May 6, 2026 • 22 mins
Petros Papadakis in Los Angeles joins Softy to, first, laugh about the mayors in each of their cities, then they talk about where to find the best international food in each city, the sad death of broadcasting legend Ted Turner today, including a classic Petros story that connects him to Ted, plus the state of college football Spring Games, and The Met Gala.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analysts
Petros Papadekas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Brought to you by Sweet James Accident Attorneys forty years.
If you're hurt in an accident, called Sweet James right
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
I don't know bo now with Petros, Peer's Dave Softy Muller. Alrighty,
boars and girls, here we go on a Wednesday, four o'clock.
Right here on ninety three three KJRFM means one thing,
and one thing only, an unbelievable opportunity to talk to
(00:46):
one of the more in demand sports talk radio guests
the industry has to offer. Producers, program directors will line
up on their knees pleading bag for this man to
join their radio programs. But we've got him every single
Wednesday at four o'clock, one half of the legendary fabled
Petros and Money Show in Southern California, USC football star,
(01:07):
one damn fine Greek American and my friend Petros Papodocus
courtesy of the one and only Sweet James. That's Sweet
James Bergerer, the deads Beard of Justice. Sweet James knows
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like you got your headphones too close to the mic
or something. Then get your own balls too close to
the mic and say, you know what, you calm down,
(01:52):
all right, mister, Hey, don't make me come up there.
When was the last time you were up here? By
the way, Well, if I went up there and murdered you,
I'm quite certain the Seattle mayor wouldn't do anything. Oh,
she looks like she couldn't protect a warm cup of piss.
My god, what are you guys doing up there? I
(02:16):
mean sure there may be a few photos of our
mayor here in La tongue kissing castro. But that's even
better than your weird shaped forehead. Hick geez. She looks
like the girl you take to the prom for sympathy,
you know, thank you? Oh god, okay, I'll be performing
(02:43):
here at the Mercer Island. Ha ha all we hey,
don't disparente the ha man. Oh god, that's funny. I
don't know, dude, it's amateur hour up here. You did
you vote for her?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I don't live in Seattle. Oh I can't, although what
happens in Seattle certainly impacts me. Yeah, impacts all of us. Right,
she seems pretty. I mean, do you vote for the
mayor of La No? Yeah, you can't, but it impacts you.
But I did. I did meet the Spencer Pratt guy. Yeah,
the guy who's running the reality show Guy's surging. Now
(03:17):
how that go? I said, Well, he's got this commercial
where a cartoon Spencer Pratt is pushing, Yeah, a trash.
It's got the La mayor in it. I saw that
on Twitter and it says socca la basua because her
name is bass okay, so soaka la Basuda. In Spanish
meetings throughout the trash and then he's got like a
(03:40):
Spanish song to it. They goes Soka la masula. He's smart,
and I said, I said, hey, dude, Saka la bauda.
He was like you like that. I was like, yeah,
I really like that. It's like a code. Yeah, fist pump, Yeah. Well,
does this guy have a shot of winning? You thing?
(04:00):
I know? I mean apparently. I'm sure they'd fix the
vote so he didn't know. You know what's happened to anybody?
It's Chinatown all over again. Oh God, forget it, Jake,
it's China, Chinatown the movie you're talking about, Yes, Chinatown
the movie. I'm just checking. What do you think I'm
talking about? No, the restaurant in Spokane, Oh Jesus, all right, well,
(04:23):
Petros Papaaka is with us. I love how all the
restaurants in the Northwest it says American Chinese food, Like
why do I need the American part? Like we're in America.
I know it's an American Chinese restaurant. I've never noticed that.
I just go to a Chinese place because I want
Chinese food, all right, whatever, I mean, Yeah, I guess
there's a difference, right, between Chinese food made here and
(04:45):
you've never seen like a Chinese Chinese food place, like
you know, just like they have it in China. Like,
who would go to that? I want to go to
a Greek Greek restaurant? Well, Greeks if they had that here,
believe me, authentic Greek restaurant. That's where I live. Well,
your dad's green Greek restaurants no longer a thing. It's
gone now right correct? Okay, So where do you go
for authentic Greek food? So now they cook at church
(05:08):
every once in a while. Really, yeah, I have the
big festival and the big church going guy. Yes every Sunday,
no member, once every two three weeks, once every two
three years, No two three weeks. You bring the kids,
the whole family. My son works on the altar realist
done that you go to church every two to three months?
(05:28):
Are tweaks every once in a while if I haven't
been in a while, Like the more church going, more bias.
Members of the family will be like, did you sign
the visitor's log? See that's funny. That is funny. That
deserves a rim shot. I mean, how often do you
really look up and feel like you have to go
to church and talk to God and cleanse your soul.
Why don't you cleanse you? This is going off the
(05:52):
rails early, What a were you talking about? The hell's
going on? Ted Turner passed away? You saw that? You
know he did a lot of stuff. Yeah, sure did, No,
he really did. I know that. That's why I agreed,
Like why we have a twenty four hour media, right
is Ted Turner? Yep? Right, twenty four hour programming? Yeah,
(06:15):
that's true to noon. Okay, he did that whole weird.
I mean that's a big deal, though, softy, if you
think about the impact of that. He did the thing
where everything started at five after the hour, remember that,
just to be different. Yep, yep, that was kind of cool.
Somebody tweeted out that Ted Turner's funeral will start at
seven o five, A pretty good He also had a
(06:39):
wet T shirt contest in a baseball game one year,
a booby contest. God, I missed those days, don't you.
Just the chaos and the promotions where he could go
to like a Kylie in Booms radio remote. God, a
wet t shirt car Kilian Booms. I haven't heard that
name forever. Remember Richard Blede Wow, you know who Richard
(07:00):
Blind was. No, I don't form rich and Blid is
a DJ. He was like a K rock DJ down
here and he'd be like Durrand du Rand lay If
at the Palladium. Rich and Blide one of those guys,
and his his accent got more and more like hardcore
(07:20):
the longer he was in the United States, and we
had he wrote a book, you know, because of course,
I mean they were at ground zero of Me.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Wife music, Depeche Mode at the Rose Bowl, Dive gon one, you.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Know, And he wrote a book and we brought him
on and this was a few years back, and he was.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Like, guys, pretty much everything we did now would be illegal.
It's everything was a wet t ship contest or a
g strenga.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You sound like somebody from like Mad Max right now.
That's how he's Australian.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I know.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's what's funny about rich and Blind. God, that's funny.
He does weddings now, dude, I promise you that people
in your audience know Richard Black. Yeah. Well you know what,
I guarantee you. I've heard the voice and seen the face.
Uh just couldn't place the name, but I think he
might have been in I forget the name of that
with the one where Sarah Jessica Parker's dancing around, Remember
(08:26):
that where she's dad dancer. Anyway, Well, he's talking about
a movie or a TV show. No, I'm sorry about
Ted Turner there. Yeah, no, man like me. Later in
life he got obsessed with the Civil War. Yeah, I
love talking about the Civil War. Did you ever talk
about the Civil War with Ted?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
But there was, uh, these two really rich guys who
used to go to my dad's restaurant, and they hung
out so much at my dance restaurant that they started
hanging out at the house. Okay, And they were really
weird guys, but they were both multi millionaires. Yeah. They
were the Morton brothers right from the Steakhouse. No, from
(09:11):
the Salt got it? Oh yeah yeah yeah Morton Salt,
Frank Morton and Steve Morton a lot of money man, right,
And they also owned Beatrice Foods. Okay, okay, and the
family was from Chicago. So they were really rich guys,
but very odd. You seem shady, well, very rich. Well,
they were Jewish, very rich, very very rich, very aristocratic
(09:37):
like Pebble Beach. Yeah, but they didn't like to spend
a lot of money, hance, you know why they slept
in our house even though they were worth like two
hundred million dollars. And I remember there was like the
America's Cup on or something, and we were sitting in
the living room and Frank Morton, who's there was like
(09:57):
probably had two popped callers, you know, and to sweater
around his neck. He said, you know, oh, I sailed
once with Ted Turner, And I was like, oh, yeah, Frank,
And then he went a bit of a you ever
get the feeling by the way that your dad was
up to no good? My dad, Well, listen to what
(10:19):
happened to poor Frank Morton characters. Frank Morton, God rest
his soul, used to like to sleep in my room,
you know, my bedroom. Geez, that's kind of creepy. Well,
I was in college. I wasn't there, but if I
was in town, you know, in San Pedro, I would
sneak into my parents' house and sleep in the bed
late at night. And a friend of mine who was
(10:42):
playing at the time for Colorado State, who played for
the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cardinals and then the Niners
played fourteen years he's now passed away, called Clark Hagen's
two hundred and sixty pound black linebacker. He crept into
my room once and saw the body in bed and
thought it was me and shook Frank Morton, who was like,
(11:05):
you know, seventy five years old and two hundred million dollars.
You know, this is two hundred and sixty pound, six
foot four black guy shaking this. I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
We get up, you know, and Frank pete everywhere, Please
don't kill me. Oh my god. And I was there.
I had got home and I went downstairs and I
saw Frank in my bed. So I went to another
room and was asleep, and Clark found me. And it
was very much like part of the family, you know.
(11:35):
Clark found me and he was like, I think I
upset this old man in your bed. Frank never even
went downstairs again, like he didn't not I mean, he
never even went down there again, Like he avoided the
room like somebody died in there. Just imagine this dude
just being all over your room, oh everywhere. He got it.
(11:58):
And my dad was like, Frank got it accident. When
Clark went in the room and shook him. Oh wow,
that's my only connection to Ted terms Oh that's funny.
I never talked about the Civil War with him, but
I was once sitting in a room where Frank Morton
called him an a hole. That's a fun you know what.
That's a hell of an angle, man. Not many people
can claim an angle like that to one of the
biggest media, if not the biggest medium. Moguls I sailed
(12:22):
with that guy once. Oh yeah, Frank, Yeah, a bit
of an ale. Yeah, Petros papadakas with us. Well. The
spring game came and went on Friday at U DUB.
It was fine, you know, not a great crowd. I mean,
I just kind of wondering Wilter twelve. I mean I
maybe I don't know. UCLA out attended you guys, that's
(12:45):
all really Yeah, Well, probably paid him fifty bucks each
to show up or something. I would take everybody and
put him on one side of the stadium so it
looks better on TV. And they didn't do that. I
called a game like that once really where they were
in everybody to get on one side of the stadium
to make it look better for him. Yea, it was
UAB Legion Field. Birmingham, Alabama. I've been to Legion Field.
(13:08):
That's where they used to have the East West Shrining game, right, correct, Right,
it's a real place. I may knowing stuff. Well, Jedfish
came out and said, there's a chance to Mont Williams
might play three more years here in Seattle. There's a
chance that you guys might win the championship too, because
they got a they got that five for five thing
going on now, right, Well, maybe you will. That's a
(13:29):
good chance. Yeah, Well, I don't know. I hope he's good.
I hope he gets better every year, and I hope
you have a great time with Jed the Fish. Wilner
said on the show yesterday he thinks there's a chance
that in the next couple of years that spring games
just go away all together. It's possible, but some people
use him to promote the new coach. You know, there's
(13:52):
sometimes is there's a there's an advantage to having one
if you have a quarterback competition and both guys are
in the program at the time, and you want to
see something there is and and and As a player,
there really was a different field. The spring game felt
like a game. The clock's running there's refs out there
there you there's a crowd. The crowd reacts to what's happening.
(14:15):
You know, even if it's not that big of a crowd,
it's still different from what you're used to, which is nothing,
you know, just practicing out there with people you already know,
and and people write about it. And if you perform
well in the spring game, even if no one, you're
never heard of again or from again. And we've all
we've all seen that. But it's a big deal. I mean,
(14:36):
there there's an energy before it, there's there's something to it.
Not every team needs it. Some teams are more veteran laden.
Some teams don't want to show anything of what they're
doing because they're they're trying to hide it until opening day.
Maybe they're opener as a real doozy. I mean, there's
all kinds of reasons that go into it, as you know,
(14:57):
and Wilner could be right, but but I like, for instance,
UCLA this year with Bob Chesney. Yeah, this is a
guy who's who's brand new. They are injecting life into
the UCLA program. They're recruiting very well. They want to
have a showcase, they want to get out there in
front of it and say this is our new look,
(15:18):
this is our new culture, so to speak. So I know,
I think Wilner is way ahead of himself. He should
shut up. I'll tell him that next time he's on,
tell him to shut his yapper. That true says, you
zip it, old man, you shut your pie hole. I
saw where Maurice Jones Drew's kid committed to UCLA. Yeah,
you know, I've had that Bob Chesney guy, and who
(15:41):
knows what he'll be like. I remember when everybody's freaking
out about Snoop Dogg's kid, But Deuce Jones Drew, Yeah,
and I bet he's great if he's anything like his dad,
who was a great back at every level. But a
lot of people don't realize and this is just me
talking sports, but Maurice Jones Drew was a great zoe
running back, physical between the tackles running back in the NFL.
(16:05):
He didn't do that as much with UCLA. They had
a different guy that did that, Chris Marquis, and he
was more I mean, I know he had let four
hundred yard game against you dub or something, but he
was more of like a screen game third down He
even returned punts what he was at UCLA. So it's
very interesting how many different things he could do he
(16:25):
ended up being able to do as a as a
running back and a football player. And he was a
great pass protector as well. So I wouldn't be surprised
if his son isn't a great player. But Bob Chesney's
got it. He's got a lot of momentum going in town.
He did something that took Lincoln Riley four years to do.
What's that make a bunch of connections with all the
(16:45):
local high schools. It's not like the local high schools
here in La produce any talent that plays right. No, No,
you might want to get to know those people. We're
not going to come and lick your calves. He got
to go, you know, so Chesney. Chesney's do a great
job already, and we've had him on the show a
few times. I've got he's got a great energy and
it doesn't come off as phony. I mean, even McVeigh is,
(17:08):
who's a great coach, his energy often comes off as
kind of phony or krit cringey, a little creepy, like
trying to act like John Gruden a little bit, you know,
and this guy themes seems very very authentic. Did you
happen to see Russell Wilson and Sierra at the met
gala over the weekend? And did I saw all of
the athlete took the gall Yeah? Thought I saw. Joe
(17:33):
Burrow looked like a gay doorman, the wide receiver, Justin Jefferson,
Sir Francis dra Hotel, Right, what what does a gay
doorman look like as opposed to Joe Burrow at the
Met balls strade doorman or the guy, you know, like
the guy at the Best in Show, the gay guy
when he was showing the dog. That's kind of how
(17:53):
Joe Burrow looked. I got it. I got and then
and then Justin Jefferson the receiver had a bunch of
holes in his suit, like it was attacked by a
wolf or something. Was he making a statement with that?
I don't know. I mean, you know, Russell Wilson showed
up looking like a fat captain stubing Captain EO. I
probably looked a little bit like, yeah, well now he's
talking about the Jets have apparently made him an offer
(18:14):
to backup Gino or am I getting the TV? Yeah?
Super cheese ball? Maybe he'd be great at it, but
I could also see him kind of going full Jason
Witt as well. Yeah, I don't know if he really
would offer any real insight though. I don't know if
he'd really You never know what, you know, I my
happy place. You never know if somebody is going to
(18:35):
be good or bad till the LEC goes on doing
that job. That is true. So yeah, there was a
who else Venus Williams. Yeah there who was the chick
with the dollar bill on her face? That was what
a statement trying to criticizah pulse whatever, Who's worth like
twelve million dollars and twenty two? Yeah, twenty two. Sorry,
(18:55):
I don't know what that was all about. Do you
think she poked like little holes in the dollar? I'm
sure the bet ball has always been like this, But
it feels a lot like the way the aristocracy looked
and acted in the Hunger Games, right Like, it feels
a lot like that. It feels kind of creepy. It
is creepy. Everything's getting you make a statement against the
aristocracy as part of the elite aristocracy. It's kind of irony.
(19:20):
Doesn't even begin to cover that. I saw. I saw
that Voltaire wrote about these things. I saw that you
responded to my tweet about ESPN this morning. Yeah, it's
really bad. But you know, like sometimes you're watching like
this time of year when there's playoffs or whenever there's playoffs,
or even if you're watching like the tournament like TBS, right,
(19:44):
if you have it on TBS or attorney go. Yeah,
the next morning you wake up and like you're watching
Charmed on mute in your house. You didn't turn it off.
It Charmed, and you're like, oh my god, there she
is Lissa Milano. And you know, so sometimes that happens
with ESPN. And the next morning you get up and
it's Kendrick Perkins big face or Steven A. Smith's big face,
(20:08):
and they're just you know, and and and it says
on the Chiron or whatever what what they're talking about,
you can Lebron, you know, like what happens next for Lebron?
You know, it's just it's the same thing. What we're
a game five lost? Yes, exactly, big go and uh.
(20:29):
And if it's not that, it's Pete Schrager's big ass face,
like really close up talking about Sean McVay and watches
his Sack. There's a lot of big faces on esp
I'm tired big big faces on the case. All right,
well it's all terrible. Yeah, it's just good anymore. I
just said on Twitter this morning, I just said, outside
(20:50):
of a game, I just don't watch. No, there's nothing,
and I you know, i'd like to watch, you know,
I like highlight shows. And remember they had that the
NFL show Playmakers with the Gates. I was, what's what
the gay stuff today? Gay doorman? Gay tight end? What's
going on? All right? You know what? Fine, say good bye, shake,
(21:11):
good bye. I say one more thing. You're gonna be
like c C the Gate. Who's the gay tight end?
What Gate?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
What?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Gay tight end? Playmakers? One of the subplots was the
gay tight end. I don't remember a gay tight end.
The only gay guy I remember was the dude that
went to Missouri that I have a whole show, Michael.
They have a whole show called He Did rather Way
where it's two gay hockey guys. Really yeah, the chicks
love it. Don't know that. It's like two hockey guys
(21:42):
who like to compete so hard and then when they
get off the the the ice, they ravage each other.
Rememb that all right, we gotta go. Oh Jesus, alright,
(22:05):
I'll talk to you next week. That's it. You've done it,
all right. We love you. Make sure you call sweet James.
It eight hundred and nine million, eight hundred nine million
Petross Papadaka is with us. Larry Stone joins at five
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Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Brought to you by Sweet James Accident Attorneys forty years.
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I don't know bo now with Petros, Peer's Dave Softy Muller. Alrighty,
boars and girls, here we go on a Wednesday, four o'clock.
Right here on ninety three three KJRFM means one thing,
and one thing only, an unbelievable opportunity to talk to
(00:46):
one of the more in demand sports talk radio guests
the industry has to offer. Producers, program directors will line
up on their knees pleading bag for this man to
join their radio programs. But we've got him every single
Wednesday at four o'clock, one half of the legendary fabled
Petros and Money Show in Southern California, USC football star,
(01:07):
one damn fine Greek American and my friend Petros Papodocus
courtesy of the one and only Sweet James. That's Sweet
James Bergerer, the deads Beard of Justice. Sweet James knows
if you've ever been in a car accident, motorcycle accident,
maybe you've been bitten by a dog, whatever it is. Oh,
Sweet James has the skill and the wearwishalt withal on
(01:30):
the knowledge to get you what you deserve. So give
them a call. They're they're twenty four to seven and
you don't pay until you settle eight hundred and nine million.
That's eight hundred and nine zero zero zero zero zero zero,
or Sweet James dot com? The hell was that? Sounds
like you got your headphones too close to the mic
or something. Then get your own balls too close to
the mic and say, you know what, you calm down,
(01:52):
all right, mister, Hey, don't make me come up there.
When was the last time you were up here? By
the way, Well, if I went up there and murdered you,
I'm quite certain the Seattle mayor wouldn't do anything. Oh,
she looks like she couldn't protect a warm cup of piss.
My god, what are you guys doing up there? I
(02:16):
mean sure there may be a few photos of our
mayor here in La tongue kissing castro. But that's even
better than your weird shaped forehead. Hick geez. She looks
like the girl you take to the prom for sympathy,
you know, thank you? Oh god, okay, I'll be performing
(02:43):
here at the Mercer Island. Ha ha all we hey,
don't disparente the ha man. Oh god, that's funny. I
don't know, dude, it's amateur hour up here. You did
you vote for her?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I don't live in Seattle. Oh I can't, although what
happens in Seattle certainly impacts me. Yeah, impacts all of us. Right,
she seems pretty. I mean, do you vote for the
mayor of La No? Yeah, you can't, but it impacts you.
But I did. I did meet the Spencer Pratt guy. Yeah,
the guy who's running the reality show Guy's surging. Now
(03:17):
how that go? I said, Well, he's got this commercial
where a cartoon Spencer Pratt is pushing, Yeah, a trash.
It's got the La mayor in it. I saw that
on Twitter and it says socca la basua because her
name is bass okay, so soaka la Basuda. In Spanish
meetings throughout the trash and then he's got like a
(03:40):
Spanish song to it. They goes Soka la masula. He's smart,
and I said, I said, hey, dude, Saka la bauda.
He was like you like that. I was like, yeah,
I really like that. It's like a code. Yeah, fist pump, Yeah. Well,
does this guy have a shot of winning? You thing?
(04:00):
I know? I mean apparently. I'm sure they'd fix the
vote so he didn't know. You know what's happened to anybody?
It's Chinatown all over again. Oh God, forget it, Jake,
it's China, Chinatown the movie you're talking about, Yes, Chinatown
the movie. I'm just checking. What do you think I'm
talking about? No, the restaurant in Spokane, Oh Jesus, all right, well,
(04:23):
Petros Papaaka is with us. I love how all the
restaurants in the Northwest it says American Chinese food, Like
why do I need the American part? Like we're in America.
I know it's an American Chinese restaurant. I've never noticed that.
I just go to a Chinese place because I want
Chinese food, all right, whatever, I mean, Yeah, I guess
there's a difference, right, between Chinese food made here and
(04:45):
you've never seen like a Chinese Chinese food place, like
you know, just like they have it in China. Like,
who would go to that? I want to go to
a Greek Greek restaurant? Well, Greeks if they had that here,
believe me, authentic Greek restaurant. That's where I live. Well,
your dad's green Greek restaurants no longer a thing. It's
gone now right correct? Okay, So where do you go
for authentic Greek food? So now they cook at church
(05:08):
every once in a while. Really, yeah, I have the
big festival and the big church going guy. Yes every Sunday,
no member, once every two three weeks, once every two
three years, No two three weeks. You bring the kids,
the whole family. My son works on the altar realist
done that you go to church every two to three months?
(05:28):
Are tweaks every once in a while if I haven't
been in a while, Like the more church going, more bias.
Members of the family will be like, did you sign
the visitor's log? See that's funny. That is funny. That
deserves a rim shot. I mean, how often do you
really look up and feel like you have to go
to church and talk to God and cleanse your soul.
Why don't you cleanse you? This is going off the
(05:52):
rails early, What a were you talking about? The hell's
going on? Ted Turner passed away? You saw that? You
know he did a lot of stuff. Yeah, sure did, No,
he really did. I know that. That's why I agreed,
Like why we have a twenty four hour media, right
is Ted Turner? Yep? Right, twenty four hour programming? Yeah,
(06:15):
that's true to noon. Okay, he did that whole weird.
I mean that's a big deal, though, softy, if you
think about the impact of that. He did the thing
where everything started at five after the hour, remember that,
just to be different. Yep, yep, that was kind of cool.
Somebody tweeted out that Ted Turner's funeral will start at
seven o five, A pretty good He also had a
(06:39):
wet T shirt contest in a baseball game one year,
a booby contest. God, I missed those days, don't you.
Just the chaos and the promotions where he could go
to like a Kylie in Booms radio remote. God, a
wet t shirt car Kilian Booms. I haven't heard that
name forever. Remember Richard Blede Wow, you know who Richard
(07:00):
Blind was. No, I don't form rich and Blid is
a DJ. He was like a K rock DJ down
here and he'd be like Durrand du Rand lay If
at the Palladium. Rich and Blide one of those guys,
and his his accent got more and more like hardcore
(07:20):
the longer he was in the United States, and we
had he wrote a book, you know, because of course,
I mean they were at ground zero of Me.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Wife music, Depeche Mode at the Rose Bowl, Dive gon one, you.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Know, And he wrote a book and we brought him
on and this was a few years back, and he was.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Like, guys, pretty much everything we did now would be illegal.
It's everything was a wet t ship contest or a
g strenga.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You sound like somebody from like Mad Max right now.
That's how he's Australian.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I know.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's what's funny about rich and Blind. God, that's funny.
He does weddings now, dude, I promise you that people
in your audience know Richard Black. Yeah. Well you know what,
I guarantee you. I've heard the voice and seen the face.
Uh just couldn't place the name, but I think he
might have been in I forget the name of that
with the one where Sarah Jessica Parker's dancing around, Remember
(08:26):
that where she's dad dancer. Anyway, Well, he's talking about
a movie or a TV show. No, I'm sorry about
Ted Turner there. Yeah, no, man like me. Later in
life he got obsessed with the Civil War. Yeah, I
love talking about the Civil War. Did you ever talk
about the Civil War with Ted?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
But there was, uh, these two really rich guys who
used to go to my dad's restaurant, and they hung
out so much at my dance restaurant that they started
hanging out at the house. Okay, And they were really
weird guys, but they were both multi millionaires. Yeah. They
were the Morton brothers right from the Steakhouse. No, from
(09:11):
the Salt got it? Oh yeah yeah yeah Morton Salt,
Frank Morton and Steve Morton a lot of money man, right,
And they also owned Beatrice Foods. Okay, okay, and the
family was from Chicago. So they were really rich guys,
but very odd. You seem shady, well, very rich. Well,
they were Jewish, very rich, very very rich, very aristocratic
(09:37):
like Pebble Beach. Yeah, but they didn't like to spend
a lot of money, hance, you know why they slept
in our house even though they were worth like two
hundred million dollars. And I remember there was like the
America's Cup on or something, and we were sitting in
the living room and Frank Morton, who's there was like
(09:57):
probably had two popped callers, you know, and to sweater
around his neck. He said, you know, oh, I sailed
once with Ted Turner, And I was like, oh, yeah, Frank,
And then he went a bit of a you ever
get the feeling by the way that your dad was
up to no good? My dad, Well, listen to what
(10:19):
happened to poor Frank Morton characters. Frank Morton, God rest
his soul, used to like to sleep in my room,
you know, my bedroom. Geez, that's kind of creepy. Well,
I was in college. I wasn't there, but if I
was in town, you know, in San Pedro, I would
sneak into my parents' house and sleep in the bed
late at night. And a friend of mine who was
(10:42):
playing at the time for Colorado State, who played for
the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cardinals and then the Niners
played fourteen years he's now passed away, called Clark Hagen's
two hundred and sixty pound black linebacker. He crept into
my room once and saw the body in bed and
thought it was me and shook Frank Morton, who was like,
(11:05):
you know, seventy five years old and two hundred million dollars.
You know, this is two hundred and sixty pound, six
foot four black guy shaking this. I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
We get up, you know, and Frank pete everywhere, Please
don't kill me. Oh my god. And I was there.
I had got home and I went downstairs and I
saw Frank in my bed. So I went to another
room and was asleep, and Clark found me. And it
was very much like part of the family, you know.
(11:35):
Clark found me and he was like, I think I
upset this old man in your bed. Frank never even
went downstairs again, like he didn't not I mean, he
never even went down there again, Like he avoided the
room like somebody died in there. Just imagine this dude
just being all over your room, oh everywhere. He got it.
(11:58):
And my dad was like, Frank got it accident. When
Clark went in the room and shook him. Oh wow,
that's my only connection to Ted terms Oh that's funny.
I never talked about the Civil War with him, but
I was once sitting in a room where Frank Morton
called him an a hole. That's a fun you know what.
That's a hell of an angle, man. Not many people
can claim an angle like that to one of the
biggest media, if not the biggest medium. Moguls I sailed
(12:22):
with that guy once. Oh yeah, Frank, Yeah, a bit
of an ale. Yeah, Petros papadakas with us. Well. The
spring game came and went on Friday at U DUB.
It was fine, you know, not a great crowd. I mean,
I just kind of wondering Wilter twelve. I mean I
maybe I don't know. UCLA out attended you guys, that's
(12:45):
all really Yeah, Well, probably paid him fifty bucks each
to show up or something. I would take everybody and
put him on one side of the stadium so it
looks better on TV. And they didn't do that. I
called a game like that once really where they were
in everybody to get on one side of the stadium
to make it look better for him. Yea, it was
UAB Legion Field. Birmingham, Alabama. I've been to Legion Field.
(13:08):
That's where they used to have the East West Shrining game, right, correct, Right,
it's a real place. I may knowing stuff. Well, Jedfish
came out and said, there's a chance to Mont Williams
might play three more years here in Seattle. There's a
chance that you guys might win the championship too, because
they got a they got that five for five thing
going on now, right, Well, maybe you will. That's a
(13:29):
good chance. Yeah, Well, I don't know. I hope he's good.
I hope he gets better every year, and I hope
you have a great time with Jed the Fish. Wilner
said on the show yesterday he thinks there's a chance
that in the next couple of years that spring games
just go away all together. It's possible, but some people
use him to promote the new coach. You know, there's
(13:52):
sometimes is there's a there's an advantage to having one
if you have a quarterback competition and both guys are
in the program at the time, and you want to
see something there is and and and As a player,
there really was a different field. The spring game felt
like a game. The clock's running there's refs out there
there you there's a crowd. The crowd reacts to what's happening.
(14:15):
You know, even if it's not that big of a crowd,
it's still different from what you're used to, which is nothing,
you know, just practicing out there with people you already know,
and and people write about it. And if you perform
well in the spring game, even if no one, you're
never heard of again or from again. And we've all
we've all seen that. But it's a big deal. I mean,
(14:36):
there there's an energy before it, there's there's something to it.
Not every team needs it. Some teams are more veteran laden.
Some teams don't want to show anything of what they're
doing because they're they're trying to hide it until opening day.
Maybe they're opener as a real doozy. I mean, there's
all kinds of reasons that go into it, as you know,
(14:57):
and Wilner could be right, but but I like, for instance,
UCLA this year with Bob Chesney. Yeah, this is a
guy who's who's brand new. They are injecting life into
the UCLA program. They're recruiting very well. They want to
have a showcase, they want to get out there in
front of it and say this is our new look,
(15:18):
this is our new culture, so to speak. So I know,
I think Wilner is way ahead of himself. He should
shut up. I'll tell him that next time he's on,
tell him to shut his yapper. That true says, you
zip it, old man, you shut your pie hole. I
saw where Maurice Jones Drew's kid committed to UCLA. Yeah,
you know, I've had that Bob Chesney guy, and who
(15:41):
knows what he'll be like. I remember when everybody's freaking
out about Snoop Dogg's kid, But Deuce Jones Drew, Yeah,
and I bet he's great if he's anything like his dad,
who was a great back at every level. But a
lot of people don't realize and this is just me
talking sports, but Maurice Jones Drew was a great zoe
running back, physical between the tackles running back in the NFL.
(16:05):
He didn't do that as much with UCLA. They had
a different guy that did that, Chris Marquis, and he
was more I mean, I know he had let four
hundred yard game against you dub or something, but he
was more of like a screen game third down He
even returned punts what he was at UCLA. So it's
very interesting how many different things he could do he
(16:25):
ended up being able to do as a as a
running back and a football player. And he was a
great pass protector as well. So I wouldn't be surprised
if his son isn't a great player. But Bob Chesney's
got it. He's got a lot of momentum going in town.
He did something that took Lincoln Riley four years to do.
What's that make a bunch of connections with all the
(16:45):
local high schools. It's not like the local high schools
here in La produce any talent that plays right. No, No,
you might want to get to know those people. We're
not going to come and lick your calves. He got
to go, you know, so Chesney. Chesney's do a great
job already, and we've had him on the show a
few times. I've got he's got a great energy and
it doesn't come off as phony. I mean, even McVeigh is,
(17:08):
who's a great coach, his energy often comes off as
kind of phony or krit cringey, a little creepy, like
trying to act like John Gruden a little bit, you know,
and this guy themes seems very very authentic. Did you
happen to see Russell Wilson and Sierra at the met
gala over the weekend? And did I saw all of
the athlete took the gall Yeah? Thought I saw. Joe
(17:33):
Burrow looked like a gay doorman, the wide receiver, Justin Jefferson,
Sir Francis dra Hotel, Right, what what does a gay
doorman look like as opposed to Joe Burrow at the
Met balls strade doorman or the guy, you know, like
the guy at the Best in Show, the gay guy
when he was showing the dog. That's kind of how
(17:53):
Joe Burrow looked. I got it. I got and then
and then Justin Jefferson the receiver had a bunch of
holes in his suit, like it was attacked by a
wolf or something. Was he making a statement with that?
I don't know. I mean, you know, Russell Wilson showed
up looking like a fat captain stubing Captain EO. I
probably looked a little bit like, yeah, well now he's
talking about the Jets have apparently made him an offer
(18:14):
to backup Gino or am I getting the TV? Yeah?
Super cheese ball? Maybe he'd be great at it, but
I could also see him kind of going full Jason
Witt as well. Yeah, I don't know if he really
would offer any real insight though. I don't know if
he'd really You never know what, you know, I my
happy place. You never know if somebody is going to
(18:35):
be good or bad till the LEC goes on doing
that job. That is true. So yeah, there was a
who else Venus Williams. Yeah there who was the chick
with the dollar bill on her face? That was what
a statement trying to criticizah pulse whatever, Who's worth like
twelve million dollars and twenty two? Yeah, twenty two. Sorry,
(18:55):
I don't know what that was all about. Do you
think she poked like little holes in the dollar? I'm
sure the bet ball has always been like this, But
it feels a lot like the way the aristocracy looked
and acted in the Hunger Games, right Like, it feels
a lot like that. It feels kind of creepy. It
is creepy. Everything's getting you make a statement against the
aristocracy as part of the elite aristocracy. It's kind of irony.
(19:20):
Doesn't even begin to cover that. I saw. I saw
that Voltaire wrote about these things. I saw that you
responded to my tweet about ESPN this morning. Yeah, it's
really bad. But you know, like sometimes you're watching like
this time of year when there's playoffs or whenever there's playoffs,
or even if you're watching like the tournament like TBS, right,
(19:44):
if you have it on TBS or attorney go. Yeah,
the next morning you wake up and like you're watching
Charmed on mute in your house. You didn't turn it off.
It Charmed, and you're like, oh my god, there she
is Lissa Milano. And you know, so sometimes that happens
with ESPN. And the next morning you get up and
it's Kendrick Perkins big face or Steven A. Smith's big face,
(20:08):
and they're just you know, and and and it says
on the Chiron or whatever what what they're talking about,
you can Lebron, you know, like what happens next for Lebron?
You know, it's just it's the same thing. What we're
a game five lost? Yes, exactly, big go and uh.
(20:29):
And if it's not that, it's Pete Schrager's big ass face,
like really close up talking about Sean McVay and watches
his Sack. There's a lot of big faces on esp
I'm tired big big faces on the case. All right,
well it's all terrible. Yeah, it's just good anymore. I
just said on Twitter this morning, I just said, outside
(20:50):
of a game, I just don't watch. No, there's nothing,
and I you know, i'd like to watch, you know,
I like highlight shows. And remember they had that the
NFL show Playmakers with the Gates. I was, what's what
the gay stuff today? Gay doorman? Gay tight end? What's
going on? All right? You know what? Fine, say good bye, shake,
(21:11):
good bye. I say one more thing. You're gonna be
like c C the Gate. Who's the gay tight end?
What Gate?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
What?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Gay tight end? Playmakers? One of the subplots was the
gay tight end. I don't remember a gay tight end.
The only gay guy I remember was the dude that
went to Missouri that I have a whole show, Michael.
They have a whole show called He Did rather Way
where it's two gay hockey guys. Really yeah, the chicks
love it. Don't know that. It's like two hockey guys
(21:42):
who like to compete so hard and then when they
get off the the the ice, they ravage each other.
Rememb that all right, we gotta go. Oh Jesus, alright,
(22:05):
I'll talk to you next week. That's it. You've done it,
all right. We love you. Make sure you call sweet James.
It eight hundred and nine million, eight hundred nine million
Petross Papadaka is with us. Larry Stone joins at five
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