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Speaker 2: We are at our annual Toys for Tot's event at

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Speaker 2: the Beautiful Shields location in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, eating Prairie Mall.

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Speaker 2: We'll be here until is it official six fifteen or

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Speaker 2: six six thirty? The Wild Games late tonight Late tonight,

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Speaker 2: so we've got Vikings Country, then Wild Weekly and the

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Speaker 2: pregame show for Wild and Edmonton. Louis will join in

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Speaker 2: about a half hour. You'd like to stop by to

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Speaker 2: say hello, We'd love to hear from you. We'd also

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Speaker 2: love for you to bring a toy of some sort

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Speaker 2: or pick one up here. Money donations accepted as well

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Speaker 2: for our annual holiday season Toys for Tots event.

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Speaker 3: I feel like we should get the Twins stuff out.

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Speaker 2: Of the way. I'm kind of intrigued because I don't

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Speaker 3: You are familiar with Bob Nightingale. I am USA today,

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Speaker 3: not Bobby Nightingale the Father. Yes, okay, Bob Nightingale USA Today,

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Speaker 3: I'll just.

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Speaker 2: Read you the headline.

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Speaker 3: The Minnesota Twins are trying to decide whether to trade

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Speaker 3: starting pitcher Joe Ryan or starting pitcher Pablo Lopez in

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Speaker 3: an effort to reduce the organization's debt. That's the headline.

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Speaker 3: I pulled up the story and now I can't find

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Speaker 3: So the owners are carrying four hundred and twenty five

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Speaker 3: number two, and this is like the AI distillation of it.

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Speaker 3: Fans voice strong opposition to the pole Ad family, while

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Speaker 3: the club's recent contract tenders hint at contention plans amid

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Speaker 2: And so you're saying, among the possibilities not under consideration,

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Speaker 3: I would say the ladder that you just talked about,

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Speaker 3: I've not seen now adding a picture.

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Speaker 2: I've not seen that anywhere.

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Speaker 3: There was also a nugget somewhere that I need to

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Speaker 2: He had He has said that too. I want to say,

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Speaker 2: He's already on record as saying we've already this sin is.

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Speaker 2: Why when people like Levelle have constantly said we need

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Speaker 3: I definitely I've already fallen for it. I've already looked

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Speaker 2: You're ready? Play real? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So then so that makes the round. Russo gets into it,

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Speaker 3: I can't wait for the playoff goaltender controversy.

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Speaker 3: be good. Yeah, they're gonna be good. They've got a

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Speaker 3: lot of good players back, any of them from here. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Nolan Winter Trevor's kid.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Have you are you? Have you ripped

436
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Speaker 2: him for that yet?

437
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Speaker 3: Trevor absolutely, including on the Coaches Show today because Nico

438
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Speaker 3: like basically lived with Trevor in college.

439
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Speaker 2: I'm like, some good. That's a good point.

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Speaker 3: And his wife, Heidi, and Trevor and Heidi were always

441
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Speaker 3: over at our place and so some good that did us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't talk to now.

443
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, black yeah either go for pres probably listening now,

444
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Speaker 3: he'll text one of us. Still text me. He's a

445
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Speaker 3: good guy. We're happy for Nolan. All right, well, Wisconsin's

446
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Speaker 3: good to answer your question. You're going to be good.

447
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Speaker 2: So let's pause. Let's talk some punk little hockey conversation

448
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Speaker 2: with Luigi. As I mentioned, hit my twitter handle Dan

449
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Speaker 2: bureau Cafe, and if you have questions for Louie uh,

450
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Speaker 2: we will talk about a team that seems to be

451
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Speaker 2: headed in a much better direction. We had a hardcore

452
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Speaker 2: wild fan in front of us earlier and he said

453
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Speaker 2: they're ready to make they're ready to win the Cup.

454
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Speaker 2: And I said, well, I hope you're right. It'd be

455
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Speaker 2: a hell of a story. We'd love to see it

456
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Speaker 2: be seasonal boost from a programming standpoint, But I gotta

457
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Speaker 2: see it sustain itself a little longer, becase we've got

458
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Speaker 2: to remember as recently as a year ago, the first

459
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Speaker 2: half the season, we were playing as good as anybody

460
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Speaker 2: in the league, right, Yeah, And so you gotta it's

461
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Speaker 2: got to be sustained. And again, the position this team

462
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Speaker 2: is in, as we'll talk about with Louie, is that

463
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Speaker 2: they have to start doing something in the postseason other

464
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Speaker 2: than losing the first round before anybody is really going

465
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Speaker 2: to take them all that seriously around the league, no

466
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Speaker 2: matter how well they play. But it's definitely trending in

467
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Speaker 2: a much better direction than when it started, mainly because

468
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Speaker 2: the goaltending and the defenses have been so good. We'll

469
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Speaker 2: get into all that with Luigi when we return here

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Speaker 2: in the Fans around the World.

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Speaker 5: Ride in the World.

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Speaker 2: Nanny was with us at our toys for Tot's location

473
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Speaker 2: here at Shields in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. But as it

474
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Speaker 2: turns out, Louis is back. I believe in Florida. You

475
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Speaker 2: timed it nicely left this morning, is that correct?

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Speaker 6: That's right. I had to stay over, you know, I

477
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Speaker 6: stayed up in Minnesota a few days. I had to

478
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Speaker 6: get back home here, but I had some duties with

479
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Speaker 6: the World Junior Hockey Tournament, and so I stayed till

480
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Speaker 6: this morning. And by the way, before I forget, we've

481
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Speaker 6: got to encourage the people to get tickets to watch

482
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Speaker 6: the greatest show of hockey for kids between seventeen and

483
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Speaker 6: twenty that you're ever going to see. It's it's to

484
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Speaker 6: be a great Christmas gift. It's a great gift for

485
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Speaker 6: the kids, for the grand kids, for the family, and

486
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Speaker 6: the players you're going to see. Players are going to

487
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Speaker 6: be in the NHL. They'll be the best players in

488
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Speaker 6: the world in four or five years.

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Speaker 2: So what are the dates? Right the way of the refreshment.

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Speaker 6: Six and going till January fifth. You got the Canadian

491
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Speaker 6: team in their divisions based at Mariucchi, three am at Mariucchi,

492
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Speaker 6: and the US team's based at Grand Casino. In the

493
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Speaker 6: playoffs are all at Grand Casino. Nice, and they've got

494
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Speaker 6: a really good deal on the Canadian tickets going right

495
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Speaker 6: now because there's been some problems with the Canadians coming

496
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Speaker 6: down here. You know, they get a little bit of

497
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Speaker 6: anger going and they're not coming, although I think more

498
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Speaker 6: of them will come when you get close to it.

499
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Speaker 6: They're so accustomed to see this urnam and they know

500
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Speaker 6: how grade it is. And it doesn't matter what teams

501
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Speaker 6: you see play. That's the best part about it. You

502
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 6: could go see the Fids and Swedes play and they

503
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Speaker 6: got a rivalry probably bigger than the Canadians in the US.

504
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Speaker 6: And when you look at the teams, whether it's Switzerland

505
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Speaker 6: and Germany, they all have talented occuplayers. And to see

506
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Speaker 6: these kids at eighteen nineteen years old that play so well,

507
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Speaker 6: it's just amazing the kind of intensity and how smart

508
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Speaker 6: they are, hard they play, and how good they can play.

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Speaker 2: You know, I've always envisioned you as someone who would

510
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Speaker 2: have been a great UN ambassador. So are you like

511
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Speaker 2: work trying to work your magic to smooth things over politically,

512
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Speaker 2: to sort of, you know, to assuage the fears of

513
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Speaker 2: the Canadians about making this trip, et cetera.

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, I talked to when the Blackshawn. She

515
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Speaker 6: had a sort of sports and events. She's fantastic with

516
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Speaker 6: a job she does, and I said, you know what

517
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Speaker 6: we really need to do. We need to get a

518
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Speaker 6: hockey player from each of the teams across county, each

519
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Speaker 6: to the NHL teams and just get them to do

520
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Speaker 6: a minute commercial about their experience in the World Juniors

521
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Speaker 6: and say I got to get down there and back

522
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Speaker 6: Canada in the championship because Canada is going to be

523
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Speaker 6: very good. The US beat him, and I loved that.

524
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Speaker 6: I was up an Autowa last year and then the

525
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Speaker 6: US beat him in the overtime period and as I

526
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Speaker 6: said before, made a fantastic player to do it, and

527
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Speaker 6: he made a great setup. And the year before the

528
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Speaker 6: US one as well. So US is going for their

529
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Speaker 6: third gold in a row and they've never done that before,

530
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Speaker 6: so they've got that to shoot for. But the Canadians,

531
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Speaker 6: they haven't won for a few years, so it'd be

532
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Speaker 6: something for them to win. And they are a favorite

533
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Speaker 6: team right now going in, so you would think that

534
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Speaker 6: they would get the kind of support that they've had

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Speaker 6: in the past.

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Speaker 2: We will only hope a lot of good questions that

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Speaker 2: come in via my my Twitter, my ex account. Since

538
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Speaker 2: we're on location for the Toys for Tot's event. I'll

539
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Speaker 2: give you an example. Tyler writes, I got to know

540
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Speaker 2: if Louis has any good Kenny peterra stories. No doubt

541
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Speaker 2: they cross paths at some point and you got any

542
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Speaker 2: you got any good?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we task, but no, only don't have any about

544
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Speaker 6: kidding itself, but we might have a couple I'm unfortunately

545
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Speaker 6: I don't.

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Speaker 2: That's uh a callback to was it during training? Move on?

547
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,679
Speaker 2: Cogan passed away? Yeah, hul Cogan passed away and we

548
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 2: had Kenny.

549
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Speaker 3: Oh, that's one of Brett's worst days ever. Remember that? Yeah, sorry, Brett,

550
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 3: I forgot about that.

551
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just move on. Kenny. Yeah, kind of forgot

552
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 2: that we were on you know, like major market radio

553
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 2: or didn't care or didn't care. And then also he did.

554
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Speaker 2: It's the old Sid trick where I think you can

555
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 2: relate to this. Occasionally somebody, a major sports figure would

556
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 2: pass away and Sid's column would end up being more

557
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 2: of a tribute to Sid than to the person who

558
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Speaker 2: passed away. And Kenny did some of that too. When

559
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 2: it was always fun, those are always the best. It

560
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Speaker 2: was absolutely the best.

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Speaker 3: We've did find out though you can say the effort

562
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Speaker 3: like nine times apply on the radio before we get

563
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Speaker 3: in trouble.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that keeps that in mind. That was not that

565
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Speaker 2: was a little dangerous sham. Okay, So no good can

566
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Speaker 2: patra stories, but maybe an answer to this question. Can

567
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Speaker 2: you ask Louis how he would approach managing two really

568
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 2: excellent goaltenders rotating every game, which is I kind of

569
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Speaker 2: think the way the Wild are doing it right now

570
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 2: a sound solution. Or do you stick with one guy

571
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Speaker 2: for a while and see if he stays hot?

572
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Speaker 6: What? No, I love what they're doing right now. When

573
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Speaker 6: you got two golden ears playing like that, you might

574
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Speaker 6: as well keep them challenging each other plus staying sharp

575
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Speaker 6: game out every second game. This way, they both are

576
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Speaker 6: getting there quicker, they've both been on top of their game,

577
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Speaker 6: and you might as well keep doing it because you're

578
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Speaker 6: given each of them a little more rest than you

579
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Speaker 6: normally would if you're just going with one for two

580
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Speaker 6: thirds of a time. So I think it's a good strategy,

581
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Speaker 6: and thus far it's really played out. So it's something

582
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Speaker 6: that the Wild got to be so happy about. Whilst

583
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Speaker 6: it has been such a terrific find this year, so

584
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Speaker 6: unexpected Deui's come in and and not just play good

585
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Speaker 6: gold and everybody get as many shoutouts as he had

586
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Speaker 6: and keep that gold against ever down.

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Speaker 2: It's been terrific for it astonishing uh and in fact

588
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Speaker 2: he's in I think in that tonight game that you

589
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Speaker 2: can hear on the fan a little bit later, Brett Blakemore,

590
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Speaker 2: if you're paying attention, can you play the sound from

591
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Speaker 2: Avalanche play by play guy who's been in a big

592
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Speaker 2: Twitter war since he made these comments with our own

593
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Speaker 2: Russo Radio. Do you have those Blake Moore from me? Yeah,

594
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Speaker 2: let's let's let's play this so Louis, Louis, you may

595
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Speaker 2: have heard this, but I want to play for the listeners,

596
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Speaker 2: and if you haven't, it'll be a good starting off

597
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Speaker 2: point to get into a little bit of a conversation

598
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Speaker 2: and reaction to it. Let's leave.

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Speaker 4: Jerry comes, Chanel mccarr, right handed shot, right side circle,

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Speaker 4: mcar trying to go five Boles say may by ballstet

601
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Speaker 4: and he celebrates like he's won the Stanley Cup.

602
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Speaker 2: He has not.

603
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Speaker 4: It's a great shoot out win for the Wild and

604
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Speaker 4: the Avalanche have their first loss of any kind in

605
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Speaker 4: ten games. They still get a point, they still lead

606
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Speaker 4: the Central Division, they still lead the National Hockey League,

607
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Speaker 4: and they still are the best.

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Speaker 3: Team in the world.

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Speaker 6: Well, you say I had heard that, but I would

610
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Speaker 6: me too. I wish I was your The team might

611
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Speaker 6: have to pay him less. That guy loves his job

612
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 6: too much. I mean he might do it for nothing.

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Speaker 2: That's very possible. You're right, So the battle, well, yeah,

614
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Speaker 2: the battle was then he's saying, you know, you're celebrating

615
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Speaker 2: too hard. Russo basically said, relax, calm down, little enthusiasm.

616
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Speaker 2: So what do you make of that whole deal?

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Speaker 6: I think he's a bitterer, no question in my mind.

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Speaker 6: The guy was Bill said he wanted that street to continue.

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Speaker 6: He did want to see the Avalanche lose, and uh

620
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Speaker 6: a little jealous that Wals did. If I was him,

621
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Speaker 6: I would have celebrated the same way. You know, you

622
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 6: celebrate each one that you win like you're winning the

623
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Speaker 6: Standing Cup because each game is so important to the team.

624
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Speaker 6: And for a young guy like that, the announcers should realize,

625
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 6: this kid's in his first full year in the national athlete.

626
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 6: He just stopped the best defenseman in the world. He

627
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Speaker 6: wins a game against the team that's only one once

628
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Speaker 6: in regulation, that's part in the season. I think it's

629
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Speaker 6: something to celebrate, and it sure warrants it. And for

630
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Speaker 6: the guy to react like that, just to me shows

631
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Speaker 6: some bitterness. He didn't want to lose a game that announcer.

632
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Speaker 6: He thinks that it's okay for somebody else to lose,

633
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Speaker 6: but not the Avalanche.

634
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we've put that under the classification of

635
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Speaker 2: a little bit of youthful exuberance, which in victory I

636
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 2: don't think should be you know, that big of a deal,

637
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Speaker 2: should it.

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Speaker 6: Well, let's take a look at Green Bayvy. Time they

639
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 6: score a touchdowns, somebody jumps in the end zone. I mean,

640
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Speaker 6: that's a lot of exuberts. This kid's not jumping out

641
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Speaker 6: of the rink. And I think that if you look

642
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 6: around the league, there's other nights, other games being played

643
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Speaker 6: when you get to overtime and they come back and

644
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 6: be the top team that you're going to see the

645
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Speaker 6: goal Donder celebrate the same way. This guy was just

646
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 6: a little bit carried away.

647
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Speaker 2: Well, as long as he doesn't start calling himself thirty,

648
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Speaker 2: I think will be okay. I I think there's limits.

649
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 2: We've we've talked about it with JJ McCarthy. It seemed

650
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 2: like he wanted to build the myth about himself before

651
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 2: he performed well. And obviously Volstat hasn't led the Wild

652
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 2: to the Cup yet, but he's off to an extremely

653
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 2: good start in terms of performance, and that's the most

654
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 2: important thing. You know. We had a Wild fan here

655
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 2: earlier who was very excited about the club. Basic said,

656
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 2: you know what, I think this is a year wee

657
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 2: can really make a run. And I said, I want

658
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 2: to believe that. I would love to have hockey programming

659
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 2: and and and you know series for us to discuss

660
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 2: well into the month of May. It would be great

661
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 2: for the Bumper to Bumper program for sure, if we

662
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 2: want to think selfishly. But you know, I got to

663
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 2: see it sustained a little bit, so I'll ask you

664
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 2: the same question. I mean, at what point can this

665
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 2: be trusted? The trending is very good and needed given

666
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,719
Speaker 2: the way the Wild started the season, no question about that.

667
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 2: But when can we say, okay, yeah, there's really something

668
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 2: going on here that might have legs.

669
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 6: Far stilly far to early.

670
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 2: Yep.

671
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 6: And before I go into that, let me tell you

672
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 6: one thing. We're an entertainment the flegs. It doesn't matter

673
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 6: what sport you're talking about. It's all about entertainment. And

674
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 6: Bill Goldsworth, the you know, he wasn't a known a

675
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 6: really big known quality in the NHL when he started

676
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 6: doing a Goldie shuffle and he started doing a Goldie

677
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 6: shuffle and it became something a signature thing that people

678
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 6: around the league used to light to see him do it.

679
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 6: And for Wall instead of the goaltender, this is the

680
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 6: same thing. So we shouldn't get on the guy that

681
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 6: much because he celebrated in a unique way, which is terrific.

682
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 6: But the wild they've you know, they've turned around really

683
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 6: a tough start with three six and three and they

684
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 6: were sinking fast and the next thing, you know, walst

685
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 6: that actually got him started in the right direction, and

686
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 6: now they're in a good position. You're almost the third

687
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 6: way through to the schedule, and if you project the

688
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 6: team doing the same thing the rest of the way,

689
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 6: that give them about one hundred and three points and

690
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 6: safely in the playoff position and in a good position

691
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 6: to go from there. But you can't start talking about

692
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 6: the Cup until you've you know, one a round or two.

693
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:39,720
Speaker 6: You don't just leave rug from a strong league play

694
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 6: to the Stanley Cup, because we have to remember it.

695
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 6: For the most part, every President Cup winner is the

696
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 6: most points in the league. All the teams very seldom

697
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 6: wins the Cup at the think of a jump. So

698
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,040
Speaker 6: we are way too early to start talking about that,

699
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 6: we're not too early to talk about the good hockey,

700
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,879
Speaker 6: the wild they're playing, and if they can sustain that,

701
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 6: how competitive they'll be through the rest of the league

702
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 6: and then have an opportunity to get their first Is

703
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 6: it ten years or something, it's a long time. Ten

704
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 6: years they've won the playoff from that's correct.

705
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 2: Ten years, Well, it's a I think that I think

706
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 2: you've you've distilled it perfectly. I don't think there's anything

707
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:28,439
Speaker 2: ever wrong with enjoying each victory, especially the way they've

708
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 2: been winning, enjoying this goaltending, because they are the games

709
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:33,720
Speaker 2: in front of you right now. So if you're invested

710
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 2: in it, you're allowed to enjoy it right and to

711
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 2: appreciate it and to say, hey, maybe something's happening here.

712
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 2: But it's it's it's the long game, and it's frustrating

713
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 2: because the playoffs seem like a long way from now, right,

714
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 2: and they are quite frankly, But that's just sort of

715
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 2: the nature of it, because you've been around this long

716
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 2: enough to know that in the end it is about

717
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 2: making it. Maybe not even winning cups necessarily because that's

718
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:06,720
Speaker 2: a lot, but making runs right, being vital and being

719
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 2: in the mix when you get to the postseason, and

720
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,879
Speaker 2: that's you can't fast forward. You just have to play

721
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 2: your way through that in the meantime and try to

722
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 2: put yourself in the best position, as you said, But

723
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 2: it ain't gonna pay off until you pay it off,

724
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 2: and that's gonna be when we get to the spring.

725
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 6: You know. Then, I gotta tell you, and not the

726
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 6: not for personal reasons, but what you're seeing reminds me

727
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,240
Speaker 6: back when I was general manager. Anny McField was running

728
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 6: the Twins and we had gone through a great run.

729
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,320
Speaker 6: We had seven years, we had seventy six playoffs keeps

730
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 6: and the next year we missed the playoffs, and of

731
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 6: course we took a lot of heat. And I'll never

732
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 6: forget mcphild coming to me, he says, for crying out loud,

733
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 6: he says, I hope I get that coming forward, to

734
00:36:58,360 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 6: have that kind of run for that kind of time,

735
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 6: time to be a factor for seven years in all

736
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 6: like that, And that's what it's all about, what you

737
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 6: just said, getting to be a factor in the playoffs.

738
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 6: You don't know if you're ever going to win it.

739
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 6: And I got to tell you, even if you get

740
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 6: to the finals, it's awful hard to get to the

741
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 6: finals again, but just having the opportunity to compete in

742
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 6: the Standing Cup finals longer than the first round really

743
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 6: fuels everything for the team. It gives you such a

744
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 6: satisfaction to be able to have taken that run and

745
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 6: gives you an opportunity to imagine. And that's what you

746
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 6: play the game for, to imagine. Like when you're a kid,

747
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 6: you imagine making the NHL and you imagine winning the

748
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 6: Standing Cup. Well, when you're in a playoff, you imagine

749
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,760
Speaker 6: winning the Cup, and very few people get there compared

750
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 6: to how many play. But the good part about is

751
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 6: being able to imagine.

752
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 2: That's it, That's one hundred percent true. Louis joining us

753
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 2: from Florida. We are at the Shields until six thirty tonight.

754
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 2: Toys for Tot's the big event. If you'd like to

755
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 2: stop buying and say hello, or more importantly, drop off

756
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 2: a toy. The bin is getting nicely filled up again

757
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 2: and we appreciate all the support that we get every

758
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 2: year on this station on our Toys for Tot's Day. Now,

759
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 2: let's get to the most important question. Did you watch

760
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 2: the Viking's most recent debacle and how did you process it.

761
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I watched. I watch every second of it,

762
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 6: and they you know, you're on the sideline, you were

763
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 6: in your living room watching the game, and it's a

764
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 6: game where you you're hoping and you're wishful that something's

765
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 6: going to be different, but you're also antagonizy or you're

766
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 6: self and it's aggravating inside because you're torn that you

767
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 6: know it's not going to happen, but you want it

768
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 6: to happen, and you he suffer. I mean, when you

769
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 6: watch a game that I got to tell you that

770
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 6: the defense is so good it was it wouldn't have

771
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 6: taken much of an offense to win that game. You know.

772
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 6: One of the things that that happened in the game

773
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 6: that no word is really paid much attention to it.

774
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 6: Sam Darnold did not look like a thirty million dollar quarterback.

775
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 2: I did not. You're right and.

776
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 6: And and and had you know, and I'm sure Max

777
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 6: would want that one play back again, had he just

778
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 6: taken a sack instead of thrown away. Even if they

779
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 6: got three points, then they're just down six and and

780
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:50,359
Speaker 6: they were they were really affecting the game. The defenses

781
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 6: was making a big difference in that game. And and

782
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,280
Speaker 6: it's just the little things, the usual things that happened

783
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 6: in that game that really set to you because because

784
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 6: they were so unusual that you say, often you see

785
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 6: that happen that shouldn't happen. And if they didn't happen,

786
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 6: the Vikes would have been writing in it all the

787
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,879
Speaker 6: way to the end. And they really weren't get much

788
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 6: of an offense.

789
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 2: No.

790
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 6: I will say this if I was a quarterback, and

791
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 6: I was and I you know, I know nothing about football,

792
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 6: but I know one day if I was Max, I

793
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 6: would have thrown that ball to Jefferson every time. And

794
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 6: I take a chance of it being intercepted. Yeah, because

795
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 6: it's lucky. He isn't going to be intercepted. Because if

796
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 6: Jefferson doesn't get it, he'll knock it down. He just

797
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 6: you know, keep attempting. If you're good enough to throw

798
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:42,399
Speaker 6: it over the guy and let Jefferson here and there,

799
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 6: he'd make a spectacular catch. But I would when you're dying,

800
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 6: you got to go with the one that brung you.

801
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,439
Speaker 6: You know you've got it. When you go to a dance,

802
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 6: you say bring He's answer the one to bring in.

803
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 6: You got to go with Jefferson and just keep throwing

804
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 6: them the ball whether he catches it or not.

805
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 2: All right, So they're sitting out for a less than

806
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 2: one percent chance they make the playoffs at this point,

807
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,760
Speaker 2: So is it you got? You might as well put

808
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:13,360
Speaker 2: JJ back in there, McCarthy and just play through everything,

809
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 2: even if he's dreadful. Again, you got to keep at

810
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 2: this point throwing him out there the rest of the

811
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 2: regular season. Do you agree with that?

812
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I don't think he's going to be dreadful.

813
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 6: I have to tell you, there's whether they'll admit it

814
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 6: or not. There's a lot of pressure off McCarthy right now. Yes,

815
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 6: because they aren't going to make the playoffs. It's just

816
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,760
Speaker 6: you're not gonna have three teams that are good teams

817
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 6: above you all fail and you have to remember that

818
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 6: they play each other, so that there's going to be

819
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 6: wins by all three of them along the way that

820
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:46,919
Speaker 6: are going to pull away from you. But I think

821
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,439
Speaker 6: that when you when you look at JJ, a lot

822
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 6: of it sometimes early on becomes from the exuberance of

823
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 6: wanting to do a lot and trying to do You

824
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 6: try and do things, and before you know you're trying

825
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 6: to do too much and I think right now he's

826
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 6: going to come out. I really think different Hikings are

827
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 6: going to win a couple of games along the way.

828
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 6: Years is going to surprise people, and JJ it's gonna

829
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 6: have a couple of good games.

830
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 2: Well, oddly enough, I think to your point, I think

831
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 2: he may have a better chance to play looser now

832
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 2: because there's less to lose. I mean, and I felt

833
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:26,879
Speaker 2: before the season began, Louis. The unfairness to McCarthy is

834
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 2: that when you come to a team or start for

835
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 2: a team that's coming off a fourteen three season, you're

836
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,879
Speaker 2: going to be graded on a tougher curve, whether it's

837
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 2: fair or not. If you're a team that's rebuilding and

838
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 2: everybody's acknowledging we were terrible last year and we're just

839
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 2: putting this new QB out there and we're going to

840
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 2: see what he has. That's a very different deal than

841
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 2: when you join a team that's coming off the kind

842
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 2: of regular season they had last year, where no matter

843
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,320
Speaker 2: what people said about being patient, it was going to

844
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 2: be harder to be patient, right because expectations on the

845
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 2: basis of that record and the fact that they spent

846
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 2: more money than any other team in the league in

847
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 2: terms of free agency. That was going to add to

848
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 2: the pressure that the kid, almost from the beginning, was

849
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 2: going to have to was expected to play well, even

850
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 2: if it was unfair to him.

851
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 6: There's no doubt that he was under tremendous pressure. As

852
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 6: you said, you're coming to off with Trey fourteen to three. Yeah,

853
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:26,800
Speaker 6: and how do you replicate that? That's tough enough to

854
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:30,839
Speaker 6: replicated if you were the best quarterbacks ever played at

855
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 6: fourteen to three is a hell of a season. You

856
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 6: don't just have two in a row like that. And

857
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 6: I think that no matter what happened, he was going

858
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 6: to have some tough times along the way because he

859
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 6: is a rookie. We have to remember he's essessially a

860
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 6: guy that hasn't got a lot of experience behind him,

861
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,359
Speaker 6: not even in college. So to expect that much out

862
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 6: of him right away is definitely going to put more

863
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 6: pressure him. And he's going to be grated tougher, like

864
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Speaker 6: you said, and there's gonna be There's gonna be times

865
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:10,280
Speaker 6: when things are really bad, and it's I think he's

866
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 6: strong willed enough to get through that. I don't question

867
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 6: his mind ability to handle things, but physically, whether it's

868
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 6: mine's handling it or not. You still mentally try and

869
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 6: do sometimes more than you should be doing. You you

870
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 6: played the game a different way than you normally would

871
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 6: if you if there's no pressure and no higher expectation.

872
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,280
Speaker 2: Uh. I'm going to finish with a toys for Tot's

873
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 2: question for you. When little Luigi Nanny was growing up

874
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:44,479
Speaker 2: in the sue, give me a toy that you got,

875
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 2: a Christmas gift that you got that that changed everything

876
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 2: for a little Luigi. I mean, was it something Was

877
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:53,720
Speaker 2: it a hockey stick? Was it something?

878
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 6: Just something that gloves?

879
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:56,800
Speaker 2: It was hockey gloves.

880
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 6: Yeah, I remember getting my first Baraarchy gloves and and

881
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 6: I can't even remember. It might have been six or

882
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 6: seven years old. To have a pair of hockey gloves

883
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 6: was reading something. And I still remember. That's why I

884
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 6: know exactly what I wanted to say, because to have

885
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 6: them all wrapped up like that under the tree, and

886
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 6: he opened up and they smelled good. I could still

887
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,920
Speaker 6: smell the smell of those gloves. I still feel the

888
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 6: way they felt. I just it was a gift that

889
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 6: I just treasured the rest of my life.

890
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 2: I love it, and that's something that's it's amazing. What

891
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 2: stays with you?

892
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 6: Right, yeah, yeah, good exactly. I mean I used to

893
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 6: I used to love to get hockey stuff. I just

894
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 6: used to love to get archy stuff and and and

895
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 6: the new stuff because you know, even though it was

896
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 6: a long long time ago, it was expensive to get

897
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 6: archie book at all times in the comparative situation that

898
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 6: you're in, and and to get that to have new

899
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 6: stuff to go out the next day and play key

900
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 6: with new equipment was really really something I loved every year.

901
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,839
Speaker 2: Excellent work is always my friend. We appreciate uh, the

902
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 2: your fine sponsor camps as well. We always appreciate their support.

903
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 2: And we will let chat with you next week.

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Speaker 6: I love talking you from Shield. I enjoyed my time

905
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 6: when I came there. Yes, last time it was I

906
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 6: You guys do a great job and for toys, for

907
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 6: taught that's wonderful you able to do it. And sorry

908
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 6: missing it, but well.

909
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 2: You've done it.

910
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:27,879
Speaker 6: You have a good time. Man.

911
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 2: We were, you know, Guardian and I were talking about this.

912
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 2: You've been very loyal when you've been in town, going

913
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:34,759
Speaker 2: all the way back. We used to be at the

914
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 2: Mall of America doing this. Ah, you showed up I remember.

915
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 6: One time I got there. I didn't know if I

916
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 6: be able to make at the snow store.

917
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:42,319
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right.

918
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 6: I want to be in one of those of you.

919
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 2: No, no, you wouldn't even know what to do with

920
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 2: a snowstore.

921
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 3: Now, would rather driving.

922
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 6: The cold weather. At least they can put sweaters on you,

923
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 6: like I got some nice sweaters I like to wear.

924
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 3: They have new hockey gloves and shields. Louis, if you

925
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 3: want to wake up the echoes of the six year

926
00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 3: old nana, there you go. They've got a lot of

927
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 3: new hockey gloves right up on the second floor.

928
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 6: Send them down here.

929
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, play with their panthers. Grow the game.

930
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 3: Keep growing the game down there with those new hockey

931
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 3: gloves and and.

932
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Speaker 2: A few others. Real esposito, Thanks man, good lu Nanny

933
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 2: Via the kineticot Water Systems hotline. We'll pause for the

934
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 2: top of the hour break. We'll get to a couple

935
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 2: of Vikings items, maybe a couple of other things in

936
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Speaker 2: our final thirty minutes or so. Don't go away.

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946
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 2: Interesting quotes out of nowhere. You remember a picture named

947
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 2: Sonny Gray. I do fondly. We had for a minute.

948
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:22,799
Speaker 2: I love Sonny Gray, and then we.

949
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,760
Speaker 3: Did, Yeah, he's with the Cardinals.

950
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 2: Still right, No, not anymore?

951
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 6: He is?

952
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 2: Uh now, I believe uh with the isn't the Red Sox?

953
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 2: I think he just got traded to the Red Sox.

954
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:38,280
Speaker 2: Sonny didn't we talk about that as the Red Sox.

955
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 2: I was probably off like Moore, I should say I

956
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 2: was probably off. So New York Post Sports Department seems

957
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 2: to have boxed up Sonny Gray. Here's what they have

958
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 2: Sonny Gray on his time with the Yankees after being

959
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 2: traded to the Red Sox most recently. I never wanted

960
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 2: to go there in the first place. They found a

961
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 2: quote from Sonny Gray after he indeed was traded to

962
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 2: the Yankees in twenty seventeen. I couldn't be happier to

963
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 2: be here today, to which the Post Sports Department snark says,

964
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 2: which one is it? Sonny? It is pretty good, it's

965
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 2: not standing. So who knows what the truth is. But

966
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,359
Speaker 2: the moral of the story is he's not here. He's

967
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 2: still not here. No, Sonny Gray's still not here, which

968
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,399
Speaker 2: I think we can confirm he's happy about. Well, yeah,

969
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 2: I think you're probably right about that.

970
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 3: That's like somebody just boxed up Lane Kiffin in the

971
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,799
Speaker 3: same way and said, because when he got the USC job,

972
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 3: he called it the greatest job in the country. Oh yeah,

973
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 3: and then two days ago he said LSU is the

974
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 3: greatest job in the country. That's the tricky part about

975
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 3: the digital age of which we live. There was a

976
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 3: time you might be.

977
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 2: Able to get away with it because we didn't have

978
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 2: the internet. Who was your guy, Colangelo? Right?

979
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, said the thing that haunted you, that where you

980
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 3: went down to the library because you knew that he

981
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 3: said something he ripped.

982
00:49:56,680 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 2: Scott May, a former Indiana player who fared poorly as

983
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 2: a pro. Yeah, drafted by the Chicago Bulls.

984
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 3: And in twenty twenty five, you would have confirmed that

985
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:07,359
Speaker 3: in four seconds, a great point. You would have found

986
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 3: it right the fact, then you had to spend your.

987
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 2: And he might not have been his cavalier about it, yea,

988
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 2: because you'd known chances are he's going to get boxed

989
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 2: up where he said, well, I don't know this idiot's

990
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 2: going to actually spend three hours in the catacombs at

991
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:22,280
Speaker 2: the IU Library looking through newspapers. I love it, coppy

992
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 2: newspapers in the Chicago trick and you found it, and

993
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 2: I found it. It made my night. Yeah. And then

994
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 2: but what didn't make my next day was when I

995
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 2: presented it with him with the because I stole the

996
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 2: paper from the library, so I got to have this

997
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 2: and showed it to him. He just kind of like

998
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 2: he just walked away. Ye wouldn't acknowledge it. It's like,

999
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking. I still don't know

1000
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 2: what you're talking. That's probably what Sonny is doing today.

1001
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 2: That's very true, very speeking of snark. Earlier, we had

1002
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 2: Kevin Seaffert on location here and we were talking about

1003
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:58,279
Speaker 2: his view on the Adam Feelen saga the way it

1004
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 2: played out, and part of this story we talked about

1005
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 2: yesterday was it was Adam Feelin's bad luck that wide

1006
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 2: receiver was the one position once the season began in

1007
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 2: which nobody got hurt or nobody has been hurt since

1008
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 2: the suspension to Jordan Addison, And if that position had

1009
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 2: been the same as several others, he probably would have

1010
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 2: had more of an opportunity because one of the other

1011
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,959
Speaker 2: receivers might have been out for at least a game

1012
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:29,399
Speaker 2: or two, to which a tweeter guy Christopher wrote, it's

1013
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,359
Speaker 2: hard for the Vikings wide receivers to get injured when

1014
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 2: they don't get to touch the ball.

1015
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 3: Iright, argument man, all right, argue how fast has it turned?

1016
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 3: You know, we were talking about the Ken peterra interview.

1017
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:42,760
Speaker 3: That was a training camp. How different is the feeling

1018
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:46,479
Speaker 3: from how we felt that way or any day at camp.

1019
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,319
Speaker 2: Let's be clear, though, if you if we go back

1020
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 2: to our first day at training camp, it may or

1021
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 2: may not have been a bit by Pa. But if

1022
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 2: we recall, yes, basically all Pa did while we were

1023
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 2: on the air was, oh my god, every past McCarthy

1024
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:05,960
Speaker 2: throws is either twenty yards past the receiver way up

1025
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 2: in the air at.

1026
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 3: His feet, and then he had thought it was a

1027
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 3: bit Well, the best part about that was when he

1028
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:13,760
Speaker 3: did have the completion. I said, that was a nice strike.

1029
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 3: JJ to whoever and die Goes would have been sacked.

1030
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 3: That's right, it would have been. That's what he said.

1031
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 2: So at the time I thought he was just playing

1032
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:25,359
Speaker 2: to our show, the snark of our show. But it

1033
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 2: may have been he was ahead of the curve.

1034
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, as it turns out, Seafert was right, though it

1035
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 3: wasn't up and down training camp so much.

1036
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 6: So.

1037
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 3: Remember when Kevin O'Connell did the sky is not falling,

1038
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 3: we looked out. I don't remember if it was a

1039
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 3: joint or a preseason game or whatever, but he was

1040
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:43,319
Speaker 3: already trying to kind of disquiet every quiet every Yeah,

1041
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,240
Speaker 3: but it is crazy that you think about the training

1042
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 3: camp the year before.

1043
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 2: JJ was great.

1044
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:52,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody figured he we were all doing win's he

1045
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 3: gonna start and then a lot of people thought it

1046
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 3: might be the first game. That's true until he got hurt.

1047
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 3: It's crazy. It comes at you fast. It definitely does.

1048
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 2: All right, we got one more break to get in

1049
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 2: at Shorty will remind you what we have, what you've

1050
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,399
Speaker 2: missed earlier today, and what we have coming up back

1051
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 2: at headquarters on tomorrow's program, what we have coming up

1052
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,359
Speaker 2: tonight on the fan as well, our final segment from

1053
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 2: today's a Toys for Tot's event. And there's still time

1054
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,839
Speaker 2: for you to get here, drop up off a toy,

1055
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 2: help out however you can via a toy or a

1056
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 2: check or cash or whatever the case may be easy

1057
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 2: to find on the first floor of these Shields in

1058
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 2: the massive Shields in Eden Prairie. Back for a final

1059
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 2: segment for today in a.

1060
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 6: Minute, it's the Bumper to Bumper show wrap.

1061
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 2: Well, I think all things being equal, worked out pretty

1062
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 2: well today in our Toys for Tots appearance the Bumper

1063
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:56,799
Speaker 2: to Bumper program at Shields and Eden Prairie. We had

1064
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:01,760
Speaker 2: a nice conversation with up and coming a Vikings defensive

1065
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 2: lineman Levi Drake Rodriguez found out that he is at

1066
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 2: least this first time I knew he actually was an

1067
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 2: offensive lineman. Yeah, and then ended up being moved to defense.

1068
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 2: He joined us probably what about twenty or so, Yeah,

1069
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:23,400
Speaker 2: Seaffert for a good solid hour followed him Louis by telephone.

1070
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 2: We just wrapped up, and I assume you could bring

1071
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 2: a toy in the next hour. Still, how long do

1072
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:33,479
Speaker 2: we extend this toys for Tot's deal?

1073
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 1: Do we?

1074
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:36,879
Speaker 3: Probably until they're torn down? I don't know exactly, so at.

1075
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,280
Speaker 2: Least for a while to be close to eaton Prairie

1076
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 2: Mall or or somewhere in the mall, because I know

1077
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 2: a lot of people have their earbuds in and they

1078
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 2: listen to us as they walk all the way around. Course. Yeah,

1079
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 2: so he's still an opportunity to help out a very

1080
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:52,760
Speaker 2: very good cause, as I know many of you already have. Today.

1081
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 2: We've met a number of folks find folks today as well.

1082
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 2: We appreciate those who stop by to say hello to us.

1083
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:00,760
Speaker 2: So tonight, what do we have? Rest of the evening?

1084
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:03,760
Speaker 3: We've got Vikings Country coming up next, then Wild Weekly,

1085
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 3: then Wild Edmonton Edmonton, and the Timberwolves game at seven

1086
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 3: o'clock is on the Timberwolves channel of your iHeartRadio app.

1087
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 2: And you will not see Zion. We will see Zion

1088
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:15,879
Speaker 2: Williamson and Street Cloak. Actually he probably won't be probably not. Yeah,

1089
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 2: I don't know, probably want to be there. I'm guessing

1090
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 2: you know.

1091
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:20,479
Speaker 3: One follow up I wish you would have asked today

1092
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 3: that did you hear LEVI talk about his I guess.

1093
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 2: The Bible College or the religious school that.

1094
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 3: He went to, and he said, we could have visitors

1095
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 3: from the opposite gender one day a month. Well it

1096
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 3: was a very religious school. Well, I had so many questions,

1097
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:37,799
Speaker 3: like was it the same day?

1098
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 2: Was it? Did you stagger the day?

1099
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 3: Because I mean my mind exploded him like that had

1100
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 3: to be kind of problematic.

1101
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 2: But he's like animal house that day? Is it? But

1102
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,759
Speaker 2: is it less problematic if you decide to go to that,

1103
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 2: don't you kind of have to know, Yeah, you go

1104
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:57,439
Speaker 2: to that school, but the rules might be a little

1105
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:00,800
Speaker 2: bit different there, even in this you know, Texas or

1106
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 2: wherever you Yeah, but yeah, you just cracked me up

1107
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 2: that he brought that up. He goes, true, you could

1108
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 2: have visitors from the opposite gender one day a month. Yeah,

1109
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,879
Speaker 2: that interesting, very very unusual approach. But I'm but I'm

1110
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 2: guessing it a lot of because he basically talked about

1111
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 2: how that big, how big with that was for his faith. Yes,

1112
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 2: that it's that kind of place where that's I think

1113
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 2: you kind of get what you know, you know what

1114
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 2: you're in for. You know, I'm not gonna rip you.

1115
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:27,799
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna feel sorry for you if you if

1116
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:29,920
Speaker 2: you go to that place, it's like you're you're not

1117
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 2: going to you know, you ain't going to Madison, you know,

1118
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 2: University of Wisconsin. Yeah, where all bets are off from

1119
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 2: the moment you get exactly un l V. Yeah.

1120
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 3: Well yeah, I just I'm it just cracked me up.

1121
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 3: Like if everybody wake up at four in the morning

1122
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:46,839
Speaker 3: that day just excited they get to see somebody from

1123
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 3: the opposite gender, I don't know, it was just it

1124
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:49,799
Speaker 3: cracks me up.

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00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 2: In any case.

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00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,319
Speaker 3: That was also at all of my colleges, people from

1127
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 3: the opposite gender came over on average once every six months,

1128
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:02,239
Speaker 3: So it wasn't that Yeah, the frequently once a month.

1129
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 2: Wow, that'd be great. It feels pretty crazy for me,

1130
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:09,359
Speaker 2: almost annimal house house ish, like eh, yeah, all right,

1131
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 2: So tomorrow we're back at headquarters and Mason your face

1132
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 2: is he back? He would be back four to five tomorrow,

1133
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 2: and then Kessler is up in the air. There may

1134
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 2: be some things that will make it harder for him

1135
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 2: to be with us, but we'll keep you posted on that.

1136
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 3: Tomorrow you think we'll have Mike Conley tomorrow too. That'll

1137
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 3: be confirmed a little bit later tonight.

1138
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 2: Andy Lueger is going to be in studio Thursday. There's

1139
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 2: a lot to get caught up on with him, and

1140
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 2: I wanted it was gonna be a tough day to

1141
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 2: get into this. Today, New York Times had an interesting

1142
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 2: piece that's getting a lot of attention regarding Minnesota land

1143
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 2: of ten thousand fraud cases that really wasn't new, but

1144
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 2: maybe new to the national audience. It's a lot of

1145
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,480
Speaker 2: stuff that we have tended to cover. I wanted to

1146
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 2: get Luger's reaction, though. There are a few comments in

1147
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 2: that story that I did think advanced the story a

1148
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 2: little bit. And I also thought that the governor Sunday,

1149
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 2: I think it was on Meet the Press. I don't

1150
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 2: think he could have done a worse job at defending

1151
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 2: his administration regarding some of these stories. And he has

1152
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 2: not done a particularly effective job from the beginning, especially

1153
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 2: when he tried to actually take credit for well, where

1154
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 2: the bad guys are going to jail, as if he

1155
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:23,080
Speaker 2: had something to do with that, which you can't quite

1156
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 2: make up. So we might get into some of that tomorrow,

1157
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 2: with or without mister Kessler that indeed the plan, and

1158
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 2: you mentioned Conley possibly, Yeah, I would anticipate we have

1159
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 2: tomorrow as well.

1160
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 3: Then they are in New Orleans for the next three

1161
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 3: days game tonight on Thursdayerous I mean, is New Orleans

1162
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 3: still considered like for visiting teams a dangerous place to hangout?

1163
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 2: And I don't know how the street still exists, right?

1164
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 6: We know?

1165
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 3: Right still there? I was there about a year ago.

1166
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 3: This time it's a little bit on.

1167
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 2: The dangerous side. I would think it could be. Are

1168
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:58,840
Speaker 2: we favored, by the way the Vikings to beat Washington?

1169
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 2: I haven't looked Blake more. You have time to look

1170
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 2: to see if we are un I can pull it

1171
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 2: up too. I'm guessing. I'm guessing I've got it. We

1172
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 2: are favored by one and a half. You nailed it,

1173
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 2: favored one and a half and a half. Yeah, that's that.

1174
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 2: What an insult? By the way, that is. I know

1175
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 2: it's their back right now. I think it's their backup

1176
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 2: quarterback Marcus Mariota. Mariota, who's not terrible, but it still

1177
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 2: is a backup here function. Their record's worse than ours,

1178
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 2: isn't it. I think so we're four and eight, aren't

1179
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 2: they three and nine probably man, so it hasn't gone

1180
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:33,479
Speaker 2: well for them either.

1181
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 3: NFC Title game a year ago for them, if you recall,

1182
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 3: it's true. Yeah, I don't think their quarterback's long for

1183
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 3: this world either, because don't think he's gonna stay here.

1184
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 3: He's very slight, right, He's very slight. That's what I

1185
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 3: worried about JJ. He's kind of slight too. I know, Well,

1186
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 3: a long way from here to there. But you're going

1187
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 3: to see him the rest of the year. Don't think

1188
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 3: you're gonna see you bros more other than injury.

1189
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:57,000
Speaker 2: Which is still a possibility, and it's not a cheap shot.

1190
00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 2: When they thought yesterday, I'm something.

1191
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:01,680
Speaker 3: You're just trying to stay ready, Mack, stay ready.

1192
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:04,400
Speaker 2: You're assuming he's the backups even said he didn't know it.

1193
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 2: I know that's what. I would be surprised if he wasn't.

1194
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:11,040
Speaker 2: But at this point, you know, pretty much all bets

1195
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 2: are off. I would say, you know, the other thing

1196
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 2: I want to get into tomorrow is exactly the way

1197
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 2: I think the Vikings should play at the next two

1198
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 2: or three games. Kind of I think they should do

1199
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 2: it the way Seattle did this last game. All we're

1200
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:27,920
Speaker 2: interested in doing is crossing the fifty and getting to

1201
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:29,919
Speaker 2: like the other team's forty, and then we'll kick the field,

1202
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 2: bang the field goal, and you know, if you make

1203
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 2: seven field goals, you got twenty one points. That's true.

1204
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 2: Our kicker could kick from.

1205
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 3: Anywhere, and our defense is paying in yes, playing last week.

1206
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:45,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, very very true. And then at some point

1207
01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:49,640
Speaker 2: maybe we'll get a report on your kind of a

1208
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:53,280
Speaker 2: travelogue report on your Bahamas trip. There's a heck of

1209
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 2: a two weeks which you lost. You gained going there

1210
01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 2: eighty degrees and then you lost eighty two degrees coming back.

1211
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:03,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had Eugene, Lawrence Wrigley and the Bahamas in

1212
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:04,400
Speaker 3: two weeks.

1213
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 2: Think about that. That was one for the ages. Yeah,

1214
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 2: that's quite a mixture. Two weeks stretch of weather. I

1215
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:16,960
Speaker 2: guess you could say extreme everything, like aesthetics, history, the

1216
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:17,440
Speaker 2: whole thing.

1217
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 3: I think it's too human for me down there. It is,

1218
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 3: I told you it is. Yeah, it's really nice though

1219
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:25,520
Speaker 3: it's easier to get there. It's very easy, that's for sure.

1220
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 3: That was long, No, no real jet leg. Yeah that's

1221
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 3: a very good point.

1222
01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thanks again for all the folks to stop

1223
01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:32,840
Speaker 2: by to see us. And thank you more importantly, whether

1224
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:35,960
Speaker 2: you did or not, for your contributions. Thanks to Shield,

1225
01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 2: you Toys for Tots, and you for helping us out.

1226
01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:41,160
Speaker 2: They they've always done, They've been great partners on this

1227
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 2: year after year it gets he's getting better and better

1228
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 2: with each passing year. Thanks for watching, Thank you indeed

1229
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 2: for listening, and we will talk to you back from

1230
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 2: headquarters tomorrow beginning at three o'clock right here on the

1231
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Speaker 2: fans