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Yeah, follow the. 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:34.760 Petros in Money Show wherever you get your podcasts now 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.000 Here's Petros Papadacus and Matt money Smith. 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.279 One day I will find the right words and they 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:44.400 will be simple. 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:48.520 Craging everybody. Welcome back. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:52.680 It's Petros and Money Live with Don McClain on this 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.480 beautiful crunchy Groove on Thursday the Sun poking through after 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:01.680 the Rain on a seventy LA Arts. You know the 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.720 other day I went on with I do the five 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:09.280 am Morning Thing on Wednesdays on Fox Sports Radio. Travis 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:15.160 Clay Travis for about seven years. Clay Travis has been 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.720 in Rush Limbaugh's spot five years. Limbaugh died about five years, 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:23.360 so Clay Travis it's been five years, so it's the 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.680 same time slot and that is what I started doing, 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:29.679 was Klay Travis's show. But I've been grandfathered in as 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.280 the Wednesday guest at the same time with LeVar Arrington, 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:38.280 Jonas Knox, our friend, and Brady Quinn every Wednesday. And 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.880 what they asked me about this week it's a national show, 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.760 was La Rain and or as we call it here 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:51.040 Lo Rain. And it is kind of interesting the way 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.400 the news freaks out about the rain in La and 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:58.000 different things like that. I don't remember local news going 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.880 this nuts about it. I was younger, but I do remember. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:06.120 I don't know when it happened, but I don't remember 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.560 the rain being a thing when we like, no one 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:14.360 said I can't come in it's raining. No one said, yeah, 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.440 oh that's gonna be bad because it's raining. I mean 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.320 it was everybody knew. You just had to go about 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.120 doing whatever it is you were supposed to do, unless 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.959 you were like a baseball player or it was something 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.919 outdoors that could be rained out. Like they wouldn't rain 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.160 out our football workouts unless we we're gonna screw up 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.560 the field and we had a spring game or something 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.160 coming up. Then they'd bring us in the gym so 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.960 we could barf on the floor in the gym, but 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.160 no one And I remember when it happened. You remember 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.320 Intern Nate, the guy that asked you what kind of 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:50.720 dip you throw? And you said, poke kope and then 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:52.920 just let him hang and he just stood there in 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.000 the corner for forty seconds because you only gave him 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:56.919 a one word answer. 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:58.840 Is he still in the corner like Lonzo Ball? 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.800 Yeah, he's he's actually married, I believe to an Asian woman. 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.160 But Intern Nate, that was the first I've ever heard 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:07.760 of it. And that must have been I don't know, 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:12.520 twenty twelve, maybe maybe longer than five years into the show. 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.000 He didn't show up for work one day. He wasn't 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.200 coming because we used to get interns and we used 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:19.680 to work them and they used to do stuff and 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.920 it was helpful, and he was like, can't come in today. 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:23.399 We're like why. 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.960 He's like the rain and we were like, well, did 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.760 your car get flooded out? Did your is the area 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:31.600 you live in? Is there a flash flood? 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.360 Did? What do you mean? The rain? 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:39.320 But that's that became the norm, and it is just 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.120 kind of an interesting thing because it used to be. 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:44.960 If I had to drive to work and it was raining, 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.680 it was like, damn everybody, you know, it's going to 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.000 be problems and all this. But now there's no one 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.880 on the roads. Everybody stays home like a bitch. Your 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:54.680 thoughts done well. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:59.720 I think COVID has even made it more easier to 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.800 say I'm not coming in. I think technology too, you 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.560 can work from home a lot easier than used to 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.280 be able to. But yeah, I don't I don't understand 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.360 it either, and I don't know exactly when it started. 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.960 But I agree with you that rain is more of 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:15.440 a thing than it ever used to be. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.040 I don't think it's a thing in other places because 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.359 it's a thing all the time and they just have 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.520 to live with it. And out here in La we 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.960 used to pretend like we were Midwesterners or something and 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.279 just act like we could live with it. But now 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.479 we've become so soft that we can't even act like 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:32.240 we live with it. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.680 We have to act like a bitch top to bottom. 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.560 And I guess it makes sense. We are pretty I. 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.599 Thought about not coming in today because it was rainy. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.359 Well you know what, Actually I did want to say this, 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.640 Kates did say no way, don't. I want to say 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:52.159 Tim Kaid did Kates did say these shows? 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:53.960 I'll cim baseball. 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.839 Because everybody remember this, Petros? 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.040 You you really said that, Tim, You really think God 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:05.120 would knock you say? Do you think? 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.240 It was raining pretty hard dawn at the time, so 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:13.560 what it was coming down and Petros was driving up 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.080 from the hill and I was like, Man, I wonder 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:17.800 if Don's going to a text ands say you can't 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:18.680 come in because of the rain. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.040 You know what, Tim, I would give you permission, mister 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:25.039 gun owner. If I ever called anybody and said, hey, 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.360 I can't come in because it's raining, you can just 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:30.000 go ahead. 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:30.279 And shoot me. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:37.039 Literally if that, if those words ever come out of 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:38.040 my mouth, it's over. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.479 I'm done. You might as well just finish me off. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.080 It is a different world, you know. 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:51.240 I Mean, everybody's pretty shocked that we used to do 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:55.400 the things that we did without the accouterment that we 0:05:55.520 --> 0:06:05.520 have today, like dry minding, touching yourself, you know, just 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:17.360 using your dry mind, right, or maybe a magazine. I mean, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:21.719 I remember when DVD porn was like, oh my god, 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.320 VHS VHS, but then you pause it too many times, 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.520 the rewinder, the tracking gets all messed up. You know, 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.080 all right, don I have a good story for you, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.719 Australian News. I don't have to dry mind this. We 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:39.680 have audio Australian News. I love Australia. Actually I had 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.760 a story about Australia on Monday. A guy was in 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:43.920 an endurance. 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:48.920 J It's Kip and this is Petros and money's Australian News. 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.559 There's an endurance race and the car after like thirty 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.680 it's like a twelve hour race and it's like two 0:06:55.760 --> 0:07:00.000 minutes in a guy hits a kangaroo. Kangaroo explodes everywhere, 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:04.520 gore everything, wrecks the car done. That was our Australian 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:09.560 story on Monday. This Australian story actually comes from Milan, Cortino, 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:11.960 which is where they're doing the Winter Olympics, which you're 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.440 so locked in on. And this is Australia Channel nine. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.920 Danika Mason a report that was drunk. 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:25.600 Well, she wondernk the like the price of coffee over 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.240 here is actually fine. It's more the price of coffee 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.160 in the US that we are going to have to 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:35.320 get used to. I'm not sure that the Iguanas, where 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.760 are we going with that one? But anyway, the fact 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:41.040 that we've got so many athletes who are willing to 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:45.000 compete as well after her as well. She is just 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.920 one of those athletes that you keep in their mind 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.400 and you just look at them and go, what an inspiration? 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:53.160 No, I agree, she has a lot. 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:55.280 I agree with you completely. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:59.800 Dan, company that ain't want drink that right there is 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.080 and I say, Brook, it's time for bed. 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.320 That's when you grabbed like the upper arm party a 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:11.440 wife like, all right, time for bed. All right, we'll 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:17.040 eaven h now look full disclosure. I had lunch with 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.800 Mark Usker from outside the studio today at the Smokehouse 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:20.400 down the street. 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:24.400 Nice the rules actually invite right down. 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:27.400 He invited me to lunch. 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:31.280 He invited me to lunch, Chad, I had some I'll 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.120 take you guys to lunch if you guys want to 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:33.800 go next week. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.079 I want to go today. Well, if you want to 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.240 go next week, I'll take it. I won't be hungry 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.199 next week. All right, Well, I'm sorry. 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.120 I had lunch today with Mark Cusker from outside the 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.200 studio and he ordered a course light in a bottle, 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.840 as he's happt to do, so I ordered a bloody 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.199 Mary Now we're not in altitude, but I had a 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:53.199 drink today and. 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:54.319 We have live action of you. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:59.640 Literally like the prize of coffee over here is actually 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:00.120 fun and. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.600 That's how I talk. Let's listen to her. That's such 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:04.000 a lie. 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.000 It's more than copy in the US that we are 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:08.240 going to have to get used to. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.680 I'm not sure that where are you going with that one? 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:16.119 But anyway, the fact that we've got so many athletes 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:20.360 who are willing to compete as well after her as well, 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.600 she is just one of those athletes that you keep 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.040 in their mind and you just look at them and go, 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:27.880 what an inspiration? 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:32.360 Just remember this, don just remember this. She apologized, but 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:34.959 she'll be without a job. What are you talking about? 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:40.560 It's okay to get her, but should we hear her apology? 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:41.800 Would you like to hear it? 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:48.319 So just to apologize. Look, I totally misjudged a situation. 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.600 I shouldn't have had a drink, and especially in these games. 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.200 The drink it's cold, We've got a lot it's cold. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.480 Probably didn't help us altitude, but I want to take 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.439 full responsibility. It's not the standard that I set for myself. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.960 Listen to that, and then listen to the the report 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:06.560 that you did. 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:07.840 No, I agree, she has a lot. 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:13.599 Literally be like the price of coffee over here is actually. 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.360 Five seven drinks. No, it is not. 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.080 No, it's one drink with altitude and no dinner. You hurt, 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.440 and it's cold, get out of here. It's four factors. 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.000 What if she weighed forty pounds. 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:29.559 She said cold altitude, no dinner, one drink, and then 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:31.280 she says no excuses. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:38.080 To take a moment, if that's okay, just to apologize. Look, 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.480 I totally misjudged a situation. I shouldn't have had a drink, 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:45.120 and especially in these conditions it's cold, you've got our 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:48.520 streed and not having had dinner probably didn't help very well. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:52.839 That's a salad. It's not that cold in five Savignon 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:59.960 blounts Savignon Blount. He's in Italy. 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:06.040 Okay, keyanti whatever, But I like that. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.480 After she said all of that, she said no excuses. 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:16.719 She says, cold altitude, one drink, no dinner, no excuses. 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.760 But I want to take four responsibility responsibilities. It's not 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:22.319 the standard that I set for myself. 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.600 When she gets back from a launch, she will be 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:27.400 looking for work. 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.800 That no way, dude, I think She's going to be 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:34.280 even more popular than ever. Come on, there's no journalistic 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.720 standards anymore. Look at the people we put on TV. 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:37.560 Who cares? 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.320 She'll have a podcast that'll be your next move. No 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.559 more live TV for her drinking with Dan. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:49.680 Here's my number, number of the day. Number the DP 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:50.440 is ten. 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.640 Hall of Famer Michael Irvin posted a video with his 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:57.760 thoughts on the recent Super Bowl in San Francisco Santa Clara. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.679 Game itself was in Santa Clara. Uh, all the festivities 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.080 were in San Francisco. You know, cal McLean lives up 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.839 there now, so he saw all those people and all 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.480 those things going down up there. 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:10.720 Oh yeah. Did he go to any Super Bowl parties 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.240 or anything? I think he did, not like the famous 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:15.600 people ones, but I think. 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:20.120 He went to the denim and diamonds. Rob Gronkowski, gaylah. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.800 Michael Irvin and his rant used the word phrase or 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:29.240 the word or phrase blah at least ten times in 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.600 his description. Class it sucks. Well everything was in San 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:34.480 Francisco though. 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:41.360 Yeah, but all right, honestly, this is a horrible super Bowl. 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:50.400 They don't they should never, ever, ever, ever bring the 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:54.040 Super Bowl back to San Francisco. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.640 I agree, I'm sorry, full agreements. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:58.000 City. 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:02.520 This is and all the years of going to a 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:04.480 super Bowl, this was the worst. 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.760 This this this seems so like. 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.319 Blah. 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:14.320 It was blah in the city, you know what I mean. 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.920 It was just it just wasn't jumping like you see 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:19.360 his super Bowl was jumping. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.120 It was blood the people blah blah. 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:28.360 The buildings out here looks blah. You know, when you 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:32.439 go and you're going to events, it's like blah. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.520 I'm thinking, it's so much money out here because the 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:36.520 techis out. 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:40.840 Here, right, but it all looks so bla blah blah 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.679 blah blah blah. 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:47.440 And I didn't want to dampen anybody thought to hope 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.880 about a super Bowl during the Super Bowl, so I said, 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.960 I'm gonna wait. But I couldn't wait until this moment 0:13:54.040 --> 0:14:00.520 came to tell you, damn, it's this. I believe I 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:01.240 warned of this. 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.880 I warned of this. What I said it was gonna suck. 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.840 You know, you can't control if the game sucks, and 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.920 if the game is great, it overshadows all the other 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.480 stuff that is blah. As Michael Irvan just said, but 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:21.400 he's absolutely right. That is a terrible stadium. That is 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.640 a great example. That is the number one example, and 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:28.840 Sofi is number two. That just because something's new does 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:35.520 not mean it's cool. And the Santa Clair vibe is blah. 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.040 And if you're looking for excitement in the Silicon Valley, 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.040 you better get in the car and drive because you 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:41.960 ain't gonna find it there. 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:47.200 Yeah, all right, Ronnie, this is the song of the day. 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.600 Today's song of the Day is brought to you by 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.960 Gladys Knight and the Pips with a tune called Friendship 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.720 Train from the year nineteen sixty nine, A crunchy groove 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.480 with plenty of soul for your Thursday afternoon. On the 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:05.040 Petros and Money Show, were Best Friend. Don McLean has 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.880 hopped on the Friendship Train for three and a half 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:11.440 hours of great sports talk Filly in for Matt Smith, 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:12.560 who's on tour What. 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:14.680 Tour? 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:19.280 Flying Squirrel Indeed, and the NBA is back as the 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.000 Clippers begin the second half of their season with the 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.320 Denver Nuggets and into a dome where Adam Oslin will 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:25.840 be with that. 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.240 Clippers countdown show coming up at six point. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:33.120 Thirty day, Hey. 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:37.480 You, Ronny, six thirty tonight Clippers versus Nuggets we'll get 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.080 some of Dog's thoughts on the NBA as they enter 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.760 their second half half. 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.480 I am that I don't have to drive you into 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:45.320 a dome anymore. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.080 It seemed like it wasn't a fun place for you 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.920 to reach from Westlake, but into it is a new 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:51.000 arena and it. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.080 Is well made. You have to admit that to this 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.280 too bad. They can't really, you know, match it with 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:58.240 the products on the court. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:08.160 And hey, we'll discuss it next. 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:17.240 Petros Papadakis that money's this is petrosend money on demand. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:21.040 Hey Federson money on m FI seventy LA Sports. Happy 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:24.200 to be with you today and every day for the 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.600 world of great sports talk. Don McClain is here great 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.120 sports Talk, a real. 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:30.960 BFF for the show. 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.600 You can see him on FS one on Saturday calling 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.560 the USC organ gave. He did that USC Illinois game 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:44.440 last night at Galen USC was serviced at a funeral 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:49.240 pyre by the Balkan Five, The Kings of Champagne. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:56.320 You've been to Champagne, Orbana? No? OK, real nice. 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:00.520 It's a great college town, it really is, especially for football. 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.640 All right, Don, we got to do it. I know 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.440 you don't want to talk about it. But we got 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.520 to do it. The Clippers are back tonight. We have 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:17.960 Clipper programming, and Kawhi went off in the All Star Game. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:23.080 He did and they have position to be. Like you said, 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.639 somewhere in the middle, what do you think the rest 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.719 of the season is going to look like for the 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:29.520 La Clippers? 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:34.080 Don Well, incorporating new players in getting used to playing 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:38.120 without Harden is the biggest thing. And then zoo Brook 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.159 Lopez is going to have to play more minutes. Mathn's 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:45.000 a good player. Not sure if he'll eventually start or 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.760 continue to come off the bench, But you know, what's 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.520 the expectation now you made those trades, Basically. 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:52.200 We're gonna get out of the plan. 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:56.359 Yeah, but they're they're solidly in the playing like I 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.560 think they're five and a half games up on whoever's 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:02.800 in eleventh place right now, So it looks like unless 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.199 it completely falls apart, they're gonna be at minimum in 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.919 the play it. So it'll be interesting to see moving 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.120 forward what the Clippers do. I don't think this year 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.240 means that much. It's I don't believe that they can 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:17.520 get hot at the end and make a run in 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:22.120 the playoffs, especially since they got rid of those two guys. 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.560 So really it's about looking ahead to the offseason and 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:30.240 what moves they make in constructing this roster for what 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:31.600 it's going to look like next year. 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:37.800 So the Lakers situation is different, although they are also 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.359 kind of in the middle, but more of the middle 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:44.120 top as opposed to the middle bottom like the Clippers. 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:48.440 But I made this analogy with James Worthy the other day, 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:52.880 and James works for the team, but he did answer 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:56.480 it like he understood what I was saying. And Dawn, 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.840 you often refer to now that you are an empty 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:04.439 esther of sorts. Your boys they don't live on the 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:09.479 McClain compound in Wesley. It's you and the dogs and 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:14.560 Brooke mclan's it. And sometimes she's talking like that Canadian reporter. 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:22.040 And you got to say, but you often talk about that. 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:26.800 And the situation with Lebron now where every time he 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:30.280 calls a press conference, there's and why is he calling 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:32.640 a press conference just to tell everybody that he wants 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:35.760 to live his life? That's a pretty baseline thing for 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.240 all of us. Lebron, thanks for getting us all out 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:41.840 here to tell us that, right, But every time he 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.000 calls a press conference, like he did one for Hennessy 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.240 earlier in the year and everybody thought, oh, my god, 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.359 he's gonna announce this. O my god, he's gona announce that. 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:51.560 You have all the insider types saying it's over with 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:54.439 the Lakers. They're ready to move on. He's ready to 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:58.520 move on. Isn't it kind of like the last few 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.280 months of your kids still being in your house and 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:04.399 your wife's thinking about what to do with that room 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.680 and to make it like a like a workout room 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:12.240 or an office or something like that. It feels like 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:15.240 the Lakers want to plan for the future, but they 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:19.480 can't because they have this albatross around their neck and 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:21.200 they have to navigate. 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:22.320 It very gently on the way out. 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.520 I know he's do Braun, he could do whatever he wants, 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.000 but it doesn't makes it pretty awkward for everybody. 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:29.760 I mean, I guess from a media standpoint, I would 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.560 say this though, if they could ever figure it out 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:37.600 defensively and somehow figure out a way to be consistent defensively, 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:41.439 I'm not saying they can win the whole thing, but 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.840 if they get everybody back healthy, I think they're a 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:48.000 competitive playoff team. They're solidly in the playoffs, not to 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:51.320 play in the playoffs, and so I think everyone's kind 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:53.680 of waiting if they can get fully healthy, what it's 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.359 going to look like coming down the home stretch. But 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:59.600 I agree, I understand what you're saying, and there may 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:03.399 have already been internal discussions that hey, this is gonna 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:05.399 be my last year with the Lakers, but they're not 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:07.840 going to announce that when you have a team that 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:11.360 can compete in the playoffs. JJ Reddick's a competitive dude, 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:14.600 like they want to make a run this year. I 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:17.119 think they'll there will be more more clarity on the 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:21.720 Lebron situation after the season, But I don't think in 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:26.840 that locker room they're they're they're having conversations about Lebron 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.040 and when he's leaving or is he coming back, or 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:31.120 is this his last year. I don't I don't think 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:34.040 that's going on. I think that's the media and how 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:38.119 much attention Lebron gets in general. But they have a 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:41.520 good enough team to where it's not like the season's over. 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.080 You know where they're not going anywhere. Everyone knows it. 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:48.320 Lebron's still here. What about next year? I mean, I think, 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:51.560 and I'm not in that locker room. But I would 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:54.040 say I would say they're pretty pretty much still in 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:57.359 the present only because they have a good enough team 0:21:57.400 --> 0:21:59.560 to compete in the playoffs, So they're not quite living 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:03.560 in pera. I think so, at least from my perspective 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:08.000 and what I see. If they could, it's a big could, 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:12.000 you know, be consistent on the defensive end. They have 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:15.440 enough offense to contend. It's just whether or not they 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:18.080 can get stops in a seven game series. How many 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:21.280 years did you work Clipper games? Was it eighteen something 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:24.080 like that? Yeah, eighteen years or something. And I remember, 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:26.040 I mean when the owner of the Clippers when you 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:29.960