WEBVTT - HR. 3 - Initials Game 622 feat. Lou Raguse 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.800 Version six of the Initials game is now available at 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.560 Initials game dot com. If you love the radio version 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:08.520 of Initials, you will love the home game. Perfect for campfires, 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.000 game nights, or family get togethers. Get the brand new 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:24.439 version version six of Initials at Initials game dot com. 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:26.320 All right, so I'm glad we don't just stare at 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:28.600 the Florida in a commercial brace because Lou Ragusa said 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:29.600 something that blew my mind. 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:30.520 So did you hear that? 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:34.959 Walking in Jardy? Just said I just heard the twitch thing? So, Lou, 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.120 what did you just say about Techmo super Bowl? So 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:41.360 remember the old nes game Techmo super Bowl? When I 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:43.760 was a Buffalo, I got into playing it competitively. What 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.360 And there's there's kind of like an online community. So 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.960 as you're talking about Twitch, I actually use that a 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:50.960 little bit. That's how you find the people online to 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.880 play against. So you're a competitive techmol super Bowl player? Yeah, 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:59.600 so legitimately pretty good at it? Yes, relative like extremely. 0:00:59.000 --> 0:00:59.520 Good at it. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.000 Sure it could beat anyone that that doesn't know how 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.840 to play the way the competitive people play in the tournaments. 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:06.680 But there I don't know if they still have it 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:08.480 or not, but they used to have a national championship 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:12.480 in Madison and I never got out of the final 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.920 thirty two for that. So nationwide there's some really good players. 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:17.960 But I did win one tournament in Buffalo when I 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.479 was there, and it was pretty popular there. That's pretty cool, man, 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.119 that's really cool. No one, do you like the Bills? 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.479 The Bills were probably the team back exactly. They were 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.480 Techno Super Bowl. I was just staying the other day, unfortunately, 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.560 when Joey Browner passed away, Like, there's a lot of 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.160 names from the eighties that a lot of us grew 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.520 up learning football players and techmobiles exactly. Even if I 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.280 didn't watch a lot of Vikings football in the eighties 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:40.520 because I was too young, I knew their names from 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:40.920 that game. 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.679 Yeah, I wouldn't know who Carl Lee was exactly if 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:44.319 it wasn't here. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.640 He's a good corner on Techno super Bowl. And I 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:49.920 probably have his football card too. That was the other way, right. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.800 Yeah, that's sweet man. I didn't know you could ball 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.360 a little bit. Do you play any other old school 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:56.160 anys games? 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.760 Well, I mean like Super Mario three or Doctor Mario. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.800 Some ran so Baseball Stars is a really good one. 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:06.600 But there was a kind of a variant called Little 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.000 League Baseball that I actually like. 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:11.359 A little bit. Yeah yeah. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.239 Doctor Mario was obviously in response to how popular Tetris was. 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.600 Everybody the world was going nuts for Tetris, and then 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.880 somebody at Nintendo said, how do we combine Tetris with 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.440 our love of Mario? And they just made Doctor Mario. 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.120 And it is different enough that it's sure and you 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.040 play competitively against someone and it's a race, so that 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.960 any game on the old school Nintendo that you can 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.360 play against somebody competitively is still fun. 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:35.480 That's sweet. 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.720 Man, Are you guys gonna hang out after? 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.680 I don't want to get smoked and technical I'm not 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:41.200 good at that. 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.320 I mean, I think I'll kick his ass in Mario 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:44.880 cart but he's going to smoke me and everything else, 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.200 it sounds you can still create a little disparity by 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.480 being one of the bad teams and letting the opponent 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:51.760 be a good team. It's still hard to beat someone 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.600 if it's you know, San Francisco versus the Patriots are 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:55.600 the worst team on that game. 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:57.120 Think about that. 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.400 Times they have a change, but we referenced the time. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.359 There's so many games in the nineties and beyond that 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:06.919 there was that unofficial like rule of the unwritten rule 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:08.919 of like like when you played the hockey games in 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:10.799 the nineties, you can't be the Red Wings. It's not fair. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.360 No anybody with the Red Wings, because then it's just 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.200 it's just not even a fair fight. Even if you 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.440 if you're giving the worst player of the two of 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.000 you the Red Wings, just like, well, now you're gonna 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:20.640 probably beat me. 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:22.519 This isn't cool. You can't be the Rams in the 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.200 late nineties manager, or. 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.480 You couldn't be Michael Vick and the Falcons when when 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.760 he was a dominant video game athlete. 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:29.320 It's not fair. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.919 Yep, so is bo Jackson like your all time favorite 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:33.280 player then based on that game. 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:34.760 He was for a long time, I believe, But he's 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:35.720 I love the myth. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.200 I love how Bo Jackson's myth is bigger than he 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.000 really was as a player. If you if you go 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:43.080 to you know, pro football stats and you look at 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.120 his stats, it's not that impressive. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.000 But they made a cartoon with him and Jordan and Gretzky. 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:49.920 Remember that. Oh yeah, he was. 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:54.720 He was pop culture was viral before you went viral, commercials. 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.600 Video games, yack mobile. He was the whole bit. 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.000 Ye started it was that really cool baseball cartoon where 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.680 he has the football shoulder pads on and then the bat. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.000 Yeah. Iconic, Yeah, iconic. 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.680 Tons of us had that poster in our arms. And 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:11.480 then I had like Kelly Kapowski and like Weezer's Blue. 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.440 Album and Boys on the Block or whatever new Kids 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:16.960 on the Block you're thinking about Zach's room. 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.040 I had the Kramer remember the uh yeah, the portrait 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.760 of the Cosmo course. Yeah, did you have the George 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:25.520 Costanza on the couch mill too? 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.920 Also iconic? Yeah? Man, all right, should we do sports 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:31.240 quickly before we get the game? 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.320 Can I make a point with the very first sports 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:33.960 story do you mind? 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:37.960 Of course, it's time for Fan five on the Power Trip, 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:39.919 brought to you by the Saint Paul Safe. 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.480 Thank you, say Paul Saints. We appreciate that very much. 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.880 They're playing baseball. I believe it's the first Friday night 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.640 fireworks night of the year down at cchs Field tonight. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:49.960 And they got Hoodius to give away too, So going down, 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:50.520 thank you Saints. 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.560 Hey, speaking of that, because because it's not only the 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:54.239 Saints game, but we have a you know, a Twins 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:54.720 game as well. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.279 And I'm looking at the weather forecast. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.080 It looks like it's what eighty five percent chance of 0:04:58.160 --> 0:04:59.920 some kind of rain, some kind Right? 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.120 What happened to the three days of snow and sleet 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.960 and hell? And what happened. 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:07.240 Exactly up north as we. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.760 Speak, But we missed it completely correct and went bubb 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:10.200 us right. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.680 Echo, Yeah, I think, Yeah, the old jet stream or 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.560 something pushed it all up, and now we're getting warmer 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.200 weather than they expected, and then instead of the snow, 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:20.080 it's now the rain. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:23.040 That's how you report. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:24.960 Yeah, correct, there you go. Watch up. 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.240 A athletic article I was just reading just now during 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.839 that break from our friend Alex Lewis made a point 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:41.039 that I hadn't thought of. We brought in Kyle Murray. Yeah, Murphy, 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.799 think about the difference between what we paid Kyler Murray 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.760 to come in and what the Raiders just paid to 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:49.680 bring in. 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:50.960 Kirk Kirk Cousins. 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:51.240 Yeah. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:52.120 Ten million more. 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.960 Yeah, think about that, and how much younger he is, 0:05:55.000 --> 0:06:00.440 literally ten years younger. I just that's that's one perspective 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.960 I hadn't thought of. We brought in a pro caliber 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.960 starter who has a future for a nine million dollars 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:08.039 less great point. 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:13.640 Yeah, the best argument for Kyle Murphy, I miss Kyle Murphy, 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:18.400 Kyler whatever is actress the best. The best argument is 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.360 the price tag. It's an absolute fre year roll. If 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.400 it does cost you nothing, you move on. The only 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.320 thing you've wasted is your time. And if it goes 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.760 horribly south, you have a top. You have a very 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.320 good pick and a very good quarterback drive horribly south. 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.120 Oh so was your sister? Come on, now, my sister, 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.320 Lou Lou Hawk has a sister who's a prostitute. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:43.920 She was what was was now she's an escort. 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.400 She's missing though, So Lou, if you could look into that's. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.960 Saying, she's not missing meals, I'll tell you that. 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:52.479 Okay, got Marty. 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.279 The Timberwolves lost to the Kissions one thirteen, one o eight, 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.760 No aunt, So he is now eligible for NBA Postseason Awards. 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:03.520 And we were just talking about, you know, all these rich, 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.400 top paid guys in the NFL. So look, no one's 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.480 crying for Anthony Edwards. He's going to have hundreds of 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.080 millions of dollars. It's not the end of the world, 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.680 but it is. Don't forget this. This is tied to 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.400 future money. Like so if he does not make All 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:22.120 NBA next year, then I believe the super Max is 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:23.920 out the door for him, right, Isn't that how that 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.000 works because you have to have a certain number of 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.840 All nbas within a certain window. And the fact that 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:31.920 he misses it now this year because he's not eligible 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:33.440 for it, and he would have been in the top 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.120 three teams, he's a top fifteen plars. 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.160 So if he somehow doesn't make it next year because 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:39.680 he has. 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.960 Injuries or something or a really weird bad year, which 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.200 is very unlikely it's more injury based, then the next 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.560 time he signs a deal, he's not eligible for the Supermax. 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:48.000 Right. 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.480 So again, no one's crying for him. He's going to 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:51.080 be just fine. 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.320 But that theoretically could be what tens of millions of 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:55.440 dollars maybe for missing a handful of games. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:01.600 And this was voted on in the last CBAS, which 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:06.080 means the players voted on it, right, So this this 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:11.360 is not going away because it actually has created exactly 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.920 what the NBA wanted, which was the superstar players playing 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:19.200 more games. And if you look at like Nikola Jokicic 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.600 when he had his was a knee injury, Guys who 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:26.680 have had like hamstring, calf, whatever, they're coming back a 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.920 little sooner. Or even Wemby when he came back from 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.880 his calf, he was playing like a minutes restriction of whatever. 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.800 It was twenty four minutes and he was sticking to that. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:42.040 But he probably came back earlier because he was trying 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:46.360 to make himself eligible. So it is working in that sense. 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:50.520 It is getting guys to play more games. They're still 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.840 going to miss when they're hurt, yes, but the point 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:57.000 is they're trying to not have guys just sit out 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:00.480 because it's a back to back or it's a game 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.920 we're gonna win by twenty and then the fans are 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.120 paying money to go see your team, say in Indiana, 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.040 and Indiana is a terrible team, so you're gonna rest 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.080 your superstars and the NBA does not want that. And 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.160 so this has been effective to put this sixty five 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.440 game threshold in so it's not going away. 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:20.000 Where the Spurs really the first too. They use load management. 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:21.160 And I'm gonna tell you why I know this. 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.680 I was just reading a book about stoicism and the 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.520 gentleman is referencing the coach what. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:26.280 Was this name, Popovich? 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.840 Popovich and Popovich chose to do the right thing instead 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.120 of the popular thing, and the right thing for his 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.240 team was to rest his players. 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.640 Right, And that's it. It's game theory as well. 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.840 Right, it's the optimal choice to win the title is 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.560 not the same as the optimal choice to win the game. Right, 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:48.000 Popovich was playing the season optimization when the NBA doesn't 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.200 want the games to suffer. But that's the problem with 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.640 the sixty five game rule is that they're at odds. 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.800 And I believe that, Margie, if you know this number correctly, 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.160 I think they find him two hundred thousand dollars or 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.320 something like that. Yeah, like right away for doing it. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.560 They find him. He's like, fine, find me. I want 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:06.959 I want to win. I want to take care of 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:07.520 my players. 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:07.880 Right. 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.320 And so it's interesting what you just said, Hawk, you 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.559 said pop did the right thing. You're saying he did 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.760 the right thing for his team exactly, and somebody who 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.800 went to the game might say he didn't do the 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.560 right thing for the fans. It's an interesting especially if 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.000 you were let's say it was a road game and 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:29.199 some let's say they were playing in Minnesota, and Minnesota 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.560 fans bought tickets because they wanted to see Tim Duncan 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.320 or whoever whoever rested that day. 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.640 Boy, you know what, Marks, I could argue both sides 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:36.120 of the argument. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:37.120 Yes, I don't know what. 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:38.640 Yeah, I don't know what's right? 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.560 Interesting And the real answer is that the NBA season 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.480 should be seventy games instead of eighty two or pick 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:46.160 your number. 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.320 Or twelve yeah, twelve games, yeah, or somewhere in between. 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.559 But that will never change because then the money will change. 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.600 But you would also have to assume that the teams 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.600 would still then try to maximize the game instead of 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.560 maximizing the title. Right, because even if you cut at 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.280 the seventy, it's still optimal to not have them go 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:08.520 all out for all seventy injury risk, stamina, endurance, all that. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.920 But when you're looking at three games a week, right 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.040 instead of four? 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.560 And if I made take this and I'm sorry, but 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.280 go in the weeds. But reading close to him his 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.200 book about football, the thing you just said about the 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.840 amount of games and you lose money. The NFL only 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.679 plays how many regular season games, seventy and they make 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.320 way more money than everybody a point. Yeah, And he 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:29.760 points that out in this book, and it's one of 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:31.560 the reasons the NFL is so successful, it's. 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.959 Because it makes every game so much more important. That's there, 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:35.200 you go. 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.120 It's like we only play Initials once a week because 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.480 that was organic and it was well done. 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:42.720 I'm going to say it right now, Chad Abbott has 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.240 an e because of what you just did. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:45.439 That was a great trend. 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.120 Oh got It took me a minute that he had, 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:50.880 like an electric car he does. 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.600 That's what I meant, I met. 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.400 What did you think he meant? Explain what he meant? 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:59.520 He meant? He meant. 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.319 Love shed See, I'm correct. 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:11.040 You're not reading the books still? Are you? Really? All right? 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:11.800 Lou Ra Goose? 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.720 Do you believe you're good at this game? I don't know. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:15.160 You don't know. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.600 I have the play at home game. I like you, 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.280 and I always end up being the reader. Okay, so 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.439 I really haven't played it a lot of That probably 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.640 means they think you're gonna win, which means they stick 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.959 you with the expectations. High Yep, all right. Lou Ra 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.160 Goose makes his Initials debut. 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So first 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.120 of all, thank you for inviting me on this is 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.280 this is life goals for me. But I thought that 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.120 it would never happen because the first time that I 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.280 was here, I was actually doing a story on a musician, 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.880 Michael Shines, and tagging along with him. Oh yeah, he 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:22.760 was a cool guy, great tyrol and Poland that was 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.360 kind of the news hook. And but I was New 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.000 I just moved back to the Twin Cities, and I 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:28.960 was just starting to listen and learn who everyone was. 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.080 And on my way out the door, I said, hey, Corey, 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:32.680 by the way, I want to let you know that 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.680 I love the Letters game. 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Let's play the letters game. 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.520 But before we play the letters game, let's make sure 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.680 somebody gets a crack at one hundred and thirteen thousand. 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.640 Now, now it's time for the Saint Paul Federal Credit 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:58.720 Union initials. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.280 Jackpop, that's right, you heard one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars. 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:02.960 You're looking to buy a new car, save money in 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.040 your current car loan, Do it with Saint Paul Federal 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.320 Credit Union now for auto loan rates as low as 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.720 four point two nine percent APR. Apply today at Saint 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:14.360 Paul fu dot org. Slash kafan federally insured by the NCUA. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.200 All right, thanks, to Saint Paul Federal Credit Union. This 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.600 thing is now at one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars. 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:21.720 If the caller guess is one letter in the right 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:23.560 spot got to be in the right spot, they win. 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:24.720 Two hundred and fifty bucks. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.080 If they tell me both letters in the right spot, 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:28.840 they win one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:30.240 Carl's sitting right over there. 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.760 He won thirty one five Like six months later, Mike 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.240 won thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars, and it hasn't gone off. 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:40.880 Since it's been forever. Let's do it. 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:42.720 It's overdue. We've had a couple of sweats in the 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.280 last couple of months. Let's just have somebody win. We 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:46.840 have a reporter right here. 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.040 They'll be on the news on the record. Yeah, Lou's 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.160 gonna call Carol eleven and go. We got a story. 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.280 Somebody just won one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars on 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:56.920 this stupid morning show that I was. 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:00.960 On with Carl in a ten minutes, come on, play 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:07.159 good morning. What is your name? I think he's Derek? 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:08.120 Derek. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:08.959 Hi, Derek, what's up? 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:09.080 Man? 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.000