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Speaker 2: three fun fact. Well, the golf event in Augusta, the
Speaker 2: Masters is going on right now. A lot of people
Speaker 2: upset that Travis Kelsey's running around and Kevin Hart is
Speaker 2: yelling at everybody the par three thing. It seems like
Speaker 2: people are over it, and the golf purists are unhappy.
Speaker 2: I'm sure Matt Smith will come back tomorrow and say
Speaker 2: something about the golf and the sunlight and the timeless
Speaker 2: Augusta National. But here is a fun fact about Augusta National.
Speaker 3: Oh I can't wait.
Speaker 2: Well, I BET's about Augusta, Georgia, because I think if
Speaker 2: this guy walked on to Augusta National when he was
Speaker 2: alive there, he'd have been shot. James Brown, yes, the
Speaker 2: Godfather of Soul, had a personal friend of our old
Speaker 2: colleague Pat O'Brien. James Brown's been dead for twenty years,
Speaker 2: but twenty years Day six been that long. Wow died
Speaker 2: in six born not in Augusta, born in South Carolina,
Speaker 2: the famous cocaine singer of the Godfather of Soul. But
Speaker 2: he lived in Augusta and grew there. He moved there
Speaker 2: from the time he was four or five into one
Speaker 2: of his aunt's brothels because his mother left town went
Speaker 2: to New York City. He performed for the troops at
Speaker 2: Camp Gordon, and he boxed in Augusta. And if you've
Speaker 2: ever been to Augusta, Georgia, which I have not, but
Speaker 2: it was twice the capital of the state of Georgia.
Speaker 2: No longer, but it was. The statue of James Brown
Speaker 2: in the middle of downtown has been removed, seriously. Yeah,
Speaker 2: not because he was a woman beater or because of
Speaker 2: the cocaine, just because they're building a park around it.
Speaker 2: They removed it and it's in like a garage somewhere
Speaker 2: for safekeeping, and they're going to bring it back so
Speaker 2: everybody can look at the Godfather of Saul once more.
Speaker 2: But I love James Brown. He is a great artist,
Speaker 2: and he has a depth and breadth of his work
Speaker 2: that is extremely impressive. And just because he was a
Speaker 2: psycho screaming cocaine guy with a haircut like a sixty
Speaker 2: year old black woman should not deter people from.
Speaker 3: The fact that he was brilliant.
Speaker 2: How about when that park gets finished and the statue
Speaker 2: goes back up. We're supposed to be there in Augusta.
Speaker 2: We make a little trip out there, Mac and go golf.
Speaker 2: You can't golf, no one's No one's getting on in Augusta.
Speaker 2: If anybody can get on Augusta, your radio partner can
Speaker 2: get on.
Speaker 3: We can look at the park. Do you want to
Speaker 3: do that?
Speaker 2: I mean what it takes longer to golf than it
Speaker 2: doesn't look at a statue.
Speaker 3: A couple of labs around the park.
Speaker 2: It's more like a median. He'll go to the bar
Speaker 2: James Brown, Augusta, Georgia, not Augusta, Nashville, where he would
Speaker 2: most likely be arrested if a lot. But now it's
Speaker 2: time with a quick hitch.
Speaker 3: Some to get mess.
Speaker 2: Quick hitch, come make it quick, y'all? Yeah, Dodgers or
Speaker 2: nine to three and they're off tonight, but that won't
Speaker 2: stop Tim Kates. They're back at home tomorrow, starting versus
Speaker 2: the Texas Rangers over the weekend. If you are going
Speaker 2: to the game tomorrow, this is huge. Show Aotani greatest
Speaker 2: game bobblehead knife, so first of two, by the way,
Speaker 2: not just greatness in one bobblehead, but two bobbleheads. This
Speaker 2: one's going to feature his three home runs in the
Speaker 2: postseason game. It's as if the Dodgers know that these
Speaker 2: Otani bobbleheads commemorating his great feats are a big attraction. Well,
Speaker 2: when you caught one of the greatest feats of all
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Speaker 2: about this at the beginning of the show. There's fifty
Speaker 2: six thousand people the Dodger Stadium holds. They're giving away
Speaker 2: fifty four thousand.
Speaker 5: Woo.
Speaker 2: You got to be a real idiot to not get one.
Speaker 2: You really be in the minority. But still it's not everyone.
Speaker 2: We talked to Yonder Alonso. He's got the Angel game tomorrow.
Speaker 2: The Angels hit the road. They are in Cincinnati tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Don't you know. Pump it up. You've got to pump
Speaker 2: it up, don't you know? Pump it up. Weekend series
Speaker 2: versus the Reds outfielder Jorge Solaire and Braves pitcher Ray
Speaker 2: Rinaldo Lopez each suspended seven games for the Big fight
Speaker 2: last night, which was fun to watch. Each player's appealing
Speaker 2: and can play pending a hearing, and Yonder did discuss
Speaker 2: that very raucous baseball brew haha from yat last night.
Speaker 2: I mean you remember the one he was talking about
Speaker 2: that he was a van That was Zach Rank hurting
Speaker 2: his shoulder after that. I do remember that that was
Speaker 2: a big deal back then. Do you have the call
Speaker 2: on that. I would like to hear it. I'd like
Speaker 2: to hear Yonder Alonso tackling A j Ellis in the moment,
Speaker 2: and he did look like a Cuban miss going right
Speaker 2: after the big fat wi concert Catcher's ass of our
Speaker 2: friend A j Ellis three and two and it hit him,
Speaker 2: wouldn't you know? Now he has something to say and
Speaker 2: look out here.
Speaker 4: A j Ellis got out there just as Drankie and
Speaker 4: Quinton got together. Quinton continues to amaze as he consistently
Speaker 4: gets hit by pitches. It looks like the majority of
Speaker 4: the players are trying to be peacemakers. The trio of
Speaker 4: Granki along with aj Ellis and Carlos Quinton, the Dodger
Speaker 4: bullpen Hinton gent Quinton being led away.
Speaker 3: Off to the left.
Speaker 4: And Matt kemp Is, I rate don't touch me, I
Speaker 4: think he said to Bud Black, don't touch me. Matt
Speaker 4: Kemp keeps saying the Bud Blackick Well Quinton hit again
Speaker 4: and very hot. Matt Keff remember very early in the
Speaker 4: game the pitch that went over Matt Kemp's head to
Speaker 4: the backstop. I don't know whether that was the retaliation
Speaker 4: by Granky, but that's why Matt Kemp is very much
Speaker 4: involved in this. Garry Harston keeping him away je Hare
Speaker 4: and that.
Speaker 2: You cannot state enough how good Vin Scully was, just
Speaker 2: how how perfectly he announced that, and he was old,
Speaker 2: what a star did he ever do boxing? I should
Speaker 2: know this, but I mean it probably did everything. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he'd be great at talking boxing. Describe what the Lakers
Speaker 2: are fifty and twenty nine. They've lost three in a row.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Bill Plashki said they should just pulled up the ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the okay, Bill Dodgers should too, Right.
Speaker 3: He says, leave Luca in Spain or wherever he's at.
Speaker 3: Getting that present.
Speaker 2: The die Marra story still STIGs me. The Lakers are
Speaker 2: fighting to hang on to the four seed. They're currently
Speaker 2: tied with the Rockets with three games to play. They're
Speaker 2: at Golden State tonight and then at home and Home
Speaker 2: versus the suns on Friday and at home versus the
Speaker 2: Yazz on Sunday. Good luck to everybody involved. The Clippers
Speaker 2: are heading to Portland. Kates, you are our Clipper correspondent.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Clippers forty one and thirty nine right behind
Speaker 2: them and the Portland Trailblazers at forty and forty. Tomorrow's
Speaker 2: game huge, so crucial with a one game lead over
Speaker 2: the Blazers for that final eighth spot. That if the
Speaker 2: Clippers win, they'll finish with the eighth spot. The Trailblazers
Speaker 2: will get the ninth spot, and that's huge in the
Speaker 2: play in Tournament p If the Clippers lose, they would
Speaker 2: need to win their season finalees Sunday at home against
Speaker 2: Golden State, and the Blazers then to lose their final
Speaker 2: home game against Sacramento. Otherwise the Clippers would finish ninth.
Speaker 2: Not confusing at all, eight seventh ninth win here, lose there.
Speaker 2: This team's tanking there. It's just the exciting point of
Speaker 2: the NBA season. The final week. The nc Double A
Speaker 2: is exploring a significant change to their eligibility rules. The
Speaker 2: proposal creates an age based standard. What about Chris Wank Nope,
Speaker 2: he'd be done. Athletes would have five years of eligibility
Speaker 2: from their nineteenth birthday or high school graduation. The clock starts, go,
Speaker 2: I'm fifteen, but I'm in eighth grade. The proposal, which
Speaker 2: mirror's language written into the executive order issued by President
Speaker 2: Trump last week, would not grant extra years for red
Speaker 2: shirts or waivers like this, except for small groups of
Speaker 2: outliers maternity leave, military service, religious missions. More members of
Speaker 2: the NCUBLEA Division one Cabinet are set, like Nick Saban,
Speaker 2: are set to reveal this proposal at their meeting next week,
Speaker 2: with potential for implementation as soon as this coming academic year.
Speaker 2: You like this, clock starts, you got five years. Go
Speaker 2: whatever you do with those five years, it's up to you.
Speaker 2: But if you want a red shirt, you're costing yourself
Speaker 2: a year. The only thing you can get out of
Speaker 2: it is a medical issue he torri r acl or something.
Speaker 2: You'll get an extra year. It sounds like, or you
Speaker 2: go on your Mormon mission.
Speaker 3: I like this. It's like how it used to be
Speaker 3: pretty much, but now there's literally a clock starty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it used to, I mean they used to.
Speaker 2: It used to be really hard to get more than
Speaker 2: one red shirt. Now they hand him out like they
Speaker 2: hand out aspirins. Yeah, now we're going to court over
Speaker 2: this stuff. Fernando Mendoza And what I think is a
Speaker 2: great decision, really yeah, is not going to the draft. Instead,
Speaker 2: he'll be in Miami with his family and we'll find
Speaker 2: out the list of players who are going to Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: for the draft in a few days. Why do you
Speaker 2: think it's a good thing. He's going to be the
Speaker 2: face of the NFL, the number one pick in the draft.
Speaker 2: He needs to be on stage. Right. Why he's already
Speaker 2: the number one pick. They're gonna talk like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: like you go out. He seems like some guys are
Speaker 2: built for that, right, And he's great with the media.
Speaker 2: First of all, his mother's not very mobile.
Speaker 3: True.
Speaker 2: Now, he made a lot of try She made a
Speaker 2: lot of trips during the football season, no doubt. But
Speaker 2: maybe it has something to do with that because and
Speaker 2: maybe her condition's different. So there's that we know about
Speaker 2: the family story in that regard. The other I think
Speaker 2: is just what do you do if you're the number
Speaker 2: one pick or if you're one of the guys they
Speaker 2: have you at the draft? You wear a bunch of suits.
Speaker 2: They give you every opportunity to make an idiot out
Speaker 2: of yourself. You're doing your posing for every like Instagram,
Speaker 2: slow camera going around you, thing made for TV production, right.
Speaker 2: I mean they just sit there and exploit you for
Speaker 2: three days and run you around. I mean, you're already
Speaker 2: the number one pick. Everybody already knows who you are.
Speaker 2: It's giving the effort. It's telling the NFLFU you're not
Speaker 2: going to be able to market me this week. And
Speaker 2: maybe that bothers the NFL. But here's a young guy
Speaker 2: who seems like he's very religious, really comfortable in his
Speaker 2: own skin. He's got a mother that's not mobile to
Speaker 2: me good. I mean, it just gives you every opportunity
Speaker 2: to look like an a hole sitting there celebrating yourself,
Speaker 2: running around, and your future teammates are gonna look at
Speaker 2: you and be like, okay, you know, I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean some guys are built for it.
Speaker 2: Some guys are self promoters and they love to go
Speaker 2: out there and do it. And that's not bad. Football
Speaker 2: takes all kinds. But I think Ferdy Mendoza is going
Speaker 2: to be talked about and exploited enough just being the
Speaker 2: number one pick on the draft. Either way, he's going
Speaker 2: to be on a plane that night, a PJ private
Speaker 2: jet flying to Vegas to be introduced to the Vegas
Speaker 2: media at the Raider Compounds out. They should just family
Speaker 2: should be at the Mandalay, not like that.
Speaker 3: That would be the smart move. That would be the
Speaker 3: smart move.
Speaker 2: This is a huge hit though, to the NFL because
Speaker 2: they bring him in a few days before they do
Speaker 2: the whole circuit. They do the red carpet and then
Speaker 2: they do the big picture on the He's not happy
Speaker 2: about it, but I personally I kind of like it
Speaker 2: all right. What happened to the Masters opening routed Augusta
Speaker 2: Sam Burr at five under, one of your co leaders
Speaker 2: along with Rory McElroy also finished at sixty seven today,
Speaker 2: five under par for his opening round. He of course,
Speaker 2: you're defending Masters champion and they're going after Tiger's drug doctors. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Federal prosecutors in Florida say they're planning subpoenas for the
Speaker 2: pharmacy located by Tiger Woods where he gets his medications.
Speaker 2: Prosecutors want the times of the prescriptions when they were filled,
Speaker 2: the number of pills, the dosage amount and any instructions
Speaker 2: that accompany the pills, such as warnings about drivings while
Speaker 2: taking them, according to documents filed online in a court,
Speaker 2: So they're trying to line up the fact that, yes,
Speaker 2: he wasn't drunk on alcohol, but we got him on pills.
Speaker 2: Was that ever going to be a question? No, how
Speaker 2: about some hockey p Thanks for talking Puck. I didn't.
Speaker 3: It's the final week of the season.
Speaker 2: A huge game tonight the Pond between the Ducks and
Speaker 2: the San Jose Shark, so big. I couldn't get tickets
Speaker 2: for Sadie. She wanted to go watch the shark. Oh
Speaker 2: wow because of that guy. Yeah, the two guys, Will
Speaker 2: Smith and the other man crushed Sadie. The Ducks have
Speaker 2: lost six in a row and are in danger of
Speaker 2: not making the playoffs. Now they need their old flying
Speaker 2: v They're holding on to the seven seed, but barely
Speaker 2: with four games to play.
Speaker 3: So thanks for talking pay.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't have gone out with the Icelandic trainer. Gordon
Speaker 2: Bombay saw you eating ice cream with the Icelandic trainer.
Speaker 2: That changed everything. Change our attitude about you as a coach, Bombay,
Speaker 2: gem yours.
Speaker 3: I start down that's where you're going.
Speaker 2: See you in the ice Bombay. Good luck tonight, Ducks.
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Speaker 5: Hello? Hello?
Speaker 1: Hello?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 5: Hey, you're right. Things change, boy, Things looking good for
Speaker 5: a little while and then boom injuries. But hey, still
Speaker 5: gotta play, gotta play.
Speaker 2: It's got to be tough because things for for weeks
Speaker 2: were really headed in the right direction. And I guess
Speaker 2: it didn't. I don't know, Maybe I'm wrong. It didn't
Speaker 2: feel like their success was as fragile as it ended
Speaker 2: up being. Am I Am I wrong to say that?
Speaker 5: No? I think I think you're right. I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: they started to to prove that they could beat some
Speaker 5: you know, some some decent teams, you know, beating Denver
Speaker 5: and do what they did with the Knicks, and you know,
Speaker 5: going on the road and have in that record. But
Speaker 5: there's a big difference, you know, beating five hundred teams
Speaker 5: and then you know, going up against the defending champion.
Speaker 5: So that that first game against them, the one that
Speaker 5: both Luca and Austin Reeves were injured in, they ran
Speaker 5: up against the champions, and you know, the Lakers had
Speaker 5: did a good job to get up to third, but yeah,
Speaker 5: the injuries just you know, dissolved any momentum they.
Speaker 3: Had with three games to go.
Speaker 2: James, what is JJ Reddick's message to the guys that
Speaker 2: aren't hurt, ended or out there and Lebron who is
Speaker 2: supposed to play tonight against Golden State, Because you got
Speaker 2: Bill Plashki right in the LA time saying shut everybody down,
Speaker 2: Let's look ahead to next year, forget about it. What
Speaker 2: are postseason run they go on in the playing tournament?
Speaker 2: What is JJ Redis message to the team the final
Speaker 2: three games before the playing tournament?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, if anything, I think they might be
Speaker 5: trying to hang on to you know, hang on a
Speaker 5: force spot. You know, see if they can win these
Speaker 5: last couple of games and you know, if they can
Speaker 5: keep home court advantage. He's got to keep a positive
Speaker 5: attitude with the team, you know, guys like Jacobradia ay
Speaker 5: and gets a chance to prove, you know, himself, and
Speaker 5: you know Lebron coming back. You know, you just got
Speaker 5: to hope that these guys can beat the Warriors and
Speaker 5: the Phoenix and then trying to have some you know,
Speaker 5: some safe faith. Uh. They're not gonna get you know,
Speaker 5: Austin or or or or Luca back anytime soon, but
Speaker 5: they gotta, they gotta, they gotta try to win with
Speaker 5: what they have.
Speaker 2: James Worthy, we always win with what we have because
Speaker 2: we have James Worthy, and the wins or losses don't
Speaker 2: affect us. We have to talk about it either way,
Speaker 2: as does James Worthy joining us right now on the
Speaker 2: Petros and Money Show. We appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 2: Last week when you were on, I think my radio
Speaker 2: partner Matt Smith was saying, well, what's going on now,
Speaker 2: James here, they got to keep Lebron for another year,
Speaker 2: like this is gonna this is gonna change everything and
Speaker 2: all that, and you said, well, let's wait to see
Speaker 2: what happens, and uh and and and something did happen
Speaker 2: very shortly after that. How much does that affect do
Speaker 2: you think the way this season is ending? How much
Speaker 2: do you think that affects not that we know exactly
Speaker 2: how it's gonna end, but how much do you think
Speaker 2: that affects the future?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, it's hard to say, because I think
Speaker 5: Lebron was really thinking that, hey, this team had come
Speaker 5: a long way and and it you know, you could
Speaker 5: just get in the in the playoffs and you know,
Speaker 5: maybe upset somebody. That's I think that's what he was thinking.
Speaker 5: But I think now, you know, I don't know, he's
Speaker 5: he's he's playing pretty good. He seems to be happy
Speaker 5: with what's going on with the team right now. As
Speaker 5: far as the future is concern man, I think he's
Speaker 5: just gonna have to wait and figure out, you know,
Speaker 5: what's what's what's the nice cost. There's so much going
Speaker 5: on right now. We all know whether how long this
Speaker 5: season is going to last, and so I think he's
Speaker 5: right now just deliberating and just kind of waiting to
Speaker 5: see what happens.
Speaker 2: With that being said, James, I'm gonna stay positive with Lebron.
Speaker 2: Three games to go and then the postseason. We'll see
Speaker 2: what happens in the postseason tournament. But at forty one
Speaker 2: and the fact that he hasn't had been used a lot,
Speaker 2: and the minutes havn't been just crazy the last month.
Speaker 2: There could be a lot left in the tank here
Speaker 2: for Lebron James at this point of the season, more
Speaker 2: so than any other year because of the minutes and
Speaker 2: the game restrictions. This could be Lebron having a big
Speaker 2: moment here. Could you see him carrying this team for
Speaker 2: the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: Well, he's going to have to. He didn't have any choice,
Speaker 5: and you know the plan was with Luca and Austin.
Speaker 5: He had really settled into like playing off ball, you know,
Speaker 5: going in the post, like abusing people, really getting physical.
Speaker 5: He's finding a whole new game where he could be
Speaker 5: just as impactful get triple doubles.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: I think maybe handling the ball a little bit more
Speaker 5: is going to put a little bit more wear and
Speaker 5: tear on him, and he's going to have to make
Speaker 5: a lot of decisions with the ball in his hands.
Speaker 5: I hope that the Lakers can find somebody maybe I
Speaker 5: don't know if Marcus Swart's available, who can at least
Speaker 5: take some of the pressure off him from handling the ball.
Speaker 5: But as far as having fuel in the tank, yeah,
Speaker 5: he's got something in there. You know, it's got diving
Speaker 5: on balls at forty one years old, and I can't
Speaker 5: believe the elevation that he's getting. I remember being thirty
Speaker 5: three and not able to get that kind of elevation
Speaker 5: on any dump. I was almost done and he's still.
Speaker 5: But you know, you look at how he's kept himself
Speaker 5: in shape and his formula for longevity. It's working.
Speaker 2: Tuesday night, a little back and forth verbally between JJ
Speaker 2: Reddick and Jared Vanderbilt. Is that maybe just frustration of
Speaker 2: everything that's happened and the way the JJC and his
Speaker 2: team kind of fall apart here because of injuries here
Speaker 2: in the final weeks.
Speaker 5: I think it's just frustration, you know. I think it happens.
Speaker 5: I think and you see that a lot of times.
Speaker 5: You know, it's like, oh, what's happening, But in a
Speaker 5: lot of cases, that's the way they've been communicating. I mean,
Speaker 5: I think JJ is really honest. He doesn't you know,
Speaker 5: he doesn't hold back. We've seen it with Luca, We've
Speaker 5: seen it with Van Dervelt. He's you know, and I
Speaker 5: think it's just something that players are used to, and
Speaker 5: I think they probably discuss it the next day or
Speaker 5: right after the game. I don't really see anything you
Speaker 5: know that that's wrong with that. That's just the way
Speaker 5: they communicate.
Speaker 2: James Worthy is our guest. We're happy to have him
Speaker 2: on when I mean, obviously the Lakers are not in
Speaker 2: a great position right now, better than some teams. But
Speaker 2: when you guys were the way you were with showtime,
Speaker 2: and it was around this time of year kind of
Speaker 2: headed into the playoffs, what was the mentality Because you know,
Speaker 2: what you've been playing for all years is right on
Speaker 2: your right on your doorstep, but you still have to
Speaker 2: take care of the kind of arbitrary business of finishing
Speaker 2: the season with you guys and all of your great
Speaker 2: leadership and coaching. How did you handle it?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, we usually had clinched, you know, we
Speaker 5: usually have clinched to playoffs, you know, way before you know, April,
Speaker 5: we probably haven't had it done. But Ralphs did not
Speaker 5: allow us to take any time off. In fact, this
Speaker 5: is the time of the year where you know, he
Speaker 5: kind of wrapped things up and made sure that we
Speaker 5: didn't you know, take any pauses, you know, to lapse.
Speaker 5: I think we did it one year in eighty six,
Speaker 5: nineteen eighty six, we were looking forward to plan the
Speaker 5: Celtics after we beat them in nineteen eighty five, and
Speaker 5: we overlooked the Houston Rockets and we you know, we
Speaker 5: just want focused. I don't think we were, you know,
Speaker 5: monitoring one another, and we we kind of left that
Speaker 5: with slide bodies.
Speaker 2: Jaye's gotten this conversation about current NBA and the players
Speaker 2: people want to see the most right now that if
Speaker 2: you can get a ticket to the game and you
Speaker 2: want to go see that player, who would have been
Speaker 2: and Wimby and the Spurs seem to be, you know,
Speaker 2: the trendy thought the Oklahoma City Thunder because of how
Speaker 2: explosive they are collectively and you know how good they are.
Speaker 2: What would James Worthy buy a ticket for in the
Speaker 2: NBA right now? Who's who's that guy or that team
Speaker 2: that you buy a ticket? You know you're not buy
Speaker 2: a ticket. Who would James Worthy pay to go see
Speaker 2: in the current NBA.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I have to say, I'm on the
Speaker 5: record radio show. I'm gonna have to say the Lakers.
Speaker 5: But I was at the game the other night and
Speaker 5: I was sitting on the baseline on the floor, and
Speaker 5: I was watching Oklahoma and I was watching Halgrim and
Speaker 5: hernes Stein and Green and McCain. They're ten d They
Speaker 5: got two starting fives on that team. Yeah, I take
Speaker 5: money to see how they play. They spread the floor,
Speaker 5: They know exactly where the next pass is. You could
Speaker 5: you should see Shaye directing traffic. You know, he makes
Speaker 5: a pass and he those where the next pass is going. Uh,
Speaker 5: they're physical. They kind of remind me a little bit
Speaker 5: of a blend of how the Celtics used to play
Speaker 5: physical and then they could run with you as well,
Speaker 5: like the Lakers. McCain outstanding Williams. They they are really
Speaker 5: deep and uh, they're gonna be deep for a while.
Speaker 5: I pay to see them because I like the way
Speaker 5: they play. They know how to, you know, create momentum.
Speaker 5: They know when they're in trouble, they take a time out,
Speaker 5: they don't panic and uh so yeah, they're they're throwback
Speaker 5: championship team.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, I'm assuming that Spectrum sent you guys
Speaker 2: out there to Crypto the other night before they knew
Speaker 2: that the whole team was injured and not going to
Speaker 2: play in that game.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a big knight. It was gonna be
Speaker 5: a big knight for us. Ended up being a real
Speaker 5: tiny knight ended up being a real tiny moment.
Speaker 2: And I was watching I was I was watching for
Speaker 2: the Desert, and I was watching TV, and you and
Speaker 2: Geeter were up there doing it looking all good and
Speaker 2: punk ass. Billy Mack was just walking around in the
Speaker 2: background on the shot with his hands in his pocket,
Speaker 2: his stupid tennis shoes on, looking up at the sky.
Speaker 5: We were all excited, but then the burbo, the bubble burst,
Speaker 5: and it was just another telecast.
Speaker 2: We love you, James, Hey, James real quick. Michael Cooper
Speaker 2: gets a job at cal State in LA. How excited
Speaker 2: are you a for that?
Speaker 5: Did you sent swets so excited? I am so excited
Speaker 5: for Cooper. I won't wear a sweatsuit. I'm a U
Speaker 5: and SEE guy, but I'll pull for him. He deserves it.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't wear an eagle sweatsuit. Nobody's gonna
Speaker 2: know one time, one time for Coop Vision three.
Speaker 5: We love you the Great Jeames Worthy is gonna know.
Speaker 2: There he goes James Worthy. Great stuff from our friend
Speaker 2: James Worthy, and always great to talk to. James. Even
Speaker 2: if the chips are down for the Lakers, not down
Speaker 2: for us, though not down for you. You're gonna have
Speaker 2: Off Night Dodger Talking seven with Tim k and coming
Speaker 2: up next your Dead and the Live Guy Birthday of
Speaker 2: the Day.
Speaker 1: This is Petrone on Demand.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening everybody, and a big thank you to
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Speaker 5: He'll be.
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Speaker 2: So with all that said, and looking forward to tomorrow
Speaker 2: beating out Richard Condon, the guy who wrote the Manchurian Candidate,
Speaker 2: and beating out Paul Robeson, turn it up Man, Paul Robeson,
Speaker 2: by the way, the communists who sang old man River,
Speaker 2: all right, that's too high. Today we celebrate William Henry Johnson.
Speaker 2: I don't really know how old he would have been today,
Speaker 2: because no one is really sure what year he was born,
Speaker 2: but he would be known as forever Zip the Pinhead.
Speaker 2: Born in Brooklyn, one of six children poor African American family.
Speaker 2: As he grew up, his body developed normally, but his
Speaker 2: head remained small. His tapered dome and heavy jaw made
Speaker 2: him attractive to the circus, to the circus. Yes, he
Speaker 2: was not mentally incapable. There is some debate about that,
Speaker 2: but people aren't really sure if he was affected in
Speaker 2: that way like some small headed people are.
Speaker 3: So his looks made him perfect for the circus.
Speaker 2: His parents agreed to let him perform for money. He
Speaker 2: was brought out in the cage and displayed as a
Speaker 2: missing link from Africa. Oh, come, I'm sorry, that's just
Speaker 2: the truth. And it was very popular.
Speaker 3: We haven't erased this part of history.
Speaker 2: And he would shake the bars and screech even though
Speaker 2: he could speak. And P. T. Barnum saw this and
Speaker 2: his popularity and said no more, No, I'm buying this out,
Speaker 2: my god. But he did change his act a little bit. Oh,
Speaker 2: he gave him a furry suit. He shaped his hair
Speaker 2: into a tiny point on top of his head and
Speaker 2: called him Zip the Pinhead. He started with the circus
Speaker 2: at eighteen. In his career lasted sixty years. Wow, talk
Speaker 2: about all the benefits now, God, some deeply sad racial
Speaker 2: undertones as well, you think. In later years his act
Speaker 2: became more civilized and he took the stage with others
Speaker 2: like Jim Tarvar the Texas Giant and Cuckoo.
Speaker 3: The Bird Girl and Mikey the Midget no.
Speaker 2: Jack Earl, the tallest man on Earth. He got tired
Speaker 2: of travel though, and just started working primarily in Coney Island,
Speaker 2: and in nineteen twenty five he saved a girl from
Speaker 2: drowning in the Atlantic. Olly was performing in Coney Island.
Speaker 2: Zip the Pinhead was performing a stage play called Sonny
Speaker 2: Sonny Yeah, where he caught bronchitis, mad with the play,
Speaker 2: got sick and died at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.
Speaker 2: In his sixty seven years in show business, it is
Speaker 2: said that Zip the Pinhead performed for over one hundred
Speaker 2: million people. He was photographed by the famous Civil War
Speaker 2: photographer Matthew Brady with Prince Albert of Wales who King Edward.
Speaker 2: And he was the second most popular freak of the
Speaker 2: nineteenth century.
Speaker 3: The second most.
Speaker 2: Tom Thumb the little Tiny Guy was the most popular.
Speaker 2: And they were both popular because they did not upset people.
Speaker 2: They just looked weird, but they didn't upset people like
Speaker 2: the bearded lady.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gross, I get you know. So sixty years
Speaker 3: in the circus.
Speaker 2: Traveling around in the circuit, well not just Ronkitas got
Speaker 2: him from jump in the river, Zip the pin head. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: he didn't jump in and it's not from jumping in
Speaker 2: the river. He got bronchitis when he was performing and died.
Speaker 3: Oh I thought you save somebody's life.
Speaker 2: Well that was a year later he died. I don't
Speaker 2: know if the rescue in the Atlantic gotcha bronchitis were related.
Speaker 2: But what life could see? How you could draw those parallels?
Speaker 2: Zip the pinhead from the freak shows of yesteryear.
Speaker 3: Good stuff, Petross, My alive guy.
Speaker 2: Need your approval? Well, I'm giving it to you, Da,
Speaker 2: I don't need it. My a live guy. Birthday of
Speaker 2: the Day, Happy forty ninth birthday to Gerard Way born
Speaker 2: in New Jersey, grew up with a passion for art
Speaker 2: and started telling you that the music wool rational art.
Speaker 3: In New York City.
Speaker 2: Initially pursued a career in animation and comic creation. Those
Speaker 2: guy's a Catholic boy. However, his life took a dramatic
Speaker 2: turn witness the September eleventh attacks and experience that inspired
Speaker 2: him to pursue music more seriously and channel his emotions
Speaker 2: into songwriting instead of the comic books, at.
Speaker 3: Least for a while. In two thousand and one.
Speaker 2: Gerard Way co founded My Chemical Romance, a band that
Speaker 2: quickly became one of the defining acts of the two
Speaker 2: thousands EMO, an alternative rock scene known for their theatrical
Speaker 2: style and emotionally charged of music. They had two iconic albums,
Speaker 2: Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge and The Black Parade. Gerard
Speaker 2: Away's distinctive voice, imaginative lyrics, and the commanding stage presence
Speaker 2: helped the band get a global fan base. They were
Speaker 2: widely popular, not just on K rock. In My Chemical
Speaker 2: Romance broke up. At that point, Gerard Way launched a
Speaker 2: solo career. He changed his style had more of a
Speaker 2: Brett Pop inspired sound. At that point, he picked up
Speaker 2: comic book writing again. He never really stopped. In two
Speaker 2: thousand and one, he created a cartoon called The Breakfast Monkey.
Speaker 2: They pitched to Cartoon Network, but the network said, we
Speaker 2: like it, but it's too similar to Aquitine Hunger Force O.
Speaker 2: He later created True Lives of Fabulous kill Joys and
Speaker 2: then a very popular comic book that they turned into
Speaker 2: a Netflix series, The Umbrella Academy. Oh Yeah, that is
Speaker 2: the thing.
Speaker 3: Critically acclaimed.
Speaker 2: He got kind of fat, didn't and his voice draws.
Speaker 3: His hired voice went higher.
Speaker 2: What he got fatter?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's really weird.
Speaker 2: Here's voice like twenty years ago, it's really deep now.
Speaker 2: In twenty fourteen, he made his debut at the Marvel
Speaker 2: Universe comic by writing a Spider Man series called Edge
Speaker 2: of Spider Verse. His story introduced Penny Parker, a Japanese
Speaker 2: American student who pilots a biomechanical suit. Yeah, there's way
Speaker 2: too many Spider Man's now. In twenty twenty four he
Speaker 2: liked Spider Ham Peter Porker, But to me, that's as
Speaker 2: far as that you go. When he's twenty four, he
Speaker 2: introduced a new comic book series called Paranoid Gardens about
Speaker 2: a person named Lou oh Loo, a nurse at a bizarre,
Speaker 2: self aware care center for supernatural beings like aliens and ghosts.
Speaker 2: He reunited with my Chemical Romance in twenty nineteen. They've
Speaker 2: been on tour the last two years. He's married with
Speaker 2: the daughter, and they live right here in southern California.
Speaker 3: So where just as Los Angeles, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: So if you're driving around listening right now, Gerard Way,
Speaker 2: maybe you're a Dodger fan.
Speaker 3: Maybe you're a PMS fan. You're certainly a fan of
Speaker 3: his comics, right.
Speaker 2: Some of what I shouldn't have said that he got fat?
Speaker 2: I know. I don't worry. I've got him. B Gerard
Speaker 2: gets back. It's buddy. Happy forty ninth birthday to Gerard Way,
Speaker 2: my chemical romance and comic book writer. Are you a
Speaker 2: bit of a my Chemical Romance type? Nope, feels like
Speaker 2: you are just the you know, my black because of
Speaker 2: the Kings, That's how I first heard it. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: could you stop this terrible instrumental music. I'd like the
Speaker 2: series on Netflix, by the way, the Umbrella Academy.
Speaker 3: It's it's a clever series.
Speaker 2: I don't know how true it is to the comic books,
Speaker 2: you know, they sometimes change things. It sounds totally stupid.
Speaker 2: It sounds like a knockoff of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Speaker 3: Well, that's probably what it is.
Speaker 2: Much like the Monkey Thing was a knockoff of Aquatine
Speaker 2: Hunger for It. That's right, get it, get your own ideas.
Speaker 5: Way.
Speaker 3: Is anybody original anymore? No?
Speaker 2: No, I'd like to think I have. I'd like to
Speaker 2: think that I am coming up next a very original
Speaker 2: Dodger off my Dodger Talk with Tim k. Stay tuned
Speaker 2: and we'll be back out to borrow three the pic
Speaker 2: Chosen my show, We'll tell me to back on more