July 1, 2025 • 39 mins
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now for the final hour fun fact effect. It's the
Yeah three fun.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Fact Well courtesy of Kate's Well. I guess affection or
interest in the Titan Ocean Gate disaster documentary.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, the bidget sub for a work on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I don't think you can call it that. I think
you get to call it a little peoples sub.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I mean, I got to Mike Nelson sound right here.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I'm pretty sure you got to call it a dwarf sub. No,
I don't think you'd call it that as your nautical
theme show of record. Did you know less than one
percent of the world's shipwrecks have been explored?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The estimate is there are three million plus on the
ocean floor containing booty that is worth north of sixty
billion at least dollars. So many DOA balloons, so many
gold and silver baballoons, oh da balloons and buffoons way
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deep under the sea. They say that Castro snatched up
a lot of shipwrecks in Cuban waters, of Spanish galleons
and things of that nature, and really had a stockpile
a lot of booty.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Oh thea ballooners for days, a caa bearded one. The
bearded one could buy his way out of anything with
gold baballoons.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I'll tell you what he could buy a sweet studibaker.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Well, I mean, I'm sure there was no car that
was beyond Castro's reach once he had those BA balloons.
But you're right, you know, anything other than his studimaker
would be a bad look. That's right, all right, quicktms quickets.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I'll make it quick, y'all.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah. The Dodgers are fifty three and thirty two. They're
so good, their first place atop the NLS. The terrible
White Sox are in town. Things can't get better if
you're a Dodger fan. Dodgers are seven and a half
games up on the Pods, eight games over the Hegaunts.
They host the White Sox tonight. Yamamoto is on the mount.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Kate's was puffing his chest out yesterday when we were
walking down the hall. He's like about to go up
seven and a half. Padre is getting spanked right now.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, feeling good. Birds fly in the sky, you know
how I feel?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, we're picking up ground and we're not even playing
a game.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I know, it's crazy, right, who does this? You got
an angel with you right now, just got here and
he's gonna help. The Angels are forty one and forty two,
third place in the AL West, two games back of
the AL wild card race. They are playing significant baseball
right before the All Star break. They're in Atlanta taking
on the Braves. As we speak. The Angels showed up,
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but they showed up at the old Memorial Stadium the
Turner used to own, and they cannot.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Find it was just Ted Turner.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
They're outside and the Angels don't know where to go.
They're very confused.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
We do have until tomorrow at nine to vote Dodger
players into the All Star Game. You go to Dodgers
dot com slash vote to vote because there's so many
Dodgers in the running.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Matt Well, I really shirked my Dodger duties today. You
ended up going into burbanks, so I know you got
to see the phone bank or the Internet bank voting
system that we have put in place to help elect
Will Smith, Freddie Freeman, Tommy Edmond, Max Months all.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Now going us upstairs, just working the phone just right,
Mookie Betts, Kirby Hot Latinas working the phone.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
To Oscar hernandez on Andy Pajez, all part of the
final vote to start at their positions in the National League.
So come on, Dodgers, come on now, go on, get
after it upstairs and out of the vote.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
This is your local now Gona speaking.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Gosh, can I get you upstairs to just raise something?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Show leave us the loans.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You know you can get it.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Grab a chicken nugget, raise your spirits, shake Gilchess Alexander
NBA MVP, NBA Finals MVP used to be a Clipper.
Has agreed to a four year, two hundred and eighty
five million dollars Supermax Jesus contract extension super Max.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Prison seventy million bucks a year.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Now Pad news is he's an OKC through twenty thirty one.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
He's making more money a year than O Tani.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
He has signed the richest annual salary for a player
in league history.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
The guy's not pulling in more people. He is not
putting more asses in seats or selling more merch than
Sho hailed Tani. And he's worth seventy one million bucks
a year.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Don't you talk that way about the demon of the
dust ball. He is huge. Damn and Matt. The Lillard
era at the Milwaukee Bus has ended. Damian Lillard at
a web state is done. He's been waived by the
Bucks after acquiring Miles Turner via free agency.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
The Milwaukee bu Yeah, they're gonna pay about twenty three
million bucks a year and dead money for the next
half decade, so they could which makes sense, so they
could appease dy j So he does not request a
trade this offseason, but.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
He's not pleased. He's not pleased with the team's decision
to wave Lillard allegedly. Huh, I mean that just came
out today.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Hey there, this is beckfire down. That's big time.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
It seems that way. I don't know if they talk
like that. I mean, they're very sophisticated people.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
The Lakers free agency so far has been riveted. We'll
talk about it. They signed Jake la Ravia to a
two year deal, and they lost some Dorian Finney Smith
to the Rockys Austin too. Clipper's free agency so far.
They resigned James Harden to a two year deal, They
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resigned the Batum battalion Nick Batoum a two year deal,
and they signed big man Brooke Lpez out of Stanford
to a two year deal. Oh help, they get put
a little pets so unbelievable. We'll have more on that
in the next segment. The Lakers unable to acquire any
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of these centers.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Hey, you know what that means? Signing up James Harden
for two more years.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
That you're gonna have a second round exit the next
two years or Harden playoff.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Watch that's right.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
What games you're gonna have when he only scores seven's
it gonna.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Happen loser, Game five and game seven's James Harden never disappoints,
and by never disappoints, always disappoints.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Got a Matt. Social media has been outraged to see
that the WNBA All Star Game voting has Caitlyn Clark
ninth best guard in the WNBA, despite finishing first by
fans and third by the media. She's the team captain
for the All Star Game on July nineteen. You know,
(09:01):
whenever she plays, she's clearly the best player on the court, Like.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Clearly, clearly, Yeah, but nobody watches. That's the problem. You know,
Ratings don't go up eighty percent, literally eighty percent after
she returns from injury. So what's the point of putting
her out there if it's not going to bring more
eyeballs to an event that already has incredible traction in
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the sporting world, the WNBA All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I can't wait to see the other eight guards that
are better than Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
So Kaitlyn, you don't to make to cut this tody.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Like that loser. You gotta earn it here in the
w Nuba, in the dub the wood Nuba.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Caitlin Clark should just leave and go play overseas and
just tell the WNBA to overseas and start your own league.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah do that. Might as well just go a barnstorming
tour like Red Grange. Yeah, Clark's coming to your town
to drain some threes from half court. Assemble some chicks
or dudes that want to garner start the Harlem wrens Man.
Come on. Initially they would sell out everywhere she went,
and she did like a barnstorming tour. But then what
would happen to great players like well, the WNBA would
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go back to Asia Southwest Asia.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Wilson, I think they go back to pulling.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Uh what about McNutt. What happens to McNutt? I love McNutt.
Is the McNutt the bald one?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Oh, I will hire the bald one. The La King
signed former Duck two time All Star Corey Perry on
a one year old Yeah he's forty. Oh no, why
would he see he played for the Oilers who lost
to Stanley Cup this last season to Florida. A long
time ago, he won the Cup with the Anaheim Ducks
and came on the Petrols of Money show.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I don't know if there's a player that Kings fans
hate more than Corey Perry.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well, here he comes with his mustache to say hello
to you. Matt Oh, No, terrible idea. He's gonna boast
a deeper connection with the Kings than you've ever had
despite years of hatred. Corey Perry, where's the crown? I'm
sure Tim Conway Junior is also outraged. Outraged. Formula One
and Motorsport Network, the world's largest motorsport media company, today
(11:11):
released the twenty twenty five Global F One Fans Survey,
a recurring study conducted every four years to track how
fan engagement is evolving across the series globally. Based on
more than one hundred thousands responses, women like the Kates
Girls are powering the next wave of F one fandom.
(11:35):
Female fans now account for three and four new fans
in this year's study. How about that most are newer
to the series and skew younger nearly half of gen
Z respondents are women. United States accounted for the largest
country share of survey respondents, offering a lens into one
of Formula one's most dynamic national markets. While Europe remains
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the largest region overall, the US stands out for accelerating
fan growth, especially among younger digital first tim Kates Sadie
Kate's audience, seventy percent of gen z respondents engaged with
the F one daily on social media. Seventy three percent
planned to a ten and F one race. Like Sadie Kate's.
(12:19):
Thirty eight percent of gen Z respondents and forty one
percent of surveyed women say there most likely to consider
an F one sponsor. That's why everybody went to that.
When we had that F one sponsor for that seminar
at the Rio in Vegas, everybody went, oh, it was
sold out.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah, they well, we did a package. They got to
go to Doug Henning Magic and.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
It was Danny Gans but then he passed sadly, congratulations
to the F one SoCal F one report every week
sort of here on the Petros some money show. We'll
get one this week before the break, and we'll be
right back with the top story of the day, who
will the Lakers sign at center? And what will happen
with the great Lebron James. Stay tuned.
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Speaker 3 (13:27):
Thanks for listening, everybody. We've got dead and alive after
this and a lot of baseball coming up tonight and
all week long. Dodgers on a homestand Socks and Astros
coming to town. O Toddi's gonna pitch Kershaw's gonna get
us three thousand strikeout. There's gonna be a lot of fanfare.
Stay two and AM five seventy. We've got it all
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and I will be there starting at three o'clock and
it will be a real Dodger holdown. I think it's
far east enough to call it a hodown. Okay, is
(14:12):
that now what we're doing. I'm not sure what the
difference between a hodown or a hoot in Nenny is,
but it's they're similar a Dodger celebration, is what I'm
trying to say. But right now it's time for our
daily blood letting, the top story of the dead.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Go to get after it while it's still a flame.
Lakers Twitter yesterday a flame? Why because Brook Lopez signed
with the Clippers and Clint Capella signed with the Rockets.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yes, that's okay, they got that land guy.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, relieving Misiman Jake, I think his name, uh, Brook Lopez,
Clint Cappella. Here's I pulled a couple here smattering of
what was out there. Lakers put cap space on a
pedestal of real basketball players. Cap Space doesn't play and
win games players. Do another one from your favorite guy
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p that you'll interact with every now and then Lake
Show Yo.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Oh that guy. That guy's pretty annoying, breaking, but he's
got a powerful Twitter, very powerful with that frog face
for his avatar.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Breaking brook Lopez signs with the Clippers. There's about to
be all caps, no centers left for the Lakers. Here's
another one, brook Lopez is a Clipper click Appello rocket,
Lakers be running out of options, fail and then there's
the flip side of that disappointment to Laker myopia kicking
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in f brook Lopez. We about to get DeAndre Ayton
fourteen to ten, only the big fundamental and he have
done it in their first seven seasons. We're really doing
DeAndre Ayton watching all. That's how bad this is gotten.
And it's become like for those that we're complaining about
the amount of anti Lebron James content we contribute to
(16:04):
the sporting ether on the show, I suppose go ahead,
grab a seat and settle in, because we got some
more for you today. I could have gone on for
the next ten minutes with people freaking out over the
Lakers not landing a thirty five year old center. Lebron
needs help, Yeah, mid level exemption, role players, reclamation project.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Everybody's got to help Lebron league wide.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
They have Lebron James who opted in for the twenty
five to twenty six season, and they're about to sign
Luka Doncic to a MAX extension. One of the five
best players in the league, and someone who's in the
conversation is the greatest player of the league. And we're
freaking out over Clint Capella, Brook Lopez and DeAndre Ayden.
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And that's all you need to know. As we set
the theme for today's top Story, we go back fifteen
years almost exactly fifteen years ago, fourteen years and three
hundred and fifty eight days, eight thirty pm Eastern. It
starts nine to twenty eight pm from the Greenwich, Connecticut
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Boys and Girls Club. This was the announcement, the answer
to the question everybody wants to know, Lebron, what's your
decision in this fall?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Man?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
It's very tough and this fall I'm gonna take my
talents to South Beach and joining Miami Heat.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Miami Heat. That was the conclusion we woke up with
this morning. That was the conclusion I woke up with
this morning. It was awkward, it was clunky, it was lame.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
There was one clap. What is the sound of one
hand clapping?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
That was it. He was immediately cast villain.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Why were they in Greenwich?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
They found some and Girls club that they donated a
million dollars to because I think because ESPN did the
production from Bristol, and that was like, hey, let's try
to put a spin on this. Let's try to put
some perfume and lipstick on this pig. He was immediately
cast as a villain until Dan Gilbert put out that
asinine comic sans font letter castigating him for leaving. That
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kind of turned Dan into a court Jester created a
little bit of sympathy for Lebron, realizing the guy that
owned the team he was leaving was a real tool.
And as much as we want to crap all over it,
and we do, numbers are numbers. Ten million people watched that.
Thirteen point one million people watched that at the time
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he made the announcement. You know how many people watched
the NBA Finals this year on average six point one
million per game, less than half the number that watched
the decision. That is how big a deal Lebron James
was at twenty five years old, coming off back to
back MVP seasons. He was the best player in basketball
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at twenty five, and where he was going to play
basketball in twenty ten was all anyone cared about. And yet,
you know, the heatles were a thing. Chris Bosh and
Dwayne Wade, and he had already Waite had already won
that title with Shaq, and he was one of the
best two guards. And they're like, wow's a three guys.
But that was all secondary, just to that one guy
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making his choice and tipping the championship scales in favor
of Miami for the immediate and foreseeable future. Why do
you do this stupid show? Because he could, because people cared,
because Lebron was unlike anything we'd ever seen on a
basketball court. The size, the speed, the incredible level of domination,
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especially at that young age, was second two none.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
And we needed Jim Gray to be so important about.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Something We watched what was certain to become, or at
least we thought, the greatest player in the history of basketball.
So why not do the show? He's Bulletproof? Manager Maverick Carter,
who was also twenty five at the time, thought it
would be a good idea. It wasn't. It was a
dumbass idea of Maverick, and there in that moment began
the seeds of discontent for a certain segment of NBA fandom.
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Divorcing the Girl next Door Cleveland for the implants in
her ass nine filters on her face Instagram slut Miami
did not sit well. He would win two more MVPs
and since twenty thirteen, by the way, he has not
been considered the best player in the league since he's
finished in the top five repeatedly, but he has never
won an MVP since two thirteen, and it was evidence
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that he had lost something because the nation was not
rooting for Miami to win those four consecutive finals they
appeared in. They were rooting for the thunder and Kevin
Durant and Russell Westbrook. They were rooting for the Mavericks
and Dirknwiski. They were rooting for the Spurs and Tim
Duncan and Monogenobili, and then they were rooting for the
Spurs again. And even though Lebron won two of those
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four titles and then high tail it back to Cleveland
to rehab his image, win the championship, the first ever
in the Big Four in Cleveland for the I don't
know it's in the previous half century fifty years, which
somehow got him a free pass here in twenty eighteen
after his calves were slaughtered by the Warriors and back
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to back finals because they said Lebron did what he's
too good man, it's too good for there. They've wasted him,
wasted him in Cleveland. Got to get somewhere else. The
Laker's going to take care of them. They'll figure it out.
And after a disaster of the first season, they did
won the COVID title in twenty twenty, his fourth, his
fourth Finals MVP. You just made that grunt and that's
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what it was met with a bit of a yawn,
Like the Dodgers World Series title of twenty twenty is
at fair. No, everybody played under the same rules. I've
said it before with the Dodgers, one of the hardest
playoff runs to win. Dodgers operated on a one hundred
and ten win clip, but you a reward, no home
field advantage. They had to play in the wild card round.
Same thing with the Lakers, best record in the league.
They had to play in lockdown conditions. Not easy, viable title.
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But it just did not move the city. And that's
something we learned big time in October when the Dodgers won.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That hurts. That hurts big time.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
When the Dodgers won a standard World Series championship, you
could feel the exhale that was not there in twenty
twenty for their first World Series championship.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
But the twenty twenty championship was much more widely celebrated
for the Dodgers than the Lakers to twenty championship.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
But you're right, June the third, David, You're twenty five
year old Lebron. You're coming off back to back MVP seasons.
We think you're on track to be the greatest player
in league history by a country mile. You play your
dumbass games, You drag your dumb ass friends along. You
bite your nails when you're sitting across from Jim Gray,
likely in the moment realizing this was a bad idea,
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But you did it because teams NBA teams would crawl
naked across molten glass to convince you to take their
hundreds of millions of dollars in that moment fifteen years ago.
But at forty one years, you're still trying to play
the same game. After fifty three total playoff games, ten
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playoff series, five playoff appearances, two missed postseasons in you're
seven years with the Lakers again, seven years, ten playoff
series in fifty three games. His final three years in Cleveland,
he played in twelve playoff series in sixty one games,
less than half the seasons, compared to seven here in LA.
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And you want to throw that bs around in Cleveland
like you did before you got out of there, making
Kevin Love feel like crap, airing out Jr. Smith like
he's a child, getting your coach fired before you hit
the All Star break.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Do it?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But after seven years in LA with one Bubble title
and he's only got playoffs, two coaches fired, Yeah, three
to one and done series in the postseason. Yeah, the
whole We need to do what's best for Lebron where
the Lakers it doesn't work here.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I think you're right. I think you're right. I think
yesterday you were right on. I think that they shopped
a multi year deal to try to get ahead of
the new ownership, and the Lakers told him no, and
that whole weird statement and all that was a product
of what had happened behind closed doors.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, pushback. I can't see how it could be anything else,
because you know what, the world only cared what he
was going to do and where he was going to
go in that moment fifteen years ago, because we knew
it was going to greatly favor the team he was joining.
And now when he opts in, like think about Lebron
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opting out and saying, you know what I'm gonna I'm
gonna hit free agency. I'm going to go somewhere else.
What would it be met with? Not a yawn? I mean,
it'd be kind of a big deal. But here he
ops in and the Laker fan base is not celebrating.
They're not like, holy s man, Lebron's still gonna be
a Laker. We really scored, We've got Luka Doncic, a
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top five player in the league, and Lebron coming back
were unstoppable. No one's got a better top two players
in the league than us. Isn't this great?
Speaker 4 (25:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Instead, they're bemoaning that they didn't land thirty five year
old Brook Lopez and that DeAndre Ayton who missed a
game because the roads were too icy in Portland, who
missed repeated team flights and the Blazers were all too
happy to buy him out of his thirty five million
dollars a year contract. That's what they're concerned with. Can
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we land DeAndre eight and not think god Lebron is
coming back. We were worried he would leave. And you
know why, it's because this has never been about the Lakers.
It has been about him. He wants to live here,
he loves living here. He's doing something that's very popular
in America these days. He's pulling his family around on
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this grift speaking Bronny drafted and he says everything you
know that he's supposed to. What he says is supposed
to matter. It doesn't rings championships, name on the front
of my jersey, being part of this historic Laker, it's
all bs. He just wants to live in Los Angeles,
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have people bow to lebron call him the greatest ever,
win all the fictitious awards of most talented ever, most games,
most badass, postseason block, most Finals.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Moment, f bombs in a podcast.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Good one, that's a good one. That's why it was
met with raised eyebrows and eh, it's kind of an
awkward statement. Have his best interests in mind, and he
wants to make sure that even though they're on two
different timelines, the championship, he deserves to win a champion.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Avery awkward damage control statement because they got rejected and
now they have no value.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
She didn't dump me. I called her to break up
with her first, and then we just started talking to
she says, so recognize while he still wants it. Much
like the realtor who's got a photo from fifteen years
ago on the bus bench, Lebron wants this to be Greenwich,
Connecticut Boys and Girls Club from twenty ten. He wants
the world to wait with baited breath when it comes
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to his decision on where he's gonna play. But instead,
so we're gonna get de Andre Ayton there, brok Lopez.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
What plane is hating on? Is he on his way
over here?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
And what what's going on?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Man?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I'm freaking out.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yes, times have changed. The King might not be aware
that he is not as desirable as he used to be.
The Emperor has no clothes. We'll be back with your
dead in a live guy Birthday of the Day, and
then we're headed to Dodger Socks a lot of baseball.
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a big way.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, a week from Friday, July eleventh. We can't say it.
We don't get out there often. Excited to be going
back this year. Rancho Cucamonga's September's tap Room and Eatery
right off the two ten Freeway at Haven Avenue sixty
three twenty one Haven is the address. They'll have drink
and food specials. Our friends John, Kyle and Brandon were
out from Surfside Vodka yesterday. They're going to be pooring
(29:18):
Surfside Vodka and nice team. We say all their names,
Boss MODELU as well. So we've got Dodger tickets to
and I get away to a an NGM resort spot
in Vegas. Livelypool parties, pash cabanas, that's what they got
out there, cocktails too, believe it or not, and all
great ways to earn rewards. Yes, they have cocktails, is it.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Dodger rita blended. We can't wait to be out there
a week from Friday, Matt, you got the dead guy.
Birthday of the day.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
I do happy would have been one hundred and thirteenth
to a great American, a protector of our land and
a real righteous dude. David Brower the first executive director
of the Sea Club, and he ran it on and
off from nineteen forty one through two thousand his death
(30:06):
in two thousand. Born in Berkeley, earned a Bronze Star
in World War Two. And he was not a college dude.
He just liked to climb. He met his wife when
they were both editors at the University of California Press
in Berkeley.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
So he just climbed around the university but never attended it.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Never attended. He was kind of like a cutter people.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Most of the people around cal are like that, to
be honest.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, he was a world class mountaineer. In nineteen thirty three,
he was in the High Sierra for seven weeks and
while he was out there, he bumped into a couple
guys that were running the sort of burgeoning just started
to get some traction. Sierra Club they convinced him to join.
That led to another ten weeks of moving around. Overall,
(30:49):
the group did sixty three peaks, thirty two first ascents,
meaning they were the first people to ever ascend the peak.
It was Ton Doll they did. They did Mount Williamson,
they did Mount Bernard, famously, the first to ever take
on the Devil's Crags.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Mount Bernard's the one that has the Saint Bernard comes
up and gives you that little barrel of liquor that
it holds under its neck for you.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
It's right, it's your reward when you get to the top.
You don't plant a flag and take a sip. It
was called one of his ascent. There's we've lost, Matt.
It's the cartoon with the Saint Bernard with the barrel
of brandy around its neck, pours it into your mouth
and you come to life.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I mean, we've missed that as a society more than anything.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I think there was a hell of an advert for alcohol,
right like, hey, you're down for the count, Well check
this out.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
We're gonna revive you with this giant dog and a
barrel of small barrel of liquor around its neck.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
The Devil's Crags was called one of the most remarkable
mountaineering feats ever accomplished in the United States. He was
the first Arman Brauer to ever ascent ship rock. That
thing's crazy to look at nineteen thirty nine. It was
a leftover throat of a volcano with nearly vertical walls
in northwest New Mexico. Twelve previous attempts had failed, and
it was long considered the quote great American climbing problem.
(32:04):
But he did it, and our man did over seventy
first a cens in Yosemite, and then when he was
thirty years old in nineteen forty two, he got the
call from the country, we need you for World War Two.
So he put together a manual. He trained Allied mountain
combat troops, and he was in the s Man tenth
Mountain Division. He saw action in Italy and throughout Europe.
(32:28):
It was a story covered in the nineteen ninety six
documentary Fire on the Mountain. After the war, he was
active as a major in the Army reserves for the
rest of his life, and after the war he would
edit the Sierra CanYa bulletin, the Sierra Club bulletin. I
should say he prevented the this's a big one for us,
as broad Well.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
James ed, it's the Sierra Canyon blent.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
That's exactly right. He prevented the Echo Park dam in
Utah's Dinosaur National Monument after lobbying Congress to delete the
Colorado River storage project. I was that a big deal. Well,
he would have ruined the national park. But b they
were trying to cut us out here in California from
the Colorado River. Keep it for Utah, Colorado and Wyoming.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
We need that water for our uninhabitable desert home. That's right,
and we'll take yours too. San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Brower started the now famous Sierra Club books, the Coffee
Table series, best selling today still is in Wilderness is
the Preservation of the World. That put the Sierra Club
on the map nationally. He expanded membership from seven to
seventy thousand, and unfortunately, you get a lot of money,
and people wanted to be spent a certain way. So,
(33:38):
led by a charge from his former close friend Ansel Adams.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Lent me every charge against him.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Ansel Adams got him booted. Ah, why right, they said,
financial irresponsibility is what they claimed. Come on, so we
started Friends of the Earth International, still going strong today
over seventy countries. He and Ralph Nader were super close.
He passed away one day after voting for his friend
to become president in two thousand. He was eighty eight.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
He never lived to see him can become president. No,
he went on to become the president.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I voted for Nader in two thousand and two.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yes, man, Matt Muddy Smith consumer advocate. Well, if there's anything, Matt,
I lost the prop my Malik Beasley prop. Bet I
had you. I had you doing Sydney Pollock and Tutsie
for five minutes for the dead day of the day.
I did not see the Sierra Canyon Club coming. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
If I see uh, you know me, if I can
do greatest Generation, I'm always gonna take it.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Just I didn't see the Bryce James yea, yeah, yeah,
yea yeah, Sierra Canyon Club. But for the alive guy.
We'll celebrate Jamaican News today, sixty six years old. It's
Jamaica News rost Today. We celebrate Ranking Joe aka Joe Jackson,
(35:00):
so known as Little Joe real reggae types love the
toasters of the seventies, Matten eighties. Let my friend Nick
Rieira down at RIIA's place in Redondo. Yes, Joe went
to school with Winston Mackinoff, who became a dub star.
He went to school with Earl sixteen and one of
(35:22):
your favorite DJs of yesteryear, Matt dj U Brown, and
he followed in their footsteps as a toaster, which is
like an original rapper, guys that talked over reggae beats
and then brought it up to Jamaica queens and that's
why we have modern day hip hop, which is I
agree with Bounty Killer, an embarrassment to reggae. He started
(35:46):
toasting for Smith the Weapon, which is Matt's old nickname,
and then he Smith the Weapon sounds joker and then
a downer. He would have to the lpatulations. Thank you,
that's a good nickname for a radio host.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Right tune into the Downer and the Joker. It's going
to be great.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Then the El Paso sound system, and then all the
way up to Cox and Dodds Studio one and fifteen
years old with his hit song gun Court. But then
he was little Joe, he stopped doing music and started
studying electronics. Came back though as Ranking Joe with the
hit song Honda Accord and.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
What's It About.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
He also did the Bionic Man tribute Steve Austin, which
was a big song for him. In nineteen eighty he
signed with Green Sleeves, which distributes in the UK, and
got bigger overseas, which elongated his career. Unlike some of
the nineteen seventy DJ contemporaries of his, he ended up
in New York, getting married and ranking Joe. Oh. When
(37:01):
you listen to him, Uh, it's interesting because he's the
guy who inspired Eca Mouse eCOM Mouse, who became a big,
a big Southern California star in many ways, another reggae singer.
He was the first guy with the bitterly bitterly bitterly
bitterly bitterly bitterly bongs, you know, and then a man
(37:21):
ranking Joe ecam Mouse took it from that. Uh. He
does have dreadlocks and often wears the funny look in
Jamaican hat. Oh, I love that hat. Joe Jackson, not
the Stephan out Joe Jackson. Ranking Joe Jackson, and when
you hear Ranking in Jamaica like Shaba ranks or or
ranking dread or ranking Joe ranking Roger. It means ranking
(37:45):
means you're ranked. You're ranked, you're highly ranked. If you're
not ranked, then people don't respect you. But if me
I rank you, that means you have respect.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
How old is eCOM Mouse now?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Is he like it?
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Well? Ranking Joe's sixty six? No Mouse is in his
He's in his late fifties.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Okay, still thinking. I mean I was in college a
long time. Still, I'm an old man.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I saw Ecomhouse when I was thirteen years old.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
He used to play the Malibu in and yeah, like
he was old then.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
But no, I mean, well, his his major popularity came
in the early eighties, but he was a very young
man of the earth. Yeah. Anyway, Ranking Joel, ranking Joe,
Ecamouse's mentor coming home Dodger Socks, the camel Back battle.
(38:36):
Everybody's looking forward to this one. Actually, they're much more
looking forward to persh Up pitching and getting his three
thousands striped out tomorrow and then probably to the weekends
Showy Tani pitchers sixty after. But we're gonna have a
game tonight. We gotta have the one tonight to have
those in the future. We run all the games on
the stage. Jim Kakes, We're coming back on tomorrow. The
(39:05):
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Petros money in five seventy earl a Sports Live Everywhere
on the iHeart Radio app. Tonight hour from now, we'll
have Dodgers on deck. An hour after that, we'll have
Dodgers White Sox. They start a three game series with
the worst record team in the American League. From the
Galpin Motors broadcast booth, you'll get that first pitch. Tomorrow's
the big one, Clayton Kershaw chasing three thousand strikeouts if
(01:38):
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Speaker 3 (01:57):
All right, everybody knows. The five o'clock round here is
brought to you by Marongo Casino Resort and Spa. Marongo
celebrating twenty years of a good time and it's time
now for the final hour fun fact effect. It's the
Yeah three fun.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Fact Well courtesy of Kate's Well. I guess affection or
interest in the Titan Ocean Gate disaster documentary.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, the bidget sub for a work on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I don't think you can call it that. I think
you get to call it a little peoples sub.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I mean, I got to Mike Nelson sound right here.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I'm pretty sure you got to call it a dwarf sub. No,
I don't think you'd call it that as your nautical
theme show of record. Did you know less than one
percent of the world's shipwrecks have been explored?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The estimate is there are three million plus on the
ocean floor containing booty that is worth north of sixty
billion at least dollars. So many DOA balloons, so many
gold and silver baballoons, oh da balloons and buffoons way
(03:09):
deep under the sea. They say that Castro snatched up
a lot of shipwrecks in Cuban waters, of Spanish galleons
and things of that nature, and really had a stockpile
a lot of booty.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Oh thea ballooners for days, a caa bearded one. The
bearded one could buy his way out of anything with
gold baballoons.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I'll tell you what he could buy a sweet studibaker.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Well, I mean, I'm sure there was no car that
was beyond Castro's reach once he had those BA balloons.
But you're right, you know, anything other than his studimaker
would be a bad look. That's right, all right, quicktms quickets.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I'll make it quick, y'all.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah. The Dodgers are fifty three and thirty two. They're
so good, their first place atop the NLS. The terrible
White Sox are in town. Things can't get better if
you're a Dodger fan. Dodgers are seven and a half
games up on the Pods, eight games over the Hegaunts.
They host the White Sox tonight. Yamamoto is on the mount.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Kate's was puffing his chest out yesterday when we were
walking down the hall. He's like about to go up
seven and a half. Padre is getting spanked right now.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, feeling good. Birds fly in the sky, you know
how I feel?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, we're picking up ground and we're not even playing
a game.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I know, it's crazy, right, who does this? You got
an angel with you right now, just got here and
he's gonna help. The Angels are forty one and forty two,
third place in the AL West, two games back of
the AL wild card race. They are playing significant baseball
right before the All Star break. They're in Atlanta taking
on the Braves. As we speak. The Angels showed up,
(04:54):
but they showed up at the old Memorial Stadium the
Turner used to own, and they cannot.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Find it was just Ted Turner.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
They're outside and the Angels don't know where to go.
They're very confused.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
We do have until tomorrow at nine to vote Dodger
players into the All Star Game. You go to Dodgers
dot com slash vote to vote because there's so many
Dodgers in the running.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Matt Well, I really shirked my Dodger duties today. You
ended up going into burbanks, so I know you got
to see the phone bank or the Internet bank voting
system that we have put in place to help elect
Will Smith, Freddie Freeman, Tommy Edmond, Max Months all.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Now going us upstairs, just working the phone just right,
Mookie Betts, Kirby Hot Latinas working the phone.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
To Oscar hernandez on Andy Pajez, all part of the
final vote to start at their positions in the National League.
So come on, Dodgers, come on now, go on, get
after it upstairs and out of the vote.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
This is your local now Gona speaking.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Gosh, can I get you upstairs to just raise something?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Show leave us the loans.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You know you can get it.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Grab a chicken nugget, raise your spirits, shake Gilchess Alexander
NBA MVP, NBA Finals MVP used to be a Clipper.
Has agreed to a four year, two hundred and eighty
five million dollars Supermax Jesus contract extension super Max.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Prison seventy million bucks a year.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Now Pad news is he's an OKC through twenty thirty one.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
He's making more money a year than O Tani.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
He has signed the richest annual salary for a player
in league history.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
The guy's not pulling in more people. He is not
putting more asses in seats or selling more merch than
Sho hailed Tani. And he's worth seventy one million bucks
a year.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Don't you talk that way about the demon of the
dust ball. He is huge. Damn and Matt. The Lillard
era at the Milwaukee Bus has ended. Damian Lillard at
a web state is done. He's been waived by the
Bucks after acquiring Miles Turner via free agency.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
The Milwaukee bu Yeah, they're gonna pay about twenty three
million bucks a year and dead money for the next
half decade, so they could which makes sense, so they
could appease dy j So he does not request a
trade this offseason, but.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
He's not pleased. He's not pleased with the team's decision
to wave Lillard allegedly. Huh, I mean that just came
out today.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Hey there, this is beckfire down. That's big time.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
It seems that way. I don't know if they talk
like that. I mean, they're very sophisticated people.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
The Lakers free agency so far has been riveted. We'll
talk about it. They signed Jake la Ravia to a
two year deal, and they lost some Dorian Finney Smith
to the Rockys Austin too. Clipper's free agency so far.
They resigned James Harden to a two year deal, They
(07:56):
resigned the Batum battalion Nick Batoum a two year deal,
and they signed big man Brooke Lpez out of Stanford
to a two year deal. Oh help, they get put
a little pets so unbelievable. We'll have more on that
in the next segment. The Lakers unable to acquire any
(08:17):
of these centers.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Hey, you know what that means? Signing up James Harden
for two more years.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
That you're gonna have a second round exit the next
two years or Harden playoff.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Watch that's right.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
What games you're gonna have when he only scores seven's
it gonna.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Happen loser, Game five and game seven's James Harden never disappoints,
and by never disappoints, always disappoints.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Got a Matt. Social media has been outraged to see
that the WNBA All Star Game voting has Caitlyn Clark
ninth best guard in the WNBA, despite finishing first by
fans and third by the media. She's the team captain
for the All Star Game on July nineteen. You know,
(09:01):
whenever she plays, she's clearly the best player on the court, Like.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Clearly, clearly, Yeah, but nobody watches. That's the problem. You know,
Ratings don't go up eighty percent, literally eighty percent after
she returns from injury. So what's the point of putting
her out there if it's not going to bring more
eyeballs to an event that already has incredible traction in
(09:25):
the sporting world, the WNBA All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I can't wait to see the other eight guards that
are better than Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
So Kaitlyn, you don't to make to cut this tody.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Like that loser. You gotta earn it here in the
w Nuba, in the dub the wood Nuba.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Caitlin Clark should just leave and go play overseas and
just tell the WNBA to overseas and start your own league.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah do that. Might as well just go a barnstorming
tour like Red Grange. Yeah, Clark's coming to your town
to drain some threes from half court. Assemble some chicks
or dudes that want to garner start the Harlem wrens Man.
Come on. Initially they would sell out everywhere she went,
and she did like a barnstorming tour. But then what
would happen to great players like well, the WNBA would
(10:14):
go back to Asia Southwest Asia.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Wilson, I think they go back to pulling.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Uh what about McNutt. What happens to McNutt? I love McNutt.
Is the McNutt the bald one?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Oh, I will hire the bald one. The La King
signed former Duck two time All Star Corey Perry on
a one year old Yeah he's forty. Oh no, why
would he see he played for the Oilers who lost
to Stanley Cup this last season to Florida. A long
time ago, he won the Cup with the Anaheim Ducks
and came on the Petrols of Money show.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I don't know if there's a player that Kings fans
hate more than Corey Perry.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well, here he comes with his mustache to say hello
to you. Matt Oh, No, terrible idea. He's gonna boast
a deeper connection with the Kings than you've ever had
despite years of hatred. Corey Perry, where's the crown? I'm
sure Tim Conway Junior is also outraged. Outraged. Formula One
and Motorsport Network, the world's largest motorsport media company, today
(11:11):
released the twenty twenty five Global F One Fans Survey,
a recurring study conducted every four years to track how
fan engagement is evolving across the series globally. Based on
more than one hundred thousands responses, women like the Kates
Girls are powering the next wave of F one fandom.
(11:35):
Female fans now account for three and four new fans
in this year's study. How about that most are newer
to the series and skew younger nearly half of gen
Z respondents are women. United States accounted for the largest
country share of survey respondents, offering a lens into one
of Formula one's most dynamic national markets. While Europe remains
(11:56):
the largest region overall, the US stands out for accelerating
fan growth, especially among younger digital first tim Kates Sadie
Kate's audience, seventy percent of gen z respondents engaged with
the F one daily on social media. Seventy three percent
planned to a ten and F one race. Like Sadie Kate's.
(12:19):
Thirty eight percent of gen Z respondents and forty one
percent of surveyed women say there most likely to consider
an F one sponsor. That's why everybody went to that.
When we had that F one sponsor for that seminar
at the Rio in Vegas, everybody went, oh, it was
sold out.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah, they well, we did a package. They got to
go to Doug Henning Magic and.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
It was Danny Gans but then he passed sadly, congratulations
to the F one SoCal F one report every week
sort of here on the Petros some money show. We'll
get one this week before the break, and we'll be
right back with the top story of the day, who
will the Lakers sign at center? And what will happen
with the great Lebron James. Stay tuned.
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Speaker 3 (13:27):
Thanks for listening, everybody. We've got dead and alive after
this and a lot of baseball coming up tonight and
all week long. Dodgers on a homestand Socks and Astros
coming to town. O Toddi's gonna pitch Kershaw's gonna get
us three thousand strikeout. There's gonna be a lot of fanfare.
Stay two and AM five seventy. We've got it all
right here on your home of the Dodgers. Don't forget
(13:50):
to podcast our show on the iHeartRadio app, and don't
forget to come out to ranseall Kook Friday, July eleven,
from three to six at September Tapperham and Eerie, Matt
and I will be there starting at three o'clock and
it will be a real Dodger holdown. I think it's
far east enough to call it a hodown. Okay, is
(14:12):
that now what we're doing. I'm not sure what the
difference between a hodown or a hoot in Nenny is,
but it's they're similar a Dodger celebration, is what I'm
trying to say. But right now it's time for our
daily blood letting, the top story of the dead.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Go to get after it while it's still a flame.
Lakers Twitter yesterday a flame? Why because Brook Lopez signed
with the Clippers and Clint Capella signed with the Rockets.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yes, that's okay, they got that land guy.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, relieving Misiman Jake, I think his name, uh, Brook Lopez,
Clint Cappella. Here's I pulled a couple here smattering of
what was out there. Lakers put cap space on a
pedestal of real basketball players. Cap Space doesn't play and
win games players. Do another one from your favorite guy
(15:07):
p that you'll interact with every now and then Lake
Show Yo.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Oh that guy. That guy's pretty annoying, breaking, but he's
got a powerful Twitter, very powerful with that frog face
for his avatar.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Breaking brook Lopez signs with the Clippers. There's about to
be all caps, no centers left for the Lakers. Here's
another one, brook Lopez is a Clipper click Appello rocket,
Lakers be running out of options, fail and then there's
the flip side of that disappointment to Laker myopia kicking
(15:43):
in f brook Lopez. We about to get DeAndre Ayton
fourteen to ten, only the big fundamental and he have
done it in their first seven seasons. We're really doing
DeAndre Ayton watching all. That's how bad this is gotten.
And it's become like for those that we're complaining about
the amount of anti Lebron James content we contribute to
(16:04):
the sporting ether on the show, I suppose go ahead,
grab a seat and settle in, because we got some
more for you today. I could have gone on for
the next ten minutes with people freaking out over the
Lakers not landing a thirty five year old center. Lebron
needs help, Yeah, mid level exemption, role players, reclamation project.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Everybody's got to help Lebron league wide.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
They have Lebron James who opted in for the twenty
five to twenty six season, and they're about to sign
Luka Doncic to a MAX extension. One of the five
best players in the league, and someone who's in the
conversation is the greatest player of the league. And we're
freaking out over Clint Capella, Brook Lopez and DeAndre Ayden.
(16:56):
And that's all you need to know. As we set
the theme for today's top Story, we go back fifteen
years almost exactly fifteen years ago, fourteen years and three
hundred and fifty eight days, eight thirty pm Eastern. It
starts nine to twenty eight pm from the Greenwich, Connecticut
(17:18):
Boys and Girls Club. This was the announcement, the answer
to the question everybody wants to know, Lebron, what's your
decision in this fall?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Man?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
It's very tough and this fall I'm gonna take my
talents to South Beach and joining Miami Heat.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Miami Heat. That was the conclusion we woke up with
this morning. That was the conclusion I woke up with
this morning. It was awkward, it was clunky, it was lame.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
There was one clap. What is the sound of one
hand clapping?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
That was it. He was immediately cast villain.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Why were they in Greenwich?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
They found some and Girls club that they donated a
million dollars to because I think because ESPN did the
production from Bristol, and that was like, hey, let's try
to put a spin on this. Let's try to put
some perfume and lipstick on this pig. He was immediately
cast as a villain until Dan Gilbert put out that
asinine comic sans font letter castigating him for leaving. That
(18:20):
kind of turned Dan into a court Jester created a
little bit of sympathy for Lebron, realizing the guy that
owned the team he was leaving was a real tool.
And as much as we want to crap all over it,
and we do, numbers are numbers. Ten million people watched that.
Thirteen point one million people watched that at the time
(18:43):
he made the announcement. You know how many people watched
the NBA Finals this year on average six point one
million per game, less than half the number that watched
the decision. That is how big a deal Lebron James
was at twenty five years old, coming off back to
back MVP seasons. He was the best player in basketball
(19:04):
at twenty five, and where he was going to play
basketball in twenty ten was all anyone cared about. And yet,
you know, the heatles were a thing. Chris Bosh and
Dwayne Wade, and he had already Waite had already won
that title with Shaq, and he was one of the
best two guards. And they're like, wow's a three guys.
But that was all secondary, just to that one guy
(19:24):
making his choice and tipping the championship scales in favor
of Miami for the immediate and foreseeable future. Why do
you do this stupid show? Because he could, because people cared,
because Lebron was unlike anything we'd ever seen on a
basketball court. The size, the speed, the incredible level of domination,
(19:46):
especially at that young age, was second two none.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
And we needed Jim Gray to be so important about.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Something We watched what was certain to become, or at
least we thought, the greatest player in the history of basketball.
So why not do the show? He's Bulletproof? Manager Maverick Carter,
who was also twenty five at the time, thought it
would be a good idea. It wasn't. It was a
dumbass idea of Maverick, and there in that moment began
the seeds of discontent for a certain segment of NBA fandom.
(20:17):
Divorcing the Girl next Door Cleveland for the implants in
her ass nine filters on her face Instagram slut Miami
did not sit well. He would win two more MVPs
and since twenty thirteen, by the way, he has not
been considered the best player in the league since he's
finished in the top five repeatedly, but he has never
won an MVP since two thirteen, and it was evidence
(20:41):
that he had lost something because the nation was not
rooting for Miami to win those four consecutive finals they
appeared in. They were rooting for the thunder and Kevin
Durant and Russell Westbrook. They were rooting for the Mavericks
and Dirknwiski. They were rooting for the Spurs and Tim
Duncan and Monogenobili, and then they were rooting for the
Spurs again. And even though Lebron won two of those
(21:02):
four titles and then high tail it back to Cleveland
to rehab his image, win the championship, the first ever
in the Big Four in Cleveland for the I don't
know it's in the previous half century fifty years, which
somehow got him a free pass here in twenty eighteen
after his calves were slaughtered by the Warriors and back
(21:24):
to back finals because they said Lebron did what he's
too good man, it's too good for there. They've wasted him,
wasted him in Cleveland. Got to get somewhere else. The
Laker's going to take care of them. They'll figure it out.
And after a disaster of the first season, they did
won the COVID title in twenty twenty, his fourth, his
fourth Finals MVP. You just made that grunt and that's
(21:46):
what it was met with a bit of a yawn,
Like the Dodgers World Series title of twenty twenty is
at fair. No, everybody played under the same rules. I've
said it before with the Dodgers, one of the hardest
playoff runs to win. Dodgers operated on a one hundred
and ten win clip, but you a reward, no home
field advantage. They had to play in the wild card round.
Same thing with the Lakers, best record in the league.
They had to play in lockdown conditions. Not easy, viable title.
(22:10):
But it just did not move the city. And that's
something we learned big time in October when the Dodgers won.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That hurts. That hurts big time.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
When the Dodgers won a standard World Series championship, you
could feel the exhale that was not there in twenty
twenty for their first World Series championship.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
But the twenty twenty championship was much more widely celebrated
for the Dodgers than the Lakers to twenty championship.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
But you're right, June the third, David, You're twenty five
year old Lebron. You're coming off back to back MVP seasons.
We think you're on track to be the greatest player
in league history by a country mile. You play your
dumbass games, You drag your dumb ass friends along. You
bite your nails when you're sitting across from Jim Gray,
likely in the moment realizing this was a bad idea,
(23:00):
But you did it because teams NBA teams would crawl
naked across molten glass to convince you to take their
hundreds of millions of dollars in that moment fifteen years ago.
But at forty one years, you're still trying to play
the same game. After fifty three total playoff games, ten
(23:23):
playoff series, five playoff appearances, two missed postseasons in you're
seven years with the Lakers again, seven years, ten playoff
series in fifty three games. His final three years in Cleveland,
he played in twelve playoff series in sixty one games,
less than half the seasons, compared to seven here in LA.
(23:46):
And you want to throw that bs around in Cleveland
like you did before you got out of there, making
Kevin Love feel like crap, airing out Jr. Smith like
he's a child, getting your coach fired before you hit
the All Star break.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Do it?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But after seven years in LA with one Bubble title
and he's only got playoffs, two coaches fired, Yeah, three
to one and done series in the postseason. Yeah, the
whole We need to do what's best for Lebron where
the Lakers it doesn't work here.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I think you're right. I think you're right. I think
yesterday you were right on. I think that they shopped
a multi year deal to try to get ahead of
the new ownership, and the Lakers told him no, and
that whole weird statement and all that was a product
of what had happened behind closed doors.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, pushback. I can't see how it could be anything else,
because you know what, the world only cared what he
was going to do and where he was going to
go in that moment fifteen years ago, because we knew
it was going to greatly favor the team he was joining.
And now when he opts in, like think about Lebron
(24:52):
opting out and saying, you know what I'm gonna I'm
gonna hit free agency. I'm going to go somewhere else.
What would it be met with? Not a yawn? I mean,
it'd be kind of a big deal. But here he
ops in and the Laker fan base is not celebrating.
They're not like, holy s man, Lebron's still gonna be
a Laker. We really scored, We've got Luka Doncic, a
(25:15):
top five player in the league, and Lebron coming back
were unstoppable. No one's got a better top two players
in the league than us. Isn't this great?
Speaker 4 (25:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Instead, they're bemoaning that they didn't land thirty five year
old Brook Lopez and that DeAndre Ayton who missed a
game because the roads were too icy in Portland, who
missed repeated team flights and the Blazers were all too
happy to buy him out of his thirty five million
dollars a year contract. That's what they're concerned with. Can
(25:53):
we land DeAndre eight and not think god Lebron is
coming back. We were worried he would leave. And you
know why, it's because this has never been about the Lakers.
It has been about him. He wants to live here,
he loves living here. He's doing something that's very popular
in America these days. He's pulling his family around on
(26:14):
this grift speaking Bronny drafted and he says everything you
know that he's supposed to. What he says is supposed
to matter. It doesn't rings championships, name on the front
of my jersey, being part of this historic Laker, it's
all bs. He just wants to live in Los Angeles,
(26:35):
have people bow to lebron call him the greatest ever,
win all the fictitious awards of most talented ever, most games,
most badass, postseason block, most Finals.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Moment, f bombs in a podcast.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Good one, that's a good one. That's why it was
met with raised eyebrows and eh, it's kind of an
awkward statement. Have his best interests in mind, and he
wants to make sure that even though they're on two
different timelines, the championship, he deserves to win a champion.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Avery awkward damage control statement because they got rejected and
now they have no value.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
She didn't dump me. I called her to break up
with her first, and then we just started talking to
she says, so recognize while he still wants it. Much
like the realtor who's got a photo from fifteen years
ago on the bus bench, Lebron wants this to be Greenwich,
Connecticut Boys and Girls Club from twenty ten. He wants
the world to wait with baited breath when it comes
(27:36):
to his decision on where he's gonna play. But instead,
so we're gonna get de Andre Ayton there, brok Lopez.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
What plane is hating on? Is he on his way
over here?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
And what what's going on?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Man?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I'm freaking out.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yes, times have changed. The King might not be aware
that he is not as desirable as he used to be.
The Emperor has no clothes. We'll be back with your
dead in a live guy Birthday of the Day, and
then we're headed to Dodger Socks a lot of baseball.
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engineer honking our horn, Hod night Long and man, we're
heading out to Rancho Coop to blow our horn in
a big way.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, a week from Friday, July eleventh. We can't say it.
We don't get out there often. Excited to be going
back this year. Rancho Cucamonga's September's tap Room and Eatery
right off the two ten Freeway at Haven Avenue sixty
three twenty one Haven is the address. They'll have drink
and food specials. Our friends John, Kyle and Brandon were
out from Surfside Vodka yesterday. They're going to be pooring
(29:18):
Surfside Vodka and nice team. We say all their names,
Boss MODELU as well. So we've got Dodger tickets to
and I get away to a an NGM resort spot
in Vegas. Livelypool parties, pash cabanas, that's what they got
out there, cocktails too, believe it or not, and all
great ways to earn rewards. Yes, they have cocktails, is it.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Dodger rita blended. We can't wait to be out there
a week from Friday, Matt, you got the dead guy.
Birthday of the day.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
I do happy would have been one hundred and thirteenth
to a great American, a protector of our land and
a real righteous dude. David Brower the first executive director
of the Sea Club, and he ran it on and
off from nineteen forty one through two thousand his death
(30:06):
in two thousand. Born in Berkeley, earned a Bronze Star
in World War Two. And he was not a college dude.
He just liked to climb. He met his wife when
they were both editors at the University of California Press
in Berkeley.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
So he just climbed around the university but never attended it.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Never attended. He was kind of like a cutter people.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Most of the people around cal are like that, to
be honest.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, he was a world class mountaineer. In nineteen thirty three,
he was in the High Sierra for seven weeks and
while he was out there, he bumped into a couple
guys that were running the sort of burgeoning just started
to get some traction. Sierra Club they convinced him to join.
That led to another ten weeks of moving around. Overall,
(30:49):
the group did sixty three peaks, thirty two first ascents,
meaning they were the first people to ever ascend the peak.
It was Ton Doll they did. They did Mount Williamson,
they did Mount Bernard, famously, the first to ever take
on the Devil's Crags.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Mount Bernard's the one that has the Saint Bernard comes
up and gives you that little barrel of liquor that
it holds under its neck for you.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
It's right, it's your reward when you get to the top.
You don't plant a flag and take a sip. It
was called one of his ascent. There's we've lost, Matt.
It's the cartoon with the Saint Bernard with the barrel
of brandy around its neck, pours it into your mouth
and you come to life.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I mean, we've missed that as a society more than anything.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I think there was a hell of an advert for alcohol,
right like, hey, you're down for the count, Well check
this out.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
We're gonna revive you with this giant dog and a
barrel of small barrel of liquor around its neck.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
The Devil's Crags was called one of the most remarkable
mountaineering feats ever accomplished in the United States. He was
the first Arman Brauer to ever ascent ship rock. That
thing's crazy to look at nineteen thirty nine. It was
a leftover throat of a volcano with nearly vertical walls
in northwest New Mexico. Twelve previous attempts had failed, and
it was long considered the quote great American climbing problem.
(32:04):
But he did it, and our man did over seventy
first a cens in Yosemite, and then when he was
thirty years old in nineteen forty two, he got the
call from the country, we need you for World War Two.
So he put together a manual. He trained Allied mountain
combat troops, and he was in the s Man tenth
Mountain Division. He saw action in Italy and throughout Europe.
(32:28):
It was a story covered in the nineteen ninety six
documentary Fire on the Mountain. After the war, he was
active as a major in the Army reserves for the
rest of his life, and after the war he would
edit the Sierra CanYa bulletin, the Sierra Club bulletin. I
should say he prevented the this's a big one for us,
as broad Well.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
James ed, it's the Sierra Canyon blent.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
That's exactly right. He prevented the Echo Park dam in
Utah's Dinosaur National Monument after lobbying Congress to delete the
Colorado River storage project. I was that a big deal. Well,
he would have ruined the national park. But b they
were trying to cut us out here in California from
the Colorado River. Keep it for Utah, Colorado and Wyoming.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
We need that water for our uninhabitable desert home. That's right,
and we'll take yours too. San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Brower started the now famous Sierra Club books, the Coffee
Table series, best selling today still is in Wilderness is
the Preservation of the World. That put the Sierra Club
on the map nationally. He expanded membership from seven to
seventy thousand, and unfortunately, you get a lot of money,
and people wanted to be spent a certain way. So,
(33:38):
led by a charge from his former close friend Ansel Adams.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Lent me every charge against him.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Ansel Adams got him booted. Ah, why right, they said,
financial irresponsibility is what they claimed. Come on, so we
started Friends of the Earth International, still going strong today
over seventy countries. He and Ralph Nader were super close.
He passed away one day after voting for his friend
to become president in two thousand. He was eighty eight.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
He never lived to see him can become president. No,
he went on to become the president.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I voted for Nader in two thousand and two.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yes, man, Matt Muddy Smith consumer advocate. Well, if there's anything, Matt,
I lost the prop my Malik Beasley prop. Bet I
had you. I had you doing Sydney Pollock and Tutsie
for five minutes for the dead day of the day.
I did not see the Sierra Canyon Club coming. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
If I see uh, you know me, if I can
do greatest Generation, I'm always gonna take it.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Just I didn't see the Bryce James yea, yeah, yeah,
yea yeah, Sierra Canyon Club. But for the alive guy.
We'll celebrate Jamaican News today, sixty six years old. It's
Jamaica News rost Today. We celebrate Ranking Joe aka Joe Jackson,
(35:00):
so known as Little Joe real reggae types love the
toasters of the seventies, Matten eighties. Let my friend Nick
Rieira down at RIIA's place in Redondo. Yes, Joe went
to school with Winston Mackinoff, who became a dub star.
He went to school with Earl sixteen and one of
(35:22):
your favorite DJs of yesteryear, Matt dj U Brown, and
he followed in their footsteps as a toaster, which is
like an original rapper, guys that talked over reggae beats
and then brought it up to Jamaica queens and that's
why we have modern day hip hop, which is I
agree with Bounty Killer, an embarrassment to reggae. He started
(35:46):
toasting for Smith the Weapon, which is Matt's old nickname,
and then he Smith the Weapon sounds joker and then
a downer. He would have to the lpatulations. Thank you,
that's a good nickname for a radio host.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Right tune into the Downer and the Joker. It's going
to be great.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Then the El Paso sound system, and then all the
way up to Cox and Dodds Studio one and fifteen
years old with his hit song gun Court. But then
he was little Joe, he stopped doing music and started
studying electronics. Came back though as Ranking Joe with the
hit song Honda Accord and.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
What's It About.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
He also did the Bionic Man tribute Steve Austin, which
was a big song for him. In nineteen eighty he
signed with Green Sleeves, which distributes in the UK, and
got bigger overseas, which elongated his career. Unlike some of
the nineteen seventy DJ contemporaries of his, he ended up
in New York, getting married and ranking Joe. Oh. When
(37:01):
you listen to him, Uh, it's interesting because he's the
guy who inspired Eca Mouse eCOM Mouse, who became a big,
a big Southern California star in many ways, another reggae singer.
He was the first guy with the bitterly bitterly bitterly
bitterly bitterly bitterly bongs, you know, and then a man
(37:21):
ranking Joe ecam Mouse took it from that. Uh. He
does have dreadlocks and often wears the funny look in
Jamaican hat. Oh, I love that hat. Joe Jackson, not
the Stephan out Joe Jackson. Ranking Joe Jackson, and when
you hear Ranking in Jamaica like Shaba ranks or or
ranking dread or ranking Joe ranking Roger. It means ranking
(37:45):
means you're ranked. You're ranked, you're highly ranked. If you're
not ranked, then people don't respect you. But if me
I rank you, that means you have respect.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
How old is eCOM Mouse now?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Is he like it?
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Well? Ranking Joe's sixty six? No Mouse is in his
He's in his late fifties.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Okay, still thinking. I mean I was in college a
long time. Still, I'm an old man.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I saw Ecomhouse when I was thirteen years old.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
He used to play the Malibu in and yeah, like
he was old then.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
But no, I mean, well, his his major popularity came
in the early eighties, but he was a very young
man of the earth. Yeah. Anyway, Ranking Joel, ranking Joe,
Ecamouse's mentor coming home Dodger Socks, the camel Back battle.
(38:36):
Everybody's looking forward to this one. Actually, they're much more
looking forward to persh Up pitching and getting his three
thousands striped out tomorrow and then probably to the weekends
Showy Tani pitchers sixty after. But we're gonna have a
game tonight. We gotta have the one tonight to have
those in the future. We run all the games on
the stage. Jim Kakes, We're coming back on tomorrow. The
(39:05):
bas Its Project
Speaker 2 (39:08):
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