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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Happy Friday, your Fred Rogan Rodney peak on
a five seventy LA Sports two hours for us because
the Dodgers are in Texas and that is a five
forty start. Oh yeah, Yoshi Yamamoto will be on the
hill for the Dodgers as they hit the road again.
So we're on for two hours and Petrosen money than
the pregame show and then they go to work tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Rodney, Yeah, they do, Yeah, they do. The eyes of
Texas are upon us. Fred is like they'd like to
stay down there in the lone Star state.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
This is a big road trip for the Dodgers, you know,
kind of coming off some lack luster of you know,
performances Philadelphia, Washington, even with the you know, the sweep
of the Colorado Rockies wasn't you know, dominating. No, even
that game that they were up seven to one kind
of got close. And so you know, I'd be very
(00:52):
interested to see how they go into this series with Texas,
who can be a very good team as well.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, you know what, everything is just a kind of
a continuing litmus test for the Dodgers to see where
they're at against themselves. That's really a question at this point,
where are we against ourselves? Are we are we hitting better?
Are we having better at bats? Defensively? Have we cleaned
up things? I just think it can the continuation of
(01:20):
the the preface, the preamble to the beginning of what's
going to happen. We're just trying to figure things out,
just trying to get things together, see where they're at.
So how long does that last? Ray? June? You know, May, June, June? Okay,
hit Now we pretty much have an understanding of what we.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Are and who we are. Yeah, yeah, you don't want
to wait too long though, Freddy. But now June, and
what if you are June and you know you're struggling
a little bit and the Padres are ten games.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Up, you panic? I wouldn't panic, Yes, you would a
little bit? Are you kidding me? A little bit? I
liked I'd probably panic a little bit. But again, it's
just get into the playoffs. That's it. That's that's all
you want to do. Just be there at the end.
We learned that last year. Just be there at the
end and then things will take care of themselves. So yeah,
(02:18):
I do think it's another step and trying to figure
things out and trying to get on track. Let's take
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Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, and I love how Eric refers to Eric in
the third person. There er right, Eric Dickerson saying it's
Eric Dickerson's favorite He could have just said it's my.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Favorite spot in the Coachella Valley. He could have he
could have just said that, but maybe he wanted to
do Maybe he wanted you to think it was somebody
else saying that.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Okay, but we all know it was nobody else saying that.
And uh, he's now referring to himself from the third person.
So when he comes on again, we'll start we'll start
doing that too. We'll refer to Eric in the third
person because apparently that's how he refers.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
To join us next week, by the way, for NFL Draft.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
So h yeah, third person, you know, like you say, uh,
you know, I love me some in and out Rodney
Pete's favorite burgers spotting in the San Fernando Valley is.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Rodney Pea's favorite place, said by Rodney Pete, and the
third person is all right, so Eric will be on
next week. Now let's get into something today that Bill
shake And wrote in The Times, and I think it's
something that if you're a Dodger fan, you understand the
cost of going to a game in Los Angeles. Now,
Bill pretty much chronicled the costs associated with going to
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a game. And if you've gone to a game or
two this year, you know it's very expensive. There's no
other way to put it. It is very, very expensive.
And yes, there are cities where the tickets are not
as expensive. But I want you to think about a
few things as we get into this. Number One, you
live in LA. So if you live in LA or
you live in New York, I got to tell you
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things are expensive. That's just the price of doing business.
When you're living in major markets, prices are more smaller markets,
prices are less, so you're already going to expect that
Dodger tickets are going to be a bit pricing. I
think it's also safe to say Laker tickets can be
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a bit pricing. Yes, yes, yes, yes they can.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
So if there's like you said, you expect it though,
right right, yeah, you expect it.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
What can they cut though? Well, here's they can't cut anything.
So so here's the next part. My god, these tickets
are expensive. Yes, nothing's going to happen. It's just not
gonna happen because you're in a major market. So then
you say, but the Dodgers they're really pricing Now, okay,
that's the cost of success. That's the cost of winning.
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You see, the Dodgers, the Lakers, the Kings, rams Chargers,
everybody that's a business. They're operating a business. If they
invest in the business and the business succeeds, it costs
more for you, the fan. So if the Dodgers win,
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it's going to cost more. Why because of the investment
they have made. Yeah, you might say they passed some
of those costs on to you, or you might say
it's the price of doing business. When you have an
organization that is as committed and focused on success and
engaging you on a yearly basis Lakers legacy brand. That's
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why the Lakers kept Kobe as long as they did.
That's why they went out and got Lebron. Lebron decided
to come here. They're star driven. The NBA is star driven.
You need a star and the Lakers have always done
that since Jerry Buss owned the team. Why why did
they keep Kobe around? Besides the fact that you know,
most everybody loved Kobe. Although polarizing, he put people in
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the seats. It's a business. It's a business. So Shaking
points out that, yeah, they're expensive, and he talked to
the commissioner about it, and Rob Manfred said, well, you know,
there is an alternative if you really want to see
baseball in the area, but not the Dodgers. And of
course he's referring to the Angels, which is forty miles
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from downtown LA. But that was Manfred's suggestion, and Ardi
Moreno knows that the Angels aren't very good, so ticket
prices aren't as expensive as they are for the Dodgers.
But in this piece, Arty Moreno pointed out and truthfully,
so you know, if we improve, prices are going up.
(07:31):
We're gonna charge you more for get better. But that
plays into your theory, isn't it. Fred.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
If you're winning, you got to raise the prices, and
if you're not winning, you lower the prices.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You okay with that? I am? I am? Now you
could say, well, that price is some people out at
Dodger Stadium. It is expensive. There's no denying it. If
you go, you've probably consider yourself pretty lucky. I mean,
one night could cost a five hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, and we're not talking. And you know, it used
to be I don't know how long ago, but you
know you ate the used to cliche back of the day.
But no, it used to be where a family four
could go to a game and it could be you know,
it wouldn't kill you, right, you can take the kids,
you can go enjoy the game at the ballpark, have
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some hot dogs and be good and wouldn't just burn
a hole in your pocket. Now, you know, you got
to make a choice. Am I going with the wife,
I'm going with my kid?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You know? Or which kid gets to go?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Because a family of four, a family of five, that
can get real expensive at a Dodger game, which is
why I think the Dodgers are smart. These other ballparks
around the country are smart when they build these activity
centers and these one stop shop, these these whole basically
cities within the ballpark, and so people can stay there
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throughout the whole day.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So when you do come to Dodger Stadium, you know there's.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
A it's a seven to ten game, get there at
four o'clock, and you know, hang out in center field
and maybe watch a little batting practice. But you're spending
a full day almost at Dodger Stadium, especially on a
weekend day. You can go there and get there early
and have fun out in center field. And that's why
they built all those activities and those those food trucks
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and the stands and everything they got out there, And
so some people can feel like they're getting their money's worth.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Fred. Yeah, but it's expensive, But you have to understand
there's two ways to look at it. One, yeah, it costs,
or two they suck and it doesn't cost as much
because there's your choices. Really, they're awful, they're not in contention,
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they're not in the conversation. They're the Angels. Tickets are
going to be less or they're in the conversation every
year they have a chance to win it. Every year
they go out and reinvest in their product every year.
You could have that, that's what you have, and because
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of that, costs more and ticket prices are always a
conversation that fans have. We're just priced out. Well, again,
you don't have to be. You don't have to be.
Imagine if you lived well Sacramento. Now the tickets are
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ridiculous because there are any people in the seats in Colorado. Hell,
you can go to a lot of games there. You
can knock yourself out there. What are you watching a
team that's won three games? You want that or you
want this? That's really the issue here Colorado. You're watching
the other team that comes to town, aren't you. It's
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the Donald Sterling theory. Honest to god, that's exactly the
way he ran the Clippers. I'm going to spend very
little money here, very little. And let's let's be honest.
When he used to go to the sports arena. By
the end of it, it should have been condemned years ago.
It wasn't even an nbaight, Oh absolutely, it was ridiculous. Okay,
So he's playing in this garbage arena and he's not
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spending any money. Tickets are less expensive, that is true,
But look at what you were watching for the majority
of the time, a team that had no shot to win,
an owner that would bring his friends and sit at
half court. You'd still pay for concessions, you'd still pay
for parking. And yeah, you got to see Michael Jordan, right,
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you did. Once a year. You would see Michael Jordan
once a year. Back in the day, you could see.
And then how they advertised it. It was Larry Bird
and the Boston Celtics play your Clippers. Yeah, but it
was like this, okay, Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics.
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And they'd put the date and it would say Sports Arena. Okay,
it wouldn't even mention the Clippers, that's what he would do.
And then underneath, in very small print, it would say
versus Clippers. Yeah, yeah, and versus Clippers. Now that team
had no chance to win. And if you were a fan,
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of course, if you wanted to see Larry Bird or
Michael Jordan or any of the greats in that day,
here you go. But you weren't even rooting for your
own team. It didn't even feel like that team was
a representative of the city you live in. You'd go
to see Larry Bird. Yeah. Great. There's a distinct difference
between I want to go see Michael Jordan play or
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I want to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers, because using
that thinking, the Dodgers are the Using that thinking, the
Dodgers were the Angels, they had show Hey O'tani and
couldn't win. Using that thinking, that's what they would have been.
They had the best player, but they couldn't win. So
coming out and see the best player. That doesn't build
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any kind of cohesive camaraderie with the team. It doesn't.
It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
The team is an afterthought. Yeah, I'm just thinking about that.
When you said that, I mean they had Otani and Trout,
you know, arguably two of the best players in the
game on the same team that can't win. No granted,
you know Trout stay healthy for all the seasons, but man,
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when you got two guys like that and you can't find.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
A way to win, eh, you're right.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Freddie should have sold that team when he had opportunity
to sell that team.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Absolutely, not even a question. He should have done it
when he had the chance, and he didn't. So when
doctor Fans and Bill Shakin's piece was great, just talking
about how other two teams handle things. You know, costs
around Major League Baseball. Then he writes about the food
and the expense of the food at Dodger Stadium. Here's
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why Stan Casson was quoted in this. There there aren't
enough places to put food. That's kind of what it is.
There is so much kitchen space and so many spots
where you can sell food, and if you walk around
the stadium you can find food. Yeah, okay, but you
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get you can't sell fifty thousand people food at one time.
All fifty thousand cannot go up there at one time.
As a matter of fact, probably all fifty thousand won't eat,
it's being honest. So it creates scarcity and demand. That's
why food costs what it does. They can't sell it
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to everybody. I guess if they could sell it to
fifty thousand people at a time, it wouldn't cost as much,
but they can't. Again, supply and demand just kind of
the way it is. I'll tell you. So in the
Coachella Valley, they have Acrosher Arena and they have the
Triple A AHL Firebirds, and they're the farm team of Seattle.
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So you're thinking to yourself, Okay, obviously things are gonna
be a lot less expensive. First, you're in a market
that doesn't have as much money or as many people. Second,
you're going to watch a Triple A team play. It
kind of be like going to see the OKC Dodgers, right,
that's the team. So you're in a market without as
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much money and you're going to see the Triple A team.
Now you think about cost at Dodger Stadium out here.
Somebody walked up to me the other night and had
a gin and tonic. I said, oh, nice to see him.
Forty bucks. No, forty bucks. I don't got a hamburger
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one night, a hamburger one, not a double burger one.
Twenty eight dollars, twenty eight dollars. You want to know
what parking costs for the Atrosher Arena in Palm Springs
forty five dollars? Wow, isn't that any way at your stadium?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Not even that someplace, not even that. You get in
their Dodger Stadium for a lot for less than that
me that parking, and you know a lot he and
f But but you can get in the stadium and
get parking forty five dollars to park down there.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yep, come on in, we got a spot for you.
Forty five dollars, forty dollars for a drink, twenty eight
dollars for a hamburger, and there's twenty eight for a
chicken sandwich. They're getting it though, huh, they're getting it.
But to be honest with you, people have had it.
They've had enough, and I don't blame them. I mean,
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our TV station carries their games, so where their partner.
But they're out of their minds with these prices, and
people are like, we don't have this kind of money
here for Triple A, they have a club sort of
like the Delta Club at Crypto dot com arena, and
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you get the Delta Club at Crypto dot com if
you're a on the glass seat holder for the Kings
or court side for the Lakers. It's cool. It's a
nice place. Basically a food's free, but the tickets are
expensive right to get their seats, so they have a
club here. By the way, they don't have anything for
the glass seat holders here. So I talked to the
guy and I said, look, I'd like to go into
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the club. What's it cost? So you go and you
eat before the game? Ridney right, you know, like stadium
club at Dodger's dating. I got club. Guy says, let
me figure it out first. He says, you have to
move to this side of the arena. I said, I'm
not doing that. Wait, wait, you have to move to
the to the other side side. You can't sit on
the glass and be guaranteed that club. You have to
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sit in a certain section near the club. And I went, well,
I'm not doing that. I'm not doing it. I want
to know what it costs. Just add my tickets in
my tickets plus to go into the club. Want to
know what that cost was? Fourteen thousand, five hundred dollars.
Shut up, shut up, fourteen thousand, five hundred dollars. You
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know what that came out to? About four hundred and
twenty five dollars a game. I said to the guy,
I can eat at Mastros for cheaper than that. Why
am I going in here to the club? I can
I can eat anywhere two people cheaper than that. He goes, yeah,
that's just what it costs. And I only bring this
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up because now could prices at Dodger Stadium now, think
about it, Consider what it costs compared to what it
costs in a market of four hundred thousand people fifteen
million in Los Angeles, four hundred thousand Coachella Valley. The
prices are the same if here minor league team as
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well minor league team and the other part of it.
They simply don't care. They do not care. People are
saying it's too expensive. No, they're not, Yes they are. No,
we're not hearing that. I'm telling you that because I
know I'm hearing that. Well, we're not hearing that. Ticket
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renewals are dropping because it is so expensive for Triple
A hockey. By contrast, Dodger Stadium is a bargain for
the best team in baseball, one of the best in
professional sports. It costs almost as much to go to
minor league hockey? Is it? That's the Dodgers Stadium. Think
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about that? Think about it. It may cost more to
go to minor league hockey here than it does to
a game in Cincinnati, a Reds game. That's absurd. That's absurd.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
It's even more observed considering that you're talking hockey in
Southern California and in the desert, and it's you know
what I mean, It's not like we're talking hockey in uh,
right outside of Detroit, or right outside of Chicago or
outside of Boston. We're talking in the Coachella Valley. We're
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talking hockey and it's that expensive. But they wouldn't do it, Fred,
if they weren't getting it and people are paying it.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I think they were getting it. I think they got it.
I don't think they're going to continue to get it.
I don't think they're going to continue to get it.
That's the point. So when you look at prices of
every thing, Yeah, Angel games, I gotta be honest with you.
If you know, we're just it's you and us talking,
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it's probably more affordable. It probably is. Don't tell anybody,
but it probably is. Yeah. Then again, you get what
you pay for. You get what you pay for. You've
got Anaheim and enjoy a game. Hopefully one of the
seats won't come on buckled and hitching the head and
ball stop it. Fred, that stadium needs to be renovated.
(21:29):
It does, it does. Everybody knows it. It does. And
I mean hopefully when you go down there, you'll have
a lineup with show Hao Tony, Mookie Bets, Freddie Freeman,
Will Smith, tayl Hernandez, the pitching staff that the Dodgers have,
or maybe you'll get knockoffs they don't have show Heyo Tany,
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they'll have Sho ho O Tommy, you know, and Kookie
Bets and Eddie Freeman, Oh Edite.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Cookie, that Eddie and Cookie. You know, Cookie Boy. Cookie
can play Cookie, That Cookie can play boy. He's a
five tooler. I'm telling you so.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Anyway you look at it, Why are Dodger prices a
little elevated? Because, like everything in life, you get what
you pay for.
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Speaker 2 (23:16):
Crash my car into the bridge and I watched that.
I let it burn. Dang, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Friday. You know what it is, Friday, Fridday, p Fred Roker.
Don't care on a Friday. We don't care. We don't care. Okay,
With the Lakers opening tomorrow against Minnesota at the Crypt there,
we discussed this yesterday. All Right, what happens, I mean,
what happens if Luca has a bad playoff run? What happens? Well,
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I think what would happen, honestly is a giant rock
would come out of the sky and crush all of us.
Because the one time Luca does not play poorly, if
at all, if ever, is the playoffs. He has been
an assassin. That is when he shines the playoffs, and
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that gives cretence to you. Take him, put him with
Lebron the way Austin Reeves is playing, and if everybody
else can do their job, they've got a shot. So
I got to thinking knowing that Luca is good in
the playoffs. I understand if you're Nico Harrison and the
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guys in Dallas, he drank too much beer and smoked
too much hookah. But we know that he does play
well in the playoffs. And now when you remember that
as we begin this Rodney, this part of the journey,
I have to wonder if the folks in Dallas took
that into consideration as well, that he is what a
playoff assassin is he? I don't know he has been.
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I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You got to win it, though, don't you got a win? Yeah,
you gotta win, so you regardless we hold other people
to the standards. You gotta win. You got to lead
to your team to the finals and win it. And
you know, you can be a playoff assassin for a
series or two, but you got to take it all
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the way. So maybe they look at it that way.
He hasn't, you know, they haven't won a title with
him yet.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah. I mean, if that's the case, that's probably on them,
not on him.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, But why does he get the pass when we
hold other people today? I'm giving all the past. What
I'm saying is in the playoffs. He performs. Now surrounded
by the rod guys makes a difference. But he performs,
he scores. He's the guy that plays well. He rises
to the occasion. He may not win, but it's not
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because of him.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
He plays well.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
And yeah, job, and we still hold him to a
different standard because he didn't win and didn't get any rings.
Some do not everybody, you know, the most dud you know,
the people that don't the guys that don't get rings
that they say they could have the most incredible run
of playoffs and playoff games. But certain guys in certain
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levels of of of stardom, they don't have They don't
have a ring. It doesn't matter what their stat line is. Yeah,
that's a short that that is a very short sighted
you some people have. You're right with Dan Marino a
great quarterback, I.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Think absolutely was he.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, he had some and he had some knockdown dragouts
with uh I can remember with with Jim Kelly and
the Buffalo Bills with you know, he had a shootout
with Joe Montana outplayed him in the Super Bowl. But
but the forty nine ers had a better team, right,
you know around him, right, you know, But and it
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gets overshadowed how great Dan Marino was because, uh, because he.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Didn't win one. Yeah, No, one thing. You can't.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
You can't put Luca in a category and say, well,
let's look at James Harden and Luca are the same.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
No in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
No, because Luca has delivered Lucas Luca has delivered in
the playoffs. And Donovan Mitchell in the playoffs, Donovan Mitchell
has been crazy. You know, they haven't won one, and
who will see what Cleveland does. But he's been crazy
in the playoffs. So you know they gotta they they
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have to go deep. Fred I get it. It is
just the world we live in. He came, he came
to the Lakers. You got Lebron, So what else do
you want? You got Austin Reeves has turned into an
All star. Luca doesn't go deep in these playoffs. It's
on him and we moved to that category. Is it's
still on Lebron?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Oh? I don't you know. I don't think me more
with them both here, I don't think you can point
a finger at one or the other. Now, it just
didn't Who gets it though? Who gets it? Kevin? Who
gets it? Does anybody get it now? Is it anybody's.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Fault if they get bounced in first second round? Who
gets it more Luca or Lebron?
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Well, absent context, which is how many of these talking
heads usually go. Lebron historically gets it. Now there's a
debate as to whether or not he's the better player
right now. I think it's hard to debate that generally speaking,
Luca is the better player. Most of the time, Rodney
I would say that the better player, regardless of how
well they play, unfairly gets criticized whether the team, if
the team does not win, whether or not Luca will
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be held to that standard with Lebron, I don't really know,
but it's a popular narrative and very popular thing for
a lot of these talking head things. It takes shots
at Lebron James, so it would like to go.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
To him because he's polarizing and there's people that either
like him or hate him, and he's that guy that
people love to hate that if regardless of stats, people
won't even look at the stats. If the Lakers get
bounced in the first second round, then they would attribute
it to more Lebron than it would say Luca, because
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they would say, look it's that, you know, lucas the
younger player, Lebron's the older player. Lebron's been there, Lebron's
falling off. Lebron's time for him to retire. Now, Luca
needs to build his own team. That'll be the narrative
going forward.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
It's the new new era, the Luca era, and we
need to build around Luca now. But they would I
think they would blame more blame Lebron for them not
going deep.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Which would be unfair, Which would be fair if that
were the case.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Do you think, Fred? Honestly, I look at it differently.
I look at it like this with this team, I
don't know, and especially this year. And I've said this
so I have. I've been on the record with this.
To me, anything that happens this year as a bonus,
whatever happens is great. Seriously, they just got.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
To People are going to say that, Fred, you can
say that.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I say, That's what I do say, and I've said that.
I don't think it's anybody's fault this year for anything.
I think the new guys here, I'm asking you who
do you think people will blame. I'm not saying you
think people will blame me, I think, yeah, yeah, I
guess if you have to pick one, they blame Lebron
(30:33):
if you have to pick one. But I don't see
why anybody would do that this year. That's my point.
That's why they will. They will, They will exactly, they will.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
You know, it's not right, as Kevin mitted, it's not fair,
it's not right, but they will. They will analyze it
and overanalyze it. And it's like, you know, regardless of
how both of them play, it will be either run
that bad boy back because they got close to winning
at all, and all they need is, like you mentioned yesterday,
they need, you know, get.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
A big and here that that's a.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
You know, a formidable big right, and they can and
they can go to the next level and definitely be
the favorites going into next year. Right or it is
they got bounced and it's time to move on. You know,
it's time to start thinking about the future. I know
Lebron's on, uh you know, he'll probably be here definitely
(31:31):
for another year. But what you know, do you move on?
You start planning to move on because that will be
the narrative. Now it's time to start moving on to
make this Lucas team.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
That's what the topic is going to be. Rodney, they
get bounce in a second. If it's the Western Conference finals,
I think it'll be a little bit less. It'll be like, Okay,
what what can they add with these two guys? But
if they lose in the second round? Is it time
for them to move on from Lebron? Does he need
to leave? Do they need to start over?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
It didn't go I can absolutely see that happening.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Well, I'll tell you this. The guy who will make
that decision just got promoted, Rob Polinka. Not only is
the general manager now he is president of basketball operations.
He got a new deal. Funny how one trade can
change everything the new ball game.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Now do you think it was the one trade. I
don't think it's just the one trade. I think I
think it's the you know, totality of the season is
they were they were, they were, they were rolling before
the trade. And I think it's the JJ Reddick situation.
You know which kind of I think they got who
(32:34):
Plagki said they they fell into that one. They fell
into that one because Dan Hurley wanted a job. It
would have been Dan Hurley here if he wanted it, It
would have been him and he turned it down, and
so they got JJ Reddick, which is the coach of
the year. I don't get what anybody said, he's the
coach of the year. And it worked out. So it
(32:56):
was a combination of both of those for Rob Polinka.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Now they also fell into Luca too for her. To
be honest, I mean, yeah, they came. The Mavericks came
knocking at Rob's door about that. I will give him
credit for this. One of the more underrated trades for
any team this year was a flipping' Angela Russell and
getting Doriy and Phinney Smith.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
I know he's a quote unquote role player, but the
role that he played was one of the biggest. Missus
Pete missing Gagon role.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Oh my god, down to stretch when he's healthy, not
w He got healthy and he started playing every day
in every game. He is a factor for this team,
A big factor for this team. And you know it
won't go on the stat line, it won't be one
of those he's the headliner.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
But he has been a major factor for this team's success.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Do I'll give Rob all the credit in the world
for that one.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
That trade, Oh yeah, yeah, I just give him I
give him credit, well, I removed credit for him bringing
d' angela Russell back, and I give him credit for
moving him out again.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
So he's and and in his defense, he could have
traded d'angela Russell for a bag of baseballs and you
would have been happy with that, Fred Benest. So it
didn't matter what It doesn't matter what the it's would
have been.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I'm telling you that. Now look what happened. He's gone
and now loop boom, whole new team. Now. Yeah, but anyway,
Rob did get promoted. I'm sure he got a raise
and he got an extension and he got a new job.
So now he's in charge of all basketball He kind
of basketball operations. Yeah, he kind of was in charge
(34:22):
of basketball operations, but now it's too much. So that
means and this will continue now Laker fans, when you're
watching on TV, anytime you turn around, you will see
him as a general manager. No one is on TV
more than Rob Polinka. The camera just seems to find him.
The players are walking down the tunnel, Rob will be
(34:43):
standing there. If they take a shot in the crowd,
you'll see it. If they take the camera to the left,
he'll be in the corner watching Rob Polinka is everywhere.
There's like a thousand Rob Polinkas. Because they're everywhere, you
cannot miss them everywhere. And now he will be everywhere
with a new title. So when you fly everything, are
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Speaker 1 (36:34):
How often do you fly? Will you fly all the time?
I do? Yep, I fly occasionally. And when you get
out of the plane, you ever think this? I don't.
Maybe I should, but I swear to you I don't.
After all the years of flying, don't you just think
the seats are going to be clean when you look
down at the seat? Wait, it looks clean to me.
(36:55):
I think that. Do you think they're going to be clean? Yeah?
I do? Do you no?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Do I think they're gonna be you know, vacuumed or
you know, rushed off? But do I think they're gonna
be clean?
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yes? Nah? Nah, I expect what I expect. It's gonna
be nasty and dirty. Yeah, you're right. I never thought that.
I don't have any idea why.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yeah, on the surface is gonna be clean, right, And
the surface is gonna you know, you're not gonna have
peanut shells all on the seats, and you know they're gonna,
you know, whatever crumbs from the from the dinner, they're
gonna clean that up with vacuum. They're gonna do it
once over, but there's not enough time for the crew,
whatever crew that they have. And sometimes and most of
the most of the time, it's a little skeleton crew
(37:42):
that goes on these planes and cleans up the seats
and the aisles before the next flight. It's not like
you used to be fred where they took pride and
making the airline experience like very luxurious and you know,
it's like the place to be. It's exciting and glamorous
and all that no longer the case. No, And I'm
(38:05):
gonna recommend right now if you take a flight, I
think i'd wear a rubber body suit.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
I don't want to touch anything. According to this, wear
gloves of mask and complete body covering like a hasmat suit.
So a guy goes through and he starts just taking
samples and things and wiping down chairs and armrests, and
the results are it is disgusting, just completely disgusting. They
(38:36):
had a few things called skin bugs in there that
was just great, but as he continued on in another flight,
there was bacteria and just sludge. And really, after reading
this and the recommendation here is you need to wear
long sleeves, long pants, and honest to God, I think
(39:01):
it were a helmet mittens because this thing is German.
Did you just say mittens? I think I wearten sure
it's German fested.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Skip the late test gloves and go straight to the mittens.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Why not? That's what I would do, I had, and honestly, God,
I had no idea. Was that bad? But I do
that anyway. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I don't, even even if it's a I'm going to
Arizona in July. I don't wear shorts on a plane.
I always wear either sweats, long pants, short and socks.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
I don't. I don't ever wear shorts on a plane,
just just me.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Because man mainly oftentimes, regardless of the weather, what time
of year it is, that the plane is usually cold,
I always have a sweatshirt or I have long pants
on for sure. But so so, the finding is what
they did, a infrared light on the planes.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
They took the stuff, put it in a petrie dish,
took it to a lab and the bacteria is disgusted,
it really is. And things called skin bugs were in
there as well.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Yeah, uh, are you shocked? Are you surprised? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:17):
I don't know, why are you? You know what I
always thought, though, this is the most disgusting thing I
always thought was on the plane. This is the thing
I never wanted to touch, and maybe it's the thing I
should have touched. The most disgusting thing on that plane
to me every time is the safety card. The safety
card instructions. To me, that looks like it's been handled
(40:38):
a thousand times. You know, they show the video or
the person makes the announcement about fastening your seat belts,
and you know.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Here, nobody looks at that, right, So you're thinking, nobody
really looks at that. So that's nobody touches it as
often as other things.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
That well, I think that thing is really handled. And
it's like when you used to go into a plane
and they'd have like Adventures magazine, but you could tell
that it hadn't been changed in you know, two months,
and the pages are all torn out. That that was
always disgusting to me. I wouldn't pick that stuff up.
But I never thought just sitting down in the chair,
(41:15):
or if you open your trade table, it's everywhere, and
I never knew that.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Maybe I'm just naive. You got to look at yourself.
That's the problem. People don't look at themselves and you
and you are on a plane for you know, more
than an hour and they're serving food, and they're bringing
you food. Think about just your own body and your
(41:44):
surroundings and what happens where you're There are crumbs from.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
The meal that drop through, or.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
You know, there's just a ketchup packet that kind of
leaks a little bit that's there that gets into the
crevice of the trade table. You know, all of those
things happen, and there's no getting around it, you know,
And you know, I try to bring wipes when I
come on a plane and just wipe things down, like
the arm rest and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
But still there's so much. It is so much.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
And then because the turnaround, because every you know, the
airlines have turned into basically cheap restaurants nowadays, so to turnaround,
they want to turn those tables over. They're trying to
turn these flights over. That the the crews that are
gutting on board to clean these planes, they're not getting
the ample time to really do that. So I can't
(42:35):
even blame them, and but I can because some of
them don't really care they look at it, they's like, oh,
let me just wipe that down real quick.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
I'm not digging into that corner or that crevice to
get those crumbs from the last flight out.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
I'm just gonna once, you know, wipe it down once
and call it a day because on to the next one.
We got to meet that other plane at gate twenty seven,
which is on the other side. So yeah, no, it's
it is. It is disgusting and people are disgusting. Which
is another thing Fred, where I don't know about you,
(43:10):
but for me that you can really appreciate about Japan
is that it is respectful and it is one of
those places where people respect the people coming from coming
behind them. And it is clean, clean, clean. Everything about
it is clean. Yeah, it's very different. It is a
(43:35):
very different experience.
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All right, Happy Friday, your Fred Rogan Rodney peak on
a five seventy LA Sports two hours for us because
the Dodgers are in Texas and that is a five
forty start. Oh yeah, Yoshi Yamamoto will be on the
hill for the Dodgers as they hit the road again.
So we're on for two hours and Petrosen money than
the pregame show and then they go to work tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Rodney, Yeah, they do, Yeah, they do. The eyes of
Texas are upon us. Fred is like they'd like to
stay down there in the lone Star state.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
This is a big road trip for the Dodgers, you know,
kind of coming off some lack luster of you know,
performances Philadelphia, Washington, even with the you know, the sweep
of the Colorado Rockies wasn't you know, dominating. No, even
that game that they were up seven to one kind
of got close. And so you know, I'd be very
(00:52):
interested to see how they go into this series with Texas,
who can be a very good team as well.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, you know what, everything is just a kind of
a continuing litmus test for the Dodgers to see where
they're at against themselves. That's really a question at this point,
where are we against ourselves? Are we are we hitting better?
Are we having better at bats? Defensively? Have we cleaned
up things? I just think it can the continuation of
(01:20):
the the preface, the preamble to the beginning of what's
going to happen. We're just trying to figure things out,
just trying to get things together, see where they're at.
So how long does that last? Ray? June? You know, May, June, June? Okay,
hit Now we pretty much have an understanding of what we.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Are and who we are. Yeah, yeah, you don't want
to wait too long though, Freddy. But now June, and
what if you are June and you know you're struggling
a little bit and the Padres are ten games.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Up, you panic? I wouldn't panic, Yes, you would a
little bit? Are you kidding me? A little bit? I
liked I'd probably panic a little bit. But again, it's
just get into the playoffs. That's it. That's that's all
you want to do. Just be there at the end.
We learned that last year. Just be there at the
end and then things will take care of themselves. So yeah,
(02:18):
I do think it's another step and trying to figure
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Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, and I love how Eric refers to Eric in
the third person. There er right, Eric Dickerson saying it's
Eric Dickerson's favorite He could have just said it's my.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Favorite spot in the Coachella Valley. He could have he
could have just said that, but maybe he wanted to
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else saying that.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Okay, but we all know it was nobody else saying that.
And uh, he's now referring to himself from the third person.
So when he comes on again, we'll start we'll start
doing that too. We'll refer to Eric in the third
person because apparently that's how he refers.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
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Speaker 2 (03:32):
So h yeah, third person, you know, like you say, uh,
you know, I love me some in and out Rodney
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Speaker 1 (03:48):
Rodney Pea's favorite place, said by Rodney Pete, and the
third person is all right, so Eric will be on
next week. Now let's get into something today that Bill
shake And wrote in The Times, and I think it's
something that if you're a Dodger fan, you understand the
cost of going to a game in Los Angeles. Now,
Bill pretty much chronicled the costs associated with going to
(04:12):
a game. And if you've gone to a game or
two this year, you know it's very expensive. There's no
other way to put it. It is very, very expensive.
And yes, there are cities where the tickets are not
as expensive. But I want you to think about a
few things as we get into this. Number One, you
live in LA. So if you live in LA or
you live in New York, I got to tell you
(04:34):
things are expensive. That's just the price of doing business.
When you're living in major markets, prices are more smaller markets,
prices are less, so you're already going to expect that
Dodger tickets are going to be a bit pricing. I
think it's also safe to say Laker tickets can be
(04:55):
a bit pricing. Yes, yes, yes, yes they can.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
So if there's like you said, you expect it though,
right right, yeah, you expect it.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
What can they cut though? Well, here's they can't cut anything.
So so here's the next part. My god, these tickets
are expensive. Yes, nothing's going to happen. It's just not
gonna happen because you're in a major market. So then
you say, but the Dodgers they're really pricing Now, okay,
that's the cost of success. That's the cost of winning.
(05:32):
You see, the Dodgers, the Lakers, the Kings, rams Chargers,
everybody that's a business. They're operating a business. If they
invest in the business and the business succeeds, it costs
more for you, the fan. So if the Dodgers win,
(05:55):
it's going to cost more. Why because of the investment
they have made. Yeah, you might say they passed some
of those costs on to you, or you might say
it's the price of doing business. When you have an
organization that is as committed and focused on success and
engaging you on a yearly basis Lakers legacy brand. That's
(06:20):
why the Lakers kept Kobe as long as they did.
That's why they went out and got Lebron. Lebron decided
to come here. They're star driven. The NBA is star driven.
You need a star and the Lakers have always done
that since Jerry Buss owned the team. Why why did
they keep Kobe around? Besides the fact that you know,
most everybody loved Kobe. Although polarizing, he put people in
(06:44):
the seats. It's a business. It's a business. So Shaking
points out that, yeah, they're expensive, and he talked to
the commissioner about it, and Rob Manfred said, well, you know,
there is an alternative if you really want to see
baseball in the area, but not the Dodgers. And of
course he's referring to the Angels, which is forty miles
(07:08):
from downtown LA. But that was Manfred's suggestion, and Ardi
Moreno knows that the Angels aren't very good, so ticket
prices aren't as expensive as they are for the Dodgers.
But in this piece, Arty Moreno pointed out and truthfully,
so you know, if we improve, prices are going up.
(07:31):
We're gonna charge you more for get better. But that
plays into your theory, isn't it. Fred.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
If you're winning, you got to raise the prices, and
if you're not winning, you lower the prices.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You okay with that? I am? I am? Now you
could say, well, that price is some people out at
Dodger Stadium. It is expensive. There's no denying it. If
you go, you've probably consider yourself pretty lucky. I mean,
one night could cost a five hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, and we're not talking. And you know, it used
to be I don't know how long ago, but you
know you ate the used to cliche back of the day.
But no, it used to be where a family four
could go to a game and it could be you know,
it wouldn't kill you, right, you can take the kids,
you can go enjoy the game at the ballpark, have
(08:26):
some hot dogs and be good and wouldn't just burn
a hole in your pocket. Now, you know, you got
to make a choice. Am I going with the wife,
I'm going with my kid?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You know? Or which kid gets to go?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Because a family of four, a family of five, that
can get real expensive at a Dodger game, which is
why I think the Dodgers are smart. These other ballparks
around the country are smart when they build these activity
centers and these one stop shop, these these whole basically
cities within the ballpark, and so people can stay there
(09:00):
throughout the whole day.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So when you do come to Dodger Stadium, you know there's.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
A it's a seven to ten game, get there at
four o'clock, and you know, hang out in center field
and maybe watch a little batting practice. But you're spending
a full day almost at Dodger Stadium, especially on a
weekend day. You can go there and get there early
and have fun out in center field. And that's why
they built all those activities and those those food trucks
(09:25):
and the stands and everything they got out there, And
so some people can feel like they're getting their money's worth.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Fred. Yeah, but it's expensive, But you have to understand
there's two ways to look at it. One, yeah, it costs,
or two they suck and it doesn't cost as much
because there's your choices. Really, they're awful, they're not in contention,
(09:51):
they're not in the conversation. They're the Angels. Tickets are
going to be less or they're in the conversation every
year they have a chance to win it. Every year
they go out and reinvest in their product every year.
You could have that, that's what you have, and because
(10:15):
of that, costs more and ticket prices are always a
conversation that fans have. We're just priced out. Well, again,
you don't have to be. You don't have to be.
Imagine if you lived well Sacramento. Now the tickets are
(10:35):
ridiculous because there are any people in the seats in Colorado. Hell,
you can go to a lot of games there. You
can knock yourself out there. What are you watching a
team that's won three games? You want that or you
want this? That's really the issue here Colorado. You're watching
the other team that comes to town, aren't you. It's
(10:56):
the Donald Sterling theory. Honest to god, that's exactly the
way he ran the Clippers. I'm going to spend very
little money here, very little. And let's let's be honest.
When he used to go to the sports arena. By
the end of it, it should have been condemned years ago.
It wasn't even an nbaight, Oh absolutely, it was ridiculous. Okay,
So he's playing in this garbage arena and he's not
(11:18):
spending any money. Tickets are less expensive, that is true,
But look at what you were watching for the majority
of the time, a team that had no shot to win,
an owner that would bring his friends and sit at
half court. You'd still pay for concessions, you'd still pay
for parking. And yeah, you got to see Michael Jordan, right,
(11:39):
you did. Once a year. You would see Michael Jordan
once a year. Back in the day, you could see.
And then how they advertised it. It was Larry Bird
and the Boston Celtics play your Clippers. Yeah, but it
was like this, okay, Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics.
(12:01):
And they'd put the date and it would say Sports Arena. Okay,
it wouldn't even mention the Clippers, that's what he would do.
And then underneath, in very small print, it would say
versus Clippers. Yeah, yeah, and versus Clippers. Now that team
had no chance to win. And if you were a fan,
(12:22):
of course, if you wanted to see Larry Bird or
Michael Jordan or any of the greats in that day,
here you go. But you weren't even rooting for your
own team. It didn't even feel like that team was
a representative of the city you live in. You'd go
to see Larry Bird. Yeah. Great. There's a distinct difference
between I want to go see Michael Jordan play or
(12:44):
I want to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers, because using
that thinking, the Dodgers are the Using that thinking, the
Dodgers were the Angels, they had show Hey O'tani and
couldn't win. Using that thinking, that's what they would have been.
They had the best player, but they couldn't win. So
coming out and see the best player. That doesn't build
(13:06):
any kind of cohesive camaraderie with the team. It doesn't.
It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
The team is an afterthought. Yeah, I'm just thinking about that.
When you said that, I mean they had Otani and Trout,
you know, arguably two of the best players in the
game on the same team that can't win. No granted,
you know Trout stay healthy for all the seasons, but man,
(13:38):
when you got two guys like that and you can't find.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
A way to win, eh, you're right.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Freddie should have sold that team when he had opportunity
to sell that team.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Absolutely, not even a question. He should have done it
when he had the chance, and he didn't. So when
doctor Fans and Bill Shakin's piece was great, just talking
about how other two teams handle things. You know, costs
around Major League Baseball. Then he writes about the food
and the expense of the food at Dodger Stadium. Here's
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why Stan Casson was quoted in this. There there aren't
enough places to put food. That's kind of what it is.
There is so much kitchen space and so many spots
where you can sell food, and if you walk around
the stadium you can find food. Yeah, okay, but you
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get you can't sell fifty thousand people food at one time.
All fifty thousand cannot go up there at one time.
As a matter of fact, probably all fifty thousand won't eat,
it's being honest. So it creates scarcity and demand. That's
why food costs what it does. They can't sell it
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to everybody. I guess if they could sell it to
fifty thousand people at a time, it wouldn't cost as much,
but they can't. Again, supply and demand just kind of
the way it is. I'll tell you. So in the
Coachella Valley, they have Acrosher Arena and they have the
Triple A AHL Firebirds, and they're the farm team of Seattle.
(15:18):
So you're thinking to yourself, Okay, obviously things are gonna
be a lot less expensive. First, you're in a market
that doesn't have as much money or as many people. Second,
you're going to watch a Triple A team play. It
kind of be like going to see the OKC Dodgers, right,
that's the team. So you're in a market without as
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much money and you're going to see the Triple A team.
Now you think about cost at Dodger Stadium out here.
Somebody walked up to me the other night and had
a gin and tonic. I said, oh, nice to see him.
Forty bucks. No, forty bucks. I don't got a hamburger
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one night, a hamburger one, not a double burger one.
Twenty eight dollars, twenty eight dollars. You want to know
what parking costs for the Atrosher Arena in Palm Springs
forty five dollars? Wow, isn't that any way at your stadium?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Not even that someplace, not even that. You get in
their Dodger Stadium for a lot for less than that
me that parking, and you know a lot he and
f But but you can get in the stadium and
get parking forty five dollars to park down there.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yep, come on in, we got a spot for you.
Forty five dollars, forty dollars for a drink, twenty eight
dollars for a hamburger, and there's twenty eight for a
chicken sandwich. They're getting it though, huh, they're getting it.
But to be honest with you, people have had it.
They've had enough, and I don't blame them. I mean,
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our TV station carries their games, so where their partner.
But they're out of their minds with these prices, and
people are like, we don't have this kind of money
here for Triple A, they have a club sort of
like the Delta Club at Crypto dot com arena, and
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you get the Delta Club at Crypto dot com if
you're a on the glass seat holder for the Kings
or court side for the Lakers. It's cool. It's a
nice place. Basically a food's free, but the tickets are
expensive right to get their seats, so they have a
club here. By the way, they don't have anything for
the glass seat holders here. So I talked to the
guy and I said, look, I'd like to go into
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the club. What's it cost? So you go and you
eat before the game? Ridney right, you know, like stadium
club at Dodger's dating. I got club. Guy says, let
me figure it out first. He says, you have to
move to this side of the arena. I said, I'm
not doing that. Wait, wait, you have to move to
the to the other side side. You can't sit on
the glass and be guaranteed that club. You have to
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sit in a certain section near the club. And I went, well,
I'm not doing that. I'm not doing it. I want
to know what it costs. Just add my tickets in
my tickets plus to go into the club. Want to
know what that cost was? Fourteen thousand, five hundred dollars.
Shut up, shut up, fourteen thousand, five hundred dollars. You
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know what that came out to? About four hundred and
twenty five dollars a game. I said to the guy,
I can eat at Mastros for cheaper than that. Why
am I going in here to the club? I can
I can eat anywhere two people cheaper than that. He goes, yeah,
that's just what it costs. And I only bring this
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up because now could prices at Dodger Stadium now, think
about it, Consider what it costs compared to what it
costs in a market of four hundred thousand people fifteen
million in Los Angeles, four hundred thousand Coachella Valley. The
prices are the same if here minor league team as
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well minor league team and the other part of it.
They simply don't care. They do not care. People are
saying it's too expensive. No, they're not, Yes they are. No,
we're not hearing that. I'm telling you that because I
know I'm hearing that. Well, we're not hearing that. Ticket
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renewals are dropping because it is so expensive for Triple
A hockey. By contrast, Dodger Stadium is a bargain for
the best team in baseball, one of the best in
professional sports. It costs almost as much to go to
minor league hockey? Is it? That's the Dodgers Stadium. Think
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about that? Think about it. It may cost more to
go to minor league hockey here than it does to
a game in Cincinnati, a Reds game. That's absurd. That's absurd.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
It's even more observed considering that you're talking hockey in
Southern California and in the desert, and it's you know
what I mean, It's not like we're talking hockey in uh,
right outside of Detroit, or right outside of Chicago or
outside of Boston. We're talking in the Coachella Valley. We're
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talking hockey and it's that expensive. But they wouldn't do it, Fred,
if they weren't getting it and people are paying it.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I think they were getting it. I think they got it.
I don't think they're going to continue to get it.
I don't think they're going to continue to get it.
That's the point. So when you look at prices of
every thing, Yeah, Angel games, I gotta be honest with you.
If you know, we're just it's you and us talking,
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it's probably more affordable. It probably is. Don't tell anybody,
but it probably is. Yeah. Then again, you get what
you pay for. You get what you pay for. You've
got Anaheim and enjoy a game. Hopefully one of the
seats won't come on buckled and hitching the head and
ball stop it. Fred, that stadium needs to be renovated.
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It does, it does. Everybody knows it. It does. And
I mean hopefully when you go down there, you'll have
a lineup with show Hao Tony, Mookie Bets, Freddie Freeman,
Will Smith, tayl Hernandez, the pitching staff that the Dodgers have,
or maybe you'll get knockoffs they don't have show Heyo Tany,
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they'll have Sho ho O Tommy, you know, and Kookie
Bets and Eddie Freeman, Oh Edite.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Cookie, that Eddie and Cookie. You know, Cookie Boy. Cookie
can play Cookie, That Cookie can play boy. He's a
five tooler. I'm telling you so.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Anyway you look at it, Why are Dodger prices a
little elevated? Because, like everything in life, you get what
you pay for.
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Speaker 2 (23:16):
Crash my car into the bridge and I watched that.
I let it burn. Dang, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Friday. You know what it is, Friday, Fridday, p Fred Roker.
Don't care on a Friday. We don't care. We don't care. Okay,
With the Lakers opening tomorrow against Minnesota at the Crypt there,
we discussed this yesterday. All Right, what happens, I mean,
what happens if Luca has a bad playoff run? What happens? Well,
(23:47):
I think what would happen, honestly is a giant rock
would come out of the sky and crush all of us.
Because the one time Luca does not play poorly, if
at all, if ever, is the playoffs. He has been
an assassin. That is when he shines the playoffs, and
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that gives cretence to you. Take him, put him with
Lebron the way Austin Reeves is playing, and if everybody
else can do their job, they've got a shot. So
I got to thinking knowing that Luca is good in
the playoffs. I understand if you're Nico Harrison and the
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guys in Dallas, he drank too much beer and smoked
too much hookah. But we know that he does play
well in the playoffs. And now when you remember that
as we begin this Rodney, this part of the journey,
I have to wonder if the folks in Dallas took
that into consideration as well, that he is what a
playoff assassin is he? I don't know he has been.
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I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You got to win it, though, don't you got a win? Yeah,
you gotta win, so you regardless we hold other people
to the standards. You gotta win. You got to lead
to your team to the finals and win it. And
you know, you can be a playoff assassin for a
series or two, but you got to take it all
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the way. So maybe they look at it that way.
He hasn't, you know, they haven't won a title with
him yet.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah. I mean, if that's the case, that's probably on them,
not on him.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, But why does he get the pass when we
hold other people today? I'm giving all the past. What
I'm saying is in the playoffs. He performs. Now surrounded
by the rod guys makes a difference. But he performs,
he scores. He's the guy that plays well. He rises
to the occasion. He may not win, but it's not
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because of him.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
He plays well.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
And yeah, job, and we still hold him to a
different standard because he didn't win and didn't get any rings.
Some do not everybody, you know, the most dud you know,
the people that don't the guys that don't get rings
that they say they could have the most incredible run
of playoffs and playoff games. But certain guys in certain
(26:17):
levels of of of stardom, they don't have They don't
have a ring. It doesn't matter what their stat line is. Yeah,
that's a short that that is a very short sighted
you some people have. You're right with Dan Marino a
great quarterback, I.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Think absolutely was he.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, he had some and he had some knockdown dragouts
with uh I can remember with with Jim Kelly and
the Buffalo Bills with you know, he had a shootout
with Joe Montana outplayed him in the Super Bowl. But
but the forty nine ers had a better team, right,
you know around him, right, you know, But and it
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gets overshadowed how great Dan Marino was because, uh, because he.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Didn't win one. Yeah, No, one thing. You can't.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
You can't put Luca in a category and say, well,
let's look at James Harden and Luca are the same.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
No in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
No, because Luca has delivered Lucas Luca has delivered in
the playoffs. And Donovan Mitchell in the playoffs, Donovan Mitchell
has been crazy. You know, they haven't won one, and
who will see what Cleveland does. But he's been crazy
in the playoffs. So you know they gotta they they
(27:35):
have to go deep. Fred I get it. It is
just the world we live in. He came, he came
to the Lakers. You got Lebron, So what else do
you want? You got Austin Reeves has turned into an
All star. Luca doesn't go deep in these playoffs. It's
on him and we moved to that category. Is it's
still on Lebron?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Oh? I don't you know. I don't think me more
with them both here, I don't think you can point
a finger at one or the other. Now, it just
didn't Who gets it though? Who gets it? Kevin? Who
gets it? Does anybody get it now? Is it anybody's.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Fault if they get bounced in first second round? Who
gets it more Luca or Lebron?
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Well, absent context, which is how many of these talking
heads usually go. Lebron historically gets it. Now there's a
debate as to whether or not he's the better player
right now. I think it's hard to debate that generally speaking,
Luca is the better player. Most of the time, Rodney
I would say that the better player, regardless of how
well they play, unfairly gets criticized whether the team, if
the team does not win, whether or not Luca will
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be held to that standard with Lebron, I don't really know,
but it's a popular narrative and very popular thing for
a lot of these talking head things. It takes shots
at Lebron James, so it would like to go.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
To him because he's polarizing and there's people that either
like him or hate him, and he's that guy that
people love to hate that if regardless of stats, people
won't even look at the stats. If the Lakers get
bounced in the first second round, then they would attribute
it to more Lebron than it would say Luca, because
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they would say, look it's that, you know, lucas the
younger player, Lebron's the older player. Lebron's been there, Lebron's
falling off. Lebron's time for him to retire. Now, Luca
needs to build his own team. That'll be the narrative
going forward.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
It's the new new era, the Luca era, and we
need to build around Luca now. But they would I
think they would blame more blame Lebron for them not
going deep.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Which would be unfair, Which would be fair if that
were the case.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Do you think, Fred? Honestly, I look at it differently.
I look at it like this with this team, I
don't know, and especially this year. And I've said this
so I have. I've been on the record with this.
To me, anything that happens this year as a bonus,
whatever happens is great. Seriously, they just got.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
To People are going to say that, Fred, you can
say that.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I say, That's what I do say, and I've said that.
I don't think it's anybody's fault this year for anything.
I think the new guys here, I'm asking you who
do you think people will blame. I'm not saying you
think people will blame me, I think, yeah, yeah, I
guess if you have to pick one, they blame Lebron
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if you have to pick one. But I don't see
why anybody would do that this year. That's my point.
That's why they will. They will, They will exactly, they will.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
You know, it's not right, as Kevin mitted, it's not fair,
it's not right, but they will. They will analyze it
and overanalyze it. And it's like, you know, regardless of
how both of them play, it will be either run
that bad boy back because they got close to winning
at all, and all they need is, like you mentioned yesterday,
they need, you know, get.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
A big and here that that's a.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
You know, a formidable big right, and they can and
they can go to the next level and definitely be
the favorites going into next year. Right or it is
they got bounced and it's time to move on. You know,
it's time to start thinking about the future. I know
Lebron's on, uh you know, he'll probably be here definitely
(31:31):
for another year. But what you know, do you move on?
You start planning to move on because that will be
the narrative. Now it's time to start moving on to
make this Lucas team.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
That's what the topic is going to be. Rodney, they
get bounce in a second. If it's the Western Conference finals,
I think it'll be a little bit less. It'll be like, Okay,
what what can they add with these two guys? But
if they lose in the second round? Is it time
for them to move on from Lebron? Does he need
to leave? Do they need to start over?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
It didn't go I can absolutely see that happening.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Well, I'll tell you this. The guy who will make
that decision just got promoted, Rob Polinka. Not only is
the general manager now he is president of basketball operations.
He got a new deal. Funny how one trade can
change everything the new ball game.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Now do you think it was the one trade. I
don't think it's just the one trade. I think I
think it's the you know, totality of the season is
they were they were, they were, they were rolling before
the trade. And I think it's the JJ Reddick situation.
You know which kind of I think they got who
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Plagki said they they fell into that one. They fell
into that one because Dan Hurley wanted a job. It
would have been Dan Hurley here if he wanted it, It
would have been him and he turned it down, and
so they got JJ Reddick, which is the coach of
the year. I don't get what anybody said, he's the
coach of the year. And it worked out. So it
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was a combination of both of those for Rob Polinka.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Now they also fell into Luca too for her. To
be honest, I mean, yeah, they came. The Mavericks came
knocking at Rob's door about that. I will give him
credit for this. One of the more underrated trades for
any team this year was a flipping' Angela Russell and
getting Doriy and Phinney Smith.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
I know he's a quote unquote role player, but the
role that he played was one of the biggest. Missus
Pete missing Gagon role.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Oh my god, down to stretch when he's healthy, not
w He got healthy and he started playing every day
in every game. He is a factor for this team,
A big factor for this team. And you know it
won't go on the stat line, it won't be one
of those he's the headliner.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
But he has been a major factor for this team's success.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Do I'll give Rob all the credit in the world
for that one.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
That trade, Oh yeah, yeah, I just give him I
give him credit, well, I removed credit for him bringing
d' angela Russell back, and I give him credit for
moving him out again.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
So he's and and in his defense, he could have
traded d'angela Russell for a bag of baseballs and you
would have been happy with that, Fred Benest. So it
didn't matter what It doesn't matter what the it's would
have been.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I'm telling you that. Now look what happened. He's gone
and now loop boom, whole new team. Now. Yeah, but anyway,
Rob did get promoted. I'm sure he got a raise
and he got an extension and he got a new job.
So now he's in charge of all basketball He kind
of basketball operations. Yeah, he kind of was in charge
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of basketball operations, but now it's too much. So that
means and this will continue now Laker fans, when you're
watching on TV, anytime you turn around, you will see
him as a general manager. No one is on TV
more than Rob Polinka. The camera just seems to find him.
The players are walking down the tunnel, Rob will be
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standing there. If they take a shot in the crowd,
you'll see it. If they take the camera to the left,
he'll be in the corner watching Rob Polinka is everywhere.
There's like a thousand Rob Polinkas. Because they're everywhere, you
cannot miss them everywhere. And now he will be everywhere
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Speaker 1 (36:34):
How often do you fly? Will you fly all the time?
I do? Yep, I fly occasionally. And when you get
out of the plane, you ever think this? I don't.
Maybe I should, but I swear to you I don't.
After all the years of flying, don't you just think
the seats are going to be clean when you look
down at the seat? Wait, it looks clean to me.
(36:55):
I think that. Do you think they're going to be clean? Yeah?
I do? Do you no?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Do I think they're gonna be you know, vacuumed or
you know, rushed off? But do I think they're gonna
be clean?
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yes? Nah? Nah, I expect what I expect. It's gonna
be nasty and dirty. Yeah, you're right. I never thought that.
I don't have any idea why.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yeah, on the surface is gonna be clean, right, And
the surface is gonna you know, you're not gonna have
peanut shells all on the seats, and you know they're gonna,
you know, whatever crumbs from the from the dinner, they're
gonna clean that up with vacuum. They're gonna do it
once over, but there's not enough time for the crew,
whatever crew that they have. And sometimes and most of
the most of the time, it's a little skeleton crew
(37:42):
that goes on these planes and cleans up the seats
and the aisles before the next flight. It's not like
you used to be fred where they took pride and
making the airline experience like very luxurious and you know,
it's like the place to be. It's exciting and glamorous
and all that no longer the case. No, And I'm
(38:05):
gonna recommend right now if you take a flight, I
think i'd wear a rubber body suit.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
I don't want to touch anything. According to this, wear
gloves of mask and complete body covering like a hasmat suit.
So a guy goes through and he starts just taking
samples and things and wiping down chairs and armrests, and
the results are it is disgusting, just completely disgusting. They
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had a few things called skin bugs in there that
was just great, but as he continued on in another flight,
there was bacteria and just sludge. And really, after reading
this and the recommendation here is you need to wear
long sleeves, long pants, and honest to God, I think
(39:01):
it were a helmet mittens because this thing is German.
Did you just say mittens? I think I wearten sure
it's German fested.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Skip the late test gloves and go straight to the mittens.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Why not? That's what I would do, I had, and honestly, God,
I had no idea. Was that bad? But I do
that anyway. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I don't, even even if it's a I'm going to
Arizona in July. I don't wear shorts on a plane.
I always wear either sweats, long pants, short and socks.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
I don't. I don't ever wear shorts on a plane,
just just me.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Because man mainly oftentimes, regardless of the weather, what time
of year it is, that the plane is usually cold,
I always have a sweatshirt or I have long pants
on for sure. But so so, the finding is what
they did, a infrared light on the planes.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
They took the stuff, put it in a petrie dish,
took it to a lab and the bacteria is disgusted,
it really is. And things called skin bugs were in
there as well.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Yeah, uh, are you shocked? Are you surprised? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:17):
I don't know, why are you? You know what I
always thought, though, this is the most disgusting thing I
always thought was on the plane. This is the thing
I never wanted to touch, and maybe it's the thing I
should have touched. The most disgusting thing on that plane
to me every time is the safety card. The safety
card instructions. To me, that looks like it's been handled
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a thousand times. You know, they show the video or
the person makes the announcement about fastening your seat belts,
and you know.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Here, nobody looks at that, right, So you're thinking, nobody
really looks at that. So that's nobody touches it as
often as other things.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
That well, I think that thing is really handled. And
it's like when you used to go into a plane
and they'd have like Adventures magazine, but you could tell
that it hadn't been changed in you know, two months,
and the pages are all torn out. That that was
always disgusting to me. I wouldn't pick that stuff up.
But I never thought just sitting down in the chair,
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or if you open your trade table, it's everywhere, and
I never knew that.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Maybe I'm just naive. You got to look at yourself.
That's the problem. People don't look at themselves and you
and you are on a plane for you know, more
than an hour and they're serving food, and they're bringing
you food. Think about just your own body and your
(41:44):
surroundings and what happens where you're There are crumbs from.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
The meal that drop through, or.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
You know, there's just a ketchup packet that kind of
leaks a little bit that's there that gets into the
crevice of the trade table. You know, all of those
things happen, and there's no getting around it, you know,
And you know, I try to bring wipes when I
come on a plane and just wipe things down, like
the arm rest and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
But still there's so much. It is so much.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
And then because the turnaround, because every you know, the
airlines have turned into basically cheap restaurants nowadays, so to turnaround,
they want to turn those tables over. They're trying to
turn these flights over. That the the crews that are
gutting on board to clean these planes, they're not getting
the ample time to really do that. So I can't
(42:35):
even blame them, and but I can because some of
them don't really care they look at it, they's like, oh,
let me just wipe that down real quick.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
I'm not digging into that corner or that crevice to
get those crumbs from the last flight out.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
I'm just gonna once, you know, wipe it down once
and call it a day because on to the next one.
We got to meet that other plane at gate twenty seven,
which is on the other side. So yeah, no, it's
it is. It is disgusting and people are disgusting. Which
is another thing Fred, where I don't know about you,
(43:10):
but for me that you can really appreciate about Japan
is that it is respectful and it is one of
those places where people respect the people coming from coming
behind them. And it is clean, clean, clean. Everything about
it is clean. Yeah, it's very different. It is a
(43:35):
very different experience.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Navien Home Comfort Solutions, you already know them as the
go to name for tankless water heaters, but now they're
leveling up attention so cal plumbers and HVAC contractors. Navian
is stepping into the heating and cooling game and they
are taking their new HVAC products on the road to
show them off. So the next stop on the NAVVI
and HVAC road show is next Thursday, April twenty fourth,
(43:58):
four to eight at the Brewing Company and Chino Hills.
That's Luchador. Grab a cold beer, get a hands on
with Navian's latest heating and cooling innovations. It's the perfect
mix of good times and next gen tech. Get the
full list of roadshow dates and locations at navianinc dot com. Okay,
as we continue on two hours for US today, Dan Wiki,
(44:20):
NBA insider from the time joins us and we'll set
the scene for the playoff games this weekend.
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