WEBVTT - Top 5/Ode to a Dead Guy 0:00:00.070 --> 0:00:03.190 Dan Barrero's Top 5 at 5, brought to you by 0:00:03.270 --> 0:00:07.180 Gutter Helmet of Minnesota. Never clean your gutters again. Learn 0:00:07.220 --> 0:00:10.200 more at gutterhelmetmn.com. 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.039 It is Top 5 at 5 time. Odoo Deadguy coming 0:00:13.140 --> 0:00:17.320 up in what should be a very eclectic hour, but 0:00:17.590 --> 0:00:22.270 I don't think you're going to find a producer, a 0:00:24.950 --> 0:00:27.910 moderator of the Top 5 at 5 who could possibly 0:00:27.970 --> 0:00:31.900 be any giddier than than JG. So I have a 0:00:31.940 --> 0:00:34.820 hunch there will be no hockey conversation during this Top 0:00:34.820 --> 0:00:38.320 5 at 5, much to Faulness' chagrin. And it'll be 0:00:38.770 --> 0:00:44.790 all Timberwolves dominating Miami talk. As Glenn Mason would say, 0:00:44.810 --> 0:00:46.550 you're wrong. You're wrong. 0:00:47.370 --> 0:00:50.150 I will mention that the Wild take on the Calgary 0:00:50.170 --> 0:00:53.269 Flames tonight. A game you can hear right here on 0:00:53.310 --> 0:00:56.490 the fan after our Minnesota Vikings programming and after Wild Weekly. 0:00:57.930 --> 0:00:58.630 That's what I'll tell you. 0:00:58.750 --> 0:01:00.400 Well, I want us to get right back on the board. 0:01:00.410 --> 0:01:02.200 Although you're, you know, you're big on, we got a point. 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:04.890 I know we got a point. I just don't like 0:01:04.910 --> 0:01:08.149 the way we, Our special teams are suddenly playing. Spurgeon 0:01:08.350 --> 0:01:11.500 and Mata, or Mata, are back in tonight. I thought 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:13.679 it was Mata, but I've heard it like everything else. 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.820 In hockey, the names change. Sometimes there's conflicts on what 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:22.820 the proper pronunciation is. Sometimes they're both okay. All I 0:01:22.860 --> 0:01:25.980 know is we still haven't made a deal for a 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.100 number one center. Is that correct? Larkin is still not 0:01:28.140 --> 0:01:28.800 a member of the Wild? 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.160 Larkin's not a member of the Wild, and Quinnisota is 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:32.390 not signed after this year. 0:01:32.470 --> 0:01:36.470 That is a shocker. Those two things continue to remain true. So, 0:01:36.569 --> 0:01:38.950 I mean, it's I mean, it's a tough let's be 0:01:38.970 --> 0:01:43.980 honest in Garen's defense. He's in a tough position because 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:45.980 he's got to get the go ahead. He's got to 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:50.120 get approval from Quinn Hughes about who's going to be 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:54.620 involved in this trade to get Larkin. If Quinn Hughes 0:01:54.660 --> 0:01:57.970 does not agree to who stays and who goes. It 0:01:58.010 --> 0:02:01.550 ain't going to work because then he's holding us hostage, right? 0:02:02.750 --> 0:02:07.220 And won't sign an extension until he decides who comes 0:02:07.700 --> 0:02:08.200 and who goes. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.840 Does Quinn know that this isn't the Olympic team? That 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:13.240 you can't just have all all-stars? 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.220 You'd like to think he's a savvy player. Load it 0:02:18.300 --> 0:02:18.720 all up. 0:02:18.980 --> 0:02:20.980 He's a great hockey mind, but you can't just get 0:02:21.139 --> 0:02:23.720 every great American, for example, and just put him on 0:02:23.740 --> 0:02:24.160 the wild. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:25.220 It doesn't work that way in the NHL. I hope 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.520 he understands that. I just want it all to end soon. 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:28.880 I know. 0:02:28.900 --> 0:02:31.210 Although we're getting some run out of it. Although all 0:02:31.230 --> 0:02:32.750 we're doing is complaining about it. So I don't know 0:02:32.790 --> 0:02:34.010 if it's good content or not. 0:02:34.130 --> 0:02:37.090 No, that's very true. 745 puck drop, 8 o'clock. Right 0:02:37.130 --> 0:02:39.590 here on The Fan. Well, I'll save it because otherwise 0:02:39.610 --> 0:02:41.530 we're going to be too far behind. But there is 0:02:41.650 --> 0:02:45.950 a post-script video. to our, I guess you could say, 0:02:46.010 --> 0:02:49.209 town hall meeting in studio a couple days ago with 0:02:49.250 --> 0:02:53.130 both Lou Nanny and Russo Radio, but I'll save it. 0:02:54.070 --> 0:02:57.760 You know what, speaking of bringing America together, you know 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:58.840 who might bring America together? 0:02:58.860 --> 0:02:59.139 Who's that? 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.680 The best backcourt in the NBA. The most fun, we 0:03:02.700 --> 0:03:06.840 know that. LaMelo Ball and Anthony Edwards. Remember when the 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:11.560 Heat were really going to stress their pressure points? We're 0:03:11.580 --> 0:03:13.850 going to have trouble with interior defense. How are you 0:03:13.870 --> 0:03:14.550 going to handle that? 0:03:14.570 --> 0:03:16.570 You're not going to be able to get to the rim. 0:03:16.590 --> 0:03:18.350 You know what we decided to do? Let's not get 0:03:18.370 --> 0:03:19.500 to the rim. We're just going to shoot over. We'll 0:03:19.540 --> 0:03:22.739 shoot over. Yeah, we'll shoot 53s. Create some space, which 0:03:22.940 --> 0:03:27.360 Anthony Edwards, just true to form... Had the opportunity to do, 0:03:27.380 --> 0:03:29.079 because it's a little tougher to double him, because he's 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:30.440 not the guy bringing the ball up the court. 0:03:30.540 --> 0:03:34.290 But go ahead. 9 of 17 was Anthony Edwards. From 3, 0:03:34.290 --> 0:03:38.530 16 of 29 from the floor, 45 points. He has 0:03:38.570 --> 0:03:42.110 now gone over 40 in back-to-back season openers. The Wolves 0:03:42.170 --> 0:03:46.090 run away from Giannis, ruin Giannis' night, his debut in 0:03:46.180 --> 0:03:46.740 South Beach. 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.780 And he had 35. Yes. But dare I call it 0:03:49.900 --> 0:03:53.320 a quiet 35? It got quieter because we had 21 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.880 in the first half. Finchie has already fallen in love 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.870 with our new power forward. Jonathan Kaminga. And it was 0:03:58.910 --> 0:04:00.570 Kaminga a lot of the time, as I thought might 0:04:00.610 --> 0:04:02.230 be the case, at least some of the time. And 0:04:02.270 --> 0:04:04.770 even though he had 35, he thought Kaminga did a 0:04:04.810 --> 0:04:08.690 decent job at times. I just, I mean, what I've seen, 0:04:08.710 --> 0:04:11.890 I just, I like that. Look like he has a 0:04:11.950 --> 0:04:14.760 role or that he's happy with what the role is. 0:04:14.780 --> 0:04:17.040 Now we'll see. That's one game where it goes, but 0:04:17.060 --> 0:04:23.180 we'll say again, remember, The vacuum at that position until 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.080 we got him. You know, we talked about it the 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.010 whole summer. It's like, well, how's this going to work? 0:04:27.029 --> 0:04:28.450 You're going to go small ball throughout? 0:04:28.470 --> 0:04:28.540 T.J. 0:04:28.550 --> 0:04:31.410 Shannon can do it. Think about how preposterous that was. 0:04:31.830 --> 0:04:34.349 I know. That's the scary part. And the other guy, again, 0:04:34.390 --> 0:04:37.550 and you've mentioned him a couple times. We both have. DeSumo, man. 0:04:37.850 --> 0:04:38.090 Yeah. 0:04:38.470 --> 0:04:43.000 DeSumo. This could be the year of DeSumo very easily. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.700 The year of Iowa? Did you see him get his best? 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.979 Do you want to describe his best moment last night? Well, 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.480 tell me what it is, see if I remember. Getting 0:04:50.740 --> 0:04:55.700 in Anthony Edwards' grill for the stupid technical foul he 0:04:55.740 --> 0:04:58.080 got with the Wolves up 50. 0:04:58.080 --> 0:04:58.339 Yeah. 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.960 Because those are crew. They do. And you could hear 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.740 DeSumo basically say, man, what are you doing? We need 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.760 you too much. Get out of there. At least that's 0:05:05.779 --> 0:05:07.660 how I took it. Maybe that's how I wanted to 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.480 take it. No, I think that's exactly how you should 0:05:10.500 --> 0:05:14.120 have taken it. Did I mention that Melo, by the way, 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:19.170 added five threes, 21 points, six assists. Rudy had 15 rebounds. 0:05:19.190 --> 0:05:20.790 Got off to a very good start, like his first 0:05:20.850 --> 0:05:23.470 six-minute stretch, or seven, whatever it was, too. He established 0:05:23.490 --> 0:05:24.430 himself very early. 0:05:25.630 --> 0:05:27.630 Ant had 10 rebounds as well, and Jaden McDaniels was 0:05:27.670 --> 0:05:28.830 a quiet 17-8. 0:05:28.950 --> 0:05:31.680 I think he had 13 at the half, so it 0:05:31.740 --> 0:05:36.159 got quieter, but he scored very effectively in the first half. 0:05:36.460 --> 0:05:39.900 Smoked an imaginary cigarette while Anthony Edwards hit a corner three, 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.099 which was also kind of fun. You know what I like, too? 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:42.200 They. 0:05:43.980 --> 0:05:46.810 We're up, I think, double digits. The second unit came in, 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.740 which was kind of a mess. They didn't know what 0:05:48.779 --> 0:05:49.780 was going on. 0:05:50.500 --> 0:05:52.340 The game gets back closed. It's tied. 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.980 I think Miami took a quick lead, and the Wolves 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.500 re-extended the lead back to 10 at halftime. 0:05:58.520 --> 0:05:59.380 But you know what I loved? 0:06:00.430 --> 0:06:02.150 They came out, and two minutes into the third, they 0:06:02.170 --> 0:06:04.570 were up 17, and Miami called a timeout. Re-established control. 0:06:04.610 --> 0:06:07.360 They just came out and said, bleep it. They didn't 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.560 mess around. They didn't let it get close. They just 0:06:09.620 --> 0:06:11.099 took control right from the jump. 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:19.040 Kendrick Perkins did acknowledge, I think, an important point. When 0:06:19.100 --> 0:06:21.930 they were inbounding the ball after made baskets or even 0:06:21.990 --> 0:06:25.130 after a couple of Rudy rebounds, they were moving. They 0:06:25.150 --> 0:06:26.770 were at the other end of the court pretty quick. 0:06:27.250 --> 0:06:29.390 I don't think we're going to see that every day, 0:06:29.570 --> 0:06:33.000 every possession. But we all said that's part of what 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.320 you have to change. You have to become less plotting 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.000 than you've been. You've got a point guard who can 0:06:39.020 --> 0:06:41.960 get up fast and obviously can run the court. There's 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.750 no reason Edwards cannot. Jaden can run, and depending on 0:06:45.790 --> 0:06:47.370 what bench players you have, you have other people who 0:06:47.410 --> 0:06:49.570 can run. And there were a number of plays in 0:06:49.610 --> 0:06:54.250 which they're shooting pretty quick after they've given up a 0:06:54.290 --> 0:06:55.930 basket on the other end. I don't want to say 0:06:55.950 --> 0:06:59.700 it was Loyola-Maramount-like, but it was a clear improvement over 0:06:59.740 --> 0:07:01.360 what it's been, and that has to be part of 0:07:01.380 --> 0:07:03.840 the formula if you're going to be this new look team, 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:05.279 and even more importantly, if you're going to be fun. 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.250 The first eight or nine minutes was breakneck both ways. Yeah, 0:07:08.350 --> 0:07:08.760 that's true. 0:07:08.820 --> 0:07:12.130 Last quick thing, speaking of running, one of the plays 0:07:12.170 --> 0:07:16.050 that I loved ended up with Rudy getting fouled at 0:07:16.090 --> 0:07:19.110 the rim, and he had sprinted, to your point. 0:07:19.130 --> 0:07:19.350 Yeah. 0:07:19.430 --> 0:07:20.270 It was a fast break. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:22.220 And I don't know if Ant gave it to him 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.020 or LaMelo gave it to him, but it took me 0:07:24.060 --> 0:07:26.140 a second to realize it was Rudy because it happened 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.780 so fast. And Rudy had not only kept up with everybody, 0:07:28.820 --> 0:07:31.690 he beat everybody down the floor. And Ant went right 0:07:31.790 --> 0:07:34.270 to him and was basically like, that's what we need. 0:07:34.910 --> 0:07:37.310 That's it. It's the culture shield. He's in the best 0:07:37.430 --> 0:07:38.930 shape of anybody on the roster. 0:07:40.740 --> 0:07:44.900 Yes, but I love what Ant did. Yeah, reinforcing it. Basically, 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.080 that's exactly it. I don't disagree. He probably missed at 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.340 least one of the two free throws, but it was good. 0:07:50.380 --> 0:07:53.400 It was still good. I still liked it. Tomorrow night, Orlando. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.500 Game two, the home opener, Sunday night against Kawhi Leonard 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:00.460 and the Toronto Raptors. You know how the Vikings got 0:08:00.620 --> 0:08:04.720 good injury news yesterday, or we got good injury news 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.420 from the Vikings? What would you call today? Jordan Addison, 0:08:08.750 --> 0:08:15.460 full participant. Christian Derrissaw, full participant. TJ Hawkinson, full participant. JJ, 0:08:15.540 --> 0:08:17.260 as in Justin Jefferson, the only one we have left. 0:08:17.860 --> 0:08:20.140 He was limited yesterday. But he's going to obviously play 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:24.450 on Sunday. Full participant today. Jordan Mason was full again. 0:08:24.650 --> 0:08:29.450 Brian O'Neal was limited yesterday. Full participant today. Everybody on 0:08:29.470 --> 0:08:29.830 the list. 0:08:29.870 --> 0:08:32.500 You know what's funny how it works? Team that's 5-0, 0:08:32.610 --> 0:08:35.160 isn't it funny how quickly everybody can get healthy? They're 0:08:35.179 --> 0:08:37.059 feeling good. They want to be out there to have fun. 0:08:37.100 --> 0:08:37.920 This is it. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:43.470 This is what you revel about your job is 5-0 club, 0:08:43.570 --> 0:08:47.040 good chance to be 6-0. Colts coming to town, and 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:47.860 you don't want to sit. 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:48.300 No. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.699 There's times you might want to milk an injury or two. Well, 0:08:50.740 --> 0:08:51.500 you have. But not now. 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.699 You have superficial blood clots, and you want to sit 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:55.580 the rest of the season. 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:57.720 That's very true. Right? Or you want to take care 0:08:57.740 --> 0:08:59.460 of your mental health. You're all pro-offensive linemen, and you 0:08:59.500 --> 0:09:01.439 got to take suddenly your mental health. But you're losing, 0:09:01.460 --> 0:09:02.860 so you bail. That's true. 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.780 Do we have to do the sarcasm disclaimer? We probably 0:09:05.830 --> 0:09:08.630 need to. It's a joke, because those are preposterous takes. 0:09:09.030 --> 0:09:10.910 But good news for the Purple. Good news for the Vikings. 0:09:10.929 --> 0:09:11.310 No question. 0:09:11.410 --> 0:09:13.589 A very clean injury sheet. Are we up to a 0:09:13.630 --> 0:09:16.420 double-digit favorite yet? Let me check. 0:09:17.970 --> 0:09:20.630 Let me go to NFL odds. 0:09:21.850 --> 0:09:24.130 The Vikings, there's no excuse if the Vikings don't win 0:09:24.150 --> 0:09:25.189 this game by double digits. 0:09:26.030 --> 0:09:28.670 This should not be close. It's the National Football League, Dan. 0:09:28.740 --> 0:09:30.319 It's a funny game. No, we're only six and a 0:09:30.340 --> 0:09:30.980 half point favorites. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.640 That's embarrassing. Six and a half. 0:09:34.290 --> 0:09:37.390 And I'm told they're getting at least a point from 0:09:37.429 --> 0:09:38.940 the Paul Allen-Galahorn boost. 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.880 Gotta be. Good point. At least a point. 0:09:40.940 --> 0:09:42.920 So Vegas might only have them as five and a 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.800 half points, but the Paul Allen-Galahorn boost is pumping them 0:09:45.820 --> 0:09:46.199 up a point. 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:50.560 My sources say, and I'm like Woodward and Bernstein, I've 0:09:50.580 --> 0:09:53.650 got more than two on this, that PA will be 0:09:53.710 --> 0:10:00.660 broadcasting the entire first quarter from not the exclusive KFN perch, 0:10:01.020 --> 0:10:04.130 but the Gjallarhorn perch. He did wonder about that with 0:10:04.170 --> 0:10:05.810 Bursic the other day, how he was going to get back. 0:10:05.850 --> 0:10:08.610 Don't get back! Well, here was my thought, and I 0:10:08.610 --> 0:10:11.800 haven't run this by anybody. There's enough open areas of 0:10:11.820 --> 0:10:13.870 the concourse. Just bring the wireless. 0:10:14.190 --> 0:10:14.530 Yes. 0:10:14.650 --> 0:10:15.390 Call the play. 0:10:15.429 --> 0:10:15.770 Yes. 0:10:15.929 --> 0:10:18.890 And then just start walking. Go into every single suite. 0:10:18.990 --> 0:10:21.250 I agree totally. Until you get to the Vikings booth. 0:10:21.270 --> 0:10:23.460 Call the play. People can congratulate you on 500. 0:10:23.450 --> 0:10:24.290 We would go viral. I know. 0:10:24.390 --> 0:10:26.760 Are you kidding me? This would be a national story. 0:10:26.820 --> 0:10:32.000 It'd be tremendous. And I admit, there's a risk. None 0:10:32.020 --> 0:10:34.840 of it's working, but then you say to Bursic, you're on, man. 0:10:34.860 --> 0:10:36.830 Take care of it. Or let Lieber do it. Or Lieber, 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:38.050 or a combination of both. 0:10:38.309 --> 0:10:39.730 Or I'm trying to think who else is in the booth, 0:10:39.750 --> 0:10:41.949 because Sauce is usually in there, Norto's in there. 0:10:42.010 --> 0:10:45.099 Norto could handle a couple of plays. Absolutely. He'd be 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.400 very capable. He could do it. All right. 0:10:47.460 --> 0:10:49.199 The fan and two men in a truck want to 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:50.940 give you a shot to win bonus bucks with our 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.210 national cash contest. The five o'clock keyword is check. Go 0:10:54.230 --> 0:10:58.090 to KFAN.com and enter the keyword check. So, ode to 0:10:58.130 --> 0:10:58.610 a dead guy. 0:10:58.670 --> 0:11:00.949 Late breaking. We will get to that and some of 0:11:00.990 --> 0:11:02.590 your texts when we return. 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.740 You're listening to Barrero on the fan. 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:12.250 From the 1-800-ASK-GARY Traffic Center. 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Underrated? 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:32.860 I don't even know if that's the right word for him. 0:12:33.860 --> 0:12:37.160 But he is a guy who doesn't get mentioned probably 0:12:37.220 --> 0:12:41.780 enough in terms of, I think, his versatility. His breadth 0:12:41.809 --> 0:12:46.309 of performance. And frankly, his connection to a lot of 0:12:46.350 --> 0:12:58.400 really good motion pictures, right? Alien. Steel Magnolias. Won some Emmys. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.600 In the case of M.A.S.H., he was in the original 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.770 motion picture back in 1970. Alien, 1979. He's the. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.500 He's the captain, kind of in charge of the ship. 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:22.240 Top Gun, 1986. Viper, the hard-nosed flight instructor is the 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.820 way he's described, or the character he plays, described by 0:13:25.860 --> 0:13:31.810 the New York Times. Underrated film called The Turning Point, 1977. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:37.969 Shirley MacLaine. Primetime CBS series Picket Fences, which I never 0:13:37.990 --> 0:13:43.780 really watched much. Successful. played a small-town Wisconsin sheriff, and 0:13:43.820 --> 0:13:48.410 that's really where he became probably more widely known, right? 0:13:48.429 --> 0:13:55.849 TV pretty much has that impact for sure. And the 0:13:55.910 --> 0:13:59.370 list goes on and on and on. I honestly believe 0:14:00.610 --> 0:14:03.040 one of his best performances is in a film that 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.140 we've talked about over the years on this show that 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.820 I think is one of the better I don't know 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:09.720 if you want to call it science fiction. Maybe it's 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.739 because it's a film. It's got some science fiction in it. 0:14:12.740 --> 0:14:17.420 It's also a film about faith. It was made in 1997. 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:28.040 A film called Contact. And I've got... We've got about 0:14:28.060 --> 0:14:33.490 a two-minute deal in which we hear from the character 0:14:34.790 --> 0:14:39.700 that Skerritt plays... in this motion picture. There's a guy 0:14:39.780 --> 0:14:44.460 I follow who covers movies. His Twitter handle is The Sting. 0:14:45.980 --> 0:14:48.480 And he wrote this about Skerritt in the wake of 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.850 the news. Tom Skerritt was so good that even when 0:14:51.870 --> 0:14:54.490 he played a villain, you still liked him. In Contact, 0:14:55.150 --> 0:15:00.090 he's the perfect, smooth-talking bureaucrat who wins by working the 0:15:00.150 --> 0:15:03.530 system instead of doing the work. And he's so charming, 0:15:03.550 --> 0:15:08.650 you almost... indeed forgive him. And I thought that was 0:15:08.710 --> 0:15:14.080 a brilliant, I guess you could say, description of the 0:15:14.140 --> 0:15:16.500 role he plays in the film. But an important role, 0:15:17.180 --> 0:15:17.620 the kind of. 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:23.120 A number of other actors, including Jodie Foster, in that film, 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.700 kind of play off of him, one could say. McConaughey 0:15:25.740 --> 0:15:28.950 is in that movie. Same thing. Let's listen. So I 0:15:28.970 --> 0:15:31.790 think you're going to hear from Jodie, and you're going 0:15:31.810 --> 0:15:36.720 to hear from Tom Skerritt, as I said, playing... Best 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:43.580 way to put it, the... The very cool and calculated, 0:15:44.140 --> 0:15:47.580 smooth-talking bureaucrat in that film called Contact. 0:15:47.980 --> 0:15:49.020 Do you believe in God? 0:15:52.090 --> 0:15:52.270 Dr. 0:15:52.310 --> 0:15:52.770 Arroway. 0:15:58.530 --> 0:16:03.110 As a scientist, I rely on empirical evidence, and in 0:16:03.150 --> 0:16:06.030 this matter, I don't believe that there is. 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:07.780 Data either way. 0:16:09.020 --> 0:16:11.470 So your answer would in fact be that you don't 0:16:11.510 --> 0:16:14.390 believe in God. I'm proud of what. 0:16:14.310 --> 0:16:20.840 We've achieved as a species and as a civilization. I 0:16:20.860 --> 0:16:23.479 would hate to see everything we stand. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:27.000 For, all that we have fought for for a thousand generations, 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:33.980 all that God has blessed us with, betrayed. In the 0:16:34.060 --> 0:16:36.780 final hour, because we chose to send a representative who 0:16:36.820 --> 0:16:44.770 did not put our most cherished beliefs first. 0:16:44.870 --> 0:16:45.250 Thank you. 0:16:47.550 --> 0:16:47.830 Ellie. 0:16:48.870 --> 0:16:49.770 Congratulations, David. 0:16:50.110 --> 0:16:51.010 Glad you could come. 0:16:52.610 --> 0:16:54.320 Didn't expect to. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:54.650 See you here. 0:16:55.820 --> 0:16:59.500 Well, I'm still, you know, crew ops at the control 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.960 center and I suppose the fact that I discovered the 0:17:02.980 --> 0:17:04.619 message means that I have some PR value. 0:17:05.619 --> 0:17:06.060 Of course. 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.770 Ellie, I know you must think this is all very unfair. 0:17:12.550 --> 0:17:17.570 Maybe that's an understatement. What you don't know is I agree. 0:17:18.890 --> 0:17:21.270 I wish the world was a place where fair was 0:17:21.310 --> 0:17:23.729 the bottom line, where the kind of idealism ensured that 0:17:23.770 --> 0:17:26.990 the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. 0:17:29.750 --> 0:17:32.870 Unfortunately, we don't live in that world. 0:17:34.850 --> 0:17:35.169 Funny. 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.420 I've always believed that the world is what we make 0:17:41.300 --> 0:17:50.609 of it. Excuse me, Dr. Drummond, sir? Good luck on 0:17:50.650 --> 0:17:54.510 the test. So you can fade it out. They're both competing. 0:17:54.590 --> 0:17:58.410 They were both competing for the spot to participate. captain, 0:17:58.490 --> 0:18:03.670 so to speak, this experimental spacecraft that had, they learned 0:18:03.690 --> 0:18:09.300 how to build it from the aliens, right? And Jodie 0:18:09.340 --> 0:18:14.460 Foster playing Dr. Ellie Ann Arroway was really the, should 0:18:14.500 --> 0:18:16.660 have been, by all accounts, should have been in that position, 0:18:16.700 --> 0:18:22.840 but she answered the religion question too honestly. He didn't. Dr. 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.420 David Drumlin is the character Tom Skerritt plays, and I 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.750 think Um, that's where I think scared was so effective 0:18:28.890 --> 0:18:32.350 in his role because that's, that rang true. Did it 0:18:32.390 --> 0:18:36.520 not that in, in the motion picture that life isn't 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.460 always fair and it is often political and the person 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:44.199 who gives the most honest answer to that committee that 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:47.250 was going to determine which person goes up in the, 0:18:47.390 --> 0:18:52.760 in the experimental spaceship. Um, The person who's the most 0:18:52.820 --> 0:18:55.720 honest is most likely to not get the thing, be rewarded. 0:18:56.300 --> 0:19:00.300 And there was a bit of a self-awareness in Dr. Drumlin, 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.739 played by Tom Skerritt, and in that soundbite, he kind 0:19:02.790 --> 0:19:05.950 of acknowledged it. But a sneaky good role, and if 0:19:05.970 --> 0:19:08.770 you want to honor his career, that's not a bad 0:19:08.810 --> 0:19:11.950 movie to watch. Yet again, I've watched it several times, 0:19:11.990 --> 0:19:16.889 but very, very good, that's for sure. Were you a 0:19:16.910 --> 0:19:19.710 Skerritt guy? Anything come to mind in particular? No, not really. 0:19:19.910 --> 0:19:21.609 I mean, it would probably be that. That's probably the 0:19:21.710 --> 0:19:24.050 one movie. I was a teenager when that movie came out. 0:19:24.070 --> 0:19:24.970 I remember seeing it. 0:19:24.990 --> 0:19:25.170 Yeah. 0:19:25.270 --> 0:19:29.550 Edina Theater, 50s in France. Yeah. Simpler times. Redone again, right? 0:19:29.590 --> 0:19:30.689 Now it's all refurbished. 0:19:30.710 --> 0:19:31.149 Very bougie. 0:19:31.290 --> 0:19:33.510 And pretty again. Very bougie. 0:19:33.690 --> 0:19:33.770 Yeah. 0:19:33.850 --> 0:19:36.590 I don't think I've been to it since. That may 0:19:36.609 --> 0:19:39.580 have been the last movie I saw there. That's very possible, yeah. 0:19:39.580 --> 0:19:42.160 30 years ago, basically. Wouldn't be all that surprising. But nevertheless, 0:19:42.180 --> 0:19:46.710 and I think closer to Chief, I think. Tom Skerritt 0:19:46.730 --> 0:19:49.609 was born in Detroit. I don't know how long he 0:19:49.690 --> 0:19:51.890 stayed there. In fact, I think he went at some point, 0:19:51.990 --> 0:19:54.690 even went back there. So he's got some Detroit roots, 0:19:54.750 --> 0:19:56.930 but a heck of a run. And again, a lot 0:19:56.950 --> 0:19:59.430 of people, if you liked alien, he was very effective 0:19:59.950 --> 0:20:03.300 in that film too, but good TV work, good movie work, 0:20:03.700 --> 0:20:06.200 combo platter, and not a name that you hear people 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:08.980 talk about all that much, but a reminders we've talked 0:20:09.020 --> 0:20:12.530 about before. You know, a name that I think will 0:20:12.570 --> 0:20:16.469 resonate with people because of the movies that he was in. 0:20:16.710 --> 0:20:20.780 Whether you particularly liked him in them or not, he 0:20:20.820 --> 0:20:23.399 was in a number of, I think, very, very memorable films. 0:20:24.380 --> 0:20:26.379 Gone but not forgotten at the age of 93 years old. 0:20:28.830 --> 0:20:31.570 You're listening to Barrero on the fan. 0:20:31.730 --> 0:20:34.750 Calling all Vikings fans this Tuesday, October 27th. 0:20:34.790 --> 0:20:37.330 Catch Kyler Murray at the New Hope Hy-Vee from 3 0:20:37.330 --> 0:20:39.690 to 4 p.m. Power trip Paul Allen, the common man, 0:20:39.750 --> 0:20:42.310 and bumper to bumper with Dan Barrero, all on our 0:20:42.330 --> 0:20:44.490