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Speaker 1: Two thirty. We will throw it out to the Pacers

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Speaker 1: broadcast tonight. Pat Boyler will join us at two point

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Speaker 1: fifteen today as the Pacers have the new year's matt

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Speaker 1: name now. Rick Carlile joined the guys this morning and

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Speaker 1: talked about a number of things, including Pascal Siakam. I

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Speaker 1: think that's one of the things to watch for the

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Speaker 1: Pacers is just Siakam in general and whether or not

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Speaker 1: this is taking a toll on him. And we talked

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Speaker 1: about it yesterday from a minute standpoint, but from an

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Speaker 1: emotional standpoint as well, and the Pacers still trying to

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Speaker 1: find career win number one thousand for Rick Carlile. Their

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Speaker 1: next chance will come today against the Orlando Magic in

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Speaker 1: this the final game of twenty twenty five and what

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Speaker 1: has been a miracle calendar year for Indiana. But again,

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Speaker 1: you look at the sports teams in this market, it's

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Speaker 1: a reminder of you of where one you know year,

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Speaker 1: every year things can change, new beginnings, lesson for all

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Speaker 1: of us perhaps in that a lesson for all of

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Speaker 1: us perhaps in that. But Pacers in action today three

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Speaker 1: o'clock will throw you out. Pregame at two thirty. Also

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Speaker 1: Colt's discussion to get to will continue getting set up

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Speaker 1: for the Houston Texans. We do have a show on Friday,

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Speaker 1: So a reminder today off at two thirty. No JMB

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Speaker 1: today because Pacers and Magic today. Then tomorrow we will

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Speaker 1: be off for New Year's Day, and of course all

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Speaker 1: of us will be watching Indiana and Alabama as I

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Speaker 1: mentioned in the Rose Bowl, then finding out whether or

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Speaker 1: not they play Oregon Texas Tech if they were to

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Speaker 1: win that game, and then we will be back with

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Speaker 1: you on Friday, but we will talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: more about the Rose Bull coming up. Aeron Torres going

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Speaker 1: to join us one o'clock today. Joel a Ericson, I think,

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Speaker 1: is schedule to join us at one thirty. And as well,

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Speaker 1: you're you're jumping on the mic Atticus like you had

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Speaker 1: something to jump in there with.

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Speaker 5: Let's slip that around. Let's do Joel at one and

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Speaker 5: Torres at one thirty.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so there we go, Joel at one o'clock, now right.

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Speaker 5: That's right, Aaron Torres and Gymnastics.

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Speaker 1: Aeron Torres at one thirty, and then we'll have Pat

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Speaker 1: boyle in joining us in the two o'clock hour. All right,

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Speaker 1: when we come back. I had mentioned the Rose Bowl,

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Speaker 1: and I mentioned the Colts. There is something about the

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Speaker 1: Colts that I'm also curious about that I think is

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Speaker 1: something we can keep an eye on for Houston. I'll

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Speaker 1: let you know what that is when we come back

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Speaker 1: here on this New Year's Eve edition. It is Querying

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Speaker 1: Company on the fan.

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Speaker 4: Query In Company on ninety three five and one oh

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Speaker 4: seven five the fan.

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Speaker 1: This from my buddy, Quincy Clark, Quincy one of the

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Speaker 1: North Side OG's. Good dude, Jake, I love it. Rob

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Speaker 1: Turner's my guy. Taught me how to juggle to improve

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Speaker 1: hand eye coordination. Rob Turner was a beast at I

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Speaker 1: you man, absolute beast at Indiana. Good afternoon too, you

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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve, hope you are set for a prosperous

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. One thing to keep an eye on

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Speaker 1: for the Colts against the Houston Texans that I think

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Speaker 1: could be a storyline that could pay dividends for them.

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Speaker 1: I'll get to that in just a second. Before we

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Speaker 1: do that, Nathaniel, I am curious from your standpoint, your

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Speaker 1: plans for New Year's Eve and or your resolutions for

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. I don't think your mic is on

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Speaker 1: unless that's go ahead up. Maybe I had Yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: I hit the wrong button. You're right, plans for tonight, So.

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Speaker 5: Tonight I've got family in town from out of state,

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Speaker 5: So going to go over to the folks house and

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Speaker 5: hang out there. Usually we hang out with some friends

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Speaker 5: and you know, do the normal twenty four year old

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Speaker 5: New Year's Eve stuff.

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Speaker 1: But tonight we'll just be a family, okay. And then

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Speaker 1: you now, when you do the typical New Year's Eve stuff,

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Speaker 1: obviously you stay up till midnight, right? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And is it like a big, huge celebration or is

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Speaker 1: it just kind of like, oh gosh, guys, I forgot

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Speaker 1: it's midnight here? And which on which channel or network

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Speaker 1: do you choose to watch the Turn of the New Year?

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Speaker 5: We kind of bounce around. There's not really one that

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Speaker 5: we keep an eye on, so we just you know,

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Speaker 5: flip through see which one catches our eye. And yeah,

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Speaker 5: I mean it's a little to do, maybe more than

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Speaker 5: i'd like. But you know, when the ladies have control

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Speaker 5: of the remote, we can't necessarily put on the Ohio

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Speaker 5: State Miami game.

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Speaker 1: So what time does that game get underway? Seven?

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Speaker 5: Is it seven thirty tonight something like that?

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Speaker 1: The game be over by eight, right eight after midnight?

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Speaker 1: I mean, no, I'm worried that Ohio State's going to

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Speaker 1: jump out to a huge lead. It's over now.

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Speaker 5: I think Miami can hang with it.

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Speaker 1: You think so. I hope you're right. I hope you're right.

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Speaker 1: The I have for several years, and Uber's put a

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Speaker 1: serious dent in this, and I don't know. I always

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Speaker 1: play it by ear, but for years I ran Uncle

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Speaker 1: jake taxi on New Year's Eve? Are you familiar with

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Speaker 1: Uncle Jake's tax about this? This is awesome? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: Uncle Jake's taxi. I've done it for years on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: where I send out the things saying I will run

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Speaker 1: Uncle Jake's taxi from usually it's like one am to

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Speaker 1: about four and if someone needs a ride Indianapolis or I.

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Speaker 1: Last year I did go Donut County. I went out

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Speaker 1: to Greenfield. I think I think it was Greenfield. I

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Speaker 1: did a ride last year. Maybe that was two years ago,

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Speaker 1: but either way, only rules I will give you. If

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Speaker 1: you are in need of a ride, I'll give you

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Speaker 1: a safe ride home, but no puking in the jeep.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's ever done that. My favorite ride that I've ever

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Speaker 1: done to this day was when I picked up a

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Speaker 1: guy at the Bulldog, which is one of my favorite places.

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Speaker 1: But I picked up a guy at the Bulldog, which

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Speaker 1: is at fifty fourth in college. And he hopped into

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Speaker 1: and he was a super happy, go lucky dude. And

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Speaker 1: he gets in my car and looks at me and says,

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Speaker 1: I need to go to fifty seventh in college. And

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Speaker 1: I said fifty seventh in college and he said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: blocks I go. Isn't that three blocks? And one of

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Speaker 1: the great lines of all time. He looked right at

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Speaker 1: me with a huge ground on his face and literally

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Speaker 1: said did look at me? And I said, okay, you're right,

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Speaker 1: you probably need a ride three blocks, that's cool. So

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Speaker 1: I gave him a ride home and he was as

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Speaker 1: happy to go lucky as can be, and hopped out

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Speaker 1: of the car. I had one guy that as I

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Speaker 1: was taking him home, he's like, take a left here,

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Speaker 1: take it right there. He was going down to the

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Speaker 1: southeast side and he he's like, all right here here

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Speaker 1: it is. This is where I'm going. And it was

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Speaker 1: to a bar, and I'm like, man, I told you

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Speaker 1: the rules of Uncle Jake's taxi. No rides to a

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Speaker 1: bar or another party has to be ride home. And

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Speaker 1: he said, well, I can't go home because my wife

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Speaker 1: didn't know that I was going to this party. And

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Speaker 1: so she's going to be too much like I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be in too much trouble. So I said, well,

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Speaker 1: I got to take you home. So I took him home.

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Speaker 1: He refused to get out of the car, not like

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Speaker 1: in a belligerent way, but he was terrified, and so

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Speaker 1: I said, well, you just wait here. So he waited.

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Speaker 1: I went up to the door, knocked on the door.

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Speaker 1: An adult answered the door and said, no you're talking

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Speaker 1: about that's my stepdad and my mom. And he said, dude,

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Speaker 1: it's all good. My mom went to bed at like

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Speaker 1: ten thirty. She threw in the towel. She realized he

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Speaker 1: was pie out, like at a party or whatever. So

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Speaker 1: I went out, got the guy out of the car,

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Speaker 1: and he hopped out of the car and high fived me.

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Speaker 1: He was like, yes, walked in the house all proud

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Speaker 1: of himself. So I don't know if I'll do Uncle

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Speaker 1: Jake's taxi tonight or not. But it always just depends

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Speaker 1: on how I feel, how tired I am. But we're

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Speaker 1: going out to dinner, and then, you know, we flip

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Speaker 1: around for years. It was the ABC, you know that

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Speaker 1: Dick Clark, which became Ryan Seacrest, you know, the Times

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Speaker 1: Square drop of the ball and then you know for years. Also,

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Speaker 1: I got compelled by watching the train wreck that became

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Speaker 1: the CNN New Year's Eve, But then that just became

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Speaker 1: too much because they were drunk on there and it

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Speaker 1: was I mean, it was like what are we doing?

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Speaker 1: It was just too much. Shannon likes that Andy Cohne guy,

589
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I get it off. It drives me nuts.

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Speaker 1: I can't do it. When the Colts take the field

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Speaker 1: against the Houston Texans coming up on Sunday, and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about this plenty on Friday, but one of the

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Speaker 1: storylines that or that, and maybe it's not a storyline,

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe this isn't even something that would come to fruition,

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Speaker 1: but it feels to me and it really is a

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Speaker 1: testament to how good a year he has had, because

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Speaker 1: it feels to me like Tyler Warren, you know, he

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Speaker 1: got out to such a big start and they used

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Speaker 1: him in so many different ways, did the Colts that

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Speaker 1: it was it's very clear like, Okay, this guy is

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Speaker 1: a different level tight end and is going to be

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Speaker 1: and I I you know, obviously we know he's going

603
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Speaker 1: to be a great player for them for a long time,

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Speaker 1: and there were times when I'd watch the Bears, for example,

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Speaker 1: and I thought to myself, I wonder if the Bears

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Speaker 1: ever wonder if they took the wrong guy. Certainly we

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00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: thought that on draft night. As the year has gone on,

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Speaker 1: that seems to have kind of balanced itself out. Because

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Speaker 1: Lovelin is, how much of the Bears do you watch?

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Speaker 1: Atticus quite a bit. I've probably seen to have their games.

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Speaker 1: What is your assessment of the play they've gotten at

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Speaker 1: that tight end position.

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Speaker 5: Lately it's been a lot better. Correct, That's kind of

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Speaker 5: how tight ends usually go.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 5: It's a slow start, and then they figured out Warren

617
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Speaker 5: was the aberration. But I think they're pretty happy with

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Speaker 5: what they've gotten.

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Speaker 1: And here's the thing, and it's not it's totally unfair

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Speaker 1: to sit here and say that it's some sort of

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Speaker 1: a competition between the two. But naturally speaking, because they

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Speaker 1: were in Indianapolis, excuse me, in Indy, we're going to

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Speaker 1: have a more concentrated look at this for the reasons

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Speaker 1: of that with Tyler Warren. But when you analyze and

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Speaker 1: assessin really watch the Bears at the beginning of the year,

626
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Speaker 1: because we knew everyone knew the Colts. Going into the draft,

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Speaker 1: everyone knew that the Colts were going to have to

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Speaker 1: take a tight end. Everyone knew that, and so then

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Speaker 1: you're watching during the draft on what tight end it's

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Speaker 1: going to be. And I think most people, because they

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Speaker 1: had seen so much of Warren, even though Loveland was

632
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Speaker 1: coming out of Michigan and Warren and Penn State, both

633
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,280
Speaker 1: of them teams with which we should be pretty familiar.

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Speaker 1: The postseason war and stuff really jumped out and it's like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, and he looks more like a Dallas

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Speaker 1: Clark type yard after catch guy that we're familiar with.

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Speaker 1: So there was this big focus in Indianapolis in general

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Speaker 1: on getting Warren, and holy Calf, they can get him.

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00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: So when the Bears selected Colston Lovelin, it kind of

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00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: made you a snicker because it's like, Wow, they had

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00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: the first choice and they went against the one that

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Speaker 1: was seemingly the presumptive first choice from everybody in Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: And it looked at the beginning like that was it

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Speaker 1: is not a disastrous, but that they made the wrong pick.

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Speaker 1: And I have not watched enough of and when Joel

646
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Speaker 1: joins us here, Joeli Erickson coming up in about fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 1: We'll discuss this perhaps, I you know, the blocking aspect.

648
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,720
Speaker 1: I think Lovelin is a really good blocker, and Caleb

649
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: Williams because of the fact that he becomes so dangerous

650
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: when you know Daniel Jones can run. But I don't

651
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,760
Speaker 1: know with Daniel Jones that you do like design draws

652
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: or things to take advantage of that schematically by design

653
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Speaker 1: and by intent, and with Caleb Williams you kind of do.

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Speaker 1: And Loveland is such an import piece of that because

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Speaker 1: I think he is at this point and certainly at

656
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Speaker 1: the first part of the year his blocking looks to

657
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Speaker 1: and then he now has become kind of a long

658
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: ball receiving threat for them as well. So I'm not

659
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Speaker 1: saying that it's a one versus the other type thing,

660
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Speaker 1: except for that it looks as though like both teams

661
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: kind of are getting what they needed or what they wanted.

662
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 1: But in the Colts case, for Warren, it does feel

663
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Speaker 1: like the impact I'm not saying the stats, but the

664
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Speaker 1: impact of Tyler Warren has simmered down a little bit

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Speaker 1: now that you have Riley Leonard in there. Does that

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Speaker 1: mean two fold Number one that you utilize Warren a

667
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: little more and get him again involved in terms of

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Speaker 1: the blocking aspect of it, because Leonard is a guy

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Speaker 1: that can use his legs, but also does Warren become

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Speaker 1: again kind of that dump off safety net guy, if

671
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Speaker 1: you will, for a Riley Leonard like we saw with

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones admittedly right, but I don't know really with Rivers,

673
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Speaker 1: he kind of got away from that a little bit

674
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Speaker 1: because Rivers, you know, Rivers was more like a slot guy.

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00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 1: You know, just looked basically probably the first guy that

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Speaker 1: he sees type guy. But you get my point, And

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Speaker 1: I wonder if they're going to lean in on Warren

678
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Speaker 1: a little bit to make comfortable Leonard. But as a

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Speaker 1: result of that, what you're doing is making comfortable also

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Speaker 1: Warren himself when he maybe got away from that a

681
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Speaker 1: little bit. And that's one of the things I think

682
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Speaker 1: it's going to be interesting. You know. The Moley Cox

683
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: is another one. I mean, they've got the tight ends

684
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Speaker 1: in general for the Colts, I think we've seen the

685
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Speaker 1: up and down no matter which one you're talking about,

686
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Speaker 1: Ogle Tree, any of them. I mean I'm talking over

687
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Speaker 1: the course of their time in Indy. You want to

688
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Speaker 1: find the one that is going to be of the

689
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Speaker 1: consistence and perhaps of the consistency you're looking for, and

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Speaker 1: Warren is going to be that guy over the course

691
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Speaker 1: of his career, but it just seemed like it's simmered

692
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Speaker 1: down a little bit, and maybe this is the introduction

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Speaker 1: to bring him back into the area that he would

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Speaker 1: most be familiar, would most be familiar Joela Ericsim will

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Speaker 1: join us coming up about ten minutes now. J and

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Speaker 1: V's in the house, by the way. I think that's

697
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Speaker 1: because Jav's got the takeover tonight, right, and he brought pizza. Really,

698
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Speaker 1: I hope it's from Chicago's. He's got to know, you know,

699
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: what makes for good pizza, right in terms of Chicago's pizza.

700
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: But nonetheless Joela ericson sixteen minutes from now, Query.

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Speaker 4: In company on ninety three five and one oh seven

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Speaker 4: five the fan.

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Speaker 1: The assignment for you, excuse me, the listener, over the

704
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:44,359
Speaker 1: course of today is simple. There is no quiz, there

705
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: is no test. There are no people nor animals that

706
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: are harmed during the process of said assignment and experiment.

707
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 1: But the assignment is if you can find out the

708
00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: subtlety inside the de of the medulla oblongata of one Nathaniel,

709
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: don't call me Atticus Finch. And the music that we

710
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 1: are playing over the course of today somehow relating to

711
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Speaker 1: either the events of the holiday or the sports calendar

712
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 1: of the weekend. Each song will have some subtlety there within,

713
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Speaker 1: or both in this case, or both in that case.

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Speaker 1: What was the name of that song?

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Speaker 5: She bangs the drum by the Stone Roses And the

716
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Speaker 5: first lyric that you heard the past was yours the

717
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Speaker 5: Future's Mind.

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Speaker 1: So you take your pick. Do you like the Stone Roses?

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Speaker 1: I'm going to guess that you are, And I say

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Speaker 1: this as a confession of my own self, I'm going

721
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Speaker 1: to guess that, relatively speaking, you were unfamiliar with the

722
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 1: Stone Roses, never heard of them. They had a brief

723
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Speaker 1: you know. JV would be able to tell you, probably

724
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: the total history, but they had kind of a mainstream

725
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 1: breakthrough like mid to late nineties. But one of the

726
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: things that I've left, and they were always kind of around.

727
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: I was aware of them, but I didn't realize the

728
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Speaker 1: level and the depth of their popularity in England until

729
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: and again, all of you, I hope that whatever it

730
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: was that was your signature moment of twenty twenty five.

731
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Speaker 1: Whatever your happy place was of twenty twenty five, I

732
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: think for so many of us it was from a

733
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Speaker 1: sports standpoint, but in the non sport division, in the

734
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:32,240
Speaker 1: life division, an activity that you did in twenty twenty

735
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: five that you will forever look upon for years to

736
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 1: come favorably. And for me it was when I went

737
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,800
Speaker 1: to England to see Oasis in Manchester. It was literally

738
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: the most perfect weekend ever. But the Stone Roses they

739
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 1: played to the crowd while everybody was waiting, and it

740
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 1: was amazing. I mean, like one hundred thousand people singing

741
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: every single word to songs and I'm like, okay, I

742
00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: knew of them, but I didn't know they were this

743
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: big and they were assive over there. PACER's an action

744
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: today taking on the Orlando Magic. That is a three

745
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: o'clock tip two thirty pre game. We will throw it

746
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: out to Mark and Pat Boyle, but Pat's going to

747
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: join us a little before that, just to talk about really,

748
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: I guess for Indiana it's about what we've been talking about,

749
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: and that is being aware of the past in the

750
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: last year, but also being able to look forward and

751
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: learn and build off of that into what you want

752
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six. And for the Pacers that's a

753
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: challenging one because they have been you know, clearly, when

754
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 1: Halliburton went down, we knew that this was an unfortunate

755
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: possibility that they were going to struggle. I am, you know,

756
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: I was adamant. I kept saying, you push the over

757
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:01,239
Speaker 1: times ten. And I'm not like some huge gambling advice guy.

758
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: But when the Pacers season began and the over under

759
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: was I think thirty nine was the over under, and

760
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: I was like, you got to go over. I mean,

761
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 1: Haliburton's a great player and is their engine for certain,

762
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,320
Speaker 1: but they're going to win forty to forty one games.

763
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: I mean, you still have Siakam, you still have Topping,

764
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: you still have Nie Smith, you still have Nim Hard

765
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,840
Speaker 1: I mean, and of course, and I mean I know

766
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: Turner was gone. The other injuries have just been devastating.

767
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:35,360
Speaker 1: And I know people have asked me, are the Pacers tanking?

768
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:39,439
Speaker 1: I don't know that the Pacers like have come out

769
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 1: and said, okay, guys, here's the game plan, but I

770
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:44,919
Speaker 1: don't know that they're overly. Yes, you want to win

771
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: and be competitive, but at the same time, once you

772
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 1: missed Nim hard to begin Nie Smith extensively and notably

773
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: topping as well. We forget about the top and injury.

774
00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: There's not a central piece for them that has not

775
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:01,799
Speaker 1: had missed time. And I think when you add all

776
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 1: that up, then at some point they just said, look,

777
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 1: we're just gonna get through this and then take from

778
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: it what comes. What roses come through the stones, and

779
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: that's where they are. Joel Ericson covers the Colts joins.

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Speaker 4: Next, you're listening to Query and Company on ninety three

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Speaker 4: five and one oh seven five the Fan the.

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Speaker 1: Colts and Texans Sunday down in Houston, Texas. Of course

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Speaker 1: we will be on there on Friday. It's at that

784
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 1: point that I can tell everybody my annual tip of

785
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 1: trying to walk across the street from NRG Stadium to

786
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Speaker 1: go to Fiesta, which is like this massive grocery store

787
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Speaker 1: and I've never been in it, but it's called Fiesta,

788
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: so I just assume it's a happening place. Joela Ericson

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Speaker 1: think we went over this already, Joel, did we not?

799
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 1: You had mentioned that, and I want to know where

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Speaker 1: things stand on the stock of the last delivery from

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Speaker 1: the beer faery.

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00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 2: Uh, it's it's uh, you know, it's it's taken some hits.

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Speaker 2: It's taken some. Okay, the amber, the Tailwager Amber, that's

804
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Speaker 2: a newer one that I haven't had yet. That one's

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Speaker 2: pretty darn good. That one's really darn good. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's it's taken some, taking some it's taking some lumps

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00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 2: over the over the holiday season.

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Speaker 1: Well, my understanding is ration is the keyword, because my

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Speaker 1: local connection to the beer faery, the Wisconsin Beer Faery,

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Speaker 1: tells me that they're going to be a while before

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Speaker 1: the beer faery is back up in that area. So

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Speaker 1: got a ration, gotta be uh, gotta be careful. All right,

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00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: let's get to this. Shane Steichen has said what that

814
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 1: was of note if anything today in regards to the

815
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 1: Colts preparations in the most meaningless of meaningless games.

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00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 2: Riley Leonard will be your starter. It sounds like barring

817
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,840
Speaker 2: something ridiculous, Seth Hennigan will be your backup. Philip Rivers

818
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Speaker 2: is going to hang around and you know, be a

819
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 2: mentor of the Riley Leonard this week as he either

820
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 2: goes through his first start and Anthony Richardson will.

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Speaker 1: Not be activated.

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Speaker 2: He still has visual limitations. That's all of it. Real fast, Okay,

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Speaker 2: lots of quarterback stuff.

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Speaker 1: Joel, I want you to think we're gonna do a

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00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: little game here. Okay, this time one year ago, in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, you were still living in the same

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Speaker 1: house that you currently reside. Correct. Sure, you were working

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Speaker 1: for the same place of employment that you work today. Correct,

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00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: that's true. So twenty twenty five to you represented stability

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00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: to an extent, I mean, just in terms of your

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Speaker 1: job and where you went to bed each night. Correct.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's that's fair. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: One year from now, on New Year's Eve, getting ready

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Speaker 1: to turn twenty twenty seven. If someone were to talk

835
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Speaker 1: to Anthony Richardson, would he be able to say the

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Speaker 1: same about the twenty twenty six calendar year that you

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Speaker 1: were able to say about the twenty twenty five calendar years.

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00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 2: No, I do not believe. So I think I think

839
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six for Anthony Richardson's going to be a

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Speaker 2: year change. I think he's he probably ends up in

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00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 2: a different city and in trying to say, figure get

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00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 2: things back on track there, that's my that's my best guess.

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Speaker 1: The reason I ask, and I'll just say it this directly,

844
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Speaker 1: and I'm not saying it is anything that is rooted

845
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Speaker 1: in any negative intention or anything like that. But it

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Speaker 1: seems to me now that I have enough and maybe

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00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 1: I'm stating the obvious. And I don't know that Shane

848
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 1: Stikeen is the head coach next year. I think he

849
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: will be, but assuming that he is, the one thing

850
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Speaker 1: about Shane Stikeen that I am more confident saying than

851
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: anything else is I believe that Shane Stikeen is completely

852
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: over Anthony Richardson, and so long as Shane Stikeen is

853
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Speaker 1: the coach, unless there is absolute catastrophe in the quarterback room,

854
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 1: and Richardson is the only available. He has taken his

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Speaker 1: last snap as an Indianapolis cult I.

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Speaker 2: Think I think that's fair. If Stikeen is back, if

857
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 2: Syken is back, I think. I think the other part

858
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 2: of it is that they're all in on Daniel Jones.

859
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:47,839
Speaker 2: And I understand. Trust me, I understand the Achilles concerns.

860
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 2: I have the same concerns. There's been a lot of

861
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 2: guys that they've bet on with Achilles concerns of this franchise,

862
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 2: and they have not been themselves the next year. But

863
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 2: I think from their perspective, if you tell me, if

864
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 2: I'm trying to tell you what they're thinking, I think

865
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:02,919
Speaker 2: it's probably Daniel Jones. I think if Daniel is back,

866
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 2: then it makes it hard to keep Anthony Richardson around.

867
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 1: Okay, which leads to this other point. And I brought

868
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 1: this up yesterday. Joel follow me here, which I know

869
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 1: can be a difficult thing to do sometimes right, Sometimes

870
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 1: when I ask people to follow along with my train

871
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: of thought, someone pukes that you know what I mean.

872
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 1: But having said that, let's just say for the sake

873
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: of discussion, and I think this is a Joel, you

874
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,400
Speaker 1: take stop me when I start to say something that

875
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 1: you think is outlandish or or does not have possibility

876
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: to it. Okay, if Daniel Jones is brought back to

877
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: be the Colts quarterback next season, and if there is

878
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 1: still some uncertainty as to whether or not Daniel Jones

879
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: is going to be one hundred percent ready to go

880
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,919
Speaker 1: for the first game or two, I would say three.

881
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: Three would be the max based on timeline. But let's

882
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 1: say that throughout training camp or whatever, there's a soreness

883
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 1: with the the tent, you know, whatever it might be,

884
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 1: and they say, we don't want to push it just yet.

885
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 1: If Chris Ballad and Shane Steichen are both still in

886
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 1: their respective positions, they're going to know how big a

887
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: year it is, and they're going to know, with that

888
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,400
Speaker 1: being a huge year for them and for the franchise,

889
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 1: they need to win each in every game, regardless of

890
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 1: who the starting quarterback is. So if they need to

891
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 1: have a quarterback that is going to keep the seat

892
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:30,319
Speaker 1: warm until Daniel Jones takes over, it has to be

893
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: one that allows for a seamless transition of power at

894
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: the quarterback spot. And Richardson would get a little bit

895
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: messy there, and I don't know that they at this

896
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 1: point trust Riley Leonard in that spot. Therefore, the question becomes,

897
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: who do you think is the best option for them

898
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:50,720
Speaker 1: to be a short gap donut tire starter to keep

899
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: them and the point where they then at the end

900
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 1: of the year, once Jones is clicking on all cylinders,

901
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: they did not lose ground and get behind the eight

902
00:50:59,560 --> 00:50:59,840
Speaker 1: ball in.

903
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 2: The Yeah, the answer there, I think is some version

904
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 2: of Mac Jones, what Mac Jones was for the Niners

905
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 2: this year, where it's a guy who has started somewhere

906
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 2: else enough that he's got the experience, but you know,

907
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 2: for whatever reason is and you kind of try to

908
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 2: do like a lower level of what you did with

909
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones, where you're bringing somebody in that you think

910
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:28,919
Speaker 2: can be better with you than he was somewhere else.

911
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:30,720
Speaker 2: Or what the Packers are done with Malik Willis.

912
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: Malik Willis actually has done all right, right, you know

913
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:34,919
Speaker 1: what I mean?

914
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah, what they've done with What the Packers

915
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,319
Speaker 2: have done with Malik Willis is shocking that any of

916
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 2: us who covered any games that involved Malik Willis with

917
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 2: the Titans.

918
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:46,359
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to give you a couple of those

919
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: names that would be a possibility. And I'm saying this

920
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: just so that people have an idea of where we

921
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 1: are here, right Uh, this is the quarterback free agency list.

922
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 1: Obviously Daniel Jones is one of them, and we're going

923
00:51:58,000 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 1: to assume that he says, look this where I want

924
00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: to be Gino Smith, Russell Wilson, Marcus Mariota, Tyrod Taylor,

925
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:12,959
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson, Joe Flacco, Trey Lance, Mitchell Trubisky. You start

926
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: getting into the graveyard of the Anthony Richardsons of quarterbacks past,

927
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: don't you.

928
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, especially when you get to especially when

929
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 2: you get to Trey Lance.

930
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 1: I would think of that, of that list, Mariota's probably

931
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: your best option, would you agree.

932
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And he's you know, he's starting this year,

933
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 2: He's got some you know, he started several games this year.

934
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:37,320
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I think it's probably Mariota. And he

935
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 2: can also do the movement stuff that you need. Some

936
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 2: of those guys on there can't do that movement stuff anymore,

937
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:45,240
Speaker 2: and that's that's a pretty big part of the offense.

938
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 2: When you think about like Tyler Warren and some of

939
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 2: the stuff they did earlier in the season.

940
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 1: Does Tyler Warren become and I was mentioning this earlier

941
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 1: Joel Joel A. Erickson is my guest Java House Peel

942
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: and poor guest line. Tyler Warren was so dynamic right

943
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:00,160
Speaker 1: out of the box, right. I mean it's like, Man,

944
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: put this guy anywhere, and he's making plays and he's

945
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: yard after catch guy, and he's had you pointed this

946
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 1: out on the expost Twitter yesterday. You know, his numbers

947
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 1: are still all nearly historic for a rookie tied end,

948
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:16,880
Speaker 1: but it does feel like there has been rookie walls

949
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 1: maybe the wrong word, but that things have slowed down

950
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 1: a little bit for him. Now you correct me if

951
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: I'm wrong there. Then I look at a Riley Leonard

952
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: and what you're going to need out of the tight

953
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 1: end perhaps in that position, and it feels like at

954
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 1: the end of the year this might be kind of

955
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:31,759
Speaker 1: a shot in the arm again of that for him

956
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:35,360
Speaker 1: at that position and the necessity of him.

957
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 2: I think with Warren, I think the biggest thing is

958
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:41,360
Speaker 2: if you look at his his production, it really the

959
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 2: dividing line is when they stopped being able to be

960
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:47,879
Speaker 2: mobile in the in the in the pocket and once

961
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 2: and I'm taking that back to before Jones was out,

962
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 2: when Jones was dealing with the fibula, and you know,

963
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 2: he was kind of moving around, but not really moving

964
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:58,879
Speaker 2: around like that's the kind of stuff that they built

965
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 2: a lot of Warren's plays around early in the season

966
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,800
Speaker 2: and once they lost that because obviously you don't have

967
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:09,399
Speaker 2: that with Philip Rivers. Daniel had two games there where

968
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 2: he was much more stationary than we've ever seen him.

969
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:16,359
Speaker 2: That's that's kind of what hurt Warren, I think more

970
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 2: than anything.

971
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: Joel, just out of curiosity tonight for midnight, which network

972
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: do you go with? What are you tuned in? Like

973
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 1: at the ericson house when you're rationing things off from

974
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,320
Speaker 1: the beer ferry at about eleven forty five, what channel

975
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:35,839
Speaker 1: are you watching this midnight's about to roll around?

976
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,920
Speaker 2: I mean, I assume that I'll be on is the

977
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 2: playoff game on ESPN? I assume that's where I'll be is.

978
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:48,760
Speaker 2: I believe it's Miami in Ohio state because it probably

979
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 2: starts at eight and college football games takes six and

980
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 2: a half or seven and a half hours.

981
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: It feels like, who are you rooting for in that game?

982
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:57,320
Speaker 2: Miami?

983
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:02,319
Speaker 1: You know how I knew that definitely Miami, because no,

984
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,399
Speaker 1: you're not from Ohio, You're from Wisconsin. There's no one

985
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 1: that's not from Ohio rooting for Ohio State, right, is

986
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:07,879
Speaker 1: that right?

987
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:11,400
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think so. There's a lot of

988
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 2: Ohio State fans around us, but I always just assume

989
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:17,400
Speaker 2: they have some tie to Ohio somewhere. I stopped. I

990
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:20,320
Speaker 2: gave up on any Ohio State thing. Do you remember

991
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 2: when they had a linebacker in the Big Ten?

992
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:25,319
Speaker 1: I can't remember.

993
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:26,800
Speaker 2: It's a Big Ten championship game. He was just a

994
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 2: normal game against Wisconsin, but he leaned on I think

995
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:35,879
Speaker 2: it was Jim Sorgie's larynx and he had to leave

996
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:37,400
Speaker 2: the game because he couldn't talk anymore.

997
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't remember Sorgie having to leave a game

998
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: because he couldn't talk anymore. Clearly, that was taken care

999
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:50,480
Speaker 1: of by the time he got on the Colts Radio network, right, Yes, yes,

1000
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 1: there were actually times on the Colts Radio Network where

1001
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: that people wanted them to lean on his larynx. I

1002
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 1: love Jim Sorgie, great dude, and his son's a really

1003
00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: good player, by the way, really good player. The reason

1004
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:05,359
Speaker 1: I ask the reason I ask where you're what you're

1005
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:10,480
Speaker 1: going to be watching at midnight tonight is because it

1006
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 1: is now. We are still ten and a half hours away,

1007
00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 1: but we're already focusing on as a culture on New

1008
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 1: Year's Eve, what's going to happen at midnight? This is

1009
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve, We're turning to twenty twenty six, and

1010
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: it feels like that's the way this cold season is.

1011
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: You forget that there is still a game to be played.

1012
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 1: You forget that there are still ten hours to go here, right,

1013
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 1: I mean literally, it feels as meaningless as meaningless can get.

1014
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:41,440
Speaker 1: But are there still positions be it players or front office?

1015
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 1: Are there still positions that you believe could be in

1016
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 1: flux or influenced by what happens on Sunday? Well?

1017
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:52,320
Speaker 2: I think the biggest one is Riley Leonard. I think

1018
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 2: is what does what Riley Leonard looks like? I think

1019
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:58,440
Speaker 2: informs the discussion we were just having about who your

1020
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:02,120
Speaker 2: backup is going into next year, Because if Leonard gives

1021
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 2: you a reason to believe that he can he can

1022
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 2: be a full fledged backup, maybe we're talking about you know,

1023
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 2: not Mariota, but some of the other guys on that

1024
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:15,759
Speaker 2: list as a as a veteran, you know, kind of

1025
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 2: number three emergency option as opposed to having a true

1026
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 2: number two. And obviously Leonard played against Jacksonville. But this

1027
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 2: is this is a chance for him the start. You

1028
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 2: get a chance to see him against a really good defense,

1029
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 2: and if he surprises you, I think there's a chance

1030
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 2: that that maybe you go, well, you know, maybe we

1031
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 2: feel good about right Leonard everybody else I think in

1032
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:40,640
Speaker 2: this game coming up on Sunday, I think it would

1033
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 2: probably be a mistake to base any decision making on

1034
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:45,439
Speaker 2: what they see.

1035
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 1: Do you think there was any discussion at all about

1036
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 1: whether or not rather than Leonard would start Sunday?

1037
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 2: I think there was. There was probably a little bit

1038
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 2: just sort of out of the feeling of, you know,

1039
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 2: we've got Philip here. He came here to play, you know,

1040
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 2: do we let him go out for one last ride?

1041
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 2: But I don't think just from talking to people today,

1042
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:08,760
Speaker 2: I don't think that lasts very long.

1043
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: Let me give you my a and we should come

1044
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 1: up with a name of this on the program, mostly

1045
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 1: as a warning to people the depth of the query

1046
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 1: brain overthinking it okay to me, there was never an option,

1047
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 1: and the reason being and maybe and I want to

1048
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: give you this scenario, and then I want you Joel

1049
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 1: Erickson at the Indianapolis Star, to tell me whether you

1050
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 1: whether you think it's even remotely possible that this was

1051
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 1: in play. Okay, if I'm Chris Ballad or I'm Shane Steiken,

1052
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:48,520
Speaker 1: I am saying to myself, Okay, I am here in

1053
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 1: this position because the ownership trusts that I can pick

1054
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: talent and get players to develop, or in the case

1055
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: of Shane Steiken, that would be about In the case

1056
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:03,920
Speaker 1: of Shane Steiken, I Shane Steikem, I am here because I'm

1057
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: thought of as a coach that can develop quarterbacks and

1058
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: come up with schemes that allow them to flourish. And

1059
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 1: if I'm either of those two men, I'm looking at

1060
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: it and saying, if I start anybody other than Riyley

1061
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 1: Leonard on Sunday, then, knowing that I'm going to have

1062
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 1: to go in for a postseason interview on Monday with

1063
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 1: the person who's going to decide my fate, I would

1064
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 1: expect them to then say, if I'm trusting you to

1065
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 1: pick talent, or if I'm trusting you to grow quarterbacks,

1066
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:37,920
Speaker 1: and you have a guy that you didn't feel comfortable

1067
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:39,840
Speaker 1: enough to put out on the field and the most

1068
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:42,160
Speaker 1: meaningless of games that has nothing to do with our

1069
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 1: season in Week seventeen, and instead went with the guy

1070
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 1: that's the former high school coach. Novelty act for another round.

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Speaker 1: That tells me everything I need to know about your

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00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 1: incompetence at your position that you're trusted to do.

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Speaker 2: I think that that definitely could have come into play.

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01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 2: But I also think that this team does like Riley Leonard.

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01:00:04,680 --> 01:00:07,320
Speaker 2: I do think they like what they've seen from him

1076
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 2: so far this season and wanted to give him a chance.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, you know, realistically what they're

1078
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:16,479
Speaker 2: what they're going into, the games they were going into

1079
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 2: before this, because I know a lot of people are

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01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:21,400
Speaker 2: still wondering why why Rivers over Leonard? They felt like

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01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:23,840
Speaker 2: they had a better chance with the veteran, But obviously,

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01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 2: like you said, now, this game doesn't mean anything from

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01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 2: a standing standpoint, So yes, then you go with the

1084
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:32,320
Speaker 2: guy you like.

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Speaker 1: Okay, is there any chance Joel one thing that? And

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01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 1: I can't speak for Daniel Jones here. I thought Daniel

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01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 1: Jones did a pretty nice job of going through his

1088
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 1: progressions and making the right certainly through the first eight games,

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01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 1: he was making the right decisions. I thought Pittsburgh rushed

1090
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:53,400
Speaker 1: him a little bit and that maybe throughout a blueprint.

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01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,800
Speaker 1: And then of course the injury comes into play. But

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, who was out there? You know? I mean

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01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:03,880
Speaker 1: you could tell when Philip Rivers walked out of the

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01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 1: huddle that he was an aged guy. But his ability

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01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:11,880
Speaker 1: to walk up to the line and recognize things defensively

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01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 1: and process was very impressive and it's something that young

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01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 1: quarterbacks can learn from, even a Daniel Jones. Any chance

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Speaker 1: that Philip Rivers has a future place within the franchise

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01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 1: simply as a liaison that can teach and pass along

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01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 1: that of which he's able to so quickly process.

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Speaker 2: Within the franchise, I don't think so. Because Philip has

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Speaker 2: always had this desire to coach his sons in high

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01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 2: school football the way his dad coached him. And as

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01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:47,120
Speaker 2: we all know, Philip's youngest son is actually quite young.

1105
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 2: He will be in high school for a little while.

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01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 2: So I do think that that keeps him, you know,

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Speaker 2: as the head coach of Saint Michael Katholic, because I

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01:01:57,280 --> 01:01:59,360
Speaker 2: have seen a lot of people going you know, could

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01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 2: he coach at this level. Obviously, I think he could

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01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 2: coach at this level. He's very, very smart, but he

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01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 2: is at least My understanding was always that his sort

1112
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:10,320
Speaker 2: of vision for what he would do is he was

1113
01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:13,440
Speaker 2: going to coach his sons. Now the flip side of that, though,

1114
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:16,680
Speaker 2: is that Riley Leonard has already worked with Philip Rivers

1115
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 2: in the off season the last two I believe, the

1116
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 2: last two off seasons, and.

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Speaker 1: Just by going to fair Hope.

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Speaker 2: And so if you wanted to say to Daniel Jones

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01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:30,960
Speaker 2: or whoever is going to be your quarterback, Hey, if

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Speaker 2: you're looking for someone to go go talk to and

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01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:35,840
Speaker 2: train with or whatever, I bet Philip would love to

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01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 2: talk ball for however long you want to. So I

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01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:43,320
Speaker 2: think it would be more informal than formal. But yes,

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01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:46,240
Speaker 2: obviously I also wonder there's a piece of me that

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Speaker 2: also wonders if it's got to help hearing from Philip Rivers.

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01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 2: But there's a piece of me that this wonders, you know,

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01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 2: given his physical limitations and given the fact that he

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01:02:57,640 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 2: was able to play reasonable football those physical limitations, like,

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01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:05,680
Speaker 2: is this is this something that like, no matter how

1130
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:08,600
Speaker 2: much he talks about it, he can only impart so much.

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01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 2: I don't know if the more the more we watch him,

1132
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 2: the more I think that maybe a handful of people

1133
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:16,240
Speaker 2: have ever seen the game the way he sees it

1134
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:16,800
Speaker 2: pre snap.

1135
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:21,360
Speaker 1: Now, there are a couple of questions I have for you,

1136
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:26,960
Speaker 1: Joel in terms of future if you will predictions. Okay, Now,

1137
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:31,520
Speaker 1: do you recall a while ago, I believe I asked

1138
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:33,600
Speaker 1: you It might have been this time a year ago?

1139
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:36,280
Speaker 1: I asked you who would be the starting quarterback Week

1140
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 1: one of the twenty twenty five NFL season for the Colts,

1141
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 1: And you said, Daniel Jones. Do you remember this?

1142
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 2: Yes?

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01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 1: I do. I think Actually it wasn't even me. I

1144
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 1: believe it was Robin the Genie. Who was it? Not?

1145
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 1: It was?

1146
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:53,680
Speaker 7: It was?

1147
01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:56,480
Speaker 2: And Robin is still holding out of my million dollar problems.

1148
01:03:56,520 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 1: Well here's what's interesting, okay. Standing is Robin the Genie

1149
01:04:01,320 --> 01:04:04,720
Speaker 1: offers one million dollars to people, right, and my understanding

1150
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:07,919
Speaker 1: is he's he's up to his rear in arrears. And

1151
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:11,720
Speaker 1: while other the beer fairy brings you beer, my understanding

1152
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:13,760
Speaker 1: is Robin the Genie, when he comes to parties, brings

1153
01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 1: grape soda because he welches on everything. That that's what

1154
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 1: That's what I've been told. Now I don't know if

1155
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:22,080
Speaker 1: that's true or not. You have not gotten payment from

1156
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 1: Robin the genie, Is that correct?

1157
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:26,720
Speaker 2: I have not. I have not in dollars or in

1158
01:04:26,760 --> 01:04:27,320
Speaker 2: grape soda.

1159
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:32,320
Speaker 1: Okay, well, you know what funny you mentioned. It appears

1160
01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 1: as though he might actually want to be here to

1161
01:04:34,240 --> 01:04:35,680
Speaker 1: defend himself.

1162
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 6: It would appear I'm not even positive on this, he said,

1163
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 6: He's corect. My friend the beer ferry from Wisconsint called

1164
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:46,920
Speaker 6: me on our remetrical phone to let me know that

1165
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:49,400
Speaker 6: Joel has been talking under the trash about my eenie

1166
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:54,920
Speaker 6: bit TIF you pay my biers, Robin. You know I

1167
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:56,800
Speaker 6: appreciate that. Does that mean that you would like to

1168
01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:59,080
Speaker 6: do a I would like to offer for Joe the

1169
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 6: opportunity of a double or nothing proposition for twenty six

1170
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 6: oh two.

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01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 1: Million bucks on the line. Joe, you down for it?

1172
01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:08,479
Speaker 2: I am?

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01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:11,240
Speaker 8: This is this is This is definitely a favorite Jennie though,

1174
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 8: because we have such an unknown coming on and what

1175
01:05:15,200 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 8: they're gonna do here in a week.

1176
01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 6: Well, the other thing that makes this fun is that

1177
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:20,960
Speaker 6: the helium has gotten into the phone line, and so

1178
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:23,400
Speaker 6: it now sounds like I'm dealing with a child.

1179
01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:25,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is true, Robin. Okay.

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01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:27,320
Speaker 6: So, Robin, did you have a question. I do have

1181
01:05:27,360 --> 01:05:30,240
Speaker 6: one question for Joela Ericson. I'm going to mention a

1182
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:33,080
Speaker 6: player and Joe needs to tell me if Sunday is

1183
01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:35,200
Speaker 6: the last time we will see him in a coach you.

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01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:39,000
Speaker 1: In the form Oh, I would think Anthony Richardson, he

1185
01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:43,960
Speaker 1: is an ir pay attention. Please sorry, Robin. Okay, Robin,

1186
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:47,240
Speaker 1: the genie has go ahead, Robin. Then what I'd like

1187
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 1: to know from you, Joela Ericson? Do you believe.

1188
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:54,400
Speaker 6: Sunday is the fine opportunity I will have to wear

1189
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:57,800
Speaker 6: my Alec Pierce coach jersey while watching my team play.

1190
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 1: Very good question, Joel. Two million bucks on the line

1191
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:02,120
Speaker 1: for you.

1192
01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:07,120
Speaker 2: I think he's back.

1193
01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 1: Do you mean Robin or Attic Piers.

1194
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:15,240
Speaker 8: I don't feel confident in that one, but I think

1195
01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:16,200
Speaker 8: Alec Pierce is back.

1196
01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:18,760
Speaker 1: Do you believe that's? Because?

1197
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:19,920
Speaker 3: Uh?

1198
01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:21,680
Speaker 1: And thank you Robin by the way, happy he is,

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01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:25,200
Speaker 1: Happy New Year to you. Yes, do you believe that

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01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:29,640
Speaker 1: Alec Pierce is back? Joel? Because just the fact that

1201
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:33,040
Speaker 1: you know, obviously the incumbent, you know it's your safest

1202
01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:35,959
Speaker 1: bet as always that of familiarity, and he's been within

1203
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 1: the roster and you know with the locker room, and

1204
01:06:38,360 --> 01:06:43,240
Speaker 1: you know he has flourished this year or because of

1205
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:45,400
Speaker 1: the fact, do you think that he comes back, because

1206
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:47,480
Speaker 1: even though he has played well for them, he is

1207
01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:49,720
Speaker 1: not going to get on the market what he could

1208
01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 1: get out of Indianapolis because it would appear to me

1209
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:53,920
Speaker 1: he's played himself into a pretty big contract.

1210
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 8: My my understanding is that Pierce wants to be back,

1211
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:02,160
Speaker 8: and not in the way that everyone says they want

1212
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:04,240
Speaker 8: to be back and they kind of mean it, but

1213
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:05,600
Speaker 8: it depends on what the dollar figure is.

1214
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:06,440
Speaker 2: My understanding is that.

1215
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:09,400
Speaker 8: Pierce really really wants to be back here. Uh and so,

1216
01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:12,720
Speaker 8: and I also know that him and Daniel Jones are

1217
01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 8: pretty close. So if I'm kind of basing that guess

1218
01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:19,920
Speaker 8: and that bet on on if Jones is back, Pierce

1219
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:22,200
Speaker 8: is going to want to be back with with the organization.

1220
01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:23,520
Speaker 8: Now you know.

1221
01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:25,400
Speaker 2: This, this is where this is where the genie might

1222
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:25,720
Speaker 2: get me.

1223
01:07:26,560 --> 01:07:30,240
Speaker 8: If if they tried to move on from everybody, then all.

1224
01:07:30,080 --> 01:07:31,240
Speaker 9: That goes out the window.

1225
01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:36,760
Speaker 8: So but but based on what we know, I think

1226
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:38,720
Speaker 8: he's probably gonna be want to be back with Jones

1227
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 8: and with this organization.

1228
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:43,600
Speaker 1: Okay. Lastly, Joel, because the helium Fairy has arrived, kick

1229
01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 1: the beer ferry out of the way. Uh yeah, So

1230
01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:47,919
Speaker 1: can we just get you real quick if we could

1231
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 1: on the air, and you've been a good sport about

1232
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:51,840
Speaker 1: this in the past, can you say to me with

1233
01:07:52,160 --> 01:07:54,280
Speaker 1: using the and you don't even need to doctor your voice.

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01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:56,680
Speaker 1: The helium Fairy does it for us. Can you simply

1235
01:07:56,720 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 1: say I'm Joel a Ericksson and I'm all so the

1236
01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:02,680
Speaker 1: beer Fairy. Can we get you to say that.

1237
01:08:04,160 --> 01:08:08,200
Speaker 8: I'm Joela Erickson and I'm also the beer Faery?

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01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:12,040
Speaker 1: Okay, well there you go. All right, Joe, Happy New

1239
01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:16,000
Speaker 1: Year to your ration yourself. All right, I'll do my best.

1240
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:17,559
Speaker 2: It's tough to ration. It's tough.

1241
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:22,679
Speaker 1: It is tough. The rashing, yes, Joel a Erickson joining

1242
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:25,320
Speaker 1: us on the Java House feeling poor guest line and

1243
01:08:25,400 --> 01:08:29,080
Speaker 1: again when it comes and we've had fun with it,

1244
01:08:29,080 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 1: it's and my understanding is that once we get kind

1245
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:34,760
Speaker 1: of everything, because we've moved buildings and they're working on

1246
01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:36,640
Speaker 1: you know, they've got a couple other things to install

1247
01:08:37,040 --> 01:08:40,000
Speaker 1: that will take care of the helium factor on the

1248
01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:43,719
Speaker 1: phone lines. I promise you folks. This is not people

1249
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:47,040
Speaker 1: that are suddenly getting that they themselves are not being

1250
01:08:47,160 --> 01:08:49,479
Speaker 1: like with that extra pep. The machine does it. Now,

1251
01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:50,920
Speaker 1: we do have a machine that can give you a

1252
01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:52,439
Speaker 1: little extra pep in your day for those times when

1253
01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:55,759
Speaker 1: you're dragging. What about the Wrangler Energy from Java House

1254
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:58,800
Speaker 1: Java house dot com. You can go on you get

1255
01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:01,600
Speaker 1: the When I say that the bundle, the peel and

1256
01:09:01,640 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 1: port pods literally you peel them off. You put them

1257
01:09:03,520 --> 01:09:06,720
Speaker 1: in eight ounces of water. Sometimes with the hydration I'll

1258
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:09,800
Speaker 1: put I'll use sixteen ounces of water because it's you know,

1259
01:09:09,840 --> 01:09:13,160
Speaker 1: the concentrate on it. The flavor is pretty rich, but

1260
01:09:13,320 --> 01:09:17,840
Speaker 1: the in a good way. But the Wrangler Energy Columbia

1261
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:20,800
Speaker 1: House coffee, which is amazingly smooth and fabulous. I have

1262
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:23,920
Speaker 1: never been a coffee drinker, and I love the Colombian

1263
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:27,200
Speaker 1: coffee from Java House. And then the two Liquid Science

1264
01:09:27,280 --> 01:09:31,479
Speaker 1: hydration drinks, so your post workout drink right there in water.

1265
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:33,639
Speaker 1: You get all of those in the peel and poor

1266
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:36,920
Speaker 1: in terms of the bundle ship to you very easy

1267
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:39,080
Speaker 1: Java House dot com. And then you put in my

1268
01:09:39,160 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 1: name Jake twenty five and you're gonna get twenty five

1269
01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 1: percent off and if you put in the fan in

1270
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:45,680
Speaker 1: the search bar or my name, then it's going to

1271
01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:47,439
Speaker 1: take you to the bundle itself and you're going to

1272
01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:51,400
Speaker 1: see everything that I'm talking about. Uh, did you say, Nathaniel,

1273
01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:53,360
Speaker 1: that we do or do not have Aaron from Fox

1274
01:09:53,400 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 1: Sports Radio to talk a little Rose Bowl?

1275
01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:56,160
Speaker 3: Do not?

1276
01:09:56,520 --> 01:09:58,400
Speaker 1: Okay, because I know that that was in flux. But

1277
01:09:58,479 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 1: speaking of the Rose Bowl, that's not to say that

1278
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:05,840
Speaker 1: we are not going to get into that. We'll get

1279
01:10:05,880 --> 01:10:09,599
Speaker 1: into that and some New Year's resolutions, if you will,

1280
01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:13,519
Speaker 1: of what you'd like to see from local teams that

1281
01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:16,439
Speaker 1: on the other side here acquiring company on the fan, you're.

1282
01:10:16,280 --> 01:10:19,120
Speaker 4: Listening to Query and Company on ninety three five and

1283
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:20,800
Speaker 4: one oh seven five the Fan.

1284
01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:25,519
Speaker 1: Happy New Year to everyone. I'm curious of this, and

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Speaker 1: anybody can send me a text at five two three

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Speaker 1: ninety two eighty eight, which is my cell phone number.

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Speaker 1: You can also obviously text the station at two three

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Speaker 1: nine ten seventy, but admittedly the five two three nine

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Speaker 1: two eight eight is a little bit easier for me

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Speaker 1: because it's my phone right there and I don't have

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Speaker 1: to log into a number of things to get to it.

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Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't say that, but that's that is true.

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Speaker 1: But of course I know in the Morning show they're

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Speaker 1: very active on the text line at two, three, nine,

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Speaker 1: ten seventy. Both work tonight with Uncle Jake's Taxi. Several

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Speaker 1: people have asked on the fel I played that by ear.

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Speaker 1: I was at an event last night until fairly late,

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Speaker 1: a wonderful event that takes place every year. That I

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Speaker 1: was at last night, not raucous by any stretch, but

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01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:24,599
Speaker 1: was out fairly late and so a little bit tired.

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Speaker 1: You know, I always play that by ear. It's it's

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Speaker 1: always a game time decision on Uncle Jake's Taxi where

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01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:32,599
Speaker 1: you can send me a text between one and four

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Speaker 1: am if you would like a ride home, but has

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01:11:35,439 --> 01:11:38,200
Speaker 1: to be two home, not to a bar, not to

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Speaker 1: another party. And you know, Uber's only put a dent

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Speaker 1: in the Uncle Jake's Taxi business model. No puking in

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Speaker 1: the jeep. That's the only rule. But I've had fun

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Speaker 1: with that over the years. We'll see if I run

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Speaker 1: it tonight. But I'm curious of this. What's the is

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Speaker 1: New Year's now, Nathaniel Atticus, I will let you chime

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Speaker 1: in on this as well. What's the deadline on when

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01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:12,080
Speaker 1: it's no longer acceptable and or like anything other than

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Speaker 1: odd to say Merry Christmas when you see people, or

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01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:18,080
Speaker 1: Happy Holidays either one like you run into somebody at

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01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:21,160
Speaker 1: the gas station that you know right now, do you

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Speaker 1: still say, like, hey man, merry Christmas to you.

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Speaker 5: I think it's too late for Merry Christmas, but happy

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Speaker 5: Holidays works maybe for a couple more days.

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Speaker 1: Okay? Then what about this? What is the age? What

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Speaker 1: is the maximum age in which today like, if someone

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Speaker 1: says the following to you, what is the oldest age

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Speaker 1: that they can be where you find it acceptable as

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Speaker 1: opposed to like, you've got to be kidding me. And

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Speaker 1: that is if someone says to you see you next

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Speaker 1: year ten, it's a dad joke.

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Speaker 5: I'll allow it for anybody.

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Speaker 1: Really, Yeah, I'll allow that one.

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Speaker 5: Okay, you kind of give them a half a chuckle

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Speaker 5: and you walk away, but I'll allow it.

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. I feel like you can say the day after, I.

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Speaker 5: Think you're good on the twenty sixth, the twenty seventh,

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Speaker 5: we're done.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I would tend to agree with that. And there's

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Speaker 1: a weird thing about Christmas to me. Two things about

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Speaker 1: this time of year to me that I've and I'm

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Speaker 1: curious if I'm the only one that feels this way. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the first is I love everything about Christmas. I love

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Speaker 1: everything about it. I love the goodwill, I love the

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Speaker 1: the reason for the season. I love the reminders of

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Speaker 1: the camaraderie of people. I love the family traditions, I

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Speaker 1: love the chilling in the air. I love everything about it.

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Speaker 1: And I was never into the Christmas markets, and that's

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Speaker 1: something that was almost unfamiliar to me until Carmel started

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Speaker 1: doing it just a couple of years ago. And I

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Speaker 1: typically don't go up into Carmel a lot, just because

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01:14:16,320 --> 01:14:18,920
Speaker 1: the next thing I know, I've gone around three roundabouts

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Speaker 1: the wrong way and there was a construction zone here

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01:14:22,120 --> 01:14:24,400
Speaker 1: and then a crane there, and then another building of

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01:14:24,439 --> 01:14:26,519
Speaker 1: a palladium on the left, and I thought I was

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Speaker 1: going around this and I'm very good with directions, and

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01:14:28,920 --> 01:14:31,080
Speaker 1: I grew up on the north side. But the last

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Speaker 1: time that I got turned around in the dark and

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01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:38,720
Speaker 1: Carmel because there wasn't enough lighting due to construction and roundabouts, like,

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Speaker 1: I turned left and then I was in Peoria and

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Speaker 1: so those things to me. But the Christmas kendallmart was

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01:14:52,439 --> 01:14:53,960
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago the first time I've been

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Speaker 1: to the one in Carmel, and I thought, Okay, this

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Speaker 1: is cool. And then I think I mentioned this past

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Speaker 1: year when we went on vacation in Vienna, Austria. It

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Speaker 1: was the opening weekend of their Christmas market, which is

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Speaker 1: translates into Chris kendlmart on their signs, which is what's

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Speaker 1: replicated in Carmel, and I mean it is there. It

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Speaker 1: was huge, and that it was magical. The Christmas thing

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01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:26,600
Speaker 1: was magical, and that made me then come back and

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Speaker 1: I went back to the one in Carmel, and I've

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Speaker 1: got to give them credit. I mean, it really is.

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Speaker 1: They do a remarkable job. I realized the authenticity of

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Speaker 1: the Caramel one after having been to and then I

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Speaker 1: went to ones in Munich also and it was magical.

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Speaker 1: And I love everything about Christmas. But there's also like

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Speaker 1: this letdown that happens. By the twenty seventh, the twenty sixth,

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Speaker 1: you're still kind of in the mode of it because

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Speaker 1: you're you're putting stuff away and whatever else. And then

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01:15:51,080 --> 01:15:53,519
Speaker 1: by the twenty seventh year, it's almost like there's a

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01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:55,559
Speaker 1: resentment of it's over. So I don't want to be

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Speaker 1: reminded of it because it's so wonderful. But now it's done.

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Speaker 1: Oh but this is gonna be nice because next week

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Speaker 1: I've got days off again because New Year's is coming.

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Speaker 1: And so then you go into the new year, and

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01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:10,679
Speaker 1: then the thing there is no more. The thing that's

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01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:13,720
Speaker 1: hard about it is you have this month long anticipation

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Speaker 1: of this magical time, and it feels like you're really

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01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:19,600
Speaker 1: making headway and clicking off days and days off and

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Speaker 1: everything else. And then you come back off of that

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Speaker 1: on Monday, January second or January third, or whatever that

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Speaker 1: Monday falls on. But you come back to work even

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01:16:29,960 --> 01:16:34,559
Speaker 1: after New Year's Day, and then the next Monday and

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Speaker 1: you look outside and it's gray and it's frigid, and

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Speaker 1: it looks like the Rusho where Rocky Balboa was going

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Speaker 1: through the snow. And you look at the calendar and

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Speaker 1: you're like, oh my gosh, we now have seventy eight

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Speaker 1: days till anything matters, and it it feels like you've

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01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:57,280
Speaker 1: been stuck in the mud for like three weeks. Now

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Speaker 1: just turn It feels like the Colts last seven weeks.

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Speaker 1: It feels like the Pacers last three months, where you're

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Speaker 1: just turning over and over and like the same thing

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01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:12,640
Speaker 1: you're not getting anywhere, and it becomes almost depressing. But

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Speaker 1: we're not worrying about that right now. We're worrying about

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Speaker 1: the fact that it's New Year's and the fact that

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Speaker 1: tomorrow it's Indiana and Alabama and right now you've got

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01:17:21,240 --> 01:17:23,960
Speaker 1: bowl games going on, and I was representing the Big Ten. Well,

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01:17:23,960 --> 01:17:26,400
Speaker 1: they're up fourteen to three on Vanderbilt. I don't know.

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01:17:26,479 --> 01:17:28,880
Speaker 1: Is that fellow with the gold chains and that's flipping

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Speaker 1: everybody off? Is he playing? Did he opt out? Do

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01:17:32,080 --> 01:17:36,040
Speaker 1: we know Pavla? Is he playing for Vanderbilt? Playing or Pavia?

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01:17:36,080 --> 01:17:40,240
Speaker 1: He is playing Diego Pavia who did not help himself

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01:17:40,280 --> 01:17:41,920
Speaker 1: and maybe he needs to go out in the bowl

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01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:47,160
Speaker 1: game and play well to resurrect whatever stock damage he

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Speaker 1: did with his behavior after the Heisman. Two nine ten

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Speaker 1: seventy is the telephone number, Darnell. What's up?

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01:17:55,680 --> 01:17:58,719
Speaker 7: No One? Thanks for taking my call? Hey, real quick,

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01:17:58,720 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 7: I just want to if your heads up and I'll

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01:18:00,960 --> 01:18:02,960
Speaker 7: get back with you. I may know your schedule better

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01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:05,360
Speaker 7: than you. Can you hear me because I'm on my

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01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:07,240
Speaker 7: head set? Can you hear me? Okay?

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Speaker 1: I hear you? A lout and clear, Darnell. Okay, Happy

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Speaker 1: new Year, by the way, Darnell, Happy.

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Speaker 9: Happy New Year, Jake.

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Speaker 7: So this will be our twenty fifth season of inde

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Speaker 7: thunder beat Baseball. All right, So we know you're you've

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01:18:20,320 --> 01:18:21,519
Speaker 7: been a part of it and when you work at

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01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:23,920
Speaker 7: ten o six. So we have a couple of things

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Speaker 7: coming up, and I want to deal with you off

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Speaker 7: the air, but I know we're sort of a Knicks

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01:18:29,160 --> 01:18:32,080
Speaker 7: sport and I get it with the ratings in college, high.

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Speaker 1: School with Darnell, it's listen, it's like negative nine outside.

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Speaker 1: You guys are already gearing up for the year. When

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Speaker 1: does the year get underway January eleventh or really?

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Speaker 7: So we have our organization. We have an organizational meeting

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Speaker 7: next week on the tenth. But we have some big

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Speaker 7: things coming up to This year will be our twenty

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Speaker 7: fifth season of Beat Baseball as far as the indefenders

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Speaker 7: can turn for.

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Speaker 1: Are you at practice right now or are you grocery

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01:18:59,320 --> 01:19:01,559
Speaker 1: shopping or you on the bottom of the ocean grocery store.

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Speaker 7: I'm at a grocery store almost getting rung. I'm not

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Speaker 7: I'm next in line.

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01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:08,559
Speaker 1: Can we play what happened? Can we play prices right?

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01:19:08,600 --> 01:19:09,639
Speaker 1: I want to know what you're buying.

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01:19:11,479 --> 01:19:20,600
Speaker 2: Some fruit, some bananas okay, some lemon okay, some oranges okay?

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01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:24,160
Speaker 7: Half a look for parade, which I like. I remember

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01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:24,960
Speaker 7: back in the day when I.

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01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:28,320
Speaker 1: Grew Are you making Harry? Are you making Harry Buffalo's tonight?

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01:19:28,360 --> 01:19:28,439
Speaker 6: Like?

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01:19:28,439 --> 01:19:31,000
Speaker 1: What are we doing with all the fruit here? No?

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01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:32,960
Speaker 7: I like fruit, fruity, good for you?

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Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, Okay, So wait a minute. January tenth

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Speaker 1: Meetings for the Indie Thunder beat Ball. I do love

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01:19:38,360 --> 01:19:40,040
Speaker 1: the Beatball. I was just talking about it last night.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, when does the season get underway? Darnell?

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01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:43,080
Speaker 3: Like?

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01:19:43,080 --> 01:19:45,360
Speaker 1: When are you actually playing games? Look?

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Speaker 7: Our first game is at North Central Hospital. Matter of fact,

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Speaker 7: May May twenty nine, May thirty through the.

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Speaker 1: Thirty first, May thirty through the thirty first. All right,

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01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:55,640
Speaker 1: I'm going to be in Detroit. I can tell you

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01:19:55,680 --> 01:19:59,720
Speaker 1: that for Indy car but beatball I was just talking

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01:19:59,720 --> 01:20:03,760
Speaker 1: about last night. Visually impaired baseball. The Indie Thunder has

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01:20:03,760 --> 01:20:07,880
Speaker 1: won multiple world championships representing Indie well and it is

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01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:12,599
Speaker 1: fascinating to It's a fun sport to watch and they

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01:20:12,680 --> 01:20:14,519
Speaker 1: usually do it at brought a Book Park or around

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01:20:14,600 --> 01:20:18,000
Speaker 1: the north side of Indianapolis. So get with me, Darnell,

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01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 1: Happy to help you out in Happy New Year. Darnell,

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01:20:20,160 --> 01:20:21,760
Speaker 1: by the way, a forty nine Ers fan. I did

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01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:23,920
Speaker 1: not get into his thoughts on the game and whether

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Speaker 1: or not he went against the Colts. Colts and Texans

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01:20:27,640 --> 01:20:31,400
Speaker 1: coming up Sunday, Pacers in action taking on the Orlando

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01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:34,360
Speaker 1: Magic that game three o'clock tip two thirty. Will send

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Speaker 1: it out to Gambridge Fieldhouse for Mark Pat and the boys.

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Speaker 1: Pat Boiler, I'm going to join us about thirty minutes

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Speaker 1: from now. We will talk about that. But I am

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01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:47,120
Speaker 1: going to get back into the granddaddy of them all,

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01:20:47,240 --> 01:20:53,120
Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl and the one element of it. As

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Speaker 1: I've looked over this and looked over Alabama and Indiana,

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01:20:57,800 --> 01:21:01,120
Speaker 1: one of the advantages for Indiana. Perhaps that has nothing

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Speaker 1: to do with what's going to take place on the field.

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Speaker 1: I'll explain next.

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Speaker 4: This is Querry in Company on ninety three five and

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Speaker 4: one oh seven five.

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01:21:10,880 --> 01:21:16,040
Speaker 1: The Fan Indiana Alabama Rose Bowl. I've got a theory

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01:21:16,080 --> 01:21:19,040
Speaker 1: that I thought of earlier about this game and what

1483
01:21:19,080 --> 01:21:21,880
Speaker 1: it might mean advantage Indiana and has nothing to do

1484
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:24,240
Speaker 1: with breaking down the x's and o's of the game.

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01:21:24,400 --> 01:21:26,800
Speaker 1: Get into that in just second game, four o'clock tomorrow.

1486
01:21:26,960 --> 01:21:30,920
Speaker 1: But let's go to the phone lines where Leon has

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01:21:31,040 --> 01:21:34,479
Speaker 1: chimed in, I believe, regarding the Colts and their games

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01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:37,400
Speaker 1: with the Texans. Hi, Leon, how are you? I'm doing

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01:21:37,400 --> 01:21:37,840
Speaker 1: pretty good?

1490
01:21:37,880 --> 01:21:38,639
Speaker 3: How you doing, James?

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01:21:38,880 --> 01:21:40,720
Speaker 1: I can't complain? Leon? Are you said for the big

1492
01:21:40,760 --> 01:21:42,320
Speaker 1: New Year? What's your big plan for tonight?

1493
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:44,040
Speaker 9: Actually?

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01:21:44,120 --> 01:21:45,960
Speaker 3: I'm hosting a little get together tonight?

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01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:49,679
Speaker 1: So really it seems as though the invite was lost

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01:21:49,720 --> 01:21:52,320
Speaker 1: in the mail. How many people are coming over? Leon?

1497
01:21:53,760 --> 01:21:54,120
Speaker 1: About it?

1498
01:21:54,120 --> 01:21:54,519
Speaker 3: A dozen?

1499
01:21:54,800 --> 01:21:59,360
Speaker 1: Okay? Food? Drink? What's what's the specialty at Leon's New

1500
01:21:59,400 --> 01:22:02,160
Speaker 1: Year's e back? Christopher Cross going to be playing? What

1501
01:22:02,200 --> 01:22:04,719
Speaker 1: do you got? Well?

1502
01:22:06,200 --> 01:22:08,559
Speaker 3: I was just gonna be a variety of things from

1503
01:22:08,920 --> 01:22:13,680
Speaker 3: karaoke to trivia games and card games.

1504
01:22:13,479 --> 01:22:17,160
Speaker 1: That's cool, all right, fair enough? All right? Culture on

1505
01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:19,240
Speaker 1: your mind? And happy New York again to you. Culture

1506
01:22:19,240 --> 01:22:21,479
Speaker 1: on your mind? What's up? Yeah?

1507
01:22:21,720 --> 01:22:24,960
Speaker 3: I just think that it's time for the coast to

1508
01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:30,559
Speaker 3: turn the page on Ballad. There's no reason to justify

1509
01:22:30,760 --> 01:22:33,320
Speaker 3: keeping him here. He has been here with eight or

1510
01:22:33,360 --> 01:22:37,200
Speaker 3: nine years. He is not produced. He still hasn't solved

1511
01:22:37,240 --> 01:22:39,880
Speaker 3: a quarterback issue. If you think he solved it with

1512
01:22:39,960 --> 01:22:42,160
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like

1513
01:22:42,200 --> 01:22:45,000
Speaker 3: to sell you. You know, was he great at first

1514
01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:47,439
Speaker 3: eight games? Yes he was, but for four games in

1515
01:22:47,479 --> 01:22:50,599
Speaker 3: a row he was vintaged Daniel Jones from New York.

1516
01:22:51,120 --> 01:22:54,920
Speaker 3: And you know after he performed miserably for four a year,

1517
01:22:54,960 --> 01:22:56,640
Speaker 3: they said, well he was hurt. Well, he wasn't on

1518
01:22:56,640 --> 01:22:59,200
Speaker 3: the injury report those four weeks, and so if that

1519
01:22:59,360 --> 01:23:01,840
Speaker 3: was true, then they violate the NFL policy by not

1520
01:23:02,320 --> 01:23:05,360
Speaker 3: putting them on the injury report. So I think it's

1521
01:23:05,439 --> 01:23:09,000
Speaker 3: time to move past ballance and then whatever happens after that,

1522
01:23:09,200 --> 01:23:11,200
Speaker 3: which the other personnel should happen.

1523
01:23:12,200 --> 01:23:15,080
Speaker 1: Uh I listen, I think Leon, And by the way, Leon,

1524
01:23:15,120 --> 01:23:17,680
Speaker 1: before I answered your comments there, which I think are

1525
01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:21,760
Speaker 1: are salient and well said, I might have asked you this.

1526
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:24,799
Speaker 1: You've called the program before, correct ly on that's correct,

1527
01:23:26,160 --> 01:23:29,360
Speaker 1: And unfortunately you wouldn't be able to see it because

1528
01:23:29,360 --> 01:23:30,760
Speaker 1: we're on the phone, but I could put it on

1529
01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:34,400
Speaker 1: for our fabulous YouTube audience today. I am wearing my

1530
01:23:34,600 --> 01:23:36,559
Speaker 1: have I did I ask you? And have I asked

1531
01:23:36,560 --> 01:23:38,240
Speaker 1: you every single time you've ever called in? If you

1532
01:23:38,240 --> 01:23:39,519
Speaker 1: ever went to Leon's Tailoring.

1533
01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:45,759
Speaker 3: Yes, yes you have, but I have been there before.

1534
01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:53,080
Speaker 3: In fact, I remember I got my prom tups from there.

1535
01:23:53,200 --> 01:23:57,280
Speaker 1: Really listen, I mean what school would what school was

1536
01:23:57,320 --> 01:24:00,719
Speaker 1: having people wearing time? I mean, you know my problem.

1537
01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:02,200
Speaker 1: It was like we went up to the place in

1538
01:24:02,280 --> 01:24:04,400
Speaker 1: Castle Till next to Hot sand Pretzel and rented some

1539
01:24:04,479 --> 01:24:06,759
Speaker 1: bad boy and had to have it back by what place?

1540
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:10,639
Speaker 1: What high school did you go to? Short Reach, short Ridge?

1541
01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:12,840
Speaker 1: The Blue Devil's Baby? All right, So I think I

1542
01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:15,920
Speaker 1: mentioned when Leon's was closing Leon's Tailoring, which had been

1543
01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:18,639
Speaker 1: there forever one hundred years. I think when they closed,

1544
01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:21,240
Speaker 1: I thought, I need It's an Indianapolis staple. It's an

1545
01:24:21,240 --> 01:24:23,760
Speaker 1: Indianapolis landmark. I've seen it every time I've driven home

1546
01:24:23,760 --> 01:24:25,920
Speaker 1: from a Pacer game up Delaware. I need to get

1547
01:24:25,920 --> 01:24:28,360
Speaker 1: something from Leon's Tailoring. So I went in on the

1548
01:24:28,439 --> 01:24:30,400
Speaker 1: day that they were closing, going out of business. You

1549
01:24:30,960 --> 01:24:32,880
Speaker 1: get a good deal here. And I put on a

1550
01:24:32,880 --> 01:24:35,240
Speaker 1: beautiful jacket. I mean, leon it was a BEAUTIFU Yeah,

1551
01:24:35,240 --> 01:24:37,639
Speaker 1: I look good in it, right, It was a beautiful jacket.

1552
01:24:37,880 --> 01:24:40,040
Speaker 1: And I put it on. I thought, this thing's great,

1553
01:24:40,040 --> 01:24:41,400
Speaker 1: and the guy said, an it's on sale. It's your

1554
01:24:41,439 --> 01:24:44,040
Speaker 1: lucky day and we're closing the shop to end the

1555
01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:45,759
Speaker 1: day today. And I said, yeah, I know. He said's

1556
01:24:45,840 --> 01:24:48,360
Speaker 1: only eight seventy five, So all I got a twenty

1557
01:24:48,479 --> 01:24:50,120
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, no, no, no, eight hundred and

1558
01:24:50,120 --> 01:24:55,120
Speaker 1: twenty five bucks. So opted against that. Leon opted against that.

1559
01:24:55,200 --> 01:24:57,679
Speaker 1: But I did get a winter coat and I'm wearing

1560
01:24:57,680 --> 01:25:00,920
Speaker 1: it today with the Leons tailoring ads on the inside,

1561
01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:02,840
Speaker 1: and I'm as proud as a peacock about it because

1562
01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:04,439
Speaker 1: I love the fact that I've got a place that

1563
01:25:04,560 --> 01:25:07,639
Speaker 1: is an Indianapolis landmark that I wear when it gets

1564
01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:11,280
Speaker 1: cold outside. So each time that I grab the code,

1565
01:25:11,280 --> 01:25:13,840
Speaker 1: I will think of Leon of Shortridge as well, and

1566
01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:16,960
Speaker 1: as fabulous New Year's Eve twenty five party. As for

1567
01:25:17,040 --> 01:25:19,799
Speaker 1: your point, which is a very good one in regards

1568
01:25:19,800 --> 01:25:21,879
Speaker 1: to Chris Ballard, I don't think you're in the minority.

1569
01:25:22,200 --> 01:25:24,240
Speaker 1: I think that there is And again I've said the

1570
01:25:24,320 --> 01:25:28,160
Speaker 1: thing that is the most intriguing about this storyline is

1571
01:25:28,160 --> 01:25:31,200
Speaker 1: that you can make a very legitimate case in argument

1572
01:25:31,520 --> 01:25:34,720
Speaker 1: from both sides of it about which player, or which

1573
01:25:34,760 --> 01:25:36,360
Speaker 1: side of it that you would want Chris Ballard to

1574
01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:39,280
Speaker 1: return or Chris Ballard to leave. I mean both of them.

1575
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:43,080
Speaker 1: You could make very very solid cases with evidence both ways.

1576
01:25:43,400 --> 01:25:45,639
Speaker 1: It is my belief, as I mentioned at the beginning

1577
01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:48,719
Speaker 1: of the week, there is no perfect time for change.

1578
01:25:48,920 --> 01:25:52,280
Speaker 1: Change is hard, and you don't want to impact people's livelihood.

1579
01:25:52,360 --> 01:25:54,840
Speaker 1: I get it, Chris Ballard will be fine, He'll find

1580
01:25:54,880 --> 01:25:58,759
Speaker 1: another job somewhere. But I believe that it is time

1581
01:25:59,040 --> 01:26:01,599
Speaker 1: to move on from it because doing the same thing

1582
01:26:01,680 --> 01:26:04,800
Speaker 1: over and expecting the different results is the definition of insanity.

1583
01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:07,559
Speaker 1: And I think it's time to make that move. I

1584
01:26:07,560 --> 01:26:10,919
Speaker 1: think it's time for fresh blood, fresh ideas, fresh scouting,

1585
01:26:11,040 --> 01:26:13,559
Speaker 1: all of it. I don't think that's going to happen,

1586
01:26:14,080 --> 01:26:16,160
Speaker 1: and I think that there are cases to be made

1587
01:26:16,240 --> 01:26:18,960
Speaker 1: on why it shouldn't. But if it were up to me,

1588
01:26:20,479 --> 01:26:22,880
Speaker 1: you would make that change. But it's not up to me.

1589
01:26:23,520 --> 01:26:27,679
Speaker 1: And I certainly understand both sides of it, understand both

1590
01:26:27,680 --> 01:26:32,680
Speaker 1: sides of it, but I appreciate the point certainly on it.

1591
01:26:32,800 --> 01:26:35,840
Speaker 1: Leon J ANDB is in the building by the way

1592
01:26:35,920 --> 01:26:39,280
Speaker 1: crossover we usually do this time of day. I might

1593
01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:40,840
Speaker 1: rope him in here just to find out what he's

1594
01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:43,160
Speaker 1: got lined up. And I also want to mention since

1595
01:26:43,200 --> 01:26:46,200
Speaker 1: I had mentioned Leon's tailoring and I know John was

1596
01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:49,559
Speaker 1: there earlier. Today Manly's Irish Mutt over on the East Side,

1597
01:26:50,760 --> 01:26:53,680
Speaker 1: they are in their last just over four hours of

1598
01:26:53,680 --> 01:26:56,800
Speaker 1: business on the east Side, and that has been a

1599
01:26:57,880 --> 01:27:00,920
Speaker 1: just a fabulous, fabulous place. I've been there before. I

1600
01:27:00,960 --> 01:27:06,040
Speaker 1: know John's done numerous shows there. I have such a

1601
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:10,640
Speaker 1: love and appreciation for neighborhood establishments that allow people to

1602
01:27:10,720 --> 01:27:17,360
Speaker 1: go and celebrate and commiserate and commiserates the wrong word,

1603
01:27:17,360 --> 01:27:21,720
Speaker 1: find camaraderie with those that have the same footprint, the

1604
01:27:21,760 --> 01:27:25,919
Speaker 1: same pillars, the same identity of their neighborhood, their heritage,

1605
01:27:26,520 --> 01:27:29,400
Speaker 1: and you know, their friends and family and oftentimes in

1606
01:27:29,640 --> 01:27:33,519
Speaker 1: areas of Indianapolis, friends become family. And that's what makes

1607
01:27:33,560 --> 01:27:35,840
Speaker 1: the city so great in the different pockets within it,

1608
01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:38,000
Speaker 1: and on the east Side, when you're talking about somebody

1609
01:27:38,040 --> 01:27:40,639
Speaker 1: that was or is a member of the fire department,

1610
01:27:40,920 --> 01:27:43,800
Speaker 1: a first responder, a hero in that regard, that opens

1611
01:27:43,880 --> 01:27:46,360
Speaker 1: up a place that has allowed for so many people

1612
01:27:46,840 --> 01:27:49,880
Speaker 1: to have great food, great drinks, great memories, and great

1613
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:56,240
Speaker 1: fellowship and just you know, the friendship throughout Manly's Irish Mutt.

1614
01:27:56,360 --> 01:27:59,800
Speaker 1: Absolutely a salute to them and a thank you for

1615
01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:02,840
Speaker 1: what they have done for those on the east side

1616
01:28:02,880 --> 01:28:05,720
Speaker 1: and near east side of Indianapolis. All right, John's in

1617
01:28:05,760 --> 01:28:08,120
Speaker 1: the building. I might grab him, see what he's got cooking,

1618
01:28:08,360 --> 01:28:09,880
Speaker 1: and then Pat Boil I'm going to join us about

1619
01:28:09,880 --> 01:28:12,000
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes from now. We'll get into Pacers magic. And

1620
01:28:12,080 --> 01:28:14,000
Speaker 1: I still need to tell you which I will do.

1621
01:28:14,120 --> 01:28:19,400
Speaker 1: Right on the other side, Alabama in terms of one

1622
01:28:19,439 --> 01:28:21,919
Speaker 1: thing that it brings to the Rose Bowl that Indiana

1623
01:28:22,000 --> 01:28:24,559
Speaker 1: does not that might work against it and help Indiana,

1624
01:28:24,640 --> 01:28:26,280
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right off the top.

1625
01:28:26,320 --> 01:28:29,639
Speaker 4: Next this is Querry in Company on ninety three five

1626
01:28:29,680 --> 01:28:33,040
Speaker 4: and one oh seven five the fan Okay Rose Bowl

1627
01:28:33,640 --> 01:28:36,160
Speaker 4: tomorrow four o'clock Indiana and Alabama.

1628
01:28:38,360 --> 01:28:41,200
Speaker 1: And with all the discussion we've had about this, and

1629
01:28:41,640 --> 01:28:45,760
Speaker 1: I talked a lot earlier about this Indiana team and

1630
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:48,679
Speaker 1: the Indiana you know all about the aura of Indiana,

1631
01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:55,559
Speaker 1: the past of Indiana. This Indiana team is coming in

1632
01:28:55,760 --> 01:28:59,240
Speaker 1: and they have you could say, if you wanted to,

1633
01:28:59,360 --> 01:29:02,320
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, you be correct, the weight of the

1634
01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:06,920
Speaker 1: world on their shoulders. They represent a school that has

1635
01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:11,320
Speaker 1: not won a bowl game since the nineteen ninety one

1636
01:29:11,439 --> 01:29:15,160
Speaker 1: season when Von Dunbar was their running back and they

1637
01:29:15,200 --> 01:29:19,240
Speaker 1: defeated Baylor and the Copper Bowl later known as the

1638
01:29:19,320 --> 01:29:27,160
Speaker 1: Insight dot Com Bowl, and the Indiana football program going

1639
01:29:27,200 --> 01:29:29,840
Speaker 1: into this season more losses than anybody in the history

1640
01:29:29,840 --> 01:29:37,479
Speaker 1: Division one. And there was a time where the upper

1641
01:29:37,520 --> 01:29:42,320
Speaker 1: echelon was the All American Bowl and getting excited about

1642
01:29:42,320 --> 01:29:45,280
Speaker 1: the Liberty Bowl and other such things. And now here

1643
01:29:45,320 --> 01:29:48,800
Speaker 1: they are and you can go into it and you

1644
01:29:48,800 --> 01:29:53,080
Speaker 1: can say, this moment is really big for Indiana. All

1645
01:29:53,120 --> 01:29:58,320
Speaker 1: of the hype, the promise, all the expectation, the media obligations,

1646
01:29:58,400 --> 01:30:00,840
Speaker 1: the parade, everything that goes in I'm not saying they're

1647
01:30:00,840 --> 01:30:02,599
Speaker 1: in the prey, but you know what I'm saying, everything

1648
01:30:02,600 --> 01:30:05,120
Speaker 1: that goes into the Rose Bowl. And the fact that

1649
01:30:05,160 --> 01:30:08,080
Speaker 1: with each game the stakes get bigger and each one

1650
01:30:08,120 --> 01:30:10,120
Speaker 1: of them. It is a moment and a place that

1651
01:30:10,880 --> 01:30:14,559
Speaker 1: most never thought they would see for Indiana. And you

1652
01:30:14,600 --> 01:30:18,760
Speaker 1: could say that that is advantage Alabama, because Indiana is

1653
01:30:18,800 --> 01:30:21,880
Speaker 1: going to look like the Hickory Huskers when they walk

1654
01:30:21,920 --> 01:30:25,200
Speaker 1: into Hinklefield House before Ali gets on the shoulders and

1655
01:30:25,240 --> 01:30:33,160
Speaker 1: measures the rim. Except for this, this Indiana team, as

1656
01:30:33,200 --> 01:30:36,479
Speaker 1: I spelled out earlier, is a band of misfits by

1657
01:30:36,520 --> 01:30:41,559
Speaker 1: their own definition, but it is true. Aiden Fisher points

1658
01:30:41,600 --> 01:30:44,680
Speaker 1: out this team is not going to see there's not

1659
01:30:44,720 --> 01:30:46,920
Speaker 1: a player on the roster that is going to face

1660
01:30:46,960 --> 01:30:49,160
Speaker 1: a program that recruited them the rest of the way.

1661
01:30:49,920 --> 01:30:54,799
Speaker 1: It's chip on the shoulder time. And Indiana's entire mantra

1662
01:30:54,880 --> 01:30:57,680
Speaker 1: this year has been about proving people wrong, and I

1663
01:30:57,680 --> 01:30:59,800
Speaker 1: don't think they feel like they've done that just by

1664
01:30:59,800 --> 01:31:03,320
Speaker 1: being Oregon and Ohio State. They feel there's more there.

1665
01:31:04,800 --> 01:31:07,240
Speaker 1: And you could say that the moment is too big

1666
01:31:07,280 --> 01:31:10,920
Speaker 1: for Indiana, but I would tell you that maybe the

1667
01:31:11,000 --> 01:31:14,200
Speaker 1: bigger pressure is on Alabama, where the moment is not

1668
01:31:14,280 --> 01:31:17,080
Speaker 1: big enough for what was expected for their roster coming in.

1669
01:31:19,080 --> 01:31:22,760
Speaker 1: Because every player on Indiana's roster when they were in

1670
01:31:22,880 --> 01:31:28,120
Speaker 1: high school were getting recruited by James Madison or Kent

1671
01:31:28,240 --> 01:31:35,000
Speaker 1: State or California or Indiana, none of them prominent, big time,

1672
01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:39,600
Speaker 1: historic football programs. They all just had a dream of

1673
01:31:39,680 --> 01:31:42,759
Speaker 1: going somewhere and getting the chance to play college football

1674
01:31:42,760 --> 01:31:46,280
Speaker 1: at a high level. Alabama's players were getting recruited by

1675
01:31:46,560 --> 01:31:52,040
Speaker 1: Alabama and Georgia and Florida and USC and they were

1676
01:31:52,040 --> 01:31:55,720
Speaker 1: coming out of IMG Academy and places like that, and

1677
01:31:55,800 --> 01:31:59,960
Speaker 1: they were dreaming of because Alabama's the kind of school

1678
01:32:00,040 --> 01:32:03,599
Speaker 1: where Alabama doesn't recruit you. You almost recruit Alabama. You're like, Okay,

1679
01:32:03,640 --> 01:32:06,680
Speaker 1: I've arrived now because Alabama's after me. That means I

1680
01:32:06,720 --> 01:32:09,640
Speaker 1: am in the top one percent of my class athletically

1681
01:32:10,120 --> 01:32:12,920
Speaker 1: and a football standpoint. And when you sign up to

1682
01:32:12,960 --> 01:32:16,679
Speaker 1: go to Alabama, especially players that are there right now,

1683
01:32:16,920 --> 01:32:21,599
Speaker 1: they virtually know nothing other than the Nick saban Era

1684
01:32:23,600 --> 01:32:28,280
Speaker 1: and Alabama players going into it. They know they are

1685
01:32:28,360 --> 01:32:32,320
Speaker 1: in a program where the expectation is the National Championship game,

1686
01:32:33,520 --> 01:32:38,080
Speaker 1: the floor is the National Championship game, and they know

1687
01:32:38,200 --> 01:32:41,800
Speaker 1: of the history does the Alabama roster all the way

1688
01:32:41,840 --> 01:32:46,120
Speaker 1: back to Bear Bryant and Joe Namath and Ken Stabler

1689
01:32:46,400 --> 01:32:50,360
Speaker 1: and George Tige and AJ mccerron and Cornelius Bennett and

1690
01:32:50,439 --> 01:32:56,519
Speaker 1: Sean Alexander and mark Ingram and Trent Richardson and all

1691
01:32:56,560 --> 01:32:59,240
Speaker 1: of the great players and Heisman winners of late that

1692
01:32:59,280 --> 01:33:01,800
Speaker 1: have come out of Alabama and everything that goes in

1693
01:33:02,120 --> 01:33:05,240
Speaker 1: with the mystique of the Nick saban and year after

1694
01:33:05,320 --> 01:33:09,160
Speaker 1: year after year national championships and wide open space players

1695
01:33:09,200 --> 01:33:13,200
Speaker 1: and all of that. That's the expectation, that's the entry

1696
01:33:13,320 --> 01:33:19,320
Speaker 1: level at Alabama. And you wonder if that mistique Chris Hagen,

1697
01:33:19,640 --> 01:33:24,800
Speaker 1: who himself grew up in Alabama, knows about Alabama, grew

1698
01:33:24,840 --> 01:33:27,920
Speaker 1: up with Mississippi State, but certainly knows about Bama. Spent

1699
01:33:28,040 --> 01:33:32,479
Speaker 1: time in Birmingham, has family down there. Chris Hagen, being

1700
01:33:32,479 --> 01:33:35,760
Speaker 1: out in Pasadena, asked Kurt Signetti the exact question of

1701
01:33:36,320 --> 01:33:39,040
Speaker 1: is that what does that mean for your band of

1702
01:33:39,120 --> 01:33:41,839
Speaker 1: misfits to go up against this program that has guys

1703
01:33:42,120 --> 01:33:46,160
Speaker 1: that are the upper elite of the upper elite. And

1704
01:33:46,200 --> 01:33:49,200
Speaker 1: Signetti had a great answer, you probably.

1705
01:33:49,000 --> 01:33:50,559
Speaker 6: Know more about the mistique than they do.

1706
01:33:51,520 --> 01:33:53,759
Speaker 9: I mean, our guys just know what they see on tape.

1707
01:33:55,560 --> 01:34:02,360
Speaker 1: And I think that's the point being Indiana is locked

1708
01:34:02,360 --> 01:34:06,519
Speaker 1: in and laser focused on the now, and Indiana's not

1709
01:34:06,520 --> 01:34:08,599
Speaker 1: worried about Joe Namath. They're not playing Joe Namath. They're

1710
01:34:08,640 --> 01:34:11,200
Speaker 1: not playing Set Alexander. It's like aj Moye said when

1711
01:34:11,240 --> 01:34:13,519
Speaker 1: Indiana was playing Duke in the two thousand and two

1712
01:34:13,640 --> 01:34:17,559
Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen, and he said, are we playing Jesus Christ

1713
01:34:17,640 --> 01:34:21,960
Speaker 1: and the Disciples? Because the jersey says Duke. The players

1714
01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:25,280
Speaker 1: they're playing right now are this year's version of Alabama,

1715
01:34:25,360 --> 01:34:29,240
Speaker 1: and Alabama's the one that has that legacy that might

1716
01:34:29,320 --> 01:34:33,000
Speaker 1: even be working against it because of the expectation that's

1717
01:34:33,040 --> 01:34:36,640
Speaker 1: tough to live up to. Now I'm thrilled for everybody

1718
01:34:36,680 --> 01:34:40,639
Speaker 1: in Indiana. I'm thrilled for Don Fisher. I'm thrilled for

1719
01:34:41,160 --> 01:34:45,200
Speaker 1: Trent Green. I'm thrilled for guys that had been Chris Diddo,

1720
01:34:45,560 --> 01:34:48,240
Speaker 1: that had been through the thick and thin of Indiana football.

1721
01:34:48,439 --> 01:34:50,759
Speaker 1: Dan Byron, my buddy, Mike Byron's dad who had season

1722
01:34:50,800 --> 01:34:54,240
Speaker 1: tickets back when no one did. No one had season

1723
01:34:54,320 --> 01:34:57,080
Speaker 1: tickets to Indiana. And Dan Byron's up there in the

1724
01:34:57,120 --> 01:35:01,680
Speaker 1: crowd doing the all right, all right, all right, okay, okay, okay,

1725
01:35:01,680 --> 01:35:05,960
Speaker 1: go hoo's yours go back before who's yours back? Before

1726
01:35:05,960 --> 01:35:09,320
Speaker 1: all that? And the people Andy Burt that took me

1727
01:35:09,360 --> 01:35:11,599
Speaker 1: when I was ten years old to go see Sam

1728
01:35:11,640 --> 01:35:15,519
Speaker 1: White's dre near winless teams and Bill Mallory's winless teams

1729
01:35:17,720 --> 01:35:22,960
Speaker 1: and his late grandfather who was on the board of trustees.

1730
01:35:23,000 --> 01:35:26,200
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled for all those people that Now the time

1731
01:35:26,280 --> 01:35:29,760
Speaker 1: is here Indiana in the Rose Bowl, the granddaddy of

1732
01:35:29,800 --> 01:35:32,640
Speaker 1: them all, not the traditional sense, but still the football

1733
01:35:32,640 --> 01:35:35,240
Speaker 1: gods aligned it. Where when Indiana got itself as a

1734
01:35:35,320 --> 01:35:38,160
Speaker 1: number one seed. The Rose Bowl is the ball in

1735
01:35:38,160 --> 01:35:41,519
Speaker 1: which they go in Pasadena, And yeah, it might not

1736
01:35:41,680 --> 01:35:44,760
Speaker 1: be Sonny in Pasadena, but it's Sonny in Hoo's your land.

1737
01:35:45,760 --> 01:35:48,559
Speaker 1: And it might not be hot in Indiana right now,

1738
01:35:48,920 --> 01:35:51,760
Speaker 1: but it's warm in terms of the feeling of what

1739
01:35:51,800 --> 01:35:55,080
Speaker 1: we're seeing unfolding before us. A chance three wins away

1740
01:35:55,080 --> 01:35:58,080
Speaker 1: from a national championship and the only team in Division

1741
01:35:58,120 --> 01:36:00,559
Speaker 1: One without a loss, for a team it had more

1742
01:36:00,600 --> 01:36:02,639
Speaker 1: of him than anybody in the history of college football

1743
01:36:02,640 --> 01:36:06,160
Speaker 1: going into the year now, a team without one going

1744
01:36:06,200 --> 01:36:10,080
Speaker 1: in and trying to defend themselves and be this band

1745
01:36:10,120 --> 01:36:13,600
Speaker 1: of misfits saying why not Indiana? And one of the

1746
01:36:13,600 --> 01:36:15,600
Speaker 1: guys that I'm thrilled for because I know what it

1747
01:36:15,680 --> 01:36:19,920
Speaker 1: means to him is Turnbuckle Bill. Turnbuckle Bill has been

1748
01:36:20,080 --> 01:36:24,160
Speaker 1: as loyal and is in deep and is in love

1749
01:36:24,200 --> 01:36:26,840
Speaker 1: with Indiana football. Is anybody you're ever going to meet?

1750
01:36:27,040 --> 01:36:29,400
Speaker 1: And I'm betting he's sitting around right now with candy

1751
01:36:29,439 --> 01:36:32,200
Speaker 1: stripe pants and a tank top bond, sitting there on

1752
01:36:32,200 --> 01:36:34,519
Speaker 1: his couch and he ain't moving till four o'clock tomorrow.

1753
01:36:35,160 --> 01:36:36,120
Speaker 1: Is that about, right? TB?

1754
01:36:37,400 --> 01:36:39,720
Speaker 9: That is pretty dog gone close except for I am

1755
01:36:39,720 --> 01:36:42,160
Speaker 9: going to go to the Mutt a little bit later

1756
01:36:42,200 --> 01:36:45,479
Speaker 9: on to uh to help him close out to love

1757
01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:49,439
Speaker 9: it and your your kind words, I'm sure are very

1758
01:36:49,439 --> 01:36:54,080
Speaker 9: well appreciated. With Mike Manley and Jennifer Manley and I

1759
01:36:54,160 --> 01:36:57,160
Speaker 9: said this yesterday, They're gonna be like MacArthur and the Philippines.

1760
01:36:57,280 --> 01:37:00,639
Speaker 9: They will return, they get they will get back. But

1761
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:04,320
Speaker 9: for right now and everything, Uh, it's going to be

1762
01:37:04,360 --> 01:37:07,160
Speaker 9: an empty building there at the UH at the corner

1763
01:37:07,200 --> 01:37:11,320
Speaker 9: of Tampon Shaven. But yeah, I wanted to talk about uh,

1764
01:37:11,520 --> 01:37:13,320
Speaker 9: talk about the Hoosiers. I mean, the first time I

1765
01:37:13,320 --> 01:37:16,360
Speaker 9: went to go see him was in nineteen sixty seven. Uh,

1766
01:37:17,200 --> 01:37:20,479
Speaker 9: I was at the Purdue game where they beat Purdue

1767
01:37:20,520 --> 01:37:22,920
Speaker 9: and ended up going to the Rose Bowls just for me.

1768
01:37:23,000 --> 01:37:25,599
Speaker 9: I was just a little kid, and uh my mom

1769
01:37:25,640 --> 01:37:28,760
Speaker 9: was on the faculty, and uh, we just fell in

1770
01:37:28,840 --> 01:37:31,680
Speaker 9: love with the team. And my dad was was the

1771
01:37:31,760 --> 01:37:33,599
Speaker 9: kind of guy who once you get behind the team,

1772
01:37:34,000 --> 01:37:36,680
Speaker 9: once you declare for them, you stick with him through

1773
01:37:37,120 --> 01:37:38,840
Speaker 9: thick and thin. Don't be one of these people that

1774
01:37:39,160 --> 01:37:42,000
Speaker 9: is a is a bandwagon jumper and everything. And those

1775
01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:44,400
Speaker 9: were a couple of great lessons that my parents left

1776
01:37:44,400 --> 01:37:48,760
Speaker 9: for me, especially with IU football. So uh yeah, it's

1777
01:37:48,800 --> 01:37:53,599
Speaker 9: going to be a great moment tomorrow. I don't I've

1778
01:37:53,600 --> 01:37:55,960
Speaker 9: been hearing a lot of analysis and everything about how

1779
01:37:56,040 --> 01:37:58,679
Speaker 9: Alabama cannot run the ball, that they don't have running

1780
01:37:58,720 --> 01:38:01,280
Speaker 9: backs that can they can do that. Their quarterback when

1781
01:38:01,360 --> 01:38:03,960
Speaker 9: he gets outside the pocket usually ends up being their

1782
01:38:04,040 --> 01:38:07,080
Speaker 9: leading rusher. But the thing is they're running backs. They've

1783
01:38:07,080 --> 01:38:09,320
Speaker 9: got three running backs that have got over three hundred

1784
01:38:09,320 --> 01:38:12,760
Speaker 9: and fifty yards a piece in the passing game. So

1785
01:38:12,800 --> 01:38:16,920
Speaker 9: the whole key is I see it for IU on

1786
01:38:17,040 --> 01:38:19,840
Speaker 9: defense is going to be how they stop those short

1787
01:38:19,960 --> 01:38:22,720
Speaker 9: intermediate dick and dunk type passes and everything that they're

1788
01:38:22,760 --> 01:38:27,920
Speaker 9: going to extend drives because Alabama, from what I saw

1789
01:38:28,000 --> 01:38:30,000
Speaker 9: and everything in the research I did, they're not a

1790
01:38:30,080 --> 01:38:33,600
Speaker 9: very good third and long team. They have they have

1791
01:38:33,720 --> 01:38:35,800
Speaker 9: to have it, you know, like a third and three

1792
01:38:35,880 --> 01:38:37,280
Speaker 9: or third and two or like that.

1793
01:38:37,439 --> 01:38:40,559
Speaker 1: Listen. I do think and I don't know the latest

1794
01:38:40,560 --> 01:38:41,840
Speaker 1: four gut. I don't think it's going to be raining

1795
01:38:41,920 --> 01:38:43,160
Speaker 1: during the game. I think it's going to be wet

1796
01:38:43,160 --> 01:38:44,479
Speaker 1: and sloppy, but I don't think it's going to be

1797
01:38:44,560 --> 01:38:46,479
Speaker 1: rained during the game. But Bill, I mean it when

1798
01:38:46,479 --> 01:38:48,160
Speaker 1: I say it, man, and I appreciate you going to

1799
01:38:48,960 --> 01:38:51,960
Speaker 1: the Mutt. They close it six to Billy Love Bill.

1800
01:38:52,200 --> 01:38:54,720
Speaker 1: Bill's the best, Yeah, and he's one of those that

1801
01:38:55,600 --> 01:38:57,360
Speaker 1: you know, man, I'm just happy for the guy. And

1802
01:38:57,400 --> 01:38:59,719
Speaker 1: Bill's been one of those he talks about loyalty to Indiana.

1803
01:38:59,720 --> 01:39:02,439
Speaker 1: He's been loyalty, loyal certainly from a radio standpoint, to

1804
01:39:02,439 --> 01:39:04,960
Speaker 1: both of John Gray dude. So I am thrilled that

1805
01:39:05,040 --> 01:39:06,880
Speaker 1: Bill's able to enjoy it. All right. So it's the

1806
01:39:06,880 --> 01:39:08,519
Speaker 1: crossover brought to you by the good guys that love

1807
01:39:08,560 --> 01:39:11,360
Speaker 1: heating and air Love dash HBAC dot com is the

1808
01:39:11,360 --> 01:39:14,680
Speaker 1: website three one seven, three five three twenty one forty one.

1809
01:39:14,760 --> 01:39:16,720
Speaker 1: John is here, but it's not because we're handing it

1810
01:39:16,760 --> 01:39:18,800
Speaker 1: off to him. As a matter of fact, pacers getting

1811
01:39:18,880 --> 01:39:21,320
Speaker 1: underway with the Orlando Magic coming up three o'clock. We'll

1812
01:39:21,320 --> 01:39:22,800
Speaker 1: talk to Pat Boyle in just a couple of minutes

1813
01:39:22,840 --> 01:39:25,479
Speaker 1: from now. But John, you are getting set over. I

1814
01:39:25,520 --> 01:39:28,439
Speaker 1: can hear you, like doctor Frankenstein over in the music lab.

1815
01:39:28,520 --> 01:39:31,360
Speaker 10: Right I'm in the music lab right now, hoping and

1816
01:39:31,360 --> 01:39:33,719
Speaker 10: praying I know what I'm doing at six o'clock because

1817
01:39:33,720 --> 01:39:36,920
Speaker 10: I have very little idea right here real. I'm paying

1818
01:39:36,960 --> 01:39:41,600
Speaker 10: everybody off with Manly's Irish Mutt, great pizza today to

1819
01:39:41,680 --> 01:39:43,880
Speaker 10: help me out with this because I'm freaked out a

1820
01:39:43,920 --> 01:39:44,320
Speaker 10: little bit.

1821
01:39:44,600 --> 01:39:46,280
Speaker 1: No, why are you freaked out? Because I have no

1822
01:39:46,320 --> 01:39:49,000
Speaker 1: idea what I'm doing. That's all right, that's the fun

1823
01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:49,200
Speaker 1: of it.

1824
01:39:49,360 --> 01:39:52,000
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I have kind of set New Year's Eve, man,

1825
01:39:52,040 --> 01:39:53,400
Speaker 10: you got that phone with it, right, Yeah, I've set

1826
01:39:53,439 --> 01:39:57,200
Speaker 10: the table for people to understand if there's a huge

1827
01:39:57,560 --> 01:39:59,840
Speaker 10: food bar mess that it's just me.

1828
01:40:00,240 --> 01:40:02,320
Speaker 1: And that's just kind of coming with a territory.

1829
01:40:02,400 --> 01:40:04,800
Speaker 10: So and get a shout out as you mentioned, and

1830
01:40:04,840 --> 01:40:07,040
Speaker 10: I know Bill said this as well with that call

1831
01:40:07,400 --> 01:40:12,559
Speaker 10: Mike Manly and Manly's Irish Mutt the last day as

1832
01:40:12,600 --> 01:40:15,760
Speaker 10: they are done after today. And Mike is a great guy.

1833
01:40:15,800 --> 01:40:17,960
Speaker 10: I've done many shows over there. He has been a

1834
01:40:18,000 --> 01:40:22,800
Speaker 10: great supporter of my show, our shows, this station for

1835
01:40:22,880 --> 01:40:25,639
Speaker 10: a number of years and a tenth and Shadel and Jake.

1836
01:40:25,720 --> 01:40:28,080
Speaker 10: That place is going to be missed. It is an

1837
01:40:28,080 --> 01:40:30,160
Speaker 10: indie original to its core.

1838
01:40:30,360 --> 01:40:32,960
Speaker 1: Great. It's a great place, no question. Circle Center also

1839
01:40:33,000 --> 01:40:35,519
Speaker 1: today the last day, right it is? I think they

1840
01:40:35,520 --> 01:40:37,519
Speaker 1: close that up all right, so you get underwey on

1841
01:40:37,680 --> 01:40:39,960
Speaker 1: b one oh five at what time six o'clock and

1842
01:40:40,040 --> 01:40:42,639
Speaker 1: we'll go until whenever I'm done. So if I jack

1843
01:40:42,720 --> 01:40:44,880
Speaker 1: around and can't work the equipment, and maybe six oh

1844
01:40:45,000 --> 01:40:48,000
Speaker 1: five if I'm good with it, it may it may

1845
01:40:48,040 --> 01:40:50,840
Speaker 1: be one in the morning, are you Yeah, well, I'm

1846
01:40:50,840 --> 01:40:52,479
Speaker 1: going to take you. Give me a request when you're

1847
01:40:52,520 --> 01:40:54,639
Speaker 1: riding people home later off you may have to take

1848
01:40:54,680 --> 01:40:58,599
Speaker 1: me home, but I'll just be dead sober I'm tired.

1849
01:40:58,720 --> 01:41:01,680
Speaker 1: Sor right, John Man, I fund with that Ja. That

1850
01:41:01,760 --> 01:41:03,880
Speaker 1: is Jamie. By the way, This from Chiefs Fan Steve,

1851
01:41:03,920 --> 01:41:07,519
Speaker 1: who spent his time yesterday reuniting a lost to own

1852
01:41:07,640 --> 01:41:10,200
Speaker 1: a dog with the owner. Said they both were crying

1853
01:41:10,280 --> 01:41:13,320
Speaker 1: and Steve's got a heart of gold, Chiefs Fan Steve,

1854
01:41:13,360 --> 01:41:15,200
Speaker 1: and he said, happy New Year. Just to inform you,

1855
01:41:15,240 --> 01:41:17,360
Speaker 1: I'm sixty three and I've said I'll see you next

1856
01:41:17,400 --> 01:41:20,960
Speaker 1: year four times already today. All right, fair enough, Steve.

1857
01:41:21,439 --> 01:41:24,040
Speaker 1: Pat Boylan joining us on the Java House Peel and

1858
01:41:24,040 --> 01:41:25,920
Speaker 1: Poor Guest line kind of it's actually the direct line

1859
01:41:25,920 --> 01:41:31,040
Speaker 1: over to Gambridge Field House Pacers Magic tonight and the

1860
01:41:31,120 --> 01:41:34,439
Speaker 1: lineup continue to kind of be shuffled around, Pat, who's

1861
01:41:34,479 --> 01:41:36,760
Speaker 1: in or who's out? Give me the familiarity of what

1862
01:41:36,760 --> 01:41:39,280
Speaker 1: we see here in the last lineup for twenty twenty

1863
01:41:39,360 --> 01:41:40,200
Speaker 1: five for the Pacers.

1864
01:41:40,720 --> 01:41:42,960
Speaker 11: Well, the good news, Jake is that's trending in the

1865
01:41:43,040 --> 01:41:46,240
Speaker 11: right direction. The Pacers are healthier than they've been in

1866
01:41:46,320 --> 01:41:49,320
Speaker 11: quite some time. Ben Sheppard questionable, he's going to play.

1867
01:41:49,360 --> 01:41:53,760
Speaker 11: TJ McConnell probable, he's available. So the Pacers right now

1868
01:41:53,840 --> 01:41:56,360
Speaker 11: are really just missing Tyre Saliburt and Isaiah Jackson and

1869
01:41:56,400 --> 01:41:58,920
Speaker 11: Obie Tompin. And I shouldn't say just with that, because

1870
01:41:58,960 --> 01:42:01,960
Speaker 11: those are three very very important players, including your best player,

1871
01:42:02,000 --> 01:42:05,240
Speaker 11: of course, but considering what the injury report has been

1872
01:42:05,280 --> 01:42:07,719
Speaker 11: for a lot of the year, that is a much

1873
01:42:07,760 --> 01:42:09,799
Speaker 11: slimmer list than most of the season.

1874
01:42:10,240 --> 01:42:12,920
Speaker 1: Pat, do you get the impression. I've talked about this

1875
01:42:13,080 --> 01:42:16,040
Speaker 1: with Scott Agnes a couple of others, but I'll get

1876
01:42:16,040 --> 01:42:18,759
Speaker 1: your thought on it. You know, the Pacers have gotten

1877
01:42:18,800 --> 01:42:21,680
Speaker 1: points from twenty four players this year. They have had

1878
01:42:21,720 --> 01:42:24,040
Speaker 1: to do ten day contracts, they've had to do hardships

1879
01:42:24,320 --> 01:42:27,439
Speaker 1: Tony East, and I've talked about this as well. Do

1880
01:42:27,520 --> 01:42:29,759
Speaker 1: you get the impression that even though there are times

1881
01:42:29,760 --> 01:42:32,360
Speaker 1: that are having to go out of roster necessity to

1882
01:42:32,400 --> 01:42:36,400
Speaker 1: put players out that they're also always looking at potential

1883
01:42:36,479 --> 01:42:40,840
Speaker 1: pieces that could be players next year that are in

1884
01:42:40,880 --> 01:42:43,280
Speaker 1: the mix for them, that could work their way into

1885
01:42:43,320 --> 01:42:45,439
Speaker 1: say a two way or some sort of an end

1886
01:42:45,479 --> 01:42:49,600
Speaker 1: of roster deal. Are they constantly auditioning that or is

1887
01:42:49,640 --> 01:42:52,840
Speaker 1: this more just out of literally necessity.

1888
01:42:53,320 --> 01:42:55,679
Speaker 11: Well, I think both of those things are probably true.

1889
01:42:55,720 --> 01:42:58,760
Speaker 11: If you look at the recent example Micah Potter, he

1890
01:42:58,920 --> 01:43:01,880
Speaker 11: was brought in in large part because Isaiah Jackson went

1891
01:43:01,920 --> 01:43:03,920
Speaker 11: down and Tony Bradley broke his thumb in a short

1892
01:43:03,920 --> 01:43:05,920
Speaker 11: period of time and they needed some frontcre depth. But

1893
01:43:05,960 --> 01:43:09,240
Speaker 11: I think the other part of your question, or perhaps point,

1894
01:43:09,240 --> 01:43:11,880
Speaker 11: if you are making it, is valid. I think everything

1895
01:43:11,960 --> 01:43:14,680
Speaker 11: is under review this year. I think you're seeing a

1896
01:43:14,680 --> 01:43:17,920
Speaker 11: lot of players that are perhaps auditioning for future roles

1897
01:43:18,080 --> 01:43:21,160
Speaker 11: as this team hopefully gets healthier and brings Tyreee Haliburton

1898
01:43:21,240 --> 01:43:23,840
Speaker 11: back next year. You know that includes guys like Andrew

1899
01:43:23,920 --> 01:43:27,120
Speaker 11: Nemhart I think who are established very good players in

1900
01:43:27,200 --> 01:43:30,160
Speaker 11: this league. Guys like Jeris Walker are obvious. But I

1901
01:43:30,200 --> 01:43:32,519
Speaker 11: think it's accurate all the way down the roster. This

1902
01:43:32,600 --> 01:43:35,519
Speaker 11: is a really good opportunity and a really good audition

1903
01:43:35,920 --> 01:43:38,439
Speaker 11: for a lot of different players. And as you say, now,

1904
01:43:38,439 --> 01:43:40,839
Speaker 11: with the two ways, you know you can carry eighteen guys,

1905
01:43:40,880 --> 01:43:42,920
Speaker 11: and the amount of players the Pacers have had on

1906
01:43:42,960 --> 01:43:45,439
Speaker 11: this roster has been substantial. I think Rick Carlisle is

1907
01:43:45,479 --> 01:43:46,400
Speaker 11: evaluating everything.

1908
01:43:46,680 --> 01:43:51,719
Speaker 1: Has Ben nick Maden been playing hurt?

1909
01:43:52,520 --> 01:43:55,519
Speaker 11: He has been playing not one hundred percent. He's referenced

1910
01:43:55,560 --> 01:43:57,479
Speaker 11: it a few times that the toe is just not

1911
01:43:57,880 --> 01:44:01,400
Speaker 11: back to one hundred percent and that it's still but

1912
01:44:01,560 --> 01:44:04,080
Speaker 11: not to the level where he or the team views

1913
01:44:04,120 --> 01:44:07,120
Speaker 11: he should be sitting out. So is that, you know,

1914
01:44:07,240 --> 01:44:09,920
Speaker 11: part of what's happened here in his last handful of games,

1915
01:44:09,960 --> 01:44:11,559
Speaker 11: I don't know. You know, when he came back, he

1916
01:44:11,720 --> 01:44:16,360
Speaker 11: was actually playing really well into early mid December. His

1917
01:44:16,439 --> 01:44:18,880
Speaker 11: numbers were great, and a lot of that you would

1918
01:44:18,920 --> 01:44:22,120
Speaker 11: assume was with that toe bothering him as well. So

1919
01:44:23,000 --> 01:44:26,000
Speaker 11: he had a pretty good game in Miami. But otherwise

1920
01:44:26,120 --> 01:44:28,639
Speaker 11: the last three weeks or so for him have been

1921
01:44:28,680 --> 01:44:30,960
Speaker 11: a challenge. He's not one hundred percent though, and I

1922
01:44:30,960 --> 01:44:33,120
Speaker 11: think that probably should be taken into the calculus of

1923
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Speaker 11: any sort of evaluation on Mathron right now.

1924
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Speaker 1: Pat, when I was a younger guy, late nineties, early

1925
01:44:39,120 --> 01:44:42,720
Speaker 1: two thousands, I'll use the Indy five hundred as my

1926
01:44:42,800 --> 01:44:46,040
Speaker 1: example here, there was a changing of the guard, and

1927
01:44:46,160 --> 01:44:48,760
Speaker 1: Rick Mears and Emerson Fitipaldi and al on. So all

1928
01:44:48,760 --> 01:44:51,720
Speaker 1: these names that we'd known forever all retired within about

1929
01:44:51,760 --> 01:44:53,519
Speaker 1: a three to five year span, and then you had

1930
01:44:53,520 --> 01:44:55,559
Speaker 1: new names that we were unfamiliar with that we had

1931
01:44:55,600 --> 01:44:58,160
Speaker 1: to get to know Lio kastraevs Ton Kanaan, Scott Dixon.

1932
01:44:58,400 --> 01:45:01,880
Speaker 1: The same is true in virtually all sports. Right have

1933
01:45:01,960 --> 01:45:04,519
Speaker 1: we seen that in the last year? It seems to

1934
01:45:04,560 --> 01:45:08,240
Speaker 1: me that we've seen this changing of the guard and

1935
01:45:08,280 --> 01:45:12,120
Speaker 1: this kind of shift with halftime shows, Like some of

1936
01:45:12,160 --> 01:45:14,840
Speaker 1: the halftime shows we've gotten to know and love seemed

1937
01:45:14,880 --> 01:45:18,120
Speaker 1: to be phased out or retired or moved on to

1938
01:45:18,200 --> 01:45:21,680
Speaker 1: other things or on the IR And now sometimes you

1939
01:45:21,720 --> 01:45:24,080
Speaker 1: and I have commented on this. Some of them are okay,

1940
01:45:24,200 --> 01:45:26,240
Speaker 1: and some of them feel like TIMU, but it feels

1941
01:45:26,280 --> 01:45:28,200
Speaker 1: like there's a new we have a new era of

1942
01:45:28,240 --> 01:45:31,160
Speaker 1: halftime shows. You see all of them? Am I correct?

1943
01:45:31,720 --> 01:45:35,000
Speaker 11: I'm sitting here gearing up to have the debate with

1944
01:45:35,040 --> 01:45:37,360
Speaker 11: you on whether it's no longer Lebron jeans and Steph

1945
01:45:37,439 --> 01:45:41,040
Speaker 11: Curry's league, and then we go halftime here. So yeah,

1946
01:45:41,120 --> 01:45:45,800
Speaker 11: I think that's probably accurate, although the gold standard to

1947
01:45:45,840 --> 01:45:48,720
Speaker 11: me is Red Panda, who is the Lebron James of

1948
01:45:48,760 --> 01:45:52,040
Speaker 11: halftime Act. She just goes and goes and goes and

1949
01:45:52,120 --> 01:45:55,639
Speaker 11: shows slot no sign of slowing down, including how impressive

1950
01:45:55,760 --> 01:45:57,840
Speaker 11: was it that she did it on the turf for

1951
01:45:57,840 --> 01:46:00,160
Speaker 11: at least I assume that's impressive, I would image, And

1952
01:46:00,160 --> 01:46:03,000
Speaker 11: it's harder to do that on the turf at Lucas

1953
01:46:03,040 --> 01:46:05,680
Speaker 11: Oil Stadium. And frankly was a little jealous that I

1954
01:46:05,760 --> 01:46:08,000
Speaker 11: wasn't there to witness it as many times as we've

1955
01:46:08,000 --> 01:46:09,640
Speaker 11: gotten to see it. That was a first for her.

1956
01:46:09,760 --> 01:46:13,599
Speaker 11: So she's still the gold standard and she's still going strong.

1957
01:46:13,760 --> 01:46:16,519
Speaker 11: But yeah, it does feel like we're seeing a little

1958
01:46:16,520 --> 01:46:18,080
Speaker 11: bit of a changing of the guard there.

1959
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Speaker 9: I would agree with that.

1960
01:46:18,880 --> 01:46:21,200
Speaker 1: I'm a little played out with the guy that balances

1961
01:46:21,280 --> 01:46:23,519
Speaker 1: the ladder on the chin. I mean, it's you know

1962
01:46:23,560 --> 01:46:27,920
Speaker 1: what I mean, like, Okay, it's impressive, but then after

1963
01:46:28,080 --> 01:46:29,920
Speaker 1: like by the time he gets a bicycle on there,

1964
01:46:29,960 --> 01:46:33,280
Speaker 1: you're just kind of like, okay, which is ridiculous because

1965
01:46:33,280 --> 01:46:35,280
Speaker 1: it's hard to do, right, I mean, but it just

1966
01:46:36,160 --> 01:46:38,320
Speaker 1: you know, you start to feel bad for him because

1967
01:46:38,320 --> 01:46:39,880
Speaker 1: you wonder how much he's driven off friends.

1968
01:46:42,120 --> 01:46:45,639
Speaker 11: Well, we've had this discussion before. To me, the number

1969
01:46:45,640 --> 01:46:47,559
Speaker 11: one question I would always ask any of these guys,

1970
01:46:47,600 --> 01:46:50,320
Speaker 11: including that guy, is how did you learn that you

1971
01:46:50,400 --> 01:46:52,720
Speaker 11: had a skill for this? I do now on once

1972
01:46:52,760 --> 01:46:55,400
Speaker 11: you started learning you have a skill, anybody can practice it.

1973
01:46:55,439 --> 01:46:57,519
Speaker 11: But it's almost like a chicken and an egg thing

1974
01:46:57,520 --> 01:47:01,519
Speaker 11: to me, because a did you did you realize that

1975
01:47:01,600 --> 01:47:04,800
Speaker 11: you could start balancing large objects on your chin just

1976
01:47:04,880 --> 01:47:07,120
Speaker 11: kind of out of the blue, or did you come

1977
01:47:07,160 --> 01:47:09,240
Speaker 11: to this realization that that would be a really cool

1978
01:47:09,240 --> 01:47:11,880
Speaker 11: thing to do and worked at it. I wish we

1979
01:47:11,880 --> 01:47:14,120
Speaker 11: could sit down with the ones that are regularly on

1980
01:47:14,160 --> 01:47:14,760
Speaker 11: tour and ask them.

1981
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying specifically which cases I'm talking about because

1982
01:47:18,120 --> 01:47:20,679
Speaker 1: I want to protect myself from a legal standpoint here, pat,

1983
01:47:20,680 --> 01:47:22,479
Speaker 1: But in some of the cases of the question you ask,

1984
01:47:22,560 --> 01:47:25,520
Speaker 1: I believe the answer goes as simple as this alcohol

1985
01:47:25,600 --> 01:47:26,559
Speaker 1: may have been a factor.

1986
01:47:27,840 --> 01:47:31,120
Speaker 11: Well, with any question, you can never totally take that

1987
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Speaker 11: out of it, I mean out of the equation. Although,

1988
01:47:33,520 --> 01:47:36,400
Speaker 11: although if that guy, if that guy could balance ladders

1989
01:47:36,439 --> 01:47:40,200
Speaker 11: and bikes with any sort of alcohol consumption, then that

1990
01:47:40,240 --> 01:47:41,400
Speaker 11: would be extremely impressive.

1991
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Speaker 1: Listen, I mean, it's cool to watch him balance the

1992
01:47:43,640 --> 01:47:45,800
Speaker 1: ladder until the one guy that looks like he might

1993
01:47:45,800 --> 01:47:48,920
Speaker 1: be some sort of an Eastern European wrestler comes out,

1994
01:47:49,200 --> 01:47:50,880
Speaker 1: puts a pole on his chin, and then a girl

1995
01:47:50,880 --> 01:47:53,080
Speaker 1: gets up and starts swinging off of it, and I think, okay,

1996
01:47:53,080 --> 01:47:56,200
Speaker 1: well that kind of trumps the ladder guy. The subtle

1997
01:47:56,240 --> 01:47:59,519
Speaker 1: competition of these folks is always entertaining, all right, Pat

1998
01:47:59,560 --> 01:48:02,479
Speaker 1: would be entertaining as well, along with the competition of

1999
01:48:02,479 --> 01:48:04,639
Speaker 1: the pacers and Magic. Mark Boyle will be there Eddie

2000
01:48:04,680 --> 01:48:06,720
Speaker 1: Gill as well. Pat. Happy New Year to you.

2001
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Speaker 11: Man, Hey, same to you, and thanks for allowing us

2002
01:48:09,320 --> 01:48:10,840
Speaker 11: to take a half hour out of your show today.

2003
01:48:11,120 --> 01:48:14,960
Speaker 1: Of course, of course my pleasure on a holiday, right

2004
01:48:15,439 --> 01:48:17,760
Speaker 1: on New Year's Eve, So Pat boy then we will

2005
01:48:17,800 --> 01:48:20,680
Speaker 1: send it out there just a couple of minutes, all right,

2006
01:48:20,720 --> 01:48:24,200
Speaker 1: a couple of other notes. Again, we will be back

2007
01:48:24,240 --> 01:48:28,040
Speaker 1: with you coming up on Friday, back to our normally

2008
01:48:28,080 --> 01:48:31,559
Speaker 1: scheduled programming. We will not be on the air tomorrow

2009
01:48:31,760 --> 01:48:35,639
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl four o'clock. That is obviously of the main

2010
01:48:35,720 --> 01:48:38,400
Speaker 1: importance and something we will talk a lot about coming

2011
01:48:38,479 --> 01:48:41,439
Speaker 1: up on Friday. And hopes that Indiana is on their

2012
01:48:41,479 --> 01:48:44,479
Speaker 1: way to the Peach Bowl and to Atlanta. J and

2013
01:48:44,560 --> 01:48:47,320
Speaker 1: B will we'll be with you after the game tonight,

2014
01:48:47,360 --> 01:48:49,479
Speaker 1: starting at six o'clock over on B for the J

2015
01:48:49,640 --> 01:48:52,599
Speaker 1: ANDB take over there, taking all of your requests heading

2016
01:48:52,640 --> 01:48:54,800
Speaker 1: up to New Year's and most importantly to all of

2017
01:48:54,840 --> 01:48:58,360
Speaker 1: you for twenty twenty five and into twenty twenty six.

2018
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Speaker 1: We had a lot of great times in two thousand

2019
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Speaker 1: twenty five, a lot of them. You know, obviously, the

2020
01:49:02,920 --> 01:49:06,640
Speaker 1: month of May is always great. The Pacers ride was unbelievable.

2021
01:49:07,320 --> 01:49:09,920
Speaker 1: The you know, Purdue and what they were able to

2022
01:49:10,000 --> 01:49:12,400
Speaker 1: do and getting back now is the number one team

2023
01:49:12,439 --> 01:49:14,560
Speaker 1: and still one of the best teams in college basketball.

2024
01:49:14,600 --> 01:49:17,800
Speaker 1: Goes without saying the Colts in their unbelievable start and

2025
01:49:17,840 --> 01:49:21,120
Speaker 1: then the ride that it's been with them to seeing

2026
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Speaker 1: where they are now. There has been so much to

2027
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Speaker 1: talk about, and I think we had a lot of

2028
01:49:26,320 --> 01:49:29,519
Speaker 1: fun in particular over the course of the summer when

2029
01:49:29,560 --> 01:49:32,120
Speaker 1: oftentimes it's kind of the doldrum time from a sports

2030
01:49:32,200 --> 01:49:34,800
Speaker 1: talk radio standpoint of figuring out what you're going to

2031
01:49:34,880 --> 01:49:39,120
Speaker 1: talk about, and just the collective camaraderie and the unison

2032
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Speaker 1: in which we celebrated what was a great sports calendar

2033
01:49:42,439 --> 01:49:45,320
Speaker 1: year in twenty twenty five was special. And I know

2034
01:49:45,360 --> 01:49:47,720
Speaker 1: I speak for Eddie, I know I speak for Nathaniel.

2035
01:49:47,760 --> 01:49:51,080
Speaker 1: I know I speak for Jeff James, for Kevin, for John,

2036
01:49:51,280 --> 01:49:54,680
Speaker 1: and you know myself certainly, and thanking all of you

2037
01:49:54,720 --> 01:49:57,439
Speaker 1: for making it possible for us to do that each

2038
01:49:57,479 --> 01:50:00,559
Speaker 1: and every day. I will figure out tonight game time

2039
01:50:00,600 --> 01:50:03,200
Speaker 1: decision whether or not I in fact do do Uncle

2040
01:50:03,280 --> 01:50:06,240
Speaker 1: Jake's taxi and give rides home. But either way, I

2041
01:50:06,280 --> 01:50:08,559
Speaker 1: hope that you are surrounded tonight by your friends, by

2042
01:50:08,560 --> 01:50:10,400
Speaker 1: your family, by the people that are the closest to

2043
01:50:10,479 --> 01:50:13,439
Speaker 1: you and the most rewarding as you celebrate in what

2044
01:50:13,640 --> 01:50:16,040
Speaker 1: is hopefully a healthy and prosperous, happy new year for

2045
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Speaker 1: all of us in twenty twenty six. I thank you

2046
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Speaker 1: for listening to a querying company.