax pitfalls.
He does not want to go anywhere. That's why he
needs the Lakers. Reason two, he likes to get paid.
This article made a point to share that he for that,
he managed to forego two point three million dollars in
his last contract to help keep them under the second apron.
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It's a lot of money, but the man was making
at age thirty nine and forty fifty four million dollars
a year, so it's not enough that he was willing
to sacrifice two point three million out of one hundred
and eight million dollars. Kudos to you, Lebron. Let's make
sure we make that a line item and our ten
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thousand word article. Here right now here are the team
with projected cap space over forty million dollars, The Wizards,
the Clippers, the Lakers, the Jazz, the Nets, and the Bulls.
That's who could afford to give him forty million dollars,
which would be a fourteen million dollar haircut and still
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an exorbitant sum of money for a guy that will
be forty two years old. The Nets, the Bulls, and
the Jazz out they are not ready to compete. The
one sort of wild card in there, and I actually
could see it happening because he is such a freaking psychopath,
is the Wizards to join his boyad who was traded
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there and Tray Young the number two pick in a
wild I'm addicted to the Michael Jordan comparisons. Did you
see what his tenure with the Wizards look like compared
to what my tenure with the Wizards look like?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Better?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
We won fifty games, and we made the playoffs, and
I lost in the first round again, and now I
will retire like that.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It'd be funny and I could actually see him doing it,
because that's how insane.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
He is about I'm just chasing ghosts.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, this has become very, very tiresome.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Cleveland and the Knicks are over the second apron. They
can't pay him, but like a million bucks, the Warriors
and Nuggets could give him six million dollars if he
wants to chase a ring with a team where he
might not be seen as bandwagoning point being, he needs
the Lakers to give him forty million dollars, and as
we mentioned yesterday, the only other play that would line
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up with this is the Clippers have forty million dollars
they could hand him as they have struggled to put
asses in the seats of their absolutely beautiful arena that
people are not going to see their basketball product, and
if they want to drop Lebron in there and say, well,
at least we'll sell out and people can find out
how great this place is, and then maybe they'll come back.
I suppose I could see that well, and then you know,
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for Lebron, gives him an opportunity to stick it in
the face of the Lakers just a few miles up
the road. That's why he needs the Lakers. That's it.
The Lakers need Lebron. No, that ship sailed fifteen months
ago and they traded for Luka Doncic. He has signed
for three more years. He is fourteen years younger than
Lebron over not just the average, but a long NBA
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career younger than Lebron James. Had he stayed healthy, had
the Lakers ascended to the three seed, and pushed for
the two, there was a legitimate chance he could have
won the MVP. That's the person you build around. His
style of play is incredibly entertaining. He's got a running
mate he loves, and Austin Reeves. They are both in
their mid twenties. The Lakers have fifty million dollars to spend,
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can get out from under the thumb of Lebron and
his oppressive regime of basketball agents, media members and hangers
on cut the court. There are not many people that
are going to give a good goddamn if you let
him go play basketball somewhere else. This is not Kobe,
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where while polarizing half of Lakerdom still cited him as
their absolutely favorite Laker ever.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Now it's different.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
This is in magic. It's not Lebron. Spent eight of
twenty three years in his league here barely a third.
We have detailed it many a time in those eight seasons.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
We should have given him the game ball though.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Well, and that's the part of the article that just reeks,
that screams why the Lakers don't need this guy around,
that that story is somehow leaked to the media.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
They don't show they don't show him the love.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
He deserted that he didn't get the game ball after
a win against the Cavaliers in a game where a
confluence of unlikely events happened to arrive at the exact
same precise moment NBA history was made when Luke across
the fifteen thousand point really the five thousand point threshold.
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Rob Palinka Admiral Awkward instead gave a speech in the
postgame locker room and awarded the game ball to JJ Redd,
who notched his one hundredth career win. I'm going to
quote the article here because it reads James viewed it
as another example of the team taking him for granted,
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and without even stopping to change clothes, James marched off
into the LA night, simmering from another perceived indignation delivered
by the organization that tried to push him out the
door after acquiring Doncic.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
My god, get over yourself.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Lakers need that guy. That's what the headline reads. That's
who you and I just want everyone to imagine what
life would be like with Lebron James on a retirement tour.
What this guy?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
It can't be any worse than this. Wanting to be
in the spotlight, my last trip to Chicago, to Chicago, Oh,
it's my sandwich, like it will be, It'll be intolerable. Well,
this is my last time in DC in front of
all these politicians. I got to put on a show. No,
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the article felt the need to share that when Luca
and Reeves went down since April fifth, when they both
laughed due to their injuries. He put up three hundred points,
seventy five rebounds and one hundred assists, the only player
in the league to hit those numbers. Who cares they
got beat by the thunder by a combined one hundred
points on that street. Don't really care, It's like stop.
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And then they added to further indict the Lakers. This
is a front office that asked its employees and its
scouts to evaluate James not as Lebron James, but as
a future free agent that was six foot nine, two
hundred and fifty pounds, and what the cost of attaining
that free agent might be, so as they could get
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a sound financial idea of what it would cost to
bring him back.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Makes sense to me.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Didn't they signed his son?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
There's that? There is that?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Like, what did did old beard face happen to mention
that mcminnimon?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
No, oh, oh you know what he did?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
He did? Actually that was the one. But they were
still left in his uniform huffing and puffing.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
There was a two sentence slight to Lebron saying, this
is a man that should recognize the team not only
has him on their roster, but has saved the slot
for his son as well. God, they do not need
old ass Lebron dragging himself up and down the court.
They need conference finals, They need titles. Remember the story
we did back in February about the guy who had
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season seats that were fifty four hundred bucks that as
soon as Mark Walter bought the team got to notice
they were going to jump to nine grand the next year.
They don't need old ass Lebron and his son to
tell people their premiums are going up forty nine percent
next season. Move on, the Lakers, don't that The articles
headline should have been why the Lakers don't need Lebron,
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he desperately needs them.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yeah, Beard, We'll be right back with some local knowledge
on the Patches of Money show M seventy LA Sports.
I can't believe they didn't give me the game ball.
I'm simmering and I'm leaving in my sit. It's just
just another slide.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
This is Petro Some Money on demand.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Petro Some Money and five seventy LA Sports Live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. David de bassegan to join us
in the five o'clock hour. Already gave away our pair
of tickets for Dodgers Giants tomorrow for Star Wars Night,
but we still have one more pair that we will
pass along our final pair in our final hour. So
keep listening for your opportunity to make your way inside
Dodger Stadium from the home of the Dodgers, AM five
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seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Let's call this local knowledge, Matt, because common knowledge is
local knowledge. He's very knowledgeable on the things that you
come up with. As far as for with your knowledge.
We are headed to Downey on Friday. As you know, Matt,
it's right there. You see it there on your screen.
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The promotional. We got a lot going. We will have
to too.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Remember it's a flexilert two o'clock. We're going to be
in Downing on Friday. It's an early start two to
five thirty Dodger tickets like we are going to give
away between now and the end of the show. We'll
have some more there. Bjay's gift cards, the MMA Fight
Out into a Dome with Ronda Rousey, Gina Carano, Nate
dz Francis and Gan Who. All of that's going to
be given out and more. We'd love to see you again.
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It is this Friday. We haven't been out for six weeks.
Excited to get back with you and the people. At
the corner of Firestone and Lakewood in Downey, the Lake
Fire the fire Lake, the Stone Wood or the wood
Stone Center, whichever you prefer, is where we will.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Be now, Matt, I was told yesterday in a dismissive
way to do my dude diligence. And you know, it's
not the first time I've heard you say that I
told you to do your due diligence. It did, you did,
and whatever you say, do your due diligence. You know,
I my ears prick up because I've heard it many times,
and I say, you know what I better do. I
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better do what? Because I had never heard that term
before you started doing commercials and saying do your due diligence.
And I was like, well, what's that. I have no diligence, honestly,
you know, I'd really have a purpose in life. Okay,
But you said, do your due diligence. Watch the Downy
City Snooty. You gave me a snood and you said
you better watch it and hear it. You said, watch
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the Downy City Council meet right, watch the Downy City
Council because we're headed to down You gotta do the prep,
gotta do your due diligence. And you said, don't you worry.
Petros The last meeting was a brisk, four hundred four hours,
fifteen minute jaunt through the beautiful city Mexican Beverly Hills
of Downy and which is a great place we all know.
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And uh, you know, I do what I'm told. So
last night I put it. Last night was the city
Council night, Florida, Downey. They had a live meeting. We
didn't have to go into the annals, just live streaming.
And I sent it to you, you said to me.
I popped in, and this council believed that that was uh,
that was more than plenty. That was a mayor. And
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so again I just wanted to the mayor started having
like a hot flash or something later in the in
the meeting because she was literally wearing sunglasses and fanning
herself like in a church. Oh wow, and her hair
was like blowing, and everybody else seemed fine, Well, we
are your menopausal show. There's no doubt. It's not close, Harry,
menopause and menopausal double up. I mean, who knows, lovely
(28:47):
lady though, Yes, So I watched the uh a good
portion of the Downy City Council, my city council that
I enjoy on off weeks from the two city councils
that I you go to Florida, Yeah, I go over
to Plants, I go over to Orange City, Florida, and
(29:08):
I enjoy. There's a real coup to get the mayor out.
She seems like a real bitch, and they just it's
a it's a struggle, small town, but a real struggle, certainly.
And then I enjoy on the on weeks, I enjoy
as you know, Huntington Beach certainly, and with the seal
of God Chad Williams down there.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
And friends in West Covina and.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Our friends in West Covina, Tony Wu and Letty Lopez Viado,
who I've never met, but I feel, I feel her
pain as she fights the terrible scourge that Brian Gutier
s BG. Just a rough situation, a lot of ada
demands from Gutier's because he's autistic.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
BGSN, thank you welcome.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
So I did my due diligence man, And I watch
here some Downey City Council highlights. As you know, Downy's
a town that it really honors their space heritage. That's
where they built the Apollo things and all that, and
they have some great space vibes, so maybe play a
space song. A guy came out. Now one thing that
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bothered me about the Downey City Council stream public comments,
no video.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Just off camera. Oh off camera. They had a slide
up when you had me tune in. It was just
a celebration of it.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
A fair early there was a guy publicly speaking about
nitrous for sale and the local smoke shops, saying, look,
I like whippets. Those nightris and adapters and balloons are
not being sold to enhance your vehicle or for a dentist.
You think dentists are going to our local smoke shops
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and buy these days.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
No, but I would like to know the locations of
these places please.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Night Well, they said, look, we aren't going to look
into that night carld nitrous adapters and balloons if they're
using it for cards while they selling balloons and adapters.
The balloons are there so it doesn't freeze your lugs
and you're suck it right out of the crackers, right,
How would you know, Matt, they sell the used to
sell them like that in Greico sandals back of the
day and Hermosa in the last century. Someone saw a
(31:15):
crazy coyote in broad daylight, jogging around and very angry woman.
She was very concerned about springtime and the coyotes. And
she said she's personally going door to door to spread
the word warn people don't leave your pets out, how
to haze coyotes, which she seemed really like a nightmare Strobel.
(31:35):
She had a video on her phone afterwards. If people
wanted to watch.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Come see me. I'll show you my video.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
And you know I mean, Matt, I mean basically, though
I was doing my due diligence, I was really spinning
my wheels. I wasn't getting anything.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
That we could use, right, Oh you sign up for conflicts.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Well not just that. I mean there was a guy,
but you know I got more than that. Okay, well
that before we get into that, there was a guy
on the city councilman who was like, I know the
golfers aren't going to like this, but why do we
need two golf courses here? What do we do now?
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Was just like ooh, taking on the golfers in down.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
We could put a housing there, We could put a
housing village. And then there was another guy that wanted
tall building. We need tall buildings.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Oh yeah, we got to get over the four story
Why don't we.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Need tall buildings?
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Right?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
But this is what I gleamed and you can bring
me back Mike Kubrick. As of February twenty twenty six,
Downey the city.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Do I need timpanees?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
No? Okay, the City of Downey has an official mascot.
Oh just christened February.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Now this week can get behind.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
An astronaut, an official city mascot reflecting the history of
the city of Downey in the Space program, which we
have dealt with in the past. That these shows, the
Apollo capsules were manufactured, writing down Apollo the space astronaut mascot,
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who's basically a spaceman.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Like faceless reflective screen on the helmet, or happy face,
happy face like a white guy happy face, or like
a smiley face in the helmet.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Like a white guy smiley face. I want to save
this story until Thursday, but I feel like now perhaps
we can get Apollo the space mascot at our show.
Apollo was developed by the city council to enhance local identity.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Well, why not welcome some outsiders to the city of
Downey with some localism.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Weal Apollo and the reason I learned about this is
one of the They were like talking about some festival
that's coming up, like Firefest, probably not as not as involved,
but there was a festival coming up and one of
the mayor, one of the city council guys, was like, well,
this sounds like something we could get it. Pollow and vault.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Thank you now that we have Apollo, this is great,
thank you and do it.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Question.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
I'm just wondering would there be any cross marketing with
Apollo or mascot. I don't know if Apollo has a voice,
but if you are do something like where you're engaging
Missus owners to maybe keep your voice for like discovered
down he discovered Downey, you might want to include Apollo
in there so people could we want to include a
podcast there just for your consideration.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Austin, thank you.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Good, thank you. That was a very dismissive thank you.
The mayor thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Well.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Do you remember she's having a flat thank you? She
was really struggling. Uh, it's a good looking space mascot,
Matt and it would not be our first mascot who's
visiting a live Petrols and Money show. We've had the
various races of Dodger bobbleheads up here in the locker room.
You know, the Chinese guy and the Japanese guy, and
the the Puerto Rican guy and the white.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
I don't think he's Puerto Rican. I believe hes Squadmalin.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Greed to disagree. We also had Richter from the Qua
did yeah, from the quakes came out. What that was
that his name, yes, Richter. But there was two of them.
There was a big one and a little one.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah. Like you said, Bailey brought us to Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah, Bailey, Yeah, Bailey, the.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Lion for the Kings.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
I don't appreciate Bailey because he's not an easy interview.
He's he always he doesn't talk, he doesn't roll, makes
it tough, like we have. He's here to interview our
machine lion. Yes, so Bailey kind of tough to watch
these ducks competing. Huh. I mean you've said about it. Yeah,
(35:56):
I mean just slow down. I mean, you know, to
get too angry about Oh God Jesus, now, anyway, it
would be I we'd be proud to have Apollo. We'd
play our space music. I mean, it would just be
great to see a guy in a space outfit bouncing
around and when you say in your mind, and I'm
(36:17):
not saying you're saying this, Matt, but maybe one of
you listeners out there saying like they're gonna send apollow.
If you go to the Downy Patriot right now, which
is the local paper in Downey, there is a handsome photograph,
though dated of Matt and I in city events coming up?
Is it live at the BJ's just and you're wearing
(36:39):
the fedora? No? No, and you have a beard, a.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Beard, sloppy hair. It's not that one, you know.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
It's speaking of Matt's hair coming out on Friday, I'm
getting a haircut, whether or not we know you can't,
I am, it's already scheduled for tomorrow. Cancel it, whether
Apollo shows up or not. Coming out to Downy at
the BJS is we're seeing Matt's flume. This flome is
so flumed he could spin it all the way around
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if he was bald, which he's not, but if he was,
he could spin that flume all the way around his
head and create a target on top of his head
with a loop de loop. An amazing flume on Matt's head.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Now, if we want Tim Kats to launch the email
to their city clerk or the or we were texting
last night. We have two options. I think we have
mayor Frometa who represents District four, which is where we
will be. Or we have the man who represents all
people and no people and is not tied to any distres.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Ma counselman Mario, which was the guy who's in one
of those councilmen introduced Apollo, and one of those counselmen
is trying to force Apollo on that other event, like
could we're involved with local business cross marketing opportunities apollow.
That's the guy we need to call right because he
is going to get an immediate boner and be like,
oh my god, they want they want Paula.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Heard the city council meeting last night.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
This is the first request we've ever had for this
stupid mascot.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
You want a Kates now we want it? Are we
on it?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Kates?
Speaker 3 (38:10):
All right, We're on it, So then you better get
out there on Friday, folks. I'd line up right now,
so Matt.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
When you get a headbutted by a giant spaceman and
our and our thing, I'm with your hair cut in
head on Friday, remember that I did my due diligence.
Thank you, and I'm glad that I'm in terrible debt
and I'm totally broken, but I did my due diligence.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
I missed my kids baseball game. The wife was yelling
for dinner. I didn't go. I watched a four hour
council meeting that Dorothy Pemberton's a tall drinking water.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Once I got Pemberton is a she's a long lady,
but once I like her style. Once I got the Apollo,
I went off one of my own research bed. Obviously
not enough to get the city Councilman's name was behind
a pile of it. Tim Kates will handle that.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Would imagine when you put in the request for Apollo,
the city council people are going to be fighting one
another to accompany Apollo. To see us knowing this is
a time for promotion.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
I hope they can all come and get them all.
Let's get them all. Let's get Nico Yamayama, a downy hero.
Why have we for him? We'll be back with mor Petrasa.
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Alive and be a Dodger fan. Matt and the Lakers
are in disarrayed, and I can't believe what they did
to Lebron. What they did to Lebron was worse than
was worse than Oja. What they did the Lebron not
giving him that game ball instead giving it to JJ Wrett.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Well, think about the milestone passing Kareem in points or victories,
victories and point the regular stopped the world to melt
with us, right, Yeah, victories in the postseason and the
regular season twenty third year.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, you've seen the difference, and it's not getting better.
They stopped the world to melt with Lebron the last time.
They didn't stop the world to melt with him this time.
And he got butt hurt, and he left in his
Uni and his chafing balls and walked all the way
back to Holmby Hills.
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Now, Ronnie, I think Ronnie's gonna do the song of
the day, but I think he's gonna run down and
blow into this room like Kramer to.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah. So uh, and then we'll figure things out as
the day goes on. But uh, thank you everybody for
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Our little follow up Matt on the out.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
His words the word of the day.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Not since the Siege of Vicksburg has the state of
Mississippi been under attack so much. Lame Kiffin with his
choice words after taking their money, knowing that they had
the Confederate flags their uniform, And then and then Sarkisian
piling on talking about basket weaving, which is rich coming
from you, big head Armenian sark But we wondered who
(03:34):
who will stand on the rubble of the dead South
and defend Ole miss and defend Ole Miss, who indeed
Archie many Yeah, arch No arch plays for Sark, but
his granddad, Archie made Right, who played at Old Miss,
said this, I'm very proud of my school. My school
(03:59):
had to make changes years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
And did.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I know so many people who send their kids to
oh Miss and have a great experience. It's my school
and it always will be. And then he said, that's.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
How will Ride did not say that last part. Archie
did not say that last part.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
John wilt Booth.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
He did, however, have Dixie playing in the back.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well, he did. He did start by saying, oh wish
I was in the land of cutting. So anyway, that
is the the the pointed response, very gentlemanly from the
Garden District of New Orleans from Louisiana, where arch E
(04:48):
Manning had to defend his alma mater, Very tenuous because
you know his grandson is playing for big Head Armos
Art and that's not.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
He got to walk that line.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Since has somebody walked such a fine line? Mess Lace,
that's right, all right, it's time for the number of
the days. My number.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Number of the day is for this historic losing streak
by the Dodgers, having not been seen since the nineteen thirties.
Have lost four straight by at least four runs. That
is how dominant, even at their lowest points, the Dodgers
have been as an organization. So we ask what has
gone into this slump? Why are all the players slumping
(05:35):
at the same time? And I ask you coincidence? For
the first time, the players, the players Association, the owners,
and Rob Manfred, Commissioner of Baseball, have met to start
negotiating their new collective bargaining agreement.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You think that looming agreement has got the Dodgers down
in the mouth.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
What has been the top topic of all players and owners?
The players saying Dodgers aren't bad for baseball. They had
bumps and perils on their path the World Series glory.
They probably should have lost on two separate occasions to
the Toronto Blue Jays. It's not that big of a deal.
The owner's saying, back to back seasons, we've got a
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team with the highest payroll or second highest payroll winning
it all. This We need cost certainty. And the Dodgers say,
you know what, guys, We're going to take one for everyone.
That's what we're gonna do right here. We're going to
find ourselves in such a funk in overpaid, disgusting. These
players are too old, they don't have it anymore, will
(06:40):
be financially handcuffed. Look at the penalties the Dodgers are paying.
It is a self fulfilling prophecy. Spend wildly and you
will pay owners. We can keep what we want to
keep and move forward in this successful venture. That is
what Bruce Meyer is putting forth as the union's lead
(07:01):
negotiator for the MLBPA today, tomorrow, and next week. Thanks
to the Dodgers in this moment of negotiating time, making
sure they aren't too dominant, and posting thirty wins en
route to one hundred and twenty come October. Way to go, guys.
I know what you're doing, and I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I think that's a conspiracy theory. That does not that
lends very little explaination.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
We need the Dodgers here, pe. We can't be missing
any games next year.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
That's a great point.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Got have them.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We did mention the Mannings without mentioning Cooper Manning.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Oh now, he is the most talented man and boys,
had he not had.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
The spot running, where are you run?
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This is the song of the day.
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Connections and Disconnections is our song of the day from
the band Funkadelic, because fai He's one of the current
deconstruction process of our studios is underway and we've been
disconnected from the main KLAC studio and connected through an
internal routing process to the Dodgers studio where Petros and
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Matt will be doing the radio program for some time
to come. And despite some minor adjustments, the Petros and
Money Show has come together for a three hour radio
program leading the Dodger Baseball trying to get off the
skids and get some sort of victory.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
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Tell you Ronnie, we will get a top story of
the day, focus in on who would have guessed Lebron
James in the news two days after being swept out
of the postseason.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
What they did then was.
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Check. We'll get to that next time.
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Speaker 2 (09:09):
Welcome back everybody, Petro saying money. We will talk downy
in local Knowledge in the next segment because Matt and
I will be at the BJS in Downey from two
to five thirty before Dodgers Angels. We got Dodger tickets,
We got bj gift cards and tickets to see the
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don't miss our show. Flex Alert two o'clock BJS, Downy,
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Vikings and Bears. We will see you there. And also
don't forget it's very important. We have tickets to give away.
Do you want to do it? Do you feel like
you have to do it? No, you feel like you
have it? Don't make him wait till the skin Net
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let's do it.
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Eight six six nine seven two five seventy eight six
six nine eighty seven two five seventy call it. You're
going to Star Wars Night. That's tomorrow, Dodger Stadium, Dodgers
Giant Series finale before they head down to Anaheim to
take on the Angels. Caller ten eight six six nine
eight seven two five to seventy.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
All right, Matt, you've got the tough story of the
top story of it.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Well, we thought it with coincide with maybe the Conference
finals or the NBA finals or the MVP announcement now
just two days after their season ended with a whimper
shoot from the playoffs by way of a sweep, looking
completely and totally outclassed by the new kings of the castle,
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the new rulers of the roost, so dominant are the
thunder that they have ceased to be one of those
great stories that every American should be able to get behind.
No glitz, no glamour, no coasts, no major markets, no
celebrities sitting court side Middle America, no hills, no hills
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where it's the heart that matters more.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It's flat as far as the eye can see. That's
all Maha.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Shrewd trade might as well be over all the city,
no hills, America's treadmill when you get on those interstates
in this part of the country. Shrewd trade. See of
Paul George, Welcome Shay Gilgess Alexander in five first round picks,
big home run swings in the lottery. Chet Holngren, so
fragile at Gonzaga set out your rookie year. We still
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believe brilliant mid, late even second round picks that turn
into gold. Overpaying free agents with single digit and major
category stats. So they're willing to move from the big
town to Oklahoma and delivering titles. But after running rough
shot over the league the last two years, after looking
like an unstoppable force, and the title returning to the
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big friendly being FATA Compley fans are frustrated and they're
looking for anyone to knock them off their perch. The Spurs,
they're already five titles with a French superstar is somehow
the people's favor, the people's chimp and should and it's
looking like they will. The Knicks make the final as
(12:06):
intolerable as the Lakers court side seats can be. The
Knicks are not far behind, if not even worse.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Not to interrupt, but I think if the Knicks won
it all, that would be a little bit like everybody
was so excited when the Red Sox broke the curse
and then it took about three weeks and everybody's minutes,
Oh god, what if we look at these Bostonian massholes
and then the Cubs, Cubs turning to the lovable losers
to completely unlikely live from deep dish hell. I mean,
(12:35):
it would just never and it became almost immediately insufferable
that didn't happen with okay See because it's such a
small mark. Yeah, but people don't want to see him
win again. I feel like it would happen with the Knicks. Oh,
if they win. I think if the Knicks, if people
have become disillusioned with the way okay See plays, even
though they're very impressive.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yes, uh, if the American way.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
If the Knicks won, it would almost be it would
be worse than the Cubs and the Red Sox maybe combined.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
So think about right now, the Knicks are the favorites
to win the East. You're going to have the face
of the NBA Victor Wembin Yama go up against the
defending champs. And you click on the evil four letter
And what is the headline the top story above the
fold in bold black letters and a white background. What
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Lebron needs to return to La and why it's not simple.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
This is why we get nailed by the king. Yeah,
this is why it never ends. It's like I thought
it would take a week maybe two with the enemy.
He found her in that random place and she had
to shoot him.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Dave mcmanimon shot us with this story.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
He won't leave us alone.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Mcmanimon was on the Lakers beat with Kobe and Pow.
He was then sent to Cleveland when the Lakers sucked
after Kobe retired to cover Lebron, and then he returned
to Los Angeles with Lebron as he odyssey, signaling that
he had an inn with the James Camp continued his
(14:08):
odyssey and remember, uh, you're not going to cover Lebron,
and they're not going to put you on the Lebron
beat unless you get access to the guy to get
some scoopage, as Jay Glazer would call it. But he's
also well liked by the Lakers, had enough Kobe era
reps to have an inn with the front office with
ownership to get a bit of their side of things.
(14:29):
When he's trying to balance out the story, but the
tone leans severely Lebron's done everything possible for this team
and they need to show him some respect.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It's a disgusting wash.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
A number of things are chronicled in here on a
number of moments that we've heard about before yet being
rehashed again. Perceived slights, voluntary and involuntary sacrifices that one
of the all time greats has made.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Look what He's done.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Right, despite perhap as a being somehow below someone of
his stature, and the ultimate conclusion that this piece arrives at.
If you don't want to take it all in, and
I would recommend that you probably don't, Lebron needs the
Lakers the time. Lebron needs the Lakers. The Lakers need Lebron,
(15:20):
to which I wholeheartedly disagree with both premises. Let's start
with Lebron needs the Lakers. There are two reasons why
I could make that case. He wants to continue living
in Los Angeles, understandable, and he wants to make a
lot of money to play basketball, also understandable. It is
(15:44):
simply a proximity way for him.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
If you're going to be in LA with a gas prices,
you better get your fifty mil living in LA. It
goes back eight years when he signed here, when everybody
was farting Lebron James confed parties. He said he wanted
to wear that purple gold and he wanted to restore
the glory to a franchise that was in the dups
for the last decade.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Hogwash, I say hog wash. He wanted to move his
family out of Cleveland to Los Angeles. That is it.
His kids were entering their high school ages. He wanted
to come to the best high school sports scene in
the nation. Combine them all and it's not close. I
suppose he could have gone back to the Heat and
sent the kids to IMG, but to have them at
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home at a sort of local high school, he could
go watch them play. He could have the media watch
him watch them play and chronicle that part of his
off court life. Fatherhood, the dedicated father, and being part
of his children's journey.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Truly, it can't be this manufactured Matt.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
He launched Lebron Media TV shows, House Party podcasts, oh
and don't forget to chain his agency open to their
offices here Clutch Sports. It was a personal with a
family and a business play. And when he retires, I'm
assuming he will stay here. Maybe he'll move to Florida
for tax purposes. He's got enough money though it seems
(17:13):
like he's got the resources to skirt some tax pitfalls.
He does not want to go anywhere. That's why he
needs the Lakers. Reason two, he likes to get paid.
This article made a point to share that he for that,
he managed to forego two point three million dollars in
his last contract to help keep them under the second apron.
(17:35):
It's a lot of money, but the man was making
at age thirty nine and forty fifty four million dollars
a year, so it's not enough that he was willing
to sacrifice two point three million out of one hundred
and eight million dollars. Kudos to you, Lebron. Let's make
sure we make that a line item and our ten
(17:55):
thousand word article. Here right now here are the team
with projected cap space over forty million dollars, The Wizards,
the Clippers, the Lakers, the Jazz, the Nets, and the Bulls.
That's who could afford to give him forty million dollars,
which would be a fourteen million dollar haircut and still
(18:17):
an exorbitant sum of money for a guy that will
be forty two years old. The Nets, the Bulls, and
the Jazz out they are not ready to compete. The
one sort of wild card in there, and I actually
could see it happening because he is such a freaking psychopath,
is the Wizards to join his boyad who was traded
(18:40):
there and Tray Young the number two pick in a
wild I'm addicted to the Michael Jordan comparisons. Did you
see what his tenure with the Wizards look like compared
to what my tenure with the Wizards look like?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Better?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
We won fifty games, and we made the playoffs, and
I lost in the first round again, and now I
will retire like that.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It'd be funny and I could actually see him doing it,
because that's how insane.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
He is about I'm just chasing ghosts.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, this has become very, very tiresome.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Cleveland and the Knicks are over the second apron. They
can't pay him, but like a million bucks, the Warriors
and Nuggets could give him six million dollars if he
wants to chase a ring with a team where he
might not be seen as bandwagoning point being, he needs
the Lakers to give him forty million dollars, and as
we mentioned yesterday, the only other play that would line
(19:29):
up with this is the Clippers have forty million dollars
they could hand him as they have struggled to put
asses in the seats of their absolutely beautiful arena that
people are not going to see their basketball product, and
if they want to drop Lebron in there and say, well,
at least we'll sell out and people can find out
how great this place is, and then maybe they'll come back.
I suppose I could see that well, and then you know,
(19:50):
for Lebron, gives him an opportunity to stick it in
the face of the Lakers just a few miles up
the road. That's why he needs the Lakers. That's it.
The Lakers need Lebron. No, that ship sailed fifteen months
ago and they traded for Luka Doncic. He has signed
for three more years. He is fourteen years younger than
Lebron over not just the average, but a long NBA
(20:14):
career younger than Lebron James. Had he stayed healthy, had
the Lakers ascended to the three seed, and pushed for
the two, there was a legitimate chance he could have
won the MVP. That's the person you build around. His
style of play is incredibly entertaining. He's got a running
mate he loves, and Austin Reeves. They are both in
their mid twenties. The Lakers have fifty million dollars to spend,
(20:37):
can get out from under the thumb of Lebron and
his oppressive regime of basketball agents, media members and hangers
on cut the court. There are not many people that
are going to give a good goddamn if you let
him go play basketball somewhere else. This is not Kobe,
(20:58):
where while polarizing half of Lakerdom still cited him as
their absolutely favorite Laker ever.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Now it's different.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
This is in magic. It's not Lebron. Spent eight of
twenty three years in his league here barely a third.
We have detailed it many a time in those eight seasons.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
We should have given him the game ball though.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Well, and that's the part of the article that just reeks,
that screams why the Lakers don't need this guy around,
that that story is somehow leaked to the media.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
They don't show they don't show him the love.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
He deserted that he didn't get the game ball after
a win against the Cavaliers in a game where a
confluence of unlikely events happened to arrive at the exact
same precise moment NBA history was made when Luke across
the fifteen thousand point really the five thousand point threshold.
(21:51):
Rob Palinka Admiral Awkward instead gave a speech in the
postgame locker room and awarded the game ball to JJ Redd,
who notched his one hundredth career win. I'm going to
quote the article here because it reads James viewed it
as another example of the team taking him for granted,
(22:13):
and without even stopping to change clothes, James marched off
into the LA night, simmering from another perceived indignation delivered
by the organization that tried to push him out the
door after acquiring Doncic.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
My god, get over yourself.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Lakers need that guy. That's what the headline reads. That's
who you and I just want everyone to imagine what
life would be like with Lebron James on a retirement tour.
What this guy?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
It can't be any worse than this. Wanting to be
in the spotlight, my last trip to Chicago, to Chicago, Oh,
it's my sandwich, like it will be, It'll be intolerable. Well,
this is my last time in DC in front of
all these politicians. I got to put on a show. No,
(23:11):
the article felt the need to share that when Luca
and Reeves went down since April fifth, when they both
laughed due to their injuries. He put up three hundred points,
seventy five rebounds and one hundred assists, the only player
in the league to hit those numbers. Who cares they
got beat by the thunder by a combined one hundred
points on that street. Don't really care, It's like stop.
(23:33):
And then they added to further indict the Lakers. This
is a front office that asked its employees and its
scouts to evaluate James not as Lebron James, but as
a future free agent that was six foot nine, two
hundred and fifty pounds, and what the cost of attaining
that free agent might be, so as they could get
(23:54):
a sound financial idea of what it would cost to
bring him back.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Makes sense to me.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Didn't they signed his son?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
There's that? There is that?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Like, what did did old beard face happen to mention
that mcminnimon?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
No, oh, oh you know what he did?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
He did? Actually that was the one. But they were
still left in his uniform huffing and puffing.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
There was a two sentence slight to Lebron saying, this
is a man that should recognize the team not only
has him on their roster, but has saved the slot
for his son as well. God, they do not need
old ass Lebron dragging himself up and down the court.
They need conference finals, They need titles. Remember the story
we did back in February about the guy who had
(24:36):
season seats that were fifty four hundred bucks that as
soon as Mark Walter bought the team got to notice
they were going to jump to nine grand the next year.
They don't need old ass Lebron and his son to
tell people their premiums are going up forty nine percent
next season. Move on, the Lakers, don't that The articles
headline should have been why the Lakers don't need Lebron,
(25:00):
he desperately needs them.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yeah, Beard, We'll be right back with some local knowledge
on the Patches of Money show M seventy LA Sports.
I can't believe they didn't give me the game ball.
I'm simmering and I'm leaving in my sit. It's just
just another slide.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
This is Petro Some Money on demand.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Petro Some Money and five seventy LA Sports Live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. David de bassegan to join us
in the five o'clock hour. Already gave away our pair
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but we still have one more pair that we will
pass along our final pair in our final hour. So
keep listening for your opportunity to make your way inside
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(25:51):
seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Let's call this local knowledge, Matt, because common knowledge is
local knowledge. He's very knowledgeable on the things that you
come up with. As far as for with your knowledge.
We are headed to Downey on Friday. As you know, Matt,
it's right there. You see it there on your screen.
(26:12):
The promotional. We got a lot going. We will have
to too.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Remember it's a flexilert two o'clock. We're going to be
in Downing on Friday. It's an early start two to
five thirty Dodger tickets like we are going to give
away between now and the end of the show. We'll
have some more there. Bjay's gift cards, the MMA Fight
Out into a Dome with Ronda Rousey, Gina Carano, Nate
dz Francis and Gan Who. All of that's going to
be given out and more. We'd love to see you again.
(26:36):
It is this Friday. We haven't been out for six weeks.
Excited to get back with you and the people. At
the corner of Firestone and Lakewood in Downey, the Lake
Fire the fire Lake, the Stone Wood or the wood
Stone Center, whichever you prefer, is where we will.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Be now, Matt, I was told yesterday in a dismissive
way to do my dude diligence. And you know, it's
not the first time I've heard you say that I
told you to do your due diligence. It did, you did,
and whatever you say, do your due diligence. You know,
I my ears prick up because I've heard it many times,
and I say, you know what I better do. I
(27:15):
better do what? Because I had never heard that term
before you started doing commercials and saying do your due diligence.
And I was like, well, what's that. I have no diligence, honestly,
you know, I'd really have a purpose in life. Okay,
But you said, do your due diligence. Watch the Downy
City Snooty. You gave me a snood and you said
you better watch it and hear it. You said, watch
(27:38):
the Downy City Council meet right, watch the Downy City
Council because we're headed to down You gotta do the prep,
gotta do your due diligence. And you said, don't you worry.
Petros The last meeting was a brisk, four hundred four hours,
fifteen minute jaunt through the beautiful city Mexican Beverly Hills
of Downy and which is a great place we all know.
(28:00):
And uh, you know, I do what I'm told. So
last night I put it. Last night was the city
Council night, Florida, Downey. They had a live meeting. We
didn't have to go into the annals, just live streaming.
And I sent it to you, you said to me.
I popped in, and this council believed that that was uh,
that was more than plenty. That was a mayor. And
(28:21):
so again I just wanted to the mayor started having
like a hot flash or something later in the in
the meeting because she was literally wearing sunglasses and fanning
herself like in a church. Oh wow, and her hair
was like blowing, and everybody else seemed fine, Well, we
are your menopausal show. There's no doubt. It's not close, Harry,
menopause and menopausal double up. I mean, who knows, lovely
(28:47):
lady though, Yes, So I watched the uh a good
portion of the Downy City Council, my city council that
I enjoy on off weeks from the two city councils
that I you go to Florida, Yeah, I go over
to Plants, I go over to Orange City, Florida, and
(29:08):
I enjoy. There's a real coup to get the mayor out.
She seems like a real bitch, and they just it's
a it's a struggle, small town, but a real struggle, certainly.
And then I enjoy on the on weeks, I enjoy
as you know, Huntington Beach certainly, and with the seal
of God Chad Williams down there.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
And friends in West Covina and.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Our friends in West Covina, Tony Wu and Letty Lopez Viado,
who I've never met, but I feel, I feel her
pain as she fights the terrible scourge that Brian Gutier
s BG. Just a rough situation, a lot of ada
demands from Gutier's because he's autistic.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
BGSN, thank you welcome.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
So I did my due diligence man, And I watch
here some Downey City Council highlights. As you know, Downy's
a town that it really honors their space heritage. That's
where they built the Apollo things and all that, and
they have some great space vibes, so maybe play a
space song. A guy came out. Now one thing that
(30:15):
bothered me about the Downey City Council stream public comments,
no video.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Just off camera. Oh off camera. They had a slide
up when you had me tune in. It was just
a celebration of it.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
A fair early there was a guy publicly speaking about
nitrous for sale and the local smoke shops, saying, look,
I like whippets. Those nightris and adapters and balloons are
not being sold to enhance your vehicle or for a dentist.
You think dentists are going to our local smoke shops
(30:49):
and buy these days.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
No, but I would like to know the locations of
these places please.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Night Well, they said, look, we aren't going to look
into that night carld nitrous adapters and balloons if they're
using it for cards while they selling balloons and adapters.
The balloons are there so it doesn't freeze your lugs
and you're suck it right out of the crackers, right,
How would you know, Matt, they sell the used to
sell them like that in Greico sandals back of the
day and Hermosa in the last century. Someone saw a
(31:15):
crazy coyote in broad daylight, jogging around and very angry woman.
She was very concerned about springtime and the coyotes. And
she said she's personally going door to door to spread
the word warn people don't leave your pets out, how
to haze coyotes, which she seemed really like a nightmare Strobel.
(31:35):
She had a video on her phone afterwards. If people
wanted to watch.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Come see me. I'll show you my video.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
And you know I mean, Matt, I mean basically, though
I was doing my due diligence, I was really spinning
my wheels. I wasn't getting anything.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
That we could use, right, Oh you sign up for conflicts.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Well not just that. I mean there was a guy,
but you know I got more than that. Okay, well
that before we get into that, there was a guy
on the city councilman who was like, I know the
golfers aren't going to like this, but why do we
need two golf courses here? What do we do now?
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Was just like ooh, taking on the golfers in down.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
We could put a housing there, We could put a
housing village. And then there was another guy that wanted
tall building. We need tall buildings.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Oh yeah, we got to get over the four story
Why don't we.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Need tall buildings?
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Right?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
But this is what I gleamed and you can bring
me back Mike Kubrick. As of February twenty twenty six,
Downey the city.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Do I need timpanees?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
No? Okay, the City of Downey has an official mascot.
Oh just christened February.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Now this week can get behind.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
An astronaut, an official city mascot reflecting the history of
the city of Downey in the Space program, which we
have dealt with in the past. That these shows, the
Apollo capsules were manufactured, writing down Apollo the space astronaut mascot,
(33:05):
who's basically a spaceman.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Like faceless reflective screen on the helmet, or happy face,
happy face like a white guy happy face, or like
a smiley face in the helmet.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Like a white guy smiley face. I want to save
this story until Thursday, but I feel like now perhaps
we can get Apollo the space mascot at our show.
Apollo was developed by the city council to enhance local identity.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Well, why not welcome some outsiders to the city of
Downey with some localism.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Weal Apollo and the reason I learned about this is
one of the They were like talking about some festival
that's coming up, like Firefest, probably not as not as involved,
but there was a festival coming up and one of
the mayor, one of the city council guys, was like, well,
this sounds like something we could get it. Pollow and vault.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Thank you now that we have Apollo, this is great,
thank you and do it.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Question.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
I'm just wondering would there be any cross marketing with
Apollo or mascot. I don't know if Apollo has a voice,
but if you are do something like where you're engaging
Missus owners to maybe keep your voice for like discovered
down he discovered Downey, you might want to include Apollo
in there so people could we want to include a
podcast there just for your consideration.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Austin, thank you.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Good, thank you. That was a very dismissive thank you.
The mayor thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Well.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Do you remember she's having a flat thank you? She
was really struggling. Uh, it's a good looking space mascot,
Matt and it would not be our first mascot who's
visiting a live Petrols and Money show. We've had the
various races of Dodger bobbleheads up here in the locker room.
You know, the Chinese guy and the Japanese guy, and
the the Puerto Rican guy and the white.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
I don't think he's Puerto Rican. I believe hes Squadmalin.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Greed to disagree. We also had Richter from the Qua
did yeah, from the quakes came out. What that was
that his name, yes, Richter. But there was two of them.
There was a big one and a little one.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah. Like you said, Bailey brought us to Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah, Bailey, Yeah, Bailey, the.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Lion for the Kings.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
I don't appreciate Bailey because he's not an easy interview.
He's he always he doesn't talk, he doesn't roll, makes
it tough, like we have. He's here to interview our
machine lion. Yes, so Bailey kind of tough to watch
these ducks competing. Huh. I mean you've said about it. Yeah,
(35:56):
I mean just slow down. I mean, you know, to
get too angry about Oh God Jesus, now, anyway, it
would be I we'd be proud to have Apollo. We'd
play our space music. I mean, it would just be
great to see a guy in a space outfit bouncing
around and when you say in your mind, and I'm
(36:17):
not saying you're saying this, Matt, but maybe one of
you listeners out there saying like they're gonna send apollow.
If you go to the Downy Patriot right now, which
is the local paper in Downey, there is a handsome photograph,
though dated of Matt and I in city events coming up?
Is it live at the BJ's just and you're wearing
(36:39):
the fedora? No? No, and you have a beard, a.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Beard, sloppy hair. It's not that one, you know.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
It's speaking of Matt's hair coming out on Friday, I'm
getting a haircut, whether or not we know you can't,
I am, it's already scheduled for tomorrow. Cancel it, whether
Apollo shows up or not. Coming out to Downy at
the BJS is we're seeing Matt's flume. This flome is
so flumed he could spin it all the way around
(37:06):
if he was bald, which he's not, but if he was,
he could spin that flume all the way around his
head and create a target on top of his head
with a loop de loop. An amazing flume on Matt's head.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Now, if we want Tim Kats to launch the email
to their city clerk or the or we were texting
last night. We have two options. I think we have
mayor Frometa who represents District four, which is where we
will be. Or we have the man who represents all
people and no people and is not tied to any distres.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Ma counselman Mario, which was the guy who's in one
of those councilmen introduced Apollo, and one of those counselmen
is trying to force Apollo on that other event, like
could we're involved with local business cross marketing opportunities apollow.
That's the guy we need to call right because he
is going to get an immediate boner and be like,
oh my god, they want they want Paula.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Heard the city council meeting last night.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
This is the first request we've ever had for this
stupid mascot.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
You want a Kates now we want it? Are we
on it?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Kates?
Speaker 3 (38:10):
All right, We're on it, So then you better get
out there on Friday, folks. I'd line up right now,
so Matt.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
When you get a headbutted by a giant spaceman and
our and our thing, I'm with your hair cut in
head on Friday, remember that I did my due diligence.
Thank you, and I'm glad that I'm in terrible debt
and I'm totally broken, but I did my due diligence.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
I missed my kids baseball game. The wife was yelling
for dinner. I didn't go. I watched a four hour
council meeting that Dorothy Pemberton's a tall drinking water.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Once I got Pemberton is a she's a long lady,
but once I like her style. Once I got the Apollo,
I went off one of my own research bed. Obviously
not enough to get the city Councilman's name was behind
a pile of it. Tim Kates will handle that.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Would imagine when you put in the request for Apollo,
the city council people are going to be fighting one
another to accompany Apollo. To see us knowing this is
a time for promotion.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
I hope they can all come and get them all.
Let's get them all. Let's get Nico Yamayama, a downy hero.
Why have we for him? We'll be back with mor Petrasa.
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