July 10, 2025 • 32 mins
NFL insider, Vinny Bonsignore talks about Jared Goff's comments on the Rams trade, the NFL and NFLPA collusion case and more. Reinforcements could be on the way for the Dodgers soon as Blake Snell begins his rehab assignment. Does fast food HAVE to be eaten fresh or it loses its flavor?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is Rogan and Rodney here and five seventy l
A Sports, Ben Mallard Jonas knocks in for the guys
here as we are taking you all the way up
until three o'clock. A reminder, we will be giving away
one pair of Dodger tickets Dodgers Cardinals on August fourth.
Those will be given away here and it's gonna be
in this hour.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You're making people, You're making people. Wait, Jonas, that's a
that's a bad move man. People are like, I just
give the tickets.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I don't want to listen to you. Give the tickets out.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
And I'll say this. I want to apologize to Kevin.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I've been trying to get us out on time, Kevin.
I don't know why Ben keeps Butcher in the clock.
I don't know what's going Hey, listen.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Joe, I'm on time. Mallard by the clock, four of
the clock, all about the clock.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
But I'm not in control, man, You're I'm in I'm
in the back seat, dude, you're in the you're in
the driver's seat.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Man, I don't know what to take to take these
guys off of the network where they have like Ampeter cut
them off, and they just won't stop.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I know, I know, yeah, yeah, trust me.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
If you didn't, if nobody stopped me, I just do
one solid hour of commercial free radio.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I would just keep talking.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
One of my favorite listening driving around listening was the
great Andy Furman, who didn't realize the heart out was
approaching on the Fox network. It was a weekend show
and I'm listening and I'm looking at the clock in
my truck, going, hey, dude, you gotta get out. And
Andy starts his tease and they just hear.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Come up next, you're gonna hear why we are.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It was like a bomb going off. I called Furman
and he was like, I didn't hear the countdown?
Speaker 5 (01:29):
What you want?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And Andy, of course one of the great radio people
all the time, probably so neurotic.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
He was freaking out right. It was just losing.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
He couldn't he couldn't help it. He couldn't help it.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I was on the air one time and the Profit
system and Fox Post Radio broke so they couldn't play commercials.
So we just kept talking and talking.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
It was the guy's like the board up, the board up,
was like he was this old guy that only worked
there a little bit nice guy, but he's.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Like he didn't know what he was doing, and he's like,
just keep going. I don't know what to do. I
don't I gotta call somebody. It was like two in
the morning. There's no one had called it two in
the morning.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And the great thing about the prophet system is that
when it breaks, it doesn't help you. It just puts
up a red frown face on the screen, like that's
not helping anybody. We clearly can't go to break, we
can't fire anything now.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
In fairness, Jonas, it is the top tech from like
nineteen ninety eight, so it is really good tech from that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I believe I'll be giving them too much credit.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, I believe.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I believe we bought that off the set of Private
Parts when they did that movie.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So yes, yes, where that equipment came from.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Vinnie bonsign yours with us here on AM five seventy
LA Sports and five seventy LA Sports NFL Insider, Vinie,
what's happening? Happy Thursday to you.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Happy Thursday to you guys. Well as somebody that just
concluded my own radio show and I blew through some
some you know, I was I was gabbling with that
clock all day long, the looks that I got from
my producer. So I'm on Kevin's side on this. I
know that we we frustrate them sometimes, you guys, we
got to do better.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Now do you think do you think
the NFLPA is going to have to do better? Because
based on the stuff that's come out recently, this makes
the people running the NFLPA look awful. If your own
players aren't even aware of certain things that are happening,
meanwhile you're working in cahoots with the owners to try
and keep secrets.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Yeah, that probably wasn't a very good look. And if
I'm a player, I obviously have many questions and I'm
a little bit upset. But in the grander scheme of things,
I'm not quite sure we're going to get to a
point where contracts are fully guaranteed. And if that is
the case, if players are dead set against or they
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want their full guarantees of their contracts, the owners are
going to respond by saying, Okay, then every contract's two years.
You want, you know, sixty million dollars over the next
two years fully guaranteed. That's all We're going to guarantee.
We're not going to go into a third year, We're
not going to go into a fourth year. And it's
really interesting because if you look at guys, let's say
Russell Wilson, he played the duration of his contract. He
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got all of his even though not all of it
was completely guaranteed, some of it was guaranteed for injury
and this, and that. He played the term on that
contract he signed with the Denver Broncos. There's so so
there are players who end up getting all of their
money and a lot of it fully guaranteed. But if
if players are insistent on getting full guarantees for the
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duration of their contract, owners are gonna have no choice
because of the salary cap, because of the physicality of sports,
because you can't hamstrung yourself down the line by paying
fully guaranteed money, which gets accounted for on your salary cap.
At some point they're gonna they're gonna say, look, then
then forget four year deals. We'll go to two year deals.
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We'll fully guarantee the two year deals, and then we'll
revisit it in two years, two years down the road.
So there's gonna have to be some give and take
there's no way that owners can not want but ken
fully guarantee every single NFL contract. That's ludicrous. The salary
cap system that they have.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Now vinnie as far as the what happened and what's
out on the internet now with the the union in
the NFL being in cahots here is anything going to
change though?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
In terms of the players.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Is there gonna be some kind of rebellion or uprising
from the NFL players or is this just a bunch
of hot air and people banging the table and no one's.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Gonna lose their job. There's gonna be nothing that's really
changes in terms of that the people involved in it.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
That's a good question. I don't know, but I don't
think anything's going to change in terms of you know,
there's gonna be some answering to do, like why did
you do that? And maybe they'll maybe they'll provide some satisfactory,
satisfactory answers to the players. So when when I hear
full disclore or or you know, just put a full
clamp on on all of it, you know, there's probably something.
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There's no there's no way that the players Association would
have would have agreed to that unless there were some
things that they just didn't want out there as well.
So there's probably a little bit of give and take
on that. We'll see how the players fully reacted. Maybe
it will mean new leadership in place or somebody being replaced.
But but in terms of you know, just changing the
landscape but fully guaranteed contracts, I don't think that's gonna
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that's gonna change at all.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Vinnie Bonsignor joining us here on AM five seventy l
A Sports, Ben Mallord Jonas Knox in for the guys.
So we were talking earlier about you know, Jared Goff
basically calling out the Rams handling of his trade in
the Netflix Quarterback series and just you know, wish they
would have handled it differently, you know, felt a little
blind sided, so on and so forth. And I think
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after the fact we can all agree that it worked
out pretty well for everybody involved. But from what you
remember during that time, the writing was pretty much on
the wall, correct, I mean, they were going to part ways.
It was just a matter of figuring out who was
going to try and make it possible.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Yes, And and a couple of quick things. First of all,
you know, it's funny because we want athletes to be
as honest as possible, and then when they are fully
honest and transparent, you know, they get criticized it because
I've seen people like, stop it, stop crying. It worked
out great for you. Why are we still revisiting? Well,
somebody asked me the question on a show, you know,
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on a documentary, which he's he's you know, a front
part of that. So he was fully honest and I
respect that from Jared Goffin. By the way, Sean McVay
has retroactively said, man could have handled that a little
bit better. So so you know, before we criticize athletes
for being honest when we're always asking them to be honest,
let's remember that we're asking them to be honest, and
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then we can't on one hand ask for that and
then crush them for being honest. That said, my recollections
of that, they weren't going to just give Jared Goff away.
A perfect storm occurred for the Rams in that situation.
Jared Goff even as you know, maybe disappointed as they
were that particular year coming out that one year where
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they ended up deciding to trade him, they weren't going
to just give him away. For nothing in return, like
there had to be a better option that was readily
available to them. They've known the Rams have been in
quarterback hell, had been in quarterback hell for quite some time.
You have to go all the way back to the
greatest show on turf, you know, when they had a
great quarterback, and what life looked like then, and then
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what life looked like without a good quarterback. It was misery.
We all remember that, and the Rams are first, They
remember it more than anybody. So Matthew Stafford. It took
Matthew Stafford deciding and going to the Lions and saying, look,
I want to get traded. I've given you everything I
can give you a matt twilight. I'm a career I
want to go someplace where I could win now. And
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a general manager of Brad Holmes, the former Rams assistant
general manager, by the way, and an organization that said, hey,
you know what you have done right by you, and
we're not going to just hold you hostage here. Let's
see if we can work something out to make you happy,
to get you someplace that's that's better. And the Rams
saw that and said, okay, here's a quarterback that we
feel as bad obviously than Jared Goff. And without that,
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there's no way they're trading Jared Goff. So the notion
that they're just going to get rid of him, they
had resigned themselves to the fact that they were going
to trade him a safety net or without having somebody
to replace him that wasn't a little bit less than
Jared Goff, or maybe even as good as Jared Goff,
somebody that they felt was better than Jared Goff. So
short of that happening, and it did happen, fortunately for them,
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Matthew Stafford was available. One of the best quarterbacks of
this generation was available to them, and they had a
general manager that also liked Jared gofs Brad Holmes was
part of the process that drafted Jared Goff. So it
was this perfect convergence of events for the Rams to
trade Jared Goff. But short of that, no, they're not
going to trade Jared Goff. Why would they and for
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who who would the replacement have been?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well, he had bench though in a playoff game, right
he could have played Waffer.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
We talked about that. John Waffer at that time was
out there in the play golf.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Could I think didn't Goff had the Goff had the
hand injury. I think it was he was coming back
from a hand It was like some weird thing that
was going on. But the quarterback that had gotten him
to the Super Bowl. I mean, all I know is
they were a terrible franchise for many years before Jared
Goff got there. His first year was a watch. That's
Jeff Fisher. You know, we all know what happened in
twenty sixteen. But twenty seventeen they win their division. The
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next year they're in the super Bowl. Then they were
perennially in the Super Bowl. Did they fall short, Yes,
they didn't win the Ultimate bawl or the ultimate objective.
But they're not just giving Jared Goff away if they
didn't have Matthew Stafford to trade for or somebody equivalent
of Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
All right, Well, moving off from that, the Chargers they're
going to start training camp in a few days here video,
and they did make some moves, but they didn't really
improve the wide receiving corps very much. I know in Washington,
Terry McLaurin is not he's not happy. Tyreek Hill's not
really happy in Miami. Is there a chance. What are
the chances the Chargers make a move on one of
those guys before the start of the regular season.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Man, those are two big money ticket guys, especially Hill
from from Miami. I don't, I don't, I don't. I
don't think so, you know, I think that you know,
they had opportunities during the off season to uh, to
keep improving that room. I know, I know there's a
lot of faith and Ladd McConkey, uh, you know, and
the running game, an improved running game. They just brought in,
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you know, Mari Hampton in the draft and Naja Harris
for the Pittsburgh Steelers. They feel pretty good about that room.
So I think this is one of those items that
for now anyway they're gonna they're gonna circle back to
at some point. But they feel like and they did.
They they they won with this group last year, even
even as as as much of a struggle as it
was sometimes with those wide receivers. But you figure Lad
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is going to be better, The offensive line is going
to be healthier and probably better. The run game is
going to be better with with what they brought in,
So they feel like they could win with this group.
I don't see any drastic moves happening to go get
somebody like a Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Vinnie Bonsignor with us Year on a M five seventy
l A Sports Ben Malord Jonah knocks in for the
guys here on Rogan and Rodney. What is a Because
I'm watching just sort of Max Crosby's comments about Pete
Carroll and his impact on the team. We obviously know
the relationship with Geno Smith and how that all played out.
What would you say, is somebody who is there covering
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the team, close to the team, have seen all of
the downs over the past few years. What is a
realistic ceiling for the Raiders? Because it does feel like
there's a different vibe there and now with Pete Carroll
in tow Spy Tech Geno Smith, it just feels like
things are a little bit different. What's a realistic ceiling
for this team coming.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Up this season?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Well, from in terms of a ceiling nine to ten
wins ceiling, you know, and you know, if you're in
that world, then maybe you could sneak another one, you know,
get to eleven potentially, but I would say that would
be the ceiling. And and you know, coming off a
four win season last year and kind of the misery
that's been that's been here for the last couple of years,
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that would be a pretty big step forward, you know.
And and the Raiders are trying to to throat a
couple of different needles. One is win right now and
try to push it as far as they can, and
maybe as far as they can is nine or ten wins,
and maybe that gets them into the playoff hunt some
important games, you know, down the stretch, and maybe they've
punched their ticket for a while card and see what
happens in the playoffs. But you know, that's that that
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would be for them a step in the right direction,
and you know, strengthening the foundation and then building off
of that, that would That's what I would see, is
they're they're seeing a lot of things have to go
right for that to happen. But you know, but I
think they've made some some really important changes with Gino
Smith and Aston Jenety and brock Bauers is just a
stud over there at tight end. They've got they've got
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talent on this team. But but if you're asking me
a realistic ceiling, I'd say nine or ten wins, all right?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Have any I asked you about the trade before I
ask you about another trade. Trey hendrickson Cincinnati that they
haven't worked out a contract yet. Are you going to
get traded the defensive star of the Bengals.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Man, I'm sure yeah, if you're the Cincinnati Bengals hockey
to do that, Like, first of all, pay the guy.
You know, your your defense was really bad last year.
I know. You know, maybe their argument was, yeah, we
were bad, and he was on the theme and he
had a really good season, So there you go. But
you know, the Bengals are are They're they're a different
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breed man. They do things a lot differently and since
than than any other organization. They have a way that
they do it. They're very frugal as as as cruel
as you could possibly be running an NFL team. But
but that that doesn't it doesn't sound good everything that
you're hearing out there. But I don't know that that
they're gonna they're in any uh have any desire to
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trade him? So where he might want to get traded
at this point to get fair value what he believes
is fair value. They they hold all the cards and
they could just sit there and say, no, we're not
going to trade you. And if you're going to sacrifice
the money that you're on the docket for this year,
that year, but we're not going to trade you. So
because of their position, I don't see that. I don't
see a trade happening. I'm sure he would like to
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push for something if he doesn't get the contract that
he wants in the Sincati Bengals, but they hold all
the cards in this case.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yeah no, well he we looking at a RAM uniform.
I know that.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Yeah, yeah, no.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Doubt, Vinnie Bonsignor. We appreciate it. We will do it
again soon, my friend.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
All right, guys, have a great one.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Thanks man there.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
He is am five seventy LA Sports NFL insider. By
the way, I would say this if he's talking nine
to ten wins for the Raiders this upcoming year, you know, Ben,
I am seeing that the win total, the over under
win total for the Raiders is six and a half.
So maybe, uh, maybe Vinnie is a little bit bullish
about those Las Vegas Raiders and your guy Gino Smith,
by the way, you and him have a long storied relationship.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Going back to his days at West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, Gino not a fan of my work, not not
a fan, not a fan of Oh my god, Jonas,
did you see the news? All my goodness, this We're
never gonna hear the end of this, Joe, did you
see who passed away today? News just came out, Lee Ilia.
We just played the audio.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Did he really? Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Eighty seven years old, Lee Ilia, manager Cubs and the
in the Phillies.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Wow, how about that one?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Really?
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I'm not making this.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I thought that's part of the reason why you brought No,
I did not.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
See that. No, yeah, I did not know that. No,
I mean you are the grim reaper Jonas.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Of course we knew that. I mean, that's part of listen.
This is part of the part of the show. Pap
show prep. You go through all the websites, you scour everything.
You go to the La Times, you read all this stuff,
and the you got to read sports, Yes, the sports radio.
You must read the old bits to see who died. Wow,
that is correct. Well rest in id you. Thank you
for one of the great moments in the history of
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sports radio. Just Lee Ilia laying way Cubs fans should have.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
What what an amazing world?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You know you live life, you don't know what you're
gonna do, what you're gonna become in life, with job,
you'll have, who you'll marry. You know we had kids
when you're not after you know any of that stuff.
But then, like you never know how people.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Will remember you.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
But Lee ilia managed the Cubs, he managed the Phillies.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You know, he worked in baseball. But he's he's known.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
For that rant, right, that is is the legacy of
Lee herea which will live on long after Lee left
this mortal coil. Rest in peace, Lee, good good run,
good run. He left the world. Jonas we all get
to smile, we all get to celebrate that rant, and
I'm glad we got to play.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I didn't realize he had passed away. I did not
know that. Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I mean, you know, if if Tom Looney was doing updates,
you know what he would do. He would do a
ten count for Bird Sugar like he did during his
update years ago. You know that's how you that's how
you passed that sixty seconds.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So you got pep it up. You. Pep went off
there to put some bells and whistles on it.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Burt Sugar dies and Tom Looney does a ten count.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Oh audio of that somewhere right.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I haven't heard this dude talk about you talking about
slow news day. It's like, oh, I'll just count to
ten with a bell ringside.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Burt Sugar one of the all time great people I
ever came across in mall travels in sports radio.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I was doing.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I was in Vegas back when I used to go
to those things for a fight, and I saw Burt
in the afternoon. I say, Bert Shugar. Burt was a
boxing history. If you don't know who he is. Wore
the fedora, he had the cigar. I said, Bert, I
want you to have come on my show. He said,
I'll do it. What time's your show? I told him
what time? Holy you know, he said, I'll do it though.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Jonas. He came down. It was at the MGM.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Grand That the the hall, they had all the radio stations.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
He came down. It was at night.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
He had his fedora, he had a cigar, he had
a glass alcohol. He was in his pajamas. He came
down in his pajamas. Burt Sugar to do the interview.
But he had the fdor, he had the cigar, he
had some kind of hard liquor.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I don't remember remember box it was it was outstanding.
They had to have been buried with those right and
with the cigar.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
We we did an when I was in uh, South Carolina.
There was a big boxing event that was coming up,
and it was like either that or you were going
to break down, you know, Clemson basketball, Like who cares for.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
The seventh time?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
So we we interviewed Bert Sugar and he just started
taking a leak while we were on the air, like
literally like we could hear like you could hear him
draining the train while we're trying to do an interview
with him. Not a care in the world. Literally didn't care,
he was doing nothing wrong, just he was, you know,
and Burt emptied the vault.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
He loved.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
He loved like baseball history and boxing.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I remember once I was hearing Bert, we were talking
about boxing, and next thing you know, he's talking about
uh Babe Ruth running naked through a train and women
running after him.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
And it was like with the Yankees in like nineteen
when he you know, seven or it was, it was
just you never knew what you're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
And that is why Tom Looney did an update and
the sound he pulled for this update was a ten
count like, Hey, who on that Dodger game. Don't worry
about it, We're almost a ten. Uh it is uh,
it is Rogan arod Here on AM five seventy l
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A Sports, Ben Mallard, Jonas Knox in for the guys.
So the Dodgers could be getting some help very very soon.
We'll tell you who it is and when next year
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will be giving away a pair of those, So stick around.
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Speaker 3 (21:31):
Personally handing this out? Yeah, Jonas, you're giving those out yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Or no, I don't believe so. I believe Dave Weiese
may be personally handing those out, which you'd rather get
him from Weise anyways than me.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Promotions. God, yeah, he is. How many people hit him
up for tickets? Everyone? Right, everyone bothers him for thirty years.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Everyone's been bothering him particular, I've heard, I've heard stories.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
By the way, by the way, I'm still waiting for
him to get back to me on the Hawaii UCLA
High Demand tickets that he said, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
We got you me.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, Yeah, we're gonna put you just two years ago.
We'll put you in the Rose Bowl right under the
sun is where we're going to put you, literally under
the sun at the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So we got a couple of tickets. Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Now, when you hear that Snell Zilla, your guy, Blake
Snell has a reheair assignment coming up later on in
Rancho Kook. All right, and you know how David Vasse
feels about Blake Snell. I mean, maybe, just maybe because
historically He's always been a guy who finishes strong. Maybe
the Dodger's success from a pitching standpoint is going to
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be on the hands of the one and only Blake
Snell as the season starts to enter into the back end,
back half of the of the stretch. Here, Ben Maller,
I don't know how that lands with you, but Blake
Snell could be returning very soon to try and help
this team out much needed help from a pitching standpoint.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
It makes me sick that if your season is hinging
on Blake Snell, you're you don't have a lot, you know,
it's it's like a hill made out of beans. That's
it's not good there. What are the chances now he's
pitching today in Rancho?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I think in Rancho. It's Rancho. I think it's in Rachel.
So Rancho.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
What are the what are the the chances? The story
after the game is a everything went great, yep, solid
outing U b uh. There was a minor setback or
ce we've decided to shut Blake's Blake Snell down because
something major happened.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
What is more likely to be the outcome of that appearance?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I think everything's gonna go great? Oh, really, I mean,
mister positive over here. I mean, I think everything is
gonna go great. I don't think I can't imagine that
this just goes completely sideways for him. It's too perfect.
He was always meant to be a Dodger. Yes, always
listen with the way that you and Vassay of both
wax poetically about the great Blake Snell. He was always
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destined to be here. He always wanted to be here.
He didn't wait around long after the season was over
and free agency started to get a deal done with
the Dodgers, and so there's been a little bit of
a setback. Now he's in Rancho Kukumonga. Who knows, maybe
he'll stick around for the PMS remote because they're having
a remittant Rancho coup coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Well, Blake, maybe, yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Also, remember Joseph, these guys the rule in baseball, you
know this is when you go to a minor league
rehab start, you have to buy the guys like food.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Right, you have to buy him a meal. You're supposed
to do that.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
So he could take the entire Quakes team to the
Petro some Money road show and right, have them alls
pull up there and then Blake will pay for everything.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Do a segment with the guys. You know, it'd be
great perfectly.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Who do you what would if you were a minor
leaguer and you needed some like a guy like Blake
Snell with all the money that he's made in his
career he shows up. Yeah, I'm saying like, what do
you what would you expect as far as the spread
goes when when one of these guys takes over, because
I think Max Scherzer did a rehab assignment and he
went above and beyond according to reports with what he provided. Yeah,
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the guys there on that team, so you'd expect rabbi
and then what out?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Well, why just pull that in and out you know
that in and out truck when you have like a
wedding or bring the in and out truck out there.
You know it's having free burgers. Knock yourself a lot
of the things. They have fries on that right, they
don't have the fries on there.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
They don't have the fries on the in and out truck.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
They didn't.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I saw at the Rose Bowl years ago to UCLA game.
It was there and they didn't have fries. They have
potato chips. Maybe they've upgraded it and now they have
the fries. But the in and out fry. You don't
go to the in and out for the fries, right, Jonas.
But you don't eat that anyway, so you wouldn't know, Kevin,
you don't go to the in and out.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
For the fries, Zach? Correct?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Vin?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Oh trust me?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
No?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Well here again, are you healthy too? Am I?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Surrounded by Ronnie Fossio? Do you go to the in
and out? You don't go for the fries, right Ronnie.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Come, here's the thing about in and out fries. In
and out fries are great if you eat them right
then and there, but if you let them sit for
just a little bit, they're gonna become soggy. So yeah,
in and out fries. I do go there, not just
for the fries. I go there for the burgers, but
I will have an order of fries with it. But
I got to eat them right then and there.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Gotta have the animal style. And if you have to
have your fries animal style, then how good are they really? Yes?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
My theory on all fast food is you have to
eat it at the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
You can't get it to go. If you get it
in the drive through.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
You gotta eat it right away because every minute it's
like a ticking time bomb. Every minute that goes by
from the time you get the food at the window
and then you wait to eat it, it goes progressively
worse and worse. It gets more soggy. It's disgusting. You've
got to eat it right away.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
And you know, Ben, you know what happens. People get
their food and they try to rush home right They
think the food that fries are gonna be nice and
crispy and hot, nice and hot.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
The thing is is that they close.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
The bag on the way home, thinking that it's going
to keep the food warm. In essence, what it's doing
it's making your food soggy. Yeah, moisture, right, the moisture
is making the fries not as good as they would
be if you would leave the bag open. So if
you're gonna take fast food home, try leaving the bag
open and not keeping the foot.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Great, that's the great, you know, that's a better take
than we've had. That's a better take.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I'm with you. But the problem is there's not a
lot of comfortable fast food din in restaurants in town.
Like I don't know, I don't know if you guys
have been to any I'd rather eat my food in
a coffin, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Well, some of you might end up in one if
you eat it.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
In, so I'll take my chances on the food sogging
up on the way home so I can eat it
in comfort. Because a lot of these places are just
not well.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
You don't you don't.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I go buy the I go buy the In and
Out in Sherman Oaks over there right and you are
a Fox Sports radio compound there. At any hour I
go buy there, there's thirty cars out on the street.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Everything.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
It's the worst design restaurant of all time because they
it's like old school.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
But no matter what hour, literally all the way out
to the streets, not good enough to be that pack.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
That's been my big issue with In and Out. Not
that their food is terrible, it's just not that good
for me to sit in behind fifty other people.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
If you head down the one on one and you
go towards like Santa Barbara Orney, place like that, you'll
see You'll see the In and Out in Newberry Park.
You'll see it in uh Camery or Ventura.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Where's the one that looks like there's one. There's one
on the way up to Santa Barbara. Looks like a mission.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Have you seen this?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Guys like the brick roof, you know that one? It's
all right off one oh one. I forget where it is,
but it's it's on the when you're going north. It's
on the left hand side. And this guy like a
mission kind of brick roof to it.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
And there's a line out the parking lot. Every time,
doesn't matter what time you go there.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
By the way, the guy and.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Let me just say this, because it's now gotten to
the point to where they're taking your order. I actually
went to in and Out a few weeks back and
the guy had the drive through line like looked at
me like I like I was from out of town
at no I because I don't eat there that much.
And I asked the guys like, hey, do you have
do you have like as of like chicken tenders or anything,
And the guy looked at me like I was ordering sushi. Yeah, no, nobody, no,
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we don't we do it.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
In and out?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah yeah, yeah, all right, Well you guys rap burgers
and lettuce, but you don't have chick entners.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Okay, what do you think you're a jack in the
box or something. Come on, what's wrong with you? I
dear you if you really.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Want to if you want to watch people too though,
when I used to live over in Hollywood, the In
and Out Burger in Hollywood, that's where all the tourists
go to, right, the out of towners who they've this
is your when you go to l a right from
out of town, you're supposed to go to In and
Out Burger. What a poop show that is? Uh, you're
really that is good people watching right there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, all those all those double double virgins who want
to get their hands on it for the first time ever.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yeah, they're big fans of that.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
By the way, if you want to get your hands
on a pair of tickets to the Dodgers and car
here we go. Here we go eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy Ben what caller number?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
This is the the worst stretch of games the Dodgers
have had since nineteen fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
So call her fifty eight Jonas call her.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I'm gonna make Kevin work because last time I said, like,
call her five when I was doing Fred, and everyone
yelled at what are you doing this?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Sweet? So fifty eight call that's right.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Eight.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I hate you so much.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
And there's fifty nine phone lines here on the Blest
George AM five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Just keep calling.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
If you get a busy single, just keep calling and
say hi to Kevin. He loves talking to you. He's
a big fan of yours. He loves the listeners.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yes, eight six, six, nine, eight seven two five seventy
Dodger tickets could be yours. Caller fifty eight, get in
now as Ben and I come back filling in for
Rogan and Ronnie closing up shop here on this Thursday afternoon.
Here on the Blowtorch.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
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Speaker 1 (31:04):
Congratulations to Bryant in rialto he is the winner of
the Dodger tickets. Caller fifty eight, Yeah, Babe. The Dodgers
and the Cardinals on August fourth, so congratulations to Bryant
and rialto there Kevinjingers, enjoy the enough the sweat.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Ben Mallor, I hope you're proud of your seculator by
an honor.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
This is the worst six game stretch, most runs, they've
been outscored since nineteen fifty eight, so I thought it
would be appropriate to aught of the nineteen fifty eight
Dodgers the only way we can, with a cheesy radio
bit giving away tickets.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
I mean I could have done calling number six for
the six games.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I could have I could have gone caller nineteen for
twenty nineteen like the last time, but I tried to
earn our keeper out here. I was shamed though when
I sat in with Fred last time. I was shamed
Jonas because I went low.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I'm not used to understand. We went to the Overnight.
I don't give anything away.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yeah nothing. I gave a life tuch Flin nothing away.
You know, Anthony and Anaheim won a lifetime find nothing.
That's what he won from my Overnight show.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
So that's it.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Well, listen to Ben Mallard, Jonas Knox in for Rogan
and Rodney here on this Thursday. This has been a blast.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Mane that'd be great. I love it man.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yeah. And by the way, for those of you saying
these are the voices we hear in the midst of
this awful run for the Dodgers, we were also the
voices you heard last year at the trade deadline when
they made moves and then.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Winning right series. That's right.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Let's not bury the lead here. And if you like
Jonas and you like me, you should stay up all night.
And if you hate us, go to bed right.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yes, basically, from eleven pm to six am, keep seventy
LA Sports when everyone's sleeping, you cover thanks to Ronnie,
thanks to Kevin Petro. Some money are next here on
AM five to seventy LA Sports.
It is Rogan and Rodney here and five seventy l
A Sports, Ben Mallard Jonas knocks in for the guys
here as we are taking you all the way up
until three o'clock. A reminder, we will be giving away
one pair of Dodger tickets Dodgers Cardinals on August fourth.
Those will be given away here and it's gonna be
in this hour.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You're making people, You're making people. Wait, Jonas, that's a
that's a bad move man. People are like, I just
give the tickets.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I don't want to listen to you. Give the tickets out.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
And I'll say this. I want to apologize to Kevin.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I've been trying to get us out on time, Kevin.
I don't know why Ben keeps Butcher in the clock.
I don't know what's going Hey, listen.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Joe, I'm on time. Mallard by the clock, four of
the clock, all about the clock.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
But I'm not in control, man, You're I'm in I'm
in the back seat, dude, you're in the you're in
the driver's seat.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Man, I don't know what to take to take these
guys off of the network where they have like Ampeter cut
them off, and they just won't stop.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I know, I know, yeah, yeah, trust me.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
If you didn't, if nobody stopped me, I just do
one solid hour of commercial free radio.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I would just keep talking.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
One of my favorite listening driving around listening was the
great Andy Furman, who didn't realize the heart out was
approaching on the Fox network. It was a weekend show
and I'm listening and I'm looking at the clock in
my truck, going, hey, dude, you gotta get out. And
Andy starts his tease and they just hear.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Come up next, you're gonna hear why we are.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It was like a bomb going off. I called Furman
and he was like, I didn't hear the countdown?
Speaker 5 (01:29):
What you want?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And Andy, of course one of the great radio people
all the time, probably so neurotic.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
He was freaking out right. It was just losing.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
He couldn't he couldn't help it. He couldn't help it.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I was on the air one time and the Profit
system and Fox Post Radio broke so they couldn't play commercials.
So we just kept talking and talking.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
It was the guy's like the board up, the board up,
was like he was this old guy that only worked
there a little bit nice guy, but he's.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Like he didn't know what he was doing, and he's like,
just keep going. I don't know what to do. I
don't I gotta call somebody. It was like two in
the morning. There's no one had called it two in
the morning.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And the great thing about the prophet system is that
when it breaks, it doesn't help you. It just puts
up a red frown face on the screen, like that's
not helping anybody. We clearly can't go to break, we
can't fire anything now.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
In fairness, Jonas, it is the top tech from like
nineteen ninety eight, so it is really good tech from that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I believe I'll be giving them too much credit.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, I believe.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I believe we bought that off the set of Private
Parts when they did that movie.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So yes, yes, where that equipment came from.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Vinnie bonsign yours with us here on AM five seventy
LA Sports and five seventy LA Sports NFL Insider, Vinie,
what's happening? Happy Thursday to you.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Happy Thursday to you guys. Well as somebody that just
concluded my own radio show and I blew through some
some you know, I was I was gabbling with that
clock all day long, the looks that I got from
my producer. So I'm on Kevin's side on this. I
know that we we frustrate them sometimes, you guys, we
got to do better.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Now do you think do you think
the NFLPA is going to have to do better? Because
based on the stuff that's come out recently, this makes
the people running the NFLPA look awful. If your own
players aren't even aware of certain things that are happening,
meanwhile you're working in cahoots with the owners to try
and keep secrets.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Yeah, that probably wasn't a very good look. And if
I'm a player, I obviously have many questions and I'm
a little bit upset. But in the grander scheme of things,
I'm not quite sure we're going to get to a
point where contracts are fully guaranteed. And if that is
the case, if players are dead set against or they
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want their full guarantees of their contracts, the owners are
going to respond by saying, Okay, then every contract's two years.
You want, you know, sixty million dollars over the next
two years fully guaranteed. That's all We're going to guarantee.
We're not going to go into a third year, We're
not going to go into a fourth year. And it's
really interesting because if you look at guys, let's say
Russell Wilson, he played the duration of his contract. He
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got all of his even though not all of it
was completely guaranteed, some of it was guaranteed for injury
and this, and that. He played the term on that
contract he signed with the Denver Broncos. There's so so
there are players who end up getting all of their
money and a lot of it fully guaranteed. But if
if players are insistent on getting full guarantees for the
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duration of their contract, owners are gonna have no choice
because of the salary cap, because of the physicality of sports,
because you can't hamstrung yourself down the line by paying
fully guaranteed money, which gets accounted for on your salary cap.
At some point they're gonna they're gonna say, look, then
then forget four year deals. We'll go to two year deals.
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We'll fully guarantee the two year deals, and then we'll
revisit it in two years, two years down the road.
So there's gonna have to be some give and take
there's no way that owners can not want but ken
fully guarantee every single NFL contract. That's ludicrous. The salary
cap system that they have.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Now vinnie as far as the what happened and what's
out on the internet now with the the union in
the NFL being in cahots here is anything going to
change though?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
In terms of the players.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Is there gonna be some kind of rebellion or uprising
from the NFL players or is this just a bunch
of hot air and people banging the table and no one's.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Gonna lose their job. There's gonna be nothing that's really
changes in terms of that the people involved in it.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
That's a good question. I don't know, but I don't
think anything's going to change in terms of you know,
there's gonna be some answering to do, like why did
you do that? And maybe they'll maybe they'll provide some satisfactory,
satisfactory answers to the players. So when when I hear
full disclore or or you know, just put a full
clamp on on all of it, you know, there's probably something.
(05:48):
There's no there's no way that the players Association would
have would have agreed to that unless there were some
things that they just didn't want out there as well.
So there's probably a little bit of give and take
on that. We'll see how the players fully reacted. Maybe
it will mean new leadership in place or somebody being replaced.
But but in terms of you know, just changing the
landscape but fully guaranteed contracts, I don't think that's gonna
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that's gonna change at all.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Vinnie Bonsignor joining us here on AM five seventy l
A Sports, Ben Mallord Jonas Knox in for the guys.
So we were talking earlier about you know, Jared Goff
basically calling out the Rams handling of his trade in
the Netflix Quarterback series and just you know, wish they
would have handled it differently, you know, felt a little
blind sided, so on and so forth. And I think
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after the fact we can all agree that it worked
out pretty well for everybody involved. But from what you
remember during that time, the writing was pretty much on
the wall, correct, I mean, they were going to part ways.
It was just a matter of figuring out who was
going to try and make it possible.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Yes, And and a couple of quick things. First of all,
you know, it's funny because we want athletes to be
as honest as possible, and then when they are fully
honest and transparent, you know, they get criticized it because
I've seen people like, stop it, stop crying. It worked
out great for you. Why are we still revisiting? Well,
somebody asked me the question on a show, you know,
(07:16):
on a documentary, which he's he's you know, a front
part of that. So he was fully honest and I
respect that from Jared Goffin. By the way, Sean McVay
has retroactively said, man could have handled that a little
bit better. So so you know, before we criticize athletes
for being honest when we're always asking them to be honest,
let's remember that we're asking them to be honest, and
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then we can't on one hand ask for that and
then crush them for being honest. That said, my recollections
of that, they weren't going to just give Jared Goff away.
A perfect storm occurred for the Rams in that situation.
Jared Goff even as you know, maybe disappointed as they
were that particular year coming out that one year where
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they ended up deciding to trade him, they weren't going
to just give him away. For nothing in return, like
there had to be a better option that was readily
available to them. They've known the Rams have been in
quarterback hell, had been in quarterback hell for quite some time.
You have to go all the way back to the
greatest show on turf, you know, when they had a
great quarterback, and what life looked like then, and then
(08:18):
what life looked like without a good quarterback. It was misery.
We all remember that, and the Rams are first, They
remember it more than anybody. So Matthew Stafford. It took
Matthew Stafford deciding and going to the Lions and saying, look,
I want to get traded. I've given you everything I
can give you a matt twilight. I'm a career I
want to go someplace where I could win now. And
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a general manager of Brad Holmes, the former Rams assistant
general manager, by the way, and an organization that said, hey,
you know what you have done right by you, and
we're not going to just hold you hostage here. Let's
see if we can work something out to make you happy,
to get you someplace that's that's better. And the Rams
saw that and said, okay, here's a quarterback that we
feel as bad obviously than Jared Goff. And without that,
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there's no way they're trading Jared Goff. So the notion
that they're just going to get rid of him, they
had resigned themselves to the fact that they were going
to trade him a safety net or without having somebody
to replace him that wasn't a little bit less than
Jared Goff, or maybe even as good as Jared Goff,
somebody that they felt was better than Jared Goff. So
short of that happening, and it did happen, fortunately for them,
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Matthew Stafford was available. One of the best quarterbacks of
this generation was available to them, and they had a
general manager that also liked Jared gofs Brad Holmes was
part of the process that drafted Jared Goff. So it
was this perfect convergence of events for the Rams to
trade Jared Goff. But short of that, no, they're not
going to trade Jared Goff. Why would they and for
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who who would the replacement have been?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well, he had bench though in a playoff game, right
he could have played Waffer.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
We talked about that. John Waffer at that time was
out there in the play golf.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Could I think didn't Goff had the Goff had the
hand injury. I think it was he was coming back
from a hand It was like some weird thing that
was going on. But the quarterback that had gotten him
to the Super Bowl. I mean, all I know is
they were a terrible franchise for many years before Jared
Goff got there. His first year was a watch. That's
Jeff Fisher. You know, we all know what happened in
twenty sixteen. But twenty seventeen they win their division. The
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next year they're in the super Bowl. Then they were
perennially in the Super Bowl. Did they fall short, Yes,
they didn't win the Ultimate bawl or the ultimate objective.
But they're not just giving Jared Goff away if they
didn't have Matthew Stafford to trade for or somebody equivalent
of Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
All right, Well, moving off from that, the Chargers they're
going to start training camp in a few days here video,
and they did make some moves, but they didn't really
improve the wide receiving corps very much. I know in Washington,
Terry McLaurin is not he's not happy. Tyreek Hill's not
really happy in Miami. Is there a chance. What are
the chances the Chargers make a move on one of
those guys before the start of the regular season.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Man, those are two big money ticket guys, especially Hill
from from Miami. I don't, I don't, I don't. I
don't think so, you know, I think that you know,
they had opportunities during the off season to uh, to
keep improving that room. I know, I know there's a
lot of faith and Ladd McConkey, uh, you know, and
the running game, an improved running game. They just brought in,
(11:19):
you know, Mari Hampton in the draft and Naja Harris
for the Pittsburgh Steelers. They feel pretty good about that room.
So I think this is one of those items that
for now anyway they're gonna they're gonna circle back to
at some point. But they feel like and they did.
They they they won with this group last year, even
even as as as much of a struggle as it
was sometimes with those wide receivers. But you figure Lad
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is going to be better, The offensive line is going
to be healthier and probably better. The run game is
going to be better with with what they brought in,
So they feel like they could win with this group.
I don't see any drastic moves happening to go get
somebody like a Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Vinnie Bonsignor with us Year on a M five seventy
l A Sports Ben Malord Jonah knocks in for the
guys here on Rogan and Rodney. What is a Because
I'm watching just sort of Max Crosby's comments about Pete
Carroll and his impact on the team. We obviously know
the relationship with Geno Smith and how that all played out.
What would you say, is somebody who is there covering
(12:16):
the team, close to the team, have seen all of
the downs over the past few years. What is a
realistic ceiling for the Raiders? Because it does feel like
there's a different vibe there and now with Pete Carroll
in tow Spy Tech Geno Smith, it just feels like
things are a little bit different. What's a realistic ceiling
for this team coming.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Up this season?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Well, from in terms of a ceiling nine to ten
wins ceiling, you know, and you know, if you're in
that world, then maybe you could sneak another one, you know,
get to eleven potentially, but I would say that would
be the ceiling. And and you know, coming off a
four win season last year and kind of the misery
that's been that's been here for the last couple of years,
(13:00):
that would be a pretty big step forward, you know.
And and the Raiders are trying to to throat a
couple of different needles. One is win right now and
try to push it as far as they can, and
maybe as far as they can is nine or ten wins,
and maybe that gets them into the playoff hunt some
important games, you know, down the stretch, and maybe they've
punched their ticket for a while card and see what
happens in the playoffs. But you know, that's that that
(13:22):
would be for them a step in the right direction,
and you know, strengthening the foundation and then building off
of that, that would That's what I would see, is
they're they're seeing a lot of things have to go
right for that to happen. But you know, but I
think they've made some some really important changes with Gino
Smith and Aston Jenety and brock Bauers is just a
stud over there at tight end. They've got they've got
(13:44):
talent on this team. But but if you're asking me
a realistic ceiling, I'd say nine or ten wins, all right?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Have any I asked you about the trade before I
ask you about another trade. Trey hendrickson Cincinnati that they
haven't worked out a contract yet. Are you going to
get traded the defensive star of the Bengals.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Man, I'm sure yeah, if you're the Cincinnati Bengals hockey
to do that, Like, first of all, pay the guy.
You know, your your defense was really bad last year.
I know. You know, maybe their argument was, yeah, we
were bad, and he was on the theme and he
had a really good season, So there you go. But
you know, the Bengals are are They're they're a different
(14:23):
breed man. They do things a lot differently and since
than than any other organization. They have a way that
they do it. They're very frugal as as as cruel
as you could possibly be running an NFL team. But
but that that doesn't it doesn't sound good everything that
you're hearing out there. But I don't know that that
they're gonna they're in any uh have any desire to
(14:46):
trade him? So where he might want to get traded
at this point to get fair value what he believes
is fair value. They they hold all the cards and
they could just sit there and say, no, we're not
going to trade you. And if you're going to sacrifice
the money that you're on the docket for this year,
that year, but we're not going to trade you. So
because of their position, I don't see that. I don't
see a trade happening. I'm sure he would like to
(15:07):
push for something if he doesn't get the contract that
he wants in the Sincati Bengals, but they hold all
the cards in this case.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yeah no, well he we looking at a RAM uniform.
I know that.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Yeah, yeah, no.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Doubt, Vinnie Bonsignor. We appreciate it. We will do it
again soon, my friend.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
All right, guys, have a great one.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Thanks man there.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
He is am five seventy LA Sports NFL insider. By
the way, I would say this if he's talking nine
to ten wins for the Raiders this upcoming year, you know, Ben,
I am seeing that the win total, the over under
win total for the Raiders is six and a half.
So maybe, uh, maybe Vinnie is a little bit bullish
about those Las Vegas Raiders and your guy Gino Smith,
by the way, you and him have a long storied relationship.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Going back to his days at West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, Gino not a fan of my work, not not
a fan, not a fan of Oh my god, Jonas,
did you see the news? All my goodness, this We're
never gonna hear the end of this, Joe, did you
see who passed away today? News just came out, Lee Ilia.
We just played the audio.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Did he really? Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Eighty seven years old, Lee Ilia, manager Cubs and the
in the Phillies.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Wow, how about that one?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Really?
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I'm not making this.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I thought that's part of the reason why you brought No,
I did not.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
See that. No, yeah, I did not know that. No,
I mean you are the grim reaper Jonas.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Of course we knew that. I mean, that's part of listen.
This is part of the part of the show. Pap
show prep. You go through all the websites, you scour everything.
You go to the La Times, you read all this stuff,
and the you got to read sports, Yes, the sports radio.
You must read the old bits to see who died. Wow,
that is correct. Well rest in id you. Thank you
for one of the great moments in the history of
(16:57):
sports radio. Just Lee Ilia laying way Cubs fans should have.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
What what an amazing world?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You know you live life, you don't know what you're
gonna do, what you're gonna become in life, with job,
you'll have, who you'll marry. You know we had kids
when you're not after you know any of that stuff.
But then, like you never know how people.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Will remember you.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
But Lee ilia managed the Cubs, he managed the Phillies.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You know, he worked in baseball. But he's he's known.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
For that rant, right, that is is the legacy of
Lee herea which will live on long after Lee left
this mortal coil. Rest in peace, Lee, good good run,
good run. He left the world. Jonas we all get
to smile, we all get to celebrate that rant, and
I'm glad we got to play.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I didn't realize he had passed away. I did not
know that. Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I mean, you know, if if Tom Looney was doing updates,
you know what he would do. He would do a
ten count for Bird Sugar like he did during his
update years ago. You know that's how you that's how
you passed that sixty seconds.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So you got pep it up. You. Pep went off
there to put some bells and whistles on it.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Burt Sugar dies and Tom Looney does a ten count.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Oh audio of that somewhere right.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I haven't heard this dude talk about you talking about
slow news day. It's like, oh, I'll just count to
ten with a bell ringside.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Burt Sugar one of the all time great people I
ever came across in mall travels in sports radio.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I was doing.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I was in Vegas back when I used to go
to those things for a fight, and I saw Burt
in the afternoon. I say, Bert Shugar. Burt was a
boxing history. If you don't know who he is. Wore
the fedora, he had the cigar. I said, Bert, I
want you to have come on my show. He said,
I'll do it. What time's your show? I told him
what time? Holy you know, he said, I'll do it though.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Jonas. He came down. It was at the MGM.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Grand That the the hall, they had all the radio stations.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
He came down. It was at night.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
He had his fedora, he had a cigar, he had
a glass alcohol. He was in his pajamas. He came
down in his pajamas. Burt Sugar to do the interview.
But he had the fdor, he had the cigar, he
had some kind of hard liquor.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I don't remember remember box it was it was outstanding.
They had to have been buried with those right and
with the cigar.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
We we did an when I was in uh, South Carolina.
There was a big boxing event that was coming up,
and it was like either that or you were going
to break down, you know, Clemson basketball, Like who cares for.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
The seventh time?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
So we we interviewed Bert Sugar and he just started
taking a leak while we were on the air, like
literally like we could hear like you could hear him
draining the train while we're trying to do an interview
with him. Not a care in the world. Literally didn't care,
he was doing nothing wrong, just he was, you know,
and Burt emptied the vault.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
He loved.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
He loved like baseball history and boxing.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I remember once I was hearing Bert, we were talking
about boxing, and next thing you know, he's talking about
uh Babe Ruth running naked through a train and women
running after him.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
And it was like with the Yankees in like nineteen
when he you know, seven or it was, it was
just you never knew what you're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
And that is why Tom Looney did an update and
the sound he pulled for this update was a ten
count like, Hey, who on that Dodger game. Don't worry
about it, We're almost a ten. Uh it is uh,
it is Rogan arod Here on AM five seventy l
(20:28):
A Sports, Ben Mallard, Jonas Knox in for the guys.
So the Dodgers could be getting some help very very soon.
We'll tell you who it is and when next year
on A five seventy your home for the LA Dodgers.
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Speaker 1 (21:07):
Rogan and Ronnie and five seven e LA Sports Ben Maller,
Jonas Knox in for the guys. Here, we are going
to be handing out some Dodger tickets Dodgers Cardinals August fourth,
will be giving away a pair of those, So stick around.
The information and the way that you get your hands
on those will be handed out here coming up shortly,
(21:29):
Ben Maller personally, are you.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Personally handing this out? Yeah, Jonas, you're giving those out yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Or no, I don't believe so. I believe Dave Weiese
may be personally handing those out, which you'd rather get
him from Weise anyways than me.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Promotions. God, yeah, he is. How many people hit him
up for tickets? Everyone? Right, everyone bothers him for thirty years.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Everyone's been bothering him particular, I've heard, I've heard stories.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
By the way, by the way, I'm still waiting for
him to get back to me on the Hawaii UCLA
High Demand tickets that he said, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
We got you me.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, Yeah, we're gonna put you just two years ago.
We'll put you in the Rose Bowl right under the
sun is where we're going to put you, literally under
the sun at the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So we got a couple of tickets. Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Now, when you hear that Snell Zilla, your guy, Blake
Snell has a reheair assignment coming up later on in
Rancho Kook. All right, and you know how David Vasse
feels about Blake Snell. I mean, maybe, just maybe because
historically He's always been a guy who finishes strong. Maybe
the Dodger's success from a pitching standpoint is going to
(22:37):
be on the hands of the one and only Blake
Snell as the season starts to enter into the back end,
back half of the of the stretch. Here, Ben Maller,
I don't know how that lands with you, but Blake
Snell could be returning very soon to try and help
this team out much needed help from a pitching standpoint.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
It makes me sick that if your season is hinging
on Blake Snell, you're you don't have a lot, you know,
it's it's like a hill made out of beans. That's
it's not good there. What are the chances now he's
pitching today in Rancho?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I think in Rancho. It's Rancho. I think it's in Rachel.
So Rancho.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
What are the what are the the chances? The story
after the game is a everything went great, yep, solid
outing U b uh. There was a minor setback or
ce we've decided to shut Blake's Blake Snell down because
something major happened.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
What is more likely to be the outcome of that appearance?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I think everything's gonna go great? Oh, really, I mean,
mister positive over here. I mean, I think everything is
gonna go great. I don't think I can't imagine that
this just goes completely sideways for him. It's too perfect.
He was always meant to be a Dodger. Yes, always
listen with the way that you and Vassay of both
wax poetically about the great Blake Snell. He was always
(23:54):
destined to be here. He always wanted to be here.
He didn't wait around long after the season was over
and free agency started to get a deal done with
the Dodgers, and so there's been a little bit of
a setback. Now he's in Rancho Kukumonga. Who knows, maybe
he'll stick around for the PMS remote because they're having
a remittant Rancho coup coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Well, Blake, maybe, yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Also, remember Joseph, these guys the rule in baseball, you
know this is when you go to a minor league
rehab start, you have to buy the guys like food.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Right, you have to buy him a meal. You're supposed
to do that.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
So he could take the entire Quakes team to the
Petro some Money road show and right, have them alls
pull up there and then Blake will pay for everything.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Do a segment with the guys. You know, it'd be
great perfectly.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Who do you what would if you were a minor
leaguer and you needed some like a guy like Blake
Snell with all the money that he's made in his
career he shows up. Yeah, I'm saying like, what do
you what would you expect as far as the spread
goes when when one of these guys takes over, because
I think Max Scherzer did a rehab assignment and he
went above and beyond according to reports with what he provided. Yeah,
(25:02):
the guys there on that team, so you'd expect rabbi
and then what out?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Well, why just pull that in and out you know
that in and out truck when you have like a
wedding or bring the in and out truck out there.
You know it's having free burgers. Knock yourself a lot
of the things. They have fries on that right, they
don't have the fries on there.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
They don't have the fries on the in and out truck.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
They didn't.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I saw at the Rose Bowl years ago to UCLA game.
It was there and they didn't have fries. They have
potato chips. Maybe they've upgraded it and now they have
the fries. But the in and out fry. You don't
go to the in and out for the fries, right, Jonas.
But you don't eat that anyway, so you wouldn't know, Kevin,
you don't go to the in and out.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
For the fries, Zach? Correct?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Vin?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Oh trust me?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
No?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Well here again, are you healthy too? Am I?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Surrounded by Ronnie Fossio? Do you go to the in
and out? You don't go for the fries, right Ronnie.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Come, here's the thing about in and out fries. In
and out fries are great if you eat them right
then and there, but if you let them sit for
just a little bit, they're gonna become soggy. So yeah,
in and out fries. I do go there, not just
for the fries. I go there for the burgers, but
I will have an order of fries with it. But
I got to eat them right then and there.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Gotta have the animal style. And if you have to
have your fries animal style, then how good are they really? Yes?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
My theory on all fast food is you have to
eat it at the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
You can't get it to go. If you get it
in the drive through.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
You gotta eat it right away because every minute it's
like a ticking time bomb. Every minute that goes by
from the time you get the food at the window
and then you wait to eat it, it goes progressively
worse and worse. It gets more soggy. It's disgusting. You've
got to eat it right away.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
And you know, Ben, you know what happens. People get
their food and they try to rush home right They
think the food that fries are gonna be nice and
crispy and hot, nice and hot.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
The thing is is that they close.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
The bag on the way home, thinking that it's going
to keep the food warm. In essence, what it's doing
it's making your food soggy. Yeah, moisture, right, the moisture
is making the fries not as good as they would
be if you would leave the bag open. So if
you're gonna take fast food home, try leaving the bag
open and not keeping the foot.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Great, that's the great, you know, that's a better take
than we've had. That's a better take.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I'm with you. But the problem is there's not a
lot of comfortable fast food din in restaurants in town.
Like I don't know, I don't know if you guys
have been to any I'd rather eat my food in
a coffin, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Well, some of you might end up in one if
you eat it.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
In, so I'll take my chances on the food sogging
up on the way home so I can eat it
in comfort. Because a lot of these places are just
not well.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
You don't you don't.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I go buy the I go buy the In and
Out in Sherman Oaks over there right and you are
a Fox Sports radio compound there. At any hour I
go buy there, there's thirty cars out on the street.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Everything.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
It's the worst design restaurant of all time because they
it's like old school.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
But no matter what hour, literally all the way out
to the streets, not good enough to be that pack.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
That's been my big issue with In and Out. Not
that their food is terrible, it's just not that good
for me to sit in behind fifty other people.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
If you head down the one on one and you
go towards like Santa Barbara Orney, place like that, you'll
see You'll see the In and Out in Newberry Park.
You'll see it in uh Camery or Ventura.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Where's the one that looks like there's one. There's one
on the way up to Santa Barbara. Looks like a mission.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Have you seen this?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Guys like the brick roof, you know that one? It's
all right off one oh one. I forget where it is,
but it's it's on the when you're going north. It's
on the left hand side. And this guy like a
mission kind of brick roof to it.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
And there's a line out the parking lot. Every time,
doesn't matter what time you go there.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
By the way, the guy and.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Let me just say this, because it's now gotten to
the point to where they're taking your order. I actually
went to in and Out a few weeks back and
the guy had the drive through line like looked at
me like I like I was from out of town
at no I because I don't eat there that much.
And I asked the guys like, hey, do you have
do you have like as of like chicken tenders or anything,
And the guy looked at me like I was ordering sushi. Yeah, no, nobody, no,
(29:03):
we don't we do it.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
In and out?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah yeah, yeah, all right, Well you guys rap burgers
and lettuce, but you don't have chick entners.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Okay, what do you think you're a jack in the
box or something. Come on, what's wrong with you? I
dear you if you really.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Want to if you want to watch people too though,
when I used to live over in Hollywood, the In
and Out Burger in Hollywood, that's where all the tourists
go to, right, the out of towners who they've this
is your when you go to l a right from
out of town, you're supposed to go to In and
Out Burger. What a poop show that is? Uh, you're
really that is good people watching right there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah, all those all those double double virgins who want
to get their hands on it for the first time ever.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yeah, they're big fans of that.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
By the way, if you want to get your hands
on a pair of tickets to the Dodgers and car
here we go. Here we go eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy Ben what caller number?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
This is the the worst stretch of games the Dodgers
have had since nineteen fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
So call her fifty eight Jonas call her.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I'm gonna make Kevin work because last time I said, like,
call her five when I was doing Fred, and everyone
yelled at what are you doing this?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Sweet? So fifty eight call that's right.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Eight.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I hate you so much.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
And there's fifty nine phone lines here on the Blest
George AM five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Just keep calling.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
If you get a busy single, just keep calling and
say hi to Kevin. He loves talking to you. He's
a big fan of yours. He loves the listeners.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yes, eight six, six, nine, eight seven two five seventy
Dodger tickets could be yours. Caller fifty eight, get in
now as Ben and I come back filling in for
Rogan and Ronnie closing up shop here on this Thursday afternoon.
Here on the Blowtorch.
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Speaker 1 (31:04):
Congratulations to Bryant in rialto he is the winner of
the Dodger tickets. Caller fifty eight, Yeah, Babe. The Dodgers
and the Cardinals on August fourth, so congratulations to Bryant
and rialto there Kevinjingers, enjoy the enough the sweat.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Ben Mallor, I hope you're proud of your seculator by
an honor.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
This is the worst six game stretch, most runs, they've
been outscored since nineteen fifty eight, so I thought it
would be appropriate to aught of the nineteen fifty eight
Dodgers the only way we can, with a cheesy radio
bit giving away tickets.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
I mean I could have done calling number six for
the six games.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I could have I could have gone caller nineteen for
twenty nineteen like the last time, but I tried to
earn our keeper out here. I was shamed though when
I sat in with Fred last time. I was shamed
Jonas because I went low.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I'm not used to understand. We went to the Overnight.
I don't give anything away.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yeah nothing. I gave a life tuch Flin nothing away.
You know, Anthony and Anaheim won a lifetime find nothing.
That's what he won from my Overnight show.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
So that's it.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Well, listen to Ben Mallard, Jonas Knox in for Rogan
and Rodney here on this Thursday. This has been a blast.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Mane that'd be great. I love it man.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yeah. And by the way, for those of you saying
these are the voices we hear in the midst of
this awful run for the Dodgers, we were also the
voices you heard last year at the trade deadline when
they made moves and then.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Winning right series. That's right.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Let's not bury the lead here. And if you like
Jonas and you like me, you should stay up all night.
And if you hate us, go to bed right.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yes, basically, from eleven pm to six am, keep seventy
LA Sports when everyone's sleeping, you cover thanks to Ronnie,
thanks to Kevin Petro. Some money are next here on
AM five to seventy LA Sports.
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Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.