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Speaker 1: Man, Welcome back to nine to Noon. It's eleven o two.

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Speaker 1: Very happy to meet in person here at Kfan meet

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Speaker 1: actually in person for the second time. Been on the

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Speaker 1: radio show several times, but for the first time. Brett

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Speaker 1: Larson is the sixteenth head coach in Golden Gopher hockey

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Speaker 1: history after eight years at Saint Cloud State, and he

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Speaker 1: joins us now. A good seeing you in person, Congratulations

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Speaker 1: on the job, that Saint Cloud program was good for you,

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Speaker 1: and a good to you first, what was the goodbye like?

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Speaker 2: It was tough.

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Speaker 3: Obviously a lot of rumors get out there on social

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Speaker 3: media that things are happening. And the day before I

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Speaker 3: And I'm really proud of the culture that we built

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Speaker 3: there where it's certainly a family.

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Speaker 2: People care about each other.

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Speaker 3: And the reaction was was hugs and and we're gonna

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Speaker 3: miss the coach, but we're pulling for you, and so

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Speaker 3: it was pretty special moment for me.

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Speaker 1: And and Brett. I would you know, I would imagine

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Speaker 1: say goodbye. And what I'm getting at here is the

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Speaker 1: difficulty of recruiting players to play for the Husky, specifically

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Speaker 3: It is tough. And I usually lead with a joke

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Speaker 3: right away. I said, remember all that stuff that I

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Speaker 3: told you about Saint Cloud. I said, I didn't mean

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Speaker 3: any of it. I didn't mean any of that stuff.

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Speaker 3: I'm recruiting to be a go for now, you know.

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Speaker 3: So I can get the kids to laugh a little bit.

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Speaker 3: And I think the big thing is they know that

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Speaker 3: this program at Minnesota is one of the most story

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Speaker 3: so this job for me when you don't turn down,

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Speaker 3: and you can't turn down, and the players know that.

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Speaker 1: Before we look ahead, let's cast the gays backwards a

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Speaker 2: Sure.

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Speaker 1: What was it like having stay Lock as your goalie

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Speaker 3: You know what's funny, So this is a it's a

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Speaker 3: aura about coming to play the Gophers. I remember my

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Speaker 3: And I remember that even as a first year head

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Speaker 3: we always do a shootout at the end of it.

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Speaker 2: Al may or may not remember this, but I.

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Speaker 3: Came down and I was a horrible goal scorer as

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Speaker 2: But I'm going to score on Al, you know.

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Speaker 3: So I got my head down because I'm a bad

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Speaker 1: And wait, you were an assistant coach, assistant coach, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Feeling really good about myself until I went flying into

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Speaker 2: So he is the best. We're still in touch to

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Speaker 3: And just what a competitor, what a great person somebody

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Speaker 1: Now when your team, you know, looking back through through

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Speaker 1: things like that, when your team, the Florida Seals folded

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Speaker 1: funny when the Columbus cotton Mouths or Fayetteville fire Rants.

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Speaker 1: Well, well, think about that. I mean, that's like two

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Speaker 1: We're going to lead Saint Cloud State to a frozen

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Speaker 3: Well, what I did is I moved back to Minnesota

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Speaker 2: And so I got a sales job.

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Speaker 3: And I was playing pick up hockey with Reed Larson

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Speaker 1: And who wants to play that team? Nobody?

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Speaker 2: And coach, and I want you up here at luth.

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Speaker 3: He goes, it's kind of funny, he says, I want

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Speaker 2: That fits both.

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Speaker 3: So that's how I got out of the sales and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Scott Sandling. I mean he's joined the radio show

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Speaker 1: And then with Al, I'm like, lets Andy in, and

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Speaker 2: It's big time obviously.

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Speaker 3: That's where for myself, I feel incredibly fortunate that my

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Speaker 2: He's one of the best in the business. I learned

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Speaker 3: Then later in my career, I get to work with

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Speaker 1: Last one outside of the box before we started chatting

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Speaker 1: about the team with Brett Larson, new Golden Gophers hockey coach.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you men studio. You played for the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Blue Ox, so that that was a roller hockey

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Speaker 1: Crystal Boudreaux owned, right it was.

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Speaker 3: It was roller hockey. So back in the day, pro

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Speaker 3: Scott Bukstead was a coach, former Gopher and wow, great

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Speaker 2: Actually, wow, not a big draw in the summers. I

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Speaker 1: That was about about it.

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Speaker 3: And so we did that for a couple of summers,

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Speaker 2: But you know, it was fun. They had. Actually USA

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Speaker 2: And most of the minor league guys are playing.

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Speaker 1: So so in roller hockey, if you fall out of nowhere.

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Speaker 3: So I got to tell you. So the first game,

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Speaker 3: interesting game for sure. But you know what, we're flying

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Speaker 2: So it was pretty good.

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Speaker 1: That's sweet, all right, to the lesson at ham MIICKELETTI

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Speaker 1: and I yesterday were chatting college hockey roster philosophy. Last

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Speaker 1: year's Gophers were comparatively young to a lot of teams

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Speaker 1: Does the transfer portal and the iteration thereof it's still

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Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, And I think that's the coach's number one

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Speaker 3: I've always said that your your best, your best recruiters

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Speaker 1: If I've missed this and I did a look online,

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Speaker 3: We're hoping end of the week early next week we'll

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Speaker 1: What So with assistance, whether they follow you from the

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Speaker 3: Well, there's a couple of things off the top and

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Speaker 2: And then obviously they got to be competent their job.

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Speaker 3: that all all of us that my recruiting philosophies, we're

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Speaker 1: As has hockey or college hockey brat always been specialized

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Speaker 3: For the most part, usually have one assistant that's running

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Speaker 3: So I don't know that we're going to have that title,

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Speaker 1: Well. Fred Hoiberg, who coaches the Nebraska Cornhuskers basketball team,

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited. So so when it comes to recruiting, specifically

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Speaker 1: But if these players know, hey, Brett, Sandy, David Carl,

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Speaker 3: You have to be prepared for it, right because we're

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Speaker 3: take those elite players and continue to build on the culture,

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Speaker 3: uh and continue to build on the team first family field,

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Speaker 3: that we can win together. Yeah, We're gonna win a

441
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Speaker 3: lot more uh together. We're gonna win championships together. And

442
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Speaker 3: occasionally we're gonna lose guys early and that's going to

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Speaker 3: be a byproduct of it.

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Speaker 2: That means we're being successful.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So take what you just said with the age

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Speaker 1: old tradition, I mean John mays A h Luchia win

447
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Speaker 1: wins championships, and sonomore and so on and so on and

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Speaker 1: so on, Mary Eugi and so in Moscow of late

449
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Speaker 1: the tradition of playing at Marugi Mikeletti up on the mural.

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Speaker 1: This is college hockey immortality here. But we also have

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Speaker 1: n I L. So how much does NI L impact

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Speaker 1: college hockey, specifically the University of Minnesota. And do you

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Speaker 1: happenev that stacks of n I L cash behind you?

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Speaker 3: I wish, I wish obviously for us it does impact

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Speaker 3: it a lot. But I'm going to take you back

456
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Speaker 3: to what we just talked about. The Gopher culture has

457
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Speaker 3: been a credit. What're the best in the country.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: My job when I say what I need to do

460
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Speaker 3: here going forward in the future, is being able to

461
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Speaker 3: manage the portal with kids coming in and going a

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Speaker 3: little bit nil.

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Speaker 2: How much does money matter?

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Speaker 3: Making sure that we find those right balances with these

465
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Speaker 3: kids that they actually care about.

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Speaker 2: Being here right.

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Speaker 3: And that's where I feel my strengths as a coach

468
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Speaker 3: has been relationships and building these relationships with the players

469
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Speaker 3: and making sure that they can trust me, they know

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Speaker 3: what I'm in it with them because it is different now,

471
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Speaker 3: there are different and new challenges now that we need

472
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Speaker 3: to make sure we have the right relationships with these

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Speaker 3: kids so we build trust fast.

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Speaker 2: So going into that, that's part of.

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Speaker 3: The NIL, that's part of the transfer portal. That's the

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Speaker 3: biggest challenge I think of being a college head coach

477
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Speaker 3: right now. At this level, you have to make sure

478
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Speaker 3: those relationships are strong, because you're dealing with new factors

479
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Speaker 3: that are influencing these kids' decisions they didn't have just

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Speaker 3: a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: Amen. Some of my inside the game college hockey friends

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Speaker 1: have told me, you know, when I knew you were

483
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Speaker 1: going to be in here, that recruiting, I mean, it's

484
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Speaker 1: the way you recruited at del And this is before

485
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Speaker 1: the transfer portal, and in I L was you know,

486
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Speaker 1: let's say normal and more tradition based, and that you

487
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Speaker 1: did a really, really really good job with it and

488
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Speaker 1: it was incredibly important to you. I mean that has

489
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Speaker 1: to be a benefit even you know, family time counts too,

490
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Speaker 1: and and you got like these nil things and I'm

491
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Speaker 1: you know, here Johnny might be trying to leave and stuff.

492
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Speaker 1: I get to deal with that ancillary things that weren't

493
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Speaker 1: there when you were recruiting for Sandy, either one or

494
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Speaker 1: two times back in the day. So the wisdom that

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Speaker 1: you have recruiting, obviously you can impart on those who

496
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Speaker 1: are going to be doing a lot of it, But

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Speaker 1: is it the same wisdom because you can have knowledge

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Speaker 1: about how the thing works, but the wisdom is found

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Speaker 1: in Okay, we know how it works, How can we

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Speaker 1: how can we implement it here?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I think the wisdom is this, and I don't

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Speaker 3: think one part of it has changed. I still don't.

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Speaker 3: I think the part that hasn't changed is kids want

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Speaker 3: to be around good people. They want to trust the

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Speaker 3: people that they're dealing with, They want to feel like

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Speaker 3: these people have their best interests in heart.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's changed. I really don't.

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Speaker 3: We've got to navigate them through some new decision making processes,

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Speaker 3: We've got to navigate a little bit of a changing

510
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Speaker 3: landscape when it comes to anil and portal. But I

511
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Speaker 3: do not believe that the part about people players wanting

512
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Speaker 3: to be around good people and field cared for, knowing

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Speaker 3: that they have their best interest in genuine, being genuine

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Speaker 3: and transparent.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that part has changed.

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Speaker 1: The blue line, the best go for teams the last

517
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Speaker 1: quarter century have had big time defensemen like Leopold Mikey Riley,

518
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Speaker 1: Keith Ballard, Favor Lacomb and so on.

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Speaker 2: That's a fun list.

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Speaker 1: Big time So how important is it? Like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't follow it super closely, but you know, talking

522
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Speaker 1: to some people and following some things during the season

523
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Speaker 1: there were some times, whether it's youthful, vigor or whatever,

524
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Speaker 1: that the Blue Line needed to improve. Let's just say

525
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Speaker 1: that whether who you have here now, they're going to

526
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Speaker 1: come back or maybe implement new people. So how important

527
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Speaker 1: is it to get that group back to playing at

528
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Speaker 1: a high, high level.

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Speaker 2: First priority, there's a really first priority, it really is.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, I was a defenseman, It's kind of been my

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Speaker 3: specialty a little bit, and I want to make sure

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Speaker 3: this this this group develops improves.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: Obviously we're going to find any way to make this

535
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Speaker 3: decore one of the top decors in the country again

536
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Speaker 3: this year. I'm really excited about that, and I think

537
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Speaker 3: it's something that we can do fairly quickly. We definitely

538
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Speaker 3: have some good returners that we're going to help develop,

539
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Speaker 3: and we're going to make sure that we bring in

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Speaker 3: a couple pieces that that that definitely supplement that. So

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Speaker 3: that's to me, as I come here and look at

542
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Speaker 3: this team an area where I think we can improve

543
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Speaker 3: really quickly. And I think a lot of people think

544
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Speaker 3: defense when you're talking about the defensive core, I'm not.

545
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Speaker 2: I'm talking power play.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about let's spend less time in our end,

547
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Speaker 3: getting the pucks to a highly talented group of forwards

548
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Speaker 3: so they don't have to spend time in our end

549
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Speaker 3: because forwards don't like to play on our end.

550
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Speaker 2: They want to play on the other end, you know.

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Speaker 3: And and having a decor that can get that puck

552
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Speaker 3: out of our yeah, quick, fast, with tempo, with speed,

553
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Speaker 3: with support. That part really excites me because I think

554
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Speaker 3: we're really going to say we're going to set our

555
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Speaker 3: forward group up for success, and we're going to do

556
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Speaker 3: that by being a decore that really breaks bucks out.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're really mobile. We're gonna be fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: That way, you can be like, hey, guys, look back

559
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Speaker 1: here in two thousand and six, I was pinching too

560
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Speaker 1: much for the Florida Seals, but it got me. They

561
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Speaker 1: didn't pick me up.

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Speaker 3: If these guys find out I played for the Florida

563
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Speaker 3: Seals and we might not want me coaching them.

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Speaker 2: So I'm going to leave that part.

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Speaker 1: Out, all right. A couple of quick he's to close

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Speaker 1: here for the coach. We mentioned the Denver Pioneers and

567
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Speaker 1: they've been to the Frozen Four for the last five

568
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Speaker 1: years and have won like eleven titles. How are they

569
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Speaker 1: always so good.

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Speaker 3: Well, they got a good recruiting philosophy, They're led very well.

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Speaker 3: It starts at the top, for sure. I've worked with

572
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Speaker 3: David Carl twice. I have a ton of respect for him.

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Speaker 3: I know he is a support at that university. They

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Speaker 3: believe in him. I think all those things just kind

575
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Speaker 3: of go hand in hand. He hired good people to

576
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Speaker 3: work for him, to recruit and help build that program,

577
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Speaker 3: and he deserves the accolades he's getting.

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Speaker 2: He's a big timer and he's a good person. That

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Speaker 2: was kind of fun. I didn't know him very well

580
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Speaker 2: working with him.

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Speaker 1: He was a guy that he was a tough guy

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Speaker 1: when he played right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we.

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Speaker 3: All kind of our coaching tree, right, the guys that

585
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Speaker 3: we hang with, And I wasn't necessarily in that coaching

586
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Speaker 3: tree a little bit. So when he hired me on

587
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Speaker 3: the World Junior staff, I really looked forward to working

588
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Speaker 3: with him and get to know him.

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Speaker 2: Great coach. But what I liked is I really enjoyed

590
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Speaker 2: him as a person, really good person.

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Speaker 1: That's great coach. Moscow was doing a good job here

592
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Speaker 1: getting Gophers alumni more involved. So do you find that

593
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Speaker 1: important and if so, what are the benefits?

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Speaker 2: Well, big time.

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Speaker 1: Number one.

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Speaker 2: I have to entrust with these guys right away.

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Speaker 3: Obviously the one thing for me I didn't wear the

598
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Speaker 3: AM and I got to show them that I'm.

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Speaker 2: In it with him, I'm in at forum.

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Speaker 3: I want them to see that it's genuine, it's real

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Speaker 3: that this wasn't just me about taking a job that's

602
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Speaker 3: a great job. This is about me understanding that I

603
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Speaker 3: was handled a torch of the most storied program in

604
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Speaker 3: college hockey history. And it's not lost on me that

605
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Speaker 3: a lot of these guys built this thing. And I

606
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Speaker 3: want them to know of that. I take that very seriously.

607
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Speaker 3: So luckily I know a ton of them already. I've

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Speaker 3: been friends with a lot of them. We're going to

609
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Speaker 3: get do some socials and get togethers here early to

610
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Speaker 3: make sure that we connect that way. But I'll tell

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Speaker 3: you what, Bob did a phenomenal job in that area,

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Speaker 3: and I definitely want to keep that going.

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Speaker 1: I have an idea, perhaps you've thought of it. Jordan

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Speaker 1: Leopold Mississippi Gardens might be in like Roseville, something like that.

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Speaker 1: So he and his wife have had an event center

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Speaker 1: for a decade and change. What a perfect spot for

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Speaker 1: the alumni to get together and Leo's listening right now,

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Speaker 1: I get five percent? All right, nine to noon. Lastly,

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Speaker 1: with this radio show, we have a quarter century old

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Speaker 1: thing we do called the bus bit. No way, you're

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Speaker 1: familiar with that, right, I don't? Excellent? Excellent, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: my man over here is familiar for sure. Here's the ask.

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Speaker 1: Is it possible for us every so often to call

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Speaker 1: you and chat? You guys are on a bus ride

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Speaker 1: to Madison. This goes back to Lucia on drives to Hope.

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Speaker 1: Then we'll ask you to pass the phone to a

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Speaker 3: The only thing I got to ask is can we

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Speaker 3: keep the bus driver's eyes on the road, you know,

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Speaker 3: so I'd rather not give him the phone.

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Speaker 2: But other than that, we're in.

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Speaker 1: I understand that the Yeah, the bus bits are age old,

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Speaker 1: So the other side of it is the Baltimore Ravens,

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Speaker 1: played by play voice named Jerry Sandusky. Yeah, he would be,

659
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Speaker 1: So I'm the wrong Paul Allen, He's the right Jerry Sandusky.

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Speaker 1: You know how I have that that Vox group group

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Speaker 1: text thing with all the play by play voices around

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Speaker 1: the NFL. We stay in touch with each other. Yeah, Dan,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a breaking news or not,

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Speaker 1: but certainly not not big here or anything. But Jerry Sandusky,

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Speaker 1: the box for the Ravens has retired. So I will

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Speaker 1: I'll admit to you, Waling Lee Cow it's not We

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Speaker 1: weren't going to interrupt your chat with new Gopher men's

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Speaker 1: hockey coach Brett Larson to breaking news. The right Jerry

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Speaker 1: Sandusky is calling it quits on a on a terrific

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Speaker 1: career in Baltimore. Dave Logan's like, good riddance, just kidding.

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Speaker 1: I did see Schefter tweeted it. They did, Yeah it Wow,

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Speaker 1: it was.

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Speaker 4: It was such big news in the NFL world that

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Speaker 4: it required an Adam Schefter X post for that. But yes,

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Speaker 4: the right Jerry Sandusky. What is that w B A

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Speaker 4: L W Y Y why raven Game Day Network? Jerry

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Speaker 4: Sandusky terrific box for the Ravens. I mean you signed

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Speaker 4: step On Diggs and free agency. In the box leaves,

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Speaker 4: I don't. I mean, I don't really know why. But

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Speaker 4: we're the head coach leaves in the box leaves are we?

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Speaker 4: He's got some good school stories?

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Speaker 1: Is this finchy Finchy.

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Speaker 4: Had we decided that we were going to replay, No,

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Speaker 4: not replay, uh finch if you we have some finch

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Speaker 4: if you flinched, and that is and that is my

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Speaker 4: fault because I do not have Finch audio at my

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Speaker 4: immediate fingertips.

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Speaker 2: No, I do not.

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Speaker 1: I made a mistake. We We had a really good

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Speaker 1: conversation with Chris Finch earlier and there were some topics

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Speaker 1: that for Timberwolves fans and local sports fans that we

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Speaker 1: think you would enjoy. One of them included Anthony Edwards

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Speaker 1: and and and Chris said after the Dallas game that

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Speaker 1: I read the quote yesterday after he talked about nature,

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Speaker 1: Nature gets to win or Nature calls or whatever. He

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Speaker 1: credited Anthony Edwards saying what a wonderful game he had,

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Speaker 1: Holy cow. He played his tail off and his decisions

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Speaker 1: were quicker. He made quicker decisions. He made quick decisions.

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Speaker 1: He made quicker decisions. And the fact that he said,

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Speaker 1: quicker triggered me to ask him, well, like, well with

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Speaker 1: these quicker decisions, like where was it taking place? And

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Speaker 1: this is podcastable, It'll be podcastable after the show nine

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Speaker 1: to noon on demand kfan dot com. I would encourage

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Speaker 1: listening back to this interview because there were some really

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Speaker 1: cool nuggets he dropped in there about the Western Conference

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Speaker 1: and about Anthony and making quicker decisions.

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Speaker 4: Well, and while I apologize for not having those audio clips,

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Speaker 4: it was interesting that he went down that road about

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Speaker 4: the decisions because I think it was Anthony himself after

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Speaker 4: the game. Most people remember the viral post where he's like,

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Speaker 4: here's what I was doing, this is why I wasn't here.

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Speaker 1: Mike Conley held it down for me, but he kind.

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Speaker 4: Of talked about how the pace of Io Desumo and

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Speaker 4: what they're doing on the floor in some ways it

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Speaker 4: forces him to play faster and so he's got to

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Speaker 4: keep up with them. And I wonder just how if

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Speaker 4: there's a nexus there between you have Chris Finch complimenting

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Speaker 4: the decision making and what he saw from ant with

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Speaker 4: Iode Sumo on the court kind of forcing that action

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Speaker 4: because he just has no breaks and as busy as

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Speaker 4: he is on the court, that that one potentially helps

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Speaker 4: the other, which just continues down the road. Pa of

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Speaker 4: the fact that you know what Io brings here and

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Speaker 4: what we've been begging for. Hey love Mike Conley, but

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Speaker 4: he can't go thirty five minutes a night anymore. We

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Speaker 4: need somebody there to be the main distributor and main

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Speaker 4: ball handler. Iodsumo in the ripple effect of what he's

728
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Speaker 4: doing can even lead to your very best player even

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Speaker 4: improving in some of those areas.

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Speaker 1: Uh, what I think it is. And I didn't go

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Speaker 1: down this road with great because I've done it two

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Speaker 1: consecutive weeks. But it just in watching Edwards play in

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Speaker 1: that Dallas game, I've said to Chris, you know, while

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Speaker 1: Anthony was out, Hey, last year, Julius Randall missed a

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Speaker 1: month and he came back for a game maybe against Utah,

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Speaker 1: but he got hurt against Washington on a Saturday. He's

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Speaker 1: out about a month. He comes back, He's being an

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Speaker 1: interviewed postgame by Lea by Olsen. I'll never forget him

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Speaker 1: because I had never heard anybody say this. Julius said,

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Speaker 1: you know, being away a month, I was able to

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Speaker 1: watch the team play from a different prism. I was

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Speaker 1: able to watch the team play from a different scope

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Speaker 1: in that he got some tells and talkers and takes

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Speaker 1: and tedium and titbits about what players are doing that

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Speaker 1: he's not necessarily thinking about during the game or maybe

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Speaker 1: picking up after the game. And so I brought up

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Speaker 1: with Chris a couple of times. Hey, kind of like

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Speaker 1: Julie last year, you know, what do you think Anthony

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Speaker 1: watching it from afar? Do you think that potentially can

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Speaker 1: help him? Now, this was only six games with Anthony,

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Speaker 1: so it wasn't that long, but it's it's apparent to

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Speaker 1: me that Edwards saw some things that were taking place

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Speaker 1: when he was away that he knows he's a big

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Speaker 1: part of and it has to be better. And that

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Speaker 1: would include the the quicker part of the quick twitch

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Speaker 1: decision making. I think more leans the way of defense,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's the quick twitch recognition of where to

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Speaker 1: go before the other guy gets to the spot that

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Speaker 1: he wants to get to. So it's you know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's like back when I played high school and

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Speaker 1: junior college basketball, the least favorite drill that we ever

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Speaker 1: would run in practice, and it was always you never

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Speaker 1: ran in the season because people potentially could get hurt.

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Speaker 1: But it was up two season where you got to

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Speaker 1: beat your guy to the lower block and take the charge. So,

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Speaker 1: in other words, beat your guy to the spot. And

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Speaker 1: you know in hockey and basketball and in football, you'll

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Speaker 1: hear that a lot beat the guy to the spot.

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Speaker 1: But maybe Edwards from a quick twitch standpoint, wasn't getting

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Speaker 1: to the defensive spot quickly enough and therefore his like

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Speaker 1: like I said, a couple of weeks ago, when you

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Speaker 1: know it's a or right when he started going out,

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Speaker 1: it started to get a little loud on social media

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Speaker 1: about some defensive metrics that had improved without Anthony Edwards.

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Speaker 1: And that's good because they helped the team win games.

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Speaker 1: But like I said, if anybody for a second thinks,

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Speaker 1: if Anthony Edwards is engaged in a defensive matchup that

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Speaker 1: he can't stop almost anybody one on one in the NBA,

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Speaker 1: you're a fool. Because he can now there are picks

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Speaker 1: and recognition and things like that. His on ball defense

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Speaker 1: is his recognition as to whether to go over or

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Speaker 1: underpicks was so sharp in that Dallas game in limited

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Speaker 1: time because he's kind of on a pitch count. They're

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Speaker 1: restricting his minutes, but offensively, it's just becoming more apparent

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Speaker 1: over the last couple of years. When they lose a game,

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Speaker 1: Finch joins nine to noon, or you watch his press

787
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Speaker 1: conferences and you hear him say, ball got too sticky,

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Speaker 1: Ball got too sticky, ball got too sticky. I mean

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Speaker 1: that's Anthony and Julius. That's just pounding away like James Harden.

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Speaker 1: And then you go you get players like Jayden McDaniels

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Speaker 1: who like or other players who lose their focus with

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Speaker 1: what their role is within the offense. So that part

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Speaker 1: of the interview is something I think you'll really enjoy.

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Speaker 1: I also brought up to him the Western Conference. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you talk about the best of the best put in

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Speaker 1: the pedal of the medal right now. And Houston killed

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Speaker 1: the Knicks last night and the score wasn't as close

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Speaker 1: as it looked. And I was excited for the Lakers

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland last night. I didn't watch any of it,

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Speaker 1: but the what I said yesterday was, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: not if the Wolves get the Lakers in the first round.

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Speaker 1: They get the Lakers in the first round. I want

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Speaker 1: to watch Luca play defense in high leverage situations likewise

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Speaker 1: for Lebron Deandrey eaightt and the rest of the Cats.

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Speaker 1: So they're playing a defensively sound team last night in

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Cavaliers, Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley. I think Jared

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Speaker 1: Allen is back. You know, when those Cats play defense, man,

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Speaker 1: they lock you down. And I think the Lakers scored

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Speaker 1: one twenty five and are just on hit legit right now.

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Speaker 1: So maybe it's a case of be careful what you

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Speaker 1: wish for. But Chris was asked, you know, is there

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Speaker 1: anybody you prefer to play? And he said not really,

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Speaker 1: Let's just get the playoffs going. But the top six

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Speaker 1: teams in the Western Conference into yesterday, so I think

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Speaker 1: out of yesterday they've won twenty six consecutive games Oklahoma City,

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Speaker 1: San Antonio, the LA Lakers, the Denver Nuggets, the t Wolves,

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Speaker 1: and the Houston Rockets. Twenty six? Is it twenty six? Stract?

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Speaker 1: That's how hot your Western Conference is now. And you

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Speaker 1: know you got Denver at Denver's at Utah tonight, favored

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Speaker 1: by seventeen and a half. Denver's one of those teams

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Speaker 1: laying down trying to get the best ping pong ball spot.

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Speaker 1: Denver's gonna win tonight. If Denver doesn't win tonight, it's

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Speaker 1: an atrocity. The Wolves still left Houston one time. That

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Speaker 1: could be important as playoff seating goes, because they've each

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Speaker 1: beaten each other one time this year, so that's a

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Speaker 1: that's a home court thing. But I ended the conversation

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Speaker 1: podcastablekfa in dot com talking about the San Antonio Spurs,

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Speaker 1: and the reason I brought it up is because the

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Speaker 1: Spurs play the Nuggets two more times this year, and

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Speaker 1: the Spurs are trying to run down Shay so that

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Speaker 1: they care. Utah doesn't care. The Spurs care. So those

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Speaker 1: are big, big games coming up for the Denver Nuggets

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Speaker 1: and San Antonio Spurs. We got to start by beating Detroit,

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Speaker 1: then beating Philadelphia, keeping pace with these Nuggets to get

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Speaker 1: home court in the first round back after this out

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Speaker 1: every game, every moment. Now there's not a ton of

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Speaker 1: We could in any minute, but I'll bring a moment

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Speaker 1: gate A chat with Brent Larson, a head coach of

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Speaker 1: You can podcast that kfa N dot com. You did

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Speaker 1: two great things during that segment.

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Speaker 4: You locked him into the bus bit and you potentially

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Speaker 1: We'll see how Leo handles that, but I think you'd

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Speaker 1: sure you got a lot of openings, but podcast that.

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Speaker 1: at AM eleven thirty kfan off Xerxes in Bloomington, and

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Speaker 1: after Jesse the Governor Ventura, Jesse the body Ventura became governor,

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Speaker 1: myself and Jeff Dubay got the ten to one time

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Speaker 1: slot right in front of Common, who was relatively early

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Speaker 1: in his career, and then Chaden Burrero at a radio

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Speaker 1: show after that Chad Hartman Dan Burrero, and Common was

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Speaker 1: their producer. The morning show at that time was Bob Yates,

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Speaker 1: one of the smartest people I've met in the radio business.

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Speaker 1: Super quirky, super smart. Bob had the morning show. Jesse

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Speaker 1: had this slot ten to one, but nine to noon

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Speaker 1: now and you know, Dubers and I knew at the

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Speaker 1: State Fair nineteen nine, that there's a chance we're going

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Speaker 1: to get this job because I can't remember exactly who

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Speaker 1: was running. You had I can't remember who was running.

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Speaker 1: But at the State there, you know, you would see

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Speaker 1: one booth and you would see another booth and they

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Speaker 1: were like crickets, maybe five people at the Mondale booth.

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Speaker 1: And I can't remember who the other person running was. Well,

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Speaker 1: it was Norm Coleman and Skip Humphrey. Humphrey not Mondale,

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Speaker 1: thank you Humphrey and Coleman. And they're just I mean

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Speaker 1: there were people there. But then you saw Jesse's booth.

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Speaker 1: It was I mean it was like the TSA lines

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Speaker 1: at Hartsfield in Atlanta or Hobby in Houston. I mean

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Speaker 1: they were just stretching all over the place. So it

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Speaker 1: was like with Doers, Hey, you know, we might get

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Speaker 1: this job. And so then we get into the job.

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Speaker 1: PA and dobay am eleven thirty k fam and and

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Speaker 1: he's having me watch on the crawl on ESPN looking

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Speaker 1: for a fair Estate score. I'm like, who's fair a state? Well, no,

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Speaker 1: they're playing Quinnipiac. What the hell Quinnipiac. And then I

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Speaker 1: quickly learned how important college hockey was a to him,

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Speaker 1: but b to this market. And I'll just be straight

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Speaker 1: with you. I've met some of my best friends in

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Speaker 1: Minnesota since coming here full time in ninety eight, from

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Speaker 1: the college hockey world through the inception in ninety eight.

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Speaker 1: So college hockey always has been important to me and

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Speaker 1: been important to this radio show. And it's great to

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Speaker 1: engage with Brett Larson because we'll stay in touch during

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Speaker 1: the season. Hey, God bless you and God bless your families.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to nine to noon at FM one

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Speaker 1: hundred point three Kfan Bye bye with good news or money,

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