June 13, 2025 • 31 mins
Ned Colletti joins as and gives his insights into being the GM of both the Dodgers and the Giants as the two teams get set to square off for the first time this season. Rodney doesnt understand people's obsession with Friday the 13th and why theres an element of fear and concern surrounding it?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, we continue on Fred Rogan, Rodney, Pete an Ambo,
seventy LA Sports. Perhaps later we all have an opportunity.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Do you hear.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Rodney's complete story? Come on, we'll find out if the
show progresses. Now we have to get moving, Ned Colletti
has to get on a plane. But before he gets
on the plane, he's going to talk to us, the
man in the big chair, our dear friend, Ned Colletti, Ned,
good afternoon to you.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Good afternoon, gentlemen. Big weekend coming.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Big weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
All right, so you actually have inside knowledge of both
because you work for both. What are the differences between
the Dodgers and the Giants organizations?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Well, right now, the difference I would think between the
two teams is, look what the Dodgers do with San Diego, okay,
with a pitching staff that's been decimated. And look what
happened at the Giants yesterday in their game against the
lowly Colorado Rockies. Big lead halfway through the game, couldn't
hold it, get BT eight to seven. I didn't lose
any time in Colorado, we know it. But it's games
(01:01):
you can't win. You can't lose if you really intend
to challenge same thing with San Diego this past week.
I think the sixth and the seventh inning the other
day on Wednesday's game kind of told the story of
both clubs. But I just think that there's a difference
in the expectation, not the expectation, but the ability to
pull off the expectation to execute what you need to do.
(01:24):
I think San Diego is a good team. Ian Giants
are a good team. I don't think either one can
in a five game series in October. Yeah, sure, anything
could happen to anybody, But besides it, if you're going
to play it out, both teams neither get better where
they have to win games, where they have to execute,
make pitchers have great at bats late in games. Dodgers
do it almost all the time. San Diego, San Francisco inconsistently.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
All Right, So, ned if you're the Padres or you're
the Giants and you're up against the Dodgers, who, as
you mentioned, have the deep pockets that allow you to
do what is absolutely necessary to get over the hump,
and they do it repeatedly year after year, how do
you compete on a regular basis, Because because you feel
(02:15):
like we put all the pieces in place, and you've
said this to us several times that in a seven
game series, a five game series, yeah, you may get
us one, you may get us twice, but you're not
gonna get us over a seven game span multiple times.
That allows you to build a win against us. So
(02:35):
how do teams like the Giants and the Padres get
over that hump if they don't have the resources?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Well, well, I think certainly both teams have resources. It's
not like it's you know, the Dodgers from the first
few years of my tenure there. They have resources. Resources
don't necessarily mean you're gonna wins. You a chance to
make a mistake, have somebody get hurt and fill again. Okay,
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but I think it's it's really a matter. And the
Giants have been struggling, except for that one year, have
been struggling for it for quite a few years. They're
getting better, they're making a move. Okay, they've got to
really get the great teams execute when they when it
comes down to those one on one situations. Do they
have the people to do it? Maybe they do, I
don't know if they do. Where they don't, they didn't
have it yesterday San Diego.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I think ned Ned, we know, you know, you and
I and Freddy, we all know, and we all love
that that confidence, you know, coming out of the other side.
That is the most attractive thing when you have that
kind of confidence. And both these teams are good, But
(03:48):
do they have that kind of confidence that takes them
to the next level.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Well, I think when you get to end the games,
I think the Dodgers know they got a great chance
to win. I think the other teams don't know if
they've got a great chance to win. Maybe that's the
simplest way of putting it. Then maybe doubt on the
other side. I don't think the Dodgers ever doubt.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So now the Giants, the Giants are second place now,
I mean they're having a good start. You got to
give it to them. Their pitching has been good, their
bullpen's been good. Are they fulls gold?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I think that they're They're real, but they're pitching a
lot of it as young and so the second half
of the year is not the same as the first half.
September is not the same as the first four months.
October is not the same of them any month. So
I think it remains to be seen. I think you're
going to see wear and tear, mental wear and tear,
physical wear and tear. How do they react to it?
(04:42):
You know? The one good thing about the Dodgs right now,
you know they're in first place, after everything they've been through,
they get their pitching back. How fresh are those guys
going to be? Some of them have hardly even worked yet,
So everybody else is full on as best as they
can be, going as hard as they can, and the
doubters have been able to do what they've been able
to do with you know, under duress injury wise, but
(05:07):
with the with the hope that guys are going to
come back and almost rebuild an entire staff. That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, no, it's incredible. And you talk about luxury, that's
the luxury that not. I don't think anybody in baseball
has that luxury to go out and spend the kind
of money that they spent on, the quality arms that
they spend them on, and be able to withstand the
(05:34):
injuries to that staff and still yet be in in
first place and and be able to be a not
you know, they're not just hovering around. They are actually
they're buyers now, you know, and with nobody thought they
were going to be buyers and start the season.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
But you know, as you as you look at the
stretch of the season, the Dodgers have been through their toughest,
the toughest schedule probably of the entire year regular season,
and they've come out of it over five hundred. They
still got a few games left, but their schedule gets
easier after this, and they've had the fourteen to fifteen
guys on pitching that are on the il. So this
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was the last four weeks, in my opinion, was the
time when San Diego could make a move when the
Giants couldn't make a move. And the Giants have played
very well of late, say the game against Colorado on yesterday,
but you know, this was a chance that you could
go maybe up three or four games, put a little
pressure on La, you know, make a little bit of
a statement and separate a little bit. They haven't been
(06:42):
able to do it. And the Dodgers have been through
their toughest stretch in their season, regular season of schedule,
and they've done it with one hand tie behind it
back with the pitching staff.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
That being said Andrew Friedman, and I'm sure you felt
this way too. I'd like to get everything done before
we get started, so I don't have to go shopping
at the deadline. Well, right hand reliever, maybe a starter,
left handed power hitter. That leads us to Michael Confordo.
The Dodgers are very patient ned. But how much patience
can you have?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well, you're gonna have to be patient because he's done
it before. You know how much that depends on, you know,
an individual choice. Really from the management side of things,
he's done it before. He's not that all of the
player been a struggle. Yeah, been a little bit better lately,
but again, you know, you also have to have somebody
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that's going to do better than him, undecidedly better than him.
It's like replacing a manager, replacing a head coach. If
you have somebody you have no doubt can do the
job better, you make a move if you're not sure
about that, are you gonna put someone in a spot
that they may struggle or they may duplicate the frustration
you're saying with Michael, you don't do it because he's
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at least done it, he's got a track record of
doing it. So you make those moves when you know
definitively you've got somebody better. You're not paying them more
as the season goes on. You're paying them what you're
paying them, whether he's here or whether he's not. So
until you got somebody who's definitively better, you're you're right
about and you'll hope that you get some track.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
You've said that to us several times, that you better
have somebody, somebody better walking through that door before you
release or get rid of, you know, the guy that
you got, and that has been the mo uh you
know of the Dodgers and the taking that to heart,
and I don't know if it's because of that's kind
of you know, mentality that you instilled in this organization
(08:44):
is that you don't just get rid of people for
the sake of getting rid of people, which in today's
world it's so easy because there's so many what do
we call them influencers out there right that one that
that think they have the knowledge to say, we can
make the right decision for this, for this as you
go forward, as we go forward ned into leading up
(09:05):
to the All Star break, what what would be your
mentality as a guy sitting in the chair going into July,
how do you approach it? Do you approach it aggressively
or do you approach it as I am lockstock and
barreled with the with the training staff to figure out
(09:28):
when exactly are my guys coming back and what is
the real timetable so I can make a decision. Or
are you like, we got to be aggressive, we got
to do this, we got to do that. How do
you approach pre all star break and pre deadline.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I think you approach it two ways. You approach it
relentlessly and you approach it methodically. A little bit of
an opposite there, but I think you got to be
relentless in your in your scouting and your analytics to
figure out who's available, what they're going to cost talent wise,
what the allies are, and you've got to have a
good list of people you would acquire. At the same time,
(10:05):
you need to be methodical. You need to as you
just said, you need to spend a lot of time
with your training set and be realistic, you know, do
with neo olutrash, give what your group and really be
realistic as to what the expectations are for the guys
that are on the IL right now, that's a key thing.
You can't overdo it. You can't underdo it, and knowing
(10:25):
that you don't know everything because you're talking about a
human body, that they might be fine today and break
tomorrow or vice versa. So I think you got to
be realistic with it. You got to understand where everybody's at. No,
you can't hope. You need to know. And in the meantime,
you act like you're gonna need You're gonna need this,
you're gonna need that, and you start tracking people and
(10:47):
figuring out the appetite other teams have for your guys
and your appetite for what they may be moving.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
All right, that we appreciate it. We know you have
to jump on a plane. Where are you going?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I'm coming, I'm coming home, coming home to LA.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Where are you Okay?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'm in Phoenix?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Did you say a lone to my brother?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I didn't see you, brother? You got it?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Okay, there you go, Ned, there you go? Yeah, No, Ned,
you know how to answer that question. All right?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
All right, Ned, fly safe.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
We'll talk to you guys. Thanks again, Chila.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Some say the way to build your team is the
way the Dodgers build their team. But would you believe this?
There are there's a group that believes the correct way
to do it is the Angel way, and we'll talk
about that.
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Speaker 2 (11:57):
Oh yeah, our girl Nina Chantelle. Absolutely family, family, bringing
us back, Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan on a Friday, we
absolutely do not care on a Friday, but this is
a different Friday only comes around so often. Fred, Friday
at thirteenth? Are you a nervous guy when it comes
(12:22):
to Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I'm not ever one of.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Those guys' is like, oh, Friday thirteenth, I ain't going anywhere.
I'm staying in the house. I'm not getting involved, I'm
not getting out there in the streets, nothing like that,
Because I am. I am terrified, terrified of Friday at thirteenth.
Are you not one of those guys.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I'm not one of those guys. I'm not a superstitious
guy like that. I mean, I'm a guy that you know,
if my team is winning, ill were the same socks?
That kind of thing but I'm not superstitious with black cats.
Friday the thirteenth, I'll probably walk out of here and
get hit by a bus now. But I mean, I'm
not superstitious like that at all. People that really are superstitious,
(13:04):
Friday the thirteen scares them.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Oh yeah, I have people that I know well, not
just no, I have family members that don't leave their
house on Friday at thirteen, don't want to go outside.
Absolutely that they are so And you know what, I
but I always because I look at them sideways in
(13:27):
situations like this is because they pick and choose. They
pick and choose in the scenarios in which they become
frightened or paranoid or this is going to happen because
it's this particular day. Right, So if it's Friday the
(13:48):
fourth and you're going out and doing something, they don't
give it two thoughts. It's going to go out, It's Friday,
It's Friday, February fourth, I don't care. It's no big deal.
Where As if it were Friday the thirteenth in February,
(14:10):
then they would be overly cautious. They would go crazy,
telling everybody, don't leave your house, don't go outside, be
very very careful, blah blah blah, because it's Friday the
thirteenth that landed in February, and it's different than a
Friday the thirteenth that lands in February but happens to
(14:31):
be Friday the thirteenth in February, you know what I'm saying.
So it's like, it just it doesn't make sense to me.
If you're going to be a superstitious person, be superstitious
all the way through. Don't pick and choose or don't
just like, wait a minute, it's Friday the thirteenth in
February or Friday the thirteenth in June. So this means more,
(14:53):
this is different, This is different. Who tells them that?
Who tells them it's different and in June than it
was in back in November when the thirteen happened to
land on a Friday.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I think that's I think it's a fair point, Rodney.
I do you can't pick and choose?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
No, No, you can't pick and choose. What are people thinking?
Oh my god? I know people they are superstitious that
look up the calendar and they see when the thirteen
lands throughout the year, and they plan their they plan
their year accordingly. Okay, no they don't. Oh yes they do.
(15:35):
Are you kidding? No?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
One looks at the calendar and says, it's Friday the
thirteenth in June. Oh god, better I better walk that
day out right now.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
One hundred percent. They do, absolutely they do. They look
it up going into it, says December. Okay, we're gonna
have big celebration for Christmas and holidays and Honika and everything.
And now let's look at twenty twenty six. How are
we gonna look at twenty twenty six? Friday the thirteenth?
(16:07):
When and where does it land? Oh? Good, January February
were good? Oh, March got close because the thirteenth landed
on a Wednesday. Okay, we're good there. Oh no, fred
oh no, oh no.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Friday the thirteen lands on a Friday in June. Oh
my god, what are we gonna do Fridday? It lands
on a Friday in June?
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Do you think we're gonna be able to get those
people like that? We're gonna be able to make it
through this Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
According to people I know, no, unless you do exactly
exactly what social media says.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
What a social media say.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I don't know. I don't know. You need to stay
in your house, get a bunch of garlic, put it
around your neck in a string, and then dip your
toe into salt water for three hours before five o'clock.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
But you know, there are people there that are believing
that we just had a we had we just had
a strawberry moon a couple of days ago. It actually happened,
which is really weird. Happened on our anniversary, which is
the tenth of June. What is the strawberry moon. I
don't know what that means. I just was got bombarded
(17:52):
by people saying, you know this strawberry moon. It's a
strawberry moon on June tenth, your anniversary. It's a strawberry moon. Okay,
what does that mean? I don't I have no idea
what that means. Am I lucky? Am? I? I need
to go and look in my bank account and there
may be something in there that I wasn't expecting. Fred
(18:13):
I don't know. I don't know, because I never thought
about the strawberry moon in June. On the tenth, which
is our anniversary.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
So I just looked it up.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
By the way, So, the strawberry moon the name given
to a full moon that occurs in June, typically around
the first or second week of the month. It's called
the strawberry moon because the harvest season for strawberries coincides
with the full moon in many parts of the Northern hemisphere,
so that's why it's called the strawberry moon.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
So it happens every year.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Every year, right time for the strawberry harvest.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Basically, that's why time for the strawberry harvest that's always
around your anniversary.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, yeah, I just found out this, you know, recently,
because the strawberry moon was happening around June tenth. And
I don't know what that means, if it's something special
or whatever. But in it actually was pretty incredible to
see the moon. It was full and it was actually red.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Was it really?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
It was? Actually? Oh yeah, it was. It was. It
was actually, you know, a very I wouldn't see crazy bright,
but it was definitely you could see the tone in
the tent of the moon was red and a strawberry
strawberry in color. So but that didn't tell me Okay,
(19:32):
my god, let's let's jump on that plane and go
to Vegas. Fred, you want to spend some time at
the Blageo and roll the dice. Let's do that. No,
it did. It just was a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
See these kinds of things, Rodney, I think what we're
learning here, these kinds of things really get under your skin.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Oh yeah, they do. Yeah, they do. Because it's not consistent.
It's not consistent. If it had happens every single year
and every single time, then you can bank it and
go with it. But if it doesn't, you can't just
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make it up. Oh well, and when it doesn't happen,
like it's supposed to be a full mood, or it's
supposed to something something that's supposed to happen on the
fifteenth of April outside of taxes, something that's supposed to
happen that's gonna give you prosperity. But yet we don't
know what that is. And everybody that kids what of
(20:33):
these messages will do a click and follow and do
it because there's a feeling in a sense, I don't
know if you're like this, there's a feeling and sense
if I don't do it, I'm gonna regret it. I
gotta do what they say, just in case. What's it
gonna hurt? What's it gonna hurt? So what do you do?
I mean, what do you do? Do you get those
(20:55):
you get? I'm sure you get those two? Right. It's like,
send us to ten of your friends, or send this whatever.
Now do you ever do that randomly? I don't. I
don't either. I don't.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
But when you were younger, did.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You, Yeah? A little bit, yeah, Trutcher did a little bit,
a little bit, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Right, Send it to ten of your friends and it
will mean this for you, and then have them send
it to ten of their friends and it will even
be more for you. Yeah, when you're young and you
get those you I gotta do that because if I don't,
it'll be bad for me.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah. They picked me. They picked me out of millions
of people to spread the word. So I gotta do it. Yes,
And you feel guilty if you don't, especially if something
happens or if something happens randomly and you're I didn't
do it. I didn't do it, And then you hear
(21:50):
something even crazy, something crowd It's like code. What in
the world are you guys talking about.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
It's like Holly guilt. Go to the microphone, Holly, Holly,
put Holly up by the microphone real quick, Holly, lean.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
In, Fred, what is Roddie talking about?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Can I ask you something?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
What is wrong with him?
Speaker 6 (22:14):
I came in here to stop it right now. I'm
let you know me.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
I'm your biggest fan. I listened to every single show.
We didn't get much sleep last night, Fred, we were
in Miami.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
We got up crack a dawn and got on a plane.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Rodnie doesn't sleep on the planes, and he's tired.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
He needs to take a nap. And I don't know
what y'all talk about. Strawberry moons and the strawberry fields.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
Tell me about the strawberry I did tell you about
the strawberry moon, but I didn't say anything to do
with a superstition.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Or any think.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
It's just the strawberry moon that fell on June tenth,
which is our anniversary.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yes, belated anniversary, thank you.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Fred.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
It's kind of Roddie's kind of going through a stream
of consciousness today.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
He really is, and I came in here to stop
the stream.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
But people are superstition.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
No, I understand that, Honey, But I don't know what
you're talking about, but Fred, have a great weekend, because
I'm ready to call into the show and be like,
what is Rodney Pete saying today?
Speaker 6 (23:14):
It's one of those days, Fred, one of those days.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Oh, Holly, have a great weekend and Friday the thirteenth,
and according to Rodney, don't go outside.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Yeah, because there might be a strawberry moon that'll fall
on your.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
Head by Holly.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Oh my god, she's so I'm gonna get a ear
foled after the show. It's like, what the hell are
you talking about?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I gotta be honest with you. I'm finding you're quite entertaining.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
To be honest, you are, it's entertaining right now? Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
She's still yelling in the background.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
He's like, it's gibberish. It's gibberish. What are you guys
talking about? And she's not saying you guys, he's talking
about me. What am I saying? So, yeah, I guess
we got to switch topics.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Fred, Well, let's just take a break, all right. When
we come back, we'll talk about why some people think
the Angel ways better.
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Speaker 2 (24:30):
Oh yes, come on, hey, as we always talk about
on this show for the last what nine ten years, Freddy,
anything goes on a Friday, you know, anything goes on
a Friday, and that's what we've been doing. Anything has
gone on this Friday. We went off the rails, you
know a little bit. And uh, I apologize if I will,
(24:51):
maybe rambling a little bit, but who's doing ram passionate?
Some things were passionate. Some things were just uh just crazy, Freddy.
You know. And as you know, because she's called in
several times, but Holly listens to the show. She loves
listening to the show and loves listening to the network.
(25:11):
And when she listens and we're together, she will oftentimes
comment on certain things. So it was glad to get her,
uh her input on our last discussion. So that was
good stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Let me just ask her one question. Well, first, of all,
Before I do, I want to shout somebody out. A
good friend of mine is actually listening today. I know
him very well as a dear friend. He's never heard
the show before because he lives out in Palm Desert.
His name is Anthony Caredi and his genium of Toyota
of the Desert the number one car dealer in the
Coachella Vallet. Oh why not by far? Not even close.
(25:51):
And I can comment on this because I drive one
of his Toyota Tacoma trucks. Okay from Toyota of the Desert.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Blue. Oh is it? You know?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Dodger Blue. So I want to give a shout out
to my buddy Anthony, who was driving to LA and
listening to.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
The show right now. Are you a truck guy? Have
you always been a truck guy? I mean you got
the Tacoma now and you got the you know, the
hookup with with him. Yeah, but you were were you?
Were you always a truck driver?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
When he first gave me the truck, he first gave
me the truck, and I said, I'm gonna kill.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Back in the day, you had three ferraris and a
couple of porches. Back in the day. I used to
see you round around town.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
With No, you didn't because in a Ferrari to get
a nose bleed, it went too fast. But no, when
he first gave me the truck, I went, I'm gonna
kill somebody in this thing. You can't give anything to
speak to me. I'm the mobile assassin. But I'll tell
you what. Once you start driving a truck, and I
don't know, nobody looks more like a truck guy than
I do. But once you start driving a truck, you
like it, I'll tell you, and it's great. I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I do too. I uh, when did I have it?
Had I had it truck my one of my years
in Detroit because I did a deal that I actually
had a truck, But I then went to the suv
because the truck was not practical for me. But I
actually like driving trucks, I really do.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Why don't you tell this story about when you tried
to run me over at the remote?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Do you want to tell that story about when you
tried to run me over? And when we were at
Sherwood Country Club doing a remote that I don't remember?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Oh you do remember that. No, I do not.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
It looked like something coming out of an Arnold Schwartzenegger movie.
I was parked and I was walking. You you damn well,
do remember this?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Sick?
Speaker 9 (27:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Anyway, So I'm just coming across the parking lot to
walk in and I looked to my side and there's
this black sea. It was dark, tinted windows, and all
of a sudden, this thing is accelerating, and I'm thinking,
what the hell is it? So I start to walk
a little faster and the suv starts to kind of
(27:59):
do a little sh shemy back and forth like it's
coming after me. So I walk up the sub speeds by.
I kind of hide. You see who's in it because
I don't know what's going on here. It's Rodney. It's Rodney, right,
And I said, what were you doing? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I haven't doing anything.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, yeah, that story, Rodney, I do.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I do remember that. Yeah. We were doing the remote
for a or Yeah, out at Sherwood and you had
parked before me. I saw you all the way. So
I saw you get you know, park, get out of
your car all that. So I'm gonna have a little
fun with Fred. Let me have a little fun with fred.
So you start walking. Hey, you know sometimes you know,
cars will slowly veer off the path, And I tried
(28:46):
to play it so I was not looking intentional, And
as I started to gradually move over to where you were,
I could see your body language start to change, like
is this guy gonna he's gonna stay in his lane?
Is he? What is he doing? And I kept getting
closer to you and closer to you. I can only
(29:08):
imagine in your head, like what you wanted to say
to me. You wanted to cuss me out so bad,
and then you found out it was me, But I was, yeah,
I was. I was playing with you at that time,
thinking I was gonna run you off the road. Thank
god it didn't, but but yeah, yeah, looking at like
you wanted to You wanted to kill me. You wanted
to who it was his ass trying to run me
(29:31):
off the road? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I thought it was in a Terminator movie. It was
like dark and all of a sudden, out of the
darkness comes this black s u V. And I think
this is not real, this can't even be happening here.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
But it was you.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
All right, we still haven't done I.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Wonder though, real quick though, do you get that from it?
I know you had the attack by the by the possum,
or the possum stalked you. I know that, But have
you had any in you laughing? So these are real stories, folks,
it really is. Have you had somebody stalk you at
all like that like this, wait for you after work,
(30:10):
or wait for you at certain points and see you
and in the parking lot and it's like I'm going
to wait for him to come out and then I'm
going to confront him with my car.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
All right, One time, one hundred years ago, early on,
it's got to be thirty years ago more, there was
somebody that we had to call the police.
Speaker 10 (30:33):
Oh really yeah m hm wow yeah, so long ago
that bad? Yeah, Oh it was bad. We had to
call the police.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I mean, you know, what, what are you stalking me for?
I'm just showing guys getting hit in the head with
water melons. There's no reason to come after me. Wow
and water skiing squirrels.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
But at once, many.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Years came after you and and and they investigated it,
and they were kind that didn't like you, or somebody
that was all.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I knows this statement. All I knows this it was
one time and we noticed it was happening, and then
it went away.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
It went away.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
And another time there was a letter and I can't
remember what the letter said, that was turned over to
the FBI, and that person simply went away. Never never
heard from him again.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Heard from again.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
No, yeah, okay, I swear to God. Next door, we
are going to talk about why some people think the
Angel Way is better than the Dodgers. And before we
get to that, we'll talk some Lakers with Dan Woiki.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
He's up next.
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Do you hear.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Rodney's complete story? Come on, we'll find out if the
show progresses. Now we have to get moving, Ned Colletti
has to get on a plane. But before he gets
on the plane, he's going to talk to us, the
man in the big chair, our dear friend, Ned Colletti, Ned,
good afternoon to you.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Good afternoon, gentlemen. Big weekend coming.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Big weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
All right, so you actually have inside knowledge of both
because you work for both. What are the differences between
the Dodgers and the Giants organizations?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Well, right now, the difference I would think between the
two teams is, look what the Dodgers do with San Diego, okay,
with a pitching staff that's been decimated. And look what
happened at the Giants yesterday in their game against the
lowly Colorado Rockies. Big lead halfway through the game, couldn't
hold it, get BT eight to seven. I didn't lose
any time in Colorado, we know it. But it's games
(01:01):
you can't win. You can't lose if you really intend
to challenge same thing with San Diego this past week.
I think the sixth and the seventh inning the other
day on Wednesday's game kind of told the story of
both clubs. But I just think that there's a difference
in the expectation, not the expectation, but the ability to
pull off the expectation to execute what you need to do.
(01:24):
I think San Diego is a good team. Ian Giants
are a good team. I don't think either one can
in a five game series in October. Yeah, sure, anything
could happen to anybody, But besides it, if you're going
to play it out, both teams neither get better where
they have to win games, where they have to execute,
make pitchers have great at bats late in games. Dodgers
do it almost all the time. San Diego, San Francisco inconsistently.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
All Right, So, ned if you're the Padres or you're
the Giants and you're up against the Dodgers, who, as
you mentioned, have the deep pockets that allow you to
do what is absolutely necessary to get over the hump,
and they do it repeatedly year after year, how do
you compete on a regular basis, Because because you feel
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like we put all the pieces in place, and you've
said this to us several times that in a seven
game series, a five game series, yeah, you may get
us one, you may get us twice, but you're not
gonna get us over a seven game span multiple times.
That allows you to build a win against us. So
(02:35):
how do teams like the Giants and the Padres get
over that hump if they don't have the resources?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Well, well, I think certainly both teams have resources. It's
not like it's you know, the Dodgers from the first
few years of my tenure there. They have resources. Resources
don't necessarily mean you're gonna wins. You a chance to
make a mistake, have somebody get hurt and fill again. Okay,
(03:04):
but I think it's it's really a matter. And the
Giants have been struggling, except for that one year, have
been struggling for it for quite a few years. They're
getting better, they're making a move. Okay, they've got to
really get the great teams execute when they when it
comes down to those one on one situations. Do they
have the people to do it? Maybe they do, I
don't know if they do. Where they don't, they didn't
have it yesterday San Diego.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I think ned Ned, we know, you know, you and
I and Freddy, we all know, and we all love
that that confidence, you know, coming out of the other side.
That is the most attractive thing when you have that
kind of confidence. And both these teams are good, But
(03:48):
do they have that kind of confidence that takes them
to the next level.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Well, I think when you get to end the games,
I think the Dodgers know they got a great chance
to win. I think the other teams don't know if
they've got a great chance to win. Maybe that's the
simplest way of putting it. Then maybe doubt on the
other side. I don't think the Dodgers ever doubt.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So now the Giants, the Giants are second place now,
I mean they're having a good start. You got to
give it to them. Their pitching has been good, their
bullpen's been good. Are they fulls gold?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I think that they're They're real, but they're pitching a
lot of it as young and so the second half
of the year is not the same as the first half.
September is not the same as the first four months.
October is not the same of them any month. So
I think it remains to be seen. I think you're
going to see wear and tear, mental wear and tear,
physical wear and tear. How do they react to it?
(04:42):
You know? The one good thing about the Dodgs right now,
you know they're in first place, after everything they've been through,
they get their pitching back. How fresh are those guys
going to be? Some of them have hardly even worked yet,
So everybody else is full on as best as they
can be, going as hard as they can, and the
doubters have been able to do what they've been able
to do with you know, under duress injury wise, but
(05:07):
with the with the hope that guys are going to
come back and almost rebuild an entire staff. That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, no, it's incredible. And you talk about luxury, that's
the luxury that not. I don't think anybody in baseball
has that luxury to go out and spend the kind
of money that they spent on, the quality arms that
they spend them on, and be able to withstand the
(05:34):
injuries to that staff and still yet be in in
first place and and be able to be a not
you know, they're not just hovering around. They are actually
they're buyers now, you know, and with nobody thought they
were going to be buyers and start the season.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
But you know, as you as you look at the
stretch of the season, the Dodgers have been through their toughest,
the toughest schedule probably of the entire year regular season,
and they've come out of it over five hundred. They
still got a few games left, but their schedule gets
easier after this, and they've had the fourteen to fifteen
guys on pitching that are on the il. So this
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was the last four weeks, in my opinion, was the
time when San Diego could make a move when the
Giants couldn't make a move. And the Giants have played
very well of late, say the game against Colorado on yesterday,
but you know, this was a chance that you could
go maybe up three or four games, put a little
pressure on La, you know, make a little bit of
a statement and separate a little bit. They haven't been
(06:42):
able to do it. And the Dodgers have been through
their toughest stretch in their season, regular season of schedule,
and they've done it with one hand tie behind it
back with the pitching staff.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
That being said Andrew Friedman, and I'm sure you felt
this way too. I'd like to get everything done before
we get started, so I don't have to go shopping
at the deadline. Well, right hand reliever, maybe a starter,
left handed power hitter. That leads us to Michael Confordo.
The Dodgers are very patient ned. But how much patience
can you have?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well, you're gonna have to be patient because he's done
it before. You know how much that depends on, you know,
an individual choice. Really from the management side of things,
he's done it before. He's not that all of the
player been a struggle. Yeah, been a little bit better lately,
but again, you know, you also have to have somebody
(07:35):
that's going to do better than him, undecidedly better than him.
It's like replacing a manager, replacing a head coach. If
you have somebody you have no doubt can do the
job better, you make a move if you're not sure
about that, are you gonna put someone in a spot
that they may struggle or they may duplicate the frustration
you're saying with Michael, you don't do it because he's
(07:56):
at least done it, he's got a track record of
doing it. So you make those moves when you know
definitively you've got somebody better. You're not paying them more
as the season goes on. You're paying them what you're
paying them, whether he's here or whether he's not. So
until you got somebody who's definitively better, you're you're right
about and you'll hope that you get some track.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
You've said that to us several times, that you better
have somebody, somebody better walking through that door before you
release or get rid of, you know, the guy that
you got, and that has been the mo uh you
know of the Dodgers and the taking that to heart,
and I don't know if it's because of that's kind
of you know, mentality that you instilled in this organization
(08:44):
is that you don't just get rid of people for
the sake of getting rid of people, which in today's
world it's so easy because there's so many what do
we call them influencers out there right that one that
that think they have the knowledge to say, we can
make the right decision for this, for this as you
go forward, as we go forward ned into leading up
(09:05):
to the All Star break, what what would be your
mentality as a guy sitting in the chair going into July,
how do you approach it? Do you approach it aggressively
or do you approach it as I am lockstock and
barreled with the with the training staff to figure out
(09:28):
when exactly are my guys coming back and what is
the real timetable so I can make a decision. Or
are you like, we got to be aggressive, we got
to do this, we got to do that. How do
you approach pre all star break and pre deadline.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I think you approach it two ways. You approach it
relentlessly and you approach it methodically. A little bit of
an opposite there, but I think you got to be
relentless in your in your scouting and your analytics to
figure out who's available, what they're going to cost talent wise,
what the allies are, and you've got to have a
good list of people you would acquire. At the same time,
(10:05):
you need to be methodical. You need to as you
just said, you need to spend a lot of time
with your training set and be realistic, you know, do
with neo olutrash, give what your group and really be
realistic as to what the expectations are for the guys
that are on the IL right now, that's a key thing.
You can't overdo it. You can't underdo it, and knowing
(10:25):
that you don't know everything because you're talking about a
human body, that they might be fine today and break
tomorrow or vice versa. So I think you got to
be realistic with it. You got to understand where everybody's at. No,
you can't hope. You need to know. And in the meantime,
you act like you're gonna need You're gonna need this,
you're gonna need that, and you start tracking people and
(10:47):
figuring out the appetite other teams have for your guys
and your appetite for what they may be moving.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
All right, that we appreciate it. We know you have
to jump on a plane. Where are you going?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I'm coming, I'm coming home, coming home to LA.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Where are you Okay?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'm in Phoenix?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Did you say a lone to my brother?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I didn't see you, brother? You got it?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Okay, there you go, Ned, there you go? Yeah, No, Ned,
you know how to answer that question. All right?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
All right, Ned, fly safe.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
We'll talk to you guys. Thanks again, Chila.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Some say the way to build your team is the
way the Dodgers build their team. But would you believe this?
There are there's a group that believes the correct way
to do it is the Angel way, and we'll talk
about that.
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Speaker 2 (11:57):
Oh yeah, our girl Nina Chantelle. Absolutely family, family, bringing
us back, Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan on a Friday, we
absolutely do not care on a Friday, but this is
a different Friday only comes around so often. Fred, Friday
at thirteenth? Are you a nervous guy when it comes
(12:22):
to Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I'm not ever one of.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Those guys' is like, oh, Friday thirteenth, I ain't going anywhere.
I'm staying in the house. I'm not getting involved, I'm
not getting out there in the streets, nothing like that,
Because I am. I am terrified, terrified of Friday at thirteenth.
Are you not one of those guys.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I'm not one of those guys. I'm not a superstitious
guy like that. I mean, I'm a guy that you know,
if my team is winning, ill were the same socks?
That kind of thing but I'm not superstitious with black cats.
Friday the thirteenth, I'll probably walk out of here and
get hit by a bus now. But I mean, I'm
not superstitious like that at all. People that really are superstitious,
(13:04):
Friday the thirteen scares them.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Oh yeah, I have people that I know well, not
just no, I have family members that don't leave their
house on Friday at thirteen, don't want to go outside.
Absolutely that they are so And you know what, I
but I always because I look at them sideways in
(13:27):
situations like this is because they pick and choose. They
pick and choose in the scenarios in which they become
frightened or paranoid or this is going to happen because
it's this particular day. Right, So if it's Friday the
(13:48):
fourth and you're going out and doing something, they don't
give it two thoughts. It's going to go out, It's Friday,
It's Friday, February fourth, I don't care. It's no big deal.
Where As if it were Friday the thirteenth in February,
(14:10):
then they would be overly cautious. They would go crazy,
telling everybody, don't leave your house, don't go outside, be
very very careful, blah blah blah, because it's Friday the
thirteenth that landed in February, and it's different than a
Friday the thirteenth that lands in February but happens to
(14:31):
be Friday the thirteenth in February, you know what I'm saying.
So it's like, it just it doesn't make sense to me.
If you're going to be a superstitious person, be superstitious
all the way through. Don't pick and choose or don't
just like, wait a minute, it's Friday the thirteenth in
February or Friday the thirteenth in June. So this means more,
(14:53):
this is different, This is different. Who tells them that?
Who tells them it's different and in June than it
was in back in November when the thirteen happened to
land on a Friday.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I think that's I think it's a fair point, Rodney.
I do you can't pick and choose?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
No, No, you can't pick and choose. What are people thinking?
Oh my god? I know people they are superstitious that
look up the calendar and they see when the thirteen
lands throughout the year, and they plan their they plan
their year accordingly. Okay, no they don't. Oh yes they do.
(15:35):
Are you kidding? No?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
One looks at the calendar and says, it's Friday the
thirteenth in June. Oh god, better I better walk that
day out right now.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
One hundred percent. They do, absolutely they do. They look
it up going into it, says December. Okay, we're gonna
have big celebration for Christmas and holidays and Honika and everything.
And now let's look at twenty twenty six. How are
we gonna look at twenty twenty six? Friday the thirteenth?
(16:07):
When and where does it land? Oh? Good, January February
were good? Oh, March got close because the thirteenth landed
on a Wednesday. Okay, we're good there. Oh no, fred
oh no, oh no.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Friday the thirteen lands on a Friday in June. Oh
my god, what are we gonna do Fridday? It lands
on a Friday in June?
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Do you think we're gonna be able to get those
people like that? We're gonna be able to make it
through this Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
According to people I know, no, unless you do exactly
exactly what social media says.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
What a social media say.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I don't know. I don't know. You need to stay
in your house, get a bunch of garlic, put it
around your neck in a string, and then dip your
toe into salt water for three hours before five o'clock.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
But you know, there are people there that are believing
that we just had a we had we just had
a strawberry moon a couple of days ago. It actually happened,
which is really weird. Happened on our anniversary, which is
the tenth of June. What is the strawberry moon. I
don't know what that means. I just was got bombarded
(17:52):
by people saying, you know this strawberry moon. It's a
strawberry moon on June tenth, your anniversary. It's a strawberry moon. Okay,
what does that mean? I don't I have no idea
what that means. Am I lucky? Am? I? I need
to go and look in my bank account and there
may be something in there that I wasn't expecting. Fred
(18:13):
I don't know. I don't know, because I never thought
about the strawberry moon in June. On the tenth, which
is our anniversary.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
So I just looked it up.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
By the way, So, the strawberry moon the name given
to a full moon that occurs in June, typically around
the first or second week of the month. It's called
the strawberry moon because the harvest season for strawberries coincides
with the full moon in many parts of the Northern hemisphere,
so that's why it's called the strawberry moon.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
So it happens every year.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Every year, right time for the strawberry harvest.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Basically, that's why time for the strawberry harvest that's always
around your anniversary.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, yeah, I just found out this, you know, recently,
because the strawberry moon was happening around June tenth. And
I don't know what that means, if it's something special
or whatever. But in it actually was pretty incredible to
see the moon. It was full and it was actually red.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Was it really?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
It was? Actually? Oh yeah, it was. It was. It
was actually, you know, a very I wouldn't see crazy bright,
but it was definitely you could see the tone in
the tent of the moon was red and a strawberry
strawberry in color. So but that didn't tell me Okay,
(19:32):
my god, let's let's jump on that plane and go
to Vegas. Fred, you want to spend some time at
the Blageo and roll the dice. Let's do that. No,
it did. It just was a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
See these kinds of things, Rodney, I think what we're
learning here, these kinds of things really get under your skin.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Oh yeah, they do. Yeah, they do. Because it's not consistent.
It's not consistent. If it had happens every single year
and every single time, then you can bank it and
go with it. But if it doesn't, you can't just
(20:10):
make it up. Oh well, and when it doesn't happen,
like it's supposed to be a full mood, or it's
supposed to something something that's supposed to happen on the
fifteenth of April outside of taxes, something that's supposed to
happen that's gonna give you prosperity. But yet we don't
know what that is. And everybody that kids what of
(20:33):
these messages will do a click and follow and do
it because there's a feeling in a sense, I don't
know if you're like this, there's a feeling and sense
if I don't do it, I'm gonna regret it. I
gotta do what they say, just in case. What's it
gonna hurt? What's it gonna hurt? So what do you do?
I mean, what do you do? Do you get those
(20:55):
you get? I'm sure you get those two? Right. It's like,
send us to ten of your friends, or send this whatever.
Now do you ever do that randomly? I don't. I
don't either. I don't.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
But when you were younger, did.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You, Yeah? A little bit, yeah, Trutcher did a little bit,
a little bit, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Right, Send it to ten of your friends and it
will mean this for you, and then have them send
it to ten of their friends and it will even
be more for you. Yeah, when you're young and you
get those you I gotta do that because if I don't,
it'll be bad for me.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah. They picked me. They picked me out of millions
of people to spread the word. So I gotta do it. Yes,
And you feel guilty if you don't, especially if something
happens or if something happens randomly and you're I didn't
do it. I didn't do it, And then you hear
(21:50):
something even crazy, something crowd It's like code. What in
the world are you guys talking about.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
It's like Holly guilt. Go to the microphone, Holly, Holly,
put Holly up by the microphone real quick, Holly, lean.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
In, Fred, what is Roddie talking about?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Can I ask you something?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
What is wrong with him?
Speaker 6 (22:14):
I came in here to stop it right now. I'm
let you know me.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
I'm your biggest fan. I listened to every single show.
We didn't get much sleep last night, Fred, we were
in Miami.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
We got up crack a dawn and got on a plane.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Rodnie doesn't sleep on the planes, and he's tired.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
He needs to take a nap. And I don't know
what y'all talk about. Strawberry moons and the strawberry fields.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
Tell me about the strawberry I did tell you about
the strawberry moon, but I didn't say anything to do
with a superstition.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Or any think.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
It's just the strawberry moon that fell on June tenth,
which is our anniversary.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yes, belated anniversary, thank you.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Fred.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
It's kind of Roddie's kind of going through a stream
of consciousness today.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
He really is, and I came in here to stop
the stream.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
But people are superstition.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
No, I understand that, Honey, But I don't know what
you're talking about, but Fred, have a great weekend, because
I'm ready to call into the show and be like,
what is Rodney Pete saying today?
Speaker 6 (23:14):
It's one of those days, Fred, one of those days.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Oh, Holly, have a great weekend and Friday the thirteenth,
and according to Rodney, don't go outside.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Yeah, because there might be a strawberry moon that'll fall
on your.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
Head by Holly.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Oh my god, she's so I'm gonna get a ear
foled after the show. It's like, what the hell are
you talking about?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I gotta be honest with you. I'm finding you're quite entertaining.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
To be honest, you are, it's entertaining right now? Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
She's still yelling in the background.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
He's like, it's gibberish. It's gibberish. What are you guys
talking about? And she's not saying you guys, he's talking
about me. What am I saying? So, yeah, I guess
we got to switch topics.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Fred, Well, let's just take a break, all right. When
we come back, we'll talk about why some people think
the Angel ways better.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
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Speaker 2 (24:30):
Oh yes, come on, hey, as we always talk about
on this show for the last what nine ten years, Freddy,
anything goes on a Friday, you know, anything goes on
a Friday, and that's what we've been doing. Anything has
gone on this Friday. We went off the rails, you
know a little bit. And uh, I apologize if I will,
(24:51):
maybe rambling a little bit, but who's doing ram passionate?
Some things were passionate. Some things were just uh just crazy, Freddy.
You know. And as you know, because she's called in
several times, but Holly listens to the show. She loves
listening to the show and loves listening to the network.
(25:11):
And when she listens and we're together, she will oftentimes
comment on certain things. So it was glad to get her,
uh her input on our last discussion. So that was
good stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Let me just ask her one question. Well, first, of all,
Before I do, I want to shout somebody out. A
good friend of mine is actually listening today. I know
him very well as a dear friend. He's never heard
the show before because he lives out in Palm Desert.
His name is Anthony Caredi and his genium of Toyota
of the Desert the number one car dealer in the
Coachella Vallet. Oh why not by far? Not even close.
(25:51):
And I can comment on this because I drive one
of his Toyota Tacoma trucks. Okay from Toyota of the Desert.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Blue. Oh is it? You know?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Dodger Blue. So I want to give a shout out
to my buddy Anthony, who was driving to LA and
listening to.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
The show right now. Are you a truck guy? Have
you always been a truck guy? I mean you got
the Tacoma now and you got the you know, the
hookup with with him. Yeah, but you were were you?
Were you always a truck driver?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
When he first gave me the truck, he first gave
me the truck, and I said, I'm gonna kill.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Back in the day, you had three ferraris and a
couple of porches. Back in the day. I used to
see you round around town.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
With No, you didn't because in a Ferrari to get
a nose bleed, it went too fast. But no, when
he first gave me the truck, I went, I'm gonna
kill somebody in this thing. You can't give anything to
speak to me. I'm the mobile assassin. But I'll tell
you what. Once you start driving a truck, and I
don't know, nobody looks more like a truck guy than
I do. But once you start driving a truck, you
like it, I'll tell you, and it's great. I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I do too. I uh, when did I have it?
Had I had it truck my one of my years
in Detroit because I did a deal that I actually
had a truck, But I then went to the suv
because the truck was not practical for me. But I
actually like driving trucks, I really do.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Why don't you tell this story about when you tried
to run me over at the remote?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Do you want to tell that story about when you
tried to run me over? And when we were at
Sherwood Country Club doing a remote that I don't remember?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Oh you do remember that. No, I do not.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
It looked like something coming out of an Arnold Schwartzenegger movie.
I was parked and I was walking. You you damn well,
do remember this?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Sick?
Speaker 9 (27:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Anyway, So I'm just coming across the parking lot to
walk in and I looked to my side and there's
this black sea. It was dark, tinted windows, and all
of a sudden, this thing is accelerating, and I'm thinking,
what the hell is it? So I start to walk
a little faster and the suv starts to kind of
(27:59):
do a little sh shemy back and forth like it's
coming after me. So I walk up the sub speeds by.
I kind of hide. You see who's in it because
I don't know what's going on here. It's Rodney. It's Rodney, right,
And I said, what were you doing? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I haven't doing anything.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, yeah, that story, Rodney, I do.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I do remember that. Yeah. We were doing the remote
for a or Yeah, out at Sherwood and you had
parked before me. I saw you all the way. So
I saw you get you know, park, get out of
your car all that. So I'm gonna have a little
fun with Fred. Let me have a little fun with fred.
So you start walking. Hey, you know sometimes you know,
cars will slowly veer off the path, And I tried
(28:46):
to play it so I was not looking intentional, And
as I started to gradually move over to where you were,
I could see your body language start to change, like
is this guy gonna he's gonna stay in his lane?
Is he? What is he doing? And I kept getting
closer to you and closer to you. I can only
(29:08):
imagine in your head, like what you wanted to say
to me. You wanted to cuss me out so bad,
and then you found out it was me, But I was, yeah,
I was. I was playing with you at that time,
thinking I was gonna run you off the road. Thank
god it didn't, but but yeah, yeah, looking at like
you wanted to You wanted to kill me. You wanted
to who it was his ass trying to run me
(29:31):
off the road? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I thought it was in a Terminator movie. It was
like dark and all of a sudden, out of the
darkness comes this black s u V. And I think
this is not real, this can't even be happening here.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
But it was you.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
All right, we still haven't done I.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Wonder though, real quick though, do you get that from it?
I know you had the attack by the by the possum,
or the possum stalked you. I know that, But have
you had any in you laughing? So these are real stories, folks,
it really is. Have you had somebody stalk you at
all like that like this, wait for you after work,
(30:10):
or wait for you at certain points and see you
and in the parking lot and it's like I'm going
to wait for him to come out and then I'm
going to confront him with my car.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
All right, One time, one hundred years ago, early on,
it's got to be thirty years ago more, there was
somebody that we had to call the police.
Speaker 10 (30:33):
Oh really yeah m hm wow yeah, so long ago
that bad? Yeah, Oh it was bad. We had to
call the police.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I mean, you know, what, what are you stalking me for?
I'm just showing guys getting hit in the head with
water melons. There's no reason to come after me. Wow
and water skiing squirrels.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
But at once, many.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Years came after you and and and they investigated it,
and they were kind that didn't like you, or somebody
that was all.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I knows this statement. All I knows this it was
one time and we noticed it was happening, and then
it went away.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
It went away.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
And another time there was a letter and I can't
remember what the letter said, that was turned over to
the FBI, and that person simply went away. Never never
heard from him again.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Heard from again.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
No, yeah, okay, I swear to God. Next door, we
are going to talk about why some people think the
Angel Way is better than the Dodgers. And before we
get to that, we'll talk some Lakers with Dan Woiki.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
He's up next.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
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