October 24, 2025 • 47 mins
We talk about what kind of snacks we eat during World Series games, where to park at Dodger Stadium and more. Plus, Fred talks about his days doing preseason play by play for the LA Raiders.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, here we go on Game one of the
World Series. Day Fred Rogan Jonas nx in for Rodney
and five to seventy la sports Jonas. Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Who isn't? The World Series is here, the time off
is gone, and now we lock in and get ready
to see if the Dodgers can do something that no
team is done in a quarter century in the MLV.
So I think this is a good time. It's a
great time to be a Dodger fan in the midst
of a dynasty and it all gets going on a
(00:32):
Friday night where people can sit back from home, have
a couple of cocktails, go to a happy hour somewhere,
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Speaker 1 (01:09):
Do you like how we put the exclamation?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Really like that. I was expecting a back and forth
on you know what's happy are going to look like?
I mean, how fired up are people around town? And
all of a sudden a zoot suit riot band steps
in and uh just fires off some imaging. But hey,
we're here, Happy Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Do you like to go when you watch sporting events
to places where there are other people or would you
prefer to watch them with a very small select group
of people in the privacy of your own home.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Small select group of people. But if I go to
a place to watch a sporting event, I'll go to
my brother's bar. I'll go go to his because he's
got a sports bar slash restaurant in Thousand Oaks. What
is it so good? Sunset Terrace.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, so so I'll go there, And especially during Dodger games.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Can I eat and drink for free?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I mean I could. I could get you at least
five percent off, okay something, but I mean, you know,
but again, I got to, you know, really haggle some
people there. I might know a couple of people. But
how's the food. It's great? Like it's like a huge,
huge sports bar. There's a bowling alley, there, there's uh, like,
there's all sorts of stuff. So and especially during October.
October's their busy month because there's a haunted house nearby.
(02:29):
You've got the World Series.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Your brother has a bowling alley too. Yeah, he's got
a bowling alley at a sports bar, Jans Malfred. Things.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Things are really developing. If you just would, if you
would dare to step foot anywhere near the twenty three freeway,
Like things are starting to develop a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Okay, this is he's got wait this is your brother
Otis Tyrone Tyrone?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, I mean that that's like right, that is that's
grounds for having a conversation with somebody that you mixed
up Tyrone and Otis.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Like, I'm sorry, I made a mistake. What's wrong with that?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
You that Kevin? Actually I can it's not It's not
Tyrone and Mike. It's Otus, Otis of all the names
you come up with, Yeah, it's that one. Okay, Well,
they'll they'll have for for Dodger games. They'll they do
Dodger dogs. They do like special So like if you're
if I go somewhere, I'll go there because it's a
it's a huge room, the TVs are on, great sound
(03:27):
system stuff like that, but it's just it's got to
be a particular place. You can't just go to any
run of the mill bar and just be like, hey,
put the game on, because some of the TV placement
isn't great. So you got to have it to where
you know it's going to be solid, and it's solid there.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So I would always rather watch privately or a very
small group of people. I don't like to go out,
and here's why, because I really don't care what people think.
You know, when you go out, you have to hear
what people think. Yeah, and they're all experts and yes, yes,
I don't need to hear that. Yes, or you get this,
Hey what do you think? You know? They go, oh, Fred,
(04:03):
what do you think? No, it's what I think. If
you want to hear what I think, listen at noon.
I'm not going to sit here and do the radio
show for three hours. No, absolutely not. I just want
to watch the game.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Fred's like here, I'll text you my thoughts and he
sends a link to the iHeart app. You know why not? Yeah,
I listen, I'm with you. And that is the other
thing too. But I also wonder I don't know if
it's like a I don't know if it's douchey, but
there is something too. Once you've given your opinion for
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multiple hours a day, multiple hours a week, like sometimes
you just want to watch, Like you don't really want
to share your opinion. You don't really want to give
your thoughts. You just want to be entertained by the
product on television. That's kind of the way I feel
about it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah. Well, and ultimately, I don't even care about my
own opinion and I'm giving it, so the last thing
I want to do is sit there and talk about
it more. I mean, you know what I mean, or
or you know if Dave Roberts only get do you
think I care? I'm sitting here watching the game. I
do not care. It's really pretty simple.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Now, what is your snack of choice during a during
like a baseball game.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
That's what I was gonna go to.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Let's get it, because I mean, this is a Friday night, man,
we can't mess around. See last year it was at
Dodger Stadium. A lot of people went out to the game.
They got to see Freddy's Grand Slam. You hit it
off that guy from Narcos I just I think this
is this is important stuff here. So what what do
you think like?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
What? What is the what?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
What does happy hour look like? What's your snack of choice?
How are we operating this?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
See what I would do with sliders? Okay, I would
like some sliders, That's what I would do. Comfortable, easy,
Not a pizza. Not pizza, not during the game because
you need too much pizza. Agreed, sliders would be good.
Something like that. Maybe a nice keish.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That interesting, it's an interesting choice that that definitely sounds
like something your neighbors would have for sure at all
hours of the day.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Sliders and keish, That's how I would go.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
What about you? See it's a baseball game. Wings always
a good choice. Yeah, wings are always solid. And because
it's you know, you got nine innings to work with,
unless there's xtratings. You know, you got to really kind
of ease into things. So you start with an appetizer.
Maybe around like the fourth or fifth, you get a
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bigger meal.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And nice maybe hey, fourth in nice shrimp cocktail.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Shrimp cocktail works. You're gonna say, my brother, they do
Dodger dogs like a Dodger dog is great. The more
that I've the older I've gotten, the more I've realized
hot dogs are solid because they're gonna fill you up
to a certain capacity. But as long as you don't
overdo it, like you're not gonna get too full, you know,
to where that's like a good a good night cap
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on a baseball game. And then you, you know, you
wash it down with like you be classy about it.
You don't want to go over the top. You wash
it all like fifteen sixteen beers and you're good to go.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Sure, sure, see, I gotta be honest with you when
you talk about those hot dogs. Go to Dodger Stadium,
watch a game. Everybody in my family knows what I do.
Like the fourth or fifth inning, I gotta go to
the bathroom. They go, okay, they know exactly what I've done.
I sneak up and get another Dodger dog every game,
every single game. It doesn't matter. I'm going to the bathroom.
(07:24):
Yeah right, Okay, I come back. There's like chill on
my face. Right, you know, it's like, boy, must have
been tough in there. What do you mean Always I've
always got to have that Dodger dog every single game.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I do it, you know, I can understand some people
sneaking away to go text their side piece, or sneaking
away to go rip a beer because it's like, oh,
I'm not going to drink tonight, not tonight. And then
you go, you hit up you know, one of the
one of the beer cart vendors, and you just are
you know, one of the little convenience stores that you
can just pay and walk away, and then you're ripping
a tall boy. I gotta understand that you're sneaking away
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to eat hot dogs. I do. I was just like
like one of those people on my six hundred pound
Life or whatever is that that AI generated gymnast that
you sent over last week who destroyed the balance beam,
Like you're sneaking away for hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well, you know, I probably shouldn't eat as much as
I do, and it's apparent if you see me. But
I have to have the Dodger dog every single game.
I have to. I just do it. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
But why would your family give you a hard time
of bad? If you want a Dodger dog, You're getting
a Dodger dog. You're not doing crystal.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Meth no, because I already had prime rib.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Oh oh, I know where you're sitting. Fred, Hey, way
to be relatable with the audience. We're talking wings and
hot dogs and tater tots, and Fred breaks out prime rib.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Oh, do be a favor and past the gray poupalm?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
All right, what do you mean you don't have camus here?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Where is the caveat anyway? Monday though, you know if
you go, you'll see us here. The whole family's going Monday,
everybody goes.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I don't think I'm allowed in that section.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Oh you can where I'm sitting Monday. Yeah, well maybe
you can't even there.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
But what I mean, what what section are we talking
about here?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Like?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
How good are the seats?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
They're not bad? No, they're not the dugout club.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
What constitutes is not bad?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
You know, they're good. They're good. They're not the dugout club.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Okay, but they're good.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Okay. Most of the stadium is not the dugout club.
I mean there's a section right behind that that's pretty decent.
There's sweet level seats that are pretty decent. No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
So in other words, Fred, you're sitting right behind Mary
Hart and her husband Bert.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
No, that's the dugout club. Now, if you look up
from the dug out Club. There's that wall right and Kevin,
you said there are a seat right behind the dugout Club.
We'll exactly, I'll be on TV. I don't know, I
will not.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You know, my one of my favorite places to sit
at Dodgers Stown. And I don't know, I'm trying to
think what section it's called. But I found it, like
my wife and I then girlfriend at the time. God,
I think it was her. I found it, uh, and
and I got them. I was like, these are the
best seats I've had. It's it's where you walk in
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you park it's on the second I think it's lows,
but it's like this little private area.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And they're like little like tabletops, almost like you're at
a bar and they've got that look that tiny bar
and and and like area you can get food right
behind you. Yes, like easily my favorite place to be.
It's right next to the exit. It's right next to
the parking lot. You walk in there and it's almost
like you have this little private area for yourself. And
it's not as expensive as some of the other really
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high priced seats.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Those they really are. I love them.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I don't know if they're on the other side, but
I know they're on the third baseline right field side
to where you walk in there, and it's this little
private area. They've got these tabletops, so if you want
to sit down in your seat, you can. If you
want to sit up at the tabletops.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
You can.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Especially for night games when the sun is starting to
go down. It's awesome, like that's a really cool spot
to watch a game.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
No, I do want to say, and I am not
going to reveal, as I do once a year, the
best parking place at Dodger Stadium. I'm not going to
reveal that from Monday's game. Yeah, because I'm going to
take that. I always reveal the number one parking place
at Dodger Stadium so you can get out quickly.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You don't. You don't think people have already written that down.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
At various points.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I've said it many times, Kevin, what is it?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
I don't even remember, to be honest with you, I'll
have access to it, so it's all.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yours, Okay, Ronnie, I've said it many times. What is it?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
I do remember? I think parking lot f damn. And
there you go, Fred, right by that fancy pole there,
that light pole right by the light light pole.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
There's a light pole there. And you said I think
you said that you back into the spot, Fred, so
it's easier to get out.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
No, no, correct, No, No, I don't and I can't
back up. I have this giant truck and I I
cannot back up. I only go forward. I never go backwards. Fred.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I think you're going to have a difficult time trying
to secure your regular parking space today because the Dodger
Stadium parking attendants are going to take over. Uh, They're
going to direct you where to park. I don't think
this is one of those regular games, at regular season
games where you can just drive in all willy nilly
and park where you want.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I have Lot F, am, I allowed to park in
Lot F If I have that a lot of.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Times, they'll still direct you exactly where to park.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Oh No, that's not going to happen. I can't.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
They're going to get into an argument with Dodger Stadium parking.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
No, I'm perfect.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
You know, Kevin, he's going to end up in Dodger jail.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Tell us about.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Dodger jail, Fred or not.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I wanted Rodney. We were down there doing live shows,
and I said it would be great, Rodney, will you
go to Dodger Jail and do a segment out of there?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Why didn't you have to send Rodney to Dodger j agreed?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
I wanted to bail him out.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And by the way, Kevin, for what it's worth, now
it all makes sense because I got to text shortly
after that where he said, Hey, your brother's name is Tyrone.
You do a show from the Geez.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I thought his name was Otis. I'm sorry, iressive all right, anyway,
do not park in that spot on Monday. I'll get
there at eight thirty in the warning I will get
I will get there at six am.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Now, when when did the gates open up?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yes, Kevin, when do they open up? That's a very
good question. Is it two or three hours for the
World series?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
It's two, right, I feel like it's usually two for
the general public too. I can certainly double check on that.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And then ninety minutes before is BP. I think, So
you're gonna you're gonna have to get there at three
o'clock in the afternoon, So right after the show on Monday,
you're gonna have Although are you already gonna be there.
What are you Are you already gonna be there?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Why would you ask that?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Well, I don't know. I mean, are you doing a
show from there?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Well, how do you think I'm getting the parking place?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Oh? Hey, well then you just hang out? Yeah, you
know what? You do have time for prime rib f it?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Upon further review, yes you do. You got time for
anything you want there. You could go rifle through all
the old bobbleheads they didn't want. They've probably got a
Billy Ashley somewhere, like why not hang out? That place
is yours?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
All right? So we are doing the show Monday and Tuesday, guaranteed, right,
Kevin from Dodger Stadium. That is true.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Yes, we will be there moon to two.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, noon to two. If necessary. We'll be there Wednesday
as well, hopefully not. Yeah. We all want it to
be over Tuesday, can.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I Because I'm going to ask Dave this, but I
want to ask you guys this.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
By the way, David Masse will be on the show
at one souse.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I want to ask him this, but I also want
to ask you guys this. And I'm looking at this
from you know, and I you know, I love hanging
out and filling in with you guys whenever you need me.
It's an honor. Grew up listening to you guys. Love
being a part of the family. Love everybody there. Okay,
but I'm just reading the prompter.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
But not everybody can do that, as you've learned, a
little more challenging than some might think.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
But but so, but I do want to know you
guys in the midst of this. Yeah, you do recognize
that being the station of the Dodgers, you are the
station of one of the great runs that a team
has ever had in this town. Yes, Like it's now
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gotten to that point to where I was thinking about
this earlier. You've got the showtime Lakers, right, and then
what else?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
King's had a nice run? Oh, come on, Fred, come on,
they had a nice run.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
To Fred. If Kelly Rudy walked into Dodger Stadium, they'd
ask him to go clean up one of the seats,
like come on, Fred, like please, Like Kelly Rudy walks
into Dodgers Stadium, They're like, all right, I'll take a modello.
And Asideonacho's Kelly Rudy wasn't on the Cup teams they
won the Cup A couple of times. Okay, but like,
are we really we're really gonna compare?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Okay? You know, I don't know why they have to
be this Okay, I'm just pointing.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Out because this is my thought on it. All right,
showtime Lakers, I'll give you that. Sure, early two thousands Lakers. Okay,
do they still have the nod? Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
If the Dodgers win this World Series, I would say
we're getting close to surpassing that.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
You know what, that's fair. I think that's a fair.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Point because you know, you've got Kobe and shak Otani's
doing things we've never seen in the history of the sport.
I think if they win this one and they do
something that hasn't been done in Major League Baseball and
what twenty five years since we've had back to back champions, Yes,
I think we're now getting to the point where you
can have a fair conversation about they're better than the
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Kobe Shaq Laker. This run has been better than the
Kobe Shaq Lakers. They've got the third World Series. Whatever
you know, people want to say about the COVID year,
they can say whatever they want about it. But if
you just look at the run and you guys are
in the midst of all of it. Like we're all
in the midst of it. But you guys are covering
this and seeing it up close and personally, you've been
doing this forty plus years. They've got to be in
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the conversation with one of the great runs that you've
seen and covering sports in this town.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
There's no question. And I got to be honest with you.
I know, the Dodgers consider themselves very lucky to have
us talk about them. They think, thank god Rodney and
Fred talk about the Dodgers. They know what we say
mean something. Yeah, I mean they understand the importance of it. Sure, well, yeah,
I mean why wouldn't they. Yeah, they get it.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I mean listen, things could be worse. I mean you
could get you know, you could be the reason Oscar
dala Hoya is dressing in lingerie.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Okay, as you were, yeap. Others have suggested that I
was the reason he was called the Golden Boy. I
gave him that nickname. Some have said that.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Is this Dodger team?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Did you bring this up?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, I'm listening. I mean, look, your shower habits or
your shower habits, But is this Dodger team. They've passed USC.
There's not an NFL team that's even in the conversation
in town. So it's really just the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Well, wait a minute, I think I think you're overlooking something.
I'm not saying the Raiders won a lot of Super
Bowls in LA, But I mean, from a pure survival standpoint,
if you went to a game, that has to be acknowledged.
How many time?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, but how many times do they leave here at
a certain point? You know, Like, listen, I know you
want to claim that we've been together for twenty years,
but you stepped out for like six and seven at
a time, Like it's at a certain point. Them leaving
also has to be part of the conversation.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Did you ever go to a Raider game when they
were here.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
At the coliseum?
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah, no, that's why I'm still doing the show.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah you're still alive.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, I remember hearing stories, So this is I still
and I didn't understand this at the time. So one
of my brother's friends was a Steelers fan, and obviously
my brother was a Raiders fan, and they went to
a Raiders Steelers game at the coliseum. I remember I
was really young and i'd never been to an NFL game,
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and I loved the NFL and I wanted to go
to an NFL game, but my parents like, no, no, no,
not going to that one. Not going to that one.
And I couldn't figure out why. And I remember them
telling me a story that a Steelers fan, he's like
probably sitting there in like a Bubby Brister jersey. A
Steelers fan was at the coliseum and started saying some
stuff and got his ass whooped, I mean bad, in
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front of everybody. And I remember as a kid thinking
to myself, God, why would you why? And the stories
that I had heard was if you go to a
Raider game, like that's how things were going at the coliseum,
Like if you step out of line, it was a
different crowd, a different vibe, and you gotta be careful
or else bad things are going to happen. I just
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remember that as a kid, being like that is. I
couldn't put together why that was appropriate. But they taught me.
They told me, They're like, yeah, that's how it goes sometimes. Man,
people take this stuff serious.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
If you'd didn't step out of line, if you stayed
in line, you still had to be careful, Okay, because
anything could happen at any moment of those games. I'm
telling you it was like American Gladiators. It was like
Survival of the fittest. If you went to a Raider game,
you knew what could happen to you, You knew what
the end result could be, so you had to be ready.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Sometimes you even get smacked inside the head by your
co broadcasters. That happens, too, right for it?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Well, I got hit in the arm. I got hit
in the arm by the arm. Okay, yeah, by who
Al Lokasl for what I was doing the Raider of
preseason games on Channel four. Al Locasl worked for the team.
Anybody that's been in LA for any period of time
remembers Al locus L. If you look down, you would
see him. He was about five feet tall.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
How many teeth did you have? Again, how many teeth
did you have?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Like three? And he was Al Davis's right hand man
along with Mike Hornstein, who was the enforcer. So Al
did the preseason games as the analyst, and I was
the play by play guy. So they're playing the forty
nine ers, they're at the college.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Fred's describing him like he's like he's Peter Dinklice with
a meth problem. Like he's like, he's four to eight
and he's missing teeth, Like, oh, okay, look, listen, I
got use for you. You can find that under an
overpass somewhere.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, right, I think, yeah, that's what happened to him
after we left the Raiders anyway.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Geez.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So, uh, we're doing the game. It's a forty nine Ers.
Two plays occurr in the game. The first one, Uh,
there's a fumble. I look to the monitor immediately because
we're in the press box and it's hard to see,
and I can see the forty nine er guy falls
on the ball. I see it. It's very apparent the
forty nine Ers have the ball. Fumbball, ball is loose.
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It appears the forty nine ers have recovered I've just
seen it on the monitor. But al Locasel, of course,
the Raider second and command goes, I don't think we
should make any judgments until the officials make a decision.
I went, I I know what it is. They recovered
the ball. Okay, so now he's pissed about that. Now
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he's pissed. Later in the game, as you know, sometimes
things get a lot of control to coliseum and uh,
just in front of us, so I can look down
now into the crowd in front of the press box.
There was a brawl going on. There was an all
out brawl going on, all right, So UH knocked out
of bounds third and ten. Oh, look down, there's a fight.
(22:24):
I got to say fight. I didn't get to say fight.
There's a fact when he slapped me so hard on
the arm. We're on the air, he basically whacked me,
and he gave me this dirty look and we went
to break because there was a change of possession. And
he's like, don't you ever mention a fight in the crowd?
(22:46):
I said, Ala was right in front of us. Everybody
could see it. Don't you ever mention that? Right?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I mean, I listen. He does have a point like, well,
if you well, if you watch a boxing event, if
you go to a boxing event, which which by the way,
UH I went to one at It used to be
the tennis courts next to UH. It used to be
the stub Hub Center.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Oh, I thought you meant the one buying an o
looker here in Burdbank in the parking lot.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Oh no, no, no, yeah, but they've got you know, events
going on all the time there, Like it's it's yeah,
I mean, listen, like they do better numbers in the WNBA.
Don't worry about it. But like I was watching a
fight at at the stub Hub Center at the little
tennis courts there, it's like an eight thousand seedter and
I don't know if they still do fights there, but
it is the best boxing venue that I've been to.
It is awesome. And the first fight I went and
(23:36):
saw there, I'll just put it this way. One fighter's
last name was Darchinyan. The other guy's last name was Majades.
How do you think that went okay? Like from from
from Glendale to Guadalajara and we were thrown down like
that is so so like some of these events are.
But even if you watch a boxing event, if you
(23:58):
look in the crowd, every single time there's a fight
in the crowd, and the one thing you'll always notice
is that broadcasters never pointed out you could just see
all the people in the crowd looking behind them or
around them if there's a brawl going on. So I think, listen,
he took he took an abusive tactic, but I think
he was onto something. You can't point that stuff out
there should be I should be on the action.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Listen, I'm just going to tell you this. Al Lokas
Al invited me to help judge radarret tryouts the first year.
Have I told you this story?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Okay, So they had radar at tryouts and I can't
remember where they had it. But you go down there
and you sit behind a table and they have these judges.
I don't even know what I'm trying to judge, to
be quite frank, I have no idea, but you come
down and judge right at trials Like all right, fine,
I'll come down and I'll learn, you know, what it
takes to be a radarret. Yeah, and then I'll make
(24:51):
my decisions.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And so the first listen, honey, I don't know the
Christmas parties at Hooters. I don't know why they chose it.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Anyway, So the first we begin, the first person will
on stage and I think, you know, there's like a
little interview process and there's a table of judges and
he's conducting the interview and uh, you know, then he says, like,
you know, give me a cheer or whatever he said,
and they do like a little cheerleader thing. He says, sorry,
do me a favor, h can you turn around and
(25:19):
bend over?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I so did you turn around and bend over?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I did? And that was the and that was the issue,
because again I did whatever he said. So, so that
happens on the stage. And I watched this and I thought,
what is it? And of course I'm young, I don't
know anything. I think, oh, maybe you know they have
to do splits or something, and he wants to make
sure he does it to all of them. And afterwards
(25:46):
I said, I am not continuing with this. I am
not coming back tomorrow to be a judge for the
right of rats. So he could have people spent around
a look at their ass.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
So listen, have you seen Instagram? So basically what you're
saying is al locusl was ahead of his time.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
See, if I had known then what I know now,
it's a very different story. Yeah, a very different story.
I know. All right, you know what, we have to
continue spotlight on blue I mean, don't roll the spotlight
on blue clothes, because we have to continue it when
we come back.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
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Speaker 1 (26:24):
Sports, O Jonas, when we come back, we have to
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Speaker 2 (26:29):
Listen. The only spotlight I like is a blue one.
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Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, that's quite apparent. Give him what we've done so far.
Jonas in for Rodney today. All right, we have to
do spotlight on Blue now.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Okay, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, all right. Now we're not gonna hit the open again.
But where are gonna do it now? You didn't want
it again?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
No, I listen. I was expecting, you know, ninety five
down the plate, and he threw me a seventy eight
EPIS pitch earlier. So I was trying to trying to
watch my p's and q's there.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yeah, but we're just gonna get started Game one tonight.
Blake Snow goes for the Dodgers. You Savage goes for Toronto.
The guy was in a ball like in April. Yeah,
and when you really look at it, the Dodgers do
very well against right handed pitching. I don't know, I
(27:49):
you know, I hope they jump on him for seven
runs in the first inning.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Geez, Fred, I mean, the guy's in a ball to
feel good story and you want him to get shelled
his first time out in the World Series. By the way,
he throws a decent split for what it's worth.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, letting you know, man, Okay, yeah, I as we
begin tonight, it's funny when you see who they're starting
a good for them, great year for this guy and
all the best. But then you look at the Dodger
pitching staff and you go, oh my god. I mean
they have everybody on their staff is an ace. They
would be the ace of any staff in Major League Baseball,
(28:22):
and they have four of them. It's mind boggling when
you really get down to it and think about it.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah, well, I mean, look, it's and this goes back
to the Philly series to where one of the Dodgers
players is so great that in a one for seventeen slump,
they walk him to face another guy who's also a
first ballot Hall of Famer, like just yeah, Like it
is so heavily sided on the side of the Dodgers
(28:51):
as it usually is, that you're you're looking at the
whole setup and you go, where's the win, where's the
opportunity for tarront know? And the only two things I
got that I can come up with is the time off.
What does that do? Is there is there any sort
of a rust factor if you believe in that, you know,
some people do, some people don't. The time off. And
(29:13):
I also wonder just home field is that a factor
at some point during the course of this because you know,
now the Dodgers don't have that. I mean, not that
it mattered against Milwaukee, but I said it last week
or Philadelphia, Well, Milwaukee's World Series was beating the Cubs
and the Phillies. Feel like that's a team that you
(29:34):
look at and you go, that just feels disappointing, like
they should have they should have had more to show
for whatever they've had the past few years. So I
just wonder, like the time away, you know, the home field.
Those are the only two things I can look at.
I mean, the other humbling part of this whole thing
is the fact that they've got you know, Vlad Guerrero
Junior and Bolbashett and I don't know about you, Fred,
(29:56):
I can remember their dad's playing right. Dante Baschett, by
the way, had maybe one of the greatest home run
pimps of all time to where he would hit a
home run and he would drop the bat so fast
it's like he got tased. Like it was just you
watch it, Dante Bochett bat flip from back in the
day course field. It was phenomenal. So like other than that,
(30:19):
it's hard to find. And that's why the Dodgers are
an overwhelming favorite, like well over two to one for
all u NBA fans out there, well over two to one.
That's why you yeah, oh please come on. Terry Rogier
would bet on you know, the next pigeon to die,
like he needs action, Like he's got to get some action.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I don't mean to interrupt this. Did you see the
video of the game where they claimed that he kind
of tossed it?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Did you see that video? I saw this morning. I
was like, oh my god, it is I mean, if
you watched that, it was like.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I could I could go for two hours on this
is one of my favorite stories in recent memory. But
the point is from you know, all that scandal to
any opportunity here for Toronto, and I just I don't
see it other than the rust and maybe home field
playing a factor this time around, which hasn't yet, as
you pointed out for the Dodgers in the postseason.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
All right, so here I have information I've not shared it.
I actually told Kevin this morning. He's the only one
I've shared this with.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Oh, because we here any sort of like suspenseful music
we should have underneath this.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I don't know if that's required and if you know,
if Ronnie can find it in the next one second,
which is a big ask.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
If this is big, if this is big news, like
exclusive information, if Fred Rogan exclusive, I mean, I think
that's you know, that's important stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Here it is. I can tell you how the fans
in Toronto. Oh wait a minute, Okay, yes, Ronnie, well done.
I can tell you how the fans in Toronto view
this and what's going to happen, what's going to happen
(32:02):
in the games in Toronto. Because I'm just saying someone
I know spoke to somebody from Toronto and laid it
out and explained what this is going to be and
what it's going to be, so the Dodgers better be
prepared for this. I'm sure they're listening on the app
right now before they go to the stadium tonight, because
(32:24):
you can listen anywhere in the world on the iHeartRadio app.
Great point, take the show wherever you go. They said
it's going to be are you ready? Yeah, spicy. That's
how they described, Oh, what's going to happen tonight? Spicy.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Now, I guess the follow up to that would be, uh,
why what is the what's the spiciness attached to? What
sort of a bad blood? I mean, is it the
George Springer stuff?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Could be, well, that'll happen here, yeah, but the Otani,
I think I think it's going to be, you know, spicy,
because everybody's mad at Otani.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Okay, but that was only like was and look, I
love John Paul Morosi. He's one of the great baseball insiders,
one of the just a great guy, like really great guy,
like great. I love Morosi. JP's awesome. I mean, wasn't
it just him that was kind of reporting that that
was that he had gotten some bad information from somebody
(33:25):
I don't blame John Paul Morosi for that. He got
bad information with somebody like that happens all the time
to where people are given bad info and they roll
with it and they get burned, and what happens all
the time.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
And the guy in the plane was a guy from
Shark Tank. One of the guys on Shark Tank was
on that plane. I'm serious, really, really, one of the
guys from Shark Tank, like one of the Sharks. That
was the guy in the plane, not Otani. And I
can tell you, with all due respect, they look nothing alike.
Nothing alike.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Well, I mean, listen, if it was if he was
a member of the Angels, they'd have him in the
team photo.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
That's for sure. Now, So what's the big story because
obviously the Dodgers are an overwhelming favorite. Lawrence a hottie
of MLB Network who does a great job. She actually
talked to Key k Hernandez about the most important pressing
issue leading into this series.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
Every time you get on base the dance, and every
one of this team says you're the best dancer on
the team.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Would you agree with that? Probably? Okay, So our host.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
Greg Amsinger is kind of challenged in that area. So
for someone who struggles in the dance department, what's the
biggest key to being a good dancer? Being able to move?
Speaker 6 (34:32):
If you're not a good dancer and you're shy about it,
have a drink, and if it's not and if you're
still shy, have another one, and then eventually you're gonna
feel comfortable enough to where you're gonna start moving.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
There.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
It is that is the most pressing issue leading into
Game one tonight.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Yeah, here's the problem. That's just all right, what's wrong
with it? It's like it's.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Are you determining what's important?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
But this is the problem with the extended layoff between games,
all right. This is why the second week of the
two weeks off before the super Bowl, it's like you're
you're you're looking for anything to talk about at that point,
like you're hoping, like when Eugene Robinson got popped with
a hooker in Miami, like that was like like you
(35:16):
know how many like sports talk radio hosts are like, hey, thanks,
like thank you. It gives us something to talk about.
For God's sakes, We've been running through every angle on
this game, and now we're talking about Hey, kek how
can you become a better dancer? All right, way too
much time between games. This thing should have first pitch,
should have been Tuesday or Wednesday, if you ask me.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Okay, but here's the thing. He said, you know you
got a drink. That was the key. Just get liquored up,
just do it.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Well, I mean, he's right, but then look, sometimes you
don't want to dance and something like I've I've told
this story before. You know the place in Westlake, you know,
you and Don McClain probably go there. It's called Bogie's
h Yeah, right near Stone House, another place you probably frequent.
I've been there, so I can remember going there one
(36:08):
time and there was an older uh, she was a
little bit older woman who wanted to wanted to dance,
and I faked a knee injury on the way out
to the dance floor because I realized, under better lighting,
we're good like we were so and I can, I can,
I can attest to this like there were there were
no modelos in sight strong enough for me to want
(36:29):
to go ahead and shot down that aisle. So like, yeah, listen, drinking,
I mean that'll definitely help from time to time.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
But wait, but oh wait, wait wait, wait, wait, So
you didn't go out there because you you thought better
of it, but you did observe her dancing. Did she
have the moves?
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Not that I recall, Yeah, not that I recall. I
basically Terry roseiered her. Oh did you Yeah? She thought
everything was on the up and up, and she got rogiered.
That's what happened, Okay, Ronnie rollerco.
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we talked about this in the control room during the
last break, Jonas, I'm just gonna ask you. Whatever you
say goes, Can we ask you a personal question when
(37:52):
we come back. If you say no, I'm not going
to do it. Yeah, okay, we'll do it when we
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Speaker 2 (38:37):
Okay, why why can't I pick the caller number?
Speaker 1 (38:41):
What call you want? Caller four there, caller four eight
six six nine eight seven two. Another personal question? Yeah,
why is your brother who I thought was named otis
yet actually named Tyrone? Why was he named Tyrone? And
(39:02):
your name? Jonas?
Speaker 2 (39:03):
All right, I have a theory on that, A theory
you should know the answer. Well, no, because it's like
one of those you know, like there's stories in your
family that you're like, I mean, who's going to fess
up to this? The motivation, the the idea behind all this.
So here's so I didn't know. I didn't know anything,
and I just we just grew up. His name was Tyrone,
(39:23):
and I remember telling people and getting like kind of
weird looks, like really, and it's like, you know, it
isn't like my nickname is Dracula on the Morning show,
but it's really pale, like there's no like it's SPF
one thousand. When I got like, you know, it just
it is what it is.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
I see the resemblance.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Yeah, And so I just I didn't know any different.
And it's like, you know, when you grow up, it's
not until you start being around other people that you
notice any sort of irregularities in your family or your upbringing.
It's like, oh, you guys do this like we always
do that, Like that's when things start to up a
little bit. And so I didn't notice anything and didn't
(40:03):
know any better. And his name was Tired, and so
it just became the older I got, it just became
this joke. And then my dad received some a letter
in the mail. It was from his old high school,
and he went to high school in Monmouth, Illinois, birthplace
of White Eart by the way, you know, small town,
western part of the state.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Next to Black they're commemorating it, I believe.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
So I think there's like the house White Earp grew
up in. So my dad grew up in Monmouth, Illinois,
moved out to southern California, met my mom at a
shoe store in Burbank a right when she was made
on a you know, just seventeen. But things are different
back then, you know, things are different.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Stores.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
They got married like two weeks later, and they were
together for fifty plus years afterward. So yeah, yeah, it
was awesome. So we get this thing in the mail
and it's from my dad's old high school about like
their thirty year reunion or whatever it was, And on
it says Charles Willis Knox. And my dad had told
(41:10):
us growing up he didn't have a middle name. He
didn't have so I don't know, I just never got
a middle name, like that was a story we had
heard from birth. So I get this. I'm the one
who sees the male come in and I'm looking and
I see Charles Willis Knox, And immediately I put two
and two together. Tyrone was revenge, like that was his Hey, buddy,
(41:33):
I got Willis growing up. Look at me, You're getting
Tyrone the rest of your life. And we just that's
how we just sort of put two and two together.
That that was my dad going, well, look, I don't
want to be the only one, so let me just
go ahead and throw this on and to this like
he never fessed up, like he never would acknowledge that
was his middle name, because I think he just didn't
(41:55):
understand it. But that was something he tried to keep
quiet from us. And then we found out, No, your
middle name's Willis. You're gonna name your son Tyrone. This
is all so you could sort of get even with
the naming gods that you were saddled with something that
didn't make sense based on appearance.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Did anyone in your house and you know, we can't
put the toothpaste back in the tube, so we can't
go backwards, but did anyone in your house, perhaps your brother,
I mean, I could understand if your parents named him
Mark Tyrone right to get back with the Willis thing.
Did anybody in your house ever say mom, dad, dad, Mom,
(42:34):
just dad or mom? Who was I named after? Why?
I mean, I know who I was named after?
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Who are you named after?
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Well? It was my I was supposed.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
To Red van Vliet.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Yes, that's exactly what Fred VanVleet. Okay, No, my grandfather
his name was Frank. They wanted me to be Frank.
But since there was a Frank, I was Fred and
there was a story behind it. So my question to
you is, did anyone ever ask heyes, who are you
named after? There's a fair question.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Okay. Now I don't know if this is correct. I mean,
it would be better if it was just revenge. My
dad didn't like Willis and he got labeled with that,
so that's hey, somebody else is going to get it.
But yeah, there was an old actor named Tyrone Power, yes, okay,
And I don't Okay, So I don't remember if And
I'm not making this up because Brady Quinn's dad's name
(43:29):
is Tyrone too, so that's sort of the joke that
we have going. And I don't remember if it was
that his dad was named after Tyrone Power or my
brother was named after Tyrone Power, or you know, your
guess is as good as mine. No, you know that
that makes sense factored in at some point.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Okay, But the oddity in this is.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
That he's white. Yes, I know, like I'm aware.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Well that wasn't really what I was going to say, Okay,
but I did ask Kevin if that was the case. Anyway,
The oddity in this is that then you were named Jonas.
Who were you named after?
Speaker 2 (44:08):
Jonas Salk?
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Yeah? The guy who uh yeah here polio. Then you know,
you you find out later on down the road maybe
maybe how much you know, how much credit certain people get.
Speaker 4 (44:24):
So so your middle name is like Ray Shawn or
something right?
Speaker 8 (44:26):
Right for following the script here, I mean, uh, listen,
by the way, I did hear that Jonas beat out
Jamaal and uh and others for that name.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
But no, yeah, they named after Jonah Salk.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
I'll say that was a nice that was really good.
And I can now believe your brother was named named
after Tyrone Powers. I get that. I believe that to
be true.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
See, I don't know, I'm trying to like, it's either
him or Brady's dad. One of them was named after
Tyrone Power.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
Your brother was named after Brady's dad.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
No, but Brady's in Ohio guy, right, So yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Brady Quinn's dad is his name is Tyrone and.
Speaker 4 (45:05):
So Tyrone Power is from Cincinnati born and raised. So yeah,
maybe there's a connection there.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Yeah, yeah, maybe there was that.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
So who was named after?
Speaker 2 (45:14):
I don't That's what I'm saying. I don't remember, Like
I'm trying to think, like who was I mean, there's
there's so many white Tyronees it's confusing. Like the whole
thing is is bonkers.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
What's that you said? There's so many of the more
are they?
Speaker 2 (45:28):
Well, there's two? I mean like that's basically dog years
when it. I mean two you might as well be
two billion at that point. And then I've got I've
got two I know two white guys named Marcus as
well too. One you know m A R K U S.
The other has a C in it instead of the K.
Like there's just there's a lot man.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
The one guy could be German.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
Oh he is, Like I'll put it this way, And
this adds more context of this bizarre story. The Mark
that I am friends with, Yah his like his ancestor,
Like he is German. I brought and I swear to
God on this I brought a Ramstein album over to
(46:11):
his house when he had a party in high school,
and while everybody else was outside swimming and boozing, I
was inside talking to his grandma and she translated the
entire Ramstein album to me from German to English. And
so because of that, to this day, I know randomly
Ramstein lyrics and what they mean. When I listened to
(46:33):
their songs, I know had to count to ten in German,
all because of Marcus, my white friend with a German
Background's grandma explained to me what the Ramstein lyrics meant.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
If everybody was outside boozing' around the pool at the party.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Fair Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, why were.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
You trying to get with this guy's grandmother?
Speaker 2 (46:56):
I mean, better chance? Like this sim in heist school,
I wasn't exactly a good athlete, and at that point,
you know, she was basically working with bifocals. So it's like, hey,
let me clean those for a minute. Next thing, you know,
I'm Tyrone Power.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Time for Dodger Baseball. Tonight, Dodgers take on a blue
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All right, here we go on Game one of the
World Series. Day Fred Rogan Jonas nx in for Rodney
and five to seventy la sports Jonas. Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Who isn't? The World Series is here, the time off
is gone, and now we lock in and get ready
to see if the Dodgers can do something that no
team is done in a quarter century in the MLV.
So I think this is a good time. It's a
great time to be a Dodger fan in the midst
of a dynasty and it all gets going on a
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Friday night where people can sit back from home, have
a couple of cocktails, go to a happy hour somewhere,
and just let it loose.
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Speaker 1 (01:09):
Do you like how we put the exclamation?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Really like that. I was expecting a back and forth
on you know what's happy are going to look like?
I mean, how fired up are people around town? And
all of a sudden a zoot suit riot band steps
in and uh just fires off some imaging. But hey,
we're here, Happy Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Do you like to go when you watch sporting events
to places where there are other people or would you
prefer to watch them with a very small select group
of people in the privacy of your own home.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Small select group of people. But if I go to
a place to watch a sporting event, I'll go to
my brother's bar. I'll go go to his because he's
got a sports bar slash restaurant in Thousand Oaks. What
is it so good? Sunset Terrace.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, so so I'll go there, And especially during Dodger games.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Can I eat and drink for free?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I mean I could. I could get you at least
five percent off, okay something, but I mean, you know,
but again, I got to, you know, really haggle some
people there. I might know a couple of people. But
how's the food. It's great? Like it's like a huge,
huge sports bar. There's a bowling alley, there, there's uh, like,
there's all sorts of stuff. So and especially during October.
October's their busy month because there's a haunted house nearby.
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You've got the World Series.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Your brother has a bowling alley too. Yeah, he's got
a bowling alley at a sports bar, Jans Malfred. Things.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Things are really developing. If you just would, if you
would dare to step foot anywhere near the twenty three freeway,
Like things are starting to develop a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Okay, this is he's got wait this is your brother
Otis Tyrone Tyrone?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, I mean that that's like right, that is that's
grounds for having a conversation with somebody that you mixed
up Tyrone and Otis.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Like, I'm sorry, I made a mistake. What's wrong with that?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
You that Kevin? Actually I can it's not It's not
Tyrone and Mike. It's Otus, Otis of all the names
you come up with, Yeah, it's that one. Okay, Well,
they'll they'll have for for Dodger games. They'll they do
Dodger dogs. They do like special So like if you're
if I go somewhere, I'll go there because it's a
it's a huge room, the TVs are on, great sound
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system stuff like that, but it's just it's got to
be a particular place. You can't just go to any
run of the mill bar and just be like, hey,
put the game on, because some of the TV placement
isn't great. So you got to have it to where
you know it's going to be solid, and it's solid there.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So I would always rather watch privately or a very
small group of people. I don't like to go out,
and here's why, because I really don't care what people think.
You know, when you go out, you have to hear
what people think. Yeah, and they're all experts and yes, yes,
I don't need to hear that. Yes, or you get this,
Hey what do you think? You know? They go, oh, Fred,
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what do you think? No, it's what I think. If
you want to hear what I think, listen at noon.
I'm not going to sit here and do the radio
show for three hours. No, absolutely not. I just want
to watch the game.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Fred's like here, I'll text you my thoughts and he
sends a link to the iHeart app. You know why not? Yeah,
I listen, I'm with you. And that is the other
thing too. But I also wonder I don't know if
it's like a I don't know if it's douchey, but
there is something too. Once you've given your opinion for
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multiple hours a day, multiple hours a week, like sometimes
you just want to watch, Like you don't really want
to share your opinion. You don't really want to give
your thoughts. You just want to be entertained by the
product on television. That's kind of the way I feel
about it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah. Well, and ultimately, I don't even care about my
own opinion and I'm giving it, so the last thing
I want to do is sit there and talk about
it more. I mean, you know what I mean, or
or you know if Dave Roberts only get do you
think I care? I'm sitting here watching the game. I
do not care. It's really pretty simple.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Now, what is your snack of choice during a during
like a baseball game.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
That's what I was gonna go to.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Let's get it, because I mean, this is a Friday night, man,
we can't mess around. See last year it was at
Dodger Stadium. A lot of people went out to the game.
They got to see Freddy's Grand Slam. You hit it
off that guy from Narcos I just I think this
is this is important stuff here. So what what do
you think like?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
What? What is the what?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
What does happy hour look like? What's your snack of choice?
How are we operating this?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
See what I would do with sliders? Okay, I would
like some sliders, That's what I would do. Comfortable, easy,
Not a pizza. Not pizza, not during the game because
you need too much pizza. Agreed, sliders would be good.
Something like that. Maybe a nice keish.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That interesting, it's an interesting choice that that definitely sounds
like something your neighbors would have for sure at all
hours of the day.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Sliders and keish, That's how I would go.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
What about you? See it's a baseball game. Wings always
a good choice. Yeah, wings are always solid. And because
it's you know, you got nine innings to work with,
unless there's xtratings. You know, you got to really kind
of ease into things. So you start with an appetizer.
Maybe around like the fourth or fifth, you get a
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bigger meal.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And nice maybe hey, fourth in nice shrimp cocktail.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Shrimp cocktail works. You're gonna say, my brother, they do
Dodger dogs like a Dodger dog is great. The more
that I've the older I've gotten, the more I've realized
hot dogs are solid because they're gonna fill you up
to a certain capacity. But as long as you don't
overdo it, like you're not gonna get too full, you know,
to where that's like a good a good night cap
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on a baseball game. And then you, you know, you
wash it down with like you be classy about it.
You don't want to go over the top. You wash
it all like fifteen sixteen beers and you're good to go.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Sure, sure, see, I gotta be honest with you when
you talk about those hot dogs. Go to Dodger Stadium,
watch a game. Everybody in my family knows what I do.
Like the fourth or fifth inning, I gotta go to
the bathroom. They go, okay, they know exactly what I've done.
I sneak up and get another Dodger dog every game,
every single game. It doesn't matter. I'm going to the bathroom.
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Yeah right, Okay, I come back. There's like chill on
my face. Right, you know, it's like, boy, must have
been tough in there. What do you mean Always I've
always got to have that Dodger dog every single game.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I do it, you know, I can understand some people
sneaking away to go text their side piece, or sneaking
away to go rip a beer because it's like, oh,
I'm not going to drink tonight, not tonight. And then
you go, you hit up you know, one of the
one of the beer cart vendors, and you just are
you know, one of the little convenience stores that you
can just pay and walk away, and then you're ripping
a tall boy. I gotta understand that you're sneaking away
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to eat hot dogs. I do. I was just like
like one of those people on my six hundred pound
Life or whatever is that that AI generated gymnast that
you sent over last week who destroyed the balance beam,
Like you're sneaking away for hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well, you know, I probably shouldn't eat as much as
I do, and it's apparent if you see me. But
I have to have the Dodger dog every single game.
I have to. I just do it. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
But why would your family give you a hard time
of bad? If you want a Dodger dog, You're getting
a Dodger dog. You're not doing crystal.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Meth no, because I already had prime rib.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Oh oh, I know where you're sitting. Fred, Hey, way
to be relatable with the audience. We're talking wings and
hot dogs and tater tots, and Fred breaks out prime rib.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Oh, do be a favor and past the gray poupalm?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
All right, what do you mean you don't have camus here?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Where is the caveat anyway? Monday though, you know if
you go, you'll see us here. The whole family's going Monday,
everybody goes.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I don't think I'm allowed in that section.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Oh you can where I'm sitting Monday. Yeah, well maybe
you can't even there.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
But what I mean, what what section are we talking
about here?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Like?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
How good are the seats?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
They're not bad? No, they're not the dugout club.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
What constitutes is not bad?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
You know, they're good. They're good. They're not the dugout club.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Okay, but they're good.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Okay. Most of the stadium is not the dugout club.
I mean there's a section right behind that that's pretty decent.
There's sweet level seats that are pretty decent. No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
So in other words, Fred, you're sitting right behind Mary
Hart and her husband Bert.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
No, that's the dugout club. Now, if you look up
from the dug out Club. There's that wall right and Kevin,
you said there are a seat right behind the dugout Club.
We'll exactly, I'll be on TV. I don't know, I
will not.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You know, my one of my favorite places to sit
at Dodgers Stown. And I don't know, I'm trying to
think what section it's called. But I found it, like
my wife and I then girlfriend at the time. God,
I think it was her. I found it, uh, and
and I got them. I was like, these are the
best seats I've had. It's it's where you walk in
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you park it's on the second I think it's lows,
but it's like this little private area.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And they're like little like tabletops, almost like you're at
a bar and they've got that look that tiny bar
and and and like area you can get food right
behind you. Yes, like easily my favorite place to be.
It's right next to the exit. It's right next to
the parking lot. You walk in there and it's almost
like you have this little private area for yourself. And
it's not as expensive as some of the other really
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high priced seats.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Those they really are. I love them.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I don't know if they're on the other side, but
I know they're on the third baseline right field side
to where you walk in there, and it's this little
private area. They've got these tabletops, so if you want
to sit down in your seat, you can. If you
want to sit up at the tabletops.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
You can.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Especially for night games when the sun is starting to
go down. It's awesome, like that's a really cool spot
to watch a game.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
No, I do want to say, and I am not
going to reveal, as I do once a year, the
best parking place at Dodger Stadium. I'm not going to
reveal that from Monday's game. Yeah, because I'm going to
take that. I always reveal the number one parking place
at Dodger Stadium so you can get out quickly.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You don't. You don't think people have already written that down.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
At various points.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I've said it many times, Kevin, what is it?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
I don't even remember, to be honest with you, I'll
have access to it, so it's all.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yours, Okay, Ronnie, I've said it many times. What is it?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
I do remember? I think parking lot f damn. And
there you go, Fred, right by that fancy pole there,
that light pole right by the light light pole.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
There's a light pole there. And you said I think
you said that you back into the spot, Fred, so
it's easier to get out.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
No, no, correct, No, No, I don't and I can't
back up. I have this giant truck and I I
cannot back up. I only go forward. I never go backwards. Fred.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I think you're going to have a difficult time trying
to secure your regular parking space today because the Dodger
Stadium parking attendants are going to take over. Uh, They're
going to direct you where to park. I don't think
this is one of those regular games, at regular season
games where you can just drive in all willy nilly
and park where you want.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I have Lot F, am, I allowed to park in
Lot F If I have that a lot of.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Times, they'll still direct you exactly where to park.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Oh No, that's not going to happen. I can't.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
They're going to get into an argument with Dodger Stadium parking.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
No, I'm perfect.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
You know, Kevin, he's going to end up in Dodger jail.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Tell us about.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Dodger jail, Fred or not.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I wanted Rodney. We were down there doing live shows,
and I said it would be great, Rodney, will you
go to Dodger Jail and do a segment out of there?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Why didn't you have to send Rodney to Dodger j agreed?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
I wanted to bail him out.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And by the way, Kevin, for what it's worth, now
it all makes sense because I got to text shortly
after that where he said, Hey, your brother's name is Tyrone.
You do a show from the Geez.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I thought his name was Otis. I'm sorry, iressive all right, anyway,
do not park in that spot on Monday. I'll get
there at eight thirty in the warning I will get
I will get there at six am.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Now, when when did the gates open up?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yes, Kevin, when do they open up? That's a very
good question. Is it two or three hours for the
World series?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
It's two, right, I feel like it's usually two for
the general public too. I can certainly double check on that.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And then ninety minutes before is BP. I think, So
you're gonna you're gonna have to get there at three
o'clock in the afternoon, So right after the show on Monday,
you're gonna have Although are you already gonna be there.
What are you Are you already gonna be there?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Why would you ask that?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Well, I don't know. I mean, are you doing a
show from there?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Well, how do you think I'm getting the parking place?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Oh? Hey, well then you just hang out? Yeah, you
know what? You do have time for prime rib f it?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Upon further review, yes you do. You got time for
anything you want there. You could go rifle through all
the old bobbleheads they didn't want. They've probably got a
Billy Ashley somewhere, like why not hang out? That place
is yours?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
All right? So we are doing the show Monday and Tuesday, guaranteed, right,
Kevin from Dodger Stadium. That is true.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Yes, we will be there moon to two.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, noon to two. If necessary. We'll be there Wednesday
as well, hopefully not. Yeah. We all want it to
be over Tuesday, can.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I Because I'm going to ask Dave this, but I
want to ask you guys this.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
By the way, David Masse will be on the show
at one souse.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I want to ask him this, but I also want
to ask you guys this. And I'm looking at this
from you know, and I you know, I love hanging
out and filling in with you guys whenever you need me.
It's an honor. Grew up listening to you guys. Love
being a part of the family. Love everybody there. Okay,
but I'm just reading the prompter.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
But not everybody can do that, as you've learned, a
little more challenging than some might think.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
But but so, but I do want to know you
guys in the midst of this. Yeah, you do recognize
that being the station of the Dodgers, you are the
station of one of the great runs that a team
has ever had in this town. Yes, Like it's now
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gotten to that point to where I was thinking about
this earlier. You've got the showtime Lakers, right, and then
what else?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
King's had a nice run? Oh, come on, Fred, come on,
they had a nice run.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
To Fred. If Kelly Rudy walked into Dodger Stadium, they'd
ask him to go clean up one of the seats,
like come on, Fred, like please, Like Kelly Rudy walks
into Dodgers Stadium, They're like, all right, I'll take a modello.
And Asideonacho's Kelly Rudy wasn't on the Cup teams they
won the Cup A couple of times. Okay, but like,
are we really we're really gonna compare?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Okay? You know, I don't know why they have to
be this Okay, I'm just pointing.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Out because this is my thought on it. All right,
showtime Lakers, I'll give you that. Sure, early two thousands Lakers. Okay,
do they still have the nod? Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
If the Dodgers win this World Series, I would say
we're getting close to surpassing that.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
You know what, that's fair. I think that's a fair.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Point because you know, you've got Kobe and shak Otani's
doing things we've never seen in the history of the sport.
I think if they win this one and they do
something that hasn't been done in Major League Baseball and
what twenty five years since we've had back to back champions, Yes,
I think we're now getting to the point where you
can have a fair conversation about they're better than the
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Kobe Shaq Laker. This run has been better than the
Kobe Shaq Lakers. They've got the third World Series. Whatever
you know, people want to say about the COVID year,
they can say whatever they want about it. But if
you just look at the run and you guys are
in the midst of all of it. Like we're all
in the midst of it. But you guys are covering
this and seeing it up close and personally, you've been
doing this forty plus years. They've got to be in
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the conversation with one of the great runs that you've
seen and covering sports in this town.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
There's no question. And I got to be honest with you.
I know, the Dodgers consider themselves very lucky to have
us talk about them. They think, thank god Rodney and
Fred talk about the Dodgers. They know what we say
mean something. Yeah, I mean they understand the importance of it. Sure, well, yeah,
I mean why wouldn't they. Yeah, they get it.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I mean listen, things could be worse. I mean you
could get you know, you could be the reason Oscar
dala Hoya is dressing in lingerie.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Okay, as you were, yeap. Others have suggested that I
was the reason he was called the Golden Boy. I
gave him that nickname. Some have said that.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Is this Dodger team?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Did you bring this up?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, I'm listening. I mean, look, your shower habits or
your shower habits, But is this Dodger team. They've passed USC.
There's not an NFL team that's even in the conversation
in town. So it's really just the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Well, wait a minute, I think I think you're overlooking something.
I'm not saying the Raiders won a lot of Super
Bowls in LA, But I mean, from a pure survival standpoint,
if you went to a game, that has to be acknowledged.
How many time?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, but how many times do they leave here at
a certain point? You know, Like, listen, I know you
want to claim that we've been together for twenty years,
but you stepped out for like six and seven at
a time, Like it's at a certain point. Them leaving
also has to be part of the conversation.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Did you ever go to a Raider game when they
were here.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
At the coliseum?
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah, no, that's why I'm still doing the show.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah you're still alive.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, I remember hearing stories, So this is I still
and I didn't understand this at the time. So one
of my brother's friends was a Steelers fan, and obviously
my brother was a Raiders fan, and they went to
a Raiders Steelers game at the coliseum. I remember I
was really young and i'd never been to an NFL game,
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and I loved the NFL and I wanted to go
to an NFL game, but my parents like, no, no, no,
not going to that one. Not going to that one.
And I couldn't figure out why. And I remember them
telling me a story that a Steelers fan, he's like
probably sitting there in like a Bubby Brister jersey. A
Steelers fan was at the coliseum and started saying some
stuff and got his ass whooped, I mean bad, in
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front of everybody. And I remember as a kid thinking
to myself, God, why would you why? And the stories
that I had heard was if you go to a
Raider game, like that's how things were going at the coliseum,
Like if you step out of line, it was a
different crowd, a different vibe, and you gotta be careful
or else bad things are going to happen. I just
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remember that as a kid, being like that is. I
couldn't put together why that was appropriate. But they taught me.
They told me, They're like, yeah, that's how it goes sometimes. Man,
people take this stuff serious.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
If you'd didn't step out of line, if you stayed
in line, you still had to be careful, Okay, because
anything could happen at any moment of those games. I'm
telling you it was like American Gladiators. It was like
Survival of the fittest. If you went to a Raider game,
you knew what could happen to you, You knew what
the end result could be, so you had to be ready.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Sometimes you even get smacked inside the head by your
co broadcasters. That happens, too, right for it?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Well, I got hit in the arm. I got hit
in the arm by the arm. Okay, yeah, by who
Al Lokasl for what I was doing the Raider of
preseason games on Channel four. Al Locasl worked for the team.
Anybody that's been in LA for any period of time
remembers Al locus L. If you look down, you would
see him. He was about five feet tall.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
How many teeth did you have? Again, how many teeth
did you have?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Like three? And he was Al Davis's right hand man
along with Mike Hornstein, who was the enforcer. So Al
did the preseason games as the analyst, and I was
the play by play guy. So they're playing the forty
nine ers, they're at the college.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Fred's describing him like he's like he's Peter Dinklice with
a meth problem. Like he's like, he's four to eight
and he's missing teeth, Like, oh, okay, look, listen, I
got use for you. You can find that under an
overpass somewhere.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, right, I think, yeah, that's what happened to him
after we left the Raiders anyway.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Geez.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So, uh, we're doing the game. It's a forty nine Ers.
Two plays occurr in the game. The first one, Uh,
there's a fumble. I look to the monitor immediately because
we're in the press box and it's hard to see,
and I can see the forty nine er guy falls
on the ball. I see it. It's very apparent the
forty nine Ers have the ball. Fumbball, ball is loose.
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It appears the forty nine ers have recovered I've just
seen it on the monitor. But al Locasel, of course,
the Raider second and command goes, I don't think we
should make any judgments until the officials make a decision.
I went, I I know what it is. They recovered
the ball. Okay, so now he's pissed about that. Now
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he's pissed. Later in the game, as you know, sometimes
things get a lot of control to coliseum and uh,
just in front of us, so I can look down
now into the crowd in front of the press box.
There was a brawl going on. There was an all
out brawl going on, all right, So UH knocked out
of bounds third and ten. Oh, look down, there's a fight.
(22:24):
I got to say fight. I didn't get to say fight.
There's a fact when he slapped me so hard on
the arm. We're on the air, he basically whacked me,
and he gave me this dirty look and we went
to break because there was a change of possession. And
he's like, don't you ever mention a fight in the crowd?
(22:46):
I said, Ala was right in front of us. Everybody
could see it. Don't you ever mention that? Right?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I mean, I listen. He does have a point like, well,
if you well, if you watch a boxing event, if
you go to a boxing event, which which by the way,
UH I went to one at It used to be
the tennis courts next to UH. It used to be
the stub Hub Center.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Oh, I thought you meant the one buying an o
looker here in Burdbank in the parking lot.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Oh no, no, no, yeah, but they've got you know, events
going on all the time there, Like it's it's yeah,
I mean, listen, like they do better numbers in the WNBA.
Don't worry about it. But like I was watching a
fight at at the stub Hub Center at the little
tennis courts there, it's like an eight thousand seedter and
I don't know if they still do fights there, but
it is the best boxing venue that I've been to.
It is awesome. And the first fight I went and
(23:36):
saw there, I'll just put it this way. One fighter's
last name was Darchinyan. The other guy's last name was Majades.
How do you think that went okay? Like from from
from Glendale to Guadalajara and we were thrown down like
that is so so like some of these events are.
But even if you watch a boxing event, if you
(23:58):
look in the crowd, every single time there's a fight
in the crowd, and the one thing you'll always notice
is that broadcasters never pointed out you could just see
all the people in the crowd looking behind them or
around them if there's a brawl going on. So I think, listen,
he took he took an abusive tactic, but I think
he was onto something. You can't point that stuff out
there should be I should be on the action.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Listen, I'm just going to tell you this. Al Lokas
Al invited me to help judge radarret tryouts the first year.
Have I told you this story?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Okay, So they had radar at tryouts and I can't
remember where they had it. But you go down there
and you sit behind a table and they have these judges.
I don't even know what I'm trying to judge, to
be quite frank, I have no idea, but you come
down and judge right at trials Like all right, fine,
I'll come down and I'll learn, you know, what it
takes to be a radarret. Yeah, and then I'll make
(24:51):
my decisions.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And so the first listen, honey, I don't know the
Christmas parties at Hooters. I don't know why they chose it.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Anyway, So the first we begin, the first person will
on stage and I think, you know, there's like a
little interview process and there's a table of judges and
he's conducting the interview and uh, you know, then he says, like,
you know, give me a cheer or whatever he said,
and they do like a little cheerleader thing. He says, sorry,
do me a favor, h can you turn around and
(25:19):
bend over?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I so did you turn around and bend over?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I did? And that was the and that was the issue,
because again I did whatever he said. So, so that
happens on the stage. And I watched this and I thought,
what is it? And of course I'm young, I don't
know anything. I think, oh, maybe you know they have
to do splits or something, and he wants to make
sure he does it to all of them. And afterwards
(25:46):
I said, I am not continuing with this. I am
not coming back tomorrow to be a judge for the
right of rats. So he could have people spent around
a look at their ass.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
So listen, have you seen Instagram? So basically what you're
saying is al locusl was ahead of his time.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
See, if I had known then what I know now,
it's a very different story. Yeah, a very different story.
I know. All right, you know what, we have to
continue spotlight on blue I mean, don't roll the spotlight
on blue clothes, because we have to continue it when
we come back.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
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Speaker 1 (26:24):
Sports, O Jonas, when we come back, we have to
do spotlight on Blue.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Listen. The only spotlight I like is a blue one.
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Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, that's quite apparent. Give him what we've done so far.
Jonas in for Rodney today. All right, we have to
do spotlight on Blue now.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Okay, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, all right. Now we're not gonna hit the open again.
But where are gonna do it now? You didn't want
it again?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
No, I listen. I was expecting, you know, ninety five
down the plate, and he threw me a seventy eight
EPIS pitch earlier. So I was trying to trying to
watch my p's and q's there.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yeah, but we're just gonna get started Game one tonight.
Blake Snow goes for the Dodgers. You Savage goes for Toronto.
The guy was in a ball like in April. Yeah,
and when you really look at it, the Dodgers do
very well against right handed pitching. I don't know, I
(27:49):
you know, I hope they jump on him for seven
runs in the first inning.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Geez, Fred, I mean, the guy's in a ball to
feel good story and you want him to get shelled
his first time out in the World Series. By the way,
he throws a decent split for what it's worth.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, letting you know, man, Okay, yeah, I as we
begin tonight, it's funny when you see who they're starting
a good for them, great year for this guy and
all the best. But then you look at the Dodger
pitching staff and you go, oh my god. I mean
they have everybody on their staff is an ace. They
would be the ace of any staff in Major League Baseball,
(28:22):
and they have four of them. It's mind boggling when
you really get down to it and think about it.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah, well, I mean, look, it's and this goes back
to the Philly series to where one of the Dodgers
players is so great that in a one for seventeen slump,
they walk him to face another guy who's also a
first ballot Hall of Famer, like just yeah, Like it
is so heavily sided on the side of the Dodgers
(28:51):
as it usually is, that you're you're looking at the
whole setup and you go, where's the win, where's the
opportunity for tarront know? And the only two things I
got that I can come up with is the time off.
What does that do? Is there is there any sort
of a rust factor if you believe in that, you know,
some people do, some people don't. The time off. And
(29:13):
I also wonder just home field is that a factor
at some point during the course of this because you know,
now the Dodgers don't have that. I mean, not that
it mattered against Milwaukee, but I said it last week
or Philadelphia, Well, Milwaukee's World Series was beating the Cubs
and the Phillies. Feel like that's a team that you
(29:34):
look at and you go, that just feels disappointing, like
they should have they should have had more to show
for whatever they've had the past few years. So I
just wonder, like the time away, you know, the home field.
Those are the only two things I can look at.
I mean, the other humbling part of this whole thing
is the fact that they've got you know, Vlad Guerrero
Junior and Bolbashett and I don't know about you, Fred,
(29:56):
I can remember their dad's playing right. Dante Baschett, by
the way, had maybe one of the greatest home run
pimps of all time to where he would hit a
home run and he would drop the bat so fast
it's like he got tased. Like it was just you
watch it, Dante Bochett bat flip from back in the
day course field. It was phenomenal. So like other than that,
(30:19):
it's hard to find. And that's why the Dodgers are
an overwhelming favorite, like well over two to one for
all u NBA fans out there, well over two to one.
That's why you yeah, oh please come on. Terry Rogier
would bet on you know, the next pigeon to die,
like he needs action, Like he's got to get some action.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I don't mean to interrupt this. Did you see the
video of the game where they claimed that he kind
of tossed it?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Did you see that video? I saw this morning. I
was like, oh my god, it is I mean, if
you watched that, it was like.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I could I could go for two hours on this
is one of my favorite stories in recent memory. But
the point is from you know, all that scandal to
any opportunity here for Toronto, and I just I don't
see it other than the rust and maybe home field
playing a factor this time around, which hasn't yet, as
you pointed out for the Dodgers in the postseason.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
All right, so here I have information I've not shared it.
I actually told Kevin this morning. He's the only one
I've shared this with.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Oh, because we here any sort of like suspenseful music
we should have underneath this.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I don't know if that's required and if you know,
if Ronnie can find it in the next one second,
which is a big ask.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
If this is big, if this is big news, like
exclusive information, if Fred Rogan exclusive, I mean, I think
that's you know, that's important stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Here it is. I can tell you how the fans
in Toronto. Oh wait a minute, Okay, yes, Ronnie, well done.
I can tell you how the fans in Toronto view
this and what's going to happen, what's going to happen
(32:02):
in the games in Toronto. Because I'm just saying someone
I know spoke to somebody from Toronto and laid it
out and explained what this is going to be and
what it's going to be, so the Dodgers better be
prepared for this. I'm sure they're listening on the app
right now before they go to the stadium tonight, because
(32:24):
you can listen anywhere in the world on the iHeartRadio app.
Great point, take the show wherever you go. They said
it's going to be are you ready? Yeah, spicy. That's
how they described, Oh, what's going to happen tonight? Spicy.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Now, I guess the follow up to that would be, uh,
why what is the what's the spiciness attached to? What
sort of a bad blood? I mean, is it the
George Springer stuff?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Could be, well, that'll happen here, yeah, but the Otani,
I think I think it's going to be, you know, spicy,
because everybody's mad at Otani.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Okay, but that was only like was and look, I
love John Paul Morosi. He's one of the great baseball insiders,
one of the just a great guy, like really great guy,
like great. I love Morosi. JP's awesome. I mean, wasn't
it just him that was kind of reporting that that
was that he had gotten some bad information from somebody
(33:25):
I don't blame John Paul Morosi for that. He got
bad information with somebody like that happens all the time
to where people are given bad info and they roll
with it and they get burned, and what happens all
the time.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
And the guy in the plane was a guy from
Shark Tank. One of the guys on Shark Tank was
on that plane. I'm serious, really, really, one of the
guys from Shark Tank, like one of the Sharks. That
was the guy in the plane, not Otani. And I
can tell you, with all due respect, they look nothing alike.
Nothing alike.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Well, I mean, listen, if it was if he was
a member of the Angels, they'd have him in the
team photo.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
That's for sure. Now, So what's the big story because
obviously the Dodgers are an overwhelming favorite. Lawrence a hottie
of MLB Network who does a great job. She actually
talked to Key k Hernandez about the most important pressing
issue leading into this series.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
Every time you get on base the dance, and every
one of this team says you're the best dancer on
the team.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Would you agree with that? Probably? Okay, So our host.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
Greg Amsinger is kind of challenged in that area. So
for someone who struggles in the dance department, what's the
biggest key to being a good dancer? Being able to move?
Speaker 6 (34:32):
If you're not a good dancer and you're shy about it,
have a drink, and if it's not and if you're
still shy, have another one, and then eventually you're gonna
feel comfortable enough to where you're gonna start moving.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
There.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
It is that is the most pressing issue leading into
Game one tonight.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Yeah, here's the problem. That's just all right, what's wrong
with it? It's like it's.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Are you determining what's important?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
But this is the problem with the extended layoff between games,
all right. This is why the second week of the
two weeks off before the super Bowl, it's like you're
you're you're looking for anything to talk about at that point,
like you're hoping, like when Eugene Robinson got popped with
a hooker in Miami, like that was like like you
(35:16):
know how many like sports talk radio hosts are like, hey, thanks,
like thank you. It gives us something to talk about.
For God's sakes, We've been running through every angle on
this game, and now we're talking about Hey, kek how
can you become a better dancer? All right, way too
much time between games. This thing should have first pitch,
should have been Tuesday or Wednesday, if you ask me.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Okay, but here's the thing. He said, you know you
got a drink. That was the key. Just get liquored up,
just do it.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Well, I mean, he's right, but then look, sometimes you
don't want to dance and something like I've I've told
this story before. You know the place in Westlake, you know,
you and Don McClain probably go there. It's called Bogie's
h Yeah, right near Stone House, another place you probably frequent.
I've been there, so I can remember going there one
(36:08):
time and there was an older uh, she was a
little bit older woman who wanted to wanted to dance,
and I faked a knee injury on the way out
to the dance floor because I realized, under better lighting,
we're good like we were so and I can, I can,
I can attest to this like there were there were
no modelos in sight strong enough for me to want
(36:29):
to go ahead and shot down that aisle. So like, yeah, listen, drinking,
I mean that'll definitely help from time to time.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
But wait, but oh wait, wait wait, wait, wait, So
you didn't go out there because you you thought better
of it, but you did observe her dancing. Did she
have the moves?
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Not that I recall, Yeah, not that I recall. I
basically Terry roseiered her. Oh did you Yeah? She thought
everything was on the up and up, and she got rogiered.
That's what happened, Okay, Ronnie rollerco.
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we talked about this in the control room during the
last break, Jonas, I'm just gonna ask you. Whatever you
say goes, Can we ask you a personal question when
(37:52):
we come back. If you say no, I'm not going
to do it. Yeah, okay, we'll do it when we
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Speaker 2 (38:37):
Okay, why why can't I pick the caller number?
Speaker 1 (38:41):
What call you want? Caller four there, caller four eight
six six nine eight seven two. Another personal question? Yeah,
why is your brother who I thought was named otis
yet actually named Tyrone? Why was he named Tyrone? And
(39:02):
your name? Jonas?
Speaker 2 (39:03):
All right, I have a theory on that, A theory
you should know the answer. Well, no, because it's like
one of those you know, like there's stories in your
family that you're like, I mean, who's going to fess
up to this? The motivation, the the idea behind all this.
So here's so I didn't know. I didn't know anything,
and I just we just grew up. His name was Tyrone,
(39:23):
and I remember telling people and getting like kind of
weird looks, like really, and it's like, you know, it
isn't like my nickname is Dracula on the Morning show,
but it's really pale, like there's no like it's SPF
one thousand. When I got like, you know, it just
it is what it is.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
I see the resemblance.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Yeah, And so I just I didn't know any different.
And it's like, you know, when you grow up, it's
not until you start being around other people that you
notice any sort of irregularities in your family or your upbringing.
It's like, oh, you guys do this like we always
do that, Like that's when things start to up a
little bit. And so I didn't notice anything and didn't
(40:03):
know any better. And his name was Tired, and so
it just became the older I got, it just became
this joke. And then my dad received some a letter
in the mail. It was from his old high school,
and he went to high school in Monmouth, Illinois, birthplace
of White Eart by the way, you know, small town,
western part of the state.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Next to Black they're commemorating it, I believe.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
So I think there's like the house White Earp grew
up in. So my dad grew up in Monmouth, Illinois,
moved out to southern California, met my mom at a
shoe store in Burbank a right when she was made
on a you know, just seventeen. But things are different
back then, you know, things are different.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Stores.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
They got married like two weeks later, and they were
together for fifty plus years afterward. So yeah, yeah, it
was awesome. So we get this thing in the mail
and it's from my dad's old high school about like
their thirty year reunion or whatever it was, And on
it says Charles Willis Knox. And my dad had told
(41:10):
us growing up he didn't have a middle name. He
didn't have so I don't know, I just never got
a middle name, like that was a story we had
heard from birth. So I get this. I'm the one
who sees the male come in and I'm looking and
I see Charles Willis Knox, And immediately I put two
and two together. Tyrone was revenge, like that was his Hey, buddy,
(41:33):
I got Willis growing up. Look at me, You're getting
Tyrone the rest of your life. And we just that's
how we just sort of put two and two together.
That that was my dad going, well, look, I don't
want to be the only one, so let me just
go ahead and throw this on and to this like
he never fessed up, like he never would acknowledge that
was his middle name, because I think he just didn't
(41:55):
understand it. But that was something he tried to keep
quiet from us. And then we found out, No, your
middle name's Willis. You're gonna name your son Tyrone. This
is all so you could sort of get even with
the naming gods that you were saddled with something that
didn't make sense based on appearance.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Did anyone in your house and you know, we can't
put the toothpaste back in the tube, so we can't
go backwards, but did anyone in your house, perhaps your brother,
I mean, I could understand if your parents named him
Mark Tyrone right to get back with the Willis thing.
Did anybody in your house ever say mom, dad, dad, Mom,
(42:34):
just dad or mom? Who was I named after? Why?
I mean, I know who I was named after?
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Who are you named after?
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Well? It was my I was supposed.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
To Red van Vliet.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Yes, that's exactly what Fred VanVleet. Okay, No, my grandfather
his name was Frank. They wanted me to be Frank.
But since there was a Frank, I was Fred and
there was a story behind it. So my question to
you is, did anyone ever ask heyes, who are you
named after? There's a fair question.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Okay. Now I don't know if this is correct. I mean,
it would be better if it was just revenge. My
dad didn't like Willis and he got labeled with that,
so that's hey, somebody else is going to get it.
But yeah, there was an old actor named Tyrone Power, yes, okay,
And I don't Okay, So I don't remember if And
I'm not making this up because Brady Quinn's dad's name
(43:29):
is Tyrone too, so that's sort of the joke that
we have going. And I don't remember if it was
that his dad was named after Tyrone Power or my
brother was named after Tyrone Power, or you know, your
guess is as good as mine. No, you know that
that makes sense factored in at some point.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Okay, But the oddity in this is.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
That he's white. Yes, I know, like I'm aware.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Well that wasn't really what I was going to say, Okay,
but I did ask Kevin if that was the case. Anyway,
The oddity in this is that then you were named Jonas.
Who were you named after?
Speaker 2 (44:08):
Jonas Salk?
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Yeah? The guy who uh yeah here polio. Then you know,
you you find out later on down the road maybe
maybe how much you know, how much credit certain people get.
Speaker 4 (44:24):
So so your middle name is like Ray Shawn or
something right?
Speaker 8 (44:26):
Right for following the script here, I mean, uh, listen,
by the way, I did hear that Jonas beat out
Jamaal and uh and others for that name.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
But no, yeah, they named after Jonah Salk.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
I'll say that was a nice that was really good.
And I can now believe your brother was named named
after Tyrone Powers. I get that. I believe that to
be true.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
See, I don't know, I'm trying to like, it's either
him or Brady's dad. One of them was named after
Tyrone Power.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
Your brother was named after Brady's dad.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
No, but Brady's in Ohio guy, right, So yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Brady Quinn's dad is his name is Tyrone and.
Speaker 4 (45:05):
So Tyrone Power is from Cincinnati born and raised. So yeah,
maybe there's a connection there.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Yeah, yeah, maybe there was that.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
So who was named after?
Speaker 2 (45:14):
I don't That's what I'm saying. I don't remember, Like
I'm trying to think, like who was I mean, there's
there's so many white Tyronees it's confusing. Like the whole
thing is is bonkers.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
What's that you said? There's so many of the more
are they?
Speaker 2 (45:28):
Well, there's two? I mean like that's basically dog years
when it. I mean two you might as well be
two billion at that point. And then I've got I've
got two I know two white guys named Marcus as
well too. One you know m A R K U S.
The other has a C in it instead of the K.
Like there's just there's a lot man.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
The one guy could be German.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
Oh he is, Like I'll put it this way, And
this adds more context of this bizarre story. The Mark
that I am friends with, Yah his like his ancestor,
Like he is German. I brought and I swear to
God on this I brought a Ramstein album over to
(46:11):
his house when he had a party in high school,
and while everybody else was outside swimming and boozing, I
was inside talking to his grandma and she translated the
entire Ramstein album to me from German to English. And
so because of that, to this day, I know randomly
Ramstein lyrics and what they mean. When I listened to
(46:33):
their songs, I know had to count to ten in German,
all because of Marcus, my white friend with a German
Background's grandma explained to me what the Ramstein lyrics meant.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
If everybody was outside boozing' around the pool at the party.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Fair Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, why were.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
You trying to get with this guy's grandmother?
Speaker 2 (46:56):
I mean, better chance? Like this sim in heist school,
I wasn't exactly a good athlete, and at that point,
you know, she was basically working with bifocals. So it's like, hey,
let me clean those for a minute. Next thing, you know,
I'm Tyrone Power.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Time for Dodger Baseball. Tonight, Dodgers take on a blue
Chase game out of the World Series. The first pitch
at five. Listen to all games on seventy LA Sports
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!