May 14, 2025 • 31 mins
The LA Kings hired a new GM who knows rival Edmonton extremely well. The NFL schedule release is tonight and it surprisingly garners almost as much fanfare as the games themselves. A man is arrested in a case of mistaken identity.....twice!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Okay, we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney pe on a
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Speaker 1 (00:51):
All right, We're gonna hook up with Dylan Hernandez of
The Times here in a couple of minutes. In case
you missed at Austin Barnes has been dfa' by the Dodgers.
Shocking to some, but Rodney made a good point earlier
in the program. Nothing happens just out of the clear blue.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
With the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Dalton Rushing has been called up, and so now I
think that Rodgers have ten days to make a move
with Austin Barnes before they release him, and they'll try
to trade him somewhere, they'll try to get him a job.
So to us, it is shocking David Vass'll be here
at two o'clock, Rodney. But maybe he had an inkling
all along. He was hitting two fourteen.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, look, we all know Austin Barnes
not necessarily a guy that you think of as killing
it at the plate, right.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
He has his moments.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
He's had some big hits over the years, but he's
not an offensive guy. He is more about being there
for defense and being a catcher that is one of
the better defensive catchers in the game and receiving the ball,
throwing guys out. He is quality, and every pitch that
has come through the Dodgers organization talks about Austin Barnes
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as being one of the best pitch our best catchers
that they love to throw to. So and it's the
reason why he was in the Big League without the
big batting average for such a long time because people
valued his defense.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, now we'll be up to the Dodgers to figure
out where he goes and they will try to make
a move for him. And it's also interesting it happened
because Clayton Kershaw comes back this weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah yeah, who was one of his favorites, Clayton.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You remember, and our podcast Palace talked about the fact
that when they traded A j Ellis, they said Clayton
Kershaw I didn't talk to the front office for six months,
right right there?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Best friends? Right yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I didn't remember it that clearly, but I remember how
close he and A j Ellis were and how Clayton
credited him to a bunch of his success, and when
that happened, I knew he was upset, but I didn't
realize that he didn't talk to the front office for
that period of time.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So we'll see if he's talking to anybody now.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like, what are you kidding me?
You get rid of austin the week I come back?
Come on, I know, you know he wasn't happy Clayton
and Clayton is you know Clayton the high things.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
He's gonna let you know how he feels. Oh, he'll
let you know.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Oh yeah, he's back at it Sunday, all right, The
Kings are going to make an announcement tomorrow, and you
know they made a move with Rob Blake, and they
needed to make a move with Rob like the general manager. Well,
it looks like they've got the next GM. And he's
not in house. That man is Ken Holland. He's a
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member of a Hockey Hall of Fame, UH former GM
of the Red Wings and Edmonton Oilers. So it's going
to be Ken Holland, a guy in Detroit, guy in Edmonton,
now the guy for the Kings. He was in the
Red Wings front office for thirty four years. He started
as a scout, ran that department, assistant GM, and became
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the GM in ninety seven. He was there for twenty
two years. They won the Stanley Cup three times during
his tenure. Luke Robatai, by the way, played two seasons
for the Red Wings when Holland was their GM. When
he was in Edmonton, there were some critical moments criticized
for signing goalie Jack Campbell and Darnell Nurse. I'd like
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to criticize him for Darnell Nurse right now. He signed
him to giant contracts. But he signed Zach Hymen as
a free agent traded for Mattius Eckholm, and one of
his first decisions here with the Kings figures to be
whether to hold on to Jim Hiller as their coach. Now,
Jim Hiller took over on an introm role season before
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last look at last year, Hiller led them to a
forty eight to twenty five and nine mark one hundred
and five points, and that tied franchise records. So there
you go. They're going to use Ken Holland, who was
in Edmonton. He will be the new GM. I will
also say that Holland hired Jay Woodcock as the coach
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of the Oilers in February of twenty twenty two, fired
him thirteen games into the next season because he looked
eleven years old.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So he yeah, eleven years old. He looked about eleven
years old. So they fired him because he looked too young.
That's why I fired him. Yeah, I think that's what
it was. Now.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
They struggled at the beginning of the year, but he
did look like he was eleven years old.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
You know, Fred, you always say and I was going
to get you know, and I always kind of push
back from time to time. You always say somebody's got
to get it. Somebody's got to get it, somebody's got
to get it.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
You got to do where does that stop in terms
of who gets it? Where does that? Where does that end? Right?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Okay, so we we we look at the players make
too much money to get it. Players are not going
to necessarily get it. They're not getting it initially right.
They may like not get their contracts renewed, or or
they may get you know, cut if they're affordable to
be cut. But the players are not going to get it.
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It's usually the coach, right, I mean, if it's after
the coach is the GM? But where does it Where
does it necessarily end? Does it end with the GM?
Does it end with does it does it stop there?
Does it go to the president? I mean, if you're
the owner and you put these people in place to
pre to produce a winner and it's not happening, you
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lose four straight times to Edmonton?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Is it just a coach? Is it just? Is it
the GM? Now?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I mean we all love Luke Robota, he's the president.
He puts it all in place. Is it does Luke
any of it? Does he get any of the heat?
Does the owner get any heat, where does it stop?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Fair question. So if the objective you have two objectives
and professional sports first, the number one objective is to win.
The business of pro sports is to win, so that's
number one.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
One.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
A is to make money because it is a business.
So the theory is the more you win, the more
money you make. Yes, so you want to win, which
is true. It's not just a theory, it is actually true.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Win. You want to win money.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
If you don't win, you still want to make money, right, Okay,
So the president of the organization, as long as the
franchise is doing well financially, is probably not going to
get it. Because it's like any business, the TV business,
for example, in TV today there really aren't any ratings.
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People go, oh, what are the ratings. I can tell
you they really don't matter because there really aren't any ratings.
People consume their media in different ways. So what is
the barometer of success. It's revenue. How much money do
you make? That's what matters. How you get it is
your problem if you're operating the business. So if you're
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not winning, but you're still making money, the president is safe.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
All right. So now we move down a level.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
But we need to win because we understand the fans
are not going to be happy if we don't. So
what will happen? Our business will be affected. How will
it be affected? They won't come to the games, they
won't buy as many season tickets, they won't buy as
much merchandise.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Advertisers won't come in, Sponsors will be out. Why am
I paying for this?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Nobody's watching, nobody's engaged, so now take my money out
of it as well. If the president of the team
is operating a business that does make money, next up
would be on the player's side. The general manager. Okay,
is he doing a good job? Is he putting the
pieces in place for us to win? If you determine, yes,
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he is. We've got what we need. Who's next the coach,
Because somebody's always got to get it. The coach didn't
take these pieces and mold them properly. It's kind of
like the Lakers with Darvin Ham. Who's to blame? Who's
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Darvin Ham? I'm saying, who's to blame? Whose fault was it?
Because somebody's always got to get it. Frank Vogel, Frank.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Vogel, Frank Vogel, Yeah again, who's Foalds blame son always
won a title for you two years before you.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Fired him, Right, somebody's always got to get it.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
So when in that scenario they take you had a formula.
If you're Frank Vogel, we had a formula to win.
This is what I want. This is what I need
my formula to win. I gotta have bigs, yep. I
need a veteran point guard that can run the show, right,
that allows Lebron and Ad to do their thing and
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direct traffic. And then I need rimp protection and we're
gonna play defense, right, and that formula one for you. Yeah,
and then you take that formula away from him by
dismantling the team that won for you, and you then
blame the coach for not winning. That's exactly what happened
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with the Lake, exactly what happened with the Lakers. So
somebody got to get it. Frank Vogel got it. But
I guarantee you it wasn't the roster construction that Frank
Vogel wanted or even one with two years before that
got him fired. So why does Frankvogel got to get it?
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Because Genie Buss wasn't firing Rob Polinka. That's why who
should have got it? Rob Polinka, that's who should have
got it. But since somebody's got to get it, Frank Vogel,
low Man tote him poll He's out.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Pretty simple.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Somebody's always got to get it. So Genie Buss had
more faith in Rob Polinka than Frank Vogel, so it
was the end of it. Vogel had to get it.
Darvin Ham, somebody's got to get it. Players weren't happening
with rotations. Some comments he made to the me been
taken differently than he intended. They didn't win. Well, somebody's
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got to get it. He got it pretty simple. With
the Kings, well, certainly after the season they had the
regular season. You can't fire Jim Hill or the coach.
He had a hell of a year. But they didn't
accomplish their goal. And they've not accomplished their goal. So
who's going to get it? Well, look, Grobata is not
going to get it because they're probably doing okay financially. Honestly,
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I'm sure they're not killing it, but i'm sure it's
also better than break even. Okay, they're doing fine. Well,
you're not going to get rid of him. I mean, they're.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Putting people in the seats with the kings right.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Right, so they're not going to get rid of the president.
The coach did okay, but for the fourth consecutive year
the team came up short in the first round of
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Somebody's got to get it.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Rob Blake got it because people wouldn't go back next
year if there wasn't a reason. All you have in
professional sports as hope. That's what you sell. That's the product.
The goal is to win, and the product is hope.
We hope this year our team will do it. We
hope this is the year we break through. We hope
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we make the playoffs this year, and next year we
go further. That's what we hope every year. What you're
buying as a fan is hope.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
God, we hope. This is it for us. We're so in.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Don't let us down sports toys with people's emotions. There's
nothing tangible in professional sports that you get out of
it except my team won. Do they pay you No?
Do they pay you to go to the games?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
What are you really paying for? You're paying for the
right to go and sit and hope your team performs
that's all you're doing. You're buying merchandise because you hope
your team does well and you want to represent that
because you take pride in it.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
It's hope.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Okay, Well, if the team goes out four years in
a row in the first round of the same team,
how much do you hope they're gonna beat them next
time around? You don't, So somebody's got to get it.
And that's what the Kings did.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
So you don't look at how. You don't look at
the specifics of how you lost. You just look at
the results and go be lost after this. Yeah, that's it.
Don't look at it like, oh my god, we if
you're a certain team or even like say teams in
playoffs that their star player gets hurt, right four years
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in a row or somebody gets injured at the end,
you don't look at that. It's just like you got there.
You should have won, and regardless if somebody gets hurt
or it's not feeling up the snuff, then it doesn't
matter because you should have won four.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Years in a row. Four years in a row, you're
losing the first round. I don't care who got hurt.
Somebody didn't get hurt.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Every year.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, you'd like for thinking about the Kings. The Kings scored,
didn't they score enough goals to win?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
But they lost.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, look at it like this. There's a guy that
played both college and professional football. If you're the coach
of an NFL team, want to know when the want
to know when it's getting a little hot for you.
Want to know when you're a couple of steps away
from being done. Go out there for the opening kick,
college or pro. Look at the stands.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Oh, yeah, stands. We saw that with the Rams, right,
that's what Jeff Fisher was gone. We knew who who else?
Our good friend Clay Helton was gone us. Yeah, look
at the stands. Just look around.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
You walk out there and the stands are half In
the NFL or college football, that coach is not long
for the job because people lost hope, and hope is
the only reason that brings them to the games. It's
the only reason that causes them to spend money, the
hope their team will win.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Look around.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
If there are not a lot of people hoping, we'll
get somebody in here so those people with hope will
come back. Kings go out four times in a row,
first round saying team, you don't hope they're good. What
hope do you have? They can't do it. They can't
beat them. Maybe they could, but psychologically they certainly can't
do it. With this version of the team. You lose hope,
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you make a change. And that's why Rodney, at the
end of the day, like it or not, somebody's always
got to get it.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
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of the biggest events of the year is just around
the corner. Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on a five seventy
LA Sports Top of the Hour two o'clock. David Vassy
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will join us from Dodgers Stadium. Dave is plugged in
on everything, and he was the one that reported that
the Dodgers at dfaid Austin Barnes to make room for
Dalton Rushing. So I'll wonder I'll be wondering if Dave
actually was surprised by this move. It caught everybody by surprise, Rodney.
But as you suggested, maybe people on the inside had
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a sense of what was coming.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I would I would have to think so.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
That it's not a it's not a knee jerk reaction situation.
I think it's a conversation that hey, listen, at some point,
we got to bring him up and you might be
the one to get it, and we appreciate your services.
And you know when a player like that sometimes spread too,
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is that it's not just a one player conversation. Sometimes
it is it's run by it's run by a few players.
And this might be a situation. So when it happens,
I don't want everybody to go up in arms, because
you want to mitigate and you want to minimize the
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fallout or the reaction of certain players that are close
and certain players that have certain feelings for certain people.
Because the clubhouse is tight, a locker room is tight.
I can remember there are certain times when there's been
guys that have been let go, that got let go
out of the blue, and you're like what and it
disrupted the locker room. It's like what in the world,
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what are we doing? What are we doing? And guys
had certain feelings and then it became animosity between the
players and the organization. So that's the last thing you want.
So I would imagine that that these conversations, even though
may not open, but within internally with Austin Barnes and
Dave Roberts and Andrew Friedman and the organization that they were,
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they were had, they were had.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
All right, David bas say two o'clock, we'll get more
into it. So this is it tonight, five o'clock. It's fascinating.
It's fascinating. The poll and control of the NFL has
it is absolutely fascinating. You know, I can tell you
right now who the Rams are going to play at
home this upcoming season and who they're going to play
on the road this upcoming season. All right, so we
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know we already know who they're playing, but tonight will
be revealed the order in which they'll play. If you
really think about the schedule release. Oh my goodness, tonight
will find out what order they will play them, and
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that's like a three hour special.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
To find out.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
The order of the opponents. We know the opponents already.
For example, this year at home, they play the Niners,
the Cardinals, the Saints, Tampa Bay, the Lions, Houston, and Indianapolis.
There you go, there you go. But the order in
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which they play them, you don't know that everything. Oh
I want to know who they playing on the road
this year, or.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Or if they play on primetime, or when that game
is going to be Yes? Right, is that a Thursday
night game or it could be a Sunday night game? Yes,
or Freddy, it could be somewhere else. Right, Well, we
know the Chargers now are going to open I think
in Brazil. Yes, but wait, everybody, hold on, who will
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they play in Brazil. We'll find that out tonight. That
will find out, so we know they're going to be there,
but wait, there's suspense in drama.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Who will they play?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
That's what we'll find out. And by the way, I
think that game is going to be on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It'll be streamed on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
For the first time. It's going to be free on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Which means it probably will have the largest audience of
any NFL game this year because with a few exceptions
in some kind of trees will be blacked out or blocked.
You can probably watch that game almost around the world,
around the world on YouTube. Yeah, think about that. So
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as the NFL can change to grow and move. Now
you're going to watch a football game on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Think about it.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Think about that for a second. Think about that YouTube. Okay,
we're gonna put it on YouTube. We're gonna make it
free for everyone. Anybody who's got a YouTube account. We're
gonna make it free. We're gonna make it free.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Freddy.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
But boy, if you're an advertiser, if you're an advertiser,
if you're an advertiser, right, if you're an advertiser and
you get this one hundred million people around the world
watching on YouTube, are you not paying for that? Are
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you not paying for that?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Well, the people watching aren't paying, but I'm sure Google
is paying the NFL for the right to do it.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
They're paying it. They're paying it.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
And Google goes out and said, hey, take an ad
on this, Take an ad on this NFL game in Brazil,
around the world, you're in Australia, you're an advertiser in Australia.
Tune into this on YouTube Australia and pay a premium
to watch this NFL game.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
They're getting paid.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And that is why, just to divert for a second,
that is why as certain of a people of a
certain generation are upset. I don't know why all of
these things are now on streaming. I mean, why do
I have to buy the streaming service? Why aren't they
and broadcast TV where everybody can see them. Well, there
are games and all sports on broadcast TV. But the
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truth of the matter is everything will be down the
road streaming in one way or another. It will simply
be streaming. And so when you're watching YouTube and you're going, wow,
this is crazy. No, it's the future and it's here,
you're staring it right in the eyes, because that's what
it's going to be in anyway. Tonight we find out
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the big reveal and I think also the Chargers this
year because they start in Brazil and I believe they're
going to travel forty six time zones to get there.
It is mind boggling to me. Well, just the stuff
you come up with, they will travel more miles than
anybody in the NFL this year, more miles Rockney, you
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played in the NFL, you travel a lot of miles.
Does that make a big difference?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Really it does.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Fred When you're traveling every other week and you're on
the road and it seems like you're on the road
for long trips, it wears on you.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
It really does.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
It's one thing if I'm going from la to Arizona
or I'm going to play the Raiders in Vegas and
it's an hour flight, it makes a difference. When you've
got to go East coast, maybe play a home game,
then go back to the East Coast, then go to
the East Coast again, play a home game, and then
go to the Midwest for a three hour flag. It
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makes a difference. It's a wear and tear on your body,
it really is. And you don't think about that in
the present term, but when you think about it in
terms of how your body responds, it definitely affects your
body and your body clock.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
So it makes a difference. Yes, yes it does one
hundred percent. But the fact that they're traveling more so
than any other team in the NFL, that is a
disadvantage for the chargers, and.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
They don't need any disadvantages. Tell you that.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
The last thing they need is a disadvantage. What they
really need is a wide receiver. Do you know Mark Smith? No,
not that Mark Smith. This Mark Smith that's next. Come on,
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Roddy Pete, Fred Rogan on a hup day. Yes, all right, Rodney.
So now the story of Mark Smith. Not the Mark
Smith that used to work at iHeart. This is a
different Mark Smith. And Mark Smith spells his name m
A rc smh. That's an important part of the story.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
M A r C sm I t H. All right.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
So it happens in Australia. Listen to this January of
twenty twenty three. Somebody that owns a boat claims it
has been stolen. So the police are called. By the way,
they say that the person that took the boat threatened
threatened them.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Well, this is not good.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
So the phone dispatcher misspelled the alleged offender's name. His
name was Mark Smith.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
M A rc.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
But they spelled it mark. So they went and they
found Mr k Mark Smith, okay, and they arrested Mark Smith.
Come with us, So he wondered, why am I going
with you? I haven't done anything. They don't even check
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to see if the spelling is different. They just go,
that's it, you're Mark Smith. You come with me.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So they they take them in, they question them, they
make them spend the night in jail, and then they determine,
Wait a minute, you're the wrong Mark Smith. We understand
our bad our, goof, we made a mistake.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
We're sorry.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
We're sorry we put you in jail overnight. We understand
that you are Marc Smith. Now be on your way. Well,
the guy's upsetting me. He's embarrassed, and wouldn't you be
You just arrested me and it's not even me. You
don't even know how my name is spelled. I kid
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you not flash forward, I don't know. Six seven months,
the police get a call someone has named Mark Smith
in this crime. The police look it up and they
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go and arrest the same guy they arrested last time.
And that's not how you spell his name. When they
heard Mark Smith, they typed Mark boom boom, go get them,
but this is Marc. So they kept arresting the wrong
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guy because they kept misspelling his name. The police in
Australia said, you know, we gotta do a better job.
We gotta do a better job. You know, we don't
like to make mistakes. You think you arrested the wrong
guy twice, and they arrested the same Mark Smith. Yeah,
the same wrong Mark Smith twice.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Can you imagine Mark Si? Does Mark Smith have a case? Wrongful?
Wrongful arrest? Yeah? Does he have a case.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
That'd be like somebody calls up and says, I want
to tell you John Doe, John Doe did it? John Doe? Okay,
and the guy types in j O hnd oe. They
go and find John Doe. But the problem is his
name is spelled j O N d O.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
You know what I mean. They had no idea. That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
They spelled his name wrong twice, and he got arrested twice.
He didn't do anything. Oh my god, the police are here.
What are you guys doing here?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Come with me? They're come up with me. That's crazy,
That is crazy. Oh the way.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Things work nowadays, it is so sad, so sad about
just I don't know, it's just it's just sad that
that that happened not only once, but happened twice to
the same guy.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Well that's the problem, I guess. Once we can say
that was a mistake.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Yeah, a mistake, Mark Smith, m A R K. Okay,
I get it. Okay, mistake. But then twice to the
same guy. Don't they have it in the record in
the log that we arrested this guy and we wrongfully
accused this guy. So let's not arrest him again, let's
(31:17):
not bring him in again. Let's run it through the computer,
and then the universal computer pulls it up and says, no,
this is.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Not the guy, so let him go. You know what, today,
just be happy your name is a Mark Smith. Ceaesus
David Vansay who has nothing to do with Mark Smith.
Well join us from Dodger Stadium. Next the question was
(31:47):
he surprised after finding out about Austin Barnes
Okay, we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney pe on a
five seventy l a Sports Rodney.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Speaker 1 (00:51):
All right, We're gonna hook up with Dylan Hernandez of
The Times here in a couple of minutes. In case
you missed at Austin Barnes has been dfa' by the Dodgers.
Shocking to some, but Rodney made a good point earlier
in the program. Nothing happens just out of the clear blue.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
With the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Dalton Rushing has been called up, and so now I
think that Rodgers have ten days to make a move
with Austin Barnes before they release him, and they'll try
to trade him somewhere, they'll try to get him a job.
So to us, it is shocking David Vass'll be here
at two o'clock, Rodney. But maybe he had an inkling
all along. He was hitting two fourteen.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, look, we all know Austin Barnes
not necessarily a guy that you think of as killing
it at the plate, right.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
He has his moments.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
He's had some big hits over the years, but he's
not an offensive guy. He is more about being there
for defense and being a catcher that is one of
the better defensive catchers in the game and receiving the ball,
throwing guys out. He is quality, and every pitch that
has come through the Dodgers organization talks about Austin Barnes
(02:04):
as being one of the best pitch our best catchers
that they love to throw to. So and it's the
reason why he was in the Big League without the
big batting average for such a long time because people
valued his defense.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, now we'll be up to the Dodgers to figure
out where he goes and they will try to make
a move for him. And it's also interesting it happened
because Clayton Kershaw comes back this weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah yeah, who was one of his favorites, Clayton.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You remember, and our podcast Palace talked about the fact
that when they traded A j Ellis, they said Clayton
Kershaw I didn't talk to the front office for six months,
right right there?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Best friends? Right yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I didn't remember it that clearly, but I remember how
close he and A j Ellis were and how Clayton
credited him to a bunch of his success, and when
that happened, I knew he was upset, but I didn't
realize that he didn't talk to the front office for
that period of time.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So we'll see if he's talking to anybody now.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like, what are you kidding me?
You get rid of austin the week I come back?
Come on, I know, you know he wasn't happy Clayton
and Clayton is you know Clayton the high things.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
He's gonna let you know how he feels. Oh, he'll
let you know.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Oh yeah, he's back at it Sunday, all right, The
Kings are going to make an announcement tomorrow, and you
know they made a move with Rob Blake, and they
needed to make a move with Rob like the general manager. Well,
it looks like they've got the next GM. And he's
not in house. That man is Ken Holland. He's a
(03:54):
member of a Hockey Hall of Fame, UH former GM
of the Red Wings and Edmonton Oilers. So it's going
to be Ken Holland, a guy in Detroit, guy in Edmonton,
now the guy for the Kings. He was in the
Red Wings front office for thirty four years. He started
as a scout, ran that department, assistant GM, and became
(04:18):
the GM in ninety seven. He was there for twenty
two years. They won the Stanley Cup three times during
his tenure. Luke Robatai, by the way, played two seasons
for the Red Wings when Holland was their GM. When
he was in Edmonton, there were some critical moments criticized
for signing goalie Jack Campbell and Darnell Nurse. I'd like
(04:39):
to criticize him for Darnell Nurse right now. He signed
him to giant contracts. But he signed Zach Hymen as
a free agent traded for Mattius Eckholm, and one of
his first decisions here with the Kings figures to be
whether to hold on to Jim Hiller as their coach. Now,
Jim Hiller took over on an introm role season before
(05:01):
last look at last year, Hiller led them to a
forty eight to twenty five and nine mark one hundred
and five points, and that tied franchise records. So there
you go. They're going to use Ken Holland, who was
in Edmonton. He will be the new GM. I will
also say that Holland hired Jay Woodcock as the coach
(05:26):
of the Oilers in February of twenty twenty two, fired
him thirteen games into the next season because he looked
eleven years old.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So he yeah, eleven years old. He looked about eleven
years old. So they fired him because he looked too young.
That's why I fired him. Yeah, I think that's what
it was. Now.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
They struggled at the beginning of the year, but he
did look like he was eleven years old.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
You know, Fred, you always say and I was going
to get you know, and I always kind of push
back from time to time. You always say somebody's got
to get it. Somebody's got to get it, somebody's got
to get it.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
You got to do where does that stop in terms
of who gets it? Where does that? Where does that end? Right?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Okay, so we we we look at the players make
too much money to get it. Players are not going
to necessarily get it. They're not getting it initially right.
They may like not get their contracts renewed, or or
they may get you know, cut if they're affordable to
be cut. But the players are not going to get it.
(06:34):
It's usually the coach, right, I mean, if it's after
the coach is the GM? But where does it Where
does it necessarily end? Does it end with the GM?
Does it end with does it does it stop there?
Does it go to the president? I mean, if you're
the owner and you put these people in place to
pre to produce a winner and it's not happening, you
(06:56):
lose four straight times to Edmonton?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Is it just a coach? Is it just? Is it
the GM? Now?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I mean we all love Luke Robota, he's the president.
He puts it all in place. Is it does Luke
any of it? Does he get any of the heat?
Does the owner get any heat, where does it stop?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Fair question. So if the objective you have two objectives
and professional sports first, the number one objective is to win.
The business of pro sports is to win, so that's
number one.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
One.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
A is to make money because it is a business.
So the theory is the more you win, the more
money you make. Yes, so you want to win, which
is true. It's not just a theory, it is actually true.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Win. You want to win money.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
If you don't win, you still want to make money, right, Okay,
So the president of the organization, as long as the
franchise is doing well financially, is probably not going to
get it. Because it's like any business, the TV business,
for example, in TV today there really aren't any ratings.
(08:15):
People go, oh, what are the ratings. I can tell
you they really don't matter because there really aren't any ratings.
People consume their media in different ways. So what is
the barometer of success. It's revenue. How much money do
you make? That's what matters. How you get it is
your problem if you're operating the business. So if you're
(08:36):
not winning, but you're still making money, the president is safe.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
All right. So now we move down a level.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
But we need to win because we understand the fans
are not going to be happy if we don't. So
what will happen? Our business will be affected. How will
it be affected? They won't come to the games, they
won't buy as many season tickets, they won't buy as
much merchandise.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Advertisers won't come in, Sponsors will be out. Why am
I paying for this?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Nobody's watching, nobody's engaged, so now take my money out
of it as well. If the president of the team
is operating a business that does make money, next up
would be on the player's side. The general manager. Okay,
is he doing a good job? Is he putting the
pieces in place for us to win? If you determine, yes,
(09:33):
he is. We've got what we need. Who's next the coach,
Because somebody's always got to get it. The coach didn't
take these pieces and mold them properly. It's kind of
like the Lakers with Darvin Ham. Who's to blame? Who's
(09:53):
Darvin Ham? I'm saying, who's to blame? Whose fault was it?
Because somebody's always got to get it. Frank Vogel, Frank.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Vogel, Frank Vogel, Yeah again, who's Foalds blame son always
won a title for you two years before you.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Fired him, Right, somebody's always got to get it.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
So when in that scenario they take you had a formula.
If you're Frank Vogel, we had a formula to win.
This is what I want. This is what I need
my formula to win. I gotta have bigs, yep. I
need a veteran point guard that can run the show, right,
that allows Lebron and Ad to do their thing and
(10:35):
direct traffic. And then I need rimp protection and we're
gonna play defense, right, and that formula one for you. Yeah,
and then you take that formula away from him by
dismantling the team that won for you, and you then
blame the coach for not winning. That's exactly what happened
(10:59):
with the Lake, exactly what happened with the Lakers. So
somebody got to get it. Frank Vogel got it. But
I guarantee you it wasn't the roster construction that Frank
Vogel wanted or even one with two years before that
got him fired. So why does Frankvogel got to get it?
(11:20):
Because Genie Buss wasn't firing Rob Polinka. That's why who
should have got it? Rob Polinka, that's who should have
got it. But since somebody's got to get it, Frank Vogel,
low Man tote him poll He's out.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Pretty simple.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Somebody's always got to get it. So Genie Buss had
more faith in Rob Polinka than Frank Vogel, so it
was the end of it. Vogel had to get it.
Darvin Ham, somebody's got to get it. Players weren't happening
with rotations. Some comments he made to the me been
taken differently than he intended. They didn't win. Well, somebody's
(12:07):
got to get it. He got it pretty simple. With
the Kings, well, certainly after the season they had the
regular season. You can't fire Jim Hill or the coach.
He had a hell of a year. But they didn't
accomplish their goal. And they've not accomplished their goal. So
who's going to get it? Well, look, Grobata is not
going to get it because they're probably doing okay financially. Honestly,
(12:29):
I'm sure they're not killing it, but i'm sure it's
also better than break even. Okay, they're doing fine. Well,
you're not going to get rid of him. I mean, they're.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Putting people in the seats with the kings right.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Right, so they're not going to get rid of the president.
The coach did okay, but for the fourth consecutive year
the team came up short in the first round of
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Somebody's got to get it.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Rob Blake got it because people wouldn't go back next
year if there wasn't a reason. All you have in
professional sports as hope. That's what you sell. That's the product.
The goal is to win, and the product is hope.
We hope this year our team will do it. We
hope this is the year we break through. We hope
(13:14):
we make the playoffs this year, and next year we
go further. That's what we hope every year. What you're
buying as a fan is hope.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
God, we hope. This is it for us. We're so in.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Don't let us down sports toys with people's emotions. There's
nothing tangible in professional sports that you get out of
it except my team won. Do they pay you No?
Do they pay you to go to the games?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
What are you really paying for? You're paying for the
right to go and sit and hope your team performs
that's all you're doing. You're buying merchandise because you hope
your team does well and you want to represent that
because you take pride in it.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
It's hope.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Okay, Well, if the team goes out four years in
a row in the first round of the same team,
how much do you hope they're gonna beat them next
time around? You don't, So somebody's got to get it.
And that's what the Kings did.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
So you don't look at how. You don't look at
the specifics of how you lost. You just look at
the results and go be lost after this. Yeah, that's it.
Don't look at it like, oh my god, we if
you're a certain team or even like say teams in
playoffs that their star player gets hurt, right four years
(14:41):
in a row or somebody gets injured at the end,
you don't look at that. It's just like you got there.
You should have won, and regardless if somebody gets hurt
or it's not feeling up the snuff, then it doesn't
matter because you should have won four.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Years in a row. Four years in a row, you're
losing the first round. I don't care who got hurt.
Somebody didn't get hurt.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Every year.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, you'd like for thinking about the Kings. The Kings scored,
didn't they score enough goals to win?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
But they lost.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, look at it like this. There's a guy that
played both college and professional football. If you're the coach
of an NFL team, want to know when the want
to know when it's getting a little hot for you.
Want to know when you're a couple of steps away
from being done. Go out there for the opening kick,
college or pro. Look at the stands.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Oh, yeah, stands. We saw that with the Rams, right,
that's what Jeff Fisher was gone. We knew who who else?
Our good friend Clay Helton was gone us. Yeah, look
at the stands. Just look around.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
You walk out there and the stands are half In
the NFL or college football, that coach is not long
for the job because people lost hope, and hope is
the only reason that brings them to the games. It's
the only reason that causes them to spend money, the
hope their team will win.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Look around.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
If there are not a lot of people hoping, we'll
get somebody in here so those people with hope will
come back. Kings go out four times in a row,
first round saying team, you don't hope they're good. What
hope do you have? They can't do it. They can't
beat them. Maybe they could, but psychologically they certainly can't
do it. With this version of the team. You lose hope,
(16:43):
you make a change. And that's why Rodney, at the
end of the day, like it or not, somebody's always
got to get it.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
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of the biggest events of the year is just around
the corner. Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on a five seventy
LA Sports Top of the Hour two o'clock. David Vassy
(17:37):
will join us from Dodgers Stadium. Dave is plugged in
on everything, and he was the one that reported that
the Dodgers at dfaid Austin Barnes to make room for
Dalton Rushing. So I'll wonder I'll be wondering if Dave
actually was surprised by this move. It caught everybody by surprise, Rodney.
But as you suggested, maybe people on the inside had
(18:00):
a sense of what was coming.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I would I would have to think so.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
That it's not a it's not a knee jerk reaction situation.
I think it's a conversation that hey, listen, at some point,
we got to bring him up and you might be
the one to get it, and we appreciate your services.
And you know when a player like that sometimes spread too,
(18:32):
is that it's not just a one player conversation. Sometimes
it is it's run by it's run by a few players.
And this might be a situation. So when it happens,
I don't want everybody to go up in arms, because
you want to mitigate and you want to minimize the
(18:53):
fallout or the reaction of certain players that are close
and certain players that have certain feelings for certain people.
Because the clubhouse is tight, a locker room is tight.
I can remember there are certain times when there's been
guys that have been let go, that got let go
out of the blue, and you're like what and it
disrupted the locker room. It's like what in the world,
(19:14):
what are we doing? What are we doing? And guys
had certain feelings and then it became animosity between the
players and the organization. So that's the last thing you want.
So I would imagine that that these conversations, even though
may not open, but within internally with Austin Barnes and
Dave Roberts and Andrew Friedman and the organization that they were,
(19:39):
they were had, they were had.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
All right, David bas say two o'clock, we'll get more
into it. So this is it tonight, five o'clock. It's fascinating.
It's fascinating. The poll and control of the NFL has
it is absolutely fascinating. You know, I can tell you
right now who the Rams are going to play at
home this upcoming season and who they're going to play
on the road this upcoming season. All right, so we
(20:05):
know we already know who they're playing, but tonight will
be revealed the order in which they'll play. If you
really think about the schedule release. Oh my goodness, tonight
will find out what order they will play them, and
(20:25):
that's like a three hour special.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
To find out.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
The order of the opponents. We know the opponents already.
For example, this year at home, they play the Niners,
the Cardinals, the Saints, Tampa Bay, the Lions, Houston, and Indianapolis.
There you go, there you go. But the order in
(20:51):
which they play them, you don't know that everything. Oh
I want to know who they playing on the road
this year, or.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Or if they play on primetime, or when that game
is going to be Yes? Right, is that a Thursday
night game or it could be a Sunday night game? Yes,
or Freddy, it could be somewhere else. Right, Well, we
know the Chargers now are going to open I think
in Brazil. Yes, but wait, everybody, hold on, who will
(21:23):
they play in Brazil. We'll find that out tonight. That
will find out, so we know they're going to be there,
but wait, there's suspense in drama.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Who will they play?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
That's what we'll find out. And by the way, I
think that game is going to be on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It'll be streamed on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
For the first time. It's going to be free on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Which means it probably will have the largest audience of
any NFL game this year because with a few exceptions
in some kind of trees will be blacked out or blocked.
You can probably watch that game almost around the world,
around the world on YouTube. Yeah, think about that. So
(22:12):
as the NFL can change to grow and move. Now
you're going to watch a football game on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Think about it.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Think about that for a second. Think about that YouTube. Okay,
we're gonna put it on YouTube. We're gonna make it
free for everyone. Anybody who's got a YouTube account. We're
gonna make it free. We're gonna make it free.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Freddy.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
But boy, if you're an advertiser, if you're an advertiser,
if you're an advertiser, right, if you're an advertiser and
you get this one hundred million people around the world
watching on YouTube, are you not paying for that? Are
(22:53):
you not paying for that?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Well, the people watching aren't paying, but I'm sure Google
is paying the NFL for the right to do it.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
They're paying it. They're paying it.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
And Google goes out and said, hey, take an ad
on this, Take an ad on this NFL game in Brazil,
around the world, you're in Australia, you're an advertiser in Australia.
Tune into this on YouTube Australia and pay a premium
to watch this NFL game.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
They're getting paid.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And that is why, just to divert for a second,
that is why as certain of a people of a
certain generation are upset. I don't know why all of
these things are now on streaming. I mean, why do
I have to buy the streaming service? Why aren't they
and broadcast TV where everybody can see them. Well, there
are games and all sports on broadcast TV. But the
(23:56):
truth of the matter is everything will be down the
road streaming in one way or another. It will simply
be streaming. And so when you're watching YouTube and you're going, wow,
this is crazy. No, it's the future and it's here,
you're staring it right in the eyes, because that's what
it's going to be in anyway. Tonight we find out
(24:21):
the big reveal and I think also the Chargers this
year because they start in Brazil and I believe they're
going to travel forty six time zones to get there.
It is mind boggling to me. Well, just the stuff
you come up with, they will travel more miles than
anybody in the NFL this year, more miles Rockney, you
(24:41):
played in the NFL, you travel a lot of miles.
Does that make a big difference?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Really it does.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Fred When you're traveling every other week and you're on
the road and it seems like you're on the road
for long trips, it wears on you.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
It really does.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
It's one thing if I'm going from la to Arizona
or I'm going to play the Raiders in Vegas and
it's an hour flight, it makes a difference. When you've
got to go East coast, maybe play a home game,
then go back to the East Coast, then go to
the East Coast again, play a home game, and then
go to the Midwest for a three hour flag. It
(25:24):
makes a difference. It's a wear and tear on your body,
it really is. And you don't think about that in
the present term, but when you think about it in
terms of how your body responds, it definitely affects your
body and your body clock.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
So it makes a difference. Yes, yes it does one
hundred percent. But the fact that they're traveling more so
than any other team in the NFL, that is a
disadvantage for the chargers, and.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
They don't need any disadvantages. Tell you that.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
The last thing they need is a disadvantage. What they
really need is a wide receiver. Do you know Mark Smith? No,
not that Mark Smith. This Mark Smith that's next. Come on,
(26:25):
Roddy Pete, Fred Rogan on a hup day. Yes, all right, Rodney.
So now the story of Mark Smith. Not the Mark
Smith that used to work at iHeart. This is a
different Mark Smith. And Mark Smith spells his name m
A rc smh. That's an important part of the story.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
M A r C sm I t H. All right.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
So it happens in Australia. Listen to this January of
twenty twenty three. Somebody that owns a boat claims it
has been stolen. So the police are called. By the way,
they say that the person that took the boat threatened
threatened them.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Well, this is not good.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
So the phone dispatcher misspelled the alleged offender's name. His
name was Mark Smith.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
M A rc.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
But they spelled it mark. So they went and they
found Mr k Mark Smith, okay, and they arrested Mark Smith.
Come with us, So he wondered, why am I going
with you? I haven't done anything. They don't even check
(27:47):
to see if the spelling is different. They just go,
that's it, you're Mark Smith. You come with me.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So they they take them in, they question them, they
make them spend the night in jail, and then they determine,
Wait a minute, you're the wrong Mark Smith. We understand
our bad our, goof, we made a mistake.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
We're sorry.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
We're sorry we put you in jail overnight. We understand
that you are Marc Smith. Now be on your way. Well,
the guy's upsetting me. He's embarrassed, and wouldn't you be
You just arrested me and it's not even me. You
don't even know how my name is spelled. I kid
(28:27):
you not flash forward, I don't know. Six seven months,
the police get a call someone has named Mark Smith
in this crime. The police look it up and they
(28:48):
go and arrest the same guy they arrested last time.
And that's not how you spell his name. When they
heard Mark Smith, they typed Mark boom boom, go get them,
but this is Marc. So they kept arresting the wrong
(29:10):
guy because they kept misspelling his name. The police in
Australia said, you know, we gotta do a better job.
We gotta do a better job. You know, we don't
like to make mistakes. You think you arrested the wrong
guy twice, and they arrested the same Mark Smith. Yeah,
the same wrong Mark Smith twice.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Can you imagine Mark Si? Does Mark Smith have a case? Wrongful?
Wrongful arrest? Yeah? Does he have a case.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
That'd be like somebody calls up and says, I want
to tell you John Doe, John Doe did it? John Doe? Okay,
and the guy types in j O hnd oe. They
go and find John Doe. But the problem is his
name is spelled j O N d O.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
You know what I mean. They had no idea. That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
They spelled his name wrong twice, and he got arrested twice.
He didn't do anything. Oh my god, the police are here.
What are you guys doing here?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Come with me? They're come up with me. That's crazy,
That is crazy. Oh the way.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Things work nowadays, it is so sad, so sad about
just I don't know, it's just it's just sad that
that that happened not only once, but happened twice to
the same guy.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Well that's the problem, I guess. Once we can say
that was a mistake.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Yeah, a mistake, Mark Smith, m A R K. Okay,
I get it. Okay, mistake. But then twice to the
same guy. Don't they have it in the record in
the log that we arrested this guy and we wrongfully
accused this guy. So let's not arrest him again, let's
(31:17):
not bring him in again. Let's run it through the computer,
and then the universal computer pulls it up and says, no,
this is.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Not the guy, so let him go. You know what, today,
just be happy your name is a Mark Smith. Ceaesus
David Vansay who has nothing to do with Mark Smith.
Well join us from Dodger Stadium. Next the question was
(31:47):
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