WEBVTT - Likely! Common Man Hour 1 0:00:00.350 --> 0:00:07.330 It's time for Common Man. 0:00:07.390 --> 0:00:14.140 Common Man, Common Man. 0:00:14.420 --> 0:00:15.780 Charge the housewives like. 0:00:15.660 --> 0:00:16.380 No one can. 0:00:16.700 --> 0:00:17.440 What'd you shoot? 0:00:17.820 --> 0:00:18.640 Where'd we play? 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:20.860 Non-stop nonsense on deck today. 0:00:20.980 --> 0:00:21.920 Tune in. 0:00:22.340 --> 0:00:23.610 It's time for Common Man. 0:00:27.860 --> 0:00:30.690 Why should anybody aspire to be a common man, an 0:00:30.790 --> 0:00:32.890 average man? Do you realize what it means to be average? 0:00:33.710 --> 0:00:36.890 That means you're the best of the lousiest. And the 0:00:36.950 --> 0:00:40.010 lousiest of the best. Now if we demand more and 0:00:40.050 --> 0:00:43.110 more for producing less and less while the have-not nations 0:00:43.210 --> 0:00:48.550 encourage and inspire and indeed require hard work and maximum effort, 0:00:48.650 --> 0:00:51.830 if we deify the common men while they encourage and 0:00:51.890 --> 0:00:55.650 reward the uncommon ones... Well, the end result of such 0:00:55.690 --> 0:00:58.850 a lopsided race is that it's too obvious to require elaboration. 0:00:59.090 --> 0:01:00.230 I mean, it's like, hello? 0:01:00.270 --> 0:01:05.700 Huh? You know, sometimes when you practice, you'll set up chairs. 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:07.619 You know, and you run through chairs to show zones 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:08.059 and stuff. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:18.420 The Viking defense looks like it's chairs. All the defensive 0:01:18.459 --> 0:01:23.580 backs covering are just approaches today for the Minnesota Vikings. 0:01:23.620 --> 0:01:24.920 Well, I read the USA Today and I read the 0:01:24.940 --> 0:01:26.720 New York Times, and I read those both every day, 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.630 and I listen to music. I mean, it wouldn't do 0:01:29.670 --> 0:01:31.850 me any good to listen to talk shows because what's 0:01:31.890 --> 0:01:34.270 great about America, everybody has an opinion, you know what 0:01:34.290 --> 0:01:36.170 I mean? But what's also great about America, you don't 0:01:36.190 --> 0:01:37.070 have to listen to them. 0:01:37.090 --> 0:01:37.490 Rob Frank. 0:01:37.510 --> 0:01:37.990 Rob Frank. 0:01:38.850 --> 0:01:39.380 Rob Frank. 0:01:40.459 --> 0:01:40.940 Rob Frank. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:57.220 Chicago's a tough guy town. 0:01:58.010 --> 0:02:04.010 Speculation. Oh, what's that? Disease. 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I'm unlimited, Mr. Unlimited. 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:47.100 I'm unlimited, Mr. 0:02:47.220 --> 0:02:47.480 Unlimited. 0:02:47.720 --> 0:03:07.890 Rosa, you don't know nothing. He's the clown from Brown. 0:03:08.190 --> 0:03:13.549 He's the fourth in the North. This is the common man, 0:03:13.669 --> 0:03:17.589 Dan Cole. Hey, how are you? Black, ack, ack, ack, ack, ack, ack, 0:03:17.630 --> 0:03:20.850 you and yours. That's your password for Tom Foolery and Spellduggery. 0:03:21.310 --> 0:03:23.669 Came to admittance into a meeting of the Loyal Order 0:03:23.690 --> 0:03:26.450 of Water Buffalo. Ooh la la, ooh la la. 0:03:26.889 --> 0:03:30.990 Here till three, truncated, condensed version of the common man 0:03:31.030 --> 0:03:39.120 program today. I asked you, Tenabee, um, If, not Sludge 0:03:39.130 --> 0:03:44.060 and Lake, but Grimm and Gard, if they asked PJ 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:48.940 about wiping the blood off his player's lip and it 0:03:49.100 --> 0:03:51.120 was spreading, you said they asked him, but you weren't listening. 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:53.620 You were just waiting for your turn to talk. You 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.100 didn't hear what his response was. I was wondering what 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.260 his response was to that. I wish I'd have been listening, 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.860 but I wasn't. I didn't want anybody else was out there. 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.590 I started to hear him talk about it, then I just... Okay. 0:04:06.350 --> 0:04:07.590 I'd like to know what he, what he said. 0:04:07.630 --> 0:04:09.720 I'm sure he said, well, you know, it's just, you know, it's, 0:04:10.660 --> 0:04:12.540 I talked to somebody here at the, at the station, 0:04:12.580 --> 0:04:13.360 a football guy. 0:04:13.540 --> 0:04:15.110 And of course he goes, well, the kids loved it. 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.600 What does it matter to you? 0:04:17.940 --> 0:04:19.620 Why doesn't, I just thought it was, it just, it's, 0:04:19.779 --> 0:04:20.400 it was strange. 0:04:20.430 --> 0:04:21.609 It caught me off guard. 0:04:21.650 --> 0:04:22.169 That's all. 0:04:22.529 --> 0:04:25.250 It's not every day you see that. No, I've never 0:04:25.290 --> 0:04:26.150 seen a coach. 0:04:26.589 --> 0:04:26.810 Yeah. 0:04:26.850 --> 0:04:27.750 I've never seen a coach. 0:04:27.610 --> 0:04:28.670 Do it before. So I just thought it was, I 0:04:29.050 --> 0:04:30.730 thought it was odd. I thought it was, you know, 0:04:30.810 --> 0:04:33.010 it's again, I said, yeah, I don't think he needs 0:04:33.050 --> 0:04:34.060 to be fired. 0:04:35.170 --> 0:04:36.630 Um, or rehired. 0:04:37.790 --> 0:04:42.100 Um, it's not something I would desire myself, but I 0:04:42.130 --> 0:04:42.920 just wondered what he said. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:48.659 Maybe somebody else can, um, tell me. I, I, I just, 0:04:48.700 --> 0:04:51.059 it's so much fun. The Bradshaw and Brian K van 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:58.040 text line. It really, truly is. This one says, um, Paul. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:58.380 Allen, a real person. 0:04:59.610 --> 0:05:02.370 He thinks the whole state state feels quote sadness about 0:05:02.390 --> 0:05:03.210 the McCarthy trade. 0:05:04.430 --> 0:05:04.590 Huh? 0:05:04.940 --> 0:05:12.159 Is he six years old? Um, I don't think, I 0:05:12.180 --> 0:05:12.659 think a lot of. 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.280 People feel happiness. I don't think there's sadness. 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.799 I mean, I don't revel in, in, in the kids, 0:05:18.900 --> 0:05:21.900 you know, you know, he, you know, came with high hopes, 0:05:22.220 --> 0:05:25.200 10th overall pick. You want to be an NFL quarterback 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:26.700 and it didn't work out here. It's nothing to be 0:05:26.820 --> 0:05:30.880 sad about. Like for instance, 10 of them, my first 0:05:30.940 --> 0:05:36.470 radio job, um, When I was at Brown, I don't 0:05:36.490 --> 0:05:38.770 like to talk about myself or use myself as an 0:05:38.830 --> 0:05:41.430 example or an analogy, but I'll make an exception here. 0:05:42.070 --> 0:05:46.349 My first radio job was at KQDI, Great Falls. It's 0:05:46.390 --> 0:05:48.890 a great market to start in because generally getting out 0:05:48.930 --> 0:05:51.289 of Brown Institute, closer to Alec Lewis, I went to 0:05:51.310 --> 0:05:53.270 Brown Institute, not Brown University. 0:05:53.630 --> 0:05:59.049 He was confused. And so generally you start out in Chadron. 0:05:59.070 --> 0:06:03.150 Nebraska, a town of a couple thousand people, maybe 5,000 people, 0:06:03.210 --> 0:06:07.430 just a small little town. And, um, nothing to do, 0:06:07.470 --> 0:06:11.710 you know, that's, it's got, uh, it's got one stoplight 0:06:11.750 --> 0:06:13.110 that blinks on and off. 0:06:13.350 --> 0:06:15.830 They roll up the streets when the sun goes down. 0:06:17.710 --> 0:06:18.130 I'm a, it. 0:06:22.330 --> 0:06:24.850 Was a song by, um, it was a country song. 0:06:25.490 --> 0:06:28.230 I'm a big city girl. And no, I can't remember 0:06:28.250 --> 0:06:29.750 the name of the song. Somebody will remind me of it. 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.599 Um, But I started in Great Falls, Montana, seven radio 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:35.520 stations in town. 0:06:35.540 --> 0:06:36.359 We were in a.m. 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.620 Around the clock, 24 hours. And I was the one 0:06:39.660 --> 0:06:41.140 person in my class that said, I'll never be a 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.040 disc jockey. I don't want to be a disc jockey. 0:06:43.060 --> 0:06:45.400 I want to ride records. What I want to do 0:06:45.420 --> 0:06:48.410 is I want to do news and sports. Walter Cronkite, 0:06:48.430 --> 0:06:50.450 that's the way you're there. I wanted to be a 0:06:50.490 --> 0:06:53.130 news guy, right? News or sports, either one. And I 0:06:53.150 --> 0:06:55.690 started out as a news guy doing the morning news 0:06:55.750 --> 0:06:58.229 on the Uncle Mike Dalton show, the legendary Uncle Mike. 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.219 He was a legend in that town, top rated show, 0:07:02.260 --> 0:07:04.260 you know, and here I am doing the morning news. 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.500 And after three months I said, Mike, Mike, Mike, this 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.680 is Mike. I said, Mike told me to come and 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:11.540 see you when it was time for a race. After 0:07:11.580 --> 0:07:13.020 three months, he said, yeah, go see Bob. 0:07:13.060 --> 0:07:13.400 The owner. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.160 And I never really talked about very much. So I'm 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:17.900 kind of, you know, very sheepish and very, you know, 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:22.400 almost what's the word I'm looking for? You know, I'm apprehensive, 0:07:22.730 --> 0:07:26.450 you know, Bob, it's, it's Dan. 0:07:26.610 --> 0:07:27.450 Oh, Dan, come on in. 0:07:28.150 --> 0:07:28.450 Yeah. 0:07:28.530 --> 0:07:31.370 Mike said I should, Come to talk to you after 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.170 three months about a raise. Because I'm glad you stopped by. 0:07:34.590 --> 0:07:36.170 You're not going to be doing the news here anymore. 0:07:39.190 --> 0:07:41.470 You're not going to be, it's like JJ. You're not 0:07:41.490 --> 0:07:44.040 going to be the backup quarterback here anymore. I said, 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.880 are you telling me to, I never, my exact words, 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:48.460 are you telling me to pack my bags and head 0:07:48.500 --> 0:07:51.630 back to Minneapolis? No, no, no, no, no. We're firing 0:07:51.650 --> 0:07:54.720 the overnight guy. He's going to get fired. And we're 0:07:54.740 --> 0:07:56.360 going to hire, if you want to be the overnight. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.460 So I didn't want to go back to Minneapolis after 0:07:58.500 --> 0:07:59.020 three months. 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:00.500 I got let go. 0:08:01.780 --> 0:08:04.480 So next thing I know, after that, I'm spinning hot 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.420 stacks of wax from the top of the racks three 0:08:06.460 --> 0:08:09.800 months into my radio career, doing exactly what I said 0:08:09.820 --> 0:08:12.120 I would never do. 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.250 So again, I. 0:08:17.290 --> 0:08:20.250 Don't think anybody felt sadness for me. It was like 0:08:20.270 --> 0:08:23.630 the whole state of Montana had sadness because I got demoted. 0:08:23.650 --> 0:08:25.510 I don't think anybody in the state. 0:08:25.550 --> 0:08:30.480 Yeah, I don't think there's sadness in the state for. 0:08:32.340 --> 0:08:34.820 If there's any sadness, it's for what happened to Brock Faber. 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.140 He took a puck, apparently, off the skull, and he 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.990 fractured his skull. Now, when they say fractured skull, it's bad. 0:08:42.790 --> 0:08:42.990 But. 0:08:42.929 --> 0:08:44.890 Is it like a hairline fracture or does he got 0:08:44.929 --> 0:08:47.170 a huge gaping crack in there and he's going to 0:08:47.190 --> 0:08:48.949 have to be in a halo for the next year 0:08:48.990 --> 0:08:49.390 and a half? 0:08:49.490 --> 0:08:50.069 I don't know. 0:08:50.610 --> 0:08:52.949 But I do know that when Billy Guerin held. 0:08:52.870 --> 0:08:56.189 A news conference today, I think the first question asked by, 0:08:56.210 --> 0:08:57.150 you know, he's going to be out for a while 0:08:57.170 --> 0:08:59.200 or something like that. And I think it was Russo 0:08:59.410 --> 0:09:02.079 that said something like, do we know how long? And 0:09:02.100 --> 0:09:03.400 he said, I'm not going to get into that. That's 0:09:03.820 --> 0:09:05.460 why I'm not going to. He wasn't going to get 0:09:05.500 --> 0:09:08.220 into speculation on it because they don't know. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.500 But that probably is no timeline. Probably isn't a timeline. 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.440 I saw one of those doctor people on X that 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.920 basically said, we've had a couple of these instances before. 0:09:20.500 --> 0:09:23.280 Some have been career-enders. Some of them, they're back playing 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.140 that season. Timeline can be kind of wide-ranged. 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:28.980 It can be wide-ranged, and that's why Garen didn't want 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:33.520 to speculate, and I don't blame him. Obviously, first and foremost, 0:09:33.540 --> 0:09:37.310 you hope he remains healthy, wealthy, and wise. 0:09:37.550 --> 0:09:39.670 You don't want him to suffer any.... 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:45.260 Certainly any long-term damage, but yeah, it's not a good thing. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.970 And then above and beyond that, you have to do this. 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.670 It's not like I'm just bypassing his health, but then 0:09:50.670 --> 0:09:51.890 you look at the health of the team. 0:09:51.890 --> 0:09:53.780 Without him, he's one of their best players, right? He's 0:09:53.780 --> 0:09:54.229 really good. 0:09:54.230 --> 0:09:56.490 Yes. And so without him. After Quinn Hughes, he's your 0:09:56.510 --> 0:09:57.110 best defenseman. 0:09:57.130 --> 0:09:57.330 Right. 0:09:57.350 --> 0:09:57.930 So there you go. 0:09:58.030 --> 0:10:00.960 So this is, it's tough for him first and foremost 0:10:00.980 --> 0:10:03.500 and his family, and then it is for the organization. 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.280 And then just the product on the ice will not 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:10.760 be the same. And again, I don't, and I. 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:12.200 Don't want to speculate because like you say, it's hard 0:10:12.220 --> 0:10:14.180 to speculate. You just said there was some doctor guy 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:18.590 online that said, Could be soon, could be career ending 0:10:18.690 --> 0:10:19.630 or anything in between. 0:10:19.650 --> 0:10:21.770 And my guess is in between, but I don't know that. 0:10:21.809 --> 0:10:23.970 And, you know, I was talking to Helvey about this 0:10:24.550 --> 0:10:27.820 and Helvey said that, and maybe you know about this, Tammy, about, uh, 0:10:30.750 --> 0:10:33.150 In the levels of hockey beneath the NHL, there's like 0:10:33.170 --> 0:10:34.730 an ear protector thing, right? 0:10:34.750 --> 0:10:34.890 Yeah. 0:10:34.929 --> 0:10:36.470 But once you get to the NHL, you don't have 0:10:36.530 --> 0:10:38.070 to have that, and he didn't have one. 0:10:38.410 --> 0:10:40.189 Sounds like the vast majority of them don't have it. 0:10:40.630 --> 0:10:42.760 I think I saw Russo say that Jared Spurgeon is 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:46.260 the only wild player that has one. Do we know, 0:10:46.380 --> 0:10:47.820 do we have any indication. 0:10:47.380 --> 0:10:49.380 That had he had that, do you think it hits 0:10:49.420 --> 0:10:50.720 that instead and he's fine? 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.640 I'm sure it does hit that. It would still hurt. 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:54.020 Right. 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.920 I was talking to Blake Moore before we got on 0:10:57.970 --> 0:11:01.620 the air today, before Gopher Football Weekly. I remember in squirts, 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.740 and this is a squirt-level shot. This is not an 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:08.010 NHL-level shot. I remember in squirt warm-ups, I remember skating 0:11:08.070 --> 0:11:11.410 behind the net, and one of our shooters missed the 0:11:11.450 --> 0:11:13.890 net and hit me in the ear. And, you know, 0:11:14.030 --> 0:11:16.910 I had full protection. This is a squirt-level shot as 0:11:16.980 --> 0:11:18.120 opposed to an NHL shot. 0:11:18.140 --> 0:11:18.340 And.... 0:11:20.500 --> 0:11:22.520 For about 20 seconds, it was about the most pain 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.320 I've probably ever felt in my life. No, it didn't last. 0:11:25.380 --> 0:11:28.040 A day later, it was fine. More painful than working 0:11:28.059 --> 0:11:33.599 this show? There are so many... I don't know if 0:11:33.620 --> 0:11:34.620 you can reach that level of pain. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:35.140 Yeah, right. 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:37.990 I'm just living with that pain for my life. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:39.140 And the pain is tremendous. 0:11:39.210 --> 0:11:41.670 But just the amount of nerves you have in your ear, 0:11:41.690 --> 0:11:45.370 and that's not even fracturing your skull. Just your ear 0:11:45.429 --> 0:11:49.870 alone is... extremely painful. So now when you multiply that 0:11:49.910 --> 0:11:55.700 with an NHL shot, um, no protection fractures, I can't 0:11:55.740 --> 0:11:56.700 imagine the pain he was in. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:57.180 Yeah. 0:11:57.860 --> 0:12:00.400 Well, and then what I said to Zach was, it 0:12:00.420 --> 0:12:02.910 was Zach and I and, uh, Brett Blakemore and of course, uh, 0:12:02.940 --> 0:12:07.040 Blakemore and Zach are maybe along with you are the 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.680 three biggest hockey fans here in, in, in, in the building. 0:12:09.740 --> 0:12:09.980 Right. 0:12:11.020 --> 0:12:15.260 And, um, I don't understand like baseball players, you know, 0:12:15.340 --> 0:12:16.240 with the batting helmet. 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.760 Yeah. Some have that. Like chin protector thing. Yeah, that 0:12:19.820 --> 0:12:22.440 strip thing that comes down and protects her. Others don't. 0:12:22.500 --> 0:12:24.140 I'm like, are you out of your, why don't you 0:12:24.260 --> 0:12:24.959 have that? 0:12:24.980 --> 0:12:28.700 Because it just takes some pitcher that's, you know, so 0:12:28.740 --> 0:12:33.540 you're basically 60 feet, six inches away from some guy 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.459 that you don't know. I mean, you know who he is, 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:37.620 but you don't know if he's got his best stuff 0:12:37.660 --> 0:12:39.440 that day. And all it takes him is one pitch 0:12:39.460 --> 0:12:42.320 to get away from him. And it could just shatter 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.400 the side of your face. Hell, it could kill you. 0:12:46.350 --> 0:12:48.090 But you decided, no, I'm not going to wear that 0:12:48.130 --> 0:12:49.829 because it hinders my vision. 0:12:49.890 --> 0:12:52.589 No, it can't. You'd get used to it afterwards. 0:12:52.610 --> 0:12:54.620 Like back when I was growing up, this is going 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.339 to sound crazy to me. We didn't have any, there 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.260 were seatbelts in the car, but they were just the 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:00.860 lap belts. 0:13:00.900 --> 0:13:01.679 And you know where they were? 0:13:02.100 --> 0:13:05.580 Stuffed inside the seat. Nobody wore seatbelts back then. Can 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.260 you imagine getting into a car and not having a seatbelt? 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.679 Because it doesn't feel uncomfortable. It's a little bulky. I 0:13:11.730 --> 0:13:13.709 feel restricted when I'm sitting in the car, because. 0:13:13.590 --> 0:13:17.070 That's what people did. You felt restricted. Can you imagine 0:13:17.110 --> 0:13:18.550 driving without a seatbelt on? 0:13:18.570 --> 0:13:19.190 It's insane. 0:13:19.610 --> 0:13:22.530 I can't imagine wearing a hockey helmet without the utmost protection. 0:13:23.010 --> 0:13:25.000 Do they all wear shields too, or do they not 0:13:25.010 --> 0:13:28.530 wear shields? The vast majority wear visors now, which covers 0:13:28.590 --> 0:13:29.510 up at least your eyes. 0:13:29.530 --> 0:13:29.600 Man. 0:13:30.670 --> 0:13:32.490 But no one really wears a full shield like you 0:13:32.530 --> 0:13:34.750 do in youth hockey or college hockey. 0:13:34.910 --> 0:13:37.150 And that's even like, I don't know, what do they 0:13:37.190 --> 0:13:38.950 call those helmets, the ones that look like? 0:13:41.110 --> 0:13:42.570 Like the bubbles, the eye techs? 0:13:42.590 --> 0:13:43.240 Yeah, Michelin man. 0:13:44.030 --> 0:13:45.490 Oh, in the NFL? In the NFL. What do they 0:13:45.510 --> 0:13:47.010 call those now? Guardian caps? 0:13:47.030 --> 0:13:50.800 Guardian caps. I mean, they look goofy. I don't know 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.220 how much they really help. I've never really read up 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:57.090 on them. I don't know. Do they add 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% 0:13:57.090 --> 0:13:57.850 more protection? 0:13:58.290 --> 0:13:59.730 They have to help a lot if you're willing to 0:13:59.770 --> 0:14:02.189 look that goofy. I would wear them. I mean, that's 0:14:02.210 --> 0:14:04.170 what I would do. So we wish them the best, obviously. 0:14:07.100 --> 0:14:09.300 And if any more, I don't think we're going to 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.920 hear any more about it until we get a few weeks. 0:14:11.780 --> 0:14:12.420 In, a few months. 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.480 I don't know, but not good. Okay, let's do this. 0:14:15.500 --> 0:14:16.830 Let's take a break. We'll come back. 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Let's get it done. 0:16:07.740 --> 0:16:09.920 Remember, oh, can you hit the shock and the affordable button? 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:16.520 They are shockingly affordable because I've changed my button box, Genevieve, 0:16:16.540 --> 0:16:20.380 because peek at the purple. If the playoffs were to 0:16:20.470 --> 0:16:23.850 start today, who would be the number one seed in 0:16:23.890 --> 0:16:24.730 the NFC? 0:16:24.750 --> 0:16:27.830 You are correct, sir. 0:16:28.010 --> 0:16:29.810 It's gold. It's gold. 0:16:29.990 --> 0:16:52.630 It's gold. Your mama can't hide you. Your daddy can't 0:16:52.650 --> 0:16:55.960 hide you. The police can't hide you. 0:16:57.420 --> 0:16:57.720 We're coming. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.580 We're the number one seed in the NFC right now. 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.960 We on the tiebreakers? Well, I'm not sure about that. 0:17:05.619 --> 0:17:11.290 We're number one. Niners are at two. Eagles at three. 0:17:11.310 --> 0:17:14.910 Is that a Panther or a Jaguar? 0:17:16.290 --> 0:17:18.370 Looks like a Panther. At four. 0:17:18.510 --> 0:17:23.240 Jaguars are not in our conference, so. Yeah, you're right. 0:17:23.260 --> 0:17:26.160 So it's the Panthers. And then the Kitties at five. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.619 And then at six, it's the Chicago Bears, or as 0:17:30.660 --> 0:17:34.260 Mark Rosen would say, duh, Bears. And then, you know 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.080 what else he says if you mention Monday Night Football? 0:17:36.500 --> 0:17:37.510 Monday Night Football. 0:17:37.550 --> 0:17:39.110 He likes doing his Howard Cosell impression. 0:17:39.950 --> 0:17:41.830 How many people do you think that listen to our 0:17:41.850 --> 0:17:43.570 radio station know who Howard Cosell is? 0:17:44.369 --> 0:17:47.830 Of the average 100 people, two? Not a whole lot anymore. 0:17:48.530 --> 0:17:51.209 But Mark likes doing that Monday Night Football. I'm going 0:17:51.230 --> 0:17:52.430 to see if I can get him to do it today. 0:17:53.340 --> 0:17:55.459 I'll mention Monday Night Football, and I guarantee he'll go, 0:17:55.940 --> 0:18:04.230 Monday Night Football. The Bears at six, and then it's 0:18:04.250 --> 0:18:06.570 your Seahawks at number seven. 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.740 Did you watch any of the Bears-Eagles game last night? Unfortunately, no. 0:18:11.859 --> 0:18:15.520 Who's this Keenum guy? He's pretty good. Why don't we 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:16.859 ever get a player like that? 0:18:18.940 --> 0:18:20.810 It just doesn't work that we never get. 0:18:23.550 --> 0:18:26.640 And then I was watching Seattle last year. Who's this 0:18:26.740 --> 0:18:28.340 Sam Darnold? And why don't we. 0:18:28.300 --> 0:18:29.980 Ever get a hold of guys like that? 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:31.460 I always love that. 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.720 Do you see the Radiators are 3-0? You know who's 0:18:34.780 --> 0:18:36.760 quarterbacking them? A guy named Kirk Cousins. 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:39.810 How do you like me now? 0:18:39.830 --> 0:18:40.490 How do you like me now? 0:18:40.550 --> 0:18:41.530 How do you like me now? 0:18:41.590 --> 0:18:44.810 Can you hit the, you like that? You like that? 0:18:45.310 --> 0:18:46.030 You like that? 0:18:46.250 --> 0:18:50.199 Where do these teams find these quarterbacks? Why don't we 0:18:50.260 --> 0:18:53.590 ever get guys like that? Keenum was so good last night. 0:18:55.650 --> 0:18:56.890 He's better than Kyler Murray. 0:19:00.609 --> 0:19:04.129 True or false? If you could right now for this. 0:19:04.030 --> 0:19:06.630 Season have Case Keenum or Kyler Murray, who would you take? 0:19:06.650 --> 0:19:12.790 That's a true or false question? No, I'm asking you. It's... 0:19:14.420 --> 0:19:16.350 For the rest of this season. I have a question. 0:19:16.390 --> 0:19:19.310 Is my offensive coordinator Ben Johnson. 0:19:18.950 --> 0:19:22.750 Or Kevin O'Connell? Well, here's what they did last night. 0:19:23.150 --> 0:19:27.690 Was it a Collinsworth game? This is the nonsense. 0:19:27.710 --> 0:19:30.270 Not last night. Or was that Herbst Street? Sunday night. Yeah, 0:19:30.350 --> 0:19:34.020 Sunday night. Waiting all day for a Sunday night. Is 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:36.830 Herbst Street then the. 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:37.699 I think he's the. 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:38.380 I don't know. 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:40.560 Does he do Thursday night with Al Michaels? Yeah, that's right. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.040 I think Monday night is Buck and Aikman, isn't it? Yeah, 0:19:43.060 --> 0:19:45.649 that's right. So it was Aikman or Buck. Did you 0:19:45.690 --> 0:19:48.659 see Buck's contract he just signed? Good Lord. 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.200 You and I have talked about it. I never tune 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:59.280 into a game because of the duo that's calling it. 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:02.510 I might prefer one duo over another, but I'm going 0:20:02.530 --> 0:20:03.710 to the game I want to watch. 0:20:03.810 --> 0:20:06.689 I can't worry about who's calling the game. If I 0:20:06.730 --> 0:20:07.369 want to watch. 0:20:08.650 --> 0:20:12.740 If it's Vikings against somebody, or then it's Chiefs-Radiators, and 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:17.020 Chiefs-Radiators is being called by my favorite broadcast duo, and 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.720 the worst duo is doing the Vikings game. I'm sorry, 0:20:19.740 --> 0:20:21.419 I want to watch the purple. I can't worry about 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:23.290 who's calling the game. And then I can just turn 0:20:23.310 --> 0:20:28.530 down the sound and put up Vikings audio with PA, Bursich, Lieber, 0:20:28.550 --> 0:20:30.310 et al. 0:20:31.230 --> 0:20:33.979 But here's why. 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:37.170 And I don't know if Ben Johnson is the only 0:20:37.210 --> 0:20:39.420 guy that would do this, but they call two pass 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:44.879 plays right away. And Aikman and. 0:20:43.820 --> 0:20:45.700 What's his name, Buck, are beside themselves. 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:48.859 You'd think he's been out for three years having started 0:20:48.900 --> 0:20:51.240 a game. They'd start with a little running plate. Well, no, 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:53.080 because they trust him, and that's what the other team 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:53.959 is thinking they're going to do. 0:20:54.180 --> 0:20:55.220 He hasn't played in a long time. 0:20:55.619 --> 0:20:59.859 So maybe we better just let him wade into the— you 0:20:59.619 --> 0:21:02.240 know how you dip your toe into the pool? No, 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.160 you push him off the edge right by the diving board. 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:08.040 He's been playing football for. 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:07.880 13, 14 years. 0:21:07.900 --> 0:21:09.220 It's not his first rodeo. No. 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:11.690 It's not like, oh, I don't know if I dare 0:21:11.730 --> 0:21:12.409 drop back. 0:21:13.130 --> 0:21:15.310 Oh, how am I going to find the open wide receiver? 0:21:15.590 --> 0:21:18.530 I'm really terrified here. I'm just going to throw a little. 0:21:18.350 --> 0:21:20.770 Dink and dunk, drop back to pass, and let it go. 0:21:20.790 --> 0:21:23.760 He's an NFL quarterback, and sure enough, he completes the 0:21:23.780 --> 0:21:24.600 first two passes. 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:26.500 And from that point on, he was on a roll. 0:21:26.780 --> 0:21:32.000 He was really good. And Philadelphia. That's a highly. 0:21:31.740 --> 0:21:34.929 Regarded defense from what I understand at all three levels. 0:21:36.450 --> 0:21:40.650 The linebackers, the secondary, they've got players in all those. 0:21:41.010 --> 0:21:45.240 They don't have 11 pro bowlers. I'm not saying that. 0:21:45.980 --> 0:21:48.440 But he was just so good last night. I'd love 0:21:48.460 --> 0:21:50.600 him if he was quarterback. How did we let him 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:52.830 walk from the building? Was that a Zimmer thing? That's 0:21:52.850 --> 0:21:53.830 when we got cousins. 0:21:55.530 --> 0:21:56.010 Oh, that's right. 0:21:56.030 --> 0:21:58.530 Remember, Cousins, we just got into the NFC Championship game, 0:21:58.690 --> 0:22:00.869 but we weren't that far off from getting into the 0:22:00.910 --> 0:22:01.950 big game. Well, no, we really weren't. 0:22:01.990 --> 0:22:03.889 I mean, I know we got beat really bad, but 0:22:03.930 --> 0:22:07.669 we just needed a touchdown two-point conversion and an onside kick, 0:22:08.550 --> 0:22:13.470 and then another touchdown two-point conversion, and then probably another touchdown, 0:22:13.510 --> 0:22:14.429 and maybe even a fourth. 0:22:14.540 --> 0:22:16.359 I don't know. Yeah, Keenum got us to the NFC 0:22:16.380 --> 0:22:19.500 Championship game after, was it Sam Bradford who got hurt? 0:22:19.540 --> 0:22:22.440 I don't even remember anymore. Or was that Teddy Hurt? 0:22:22.500 --> 0:22:23.179 I don't remember, but. 0:22:24.990 --> 0:22:28.170 Keenum was brilliant. If you remember that entire year, Zimmer 0:22:28.190 --> 0:22:31.720 would refuse to ever call him the starter. We had 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:34.380 like one of the best, best records in Vikings history. 0:22:34.500 --> 0:22:37.000 And just Zimmer would never give him any credit. And 0:22:37.020 --> 0:22:39.780 then he got into the off season and they, they 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:42.100 have to do go get Kirk cousins. Cause he was 0:22:42.140 --> 0:22:42.680 the missing link. 0:22:46.030 --> 0:22:48.590 Why was, why did he feel that way? Why did 0:22:48.609 --> 0:22:51.610 he not like Keenum? Cause he wasn't flashy enough or what? 0:22:51.630 --> 0:22:53.550 I mean, we were, weren't we 13 and three that year? 0:22:55.970 --> 0:22:56.490 They're pretty good. 0:22:58.170 --> 0:23:01.930 Now, I should have known this was coming. There are 0:23:02.210 --> 0:23:06.230 very fragile Viking fans. Last I checked, the Vikings are 3-0. 0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:07.420 I know. 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:11.780 I just said, if the playoffs started today, are you 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:17.760 not listening? You see, you can praise the club and say, 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:19.600 if the playoffs started today, they had a home field 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:21.560 advantage throughout. You can play the Viking song. You can 0:23:21.600 --> 0:23:22.460 do the cold chant. 0:23:23.940 --> 0:23:25.810 Or cold chant. We should do a cold chant. I 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:35.730 should do a cold chant. Cold. Cold. Young. Eat your lunch. 0:23:36.670 --> 0:23:38.850 Fall asleep during the head coach's news conference. 0:23:39.810 --> 0:23:46.670 And then I just, I state the obvious. 0:23:46.710 --> 0:23:49.389 We don't have a good quarterback. And obviously we're three out. 0:23:50.130 --> 0:23:52.980 For now we are. Here's the thing. 0:23:53.020 --> 0:23:56.580 The playoffs don't start today. My guess is we'll be 0:23:56.600 --> 0:23:58.700 4-0 after Sunday. We're playing a terrible team in a 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:00.980 terrible city with terrible fans in a terrible stadium. I 0:24:01.020 --> 0:24:02.540 kind of like their color combination, though. 0:24:02.560 --> 0:24:03.180 I always have. 0:24:03.820 --> 0:24:06.340 The Finns? Yeah, that is it. Is it aqua or 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:08.480 marine green? I think it might be marine green. 0:24:08.530 --> 0:24:09.040 I like it. 0:24:10.220 --> 0:24:11.869 Is it teal? Maybe it's teal. 0:24:14.770 --> 0:24:21.570 And you know what? 0:24:22.390 --> 0:24:23.430 That was revenge for Keenum. 0:24:25.910 --> 0:24:26.520 It is aqua. 0:24:27.020 --> 0:24:27.600 It is aqua. 0:24:27.619 --> 0:24:28.280 Aqua and orange. 0:24:28.760 --> 0:24:33.240 That was revenge for Keenum. And revenge for Viking fans everywhere. 0:24:33.260 --> 0:24:34.340 We should be pleased with that win. 0:24:34.540 --> 0:24:37.980 We finally got vengeance on Philadelphia for what they did 0:24:38.000 --> 0:24:40.080 to us in the NFC Championship. Now it's just the 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:42.060 third game of the regular season and he wasn't playing 0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:43.679 for the Vikings, but we can still feel good about it. 0:24:47.050 --> 0:24:48.910 I'd love to have Case Keenum quarterback in this club 0:24:48.950 --> 0:24:51.030 right now. I would love our chances.... 0:24:52.010 --> 0:24:52.290 Bring it. 0:24:55.109 --> 0:25:06.220 Lions declawed. Bears turned into a rug. Packers unpacked. Packers 0:25:06.300 --> 0:25:07.959 packing it in. Yeah, packing it in. 0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:09.939 Our Peek at the Purple brought to you by our 0:25:09.980 --> 0:25:13.510 friends at Affordable Electric for all of your electrical needs. 0:25:14.109 --> 0:25:19.790 Electrical banana. 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On May 22nd, 0:26:55.960 --> 0:26:58.420 get the complete details on the concert page at kfn.com, 0:26:58.440 --> 0:27:01.020 keyword calendar. Probably wishes he would have writ rat wrote it. 0:27:09.280 --> 0:27:13.020 I was thinking, Tennebee, with J.J. 0:27:13.060 --> 0:27:17.139 McCarthy going to the Giants, we all know that he 0:27:17.160 --> 0:27:19.600 has an alter ego called Nine, but is he going 0:27:19.640 --> 0:27:20.800 to wear number nine? 0:27:20.880 --> 0:27:24.440 Is there somebody else on the Giants that already has it? 0:27:25.420 --> 0:27:29.810 It's likely. So you think he will? No, I said 0:27:29.830 --> 0:27:30.389 it's likely. 0:27:33.170 --> 0:27:35.909 So do you mean like you think it's like 60-40 maybe? 0:27:37.590 --> 0:27:40.369 No, that makes no sense. Quarterbacks don't wear those numbers. 0:27:40.710 --> 0:27:40.890 What? 0:27:42.170 --> 0:27:44.630 I'm not saying it's 60-40. I'm just not sure what 0:27:44.750 --> 0:27:49.510 number he will be, but number nine is likely. Okay, 0:27:49.530 --> 0:27:52.359 so you think he will wear number nine? No, I don't. 0:27:53.470 --> 0:27:54.429 But you said it was likely. 0:27:55.100 --> 0:27:55.460 It is. 0:27:55.859 --> 0:27:57.840 So number nine is likely, but you don't think he'll 0:27:58.400 --> 0:28:05.340 be number nine? Yes. Are you saying he'll maybe wear 0:28:05.460 --> 0:28:09.990 like 19 or something? No, that's taken. By who? Winston. 0:28:10.430 --> 0:28:13.750 Lil B's dog? No, that's Jameis. 0:28:14.850 --> 0:28:16.290 Lil B has a dog named Jameis? 0:28:16.590 --> 0:28:20.680 No, his name is Winston. Number 19 for the Giants 0:28:20.800 --> 0:28:23.400 is Jameis Winston. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:28:23.440 --> 0:28:25.480 that's right. Well, maybe. 0:28:25.600 --> 0:28:28.560 I don't know if they will allow this for a quarterback, 0:28:28.580 --> 0:28:31.560 but maybe he could be 99. Is that possible, or 0:28:31.600 --> 0:28:32.699 does someone have it? 0:28:34.070 --> 0:28:34.419 Okoye. 0:28:35.609 --> 0:28:38.130 So he would be allowed to wear number 99? 0:28:38.130 --> 0:28:38.370 No. 0:28:38.850 --> 0:28:43.880 But you said okay. I said okay, yeah. Oh, you 0:28:43.920 --> 0:28:48.030 said okay, yeah. No, I said Akoye. CJ Akoye wears it. 0:28:48.580 --> 0:28:50.760 So then he could be just nine. 0:28:51.300 --> 0:28:55.820 No, Isaiah likely wears that number. Oh, now I get it. 0:28:55.840 --> 0:29:00.260 That's why you were saying likely. Genius. 0:29:00.740 --> 0:29:01.680 He's back. 0:29:01.820 --> 0:29:02.360 He's back. 0:29:03.120 --> 0:29:03.640 That's his. 0:29:05.840 --> 0:29:07.220 And you won't get that anywhere else. 0:29:09.800 --> 0:29:11.460 If your lip was bleeding right now, I was so 0:29:11.520 --> 0:29:12.100 happy about that. 0:29:12.160 --> 0:29:14.180 I'd go wipe the blood off your lip and smear 0:29:14.200 --> 0:29:14.900 it on my face. 0:29:15.340 --> 0:29:17.780 Apparently someone said, he said it was spur of the moment, 0:29:17.820 --> 0:29:18.880 just a reaction thing. 0:29:18.920 --> 0:29:19.540 Oh, I'm sure. 0:29:19.640 --> 0:29:19.840 Yeah. 0:29:20.340 --> 0:29:23.550 And, um, I don't think you think about that ahead. 0:29:23.870 --> 0:29:24.410 I wouldn't. 0:29:26.330 --> 0:29:30.130 Um, I think he's nuts, but in a, in a 0:29:30.170 --> 0:29:31.850 good way, do you know what I'm saying? 0:29:32.390 --> 0:29:32.590 Sure. 0:29:32.610 --> 0:29:34.489 Because there were people that say the same thing with 0:29:34.530 --> 0:29:38.610 me that, well, you're, insane. Well, yeah, but sort of 0:29:38.650 --> 0:29:39.850 kind of. Your own kid has said that before. 0:29:40.030 --> 0:29:40.390 What's that? 0:29:40.530 --> 0:29:42.470 Your own kid has said that before. Yes, that's exactly right. 0:29:42.520 --> 0:29:47.460 My own kid has said that before. Here's what somebody said. 0:29:47.540 --> 0:29:49.000 PJ said he doesn't regret it one bit. 0:29:49.020 --> 0:29:50.180 They are blood brothers also. 0:29:50.200 --> 0:29:52.360 He doesn't like blood or needles and was just in 0:29:52.380 --> 0:29:56.730 the moment. So, In the heat of, that's a Kenny 0:29:56.750 --> 0:29:57.210 Chesney song. 0:29:57.230 --> 0:29:57.790 That's my favorite. 0:29:57.890 --> 0:30:00.170 Heat of the moment. 0:30:03.010 --> 0:30:06.510 Timberwolves are starting their, are they in, they're in camp 0:30:06.550 --> 0:30:06.870 right now? 0:30:06.910 --> 0:30:08.460 We're starting soon, next day or two. 0:30:08.470 --> 0:30:10.100 Yeah, I think, well, they just had media day yesterday. 0:30:10.120 --> 0:30:11.320 They had media day yesterday. 0:30:11.480 --> 0:30:14.840 And during that media day, you know, I think Lavelli 0:30:14.860 --> 0:30:19.640 Neal III, Fish Rap Factory Westside wrote a piece today about, 0:30:19.680 --> 0:30:22.890 you know, I, I, I, I just can't wait for 0:30:22.910 --> 0:30:26.230 them to start playing because the speculation of what LaMelo 0:30:27.030 --> 0:30:30.280 and Anthony Edwards are going to be like together, I mean, 0:30:30.520 --> 0:30:32.560 it's just, it seems like there's two or three stories 0:30:32.880 --> 0:30:34.660 every single day about what the two will bring to 0:30:35.480 --> 0:30:38.020 the court. But the one thing they're talking about, you know, 0:30:39.760 --> 0:30:41.700 with some of the veterans, Randall and then, you know, 0:30:42.700 --> 0:30:45.580 Nas gone, leadership role will probably. 0:30:45.340 --> 0:30:48.780 Fall into the hands of Anthony Edwards. 0:30:54.590 --> 0:30:56.310 There he is. 0:30:57.350 --> 0:30:58.230 Your fearless leader. 0:30:58.250 --> 0:31:00.550 And I don't know if that's good or bad. Shouldn't 0:31:00.610 --> 0:31:02.580 he have taken over the leadership role like three years ago? 0:31:02.600 --> 0:31:05.440 I would have thought so. I know he's still relatively young, 0:31:05.500 --> 0:31:07.340 but he's been around a while now. 0:31:07.400 --> 0:31:09.260 Yeah, well, it's just, you know, I just. 0:31:13.240 --> 0:31:14.610 I don't know if he's going to be leading people 0:31:15.120 --> 0:31:17.070 where I would want my team to go, but we'll see. 0:31:17.110 --> 0:31:18.750 Maybe he'll be just fine. He seems to be a little. 0:31:19.540 --> 0:31:22.600 He's not PJ Fleck crazy, but I think he's got 0:31:22.620 --> 0:31:25.600 a little loose. 0:31:25.440 --> 0:31:26.070 Cannon to him. 0:31:26.100 --> 0:31:27.240 We don't have Conley anymore either. 0:31:27.660 --> 0:31:29.240 No, he's gone. That's exactly right. 0:31:29.260 --> 0:31:32.850 Then it was also brought up in the story, Joe Ingles. 0:31:32.940 --> 0:31:34.230 Was he really a leader on the team? 0:31:34.270 --> 0:31:38.010 He never played. He sat on the bench. He got 0:31:38.050 --> 0:31:40.390 in the one game where his kid was at. Remember 0:31:40.690 --> 0:31:43.410 that story? It was one of those feel-good pieces. Joe 0:31:43.430 --> 0:31:46.310 finally got to play a little basketball. That's a good living, man. 0:31:46.330 --> 0:31:51.280 To sit on the bench. To sit on the bench. Ride, ride, ride, 0:31:51.440 --> 0:31:52.160 ride the bench. 0:31:52.420 --> 0:31:56.630 That's another Kenny Chesney song. 0:31:56.670 --> 0:31:57.250 Keith Urban. 0:31:57.730 --> 0:32:00.670 If they are lacking leadership, I am willing to sign 0:32:00.690 --> 0:32:03.710 a one-year contract. Don't put me out on the court. 0:32:03.770 --> 0:32:04.890 I'm just going to be in the locker room. I'm 0:32:04.910 --> 0:32:06.410 just going to help out on the bench. I'll just 0:32:06.430 --> 0:32:09.150 be the leader guy. I'm willing to step up. 0:32:09.170 --> 0:32:09.710 Say, let's go! 0:32:10.890 --> 0:32:13.170 Let's show them what Minnesota Timberwolves basketball is all about. 0:32:13.290 --> 0:32:15.489 Who dat going to beat them Wolves? Who dat going 0:32:15.510 --> 0:32:16.250 to beat them Wolves? 0:32:16.270 --> 0:32:17.550 Get them all fired up before the game. 0:32:18.370 --> 0:32:21.550 Meanwhile, do the Lynx play tonight? Could the season end 0:32:21.610 --> 0:32:24.910 tonight or is it tomorrow? You know, the number one 0:32:25.010 --> 0:32:30.020 seed only lost, I think, nine games overall. 0:32:30.040 --> 0:32:30.580 Yes, tonight. 0:32:30.930 --> 0:32:31.280 Tonight. 0:32:33.000 --> 0:32:35.920 In the Big Apple, they're playing in New York. We 0:32:36.520 --> 0:32:39.620 were the number one seed. Liberty, the eight seed. 0:32:39.700 --> 0:32:41.200 Liberty, liberty, liberty. 0:32:42.160 --> 0:32:42.680 Liberty. 0:32:43.280 --> 0:32:45.040 And I think. 0:32:46.380 --> 0:32:48.560 I don't want to put words in... I do that enough, 0:32:48.920 --> 0:32:51.260 putting words in people's mouths. I thought Cheryl Reeve. 0:32:51.020 --> 0:32:54.370 Kind of raised her eyebrows about how they're an eight seed. Well, 0:32:54.390 --> 0:32:55.930 don't they do it by standings? 0:32:56.250 --> 0:32:56.750 Yes. 0:32:56.770 --> 0:32:59.070 So, well, then you're an eight seed then. I mean, 0:32:59.110 --> 0:33:01.630 what are they supposed to do? Say, well, they're probably 0:33:01.670 --> 0:33:03.330 better than an eight seed, so we'll give them the 0:33:03.390 --> 0:33:03.990 four seed? 0:33:04.530 --> 0:33:05.310 It's not how it works. 0:33:07.310 --> 0:33:07.550 So. 0:33:08.920 --> 0:33:11.700 I just find this is why this is the thing with. 0:33:11.610 --> 0:33:12.910 Sports, sports, sports. 0:33:13.690 --> 0:33:17.110 And maybe even back in my day, maybe the athletes 0:33:17.130 --> 0:33:20.390 were like this. But after the Lynx, you know, they'd 0:33:20.450 --> 0:33:22.390 struggled in their last four or five games. They were 0:33:22.570 --> 0:33:24.890 like 1-4 over a five-game stretch after having the best 0:33:24.950 --> 0:33:25.680 record in basketball. 0:33:25.740 --> 0:33:29.040 And they still have the best record in basketball. 0:33:29.080 --> 0:33:31.200 You know, a losing skid is not the end of 0:33:31.240 --> 0:33:33.900 the world. It gets to be a little bit concerning 0:33:33.940 --> 0:33:35.640 when you're at the end of the season getting ready 0:33:35.660 --> 0:33:39.110 for postseason play to start your 1-4 game. But then 0:33:39.470 --> 0:33:42.610 we closed the season against... Do you know I can't 0:33:42.770 --> 0:33:44.990 see the color yellow and not think of Kaitlyn Clark? 0:33:45.030 --> 0:33:46.660 I was watching the season ending game and all I 0:33:46.690 --> 0:33:48.760 could think about was Kaitlyn Clark, where she was playing. 0:33:49.390 --> 0:33:53.740 But... I mean, how many times I was thinking of 0:33:53.940 --> 0:33:56.140 Kaitlyn Clark nonstop in the Vikings game and the refs 0:33:56.160 --> 0:34:01.080 were just throwing flags out like every single play. And 0:34:01.100 --> 0:34:02.920 they threw a lot of them. They threw plenty of them. 0:34:03.940 --> 0:34:04.080 But. 0:34:07.100 --> 0:34:10.219 Also, speaking of refs, why are all of them like 0:34:10.219 --> 0:34:15.110 60 years old but super buff? Do they do nothing 0:34:15.140 --> 0:34:17.690 outside of reffing other than just lifting weights? It's like 0:34:17.710 --> 0:34:19.450 the requirement now. They all have to be buff and 0:34:19.469 --> 0:34:22.210 they all have to wear tight shirts. You don't see 0:34:22.230 --> 0:34:24.590 a referee in the NFL that's like just 40 pounds overweight. 0:34:24.610 --> 0:34:26.549 Well, it's because that's what you used to see. And 0:34:26.590 --> 0:34:27.590 then if you remember. 0:34:29.590 --> 0:34:32.410 It's probably, we just don't hear about it. It's probably 0:34:32.450 --> 0:34:35.690 mandatory now because remember we were, the refs aren't fast 0:34:35.770 --> 0:34:37.830 enough for the game. They just, you know, they can't 0:34:37.910 --> 0:34:39.970 keep up. It was just kind of a good old boy. 0:34:39.989 --> 0:34:41.500 Then we need full-time referees. 0:34:41.540 --> 0:34:45.700 What are you going to practice throwing a flag all week? Seriously, 0:34:45.739 --> 0:34:48.259 what would you do as a full-time referee? 0:34:48.280 --> 0:34:53.779 There's only games on Monday night, Tuesday night, Thursday night, regardless. 0:34:53.480 --> 0:34:53.899 Of what night. 0:34:54.280 --> 0:34:58.270 What are they supposed to do? Study the playbook again 0:34:58.310 --> 0:34:58.969 or the rule book. 0:34:58.989 --> 0:35:00.149 They know the rule book. 0:35:01.340 --> 0:35:02.640 They know how to throw a flag. 0:35:04.140 --> 0:35:07.140 There's no such thing as full-time job for an NFL referee. 0:35:07.160 --> 0:35:08.140 The reason there's never. 0:35:08.020 --> 0:35:10.600 Been a full-time job, because there's nothing for them to 0:35:10.660 --> 0:35:13.910 do between games that will make them any better, see 0:35:13.950 --> 0:35:15.910 plays any better, make them any better calls. 0:35:15.930 --> 0:35:16.890 It just doesn't make any sense. 0:35:17.660 --> 0:35:20.540 But still, they're really old. So I think they decided, well, 0:35:20.560 --> 0:35:22.469 we got to make them look. Because you have seen 0:35:22.530 --> 0:35:24.009 some of the older guys having trouble keeping up with 0:35:24.030 --> 0:35:25.609 the game. You know, all of a sudden, the guy's 0:35:25.930 --> 0:35:29.069 doing a fly pattern, right? And, you know, he's being 0:35:29.390 --> 0:35:31.630 covered one-on-one. And they're stride for stride going down the 0:35:31.690 --> 0:35:35.280 field on a 50-yard bomb. And then the old guy's 0:35:35.300 --> 0:35:36.940 huffing and puffing the referees like this. 0:35:36.980 --> 0:35:38.020 He's trying to keep. 0:35:37.860 --> 0:35:38.600 Up, and he can't. 0:35:38.680 --> 0:35:41.479 He's 30 yards behind the play. So now it's like, 0:35:41.940 --> 0:35:44.180 everybody needs to work out. You need to be thick 0:35:44.219 --> 0:35:47.009 as a brick. You need to be big, strong, bold. 0:35:47.860 --> 0:35:49.980 And so that, that's what they don't think. Biceps are 0:35:50.000 --> 0:35:51.779 necessary to be running down the field, but. 0:35:51.700 --> 0:35:54.420 It makes, it's the perception tend to be trying to 0:35:54.460 --> 0:35:57.500 be eye candy. It's the perception is what it is. 0:35:57.719 --> 0:36:00.340 It is supposed to be so that when you watch, 0:36:00.360 --> 0:36:02.970 you go, they're athletes, just like the guys in the field, 0:36:02.989 --> 0:36:05.790 they're athletes and they can keep up with the game. 0:36:05.830 --> 0:36:07.970 So it's a perception is what it is. That's maybe 0:36:07.989 --> 0:36:08.530 my guess. 0:36:09.310 --> 0:36:13.969 So, um, so they win that last game of the day, 0:36:14.070 --> 0:36:18.850 run Caitlin Clark and the, the, uh, The heat. 0:36:18.930 --> 0:36:19.149 No. 0:36:19.210 --> 0:36:19.629 What are they? 0:36:20.450 --> 0:36:21.210 Illness. Fever. 0:36:21.790 --> 0:36:25.590 They run the fever off the court, right? And then. 0:36:27.630 --> 0:36:30.489 They're all doing their little dance on the floor. They 0:36:30.510 --> 0:36:31.970 had some little dance they had going. 0:36:31.989 --> 0:36:33.109 You know, just like the guys that, you know. 0:36:35.520 --> 0:36:38.520 They do that for every home win, yeah. Well, then 0:36:38.640 --> 0:36:40.380 it still gets me. And I know. I know you say, 0:36:40.540 --> 0:36:43.100 you don't look to have any fun. You're just an 0:36:43.120 --> 0:36:43.700 old man. 0:36:44.400 --> 0:36:46.180 No, it's just that I think it's silly that all 0:36:46.200 --> 0:36:49.610 of a sudden... Guy makes an interception. Then he waves 0:36:49.700 --> 0:36:52.529 all the guys. Come on, let's go down to the 0:36:52.790 --> 0:36:56.230 end zone and do our rehearsed silly celebration. 0:36:56.350 --> 0:36:56.989 Okay, great. 0:36:57.010 --> 0:36:59.969 Well, and the Vikings specifically got penalized for it on 0:36:59.989 --> 0:37:01.969 the punt return touchdown against Tampa Bay. 0:37:01.989 --> 0:37:02.390 That's right. 0:37:02.430 --> 0:37:05.820 Because players that weren't even on the field, like I 0:37:05.820 --> 0:37:07.640 think Jordan Addison was one of them. Jordan Addison wasn't 0:37:07.680 --> 0:37:09.060 on the field during the punt return, but he ran 0:37:09.120 --> 0:37:12.900 out to celebrate with Miles Price. We got docked 15 0:37:12.900 --> 0:37:15.439 yards for him. And it's silly. 0:37:15.750 --> 0:37:17.629 And then one of the players said, maybe, I don't 0:37:17.650 --> 0:37:19.830 know if it was just one, but we found our mojo. 0:37:20.170 --> 0:37:20.640 We found it. 0:37:21.550 --> 0:37:25.390 We just misplaced it. It was an empty locker. We've 0:37:25.430 --> 0:37:30.160 got our mojo back. And their mojo, they must have 0:37:30.180 --> 0:37:33.600 lost it again, because what happened to the eight-seeded Liberty? 0:37:34.100 --> 0:37:36.040 I mean, it was a beatdown. Didn't they lose by, 0:37:36.060 --> 0:37:39.040 they lost by double digits. And we were up at half. 0:37:39.260 --> 0:37:39.739 And we were up at half. 0:37:39.760 --> 0:37:40.320 And we were leading. 0:37:41.080 --> 0:37:47.660 And all-world Olivia Miles. Weren't her numbers, I mean, for her, 0:37:47.719 --> 0:37:50.259 they were just. Oh, they were awful. Yeah, they were 0:37:50.280 --> 0:37:51.820 just awful. 11 points, just one assist. 0:37:52.020 --> 0:37:53.260 Yeah, and that's just not her. 0:37:53.300 --> 0:37:56.050 And I, you know, I don't know if we find 0:37:56.110 --> 0:37:58.049 our mojo again. I don't know how you find it. 0:37:58.310 --> 0:38:02.250 Do you hire a private investigator? Do you hire a search? 0:38:02.469 --> 0:38:04.709 You know, they have, you know, isn't Indeed a search firm? 0:38:05.370 --> 0:38:05.950 Indeed. 0:38:06.730 --> 0:38:09.279 They're looking for work. So do you hire a search firm? 0:38:11.020 --> 0:38:12.860 That's what I would do. We got to find our mojo. 0:38:12.900 --> 0:38:14.660 Where could it be? Where the hell is it? And 0:38:14.680 --> 0:38:15.440 you better find it. 0:38:15.440 --> 0:38:15.840 You better find it. 0:38:15.840 --> 0:38:18.100 It's only a three-game series. Yeah, I'd find your mojo. 0:38:18.140 --> 0:38:21.600 Don't have time. I'd find your mojo now. Mr. 0:38:21.760 --> 0:38:26.450 Mojo rising. So let's hope they find their mojo because 0:38:26.510 --> 0:38:29.629 I was certainly... It was the one parade I thought 0:38:29.650 --> 0:38:30.790 we could count on this year. 0:38:30.810 --> 0:38:34.100 Seemed like a cinch. Seemed like a cinch. Lead pipe cinch. 0:38:34.239 --> 0:38:37.299 It was a lock. And now, I guess it's the Vikings. 0:38:37.600 --> 0:38:40.540 The Faber thing is really... And again, I'm sorry. I 0:38:40.560 --> 0:38:42.819 will preface it by saying it's tougher for him than anybody, right? 0:38:42.840 --> 0:38:45.299 Because it's a fractured skull. But then the product on 0:38:45.320 --> 0:38:47.480 the ice is not going to be nearly as good, 0:38:47.520 --> 0:38:52.250 I don't think. So that's bad news. Wolves, again, they'll 0:38:52.270 --> 0:38:54.730 start soon. And we'll see what that new blend does. 0:38:55.489 --> 0:38:58.529 We've gone from a big... Dope-de-dope kind of a team 0:38:58.550 --> 0:39:02.970 with big, tall, slow, big-foot kind of guys. 0:39:03.010 --> 0:39:04.110 And now we're going to be fast. We're going to 0:39:04.130 --> 0:39:04.549 run the floor. 0:39:04.570 --> 0:39:09.070 And I think that's probably because if. 0:39:07.410 --> 0:39:08.390 You can't beat them, join them. 0:39:08.770 --> 0:39:12.750 And isn't that the way OKC kind of plays that way, 0:39:12.790 --> 0:39:14.250 don't they? Don't they get up and down the floor 0:39:14.270 --> 0:39:14.610 a little bit? 0:39:14.630 --> 0:39:15.049 They do. 0:39:15.930 --> 0:39:17.270 Well, they do have a big guy at home. 0:39:17.310 --> 0:39:22.219 Remember how he disappeared in that series last year against Wembley? 0:39:22.239 --> 0:39:24.219 Wasn't it against San Antonio where he just disappeared? 0:39:24.239 --> 0:39:24.319 Yeah. 0:39:25.400 --> 0:39:27.279 That was the one I remember that I wonder, it 0:39:27.320 --> 0:39:29.850 was really, do you remember when he had that chance? 0:39:29.940 --> 0:39:32.000 to take a wide open three and he wouldn't shoot 0:39:33.500 --> 0:39:35.120 he just like put it down on the floor and 0:39:35.239 --> 0:39:37.360 i it was bad but anyway that you know and 0:39:37.380 --> 0:39:39.980 then i san antonio they got some length but they 0:39:40.020 --> 0:39:42.279 also like to move the ball they they've got a 0:39:42.640 --> 0:39:45.209 really nice team with them i it's been so long 0:39:45.250 --> 0:39:47.370 since the playoffs but i remember they had like uh. 0:39:52.050 --> 0:39:53.430 I can't remember any of their names anymore. 0:39:53.630 --> 0:39:56.490 I have a bad memory. They had three young kids. 0:39:56.690 --> 0:40:03.200 One of them was the, you know, he was, not 0:40:03.239 --> 0:40:04.880 until I remember their names, I'm not going to be 0:40:04.900 --> 0:40:06.420 able to look up San Antonio for me. 0:40:07.520 --> 0:40:09.819 I can picture all the guys you're talking about as 0:40:09.860 --> 0:40:10.340 we speak. 0:40:10.700 --> 0:40:10.939 Yeah. 0:40:12.480 --> 0:40:13.160 I'll get them here. 0:40:15.020 --> 0:40:16.299 Stefan Castle. There you go. 0:40:17.620 --> 0:40:18.060 Spurs roster. 0:40:18.160 --> 0:40:20.219 Are you talking about De'Aaron Fox or not? Dylan Harper? 0:40:20.239 --> 0:40:20.930 There's another one. 0:40:21.090 --> 0:40:21.430 All those. 0:40:21.489 --> 0:40:22.350 Every one of those guys. 0:40:23.290 --> 0:40:23.690 Harper. 0:40:23.910 --> 0:40:24.430 Castle. 0:40:26.650 --> 0:40:29.050 Champagny. Fox. 0:40:30.350 --> 0:40:32.450 Is it Vassell or Vassell? All those guys. 0:40:32.930 --> 0:40:34.870 They can all play. Every one of them. 0:40:36.510 --> 0:40:46.540 And they're all young. Devin is a shooting guard. Fox 0:40:46.580 --> 0:40:51.880 is a point guard. Harper's a shooting guard. Castle's a 0:40:51.940 --> 0:40:55.890 point guard. So they've got lots of young guys. They can, they, they, 0:40:55.930 --> 0:40:58.330 they're deep, they're deep and talented is what they are. 0:40:59.010 --> 0:41:03.470 And so, and you know, again, this is, I'm actually 0:41:03.489 --> 0:41:05.290 going to, I'm going to say something. 0:41:05.110 --> 0:41:06.610 Positive about the local teams. 0:41:07.510 --> 0:41:10.219 This is exactly what. 0:41:13.080 --> 0:41:17.670 Was our GM Conley. Or Connelly. Is it Connelly or Connelly? Connelly. 0:41:17.790 --> 0:41:18.170 Connelly. 0:41:18.810 --> 0:41:21.250 He's doing exactly what he should do. Sometimes you have to, 0:41:21.330 --> 0:41:23.830 it's a sea change. You have to shift gears, right? 0:41:24.650 --> 0:41:27.490 We can't just trot out big, tall guys anymore. We've 0:41:27.510 --> 0:41:28.760 got to be able to keep up with these guys 0:41:28.780 --> 0:41:30.560 and be able to run with them. And we should 0:41:30.600 --> 0:41:33.540 be able to, by all accounts, with if again, the 0:41:34.440 --> 0:41:41.060 biggest if, and I've said this before, and because you've 0:41:41.080 --> 0:41:43.900 been injury prone doesn't necessarily, that means you're going to 0:41:43.940 --> 0:41:47.960 be injured again. There are some exceptions to that, and 0:41:47.980 --> 0:41:49.719 that would be Byron Buxton would be number one in 0:41:49.760 --> 0:41:52.279 this town. It happened again this year. He ended up 0:41:52.320 --> 0:41:56.270 having a season-ending hip injury. And last year he played, 0:41:56.290 --> 0:42:01.509 it was like 140 games. Finally, he had had, that 0:42:01.530 --> 0:42:04.570 would have been his second year of like 140-plus games 0:42:04.650 --> 0:42:05.930 in his 10, 12-year career. 0:42:06.050 --> 0:42:07.400 I mean, he misses so much. 0:42:09.360 --> 0:42:12.520 And the other guy is, the story I read the 0:42:12.560 --> 0:42:19.100 other day, is. 0:42:20.920 --> 0:42:21.380 Lamello. 0:42:21.719 --> 0:42:24.640 He doesn't play either. He's always hurt. 0:42:25.000 --> 0:42:25.320 Always. 0:42:25.380 --> 0:42:27.240 I mean, last year, I think. 0:42:27.120 --> 0:42:29.720 He played more games than he played in a long time. 0:42:30.200 --> 0:42:32.730 But then his minutes were way down in all those games. 0:42:33.690 --> 0:42:38.149 So, and the whole idea for bringing Lamello ball here 0:42:38.270 --> 0:42:42.609 is that now Anthony can be free not to have 0:42:42.650 --> 0:42:44.430 to bring the ball up the court and get tuckered. 0:42:44.790 --> 0:42:46.490 Because not only did he have to bring the ball. 0:42:46.430 --> 0:42:50.000 Up the floor, Then he got double teamed, and then 0:42:50.020 --> 0:42:51.700 he had to try to score. Oh, and he needed 0:42:51.739 --> 0:42:53.640 to play defense as well, and he just got worn out. 0:42:53.660 --> 0:42:55.910 And then wasn't he hurt last year too? Did he 0:42:55.930 --> 0:42:58.669 have like a hip or something? He had something that was, 0:42:58.730 --> 0:43:02.330 he just wasn't at 100%, if you remember, during postseason play. 0:43:03.590 --> 0:43:06.200 So getting the ball was supposed to be, well, now 0:43:06.239 --> 0:43:07.780 we got the guy that can get him the ball distributed, 0:43:07.800 --> 0:43:10.439 and they can both pass. Now they're both, you know, 0:43:10.500 --> 0:43:15.279 there was a number yesterday that Did Ball take more 0:43:15.320 --> 0:43:17.360 three-pointers than anybody in the league? He was one of 0:43:17.390 --> 0:43:19.690 the top two, and he made more than anybody in 0:43:19.710 --> 0:43:21.810 the league. And now you think, well, he should be 0:43:21.850 --> 0:43:24.450 wide open when they try to double up on Ant. 0:43:25.170 --> 0:43:26.969 Then Lomelo Ball will be open. And when they try 0:43:27.010 --> 0:43:30.319 to double up on Ball, then Ant's going to be. 0:43:30.300 --> 0:43:30.819 Open, right? 0:43:31.280 --> 0:43:33.219 And it sounds great on paper, and hopefully it works 0:43:33.239 --> 0:43:35.839 that way. And I think it can, but I just 0:43:35.900 --> 0:43:38.160 worry about Lomelo Ball being able to stay healthy. He's 0:43:38.180 --> 0:43:40.719 had all sorts of issues. And he seems like a 0:43:40.760 --> 0:43:43.260 guy that it's not just, oh, yeah, one injury riddled 0:43:43.280 --> 0:43:44.770 season or injury and a half. 0:43:45.230 --> 0:43:50.230 It looks like, and that's going to spell. Then you. 0:43:52.890 --> 0:43:54.410 Take him off the club because what are you supposed 0:43:54.430 --> 0:43:55.950 to do? Well, then what do you have at that point? 0:43:56.090 --> 0:43:59.529 You've got what you've had forever, plus who's the one 0:43:59.570 --> 0:44:00.239 guy we picked up? 0:44:01.160 --> 0:44:03.459 The new power forward. That's small for a power forward. 0:44:03.480 --> 0:44:04.780 The sick Kaminga. 0:44:04.800 --> 0:44:08.160 Kaminga, bing, bada binga, bada kaminga. And I don't even 0:44:08.180 --> 0:44:12.090 know how good he can be. You know, he's had flashes, but. 0:44:13.550 --> 0:44:14.250 I don't know. 0:44:15.010 --> 0:44:18.739 So now the hockey team with Faber, can ball stay healthy? 0:44:19.239 --> 0:44:20.799 We have no quarterback solution. 0:44:20.820 --> 0:44:23.840 Our cuts heads are falling off. Twins don't have a 0:44:23.860 --> 0:44:26.560 pitching coach anymore. It's his fault. 0:44:26.840 --> 0:44:29.500 It's all his fault that we're the pitching staff. He 0:44:29.520 --> 0:44:32.000 put together that staff, you know. He was responsible for 0:44:32.020 --> 0:44:32.819 bringing those guys in. 0:44:32.840 --> 0:44:33.540 All right. 0:44:34.360 --> 0:44:36.060 So anyway, a lot of doom and gloom. But you 0:44:36.080 --> 0:44:37.960 know what? Who's going to... Oh, but Gophers. 0:44:37.980 --> 0:44:39.120 Here's what I want to say about the Gophers. I'll 0:44:39.140 --> 0:44:41.360 see if Rosen agrees with this. And this is going 0:44:41.380 --> 0:44:44.279 to be kind of a wet blanket. It would be 0:44:44.340 --> 0:44:48.730 a significant win to beat Michigan. Back-to-back to beat Washington, Michigan. 0:44:48.989 --> 0:44:50.790 But this isn't your daddy's Michigan team. 0:44:51.150 --> 0:44:51.710 We know that. 0:44:51.890 --> 0:44:54.169 I mean, they got handed... They. 0:44:54.090 --> 0:44:57.450 Got gifted that game against Western Michigan or Eastern Michigan 0:44:57.489 --> 0:44:58.950 or Western Michigan. 0:44:58.969 --> 0:44:59.569 It was Western, yeah. 0:44:59.610 --> 0:45:00.790 Western Michigan at La Crosse. 0:45:01.690 --> 0:45:03.910 That they got gifted that game. Everybody knows that. 0:45:03.969 --> 0:45:05.169 So they should have had a loss there. 0:45:05.469 --> 0:45:07.879 And they bounced back. Was it Oklahoma or Oklahoma state? 0:45:07.900 --> 0:45:10.420 They beat a ranked team and they look great. And 0:45:10.440 --> 0:45:13.420 then last week, I mean, they had Iowa on the ropes. 0:45:13.560 --> 0:45:15.020 That was their game to win on a couple of 0:45:15.040 --> 0:45:17.280 different occasions. And losing the Iowa ranked team. 0:45:17.140 --> 0:45:17.980 Is no disgrace. 0:45:19.200 --> 0:45:23.350 Great song by the, by yes, called yours is no disgrace, but, um, 0:45:26.640 --> 0:45:28.259 So it'd be nice to, it'd be two really good 0:45:28.280 --> 0:45:31.540 back-to-back wins. It ain't like beating the Michigan, you know, J.J. 0:45:31.560 --> 0:45:34.580 McCarthy's version of them, but it'd still be a nice win, 0:45:34.620 --> 0:45:35.140 so we'll see. 0:45:35.540 --> 0:45:38.790 I feel like we've had issues during P.J. Fleck's tenure 0:45:38.890 --> 0:45:40.890 of putting back-to-back wins like this together. 0:45:40.910 --> 0:45:43.270 Yeah, that's why it'd be fun to see. 0:45:44.150 --> 0:45:44.489 You know what? 0:45:45.350 --> 0:45:47.190 I'll grab an oar at that point, but I will 0:45:47.210 --> 0:45:50.210 still wear a life jacket. Let's take a break and come. 0:45:50.090 --> 0:45:52.719 Back and welcome the legendary one, Mark Rosen. He joins 0:45:52.760 --> 0:46:01.450 us next here on The Fan. Common gets Rosie going. 0:46:01.469 --> 0:46:07.830 Next on The Fan. From the 1-800-ASK-GARY-TRAFFIC-CENTER. This report is 0:46:07.890 --> 0:46:10.149 sponsored by Minnesota Oncology. 0:46:10.239 --> 0:46:14.320 Heavy traffic, 94 westbound, Hiawatha Avenue to Hennepin-Lyndale. Stop and 0:46:14.340 --> 0:46:17.700 go on 35W southbound, 106th Street to Cliff Road with 0:46:17.760 --> 0:46:21.480 road work. 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