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Speaker 1: past the hour three o'clock Central daylight time, we welcome

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Speaker 1: you back to a Friday Football Beast edition of the

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Speaker 1: Afternoon ardvark On an exceedingly spring like Friday afternoon here

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Speaker 1: And lookye here looks like part time. Gal Kara is in.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Thanks, good to have you, happy to be here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's great. It's far and away the best cross.

433
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 4: The last best crowd was the final regular season game

434
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 4: Michigan State, about seventy five hundred.

435
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: So they're very pleased.

436
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 4: And honestly, there's been a b I got here basically

437
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 4: right after the TV show and people are already ready

438
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 4: to go and filing in and it's it's been a

439
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 4: pretty good buzz for this first game. So they they're

440
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 4: very excited, which is what you want. They got they

441
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 4: got a good tip time. Five o'clock on a Friday

442
00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 4: is good.

443
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.

444
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 4: So I just ran into a couple of friends of

445
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 4: mine that brought their kids down. They took a half

446
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 4: day and came down and they were watching the first game,

447
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 4: And so it's going to be it should be an

448
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 4: electric atmosphere. It's cool like Rachel Bantam's here, Lindsay Whalen's here,

449
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 4: like a lot of the former Gophers are checking in

450
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 4: as well. So it should be a really really good

451
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 4: atmosphere for people that are coming down.

452
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 3: Now.

453
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 1: Is Whalen here as a former Gopher or as a scout?

454
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,120
Speaker 4: She would tell you both. Yeah, I think she would

455
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,880
Speaker 4: tell you both. And just talking with her the last

456
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 4: few weeks, she was excited about the possibility and obviously

457
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 4: we all know how it ended for Lindsay here, but

458
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 4: now that she's kind of landed on her feet and

459
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 4: gotten the new gig, like fired up. Yeah, she's fired

460
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 4: up for obviously mar bron A, Maya Battle, Me and

461
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 4: Maiah Holloway, the players that she recruited, that good recruiting

462
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 4: class that kind of started this whole thing. So she's

463
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 4: actually across the way from r I'm talking to you

464
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 4: right now. She was fired up mostly because it was

465
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 4: an easy scouting trip. She was going to get on

466
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 4: the road somewhere this weekend right regardless, and she's obviously

467
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 4: watching old miss too, because they're best player is at

468
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 4: WNBA prospect who used to play at Ohio State.

469
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's I'd.

470
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 4: Say, yeah, she's being paid by the Links to be here,

471
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 4: but she's popped in a time or two even since

472
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 4: that has nothing to do with Links basketball.

473
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: And the son of Sherry or Norguard is Kanka Nipple?

474
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: Is that true too? I don't. I don't know that

475
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: they've got all these people. Well how come these people

476
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: didn't email me? Yeah, we need these kind of researchers.

477
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: Question about this. Speaking of Whalen, did she did you

478
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: have a chance to talk to her get any reaction

479
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: from her about the piece labor piece in our time

480
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: between WNBA owners and the players. Now that that deal

481
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: is done, it.

482
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 4: Appears yeah, well yeah, actually I did, And she's excited

483
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 4: to be back at work because, as we said on

484
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 4: the TV show tonight, it's it would be criminally negligent

485
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,959
Speaker 4: if they didn't play this year. Also, this is classic Whalen.

486
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 4: This is like three weeks ago we were talking. She

487
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 4: had no idea if she even got paid, if they

488
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 4: didn't have a season, like, she had no idea, she

489
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 4: didn't know. I said, do you guys get paid? What

490
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 4: happens if there's no season? She's like, I should probably check.

491
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 4: Must be nice, It must be nice to not have

492
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 4: to worry about it. So, no, she's fired up. They're

493
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 4: obviously all fired up, and now they.

494
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: Got a lot of stuff to cram in and the

495
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: next a lot of Yeah, not much time. You're exactly right, Yeah,

496
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: that's that's for sure. Uh, and we got don't They

497
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: also have to worry about an expansion draft.

498
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 4: That's exactly Yeah, what I was talking about. You've got

499
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 4: two teams that have to get their expansion draft. They've

500
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 4: got the regular draft so.

501
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 1: They can protect. Is it five? I don't on the

502
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: top of my head. Okay, I thought it was five.

503
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: Maybe six.

504
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 4: That's that sounds about right. So yeah, they got a

505
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 4: lot to figure out. It'll be fun, no question about it.

506
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: All right, So what do we have to pay attention

507
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: to regarding your game? Obviously, as we've talked about all week,

508
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: the Gophers are significantly favorite, probably should be the case

509
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: given the two conferences. But obviously weirdness happens so for people.

510
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: But maybe I start this way because there's gonna be

511
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: people listening and watching tonight who probably haven't been all season, right,

512
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: because some of this is trendiness, and I don't think

513
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: you can ever begrudge that if you're a Gopher fan,

514
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: because you want it to become among casual fans something

515
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: that they pay attention to as well, even if they

516
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: haven't been invested in it for very long. So for

517
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: somebody who's not watched the team much at all, give

518
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: them a sense of why the Gophers finally had a

519
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: breakthrough season here, what makes them good or what will

520
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: they be doing that's good if they play as they're

521
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: capable of playing well.

522
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 4: First of all, to your point about the Johnny cum latelies,

523
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 4: I joined Nordo earlier in the week and he kind

524
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 4: of sheepishly said, I haven't really followed the team. I'm

525
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 4: just coming into it blindly here. So I'm going to

526
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 4: ask you some stupid questions, and I think you'll appreciate this.

527
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 4: I said, I'm not in the baseball press box. I'm

528
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 4: not a ball guy snob who's going to make you

529
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 4: feel bad because you just showed up. Right, There's a

530
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 4: lot going on in the world. Yeah, I'm happy to

531
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 4: answer any stupid questions. I'm not going to be a

532
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 4: ball guy snob. I'm going to welcome you into the family.

533
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 4: So to answer your question, a couple of things. Number

534
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 4: one why they're good, first and foremost is their experience.

535
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: They're old now.

536
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 4: Amaya Battle has started basically over one hundred games. Gray

537
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 4: Skarholski's a junior, has started over one hundred games. Sophie

538
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 4: Hart is a red shirt senior, has you know, probably

539
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 4: not started one hundred games. She has approached that the

540
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 4: last three years. Mara Broun is a red shirt junior.

541
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 4: They're grown women now. And when I first started this job,

542
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 4: that recruiting class that we just talked about with Lindsay Whalen,

543
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 4: they were going through a big ten that was maybe

544
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 4: the strongest it had ever been with Caitlyn Clark, Kate Martin,

545
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 4: Monica Sinano, the kids from Indiana that all had you know, three,

546
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 4: four or five years of experience. They all had the

547
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 4: one hundred games under their belt playing together.

548
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: Well, now Minnesota has that.

549
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 4: So just by experience, these talented players have grown up

550
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 4: and they remember what happened to in the last couple

551
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 4: of years. So that's number one. Number two, they're healthy.

552
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,479
Speaker 4: Having Mara bron backed, she probably hit her stride, I

553
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 4: want to say mid January, early January. Mid January, she

554
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 4: started to look like the player that we remember. She's

555
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 4: averaging thirteen points a game in the last ten, so

556
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 4: that's helpful. And thirdly, they're just really balanced. All five

557
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 4: of their starters average double figures. That's rare, so it

558
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 4: can be anybody's night. Just looking at my sheet here,

559
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 4: their career highs amiya Battles is thirty five, Mara Brown's

560
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 4: thirty four, Tory McKinney, the sophomore for Minnetonka, is twenty nine.

561
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 4: Grace Kroholski's is thirty one. Like at any given moment,

562
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 4: one of them can go off. So it's really helped

563
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 4: them throughout the season where they'll typically have at least three,

564
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 4: maybe four, and sometimes five players in double figures, and

565
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 4: the players buy into all of that, and they have

566
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 4: players that can go get it. It's not just decent

567
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 4: players that are unselfish and they're winning because of a system.

568
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 4: They've got four to five really good players that know

569
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 4: how to play together and really don't care who gets

570
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 4: the spotlight on any given night.

571
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: What does if Green Bay is to challenge the Gophers

572
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: and make this a game. What has to happen on

573
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: their end. They're pretty similar to Minnesota.

574
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 4: Actually, the Green Bay coach actually worked for Don Plitzewhite

575
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 4: and actually played for and I don't know, I don't

576
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 4: think worked with but Dawn's college coach who has been

577
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 4: at Green Bay coaching legend. Dawn coach there for four

578
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,919
Speaker 4: years as well as an assistant coach. They so they're

579
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 4: similar in that they don't want to turn the ball over.

580
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 4: They shoot the ball really well. They're very rugged defensively.

581
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 4: They allow only fifty eight points a game. Minnesota is

582
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 4: right in that ballpark, so they're pretty much blueprints. They

583
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 4: got to shoot the ball well. Typically, when there's an

584
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 4: upset in the NCAA tournament we saw yesterday with High

585
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 4: Point in Wisconsin, somebody's got to get hot, somebody's got

586
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,359
Speaker 4: to go off. They have the player of the year

587
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 4: in the Horizon League. She's from Centennial High School Circle Pines, Minnesota,

588
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 4: Jenna Geyer, who averages just over fifteen points a game,

589
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 4: So I would imagine she would have to go off.

590
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 4: But yeah, you talked about it at the top. All

591
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 4: things considered, Minnesota should win this game. But Green Bay

592
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,879
Speaker 4: is experienced. They have some transfers as well that all

593
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 4: come from different levels, that are upperclassmen, that are seniors

594
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 4: that came to Green Bay because they're used to winning.

595
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 4: So I'm interested to see how the Gophers play this

596
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 4: thing because they're now playing with a different mentality than

597
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 4: they've played all season. They were, you know, the old cliche,

598
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 4: they were hunting during the season. Now they're the fourth

599
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,760
Speaker 4: seed with an inside track to go to the Sweet

600
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 4: sixteen hosting. It's to me, it's a different kind of pressure.

601
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,320
Speaker 4: So I'm curious how they play with that today.

602
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: All right, So on the women's side, I'm looking at

603
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: the scoreboard. I see Maryland a five seed, up on

604
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: Murray State by fourteen seventy three to fifty nine at

605
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 1: the end of the third your game updated, what I've

606
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:30,760
Speaker 1: got is Ole Miss fifty two Gonzaga twenty nine. Remember

607
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: the Gophers, if they win the second game of the day,

608
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 1: that would then take on Ole Miss if they are

609
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: able to hold on. I got Texas destroying Missouri State

610
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: early by a score. Let me find the score again.

611
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: It's like fifty two to something, No, excuse me, twenty

612
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:53,280
Speaker 1: eight to seven a football score. Early Duke wins eighty

613
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 1: one to sixty four. I got TCU winning over California

614
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: San Diego. They've kept their affiliation eighty six to forty.

615
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: That's what I got so far. Have we had any

616
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: major women's upsets yet? Not really. I was looking at Nebraska.

617
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 4: Did we have a Nebraska Final because Nebraska was an

618
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 4: interesting team.

619
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: Wow, Nebraska ended up losing. I just pulled it up.

620
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 1: They were an eleven seed.

621
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 4: Nebraska was one of the last teams in I was

622
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 4: surprised they got into the field at I think they

623
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,760
Speaker 4: were seventeen and thirteen at the time, or eighteen and thirteen.

624
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: They won their playing game and then had a lead. Yeah.

625
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, they had a five point lead against Baylor going

626
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 4: into the fourth quarter and I got outscored by eleven

627
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,720
Speaker 4: as a six point league, got outscored by eleven.

628
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 1: So that was the one I was watching.

629
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, Typically in the women's game, there haven't been as

630
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 4: many historical upsets, especially the further you go down.

631
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: That's true, just when you think about it.

632
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 4: Probably the parody probably hasn't really started to show up

633
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 4: until the last five or ten years in terms of

634
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 4: teams can go beat the teams at the top Historically

635
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 4: it's been the ones. You know, Yukon, Tennessee, Anford, LSU

636
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 4: wherever Vivian Stringer was coaching, was a good team. It

637
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 4: really hasn't been you know, Ohio State's obviously very good,

638
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 4: Maryland's been very good. Hasn't been really the last ten

639
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 4: years or so that other teams have kind of joined

640
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 4: the party, and so the first round upsets have been

641
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 4: fewer and far between.

642
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: There's a parody discrepancy.

643
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 4: And then obviously the big advantage for Minnesota today is

644
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:22,280
Speaker 4: they're in their own building.

645
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: They didn't have to go anywhere. They stayed at home

646
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: last night.

647
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Speaker 4: If there's ten thousand people here today, ninety five hundred

648
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 4: of them are wearing maroon and gold. So upsets are

649
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 4: harder to come by in the first round than probably

650
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Speaker 4: people are used to in the men's side.

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Speaker 1: On the men's side, I've got Iowa State dominating Tennessee State.

652
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 1: Iowa State is a two seed eighty two to forty seven.

653
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: About halfway through the second half, I have Alabama leading Hofstra.

654
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: Alabama is a four fifty two to forty three with

655
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Speaker 1: about fourteen minutes to go in the half. Earlier first

656
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Speaker 1: half game Tennessee sixteen. You mentioned them before, Miami of Ohio. Miami,

657
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: don't calls from Ohio thirteen. It's sixteen thirteen. Early. Utah

658
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: State late first half is a nine, leaving a leading

659
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: an eight seed Villanova by four thirty one to twenty seven.

660
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: Arizona destroyed Long Island ninety two to fifty eight. Virginia

661
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: struggled early but then ran away eventually, well not ran away,

662
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: but but won by nine over Wright State, a fourteen seed.

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Speaker 1: And then the most dramatic game of the day I

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Speaker 1: guess was Santa Clara Kentucky. Kentucky Hits needs a three

665
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Speaker 1: late to send the game into overtime, and they get

666
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Speaker 1: a shot I believe from just past half court that

667
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Speaker 1: banks in yeah, to tie it right, and then Kentucky

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Speaker 1: wins over Santa Clara in overtime eighty nine to eighty

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Speaker 1: Anything else catch your eye, either last night or today

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Speaker 1: on the men's side.

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Speaker 4: No, not really. I'm still basking in the glow of

672
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Speaker 4: high Point. Quite frankly, you know, I'm milking the high

673
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 4: Point deal. I do think it's interesting that you assume

674
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 4: these days we're gonna be over a little bit because

675
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 4: of the financial discrepancies, but it shows if you can

676
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Speaker 4: if you can get a couple of guys and they

677
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 4: can be hot for a day, like to Sinder, like

678
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 4: the tournaments not ruined. We always worry about college sports

679
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 4: being ruined by everything that's going on. People that I'm

680
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 4: around all the time in college sports and that follow it,

681
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 4: it's like they're ruining the game. Nobody likes it anymore.

682
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 4: It's like, well, the ratings have never been better for football.

683
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,720
Speaker 4: People are going all over the country. New national champions

684
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 4: are popping up. The ratings are gonna be great for

685
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Speaker 4: March Madness. There's gonna be ten thousand people here today

686
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 4: on the women's side, which hasn't happened in twenty one years,

687
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 4: when when Clarker Page Becker's hasn't been playing against them.

688
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 4: It's like, despite all the issues and the problems and

689
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,359
Speaker 4: there's a lot of stuff I don't love about how

690
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 4: things go, people are still watching and people are still

691
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Speaker 4: into it.

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing too, if Minnesota does win, get I bet

693
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Speaker 1: you end up with more people than even tonight, right,

694
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Speaker 1: because it'll be it's the old thing. It builds, it's

695
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Speaker 1: it would be presumably a Sunday afternoon game, right at

696
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Speaker 1: some point Sunday afternoon or evening, which is wide open.

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00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: There's no sonnami this week, right. I don't think it's

698
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Speaker 1: going to be as warm tomorrow as Sunday as it

699
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: is supposed to be tomorrow. But I don't think there's

700
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Speaker 1: any supposed to be needy snow in the forecast for Sunday,

701
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: so I would I would assume it's the old This

702
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: town has always been wired that way anyway. I think,

703
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: whether it's a built in audience or not, it's oh,

704
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 1: this is kind of yeah, this is again kind of cool,

705
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Speaker 1: all right, you know what, I try to try to

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Speaker 1: get a couple of tickets, especially when, as you say,

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Speaker 1: by current ticket standards, these prices are not obscene nowhere

708
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 1: near as obscene is pretty much any other any other

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Speaker 1: venue right now.

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Speaker 4: Twenty six bucks for basically every seat in here. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's twenty six bucks.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, so how much control does does

713
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Speaker 1: the Does the university get to control that because it's smart?

714
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Speaker 1: Oh it's not there, dude, I don't think they do.

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Speaker 4: I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure and

716
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Speaker 4: the NCAA sets it.

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Speaker 1: What sounds low is my point whoever said it was smart. Yes, right,

718
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,280
Speaker 1: because you're back to get we got just get people

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Speaker 1: in the gym for these events. That's our first should

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Speaker 1: be our first priority.

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Speaker 4: Exactly right. And they've sold very early. They had a

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Speaker 4: consistent stream all week. They had one last final basically

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Speaker 4: bumped today. Yeah, from what I understand, and I'm sure

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Speaker 4: like a lot of people like the weather's great. It's

725
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 4: a Friday, it's five o'clock and there's a there is

726
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 4: a fobo. I was just texting with somebody before because

727
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 4: they were thinking about coming down and they were asking

728
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Speaker 4: how the Bible is. I said it's great. And now

729
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 4: they have Pomo, they might be coming down in an hour. Yeah,

730
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 4: that's because, Yes, it's just been a good buzz.

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Speaker 1: The whole time, no question about it. Lastly, I want

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Speaker 1: you to weigh in on the topic I started the

733
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: program with and it the text line has at about

734
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty people agreeing with me and disagreeing with me.

735
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,840
Speaker 1: I learned yesterday and then followed up on it today.

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Speaker 1: You know, you may be aware that the NFL Draft

737
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: is gonna be in Pittsburgh, Okay, and we know how

738
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Speaker 1: competitive that's become. Right to host the draft. Well, Pittsburgh

739
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: public schools are closing for three days compelling asynchronous remote

740
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Speaker 1: learning because of the NFL draft. I find this done

741
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Speaker 1: as material. I find this absurd. But other people are saying,

742
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: wait a minute, now, when we had Ryder Cup, one

743
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: of the school systems out there, Chaska started like a

744
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: week early. Although I'd said, well, at least you're not

745
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: losing the time this I know about traffic in Pittsburgh

746
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: and the bridges. I'm just saying, if if you have

747
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 1: to literally close schools for three days, what does that

748
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: say about us? In all seriousness?

749
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I wondered what because I was popping in on that.

750
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 4: I wondered what you were talking about with the Ryder Cup.

751
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,240
Speaker 4: That does ring a bell now, but that was because

752
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 4: they used it for parking. They had to use the

753
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 4: high schools and stuff for parking to shuttle people in.

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00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: Is that what they have to about in Pittsburgh. They're

755
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: claiming some of it has to do with traffic patterns

756
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Speaker 1: and certain roads being closed. Say again, if that's what

757
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 1: you have to sacrifice the come on right? Yeah, the draft,

758
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: But that's I guess where we are. And a lot

759
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: of people are.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's fine.

761
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: What's a big deal everybody does It's okay? Yeah, fine,

762
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 1: I don't love that.

763
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 4: I have to well, go back to the old Marriott

764
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Speaker 4: Marquee where I watched Robert Smith get drafted in nineteen

765
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 4: ninety two. Yes, right, because we just happen to be

766
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 4: staying there. Oh, good for me, and I wandered into

767
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:23,800
Speaker 4: the ballroom. But you could do back then, back in

768
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,839
Speaker 4: the day, very innocently. Yeah, you just wander into the day.

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Speaker 4: The vikings you'll have to pick. I think I'll stay

770
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 4: and watch.

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00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 1: Think about it a long time ago, unfortunim times. So

772
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:36,359
Speaker 1: we're on tap, you think, well, so pregame, show what time?

773
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: Four thirty or I guess it a thirty fourth.

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00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 4: We'll start right at four thirty, and then we'll tip

775
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:41,399
Speaker 4: it off whenever they tip it off. But there's three

776
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 4: forty three to go in the third here, and ole

777
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:48,359
Speaker 4: Miss is putting its thumb down on Gonzaga fifty one

778
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 4: fifty nine thirty one.

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00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 1: So the Rebels will advance to Sunday, it appears. Is

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00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,399
Speaker 1: it fair to say if the Gophers do win, ole

781
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: Miss will provide stiff competition. Yeah, they're good.

782
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,359
Speaker 4: Their best player, Cody McMahon, who I'm looking at right

783
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 4: now is an All American. As I mentioned, that's probably

784
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,760
Speaker 4: who Lindsay Whalen's watching as well. She's a WNBA player,

785
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 4: played at Ohio State, scored twenty five against the Golphers

786
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Speaker 4: last year.

787
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Speaker 1: She's a stud. But they're a typical SEC team.

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Speaker 4: They're just like super fast, super athletic, super long, super aggressive.

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Speaker 4: It'll be an interesting matchup because they pressed the whole game,

790
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 4: and the Golphers at times as we remember from the

791
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 4: Maryland game and some others have had trouble with full

792
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 4: court pressure. So it would be I think a difficult

793
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 4: matchup and one that they'd have to really take care

794
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 4: of the ball against the super aggressive defense.

795
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Speaker 1: Several listeners want to know what time you're going to

796
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Speaker 1: have Doug Gottliebon in the pregame show. I would if

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Speaker 1: you were here. Is he there? He's not there by

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00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,839
Speaker 1: any chance supporting. I don't know if he's here or not.

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Speaker 4: Okay, but I did talk to him last year at

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Speaker 4: the Final Four before he was coaching, and I said,

801
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 4: why aren't you a coach? Because all he did was

802
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 4: just hang out spired him and he said, well, I

803
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 4: was the runner up for the Green Bay job two

804
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 4: years ago, and then whoever had Green Bay went to

805
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 4: I think Wyoming and they came after the runner up

806
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 4: got the crown. They had a good year two by

807
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:04,479
Speaker 4: the way, did they. I didn't realize that they actually

808
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 4: had a better year than most people expected. I'm pulling

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00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 4: for it. Every coach I know in my wife hates

810
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 4: it because they don't like it. In fact, the radio guy, yes,

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Speaker 4: and just pull up and get a low made we

812
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 4: win a bunch of games, which I get. Yeah, I

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00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 4: totally understand when you've been grinding it out for your

814
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 4: whole life and Gottlie just goes.

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Speaker 1: I think I'll try it. Yeah, you know.

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00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 4: And he was doing the show at the time too.

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00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 4: He finally was doing the show in about December, and

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Speaker 4: since that mark they took off. So I'm pulling for

819
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Speaker 4: it because I think it's a good story.

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Speaker 1: Guards He on the Gophers Call pregame show on the

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Speaker 1: Plus at four point thirty opening kickoff, probably sometime around

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Speaker 1: five o'clock.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 1: He of course was with me at the Fox nine

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00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: studios early we did tape a very special, very sportsy

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Speaker 1: edition of the Enough Said program with Lori Fisher and

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Speaker 1: I believe that'll be at regular times tonight seven thirty

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Speaker 1: on the Plus Yes and nine thirty on Fox nine,

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Speaker 1: and there's a lot of sports conversations, some big dance stuff.

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Speaker 1: We couldn't talk Golphers for the obvious reason that you

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00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: had the game after we had taped the program. But

832
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Speaker 1: let's face it, if they're able to win this one

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00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:10,399
Speaker 1: and then win and advance on Sunday, then hopefully we'll

834
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Speaker 1: have an opportunity to do that next week. Have a

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Speaker 1: good call, have fun at the barn, and we will

836
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Speaker 1: talk soon. Thank you. Thanks for having a good show.

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Speaker 1: Guardsey helping us out as only he can, indeed do.

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Speaker 1: Top of the Hour pause, don't forget Lavelle New time

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Speaker 1: this week he's going to join in the Ben Gestling

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Speaker 1: time slot four point thirty. Ben will be with us

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Speaker 1: at five. There is some Vikings news, so I think

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00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,879
Speaker 1: encouraging Vikings news that we will get to with Ben

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00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 1: and perhaps even introduce that when we come back