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Speaker 3: It's Alec Lewis of the Athletic at Alec Underscore Lewis

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Speaker 2: How you doing, man, I'm great, Nordo.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I actually would be. I'm going home tomorrow to

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Speaker 4: be in the warmth for a little bit and quasi recover,

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Speaker 4: quasi work harder. But I really the high school hockey

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Speaker 4: would be fun right about.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'll tell you that, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 3: Now, just as I brought you on and we're introducing you,

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Speaker 3: I heard some sort of a notification in the background.

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Speaker 2: Did the Vikings cut somebody else?

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Speaker 4: Alec?

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Speaker 2: Are we ready to break more?

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Speaker 4: Nothing? Nothing has broken since I've been there on the

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Speaker 4: sign up for and doing this job. I did see

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Speaker 4: which was pretty interesting, but nothing on the Vikings front.

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Speaker 2: Right now, you're.

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Speaker 3: Gonna be down in your hometown, sipping sweet tea and

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Speaker 3: breaking news as things unfold over the next week or so.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be terrific.

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Speaker 3: Now you got to the combine, I want to We're

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Speaker 3: and I love how this thing sets up your fresh

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Speaker 3: back from Indy. You had this the articles, what I

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Speaker 3: I do want to dig into that more specifically momentarily,

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Speaker 3: but just at at ten thousand foot level, like you

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Speaker 3: spent some time there digging in. It's an exhausting week.

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Speaker 3: How was the combine for you, Alec, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: It was how it always is. Some really late nights

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Speaker 4: I mean, really, I the opportunity to be in person

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Speaker 5: It was cool to catch up with people, meet some

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Speaker 4: So it was it was really, it was really good.

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Speaker 4: I will say this, I mean the Viking I think

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Speaker 3: A lot of reporting's been done on it at the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I think it's the combination of you got

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Speaker 2: I'm still not ready to quit JJ.

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Speaker 3: The way that we've talked about this from minute one,

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Speaker 3: anything you're able to do to kind of smooth out

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I've tried to write this in a

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Speaker 4: the decision making will align with ownership's preference in that way, You're.

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Speaker 3: One hundred percent correct. And and the you know, kind

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Speaker 3: Threading the needle of becoming younger, becoming more financially flexible

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Speaker 2: You don't have any playoff wins.

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Speaker 3: But now we're looking at a spot where instead of

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Speaker 3: Now with that, with that said, uh, the pressure is

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Speaker 4: Mean, I absolutely do think. I don't know if I

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Speaker 4: So I would say that definitely guides the decision making.

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Speaker 4: I've made it very clear like he's had a lot

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so until anything breaks, it still kind of

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Speaker 3: your piece. You probably already subscribed to the Athletic Ladies

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Speaker 3: and gentlemen, but but follow Alec Underscore Lewis via X.

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Speaker 3: You got his podcast going on, but terrific piece and

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Speaker 3: it's only part one.

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Speaker 2: There really is, am I.

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Speaker 4: Well, I definitely think Frank Smith, who was brought in

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Speaker 3: It feels like the trust in Brandle is because that's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a terrific point. Hey, thanks for jumping on

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, it'll be busy you guys enjoy this week. Looking

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Speaker 4: Appreciate it and I will probably be texting you later

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Speaker 4: this evening.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely cheers.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 3: That's Alec Lewis of the Athletic and again jump to

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Speaker 3: jump to the Athletic. He put out a piece and

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Speaker 3: one today. Part two is going to be available tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: But long time and one of our favorites, Alec Lewis

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Speaker 3: of the Athletics spend some time in Indy. Always good

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Speaker 3: to spend some time with him.

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Speaker 2: Nine to noon.

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Speaker 3: Now we're gonna pause catch up on the clock. It's

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Speaker 3: the fan, the fan.

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Speaker 2: Walk some great show. It's to allege Amphitheater this year.

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Speaker 1: John mulaney will be there August twenty second, Blue Traveler

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Speaker 1: and Jim Blossoms will be there September twelfth. Get complete

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Speaker 1: details and all of our upcoming shows on the concert

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Speaker 1: page KFA dot com, Cubret calendar.

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Speaker 3: Many text messages throughout the show today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. It's nordowin for PA Vocal Maintenance season.

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Speaker 3: PA returns tomorrow, and you know, I might as well

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Speaker 3: do a little rundown on that right now, because we're

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Speaker 3: going to start the show with head coach Chris Finch

446
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Speaker 3: of the Minnesota Timberwolves, victorious in the Mile High City

447
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Speaker 3: yesterday over the Nuggets, firmly in a top four spot

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Speaker 3: right now. Well firmly's tough because it is muddy and

449
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Speaker 3: it's weird, and they can drop too straight and find

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Speaker 3: their way back in fifth or sixth again.

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Speaker 2: We know that.

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Speaker 3: But they're also in lockstep right now and have a

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Speaker 3: great opportunity.

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Speaker 2: Let's continue.

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Speaker 3: Let's make a new form of let's in Instead of

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Speaker 3: being inconsistent consistently, let's just be consistent and find our

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Speaker 3: way into the third spot before the postseason.

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Speaker 2: But Pa is going to be back.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna chat with the head coach, and then Kevin

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Speaker 3: goreg not just on the Minnesota Wild but high school

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Speaker 3: hockey tournament.

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Speaker 2: He's going to join around nine to thirty.

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Speaker 3: Ben Gesling Star Tribune, He's going to be in studio

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Speaker 3: at ten, and then Tony Scott Youth Hockey Hub and more.

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Speaker 3: He's going to be in studio chatting about the boys

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Speaker 3: high school state tournament that's going to lift off on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: So a full show post vocal maintenance tomorrow. The text

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Speaker 3: messages in sixty four six eighty six Bratch on Bryant

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Speaker 3: KFN text line. Anybody is able to text, but I

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Speaker 3: noticed that the there was a particular topic. Now there's

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Speaker 3: a gentleman by the name of Paul that has effectively

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Speaker 3: spammed the entire text line. We can just run through

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Speaker 3: them here and you're all free to do it. This

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Speaker 3: is a block free environment at least nine to noon.

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Speaker 3: I can tell you good, bad, and ugly ain't gonna block.

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Speaker 3: Let's see from Paul for yourself from Paul here. If

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Speaker 3: your offensive line sucks, it doesn't matter who.

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Speaker 2: Your QB is. Okay, that was at eleven fourteen.

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Speaker 3: Thirty seconds later, he does not believe that his point

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Speaker 3: had been made, so he texted again, if your offensive

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Speaker 3: line sucks, it doesn't matter if your wide receiver.

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Speaker 2: Is a superstar. Okay, perfect, all right, moving on Paul again.

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Speaker 3: Oh seven minutes later, if your offensive line sucks, you

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Speaker 3: cannot run the ball no matter who your running back is.

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Speaker 2: All right, check that, bucks.

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Speaker 3: Let me see your Paul again, just to make a

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Speaker 3: final point. So I thought, fix the offensive line, and

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Speaker 3: the quarterback and running back will fix themselves.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: Well, then thirty seconds later, why is Alex lewis not

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Speaker 3: talking about the offensive line? Did he not watch how

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Speaker 3: last season's games played out? And then another serviceable is

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Speaker 3: not good enough? So I got the point, Paul, and

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. So we've spent in fair news. To

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Speaker 3: Paul's point, we do spend a lot of time. And

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Speaker 3: that's how I framed it up. Last week we had

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Speaker 3: charts on talking about the draft, talking about the Combine

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Speaker 3: pick eighteen by nature of being the first one, by

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Speaker 3: nature of being in said first round, with the highest

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Speaker 3: likelihood of getting a super talented player that can help

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Speaker 3: the team quickly. That has been the focus of nine

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Speaker 3: to Noon. A couple shows last week at the Combine

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Speaker 3: in Indianapolis, PA and Pete speaking with the Luminaries little

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Speaker 3: steamrolling focused on pick eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Well, what is pick eighteen entail?

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Speaker 3: Well, it may have entailed tight end Kenyon Sadik until

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Speaker 3: he freaking went total alien on it and looked like

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Speaker 3: the greatest tight end in the history of combines ever

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Speaker 3: to combine Kenyon Sadik.

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Speaker 2: Wow, and maybe he's not available anymore.

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Speaker 3: At pick eighteen we shall see but specifically defensive tackle,

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Speaker 3: specifically safety, and we do this, well, we need the

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Speaker 3: best player available. But then we immediately look at the

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Speaker 3: depth chart and say, well, for getting rid of a

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Speaker 3: gentleman by the name of Javon Hargrave, we're gonna need

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Speaker 3: a fat guy in the middle, and maybe that's Caleb

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Speaker 3: Banks out of Florida.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't mind having him here.

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Speaker 3: Looks pre damn good in fact, or at the safety

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Speaker 3: spot hit Man retired.

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Speaker 2: Well, we need the best player available, but.

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Speaker 3: Hitman's retiring and he had a shoulder thing with Mattellis

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Speaker 3: a year ago, and THEO Jackson was playing a lot

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Speaker 3: might need safety, so that Theeneman Cat. I hope I'm

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Speaker 3: pronouncing his name correctly, the.

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Speaker 2: Safety out of Oregon. Speaking of showing out, by the way,

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Speaker 2: I'd seen bits with Theeneman going somewhere in the second round.

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Speaker 2: Will he be available at eighteen?

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Speaker 3: Ik a lot about Oregon Ducks, by the way, too

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Speaker 3: much Oregon and our favorite cat, favorite cat, Cod Parrish

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Speaker 3: now plays for Oregon. Maybe he's the next best Dylan

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Speaker 3: Theedaman and a guy we're talking about a year or

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Speaker 3: two from now going to the Purple who knows, hopefully

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Speaker 3: not a pick eighteen, hopefully much later in the draft.

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Speaker 3: But to that end, all that focus on defensive tackle,

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Speaker 3: all that focus on safety, I must concede listener Paul

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Speaker 3: and a few others. I only read Paul's because he

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Speaker 3: texted about eight times and what felt like twenty minutes.

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Speaker 3: But we have not chatted about the center spot, maybe

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Speaker 3: as urgently as we possibly could, and it is an issue.

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Speaker 3: Two years ago, forty eight sacks for Sam Darnold during

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Speaker 3: the regular season in total fifty seven including the playoff game.

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Speaker 3: A year later, Vikings quarterbacks combined felt like there was

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Speaker 3: ten of them that played. There wasn't sixty sacks endured

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Speaker 3: courtesy of the Minnesota Moving Company, And as we talked

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Speaker 3: about during the middle hour with Pete Nigerian, you can

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Speaker 3: kind of you can play the game of sack by

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Speaker 3: sack by sack by sack by sack till you get sixty.

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Speaker 3: Which one did the quarterback hold out of the ball

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Speaker 3: too long? There was there was a point in time,

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Speaker 3: by the way, there were plenty in terms of the

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Speaker 3: sacks that JJ McCarthy endured, where as soon as he

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Speaker 3: hit his drop, the top of his drop, somebody was

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Speaker 3: on him. That happened many times, specifically early on in

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Speaker 3: the season when Justin School was playing in substitution of

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Speaker 3: Christian Darisaw.

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Speaker 2: You just had no time.

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Speaker 3: We kind of talked to you and kind of talked

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Speaker 3: our way out of that being a potential issue. It's

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Speaker 3: Justin School's fault. We'll get Darisaw back. Everything's going to

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Speaker 3: be fine. And then McCarthy hurts his ankle. We don't

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Speaker 3: see him for six weeks. But there is an element

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Speaker 3: where one can help the other. And McCarthy should not

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Speaker 3: be absolved of anything in relation to holding the ball

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Speaker 3: too long, lack of decision making, walking his way into

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Speaker 3: sacks all of those things, but sixty is a glaring

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Speaker 3: number a year after fifty seven on Sam Darnold and

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Speaker 3: this center spot with the number of combinations that took place,

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Speaker 3: whether it's injury proficiency, all of those things that this

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Speaker 3: team endured in a nine win season last year. You

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Speaker 3: can't move forward in April, can't move forward into free

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Speaker 3: agency without talking about the center position.

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Speaker 2: And it's similar to the quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's different than the quarterback spot because there are talent,

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Speaker 3: There are talented individuals that will be available in the

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Speaker 3: middle of March. But it's similar to the quarterback spot

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Speaker 3: in terms of the money that you want to spend,

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Speaker 3: the output, and how you're going to find your way

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Speaker 3: to the right answer there.

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Speaker 2: And there's a Lloyd cushion Berry out of Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: Now I know there's somebody via the text line that's

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Speaker 3: going to tell us that they've watched all.

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Speaker 2: Of Tennessee's games.

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Speaker 3: I will concede, I'm not really sure how good Lloyd

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Speaker 3: cushion Berry is, but he's twenty eight. He got about

586
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Speaker 3: twelve million this last year. He's going to be somewhere

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Speaker 3: between seven to ten per Connor McGovern I mentioned him

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00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 3: with Alec class segment. Buffalo Center feels like they would

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Speaker 3: try to make a move to keep him if they could.

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00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 3: Ethan postage up and down career, but he found some

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Speaker 3: stability with Cleveland.

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Speaker 2: He's with the Browns.

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Speaker 3: With the Browns, then there's a high ender, Tyler Linderbaum

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Speaker 3: for the Baltimore Ravens. I think he is ending his

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Speaker 3: rookie contract. I believe the Ravens would be apt to

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Speaker 3: want to keep them. Oh, Austin Schlogman's available. Remember him

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Speaker 3: played for the Minnesota Vikings. Probably not an option, but

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Speaker 3: I mentioned, I mentioned Logan Jones. This Minnesota moving company

599
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 3: can be better in twenty twenty six simply by just

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Speaker 3: staying on the freaking field and bringing Christian Darisov back

601
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Speaker 3: from injury. Working his way in slowly. Will he play?

602
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Speaker 3: Will he not play? Is there additional injury to the knee?

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Speaker 3: Think about how that game played out over the course

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Speaker 3: of twenty twenty five. How exhausting it was Will Fries

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Speaker 3: who had to work his way. I think his competency level,

606
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 3: at his production level did slowly, sadly, slowly get better

607
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 3: over the course of twenty twenty five. He was the

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Speaker 3: only consistency that you had the entire season. Even Donovan

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00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 3: Jackson appreciated. I thought he was a little bit better

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Speaker 3: early than he was later in the season. He needs

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Speaker 3: to be much better into his sophomore campaign. Brian O'Neil,

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Speaker 3: little nicks, little injuries here there, little stuff, he battles

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Speaker 3: through it. He's an iron man at this stage of

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Speaker 3: his career. What are we getting out of him? Simply

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Speaker 3: by nature of just staying healthy? This will be a

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Speaker 3: better operation in twenty twenty six. I just don't know

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Speaker 3: how you move forward with Ryan Kelly. I don't know

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Speaker 3: how that is even a possibility in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: And so I could be proven wrong. I'm happy to

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Speaker 3: face that when it occurs. I just don't see him

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Speaker 3: in them. And so it is Michael Jurgens, who is

622
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 3: definitely not like Cam Jurgens.

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Speaker 2: In Philly.

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Speaker 3: There is Blake Brandle, who can play every spot on

625
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Speaker 3: the O line it appears, but hasn't busted through into

626
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Speaker 3: a prominent starting role. There's a reason behind that. And

627
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 3: then there's the draft. And I mentioned that Logan Jones

628
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 3: cat out of Iowa. I really like him and he

629
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Speaker 3: would be somebody that I would focus on in the draft.

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Speaker 3: I'm not in the rooms. Brazinski doesn't ask me. Just

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Speaker 3: somebody I'm looking at. And then there's one of those

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Speaker 3: free agents. That is, to Paul's point and anyone else

633
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Speaker 3: listening nine to noon, what we do at the center

634
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Speaker 3: spot means a freaking ton in twenty twenty six and

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Speaker 3: should not be forgotten as we talk about the upcoming

636
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Speaker 3: draft and what's ahead for our favorite football team.

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Speaker 2: Final segment is next, and.

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Speaker 3: Quick little Covenant clean up. And you smile at me, Blake, Uh,

639
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Speaker 3: I was about you called. I was about to call you.

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00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 3: We've talked about the O line. I was about to

641
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Speaker 3: call you, Blake Brandle Uh, Brett, Blake Moore. You you're

642
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,320
Speaker 3: smiling at me as I say, there's a Covening cleanup

643
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Speaker 3: because you want to play it and so I'm just

644
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Speaker 3: I mean, you just might as well just do it.

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Speaker 2: It's a Covening clean up. We say stupid things all

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Speaker 2: of the time. It's a Covening clean up, according to you,

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Speaker 2: and up again, a.

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Speaker 3: Covening clean up sponsored by nobody.

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Speaker 1: I have that on almost every page on the PA

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Speaker 1: shift just in case, just in case that it may

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Speaker 1: come up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I was talking with somebody uh in sales

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Speaker 3: last week. We could spend an entire segment every single

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Speaker 3: day going through the mistakes that we make on.

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Speaker 2: A day le basis.

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Speaker 3: But I saw a couple of text messages about this

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Speaker 3: early on in the show. I did the weekend wrap,

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Speaker 3: the weekend wrap on Monday mornings, spend the segment just

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Speaker 3: what happened over the weekend, Here's what happened, and just

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Speaker 3: quick little pontifications we move on. An egregious error was yeah,

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Speaker 3: was committed because I did not talk about the nineteenth

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Speaker 3: ranked Go for women's hoops team. You know, Nico Medved squad.

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Speaker 3: They're scrambling just to get to five hundred. Motsko's team.

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Speaker 3: I mentioned them they need to win the Big Ten

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Speaker 3: tournament to sniff the national at tourney. Meanwhile, Go For

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Speaker 3: Women they just hooked and they beat Illinois. I believe

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Speaker 3: that was in Champagne and it was close, but seventy eight,

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Speaker 3: seventy three, and they are a ranked national force that

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Speaker 3: will be in the NCAA Women's Tourney. And I believe

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Speaker 3: the Big Ten tournament starts later this week. I think,

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Speaker 3: let me see here, I believe it's Friday. Yes, there

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Speaker 3: we go it's in Indy starting on Friday. I did

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Speaker 3: not mention them as part of the weekend wrap and

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Speaker 3: so that is indeed, as I said to the sales guys,

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Speaker 3: like we could do a segment every single day just

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Speaker 3: devoted to Covenant cleanups, the things we do and say incorrectly.

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Speaker 2: It's an option. It's an option that's out there.

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Speaker 3: So cheers to the go for ladies that are absolutely

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Speaker 3: shown out representing college hoops at a high level.

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Speaker 2: So congratulations to them.

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Speaker 3: That does wrap up the nine to noon show today,

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Speaker 3: Nordowen for PA. Thanks to Brett, thank you so much,

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Speaker 3: whether it was Pete Najerian, Alec Lewis and Pat mcalletty

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Speaker 3: during the opening hour for joining me tomorrow again it's

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Speaker 3: going to be coach Chris Finch Minnesota Timberwolves leading off

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Speaker 3: the show. Kevin Gorg in the first hour, Ben Gestlin

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Speaker 3: in studio at ten Tony Scott on the high school

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Speaker 3: hockey tourney at eleven. Full show, full strength, that's Minyana.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to the fan when you do.

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Speaker 3: The program is next, have an awesome afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Podcast.

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