What are you listening to? Track 3

[TransWarpDrive]

Catching up on today's episode of the Jim Rome Show, and Jim's thoughts on former NBAer Smush Parker's comments that playing with the Lakers was an overrated experience. Sure... and you're playing in China, "Smush".

Smush Parker? That's his real name?

[Rob]

Catching up on today's episode of the Jim Rome Show, and Jim's thoughts on former NBAer Smush Parker's comments that playing with the Lakers was an overrated experience. Sure... and you're playing in China, "Smush".

Smush Parker? That's his real name?

His given name is William.

But, if he ever gets to play against Kobe Bryant again, "smush" is exactly what the Mamba will do to Parker... I can guarantee that.

[jeriddian]

But, if he ever gets to play against Kobe Bryant again, "smush" is exactly what the Mamba will do to Parker... I can guarantee that.

As in...."Black Mamba"? Is that what they call Kobe?

[Rob]

But, if he ever gets to play against Kobe Bryant again, "smush" is exactly what the Mamba will do to Parker... I can guarantee that.

As in...."Black Mamba"? Is that what they call Kobe?

Yeah, that's a nickname used for Kobe.

Kobe Bean Bryant. How'd you like to know you were named after Japanese beef and a jellybean? (The "Bean" was derivative of his father's nickname, "Jellybean".)

[campy]

Now: John Raitt and Janis Paige in The Pajama Game, the 1954 musical by Richard Adler & Jerry Ross.

♫ I read in a book the other day
That halibut spawn in early May
And horses whinny and donkeys bray
And furthermore,
The pygmy tribes in Africa may have a war. ♫

[Twila Starla]

Princes and Frogs (The Underdog Mix) by Superchic(k). Such a cute song!

[campy]

The "Watch Your Step!" ballet from the Astaire/Rogers musical film Shall We Dance. John Mauceri conducts the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra from their The Gershwins in Hollywood CD.

[Rob]

I've had sports radio on for most of the morning... first the Dan Patrick Show (and he actually had a pretty funny interview with Charles Barkley), and now the Jim Rome Show.

Naturally, the number 1 topic is the NCAA Tournament, which actually doesn't interest me much... but I just really needed some background noise in my office today.

[campy]

Aaron Copland: Quiet City. Leonard Bernstein & the NY Philharmonic on a DG CD.

[Rob]

Yasuo Higachi's soundtrack from After War Gundam X. The current track is "Prelude (Seventh Space War)", a haunting piece that recalls the final conflict of the war that wiped out 99% of humanity, fifteen years prior to the setting of the series.