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Speaker 2: Think about that for a minute.

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Speaker 1: Cause again, you know, early in any game you get

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Speaker 1: I think that's called domination in the business. You know

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Speaker 1: that Phoenix team that we can't solve h they beat

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Speaker 1: how is it possible that the defending world champions find

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Speaker 1: Are all their people that much better than our people

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Speaker 3: As we talked about, they've got some players, they've got

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Speaker 1: More happy for him? Well you, I mean that sounds grudging.

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Speaker 1: It's very grudging. Well, but I mean it's undeniable though

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Speaker 1: I mean it. It's just it doesn't mean I have

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Speaker 1: I do appreciate Well, why do you not appreciate it?

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Speaker 1: I don't like how they pay? So you're back to

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Speaker 1: you think they hit too much? They they they're they're

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Speaker 1: I I will never understand that. I mean, I understand

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I see. I don't want to go back

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Speaker 1: If if they subscribe to the working defensive theory that

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Speaker 1: I just can't be as begrudging because they're they're doing

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Speaker 3: As the defending champion. The effort is never in question. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: The basic difference of opinion, as he attempted to lay

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Speaker 3: I was running all the routes that he was talking about.

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Speaker 3: And you can tell he does just eat, sleep, and

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Speaker 1: Okay, see, it is just amazing.

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Speaker 3: A bigger thing though, And it's not just okay, see

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Speaker 2: You hate it more?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I know you're selling calls. Has always been

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Speaker 1: That's what I understand because in basketball it was once

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Speaker 3: When someone does it just to just to draw the foul.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I just I'm not sure I accept your

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Speaker 1: Ripping through to draw foul. I just more invested. But

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Speaker 1: it's not even part of it. Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I definitely am salty, and I and I'm admitting my

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Speaker 1: John's the mail carrier. I have no idea what he's smoking. NBA.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate your interest in the program, but I'm not

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Speaker 1: They play as good a team style of basketball offensively

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Speaker 1: But they don't have any kind of controversial, domineering personality,

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Speaker 3: Their professionalism cannot be cannot be denied. And the bigger

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Speaker 3: See here's another guy that's clueless. I mean, SGA has

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Speaker 2: Twenty years, and he can run the show.

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Speaker 1: He can do both. So we got people who either

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Speaker 1: Zech correct, and then tiny of submissions, but we'll always

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Speaker 1: take more. JG at kfan dot com. Russo Radio will

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Speaker 1: And I have rarely found in thirty some years of

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Speaker 1: every one of you global warming, but maybe but most

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Speaker 1: of you, I'm sorry. You're not objective, you are bothered

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Speaker 7: It's time for a doctor inbox.

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Speaker 3: Oh, we got letters every Thursday, right around four thirty

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Speaker 3: doctor Dan, do you think d Falvey meant it when

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Speaker 3: Jay Ryan, No, I don't know. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: To speak publicly about this that it's hard to trust.

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Speaker 2: Dude, doctor Dan.

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Speaker 3: he thinks, on the next coming to b FARV, and

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Speaker 3: now he's renaming my Brownstones. Him thinking on his feet,

436
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Speaker 3: like Jay Burrow trying to well, I don't know this sentence.

437
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 3: I tried my best behind a questionable offensive line and

438
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Speaker 3: a disinterested top receiver. You think Jay Burrow can do

439
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 3: a helicopter pick six pass, I doubt it with his

440
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 3: broken down body. Go ahead, run me out of town.

441
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 3: I think I have a year or two of eligibility left.

442
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 3: Don't hold your breath as long as Jay Burrow holds

443
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Speaker 3: onto the ball to watch me land on my feet.

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Speaker 3: Don't even think about putting me on any type of

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Speaker 3: practice squad. I'll out of town as fast as I

446
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,680
Speaker 3: can move through my pure progressions, and everyone knows how

447
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 3: fast that is. I'm still on the team, so I

448
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 3: won't speak ill of them. But what they What did

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Speaker 3: they expect drafting a quarterback that threw the ball like

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Speaker 3: five times a game in college? All right, doctor Dan,

451
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Speaker 3: time to go grease the rifle, to demolish the first

452
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Speaker 3: team defense and practice the rest of the year respectfully. M.

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Speaker 1: Brosmer, Well, here's what's interesting about that letter. So who

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Speaker 1: did M.

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Speaker 2: Brosmer start against the Seahawks?

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Speaker 4: Correct?

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Speaker 1: Seahawks? The s Seahawks? Does Philip Rivers if he plays,

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Speaker 1: who will he be playing against this Sunday?

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Speaker 2: Is that the Seahawks? The Seahawks? Wow? Yeah, good luck.

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Speaker 1: That's That's the scary part, is s Darnold. You know,

461
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 1: maybe looks more mortal from time to time, but that

462
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:57,440
Speaker 1: defense is really really good and kind of bone crushing,

463
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Speaker 1: and you do worry that if it's a forty four

464
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Speaker 1: erald quarterback. How soft are the bones?

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Speaker 6: You know?

466
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Speaker 1: I mean, is he ready for the onslaught Pee Rivers?

467
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Speaker 1: Because he's not. I wouldn't call your guy M. Brosemer

468
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Speaker 1: incredibly mobile, but I would say he's probably more mobile

469
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Speaker 1: than Pee Rivers at age forty four years old. So

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Speaker 1: he's gonna get if if if the pass rush gets

471
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Speaker 1: to him, he's gonna go down. He's gonna go down hard,

472
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Speaker 1: and then maybe you have to worry for for his life. M.

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Speaker 2: Brosemer.

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Speaker 1: Regardless of what happens, I think eventually he'll here's.

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Speaker 2: The thing on M. Brosemer.

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Speaker 1: He's whether it's here someplace else. I think he will

477
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Speaker 1: keep getting on rosters for sure. Now will he ultimately

478
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Speaker 1: ever have the chance to start. I want you to

479
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Speaker 1: take this in the right way, because I know you're

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Speaker 1: a Brosmer guy. I think it's probably more likely that

481
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Speaker 1: it would have to be via injury than necessarily. He

482
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Speaker 1: goes to camp and he wins the job, I think,

483
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Speaker 1: and that might not even be fair to him. That

484
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Speaker 1: might be underplaying what he can do. My guess is,

485
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Speaker 1: but sometimes you know how this works. Players get hurt

486
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 1: and then we got to play somebody Brosemer's next man

487
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Speaker 1: up and he comes in or another quarterback and puts

488
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Speaker 1: together three good games in a row, and suddenly, even

489
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Speaker 1: if he can't continue to play there, it opens the

490
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Speaker 1: door to the possibility of somebody else saying, you know what,

491
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Speaker 1: we're starting over. Maybe we'll take a look at Ambroseman.

492
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Speaker 1: One more quick one here. I need to press myself,

493
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Speaker 1: by the way, another agitator. Thunder are not twenty five

494
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Speaker 1: and one, Dan, They're twenty four and one for.

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Speaker 3: Now, for now, Dear doctor Dan, you were talking about

496
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 3: one of my movies recently. I appreciate your love for planes, trains,

497
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Speaker 3: and automobiles. Coincidentally, a scene from that movie reminds me

498
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 3: of your Timberwolve Squad. There's a scene where a driver

499
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 3: screams at Jay Candy, you're going the wrong way. In

500
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Speaker 3: my opinion, the wolves were better two years ago than

501
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Speaker 3: last year, and we're better last year than they are

502
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 3: this year. How do they turn the car around before

503
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 3: it bursts into flames and they're left driving a smoldering

504
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:09,160
Speaker 3: wreck down the playoff one and done highway. This from

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Speaker 3: s Martin the first time s Martin planes, trains and

506
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 3: automobiles oh god, Yeah, well they're drunk. How do they

507
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:17,880
Speaker 3: know where we're going?

508
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 4: Yeah?

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00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: Those are good scenes. I that's the tough part about

510
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: evaluating this team, it really is. You don't want to overreact.

511
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: But their job is to be sure that inertia doesn't

512
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 1: set in and they don't just fall back on We've

513
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: been here before, and even though I don't like that

514
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: we turn it on the way we do, we are.

515
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Speaker 2: Capable of turning it on.

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Speaker 1: But I'll say again, I don't even think we have

517
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Speaker 1: the same mixture of players that we did as recently

518
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Speaker 1: as a year ago, and that worries me, you know.

519
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 2: So it's to me again, it's there's two choices.

520
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: One you consider a big move, and maybe it is

521
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 1: for who's the bulls guard? Kobe White might who literally

522
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: who might? I mean that was more practical, right than

523
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:09,400
Speaker 1: James Harden? And who is the other guards? Who's Kyrie?

524
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: And even job?

525
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Speaker 2: And I think less baggage in his case than which

526
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Speaker 2: Yoah or.

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Speaker 1: Finsh. He's got to find a way to keep throwing

528
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Speaker 1: the kids out there. Now here's the other possible. What

529
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Speaker 1: if the possibility one of the other possibilities is they're

530
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Speaker 1: not as good as we thought they were. Yeah, you

531
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Speaker 1: know that that can be. It's the old deal of

532
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: like deal. Couldn't you make the argument on Dilly that

533
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: the best thing that the Wolves could have done, even

534
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Speaker 1: last year. And I don't know how the rules work

535
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 1: on this when it's a number one pick, but wouldn't

536
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: he have been better served going to minor league basketball? Probably?

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00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: I mean, Baron Jay's going there right now. I just

538
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Speaker 1: I don't know how all that works. But in all honesty,

539
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Speaker 1: it looks like he's one of those guys who, if

540
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Speaker 1: he has it in him, he just needs to go

541
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Speaker 1: out there and and and play forty two minutes. And

542
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: you obviously can't play him forty minutes or even thirty

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00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: minutes right now. They don't feel comfortable doing that. And

544
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: so I'm trying to figure out how do you get

545
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: out of the box with Dilly? You know, how do

546
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: you get to that other place where then he becomes

547
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Speaker 1: more viable?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're all waiting for the light bulb to

550
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: go off in his head, but it hasn't so far.

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00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,239
Speaker 1: We have plenty more to go up to break here

552
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: on our second second, let's get caught up. I'll continue

553
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Speaker 1: to read a number of good texts that are coming in,

554
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Speaker 1: and then we'll prepare for RUSSO Radio big showdown game

555
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Speaker 1: for your Minnesota while tonight against the hated Dallas Stars.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's time for a Doctor Dave's inn Box letters.

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Speaker 1: He gets your letter, all right, part two? Right now,

558
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 1: there's so many like in the same topic, all SGA related.

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00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 2: No, there's a few SGA related. We may get to those.

560
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Speaker 3: But I think all that the Inbox today has done

561
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Speaker 3: is affirmed to me that we made the right call

562
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Speaker 3: on the Snonami name yesterday. Dear Doctor Dann, haven't been

563
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Speaker 3: a consistent listener of the program, but I would love

564
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Speaker 3: to compliment your pure progression of your show. Your ability

565
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Speaker 3: to go from politics to the thunder to the vikings

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Speaker 3: is quite impressive. Jay McCarthy. Dear Doctor Dan, you are

567
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Speaker 3: the ultimate passer pure progression expert. So let me ask

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Speaker 3: you this and this actually I think you need to

569
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Speaker 3: respond to. All right, what type of progression does a

570
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Speaker 3: quarterback go through when c Stallions provides you with the

571
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 3: defensive play ahead of time? Would that be considered the

572
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Speaker 3: umpire progression? Sincerely, the Big Ten in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Who did this was somebody was our text yesterday after

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Speaker 1: you left. It was allions related. It might have been

575
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: during Yeah, I think he came in when Mace was on.

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00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: You left during Mace, right, didn't leave about four thirty

577
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: I did, Yes, Yeah, there was one of those there too.

578
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Speaker 1: I I don't even I don't even have that of

579
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: Michigan right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not good for anybody, including J McCarthy. No,

581
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Speaker 3: it isn't.

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Speaker 1: I mean I I'm again going to try to take

583
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: the high road, and I'll probably get ripped for it

584
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: because I have apparently been too positive today. The if, if,

585
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: if J McCarthy ends up not being what we all

586
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 1: hope that hoped he would be when we drafted him,

587
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: it'll be an easy, you know, conspiracy theory to say, well,

588
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: I think that might have helped him a little. But

589
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to think above that and think

590
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: it'll have more to do with the fact that he

591
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: might be another example of a really good college quarterback

592
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: who just couldn't make enough of the throws on a

593
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: consistent enough basis, couldn't be a pure progressive progression guy

594
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Speaker 1: enough to end up being a star at this level.

595
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: But it's what we said before when things like this

596
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: have come up, put it laid back up. If if

597
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy had had a great season, and or if

598
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: let's say next year he's the starter and he's wonderful,

599
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: then this stuff goes away fast, right, people will do

600
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: the jokes are not going to be as relatable to

601
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Speaker 1: people to.

602
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Speaker 6: Say, oh, yeah, well yeah, he's not as good because

603
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 6: he doesn't know the plays, or he no longer has,

604
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 6: you know, for knowledge of what kind of defensive formation.

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Speaker 1: Don't have to worry about it being disguised because he knows

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00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: what it's ultimately going to be. So that's what happens

607
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: when you don't play quite as well. Every conspiracy known

608
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: a man will come forward. If you're great, then people

609
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,959
Speaker 1: will say, well, maybe they did cheat, but it's obvious

610
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: he's also pretty damn good.

611
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Speaker 3: Last one, by the way, we've got no fewer than

612
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Speaker 3: eight that included pure progression in the letter somewhere, And

613
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 3: I'm sorry I couldn't get to everybody that wrote a

614
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 3: pure progression letter to doctor Dan's inbox, but I just

615
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 3: want to say that I have seen all of them.

616
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Speaker 3: I appreciate all of them. I couldn't get to all

617
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Speaker 3: of them unfortunately, But I will get to this one. Okay,

618
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Speaker 3: your doctor Dan, can you tell whomever drafts me? I

619
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Speaker 3: am much more than just a pure progression passer. F Mendoza.

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Speaker 1: F Mendoza, Well we before we knew because Sunday sermons

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Speaker 1: took place before the most recent JJ McCarthy start. It

622
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: did so context it matters. So part of the Sunday

623
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Speaker 1: bit was should we be flopping for Fernando? And I

624
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Speaker 1: you know me, I'm actually not a guy who believes

625
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: in tanking anyway, right, And I don't even think if

626
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: NFL tanking is very, very difficult, there's such a thing

627
00:33:55,880 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: as tanking responsibly, I think. But I'm gonna try to

628
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: rise above my rose cut, my no my cream and

629
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: crimson colored glasses. When it comes to university football. I

630
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 1: love the way the kid throws I Now, there are

631
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:16,879
Speaker 1: people who are bothered by his demeanor after games. They

632
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: think he's too goofy. They may be bothered, I guess,

633
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: in some cases by the religious message because it's very

634
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 1: front and center with him. Yeah, he almost comes off

635
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: like he was half you know. After the game, he

636
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: was just like talking in cliches. I gotta tell you

637
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: something that might make him at the next level less

638
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 1: interesting for a radio show like hours week to week.

639
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: But I also actually think it means there's gonna be

640
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Speaker 1: a less chance that there's ever gonna be anything controversial

641
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 1: about anything he does. It's gonna get in the way

642
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: like pouting, moping. If he doesn't make it, it's gonna

643
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: be just because he's not good enough or maybe not

644
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Speaker 1: mobile enough. But the throws he has made in four

645
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Speaker 1: games this year with the game on the line, those

646
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,399
Speaker 1: are big league National Football League throws. Yes, I mean,

647
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Speaker 1: and he's big too, by way. I think he's a

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Speaker 1: six four to sixty five. He can't he's not really mobile,

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Speaker 1: although he's run pretty well college.

650
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Speaker 2: But I Heisman finalists.

651
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: I don't know what approach they use at Indiana University

652
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: to the offense. All I know is when they needed

653
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 1: to have like a not a checkdown pass, but a

654
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: twenty five yard laser a dart, he'll throw it.

655
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 2: He threw.

656
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: It's time, all right.

657
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 2: Last one?

658
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Speaker 1: And I did not write this one, but you could have.

659
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Speaker 1: I did not write this one. I just wanted to

660
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,439
Speaker 1: throw that out there. I don't write any of them. Yeah,

661
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: Dear doctor Dan, thank you for your support. Nobody understands

662
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: how dangerous it is out here. Can't tell you how

663
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 1: many times I've tripped over a door threshold. Crazy, how

664
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: dangerous those are? And what about tree roots that move sidewalks?

665
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: Don't get me started.

666
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 3: And I'll never go to the state fair of any

667
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 3: kind because those people walking by with those strollers they

668
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,359
Speaker 3: bump into you. You hit the ground immediately. It's weird

669
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 3: that I'm a world class athlete and have absolutely no balance,

670
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 3: but it is what it is sometimes, doctor Dan, thanks

671
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 3: for your support.

672
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 2: S g Alexander.

673
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Speaker 1: You couldn't help it, could you. You had to do it.

674
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: It's clever. Somebody took the time. It's very very well done.

675
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: It's very very well done. There's no question.

676
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 3: I do want you someday to watch his rookie season

677
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 3: highlights with the Clippers. Okay, they're breathtaking, as in, in

678
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 3: what sense do you think he wasn't doing that yet?

679
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 2: He hadn't he hadn't developed that yet. It was the

680
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 2: way he wasn't a.

681
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: Prom it's prominent a player either. Everything is now watched

682
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: with him. Here's well. I don't want to relitigate it

683
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 1: because we're just we're on you know, there's very few

684
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: things we disagree on. We have found two that would

685
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:53,240
Speaker 1: be one, and I'm I'm again going with every NBA

686
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: analyst I respect, even those who occasionally do say. Look,

687
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: there's some calls because he's I will grant he's very

688
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 1: subtle and good about not extending the arm to create space.

689
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 2: But here's what everybody says, be honest with him. Everybody

690
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 2: I know.

691
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 1: Says that's the key to getting that call, whether you're

692
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 1: SGA or not, it's the subtle ability to not extend.

693
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: We've say we say this about wide receivers or even

694
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: even defensive backs. It's the extension of a push as

695
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: opposed to close contact.

696
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 2: So I still believe that a lot.

697
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: You may be the purest but there's a lot of

698
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: people here now because now they're turning it into why

699
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: didn't say they weren't great. I'm just saying I don't

700
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 1: want to watch them. Fine, but that's a different subject. Esthetically,

701
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: you can have who you like to see or who

702
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 1: you like to watch, but then don't be fraudulent about

703
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,879
Speaker 1: saying no team basketball to the NBA. They don't share

704
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 1: the ball. They're always worried about their individual stats because

705
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: they are the end tithesis of that Brian, maybe to

706
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: the point of they bore people too much because they

707
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 1: don't have enough other stars. All right, top of me,

708
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: our break, Russo Radios. That's what that's what's coming up next.

709
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: That is the plan outstanding. We'll do that and then

710
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 1: we'll prepare for Well, we're out at five forty five, right,

711
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: I got it, So let's talk some some puck. Big

712
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: game tonight for your favorite hockey team. I've got some

713
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: material in that regard for Russo next. Russo Radio is

714
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,760
Speaker 1: indeed back with us the while back at action tonight

715
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: against the dall Us Stars. I had pulled this story

716
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 1: to discuss earlier. Now I apologize for the fact that

717
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: it's not an athletics story, okay, but it's serving a

718
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: purpose in terms of the message I'm going to try

719
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Speaker 1: to convey to you.

720
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 2: This is out of CBS Sports.

721
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: With each passing day, it looks more and more like

722
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: hockey fans will get a prize fight between two heavyweights

723
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: in early May. That's because the Dallas Stars have started

724
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: to match the mighty Colorado Avalanche in this NHL season.

725
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: For weeks now, the Lanches sat atop the NHL Power

726
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,919
Speaker 1: Rankings lost to total two games in regulation. I don't

727
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: even think about moving then they just stay fixed at

728
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: number one. However, was in the case this week. Stars

729
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,800
Speaker 1: are making a real case to be our top team

730
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,439
Speaker 1: as they meet the level of their Central Division rival

731
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: Dallas is one four in a row eight zero two

732
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: and its last four eight zero and two in the

733
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: last it's last four that Matt even I know that

734
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 1: math doesn't add up. The Stars haven't lost in regulation

735
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 1: since November eighteen. It's already getting me excited did for

736
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: the inevitable playoff clash between these two Stanley Cup contenders.

737
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: I bring this up because obviously the Wild are playing

738
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: the Stars tonight, and I keep dreaming about a day

739
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: and even if we have to cheat to get there,

740
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 1: if we have to like cokes calls, the penalties that

741
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 1: we don't even deserve, where we are considered one of

742
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: those heavyweights, right, you know, we're considered one of those

743
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: teams that everybody else is shooting for, because it does

744
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:30,800
Speaker 1: sound like that's what Dallas represents. And I assume in

745
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: the meantime, you'd say, well, the next best thing is

746
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 1: all right, knock these some of these teams off every

747
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: once in a while to try to sort of build

748
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 1: yourself to eventually getting in that kind of rarefied air.

749
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,959
Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, no doubt.

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Speaker 8: I mean that that is the concern obviously with the

751
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 8: type of playoff format that's in the NHL, is that

752
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 8: you know, last year of the Whild went down to

753
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 8: the other bracket and played Vegas and I actually played

754
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 8: quite well and could have usually won that series, but

755
00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 8: they obviously didn't. But it just seems like, you know,

756
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 8: you're inevitably in this type of playoff format going always

757
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 8: now it's cyclical, but you're always going to play Colorado

758
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 8: or Dallas, it seems, uh in the first round, and

759
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 8: right now that absolutely looks like the case you know,

760
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 8: the Wild unless they have you know, a huge, huge meltdown,

761
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 8: they are in a position where it really looks like

762
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Speaker 8: they're going to finish third in the division and Dallas

763
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 8: or Colorado are going to finish one or two.

764
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Speaker 4: So you're playing one of those those two teams.

765
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,320
Speaker 8: Now, if you're a Wild fan, you might want to

766
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 8: just play the Avalanche because the while to beat the

767
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 8: Avalanche twice, only lost to them once in their playoff

768
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 8: tenure and have never beat the Dallas Stars in the playoffs.

769
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 8: So Dallas Stars are a great hockey team. They've build

770
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,360
Speaker 8: building towards this. They are a true Stanley Cup contender

771
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 8: as this, I mean, this is a team that's got

772
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 8: one regulation lost all season on the road, and their

773
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 8: goal differentials outstanding. They get great goaltending, they're blue line

774
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 8: is outstand I mean, they're just up and down the lineup.

775
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,280
Speaker 4: Out really team.

776
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 8: And they just lost Sagan for this, so they're going

777
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,320
Speaker 8: to get that cap hit to go out and make.

778
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:04,280
Speaker 4: Some significant moves.

779
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 8: So they're also going to add and so they are

780
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 8: going to be a true, true contender for any team

781
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 8: that's going to play them in the first round. And

782
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 8: you're right, I mean the wild at some point they've

783
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 8: got to beat any in the first round to start

784
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Speaker 8: to be considered amongst the best.

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Speaker 1: Can you give us what do we have in terms

786
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 1: of I know, you're not with the club at this

787
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: moment until I'm told, in fact that you're in a

788
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: place that is even colder than the Twin Cities are

789
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: going to be this weekend. Is that correct?

790
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 2: Yeah?

791
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 8: Minus twenty two and I had to run to over

792
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 8: a team USA hotel at I think two o'clock or

793
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 8: one o'clock for a sit down with their coach. And

794
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 8: I had to get to a meeting on a zoom

795
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 8: back of my hotel, so instead of taking the skyways,

796
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Speaker 8: I decided to just walk two blocks.

797
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 4: And thought I was going to die.

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Speaker 8: I was not, because I walked from the skyway to

799
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 8: that hotel. I did not go with a jacket or anything.

800
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 8: But I had to get to this meeting. It was

801
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 8: a nightmare getting here. It's the coldest I think I've

802
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 8: ever been in my life. Thought I was going to croak,

803
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 8: But yeah, Joe Smith has been He just was on

804
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 8: the four game road trip, and Joe has got this

805
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 8: three of the four games on this homestand because I'm

806
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 8: away from the team and he's been doing a tremendous job.

807
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 8: And you know, he was at the morning skate today

808
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 8: and reported the injuries and Rossie was back on the ice,

809
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 8: but no timetable for him. In fact, I talked to

810
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 8: somebody close to Rossi and I think it even might

811
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 8: be pushing it for him to play this weekend.

812
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 4: So we'll see a.

813
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,280
Speaker 8: Lot of it's gonna be depending on how he plays.

814
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,399
Speaker 8: But it's a long season and you do not want

815
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 8: him reaggravating this injury because it was a broken bone

816
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 8: that needs to heal fully and it just would be,

817
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 8: you know, ridiculous to me if it's to force him

818
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 8: in the lineup as he injured.

819
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 2: As they are.

820
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 8: Fleno's still out with the lower body injuries and skating.

821
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 8: Hennestroza had that major lower body injury that he suffered

822
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 8: in Chicago, with Lino in that the same game not

823
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 8: not playing, and Zucarello, who were both ding the other

824
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 8: night in Seattle in the head area. They've both been

825
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,800
Speaker 8: put on IR so which tells me that they're probably

826
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Speaker 8: in concussion protocol and with IR you have to miss

827
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Speaker 8: at least seven days, so they're not even eligible to

828
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 8: return until next Tuesday against the Washington Capitals.

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Speaker 1: I want you to weigh in on the Zukerrello hit.

830
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: Louis thought it was a perfectly good, clean, hard hit

831
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: that that that people are overreacting to. It's been, in fact,

832
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: it's been one of his pet peeves that he thinks

833
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: one of the changes in the leg. He believes, now

834
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: this could be wishful thinking, but that in his day

835
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 1: there was a willingness to sort of grudgingly accept a good,

836
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: clean hit, not being something that you had to exact

837
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 1: revenge for. It was the cheaper place that that obviously

838
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:51,880
Speaker 1: he didn't like. But he thinks that it's changed that

839
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:56,240
Speaker 1: there's a cacophony where teams take offense to a hard

840
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: hit that is absolutely legal, as opposed to saying, okay,

841
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,399
Speaker 1: they got the one, we're gonna we'll try to come

842
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:01,839
Speaker 1: back later.

843
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 2: What did you make of it?

844
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 8: Well, first of all, I don't even know how to

845
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 8: spell the word cacophony, So I will figure out how

846
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 8: to spell that.

847
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 4: I'm thinking it's like probably c aco, probably p h

848
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 4: O n Y. Did I get it right?

849
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: That's very good?

850
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, so and.

851
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 8: Go throw that into one of my next articles, just

852
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:23,359
Speaker 8: for you know what in giggles. What a great word. Yeah,

853
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 8: I mean I thought it was a clean hit. I look,

854
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,880
Speaker 8: I don't I mean clean hit. There's there's different perspectives

855
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 8: on what a clean hit is. He took advantage of

856
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 8: a vulnerable player there, but his job is to is

857
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 8: to eliminate the player, and he sure did that. Unfortunately,

858
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 8: Zuki went flying in his head. You know, I think,

859
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,320
Speaker 8: you know, took the brunt of the hit. And also

860
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:48,319
Speaker 8: probably was exasperated by him hitting the ice. Look, you

861
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 8: in a lot of leagues, if you get any part

862
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 8: of the head, you're out of the game.

863
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:54,240
Speaker 4: That's not the rule in the NHL.

864
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:58,879
Speaker 8: The NHL is some play where the hitting the head

865
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 8: is unavoidable, and this one if the principal point of

866
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 8: contact is not the head.

867
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 4: And I think there's one.

868
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 8: View that clearly shows that originally it was shouldered to chest,

869
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 8: that it's just most likely going to brush off the

870
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 8: head as well. Now, you know, there's definitely a debate

871
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 8: that that in today's day and age of science and

872
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 8: how bad head injuries could affect you later in life,

873
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 8: that anything to the head should be a non negotiable thing.

874
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 8: You should be kicked out of the game and suspended

875
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 8: and all that stuff. That's not the role in the NHL.

876
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 8: So letter of the law in the NHL, it's clean

877
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 8: in terms of the other subject and the word cacophony.

878
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 8: You know, I've covered the look, I've covered the league

879
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 8: a long time. I do think that now become sort

880
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:40,720
Speaker 8: of an epidemic that any hit you have to exact

881
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 8: revenge for. But you know that had that was also

882
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 8: the case in the nineties when I started too. If

883
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 8: a guy got taken advantage of, it's not the player's

884
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,399
Speaker 8: job on the ice to just figure out right away,

885
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 8: all right, is it clean or not. I think anybody

886
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 8: from the Wild bench that saw Zucarello go down that

887
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:00,040
Speaker 8: way felt like it was a dirty hit, and he

888
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 8: did to be taken care of.

889
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 4: So I have.

890
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:06,399
Speaker 8: Absolutely no qualms whatsoever with the way that guys like Coroll,

891
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,319
Speaker 8: Caprisov and Danella You're Off reacted in the moment, you know,

892
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,919
Speaker 8: when you see a loved teammate have such a.

893
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 4: Scary hit like that.

894
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 8: I don't think it's up to Danella to say it

895
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 8: was the principle point of contact the hit. I thought

896
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:21,399
Speaker 8: that Deanella You're Off for the rest of his time

897
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 8: in Minnesota gained incredible amount of points for the way

898
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 8: that he reacted there. He truly made me respect him more.

899
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 8: And I already, as Wild fans know by reading my writing,

900
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 8: had an incredible amount of respect for that kid.

901
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 4: So and corollred he.

902
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 8: Doubted the relationship and the friendship that he has with

903
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 8: Matt Zubrello and how much he cares for Mats. We

904
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,319
Speaker 8: saw it there, So yeah, I mean, Louis is one

905
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 8: hundred percent right. But I also have no I think

906
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 8: that most fans would want teammates to react to a

907
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 8: teammate getting hit.

908
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 1: Like that that badly. Yeah, that's what the Wild did, right.

909
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: That's almost like a different subject. I get that part

910
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: of it too. Do you know who's in net tonight?

911
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: I feel bad asking you these questions. I know you

912
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: do get attention even though you're not there.

913
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 8: Who's Yeah, yeah, Gus gustuson And I actually thought that

914
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,839
Speaker 8: was I had a feeling that when Joe would go

915
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 8: to the morning skate that that that would be what

916
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 8: he would tweet out because it just felt me that

917
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 8: the last time that the Wild went into a game

918
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 8: against Dallas that they were absolutely devastated by injury. They

919
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 8: started volstat in a second NHL start, and it was

920
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,319
Speaker 8: a disaster, and they put him in a spot where

921
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 8: John Hines actually went to the back of the plane

922
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 8: on the flay home and apologized to him and to

923
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 8: make sure that he was okay, because they put him

924
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 8: in an unenviable.

925
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 4: Position because they didn't want to because.

926
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 8: They were their other goalie was hurt, so they had

927
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 8: to call him up and they on a second of

928
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:47,919
Speaker 8: back to back in Minnesota Dallas second of back to back.

929
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:49,840
Speaker 8: I don't think I think it was gustuson that they

930
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 8: didn't want to start. It was either Gusta Fleury that

931
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:54,280
Speaker 8: was hurt. So I didn't think that with the number

932
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 8: of injuries the Wild have tonight, that they would put

933
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:58,359
Speaker 8: him in that position. But the other thing is, as

934
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 8: bad as the Wild have been against the Dallas Stars,

935
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 8: not winning a regulation game against them since twenty twenty one,

936
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 8: Gustison's numbers are better than any goalie in the league.

937
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:08,360
Speaker 4: Against the Dallas Stars.

938
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 8: He's got a two to zho one goals against average

939
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:13,280
Speaker 8: at a nine to thirty seven save percentage that's amongst

940
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 8: active goalies, the best that any goalie with at least

941
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 8: I think six starts has played against that team.

942
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 4: So it's gonna be a tough game tonight, but I

943
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 4: think they wanted to go with the veteran for that reason.

944
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 8: This is not, as some people on Twitter pointed out

945
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 8: John Hines punishing Jeff Bervalstat for not being on top

946
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 8: of his game against the Canucks.

947
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:34,920
Speaker 4: This was I think a way to tropably put you.

948
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 8: Know, Gus in a better position on this homestand and

949
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 8: go with the veteran that has one played Dallas well,

950
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:42,439
Speaker 8: but two might be able to handle being behind such

951
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 8: a shorthanded lineup that the Wild they're going to have

952
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 8: iced tonight at Grand Casino Arena.

953
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: Do you trust the Dallas Stars on the level that

954
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 1: from the story that I quoted from, I mean, are they?

955
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:57,880
Speaker 1: I mean, do you what give us a scouting report

956
00:49:57,880 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: of the team that the Wild will see tonight?

957
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 4: Do I think that Dalla?

958
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 8: In fact, we just did a poll in the Athletic

959
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 8: where we pulled all the Hockey Raiders to give their predictions,

960
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 8: and I have Dallas winning the Cup. I just think

961
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 8: that the best team in the conference and the league

962
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,840
Speaker 8: right now. I think that the deepest team in the

963
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:18,359
Speaker 8: conference in the league, and that's knowing that Colorado has

964
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 8: lost two games in regulation. The Avalanche right now, again,

965
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:24,879
Speaker 8: I think they're gonna make moves, but I think from

966
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 8: a bottom six standpoint, like, I just don't think they're

967
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 8: deep enough right now. I think they rely heavily on

968
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 8: Nathan McKinnon, Cal mccarr and Landeskog and Yhus and they're

969
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,359
Speaker 8: kind of, you know, real top heavy, where Dallas I think,

970
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 8: is just a deeper team. From start to finish, and

971
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 8: have I think the best goalie right now between those

972
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 8: two teams and Jake Ottinger, you know, I think, And

973
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 8: by the way, Odinger doesn't lose in Minnesota, so tonight

974
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 8: will be a tough game for the while, there's no

975
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 8: doubt about it. But I do I love the Stars,

976
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 8: I love the way they've built that team, and I

977
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 8: do think that they are at the end of the

978
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 8: day here in the NHL, they're going to be a

979
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 8: team that's going to be real tough out in the playoffs.

980
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 1: Any interesting trade rumors at this point is it's still

981
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:12,320
Speaker 1: a little bit too early for all that stuff to congeal.

982
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 4: You know, It's funny.

983
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:18,359
Speaker 8: I got to meet Quinn was his mom today because

984
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 8: she works for USA Hockey Ellen Hughes, and really desperately.

985
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 4: We talked for ten minutes that I didn't ask all the.

986
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 8: Rumors going on with Quinn because I didn't want to

987
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 8: put her in that position. But Quinn is the one,

988
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 8: the big name right now that looks like a lot

989
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 8: of teams are coming after him, and I think that

990
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 8: there's a lot of belief out there that he just

991
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 8: wants to play with Jack and Luke in New Jersey,

992
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:40,880
Speaker 8: his brothers. But you know, the one thing just talking

993
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 8: to Ellen today, the one thing that made it, you know,

994
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 8: that I was reminded of is that he grew up

995
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 8: a Red Wings fan, and you know it's from that area,

996
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:53,439
Speaker 8: and I and the Red Wings have what it takes

997
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 8: to maybe get them. So I think the Red Wings

998
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:56,880
Speaker 8: are in on him. I'm actually going to see the

999
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 8: Red Wings and Oilers play here in a couple hours

1000
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 8: here in Edmund Him that's pretty much the big one.

1001
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 8: I mean, look, there's a lot of Canucks that are

1002
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 8: on the trade block right now. From a Minnesota wild perspective,

1003
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 8: you know, Bill Garon continues to scour. I think you're

1004
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 8: really worried about secondary scoring here. They just had three

1005
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 8: days of scouting meetings that just wrapped up in Vegas.

1006
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 4: So I'll be interested.

1007
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 8: You know, there is a holiday roster freeze in the

1008
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 8: NHL for seven days starting on the nineteenth.

1009
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:24,919
Speaker 4: And this is the league.

1010
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:26,760
Speaker 8: As I've told you many many times, I know fans

1011
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:29,760
Speaker 8: are tired of hearing. You know, sports writers make excuses

1012
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 8: for teams and say it's a hard lead to trade in,

1013
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:33,760
Speaker 8: but there hasn't been a real trade in the NHL

1014
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 8: since the summertime, and it is hard. And reason is,

1015
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 8: if you look at the NHL standings, it's really upside down.

1016
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 8: A lot of the teams that a lot of people

1017
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 8: thought would be crummy are near the top of the league.

1018
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 8: So a lot of those players. But Buffalo is a

1019
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 8: team that I think is going to make some moves.

1020
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 8: Alex Tuck I think could be on the move. I

1021
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:53,240
Speaker 8: think Wild fans are praying to goodness that th Thompson

1022
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 8: will eventually say I want out of there. I watched

1023
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 8: Tage play a couple of nights ago here in Edmonton,

1024
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 8: and he was just sensational against the Oilers. Awesome, and

1025
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 8: then Alex Tuck coincidentally scored the overtime winner of that game.

1026
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 8: And I got to talk to Tuck after the game,

1027
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 8: and I think he knows everything that's going on around

1028
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 8: him as well. He wants a lot of money as

1029
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,880
Speaker 8: a free agent. So I think Buffalo and Vancouver are

1030
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:13,919
Speaker 8: the two teams right now in the NHL that every

1031
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 8: GM in the league is really paying attention to.

1032
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: We should probably check in with you on the Olympic

1033
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: rink situation. We talked to Louis a little bit about it.

1034
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: And I don't know how much time you spent talking

1035
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:28,280
Speaker 1: to sources, but we keep getting these these horror stories

1036
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 1: that nothing's you know, it's going to be downly like

1037
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 1: to the last day, and there's a question of I

1038
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 1: guess in some cases, well, I guess that the in

1039
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 1: terms of the dimensions, that's a FATA complete. There's nothing

1040
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:42,360
Speaker 1: they can do about that. Now, are there any safety

1041
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: concerns at this point? Because I thought there were a

1042
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 1: couple of quotes from NHL people basically saying, well, if

1043
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 1: this keeps up, you know, we're gonna have to take

1044
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,239
Speaker 1: a long, hard look at that. Is that just bravado

1045
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 1: a threat or a meaningful threat or what are you

1046
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:53,880
Speaker 1: hearing on that front?

1047
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 4: I think it's a little bit of both.

1048
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 8: I mean, Chris Johnson and I are actually the ones

1049
00:53:57,239 --> 00:53:59,840
Speaker 8: that copenn that story last week, that's right, Yeah, I

1050
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 8: mean you know, like literally Bill Dally did not know.

1051
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 8: I mean, originally we were told that we were wrong,

1052
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 8: and then by the end of the day they realized

1053
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 8: we were not wrong. When we told them that if

1054
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 8: you do the math here, that the dimensions of the

1055
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 8: rink is less than an NHL rank.

1056
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 4: And the reason why it was a big deal. Not

1057
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:16,440
Speaker 4: that it's a huge deal to shave three feet off.

1058
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 8: The reason why it's a big deal is that the

1059
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 8: league somehow didn't know that USA Hockey somehow didn't know that.

1060
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,279
Speaker 8: Most of the players association didn't know. The only one

1061
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 8: that seemed to know was Canada. And one big reason

1062
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 8: is because they're just used to sort of converting the

1063
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:32,840
Speaker 8: metrics and when everything was given to them a needs

1064
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 8: they realized that the rink was not up.

1065
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 4: And the reason why there's a big deal is.

1066
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:39,360
Speaker 8: That the I'm by the end of the NHLPA, it

1067
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 8: was supposed to be two hundred by eighty five, and

1068
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 8: so it wasn't. So it's kind of embarrassing that somehow

1069
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,920
Speaker 8: this wasn't figured out. But in terms of the quality

1070
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:49,839
Speaker 8: of ice and the safety measures, it is a huge deal.

1071
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:52,880
Speaker 8: Like this building is not is not built yet. Like

1072
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 8: as far as I know, I'm the only North American

1073
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:57,319
Speaker 8: writer that has been to this building. Because when I

1074
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 8: was there in Milan in August, I took an Uber

1075
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 8: ride out there and I couldn't believe. I mean, the

1076
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 8: patally didn't have a roof, there was no infrastructure around

1077
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 8: the arena, there was no roads in we had a

1078
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 8: park like three hundred meters away and I had the

1079
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Speaker 8: Uber driver just stand there as I took pictures. And

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Speaker 8: so it's it's like the men the United States and

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Speaker 8: Canada here in Edmonton right now, they play on Saturday

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Speaker 8: night their last game, and it's the women's tournament that

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Speaker 8: actually starts on February fifth at the Arena, and the

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Speaker 8: building is not supposed to be completely complete until February second,

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Speaker 8: so that's ridiculous. The hope is is that January ninth

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Speaker 8: to eleventh, they' at least have the ice plants in

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Speaker 8: and the ice in a having event, and that they'll

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Speaker 8: be able to at least even though the building maybe

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00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 8: isn't fully constructed around it, which is hard to believe,

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Speaker 8: that the ice will be constantly being used where they're

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Speaker 8: going to make sure that it's that it's completely safe,

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Speaker 8: because again you're talking about three four games a day

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Speaker 8: that's going to be played on this ice, and we're

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Speaker 8: talking NHL men on these on these ice, and so

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Speaker 8: you know, they got to make sure that this ice

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Speaker 8: is going to stand up. And you know, in two

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Speaker 8: thousand and six in Torino, that was a tournament that

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Speaker 8: was really you know, bashed a lot by by the

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Speaker 8: ice conditions and the way that the arena was built.

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Speaker 4: And so I just think this is a.

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Speaker 8: Major issue in a league where really they get no

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Speaker 8: benefits from going to the Olympics. They don't get any

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Speaker 8: financial benefits. They're sending all their revenue generators over there.

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Speaker 8: And we've seen situations before with dominic cash at John Taveres.

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Speaker 8: Guys have gotten hurt at the Olympics shaped or last year.

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Speaker 4: At the at the Four Nations.

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Speaker 8: I mean, heck, we saw Jewel Eriksonet come back with

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Speaker 8: a broken leg, you know. So, like guys get hurt

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Speaker 8: at these things. And to have a situation where the

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Speaker 8: IHF has not had a building that's complete yet and

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Speaker 8: an ice that has been tested on with the Olympics

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Speaker 8: in less than two months is just mind boggling to me.

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Speaker 1: All Right, well, just try to stay warm as much

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Speaker 1: as you can. We've had some weird popping during this interview.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's because of the conditions. Maybe your equipment just

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Speaker 1: doesn't work as well when it's minus fifty degrees fahrenheit.

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00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:06,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, that could be it. It could also be that

1118
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:08,319
Speaker 4: I'm like hopped up on caffeine. Right now, so.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do toouncing off the walls, save travels. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk talk next week. Thanks man, all right, see it

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Speaker 1: take Russell Radio who helps us out each and every

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Speaker 1: week of courses on with pa plenty as well. We

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Speaker 1: have only one segment left in today's show because we've

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Speaker 1: got some vikings programming to get into and what's Thursday.

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Speaker 1: So we got major vikings programming and then we got

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Speaker 1: Minnesota wild hockey. So we'll wrap up, give you the

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00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 1: highlights and low lights of a very controversial, polarizing program

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Speaker 1: today and maybe even get to a bizarre done as

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Speaker 1: a society item as well. Don't Go Away programming on

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Speaker 1: the Fan this evening presented by American Pressure Commercial Braid

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Speaker 1: Pressure Washer since nineteen seventy five.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for the show.

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Speaker 4: Rap It's the Bumper to Bumpers show wrap.

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Speaker 1: I know the answer to this question because it's not

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00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: related to what your answer would be to this question,

1136
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: because it's not related to shake. Gilles Alexander, I think

1137
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: have you either seen or rented the horror motion picture

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00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 1: that actually had some some significant popularity in the theaters.

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00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 1: I want to say, was it last summer? I don't

1140
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 1: remember exactly when it was called Weapons. No, knowing how

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00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:41,280
Speaker 1: you are about horror films, I assumed that would be

1142
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:47,040
Speaker 1: your answer. Some of you have seen it. I didn't

1143
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 1: love it, Mike. I liked it because it was creepy, gross.

1144
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 1: But my issue with it is I thought it went

1145
00:58:56,080 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 1: back and forth too much between trying to be horror

1146
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 1: and almost satiric, you know, like, I don't need if

1147
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:05,240
Speaker 1: you want to sell me on this is.

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00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 2: This is grim and dark.

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00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: I want it to be consistent throughout the film, but

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00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:19,960
Speaker 1: that's just taste. Amy Madigan played the key Weapons character.

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Speaker 1: Her name in the film is Aunt Gladys. Aunt Gladys

1152
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 1: is not quite as non threatening as the name itself

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00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 1: might suggest. That's all I'm gonna say. I don't want

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00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 1: to ruin it for people. She's the key to a

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00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 1: certain extent evil figure that sets into emotions so much

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00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 1: else that goes on in the film. Well, apparently Variety

1157
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 1: did an interview with her and they I don't know

1158
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 1: if they asked her this question or she volunteered this.

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00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 1: Amy on why her Weapons character, Aunt Gladys resonates so

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00:59:54,240 --> 01:00:03,080
Speaker 1: deeply with audiences. Quote, people actually like Aunt Gladys. They

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Speaker 1: kind of want to hang out with her. I'm very,

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01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 1: very happy and grateful that the gay community and the

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01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: drag community have really accepted Gladys. The people that I've

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Speaker 1: talked to have said, we're the other, we're the outsider,

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01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 1: and we're not supposed to fit in, and Gladys does

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01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 1: in a weird way, and now they have really helped

1167
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: her spread her magic around. As one piffy, snarky online

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Speaker 1: individual noted via X. In the film, among other things,

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Speaker 1: she forces a gay man to headbut his boyfriend to death.

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Speaker 1: Oh now, this strikes me as one of those examples

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01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 1: of where you're trying too hard to make whatever politically

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Speaker 1: correct statement that you think that you're gonna feel better about,

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01:00:54,960 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 1: or you are taking what is essentially a horror film

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01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:05,200
Speaker 1: to another place that it doesn't belong because it's gonna

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Speaker 1: make you feel better about yourself or your relationship with

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Speaker 1: the quote unquote gay community. I have actually no idea,

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Speaker 1: but it's like, what are you smoking. You're trying too

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01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: hard to be sociological in a way that I don't

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Speaker 1: think has any damn thing to do with the film.

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Speaker 1: And again, if you come out of this film going,

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Speaker 1: you know, Aunt Gladys is misunderstood. God bless you, but

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01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 1: that's I think for most people not going to be

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Speaker 1: there first tid. Now, if you want a like her

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01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 1: in a almost like im a Cobs sort of way,

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01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:42,840
Speaker 1: I guess you could. But the idea that I'm feeling

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Speaker 1: pretty good about myself with the gay community because I

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Speaker 1: was told, you know, that we could kind of relate

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01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 1: to that character, to a character who routinely, on the

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Speaker 1: basis of a very complicated potion and mixture of things

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Speaker 1: including blood, revels in killing people. Now she may have

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01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: her own reasons for that, but murders still murder. As

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Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned, the idea is like, you scratch

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Speaker 1: your head, and so why are you why are you

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Speaker 1: trying this hard to create these sorts of this this

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Speaker 1: notion that there's something sociological here that I can pat

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Speaker 1: myself on the back feeling better about that. Boy, you know,

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Speaker 1: the gay community is really accepted. Aunt Gladys, in one

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Speaker 1: of the grossest parts of the film, basically directs.

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Speaker 2: That this is a married couple.

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Speaker 1: What is the principal of the school spoiler alert, sorry,

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Speaker 1: murders significant other, Like I said, headbutting him about four

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Speaker 1: dozen times it's just it's yeah, it's the whole you know,

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Speaker 1: not your kind of film.

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Speaker 2: No, it is not definitely not no, it's not. Now

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Speaker 2: if the person.

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Speaker 1: Being headbutted with Shake Gilders Alexander, you probably would love it.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 1: Your space would say, all right, what do we were

1209
01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 1: out early for Vikings programming?

1210
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Speaker 2: Yep, what's the power of Power?

1211
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:08,640
Speaker 3: It's the Vikings podcast, Vikings Tailgate, okay, and then Wild

1212
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 3: Stars coverage starts at six forty five puck drop seven.

1213
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:15,640
Speaker 1: So Vikings Tailgate is it like they're actually in a

1214
01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 1: tailgate lot and then they do shows from there. They

1215
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 1: do interviews kind of it's Sya Onminson the comedian. Oh

1216
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 1: that's right, who has one of his comedian buddies from

1217
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:25,920
Speaker 1: the other side joints. So it's like you're at a

1218
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:29,520
Speaker 1: tailgate because they're just going back and forth about their teams.

1219
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Speaker 2: That's good, gotcha, it's good.

1220
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Speaker 3: And Tatum Everett does the podcast in or to usually

1221
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 3: join sometimes they have a player.

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Speaker 2: It's good. All right, So that's good. Line up the

1223
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Speaker 2: rest of tonight.

1224
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Speaker 1: If you missed earlier parts of the show, Sean Salisbury

1225
01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 1: went deep at I mean it was like, if you

1226
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 1: need more in your life, yeah, if you haven't gotten

1227
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 1: enough this week, Salisbury's for you. Yeah, Well unless you

1228
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 1: believe in it, and then you might be disappointed by

1229
01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:58,320
Speaker 1: the fact that he he doesn't hate it. He says

1230
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Speaker 1: he understands it. It's not his he doesn't prefer it.

1231
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:04,280
Speaker 1: So he's on the k Warner the Kurt Warner side

1232
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:07,280
Speaker 1: of this thing, Orlovsky's on the on the on the

1233
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 1: KOC who's our offensive coordinator? West Phillips, West Phillips their side,

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01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:14,920
Speaker 1: right they believe? Are they religious about pure progression at

1235
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Speaker 1: this point? They must be, because that's all they've talked about.

1236
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:18,640
Speaker 1: It is pure progression. Now they've been asked about it.

1237
01:04:18,680 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 3: Fairness to them every press conference now since the original

1238
01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 3: they brought it up West did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how it began, and that's how it all began,

1240
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:25,800
Speaker 1: and then Koc had.

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Speaker 3: To talk about it. Speaking of OARLASKI, did you see

1242
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:30,440
Speaker 3: his Joe Mauer related tweet yesterday that he was doing

1243
01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:32,680
Speaker 3: a high school game last night? Orlovsky was and he

1244
01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:37,080
Speaker 3: was essentially the Gatorade Player of the Year in two

1245
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:39,840
Speaker 3: thousand in Connecticut, I think is where he's from. And

1246
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:43,040
Speaker 3: he had huge numbers, but I think he lost the

1247
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:45,680
Speaker 3: National Player of the Year to Joe Mauer back then

1248
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:47,960
Speaker 3: because they had they had a graphic of it, and

1249
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 3: he tweeted it and said, Joe Mauer, who which with

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Speaker 3: all his.

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Speaker 2: Yardage and all this thing. So you know, twenty five

1252
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:55,840
Speaker 2: years later.

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01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 3: It's still buds of the bugs, which is I thought, hilarious, funny.

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01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:02,919
Speaker 1: That's even know our Alawski, you know, but I guess

1255
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:03,760
Speaker 1: that probably makes sense.

1256
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:04,120
Speaker 2: Sling it.

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01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:06,640
Speaker 1: He could sling it, that's true. Doctor Dan's inbox was

1258
01:05:06,680 --> 01:05:10,840
Speaker 1: four point thirty. A major disagreement on between guards Em

1259
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 1: and Oklahoma City Thunder and the fans are eighty well

1260
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 1: the thunderness nearly well yeah, but yeah, because Harden is

1261
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:20,280
Speaker 1: where I went hardened and Luca and Thunder for sure

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01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:22,200
Speaker 1: a part of it. And Russo Radio five oh two

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Speaker 1: back tomorrow at three. We hope you join us then