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Speaker 2: Now Dateline Dallas.

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Speaker 1: That's where Russo is for tonight's showdown game Wild and

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Speaker 1: the Stars.

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Speaker 2: All our coverage. Extended coverage will.

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Speaker 1: Start at seven pm tonight, with opening face off schedule

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Speaker 1: for just past eight o'clock this evening, Russo, give me

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Speaker 1: your philosophy on oh My More. Generally, when I bring

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Speaker 1: who say, doesn't matter that much in hockey playoffs Stanley

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Speaker 1: Cup playoffs compared to the NBA playoffs. So I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to obsess over it. I've never suggested any team

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Speaker 1: if I have a shot at home ice, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: take it. I I want every advantage I can get,

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Speaker 1: knowing it doesn't guarantee anything, but given the fragile nature

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Speaker 1: mind a couple extra home games potentially to make.

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Speaker 2: Some money, I say, if you have a chance to

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Speaker 2: go for it. Go for it. What do you say?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you. I mean, I you know,

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Speaker 3: I was gonna make the same joke kind of quick

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Speaker 3: Leopold love them to go for the extra home game.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: My philosophy selfishly is when it's in a great city

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Speaker 3: to start on the road. Yeah, I want the extra

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Speaker 3: a I actually think sometimes it's easier to start on

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Speaker 3: just think that, you know, if the wild you know,

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Speaker 3: I always like I was, you know, and then if

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Speaker 3: I like that. I think in this series it is

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Speaker 3: very different because historically, and I've said this a few

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Speaker 3: times to people, you know, since I've covered this franchise

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Speaker 3: the last twenty one years, this franchise historically Dallas has

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Speaker 3: they just don't play very well here, don't have a

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Speaker 3: And then it home. You know, look in in the

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Speaker 3: So you know what, I could guarantee you that whatever

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Speaker 1: Here's another, uh, that's not that complicated a question, but

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Speaker 1: Does the same apply here or do the Wild look

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's that. I mean, they're no secrets. I mean,

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Speaker 1: That seems fair. Gosh's in in the NAT tonight, yep, yep.

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Speaker 3: You know, up and down. You know, he's had really

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Speaker 3: you know, it's Gus's I am not worried about Gus.

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Speaker 1: If you are ranking hockey towns right now in the NHL,

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Speaker 2: Where would you put Dallas? How high up?

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Speaker 3: Oh? That's a loaded question. I mean, look they uh yeah,

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Speaker 3: You know. They they they come out and support their team.

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Speaker 3: Let's put it that way. I think it's a good

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Speaker 3: But these are Rabbit fans like they are in every

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Speaker 3: reality is is that they have always like when I

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Speaker 1: Covered many a game there as well, back in the

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Speaker 1: old expansion Dallas Mavericks days. When you say fans can

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Speaker 1: That's fine, text rights, smart hockey people around the country

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Speaker 2: That sounds good.

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Speaker 1: But I mean we've actually not been very good at

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Speaker 3: Have we No, they are not at home during the postseason.

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Speaker 3: They shouldn't be playing in the first round, but they are.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, they started off as the retro jerseys,

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Speaker 3: do that when you when you when you like, because

433
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Speaker 3: I don't think they've lost the game seven actually, so

434
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Speaker 3: there'd be no way they could have been up three

435
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Speaker 3: to one.

436
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Speaker 2: Uh. This came up much earlier in the show. And

437
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Speaker 2: I don't know how much you.

438
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Speaker 1: Know about how the TV deal here works, but six

439
00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:34,359
Speaker 1: one two guy and a couple of other people are

440
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Speaker 1: upset that this game, being an important one, is on

441
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Speaker 1: ESPN Plus.

442
00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:38,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

443
00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,760
Speaker 1: Is the NHL really that clueless? Somebody tried to tell

444
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,200
Speaker 1: me that like direct TV, you actually get ESPN Plus,

445
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,080
Speaker 1: But then I don't know what the blackout rules are,

446
00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:49,560
Speaker 1: how they apply, What do you know about that any

447
00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:50,840
Speaker 1: of that stuff in terms.

448
00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,119
Speaker 3: Of yeah, I mean, it's absolutely ridiculous. I was talking

449
00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 3: to both teams broadcasters this morning at the morning skate

450
00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,879
Speaker 3: and and to me, it's insane that this if you're gonna,

451
00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:02,320
Speaker 3: if they're gonna swipe this game, you know, then put

452
00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:04,520
Speaker 3: it on ESPN. But the fact that you need you know,

453
00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,239
Speaker 3: you know, the app to do to see it is

454
00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:12,840
Speaker 3: just absolutely ridiculous, you know. Uh, and the blackout rules,

455
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:17,080
Speaker 3: I don't know if I would sure hope that if

456
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,000
Speaker 3: you have direct TV in Minnesota that you'll still be

457
00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 3: able to watch the game. But but you know it

458
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,720
Speaker 3: is if ESPN plus, if you got to pay for it,

459
00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:26,760
Speaker 3: who knows. I mean, it's it's just the whole blackout

460
00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 3: rule is so archaic today's day and age where everything

461
00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:34,240
Speaker 3: is online, you know. And and obviously TV is a

462
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Speaker 3: huge issue in Minnesota right now with panduel going extinct

463
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Speaker 3: after the playoffs after the first round essentially, and the

464
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,239
Speaker 3: Wild they're really obviously working behind the scenes on how

465
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Speaker 3: they're going to show their games next year. You know,

466
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Speaker 3: whether it's a streaming or over the air or a

467
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Speaker 3: combination of both. It's gonna be really fascinating with the Wild,

468
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Speaker 3: you know, roll out here, come come next season.

469
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Speaker 1: Well, the good news is the game will be on

470
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Speaker 1: the fan tonight. You get it via the iHeartRadio app.

471
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Speaker 1: You can get via one hundred point three the fan

472
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,119
Speaker 1: lengthy pregame show seven to eight. Although Guardian I have

473
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,720
Speaker 1: both speculated that it's not going to be that much

474
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Speaker 1: work for Falls because all he's going to do is

475
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Speaker 1: rerun and re rack a series of interviews, probably with

476
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Speaker 1: you among them. From his feeling for Pa earlier today,

477
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,520
Speaker 1: there's not going to be any original work on there.

478
00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 1: We're we're just assuming.

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Speaker 3: God, that was today. That seemed like eight ages ago.

480
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 3: That was a painful, painful experience, that one that I

481
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Speaker 3: obviously put out on my head.

482
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Speaker 2: What's coming? Wow?

483
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like it is amazing to me that that Fonnas

484
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,560
Speaker 3: is actually going to work a total of four hours today.

485
00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:38,080
Speaker 3: That's crazy. I'm precedent a full pregame show three hours

486
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 3: and then the five or six minutes that he's on

487
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Speaker 3: the air during the game.

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Speaker 2: Pretty impressive, very impressive.

489
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Speaker 1: We look forward to you reading what you get out

490
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Speaker 1: of this game tonight. We'll be watching tonight and listening.

491
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Speaker 1: Of course, I'm the fan and we will talk next week.

492
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Speaker 3: Thank you, no problem, and I expect a text message

493
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Speaker 3: from Fallness any second.

494
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Speaker 1: I guarantee be surprised. If you don't get it, that's

495
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Speaker 1: for sure.

496
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Speaker 2: Thank you.

497
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Speaker 1: Russo Raadan be good dateline Dallas, Texas Big One tonight.

498
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Speaker 1: So the tiebreaker is ungettable. In other words, if the

499
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 1: Wild do no better, then end up with the same

500
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Speaker 1: number of points as the Stars.

501
00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 2: The Stars get whole ice.

502
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Speaker 1: So by definition, you have to win in regulation tonight,

503
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,199
Speaker 1: and then obviously you have to keep winning and hoping

504
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 1: that the Dallas Stars who schedule have not checked, maybe

505
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 1: stubs its toe afterwards as as well.

506
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Speaker 2: Somebody is also telling.

507
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Speaker 1: Us they believe that if you have Hulu, you can

508
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 1: get the game via Hulu tonight, and this is another example. Well,

509
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,399
Speaker 1: you know what, let's break we can talk about this

510
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,360
Speaker 1: a little more detail about what all this technology has

511
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 1: rot In a lot of ways, it feels like there's

512
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 1: more options and more availability, but in other ways, I

513
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Speaker 1: think it actually feels even more constraining.

514
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Speaker 2: We'll get to that.

515
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Speaker 1: There's an NFL controversy that we need to get to

516
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 1: as well, related to well whether the National football is

517
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 1: being is under investigation as we speak by the government,

518
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,960
Speaker 1: and who knows where else we go. We got one

519
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Speaker 1: more All the President's Men of SoundBite from that motion

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Speaker 1: picture which was released fifty years ago today, and we'll

521
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Speaker 1: get to that a little bit later.

522
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Speaker 2: As well before we wrap things up.

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Speaker 4: At six third Now, during that brighting to find a

524
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Speaker 4: text that came in much earlier in the show today,

525
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Speaker 4: we were chatting about this being the fiftieth anniversary of

526
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Speaker 4: the release of All the President's Men, the outstanding motion

527
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Speaker 4: picture about Woodward and Bernstein, largely the Washington Post as

528
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Speaker 4: a newspaper.

529
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Speaker 1: The Nixon White House, et cetera. And we were mentioning

530
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Speaker 1: that there was a local angle that was part of

531
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Speaker 1: the movie but was also real, Kenneth Dalberg who had

532
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Speaker 1: found that at check that he had intended for the

533
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Speaker 1: committee to re elect the President of United States and

534
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Speaker 1: ended up in the bank account of one.

535
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Speaker 2: Of the Watergate burglars.

536
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Speaker 1: And we were kind of trying to pin down exactly

537
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Speaker 1: where Dalberg ultimately lived, which seemed to be Deepaving. Somebody

538
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Speaker 1: I thought had texted that for a while these the

539
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Speaker 1: Dollbergs lived basically like right next to their compound was

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Speaker 1: either right next to a right near the Wheaton family

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Speaker 1: David Wheaton family compound, which probably yeah, and I've been

542
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Speaker 1: to that compound once actually due to a column on

543
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Speaker 1: him saw that actually makes some sense. So it ends

544
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Speaker 1: up being a very very small world.

545
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Speaker 5: And Deep paven Is technically can be a wise that

546
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Speaker 5: the same zip code.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.

548
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 1: That's also true, and that of course is also a

549
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Speaker 1: long time ago.

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Speaker 2: Which is not my zip code.

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Speaker 5: By the way, for the record, when people say do

552
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Speaker 5: you live on the lake, I say no, I live

553
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Speaker 5: two miles and two million away from the lake.

554
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Speaker 1: So the the issue on the Wild Game tonight and

555
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Speaker 1: television availability. It can be a very very frustrating subject.

556
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Speaker 1: And you know, you find out that well, actually it's

557
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 1: ESPN Plus, but you can also get it via Hulu.

558
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Speaker 1: I'm going to take the listener's word on that. I

559
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: don't know if that's true.

560
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 4: You can.

561
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 2: According to ESPN you can.

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Speaker 1: So it is, And in the end, I guess if

563
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Speaker 1: you have Hulu, that's good news.

564
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it.

565
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: Does speak to the fact that it's getting so hard

566
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Speaker 1: to keep up with what gets connected with what, and

567
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 1: in some cases you might not even know.

568
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 2: And in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: Six, to me, the goal all along was supposed to

570
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Speaker 1: be We're going to make it easier and easier for

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Speaker 1: you to get to the shows you want to get

572
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: to and finding what you have, make that as easy

573
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Speaker 1: as possible. But in a lot of ways, I think

574
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 1: it's actually become more complicated. And I think sometimes people

575
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:25,439
Speaker 1: get defeated and they go, oh, I don't know if

576
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Speaker 1: I got to look up this do I have?

577
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 3: That?

578
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 2: Is that part of that same package?

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Speaker 1: And even you know, with the NBA decision to go

580
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,360
Speaker 1: with games on Prime, right, what are their other streams?

581
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: They got Prime? They got do they have an apple. No,

582
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 1: they don't have an appleing No, but they've got peacock peacock. Yeah, yep,

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00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,199
Speaker 1: we all know why they're doing it. It's all money driven, correct,

584
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: and they got to make their money. Lord knows that's true,

585
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 1: we all do. But it's made it, I think again,

586
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: for a lot of people. You do clamor for simpler

587
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: time to say well, it's either going to be on

588
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: channel four, five, nine or eleven, and you go that's

589
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 1: pretty easy.

590
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, those gready's got that.

591
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: Whether it's with via an antenna or direct TV or

592
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: your comcast, they're going to have that right. So as

593
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: much as we understand the changes, it has made it

594
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,640
Speaker 1: in some ways more frustrating and exasperating. If you don't

595
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: have a scorecard in front of you, if you don't

596
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: want to take the time to say, all right, this

597
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: game's on, this, this, this and this and where do

598
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: you find that out? And how do you know what

599
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,439
Speaker 1: you have and what you don't have, it's oddly enough gotten,

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Speaker 1: I think even more difficult.

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Speaker 5: Today is a great example of it, not just for

602
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 5: the Wild Game, but the Masters is on right now, okay,

603
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 5: and the Masters, even though it's the greatest sporting event. Ever,

604
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 5: it's got a very weird thing during the first couple

605
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Speaker 5: of days where they don't do any live coverage until

606
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,479
Speaker 5: I think two o'clock on ESPN, right, and you can

607
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 5: watch it on Masters dot Com. You were watching it

608
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 5: on Masters dot Com earlier in there, because that's.

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Speaker 2: What choice, that's what was pulled up, that's what tring

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Speaker 2: to be.

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Speaker 5: It pulled up for common because at noon it was

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00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 5: available on Prime Video. Prime Video is now a partners

613
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,479
Speaker 5: so Jim Nantz and everybody, Terry Gannon, Jack Nicholas, they

614
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 5: were all locked in on Prime. But today's a great

615
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 5: example because I'm home this morning and on Infinity. And

616
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 5: this isn't just because I do commercials for him. But

617
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Speaker 5: one of the beauties of it is on the voice remote,

618
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 5: you can just say Masters. You just go Masters, okay,

619
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Speaker 5: because I'm trying to get because I know there's some

620
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 5: stuff available on all the different streams. So it pops

621
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 5: up and it's all laid out for me. But it's

622
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Speaker 5: holes four, five and five and six, Paramount Plus, okay,

623
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 5: the maclroy group that's on Disney Plus, and it's got

624
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Speaker 5: so I'm down there. I'm in my basement I'm like, well,

625
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 5: I have those. This is a prime example of what

626
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 5: we're talking exactly. I have a lot of them. Oh

627
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 5: good for me, and so but then I so I

628
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Speaker 5: do I want to watch the I want to watch

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Speaker 5: Amen Corner. So it's Paramount Plus and then I hit it, Okay,

630
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Speaker 5: what's your log in? Well, I don't know is that

631
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 5: my wife's email is at my email. I can do

632
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 5: it with the code. I don't have that app on

633
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 5: my phone yet. This whole deal. So I end up

634
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 5: kind of under duress just staying with the McIlroy group,

635
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 5: which is fine. I love Rory and d Chambeau I

636
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 5: think was the other group, but because it was Disney

637
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 5: Plus and that was already logged in, and I didn't

638
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 5: really want to take ten minutes to reset my.

639
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Speaker 2: Paramount Plus, which I never used without it.

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Speaker 5: I never use it, right, and then we have Prime

641
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 5: as well, So that's what I settled on when I

642
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 5: went back upstairs and did the whole same thing. So,

643
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 5: I mean, I felt like a boomer, but I don't

644
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 5: feel like I'm a boomer. I feel like there's too

645
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 5: many options even for you. Yeah, and I have them,

646
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Speaker 5: and that's fine. But and I was glad that it

647
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 5: was all laid out for me, that I could just

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Speaker 5: do this, And but it was funny because I'm sitting

649
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 5: there going there's literally nine options right now that I

650
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 5: could pick, and it's going to take me twelve minutes, which, again,

651
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 5: in the grand scheme of things, not a big deal,

652
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Speaker 5: But it was just I found it fun today as

653
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 5: I was stumbling through did you just try to watch

654
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 5: a couple holes of the Masters before I came into work?

655
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Speaker 1: Well, that it's I'm I didn't realize it was that compartmentalized,

656
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: the way you're laying it out on a.

657
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 5: Lot of holes in which groups the whole bit. And

658
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 5: I could have just gone to Masters dot com. Yeah right,

659
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 5: but yeah, who wants to do that? I didn't want

660
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 5: to do that.

661
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: You know what, when you have over the air TV,

662
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: or you have cable TV old fashioned the regular channels

663
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: there on direct TV, you almost never have to worry

664
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Speaker 1: about a password, because that's the other thing. If it's

665
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: if it's extreme that you haven't used in a while,

666
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: half the time, that's what you're run into.

667
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 2: Oh exactly right. It logged me out.

668
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: Now I gotta you know, I gotta, I gotta get

669
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: I gotta get re logged in now it's sending me

670
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: an email to click on it to be sure it's me.

671
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: And you know, by the time you figure out the

672
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: whole thing out, the event's over. It's true. I just

673
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: went through with with Max for the NCAA tournament. When

674
00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: you're trying to watch it on the road, you want

675
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: to watch there, you got to make sure your Max

676
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 1: is up to date. And because of all the different

677
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: promos that all these companies have done over the years, yeah,

678
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: you do have different emails or this one was with

679
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: my wife's phone on.

680
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 2: Verizon, this one that's exactly right.

681
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 5: So you do and how you set it up, and like,

682
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 5: I'm sure at some point it would make sense to

683
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 5: just go through all of it and figure it all out.

684
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 5: But we all know, like everybody's busy. I don't have

685
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 5: an hour to just sit there and make sure everything

686
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,479
Speaker 5: is locked in and ready to go for just so

687
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 5: that the next time I want to use my Max

688
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 5: subscription it's ready to go. It just doesn't seem like

689
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 5: a productive use of time until you're sitting there trying

690
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 5: to watch the Masters today.

691
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 2: None of it feels easier.

692
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: And I thought the whole intent was, Oh, we're gonna

693
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: have all these options, gonna be easier and easier than

694
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: ever speaking of this is I guess is kind of related.

695
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether the

696
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: NFL has engaged in anti competitive tactics that harm consumers,

697
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: according to people familiar with the situation. Now there's a

698
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: million stories on this via Wallstreet Journal dot com. The

699
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: Sports Broadcasting Act grants the league limited anti trust protection

700
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: to allow the teams to collectively negotiate packages of TV rights.

701
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: Media companies, regulators, and members of Congress have raised concerns

702
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: in recent months or how difficult it is for consumers

703
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: to be able to watch their favorite sports games as

704
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: a result of rights deals in which leagues offer smaller

705
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: packages of games to streamers. The nature and scope of

706
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: the investigation couldn't immediately be learned. Part of this is

707
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: I think been prompted by the league is like I

708
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: think through some of their big deals, like halfway through

709
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: the deal TV deals, they want to renegotiate more again

710
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: because they think they can get more money out of

711
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: some of the streaming services. So all of this I

712
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: think is somewhat connected. It might end up being a

713
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: good subject to explore with Kevin Seffert. But this I

714
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: think this story has some legs and and where it

715
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: goes I don't exactly know, but it's kind of related to,

716
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: you know, the distribution model, how fair it is. Yeah,

717
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: here's the key graph. The NFL is seeking to reopen

718
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: its deals with networks to lock in higher rates. Under

719
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: the NFL's current agreements with CBS, NBC, and Fox, the

720
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: league has an opt out window after the twenty twenty

721
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: nine to thirty season. Sports rights are generally the largest

722
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 1: content expense for media companies. At the same time, the

723
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 1: traditional media companies are contending with shrinking TV audiences as well,

724
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: So stay tuned on that. Well, we'll continue to follow

725
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: that story, maybe even get a guest or two on it,

726
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:47,240
Speaker 1: because it potentially can get pretty interesting, pretty volatile as well,

727
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: and it's kind of related to exactly what we've been

728
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:50,760
Speaker 1: talking about.

729
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 2: Six four six eighty six.

730
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Speaker 1: Bratch on Bryant, KFA and text line back in just

731
00:34:55,560 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 1: a minute here in the fan Dan on the TV

732
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: sports broadcast issue.

733
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 2: I am a cord cutter.

734
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: I get local over the air TV only, I get

735
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: Peacock and Prime for other reasons.

736
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 2: At no cost.

737
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: I love sports, but I've gotten used to listening to

738
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,720
Speaker 1: the radio for most of them while I do something else.

739
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,839
Speaker 1: Don't mean this to be an iHeartRadio promo, but I

740
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: do enjoy it for that. The leagues chase me out

741
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: of the stadium experience with their high prices, then they

742
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: cut me off with the a la carte app nightmare.

743
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: If they take it off the free TV or the radio,

744
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure I would miss it and I

745
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 1: would gain the time back. So the moral of this story,

746
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 1: by the way, right next to that tech is the

747
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: common fan is left out. Games cost a fortune, Streaming

748
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:05,399
Speaker 1: subscriptions cost a lot.

749
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 2: Thank God for kfe An. We're the bargain.

750
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: How about that iHeart app and cafe in the gift

751
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: that keeps on the free, free, free gift that keeps

752
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: on giving. Obviously there's advertising, but there's advertising and everything

753
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: that you're gonna watch or listen to.

754
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 2: I caught a lot of it on my various streams today.

755
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: But there's no ten step process to sign up for

756
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,479
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. It's as easy as it can get

757
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 1: and it is one percent free. Now we can't provide TV,

758
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: you know, but it's radio and.

759
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:45,879
Speaker 2: Joe O'Donnell and Tom read.

760
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 5: It feels like you're watching exactly so descriptive available to you,

761
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:50,320
Speaker 5: and it doesn't.

762
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 2: It's not complicated.

763
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 1: You don't have to like re log in every fifteen

764
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: minutes like we have to do to get on the

765
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: text line.

766
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 2: Yep.

767
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: Uh. So it ends up we end up getting some

768
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 1: nice advertisements in favor of the Kfan a concept for sure.

769
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:07,799
Speaker 5: And you can make cafe In a preset on your

770
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 5: iHeartRadio app as well as the Timberwolves channel, and you

771
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 5: can make them both pre sets so you don't even

772
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 5: have to search for him.

773
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: They're just right there at the top on my presets.

774
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: I've got cafe In, I've got the Plus. Yep, I

775
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: have Timberwolves Radio, Timberwlves channel. I guess I should say

776
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:29,240
Speaker 1: I have state Fair Radio on my presets.

777
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,760
Speaker 2: Do you have that on your pre set? Not state Fair.

778
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 5: I've got the Fan, I've got the Plus, I've got

779
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 5: the Timberwolves, and I've got news talk.

780
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: State Fair Radio might be one of the most underrated

781
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: stations in our family.

782
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's Greg Sweedberg's favorite station. The incoming Hall of Famer.

783
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: Well, now it would be two time Hall of Famer

784
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 1: because he's already a Country Music Hall of Famer, but

785
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: now he's going to be a Minnesota Broadcasters Hall of

786
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 1: Famer as well.

787
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 2: That's his baby, right, his brain shin. He loves it.

788
00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 2: I love it too.

789
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: It actually has become one of my presets that I

790
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 1: occasionally listen to. Do people understand the concept of state

791
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: Fair Radio?

792
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 5: It's music, Even if they don't, you should explain it

793
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 5: if I understand it, well, obviously it's music, right, it's

794
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 5: NonStop music. It's not Monti Cresan's traveling reptile, no, although

795
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 5: that's not a bad actually it's no.

796
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: It's music by individuals who, at one point in their careers,

797
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: maybe more than once in some cases, performed at the

798
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:27,760
Speaker 1: Great Minnesota.

799
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 2: Get Together at the grand stands.

800
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: A beautiful thing is what it is, because then you're

801
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: obviously getting music from all different generations, all different parts

802
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: of musical history, the whole bit.

803
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 2: It's outstanding, and it's again it's very easy.

804
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,840
Speaker 1: You just if you just type in state Fair Radio

805
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 1: to the iHeartRadio app, it'll come up and then you

806
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 1: can put it. You can make that a preset too,

807
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: which I did most recently. It's a wonderful thing is

808
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 1: what it is.

809
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 5: My other preset is Shaboozi Radio. I'm not sure what

810
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 5: kind of mood I was in that bar song is

811
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 5: one of my favorites. Yeah, Ryan Burns from Gopher Illustrate.

812
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 5: I can't believe I know all the words. It's like, well,

813
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 5: I'm not that old. I can still I need to. Yeah,

814
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not going to hang out with Kesseler

815
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 5: at some of these you know, I wouldn't, but I

816
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 5: can still. I can still get around if I need to. Maybe,

817
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 5: you know that's come to think of it.

818
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 1: Regarding the bath house story, Yeah, maybe if that those

819
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: changes are made to the laws, that we make it

820
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: now legal to for consensual adults to do whatever they

821
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,320
Speaker 1: want to do in a bath house, which still seems

822
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: bizarre to me.

823
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 2: It does.

824
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,280
Speaker 1: Whether we're talking about heterosexual homosexual, it makes no difference

825
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 1: to me. It's a whole concept just in the you know,

826
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: in the public settings. Just I just want to get

827
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: a steam, so I want to do anyway. But I digress.

828
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: If that comes to be, we know Kessler's got nothing

829
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 1: but time, Why don't we make that one of his jobs.

830
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: We need you to be the investigative report on some

831
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: of these bath houses.

832
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 5: How do you think that could anything go wrong there?

833
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 5: Do you think the problem with that idea is I

834
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,839
Speaker 5: think he would say yes, he probably would, probably would.

835
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 5: And then I'm worried, Dan, When is cafe and plus

836
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 5: coming in? How much will it? That's mo from Wrigleyville, givin.

837
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 5: Plus already exists and it's free. We have the plus,

838
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 5: we have the plot. It's the home of Gopher Women's basket.

839
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 5: Compactly right. I'm on it all the time. Yeah, So

840
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 5: it's it's there for you. I Patrick's on there. I

841
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 5: think cow Herd's on there. That's the other thing, Eyson.

842
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: It does give you some national options, yes, in addition

843
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: to some local options as well. You get probably the

844
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: best of both both worlds.

845
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 4: Uh.

846
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: This about is frontal a although unplanned advertisement for the

847
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 1: iHeart radio app and caffe and that I could have imagined.

848
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,399
Speaker 1: But it's not our faultient No, And it's and it's

849
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: all very organic the way we got to it in

850
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: this In this particular case, for sure, you're missing is

851
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: he in Vegas rights. You're missing one of the greatest

852
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: process that they have, which is the Casey Kasum channel.

853
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 2: Is that true. I've never heard of it. We have

854
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 2: the Casey Casum channel. I can look. I had the

855
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 2: app pulled up. That's outstanding.

856
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,399
Speaker 1: I watch most of my sports on the radio that way,

857
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: I don't have to watch all those stupid celebrations rights

858
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 1: two on eight guy. Yeah, that can get a little thick.

859
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 1: I can get a little bit difficult as well. There's

860
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: no I don't think anybody would disagree with that. The

861
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,280
Speaker 1: other thing that stinks, and we've talked about this before,

862
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 1: writes Paul from Florida, is you can't flip between events.

863
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the deal. It's hard.

864
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: It's harder if you're going to go between stream and

865
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,959
Speaker 1: let's say in over the air channel or a direct

866
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: TV channel or cable channel. Now, I'm assuming better equipment's

867
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: coming where that's going to make that very very easy

868
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:31,439
Speaker 1: to do. But there's nothing particularly easy about that right now.

869
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,359
Speaker 1: There's not any question about that.

870
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 5: I've got the American Top forty Classics nineties two thousands

871
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 5: with Casey Kasem yeah, pulled up on the iHeartRadio.

872
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 1: How do we feel, And I know we've discussed this before,

873
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 1: there's still a feeling of angst among a lot of

874
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: people that the NCAA Championship game.

875
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 3: Is.

876
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: It's not on a stream, but it is on cable.

877
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: That it should That game should be on CBS the

878
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: way a lot of the other games are. In the dance,

879
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: it's been on Turner for a while, right, how long

880
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: has it been on Turner?

881
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 2: Probably tennis?

882
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 3: That.

883
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been longer than you'd think.

884
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:13,240
Speaker 1: So to a certain extent, you can say that ship

885
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: is sailed. But I still I guess I kind of

886
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: understand where it feels a little bit. Is that the

887
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:21,760
Speaker 1: only one Super Bowl is still over the network?

888
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah?

889
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:26,439
Speaker 5: But yeah, ESPN's getting one, but that'll be on ABC. Yeah,

890
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 5: exactly right. The College Football Championship is that ABC as

891
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 5: well as ESPN. Because ESPN has a million channels, they

892
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 5: do the altcast. That's a good question. I don't know,

893
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 5: because college Football payoff right now is an ESPN property.

894
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right.

895
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 5: I don't remember if it's on KSTP here locally or

896
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 5: if I'm watching it on ESPN.

897
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:44,959
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.

898
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:46,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have any answer to that, but somebody

899
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 1: probably indeed would all right, look, let's go ahead and

900
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 1: get one more break in and then I do want

901
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: to recap what ended up being another very successful game

902
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:02,240
Speaker 1: for your favorite baseball team, the Minnesota Twins, who actually

903
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: completed a four game sweep over the Detroit Tigers in

904
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: front of hundreds today at Target Field. I want to

905
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 1: get to a couple of details there and a variety

906
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 1: a garden variety of items should take us all the

907
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 1: way to the bottom of the six o'clock hour State Town.

908
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 2: He was waiting at the Masters.

909
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: We didn't do it top five at five today because

910
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 1: we had Russo at five oh two.

911
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 5: Rory McElroy fired at five under par sixty seven today,

912
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,479
Speaker 5: So the defending champ is a top to leader board.

913
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 2: He is tied with a.

914
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:56,280
Speaker 5: Guy, another American, named Sam Burns at five under Patrick Reid,

915
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 5: former champ three under. I think that's Jason Day three

916
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 5: under Scotty Scheffler's are two under Justin Rose a two

917
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 5: under Lumpy, No Lumpy, no ship. I wonder if he's there.

918
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 5: I wonder if he gets to hang out.

919
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 1: Well, you got to be able to hang out. He's lumpy,

920
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: It's true. I don't know if he wants to. That's

921
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 1: the other thing. Maybe at some point you go, I

922
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: don't want to just hang out. I'm not sure. Twins

923
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: wrap up a four game sweep of the Tigers this afternoon.

924
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: Broke a one to one tie in the bottom of

925
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,240
Speaker 1: the eighth inning, two runs single?

926
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 2: Was it?

927
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 1: Brooks Lee?

928
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 2: Did I say you double checks? Who got it? I

929
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 2: think that was right?

930
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 1: And then he did the bones Highlands celebration that's starting

931
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 1: to spread, eh.

932
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 5: Called the Skelley Celly, I think is what It's called,

933
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:46,760
Speaker 5: skeleton celebration.

934
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Skelly Selly.

935
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: Speaking of that, since we're kind of rounding up on

936
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 1: a lot of things, Anthony Edwards has been upgraded to

937
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 1: questionable for tomorrow night's game against I think Houston gun

938
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: belt tight the rockets there, and the feeling is that

939
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: there's a good chance he will participate. They feel that

940
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 1: the assumption or feeling must be we want to get

941
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 1: him out there a little bit. We want to get

942
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: as many of our players out there as we can,

943
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: even as we rest a couple. So we know we're

944
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: locked into the sixth position and now it's just a

945
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: question of who we are facing in the number three spot.

946
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,399
Speaker 1: Do you know do you remember the name of the

947
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 1: The Lakers got a new center this year. Used to

948
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: be in Phoenix?

949
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 3: Was it eight?

950
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 2: And DeAndre, did you happen to see.

951
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:39,839
Speaker 1: The quote or hear the quote from the Lakers head

952
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: coach what's his name?

953
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 2: JJ Reddick? I should have gotten you to.

954
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get it for tomorrow, because the direct quote

955
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 1: was something effect of he has trouble catching the ball,

956
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: and if you play it cold, you think, oh, another

957
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:02,440
Speaker 1: shot at Rudy Gobert.

958
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:06,280
Speaker 2: Right, but it's it's.

959
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: Said in such a dead pan way it makes it

960
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 1: almost more vicious, you know, likely he can't. He has

961
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: trouble catching the book. He apparently does not have very

962
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:21,240
Speaker 1: good hands, as DeAndre Ayton. And I thought that quote

963
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,879
Speaker 1: was was kind of interesting, But I.

964
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 5: Kind of like how honest JJ is, even though he

965
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 5: gets backed up about weird things. Last year he walked

966
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 5: off because the one guy asked him, yeah, you know,

967
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 5: basically called him a young coach because he played these

968
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 5: guys fifty minutes and got run out of the gym

969
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 5: in the fourth quarter.

970
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 1: Somebody I just saw a link via the athletic to

971
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 1: it's the age old question of why are the concessions

972
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 1: still so cheap? You know, every year somebody does that story,

973
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: just like every year at the Masters at the Masters,

974
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 1: just like every year when it's time to change to

975
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: daylight saving, we get you know why we change or

976
00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: should we check, whatever the case may be. And it

977
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: does remind me because they have very reasonable prices right

978
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: for food.

979
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 5: You can get everything on the menu food and drink

980
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,959
Speaker 5: for like seventy eight bucks. If you wanted to total

981
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 5: the whole everything. Yeah, everything on it pops like two

982
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 5: bucks of beers three. It's crazy.

983
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 2: It's still to me. Do they have a lot?

984
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 1: Do they have like the variety of items that we

985
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: now demand every place else? When it comes to games,

986
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: do they have like twenty seven different no items?

987
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 5: Unless there's I'm sure there's places I don't even know about,

988
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 5: but no, it's the pimento and cheese sandwich. You can

989
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 5: get a club sandwich. I think they might have a

990
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 5: chicken sandwich. I can't remember, but it's pretty basic. It's

991
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 5: difficult for.

992
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:42,319
Speaker 1: Me to understand why people can't see notwithstanding this four

993
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 1: game sweep, why people can't see that the whole operation

994
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: when it comes to food and pushing the new food

995
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: items and bringing in media members who love free stuff

996
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: to get free samples, that people can't see how they're

997
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 1: being used or the conspiracy. The conspiracy now is if

998
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 1: whatever we can do to change the subject from the

999
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 1: baseball itself is a win for us, because we know

1000
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: the subject can't be about the baseball. Now, maybe it

1001
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:20,439
Speaker 1: will be on the basis of this four game suite.

1002
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: Maybe everything has changed. We might want to see, you know,

1003
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:27,439
Speaker 1: a few more games to get to it. But all

1004
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: of it is intended to change the subject from what's

1005
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be about. When you go to a

1006
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 1: ballpark and that's the game. I don't understand why people

1007
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: have such difficulty seeing it. And I still maintain that

1008
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 1: when I go to a restaurant, I like having options,

1009
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 1: you know, although I don't need like what was the place?

1010
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: Isn't it Fridays? It has a menu that goes on

1011
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:59,359
Speaker 1: for like thirty pages. They might be cheesecake factory. That's

1012
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: not even better? Yeah, yeah, exactly where it's It's a

1013
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:05,359
Speaker 1: I don't know I necessarily need that, but I can

1014
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 1: at least say, well, I'm in a restaurant. You're not

1015
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: supposed to go to a baseball game, because that's not

1016
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: a restaurant. It's it's it's where games being played. So

1017
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: the notion that we have to have five million options

1018
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: bothers you.

1019
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 2: I can't I can't get.

1020
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: And the more it bothers other people, the more it

1021
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,919
Speaker 1: bothers me, because I don't even think it's People quite

1022
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: understand the.

1023
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 2: It's not so much that it bothers me.

1024
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 1: It fascinates me that we once upon a time when

1025
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: we were not going to a restaurant, but going to

1026
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: an event, whether that be a concert or a ballgame, whatever.

1027
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 1: Our emphasis was on the cultural outlet that we're going

1028
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,280
Speaker 1: to see. And if while we're there we could grab

1029
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: a dog or something outside, that's fine. Would just grab

1030
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: something quick on the fly. We don't need deep fry

1031
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: whatever the case is, with something else inverted on top

1032
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 1: of it that looks like some kind of presentation you

1033
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,880
Speaker 1: want that go to a bleep and restaurant not that difficult,

1034
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:15,440
Speaker 1: shouldn't be that difficult, But it apparently is. Not to

1035
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: mention the fact that part of the reason the lines

1036
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:20,760
Speaker 1: are as long as they are.

1037
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 2: Is that it takes people. They're overwhelmed just looking at

1038
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 2: all the choices.

1039
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:28,279
Speaker 5: That's true, that's how to prepare it. If it's a

1040
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 5: couple of steps they got to prepare it. Back there

1041
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 5: it takes a little longer.

1042
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no question about that.

1043
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1044
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:39,400
Speaker 1: No, I'll gladly die on very lonely on this hill.

1045
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 2: I'll die on it.

1046
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 1: That there's something we lost in our ability to focus

1047
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: on why we were going to an event, Oh, to

1048
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: see the concert, to listen to the singer, to listen

1049
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 1: to the monologue the comedian was going to offer, not

1050
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:57,800
Speaker 1: that poilt.

1051
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 2: Sure, I wish we had a lot more choice.

1052
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 3: Is to eat.

1053
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:02,399
Speaker 2: We came here to eat, didn't we.

1054
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: No you, but people have so been so bought off

1055
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: by it and gotten so spoiled by it that they can't, unfortunately,

1056
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: see past that to understand exactly what the point might be.

1057
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 1: I love the stay Fair radio on iHeart thank you

1058
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: for bringing it up. That is from five oh seven.

1059
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:22,720
Speaker 1: Guy Dan Minnesota writes, if Dan doesn't want to accept

1060
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 1: his new food tasting invite next year, I may know

1061
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: a snarky guy willing to attend. As bumper to bumper correspondent,

1062
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 1: I can honestly say I have net not once. I'm

1063
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 1: sure I've been invited, not once attended a new new

1064
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: food tasting thing. Because, again related to the twins, it

1065
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: has beg you if you if you attend, you are

1066
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:50,360
Speaker 1: complicit in enabling this team to change the subject. There's

1067
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:54,919
Speaker 1: anybody thinks it's an accident, how this is turned into

1068
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 1: big business for them.

1069
00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:59,359
Speaker 2: You're not paying attention. That's what it is here. It's hey,

1070
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 2: it's just talk about.

1071
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 1: The exact and the more exotic. You have exotic too.

1072
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:05,800
Speaker 1: You're an exotic guy, right, you have exotic tastes.

1073
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 5: Not no, the tasteless box or tasteless vox and mashed potatoes.

1074
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 2: I don't even know.

1075
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 5: I think the craziest thing I may have ever eaten

1076
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 5: at any of these venues would be the Murray Steak

1077
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 5: sandwich at target Field, and I don't even know if

1078
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 5: they have that.

1079
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 2: Still, that's great. That's a great. That was one of

1080
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:22,799
Speaker 2: the originals. That's a great. I liked that.

1081
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 5: That was cool. It was like back then, it was

1082
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,359
Speaker 5: like fourteen bucks. I'm sure it's twenty nine now, at

1083
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 5: least eleven when I was.

1084
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: Now, it's probably got to have something else on top

1085
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:33,399
Speaker 1: of it, yes, like like an like a loaded baked

1086
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:34,919
Speaker 1: potato on the top of it or something.

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00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 5: Yes, I think that might be the only time I've

1088
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:41,440
Speaker 5: ever really gone off script at a game. Just because

1089
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 5: to me it's difficult to eat that stuff. That's also true. Yeah,

1090
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 5: you're right, just sitting at the game watching it, even

1091
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 5: if there's a place to sit.

1092
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 2: Well, you're you're assuming you want to watch the game.

1093
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 2: That's the thing. You might be wanting to watch the game.

1094
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: Apparently, that's that's eighty percent of the people don't have no,

1095
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:57,919
Speaker 1: have very little interest in watching the game. I guess

1096
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 1: you could make the argument, well, if the baseball's bad,

1097
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: then you need something else to tire yourself off.

1098
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 2: I guess that's very true. But yeah, the.

1099
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:09,360
Speaker 1: Art of you want something that you can eat more easily,

1100
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,839
Speaker 1: right than the sandwich still maintain is the a dog

1101
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 1: still is the easiest.

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00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,879
Speaker 5: Yes, correct, And you always go popcorn popcorn. There are

1103
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 5: years of sitting next to each other at games, That's true.

1104
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 2: I'm a for me.

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00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 5: The soft pretzel to me gets me every time at

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00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:26,800
Speaker 5: every venue.

1107
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one.

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00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 5: To williams Arena, I get it all the time. At

1109
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:34,240
Speaker 5: at Timberwols games, they have like a huge, like massive pretzel.

1110
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 2: I think it's like fifty bucks.

1111
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:37,759
Speaker 5: I'll get that one every once in a while, and

1112
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 5: I like them at any high school concession stand as well.

1113
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 5: Braymar pegel wherever it is. I'm a sucker for a

1114
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 5: soft pretzel. I might get one tonight. I gotta go

1115
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:48,760
Speaker 5: pick hockey one tonight.

1116
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:51,920
Speaker 1: Easy, very easy, easy to have. I don't even need

1117
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 1: the salt on it. I can just take it dry.

1118
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 1: You don't need to use your napcan every fifteen seconds. Correct, right,

1119
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 1: it's it's not that kind of food where it's going

1120
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Speaker 1: to get ugly. The whole bit works. All right, let's

1121
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,839
Speaker 1: get one more break in. We will come back and

1122
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: review a very busy program today and what we have

1123
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Speaker 1: coming up on the Friday Football Beast.

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Speaker 5: Show RAP is presented by American Pressure commercial grade pressure

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00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:20,479
Speaker 5: washers since nineteen seventy five.

1126
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:23,040
Speaker 2: It's the Bumper to Bumper Show RAP.

1127
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 1: Much earlier, we played the moment from the motion picture

1128
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 1: All the President's Men on the fiftieth anniversary today of

1129
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: the release of that film, in which the editor of

1130
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 1: the newspaper, Benjamin Bradley basically cuts Woodward and Bernstein down

1131
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:46,959
Speaker 1: to size, basically says, you haven't got it, you haven't

1132
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: got the story yet. Don't tell me you do. Get

1133
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 1: harder information next time. They are both devastated. They are

1134
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: both cut down to size, but the part of the

1135
00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:00,359
Speaker 1: film is over a period of time, they clearly went

1136
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: over their editor because of the number of wins they

1137
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:08,960
Speaker 1: basically accrue. The number of times they're reporting does pan

1138
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: out better information, harder information. And towards the end, there's

1139
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: this scene as they are preparing to go to press

1140
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: on their most recent revelations, and they are having the

1141
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:24,800
Speaker 1: same editor do the same thing he did earlier in

1142
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 1: the film when he ripped them.

1143
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:29,440
Speaker 2: Read again what they have written.

1144
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:31,400
Speaker 1: And at this point I think he's already read it

1145
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: and he's kind of waxing philosophical to Woodward and Bernstein.

1146
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 2: Let's listen.

1147
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 6: Mitchell know he was talking to a reporter.

1148
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:41,359
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I think I woke him up and good

1149
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 7: notes for Baden. He really said that about missus Spahan. Wow,

1150
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:53,239
Speaker 7: cut the words head and printed, well, he's the family newspaper.

1151
00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:57,840
Speaker 3: You know.

1152
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 6: Once when I was reporting Lyndon Johnson's the guy gave

1153
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 6: me the word they were looking for his successor for

1154
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:07,120
Speaker 6: j Edgar Hoover. I wrote it and the day it appeared,

1155
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:10,240
Speaker 6: Johnson held a press conference. And the point is Hoover

1156
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 6: headed the FBI for life when he was done, turned

1157
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:16,879
Speaker 6: to his top guy, and the President said, call Ben

1158
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 6: Bradley and tell him about you. Tell everybody said you

1159
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 6: did it?

1160
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 4: Ben?

1161
00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 6: You screwed up. You stuck us with Hoover forever. I

1162
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 6: screwed up and I wasn't wrong. How much you can't

1163
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 6: tell me about deep throat?

1164
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 2: How much do you need to know? You trust him?

1165
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:47,919
Speaker 6: Yeah, I can't do the reporting for my reporters, which

1166
00:56:47,960 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 6: means I have to trust them, and I hate trusting anybody.

1167
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 2: Run that baby. And on his way out, Ben.

1168
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:15,239
Speaker 1: Kind of taps his left hand on the desk and

1169
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 1: then kind of claps his in one clap as in saying,

1170
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 1: my guys got it.

1171
00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 2: My guys, my reporters got it cold? Who I stuck by? After?

1172
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 2: Dare I say it?

1173
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:35,840
Speaker 1: Motivating them, challenging them early, get harder information. Outstanding motion

1174
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 1: picture fifty years ago today, all the President's men still

1175
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:41,480
Speaker 1: according to a couple of our texters on a lot

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00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 1: of the movie channels, including I think they said Max

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00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 1: or HBO four or one of those. As recently as

1178
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 1: last week, it's a pretty easy film to find. Yes,

1179
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: I got a lot of attention. Most recently too, when

1180
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 1: Bob Redford passed away. He and Dustin Hoffin, of course

1181
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: starred Jason Robards in some ways almost steal the film,

1182
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 1: playing the part of the late great Washington Post editor

1183
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: Ben Bradley as well. I want to thank the listeners today,

1184
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 1: the letter writers today. Doctor Dan's inbox was opened at

1185
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 1: about four o'clock. Good stuff as always, and then Russo

1186
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 1: Radio joined US Dateline Dallas for.

1187
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:21,160
Speaker 2: The big one tonight.

1188
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: And that's what you have to look forward to tonight

1189
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 1: on the free Free Free iHeartRadio app if you're so inclined,

1190
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: or on FM one hundred point three to the fan.

1191
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: An extended Wild pregame show will start at seven tonight,

1192
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 1: opening face off Wild Stars with Home Ice at Steak

1193
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 1: in the first round. Right after eight o'clock this evening,

1194
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 1: Guardzy is gonna You're gonna have a little late, later

1195
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 1: coffee than usual, so you make sure the teeth don't

1196
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: end up in the glass or how are you gonna

1197
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: get it done?

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00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:54,520
Speaker 2: That's gonna have to be it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 5: I drank a little coffee after the top five, which

1201
00:58:57,280 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 5: I usually don't do.

1202
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I also I gotta have some.

1203
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 5: Organic mental clarity to make sure I log into everything

1204
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:05,880
Speaker 5: ESPN plus or Hulu. Make sure I'm ready to go

1205
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 5: for that. I think I'm permanently logged into ESPN Plus.

1206
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 5: I think that one's good.

1207
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 1: You got that? Was that part of your radio deal

1208
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 1: with the Gophers? Did you throw that in? I thought

1209
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 1: maybe there's some perks associate with that where they give

1210
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 1: you some streaming options.

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00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:19,320
Speaker 4: Not that.

1212
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:21,120
Speaker 2: No, In fact, I think I even paid for Big

1213
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 2: ten plus.

1214
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 3: What.

1215
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like, should be able to expense that. They

1216
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 5: maybe give a deal. I don't know they do, I say,

1217
00:59:27,680 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 5: I'm not sure. You know, they got a lot of

1218
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:32,280
Speaker 5: nil stuff to mess with, don't they. Yes, exactly, that's it.

1219
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 1: By the way, I saw your guy, we got two

1220
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 1: four star tight ends?

1221
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 2: Do we need that many? I guess you can never

1222
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 2: have enough tight ends. You can never have enough players. Yeah,

1223
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 2: I guess that's true. Keep them coming in.

1224
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's also true.

1225
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:44,960
Speaker 2: And big portal weekend.

1226
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Speaker 1: We're bringing Gopher men and women bringing in players this weekend.

1227
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 2: Absolutely, They're all over the place.

1228
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no rest for the wicked or the weird.

1229
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 2: No, this is the time to do it is and

1230
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:56,360
Speaker 2: a half left all I care.

1231
00:59:56,400 --> 01:00:00,000
Speaker 1: How's I'm assuming the Hoosiers in the football portal are domin.

1232
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 2: They got their quarterback. Yeah, that's already done. That's already done.

1233
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 2: That's true.

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01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, that they got the receiver that Signetti dressed down

1235
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 5: because he was wearing gold shoes. Did you see that

1236
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:12,960
Speaker 5: Nick marsh the Michigan state wide receiver, really good portal edition.

1237
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:16,160
Speaker 5: Apparently he wore some type of flashy gold shoes and

1238
01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 5: Sig just lit him up publicly, really in the press conference. Yeah,

1239
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 5: I said, we don't do that around here.

1240
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:26,200
Speaker 5: The guy's probably making three million bucks to the player

1242
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 5: and doesn't matter.

1243
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:29,800
Speaker 2: I gotta believe the money is pouring into you now.

1244
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah for Colby, yes, yes, Big Mellencamp threw in

1245
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 1: another couple of mill Cuban's up to about ten mil.

1246
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 1: It's all coming together at this point. I wonder if

1247
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 1: there's members of the old IU basketball where they're paying a

1248
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 1: little bit because it's a football school. Now it is,

1249
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 1: that's what it is. Programs in fastball it is. Actually

1250
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:51,840
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not very good. Meanwhile, the guy they

1251
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 1: could have had led Michigan to a national championship two

1252
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: years remove from eight to twenty four, wasn't Michigan like

1253
01:00:58,760 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: eight and.

1254
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 2: Twenty four two years, three years ago. Yes, they're terrible.

1255
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 2: Just got fired terrible.

1256
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's how fast the whole thing got turned around.

1257
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:09,640
Speaker 2: That's how fast you can turn it around now, no question.

1258
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:14,760
Speaker 1: Tomorrow is Friday Football Beast Day. Do we give maybe

1259
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:16,959
Speaker 1: we give Guestling the week off? What do you think?

1260
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:21,160
Speaker 1: See if anything pops? Yeah, you're expecting something. You just

1261
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 1: never know. We'll see what he thinks. That's true, twins

1262
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 1: apologist Leavelle. We expect him at uh. He'll probably be

1263
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 1: in studio tomorrow. A bunch of food from target Field,

1264
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 1: that's from That's probably very very true, Davy. I just

1265
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:42,880
Speaker 1: saw where yesterday was the sixty first anniversary of Herman

1266
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 1: Munster trying out for the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember that episode.

1268
01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:49,400
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I missed that, that piece of history and

1269
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 1: find that on Max.

1270
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that.

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01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 2: My favorite.

1272
01:01:55,840 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 1: When it comes to like those kinds of stories like Dodgers,

1273
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:03,720
Speaker 1: you still can't top. And this is really old school,

1274
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:07,200
Speaker 1: mister Ed trying out for the La Dodgers, the horse

1275
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 1: of a show called the Talking Horse. Mister Ed, I

1276
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 1: remember that sliding into home plait with a perfect I

1277
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:14,520
Speaker 1: was gonna.

1278
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 5: Call it a hook slide hoof slide. I guess you

1279
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:18,400
Speaker 5: would say, brilliantly done. And then they signed him to

1280
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:21,520
Speaker 5: a five hundred million dollar contract. The twins were in it,

1281
01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 5: but they didn't want to give him the extra year.

1282
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:26,240
Speaker 1: I came up again, who's the picture? They actually went

1283
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:28,640
Speaker 1: to him to to find out if he agreed that

1284
01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 1: the twins were in it? What the hell's the end

1285
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:33,240
Speaker 1: of the pitcher? Is a great picture for the Tigers yesterday? Yesterday?

1286
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:36,320
Speaker 2: I can't remember who it was, and anyway, we were in it.

1287
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:41,320
Speaker 1: We were in it, but we came just a little

1288
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:43,320
Speaker 1: little wool shop pitching for us. No, but we don't

1289
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:45,800
Speaker 1: need them at this point. All we do is I'm

1290
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 1: sweet the Detroit Tigers.

1291
01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:49,120
Speaker 2: All right. So Phantom the Man in the Air.

1292
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 1: First, yes, and then Wild Hockey. Well, but Phantom the

1293
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:56,520
Speaker 1: Man of the Air is never half hour? It usually is,

1294
01:02:56,520 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 1: is it? I thought it was usually fifteen minutes.

1295
01:02:58,360 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 2: Only when there's a six forty five pre game.

1296
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:03,479
Speaker 1: Ah okay, so you get all kinds of stuff between

1297
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 1: six thirty and seven and then the extended Wow pregame show,

1298
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:08,640
Speaker 1: anything live on that or would all be from the

1299
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 1: nine to noon show that fallen is hosted.

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Speaker 5: I didn't put it together. I don't know you have behind.

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Speaker 5: I'm excited to listen. I'm excited to listen. I want

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Speaker 5: to know too, just for that reason. I want some

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01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 5: original stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's a big game. I wouldn't count on it. Unlikely.

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Speaker 2: I think he had Garn on today too, did he really?

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Speaker 2: We're going to have Garren a week from tomorrow? Even better? Yep?

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Speaker 2: When did the playoffs start? Around that time?

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Speaker 1: So I thought, thank you for watching, and thank you

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Speaker 1: for listening. We will talk to you tomorrow at three

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Speaker 1: o'clock