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Speaker 3: All right, if you sufficiently calmed down Ryan Burns go

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Speaker 4: Also moonlighting as a Twins Daily.

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Speaker 5: What will be the word for it, Well, I'm just

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Speaker 5: trying to get rid of my pole ed pocket protector

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Speaker 5: right here now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. That was a good rant. I knew you

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Speaker 3: loved ball. I didn't know it was going to get

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Speaker 3: you to that level, but that was good. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: I hope you feel better. I don't think you do, though.

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Speaker 4: I got a weight off my shoulders.

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Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, what's the headline right now for Gopher football?

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Speaker 3: Before we talk about national stuff and the chaos that

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Speaker 3: is December and it appears to be chaotic this time

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Speaker 4: There's only one transfer portal window. It's going to open January. Second.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of what they call in the business

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Speaker 3: pre portaling, which is a fancy way to say tampering.

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Speaker 3: I think, yes, pre portaling going on right now, But

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Speaker 3: what is the headline? What are we a week and

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Speaker 3: a day right, Yeah, a week and a day from No,

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Speaker 3: a week and two days from the Rate Bowl. No

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Speaker 3: longer the guaranteed rate bawl. They're not going to guarantee

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Speaker 3: the rate. They'll give you a rate. You don't know

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Speaker 3: what the hell's going to be questions and it's not

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Speaker 3: going to be guaranteed. But it's the Rate Bowl A

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Speaker 3: week from Friday, Gophers, New Mexico.

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Speaker 1: What's the headline right now around the program?

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Speaker 5: Oh, there's so many different directions you could go with it,

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Speaker 5: I think, especially now that it's it's weird to say this,

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Speaker 5: but we're going to be going into year ten of

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Speaker 4: It's crazy.

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Speaker 5: I still remember asking him out in Vegas prior to

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Speaker 5: I didn't, and he was like, Nope, didn't think I was.

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Speaker 5: But I'm happy to still be here and happy to

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Speaker 5: they want to see them have an Indiana type of

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Speaker 5: And I get the twenty nineteen vibe where that we

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Speaker 5: And I think it starts with how do you build

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Speaker 5: it's tough to protect your quarterback and thinks of that nature.

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Speaker 5: I tell you, I'd like somebody that Drake Lindsay can

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Speaker 5: But it's how can PJ get from the six seven,

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Speaker 5: the same amount of money. That's not how this works.

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Speaker 4: So it's they have money.

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Speaker 5: But I also think part of the Signetti conversation where

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Speaker 5: done amazing things for them, amazing things again the number

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Speaker 4: He's an outstanding coach.

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Speaker 5: But I also think people need to look at when

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Speaker 4: I sure did. I thought it was an easy call.

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Speaker 5: that's a great thing for Indiana. And I don't think

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Speaker 5: it's trying to make sure if you're a team like Minnesota,

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Speaker 4: A good quarterback. Yeah, and he's good.

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Speaker 5: He is, and I think if you continue to build

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Speaker 3: All right, when we come back with Burns, we'll talk

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Speaker 3: Playoff with him, because, believe it or not, it starts

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Speaker 4: A lot more to get to with Burns.

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Speaker 3: If you have a question for him, six four six

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Speaker 3: eighty six is the Bradshawn Brian Kampan text line? Tweet

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Speaker 3: Ryan Burns, Ah.

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Speaker 2: Every game is a big game when it's wild hockey,

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Speaker 3: I like this question to Ryan Burns from Gopher Illustrated

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Speaker 3: on Twitter. You hear him on Gopher grid Iron Radio.

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Speaker 3: You hear him on the Parent of Spare podcast. He

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Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever asked you this or that

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Speaker 3: you and I have ever talked about this, but it's

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Speaker 3: an interest in question. Why are NIL donations, fundraising payments,

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Speaker 5: Why are they? Yes, how would you like to take this?

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Speaker 4: We're going to go outside of the college football.

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Speaker 3: their national championship, and so everybody's happy there.

441
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Speaker 5: Or even your Ohio State team and when we're talking

442
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Speaker 5: about Michigan even Ohio State. What I mean, we've talked

443
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Speaker 5: about it on Pairent of Spare, but I think you

444
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Speaker 5: should let the listeners know what did the outgoing athletic

445
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Speaker 5: director at Ohio State too, in terms of running up.

446
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Speaker 4: A thirty million dollar deficit the last year that he

447
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Speaker 4: was there.

448
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Speaker 5: Can you imagine the west side of town's paper if

449
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Speaker 5: that were to ever happen here at the University of Minnesota,

450
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Speaker 5: the skating columns that would come out.

451
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, but they wanted to be go

452
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Speaker 3: to football and that's what he said, and that's what

453
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Speaker 3: it is, and they won a national championship.

454
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Speaker 5: So it's a crazy world. It is a crazy world.

455
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Speaker 5: But that's where it's going to be. How much further

456
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Speaker 5: does this snowball have to roll downhill? Because I think

457
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Speaker 5: it's more. I think you either have to go out

458
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Speaker 5: of the box with an Adam Stenovich or you have

459
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Speaker 5: to go interim with a Biff Pogi Because I just

460
00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:33,080
Speaker 5: don't believe that by the time this internal investigation gets

461
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Speaker 5: wrapped up that Ward Manual is still going to be

462
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Speaker 5: the athletic director. So if you are a sitting head coach,

463
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Speaker 5: say Kenny Dillingham, knowing that you might be six months

464
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Speaker 5: into the job, thinking, am I even on solid footing

465
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Speaker 5: here if this isn't the guy that hired me. So

466
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Speaker 5: there's a lot of questions that Michigan has to figure out,

467
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Speaker 5: but like you said, it is still one of the

468
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Speaker 5: best jobs in college football.

469
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Speaker 3: A lot of texts here to the KFE and Bradshawn

470
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Speaker 3: Bryant text line six four six eighty six.

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Speaker 4: I want to get to a couple of them.

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Speaker 3: We talked earlier about drag Lindsay coming back for the Gophers,

473
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Speaker 3: who'll play in the bowl game next week? What do

474
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Speaker 3: we we know le Micky Brockington is not going to

475
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Speaker 3: play in the bowl game? Do we expect that everybody

476
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Speaker 3: else is going to play? We're in the age of

477
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Speaker 3: the opt out, and the Gophers, like I obviously, we

478
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Speaker 3: know that bowl games don't hold the same prestige that

479
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Speaker 3: they used to hold when we were all kids, and

480
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Speaker 3: we are in the opt out season. Part of the

481
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Speaker 3: reason why the Gophers are playing New Mexico is because

482
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Speaker 3: two programs just said, we don't really have a coach,

483
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Speaker 3: and we don't really know who's going to be on

484
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Speaker 3: our team, So we can't go. Yeah, i kanas Kansas

485
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Speaker 3: State and Iowa State, those were supposed to be. In fact,

486
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Speaker 3: I think the Bowl guy even said, we thought it

487
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Speaker 3: was going to be Iowa State, which would have been

488
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Speaker 3: a cool, fun little matchup.

489
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Speaker 4: Right.

490
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Speaker 3: Well, now Matt Campbell's at Penn State and they don't.

491
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Speaker 3: They have their coach, but they they didn't want to.

492
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Speaker 3: You know, you force feed it and make the guys play.

493
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Speaker 3: But pj's guys have played. You know, I do hold

494
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Speaker 3: a soft spot in my heart for programs like Iowa.

495
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Speaker 3: Then no matter what ballgame they go to, they say, yeah,

496
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Speaker 3: we're good, we're playing like it's football. We're going to play,

497
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Speaker 3: and Minnesota has been pretty consistent with that as well.

498
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Speaker 3: I would imagine New Mexico they're fired up because they

499
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Speaker 3: get to come play another power for a team. You guy,

500
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Speaker 3: Jason eck Lacrosse Wisconsin, stand up. I mean they played

501
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Speaker 3: two yeah exactly, they played two Big ten teams this year,

502
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Speaker 3: beat one of them, UCLA, and hung with Michigan. Right, So,

503
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Speaker 3: what do we know about who's playing next week or

504
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Speaker 3: what you think and maybe even any headlines about who

505
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Speaker 3: else we know for sure is coming back next season

506
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Speaker 3: or we feel good about.

507
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Speaker 5: Well, we don't know for sure if Minnesota is leading

508
00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 5: receiver lame Micky Brockinson is playing or if he's not.

509
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Speaker 4: Fleck wouldn't confirm that today.

510
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Speaker 5: I almost think he declared for the NFL draft, And

511
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Speaker 5: I'm thinking to myself, with the utmost peace and love

512
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Speaker 5: to that young man. I mean, do we really think

513
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Speaker 5: Lamecky Brockinson is going to be an NFL draft pick?

514
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Speaker 4: Now?

515
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Speaker 5: I would tend to say no, but he's got to

516
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Speaker 5: do what's best for him. I almost think we might

517
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Speaker 5: see more Koy Parrots on offense because I do expect Cooy.

518
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Speaker 4: Parrits to play in the bowl game.

519
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Speaker 5: Darius Taylor sounds like he's healthy, is as healthy as

520
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Speaker 5: he's been all season, which if you have watched any

521
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Speaker 5: bowl game that features Darius Taylor the last two years,

522
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Speaker 5: you know two things are going to happen. One, he's

523
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Speaker 5: going to get thirty touches and they're going to run him, slash,

524
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Speaker 5: pass him the ball into the ground and he's going

525
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Speaker 5: to do very well with that. And I mean too,

526
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Speaker 5: I mean, he has just been prolific in bowl games.

527
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Speaker 5: But I think Anthony Smith is going to be the

528
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Speaker 5: inflection point where I from what I have been told

529
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Speaker 5: behind the scenes, Anthony Smith is going to play in

530
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Speaker 5: this game. Who is the Big Ten leader in sacks,

531
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Speaker 5: one of the best defensive linemen in the Big Ten,

532
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Speaker 5: and hopefully he can cause havoc against this Jason X

533
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Speaker 5: team where that's probably one of the underrated Look, I

534
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Speaker 5: know your big narrative street guy.

535
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're mister media. You like to make an

536
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Speaker 4: area the stories.

537
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Speaker 5: Well that's where you don't think Jason Ck, who's the

538
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Speaker 5: new Mexico head coach from Lacrosse, Wisconsin near the Dells,

539
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 5: played at UW Madison near the Dells. You don't think

540
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,879
Speaker 5: he wants to beat the Golden Gophers. I mean, you

541
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Speaker 5: don't think he knows that if there's another pair shape

542
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Speaker 5: season for Luke Fickle, that he's probably number one or

543
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Speaker 5: two on the list for what is it, mister McIntosh

544
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:55,200
Speaker 5: out there for McIntosh, McIntosh, Yeah, out there at Wisconsin.

545
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Speaker 5: You don't think he wants to beat the gold like

546
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Speaker 5: you don't think he's going to have that team prepared.

547
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Speaker 5: So again, Minnesota takes Bowl game seriously under Fleck.

548
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're six and zero.

549
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I understand it's not the highest caliber of bowl

550
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 5: games in them, but you only get to play who's

551
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Speaker 5: on your schedule. They didn't pick New Mexico like you said.

552
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Speaker 5: I think they thought they were going to be playing Cincinnati,

553
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Speaker 5: Iowa State, whoever it may be. And then they get

554
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Speaker 5: a nine win New Mexico team, who, like you said,

555
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Speaker 5: beat UCLA. So I think Minnesota is going to be prepared,

556
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Speaker 5: but I'm also excited to see what Drake Lindsay and

557
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Speaker 5: Darius Taylor can do.

558
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Speaker 3: The college football playoff. There is a lot of anger

559
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Speaker 3: about who was in and who was not in. And

560
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Speaker 3: I don't want to talk about Notre Dame and I

561
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 3: don't want to talk about.

562
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Speaker 4: Them taking their ball and going home.

563
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want to talk about any of that, Okay,

564
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Speaker 3: But I've seen a lot from like big voices in

565
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Speaker 3: the sport, like Joel Klatt and others that have a

566
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Speaker 3: lot of bitterness that James Madison, for instance, is going

567
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Speaker 3: to play Oregon this week and that TWU Lane is

568
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Speaker 3: also in the playoff and they will play Ole Miss

569
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Speaker 3: this week. And I understand their point, but I think

570
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Speaker 3: they're missing the overall point that you know, do we

571
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Speaker 3: think that James Madison is going to go into Oregon

572
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 3: and shock the world and you know, and beat the Ducks.

573
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Speaker 3: I don't do I think that Tulane's going to be

574
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Speaker 3: Ole Miss maybe but probably not. But do I think

575
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Speaker 3: that those schools absolutely deserve an opportunity to have something

576
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Speaker 3: to play for and something to strive for.

577
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Speaker 4: I do.

578
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Speaker 3: And it's bothering me when people say are saying, because

579
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Speaker 3: you've got so you got ten teams that probably have

580
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Speaker 3: a chance to win the national title. There's probably six

581
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Speaker 3: or seven, but ten theoretically, right when with all the

582
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Speaker 3: power forwards, I don't like that it that those schools

583
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Speaker 3: are getting kind of shafted in the discussion of why

584
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Speaker 3: are we even saving a spot for these guys, Like

585
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Speaker 3: because you're asking everybody to play, you're asking everybody to

586
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 3: feel the team, you're asking everybody to fund it at

587
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 3: ridiculous levels that we just talked about. You got to

588
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Speaker 3: give them something to play for, like something, and you

589
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Speaker 3: look at I was looking at some tweets from Tulane

590
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Speaker 3: where their school store their Goldie's locker room. They can't

591
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Speaker 3: keep up with the demand for the playoff shirts, right,

592
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Speaker 3: Like schools should have an opportunity to have that moment.

593
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Speaker 4: It doesn't always have to be.

594
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Speaker 3: And I'm saying this is a Big Ten guy that

595
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Speaker 3: would love for some time the Gophers to be the

596
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Speaker 3: fourth or fifth Big Ten team in a playoff. It

597
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Speaker 3: it'd be fun to do that, right both, It'd be

598
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Speaker 3: fun to cover that. Brett's thinking the same thing for

599
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Speaker 3: his Wisconsin Badgers. IO owed the same thing. I want

600
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Speaker 3: as many teams in the playoff as possible, because because

601
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Speaker 3: everybody a chance outside of the blue bloods. But I

602
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Speaker 3: have not loved the narrative, to use your word about

603
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 3: nobody wants to see those teams. I do, and I

604
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Speaker 3: want them to have their moment. And I think it's

605
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Speaker 3: okay that they have their moment. Am I too romantic

606
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Speaker 3: about college football?

607
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Speaker 5: No? I think the thing about college football is everybody

608
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 5: had been saying for a long time we want more parody.

609
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Speaker 5: We're tired of the blue blue bloods being able to

610
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Speaker 5: buy their way to national championships. Now do I expect Tulane?

611
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Speaker 5: Do I expect? Do I expect James Madison to win

612
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Speaker 5: their football games this upcoming weekend?

613
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Speaker 4: I do not.

614
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Speaker 5: But the games aren't played on paper. If they were,

615
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Speaker 5: you know who just signed the number one recruiting clabs

616
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Speaker 5: in college football Southern California. Yeh, I mean we've been

617
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Speaker 5: hearing they've been back since your guy, well since you're

618
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 5: a Nebraska team.

619
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Speaker 4: Have we seen yet?

620
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Speaker 5: Are they still ranked in the top twenty five for

621
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Speaker 5: next year's preseason top twenty five pole?

622
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Speaker 3: Nebraska football is in Indiana basketball already for next season?

623
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Speaker 5: Yes, I love that for them, But I mean everybody

624
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 5: wants parody until they get it or that's even where

625
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 5: the Notre Dame thing plays a part in this where

626
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 5: part of vice everybody's upset, And we talked about.

627
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Speaker 4: It this week on the pod.

628
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Speaker 5: Was okay, well, why did they finally at the very end,

629
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Speaker 5: after they had Notre Dame higher than Miami for the

630
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Speaker 5: last month, just flip them?

631
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Speaker 4: And that's what you get when you have human beings.

632
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 5: Making these decisions where there's not and you hear their

633
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 5: rationale after there's not a ton of rationale in that.

634
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Speaker 4: Like, what we need is to your point is to

635
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 4: give just give teams a chance.

636
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Speaker 5: I mean I saw even today the economic I mean

637
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 5: you talk about you know, the Goldies locker room of Tulane.

638
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, like they.

639
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Speaker 5: We've talked about for a long time too, that college

640
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,640
Speaker 5: athletics is the front door to a university and where

641
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 5: I even think about remember the run the run that

642
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 5: what was at Florida Gulf.

643
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 4: Coast, Yeah, dunk City, lop City. And then you look at.

644
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 5: The amount of again the amount of admissions, correct donations.

645
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 4: Yes, you wanted many teams.

646
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Speaker 5: To get in and have a shot, and I understand

647
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 5: that last year a lot of the lower seeded teams

648
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 5: didn't end up winning their football games, but I remember

649
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 5: watching those games thinking, at least you give them a

650
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 5: shot to play, because again, this is their super Bowl

651
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 5: to prove that for if you're at James Madison that

652
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 5: you can compete with an organ or I understand an

653
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 5: old miss Untu Lane already played this year and I

654
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 5: know how it went. But I know your guy Lane

655
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 5: is no longer there, and that's a program that has

656
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 5: been under transition, to say the least, and I don't

657
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 5: know what version we're going to get of Ole Miss

658
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 5: at that point. So this is why you play the games.

659
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Speaker 5: And I understand recruiting rankings better than anybody. I've done

660
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 5: this industry for fifteen years. Every single day of my life,

661
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 5: I'm talking to somebody about portal retention, high school rankings,

662
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 5: whatever it may be. But this is why you play

663
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 5: the games, and everybody wants parody until they get it.

664
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Speaker 3: You would likely be complaining if too Lane or jam

665
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 3: you bumped the Gophers, that's a Texas six from six

666
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 3: to one two.

667
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't and we can write that down.

668
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 3: I wouldn't like, especially if they were nine and three

669
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 3: or ten and two or whatever like you have. Like,

670
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 3: it's okay, we're gonna survive the first week because even

671
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 3: last year, remember there was all that bitterness about how

672
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 3: non competitive the first weekend's games were and there were

673
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 3: blowouts everywhere. Yeah, wait till Wildcard weekend January eleventh, when

674
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 3: the NFL is, you know, hosting like it happens. It's okay,

675
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 3: we'll survive. Some of the games are still gonna be epic.

676
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 3: It's gonna be okay. Yeah, okay.

677
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 4: And by the way, if James Madison wasn't in.

678
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 3: The postseason, we wouldn't have been witness to one of

679
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 3: the most prolific Twitter admin runs that we've ever seen

680
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 3: in the world of sport. Just look at James Madison

681
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 3: Athletics or whatever I mean, the trolleying. They're doing of

682
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 3: Oregon and Notre Dame is brilliant, and they know they

683
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Speaker 3: know what's going to happen at I think noon or

684
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 3: eleven o'clock. No, I should say I think it's Saturday

685
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 3: night because Oregon's way out west. I think they know

686
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 3: what's going to happen. I think they're all well aware

687
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 3: of it. But it's okay, it's fun, it's cool. Everything

688
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 3: will be fine, exactly. They'll crown a national champion and

689
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 3: everything will be fine.

690
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 4: Yeah.

691
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Speaker 5: Do I think that either one of those teams have

692
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Speaker 5: a shot? No, again, I even think there's probably only

693
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 5: four or five teams that really have a shot. And

694
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Speaker 5: I'm going to be very curious for that New Year's

695
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 5: Day and things of that nature.

696
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Speaker 4: But at least put them in.

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Speaker 5: I'm just glad that they in my opinion, I'm just

698
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Speaker 5: glad that they got it right with something like that

699
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 5: and not just easily find a way to put Notre

700
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Speaker 5: Dame in, which, by the way, Notre Dame just go

701
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Speaker 5: find a bleeping conference at that point and stop playing

702
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 5: the ACC who is clearly at best now in the

703
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Speaker 5: fourth best conference in college football.

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Speaker 3: I will see you in Phoenix, Burnsey. I look forward

705
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 3: to it as always.

706
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Speaker 5: I appreciate the invitation to your VRBO that features it

707
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 5: looks like a pickleball court. I mean, this is the

708
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 5: best that the West side of the Cities can buy,

709
00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 5: can look.

710
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 4: I'm an Oakdale guy, your.

711
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 5: Mystery dying and mister Minnetonka like that vrbo slash airbnb

712
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 5: looks terrific and I cannot wait to break bread over

713
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 5: there with you.

714
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 3: And I look forward to seeing you on Friday, April third,

715
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 3: when the Twins open their season against the Tampa Bay Rays.

716
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 3: You will be sitting on the Tampa Bay dugout with

717
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 3: your Tom polead T shirt jersey.

718
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 5: It's a Jack Jones, okay, Jock Jones, Denny Hawking.

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Speaker 4: I got a lou Ford jersey.

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Speaker 3: I think lou Ford, as of like last year, was

721
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 3: still playing. He hadn't hung up the cleats yet. He

722
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 3: was playing somewhere in like Korea.

723
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Speaker 4: Him Chris John Guzmansch.

724
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Speaker 3: I keep going, well, you're guy, no wonder you're such

725
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Speaker 3: a fan.

726
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 4: That was your youth, right it was. I'm looking at you.

727
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 5: You're wearing a Jason Tyner jersey right now, Like my goodness,

728
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 5: that's sad and scary.

729
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 3: How deep you can go. I hope you remember where

730
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 3: he parked, because you probably can't, but you can remember

731
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 3: all those names.

732
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 4: Thank you.

733
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Speaker 3: Burns here that is Ryan Burns from Gopher Illustrated dot com.

734
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 3: You can read him right there at gi You can

735
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 3: hear him on Pair and a Spare. We dropped an

736
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 3: episode a couple of days ago. Find it wherever you

737
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 3: get your favorite podcast, as well as the parent of

738
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 3: Spare YouTube channel, and go for grid Iron Radio as well.

739
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 3: It's all good with Burnsy, one of my favorite dudes,

740
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 3: and I will see him next week in Phoenix.

741
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Speaker 4: Burnsy's a legend.

742
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Speaker 3: We all know that Brett Blakemore, in my mind, became

743
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 3: a legend this past weekend. How did Brett Blakemore become

744
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 3: a legend? We will explain it and tell the story

745
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 3: when we come back before Pat Kessler joins in the

746
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 3: five o'clock out.

747
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Speaker 1: Apple Valley. You're on deck for the feast this week.

748
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 2: Join Nordo pa alec Lewis This Friday Buffalo Wow Wings

749
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 2: Apple Valley. See ray for Vikings, Giants plus great eats

750
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Speaker 2: in your shot at prizes all morning long. Doors open

751
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Speaker 2: at eight am. Go details Kfan dot Conkey or calendar.

752
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Speaker 3: Top five and five coming up about ten minutes from now.

753
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 3: Pat Kessler of around five fifteen guardsian for Barrero today

754
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 3: cake show edition of Bumper to Bumper. Dan will be

755
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 3: back tomorrow. If you're looking for Glenn Mason, he joined yesterday.

756
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 3: If you were looking for Lunani yesterday, he will join tomorrow.

757
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 3: We expect Sean Salisbury as well. So Dan, we'll be

758
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 3: back tomorrow and Friday. It's December. Around the fan, things

759
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 3: get a little weird, things get a little messy. We

760
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 3: have vacation time too. You wouldn't believe it, you wouldn't

761
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 3: know about it, but we do. We actually we get

762
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 3: some and a lot of us try to take it

763
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 3: so and there's times where we just can't take it.

764
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 3: Because there's a thing called a football season. There's a

765
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 3: thing called the State Fair. We kind of have to work.

766
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 3: When Timberwolves make big playoff runs, We've got to be

767
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 3: available for those days. So that's why it's a little

768
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 3: wonky in December.

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Speaker 4: But it's all good.

770
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Speaker 3: Speaking of wonky in December, you had an interesting weekend,

771
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 3: Brett Blakemore, You first of all had to ride the

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Speaker 3: emotional roller coaster of your favorite hockey team, making the

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Speaker 3: biggest trade in its franchise history and coming to grips

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00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 3: with it. And I know you're a big Ze Bulliam guy. Yeah,

775
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 3: And I know you were a big Marco Rossi guy,

776
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 3: was a Rossie defender for years, you were, and now

777
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 3: you're vindicated already didn't he already have a goal in

778
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 3: his first game with the Canucks.

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Speaker 1: As Dan would say, didn't need him.

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00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 4: Didn't need him.

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Speaker 3: We did get that like fifty times, right. But after

782
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Speaker 3: Beyond the Pond on Saturday, you drove up to Duluth,

783
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 3: Minnesota because you were taking in the Bulldogs versus the

784
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 3: Arizona State Sun Devils NHC. Right, that's big time hockey matchup.

785
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 3: Bulldogs rank like fifth game, it's Scott Sandalin and what

786
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 3: else do you expect? Even I know that. Yeah, as

787
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 3: a new hockey fan because of Quinn Hughes, why did

788
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 3: you go up to Duluth?

789
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:32,720
Speaker 4: What was the task?

790
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 2: So I just retweeted my own tweet, which is tacky,

791
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 2: but just to I just retweeted.

792
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 3: Your tweet as well, because I think people need to

793
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 3: go to my Twitter and or your Twitter. Actually, let

794
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 3: me set it up. Go ahead, let me set it up.

795
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 3: This way because I was trying figure out how to

796
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 3: get in there. We I discovered what a year or

797
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 3: so ago that the head coach of Arizona State, the

798
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Speaker 3: Sun Devils, what's his name.

799
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Speaker 1: Greg Powers?

800
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:54,479
Speaker 4: Is his name?

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00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 3: Looks like he's a long lost Blakemore looks like he's

802
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 3: your long lost twin brother.

803
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 4: Yeah.

804
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 3: And so then I got in the algorithm because I

805
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,800
Speaker 3: tweeted about it one time. I somehow got a Greg

806
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 3: Powers press conference video on my feed and the Devils

807
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 3: must have had a big win or something, and I

808
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 3: tweeted out congratulations to Brett Blakemore on, you know, continuing

809
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 3: to grow the game in the desert. And now all

810
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 3: I get is Arizona State hockey stuff. And because people

811
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 3: can go to your Twitter handle and think about it

812
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 3: or see it, he does look exactly like you.

813
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 4: I think. Now he has glasses, right.

814
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: He's got glasses. I wear glasses from time to time,

815
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,399
Speaker 1: but I don't need them. I think he needs them.

816
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 3: So in a throwback thing, I just said this a

817
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 3: little while ago on I think on pair and to spare,

818
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 3: we used to do a lot of cool stuff back

819
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 3: in our younger days. We used to do fun bits

820
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 3: and wacky things all the time before we I don't

821
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 3: know matured into an actual radio station. I don't know

822
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 3: what it was, but we used to do. We just

823
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 3: get ideas and we would just go do them. We

824
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 3: probably need to get back to that in the new

825
00:35:56,160 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 3: year twenty twenty six. But our dream was for you

826
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 3: to get a side by side picture with Greg Powers.

827
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 3: My dream was actually to have you sitting behind the

828
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 3: bench and just have the TV shot of when they

829
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 3: showed the coach, You're just right behind him like you're

830
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 3: his brother in this in this team seats. And I

831
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 3: give you a ton of credit because you did what

832
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 3: we all used to do. You went above and beyond

833
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 3: and drove up to Duluth in sub zero temperatures on Saturday,

834
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 3: made all the accommodations and requests and asks, and I

835
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 3: think from what you told told enough lies to get

836
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 3: yourself where you needed to go. So flies go to

837
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 3: the If you go to either one of our Twitter handles,

838
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 3: you can see from my money, it's the end of

839
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Speaker 3: the year. So people always do like the image of

840
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six. This to me is the image of

841
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty six for KFE And right here is you

842
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 3: with Brett Powers, Greg Powers.

843
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 4: Could be Brett Powers.

844
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, in Duluth, Minnesota on a sub zero, frozen December afternoon.

845
00:36:58,640 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 4: So how did it happen?

846
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 2: So we've been planning it for a while, and so

847
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 2: he got in touch. We looked at their schedule. The

848
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 2: only time Saint Cloud, I think, goes to Arizona State,

849
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 2: so the closest was Duluth's.

850
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: Like, all right, we got to make that work.

851
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 2: So you get in touch with with Sisky, Bruce Sisky,

852
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 2: the play by play guy who got me in touch

853
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 2: with someone else whose name escapes me at the moment,

854
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 2: but thank you very much, who got me.

855
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: A credential, which was half the battle.

856
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:23,879
Speaker 4: Yeah.

857
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 3: So then I, by the way, it should not be

858
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,240
Speaker 3: that difficult, Like, with all respect to Amsoil Arena, should

859
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 3: be pretty easy to get in there when you're Brett blakemore.

860
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, and you got in there.

861
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 4: I did there.

862
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 2: They did have They didn't put me in the system,

863
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 2: so they had to write me a credential. That happens

864
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 2: the spot, but hey, I'll take it that happens. No

865
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 2: one checked, by the way, so no Bruce saw me

866
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 2: and I'm just but uh so I pitched the idea

867
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,399
Speaker 2: to him. He loved it. So then we get there

868
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 2: and I'm in the press box and and even Bruce

869
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 2: Sisky did he goes, you do look like him?

870
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: It's kind of weird.

871
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 4: It really is able.

872
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 2: So I asked the one guy, like, what do we

873
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 2: think we can do? Do you think we can get me

874
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 2: down there like before or after? So they send me

875
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 2: with intern gal and she's like, do you know where

876
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 2: the coaches are? And she's like I think so, like

877
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 2: send them down there. And the kind of half lie

878
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 2: told was there, like is he no, this meeting's coming?

879
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 4: Oh boy?

880
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, yeah, of course.

881
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 3: Now I'm not just going to drive two and a

882
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 3: half hours from my home to take a random picture

883
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 3: with a guy he totally knows.

884
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 4: Yeah.

885
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 2: But in my defense, he has tweeted back at me

886
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 2: several times.

887
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 1: We've gone back and forth. This is kind of a

888
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 1: bit between you two.

889
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 2: Yes so, and he said like hashtag good looking and

890
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 2: yeah and handsome fellow. Last year, when I was visiting

891
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 2: my sister in Phoenix, I drove to the arena just

892
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 2: to get a picture out in front of it. So

893
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 2: much commitment exact. So now I had to one up

894
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 2: myself this year. So I go down there and we

895
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 2: can't find him. An intern girl Gal's getting a little

896
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 2: like antsy. Oh yeah. So we see like a couple

897
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 2: of people in Sun Devils stuff and she's ready to

898
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 2: just go back. Well that's it, right, So I just

899
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 2: go up out of my own way and just that

900
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,919
Speaker 2: Hey does Greg around and they're like Greg powers.

901
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 1: Like yeah, yeah, yeah.

902
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 2: He goes, what do you need? He's like, oh, well,

903
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,359
Speaker 2: I was hoping to get a quick picture with him.

904
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,399
Speaker 2: They they go and get him and he comes out

905
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 2: very confused.

906
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 4: Oh I'm sure.

907
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: Yeah.

908
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 2: So so I have to explain to him like, hey,

909
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 2: I'm Bret Blakemore.

910
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,240
Speaker 1: We've gone back and forth on Twitter.

911
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 2: He still doesn't really know, and I go, yeah, like

912
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 2: justin guard and Pat Nicoletty tweets.

913
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,439
Speaker 4: You and it doesn't care, doesn't bother.

914
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 2: Well, hang on, this could have been acting or the

915
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 2: light could have flipped.

916
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: I think if it was, it was good acting.

917
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 2: But he goes, oh yeah, like I you're that guy,

918
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 2: Like I absolutely know what you're You're that guy? Yeah,

919
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 2: And he knew like out and then he started saying that,

920
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 2: oh well you are you're handsome. You know what can

921
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 2: I say? So he's like, yeah, we got to get

922
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 2: a picture. And he asked like a couple like two

923
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 2: small talks like oh you from here, and I do

924
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 2: the whole no on, I'm from the by working the.

925
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: Cities, blah blah blah.

926
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 2: So then I go, well, the idea is I'm hopefully

927
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 2: going to be right behind you at the bench.

928
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: I explained it to him.

929
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 2: So that way, and by the way, shout if anyone

930
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 2: is an NCCHC subscriber. Yeah, in the first or third period,

931
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 2: if it ever cuts to the coach, someone screen grabbed that.

932
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: Please, I have yet to see that.

933
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 3: Because we couldn't. I mean, I wanted you to be

934
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 3: committed to the bit. I wasn't going to be an

935
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 3: NCCHC TV subscriber that night. I did think about it

936
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 3: to try to find it. But and I wonder if

937
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 3: you can go back in archive games. I'm sure you

938
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 3: really can, and I'm sure somebody in Duluth probably has

939
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 3: the video. Yeah, it's out there somewhere. We need this

940
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 3: because you were right behind him. So anyway, go to

941
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 3: the picture.

942
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: So we get so he's like, hey, let's take a picture.

943
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 3: We get that, and you did the forks up too, right, yes,

944
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 3: because that's the bit for Arizona State.

945
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,319
Speaker 2: He loved that I was wearing Arizona State stuff. I'm like,

946
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:53,359
Speaker 2: you think I'm not committed to the p'st like, oh,

947
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 2: I love it. You got the stuff on. So even

948
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 2: intering gal rocking backs like you guys do really look away,

949
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 2: Like yeah, I know.

950
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,359
Speaker 1: So I get back up the press box, thank you everyone.

951
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 2: And and I go, yeah, we actually think right behind

952
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 2: the bench is a good spot, like you should be

953
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 2: able to just sit down there.

954
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, no problem.

955
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 3: Because I looked for tickets in that spot, yes, because

956
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 3: I was committed to this as well, but there weren't

957
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 3: any available, even on like seat geek or stub hub.

958
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 3: So I don't know if season ticket holders have them

959
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 3: and don't go all the time or what, but they

960
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:23,280
Speaker 3: were not available right.

961
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 4: Behind the visitors bench. So I'm glad that worked out.

962
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think it was just family.

963
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 2: Like they said they were all sold, but then Friday night,

964
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 2: no one was sitting there, so like, you should be

965
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:32,959
Speaker 2: fine to just sit down there and you'll be fine.

966
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 4: Brilliant.

967
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 2: So I was literally the second period he was on

968
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,919
Speaker 2: the other side of the bench, but literally the first

969
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 2: and third period. I was right behind him and like

970
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 2: perfectly framed. If the TV ever cut to him, it

971
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,399
Speaker 2: would be a great screenshot. And he even he saw

972
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 2: me and acknowledged me, like the first time in the

973
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 2: first period.

974
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: He was coming to the bench.

975
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 2: I had several players because there was a lot of

976
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 2: family members there.

977
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: Half the teams from Minnesota. It's college hockey.

978
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had people literally asked me like, are you

979
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 2: his brother? Like players families were convinced that I was

980
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 2: related to them. So yeah, it's uh. And that was

981
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 2: pretty much it. And the Devil's the Sun Devils forks up.

982
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 2: They beat d Luth upset the number five team and Duluth,

983
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 2: So forks up there Saturday night.

984
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: I'm undefeated behind the bench.

985
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 3: And you said some of the assistant coaches loved it,

986
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 3: right they in the in the tunnel.

987
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, they they were looking back and forth and they

988
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 2: had really big grins on like what is going on here?

989
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 1: They got a big kick.

990
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 4: Out of that. Yeah.

991
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 3: So go to either one of our Twitter handles, Breadcaffean

992
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 3: or at Guardsy and see the picture that we're talking about.

993
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 1: This is what two years in the making, something like

994
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: at least a year time.

995
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 3: Because I think the first like last year around this time,

996
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 3: you went to Arizona to take the picture last spring whenever.

997
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:46,280
Speaker 1: By the way, flight tomorrow.

998
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 4: Oh good. We're for you if you have the means.

999
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 3: And the other part that I think people should know

1000
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 3: is you came in like three weeks ago and reminded me, Hey,

1001
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,399
Speaker 3: they're coming, the devils are coming to Duluth. You think

1002
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 3: we can make this happen? What do we need to do?

1003
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,320
Speaker 3: We were kind of crafting it whatever. And my favorite

1004
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,360
Speaker 3: part was last week when you said I've been growing

1005
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 3: my beard just to match him for the picture. He's

1006
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 3: got a little more gray than me. Yeah, yeah, he's older,

1007
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 3: but yes, I knew he was growing it out. And

1008
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 3: I usually keep it kind of tighter to the face. Yeah,

1009
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 3: I felt like I had to let it go. So

1010
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,919
Speaker 3: did you shave it like Sunday? Did you trim it again?

1011
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1012
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:22,399
Speaker 4: I did. It was too much.

1013
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 3: It's like when Leonardo DiCaprio gains weight to play a role. Yeah,

1014
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 3: that's basically what you did. I give you great kudos.

1015
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:33,359
Speaker 3: This was this was well crafted. Was it worth it

1016
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 3: the five.

1017
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 2: Hours of driving total to do that? I also I

1018
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 2: made a huge mistake on the website it said it

1019
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 2: was a four o'clock game, so I bolt it out

1020
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 2: of beyond the Pond, right, Well, it turns out that

1021
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 2: was Mountain time, so it was actually five o'clock.

1022
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 4: You were checking the wrong website. That's okay. He got

1023
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 4: there early, nothing wrong with that.

1024
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and so I got there within plenty of

1025
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 2: time to get my credential written up for me. So yeah,

1026
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 2: I would say for like the five retweets, and he

1027
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 2: Greg Powers himself retweeted, they're five retweets.

1028
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, wait a side, I think it was worth it. No,

1029
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 3: I just love how they thought you were a family member.

1030
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 3: Like people literally asked you and players maybe you loosened

1031
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 3: up the team because they started looking at you and

1032
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 3: they said maybe that loosened them up, and that's why

1033
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 3: they played so well, I.

1034
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,879
Speaker 2: Will say this, And there were players like getting off

1035
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 2: the bench, like mostly during TV timeouts, not like the

1036
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:26,959
Speaker 2: real game, but like TV timeouts, come to the bench

1037
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 2: and would make eye contact with me a lot, and

1038
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 2: we're kind of looking like.

1039
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,359
Speaker 3: The direction they were trying to is their line going out?

1040
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 3: Are we tweaking anything? What do we need to change?

1041
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:36,839
Speaker 1: Coach stop a little bit here it's so good.

1042
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 3: Well, now we got to keep following Arizona State Hockey

1043
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 3: like he's like our guy.

1044
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:44,240
Speaker 1: I love this guy. Nice dude, I think.

1045
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 3: You I mean this to me is better than the

1046
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 3: bumper bumper seal of approve. I don't think you can

1047
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 3: get any higher praise here, Bratchawan Brian Camfean text line

1048
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 3: Larry mondelo guy. Well done by Blake Moore. I've done

1049
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 3: a lot for a joke in the past, but this

1050
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 3: is next level. To quote Bart Simpson, that's what you

1051
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,800
Speaker 3: call to a bit. I also give you great credit

1052
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 3: to me, it's the image of twenty twenty six, the

1053
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 3: cafe and sports image of twenty twenty five. And I

1054
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 3: give you great credit because you were committed to it

1055
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 3: and we used to do fun stuff like this all

1056
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 3: the time.

1057
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 4: So made me feel young again.

1058
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 3: It was fun, made me feel young again, and I'm

1059
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 3: glad he was a good sport about it. And I

1060
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 3: just love that he told him he was expecting you.

1061
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 3: That's just my favorite part. Pat Custler about fifteen minutes

1062
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 3: from now, anything for top five

1063
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: And five Quinnesota is in full fame.