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Speaker 5: LA Sports. We are your home of Dodger Baseball. However,
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Speaker 5: When can we expect it to happen?
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Speaker 6: Well, Sat, it was on Dodger Talk last night and
Speaker 6: I actually ran into Dave today and our big company
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Speaker 4: Well, how did I know it was all hands on deck?
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Speaker 4: I heard everybody was there except for me.
Speaker 6: I mean, we can say all their names what we want,
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Speaker 5: time for the Word of the Day.
Speaker 3: His words the word of the day.
Speaker 5: Today's word of the day. This was tweeted out by
Speaker 5: one of those Trojan football accounts, But it's all over
Speaker 5: Twitter today. You know, USC Today's word of the day
Speaker 5: is defensive coordinator. Now, you could, in my opinion, hire
Speaker 5: Vince Lombardi to be USC's defensive coordinator or whoever the
Speaker 5: greatest defensive mind of today. The coach at Seattle, the
Speaker 5: Seahawks McDonald, you know, some great defensive mind. They they
Speaker 5: couldn't even help us see that much. They hired Deanton Lynn,
Speaker 5: who's supposed to be a great coordinator, and I don't
Speaker 5: think anybody can help us see that much defensively because
Speaker 5: of the way they practice, the mentality of the head
Speaker 5: coach and the mentality of the offense. But you know, Tim,
Speaker 5: that Deanton Lynn left in a very awkward way and
Speaker 5: didn't coach in the bowl game.
Speaker 6: What was awkward about it him in a press conference
Speaker 6: saying I'm here at the bowl game, and then literally
Speaker 6: the next morning he was gone on a plane to
Speaker 6: have all leaving for Pinston.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, so yeah, his alma mater. But and they
Speaker 5: gave him a better deal. But Deanton Lynn is no
Speaker 5: longer the decordinator at US see Lincoln Riley can hire
Speaker 5: the guy that called. Of course, the players just like
Speaker 5: they wanted Dante wanted the guy who's already there. They
Speaker 5: don't want anybody new coming and upsetting the apple cart.
Speaker 5: But it is official and confirmed by multiple sources that
Speaker 5: former TCU head coach Gary Patterson, the Old Hedgehog, has
Speaker 5: expressed interest in the job and has been in talks
Speaker 5: with USC about the open defensive coordinator position. Gary Patterson
Speaker 5: coached for twenty plus years at TCU and had unprecedented success.
Speaker 5: There was one hundred and eighty one and seventy nine overall,
Speaker 5: won four Mountain West Championships, a Big Twelve Championship, a
Speaker 5: Conference USA Championship, and was one of the best secondary
Speaker 5: defensive coordinator, secondary oriented defensive coordinator, calling the plays on
Speaker 5: the sideline, super engaged, hunched over. If you remember the
Speaker 5: way he used to look calling games and when he
Speaker 5: was at TCU, he was really talented. He's also a
Speaker 5: very difficult personality and became more and more crotchety like
Speaker 5: all of us and weird as time went on and
Speaker 5: he continued at TCU.
Speaker 4: If you know what I'm saying, do you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Oh, and he had a lot of success, but just
Speaker 5: drove people crazy. And I've seen a few examples behind
Speaker 5: the scenes of him just totally crashing out and doing
Speaker 5: weird stuff that you don't normally see. And no one
Speaker 5: else has really hired him since he left tc Remember
Speaker 5: he did a Western album. Remember that he did an album.
Speaker 5: He got sired in twenty twenty my dad, Yeah, twenty
Speaker 5: twenty one, And then in twenty twenty two he worked
Speaker 5: with sark as a special assistant an analyst, and then
Speaker 5: he did the same job in twenty twenty four. So
Speaker 5: maybe the TCU money's dried up now I don't know
Speaker 5: the contract details, And now he wants a real job
Speaker 5: and he's ready to be a coordinator again and hasn't coordinated.
Speaker 5: You know, he's been a head coach forever. And if
Speaker 5: he goes back into somebody's program in Lincoln Riley's the
Speaker 5: head coach, it's just hard to imagine how that would
Speaker 5: work out. But you know, I mean, he had Sonny Comby,
Speaker 5: who's the head coach at Louisiana Tech and a noted
Speaker 5: air raid Mike Leach.
Speaker 4: Guy.
Speaker 5: He had Sonny Comby, as his offensive coordinator at TCU
Speaker 5: for a while, so maybe he's used to working with
Speaker 5: air raid types from Leech's tree, like Lincoln Riley. But
Speaker 5: there it is. Gary Patterson, one of the true characters
Speaker 5: of college football, seemingly interested in the defensive coordinator job
Speaker 5: at USC.
Speaker 6: Now he's got West Coast ties. Remember he was a
Speaker 6: defensive coordinator.
Speaker 5: He was at cal Pauly with a lot of those guys,
Speaker 5: or maybe not cal Pauly, maybe Davis Cossacks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was at Davis too.
Speaker 6: Well, if he could rock the visor like he did,
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm all for that. I love a good
Speaker 6: visor on the head coach. He's one of my favorite coaches.
Speaker 6: And I loved watching his secondary play. I mean, so
Speaker 6: rarely would you ever see a guy uncovered in the secondary.
Speaker 6: Quarterbacks would have to make really accurate throws into small
Speaker 6: spaces because he was on top of it, and he
Speaker 6: would wait till the last second to put that secondary
Speaker 6: call to the corners and safeties and linebackers when he
Speaker 6: was coordinating the defense, so much so that sometimes they
Speaker 6: would just wear a no call and play it in
Speaker 6: vanilla because they snapped it too fast. And the guys
Speaker 6: are waiting for the calling. He's a heck of a
Speaker 6: technician on the defensive side. But I don't know how
Speaker 6: that helps Lincoln Riley because of just the mentality of
Speaker 6: the whole deal. But interesting as USC looks for a
Speaker 6: new defensive coordinator as Deant and Lynn used them as
Speaker 6: a stepping stone as well as UCLA.
Speaker 4: All right, it's time for the number of the days.
Speaker 3: Top number of the day.
Speaker 6: Number of the day is not many? Yeah, not many
Speaker 6: people have been going to UCLA basketball games this year.
Speaker 6: Despite what's the top twenty five team that Mick Cronin
Speaker 6: has shout out to.
Speaker 4: Are they still top twenty five?
Speaker 6: They've now just been out of the top twenty five
Speaker 6: after bat they lost like two straight. They lost it
Speaker 6: at Iowa and they lost at Wisconsin.
Speaker 5: Over there, hasn't Josh Lewin been getting torn to pieces
Speaker 5: on air?
Speaker 6: It was not pretty after the Iowa game, Like I
Speaker 6: listened to it.
Speaker 4: That he was real friendly after Wisconsin to trying to
Speaker 4: make up for it.
Speaker 6: I think. So that's what I understand. Mark huskas And
Speaker 6: is this tweet link and it caught my attention just
Speaker 6: about a half an hour ago, and his press conference
Speaker 6: today with the Beat Riders. Not a lot of them
Speaker 6: cover UCLA basketball, but Ben Boltch, Ben Bultch, is the
Speaker 6: only one, our friend at the LA Times, still covers
Speaker 6: the team. Yeah, he did ask a lot of questions
Speaker 6: today and he asked him this question about attendance. Now,
Speaker 6: I preferce this by the fact that UCLA has been
Speaker 6: in and out of the top twenty five. UCLA is
Speaker 6: ten and five on the season in college basketball. I
Speaker 6: know a lot of people are we're not.
Speaker 5: Really paying attention to it because you're not working with UCLA,
Speaker 5: like usually if you're up at night doing brewing talk
Speaker 5: or something.
Speaker 4: You know, it's more part of our.
Speaker 5: Daily weekly routine, and we talk about how the Bruins
Speaker 5: are doing. I don't really know, even though I consider
Speaker 5: myself to be close personal friends.
Speaker 4: With Mick Cronin. No, but I don't really know what's
Speaker 4: going on.
Speaker 6: No, they're ten and five on the season. They're two
Speaker 6: and two in Big Ten play.
Speaker 4: So things could be going better, right.
Speaker 6: They beat Washington in Oregon before the holidays, that weird
Speaker 6: start to the conference play. But since instance the start
Speaker 6: of the new year, they went on the road, lost
Speaker 6: at Iowa, lost to Wisconsin. They're home against Maryland tomorrow
Speaker 6: night a Fox if you want to watch it. Dave
Speaker 6: Roberts is the honorary captain. They're going to celebrate the
Speaker 6: former UCLA outfielder and Dodger manager.
Speaker 4: They have like some dorky T shirt with him and
Speaker 4: Mick on it.
Speaker 6: I kind of like it. So if you donate to
Speaker 6: the Men of Westwood, you get a T shirt. So
Speaker 6: if I can have twenty bucks, maybe Petros, I'll donate. Okay, Well,
Speaker 6: today Mick was asked by Ben Bulch about the crowd.
Speaker 4: And I'm not giving bucks to the Man of Westwood.
Speaker 6: The crowded. Paul's been very underwhelming. Now they had a
Speaker 6: winner break serly, Well, it's been this way forever. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but you had two big ten games against Washington and
Speaker 6: Oregon and they had about six thousand, seven thousand people
Speaker 6: at those games.
Speaker 4: But it was Christmas break.
Speaker 6: Well it was actually before Christmas break the UC riverside
Speaker 6: the UC Riverside game, they had forty four hundred people.
Speaker 6: That was during Christmas break and they've been on the
Speaker 6: road since. So it's been a little underwhelming the attendance
Speaker 6: this year. With more than a little it's supposed to
Speaker 6: be a big year. For UCLA basketball. They put a
Speaker 6: lot of money in the nil it's a top twenty
Speaker 6: five team for the most part. Here's Mick Cronin asked
Speaker 6: by Ben Bulch about that.
Speaker 4: What did he say? It's I don't hear anything.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: He was asked about the crowd and he his quote
Speaker 6: to Ben Bolch was you need to speak to Martin Jarmon,
Speaker 6: the athletic director at u c l A. And then
Speaker 6: he kind of walked it back a little bit and said, Hey,
Speaker 6: you know, it's the winter break. It's tough with the crowds,
Speaker 6: you know, but anytime you get a good crowd, especially
Speaker 6: in college basketball, it's a winning experience and a great
Speaker 6: experience for the fans and the players. But we get it.
Speaker 6: We're in a professional city and we're in a city
Speaker 6: that you know, it's got the Lakers and the clip
Speaker 6: it locked down. That's okay. Uh No. We got a
Speaker 6: computer monitor though, making that that lockdown winning at half time.
Speaker 6: We were winning a halftime Mick, and then my computer
Speaker 6: froze up. And Ronnie's trying, and bless him, he's trying
Speaker 6: to get this.
Speaker 4: When we can ask.
Speaker 6: Usually you do, coach, and you had a little bit
Speaker 6: to say to the Ben Bolts of the La Times.
Speaker 6: But yeah, he was asked about the crowd and his
Speaker 6: first immediate response was great, go ask Martin Jarmon, the
Speaker 6: athletic director. I don't know what Martin Jarmon's going to do, Petros.
Speaker 4: About lower the prices?
Speaker 6: I mean lower the price is lower. I mean what
Speaker 6: is that really going to do to help out the
Speaker 6: situation with the attendance.
Speaker 5: It's a way Ralfi gets going. Wait till you see
Speaker 5: all the kids down at SELFI having the time of
Speaker 5: their lives, like Sergeia.
Speaker 6: Well this is for college basketball. It's a different story.
Speaker 4: Now they should be able to get drink and walk
Speaker 4: over there.
Speaker 6: Here's Mick, let's see what we got here.
Speaker 4: Here's here is you know what what could be done
Speaker 4: to get it?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a Martin Jorman question.
Speaker 6: What does it.
Speaker 2: Mean to have you've been there with great crowds?
Speaker 3: What does that mean when you do have it?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 7: Well I would tell you this. There's it's the simplest
Speaker 7: question ever. I mean, having a great home crowd is awesome.
Speaker 7: Simplest question. Yeah, I don't think you can expect it
Speaker 7: over your holiday break. Okay, all right, so you know,
Speaker 7: we've been on break for a long time, right, so
Speaker 7: you know those you know, those type of games. But
Speaker 7: when you're in a pro city, you're probably gonna have
Speaker 7: to wait till conference play and your kids are back
Speaker 7: at school.
Speaker 6: All right, there's men.
Speaker 7: That's just the way.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Right, that was awesome. Our computer froze up
Speaker 6: and Ronnie fixed it.
Speaker 4: I appreciate this, says.
Speaker 5: The prices of most games at Polly are insanely high, really,
Speaker 5: and they.
Speaker 4: Don't let you go into the lower bowl even if
Speaker 4: it's empty.
Speaker 6: Now that talk to Martin Jarman about that is ridiculous
Speaker 6: if that's the case.
Speaker 4: So it's something to think about.
Speaker 6: If you're getting a Pauli pavilion that's a third full,
Speaker 6: meaning two thirds of Paulie's empty, you're not letting people
Speaker 6: just go down and sit in the one hunderd.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you better come up with the little Caesars pizza
Speaker 5: pizza special to try to stimulate sales. You know, this
Speaker 5: is one of the problems they have in San Diego.
Speaker 5: At the San Diego State game. San Diego State football
Speaker 5: built that new stadium and they hired a new coach
Speaker 5: and they had a very good football team in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five, they won like ten games with Sean Lewis,
Speaker 5: and they couldn't put anybody in there. And the reason
Speaker 5: is because the prices are so high. The community is
Speaker 5: rejecting it because they're not they're not making it affordable
Speaker 5: for people to.
Speaker 4: Go to the games.
Speaker 5: Here's then they have the soccer team down there that
Speaker 5: plays in the same stadium. Prices aren't as high, and
Speaker 5: they fill the thing up and they're shooting off fireworks
Speaker 5: and it's a Latino fun fest. And somehow the stecas
Speaker 5: can't find a way to pull that off. And part
Speaker 5: of it is because the prices are too damp high.
Speaker 6: At Paulie there's the one hunter section, the lower bowl,
Speaker 6: and then there's the upper section, the two hundred section.
Speaker 6: The get in price for UCLA Maryland basketball tomorrow night
Speaker 6: in a corner section two twenty four is thirty one dollars.
Speaker 4: That's not bad.
Speaker 6: That's a get in price set up in the tip
Speaker 6: top corner. You want to sit in the lower bowl
Speaker 6: the one hundreds, The cheapest one is in section one
Speaker 6: O eight. You're behind a basket. I don't know which
Speaker 6: row says limited availability one hundred and twenty seven dollars
Speaker 6: too much, and fifty cents to sit in the lower bowl,
Speaker 6: the cheapest lower bowl ticket.
Speaker 4: That's too much.
Speaker 5: Now you start, you're not gonna make any money if
Speaker 5: there's nobody's ass in that seat.
Speaker 6: You want to get closer. They're gonna buy a hot dog.
Speaker 4: They're not gonna buy a popcorn. They're not gonna buy
Speaker 4: a seven up.
Speaker 6: You want to sit behind one of the benches. Two
Speaker 6: hundred dollars, You want to sit behind the scores table?
Speaker 6: Three forty five?
Speaker 4: Geez the snaws, yes, forget it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Textosa is right.
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Speaker 5: Lower your prices and the same goes for you, San
Speaker 5: Diego State. Don't complain about people not showing up if
Speaker 5: you're not willing to meet them halfway, and lower your
Speaker 5: prices and make it a little bit more accessible for everybody.
Speaker 5: You only raise your prices when there's a line outside,
Speaker 5: and everybody will pay whatever to get in.
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Speaker 6: It was a pretty good question.
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Speaker 6: You know, Petrose, if Ronnie were a football player, I
Speaker 6: think he'd be a safety. You should have seen him
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Speaker 4: It was Alinella Malo.
Speaker 6: I mean he was, you know, twenty yards off the
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Speaker 5: I not reflected his forty time, but when he gets
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Speaker 6: You think Donald pay two hundred and forty five bucks
Speaker 6: and sit in the lower bullet Polly, that's.
Speaker 4: All the same.
Speaker 5: No, I don't, but we can't address that with it.
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Speaker 4: What's cracking?
Speaker 1: Don?
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 2: It's funny you mentioned tickets and ticket prices because I think,
Speaker 2: for the first time in the last twenty two or
Speaker 2: twenty three years, I actually went to a college game
Speaker 2: that I didn't get paid for when Saint Mary's played
Speaker 2: at Pepperdine last week.
Speaker 5: Oh with Trent, Yeah, how much was it?
Speaker 4: How much was what the tickets?
Speaker 2: No, the ticket was free. I'm saying, Pete, what what
Speaker 2: you're misunderstanding? I went to a college team that I
Speaker 2: didn't paid for, meaning I wasn't working. Yeah, Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: what I meant.
Speaker 4: I got you.
Speaker 5: No, No, I understand. I wouldn't go to a game
Speaker 5: if somebody wasn't at me either. I don't even know
Speaker 5: if my if my kid was there, I don't even
Speaker 5: know if i'd go.
Speaker 4: The one and.
Speaker 5: Only Don McClain is here. We're always happy to talk
Speaker 5: to him. I was at a very famous deli in
Speaker 5: San Pedro yesterday, Don the meat shop, and the guy
Speaker 5: madd my sandwich said. I was listening to Chet Briquette
Speaker 5: on your radio show, and he was spot on. He
Speaker 5: knows everything about barbecuing. And this is a very very
Speaker 5: reputable butcher shop down So you can if you can
Speaker 5: impress those Baltic men, you can do anything. That very
Speaker 5: Darko's Meat Shop very impressive.
Speaker 2: Somed maybe I'll come get to meet from them.
Speaker 5: You want a leg, a lamb or something, come on,
Speaker 5: come on down to Darko's. Don, it's the real art,
Speaker 5: and they can have build a sandwich and we can
Speaker 5: eat it together at White Point.
Speaker 4: Okay, that'd be nice, Ye, it would be nice. Uh.
Speaker 4: UCLA has lost a couple straight.
Speaker 7: Don.
Speaker 5: We've been talking a little college basketball today and we
Speaker 5: talked about Mick cronin a little bit. This is supposed
Speaker 5: to be a big year for them. How good can
Speaker 5: they be? And what do you think the story will
Speaker 5: be as they get into the meat of the Big Ten.
Speaker 5: They've lost two straight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think the Big Ten is of Donkld
Speaker 2: this year. Not that it isn't every year, but it's
Speaker 2: just when you go on the road, man, it's it's different.
Speaker 2: And I said this last year, Pete, and I think
Speaker 2: I said it to you and Matt. You know, when
Speaker 2: you get used to playing in the PAC twelve. And
Speaker 2: this is in disrespecting the Pac twelve because I was
Speaker 2: a part of that forever. But when you go to
Speaker 2: and you play in front of three thousand people. You
Speaker 2: go to Stanford there's fifteen hundred. You go to Washington
Speaker 2: State there's two thousand, you kind of get used to that.
Speaker 2: I know, guys aren't there forever, but even for a
Speaker 2: year or two, and then you're going to these Big
Speaker 2: ten arenas and they are packed fifteen thousand. So it's
Speaker 2: a different deal. And I'm not reading too much into
Speaker 2: them losing a couple of games on the road, but
Speaker 2: I just think it's going to be like that. I
Speaker 2: still think they're an NCAA tournament team. I still think
Speaker 2: they're going to finish in the upper half of the
Speaker 2: Big Ten. But there's no gimmeis in the Big Ten
Speaker 2: like there was in the Pac twelve for years.
Speaker 6: Speaking of crowds, don that's a perfect lead in until
Speaker 6: we were talking about Mick Cronin was asked by Ben
Speaker 6: Boltz today about the lack of crowds at UCLA home
Speaker 6: games this year despite having a really good team, and
Speaker 6: his first response was, go ask Martin Jarmon, and then
Speaker 6: he alluded a little bit and said, Yeah, it's tough
Speaker 6: because we're on the quarter system and the long winter break,
Speaker 6: and you know, we go on the road. As you
Speaker 6: mentioned the Big Ten. They just had crowds at Iowa,
Speaker 6: really big crowds on the road and lost. Now they
Speaker 6: come back tomorrow and they face Maryland, a really good
Speaker 6: team in the Big ten, and who knows who shows up?
Speaker 6: Is there anything that can be done at Paul's at
Speaker 6: the ticket prices? And then they got a good product
Speaker 6: on the floor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't I don't know what happened because it's
Speaker 2: been like that. It's been like a slow lead tim
Speaker 2: for a long time. It really has. And there's a
Speaker 2: couple of years in the Alford era where they didn't
Speaker 2: win and then howling at the end where they didn't win.
Speaker 2: But it's not like they haven't won and Mick has won.
Speaker 2: I mean they went to a final four what three
Speaker 2: years ago, So I don't I don't know what it
Speaker 2: is is that the fan experience at the game is
Speaker 2: that did a lot of really die hard UCLA fans
Speaker 2: when I was playing, there were younger, they got older.
Speaker 2: Are they still around? Do the kids that you know?
Speaker 2: I'm assuming a lot of those families that have season
Speaker 2: tickets got passed down in the family. Those kids just
Speaker 2: aren't basketball fans. I don't think it's one thing. I
Speaker 2: think it's a lot of things. But you can't point
Speaker 2: to the fact that they haven't won. I mean they're
Speaker 2: you know, they're not top five in the country every year,
Speaker 2: but they have one and been consistently winning with Mick
Speaker 2: since he's been there.
Speaker 5: Doc McClain, our guest, you heard what he said to me. No,
Speaker 5: I went to the game for free, paid.
Speaker 6: To sit in the lower bowl behind the scorers table,
Speaker 6: and that section done at Polly It's two hundred and
Speaker 6: forty five dollars again in price is thirty one to
Speaker 6: sit up in the corners of Paul Pavilion. One of
Speaker 6: the text dosors sent a text to Petrolsad, Yeah, fans
Speaker 6: are priced out at Paul Pavilion for UCLA games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean two forty five seems a bit much
Speaker 2: when the place is in full. You know, maybe maybe
Speaker 2: restart that and lower the prices. See if people come back.
Speaker 2: I mean it's worth it's I would say this because
Speaker 2: Mick is a very good coach and we all love
Speaker 2: him and he wins, So why not try something to
Speaker 2: get people back in there, you know, watching lower the
Speaker 2: prices way down and then see what happens if everybody
Speaker 2: starts coming back. Didn't you know it was the ticket
Speaker 2: prices Start.
Speaker 5: With that, guys, that's Don McClain. He's an All American.
Speaker 5: Charge him half price. Don McClay our guests on the
Speaker 5: Peches and Buddy Show at m FI seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 5: It's fun to talk a little college basketball. But I
Speaker 5: don't know how much attention you've been paying to the
Speaker 5: Lakers up in Eugene, Oregon and traveling around down but
Speaker 5: it feels like they have somebody out every night.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 2: He Not to interrupt you, but I was actually in
Speaker 2: your spot last night. I was it was like the
Speaker 2: olden days. I did a game at gil Calliseem with
Speaker 2: mikey Am last night, believe it or not.
Speaker 6: Where to state.
Speaker 4: Oh my god in corn Alice, you know, I've never
Speaker 4: been in that building.
Speaker 2: Really. No, it's a it's a it's a historical monument.
Speaker 2: I guess they call it so it's pretty it's pretty original.
Speaker 2: About five years ago they put in a new like
Speaker 2: jumbo tron in the middle hanging from the ceiling, but
Speaker 2: they can't touch the actual building. There's no air conditioning
Speaker 2: in there. I think there's heating, but no air And
Speaker 2: they can't do anything to the building because it's a
Speaker 2: historical monument. I found that out like last year or
Speaker 2: the year before.
Speaker 5: You and the Yam are sweating it out and corn Allie, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's pretty.
Speaker 2: Good freeze outside eighty five inside.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 5: Do you think it will will be a problem for
Speaker 5: the Lakers down that they're just not consistently healthy and
Speaker 5: you know, it doesn't seem like they're ever able to
Speaker 5: kind of play together.
Speaker 2: Yes, And I also think consistently defending and consistently league,
Speaker 2: you know, bringing maximum effort. I mean, they're not as
Speaker 2: good as the teams above them in the West, so
Speaker 2: if they are going to beat them, it's going to
Speaker 2: have to be with effort, execution, defending, and so you
Speaker 2: don't just turn that on. We've talked about that for
Speaker 2: years at any level, but especially in the NBA, where
Speaker 2: it's okay, it's almost April, let's turn it up and
Speaker 2: be a really good defensive team. It doesn't really work
Speaker 2: like that. So in terms of the Lakers, you know,
Speaker 2: watching them, I don't watch them a lot that I
Speaker 2: watch them occasionally. It just doesn't seem like there's the
Speaker 2: urgency that's necessary to be a championship team. They're a
Speaker 2: good team and they'll make the playoffs easily, but if
Speaker 2: you're talking about the Lakers winning a championship, I just
Speaker 2: don't think there's enough urgency, especially on the defensive end.
Speaker 6: Donnie, you got the Clippers and baw and Brooklyn to
Speaker 6: take on the nets coming up later on this afternoon,
Speaker 6: the clips of you know, starting to win a little bit.
Speaker 6: There's still ten games under five hundred. But Tyleru was
Speaker 6: asked about why this team has turned things around and
Speaker 6: he says, it's easy. We're guys are starting to play
Speaker 6: together a little bit more. Was that just the case?
Speaker 6: You think early on the ins and out to the
Speaker 6: guys in the lineup and the rotation was a big factor.
Speaker 6: They couldn't get any consistency.
Speaker 2: I don't really believe that they're one of the deepest
Speaker 2: teams in the league. And yes they had a couple
Speaker 2: of guys in and out, But when the reason you
Speaker 2: have the deepest team or you want to have the
Speaker 2: deepest team in the league, is your margin for error
Speaker 2: gets bigger. So if a guy or two is out,
Speaker 2: you can stand and win, Like I would get it
Speaker 2: to him if they were five hundred, Yeah, maybe I
Speaker 2: would get it right. Okay, Yeah he had some injuries
Speaker 2: and bring us together and all that stuff, But the
Speaker 2: way they started it wasn't that. And what I find
Speaker 2: really fascinating and kind of the timing of it. And
Speaker 2: I've been looked into his contract situation, but Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 2: has led them in scoring the last twelve or thirteen games.
Speaker 2: After seven years of being in LA or six years
Speaker 2: or whatever, it's been all of a sudden, they're finally
Speaker 2: getting what they paid for. In Kawhi Leonard leading them
Speaker 2: and scoring every night. And you know, during the stress,
Speaker 2: they haven't won every game, but I think they won
Speaker 2: what six in a row. Yeah, And I think that's
Speaker 2: what everybody thought was going to happen when they brought
Speaker 2: him here. And it's just been, you know, one thing
Speaker 2: after another and in and out of the lineup and
Speaker 2: load management and playing not playing, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: now he's playing and playing really well. I just find
Speaker 2: that interesting.
Speaker 6: He's in year two of that three year extension that
Speaker 6: he signed, so after next year, at the age of
Speaker 6: thirty five, will be a free agent again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he seems to be scoring the basketball now.
Speaker 4: Look it.
Speaker 5: If you saw Don McLain and Pepperdine at that game,
Speaker 5: I know it was well attended.
Speaker 4: Just know that that ticket was free.
Speaker 2: Okay, it wasn't well attended. Petros I feel bad. And
Speaker 2: Shilding's a good friend. He's the head coach at Pepperdine.
Speaker 2: I've known for a long time. But there was If
Speaker 2: there was no Saint Mary's fans, and I am not exaggerating,
Speaker 2: if there was no Saint Mary's fans there there would
Speaker 2: have been one hundred and fifty people there.
Speaker 9: Whoa let's go ways wow, good look well of that, note,
Speaker 9: this is college basketball very healthy here in town.
Speaker 2: Well right, they are hold on. I should say this though.
Speaker 2: They are building a brand new or there's almost finished,
Speaker 2: a brand new, state of the art facility, a rec center.
Speaker 2: So it's a dual purpose where it's the arena for
Speaker 2: Pepperdine basketball and volleyball and all that, but attached to
Speaker 2: it as like a student rec center. Brand new. I
Speaker 2: think it's five thousand seed arena. So it's good. It's
Speaker 2: supposed to be really really nice. So hopefully that will
Speaker 2: help them out.
Speaker 4: Oh, they love you again, They love you again. Thank you, Don.
Speaker 5: I have a great weekend and we appreciate it, and
Speaker 5: we will talk soon. The great Don McLain. Everybody, all right,
Speaker 5: Don go and we'll be back.
Speaker 6: I think they're calling that the Matt money Smith Arena
Speaker 6: there in Pepperdine because of all the money he's donating.
Speaker 5: Well, they don't like me there, even though I have
Speaker 5: the voice of the Bolts. One day Pepperdine will open
Speaker 5: its doors again to Matt, and that'll be.
Speaker 4: A great day.
Speaker 6: You and I have both spoken at Pepperdine before.
Speaker 5: Matt has I'm talking to Syracuse next week. What yeah,
Speaker 5: the Cus.
Speaker 6: Wait, who's the I think I knew who the professor
Speaker 6: is there? Did she used to do sports in La?
Speaker 4: No, it's a man. Oh okay, wear it just go Orange.
Speaker 5: Thanks, We'll be back with your Dead and Alive guid
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Speaker 5: successful event yesterday in Cerritos. A big thank you to
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Speaker 5: we have much left to give away other than the
Speaker 5: prizes people actually want that we normally give away. All right, Tim,
Speaker 5: you've asked for the dead guy birthday of the Dad.
Speaker 5: Bet you think it's pretty cool.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm very interested in this man, and I think
Speaker 6: our listeners will kind of agree with me. Looked a
Speaker 6: great life.
Speaker 4: Think the studio audience would agree with me.
Speaker 6: There, let's wry. Let's hear from the audience. Huh, Let's
Speaker 6: go happy. Would have been one hundred and twenty sixth
Speaker 6: birthday to Richard Halliburton, American traveler, writer, adventurer. Born in Brownsville, Tennessee,
Speaker 6: his family moved to Memphis where he grew up. At
Speaker 6: the age of fifteen, he developed a up in a
Speaker 6: heartbeat and the parents freaked out, and they had a
Speaker 6: little money, had a little bit of money, so they
Speaker 6: sent him to Michigan to see a doctor there. Guess
Speaker 6: where they sent him.
Speaker 5: The Battle Yep, the Kellogg Battle Creek don't Masturbate farm
Speaker 5: that Matt loved so much with the cereal.
Speaker 6: The Battle Creek Sanitarium run by John Harvey Kellogg. He
Speaker 6: spent time there for observation. He rebounded was given a
Speaker 6: clean bill of health. After that, he would go on
Speaker 6: to graduate from Princeton in nineteen twenty one, but he
Speaker 6: found that he had a love for traveling in the ocean.
Speaker 6: The words of Oscar Wilde inspired him to reject marriage
Speaker 6: and family, the regular jobs in conventional respectability.
Speaker 4: All that the wild was gay, that's oh okay cool.
Speaker 6: He liked bachelor hoods, young adventurous things, and the thrill
Speaker 6: of the unknowned like young adventurous things. In nineteen thirty,
Speaker 6: at the age of thirty, he hired a aviator on
Speaker 6: a handshake deal for no pay but unlimited expenses, to
Speaker 6: fly him around the world in an open cockpit biplane.
Speaker 6: The Steerman C three B was named the Flying Carpet
Speaker 6: after the Matchic carpet of fairy tales. The pilot, yeah,
Speaker 6: there was two seats, but they didn't need two seats.
Speaker 4: Oh wow.
Speaker 6: They embarked on one of the most fantastic and I'm
Speaker 6: using quotes here, fantastic extended air journeys ever recorded in
Speaker 6: quote eighteen months circumnavigating the globe thirty three thousand miles
Speaker 6: every continent. They visited thirty four different countries. Halliburton's literary
Speaker 6: career developed out of this. He log everything he did
Speaker 6: in all his adventures. His first book, The Royal Road
Speaker 6: to Romance, is a chronicle of his adventures at a
Speaker 6: young age. And then he went to put out more
Speaker 6: books and more literary pieces. He followed Ulysseses root through
Speaker 6: the Mediterranean.
Speaker 4: Uh odisayas excuse.
Speaker 6: Me, h Lysses says Ulysses.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the Roman name for a Greek book.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, jeez, God, he swamed the Panama.
Speaker 5: The honesty, and you're gonna call him ulysses. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 5: he swammed the Panama Canal. He ran from Marathon to Athens.
Speaker 5: Is that a far run?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 5: And that's the original marathon? Whe it's the twenty six
Speaker 5: point whatever, that's the marathon. He's why it's called a marathon.
Speaker 5: He visited from Marathon to Athens.
Speaker 6: Devil Mytory, Major Us History, Devil's Island. He climbed the Matterhorn,
Speaker 6: Mount Olympus, Mount Fuji, where my daughter's going to be
Speaker 6: in ten days. These and other experiences became the basis
Speaker 6: for his romantic narratives. He had movie star friends, writers, intellects, musicians, artist, politicians.
Speaker 6: He was with the who's who of the time. He
Speaker 6: never married, though Petros Richard Halliburton never married, he dated
Speaker 6: several women in his youth. He expressed intense affection for
Speaker 6: several of them. However, his most lasting relationship was with
Speaker 6: the journalist Paul Mooney, with whom he often lived and worked.
Speaker 6: He died.
Speaker 4: Wait, so they was they were.
Speaker 6: Colleagues, Let me say they were gay and didn't say it.
Speaker 6: I went to Britannica and I went through Wikipedia. March
Speaker 6: nineteen thirty nine, at the age of thirty nine, Halliburton
Speaker 6: left Hong Kong aboard a motor boat called the Sea
Speaker 6: Dragon en route to San Francisco. Both he and the
Speaker 6: boat never made it to San Francisco. They disappeared after
Speaker 6: encountering a severe typhoon some twelve hundred miles west of
Speaker 6: mid Way Island. He's presumed dead because of that typhoon.
Speaker 6: The boat his body never found, so he died at
Speaker 6: the age of thirty nine. Happy would have been That's
Speaker 6: he got all that in one and twenty sixth birthday
Speaker 6: if he were still alive to Richard Halliburton traveler.
Speaker 4: To see if Paul Mooney was gay?
Speaker 6: You know what I can do that real quick post?
Speaker 4: Is that what I read? I don't you know who
Speaker 4: else went to.
Speaker 5: Kellogg's sanitarium and spent a lot of time there. And
Speaker 5: it's a great excuse to play the Tarzan yell because
Speaker 5: James Outman is a thing of the past for Dodger fans.
Speaker 5: But the great Og Tarzan, Johnny Weiss, Mule Olympic swim
Speaker 5: or Big Kellogg guy. Did you find out about the gays.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 6: Historical accounts and biographical studies confirm that adventure author Richard
Speaker 6: Halliburton was, in fact gay.
Speaker 4: I told you.
Speaker 6: He concealed it from the public well carefully. Once Oscar
Speaker 6: Wilde to his friends. Oscar Wilde was the tip for me,
Speaker 6: and it's great. You know, I'm glad he was.
Speaker 5: He found love with Paul, and he found death at sea.
Speaker 6: What a life. Man died at the age of thirty
Speaker 6: nine trying to get from Hong.
Speaker 4: Kong Dragon Yeah to San Francisco.
Speaker 5: I'm on a motor boat. Okay, maybe if you could
Speaker 5: swim like Johnny Weissmueler or our next I don't know.
Speaker 4: That's a tough situation at Typhoon. But the alive guy.
Speaker 5: Birthday of the Day, Jamaican dudes, it's Jamaica News.
Speaker 4: Today.
Speaker 5: We celebrate reggae Roy tim a direct descendant of Super
Speaker 5: Cat in his dance hall reggae style, a real crossover
Speaker 5: Jamaican star.
Speaker 6: Oh I know what you're talking about?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, because I sent you the song Where's that too?
Speaker 5: Fifty three years old today, Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques
Speaker 5: as Sean Henriquez fifty three years old Sean Paul from
Speaker 5: Uptown Kingston, Chinese, English and Jamaican mother who was a
Speaker 5: swimmer and a painter. His father Portuguese Jamaican. They supposedly
Speaker 5: were the descendant descendants of Portuguese horse thieves who fled
Speaker 5: Europe from bounty hunters and their ship sank in Jamaica,
Speaker 5: so they were there.
Speaker 6: That's how they got there. Yes, pretty cool.
Speaker 5: And his grandfather was the first on the first Jamaican
Speaker 5: national water polo team. Their family of swimmers. His father
Speaker 5: was on the same national water polo team. He was
Speaker 5: on the same water polo team. His father killed a guy,
Speaker 5: went to jail for fifteen years, got out when John
Speaker 5: Paul was nineteen manslaughter, got out on good behavior. Paul
Speaker 5: quinn the national water polo team at twenty one to
Speaker 5: pursue music and he won Best Reggae Album only once
Speaker 5: for Dutty Rock the album, but he has eight full
Speaker 5: length albums, lots of very popular crossover work from Beyonce
Speaker 5: to Sia to Clean Bandit. Billions of us for that
Speaker 5: song with Clean Bandit rock a Bye played himself in
Speaker 5: the movie Belly in nineteen ninety eight. That's where I
Speaker 5: first heard of Sean Paul, his high school sweetheart died
Speaker 5: of a.
Speaker 4: Brain tumor.
Speaker 5: And he ended up marrying a Jamaican TV presenter named
Speaker 5: Jody Stewart and they have two kids and they live
Speaker 5: up town. Uh. For a time they were living next
Speaker 5: door to Usain Bolt, and she was very very critical
Speaker 5: of him on the hoa online comment posts appet year, Yeah,
Speaker 5: the next door because you know they're kind of like
Speaker 5: uptown Jamaicans and Usain Bolt is a little bit more
Speaker 5: of a of a down country guy whatever, and they
Speaker 5: did not seem to see eye to eye.
Speaker 6: Do you think it was music complaints?
Speaker 5: Like why is this star all night parties, all night
Speaker 5: parties people and no sprints down the street like our
Speaker 5: friend Mark Sanchez got We hope he's doing better. He
Speaker 5: was in the last few years with Jamaican patties which
Speaker 5: are like impanadas and his scorcher hot sauce calling them
Speaker 5: scorcher patties and at Jamaican restaurant in the UK known
Speaker 5: as port Royal for crossover reggae songs in the last
Speaker 5: couple of decades. You got to say Sean Paul is
Speaker 5: cooler than Shaggy and I will proclaim that from the mountaintops.
Speaker 6: He's actually in concert in San Francisco next month. If
Speaker 6: I know he's playing in San Francisco Peer eighty along
Speaker 6: with I think Tea Pain Wow and Peer eighty on
Speaker 6: the second, you know, like he's a super Bowl weekend.
Speaker 6: That's why.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he's one.
Speaker 5: Of the few dancehall artists that can really carry a
Speaker 5: whole concert, and carry a whole album, and carry a
Speaker 5: whole kind of persona. He does a great job, Sean Paul,
Speaker 5: always positive vibes, and there's nothing we're more about than positive.
Speaker 6: He doesn't look Jamaican.
Speaker 2: You are of a darker shoe than me.
Speaker 1: No, he's not.
Speaker 6: He's not.
Speaker 5: Actually, well, you know I told you his mom is Chinese.
Speaker 5: You know there's a lot of Chinese people in Jamaica.
Speaker 6: Now, what happens to that the boat doesn't go down
Speaker 6: off the coast of Jamaica like they make it somewhere
Speaker 6: else or the Bahamas wherever he lives.
Speaker 4: Who knows.
Speaker 5: They might not have survived, could have been like could
Speaker 5: have died, and they could have died of the typhoid.
Speaker 5: You know, the history takes many turns. We all do
Speaker 5: every day, Kate, We'll be back with the fun fact,
Speaker 5: the quick hits, and the lessons learned in great sports talk.
Speaker 5: It's frog Man Friday on Petros and Money Clippers coming up.
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