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Speaker 2: advantage you have when you're playing at home, correct.

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Speaker 3: I mean, so, well, you know it is then, But

427
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Speaker 3: last change isn't you the same way as it used

428
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Speaker 3: to be used, Because if you're really intent on doing

429
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Speaker 3: something like that, it's easy to get your players off

430
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Speaker 3: the especially if you win the draw, right, But if

431
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Speaker 3: you don't want to draw, it depends where the faith

432
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Speaker 3: off is. You can make changes relatively quickly.

433
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Speaker 2: Anyway, let me quickly before we go on, get to

434
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Speaker 2: a bit of breaking a section news worthy of discussion.

435
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Speaker 2: Apparently the President has agreed to suspend bombing of Iran

436
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Speaker 2: for two weeks, so there will be what he describes

437
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 2: as a double sided cease fire. Reason for doing so

438
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:10,959
Speaker 2: as that we have already met and exceeded all our

439
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 2: military objectives, et cetera, et cetera. And apparently there is

440
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Speaker 2: a ten point proposal from Iran that is a, according

441
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Speaker 2: to the President, a workable basis on which to negotiate.

442
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Speaker 2: So the ultim mottem that was in place for tonight,

443
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Speaker 2: as I pretty much expected and basically predicted, is being

444
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Speaker 2: at the very least extended. That is worthy of at

445
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Speaker 2: least note here as that story breaks across the United

446
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Speaker 2: States and across the world as well, back to the

447
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 2: Toy Department and back to this Wild Club as well.

448
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 2: You know. To me again, I think when it was

449
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 2: laid out in a way where it looked like the

450
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 2: deficit to the Stars was so great that I was

451
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Speaker 2: more in the ear camp, which was just you know,

452
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Speaker 2: rest people. I think the Louis plan was just get

453
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Speaker 2: everybody back together for the last two But now I

454
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,439
Speaker 2: like playing the thing out, especially if you take care

455
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 2: of business where we got the cracking tonight and then

456
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 2: you got the Thursday showdown game with the Stars. I

457
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 2: don't think it's the worst thing in the end, as

458
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Speaker 2: you know, it's about what you do in the postseason.

459
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,199
Speaker 2: But I think having this sort of new goal, I

460
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 2: think that could sharpen the senses a little bit, can't it.

461
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 3: Oh, it definitely can. And remember we were talking about

462
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,679
Speaker 3: how the Wild we're going through a slump. Bow it

463
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 3: was Dallas two five and two, I think in the

464
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 3: last nine games, so they're going through one two and

465
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 3: Colorado was going through them one earlier, so all the

466
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Speaker 3: teams have been essentially going through the same thing. And

467
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 3: now what you got to do is get sharp because

468
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Speaker 3: you want to be sharp going into the playoffs. Well,

469
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 3: the Wild have picked it up here recently. They've won

470
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Speaker 3: some key games on the road. They've they've got a

471
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Speaker 3: great road tracker, the best NHL. So that's that's something

472
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 3: to look forward to. But the key again is still

473
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 3: going to be the health. You got to be healthy.

474
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 3: You want to be as healthy as you can. And

475
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 3: when you look at the schedules, if if the wilds third,

476
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 3: they're definitely not catching right Dallas, and if they do,

477
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 3: they still have to you know, wonder like they'll be tied.

478
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 3: But Dallas has got not that tough a schedule leader

479
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 3: need to do the Wild. But the health team hasn't

480
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 3: got a very tough schedule leader. So it's going to

481
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 3: be interesting to see what the next two games have

482
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Speaker 3: in store. And this one tonight the Wild definitely should win.

483
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,880
Speaker 3: If they lose this one, then yeah, they're not going

484
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Speaker 3: to get it. But they you know, Seattle's not going

485
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 3: to make the playoffs. They're floundering and and they're coming

486
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 3: here on the road, so the wild you would expect

487
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 3: should be victorious tonight.

488
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Speaker 2: The cafe text line is open if you have questions

489
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Speaker 2: or observation for Louis. Six four six eight six is

490
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Speaker 2: the number as always. We actually had one that came

491
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Speaker 2: in early on a completely different topic. This is from

492
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Speaker 2: longtime hockey fan Dry Heat Guy. Can you please ask

493
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Speaker 2: Louis about the Twin Cities slash Saint Paul Vulcan's us

494
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 2: HL franchise best uniforms and logos of all time. I

495
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 2: know they moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, and ironically the guy

496
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 2: who bought them was from Vegas and owned the Las

497
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 2: Vegas Ice Center rink. But we need to create a

498
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Speaker 2: new USHL Vulcans team. Let's go. What do you think?

499
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Speaker 3: Well, thanks to Stanley Hubbard, you had the Vulcans team

500
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 3: year and they try to make it viable, but there's

501
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 3: so much hockey being playing in town. To get a

502
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 3: junior team to draw against the high school team just

503
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 3: wasn't viable. It just wasn't gonna make it. And the

504
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 3: jerseys might be good, but the people going to the

505
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 3: games were very new mers and so I don't expect

506
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Speaker 3: that's going to happen again, and I wouldn't I know,

507
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't be an investor in something like that because

508
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 3: I think the competition is really too strong when you

509
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Speaker 3: look at all the hockey it's being played in and

510
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 3: around the Twin Cities, and you have to remember that

511
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 3: the parents are so involved in the youth hockey as well.

512
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 3: There's so much time taking up with that. So you

513
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 3: add that on top of all the opposition you got

514
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 3: with teams playing like the high school teams, the college

515
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 3: teams and pro teams and both women's and men, so

516
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Speaker 3: it's really tough. You might get a jersey, the bulk

517
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Speaker 3: of jersey, I think just going by one of the

518
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Speaker 3: old ones and have that as a gift or something

519
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Speaker 3: to enjoy. But coming forward to having a Bulkan team here,

520
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Speaker 3: I don't think you're going to get it.

521
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Speaker 2: Unlikely for sure. As we go forward, as we said,

522
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 2: we're getting we're finally getting close to the postseason. Besides

523
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 2: the obvious names from the lu Nani perspective, give me

524
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Speaker 2: a couple of players. There's a couple of wild players

525
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 2: that you say they have to be part of the solution.

526
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 2: They have to be strong. They have to be effective

527
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 2: in the postseason if the Wild want to not only

528
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Speaker 2: get out of the first round, but maybe even make

529
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Speaker 2: a run. Who comes to mind to you, Well, first.

530
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Speaker 3: Of all, the defense, and I think you've got to

531
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 3: look to Spurgeon and Broody. They've got to be good

532
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 3: because the defense is going to get challenged, and you

533
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 3: know that you're expecting a lot already from he was

534
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Speaker 3: in favor. But your third and fourth has got to

535
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,479
Speaker 3: be as good as they can be because they are

536
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 3: a key. They probably will be catching the top lines

537
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Speaker 3: from Dallas a lot. So they're the first guys, the

538
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 3: second guys. Hartman's going to come continue to do what

539
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 3: he's doing and do what he did last year in

540
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 3: the playoffs, and you know you've got to get the

541
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Speaker 3: offensive production from Caprice, Office and Boldie. But I really

542
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 3: like the balance that the world they're going in with

543
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Speaker 3: the fourth line. I would expect he's probably gonna go

544
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 3: with with the two Filinos and McCarran. Well, McCarron might

545
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 3: move up when they have Fellina on the fourth line,

546
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 3: but unless he goes with the all Russian line, you're

547
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 3: off Pasinko and Trent and I think, you know, the

548
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 3: fourth line is going to give you great checking, the ability,

549
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 3: great physicality, and and I think you're going to punish

550
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 3: the defense a little bit, which they have to do

551
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 3: because Dells has got some big defensemen the can handle

552
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 3: the park. So you've got to be you got to

553
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 3: be laying the body on him. And I think that's

554
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 3: going to be with the Fillino brothers and mceren and

555
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 3: Trenton will be doing. But you know, the key guys

556
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 3: to me are going to be three and foign defense.

557
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 3: Obviously the goalner, but three and foreign defense, and then

558
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 3: Hartman to continue to do what he's done so the

559
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 3: first line produces, and then the physicality of it. I

560
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 3: think it's going to be important.

561
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Speaker 2: Do you if Stramo had not suffered the the ankle fracture,

562
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Speaker 2: h do you think that they would have tried to

563
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Speaker 2: make him a part of this a part of the

564
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Speaker 2: run this year? What do you think? Who's that Charlie straml.

565
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Speaker 3: Oh No, I don't think so. No, that's asking a

566
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,959
Speaker 3: little too much to get a college guy coming in

567
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 3: the right away. He had he had a real good

568
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:20,719
Speaker 3: year as it is, and he's you know, he's one

569
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 3: of the finals for the top ten in Nobie Baker.

570
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 3: But they expect to bring a centiment in which is

571
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 3: an important position that hasn't had any experience at the

572
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 3: pro level. No, you know you do that if you

573
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 3: know you've got a really a productive guy like Caprisa

574
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 3: Boldie Calfield. Somebodys are going to get to a bunch

575
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 3: of goals like we had with Cicarelli and in Cicerelli.

576
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 3: We did play even the minors through the year a lot.

577
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 3: But I think that would be expecting too much. You

578
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 3: you really don't want to be having something in doctrinated

579
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 3: in the NHLM in the playoffs unless he's got some

580
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 3: experience from say European International Hockey Year stuff like that.

581
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 3: The level is so high it's tough to come and

582
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 3: expect somebody to produce. And then on top of that

583
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 3: you get the pressure of the playoffs. When you make

584
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 3: a mistake in the playoffs, it's a lot different than

585
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 3: making one during the regular season.

586
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Speaker 2: Good point. What is the Scott report on him for

587
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 2: the future?

588
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 3: Boy? He's really I come on, I'm excited about him now.

589
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 3: I didn't know the first couple of years he wasn't

590
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 3: very productive in Wisconsin and all of a sudden looked like, jeez,

591
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 3: they're gonna have to wash that draft choice. And then

592
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 3: he goes in place for the guy that he played

593
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Speaker 3: for with the United States Development team in ann Arbor,

594
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 3: and he went to Michigan State and he's really come

595
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 3: on and this year he's averaging the point of game.

596
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 3: He's bag, he's strong, he can check, and he's been

597
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 3: very productive the last two years of Michigan State and

598
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 3: especially this year, and he's he's really come on that.

599
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 3: I think there's two things. One he just sent him

600
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Speaker 3: they're going to be looked. That could be really important

601
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,320
Speaker 3: in his lineup. Or Two he could be a bargaining

602
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,800
Speaker 3: ship if they do go up they play for the

603
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 3: point Saint Matthews or Brady Kachuck.

604
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that you can yeah with with Bill Garon,

605
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 2: you have to keep that in the mix because we

606
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 2: talked about are otherwise are you do you start running

607
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 2: out of assets right to pull off?

608
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 3: Yeah.

609
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 2: The kind of one remaining big deal that we're talking

610
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 2: about this is from six to five to one guy

611
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:37,919
Speaker 2: with all the deadline pickups, will we see you're off

612
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 2: on a regular shift and where does he fit in

613
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 2: when we're talking about the playoffs.

614
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 3: Well, I that's a question that they're going to be

615
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 3: answered shortly when we get to the playoffs, because it

616
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,479
Speaker 3: looks to me like it's either going to be him

617
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,319
Speaker 3: or Bobbly Brink in the lineup. And as we were

618
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 3: seeing is he going to go with the Russian line?

619
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Speaker 3: It's looked good when they play together. Uh, you're is

620
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 3: playing good and you're he's had a real good year

621
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Speaker 3: and he's and he's a good size and he's physical.

622
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 3: So uh, he got that on his side, and Brigs

623
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,800
Speaker 3: got the capability of being a strong offensive player and

624
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 3: being productive. So I expect to see both of them

625
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 3: in the playoffs a one time or another. I think

626
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 3: you're going to see both of them get nice time

627
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 3: during this series against Elves.

628
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 2: You know, we when when the team picked up Tarasenko,

629
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 2: I think we talked about that at the time that

630
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 2: he had come off. He was coming off not a

631
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 2: very productive year, right, and so the question was could

632
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 2: he reinvent himself a little bit? Could you get more

633
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 2: for him from him? I guess I should say so

634
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 2: on the bay of the seasons almost though, so you

635
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 2: can basically say we can talk about the whole season.

636
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 2: His numbers are obviously improved over the year before, where

637
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 2: to me it feels like they've gotten some mileage out

638
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 2: of him. Again, give me your view on what you

639
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 2: thought about the acquisition when it was made and how

640
00:35:58,680 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 2: it has worked out this season.

641
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 3: Well, I like the acquisition because I knew he had

642
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Speaker 3: a history. Again, we go back many times, you know,

643
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 3: I say, I always look at the past. Has a

644
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 3: guy got a history of scoring? This guy had a

645
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,959
Speaker 3: history of scoring. So if you look at the history

646
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 3: of scoring over a long period of time and he

647
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 3: had like ten years of good scoring and then one

648
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 3: down year, you're always willing to bet going forward that

649
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 3: he could recover and have another year. If he had

650
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 3: ten down years and he had one good year and

651
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,839
Speaker 3: was over again, this guy coming up with twenty five

652
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 3: goal season or something ain't n okay. But that's one

653
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 3: time I want to see more than one time. So

654
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 3: there was an opportunity that he could produce, and he

655
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 3: certainly has done that big time. He's I say, was

656
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,839
Speaker 3: he got twenty two or twenty three goals and here

657
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 3: he is still handling the puck and shooting it. You

658
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 3: look at the goal against Detroit the one that he got.

659
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 3: Goal scorers are the guys that could make that shot.

660
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 3: They make it, they put it right the only place

661
00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 3: you could put it, and they get it there quickly.

662
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 3: He's had that talent. It's not only in the NHL.

663
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 3: If you go back to history in Russia, he was

664
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 3: a big broducer in the KHL as well. Caprit offer

665
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 3: to go ahead and break his record. But that guy is,

666
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,240
Speaker 3: you know, been productive his whole life, and I'm sure

667
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,320
Speaker 3: right now the world got to be saying, well, we

668
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 3: got to keep her on for next year because he's

669
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 3: still in an age where he might not be as

670
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 3: quick as he ever was. But he's slow. He's not slow,

671
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 3: but he definitely is capable of scoring. And he's given

672
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 3: him an outstanding season.

673
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 2: You know. One of the things that's been kind of

674
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 2: front and center through this stretch where the Wild has

675
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 2: kind of been a five hundred team, I think largely

676
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 2: since the coming back from the Olympic break and Garan

677
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 2: there have been a couple of times where Garon has

678
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 2: come on pretty strong and said, I this play, this

679
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 2: level play is not acceptable. And I'm always fascinated with

680
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 2: the different styles of general manager when it comes to

681
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 2: how frontal you get in that role where you want

682
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 2: to give the coach room to coach, and yet it's

683
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 2: still your team, it's still your organization, right, It's still

684
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 2: ultimately your rear end. How did you calibrate that about

685
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:15,320
Speaker 2: when I'm going to speak publicly, not just privately maybe

686
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 2: to the coach or to the team behind closed doors,

687
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 2: but I'm going to be public about it as well.

688
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 2: How did you make those determinations about your own approach

689
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 2: and style.

690
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, publicly, I very very rarely ever

691
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 3: said derogatory things about the I never said them about

692
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 3: the coach, and they never and I get very frequently.

693
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 3: I can't even think of the time until well, I

694
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,760
Speaker 3: just saw the article you wrote when I let Henning

695
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 3: go at that time, and you were you were pretty tough,

696
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 3: but that's okay. You did know the whole story, so I

697
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 3: let it flide. But I always was of the mindset

698
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 3: that these guys might be bad, but I got to

699
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 3: sell them, So I'm not going to tell everybody else

700
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 3: how bad they are. I know how bad they are.

701
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 3: Let them figure out how bad they are. So I

702
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 3: never was You never caught me in the paper cutting

703
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 3: the team up or the coach up. I just kept

704
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 3: that ouce all the time because I'd like to be

705
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 3: able to have the freedom to move people that they

706
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 3: wanted and having people think that I was really high

707
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 3: on them when I wasn't.

708
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 2: Add in Saint Paul, well, you ask Louis with the

709
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 2: Devil's firing their GM Thomas Sherald, if that makes it

710
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 2: any more or less likely the while can acquire another

711
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 2: Hughes brother, Brasili. This makes Quinn going to New Jersey

712
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 2: less likely? That is ed in Saint Paul, What do

713
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 2: you think.

714
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,359
Speaker 3: I don't think that it was going to have any

715
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 3: effect on it at all. I think that if there's

716
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 3: a possibility that Hughes is going to be become free agent,

717
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 3: that unless a while of already needed, because I think

718
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 3: Hughes got two more years before he goes into his

719
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 3: signing year, that Wild having already filled that position, that

720
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 3: they'll still be in the market. Former it doesn't matter

721
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 3: who's the general manager. It's going to be a you know,

722
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 3: Jack driving the bus because he'll say, I'm just going

723
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 3: to play it out unless you trade me to Minnesota.

724
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 3: So the players still got the powers. So I don't

725
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:19,359
Speaker 3: see that changing.

726
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 2: You're not concerned about it, or you don't think it's

727
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 2: going to matter one way or the others. Which, no,

728
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 2: where are you right now? Can you tell us?

729
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, in Florida been rainy, so you poor God, you

730
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,880
Speaker 3: should be very happy. But we're in seventies, we need it.

731
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Speaker 3: Seventies eighties, Well it was seventies eighties, but you know

732
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 3: there was rain. No, no, we don't get sixties now.

733
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Speaker 2: No, I didn't. I didn't think you did a particularly.

734
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Speaker 3: We just had a few days of eighty three with

735
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 3: very nice. In fact, when there was I became Pete Bursi,

736
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 3: so to speaking. Justine was telling me that they did

737
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 3: the same thing to bersage somewhere one of these services,

738
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 3: don't know if Facebook or Reddit or whatever they are.

739
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 3: They had my demise that I was fighting cancer and

740
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 3: to pray for me. Well, people can pray for me.

741
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 3: I appreciate that you don't have to wait till I

742
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 3: get cancer, but I'm I said, the demise.

743
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 2: Is grossly exaggerating.

744
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 3: And I posted a picture of playing golf with my

745
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 3: son and two grandsons over the weekend, says now, I've

746
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:24,840
Speaker 3: never felt better, and that's the truth.

747
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 2: Social media is the root of all evil, Louis.

748
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 3: I can't believe, you know, why people would do that

749
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 3: without having any knowledge of it. I don't know what

750
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 3: they gained from it.

751
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 2: I yeah, that's that's the age old question. But I

752
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 2: think for some people there doesn't even have to be

753
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 2: an explanation. It's just they just for whatever reason, they

754
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 2: like messing with people or they like messing with things

755
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 2: or whatever. It's very, very strange. The sad part is

756
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 2: because we're in this world of you know, sort of

757
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 2: conspiracy theory that there are a lot of people all,

758
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 2: you know what, that guy's in on it. They no

759
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 2: one else wants to talk about it, but that guy

760
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 2: knows something. That's the scary part is how many people,

761
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 2: how readily people tend to believe some of this nonsense.

762
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 2: You know.

763
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 3: Well, in this case, it was okay because I heard

764
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 3: from people I hadn't heard from a long time and

765
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 3: telling me they're breeding for me. Stayed strong and all

766
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 3: that was, and that was nice to hear. I enjoy that.

767
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:23,280
Speaker 2: Part of it. Yes, there's at least that that's the consolation. Eh, yeah,

768
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 2: that's not bad. We appreciate you. Great stuff is always

769
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 2: my friend and we inch ever closer to having a

770
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,959
Speaker 2: chance to talk about the postseason. Man, I can't wait.

771
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 3: Well, by this time next week we'll know whether while

772
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 3: they're resting, players are rolling for it. So we got

773
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:39,240
Speaker 3: that to look.

774
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,360
Speaker 2: Forward to for sure. Thanks Luigi, you have a good dinner.

775
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 3: Thank you. Thanks nice to be with you.

776
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 2: Thank you. Lou Nani brought you by our good friends

777
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 2: at camps. Joining us this Tuesday evening, as he Louis

778
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 2: tends to do mostly on Tuesdays, sometimes later, sometimes earlier

779
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 2: as well. Bratch on Brian Cafe and text line is

780
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 2: open six four or six eighty six. If you'd like

781
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 2: to react to our discussion with Louis, if you want

782
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 2: to get into the ongoing debate about whether home ice

783
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 2: matters at all in hockey, I think we've reached a

784
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 2: point of almost borderline absurdity here where it gets dismissed

785
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 2: too readily and too quickly on the basis of some

786
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,919
Speaker 2: famous series in which it didn't hold up as being

787
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 2: all that important. And I will say till I'm bluing

788
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 2: the face as the hockey ambassador, that I want every

789
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 2: advantage I can get. None of those advantages guarantee anything.

790
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 2: You still have to go out and play, but I

791
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 2: want them. I want to have the possibility potentially of

792
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 2: a game seven here. By the way, I think, Guards,

793
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,839
Speaker 2: you brought this up the last time we talked about it.

794
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 2: Doesn't hurt the local team financially either to host more

795
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 2: playoff games because that's where teams tend to make their

796
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 2: money in the postseason. So I think all that's good. Uh,

797
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:03,840
Speaker 2: this came in. I did. I meant to get to

798
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 2: this with Louis, but I didn't. Here's the text, Guards,

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Speaker 2: Are you ready? What what's up?

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Speaker 1: Hi?

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00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 2: Fi? It's Deuce. The Vulcans relocated to Kearniey, Nebraska, is

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Speaker 2: a Carney k e r n e Y and play

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Speaker 2: as a tri city Storm. Lincoln's team who I worked

804
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,879
Speaker 2: for the Stars has always been in Lincoln. Hearing USHL

805
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 2: talk made my afternoon. We don't talk a lot of

806
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:31,439
Speaker 2: USHL here on the bumper, but much fair. Yeah, maybe

807
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 2: we would have if we knew Deuce was such a

808
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 2: great USHSL mind did you have Did you know that?

809
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,320
Speaker 2: I had no idea I had. I can't tell you anything.

810
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 2: I would have thought less likely than that. But there's

811
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Speaker 2: more layers to Deuce than you've ever wanted to admit.

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Speaker 2: As it turns out, Top of the Hour break more

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Speaker 2: the sports leader KFA N Well, it's pretty much the

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00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 2: way we talked about earlier that I thought it was

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00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 2: going to go. Not a huge surprise here to me

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Speaker 2: at all. Regarding the rather bellicost I think that's the

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Speaker 2: word for it threats from the President earlier, the update

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Speaker 2: is crisis averted, at least for the moment. New York

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00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,800
Speaker 2: Times writing the US and Iran reaching eleventh hour cease

826
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Speaker 2: fire deal this evening, hours after the President threatened to

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Speaker 2: start wiping out quote a whole civilization if the Iranians

828
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Speaker 2: did not allow commercial shipping to pass safely through the

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Speaker 2: Strait of Horror Mouz. The agreement was announced by the

830
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Speaker 2: President in a post on social media hours after Pakistan,

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Speaker 2: a mediator in the dispute, urged mister Trump to stand

832
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 2: down from his seven pm Central time deadline that he

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00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 2: had set for Iran to accede to his demands. Pakistan

834
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 2: proposed at each side observed a two week ceasefire and

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Speaker 2: that during that time Iran allow oil, gas and other

836
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Speaker 2: vessels to proceed unmolested through the economically vital waterway. The

837
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Speaker 2: ceasefire buys both sides time to try to reach a

838
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 2: longer term end of the war, which began at the

839
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 2: end of feb So that's where we are, and we

840
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 2: talked about this in a lot of depth with our

841
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 2: four h two guest Michael Hurley, who we tend to

842
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 2: talk to about geopolitical issues after his experience in the

843
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 2: government in Washington and in the field as well. And

844
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Speaker 2: I firmly believe that thereat, the threat would not be

845
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 2: acted upon this evening that I didn't have any of

846
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 2: the details. I certainly didn't know it would be a

847
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 2: two week delay, but I still thought that this was

848
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 2: likely the way it was, that something like this was

849
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 2: the way it was going to go, that the threats

850
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 2: would not be realized, at least not yet. So we'll

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00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 2: see where it leads. We'll see it appears to right

852
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 2: now just buy some time. What it means longer term

853
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 2: is still kind of an open question. I mean, we've

854
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 2: had a number of these deadlines that have been set before.

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00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 2: The language not quite as dire as this last time around,

856
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 2: but basically several times fairly similar. So to that extent,

857
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 2: I think it's a good end, the longer term ramifications

858
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 2: of it. It's just simply at this point way too

859
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,840
Speaker 2: early to tell where indeed this thing might be going.

860
00:47:57,800 --> 00:47:59,959
Speaker 2: Six four six eighty six is the Brashawn Brian caff

861
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 2: And text line. Much earlier in the broadcast we talked

862
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 2: about I forgot to get to this with Jonathan from

863
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 2: Bloomington with with Luigi. It actually came in after we

864
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 2: were done with him. But he wants to know why

865
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 2: Indianapolis has never hosted a frozen four. Question. It's a

866
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 2: great question. It doesn't even make any sense you think

867
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 2: about it. It's he started his pro career. It's a

868
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 2: no brainer. Yes, what it is? I mean, but well,

869
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 2: everything's walkable. We'll find that out somewhere down the road.

870
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 2: Uh everything did you know that? Oh? You've probably been

871
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:44,920
Speaker 2: told twice. I've been there. I've experienced a firsthand multiple times.

872
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 2: That's amazing, isn't it? Where else were we here? Did

873
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,280
Speaker 2: I mention yesterday? How I'm just caught in the indie

874
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 2: algorithm now and every day. Yeah, you mentioned it? So

875
00:48:57,120 --> 00:49:00,080
Speaker 2: getting a little crazy. I'm getting every single person and

876
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 2: that's saying anything about Indianapolis on my social media feeds now.

877
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 2: But I have only myself to blame for that. I

878
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 2: can't be mad about that. I have only myself to

879
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 2: blame because I'm tweeting about it, I'm reacting to it. Yeah,

880
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:16,320
Speaker 2: you don't let up on it. So it's a feeling

881
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 2: because you almost have to admit that if you complain

882
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 2: about it, you have only yourself to blame for the

883
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 2: amount of energy people expend, yeah, to get you in

884
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 2: on it. Yeah, well now it's just you know, like

885
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 2: when you like now, I'm literally in the Elon Musk

886
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 2: algorithm where it just starts sending me everything because they

887
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 2: know I'll click on it. So it's my fault. It's

888
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:43,879
Speaker 2: my fault. Yeah, it's it pretty much. Is That's that's

889
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 2: for sure. Dan. Not sure if you saw this, but

890
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 2: the Stars are wearing their jerseys that look like what

891
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 2: they did when the team real relocated to Dallas. Is

892
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 2: this a conspiracy to needle us wild fans? My position

893
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 2: is not popular. I don't know what the Stars are

894
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 2: aren't wearing. My position is not very popular on this subject.

895
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:12,720
Speaker 2: I think we are our own worst enemies when we

896
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 2: wear the Stars colors. I've never understood it. I don't

897
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 2: think it's cool. I don't think it's like ah retro

898
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 2: and reminds me of meth Center. It just doesn't to me.

899
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 2: It's it's painful because all it does is remind us

900
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 2: all that the team left. So I'm a big believer

901
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 2: in I have great respect for history. I think most

902
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 2: people know who listen to this show, and I have

903
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 2: great respect for the north Star's history. We've talked about

904
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:43,919
Speaker 2: it many many times over the years, but that's north

905
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,759
Speaker 2: Star's history. The idea that we're going to try to

906
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 2: replicate that somehow or bring it all back, you're not

907
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 2: bringing anything back, but to me, the painful memories of

908
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 2: the fact that the team left and by the way,

909
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,000
Speaker 2: I want a cup after they got there right, and

910
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 2: by the way, had a cooler color scheme than the

911
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 2: one we have now. Yeah, that's part of the reason.

912
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 2: Maybe that's what nostalgia. I love the colors. I have

913
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 2: a bunch of the old North Stars colors, wild stuff.

914
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:11,400
Speaker 2: I think it's awesome. Well, I like it better than

915
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:15,879
Speaker 2: what they have now. I just I just think it. Yeah,

916
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 2: in a odd sort of way, I think you're letting

917
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 2: the terrorists win, whether they're that obsessed that they still

918
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 2: got to wear the colors even when we stole your team.

919
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 2: Just have your own traditions, have your own whatever those

920
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 2: colors are, whatever you want them to be. I would say,

921
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 2: just just make him. I I've never understood it. I

922
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 2: don't know if what he's talking about regarding whatever. Is

923
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 2: he talking about jerseys that they're going to wear a

924
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 2: Thursday night, maybe for the home game. I don't know.

925
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 2: I have absolutely no idea on that. Somebody asked, also,

926
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,719
Speaker 2: who holds the tiebreaker between us and them? I have?

927
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 2: Do we know dos Russo? Has Russo written about that?

928
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 2: I don't know what the I'm sure if Faldness is listening,

929
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 2: he would know he would. Tiebreaker would be because we

930
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 2: got wild hockey coming up very shortly on the fan, right,

931
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 2: we do fifteen minutes? Isn't it like regulation wins? The

932
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:07,839
Speaker 2: tiebreakers are different. They have to be You're right, You're right,

933
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 2: So it's points percentage. Maybe I have no idea what

934
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 2: it is and I don't know where we are on it.

935
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 2: And I still think a lot of people are way

936
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 2: too cavalier about HL nobody cares in the postseason. But

937
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 2: in fact I meant to do this research over the weekend.

938
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 2: I didn't get to it. I'm willing to bet that

939
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 2: over a period of you know, many, many decades, there

940
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 2: is still a significant advantage hosting series. Not as big

941
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 2: an advantage as there is I think in the NBA,

942
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:50,799
Speaker 2: but I bet you there's still an advantage. I bet

943
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 2: you it's still not fifty to fifty. So I'll take it.

944
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 2: I'll take whatever I can get. Not even mentioning that

945
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 2: we talked about earlier the revenue thing for the local

946
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 2: if you want the team to make some dough and

947
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 2: you want to have more home games to go to,

948
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 2: one could say, speaking of home games, the announced attendants

949
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:14,480
Speaker 2: for the Twins victory, was it like sixteen thousand last night? Yeah,

950
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 2: obviously there were obviously once again, there were like eighteen

951
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 2: people in the building. But without being too aggressive about this,

952
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:27,839
Speaker 2: why would you go to that? Even if you say well,

953
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 2: I go because it's it's a good ballpark, and I'm

954
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:36,359
Speaker 2: a ball guy. When it's thirty six degrees, why would

955
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 2: you go? Why would you Why would you want to

956
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 2: enable under especially under those I might be able to say, well,

957
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 2: I don't want to enable ownership, but god, it's seventy

958
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 2: three degrees, there's no humidity, it's mid June. That's an

959
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 2: outing for me. I want to go on. But why

960
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:58,720
Speaker 2: enable they? I mean, by all wrights, that building should

961
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 2: have been empty, although looking at a couple of the

962
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:02,879
Speaker 2: overhead shots, it was pretty corey empty, wasn't it. Yeah

963
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 2: it was pretty empty. Yeah, I'm just trying to figure

964
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 2: out what what you're thinking? And they did like a

965
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 2: drone over Yeah, yes it did during the starting lineup,

966
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 2: which has a good idea due Monday night football bit

967
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 2: thats TV tries different stuff. I agree, I agree. Everybody

968
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 2: knows how we feel about provis and but it was

969
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 2: not They probably should have done a different drone yet

970
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:30,759
Speaker 2: up as cool as it looked, Eric Tebow Wild lost

971
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 2: a game seven versus Vegas recently, and home I definitely

972
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 2: played a factor there. Huh Is that that's right? Voice

973
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 2: from the past man where you've been to something, uh

974
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 2: sixty five one guy, If I not mistaken, Jacques Lamaire

975
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 2: loved taking the Boys on the road because they didn't

976
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 2: have the distraction of home life. Well, we can have

977
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 2: that discussion in philosophical argument about that. I want Home Ice.

978
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, and I don't want you. And you know,

979
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 2: we can all find the series in which it met

980
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:03,240
Speaker 2: nothing as it turned out. I'm not saying they don't exist,

981
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 2: but it's it's almost become glandular for people. And maybe

982
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 2: it's the old it's a protective device because it didn't

983
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:12,719
Speaker 2: look like we're gonna have Home Ice, and we still

984
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 2: want to believe we can do something, which we still can.

985
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 2: But this is this is very strange to me. It

986
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 2: doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me

987
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 2: as as well. So I'm watching the Wolves right now.

988
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 2: Yes we didn't already behind. We're down five to three.

989
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 2: It's okay. But we talk about Rudy, you know, Finchy

990
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 2: said the other day after the loss to Charlotte, Rudy,

991
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 2: I think I had ten rebounds but no one else had any. Yeah,

992
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 2: he was actually ripping other people for that game, right, Yes,

993
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 2: but I was at the game on Sunday. You're watch

994
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 2: you know, good for me? Are you gonna start ripping

995
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 2: Rudy now too? No, I'm defending. Okay, everybody else is

996
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:49,440
Speaker 2: ripping Rudy. But when you're in the building, they give

997
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 2: up offensive rebounds and Rudy's in the middle of it,

998
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 2: and everybody's like, come on, Rudy. Yeah, I know, but

999
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:56,879
Speaker 2: they don't watch this boy. But what they don't watch

1000
00:55:56,920 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 2: is and we just saw it, our guy calmly, Rudy

1001
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:03,360
Speaker 2: had to go help because Conley needed help. Yeh. The

1002
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 2: shot goes he's out of position. He's out of position,

1003
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 2: the ball goes off. Julius Randall's just standing there and

1004
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 2: a pacer tips it in. Like Rudy can't get every

1005
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 2: rebound and help on defense, right, and obviously you can't

1006
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 2: expect him to catch the ball ever or make his

1007
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:23,320
Speaker 2: free throws. But like he's doing so much, he remains

1008
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 2: he's got to steal, helping out and drop coverage. The

1009
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,920
Speaker 2: most maligned great player in the history of the National

1010
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:35,280
Speaker 2: Basketball Association. It's amazing and we all, I know it's warts.

1011
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 2: I know how exasperating it can be with his stone

1012
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:42,400
Speaker 2: hands at times, we get all of that, but the

1013
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:44,759
Speaker 2: stuff that he does do Like you said, I mean,

1014
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:48,400
Speaker 2: he can't be five places at once. And these guys,

1015
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:50,800
Speaker 2: there's other players who were either big enough or strong

1016
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 2: enough to be to grant, it's not illegal for somebody

1017
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 2: else to grab the ball. It's just yeah it. But

1018
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 2: it's he's too easy because of the offensive stuff and

1019
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 2: because of the contract. But let's face it, there's a

1020
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:06,440
Speaker 2: lot of other players are making damn good money as

1021
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 2: well who should be able to occasionally grab a rebound.

1022
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 2: Let's get one more break in remind you of the

1023
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 2: highlights and low lights of a very controversial program, and

1024
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 2: then we will return. Show Rap is presented by American

1025
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 2: Pressure commercial grade Pressure Washers since nineteen seventy five. It's

1026
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 2: the bumper to Bumper Show Rap. I want to thank

1027
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:32,040
Speaker 2: our guest today. Louis joined at his usual five point

1028
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 2: thirty this evening, and Michael Hurley joined to talk Iran

1029
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 2: at four h two. At that point we did not

1030
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 2: have the makings of I wouldn't even call it a deal.

1031
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:46,680
Speaker 2: So much of as a holding pattern is now in place,

1032
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:49,080
Speaker 2: with plenty of open questions about who is really giving

1033
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:52,360
Speaker 2: up what. But the good news seems to be that

1034
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 2: the eight o'clock Central Time deadline has no longer has

1035
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 2: any significance, as it seemed to throughout the day. Mike

1036
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 2: joined us between four and four thirty as well. Remember,

1037
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 2: if you want to go down nostalgia lane, maybe you

1038
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:16,120
Speaker 2: rent Bad News Bears. Today we celebrated the fact that

1039
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 2: the movie opened in theaters fifty years ago today, the

1040
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 2: Walter Mathow Classic, which I think might hold up surprisingly

1041
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 2: well based on some of the issues that have dealt

1042
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 2: with about as politically incorrect a sports movie as one

1043
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 2: could get, and you could say it might have to

1044
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 2: a large extent influenced and ushered in lots of other

1045
00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 2: motion pictures who seemed to turn all the usual sports

1046
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 2: movie conceits on their head very very successfully. But I

1047
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:51,640
Speaker 2: would think that'd be a cheap rental a movie like that.

1048
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 2: Now then, I don't know how that works. I don't

1049
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 2: even know what the rules are on. I don't even

1050
00:58:57,720 --> 00:58:59,640
Speaker 2: know anybody rents anymore. I don't even how they do it.

1051
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 2: Maybe some of this stuff you can get on in

1052
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 2: particular if you subscribe to particular service, Maybe you can

1053
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 2: get it free. I don't know. Yeah, if you subscribe

1054
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 2: depends on who has it, I know, Exfinity on demand.

1055
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 2: There's a lot of movies we've rench for like nine

1056
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 2: or you can buy them straight up. Yeah, you can

1057
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 2: do that. Yeah, you can do that too as uh

1058
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 2: as well does anybody. I still hold on to a

1059
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 2: bunch of old DVDs And I don't know why. I mean,

1060
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 2: because we're all I mean, I'm too lazy actually put

1061
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 2: one in, you know, so it's like, oh, I'm just

1062
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 2: gonna we'll just click and see what it's even it's

1063
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:30,760
Speaker 2: but too much. Yeah, but I mean because it seems

1064
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Speaker 2: like it almost feels like it's it's out of fashion

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Speaker 2: at this point, right, yes, very much so, given everything

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Speaker 2: is just you know, click a couple buttons and then

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Speaker 2: it's right there. You don't want you don't want our

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Speaker 2: seasons one through nine of friends we have all? Do

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Speaker 2: you have them all? Oh? Yeah, yeah, and I got

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Speaker 2: you know, I got a lot of them in the

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Speaker 2: Blue Rays fandom. Perfect, you're a Blue Rays. Yeah. I

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Speaker 2: love Blue Raiders though I was high five. There's a

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Speaker 2: question about that. So the plan tomorrow is Esler and

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Speaker 2: maybe something else that will add to the mix. As usual,

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Speaker 2: we try to stay as fresh and current as we

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Speaker 2: can tonight it's fanom demand and then it's the missed

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Speaker 2: a Wild pregame show. Is that correct? It is? Yes,

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Speaker 2: they've got the kracking if they want to listen to

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Speaker 2: the Wolves Timberwolves channel right now. How we hold it up?

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Speaker 2: Twenty one eleven, we're winning, We're up ten, Yeah, five

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Speaker 2: forty five to go in the first balls popping not

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Speaker 2: to see eighteen. I think they just want to get

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Speaker 2: on with victory. Could be yeah, so we could end

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Speaker 2: up clinching, sit well, clinching, not falling to seven. Right

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Speaker 2: if we win the night and the Suns who are

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Speaker 2: hosting the red hot Houston Rockets, if they if the

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Speaker 2: Suns lose that game of the Rockets, then at least

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Speaker 2: that drama goes away. But we're not moving up. We're

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Speaker 2: not moving up to three. We're not moving up to four,

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Speaker 2: and we're not moving up to five as well. For

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Speaker 2: the record, the Dallas Stars do have the tiebreaker on

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Speaker 2: us if it come If it ends up coming down

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Speaker 2: to that as well, yeah, they have. We need them

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Speaker 2: to lose another game or have an overtime game, and

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Speaker 2: then then it might even up thea if we went

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Speaker 2: out got you there's something with the losses. We have

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Speaker 2: way too complicated in hockey. They have to they have

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Speaker 2: to definitely work on that. So that's the scoop for

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Speaker 2: today or for the rest of you. So you got

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Speaker 2: If you're a hockey fan, we got you covered. If

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Speaker 2: you're a basketball fan, you are covered as well via

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Speaker 2: the Timberwolves Channel. Enjoy the rest of the evening. As

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Speaker 2: I said, we look forward to a visit with special

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Speaker 2: k in studio Pat Kesler tomorrow. Among our guests, we'll

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Speaker 2: talk to you three. Thank you for the memories, thank

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Speaker 2: you for the great time. We love your dad.