November 18, 2024 • 35 mins
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me and he said, why he was dressed like such
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Hey, why you're just like a clown. I don't even
know how you make it here, guys, I really don't
don't know how you make it up here. You're so
damn crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And weird. It was like year three of me working
here out he's so crazy, he's a nut, he's an
I can't believe he works here, looking at myself of
the beer, like should I not be in society?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
That man?
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You know it's you know on the radio. Don't have
any client lunches. I feel like I'm all right here,
you know, I just but hey, yeah, I guess I'm
just your clown dance clown dance, hearn.
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Sending in the clowns. Third day, we are live from
Torrance two to five at the Lamo Fashion Center near
Carson Street, Beautiful Torrants, California. BJ's waiting for us, a
place we love to be. And Tonight Matt and I
Got Clippers. Pregame is at six thirty. Tip off its
at seven thirty on Anti seventy LA Sports. David Vassy's
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got a lot like Corey Seeger, everybody you can think of.
David Vassay has got him on the iHeart radio app
for the Dodger Talk, which will be streamable and on Instagram.
You can see a bunch of the stuff because social media.
Matt is there with him. So if you're a Dodger
person and you want to revel in Dodger greatness, plus
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a bunch of other baseball types, including our friend Justin
Turner at the Justin Turner Golf Tournament. All of that
is available there, but right now it's time for the
top story of the day to story.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Well, I'll work it backwards as we look at the
week that was in the NFL from Sunday night through
the early morning contest for the Rams and the Raiders,
without questioning, the best crowd I have seen it so
far for a Chargers game. Yet we have had Cincinnati
here before. They have fans, they've showed up, and for
this one, I'd say it was the greatest ratio. Probably
ninety ten Charger fans was packed. It was loud, heavy
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booze when the Bengals came out of the tunnel, a
lot of noise on third downs, those final drives. And
I bring it up because I regularly discount that conversation.
On the negative, it has been something that has been
beaten repeatedly, and because it's turning, it feels different and
it's probably a big part in thanks to the hiring
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of Jim Harbaugh combined with an MVP caliber season quarterback
Justin Herbert.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I don't see it as a Harbor Herbert issue at all.
I don't see any change voice of the Bolts. I
don't see any change. It could be the change in
the voice of the Bolt's aggressiveness. Agressiveness in the calls
has become parallel with the aggressiveness of the football teach charters.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
When good schurchers win.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
We're all affected, starting to get more and more aggressive.
The Chargers now have fety percent of the people in
that stadium behind you, right and all. You're starting to
feel a little better about.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Good churchers win.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'm not going to get jumped on my way to
the car.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I've said it.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
We talked about this before. Hey Cracker, Bill Belichick, Tom Brady.
They built walk into a buzzsaw that managed to create
a sliver of conversation in Boston over which is the
most popular franchise. Celtics Red Sox are after their decades
of dominance the Patriots. Remember, it was a team owned
by Victor Kayam that was about to sell to a
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group that included Walter Payton as the public face to
move to Saint Louis. That's why Walter Payton retired early
because that deal was supposedly done. Instead, Robert Kraft exercises
a clause as a minority owner. He buys kiam Out,
he hires Bill Parcells, he drafts Drew Bledsoe, and the
foundation is set. The pieces in place, and they staged
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one of the most remarkable comebacks in big city sports
fandom history. Now the Chargers have had the quarterback for
four and a half years, feels like they finally have
the coach. And similarly to those Patriots, Similarly to the
Saints who are supposed to move to San Antonio post
Katrina because of a dilapidated stadium and a waning fan
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base that was more popular for wearing bags on their
heads that actually showing up to the super Dome to
support their team. Drew Brees and Sean Payton turn it
into the most popular football brand in the Southeast, rivaling
the Dolphins, Bucks, Jags, and Falcons for supremacy in that
part of the country. Head coach, quarterback, it can happen.
And after back to back weeks with a ninety ten
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split against Tennessee and Cincinnati, interesting to see how it
looks a week from today.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
On the Monday Night, Er with the Harbowl with Baltimore
in town.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I think back to the game in twenty eighteen, the
night game on Saturday Night, Chargers fighting for the best
record in the AFC, A year they finished twelve and four,
tied for the best record. Small stadium probably seventy thirty split.
The other way in favor of Baltimore. Last year was
closer to fifty fifty when they played on Monday night
with Lamar Jackson in town. But Harbowl Thanksgiving Week prime time.
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I would assume quite a few of the tickets already
sold to people are going to make a high week
vacation out of it, you know, I would assume Thanksgiving Week.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Who's got better tickets than us?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
No way to the.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Football itself, though Derwin James made the final play, a
hail Mary pass perfectly placed by Burrow onto the hands
of his mammoth six foot three, two hundred and twenty
pound receiver T Higgins.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Is there a way to feel what that moment was like?
Right like right after that moment, right after Darwin James
made that.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I wish there were, you know, but we're just sitting here.
Burbank and chucksterreswin thet Chuckers win thanks to Derwin James
arriving at the precise moment he needed to not too early,
not too late, to swat it away and preserve the victory.
If you check out the Chargers Instagram post from coach
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his postgame locker room speech and after he says high
fives for everyone, Derwin comes up to embrace him, and
you can in a jam bar. I'm not John boyd
liperating level, but I feel like I could read Derwin's
lips in that moment, just in a very emphatic way,
saying we believe in you. To Coach Harbaugh, Chargering losing
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games that were won, snatching defeat from the hands of victory,
something synonymous with this team in previous years, beginning to
push it all aside. Certainly, are their concerns with scoring droughts,
especially in the second half, Yes, But in this one,
after a field goal drive to push the lead to
twenty seven to six, Herbert got absolutely bent in half
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by Jermaine Pratt, And it was the next four drives
and he was just not himself two for ten, including
a stretch with seven straight incompletions and a fumble, So maybe.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
He was hurt.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Maybe something was not quite right, missing guys that were
wide open. And then I guess, just because he's justin Herbert,
the final drive happens like he had never lost that
fastball from the first half. The Chargers got the ball
with forty five seconds left in a tie game from
their own sixteen yard line, eighty four yards away from
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the end zone. Two timeouts, forty five seconds, first down,
drop back, perfect pass twenty eight yards, first timeout at
the forty five incomplete short pass to Will Disley, second
and ten, thirty one seconds left, and he delivers a
perfect throw on a perfectly run route by rookie Lad
McConkie for twenty seven out of bounds left sideline to
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the twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What a moment, Matton. It's left on a second here,
yeh on Herbert to throw, lets it fly.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Mcconkey's got it on the boun's left sideline all the
way to the Cincinnati twenty seven twenty seven yards.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
He called it. DJ just looked for number fifteen Gore
Cam Dicker.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Thirty five at thirty six At so far, you feel
pretty good about him booting a forty five yarder for
the win. Bengals didn't have enough timeouts to stop the clock,
instead of just playing it safe, taking the knee, figuring
out where he wanted to kick it from. On a
day when Justin Tucker missed two, when Cairo Santos got
his kick block to see the Bears loose there eleventh
straight to the Packers, Jim Harbass said, no, call a play.
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Fullback Scott Matt Locke, former Petros and Money guest up
pulling Trey Pipkins blocked it perfectly.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
JK.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Dobbins did his part all the way to the end zone.
Some asked why didn't he just slide and have the
team score with a chip shot field goals zero on
the clock instead of the Hail Mary coming into play.
And I would guess because it tied, not a situation
where they had the lead, score the points they're guaranteed
there worry about the eighteen seconds later and the Chargers
are now seven and three.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
It's Dobbins and notte Locke hand off the Dobbins and there.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Goes Dobbins mit his horse to the twenty to the
fifteen to the turn into the episode, touchdown Chudgers twenty
nine yards. Shake K Dobbins with eighteen seconds.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Left, seven and three. That's part time, you know. Oh,
I feel it, I feel it, I feel it. I
could feel the vibe. The only negative thing I could
say about the whole delivery of the entire story so far.
And I don't know how much time we have left
with the Raiders in the Rams.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
But Chucks are swin the Chucker swing.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Only negative thing I can say is it Scott matt
Locke's a one and done on the h one and done.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Now.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
If the Hard Bowl is not the game of the week,
Rams Eagles is Sunday Night football. Rams have one four
or five. Matthew Stafford up for Offensive Player of the Week.
Two ninety five four touchdowns against those frisky Patriots, a
ten am Pacific kick at Foxborough.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Feisty Pastriots. Oh they are Robert Kraft saving that team.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
He did Victor Kayam, Remington Shavers going to Saint Louis.
It's a reminder if you've got a quarterback, life's a
lot easier. Matthew Stafford looks to still be that guy.
And I'll tell you it's not the easiest schedule at
five and five Eagles Sunday Night, two New Orleans Bills
here at San Francisco. They finish against Arizona and Seattle.
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But the Seahawks did him a favor beating the forty
nine Ers. All three of those teams, including the Rams
five and five, Seahawks, forty nine Ers, Rams, Cardinals atop
the division at six and four, and you got two
pass to the playoffs wild card in Division one. Back
in the lost column for both the seventh seed and
the NFC West. As for the Raiders, lost again. Thought
they they have a shot in that one in Miami
because their defense, but instead they are tied for the
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second worst record in football with the Giants, Browns, Titans,
only a half game better than the Jags, who will
not draft the quarterback anyway. It was up there again
on NFL memes ig, one of my favorite pages on
the Instagram since October thirteenth, and every week since, Schador
Sanders tweets out thank you God thirteenth, twenty first, twenty seventh,
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November third, tenth, and yesterday goodness losing streak five minutes
after the Raiders lose, thank you God.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Apparently.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Oh they want sha door and Shador wants them exactly right.
They are courting each other Raiders win and they would
have slipped to the ninth picks.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I know Raiders fans that are courting him. Oh, Mike
Lennox texted me every day. What did Colorado do?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Say?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
They want your door. They don't have much on that team.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
They got Max Crosby, they got brock Bauers, brock Bowers
everything he was advertising, like five hundred percent more. Set
the NFL record yesterday thirteen catches on sixteen targets in
a game by a rookie tight end. Uh, these are
not rookie numbers. He leads all tight ends, seventy catches,
leads all tight ends seven hundred and six yards. He's
gonna blow by a thousand receiving yards. So a huge
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piece there. Get the QB, A star, a guy that
wants to be there, and I would assume Deon's the
kind of guy that could make that work no matter
where they pick. The NFL is kind of funny that way,
and who knows, maybe Dion wants to go with him
be the coach of the team. I was gonna say
that with word being Tom Brady wants to start calling
some shots next year. The way this team is going
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to be built that maybe that wouldn't line up. It
turns out Shitters got nil money from the Tom Brady brand.
He and Dion appear to be very friendly, so who knows.
Maybe it's the Sanders. Is the Sanders that will save
the Raiders after what's become.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
A top season.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I'd love to see that, right, Imagine Kate's talking to
Diana every week and Joel Klag and all black oh
down there and like a rate looking like Al Davis, right.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Is gonna go to the Raiders? Or is he gonna
takeover as the head coach of Carl Rode?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Might? He might? He's qualified? All right, Well, it's been
a great day. I'd like to pick up where you
left off in the interview. We'll be right back with
David Vesse live from the Dodgers. Well, it's not a
Dodgers event, it's a Justin Turner event, but it's smacks
of Dodgers and there'll be a Dodger talk on the
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Remember Wednesday we have UCLA basketball. Idaho State come to
town the Bengals. Yeah, not the Vandals, not the Vandals.
It's not Idaho but Idaho State.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Correct, not Boise State, which is in the state of Idema, right,
and not Boise State, and not b yu Idaho. It
would be tip off at eight pm on a f
on kind Chords. Their potatoes could win some awards, well done,
probably sigh and b Yu Idaho. It would be.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
No Idaho State the Bengals. Saturday night, it's a shrike
unwanted quarts. It's us in USC.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Their potatoes could win some awards U C L a USC.
It's truly the Lords. It's by.
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Battle for La By come cover that pre game five
thirty seven thirty, a two hour.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Pre jump on my metro. Can't get my kids.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Into the catering here? You know, I'm doing a two
hour pregame here for the for the game. Can I
get them into catering? No?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
All right, Matt. Some local knowledge works is knowledge, common knowledge,
it's local knowledge.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
He's very knowledgeable on the things that you come up
with as far as for what your knowledge is.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
As far as for what your knowledge is. Another local
knowledge issue, Matt, We've long discussed the peacocks in the
southern California area, or pea fowl. Nobody covers it like
we do. Nobody in the peacocks are the ones that
make the noise because it's all about the car of
the walk Arcadia. And look, I don't care if your
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dog's going crazy on the podcast. Don't care figure it
out herb Street. That's a little insensitive, Dave, I don't care.
We've talked about the peacocks and the speaking of insensitivity, Matt,
you tell me, okay, okay. We talked about the peacocks
of Arcade, the Palace, Arnes Peninsula. We've discussed Temple City.
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We've delved into the history of Lucky Baldwin and his
arboretum for the young wife and the Vanderlipp family on
the hill who received a peacock and a pea hen
and that's why we have them there. But there are
also parents, yes, really actually probably more parrots than pea
cocks in the area. And I'm talking about the pet
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col Matt. I'm talking about wild ass parents in the
San Gabriel Valley, Matt and here in Burbank, they're green
and wild, and there is a reason for these misplaced
tropical burns. They've been in the area for a long time,
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for decades. Pasadena, it's a follow up, right, I believe
we've talked. Paris is a follow up. Okay. I want
to make sure Pasadena Alta Dina. Temple City, City of Glendora,
we reported on this last year. Yes, in Temple City,
let's go rams. Somebody netted trees to stop the parrots
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from being able to eat and move. They just died
in the nets. Very cruel, very cool. Recently, though, the
parrots of the San Gabriel Valley, the killers, have taken
a step in a more violent direction, and they're being
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shot out of the sky, filled full of buckshot or pellets,
and wounded. Cleo Watts of Cleo's Printer Corner, a nonprofit,
said people are shooting them. Eleven had been shot or
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killed in recent weeks, one with half a wing blown
clean off. Now you might ask yourself, a wind path clef,
why are their parents flying wild? Well, there are a
few reasons. They are the descendants of pets that were
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intentionally or accidentally released into the wild. Plus and who
could forget this the wild importation of birds to southern
California in the seventies and eighties, which was mostly illegal.
And if the feds are coming down on you, you
don't flush the cocaine down the toilet? Do you let
the birds fly out the window? I could swear I
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just saw too, can fly across the La River. There
quite more, much more common in the seventies and eighties
than you could ever imagine. In fact, the parents have
been out and about in southern California since the nineteen sixties,
so they predate all of us. They are non native,
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but like most things in La the palm trees, the peacocks,
the parrots, and even the voice of the bolts, they
are native now and there are multiple species, and they're
being shot out of the sky just like the rest
of us.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Matth here in Los Angeles clean off half a wing.
Pretty uncool, And yes, this does give us memories. And
I know what you're thinking that you're thinking of the
peacock killer Mike Dicta, which the sketch rendering.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Of looked a lot like Mike Ditton. The peacock killer
of Rolling Hills Estates, who used multiple weapons and tactics
to kill peacocks for about two years. Defense even got involved,
and the peacock killer remains on the loose. No one
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ever saw that case. The search continues, like for the
gorilla that beat up Bobby Bouchet. The search continues, search continue.
Do you think they just it's in a cold case now,
like the peacock Killer's done? What's your statute limitations ten
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years ago? Right? Well? Yeah, what's the statute of limitations
on shooting a peacock with a crossbow? Right?
Speaker 6 (21:26):
You know what it needs is one of those podcasts
I go back and like.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, Dirty John. Yeah, well like the coldest case in Laramie. Yeah,
just like that exactly the Cleo's uh Cleo from Cleo's
Crinter Corner. Cleo made a pretty good point to kt
La Matt when she said, look, we've got all kinds
of stuff here in the same Gabriel Valley in Pasadena.
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We got crying babies, we got parking dogs, we have
loud traffic. Do we shoot at all those things?
Speaker 1 (21:59):
No?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Why are we shooting at the parents? Right? Uh So
another bird murder case to be followed by the super
sleuths of the Petros and Money Show Matt.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Those parents, by the way, have been in Burbank, Glendale,
this far west, not just the San Gabriel Valley. They're
heading to the same.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
They're not gonna stop mating and making more parents.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I could just say that the sounds of all these
hundreds of parents, I can see where it can drive
people crazy.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Not to do something like that, but I can see
where they go crazy with.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
What else would you do? I mean, you can't tell
a parent like, hey, what you shut up?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
You know?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's well they can talk, can't they? So now they're
just all gonna be yelling. Shut up. It's just shut up,
shut up, shut up, shut up. Yes, I know the
damn NOI you want to shoot them kids? I wanna
already has look at you? Have you ever shot one
a parent? Yeah? Just one wing blue? They clean of.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
No, I'm not shot a part.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
This is a forty five magnet, but it blew your head.
Clean up here, little Bertie Birdie, come over here. I
know what you're thinking. Did I shoot six times?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You know?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
And all this excitement? Shoot that you birds? I forget myself.
The super sluice of the Petrosen money show. And it
always seems like some of these cases, where do they end, Matt,
right there on our doorstep in Arcadia, right, the case
of the Native American ringer that beat Don McLean and
Papa shot, the case of the dead horses at Santa Anita,
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the case of Michelle Hugh's Lost Charm, and the case
of the parent murders, nets and guns Temple City, Pasadena. HM,
what's going on? Anyway? We are on top of this,
so let us know what you think. We'll be right
back with your Donland. You know, they're not reasonable, you know,
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and if the people of the Bahamas and stuff can
get by our friends in Nassau, then why can't we
get by, right, fair answer, that's a fair question. Thank you.
We'll be back, and we don't shoot at the crying babies. Okay, yeah,
good point, Cleo, Thank you, Dead and a live guy.
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Birthday of the Day next. But we're gonna go all
the way till six thirty before the Clippers play the
Warriors Monday night games on AM eleven to fifty. Right,
thanks for listening, everybody. Matt and I are gonna go
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till the middle of six o'clock and then we're gonna
go to Clippers. That's how it read. And then you
can follow the thread at follow Adam on Twitter you're right,
or on x you can follow the thread of the
Clippers versus the Warriors. That's that's big.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Board's big.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Also Thursday, Matt and I are going to be live
from the beautiful city of Torrance two to five at
the Delamo Fashion Center near Carson Street. We'll have great prizes,
BJS has their great food specials, gonna be a happy
hour at some point. We're gonna have a great time,
celebrating a great time. We're gonna do our kind of
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dancing with a great partner. Finally, thank you every season,
that's what we do. And it's not our final Bjays
of the season, is it. No, No, it is not.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
But perhaps it has turned into an annual after years
of politicking, politicing and neglect and persuading politician neglect, and
we finally got the Torrents and now we're going back
again this year.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Here we go with the dead guy Birthday of the Day.
We'll do fun fact and quick its in the next
segment for you podcast types. All right, Kate let's hit it.
Every time I hear hooray for Hollywood, it takes me
back the Kevin and Bean days. Showed his report Johnny Mercer,
hooray for Hollywood, the days of Wine and Roses Moon River.
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Prolific songwriter.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
He would have been one hundred and fifteen today, part
in Savannah Pop's successful attorney.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
They were wealthy.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
He loved music, and he grew up with friends being
the kids of his wealthy family's African American servants, and
said he was exposed to their music. That's what he
listened to. He'd go to church with them, exposed to
their gospel hymns. He joined the choir when he was six.
He had an incredible memory for lyrics. He would memorize
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almost everything and became curious about who wrote songs. He
dug into Tin Panaley became obsessed with that said that
his unique lyrical style was a product of his surroundings.
Other white songwriters did not have the African American influence
or experience that he did, and that is why his
songs stood out amongst all those other Tin Pennaley songwriters
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and artists. He was an avid reader. He wrote adventure
stories and said he wasn't a great musician that he
did not excel when he tried to play the piano.
Could play it, but just couldn't master it. Same with
a trumpet. He said he couldn't read musical scores, so
he created his own notation system that worked for him.
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He went to the exclusive Woodbury Forest School. He was
active in their literary I mean, I don't know how
high falutin it was. He was in their poetry society,
so whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I started the Woodberry Forest Beekeeping Society myself. I'm the founder.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
He was. All his classmates said he was an authority
on jazz. While in high school, his yearbook stated, quote,
no orchestra or new production can be authoritatively termed good
until Johnny's stamp of approval has been played town it.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
He was accepted to Princeton and said.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
It was likely he was going to leave the musical
world behind chase a lifestyle like his father's a professional.
But his dad got hit hard during the depression and
he had to go to work, and he decided to
go do some work that he enjoyed. He moved to
the big town when he was nineteen. The music he
loved jazz blues booming in Harlem, Broadway bursting with musicals,
and he wanted in first few jobs as a bid actor.
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And it just so happened that the dumpy Greenwich Village
apartment he had rented had an old, beat up piano
in it. So every night, after work doing his odd jobs,
while trying to score roles, he would write and sing
and write lyrics. Said he survived on oatmeal twice a
day because he was so broke. And his big break
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came in nineteen thirty a song that he wrote was
accepted and put into the musical The Garrett Gaieties, and.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
That line, all the Garret Gaieties, they are the gayest
of all gaieties. I never felt so giddy.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
He landed a job as staff lyricist for Miller Music.
It was just twenty five bucks a week, but that
led to another break when old Hogy Carmichael, famous for
the standard Stardust, took to Johnny and together they wrote
Lazy Bones. It became a hit one week after its
first radio broadcast, got a big Old Royalty check of
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twelve hundred and fifty bucks, made him a member of
as Cap and Tipped a Cap and a recognized brother
in the Tin Pan Alley Fraternity. It was so much
that he decided to pull up stakes moving to Hollywood.
Follow his idol bing, Crosby was hired by Arcade. His
first big Hollywood song, I'm an Old cow Hand from
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the Rio Grand Yes Rhythm on the Range. Warner signed
him after that, Warner Brothers, hooray for Hollywood. This one
made him a huge star. Jeepers Creepers followed got him
his first Oscar nomination. In nineteen forty one. His song
Blues in the Night was called one of the the
greatest blue songs ever written. Followed that up because you know,
nobody knew the blues like our man Johnny Mercy.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
No of course about being from Savannah.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
He followed that up with that old black magic. He
founded Capitol Records in nineteen forty two. He signed Nat
King Cole. He would sing on tracks that he didn't write,
including number one for eight weeks in nineteen forty seven,
something that is really embraced here. In twenty twenty four,
the song called Zippity Douda zippity a from a song
of the solm had his own radio show. I mentioned
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MoU River and the Days of Wine in roses.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Eighteen Oscar nominations, four wins. He was married one adopted daughter,
But perhaps the most interesting part of his personal life
was his affair with a nineteen year old Judy Garland
when he was thirty two, and even after she married,
their affair one on for years. He died in nineteen
seventy six at sixty six years old, Happy It would
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have been one hundred and fifteenth Johnny Mercer.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
His house. Mercer House is a place you can visit
in Savannah and was the central part of the true
life story of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
The guy that owned it used to throw these big parties. Yeah,
and he shot his gay lover while there was a
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guy visiting from the New Yorker writing an article about
the party, like a lifestyle article, and it ended up
being the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
The soundtrack to the movie that Clint Eastwood made is
all excellent jazz versions of Johnny mercer songs Likes Likes,
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Skylark and You're just Too Marvelous. So the the Midnight
in the Garden of Good and Evil soundtrack, put together
by Eastwood and he even sings on it.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Eastwood does, oh yeah, he says, just no, maybe that's
space He sings on it spacey. But Eastwood sings on
it that I just don't remember what he sing and
Alison Eastwood sings on it too. It's a remarkable. My
dad had it at the restaurant back in the day.
And it's a good movie. In a book as well,
Kill your gay Lover. It's the Garrett gaieties. You know,
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that's what you gotta do.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
He shot it. Shoot you bunch of trials, Matt. The
movie only shows one trial, but there was a bunch
of trials. All right, Matt, you're not done singing for
your tape, and you gotta do fun fact and we
got quick kits. Let's talk South Korea. A big acting
South Korean star Yun Park only thirty seven years old,
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born in Soul. First, he was the drummer for a band.
The name of that band can't play well. I'm gonna
guess that's ironic. I yeah, I don't know, probably not,
I hope. So they won third place in the contest.
So good at the third place, I'll be on a podium.
I guess when Plazer show. Recently, he's married a model
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named Kim soup In in Kim soup In Okay in
May three. Overall, these seems like a pretty together young man,
but most importantly, Matt, we got some great titles. Now.
You might say, I say, I say, I say, I
don't have my machine. I don't and I'm not gonna
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sing to the polka and I don't have the Creek. Well,
I'll be off on the Polka because I'm at home
today with the old me me me, me, me me.
We got this for you here, Okay, I'll see you
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got some fur down there. That's terrible. All right, here's
another one. Okay. Do you know taekwondo? I know karate,
I know jiu jitsu? Do you know kaevondo? Too hard? Yeah?
Super weak? You might take one, but I'm kicking you
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in the balls that.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
It's short. I gotta cut you, that I do. I
can't work through it, you know, Matt, I'm only one
man here. I mean, I asked him for riffs. Hello,
my twenties.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Okay, I'm gonna do this one. Hockupello, goodbye, my teen's
not yet my thirties, Hello, my twenties.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Go yeah. Now, hello, my twenties too. That's the late
twenties when the bars start getting old and you get
tired of friends. Exactly right. Give you horns on that too,
the crown Crown, the flirty boy and girl, flirty boy
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and girl that.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
That that.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
One more time. She's married, he's married, but they flirt
at the slooty store. Okay, it's attached to the gym.
I've known that. You crossed your legs and proct forecasting
love and weather. Alright, Kate's fine, bitch. I let us down. No,
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you did good. I let us no, No, you did no.
The first one was really good. H we'll be back
with a fun fact. Better not let us down there. Oh,
I got something for you and the quick hits. I
hope so. And we will be back on tomorrow at
three o'clock for a full show. But don't forget Thursday
is the show that starts at two in beautiful Torrance, California,
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Speaker 4 (01:25):
Hey, why you're just like a clown. I don't even
know how you make it here, guys, I really don't
don't know how you make it up here. You're so
damn crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And weird. It was like year three of me working
here out he's so crazy, he's a nut, he's an
I can't believe he works here, looking at myself of
the beer, like should I not be in society?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
That man?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
You know it's you know on the radio. Don't have
any client lunches. I feel like I'm all right here,
you know, I just but hey, yeah, I guess I'm
just your clown dance clown dance, hearn.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Sending in the clowns. Third day, we are live from
Torrance two to five at the Lamo Fashion Center near
Carson Street, Beautiful Torrants, California. BJ's waiting for us, a
place we love to be. And Tonight Matt and I
Got Clippers. Pregame is at six thirty. Tip off its
at seven thirty on Anti seventy LA Sports. David Vassy's
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got a lot like Corey Seeger, everybody you can think of.
David Vassay has got him on the iHeart radio app
for the Dodger Talk, which will be streamable and on Instagram.
You can see a bunch of the stuff because social media.
Matt is there with him. So if you're a Dodger
person and you want to revel in Dodger greatness, plus
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a bunch of other baseball types, including our friend Justin
Turner at the Justin Turner Golf Tournament. All of that
is available there, but right now it's time for the
top story of the day to story.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Well, I'll work it backwards as we look at the
week that was in the NFL from Sunday night through
the early morning contest for the Rams and the Raiders,
without questioning, the best crowd I have seen it so
far for a Chargers game. Yet we have had Cincinnati
here before. They have fans, they've showed up, and for
this one, I'd say it was the greatest ratio. Probably
ninety ten Charger fans was packed. It was loud, heavy
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booze when the Bengals came out of the tunnel, a
lot of noise on third downs, those final drives. And
I bring it up because I regularly discount that conversation.
On the negative, it has been something that has been
beaten repeatedly, and because it's turning, it feels different and
it's probably a big part in thanks to the hiring
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of Jim Harbaugh combined with an MVP caliber season quarterback
Justin Herbert.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I don't see it as a Harbor Herbert issue at all.
I don't see any change voice of the Bolts. I
don't see any change. It could be the change in
the voice of the Bolt's aggressiveness. Agressiveness in the calls
has become parallel with the aggressiveness of the football teach charters.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
When good schurchers win.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
We're all affected, starting to get more and more aggressive.
The Chargers now have fety percent of the people in
that stadium behind you, right and all. You're starting to
feel a little better about.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Good churchers win.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'm not going to get jumped on my way to
the car.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I've said it.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
We talked about this before. Hey Cracker, Bill Belichick, Tom Brady.
They built walk into a buzzsaw that managed to create
a sliver of conversation in Boston over which is the
most popular franchise. Celtics Red Sox are after their decades
of dominance the Patriots. Remember, it was a team owned
by Victor Kayam that was about to sell to a
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group that included Walter Payton as the public face to
move to Saint Louis. That's why Walter Payton retired early
because that deal was supposedly done. Instead, Robert Kraft exercises
a clause as a minority owner. He buys kiam Out,
he hires Bill Parcells, he drafts Drew Bledsoe, and the
foundation is set. The pieces in place, and they staged
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one of the most remarkable comebacks in big city sports
fandom history. Now the Chargers have had the quarterback for
four and a half years, feels like they finally have
the coach. And similarly to those Patriots, Similarly to the
Saints who are supposed to move to San Antonio post
Katrina because of a dilapidated stadium and a waning fan
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base that was more popular for wearing bags on their
heads that actually showing up to the super Dome to
support their team. Drew Brees and Sean Payton turn it
into the most popular football brand in the Southeast, rivaling
the Dolphins, Bucks, Jags, and Falcons for supremacy in that
part of the country. Head coach, quarterback, it can happen.
And after back to back weeks with a ninety ten
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split against Tennessee and Cincinnati, interesting to see how it
looks a week from today.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
On the Monday Night, Er with the Harbowl with Baltimore
in town.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I think back to the game in twenty eighteen, the
night game on Saturday Night, Chargers fighting for the best
record in the AFC, A year they finished twelve and four,
tied for the best record. Small stadium probably seventy thirty split.
The other way in favor of Baltimore. Last year was
closer to fifty fifty when they played on Monday night
with Lamar Jackson in town. But Harbowl Thanksgiving Week prime time.
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I would assume quite a few of the tickets already
sold to people are going to make a high week
vacation out of it, you know, I would assume Thanksgiving Week.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Who's got better tickets than us?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
No way to the.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Football itself, though Derwin James made the final play, a
hail Mary pass perfectly placed by Burrow onto the hands
of his mammoth six foot three, two hundred and twenty
pound receiver T Higgins.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Is there a way to feel what that moment was like?
Right like right after that moment, right after Darwin James
made that.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I wish there were, you know, but we're just sitting here.
Burbank and chucksterreswin thet Chuckers win thanks to Derwin James
arriving at the precise moment he needed to not too early,
not too late, to swat it away and preserve the victory.
If you check out the Chargers Instagram post from coach
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his postgame locker room speech and after he says high
fives for everyone, Derwin comes up to embrace him, and
you can in a jam bar. I'm not John boyd
liperating level, but I feel like I could read Derwin's
lips in that moment, just in a very emphatic way,
saying we believe in you. To Coach Harbaugh, Chargering losing
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games that were won, snatching defeat from the hands of victory,
something synonymous with this team in previous years, beginning to
push it all aside. Certainly, are their concerns with scoring droughts,
especially in the second half, Yes, But in this one,
after a field goal drive to push the lead to
twenty seven to six, Herbert got absolutely bent in half
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by Jermaine Pratt, And it was the next four drives
and he was just not himself two for ten, including
a stretch with seven straight incompletions and a fumble, So maybe.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
He was hurt.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Maybe something was not quite right, missing guys that were
wide open. And then I guess, just because he's justin Herbert,
the final drive happens like he had never lost that
fastball from the first half. The Chargers got the ball
with forty five seconds left in a tie game from
their own sixteen yard line, eighty four yards away from
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the end zone. Two timeouts, forty five seconds, first down,
drop back, perfect pass twenty eight yards, first timeout at
the forty five incomplete short pass to Will Disley, second
and ten, thirty one seconds left, and he delivers a
perfect throw on a perfectly run route by rookie Lad
McConkie for twenty seven out of bounds left sideline to
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the twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What a moment, Matton. It's left on a second here,
yeh on Herbert to throw, lets it fly.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Mcconkey's got it on the boun's left sideline all the
way to the Cincinnati twenty seven twenty seven yards.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
He called it. DJ just looked for number fifteen Gore
Cam Dicker.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Thirty five at thirty six At so far, you feel
pretty good about him booting a forty five yarder for
the win. Bengals didn't have enough timeouts to stop the clock,
instead of just playing it safe, taking the knee, figuring
out where he wanted to kick it from. On a
day when Justin Tucker missed two, when Cairo Santos got
his kick block to see the Bears loose there eleventh
straight to the Packers, Jim Harbass said, no, call a play.
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Fullback Scott Matt Locke, former Petros and Money guest up
pulling Trey Pipkins blocked it perfectly.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
JK.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Dobbins did his part all the way to the end zone.
Some asked why didn't he just slide and have the
team score with a chip shot field goals zero on
the clock instead of the Hail Mary coming into play.
And I would guess because it tied, not a situation
where they had the lead, score the points they're guaranteed
there worry about the eighteen seconds later and the Chargers
are now seven and three.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
It's Dobbins and notte Locke hand off the Dobbins and there.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Goes Dobbins mit his horse to the twenty to the
fifteen to the turn into the episode, touchdown Chudgers twenty
nine yards. Shake K Dobbins with eighteen seconds.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Left, seven and three. That's part time, you know. Oh,
I feel it, I feel it, I feel it. I
could feel the vibe. The only negative thing I could
say about the whole delivery of the entire story so far.
And I don't know how much time we have left
with the Raiders in the Rams.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
But Chucks are swin the Chucker swing.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Only negative thing I can say is it Scott matt
Locke's a one and done on the h one and done.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Now.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
If the Hard Bowl is not the game of the week,
Rams Eagles is Sunday Night football. Rams have one four
or five. Matthew Stafford up for Offensive Player of the Week.
Two ninety five four touchdowns against those frisky Patriots, a
ten am Pacific kick at Foxborough.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Feisty Pastriots. Oh they are Robert Kraft saving that team.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
He did Victor Kayam, Remington Shavers going to Saint Louis.
It's a reminder if you've got a quarterback, life's a
lot easier. Matthew Stafford looks to still be that guy.
And I'll tell you it's not the easiest schedule at
five and five Eagles Sunday Night, two New Orleans Bills
here at San Francisco. They finish against Arizona and Seattle.
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But the Seahawks did him a favor beating the forty
nine Ers. All three of those teams, including the Rams
five and five, Seahawks, forty nine Ers, Rams, Cardinals atop
the division at six and four, and you got two
pass to the playoffs wild card in Division one. Back
in the lost column for both the seventh seed and
the NFC West. As for the Raiders, lost again. Thought
they they have a shot in that one in Miami
because their defense, but instead they are tied for the
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second worst record in football with the Giants, Browns, Titans,
only a half game better than the Jags, who will
not draft the quarterback anyway. It was up there again
on NFL memes ig, one of my favorite pages on
the Instagram since October thirteenth, and every week since, Schador
Sanders tweets out thank you God thirteenth, twenty first, twenty seventh,
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November third, tenth, and yesterday goodness losing streak five minutes
after the Raiders lose, thank you God.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Apparently.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Oh they want sha door and Shador wants them exactly right.
They are courting each other Raiders win and they would
have slipped to the ninth picks.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I know Raiders fans that are courting him. Oh, Mike
Lennox texted me every day. What did Colorado do?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Say?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
They want your door. They don't have much on that team.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
They got Max Crosby, they got brock Bauers, brock Bowers
everything he was advertising, like five hundred percent more. Set
the NFL record yesterday thirteen catches on sixteen targets in
a game by a rookie tight end. Uh, these are
not rookie numbers. He leads all tight ends, seventy catches,
leads all tight ends seven hundred and six yards. He's
gonna blow by a thousand receiving yards. So a huge
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piece there. Get the QB, A star, a guy that
wants to be there, and I would assume Deon's the
kind of guy that could make that work no matter
where they pick. The NFL is kind of funny that way,
and who knows, maybe Dion wants to go with him
be the coach of the team. I was gonna say
that with word being Tom Brady wants to start calling
some shots next year. The way this team is going
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to be built that maybe that wouldn't line up. It
turns out Shitters got nil money from the Tom Brady brand.
He and Dion appear to be very friendly, so who knows.
Maybe it's the Sanders. Is the Sanders that will save
the Raiders after what's become.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
A top season.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I'd love to see that, right, Imagine Kate's talking to
Diana every week and Joel Klag and all black oh
down there and like a rate looking like Al Davis, right.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Is gonna go to the Raiders? Or is he gonna
takeover as the head coach of Carl Rode?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Might? He might? He's qualified? All right, Well, it's been
a great day. I'd like to pick up where you
left off in the interview. We'll be right back with
David Vesse live from the Dodgers. Well, it's not a
Dodgers event, it's a Justin Turner event, but it's smacks
of Dodgers and there'll be a Dodger talk on the
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Speaker 4 (14:44):
AM five seventy eight Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app a three to six thirty show, It's Clipper pregame tonight.
Remember Wednesday we have UCLA basketball. Idaho State come to
town the Bengals. Yeah, not the Vandals, not the Vandals.
It's not Idaho but Idaho State.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Correct, not Boise State, which is in the state of Idema, right,
and not Boise State, and not b yu Idaho. It
would be tip off at eight pm on a f
on kind Chords. Their potatoes could win some awards, well done,
probably sigh and b Yu Idaho. It would be.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
No Idaho State the Bengals. Saturday night, it's a shrike
unwanted quarts. It's us in USC.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Their potatoes could win some awards U C L a USC.
It's truly the Lords. It's by.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Battle for La By come cover that pre game five
thirty seven thirty, a two hour.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Pre jump on my metro. Can't get my kids.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Into the catering here? You know, I'm doing a two
hour pregame here for the for the game. Can I
get them into catering? No?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
All right, Matt. Some local knowledge works is knowledge, common knowledge,
it's local knowledge.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
He's very knowledgeable on the things that you come up
with as far as for what your knowledge is.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
As far as for what your knowledge is. Another local
knowledge issue, Matt, We've long discussed the peacocks in the
southern California area, or pea fowl. Nobody covers it like
we do. Nobody in the peacocks are the ones that
make the noise because it's all about the car of
the walk Arcadia. And look, I don't care if your
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dog's going crazy on the podcast. Don't care figure it
out herb Street. That's a little insensitive, Dave, I don't care.
We've talked about the peacocks and the speaking of insensitivity, Matt,
you tell me, okay, okay. We talked about the peacocks
of Arcade, the Palace, Arnes Peninsula. We've discussed Temple City.
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We've delved into the history of Lucky Baldwin and his
arboretum for the young wife and the Vanderlipp family on
the hill who received a peacock and a pea hen
and that's why we have them there. But there are
also parents, yes, really actually probably more parrots than pea
cocks in the area. And I'm talking about the pet
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col Matt. I'm talking about wild ass parents in the
San Gabriel Valley, Matt and here in Burbank, they're green
and wild, and there is a reason for these misplaced
tropical burns. They've been in the area for a long time,
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for decades. Pasadena, it's a follow up, right, I believe
we've talked. Paris is a follow up. Okay. I want
to make sure Pasadena Alta Dina. Temple City, City of Glendora,
we reported on this last year. Yes, in Temple City,
let's go rams. Somebody netted trees to stop the parrots
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from being able to eat and move. They just died
in the nets. Very cruel, very cool. Recently, though, the
parrots of the San Gabriel Valley, the killers, have taken
a step in a more violent direction, and they're being
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shot out of the sky, filled full of buckshot or pellets,
and wounded. Cleo Watts of Cleo's Printer Corner, a nonprofit,
said people are shooting them. Eleven had been shot or
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killed in recent weeks, one with half a wing blown
clean off. Now you might ask yourself, a wind path clef,
why are their parents flying wild? Well, there are a
few reasons. They are the descendants of pets that were
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intentionally or accidentally released into the wild. Plus and who
could forget this the wild importation of birds to southern
California in the seventies and eighties, which was mostly illegal.
And if the feds are coming down on you, you
don't flush the cocaine down the toilet? Do you let
the birds fly out the window? I could swear I
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just saw too, can fly across the La River. There
quite more, much more common in the seventies and eighties
than you could ever imagine. In fact, the parents have
been out and about in southern California since the nineteen sixties,
so they predate all of us. They are non native,
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but like most things in La the palm trees, the peacocks,
the parrots, and even the voice of the bolts, they
are native now and there are multiple species, and they're
being shot out of the sky just like the rest
of us.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Matth here in Los Angeles clean off half a wing.
Pretty uncool, And yes, this does give us memories. And
I know what you're thinking that you're thinking of the
peacock killer Mike Dicta, which the sketch rendering.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Of looked a lot like Mike Ditton. The peacock killer
of Rolling Hills Estates, who used multiple weapons and tactics
to kill peacocks for about two years. Defense even got involved,
and the peacock killer remains on the loose. No one
(20:58):
ever saw that case. The search continues, like for the
gorilla that beat up Bobby Bouchet. The search continues, search continue.
Do you think they just it's in a cold case now,
like the peacock Killer's done? What's your statute limitations ten
(21:19):
years ago? Right? Well? Yeah, what's the statute of limitations
on shooting a peacock with a crossbow? Right?
Speaker 6 (21:26):
You know what it needs is one of those podcasts
I go back and like.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, Dirty John. Yeah, well like the coldest case in Laramie. Yeah,
just like that exactly the Cleo's uh Cleo from Cleo's
Crinter Corner. Cleo made a pretty good point to kt
La Matt when she said, look, we've got all kinds
of stuff here in the same Gabriel Valley in Pasadena.
(21:51):
We got crying babies, we got parking dogs, we have
loud traffic. Do we shoot at all those things?
Speaker 1 (21:59):
No?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Why are we shooting at the parents? Right? Uh So
another bird murder case to be followed by the super
sleuths of the Petros and Money Show Matt.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Those parents, by the way, have been in Burbank, Glendale,
this far west, not just the San Gabriel Valley. They're
heading to the same.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
They're not gonna stop mating and making more parents.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I could just say that the sounds of all these
hundreds of parents, I can see where it can drive
people crazy.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Not to do something like that, but I can see
where they go crazy with.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
What else would you do? I mean, you can't tell
a parent like, hey, what you shut up?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
You know?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's well they can talk, can't they? So now they're
just all gonna be yelling. Shut up. It's just shut up,
shut up, shut up, shut up. Yes, I know the
damn NOI you want to shoot them kids? I wanna
already has look at you? Have you ever shot one
a parent? Yeah? Just one wing blue? They clean of.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
No, I'm not shot a part.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
This is a forty five magnet, but it blew your head.
Clean up here, little Bertie Birdie, come over here. I
know what you're thinking. Did I shoot six times?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You know?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
And all this excitement? Shoot that you birds? I forget myself.
The super sluice of the Petrosen money show. And it
always seems like some of these cases, where do they end, Matt,
right there on our doorstep in Arcadia, right, the case
of the Native American ringer that beat Don McLean and
Papa shot, the case of the dead horses at Santa Anita,
(23:33):
the case of Michelle Hugh's Lost Charm, and the case
of the parent murders, nets and guns Temple City, Pasadena. HM,
what's going on? Anyway? We are on top of this,
so let us know what you think. We'll be right
back with your Donland. You know, they're not reasonable, you know,
(24:00):
and if the people of the Bahamas and stuff can
get by our friends in Nassau, then why can't we
get by, right, fair answer, that's a fair question. Thank you.
We'll be back, and we don't shoot at the crying babies. Okay, yeah,
good point, Cleo, Thank you, Dead and a live guy.
(24:20):
Birthday of the Day next. But we're gonna go all
the way till six thirty before the Clippers play the
Warriors Monday night games on AM eleven to fifty. Right,
thanks for listening, everybody. Matt and I are gonna go
(24:41):
till the middle of six o'clock and then we're gonna
go to Clippers. That's how it read. And then you
can follow the thread at follow Adam on Twitter you're right,
or on x you can follow the thread of the
Clippers versus the Warriors. That's that's big.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Board's big.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Also Thursday, Matt and I are going to be live
from the beautiful city of Torrance two to five at
the Delamo Fashion Center near Carson Street. We'll have great prizes,
BJS has their great food specials, gonna be a happy
hour at some point. We're gonna have a great time,
celebrating a great time. We're gonna do our kind of
(25:22):
dancing with a great partner. Finally, thank you every season,
that's what we do. And it's not our final Bjays
of the season, is it. No, No, it is not.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
But perhaps it has turned into an annual after years
of politicking, politicing and neglect and persuading politician neglect, and
we finally got the Torrents and now we're going back
again this year.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Here we go with the dead guy Birthday of the Day.
We'll do fun fact and quick its in the next
segment for you podcast types. All right, Kate let's hit it.
Every time I hear hooray for Hollywood, it takes me
back the Kevin and Bean days. Showed his report Johnny Mercer,
hooray for Hollywood, the days of Wine and Roses Moon River.
(26:11):
Prolific songwriter.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
He would have been one hundred and fifteen today, part
in Savannah Pop's successful attorney.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
They were wealthy.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
He loved music, and he grew up with friends being
the kids of his wealthy family's African American servants, and
said he was exposed to their music. That's what he
listened to. He'd go to church with them, exposed to
their gospel hymns. He joined the choir when he was six.
He had an incredible memory for lyrics. He would memorize
(26:44):
almost everything and became curious about who wrote songs. He
dug into Tin Panaley became obsessed with that said that
his unique lyrical style was a product of his surroundings.
Other white songwriters did not have the African American influence
or experience that he did, and that is why his
songs stood out amongst all those other Tin Pennaley songwriters
(27:05):
and artists. He was an avid reader. He wrote adventure
stories and said he wasn't a great musician that he
did not excel when he tried to play the piano.
Could play it, but just couldn't master it. Same with
a trumpet. He said he couldn't read musical scores, so
he created his own notation system that worked for him.
(27:25):
He went to the exclusive Woodbury Forest School. He was
active in their literary I mean, I don't know how
high falutin it was. He was in their poetry society,
so whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I started the Woodberry Forest Beekeeping Society myself. I'm the founder.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
He was. All his classmates said he was an authority
on jazz. While in high school, his yearbook stated, quote,
no orchestra or new production can be authoritatively termed good
until Johnny's stamp of approval has been played town it.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
He was accepted to Princeton and said.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
It was likely he was going to leave the musical
world behind chase a lifestyle like his father's a professional.
But his dad got hit hard during the depression and
he had to go to work, and he decided to
go do some work that he enjoyed. He moved to
the big town when he was nineteen. The music he
loved jazz blues booming in Harlem, Broadway bursting with musicals,
and he wanted in first few jobs as a bid actor.
(28:28):
And it just so happened that the dumpy Greenwich Village
apartment he had rented had an old, beat up piano
in it. So every night, after work doing his odd jobs,
while trying to score roles, he would write and sing
and write lyrics. Said he survived on oatmeal twice a
day because he was so broke. And his big break
(28:50):
came in nineteen thirty a song that he wrote was
accepted and put into the musical The Garrett Gaieties, and.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
That line, all the Garret Gaieties, they are the gayest
of all gaieties. I never felt so giddy.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
He landed a job as staff lyricist for Miller Music.
It was just twenty five bucks a week, but that
led to another break when old Hogy Carmichael, famous for
the standard Stardust, took to Johnny and together they wrote
Lazy Bones. It became a hit one week after its
first radio broadcast, got a big Old Royalty check of
(29:22):
twelve hundred and fifty bucks, made him a member of
as Cap and Tipped a Cap and a recognized brother
in the Tin Pan Alley Fraternity. It was so much
that he decided to pull up stakes moving to Hollywood.
Follow his idol bing, Crosby was hired by Arcade. His
first big Hollywood song, I'm an Old cow Hand from
(29:45):
the Rio Grand Yes Rhythm on the Range. Warner signed
him after that, Warner Brothers, hooray for Hollywood. This one
made him a huge star. Jeepers Creepers followed got him
his first Oscar nomination. In nineteen forty one. His song
Blues in the Night was called one of the the
greatest blue songs ever written. Followed that up because you know,
nobody knew the blues like our man Johnny Mercy.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
No of course about being from Savannah.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
He followed that up with that old black magic. He
founded Capitol Records in nineteen forty two. He signed Nat
King Cole. He would sing on tracks that he didn't write,
including number one for eight weeks in nineteen forty seven,
something that is really embraced here. In twenty twenty four,
the song called Zippity Douda zippity a from a song
of the solm had his own radio show. I mentioned
(30:36):
MoU River and the Days of Wine in roses.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Eighteen Oscar nominations, four wins. He was married one adopted daughter,
But perhaps the most interesting part of his personal life
was his affair with a nineteen year old Judy Garland
when he was thirty two, and even after she married,
their affair one on for years. He died in nineteen
seventy six at sixty six years old, Happy It would
(31:02):
have been one hundred and fifteenth Johnny Mercer.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
His house. Mercer House is a place you can visit
in Savannah and was the central part of the true
life story of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
The guy that owned it used to throw these big parties. Yeah,
and he shot his gay lover while there was a
(31:26):
guy visiting from the New Yorker writing an article about
the party, like a lifestyle article, and it ended up
being the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
The soundtrack to the movie that Clint Eastwood made is
all excellent jazz versions of Johnny mercer songs Likes Likes,
(31:47):
Skylark and You're just Too Marvelous. So the the Midnight
in the Garden of Good and Evil soundtrack, put together
by Eastwood and he even sings on it.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Eastwood does, oh yeah, he says, just no, maybe that's
space He sings on it spacey. But Eastwood sings on
it that I just don't remember what he sing and
Alison Eastwood sings on it too. It's a remarkable. My
dad had it at the restaurant back in the day.
And it's a good movie. In a book as well,
Kill your gay Lover. It's the Garrett gaieties. You know,
(32:18):
that's what you gotta do.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
He shot it. Shoot you bunch of trials, Matt. The
movie only shows one trial, but there was a bunch
of trials. All right, Matt, you're not done singing for
your tape, and you gotta do fun fact and we
got quick kits. Let's talk South Korea. A big acting
South Korean star Yun Park only thirty seven years old,
(32:44):
born in Soul. First, he was the drummer for a band.
The name of that band can't play well. I'm gonna
guess that's ironic. I yeah, I don't know, probably not,
I hope. So they won third place in the contest.
So good at the third place, I'll be on a podium.
I guess when Plazer show. Recently, he's married a model
(33:07):
named Kim soup In in Kim soup In Okay in
May three. Overall, these seems like a pretty together young man,
but most importantly, Matt, we got some great titles. Now.
You might say, I say, I say, I say, I
don't have my machine. I don't and I'm not gonna
(33:29):
sing to the polka and I don't have the Creek. Well,
I'll be off on the Polka because I'm at home
today with the old me me me, me, me me.
We got this for you here, Okay, I'll see you
(33:50):
got some fur down there. That's terrible. All right, here's
another one. Okay. Do you know taekwondo? I know karate,
I know jiu jitsu? Do you know kaevondo? Too hard? Yeah?
Super weak? You might take one, but I'm kicking you
(34:13):
in the balls that.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
It's short. I gotta cut you, that I do. I
can't work through it, you know, Matt, I'm only one
man here. I mean, I asked him for riffs. Hello,
my twenties.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Okay, I'm gonna do this one. Hockupello, goodbye, my teen's
not yet my thirties, Hello, my twenties.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Go yeah. Now, hello, my twenties too. That's the late
twenties when the bars start getting old and you get
tired of friends. Exactly right. Give you horns on that too,
the crown Crown, the flirty boy and girl, flirty boy
(35:01):
and girl that.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
That that.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
One more time. She's married, he's married, but they flirt
at the slooty store. Okay, it's attached to the gym.
I've known that. You crossed your legs and proct forecasting
love and weather. Alright, Kate's fine, bitch. I let us down. No,
(35:31):
you did good. I let us no, No, you did no.
The first one was really good. H we'll be back
with a fun fact. Better not let us down there. Oh,
I got something for you and the quick hits. I
hope so. And we will be back on tomorrow at
three o'clock for a full show. But don't forget Thursday
is the show that starts at two in beautiful Torrance, California,
(35:54):
at the Bejays. Don't miss it.
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