1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: On air at AM five seventy LA Sports and I'm 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: demand on the iHeartRadio wapp. This is the Petros and 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: Money Show. You are one of the kind, hosted by. 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 2: Petros Papaday guests left school after sixth grade. Look at 5 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 2: him and the voice of the Bolts that money Smith. 6 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 2: The answer is on money. There is nothing you can do. 7 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 2: You know it's coming. This is the Petros and Money Show. 8 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 3: On the home of your world champion Los Angeles Dodgers. 9 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: Make us your top preset on the iHeartRadio app. 10 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,239 Speaker 3: I don't crack. 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A 30 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 3: lot of a lot of as talk and a lot 31 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 3: of trash talk, and a lot of fighting, a lot 32 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 3: of Yeah, that's where they're going. TBSA is going down. 33 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 6: Hey, Jalen Daniels, good to see you over there. Glad 34 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 6: your mom, let you come out and play. 35 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 3: I'm in a chest though, I'm Tom Brady. I can 36 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 3: take it. I got roasted so hard about Giselle. Now 37 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 3: I can just roast everybody, roast everybody that like a 38 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 3: Roastereas Dodger, San Diego tonight, David Vase Night. We'll be 39 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 3: around at five point thirty for the pregame. Everybody looking 40 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 3: forward to the season getting started. When we're back on Monday, 41 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 3: schedule talk. We will start at two, yes, two be 42 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 3: for the Propers Freeway Series, which is the get the 43 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 3: dimensions of the park for a couple of days kind 44 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 3: of deal, and then we will launch into Opening Day 45 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 3: on Thursday. Stay tuned for all the giveaways and fun 46 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 3: on your Dodger station. M seventy l A Sports Now. 47 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 3: Time for the Top Story of the Day, Top Story 48 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 3: of the Day. 49 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 4: One thing that we know, and it's back to back 50 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 4: Lakers top stories. It's part of what makes him as 51 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 4: great a player as we've seen ever in the history 52 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 4: of the NBA, and it's also what makes him one 53 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 4: of the most polarizing and instead of universally beloved players, 54 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:13,799 Speaker 4: loathed by a pretty healthy percentage of casual sports fans 55 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 4: and even the most diehard roundball fanatics. Lebron is incredibly smart. 56 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 4: He's incredibly calculated. If you're just really good at basketball, 57 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 4: you're gonna make your hundreds of millions, you know, three 58 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 4: hundred million bucks or something, and you're gonna probably blow 59 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 4: most of it, and we're not gonna hear about y'all 60 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 4: that much off the court until it's revealed that you're 61 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 4: like going bankrupt and you blew it. You don't become 62 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 4: a billion and a half dollar entity and brand if 63 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 4: you're just some lunkhead that's really good at basketball. Yesterday 64 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 4: we focused on Luca and how he seemingly has shifted 65 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 4: his focus. Now we both have differing philosophies. I tend 66 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,040 Speaker 4: to believe it's after he picked up that fifteen he 67 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 4: technical he was able to hone in and avoid the 68 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 4: extended conversation with referees. 69 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 3: Just say whatever you want, Matt, I don't have a 70 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 3: crowd of Mexican Americans to uh to pand or two. 71 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 3: Now there's nobody. I don't care. You go ahead and 72 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 3: compliment them all. You say what whatever reason you want 73 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 3: to come up with for what lucas doing, well, you 74 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 3: can have it. Matt. 75 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 4: I no longer gave you the window to chime in. 76 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 3: I don't care. I don't want it. 77 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 4: You close the window and share your Baltic female theory. 78 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I'm sure he feels some semblance of freedom. 79 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 3: But again, without my Mexican American backup, I don't really 80 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 3: feel it necessary to push back here. 81 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 4: Luca was on the periphery of the MVP conversation, maybe 82 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 4: the first guy out at the All NBA First Team ballot. 83 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 3: Now I might start bringing in like a studio audience 84 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 3: like best W's two. Oh, just line up like twenty 85 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 3: Mexican guys every day just to you know, just so 86 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 3: hander them have an audience to pand or two. But look, 87 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 3: I mean if you tell me that I used to 88 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 3: be with a comedy spy and when she left, I 89 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 3: started scoring fifty at night and stopped yelling at the officials, 90 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 3: it'd be pretty believable to me. Like it is to 91 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 3: my friends in Montabello. 92 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 4: I don't feel like they necessarily subscribed to that position. 93 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 4: I don't feel like that that was you know, like 94 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:21,280 Speaker 4: a vote was taken and they're like, yes, comedy spy. 95 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 3: Your feelings are probably you know, going to be you know, 96 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 3: just whatever it is actually biased against against conspiracy theories 97 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 3: that I have, and that's fine. You just go from 98 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 3: say it's because Luca has some basketball reason. 99 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, fine, whatever it is. This last week, this eight 100 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 4: game win streak, Luca has firmly placed himself on that 101 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 4: first Team All NBA. It will be his sixth appearance 102 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 4: in seven seasons. It has likely moved him into the 103 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 4: top three MVP candidates, jumping the Joker Nikola Jokic and 104 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 4: depending on how this whole thing finishes. While it doesn't 105 00:05:57,920 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 4: seem likely at this point that he's going to be 106 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 4: able to push Sega, shake Gildess Alexander off that podium 107 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 4: and the number one spot, he does still have two 108 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 4: head to heads against the Thunder before this thing is done. 109 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 4: And if he continues to drop fifty like he has, 110 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 4: or sixty like he did last night, or triple doubles 111 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 4: like he is damned near average in the month of March, 112 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 4: and the Lakers continue to climb the standings firmly entrench 113 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 4: themselves as the three suit or maybe even get to 114 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,840 Speaker 4: the two, then he still has a shot at that hardware. 115 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 4: He is averaging over forty points per game on this 116 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 4: eight game stretch, not to mention just shy of triple 117 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 4: double numbers and rebounds and assists. They are not empty stats. 118 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 4: The games are tight, they're digging out of fifteen point deficits, 119 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 4: they're sending games into overtime, they're winning at the buzzer, 120 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 4: and they are doing it like they did last night. 121 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 4: Because Doncic is draining back to back to back three 122 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:56,279 Speaker 4: pointers in the span of ninety seconds after it looked 123 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 4: like JJ Reddick was about to pull the plug and 124 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 4: rest his guys for the Saturday game against the Magic 125 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 4: as the heat just look around and they're like, what 126 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:06,719 Speaker 4: the hell just happened? This guy was supposed to be 127 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 4: fat and on a bad diet and he was supposed 128 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 4: to be gassed by now. And there's other dude's like 129 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 4: forty one, why are they still playing? And why are 130 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 4: we losing games that we led by fifteen in the 131 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 4: second half. Luca's game winners are viral. They've got millions 132 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 4: and millions of views, whether they're step back threes or 133 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 4: those Luca Magic off balance, fading away opposite direction he's shooting. 134 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 4: And yet it's nothing but the end of the net 135 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 4: at the end of it. And look, if you follow 136 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 4: the Lakers, you already know this. I'm not telling you 137 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 4: anything that's breaking news. But going back to the initial 138 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 4: statement of our top story, why is it happening? How 139 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 4: did we get here? And it's because Lebron is no dummy, 140 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 4: and it is no coincidence that on March twentieth we 141 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 4: have arrived at this point. 142 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 3: The public narrative finally overwhelmed Lebron James. 143 00:07:57,800 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 4: It took him a moment pee, it took him a 144 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 4: minute to get there, to accept and realize. And I 145 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 4: do think the public perception is part of it, but 146 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 4: I think the bigger part is the current state of 147 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 4: his playing career and how he thought it was supposed 148 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 4: to look this season to get what he wanted versus 149 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 4: what he really needed to do to get what he wants. 150 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 4: And that's another one hundred million dollars to add to 151 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 4: his war chest of cash, to his career earnings. And 152 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 4: how unthinkable this might have been just eight weeks ago. 153 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 3: Is that what an NBA player's bank account is called 154 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 3: a war chest? 155 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 4: It is a war chest in the billions with a bee. 156 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 4: Instead of trying to dominate the ball. 157 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 3: I started making so much money, I just started buying 158 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:54,599 Speaker 3: different tactical. 159 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 4: Weapons exactly right, like blood spinning equipment, a hyperbar chamber, 160 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 4: something to fix my sciatica or some form of it. 161 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:07,319 Speaker 4: He has stopped trying to dominate the ball. He has 162 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 4: stopped demanding he be the alpha, and he has now 163 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 4: stepped back and for all intents and purposes, said yes, 164 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 4: this is Luca's team. I will play in a way 165 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 4: that will support him in every manner possible. Luca is 166 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 4: legitimately one of the three best players in the league, 167 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 4: I Lebron, James, and probably somewhere between fifteen to twenty. 168 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 4: I've got to accept that Luca needs to dominate the ball, 169 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 4: to dominate possessions, to try to take over late when 170 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 4: the game is close, something he was doing early in 171 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 4: the season, making things incredibly awkward and wonky. Instead of 172 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 4: just recognizing your standing next to one of the best closers, 173 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 4: if not the best closer in the game in Doncic, 174 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:57,839 Speaker 4: just hand them the ball, get the f out of 175 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 4: the way, and scream and yell like a fan when 176 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 4: he does what he's capable of doing. And that's essentially 177 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 4: what we've watched on this eight game stretch. Now. I 178 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 4: don't know how Lebron got to this point. I don't 179 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 4: know what reconciliation he had internally, if there was self reflection, 180 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 4: if there was, as you pointed out, the public perception, 181 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 4: the public opinions getting louder and louder. 182 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 3: I think when he lost Windhorse, he knew that he 183 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 3: had to flip his approach. 184 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 4: Oh nonhuse out the stark realization that if he didn't 185 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 4: fix his ass in a hurry, and if he wants 186 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 4: to continue playing in the NBA, he was going to 187 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 4: have to do it somewhere else. That this idea that 188 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 4: Jeanie Buss and the way she used to do business 189 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 4: of we want to keep our stars. We want this 190 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 4: to be a place where stars know how much they're appreciated. 191 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 4: That that was over and it was not going to 192 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:01,439 Speaker 4: happen this offseason. If he can continued to play basketball 193 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 4: and force Luca and Austin Reeves to play basketball around 194 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 4: him the way they were, it is no coincidence. And 195 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 4: he's able to push this now because I do not 196 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,079 Speaker 4: think it's a coincidence that Lucas in the best shape 197 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:17,439 Speaker 4: of his life, that he hired a trainer, a nutritionist, 198 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 4: that he stopped eating fast food all day every day, 199 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 4: which was the word in Dallas, that he embraced a 200 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 4: more Lebron like approach to his fitness, and that would 201 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 4: be something Lebron Camp is going to push on Mark Walter. Look, 202 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 4: you need to take care of your superstar. You know 203 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 4: what he was like in Dallas. You know what his 204 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 4: fitness was like in the postseason and how we'd get 205 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,679 Speaker 4: gassed and have to come out of games. Look at 206 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 4: the effect that I'm having on him. I want one 207 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 4: hundred million dollars over two years, because we've seen it 208 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 4: in back to back games against Houston and Miami, even 209 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,199 Speaker 4: going back to the overtime win against the Nuggets. All 210 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,439 Speaker 4: the Lakers have to do is stay close, which is 211 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 4: ultimately what the NBA playoffs are all about. If you 212 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 4: can keep it within a few possessions in the final 213 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 4: five minutes of a game, there are ups and down, 214 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 4: there's runs by each team. It ebbs, it flows in. 215 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 4: Whichever squad has the best closer, and the best clutch 216 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:15,319 Speaker 4: player typically wins. And if he is now out of 217 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 4: the way and you can have your possessions and you 218 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 4: can maximize them in the playoffs, you win. If you can't, 219 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 4: you lose. They got twelve games left, two are against 220 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 4: Oklahoma City in a five day span. I never thought 221 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 4: i'd say it, but after last night and how easy 222 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:38,319 Speaker 4: sixty points looked for Luca and how they dug out 223 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 4: a two fifteen point deficit holes because of him, I 224 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 4: don't think anything's off the table for this team. If 225 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 4: that's how he's going to keep playing. This is what 226 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 4: we thought they were trading for last year when we 227 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 4: said the entire Staples Center is going to be seventy 228 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 4: seven jerseys. People are going to forget about Lebron and 229 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 4: all they're going to care about is what does Luca 230 00:12:57,559 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 4: look like in the final five minutes. And that's what 231 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,319 Speaker 4: I'm buying the ticket to see. And he just stayed 232 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 4: in the way too long. He was too much of 233 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 4: a bitch to let it come to fruition. And that's 234 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 4: why they got bounced in the first round last year 235 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,959 Speaker 4: because he was still crying about Anthony Davis and crying 236 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 4: about how good the defense was and how they blew 237 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 4: It was something that was finally coming together. And now 238 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 4: he has got out of the way. He is not 239 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 4: doing what he did for the first two thirds of 240 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 4: the season. This looks different. His usage rate is cut 241 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 4: in half. He's playing off the ball, He's letting Luca 242 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 4: go to work, he's letting Austin Reeves go to work, 243 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 4: and he is just filling in cracks. And I'm sure 244 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 4: he wants to win another championship, obviously, but to me, 245 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 4: this is all self preservation. I want a hundred million bucks. 246 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,079 Speaker 4: I don't want it from the Cavaliers or however much 247 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 4: it's going to be eighty million dollars seventy million bucks, 248 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 4: whatever that number is that he would get on the 249 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 4: open market from a legitimate championship content. I don't want 250 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 4: it from I'm san Antonio or what her golden state. 251 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 4: I want to continue to live in out. 252 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,319 Speaker 3: Kicher done at Canyon, and I'm still very close with the. 253 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:11,839 Speaker 4: Pets, very close. I want to do it here. And 254 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:15,559 Speaker 4: I think he quickly realized, ain't gonna happen with Mark Walter, 255 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 4: not gonna happen with Andrew Friedman. If you continue to 256 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 4: sabotage this team because of your arrogance and your inability 257 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 4: to recognize that you are no longer the best player 258 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 4: on your team, and you have to get the f 259 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 4: out of the way and let that guy go to work. 260 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 4: And now that it's working and he's a supporting role 261 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 4: character in these viral videos, he's like, Oh, I'm gonna 262 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 4: get my money. I'm gonna get my I'm gonna be 263 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 4: able to stay. We're going to go on a run 264 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 4: and I'm gonna get my one hundred million bucks and 265 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 4: p you know what that means. It means the King's 266 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 4: giving it to us. 267 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, it means another year getting nailed. 268 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 4: By He's gonna get nailed by another year. 269 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 3: Just because you're saying it doesn't mean it's gonna happen. 270 00:14:56,640 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 4: He is so he is playing so different games. I'm 271 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 4: like you, mother Effort. 272 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 3: We'll see what happens. 273 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 4: You're gonna get that contract and you're gonna f us again. 274 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 3: Certainly makes the ending of the season more interesting. But 275 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 3: I don't think anybody wants that guy around, not in 276 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 3: real life. 277 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: No, we shall see. 278 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 3: Coming up next, we'll talk to Tom Brady's best friend, 279 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 3: the BFF of the flag Football World, Michael Rubin, who 280 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 3: had to move that event from Saudi Arabia to La 281 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 3: which is why you're hearing all the fanfare about it. 282 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 3: He will join us next and tell us what's popping 283 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 3: off a bemo tomorrow, and we have tickets to give away. 284 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: This is Petro Send money. 285 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 4: On to Mad Demand, Petro saying money and five seventy 286 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 4: Ela Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, your home 287 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 4: of the Dodgers and again remember Opening Day coming up, 288 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 4: Freeway Series coming up, our sweet tickets giveaway all coming up. 289 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 4: Continue to listen here on your home of the back 290 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 4: to back world champion the Dodgers. As spring training games 291 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 4: can tinue to be played throughout the course of their 292 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 4: Camelback schedule, followed by the Freeway Series, followed by the 293 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 4: opener that will be at against the Diamondbacks. We are 294 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 4: excited to be the home of the Dodgers pea, but 295 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 4: we also love football. 296 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 3: Yes, in flag football. The Fanatics Flag Football Classic has 297 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 3: its inaugural star studded five on five tournament, hosted by 298 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 3: our guest Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin, and it is all 299 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 3: on Saturday at Bemo, Tom Brady, Saquon Barkley, all kinds 300 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 3: of stars involved. This was originally going to be in 301 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia, It's been moved to Los Angeles and the 302 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 3: event is getting a lot of fanfare here in La 303 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 3: so joining us right now. The CEO of Fanatics, a 304 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 3: man making a lot of moves in the sports world, 305 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 3: Michael Rubin on the Petro San Money Show. What's cracking, Michael, 306 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 3: how are you? 307 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 7: I'm excited, man, can't wait for this game this weekend. 308 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 7: The smack that's being talked to me by each of 309 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 7: the people playing this game is pretty intense. See what's 310 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 7: gonna happen. It's gonna be a lot of fun. 311 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,960 Speaker 3: Uh, just explain to us a little bit about how 312 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,119 Speaker 3: many teams there are playing, because there's five dudes on 313 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,199 Speaker 3: a team and you have a lot of there's a 314 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:17,360 Speaker 3: lot of superstar NFL types and then flag football types 315 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 3: that are that are more accustomed to that brand of football. 316 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 3: How do you get involved in this game if you're 317 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 3: one of these guys. 318 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 7: Yeah, So it's it's a round robin competition. There's three teams. 319 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 7: The first team is led by Tom Brady and Jalen Hurts, 320 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 7: second team is led by Joe Burrow and jayde and Daniels, 321 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 7: and the third team is led by the USA Flag 322 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 7: Football Team, which has actually won the last five straight championships. 323 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:46,880 Speaker 8: And it's gonna be super interesting. 324 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 7: I just found out this morning from actually our sportsbooks 325 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 7: telling us that they have the USA Flag Football Team 326 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,920 Speaker 7: is roughly six point favorites, which somenthy. I then called 327 00:17:57,960 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 7: a couple of quarterbacks to tell them that they were 328 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 7: under dogs, and they told me they were going to 329 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,160 Speaker 7: smoke these guys. So Tom Brady's forty eight years old, 330 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 7: he told me, he said, there's nothing I love more 331 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:09,920 Speaker 7: than beating Heisman Trophy winners. I think that was a 332 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 7: little bit of a shot toured on Joe Burrow and 333 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,159 Speaker 7: Jaden Daniels, and he told me there's nothing that's going 334 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,160 Speaker 7: to enjoy more than beating these flag football guys. 335 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 8: So it's gonna be fun. 336 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 7: It's one pm at Beibo here in La on Fox 337 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 7: as well, and you're going to see some serious flay 338 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:26,120 Speaker 7: football play. 339 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 8: Football is one of the fastest. 340 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,159 Speaker 7: Growing sports in the world. Obviously going to be here 341 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 7: for the Olympics in twenty twenty eight. They're going to 342 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:35,199 Speaker 7: be played at BMO, which is exactly what we're playing. 343 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 7: And you got, as you said, some of the best 344 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 7: stars in the world in addition to the four incredible 345 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 7: NFL quarterbacks actually three nine. Got to remember Tom Brady. 346 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:45,399 Speaker 7: He's not an NFL quarterback anymore, but he's still an 347 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 7: NFL quality quarterback. Matter of fact, he tells me every 348 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 7: day that he could beat just about any of the 349 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 7: NFL quarterbacks. 350 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 8: So it's going to be interesting, Michael. 351 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 4: And by the way, tickets are at ticketmaster dot com. 352 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 4: Still some available and get in for as little as 353 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 4: thirty five bucks. And then why wouldn't you want to 354 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 4: be somewhere where you mentioned You get Tom Brady and 355 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:06,880 Speaker 4: Joe Burrow, Jayden Daniels, Did you have to sell these 356 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 4: guys and if you did, how hard was the cell? 357 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 4: You mentioned they're talking smacks so their competitors. Was it 358 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 4: an easy sell to get them all involved because it 359 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:17,359 Speaker 4: is an impressive list of guys that are going to 360 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 4: be playing. 361 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 8: Yeah. 362 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 7: Look, I think anytime you start something new, it's hard 363 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 7: the first year, and then it's really easy thereafter. Now, 364 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 7: this was Tom Brady's idea, was his vision to do this, 365 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 7: you know, kind of create this flag football competition. He 366 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 7: called me one day last year said, look, I got 367 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,439 Speaker 7: an idea. I want to build the greatest flag football 368 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 7: game ever. Let's make it the Fanatics Flag Football Classic. 369 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 8: As you said, we. 370 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 7: Were originally going to do it in Saudi Arabia. Obviously, 371 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 7: with what's happening in the midd least right now, that 372 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 7: just did make the time you work, you know, the 373 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 7: NFL Stars is you know, have a very limited amount 374 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 7: of offseasons, so this one we could really you know, 375 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 7: do the games. And we moved it to Los Angeles. 376 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,399 Speaker 7: We thought that was great, knowing that the Olympics were 377 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 7: here in twenty eight this is going to be a 378 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 7: game in the Olympics at the same venue at Bimo Park, 379 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 7: and I'd say, what we call all. 380 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 8: These these guys. 381 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,159 Speaker 7: I think everybody's original reaction is yeah, I want to 382 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 7: do it for sure, and then people just work through 383 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,639 Speaker 7: things and you know, look, it's a big commitment. No 384 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 7: one wants to be embarrassed. Everybody wants to win. But 385 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 7: I'll tell you, we got twenty four guys who want 386 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 7: to kill each other and want to win this game. 387 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 7: This is not some friendly playing football game. This is 388 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 7: a you're going to have, you know, two teams primarily 389 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 7: benetball Stars and another team of the USA play Football Champions. 390 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 7: They're going to be out there playing for their lives. 391 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:31,119 Speaker 4: So kind of walk us through how you mentioned Tom 392 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 4: Brady called you. But you know, we kind of look 393 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,399 Speaker 4: at our one sheet for you as we prepare for 394 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:39,439 Speaker 4: this interview, and we fanatics basically sells every you know, 395 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 4: sort of supportive gear for fans for every freaking league 396 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,399 Speaker 4: in the world. It feels like you got tops. I 397 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 4: don't think trading cards have ever been bigger than right now. 398 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:49,959 Speaker 4: Kind of take us through what you do and how 399 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 4: you get involved in these things and if this's gonna 400 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 4: be something you're doing more of live events and live 401 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 4: sporting events. 402 00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:59,399 Speaker 8: Yeah, so for me, I have the greatest job of 403 00:20:59,400 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 8: the world. 404 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,160 Speaker 7: To build fanatics is something that you know, I really 405 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,879 Speaker 7: got going with the twenty eleven I'm kind of fifteen 406 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 7: sixteen years into it. You know, I wake up every 407 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 7: morning with a you know, burning passion to you know, 408 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 7: want to build the greatest company in the world, to 409 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:13,399 Speaker 7: build one of the most important sports brands and you know, 410 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 7: certainly one of the most important consumer brands. And you know, 411 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 7: I feel like we're just getting started. We certainly do 412 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 7: work with a lot of the best sports properties, teams, 413 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 7: players to say, but we feel like we're just getting going. 414 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 7: We did get in the collectible's business about four and 415 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 7: a half years ago. I'll tell you, I think the 416 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 7: growth and the collectibles business people thought when we got 417 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 7: started that really collectible as were to all time high. 418 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,680 Speaker 7: And what we recognized is there really been no product innovation. 419 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 7: There did no marketing. So for us, it's been I 420 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 7: think relatively easy to start to build this business a 421 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 7: meaningful way. There's been so many product innovations, We've had 422 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 7: so much you know, kind of interest in marketing and 423 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,880 Speaker 7: then really getting athletes about and they're also been betting 424 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 7: in the gaming business with the Finax Sports book at 425 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 7: Finax Casino. So we're twenty two thousand people today, about 426 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 7: thirteen billion dollar company, But we feel like a big startup. 427 00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 7: We feel like we're just getting going every day. We're 428 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:01,719 Speaker 7: fighting for our lives and you know, we got one 429 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 7: job relentlessly enhanced the fan experience. We just talked about 430 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 7: live events. We like doing things like this because it's 431 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 7: you just do great things for sports fans. That's why 432 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 7: we created a Fanatics Best that's the biggest sports festal 433 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,159 Speaker 7: in the world. We started two years ago. You have 434 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,160 Speaker 7: the biggest stars that all come out that last year 435 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 7: we had, you know, from Tom Brady, Lebron James to 436 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 7: Kevin Durant to you know, I think we had the 437 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 7: Jake Paul Mike Tyson press conference there. Maybe that was 438 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 7: two years ago. You've got people like Jay Z, Travis Scott, 439 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 7: Kevin Hart. You know, you've got you know, best athletes 440 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 7: in the world. Certainly Kevin Hart would not qualified from 441 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 7: the best athletes so well, but yeah, he's definitely. 442 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:41,919 Speaker 8: Yeah, I didn't mean to put him an athlete. 443 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:45,640 Speaker 7: Yeah, every once in a while we try to give 444 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,680 Speaker 7: some credit you shouldn't got credit, but no, Look, we 445 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,920 Speaker 7: like doing these events because it's how he brings sports 446 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,159 Speaker 7: fans together and Fanatics Best is probably the best example 447 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,680 Speaker 7: that we have two hundred thousand people over four days 448 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 7: to come together this summer Fanatics Best. 449 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:00,919 Speaker 8: But the fanatics like football. Cassic is just another example. 450 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 7: That like who won't want to watch Tom Braden Jalen 451 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 7: Hurt's work together? Who won eight Super Bowls to go 452 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 7: out and try to, you know, take on jayde and 453 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,359 Speaker 7: Daniels and Joe burb you know, and then the USA 454 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,640 Speaker 7: play football team. So we like things like this. It's 455 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 7: a lot of fun. 456 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 8: This is the first year. This will be a tradition 457 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:18,160 Speaker 8: every year that will do this. 458 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 7: In the spring, and certainly there's so much more momentum 459 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:21,880 Speaker 7: around playing football. 460 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:26,480 Speaker 3: Michael Rubin, the founder and CEO of Fanatics taking over 461 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 3: the world of sports joining us now and the big 462 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,959 Speaker 3: event at BEMO Ticketmasters still available The Flag Football the 463 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:39,199 Speaker 3: Fanatics Classic. Michael, how high on your list of concerns 464 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 3: for you as we head towards Saturday is flag guarding 465 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 3: and how and also like a guy that like puts 466 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 3: his flag on and then tucks it into his underwear, 467 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 3: So it's really stuck in there and you can't yank 468 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,159 Speaker 3: it out that easily. How high on your list of 469 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 3: concerns are these things? 470 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 1: You know, here's the good news. 471 00:23:58,280 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 7: There's three or four hundred people that putt on the 472 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,199 Speaker 7: game to know a lot more about how to do 473 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 7: it than I do. What I can do is help 474 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 7: Tom when he had this big idea, help you bring 475 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,920 Speaker 7: the people together, help him put on this competition when 476 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,200 Speaker 7: it comes to flagguard. I can't speak to this specific, 477 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 7: but I can tell you there's nothing being missed. And 478 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 7: we've been really lucky. The NFL has been super involved 479 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 7: in this, helping us in every way, shape. 480 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,440 Speaker 8: Or form, you know, working together with them. 481 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 7: You know, certainly play football is a big initiative of 482 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 7: the NFL's I don't think we could be here without 483 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,400 Speaker 7: the help and support of the NFL. 484 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 8: So you know this is going to be, you know, 485 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:27,919 Speaker 8: a game with. 486 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 3: The highest level. 487 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 7: And you talk about the caliber of people playing in 488 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 7: the game. You talk about, you know, the co commissioners 489 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,639 Speaker 7: that we have, Drew Breese, Aire Gerald, and you just 490 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 7: talk about by the way, Roger Bedell's coming out for this, 491 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 7: many the owners are coming out for this. I mean, 492 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 7: this is a serious competition and it's going to be 493 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,199 Speaker 7: treated in the most serious of ways. 494 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,440 Speaker 3: I mean, just because you're a big NFL star or 495 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,880 Speaker 3: an ex Hall of Famer doesn't mean you can't put 496 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 3: an extra clamp on that flag. You know, it's an 497 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 3: issue at every level. 498 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:53,159 Speaker 4: Now you wrap that thing around the. 499 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 7: Beltw Well, also are going to have to make sure 500 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 7: the securities step in their eyes on you guys. I'm 501 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 7: assuming you guys are coming out. Got to make sure 502 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 7: security is carefully watching you guys. 503 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,879 Speaker 4: Well, we come out, the people come out. You can 504 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:05,679 Speaker 4: get your tickets. We're gonna give away a package by 505 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 4: the way here at the end of this conversation, but 506 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 4: check ticketmaster right now. It's this Saturday out there, bemo. 507 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 4: One o'clock start Saturday, March twenty first, and it is 508 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 4: happening right here in our backyard. If I may, Michael, 509 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 4: shift just briefly to the giant business you have that 510 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 4: is fanatics. Have you ever made a phone call or 511 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 4: have you ever had a conversation when you've seen a 512 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 4: uniform adjustment or you know, memorabilia or a gear adjustment 513 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 4: that you're just like, come on, man, this ain't gonna work. 514 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 4: We got to talk through this and let's kind of 515 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 4: maybe redirect a little bit so we can move some 516 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:41,959 Speaker 4: units here. Has that ever happened? 517 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 8: Of course. 518 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 7: Look, we're in a business where we we have you know, 519 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 7: we have tens of millions of the best sports fans 520 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 7: in the world to buy from us every year. They 521 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 7: have really incredible expectations they want. You know, the great 522 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 7: thing about sports fans is they're so passion. There's nothing 523 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 7: that brings people to get other more than the sports 524 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 7: unifies people, brings people together, and they've got really high expectations. 525 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 7: And I'll tell you what, sports fans make you the 526 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 7: best company you can possibly be. So if I told 527 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,639 Speaker 7: you that everything went perfectly, that would be like not 528 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 7: a normal day fanatics. There's always, you know, things that 529 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 7: you want to work to be better at. There's always 530 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 7: things that look, you know, we're a decent sized company. 531 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 7: We keep growing. You know, certainly it's a very visible business. 532 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 7: So there's always things that we work to do better. 533 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,120 Speaker 7: There's always things who work to push our partners who've 534 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 7: been better at the sports properties we work with, and 535 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 7: they push us in sports fans push us. 536 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 8: To be the best company. 537 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,200 Speaker 7: We can so if I told you no, I think 538 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 7: you have to, you know, check out my mental well 539 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 7: being to see if I was giving you good accurate answers. 540 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 3: Bemo Stadium Saturday. It's happening with the Flag Football Classic, 541 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 3: the Fanatics Flag Football Classic, Tom Brady and many others, 542 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 3: Joe Burrow and the like going at it and they're 543 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 3: angry at each other. You heard Michael say it. Michael, 544 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,679 Speaker 3: congrats on all your success and good luck with this 545 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,680 Speaker 3: event and all the stuff in the future. Thanks a 546 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 3: lot for coming on. 547 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 8: I appreciate. 548 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 7: But before I let you guys go, you got some 549 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 7: of who do you think is gonna win? Which are 550 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:07,880 Speaker 7: the three teams? You guys got to go on record 551 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:08,199 Speaker 7: right now? 552 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 3: This is no like maybe the Flag foot I'd say 553 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 3: probably the flag football guys, because they're just gonna go out, 554 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,879 Speaker 3: you know, they're going to flag football it up and 555 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,439 Speaker 3: they know the angles that the NFL types do not. 556 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 4: I got some faith in Gronk, right, could Gronk just 557 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 4: like destroy everybody out there? He looks like he's still 558 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,159 Speaker 4: in pretty good shape. Whose team is he on? 559 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 3: Well? 560 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,719 Speaker 7: The draft is tonight, by the way, seven thirty PSD. 561 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 7: You can watch it live at NFL's YouTube channel, Fax 562 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 7: YouTube channel. My guess is Brady's going to very quickly 563 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 7: be picking Gronk. 564 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 2: It. 565 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:41,920 Speaker 7: I did just through an interview where someone said, if 566 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,119 Speaker 7: they were Jaden and Joe Burrow, the first thing they 567 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 7: do is pick Gronk just to mess with with on 568 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:46,920 Speaker 7: Tom's head. 569 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 4: It's a bold strategy. I like it, Michael, we appreciate it. 570 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 4: We're gonna give away a heck of a package for this. 571 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 4: By the way, at some point throughout the course of 572 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 4: the show, talking about on field access, Meet and Greet's 573 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 4: official game merch live hardbreaks from card Vault by Tom Brady, 574 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 4: all of that to a grand prize winner. So continue 575 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,120 Speaker 4: to listen for your opportunity to win that. And again, 576 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 4: if you want to head out, why wouldn't you. It 577 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 4: is this Saturday in our backyard Bemo Stadium. Ticketmaster dot 578 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 4: com has got all of your tickets for the one 579 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,919 Speaker 4: pm start. Good luck, Michael, thank you for joining us. 580 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 4: We appreciate it, Thanks for having us. 581 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,400 Speaker 3: It's a big event and we're giving away a VIP 582 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 3: package right now. Caller number five at eight six six, 583 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 3: nine eighty seven, two five seventy is going to Bemo 584 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 3: to watch Tom Brady, Jalen Hurt, sakwan I Show, speed Logan, 585 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 3: Paul Joe Burrow. Get on out to Bemo and rub 586 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 3: elbows with the best and see the best that flag 587 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 3: football has to offer, courtesy of the Fanatics Flag Football 588 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 3: Classic eight six, six, nine eighty seven two five seventy 589 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 3: caller number five and we'll be back with Marpetrosen Money. 590 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 3: We'll do the Dead and a live guy Birthday of 591 00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:58,280 Speaker 3: the Day coming up. 592 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 2: Now Southern California's most listened to sports talk show. 593 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 1: This is petros Money on Demand. 594 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,240 Speaker 3: Petro Send Money on a frog Man Friday. It's Aloha 595 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 3: Friday over at KFI on the Monks and Merril Show. 596 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 3: Get Petrosen Money on demand with the Petroson Money Podcast. 597 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 3: You can listen live or do whatever. Tonight, we are 598 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 3: heading to back to back world champion Dodger Baseball, the 599 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 3: final spring training game from Arizona's on his own right 600 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 3: here on MFI seventy LA Sports Dodger versus San Diego 601 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 3: Dodgers on deck with Dave at five point thirty live 602 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 3: from Campbell Back Ranch and first pitch around six oh five. 603 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 3: And that is the week on the Petro sand Money Show. 604 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 3: We will do one more segment, the fun fact and 605 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 3: the quickets, and then we'll get you to Dave. 606 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 6: Yeah, you know how hot it is outside. It's even 607 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 6: hotter in the desert. 608 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 3: Guys. 609 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 4: It is just. 610 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,600 Speaker 6: I'm surprised by day what it's so hot that tomorrow's 611 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 6: final game TV only is at eleven am, not one o'clock. 612 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 3: They moved it up because of the heat, and arezont 613 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 3: it blew me away? Because you're like, if you think 614 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 3: it's hot here, I didn't wait until you get out 615 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 3: to the desert. 616 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,959 Speaker 4: It gets hotter in Arizona than it is in southern California. 617 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 4: Like when we're dealing with ninety degrees, what are they 618 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 4: dealing with? What are we talking about here? 619 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 3: Guys? 620 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 6: Apparently it gets hotter over there, so add ten degrees 621 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 6: or whatever it is here, So let's. 622 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 3: Add ten degrees from my house to Burbank. Copy that. Uh, yeah, 623 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 3: it is hot out there, so whatever. Uh. It's for 624 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 3: your dead and the Life guy, Birthday of the Day, 625 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 3: beating out the great Roman poet Ovid and the Great 626 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 3: Jerry Reid. The claw we do Jerry Reid all every year. 627 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 3: This year we'll talk about down Edwards to keep the 628 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 3: j read Curly Burnett theme. This week he would have 629 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 3: been eighty seven today. Don Edwards from Bouton, New Jersey, 630 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 3: but left New Jersey a restless bronc buck at sixteen 631 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 3: with a pink carnation and a pickup truck, and he 632 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 3: went to Texas to work on the Texas oil fields 633 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 3: and experience life in the West. And he did become that. 634 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 3: He became a great Western bard in Troubadour. In a 635 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 3: similar move to Travis Kelcey, Dawn worked at six Flags 636 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 3: back then it was the original six Flags over Texas, 637 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 3: Oh Yeah, And he worked there as a singer, an 638 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 3: actor and stuntman for five years. Sheryl Crow, Ladies and gentlemen, 639 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 3: Man cow They're going to freak out my man. And 640 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 3: then he left for Nashville like Bobby Bones, to seek 641 00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:01,040 Speaker 3: fortune and fame, and he found it immediately in Nancy 642 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 3: Griffin's Nancy Griffiths Grammy Award winning album. Edwards released more 643 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 3: than a dozen solo albums and the greatest hits for 644 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 3: about thirty years. Man albums like My Hero, Gene Autry, 645 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 3: and High Lonesome Cowboy with Peter Rowan, which was Grammy nominated. 646 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,480 Speaker 3: He is in the Western Music Association Hall of Fame, 647 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 3: which might just be only on the Internet. He played 648 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 3: the character Smoky in Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer, not 649 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,360 Speaker 3: to be confused with The House Whisper, which is a 650 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 3: weekend show on KFI. Very friendly with Don Martin and 651 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:48,520 Speaker 3: Robin Bertolucci say all her names. What they're not friends 652 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 3: with the House Whisper. I thought they went to Italy together. 653 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 3: The Dean Dean Sharp. 654 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, good head of hair on Dean. 655 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 3: James Earl Jones called him the singing scholar of the 656 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 3: Old West. They were good friends. Married to his wife 657 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 3: Kathy for forty five years. Don Edwards lived on his 658 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 3: ranch in Hicco, Texas, where he died in twenty twenty two. 659 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 3: Don Edwards also a proligent, prodigious yodler. 660 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:34,960 Speaker 9: Now the longhorns are gone, and the drovers are gone, 661 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 9: the comanches are gone, and the outlaws are gone. 662 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,280 Speaker 3: Now now it's just one big water Burgers. 663 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:48,480 Speaker 9: Gone, Stana what is gone? And the lion is gone, 664 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,040 Speaker 9: and the red Wolf is gone. 665 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,640 Speaker 4: It snow, lady a, but it's pretty good. 666 00:33:54,760 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 3: Oh, lady A. My favorite is Confederate Road with their 667 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 3: song White Black Label and White Lies. 668 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 4: All right, man, you're alive. 669 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,400 Speaker 3: Guy Scottish News. Hi, Yo, wean ball by. 670 00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:14,320 Speaker 6: Hi, it's Goltish news news. 671 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,000 Speaker 3: It is Scoltish. What's your wished? Hi? Do you have 672 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,920 Speaker 3: an understand the word I'm saying? Got yoursel II? 673 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:21,719 Speaker 6: You own with the Scoltish News. 674 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,560 Speaker 4: Well, I've told this story before, but allow me to reminisce. 675 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,800 Speaker 4: It is one of the few pleasant memories in a 676 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 4: sea and a career of disappointment. A few shows that 677 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:32,960 Speaker 4: I had been to in all my years in the 678 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,400 Speaker 4: music business that stop you dead in your tracks and 679 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 4: you know you're watching something special that will take off 680 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,120 Speaker 4: that in order for it not to be successful, something 681 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,319 Speaker 4: will have to go horribly wrong, and you'll remember back 682 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,080 Speaker 4: to that moment when you and everyone else in the 683 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,480 Speaker 4: room was there because of the buzz, because they were 684 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,439 Speaker 4: told this is going to be the next big thing, 685 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,520 Speaker 4: and it usually disappoints, but in this particular case, in 686 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 4: March of two thousand and four, south by Southwest Buffalo, 687 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:05,840 Speaker 4: Billiards pool hauled downstairs Rock Venue upstairs, same place I 688 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,839 Speaker 4: saw my Morning Jack under the same circumstances, not knowing 689 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,120 Speaker 4: much about them, Franz Ferdinand had just put out a 690 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 4: single in the UK a month before, was about to 691 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:20,080 Speaker 4: be released in the US two months later, and Today's 692 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 4: a Live Guy. Alex Kapranos, frontman of Franz Ferdinand, was 693 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,160 Speaker 4: a g damn superstar. He delivered. He held the crowd 694 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,880 Speaker 4: of jaded music industry folks in the palm of his 695 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,200 Speaker 4: hand and took everyone on a journey over forty five 696 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:39,240 Speaker 4: minutes that left everyone saying, all right, that one finally delivered. 697 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,160 Speaker 4: They closed with the song Missfire. Figured that was going 698 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 4: to be the big hit. Of course it was take 699 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,799 Speaker 4: me out whole place, jumping singing by the end of it, 700 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,480 Speaker 4: and I ended up getting back to the radio station 701 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:53,360 Speaker 4: on Monday, put the song into heavy rotation immediately, and 702 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,920 Speaker 4: that album, as you hear Dark of the Matinee in 703 00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:00,000 Speaker 4: the background, delivered four or five singles, three million copies sold. 704 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,799 Speaker 4: A Pranos p a Greek like you. 705 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:07,640 Speaker 3: If he was a Greek like me, I'd have been 706 00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,000 Speaker 3: raised in Scotland. 707 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,400 Speaker 4: His father was a Greek and he was raised in Glasgow. 708 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:18,600 Speaker 4: Earned his theology degree from the University of Strathclyde, but 709 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,200 Speaker 4: did not do much with it obviously, as he was 710 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:28,480 Speaker 4: working odd jobs bartender, chef, waiter, delivery driver while simultaneously 711 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 4: being a fixture in the Glasgow music scene. He got 712 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,400 Speaker 4: together with the guys that would ultimately become Franz Ferdinand. 713 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:39,160 Speaker 4: Went through a number of different iterations yummy fur embryo, 714 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,680 Speaker 4: all driven by our live guy Alex Caapranos. Today. He 715 00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:46,960 Speaker 4: recruited his friend Bob Hardy to play bass after Mick 716 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,800 Speaker 4: Cook of Bell and Sebastian suggested Alex do the same, 717 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,319 Speaker 4: but He's like, noah, man, I'm gonna get my man 718 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:57,120 Speaker 4: Bob to be bass player. He had then convinced guitarist 719 00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 4: Nick McCarthy, who had returned to Scotland after doing jazz 720 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,839 Speaker 4: in Germany, to join and they settled on the name 721 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 4: Franz Ferdinand. Why sure, you have an idea, but no, 722 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,440 Speaker 4: it was a horse of the same name. They were 723 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:13,400 Speaker 4: watching together win the North Humberland plate in two thousand 724 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,760 Speaker 4: and one, and so they decided to name their band 725 00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:20,440 Speaker 4: not after the Archduke, but a horse that was named 726 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,480 Speaker 4: after the Archduke. They recorded some demos they signed to 727 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:31,120 Speaker 4: independent Domino Records. Tore Johansen of The Cardigans produced the record, 728 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,879 Speaker 4: their debut single Darts of Pleasure got some play. Take 729 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,879 Speaker 4: Me Out Quick hit huge in the UK. They did 730 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,600 Speaker 4: not have a US distributor, which is why it was 731 00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:45,879 Speaker 4: sort of unknown, but the Southwest Southwest Show launched them 732 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:50,240 Speaker 4: heavy rotation everywhere. MTV sold over a million copies. Number 733 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:53,759 Speaker 4: one at Alternative Rock Nmy named it the Album of 734 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,200 Speaker 4: the Year. They played at the Grammys, nominated for the 735 00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:01,560 Speaker 4: Best Rock Performance. Lost Up did well two million copies. 736 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,120 Speaker 4: Do You Want To was a sort of hit and 737 00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:06,279 Speaker 4: then just kind of faded away. 738 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:07,000 Speaker 3: They went away. 739 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:12,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, they're still going though, five albums later. Our man 740 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,239 Speaker 4: Alex Today's a live guy, has expanded his celebrity over 741 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:19,160 Speaker 4: there in Scotland and the UK. He is a presenter, 742 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,880 Speaker 4: he is a voiceover actor, He is a narrator. He 743 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:26,800 Speaker 4: is a filmmaker. He dated Eleanor Friedberger from The Fiery 744 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,719 Speaker 4: Furnaces for a while, but they broke up and he 745 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:33,040 Speaker 4: married a French musician, Clara Luciani. They have two kids 746 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:34,719 Speaker 4: and he's fifty fourth today. I guess we could have 747 00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:36,880 Speaker 4: gone with British news, we could have gone with Greek news. 748 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:41,160 Speaker 3: No, he's a Scottish Schoolish. He's a Scotsman. Yeah, We'll 749 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,880 Speaker 3: be back with your quick hits and the fun fact, 750 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,120 Speaker 3: and then we will say goodbye for the weekend. You'll 751 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,359 Speaker 3: have Dodger Baseball to enjoy those, so don't worry about that. 752 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:54,920 Speaker 3: Five point thirty. David Vasse will be here for Marango. 753 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,560 Speaker 3: Well no, no, no, not yet, just the pregame show 754 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,919 Speaker 3: Marago Casino, Dodgers on Deck, start Win Kates Sunday Night, 755 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,320 Speaker 3: and then we strap in for the season opening days. Stuff, 756 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,240 Speaker 3: strap in Petrus and money back in a moment