Speaker 1: We are number one.
Speaker 2: We just grabbed every key demographic.
Speaker 1: Super duper. That's nice. Way to go. Neato gang. That
Speaker 1: was good news.
Speaker 3: It is the third day of September, 2026. Good morning, everybody,
Speaker 3: and welcome to the Power Trip Morning Show on the
Speaker 3: best day of the week.
Speaker 4: It's Thursday. Yes, yes.
Speaker 3: Tommy, Fargo Flash, Ben Lieber, a cast of thousands, literally,
Speaker 3: on their way in to break it all down today.
Speaker 3: What a day we have planned for you. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 3: let's get this thing started. Here's some comedy from the
Speaker 3: great Dave Chappelle. It's a Thursday morning. It's going to
Speaker 3: be a great day.
Speaker 4: Come on in. I am glad you are here.
Speaker 1: It's been 10 years since the last time I played
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. You can imagine.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 7: I've been gone for a very long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a tough time. And I wanted to
Speaker 1: give up sometimes.
Speaker 4: I almost did give up.
Speaker 1: But then right before I gave up, I decided not to.
Speaker 1: But I made the call. I made the call.
Speaker 4: They answer the phone.
Speaker 5: Hello?
Speaker 1: Dancing with the stars. I said, not yet.
Speaker 8: Not yet.
Speaker 1: If you see me on that, it's over. Trust me.
Speaker 1: My spirit is broken.
Speaker 7: If you see me waiting for them judges, getting critiqued
Speaker 7: on my cha-cha, it's over.
Speaker 1: I know them.
Speaker 9: Ah, that's right.
Speaker 10: The finish line is waiting.
Speaker 9: Ah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Fear's on your side. I know them. You hear the
Speaker 1: distant thunder.
Speaker 4: There's lightning in your stride.
Speaker 11: It is the Power Trip Morning Show, Thursday, September 3rd
Speaker 11: of 2026.
Speaker 10: Halfway through the state fair, this is the third day
Speaker 10: of September. It is the first day of the college
Speaker 10: football season. If you are a Golden Gopher fan, I
Speaker 10: bet Tommy is at a 9.8 out of 10 right now.
Speaker 10: He's jacked on the drive in.
Speaker 7: When I got up at 4.15, he'd already been up
Speaker 7: and posting.
Speaker 10: Well, yeah, we know his morning routine, right? He's probably
Speaker 10: been up since 1 in the morning getting ready for today.
Speaker 10: I'm Corey, that's Chris, that's Paul, and there's Zachary.
Speaker 1: And we're with you until 9 o'clock.
Speaker 11: Hi, hi.
Speaker 1: It's college football tonight.
Speaker 10: Right here on The Fan, you're home for gopher football.
Speaker 4: It's heating up, baby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, daddy.
Speaker 4: It's all happening.
Speaker 10: So, most people at this station and most people that
Speaker 10: are listening can cheer for the gophers, and Sauce, you
Speaker 10: can start anti-sweating the gophers starting tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man. I'm going to do that.
Speaker 7: And I need them to lose by or win by 44.
Speaker 7: And that would be a great start. I would appreciate
Speaker 7: that if they lost by or won by 44.
Speaker 12: Wow.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of points, man. You want them to
Speaker 1: win by 44? Yeah. Cause then I win my bet.
Speaker 13: Hmm.
Speaker 1: Doesn't that make sense?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just didn't think you were, didn't you take, you
Speaker 1: took a, didn't you take the other team?
Speaker 7: Yeah, but if the Gophers win by 44, I win
Speaker 7: my bet because I have that.
Speaker 1: I didn't know this until last night.
Speaker 7: I have them plus, I have Eastern Illinois plus 45
Speaker 7: and a half.
Speaker 1: Plus 45 and a half? Yeah, that was the original line, yeah.
Speaker 10: Oh, wow, I didn't know that. You got them at
Speaker 10: 45 and a half. Yeah, and now it's down to like. See,
Speaker 10: now my confusion ends because I was like, why would
Speaker 10: 44 help you at all?
Speaker 1: 44 helps me, yeah. Got it, got it, got it.
Speaker 14: Yep.
Speaker 10: Okay, so you want the Gophers to win, but Eastern
Speaker 10: Illinois to cover. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, you actually are cheering for them to win.
Speaker 15: Fantastic.
Speaker 8: Well, sure.
Speaker 1: They're not going to lose to this team. This team's awful.
Speaker 4: Come on, now.
Speaker 1: Hey, man.
Speaker 4: Don't give them both of our material.
Speaker 10: They'll win their first three games. Yeah, what if the
Speaker 10: entire team is listening right now?
Speaker 1: Eastern Illinois, and they're like, whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo. Is that right? Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're listening to Silverchair.
Speaker 4: I'm sure that's fat boy yeah.
Speaker 10: God if they're listening to frog stomp right now yeah
Speaker 10: then text me your address i'll come listen.
Speaker 1: With you and now you want them to win i.
Speaker 10: Do i love frog stomp yeah it wails what a
Speaker 10: cool album cover.
Speaker 4: Too yeah stop it on a frog like that.
Speaker 10: Remember uh all of our moms thought that we were
Speaker 10: going to play frog baseball because beavis and butthead didn't
Speaker 10: or burn things to the ground I'm like, I'm willing
Speaker 10: to blow up a fish with black cat fireworks after
Speaker 10: they're dead.
Speaker 1: I did that.
Speaker 10: I'm not going to hit a live frog with a
Speaker 10: baseball bat because a cartoon does. That's serial killer behavior.
Speaker 14: Sure.
Speaker 3: I just don't want to pick them up. If somebody
Speaker 3: else would pick them up and loft them in there,
Speaker 3: I'll knock the sun out.
Speaker 1: Great point. I don't want to touch a frog either.
Speaker 1: Why not? What's wrong with frogs? I love frogs.
Speaker 4: Slimy and gross.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: They're your favorite animal. Yeah, we have them.
Speaker 7: You know everything about frogs. Every once in a while,
Speaker 7: there's some on my deck, and my son and I
Speaker 7: go out.
Speaker 1: Deck. Deck. And my kiddo and I go out there.
Speaker 1: What do you do? I try and pick them up,
Speaker 1: but they squirm away. He loves frogs. So do you.
Speaker 1: It's your favorite animal. It is my favorite animal.
Speaker 4: What if a frog bit him? What would you do?
Speaker 1: Well, I'd be sad.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 4: What would you do?
Speaker 1: Probably chuck it in the ground.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Quick, what's your favorite animal? I don't know.
Speaker 7: Frog?
Speaker 10: Frog?
Speaker 1: Well, frog is wrong. Frog is wrong.
Speaker 4: What's the right answer?
Speaker 1: My favorite animal, frog.
Speaker 7: No, no, no.
Speaker 4: I'm asking Corey. What is the right answer?
Speaker 1: Almost anything but frog.
Speaker 10: Why?
Speaker 1: Why? They're gross. Chris is right. They're gross. They are.
Speaker 1: I don't want to touch them. But like Hawk and
Speaker 1: I used to talk to B-Rob about going fishing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 1: He'd have to touch all of it. I'm not touching
Speaker 1: any of it.
Speaker 4: If I'm going fishing with him, he's touching me.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Is B-Rob back in Texas? Where is he?
Speaker 4: I believe he lives in Libya.
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 4: Yeah. Strange choice for retirement.
Speaker 1: Bold choice.
Speaker 4: What did he want to do? He said the fishing's
Speaker 4: great down there.
Speaker 1: He's an outdoorsman. He really is. But if Hagen or
Speaker 1: West are listening, where's B-Rob? Yeah, Hagen, call Hogsteady.
Speaker 4: Are you just hearing that in your headphones? Sound like lightning? No?
Speaker 1: Are you on the drugs? Sounds like lightning?
Speaker 10: Like static or lightning strikes?
Speaker 4: Like static. That reminds me.
Speaker 10: Let's try this for a second real quick. Sauce, what
Speaker 10: does lightning sound like? That's what it sounds like?
Speaker 1: Lightning? I thought you said thunder. Lightning doesn't make a sound.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, hold on one second.
Speaker 4: You thought he said thunder?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but here's why I'm confused, okay?
Speaker 4: Here's why I'm confused. The two words sound nothing else alike.
Speaker 7: Here's why I'm confused, though. When you said, does it
Speaker 7: sound like lightning? Lightning doesn't make a noise. So I
Speaker 7: immediately then thought, well, maybe he means like the thunder
Speaker 7: that follows. So I was listening for thunder.
Speaker 4: I think lightning does make a bit of a noise,
Speaker 4: doesn't it?
Speaker 1: I mean, when it cracks. Yeah. Boom. Yeah, when it
Speaker 1: scares you.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Boom.
Speaker 1: You're fascinating. Thanks, man.
Speaker 3: The other day, I was reminded, and I don't know
Speaker 3: why I was reminded, because I've heard this song a
Speaker 3: million times between then and now. But I was listening
Speaker 3: to a cover band echo through the streets of Excelsior, Minnesota.
Speaker 3: And they were playing What's Up by Four Non Blondes.
Speaker 1: Banger.
Speaker 3: Great band name. Great songwriter. And I was reminded because
Speaker 3: we rented the band.
Speaker 4: Moonshine, which you guys are well familiar with.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3: The infamous Colorado incident. I was in the band Moonshine.
Speaker 3: So we rented a practice space in, I think it
Speaker 3: was Upland, California.
Speaker 4: Maybe in Glendora. It was Glendora, California. From the drummer
Speaker 4: of the Four Non Blondes, Dad.
Speaker 1: As one does. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And they were the rage in 92, 93.
Speaker 4: Specifically that song.
Speaker 3: And little Steve, who was a guitar player, and I
Speaker 3: had this thing that drove everybody around us nuts.
Speaker 4: And it was this. Just randomly, I would go, Hey, Steve.
Speaker 10: You go, yeah.
Speaker 4: And you go, do you try And he'd go, oh,
Speaker 4: my God.
Speaker 1: Brilliant.
Speaker 4: And every now and again, I'd go, hey, Steve.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Do you pray?
Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Man, and you're saying this got annoying?
Speaker 1: That's so good. No. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I can't find anybody in my life right now to
Speaker 4: do that for me.
Speaker 1: That sounds like something David would do.
Speaker 10: See?
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 4: David, will you do it for me? I'll call you
Speaker 4: randomly every now and again. When you answer the phone,
Speaker 4: you go, hello.
Speaker 3: And I'll go, Dave, do you try? And all I
Speaker 3: want you to do is go.
Speaker 1: Brilliant.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he would do that.
Speaker 1: He has nothing. going on sure for sure.
Speaker 4: He's got a gambling problem wow welcome.
Speaker 1: To the club.
Speaker 10: Our new bit in the last like four or five
Speaker 10: days sauce our new bit no no sauce and i
Speaker 10: have done this a handful of times We've tweeted, or
Speaker 10: not tweeted, sorry. We've texted Dov something that we know
Speaker 10: he hates, and we start the timer on our phone
Speaker 10: to see how quickly he responds with rage. Yeah, it's
Speaker 10: a long list. The first one, we all guessed like
Speaker 10: under 40 seconds, he's going to absolutely just rage back.
Speaker 10: It took him over 12 minutes to respond.
Speaker 1: It took him a while, yeah.
Speaker 10: Then I did it again yesterday, and I think it took, again,
Speaker 10: 10 to 12 minutes.
Speaker 1: What is he doing? What does he hate?
Speaker 10: Why does it take him 12 minutes to text me back?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't even like the guy. I
Speaker 1: don't know what he does. Maybe that's why he's taking.
Speaker 10: So long to return my texts, is he knows that
Speaker 10: I hate him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, yeah. You've said you hate him on
Speaker 1: the air, so I think... Well, I've said it to
Speaker 1: his face. I mean... Yeah, there is that.
Speaker 4: You can imagine what you would tweet, pictures that he
Speaker 4: hates of. How do you tweet pictures of freedom and childhood?
Speaker 10: So, like, I'm trying to get him to respond... Like, literally, like,
Speaker 10: that's all I do.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, my God, do a try. And I can't
Speaker 1: get him to bite. It's fun. That's so annoying. It is. No,
Speaker 1: it's funny. I'm with little Stevie here, whatever his name is.
Speaker 4: Oh, little Steve loved it.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Wait, is little Stevie, isn't he from, is that the
Speaker 10: Bruce Springsteen guy?
Speaker 4: Little Steve N.
Speaker 1: Steve N.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you had little Steve. Yes. Was he a little
Speaker 1: person or was he just a- He was normal size.
Speaker 4: He was bigger than me.
Speaker 10: He was a bigger guy named Steve, but you called
Speaker 10: him little Steve.
Speaker 1: At one point in my life- Why'd he get that
Speaker 1: nickname then? I don't know.
Speaker 4: At one point in my life, I called everybody little something.
Speaker 15: That's funny.
Speaker 4: I had little Phil that worked at the gas station.
Speaker 11: Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1: He was six two little rick was at.
Speaker 3: Least six four he was much bigger than me yeah
Speaker 3: he was the bass player.
Speaker 10: Well little ben's gonna be here in a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah let's see if he goes with little maybe i
Speaker 3: like that little tommy i'm.
Speaker 10: Gonna ask him if he tries we've heard way too
Speaker 10: much about little tommy in the last 10 plus years
Speaker 10: yeah good point i know where little tommy's been do you.
Speaker 4: Know who would love oh my god do i try Tommy.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. He might not even know that song.
Speaker 13: He might.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: He's all in. He will, because that song made a resurgence.
Speaker 12: Did it?
Speaker 1: Yeah. Everybody was like, it was like a TikTok bit.
Speaker 10: Maybe, but either way, that song came out before he
Speaker 10: was born.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, he'll know that slammer.
Speaker 4: I heard a rumor one time about that band, Four
Speaker 4: Non Blondes.
Speaker 1: Go on.
Speaker 3: They were on tour as the opening band for Aerosmith
Speaker 3: for the longest time. And I might have heard this
Speaker 3: from a really good source. That, you know, the dreadlocks,
Speaker 3: if they're real, that means you ain't washed your hair in.
Speaker 4: A long time.
Speaker 1: I see where you're going with this.
Speaker 3: And I was told that Aerosmith threatened to kick them
Speaker 3: off the tour if they didn't wash their hair.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Because they didn't smell great.
Speaker 2: Gross.
Speaker 1: But, I mean, in their defense, yeah. That's what you
Speaker 1: signed up for. Yeah, that's my look.
Speaker 4: You should have smelled my undies, my leather pants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when that lady in Colorado took them off.
Speaker 4: You get the stories mixed up, but we're okay. At
Speaker 4: least you know what you're doing.
Speaker 1: I'm trying.
Speaker 15: You are.
Speaker 5: Do it.
Speaker 1: Oh my God, do a try. Jeez, that's the best
Speaker 1: he's ever sang. I wish he would try to sing.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 4: That might have been the best you've ever sang.
Speaker 1: Thanks, Hawk. Try again. Oh my God, do a try.
Speaker 10: I mean.
Speaker 1: Can I?
Speaker 10: I definitely pray for you to be better than that.
Speaker 4: You're a songbird.
Speaker 1: There's zero chance you pray.
Speaker 4: You are a songbird.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Hogs. Do you pray? Oh my God, do
Speaker 1: I pray? Getting worse.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it is getting worse. But I have to throw
Speaker 7: in the air bass, which I did a lot of
Speaker 7: at the Dave Matthews concert.
Speaker 1: Oh, I can imagine.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine sitting behind him trying to see Dave Matthews?
Speaker 3: When you go see Dave Matthews, And you're surrounded by
Speaker 3: other serious Dave Matthews fans.
Speaker 4: And they're mad at you for playing the air base.
Speaker 4: Do they go?
Speaker 1: Can I make a statement? Do they do that? No,
Speaker 1: they do not. Can I make a statement?
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: And I am one. The worst fans are Dave Matthews fans. Geez.
Speaker 11: Why?
Speaker 1: They just are. And I am one. They just. Why
Speaker 1: are they the worst?
Speaker 4: What do they do?
Speaker 1: They're just annoying. Okay. In what ways? I have to
Speaker 1: tell you how many times they've seen them.
Speaker 10: That's, I think that's all bands that have a diehard
Speaker 10: fan base. It's always like a badge of honor, right?
Speaker 10: It's like, I've seen them this many times. How many
Speaker 10: times have you seen them? That's pretty standard.
Speaker 1: I don't know. They're just, uh, yeah. And I am one.
Speaker 1: We're just an annoying group. But what else? It can't
Speaker 1: be just that. Don't have any good examples. Oh, that's
Speaker 1: a hot take for almost no information. But I am one. So, like,
Speaker 1: I am in that group. We are an annoying group.
Speaker 8: You are him.
Speaker 1: You've said that 15 times. In what other ways?
Speaker 7: We think that that's the only band that matters. We
Speaker 7: think that you are, like, it's like you're... like it's
Speaker 7: a privilege.
Speaker 1: Or a right to go to that band and talk.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 7: They're just annoying. They're just an annoying group of people.
Speaker 7: They talk throughout every song. They loudly sing every song.
Speaker 7: That includes me.
Speaker 1: We're just an annoying group.
Speaker 7: It's just a bunch of lame white people.
Speaker 4: It is the power trip morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, they're an annoying group of people. And we,
Speaker 1: we are an annoying group of people.
Speaker 7: I get why people hate, like they don't like the
Speaker 7: Dave Matthews band.
Speaker 8: Hate.
Speaker 1: It's the fans. The band.
Speaker 7: I love the band. There are people who probably hate
Speaker 7: the band. They're like, the band's fine. The fans suck.
Speaker 7: They're an annoying, pretentious group of people. Couldn't agree more.
Speaker 1: They are. And I'm one of them. Oh. You're shaved?
Speaker 1: That's not what I said. Are you nuts? God, you're pretentious.
Speaker 1: You're annoying. Yeah, I am. I'm all these things. How
Speaker 1: many times have you seen them? I, I lost track.
Speaker 10: I thought about like going approximately how many times?
Speaker 1: Mid fifties. Why do you have to tell me? You
Speaker 1: asked them. Most of them tell you without even asking.
Speaker 4: Sure. Would you just try?
Speaker 1: Oh my God. Do what? Try. I try all my life.
Speaker 4: Not the right words.
Speaker 1: Miss institution. You should be institutionalized. You're right. Rim teaser
Speaker 1: should be institutionalized. Oh, God.
Speaker 10: I'm going to text up to Dob and see how
Speaker 10: long it takes him to text me back.
Speaker 1: He is the rim teaser.
Speaker 10: He is the rim teaser. I like to tease the
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Speaker 1: Take a second.
Speaker 10: All right, so Tommy shortly. Argo Flash relatively shortly. Ben
Speaker 10: Lieber relatively shortly. You guys square off in semi-final number
Speaker 10: three a little over 24 hours from now.
Speaker 1: That is correct. Against Doug Glenn and Belinda Jensen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that'll be funny.
Speaker 10: Bell does not like her matchup, but what are you
Speaker 10: going to do?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 1: You got to beat them all.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think Hogs Daddy will win tomorrow.
Speaker 4: It depends on the initials, man.
Speaker 10: Look at you being humble. Trying to lower the bar,
Speaker 10: lower the standards.
Speaker 1: No. I mean, no, I think Hogs Daddy will win.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I think almost any of you could win. Yeah.
Speaker 10: I mean, you're all going to get smoked by Rick
Speaker 10: next week, but that's okay. Yeah, that's all right.
Speaker 1: He's a savant. Yeah, he's very good.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We'll see. But we'll see. One of you will be
Speaker 1: in the finals.
Speaker 10: Glenn?
Speaker 1: Glenn?
Speaker 7: Swedberg-Rick matchup would be all-time.
Speaker 10: Well, that's like when Zacco had the idea to basically
Speaker 10: at some point do like an initials Masters bit, right?
Speaker 10: Like how Jeopardy does like the top, top, top player
Speaker 10: square off once a year for the Tournament of Champions.
Speaker 10: We might have a preview of that by just putting
Speaker 10: those three in the finals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, correct.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We'll see. Yeah. But hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down.
Speaker 1: Slow down. Let's not just put Glenn in there.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What are we at? 124 or something? 124,000? Something like that.
Speaker 1: Maybe 124,500?
Speaker 10: Now I'm forgetting. Why do I always forget? It was
Speaker 10: six days ago.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I always forget exactly where we're at. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We're in St. Louis Park. Yeah, we're in St. Louis Park.
Speaker 10: I really hope whoever wins a jackpot at some point,
Speaker 10: I hope the person doesn't have like 2.1 million of
Speaker 10: net worth. I hope it's somebody that has like $ 2, 200
Speaker 10: to their name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like Dusty Mond. Right.
Speaker 10: And Dusty's like... I don't know if I can even
Speaker 10: go on. I can't afford to pay my Netflix bill.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope it's dusty. And then he wins $ 124, 000.
Speaker 10: We just legitimately changed somebody's life.
Speaker 16: $ 123, 500 tomorrow.
Speaker 1: $ 123, 500. That's a lot of money. Yeah, man. The leftovers. Wait,
Speaker 1: what's the other one we normally do?
Speaker 4: Order up.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 4: I know you do.
Speaker 1: Because I love you.
Speaker 4: And I love you.
Speaker 10: All right, we're going to do a segment here, Sauce.
Speaker 10: I really want you to focus. I want you just
Speaker 10: to try.
Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Do I try? No, he's not even
Speaker 1: trying the bit. I try all my life. Doesn't she
Speaker 1: say in this institution? Yeah.
Speaker 4: I try all the time in this institution.
Speaker 1: Hasn't she written like a hundred slammers?
Speaker 12: Sure.
Speaker 4: A lot of, uh, pink stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. With pink. Yeah. Yeah. Pink by Aerosmith is
Speaker 1: one of the worst songs of all time.
Speaker 4: I love that song.
Speaker 1: I love that song too. It's like Luke Bryan before
Speaker 1: Luke Bryan.
Speaker 4: Was Luke Bryan.
Speaker 1: Um, yeah, that Luke Bryan song is horrible.
Speaker 4: People like it.
Speaker 1: Um, what was I going to say? I don't remember.
Speaker 4: I don't think you were going to say anything.
Speaker 7: I think the lady in Four Non Blondes was married
Speaker 7: to the lady in Roseanne.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. The daughter in Roseanne?
Speaker 7: I think they were a couple. Sarah Gilbert? Yeah, I
Speaker 7: think her and that lady were a couple. I don't
Speaker 7: think they're a thing anymore, but I'm pretty sure they were.
Speaker 4: Get back to us on that.
Speaker 10: She was also the lead singer of Four Non Blondes,
Speaker 10: was also the sister of legendary Bears.
Speaker 10: Defenseman William Perry.
Speaker 1: Was she really? Yes. She was married to Linda Perry
Speaker 1: for seven years. Yeah.
Speaker 10: So the brother of William Perry, and I believe her
Speaker 10: nickname was the freezer.
Speaker 1: Oh, really? Yeah. It says that right here.
Speaker 12: Wow.
Speaker 1: You're correct. Yeah. See, Wikipedia knows, you know.
Speaker 4: Rosie used to.
Speaker 3: Travel around like, like the four non blondes were a
Speaker 3: grateful dad. He would follow them from city to city.
Speaker 1: Why is that?
Speaker 3: He didn't like the music, but he liked to, when
Speaker 3: they say, ladies and gentlemen, four non blondes, He'd go,
Speaker 3: prove it!
Speaker 1: Oh, my God, Mark.
Speaker 4: He'd even stay for the concert.
Speaker 1: Oh, Mark. What up, Mexico?
Speaker 10: No, but again, Rosie doesn't discriminate. He also went and
Speaker 10: saw the band Blondie.
Speaker 1: He did.
Speaker 15: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah. He likes.
Speaker 10: A little bit of everything. Actually, I don't need to
Speaker 10: bring his name up.
Speaker 1: Why did I bring him up? Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, he sounded sad yesterday on the show. I don't know.
Speaker 4: He sounds so sad.
Speaker 1: I wonder why.
Speaker 4: It's because of you guys being mean to him all
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 5: I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably. I mean, yeah, you're probably right. Is that right?
Speaker 1: I should probably stop. Yeah.
Speaker 4: But you just give me a favor.
Speaker 1: Try. I try all the time. That's not true. I
Speaker 1: do not. I don't remember the last time I tried.
Speaker 1: Courage to quit.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You got that figured out.
Speaker 1: Skip the first chapter and call it a mystery. All right.
Speaker 1: You were going to read something. What bit are we doing?
Speaker 1: The leftovers, the leftovers.
Speaker 10: Hey, I literally just, it makes me want to throw
Speaker 10: something through glass. It sounds so fun. What a cool sound.
Speaker 10: You should go to a smash room.
Speaker 3: So I was saying yesterday, listen to the band smash
Speaker 3: mouth and eat a smash burger, man.
Speaker 1: That'd be good. And play smash brothers. Yeah. That game's fun.
Speaker 10: And then hang out with a smash from demolition.
Speaker 4: And then smash some, uh, P word.
Speaker 7: And then play smash some things on the video game. Uh,
Speaker 7: It's their Rampage, which is a slot machine.
Speaker 1: What now? Rampage with the lizard and the King Kong guy. Sure.
Speaker 1: And the wolf. It's a slot machine. No kidding. Yeah.
Speaker 10: So there are still a handful of licensed slot machines
Speaker 10: because those have faded away.
Speaker 1: I mean, not all of the second floor of Circa.
Speaker 4: They're actually on the big comeback.
Speaker 1: Oh, no kidding.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 10: Good, because I'm not a slot machine player, but the
Speaker 10: ones that are just I don't know. The generic ones
Speaker 10: don't do much for me. I want to see Game
Speaker 10: of Thrones.
Speaker 1: I want to see Willy Wonka. Monopoly. What is this, Monopoly?
Speaker 4: Bomberman. The latest Bomberman.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great slot machine, right? No kidding.
Speaker 4: You like it. I'm not a big fan, but you
Speaker 4: and your brother like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, W calls it the ATM.
Speaker 3: You know that the latest version of the Game of
Speaker 3: Thrones bonus, you get to bang your mom if you
Speaker 3: hit the bonus.
Speaker 4: And I say get to.
Speaker 10: Because you get to. That's one of the great pleasures
Speaker 10: of the Game of Thrones universe. That's what you get
Speaker 10: to do.
Speaker 1: Bomb banging? Yep.
Speaker 4: It's cool.
Speaker 1: There's a comedian. God, I wish I could give this
Speaker 1: person credit.
Speaker 3: One of the hostesses bring you over some lotion.
Speaker 1: My God.
Speaker 10: This is what I hate about Instagram is you see
Speaker 10: something that you really think is creative or funny or interesting,
Speaker 10: and then you scroll so fast that you completely forget
Speaker 10: who just did what you thought was interesting, right?
Speaker 1: Yeah. There was a comedian, and somebody helped me in
Speaker 1: finding this.
Speaker 10: They did their bit, and the bit was that I
Speaker 10: think it was his girlfriend or his wife said that
Speaker 10: when they were watching House of the Dragon or Game
Speaker 10: of Thrones, well, I'm sure that kind of stuff, incest
Speaker 10: and stuff, I'm sure that kind of stuff was going
Speaker 10: around back then. And this comedian's take was, no, that's
Speaker 10: all in George R.R. Martin's head. He didn't have to
Speaker 10: put it in there. He chose to put it in there.
Speaker 10: So the whole bit is, don't just say, oh, that's
Speaker 10: something that happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't say that.
Speaker 10: Chris, back to when you mentioned this a long time
Speaker 10: ago in Game of Thrones 10 years ago was a thing.
Speaker 1: And your wife was like... What was it? Something like, um,
Speaker 1: was she asking about like, um, what time period is this?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, exactly. There is no time period. There's dragons
Speaker 1: and wizards and white walkers. So you don't have to, well,
Speaker 1: back then there probably was a lot of incest. No,
Speaker 1: there isn't. It's all in George's head. He wanted it. Who,
Speaker 1: what's his name? Oh, it was a guy. I think
Speaker 1: it was a guy. There's a girl that has the
Speaker 1: same bit. Okay, so why do I feel like it
Speaker 1: was a dude? But I don't know. Maybe I am
Speaker 1: misremembering that part, too.
Speaker 16: And she defended her buddies by saying, well, back in
Speaker 16: the day, they'd sleep with their family members to keep
Speaker 16: their bold lines pure.
Speaker 1: Mom, this isn't a documentary. Gross. Anyway. You get to
Speaker 1: sleep with your mom.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You get to.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine?
Speaker 10: If that was the bonus game, no, I don't mean
Speaker 10: imagine sleeping with your mom. I mean, if somebody had
Speaker 10: okayed that as the bonus. I mean, Tommy would, that's
Speaker 10: all he would play is that slot machine.
Speaker 4: You know, George R.R. Martin was like, I will license
Speaker 4: my likeness to you guys. But here's what you got
Speaker 4: to do for them.
Speaker 1: I've never heard him talk. Is this what he sounds like?
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas! Well, it's about time! We made it! Where
Speaker 1: are you, baby?
Speaker 10: Clarence!
Speaker 1: Clarence!
Speaker 8: Where?
Speaker 12: Where?
Speaker 1: Where'd you go, Clarence? This is Pebbles! This is Pebbles!
Speaker 1: It's a wonderful life. This is Pebbles!
Speaker 12: It's Christmas!
Speaker 1: I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 12: Christmas!
Speaker 10: Hey, you know how if you look into a mirror
Speaker 10: and say Candyman three times, Candyman appears? We said bang
Speaker 10: your mom three times and Tommy kicked the door down.
Speaker 10: And he said Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1: It's just Christmas, man. You guys, it's the best day
Speaker 1: of the year. He's wearing gold for a moment. Hi, Tommy. Hi, guys.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm late.
Speaker 4: Damn, you smell good.
Speaker 1: We're not late.
Speaker 4: I love when you hug me because I work alone
Speaker 4: when you hug me.
Speaker 16: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 8: I lathered it up today because I got to go
Speaker 8: to work then right to the old tailgate.
Speaker 1: Long day for you. This is a grinder today. I
Speaker 1: was up at three and I couldn't sleep. It was
Speaker 1: just fantastic. Well, good for you, man.
Speaker 10: If they're winning by 50, though, are you going to
Speaker 10: tap out at halftime and go home, or are you
Speaker 10: going to ride it out?
Speaker 1: That's a great question. I've got to fire up a
Speaker 1: workday tomorrow, first time I've ever had to do that. Oh, boy.
Speaker 1: You know you're growing up.
Speaker 4: Oh, man, that sucks.
Speaker 11: Oh, boy.
Speaker 1: But no, it's going to be good. It's going to
Speaker 1: be great.
Speaker 8: If we have a spicy Friday morning, we have a
Speaker 8: spicy Friday morning.
Speaker 1: Well said. We've all been there. Yeah. Did we really
Speaker 1: bet on the— Yeah, I have them 45 and a half.
Speaker 1: Do we have all those bets?
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1: I'll read them to you.
Speaker 8: I always forget about the old February bets, you know?
Speaker 1: Those are tough.
Speaker 4: They're tough.
Speaker 9: You guys, this is so good.
Speaker 1: So good. Yeah, man.
Speaker 4: It's all happening, brother.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you?
Speaker 4: You can.
Speaker 1: Four non-blondes. One of my best friends, Jordan Wing.
Speaker 4: Never heard of Jordan Wing.
Speaker 1: Jordan Wing.
Speaker 4: What's his nickname?
Speaker 1: Winger?
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 1: Jaw.
Speaker 4: Jaw. Okay, yeah, not who you're talking about.
Speaker 1: So I'm Ta, and he's Ja. My God.
Speaker 8: So our wives are best friends, Shelby and Cess. They're
Speaker 8: best friends from high school. And first time I met Jordan,
Speaker 8: we almost fought. First guy I ever almost fought.
Speaker 1: In my entire life. But now we're best friends. What
Speaker 1: did you fight over, or almost fight over? I ran
Speaker 1: up to Shelby.
Speaker 8: Got a little handsy hugged her, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 1: That had to have been the first time. Don Shelby?
Speaker 7: Why are you handsy?
Speaker 1: Where's Don? So Winger says what when you get all
Speaker 1: handsy with his gal?
Speaker 12: Well, we're at the Kenny Chesney concert circa 2017.
Speaker 8: And I'm probably 0.4. And I'm not, like, handsy, but
Speaker 8: I pick her up, swing her around.
Speaker 1: As one does. A normal high. 100%.
Speaker 2: And he's standing there pretty angry.
Speaker 1: Sure, put his gal down. Exactly. Don't lift up other
Speaker 1: people's gals. They're on the same softball team. I probably
Speaker 1: thought you were.
Speaker 4: Going to check her oil, man. I mean, you came
Speaker 4: in aggressive.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know him at the time. You didn't
Speaker 1: know him?
Speaker 4: And you called him that?
Speaker 1: No, Jordan. I said, Jordan, it's okay.
Speaker 4: We're friends from high school.
Speaker 1: And he was not too fond of that. Sure. Of course.
Speaker 1: So then I left.
Speaker 8: But then about five years later, when I started dating Cess,
Speaker 8: he's around all the time. So then we're like, okay.
Speaker 1: Now we have to be friends. Now we have to
Speaker 1: be friends.
Speaker 13: Wow.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute.
Speaker 1: Hold on.
Speaker 3: So you were friends with her, not Cess?
Speaker 8: So they're all a high school friend group. They all
Speaker 8: went to the private high school. They went to Hill-Murray.
Speaker 8: And I all went to Montemayor. So I knew all
Speaker 8: of them.
Speaker 4: Oh, okay. Got it.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Okay. I wasn't aware of that, by the way.
Speaker 7: Sure.
Speaker 6: Sure.
Speaker 1: So then we, like five years later, COVID hits. I
Speaker 1: get furloughed, and I need a place to live. Furloughed? Hideous.
Speaker 8: And so I will actually, my apartment rent, or like
Speaker 8: that year went up.
Speaker 1: Seth and I want to move together. We move in
Speaker 1: their basement. So then I come fast friends with Jordan.
Speaker 1: Long story, way longer.
Speaker 8: We love to do karaoke, and his karaoke song is
Speaker 8: Born on Blondes.
Speaker 1: What's up? Oh, bro. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: He moves to Florida. He's gone. Dead to me. Now,
Speaker 1: I take over that song. I sing that every time
Speaker 1: I go to karaoke.
Speaker 10: Will you sing it in Las Vegas, November of 2026?
Speaker 10: It's a lock.
Speaker 1: Guaranteed.
Speaker 4: Can I ask you this?
Speaker 1: I've been working on a lot of songs. I literally
Speaker 1: have a full set list of karaoke songs. Can't wait. Wow.
Speaker 4: Can I ask you this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Do you try?
Speaker 1: And I try!
Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
Speaker 1: Do I try? Perfect. You're my guy now.
Speaker 10: Front page sports with Tommy Olsen after this.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll come back. Okay, before we hit sports real quick. Hi, Tommy,
Speaker 4: by the way.
Speaker 12: Hey, how's daddy?
Speaker 4: Best day of the week, buddy.
Speaker 1: I'm so amped, you guys. I'm so excited for Vegas.
Speaker 1: It's like close. I know you guys were just there.
Speaker 1: Right around the corner. I want to hear all about it.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1: Circa layout, unbelievable.
Speaker 10: Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Perfect. Eight plus. Perfect. It's going to be packed. The
Speaker 1: numbers are massive. We're feeling good.
Speaker 4: We sold a lot of rooms, but there are plenty left.
Speaker 1: You guys, I'm so excited. I'm flying from New York
Speaker 1: to you guys. That's a pretty long flight, but I'm pumped. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course. You know how great that's going to be? Prepared, baby. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Tickle of Matt?
Speaker 1: I already got a couple new shirts. Believe it. Take
Speaker 1: a little lizard.
Speaker 10: Let's do front page sports. Lots to talk about, actually.
Speaker 10: Do you want our bets, Cork?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll give you that. Presented by Holiday Station Stores.
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Speaker 1: Ice Cold Mountain Dew.
Speaker 10: Four for $ 8. With our friends at Holiday.
Speaker 1: Cork, can I squash some unnecessary beef? I never was
Speaker 1: mad at you guys. I knew I was invited. That
Speaker 1: was taken out of context. Who told us that again?
Speaker 6: Garzy.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, Garzy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: So I was in here. Can I tell you what happened?
Speaker 1: I was just like, yeah, we had to record like
Speaker 1: a little gopher thing.
Speaker 8: And then we were done. And I was just like, yeah,
Speaker 8: and I just said it like that. And I think
Speaker 8: he just took and ran with it.
Speaker 1: But the worst part about it.
Speaker 10: Are you going to be there on Saturday, noon to two?
Speaker 1: No, I'm going to be day drinking in Stillwater instead.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, thanks.
Speaker 4: Can we join you? Because I don't want to go either.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's actually for a wedding thing.
Speaker 8: You know, like you get married on a Friday night
Speaker 8: and then the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Party goes drinking the next day.
Speaker 11: Of course, yeah.
Speaker 4: The wedding doesn't end when the wedding is over.
Speaker 1: 100%. It's the full weekend. Yeah, man. Oh, my God.
Speaker 1: You can tell it's gopher season. He's so jacked. You guys,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there. We record it. And then Chad comes
Speaker 1: sprinting down, like hobbling down. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: And shuffle, shuffle.
Speaker 1: He goes, delay him, delay him. I'm like, what's going on?
Speaker 8: And there's like something down the line for PA switching
Speaker 8: to common or whatever, going to Fleck being on or something.
Speaker 8: And he looks and we're in the score and he
Speaker 8: looks out into the hallway and.
Speaker 1: He goes, Norto, go tell him. And it's me.
Speaker 8: Standing there and I go, well, thanks. So he made
Speaker 8: me for Norto, and I got really sad.
Speaker 1: Nothing against Norto. No, nothing against Norto.
Speaker 10: No, nothing against him.
Speaker 1: It just mortified you. I actually witnessed that. No big deal.
Speaker 1: It just sent you into crippling depression. No offense to Norto.
Speaker 13: No offense to Nardo, you just said you'd spend two
Speaker 13: hours on the Stairmaster after having said that.
Speaker 10: Tonight, gopher football right here on The Fan. The Gophers
Speaker 10: take on Eastern Illinois on DraftKings. The Gophers are 42.5-point favorites,
Speaker 10: but you guys made a bet earlier. Now, Sauce, you
Speaker 10: have a series of bets with Tommy Olsen. A lot
Speaker 10: of us do over the course of a week, a year,
Speaker 10: a handful of years, championship bets. Draft bets, right?
Speaker 1: Weekly bets. You have so many go for bets, but
Speaker 1: does sauce. You have a current list. Yes, I do.
Speaker 1: What do you got tonight?
Speaker 7: I have Eastern Illinois plus 45 and a half for
Speaker 7: a hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: Jeez.
Speaker 7: I have under eight wins for two 50.
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 1: Yeah. This is all from power.
Speaker 4: I remember doing that.
Speaker 1: I remember under eight. Yeah. So eight is a push.
Speaker 1: Eight's a push. Okay. Does that include the bull? No.
Speaker 15: No.
Speaker 1: Under two road wins for $ 250. That's going to be
Speaker 1: a tough question.
Speaker 7: Under five and a half wins, $ 100.
Speaker 4: Every time you do one of these, I tell you
Speaker 4: not to do it.
Speaker 7: No 2027 first round pick for $ 100.
Speaker 1: I think you might be in on that too, Corey.
Speaker 1: That's not a bad bet.
Speaker 4: That's not a bad bet either.
Speaker 7: No Natty by the end of 2028 for my 2K
Speaker 7: for your 500. That one's still around.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they haven't won yet.
Speaker 1: I got an idea for that one. So that's 2028.
Speaker 1: So that's three more seasons? Three seasons. Three more seasons.
Speaker 1: Give me three seasons.
Speaker 8: And if Notre Dame wins one in the next three,
Speaker 8: we cut it in half.
Speaker 10: But what's the upside for me? If they don't win
Speaker 10: one in the next three years, do we double the bet?
Speaker 10: Why would I give you a free roll to cut.
Speaker 1: It in half?
Speaker 8: Do you remember when the Grinch's heart comes back and
Speaker 8: it's really small?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I couldn't relate. You could just be like, man,
Speaker 1: just for Tom's sake. This season could get a little better.
Speaker 7: For his marriage.
Speaker 10: Tommy, if you can't spot the sucker in the first
Speaker 10: 30 minutes at the table, then you are the sucker.
Speaker 1: Saucy, I think you're making up the eight wins.
Speaker 10: It's from power to bets. Yeah, bets doesn't lie.
Speaker 1: That's bad. Eight? So eight's a push. Eight's a push.
Speaker 1: Does that include the bowl game?
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 4: For the second time.
Speaker 15: No.
Speaker 1: It should never include the bowl game.
Speaker 10: Oh.
Speaker 1: Because they win those. Well, okay, how about this?
Speaker 8: My $ 10 to your $ 1, 000, Drake wins a Heisman.
Speaker 4: My God, why do you do it? Just give him $ 10.
Speaker 8: In the next before it doesn't have to be this
Speaker 8: year wins just wins the Heisman or big 10 player
Speaker 8: of the year, big 10 player of the year.
Speaker 1: My 10 to your a thousand. No. Okay. Core. My
Speaker 1: 10 to your a thousand. That's pretty good odds. It's like,
Speaker 1: he's probably a sauce. What are those odds? What? 10
Speaker 1: to a thousand. 10 to a thousand.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What are those odds? Isn't that 100-1?
Speaker 8: I'm guessing that's around his odds to win Big Ten players.
Speaker 10: Maybe Big Ten player of the year. We looked it
Speaker 10: up last week. The Heisman's longer than that.
Speaker 8: What about to be captain of the Gophs?
Speaker 1: Wasn't it like 300-1? They have 70 captains.
Speaker 10: You might be a captain. Wasn't that what Drake was,
Speaker 10: like 300-1? Jordan Heisman, something like that. We looked it up,
Speaker 10: but now I'm forgetting what it was.
Speaker 8: I think on this team, we have over 11 guys
Speaker 8: get drafted in the next two years.
Speaker 1: They're willing to make that bet. Over, under, that or
Speaker 1: captains tonight? That's a pretty good bet. Thank you.
Speaker 8: I think there are usually about six to 11 captains
Speaker 8: per game.
Speaker 1: On both sides of the ball.
Speaker 4: You mean you drink six to 11?
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Speaking of that, can't wait. I'm having a tailgate tonight
Speaker 1: if you guys can come. What up? Are you coming? Brilliant. Oh, no,
Speaker 1: just save it. Save it for my birthday. That's okay.
Speaker 4: I'm saving it for your birthday.
Speaker 1: Which weekend is your birthday again?
Speaker 4: I'm not going to tell you.
Speaker 1: I don't have it in my calendar. It's the highway.
Speaker 1: It's homecoming. You have to come.
Speaker 10: I don't think I've ever been back from, but again,
Speaker 10: I never went to spring jam.
Speaker 1: I just wasn't a true spring jam. No, I didn't
Speaker 1: go to prom. I don't do things from, okay. Real question.
Speaker 1: Did you not go to prom?
Speaker 8: Cause you don't like dressing up?
Speaker 10: No, I couldn't find a gal that I wanted to
Speaker 10: go with. A hundred percent true guy. I've seen the
Speaker 10: pictures when you look like Eminem.
Speaker 1: I've seen him.
Speaker 10: Okay, that was also when I was 19 and had
Speaker 10: ridiculously bad dyed blonde hair because it was the summer
Speaker 10: after I graduated.
Speaker 1: I think you looked really good. That is not true.
Speaker 1: It was a good look. Not true.
Speaker 4: You tried.
Speaker 13: Oh, my God.
Speaker 8: Did what?
Speaker 1: Tried. Perfect.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: What were we just talking about again there? Who knows? Sports.
Speaker 1: The women he used to get. Oh, no, no. It
Speaker 1: was strikeout central.
Speaker 14: God.
Speaker 1: No, this is going to be tough. But, like, eight wins.
Speaker 1: We just got to do what we're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: That's it. And we'll get eight wins.
Speaker 4: Hey, Thomas.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You ready for this?
Speaker 1: Let's hear it.
Speaker 2: The 2026 high school football season starts tonight statewide. 99
Speaker 2: games kick off Thursday, 72 more on Friday.
Speaker 1: Some trivia to start.
Speaker 2: Do you know who was the last outstate team to
Speaker 2: win the big school championship?
Speaker 1: That answer in just a minute.
Speaker 2: Today, we highlight three of this year's powerhouses, starting with Minnetonka,
Speaker 2: led by quarterback Caden Gutzmer, a North Dakota commit. The
Speaker 2: Skippers open up play tonight at Eastridge. Then there's Shakopee,
Speaker 2: maybe the most loaded lineup in the state. The Sabres
Speaker 2: have been building for success the last several years.
Speaker 4: They host Eagan.
Speaker 2: And we finish up today with Moorhead, poised to get
Speaker 2: back to the finals behind the state's top passer, future
Speaker 2: gopher Jet Feeney. The Spuds are at Rogers tonight. And
Speaker 2: they're also the answer to our trivia question. Moorhead, the
Speaker 2: last out-state team to win the big school championship.
Speaker 1: That was back in 1987. I'm Ryan Phelps.
Speaker 2: They're probably going to win.
Speaker 1: It this year. They have three Gophers on their team. Three!
Speaker 10: How many times has Chisago Lakes won the Natty?
Speaker 1: They're horrible.
Speaker 4: Speaking of Moorhead, the Spuds.
Speaker 4: You know that that is the only city Rosie owns
Speaker 4: a t-shirt for that he's never been to.
Speaker 11: Yep.
Speaker 1: Guys, come on, man.
Speaker 8: You know Chisago opened up against Hill Murray tonight?
Speaker 1: That's not going to be good. No, you guys are
Speaker 1: not good. Are you guys still running the wing tee?
Speaker 1: I don't know. We're running. Who does Wayne go to prom?
Speaker 1: I don't know what we do. Do you identify as
Speaker 1: a Wyzetta Trojan now? No, of course not. I'm a Wildcat.
Speaker 1: Of course. Never went to Wyzetta. Yeah, good for you.
Speaker 1: Kids did, or do, but yeah. You're going to be
Speaker 1: in Shizaga to the day you die. Yeah. Have you
Speaker 1: made the Hoff yet?
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 1: You haven't? I don't think we have a Hoff in Shizaga.
Speaker 1: The Hall of Fame. I don't think we have a Hoff.
Speaker 1: Did he make your Hoff yet?
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 1: He should. What about that other really good guy on
Speaker 1: your team?
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, he's in.
Speaker 1: Curtis Enos. Curtis Enos, yeah.
Speaker 4: He's in.
Speaker 1: Did you guys have to? You called him Enos the Penis.
Speaker 1: You guys had to, didn't you?
Speaker 4: You did not call him that. He was much bigger
Speaker 4: than you.
Speaker 1: I know, but he must have had a hog on him,
Speaker 1: so you call Enos the Penis. Take a deep breath, please.
Speaker 10: You know, I know you two think everybody needs a nickname.
Speaker 10: We'll do what really matters after this scores and stats
Speaker 10: around the world of sports, including the breakdown of this
Speaker 10: Kawhi Leonard thing. We mentioned a couple of weeks ago, like, Hey,
Speaker 10: the wolves got the book.
Speaker 1: Thrown at him.
Speaker 10: If the Clippers did this, they need to get severely punished.
Speaker 1: And they did.
Speaker 10: They are, as the kids like to say, cooked. They
Speaker 10: are cooked for like the next decade plus. They're in
Speaker 10: a tough spot. We'll talk about that after this. This
Speaker 10: is the Power Trip Morning Show on The Fan. The Fan.
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Speaker 4: Hey, welcome back to the Morning Show. Nolan Teasley spoke
Speaker 4: to the press yesterday.
Speaker 3: He was asked about how's JJ's health.
Speaker 1: He's practiced for the last two days. So the issue
Speaker 1: of the ankle is on the other side of that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's practiced for the last two days. There you go.
Speaker 1: Short answers.
Speaker 3: He was more vociferous in this answer. When they asked
Speaker 3: him about his upside, JJ's upside, well, first of all,
Speaker 3: they said, will he be on the roster on, you know,
Speaker 3: first game of the season?
Speaker 4: He goes, yes. Unequivocally. Unequivocally. And then he said this.
Speaker 6: He's really talented. I think I said that from the jump, right?
Speaker 6: He was picked in the first round for a reason.
Speaker 6: A really good arm strength. Underrated athlete. And looking forward
Speaker 6: to how he continues to develop in this system. I
Speaker 6: think the thing you need to keep in mind with
Speaker 6: JJ is that he plays, he has the hardest job
Speaker 6: in sport. OK, he's only started 10 games and his
Speaker 6: story is not written.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but don't forget, again, this is not Nolan Teasley.
Speaker 10: This is every GM in sports. They're basically their job
Speaker 10: is to lie.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 10: It's why would they ever tell us 100 percent the truth?
Speaker 10: They really shouldn't. If you believe the reports from last weekend,
Speaker 10: they were looking for deals to move J.J. McCarthy and
Speaker 10: couldn't find one that they liked. So I'm sure a
Speaker 10: lot of the things that he said about J.J. 's
Speaker 10: upside quote are true. But the whole like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 10: he's going to be here week one. You don't think
Speaker 10: if they got a good offer in the next week
Speaker 10: and a half, they wouldn't say.
Speaker 1: See ya? I think they would. 100%. So he's got
Speaker 1: to say that because JJ's on the roster. He doesn't
Speaker 1: have a choice.
Speaker 10: So he might still think JJ's got a chance. He
Speaker 10: might still think he's a talented kid. He might still
Speaker 10: think he has a future. He's not going to tell us, yeah,
Speaker 10: we're actively trying to trade him.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get this guy out of here.
Speaker 3: He basically did just say, he's a first-round pick.
Speaker 4: We're not going to just cut him.
Speaker 1: Right, right. Which is fine. Yeah, of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right.
Speaker 1: No. And they shouldn't. They should get something for it.
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Speaker 10: The NBA announced the punishment for the Los Angeles Clippers
Speaker 10: of Anaheim.
Speaker 1: Holy cow. So crazy.
Speaker 10: They circumvented the salary cap when they signed Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 10: a handful of years ago. And after a long investigation,
Speaker 10: the NBA said unequivocally they did this.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 10: You're going down. So here's what the Clippers are doing.
Speaker 10: They're losing five first-round picks.
Speaker 13: 2029, 2030.
Speaker 1: That's so bad.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 1: 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, and 2033. Five straight years starting
Speaker 1: in 2029. I'll never see their last non-pick.
Speaker 10: They also are fined an NBA record $ 30 million. Now,
Speaker 10: this is the point where I should probably mention that
Speaker 10: Steve Ballmer.
Speaker 10: Is worth $ 150 billion. So the $ 30 million, legitimately, he
Speaker 10: doesn't give two S's about the $ 30 million.
Speaker 1: Yeah, correct.
Speaker 10: What he cares about, and this is why the NBA
Speaker 10: kicked him right in the crotch, is he's suspended for
Speaker 10: a year, can't be a part of the team at all,
Speaker 10: can't be a part of the league at all.
Speaker 1: Ballmer can't?
Speaker 10: Yeah, no league activities, can't be a part of the team.
Speaker 10: He has to step away for a full year. But
Speaker 10: he also just neutered his team for the foreseeable future, right?
Speaker 10: Because not only are you losing five first-round picks, and
Speaker 10: as the Wolves saw a quarter of a century ago,
Speaker 10: and we'll get to that in a second, it not
Speaker 10: only neuters you short-term, it destroys you because your base
Speaker 10: is gone. Free agents have almost no interest in going
Speaker 10: there because they know that the funnel of talent isn't
Speaker 10: following them, right? So they're screwed for a decade.
Speaker 1: Ballmer's 70, right?
Speaker 10: Oh, you basically just said you really want to bring
Speaker 10: a championship to LA.
Speaker 1: You cheated. Now you're screwed for the next like 10 years. Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's that's forget the money.
Speaker 10: It's it's stripping Balmer of a legitimate chance of ever
Speaker 10: putting a team together. According to all sources, the trade
Speaker 10: with the Raptors is still expected to go through. Sham says, yeah,
Speaker 10: now that's back on. So Kawhi is going to the Raptors.
Speaker 10: The handful of picks and stuff is going back to LA.
Speaker 10: So they get some equity back. but they're still losing
Speaker 10: first-round picks for five straight years starting in 2029.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and the difference between what happened here and what
Speaker 7: happened in L.A. is at least L.A., and you are correct, though,
Speaker 7: that they can't really build a team, but they have
Speaker 7: the advantage of free agency and living in L.A. When
Speaker 7: this happened to the Timberwolves, nobody wanted to come here regardless, right?
Speaker 7: And you lose all those draft picks. This is the
Speaker 7: NBA's version of the death penalty.
Speaker 1: Pretty close.
Speaker 10: So the Wolves back in the day had a $ 3
Speaker 10: million fine. They forfeited five first-round picks, but two of
Speaker 10: them ended up getting returned. So you wonder if the
Speaker 10: NBA does something similar with the Clippers, where if they're on, quote,
Speaker 10: good behavior, whatever that means, they end up giving one
Speaker 10: or two of them back.
Speaker 1: Don't know.
Speaker 10: Glenn Taylor was also suspended for one year, which gave
Speaker 10: him a lot of time to roast chickens alive. General
Speaker 10: Manager Kevin McHale got suspended for a year back in
Speaker 10: the day as well.
Speaker 1: Everybody did.
Speaker 10: Now, again, that was just the Wolves trying to pay
Speaker 10: Joe Smith under the table. This was having outside clients
Speaker 10: give him ridiculous endorsement contracts.
Speaker 1: And didn't they pay his uncle like $ 700, 000? Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so that's also going back. So Kawhi Leonard, by
Speaker 10: the way, is not getting suspended. He is going to
Speaker 10: have to pay the NBA $ 700, 000.
Speaker 1: Which is nothing for him. No.
Speaker 10: And according to the story I read this morning, the
Speaker 10: players union is basically saying that Kawhi got taken advantage
Speaker 10: of by his uncle.
Speaker 1: And that he was mostly innocent in all this. Really?
Speaker 10: I don't know how much I buy that, but that
Speaker 10: might be harder to prove.
Speaker 1: Just like lawyers looked into it or something? Pablo Torre.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Pablo Torre started it. He does a podcast. He
Speaker 7: used to work for ESPN. He's outstanding.
Speaker 1: You'd recognize his face. He was just like, this is fishy.
Speaker 1: I'm going to look into it.
Speaker 7: I'm sure he got a source from somebody. He said
Speaker 7: it on his podcast months ago. I thought it was a... He.
Speaker 1: Just goes, this doesn't feel right. I'm going to figure
Speaker 1: this out. He said it was happening.
Speaker 13: He fully exposed everything that was going on. The Clippers
Speaker 13: adamantly denied it. A bunch of former NBA players were
Speaker 13: on his ass and saying that he was wrong. Mark
Speaker 13: Cuban and Mark Cuban were having public debates about it.
Speaker 1: What? Yeah. It's been a saga. Well, good for him.
Speaker 1: This is the same bomber stuff, right?
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: He had a nice little victory parade yesterday on social media.
Speaker 1: He should. He should, yeah. What was the Kentucky guy?
Speaker 1: There's Kat, right? You guys said take Kat over. Oh,
Speaker 1: Jaleel Okafor. Yeah, but PA wanted Willie Cully Stein. Oh,
Speaker 1: my God. But what really matters is this.
Speaker 4: I can't say I blame him. I don't know who
Speaker 4: that person is.
Speaker 1: You love Willie Cully Stein, right?
Speaker 4: I like people with three names.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 4: I'm going to do it anyway. I loaded it in.
Speaker 3: Do you guys know who Aaron Sorkin is?
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 4: He's got a new movie coming out called The Social Reckoning.
Speaker 4: It's about Facebook.
Speaker 1: It's the second of the two.
Speaker 3: The first one was about the development of Facebook. This
Speaker 3: one is about when it was exposed what Facebook did
Speaker 3: and knew what they were doing. And I heard an
Speaker 3: interview with Esquire this morning with Aaron Sorkin, and it
Speaker 3: was very, very interesting. And there were two parts in
Speaker 3: particular that I took out of it. I'm going to
Speaker 3: play you the first one here. The movie comes out
Speaker 3: on the 9th of October, by the way. This is
Speaker 3: at the end, him talking about the size of Facebook.
Speaker 4: So check this out.
Speaker 14: What social media was in 2010 when the social network
Speaker 14: came out, and certainly what it was in in the
Speaker 14: mid-aughts when Facebook was invented.
Speaker 9: It's very different than what it is now.
Speaker 5: First of all, when the social network ends, we put
Speaker 5: up on the screen that it has 500 million users,
Speaker 5: which it was meant to elicit a gasp from the
Speaker 5: audience that it could have that many.
Speaker 1: It's quaint now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's 2.8 billion now, which, as one of the
Speaker 5: characters of the movie points out, is more than twice
Speaker 5: the size of the largest country on Earth. I don't
Speaker 5: want to get the stat wrong, but it's about a
Speaker 5: third of American adults get their news from Facebook.
Speaker 9: That is very dangerous.
Speaker 5: We're no longer agreeing that the sky is blue and
Speaker 5: two plus two equals four.
Speaker 9: And people are living their lives online.
Speaker 1: So obviously it has a corrosive effect on everything.
Speaker 9: It does. By the way, let me be clear.
Speaker 5: I don't think that Mark Zuckerberg ever intended for it
Speaker 5: to have a corrosive effect. I think his intentions were
Speaker 5: always good. He was somebody who, like a lot of people,
Speaker 5: had difficulty fitting into the social structure of college life.
Speaker 3: So that's interesting, right? Those numbers are sounding. And if
Speaker 3: you think about it, I thought about this on the
Speaker 3: way in. Most of those people, I wouldn't say most,
Speaker 3: a lot of those people are people my age because
Speaker 3: young kids don't use Facebook at all anymore.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: But the people who vote are the ones, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean, right?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But here's the, and then I got one more for you.
Speaker 3: This is, he, and apparently part of the social reckoning,
Speaker 3: a big part of it, Corey, is going to be
Speaker 3: how much responsibility Facebook itself has for what happened on
Speaker 3: January 6th. And he makes a really good point here.
Speaker 3: And I had never heard this before. This is pretty interesting.
Speaker 9: Facebook did in 2018. They were in trouble.
Speaker 5: Engagement was going down. Their users were getting older. There
Speaker 5: was competition from TikTok. And they had to do something.
Speaker 5: And so they retuned their algorithm. whereas it used to
Speaker 5: be that the best thing you could say to the
Speaker 5: algorithm was that you liked something. They retuned the algorithm
Speaker 5: so that a comment was worth five times as much
Speaker 5: as a like, an emoji was worth 15 times as
Speaker 5: much as a like, I'm not sure why, but the
Speaker 5: important thing is that a reshare, henceforth, would be worth
Speaker 5: 30 times as much as a like.
Speaker 9: Why is that significant?
Speaker 5: Because they knew that the things that get reshared the
Speaker 5: most are rage bait. And so they began pumping into
Speaker 5: the water supply and the air supply all.
Speaker 9: This stuff intended to make you mad. Certainly draw a
Speaker 9: line from that.
Speaker 1: To January 6th.
Speaker 4: Interesting. I can't wait to see this movie. Did you
Speaker 4: guys see the.
Speaker 1: Cast of this movie? It's unbelievable. No, who's in it?
Speaker 1: Jeremy Allen White.
Speaker 4: He is Mark Zuckerberg.
Speaker 1: No, that's Jeremy Strong. Jeremy Strong's from Succession.
Speaker 4: Oh, that guy?
Speaker 1: It's Kendall.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Stud. Yeah, he's a fantastic actor. So good.
Speaker 10: And then Jeremy Allen White's also in it, and he's
Speaker 10: the lead on The Bear.
Speaker 11: The Bear.
Speaker 14: Yep.
Speaker 13: Mikey Madison from Menorah.
Speaker 4: That's not The Bear you watch.
Speaker 1: No, The Bear. The one that Dave Schwartz hates.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The TV show. No way, Jose. It's a TV show.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1: You guys, we made it.
Speaker 9: It's game day.
Speaker 12: Game day.
Speaker 1: I couldn't sleep either, Tom. What time are you up?
Speaker 15: Three?
Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, that's normal Thursdays. Three to five. That's great. That's
Speaker 1: the best.
Speaker 4: We'll talk about that here in a minute.
Speaker 1: Where's Liam? Maybe he didn't pass. He said seven o'clock
Speaker 1: at seven.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he comes in at seven. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool about Facebook, though. I never really knew that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: Massive amounts of people.
Speaker 8: I don't get what he means, like times 30 times five.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Well, um.
Speaker 4: The amount of... Okay, if you share something.
Speaker 1: The stickiness kind of.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you share something, that means you agree with it.
Speaker 3: So it gives you 30 times that amount of that
Speaker 3: what you just shared.
Speaker 1: Oh, onto your feed? Yeah.
Speaker 13: And it's way more likely to pop up on somebody
Speaker 13: else's feed.
Speaker 4: If you like something, it would give you something you
Speaker 4: like back. Now, if you share something, it gives you
Speaker 4: 30 times that. That's why you get so much pornography.
Speaker 1: So more likely to go viral. On Instagram, when I've
Speaker 1: told you what's on my feed.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's why.
Speaker 4: I got to show you something, by the way. Okay,
Speaker 4: sounds good.
Speaker 1: More of the Power Trip Morning Show. More of what
Speaker 1: really matters.
Speaker 10: More Gopher football talk with the Fargo Flash. Tommy Olsen,
Speaker 10: Ben Lieber on his way in. More after this on
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Speaker 4: Tommy and I just need a treaty over here.
Speaker 1: What kind of a treaty?
Speaker 4: We have an order of events.
Speaker 14: I guess.
Speaker 1: Order of.
Speaker 1: Is this terrible?
Speaker 4: Not even close.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay. It's something, you know, I used to do
Speaker 1: it for Eddie, too, so it's all good. Well, that
Speaker 1: could be anything.
Speaker 10: All right, let's do more of what really matters, but
Speaker 10: we can kind of slowly transition into the world of
Speaker 10: college football and.
Speaker 1: What's going on.
Speaker 10: Because, yes, go for football tonight, 7 o'clock, right here
Speaker 10: on The Fan. Pre-game, I assume at 5? Yes, sir.
Speaker 1: Eastern Illinois, they....
Speaker 10: One last week, Fargo, they're one of the teams that's
Speaker 10: already played, and their running back put up 170-plus, including
Speaker 10: an 88-yard touchdown run. I asked Grimmer this yesterday. Is
Speaker 10: he good, or is it just the opponent's not?
Speaker 14: The opponent.
Speaker 15: They were 3-9 a year ago. They played Alabama last season.
Speaker 15: They lost 56-0 to Alabama. I think you guys talked
Speaker 15: about this a week or two ago. When you rank
Speaker 15: all the college football teams, they actually fell below Mankato
Speaker 15: in those rankings. So they're They're an FCS program that's
Speaker 15: getting the big check to come to Huntington Bank Stadium,
Speaker 15: and it's a little bit of a warm-up. I would
Speaker 15: assume that most of the starters are pulled by halftime
Speaker 15: if it goes according to plan, but.
Speaker 1: You never know. It's a big spread. Let's just go, Tommy.
Speaker 10: Let's go worst case scenario just for a second.
Speaker 1: Just for a second.
Speaker 10: So this would be a worse loss than Bowling Green.
Speaker 10: This is like worst loss in franchise or program history.
Speaker 15: This would be board up the program and cancel.
Speaker 1: So can't lose to them, right?
Speaker 6: Zero chance.
Speaker 1: I don't think these type of losses... ever happen really.
Speaker 1: It couldn't happen. This is Appalachian State beating Michigan, right?
Speaker 9: It'd be worse.
Speaker 1: How do you measure disappointment, then?
Speaker 10: Is a 21-point win frustrating, or is.
Speaker 1: That the minimum?
Speaker 15: Even last week, USC was playing San Jose State, and
Speaker 15: I sent a picture to Hockey.
Speaker 1: No one showed up at the Coliseum. How about that?
Speaker 1: That was unbelievable. They won 42-26. They have to be disappointed.
Speaker 15: USC's a team that's outside looking in right now, but
Speaker 15: you can see themselves playing into the college football playoff.
Speaker 15: So these early games, they do mean something in terms
Speaker 15: of momentum.
Speaker 1: Momentum does matter.
Speaker 15: And so this is where you've got to unleash Drake Lindsey,
Speaker 15: and you've got to throw the football enough to kind
Speaker 15: of build some momentum. This isn't where you just run
Speaker 15: the ball and run the clock. You have to work
Speaker 15: on the development because the bolts are different when you're
Speaker 15: not going against your own team. It's a real opponent.
Speaker 15: They're going to be doing things that we probably don't expect.
Speaker 15: So you have to see how do we adjust to
Speaker 15: different fronts and schemes, but you need to, and more
Speaker 15: than anything, what I'll watch for tonight is how fast
Speaker 15: we come out of the, come out of this game.
Speaker 15: Like our offense, I think, you know, that's, that's from
Speaker 15: last year. I don't think we scored in 10 games.
Speaker 1: The, the opening drives of last year, one for 12,
Speaker 1: one for 12. Yeah. You got to score. You have to,
Speaker 1: you have to score early. You have to score often.
Speaker 15: And so, so it's, I would look for Drake to
Speaker 15: throw the ball early and then mix in some Darius.
Speaker 1: And so it's for.
Speaker 15: Me, I'm going to watch the offense the most to
Speaker 15: see how explosive it can be. And then defensively, there's a,
Speaker 15: and we'll talk about this more, but there's a, little
Speaker 15: bit more of an inexperienced weakness in the interior line.
Speaker 15: So if I'm Eastern Illinois trying to run the ball
Speaker 15: and run the clock, I'm going to hit inside and
Speaker 15: see if those young defensive tackles that are unproven can
Speaker 15: be formidable and stop the run.
Speaker 8: That's I think when you said the USC score, I
Speaker 8: was thinking about, I was like, I'd be pretty happy
Speaker 8: with like a 48 21 game tonight. And the offense
Speaker 8: looked good.
Speaker 1: I truly would like in the offense was just humming.
Speaker 1: I'd be super fine with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Cause I know the defense is going to figure it out.
Speaker 8: It's if the offense comes out humming and we run
Speaker 8: for like 150 to 200 yards and Drake goes like
Speaker 8: 12 for 18.
Speaker 1: For two touchdowns, I'd be amped.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Great.
Speaker 1: That'd be perfect. Start to the season. I just want
Speaker 1: to see like Drake to take the next step.
Speaker 8: Just like humming, like our offense just looks like it's
Speaker 8: like gelling and moving before we move on.
Speaker 10: Can I just say you're holding up the sporting news,
Speaker 10: college football, 2026 preview. I feel like now that sauce
Speaker 10: and I are in our forties, Sue and Chris is
Speaker 10: obviously in his fifties. Like now the whole show is
Speaker 10: essentially like, old man saying back in my day, right
Speaker 10: now we're all there. Um, yes, there was something so
Speaker 10: cool about getting season previews in a magazine form when
Speaker 10: you would flip. Cause now all of those opinions and
Speaker 10: projections are available to you in two seconds. You just
Speaker 10: Google like, and there's 15 people that have written in-depth articles.
Speaker 10: But back in the day, there was only like one
Speaker 10: or two or three. So you were like, I wonder
Speaker 10: what sporting news says about the gophers. And you couldn't
Speaker 10: wait to flip to that page. and see what they said.
Speaker 1: Sporting news brought this back.
Speaker 15: This is why there's actually people that want to go
Speaker 15: old school and have a hard copy.
Speaker 1: This one had not been printed, I think, a decade.
Speaker 1: So it's back this year. So, Tommy, what does it say?
Speaker 8: It says 10th season.
Speaker 1: That's what they highlighted.
Speaker 8: And?
Speaker 1: Winning percentage of.
Speaker 8: 600.
Speaker 1: Best since Bernie Beerman since 1950. Yeah, you're 10th.
Speaker 8: And 7-0 record in the Bulls in his last 10
Speaker 8: years is the best in school history.
Speaker 1: So they just highlight every good team.
Speaker 10: So they're not really saying what this team has. They're
Speaker 10: just saying this is what they got. They have a
Speaker 10: consistent coach for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 1: It's just optimism. It's all about Drake.
Speaker 8: And they just say it's optimism after an 8-5 season
Speaker 8: last year.
Speaker 1: Hopefully, Drake takes the next step. And that's pretty much
Speaker 1: if you don't.
Speaker 15: Really take a deep dive and you look at it
Speaker 15: at a high level. But those headlines are pretty important.
Speaker 15: In this day and age, to have a head coach...
Speaker 15: to get to double digits in terms of years, 10
Speaker 15: years he's been here.
Speaker 1: So impressive. It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 15: So he's the second longest tenured coach in the Big Ten.
Speaker 1: He's got a.
Speaker 15: 39-40 Big Ten record, but he's brought us to postseason.
Speaker 1: He's won all those games.
Speaker 15: The main thing that's set up here is in year 10,
Speaker 15: if you go back and look at the body of work,
Speaker 15: there was a 6-3 season in 2021. There was a
Speaker 15: 7-2 season, this is Big Ten record, in 2019, which
Speaker 15: is his third season. This has the makings for the
Speaker 15: breakout year. And, of course, we'll go game by game
Speaker 15: in a little bit. But the experts besides us are saying, boy,
Speaker 15: the schedule doesn't have the two big, the new guys
Speaker 15: on the block, the guys that are predicted to win.
Speaker 15: There's no Ohio State. There's no Oregon. So from a
Speaker 15: schedule standpoint, it's favorable.
Speaker 1: And then you bring... Even with Indiana and Michigan and
Speaker 1: Washington and State. Not the two big dogs. Mississippi.
Speaker 15: And then you bring back a quarterback that shows the
Speaker 15: promise that some people believe is a first-round pick.
Speaker 1: We haven't had that type of talent here. Can he
Speaker 1: be a first-rounder? He could be. I agree. I don't
Speaker 1: think we've had this much talent since 2019. I truly don't.
Speaker 1: Totally agree.
Speaker 8: This roster has more talent than 2019 does.
Speaker 1: We forget, though....
Speaker 8: We're three plays away from that 2019 team being an
Speaker 8: eight-win team, seven-win team.
Speaker 15: And a play away from being 11-1 and winning the
Speaker 15: Big Ten.
Speaker 1: That's how close these games are, though. We forget that.
Speaker 15: When we break down the schedule, what I believe the
Speaker 15: key to this team will be is I think nine
Speaker 15: of the 12 games will be one-possession games.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. God, you see, it's so clear.
Speaker 1: So one possession game. Can you win all those? Can
Speaker 1: you go undefeated in those? That's what I mean.
Speaker 8: And then Justin and I are going to give you
Speaker 8: a name each on offense and defense that we have
Speaker 8: to watch.
Speaker 1: That's going to be a breakout player. All your hands up.
Speaker 7: Will you break your five-game road losing streak this season?
Speaker 1: Is that right, Saddlebags? September 26th. At the toughest place
Speaker 1: to play in the Big Ten, which is Washington. Don't
Speaker 1: you worry about it. Are you worried? Are you stop
Speaker 1: worrying about it? I got some good value with eight wins.
Speaker 7: They have that, uh, sporting news fantasy magazine at circa
Speaker 7: in our room.
Speaker 1: So they're fully back, man. Yeah. You guys, it's just exciting.
Speaker 1: We're back. Like seriously, like it's just so good. You
Speaker 1: can feel in there today. It's high school football's back tonight.
Speaker 1: That's huge. How great is that?
Speaker 15: And then a Tonka and Moorhead are the, are the
Speaker 15: kind of more.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: More at four gophers and a kid going NDSU and, St.
Speaker 15: John's takes on a big opponent this week, I think,
Speaker 15: in lacrosse. And Bethel takes on a big opponent as well.
Speaker 15: And those teams face each other, I think, October 2nd.
Speaker 15: So there's 91 games.
Speaker 1: Of college football this weekend. So if you happen to
Speaker 1: have some time. Hell yeah.
Speaker 12: St.
Speaker 1: Thomas? They took a next step. Old St. Thomas, no?
Speaker 1: They struggled against Winona.
Speaker 10: Dude, was there anything better than airplane magazines that you
Speaker 10: specifically got?
Speaker 1: No, I don't mean buying stuff.
Speaker 10: I mean, like, when you went to the airport and
Speaker 10: went through the magazine racks, you're like, what am I
Speaker 10: going to read for the next three hours when I'm
Speaker 10: on a flight? Now everybody's got TV shows or whatever
Speaker 10: loaded on your phone or in the back of your seat.
Speaker 1: You didn't like Sam Hall, though?
Speaker 10: Well, sure, but I'm just saying it was super cool
Speaker 10: to be at the airport going at the magazine rack.
Speaker 10: What do I want to read for the next three hours?
Speaker 10: It was the best.
Speaker 15: I flew home last night from Charlotte and I watched,
Speaker 15: I think, episode four of Hard Knocks.
Speaker 1: Yes. Man, do they suck in. The Seahawks are great.
Speaker 1: I am such a fan. I love the Seahawks. They
Speaker 1: do a great job.
Speaker 15: When those two guys got hurt, the safety breaks his
Speaker 15: ankle and the receiver blows out his ACL.
Speaker 1: God, I almost started to cry. Don't you love him?
Speaker 1: The culture he's created is so great. It's amazing. You
Speaker 1: know what?
Speaker 3: Now watch yesterday's press conference with Nolan Teasley and you
Speaker 3: will see the exact same thing. In fact, the phrase
Speaker 3: 70 and not 53, 70. Nolan Teasley said that twice yesterday.
Speaker 1: That's really cool. What does that mean? That's a practice
Speaker 1: squad and everybody involved?
Speaker 3: Just because you're in the practice squad doesn't mean you're
Speaker 3: not on the team.
Speaker 4: We don't have 53 players.
Speaker 1: We've got 70 players.
Speaker 10: What's the financial drop for Brosmer to go from the
Speaker 10: 53 to the practice squad?
Speaker 1: I think it's like $ 700, 000.
Speaker 8: I think he makes $ 200, 000 on the practice squad.
Speaker 1: PA said. And if you're on the active, you're $ 850, 000.
Speaker 1: When they trade McCarthy, though, he'll be on the team.
Speaker 1: active roster. So 850 is the minimum I found you're active? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe so. But 200 is a practice run.
Speaker 15: But 850 is minimum. Maybe because he was a quarterback,
Speaker 15: he would have got more. He made a lot of
Speaker 15: money last year.
Speaker 1: Good for him. That's good living. Alright, what really matters
Speaker 1: though is this.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I forgot we were doing that. Wrapped
Speaker 4: up in college football.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hawk loves it.
Speaker 7: How about this, Hawk's daddy? Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Sunday night
Speaker 7: at 630. At Lambeau.
Speaker 1: At Lambeau. That's pretty sick. Notre Dame is a 20.5
Speaker 1: point favorite. Good. Bury them. God, I hate Wisconsin. But
Speaker 1: their schedule? Easy schedule. They had the hardest schedule ever
Speaker 1: last year. They did. Ever. This year? I mean, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if they get eight or nine wins
Speaker 1: this year, too. I agree. Wisconsin or Notre Dame? Notre
Speaker 1: Dame's going back to... Well, yeah. Notre Dame wasn't playing.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be Notre Dame-Miami back in
Speaker 1: the natty. I think Miami's going to win the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Miami at Stanford tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Stanford's been an asshole for the last few years.
Speaker 4: That sucks, man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when they could run the ball. Remember how good
Speaker 1: they were in 2012 running the ball? God, with Toby.
Speaker 4: Toby Gerrard, everybody.
Speaker 1: That was sick. That was so cool.
Speaker 3: By the way, the USC game was last week with
Speaker 3: San Jose State.
Speaker 4: They said it was 112 degrees in the seats.
Speaker 1: Oh, hideous. God, that's horrible.
Speaker 3: Even people who did come were like trying to stand
Speaker 3: in the shade by the concession stand.
Speaker 1: At USC, right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, at USC.
Speaker 1: That was my first game ever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember. You played kickoff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Marquise.
Speaker 8: That's Marquise, baby. I was peeing behind him in the
Speaker 8: locker room before the game. You should have used that.
Speaker 8: And his piss was like gold, like hungover gold.
Speaker 1: Your mic's on. And I told my dad.
Speaker 8: I was like, Dad, I think he's going to cramp up.
Speaker 1: Cramped up in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 5: He did.
Speaker 1: I saw it so clear. Max Shortell.
Speaker 7: You were analyzing piss?
Speaker 12: Well, I saw it clear. He crammed up and definitely
Speaker 12: wasn't clear. He was not clear. But, like, that's serious.
Speaker 12: You should have offered him some water.
Speaker 10: What an unbelievable cover, though, that you were analyzing the cramps.
Speaker 1: You weren't even on the team. I was just curious
Speaker 1: about cramping. That's why I was looking. You know.
Speaker 4: Eyes forward, Tommy.
Speaker 1: Please.
Speaker 4: Eyes forward.
Speaker 1: You're what the star used to say. You're not supposed to.
Speaker 4: Be inspecting the equipment.
Speaker 3: Poor man's trying to have a moment to take a piss.
Speaker 1: But I was right. He cramped up.
Speaker 4: Well, all due respect.
Speaker 10: I've been in public bathrooms for 46 years. I've never
Speaker 10: seen the color of another man's urine.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 10: Even if you can see the stream, you're like, well,
Speaker 10: I'm not going to look long enough to analyze like, oh.
Speaker 1: That is a solid goal. Can I offer you some water, sir?
Speaker 8: I'd argue that's false because sometimes when you're behind, you
Speaker 8: can see between their legs.
Speaker 11: No, no, no.
Speaker 1: Stop, stop, stop. That's where you're wrong.
Speaker 10: The rest of us, Tommy, aren't looking between the man's
Speaker 10: legs to see the color of the urine.
Speaker 1: How about this? If he didn't flush, you can see
Speaker 1: the puddle of what it was. So there you go.
Speaker 14: Tommy.
Speaker 1: Eyes up, please. Oh, man. You need help.
Speaker 9: And I tried.
Speaker 10: You definitely tried. Hey, Tommy, how would you analyze these
Speaker 10: four gentlemen? Well, their urine is definitely for non-blondes. It's
Speaker 10: solid gold over there.
Speaker 8: Well, I'm telling you guys, that was like scary because it.
Speaker 1: Was so hot. You were right. It was cramped up.
Speaker 4: How do you approach that conversation? Because you're doing him
Speaker 4: a solid job.
Speaker 1: When you're a true freshman.
Speaker 4: I'm watching him piss.
Speaker 1: Who was your coach? Was that Brewster? That was Coach Kills.
Speaker 10: Can you imagine walking up to Kill as a freshman
Speaker 10: and going, Coach, I know I shouldn't have been looking,
Speaker 10: but Marquise is gray. His urine is solid gold. We
Speaker 10: need to get that dude pumped with electrolytes quickly or
Speaker 10: this thing's going to go south.
Speaker 1: We probably would have won his first game if I
Speaker 1: told him. Truthfully.
Speaker 10: I wonder what Kill would have said if you had said,
Speaker 10: I just analyzed our quarterback's urine.
Speaker 1: Eye test, by the way, not, not, not through medical exams. Just,
Speaker 1: just absolutely. It might've been too late. Couldn't taste the electrolytes. No, no,
Speaker 1: but it was, I get it. It was hot. Have
Speaker 1: you ever analyzed another teammate's piss? Guarantee.
Speaker 7: He has guaranteed from the source, from the source, like from,
Speaker 7: as it's leaving the human.
Speaker 10: You ever seen it hit the urinal and be like,
Speaker 10: that guy's going to cramp up later.
Speaker 1: That's the wrong color.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 1: How often, Ben? I bet you the linebackers used to, like,
Speaker 1: pee on each other in the showers. Ben, how old
Speaker 1: are you?
Speaker 2: 48? 47.
Speaker 1: So you're 47.
Speaker 10: In 47 years, have you ever been standing behind somebody
Speaker 10: at a urinal looking between his legs and go, oh, boy,
Speaker 10: is he dehydrated?
Speaker 1: Or in trouble. Do you want to? You ever seen that?
Speaker 15: No, but.
Speaker 1: You kind of judge.
Speaker 9: I guarantee.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: No, but when we had to do the. When the
Speaker 1: guys had to do the drug tests. Yeah. And then
Speaker 1: you'd walk out with your little cup of tea. You
Speaker 1: would make comments like, dude, you got to drink some water.
Speaker 1: That is very different, Tommy. See, very different. What Ben
Speaker 1: just said is completely normal. Yeah. Completely normal.
Speaker 4: The Vikings got those things now, though, when you– Yeah.
Speaker 1: They tell you, right?
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So you need to drink some water.
Speaker 1: Before that technology. We only had like, no, there's pictures
Speaker 1: of colors of your pee.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So then you just kind of got used to judging it,
Speaker 1: you know? Yeah.
Speaker 10: And that's how it was just spilled all over himself.
Speaker 1: That was the best man.
Speaker 10: He tried to open the door and it just splashed
Speaker 10: all over himself.
Speaker 1: Oh, that was, that just made my day. Ever since
Speaker 1: I was judging my own, I would always judge other
Speaker 1: people's pee. It depends on how you see their pee.
Speaker 16: If you're looking between their legs, if you're obscuring your teammates.
Speaker 8: I'm not directly looking at their crank. I'm just looking
Speaker 8: at the color.
Speaker 1: When they're in the urinal? Or in the showers, whatever.
Speaker 1: You guys would do that. No, hold on.
Speaker 15: First of all, your teammates peed in a community shower?
Speaker 1: All the time. Come on, dude. Especially after the game.
Speaker 15: At K-State, wasn't it a community shower?
Speaker 1: It was a community shower. That's what I'm saying. Did
Speaker 1: you guys have the tower shower? Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You guys had a tower shower and then pee on the...
Speaker 1: Not at the U anymore. No, we were on the walls.
Speaker 1: But on the road... On the road, after a win,
Speaker 1: and you had the tower showers, and there was one
Speaker 1: in the middle, and there was probably like six spigots
Speaker 1: coming around? Yeah. Just to be standing there and like
Speaker 1: piss on someone's leg. Come on. And then they don't
Speaker 1: notice because they think it's hot, and then you look,
Speaker 1: and then you laugh as a brilliant bit. You should
Speaker 1: be in prison. Tell me how funny that'd be. After
Speaker 1: a win? You know that's funny. After a win, that'd
Speaker 1: be funny. After a win, that'd be funny. It's not
Speaker 1: like you're doing it after a loss. It was after
Speaker 1: a win.
Speaker 15: Free!
Speaker 1: That's funny. That's a good bit. We started that in
Speaker 1: high school. Tommy. Fraz actually started that in high school.
Speaker 15: Hey, Tommy.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: How badly do you miss pissing on dudes?
Speaker 1: And name a few dudes you'd like to pee on.
Speaker 1: Fraz actually started that bit. But, like, I think it's funny. He's,
Speaker 1: you know. It's funny.
Speaker 4: He's a trendsetter.
Speaker 10: Tommy, this would be the most meta thing of all time.
Speaker 10: What if you're peeing pure gold and Schmole is peeing maroon?
Speaker 1: Like, it's blood. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 10: Then you guys are literally crossing the streams, of course,
Speaker 10: and you're peeing maroon and gold.
Speaker 4: Doing it for the squad, bro.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bro. No, I believe you guys both bleed maroon
Speaker 1: and gold. Uh-huh. I mean, I go next level and
Speaker 1: piss in a game. If you got hit in your spleen,
Speaker 1: there's a chance, you know, that could happen.
Speaker 7: And if, yeah, if any problem, Tommy does too, because
Speaker 7: I got it from the same source.
Speaker 1: You guys, that's, that's, you know, that's pretty funny. Like
Speaker 1: Abby funny. It's a good bit.
Speaker 10: This is honestly what I love about our show is
Speaker 10: there's a chance that like PJ Flex, like I wonder
Speaker 10: what Flash and Tommy are saying about the season opener tonight.
Speaker 10: And then they heard us break down you staring at
Speaker 10: men peeing for 10 straight minutes. Don't say it like that.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what you said.
Speaker 4: He's just.
Speaker 1: Ben Lieber is here. Fargo Flash is here. Tommy Olsen
Speaker 1: is here.
Speaker 10: More college football talk with these fellas after this on
Speaker 10: the Power Trip.
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