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Speaker 2: Well, this is something that we can relate to because, look,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of people that think they can do
Speaker 2: what we can do, but they can't. Now, we can
Speaker 2: do what they can do, but they can't do it.
Speaker 3: We'd like to think that.
Speaker 2: Yes, I saw a tweet yesterday from our former colleague.
Speaker 3: Although there's a lot of things that fill me with
Speaker 3: fear and anxiety. So there's probably a lot of things
Speaker 3: that I can't do.
Speaker 2: You think you can't do them?
Speaker 3: Well, people think that they can do this.
Speaker 2: Rush Flowers, our former colleague Rush Flowers. Yes, and at
Speaker 2: one point friend, Yeah, yeah, filled in. He was a
Speaker 2: fill in.
Speaker 3: He did.
Speaker 2: He did the scarface, you know, like he was. He
Speaker 2: was someone that we got along with. To his credit,
Speaker 2: the day your first child, Fletcher was born and Dana
Speaker 2: went into labor you're out emergency, he showed up at
Speaker 2: a studio in Lawrence, Kansas.
Speaker 3: That's right, he drove.
Speaker 2: He drove from Kansas City to Lawrence because that was
Speaker 2: the only place we could find an iHeart studio that
Speaker 2: was available. And he did the show and we appreciate.
Speaker 3: We really did. But things did go south between us
Speaker 3: and Bill Ryder.
Speaker 2: And much like a lot of people that are listening
Speaker 2: right now pee to think they can do what we do.
Speaker 2: I read that Bill because I do still follow him
Speaker 2: on on Twitter. I guess I just did not unfollow him.
Speaker 2: I keep it going. He tweeted that he's bidding farewell
Speaker 2: to his beloved radio show.
Speaker 3: I heard that.
Speaker 2: Yes, that is this relationship this beautiful creation that he
Speaker 2: has had a show that we listened to. We were fans,
Speaker 2: separate but together. We would text each other, separate but equal. Yes,
Speaker 2: through the course of the show, we would text each other.
Speaker 3: We would find an HD radio station in between, like ninety.
Speaker 2: One point three to get Kovacs and the cast of character. Yes,
Speaker 2: and that is now gone.
Speaker 3: I know, and I feel, honestly, I do feel like that.
Speaker 2: It's unfortunate and it's a harsh reality that some people
Speaker 2: wake up to recognize. You think you're ready for the
Speaker 2: big time, like the Petros and Money show in primetime
Speaker 2: afternoon drive that the most desired of all the radio
Speaker 2: slots in talk radio. Maybe just not built for it.
Speaker 2: Appreciate your time, Appreciate you hanging out with us right
Speaker 2: than you it's right right, and he was gone. So
Speaker 2: you might be good for overnights. Maybe you can work
Speaker 2: a little bit of mid days. Maybe you can work
Speaker 2: a little bit of early mid days, like a nine
Speaker 2: to noon post am drive pre mid days. But certain
Speaker 2: you can do nights, little seven to ten action. But
Speaker 2: afternoon drive is something different, Okay, something different. Now, are
Speaker 2: you questioning his worth work ethic? I can't tell you
Speaker 2: how many like big time interviews I've turned down with
Speaker 2: including presidents, including president and athletes where it's like you
Speaker 2: can interview them, you can't ask these four questions. I'll
Speaker 2: turn that down, Bill Clinton, you perv uh? The Chargers
Speaker 2: p yes are five and zero in prime time when
Speaker 2: the lights are brightest.
Speaker 3: Wow, that was masterful. I mean Matt right, I mean
Speaker 3: the Charles Dickens and and there's you. Who's the best
Speaker 3: of time. I can't believe you just turned Some people
Speaker 3: aren't ready for prime time, but I'll tell you who is.
Speaker 3: How about the Charger Wow?
Speaker 2: Brazil Monday Night Football twice, Thursday Night Football, Sunday Night
Speaker 2: Football five and zero in standalone games with the eyes
Speaker 2: of Football Americano upon them, and they have delivered a
Speaker 2: nail bider in sal Paolo Herbert with the bolts buttholes
Speaker 2: all puckered, staring at a third and long and potentially
Speaker 2: punting the back, punting the ball back to the Kansas
Speaker 2: City offense with time to score a game winning touchdown
Speaker 2: because the Chargers were only up six. But he saw
Speaker 2: Chris Jones dive inside, scrambled up that right sideline twenty
Speaker 2: two yards and slid for the win. The following week
Speaker 2: on Monday Night football, Jesse Minners defense eight different players
Speaker 2: with at least one pass defense and fifteen total, the
Speaker 2: most and a half decade, along with three interceptions from Gino.
Speaker 2: Thursday night against Minnesota, they made Carson Wentz cry. They
Speaker 2: hit him so hard. They made a football player, the
Speaker 2: toughest human beings on the planet cry, squirt them.
Speaker 3: Only the Chargers could do.
Speaker 2: That, Matt Sunday night. It was even worse for Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: He didn't cry, but he was pouting zero and nine
Speaker 2: on third down before that Garbage touchdown on the final
Speaker 2: couple minutes when they were down twenty five to three
Speaker 2: three two interception, Yeah, Garbage lost a fumble. Of course,
Speaker 2: blamed his teammates and his coaching and all that sort
Speaker 2: of stuff in the postgame presser. And then last night
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts came in having thrown two interceptions all season,
Speaker 2: and he threw four.
Speaker 3: Considering how many times he turned it over, including twice
Speaker 3: in one play.
Speaker 2: If the Chargers, you know, could block, it's part of
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 3: They would have won.
Speaker 2: If you can block these guys up front, it.
Speaker 3: Probably would have won the game a little more decisively
Speaker 3: and wouldn't have had to go to overtime and be
Speaker 3: on the brink of losing.
Speaker 2: This guy is gonna run right here up the middle
Speaker 2: because that's a lot of that's a lot of picks.
Speaker 2: What would you like me to do? Ignore him?
Speaker 3: That's a lot of picks. To then come back out
Speaker 3: of the field and get your quarterback continues to be destroyed.
Speaker 2: How many times do you want me to ignore him?
Speaker 2: All the times? Like every time? Yes, you want him
Speaker 2: running free right down the right down there. I mean
Speaker 2: you look at the box score and you say they
Speaker 2: turned it over? How many times? Yeah, he threw four
Speaker 2: picks and he lost a fund, including twice on one play.
Speaker 2: It would be a little bit more lopsided. I do
Speaker 2: appreciate the stats. And Steve Disager, you know him, well,
Speaker 2: My stat man does a bang up job of digging
Speaker 2: things up. And he did share with me with wide
Speaker 2: eyes and great pride. Huh huh. You know how stat
Speaker 2: guys are when they get something they're excited about. Hey, okay,
Speaker 2: it's ready ready.
Speaker 3: Not since nineteen twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, since they carted. Since they started keeping the
Speaker 2: stat in nineteen seventy eight, no player has ever turned
Speaker 2: the ball over twice on the same play. You know what,
Speaker 2: I find that easy to believe. I do find that
Speaker 2: that would be an incredibly rare occurrence that you could
Speaker 2: turn the ball over twice in the same play. Yet
Speaker 2: in fact, that is what happened to Jalen Hurts. He
Speaker 2: threw an interception, Deshan Han fumbled, Jalen Hurts recovered it
Speaker 2: and then for whatever reason, decided to turn up field
Speaker 2: and also got the ball punched out and lost a fumble.
Speaker 2: Five turnovers for one player that plays on a team
Speaker 2: that's had seven turnovers all season coming in to this game.
Speaker 2: The point is like the Petrosen Money Show, when the
Speaker 2: lights of the brightest, this dam has been exceptional. The
Speaker 2: bad news is, unlike the Petrosen Money Show, we are
Speaker 2: in afternoon drive every day. Well not true some days.
Speaker 3: Don't twist yourself. I would do a pretzel like nine
Speaker 3: to noon. Try to twist yourself in a pretzel to
Speaker 3: make a point.
Speaker 2: When are we gonna be out there?
Speaker 3: Not a noon?
Speaker 2: But our show is on from three to seven. I
Speaker 2: know I'm gonna put the guys on. Your chargers have
Speaker 2: been inconsistent, but consistently inconsistent. Almost they've almost overcome that,
Speaker 2: but they don't have their tackles, and you would imagine
Speaker 2: they'd be a much more consistent team.
Speaker 3: If they did have their tackles. But it was great
Speaker 3: that they won last night.
Speaker 2: The bad news p is as good as they've been
Speaker 2: in Pron time. They don't have any more print time
Speaker 2: games left. Oh no, yes, the final fact of the
Speaker 2: season podcast. Now that can change. We saw last year
Speaker 2: the Chargers Broncos in Week sixteen was the first ever
Speaker 2: Thursday night flex, So things can change. And they do
Speaker 2: have TBD. Two TBD games left Week seventeen against the Texans,
Speaker 2: which very well could be a Saturday game Christmas Week,
Speaker 2: two days after Christmas instead of a Sunday afternoon window.
Speaker 2: And they will play the Broncos in Week eighteen. Should
Speaker 2: they stumble a little bit Denver, and should the Chargers
Speaker 2: catch a heater, that could end up being Sunday night game,
Speaker 2: much like the Chargers Raiders was a few years back
Speaker 2: that went horribly wrong for Brandon Staley when it appeared
Speaker 2: as though the Raiders were content to settle for a
Speaker 2: tie and both teams punching a ticket to the playoff,
Speaker 2: he banged a time out, Josh Jacobs ran for twelve yards,
Speaker 2: they kicked the game winning field goal, and everybody was
Speaker 2: left scratching their head. So there is still a primetime
Speaker 2: opportunity where they can embrace the Petros and Money Show
Speaker 2: style of content delivery, which is when the lights are
Speaker 2: the brightest, the cars are the most on our freeway system.
Speaker 3: It's the radio equivalent of scoring in the red zone. Kids,
Speaker 3: that's right, how to perform when the pressure's on.
Speaker 2: Thankfully it was a nationally televised game for Justin Herbert,
Speaker 2: because you know those bank on the box score folks, man,
Speaker 2: they're just going to look at what they saw and
Speaker 2: see twelve to twenty six for one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: nine yards, a touchdown, a pick, and a QB rating
Speaker 2: a fifty nine point six, and we all know that
Speaker 2: doesn't tell the tales a heroic performance, a warriors effort,
Speaker 2: a man that wanted to be carried out on his
Speaker 2: shield left something to be desired in the interview portion,
Speaker 2: as he generally does. I want to celebrate with my teammates,
Speaker 2: all right, you want to go host that NFL Live,
Speaker 2: you go on and host it. I want to celebrate
Speaker 2: with my teammates. Justin's kind of part of the deal.
Speaker 2: We got to ask you this question. I need you
Speaker 2: to answer it. As you alluded to getting his head
Speaker 2: knocked off seven sacks the most of his career. He
Speaker 2: ran ten times for sixty six yards, tackled on five
Speaker 2: of those, a man with a plate in his left
Speaker 2: hand and a screw, not just a plate, not just
Speaker 2: to screw, a plate and a screw that had to
Speaker 2: be bandaged four separate times because of the blood leaking
Speaker 2: from the wound. That is how hard he played. There
Speaker 2: was a stiff arm of reed, blank and ship on
Speaker 2: a run that helped set up a forty six instead
Speaker 2: of a fifty six yard field goal to send it
Speaker 2: to overtime, and of course the stiff arm heard round
Speaker 2: the world at least whoever was still up that late,
Speaker 2: because it was already midnight on the Eastern seaboard. But
Speaker 2: the point being, it's a man who routinely has played
Speaker 2: through pain, and whatever you may think of his performance
Speaker 2: in the postseason or where he fits into the upper
Speaker 2: echelon or the elite of the quarterbacks twitter quarterback, he
Speaker 2: is a man who was played with a high ankle
Speaker 2: sprain and was in a walking boot all week in
Speaker 2: Charlotte in Pittsburgh, taking shots from TJ. Watt and Alex Heismith.
Speaker 2: He's a man that played with fractured ribs with two
Speaker 2: separate fingers broken and cast it in the past a
Speaker 2: shoulder something or other pigment separation I don't know, and
Speaker 2: now with a plate and a screw in his hand.
Speaker 2: He is tough. He is a leader, he is a galvanizer,
Speaker 2: and like the Petros and Money show in PM Drive,
Speaker 2: when the ears are open and the lights are the brightest,
Speaker 2: the Chargers have managed to deliver one win and one
Speaker 2: compelling performance after another.
Speaker 3: When I got up and looked in the mirror this morning,
Speaker 3: I saw justin Herbert's face looking back at me. Because
Speaker 3: that's how I perform in a heroic way. That's what
Speaker 3: we do. And we'll be back with David Vassay Dodgers
Speaker 3: making heroic moves. Plan. You know it's not nice. This
Speaker 3: show has moved out Afternoon and Drive a long time.
Speaker 2: Appreciate your time, Appreciate you hanging out with us righter
Speaker 2: than you.
Speaker 3: Good luck to everybody involved. Coobacs. We'll be right back
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Speaker 2: Good news, Clippers basketball returns on Thursday. Why is that
Speaker 2: good news? Because that means more Dodger talk this week.
Speaker 2: That's why it's good news.
Speaker 3: Well, this is a great week for Dodger talk with
Speaker 3: the owners meetings going on, and they would cram Dodger talk.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many games the Clippers could play,
Speaker 3: but we're gonna have a lot of Dodger talk this week. Yes,
Speaker 3: we are David Vass with Dodger Talk again tonight after
Speaker 3: having Brian Cranston on you can podcast that last night
Speaker 3: awesome seven o'clock. It starts and there is action at
Speaker 3: the owners meetings. The Dodgers signed Timmy Trump. No Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 3: But that's Timmy Trump. It's guy to play the song.
Speaker 3: It's David Vesse, the Dodger with an inside look at
Speaker 3: the Dodgers. This is the Vasse Report with David Vasse,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers not resting on their laurels and attacking relievers
Speaker 3: in the market, joining us now to discuss it all.
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Speaker 2: I've got a source, Dave.
Speaker 3: What's cracking? How are you?
Speaker 4: I'm doing great, guys, thank you for that great intro.
Speaker 4: And man, the timmy trumpets when they play gets me
Speaker 4: fired up already. It's going to be electric in the
Speaker 4: ninth inning at Dodgers Stadium this year with Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 3: So how long has this been in the works with
Speaker 3: Edwin Diaz that I don't think? Is this some guy
Speaker 3: that we've mentioned. I don't know. I don't pay much
Speaker 3: attention when other people talk.
Speaker 4: So actually he had never been connected to the Dodgers
Speaker 4: are today today. Yeah, and the Dodgers and Edwin Diaz
Speaker 4: Is representatives from Team Wasss did an excellent job of
Speaker 4: keeping this under wraps. I was told by a source
Speaker 4: with the Dodgers that knows that they had been talking
Speaker 4: to Edwin Diaz for quite some time, but he was
Speaker 4: seeking out a four year and beyond contract. Andrew Friedman
Speaker 4: kept on trying to make the framework three years with
Speaker 4: a higher annual salary like they eventually came to agree
Speaker 4: three years, sixty nine million dollars, which makes it the
Speaker 4: highest annual salary for any closer. So that was attractive
Speaker 4: to Edwin Diaz. And also the fact I've been told
Speaker 4: by people close to Edwin Diaz he felt disrespected by
Speaker 4: the Mets, not a priority by the Mets. And my
Speaker 4: understanding is the Mets only in the last twenty four
Speaker 4: or forty eight hours gave him a formal offer, and
Speaker 4: it came down to the Mets and Dodgers, and Edwin
Speaker 4: Diaz had a lot of people in his ears saying Dodgers,
Speaker 4: and he eventually chose the Dodgers, and Andrew Friedman got
Speaker 4: arguably the best closer available on the free agent market.
Speaker 4: And a guy that has proven that he can close
Speaker 4: games under the brightest of lights, and that's something Tanner
Speaker 4: Scott could not say a year ago.
Speaker 2: Oh, you had to take a shot at Tanner's got
Speaker 2: In the case of Tanner Dave, so much of it
Speaker 2: felt like it was, you know what he was able
Speaker 2: to do against shoe hail Tani in that series and
Speaker 2: repeated at bats. In the case of Diaz, you said it,
Speaker 2: you know, best closer on the free agent market, But
Speaker 2: I mean, you can make a case that he's the
Speaker 2: best closer in baseball, right. I mean, I was going
Speaker 2: through his numbers and it's like everything's either one or
Speaker 2: two for Edwin Diz.
Speaker 4: And the great part is we talked about the Dodgers
Speaker 4: wanting to get younger on their roster. He's only thirty
Speaker 4: one years old. He's right in the prime of his
Speaker 4: career and it's a three year contract, it's not a
Speaker 4: five year contract. And this will benefit Tanner Scott as well.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers will be able to deploy Tanner Scott as
Speaker 4: a high leverage reliever before the ninth inning, and that's
Speaker 4: where he excelled the best with the padres specifically and
Speaker 4: the Marlins to a lesser extent because the lights weren't
Speaker 4: that bright. But with the padres, that's what he was
Speaker 4: so good at, going up against lefties and certain righties
Speaker 4: before the ninth innings. So having a guy like Edwin
Speaker 4: Diz just lets everything else fall into place and the
Speaker 4: Dodgers can say they have a lockdown closer for the
Speaker 4: first time since Henley Jansen was the Dodgers closer.
Speaker 3: Are you surprised that they went and paid another reliever
Speaker 3: after what happened to them last offseason with the three
Speaker 3: years and sixty nine million dollars?
Speaker 4: A little surprised, but I guess for the certain relievers
Speaker 4: on the market, like Devin Williams and Edwin Diaz, the
Speaker 4: Dodgers were willing to go three years for those two
Speaker 4: relief pitchers. I don't believe. In fact, I know they
Speaker 4: weren't willing to do that for any other any of
Speaker 4: the others like Raciel Iglesias. They were willing to go
Speaker 4: short term. Suarez short term if it ever got to
Speaker 4: that point. Kenley Jansen one year, But for Diaz and
Speaker 4: for and for Devin Williams, I think they were willing
Speaker 4: to go beyond one year. In fact, we know that
Speaker 4: now with Edwin Diaz, but they were at the finish
Speaker 4: line with Devin Williams as well.
Speaker 3: Dave.
Speaker 2: Obviously, we think about closers and what Roki Sasaki was
Speaker 2: able to do in the postseason. Should we suspect that
Speaker 2: he's on track to be in the starting rotation come
Speaker 2: April of next year?
Speaker 4: Without a doubt? Even before this signing, the Dodgers were
Speaker 4: committed to having Roki Sasaki come back this upcoming season
Speaker 4: and be part of their starting rotation, give him the
Speaker 4: opportunity of growth as a starting pitcher, and Brandon gom
Speaker 4: said as much yesterday at the winter meetings that they
Speaker 4: are fully committed to having Roki Sasaki be part of
Speaker 4: their rotation.
Speaker 2: Does anything change in terms because you take on sixty
Speaker 2: nine million bucks? We know, you know they scratched out
Speaker 2: checks including luxury tax penalties for over four hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2: When you add an extra twenty three million bucks to
Speaker 2: the payroll, does that mean you're trimming? I know you
Speaker 2: talked about ta Oscar Hernandez before. What does this do
Speaker 2: to impact the rest of the payroll and the other
Speaker 2: moves that we kind of have been projecting or suspecting
Speaker 2: could happen.
Speaker 4: Well, the Dodgers had almost ninety million dollars come off
Speaker 4: the books with Michael Conforto, Clayton Kershawan a few others,
Speaker 4: So it's not like they're trying to trim. I don't
Speaker 4: think you could ever say trim with the Dodgers these
Speaker 4: days in the same sentence. They're just trying to improve
Speaker 4: the team, improve guys that are surrounding the big aircraft
Speaker 4: carriers and show hey Otani, Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 4: There's no secret the defense was lackluster by Teoscar Hernandez
Speaker 4: and right field last year with your eyes, with the metrics,
Speaker 4: he was one of the worst right fielders in baseball
Speaker 4: last year, and the Dodgers, I would you know? I
Speaker 4: was asked who's untouchable. The only untouchables are Mookie, Freddie,
Speaker 4: and Otani and Yamamoto. Those are the only untouchables. So
Speaker 4: if there's anybody else that can help the Dodgers get
Speaker 4: younger and get better, they're open to listening to those conversations.
Speaker 3: What was the reaction from the teammate, Dave, I know
Speaker 3: you're in touch with a lot of these players.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I spoke to a handful of them over the text,
Speaker 4: and they are as excited as the fans are that
Speaker 4: they got Edwin Diaz, and a lot of them not
Speaker 4: think so.
Speaker 3: They were.
Speaker 4: They were very excited about Edwin Diaz being their new closer.
Speaker 4: Best face it, there were a lot of gut wrenching
Speaker 4: losses in the ninth inning last year, and that's really
Speaker 4: hard for an offense to overcome. The Dodgers. Somehow, some
Speaker 4: way did and were able to get into the postseason
Speaker 4: and have a favorable path. But if they don't blow
Speaker 4: the number of says that they did last year, they're
Speaker 4: a number one seed in the postseason and have the
Speaker 4: best record in the National League, maybe major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: Most importantly, Dave when it comes to Edwin Diaz, and
Speaker 2: this goes before he decided to sign with the Dodgers today,
Speaker 2: I felt this way when he was with the Mets.
Speaker 2: We have had some great closers come out through some
Speaker 2: great closing songs, whether it was Hell's Bells or Welcome
Speaker 2: to the Jungle. I have firmly believed that Narco has
Speaker 2: been the best I have ever heard. For whatever reason,
Speaker 2: that trumpet, there is something about it, as someone who
Speaker 2: has seen a lot more of these and been in
Speaker 2: a lot of visiting ballparks. Where does that one rank
Speaker 2: compared to some of the other greats.
Speaker 4: It's top five for me, I mean specifically in La
Speaker 4: it will be at the top with like you mentioned,
Speaker 4: Welcome to the Jungle for Game Over, Eric Ganie California.
Speaker 4: Love for Kenley Jansen. That was iconic because of how
Speaker 4: good he was and Edwin Diaz. Now it's going to
Speaker 4: be electric at Dodger Stadium with Timmy Trump and I'm
Speaker 4: with you. It gave me chills. I would hate to
Speaker 4: say this. It was a spectacle at City Field when
Speaker 4: he would come into the game in the ninth inning
Speaker 4: and look.
Speaker 2: They're going to go bananas out there perform.
Speaker 4: He's got to continue to perform close the games, and
Speaker 4: that's what makes the song the end trends that much
Speaker 4: more electric.
Speaker 3: I like Beethoven's Best with Rob Men.
Speaker 4: I gotta be honest with you. In Philly, Joe on
Speaker 4: Duran when he got there that was pretty special as well.
Speaker 2: What's he come out to?
Speaker 4: I forgot the song, But the lights go out and
Speaker 4: the fans have their cell phone lights on and they
Speaker 4: get the LEDs going that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: The Puzzo nos serenade. Everybody knows that, Hey, Dave, you're
Speaker 3: not the only guy that sounded like, oh come on,
Speaker 3: let's go send him. How about Dave, You're not the
Speaker 3: only one that sounded like the devil.
Speaker 4: Very good morning, guys, and man, I'm gonna go out
Speaker 4: on a.
Speaker 3: Limb here and that's you, Dave. But here is maybe
Speaker 3: a little less satanistic Bob Chesney, the new UCLA coach,
Speaker 3: in the audio that they put out today for his
Speaker 3: press conference.
Speaker 6: First, I just want to, you know, thank everyone involved
Speaker 6: in the in this search committee. Obviously Chancellor Frank just
Speaker 6: phenomenally get a chance to meet you and understand your
Speaker 6: vision for the program and for the university and the
Speaker 6: idea that it doesn't have to be X or athletics.
Speaker 3: You're not the only one day.
Speaker 6: In harmony and for both to be able to all.
Speaker 4: Right, that's great analog. By the way, when when I
Speaker 4: hear that distorted phone call the Saxon cakes, I don't
Speaker 4: think of the Devil. I actually picture Batman where he
Speaker 4: is a Christian bale hallucinating thanks to the scarecrow, and
Speaker 4: he has like metal coming out of his mouth. That's
Speaker 4: that's the sound. That that's the That's what I envision
Speaker 4: when I hear my voice distorted like that.
Speaker 3: Well, the hour of the entire post that I was working,
Speaker 3: dropping off the gate got me man right. We'll be
Speaker 3: listening to your normal voice tonight.
Speaker 2: Who's on tonight?
Speaker 4: We're going to get an update, live update from Jack
Speaker 4: Harris from the winter meetings. We are still pefforting River Ryan,
Speaker 4: but we'll see whether or not he delivers.
Speaker 3: All right, We'll be back with more Petros and Money.
Speaker 3: The Gondola project. There's an update and we are all
Speaker 3: over it because nobody loves the gondoliers more than the
Speaker 3: Petros and Money show. Let's go vetice high.
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Speaker 3: All right, it's time for some local politics that involve
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, and we aren't doing well.
Speaker 7: We have to.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. This involves the Dodgers, and we've done it
Speaker 3: before and we're going to do it again, and we're
Speaker 3: gonna do it right now because the air over Chinatown
Speaker 3: is all of our concern. And Frank and Jamie McCourt's
Speaker 3: parking lot, even though it's been denied by Magic Johnson,
Speaker 3: it's Blooney's still their parking lot.
Speaker 1: It's bloony.
Speaker 3: And they want a gondola going from Union Station all
Speaker 3: the way up to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2: Seems I could be a pretty sweet little trip.
Speaker 1: It's bloony.
Speaker 3: Some think it will be something, it will get broken,
Speaker 3: something People will take potshots at it, something that homeless
Speaker 3: will defecate off of it. Many people think. Some people
Speaker 3: are thinking, like, hey, don't you own the building space
Speaker 3: above your house? What if you want to build a
Speaker 3: giant skyscraper. It's downtown LA. They can't build something hanging
Speaker 3: over your roof staring at the naked Chinese. It's brutal
Speaker 3: sunbathers in Chinatown. So there's a lot there. And we
Speaker 3: had the story last time, right tim. This bounces back
Speaker 3: between giant LA bureaucracies or boards from the city to
Speaker 3: the Metro to the city council, and the city council
Speaker 3: voted overwhelmingly against this and told the Metro, don't you
Speaker 3: do it. Don't you set your monkey free over Chinatown.
Speaker 3: Metro forget it, Jake, It's Chinatown and you can't do it.
Speaker 3: And that's what they've said. But it goes back to
Speaker 3: the Metro and the met says, I remember hating you
Speaker 3: for loving me. The Metro said, you don't know. You
Speaker 3: can't tell us about transit. We are the Metro. We
Speaker 3: are gonna say what we're gonna say. I say, I say,
Speaker 3: I say, And when I say what I say, I
Speaker 3: say what I say, and I say it. Now, what
Speaker 3: does that mean?
Speaker 2: More income for the metro?
Speaker 3: It means more bureaucracy is what it means. Here is
Speaker 3: the live report from Channel four The Big Peacock CANBC
Speaker 3: about what happened, what transpired as the gondola turns. You
Speaker 3: can tell there's a lot of emotion involved, like we
Speaker 3: have something. We have a little bit of skin in
Speaker 3: the game when it comes to the gondola because we
Speaker 3: work with the Dodgers and we're always there. But I
Speaker 3: can't see us down there screaming no. It blew in
Speaker 3: the face.
Speaker 2: I can't outscream that screamer.
Speaker 3: If you sell us out, we vote you out. And
Speaker 3: wait a minute, and if that was true, these people
Speaker 3: would have been voted out decades ago, because we've been
Speaker 3: sold out by local politicians in this city.
Speaker 2: And yet they've held their posts for decades, generations.
Speaker 3: We've been sold out.
Speaker 2: How long you've been a city councilan thirty years?
Speaker 3: So as much as this one right, as much as
Speaker 3: this woman wants to yell you sell us out, we
Speaker 3: vote you out. I mean, I know I'm not supposed
Speaker 3: to touch a third rail, but come on, just stop.
Speaker 3: If I was a City Council guy with the cuff
Speaker 3: links and an I suit to come out and be
Speaker 3: like I beg to different but anyway.
Speaker 8: God, this was the moment.
Speaker 9: The La Metro Board took a vote deciding to move
Speaker 9: forward today with the Dodger Gondola projects, despite the La
Speaker 9: City Council voting against it last month in a twelve
Speaker 9: to one vote.
Speaker 8: You can see how packed the room was today. Both
Speaker 8: supporters of the proposed project and those against it.
Speaker 3: Are all right, so there's gondoliers and then there's anti gondoliers.
Speaker 2: It's hard to work that one or.
Speaker 4: Hard.
Speaker 3: While singing a romantic tune.
Speaker 8: Proposed project and those against it were holding and waving signs,
Speaker 8: some protesting during the meeting. At the center of the
Speaker 8: debate the five hundred million dollars sky High project that
Speaker 8: was proposed seven years ago. If built, it would pass
Speaker 8: through Chinatown and the LA State Historic Park and connect
Speaker 8: the LA Transit System to Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 9: People for the proposed.
Speaker 8: Projects say it would help ease up traffic and allow
Speaker 8: people more transportation options. Hundreds of businesses in Chinatown and
Speaker 8: Pueblo and Lincoln Heights have also expressed support Those against
Speaker 8: it say the project is not needed and that it
Speaker 8: would take away green spaces, some saying that taxpayers were I.
Speaker 3: Was in Chinatown yesterday.
Speaker 2: There's so many green spaces.
Speaker 3: I went to Philips yesterday.
Speaker 2: I see nothing but green in that area.
Speaker 3: And Matt I got to tell you, the only green
Speaker 3: thing you see is the poop of a hobo on
Speaker 3: the sidewalk.
Speaker 2: There's screen it everywhere down.
Speaker 8: Those against it say the project is not needed and
Speaker 8: that it would take away green spaces, some saying that
Speaker 8: taxpayers would be stuck with the bill.
Speaker 3: It's absolutely traitorous.
Speaker 4: We've been fighting this project for I don't know, since
Speaker 4: twenty eighteen, since it came into the scene.
Speaker 9: If they had said no, we would have decertified this
Speaker 9: and it would have been over.
Speaker 10: I feel like it's it's a win for everybody, especially
Speaker 10: for my kids, because this is the feature for our
Speaker 10: boys to Dodgers, and it's hard to come to our
Speaker 10: game traffic and parket.
Speaker 7: But it's not a real public transit project. It's a
Speaker 7: tourist gimmick. There's no funding plan for it. It makes
Speaker 7: no sense for Dadger's stadium.
Speaker 3: Wait, hold on, why are people so bent out of shape?
Speaker 3: One way or the other, like it's amazing, Like why everybody.
Speaker 2: Seven years, she's been fighting it since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: To are losing their minds.
Speaker 7: It makes no sense for Daughter's stadium, and it would
Speaker 7: do so much harm to our neighborhoods and our businesses.
Speaker 3: More than wait, neighborhood. Yeah, I mean anything's good, guys.
Speaker 2: I mean outside of the new sun Bathers. I really
Speaker 2: don't know how it's going to hurt your business, your stadium.
Speaker 7: And it would do so much harm to our neighborhoods
Speaker 7: and our businesses.
Speaker 8: More than fifty people took the podium today. Several city
Speaker 8: council members also spoke out against the proposed project.
Speaker 9: Mayor baz, who is one of the.
Speaker 3: National board members, jan's.
Speaker 11: Support of the project. Her office released this statement this afternoon,
Speaker 11: a part the mayor is most interested in the community
Speaker 11: benefic agree that Metro board passed, including numerous requirements that
Speaker 11: will create opportunities for longtime residents and legacy businesses. Again,
Speaker 11: today's vote is not the final step. Additional approvals are
Speaker 11: needed here, including from coltreads and state parks.
Speaker 3: And you know who you know who sits on the
Speaker 3: state and the city Council. You know who sits on
Speaker 3: the state park board, Smoky the Bear. He just sits
Speaker 3: there like, hey, he's hard, he's a tough.
Speaker 2: Nut, and that crying Indian.
Speaker 3: Oh really go at it.
Speaker 2: They really know how to go at it. So wait,
Speaker 2: we got to make sure this thing clears City Council,
Speaker 2: State parks, Metro coltrans I've come up be long dead
Speaker 2: before the before ground is even but I would love.
Speaker 3: To see a one eighty on this. I I want
Speaker 3: to see the gondola now. Oh I'm one percent in
Speaker 3: on the gondol. Yeah, I might not ever ride it,
Speaker 3: but I'd love to see what transpires when it comes
Speaker 3: to the gondle.
Speaker 2: We need to do the show live from one of
Speaker 2: the gondolas, like we are just on a loop on
Speaker 2: the gondola pre Dodger game.
Speaker 3: If we can have beers when we stop at metro
Speaker 3: stations right then I'm in because we're supporting the local stage.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be great for them. Oh yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: come on, well, it depends on what your perspective is.
Speaker 3: These guys are drinking Margarita's at Alvera Street and going
Speaker 3: back and forth to Dodger Stadium on the Gondlin.
Speaker 2: You sell us out, we vote you out. I recognize you.
Speaker 2: You can't vote me out. You're from Long Beach.
Speaker 4: I know you.
Speaker 3: Never no one's ever voting me out. I'm a corrupt politician.
Speaker 3: Have you voted?
Speaker 2: We got sound from smoking the bear on this.
Speaker 7: Remember, only you can prevent forest fire.
Speaker 3: And that's about the green areas, right, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of green areas, green areas, green areas.
Speaker 2: Which one is that?
Speaker 3: The green and the frog and Frogtown?
Speaker 2: Is that the herb garden on your window sill of
Speaker 2: Apartment four?
Speaker 3: Seed? That's what it is. And this is gonna shade
Speaker 3: out the suns.
Speaker 2: I can't I can't grow.
Speaker 3: I can't grow my weed. Okay, we'll be back with
Speaker 3: Mort Petros and Money a whole other hour. A great
Speaker 3: sports talk quick care to the fun facts. Stay tuned