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Speaker 1: We'll talk about his team in terrific position as we

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Speaker 1: prepare the for the Olympic break while have two games left,

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Speaker 1: including one tonight on the fan. Coverage begins at six

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Speaker 1: the bratch on Brian caffe In text line at six

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Speaker 2: Why is golf on?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: This is that? Is this that studio golf thing? Yes? Yes,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's highly popular, but he's trying

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So he was being interviewed by Marty Smith. Your guy.

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Speaker 1: Very interesting. I had something else I was going to

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Speaker 1: I think it's spot on. Quazy adofo, men's got let go.

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Speaker 1: We ultimately chose to not name the SNAMI. I didn't

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Speaker 1: via the Connecticot Water Systems hotline, and as we welcome

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Speaker 1: I often start, a tweet directed at you, quite frankly

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Speaker 1: he is referring to the new Netflix documentary, yet another

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Speaker 1: if Bill Garren and Mike Sullivan are smart, watching this

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Speaker 3: If we were only if we were as smart as Mike.

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Speaker 1: It's correct, which is.

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Speaker 3: I could hope to be one day as smart as

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Speaker 3: And yeah, the way that they played in November or

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Speaker 3: early December. Yeah, okay, now we're in.

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Speaker 1: So how do I ask this question delicately in a

440
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Speaker 1: way that there's a decent chance you'll answer it.

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Speaker 2: I'll just ask it, okay.

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Speaker 1: So one of the things that's been reported recently, you know,

443
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Speaker 1: Louis has talked about this. A lot of people say, okay, well,

444
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Speaker 1: if you if there is any hope of adding another

445
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Speaker 1: Here's what I've been told by the hockey insiders, they say,

446
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 1: the so called experts. They say, in an odd sense,

447
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,719
Speaker 1: when you make a move as big as you already

448
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 1: did that, you're almost obligated to make sure that move

449
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 1: move is maximized by making one more big move. But

450
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Speaker 1: the comeback to that was, well, how many assets do

451
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Speaker 1: you have left? At what price? So what I've been

452
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 1: told about the hockey insiders is, here's what's changed. There

453
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Speaker 1: might be willingness, if necessary, to move on your young goaltender,

454
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Speaker 1: even if you love them, and even if you don't

455
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Speaker 1: want to do it, that if it comes to it,

456
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Speaker 1: that might be something you have to consider.

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Speaker 2: Can you speak to them.

458
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Speaker 3: I've always look, I've always said if there's a chance

459
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Speaker 3: to make our team better, I will. I've always said that,

460
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Speaker 3: and I mean that includes everybody, like right, It's not

461
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Speaker 3: just it's not just Wallly. It's not like kids that

462
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Speaker 3: kids have stopped. He's he's he's a really good goalie.

463
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Speaker 3: I love putting two goalies in. I love putting goalies

464
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Speaker 3: in rested every single night. And that's that's a luxury,

465
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Speaker 3: that's a benefit. So I'm not I'm no, I'm in

466
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Speaker 3: no rush to do that. I understand these are things

467
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 3: that are thrown out there, that are sold. Like you

468
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Speaker 3: know what, it doesn't it doesn't take It doesn't take

469
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Speaker 3: much thought to look at our roster and say, like, oh,

470
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Speaker 3: they could trade wall seat. Well, no kidding, like, of

471
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,159
Speaker 3: course we could. Like it's just that's not like a

472
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Speaker 3: bold statement, it's just obvious.

473
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Speaker 2: Well, I think, yeah, it's true.

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Speaker 1: I think it's gotten some attention really for two reasons. One,

475
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Speaker 1: he's emerged.

476
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Speaker 3: Because because it makes sense, here's a tiptick. They already

477
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Speaker 3: have a goal here's a chip tick, no kidding.

478
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Speaker 1: But he only becomes a chip because he's playing better, right,

479
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Speaker 1: I mean that's part of the story. I think that's

480
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 1: that's part of it. We've already gone way, we're way

481
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Speaker 1: past that. We have him traded on this show, and

482
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Speaker 1: we have obviously Flower coming back to be the backup

483
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Speaker 1: goaltender the rest of the season once you make the

484
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Speaker 1: big move to add a front line center.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean again, those are all things that I

486
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Speaker 3: mean when you look at it, yeah, I mean, hey,

487
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Speaker 3: we could. There's so many things like that that that

488
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Speaker 3: you can go through and just say, oh, what about this?

489
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Speaker 3: What about that? Yeah? It makes sense like it does.

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Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not saying anybody's wrong for thinking that,

491
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Speaker 3: but I'm just saying it's it's obvious.

492
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Speaker 1: What actor will Billy Garant choose to play him in

493
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Speaker 1: the Miracle two movie? Who should play you? When you

494
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Speaker 1: guys take that makes all the sense of the world.

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Speaker 2: Are you familiar John c Well that?

496
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that might that might be more like it. That's

497
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Speaker 1: possible too. Are you familiar with Lavelle e Neil the Third?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so we have Lavell on for every Friday. We've

500
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Speaker 1: had him on for reguards to you, what do you

501
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: think twenty years? He's fifteen, twenty, he's twenty five. For

502
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: God's sake, I've been on this too long actually. Anyway,

503
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Speaker 1: Lavelle has an interesting theory regarding his Olympic visits. I

504
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: used to cover Olympics, but I never was smart enough

505
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Speaker 1: to come up with this idea. So the Lavelle Neil

506
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Speaker 1: rule of traveling to the Olympics is that inevitably you're

507
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Speaker 1: gonna have to come back with some trinkets, right from

508
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Speaker 1: some mementos that either you're bringing back to yourselves or

509
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Speaker 1: your loved ones, et cetera. So you're going to need

510
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 1: some extra room on the back end on the return journey.

511
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Speaker 2: So the Lavell plan to create that room is to.

512
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Speaker 1: Leave all of his underwear in his hotel room in

513
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Speaker 1: that international Olympic spot, So then that space is available

514
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Speaker 1: for trinkets.

515
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,400
Speaker 2: Whatever is it possible.

516
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Speaker 1: Bill Garon will adopt the Lavelle e Neil the third

517
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Speaker 1: underwear rule when he travels to Mlonna.

518
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Speaker 3: I don't wear underwear. It's it doesn't help me in

519
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 3: this situation.

520
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:15,640
Speaker 2: I asked.

521
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Speaker 1: Behave your socks, that's it. Maybe a couple extra shirts, uh,

522
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Speaker 1: will you have? I'm guessing you're gonna have a lot

523
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,679
Speaker 1: of requests though, right for like caps and hoodies and

524
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff.

525
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Speaker 3: You know what, I honestly, I I've been through this before. Yeah,

526
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 3: And you know, the more people you try to take

527
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 3: care of, the bigger pain in the next it is.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, it just is. And I take care of

529
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 3: my family right now. And if I have that something great,

530
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Speaker 3: But I'm going over there to work. It's not our

531
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to the Olympics like that. I'm going

532
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Speaker 3: as I'm working.

533
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Speaker 1: That's probably what people love this team want to hear.

534
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: Although I will admit Guardi and I were kind of

535
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: hoping maybe for a really cool US Olympic Hockey team

536
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: hoodie or like a post or something.

537
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh god, that would be I mean, there's.

538
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 3: Another idio personality that you know very well that's asked

539
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 3: for things too, And I'm gonna give you the same

540
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 3: answer that I gave him.

541
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Speaker 2: Uh huh No, not a chance.

542
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: Do we get like a discount like team USA dot

543
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: com is, or like a code we can use to

544
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: get off. Well even even Louis I thought brought me

545
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 1: back something from one of the Olympics. That's true, he does.

546
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: That's a really good point.

547
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Speaker 2: That explains it, that actually explains it. Yeah, that's for sure.

548
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: All right, Well you're what are you leaving Thursday? So

549
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: our not request, but demand is if we can't get

550
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 1: a hoodie, if if you're not going to give a

551
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Speaker 1: phone call.

552
00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 2: We gotta have like, how long does the competition go on? Actually?

553
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 2: Is it twelve days? More than that?

554
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 3: Yeah? Gold medal games of twenty seconds.

555
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: Okay, so I get it. You're busy, You're gonna have

556
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: other priorities. But we have to have you on the

557
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: ground there at some point, like I don't know, once twice,

558
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 1: and we could keep it shorter, like if you say,

559
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: all right, I'll give you eight minutes. We're not gonna

560
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: do the our usual thirty minute Wagnerian opera.

561
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Speaker 2: Whatever works for you.

562
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Speaker 1: We will work with your people and you because you

563
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: will be a great resource for us, and we're gonna

564
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: be watching this stuff start to finish.

565
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 3: So yeah, we might be able to do that.

566
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll figure something out your tech, your your

567
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: phone will work there. I can at least bug you

568
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: and text you and you can ignore me that way.

569
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, my phone will work there.

570
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 2: Excellent.

571
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: Will are you staying at palatial? Like what are the digs?

572
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,959
Speaker 1: Are you in like a pashon Tony location?

573
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 3: No, not quite pash Tony, but seriously it'll be nice.

574
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, safe travels. We really appreciate the time. Best of

575
00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: luck to the club. I know you're looking forward to

576
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: it all looking forward to it and thanks for the

577
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 1: time as always.

578
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 3: You got it, my friend, appreciate your talk.

579
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Speaker 2: So thanks man.

580
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: That is the president of hockey operations for your favorite

581
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: hockey team.

582
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Speaker 2: This on a while.

583
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Speaker 1: We of course, are the home of the Wild as

584
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: soon as tonight at six fifteen.

585
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 2: Back in just a.

586
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: Minute, A number of people very pleased with the Garren

587
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: underwear answer. It was I don't know, and I didn't

588
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: want to press on it because it's not any of

589
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: my business. But I don't know if it's a true answer,

590
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: but it's a good answer regarding Commando given I'm sure

591
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: they got people's attention. Lavelle back you know.

592
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 2: Backstory yep.

593
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: Regarding just leaving all of his uh underwear in, I

594
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Speaker 1: think it was Beijing, yes, in that case. So the

595
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Speaker 1: other thing I'd say about it is, I'm guessing the

596
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Speaker 1: Team USA shipping policy is a little bit more liberal

597
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: and a little more inviting than.

598
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 2: The Star Tribunes shipping policy.

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00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: I'm guessing if Team USA staff wants to send something

600
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Speaker 1: back like a steamer trunk, even one extra steamer trunk, yeah,

601
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: I'm guessing they're taking care of in that regard. Just

602
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: a hunch you might be right for that actor for

603
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: Billy Garran in a Miracle two. A Danny McBride, who's

604
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: at Oh Danny McBride, Yeah, he's in east Bound and Down.

605
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: You'd recognize him. He's got That would be a humane

606
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: good one. John c Riley was actually a pretty good

607
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: one too. I thought, yeah, let me ask you this well,

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Speaker 1: he mentioned, Yeah, I showed.

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Speaker 2: I showed.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's hard when you work here, especially everything's

611
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: a bit right, like literally everything. We just did the

612
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: Lavelle underwear a bit with the wild president of hockey Ops.

613
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: So Louis yesterday and Louis should join us tomorrow. Tweeted

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Speaker 1: about the Netflix documentary on the nineteen eighteen that everybody's

615
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: talking about right, and said it's spectacular. Everybody should watch it.

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Speaker 1: And I had it in the chamber in the reply

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Speaker 1: to Luigi who played you? But he's still so mad,

618
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: he is, he's still bitter about it about who played

619
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Speaker 1: him in the Miracle movie where he talked about that.

620
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Speaker 1: He walked out of the premiere and he's never watched

621
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Speaker 1: it since I deleted it. I showed some restraint, I said,

622
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: because Louise on this high from watching the Netflix saying,

623
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: and so I said, should I try to get him going?

624
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: Because I thought it was a good It would have

625
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: been a good way to get him going, no doubt.

626
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Speaker 2: But there's also some things you don't want, you know.

627
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Speaker 1: You could say that for when he starts getting cocky

628
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: about the weather and mocking what we're enduring.

629
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Speaker 2: Because he's looking at swaying palm.

630
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: Trees right right, you know where you have you feel

631
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: some vulnerability and you don't feel sorry for him at all,

632
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: And then you have it in your back pocket if

633
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Speaker 1: you want to go back to it.

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Speaker 2: Is it a long doc? Is it a couple hours?

635
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Speaker 1: I don't know that, but it's as Billy said to

636
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: Russo it's on my list as well. I think for

637
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: a little bit later. This yek very sarcastically too. I

638
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 1: want to see it. The issue is the obvious. You know,

639
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: there's been so many done, what's left? And sometimes there

640
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: can be some new stuff. Somebody had texted that there's

641
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:28,360
Speaker 1: some new video and maybe some newer interviews. That's the question.

642
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: Can you is there a different angle to carve out?

643
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: Seems like there was that has not yet been explored,

644
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: and if you can find one, then all the better

645
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: because the story is timeless.

646
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 2: I mean, the story. If the story.

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Speaker 1: Fades, it's just going to because fewer people can relate

648
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: to it directly because it didn't happen in their lifetime.

649
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 1: And you know, he reminded us Billy garn was nine

650
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,879
Speaker 1: years old. I was not covering. I think I would

651
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: have been in Louisville then, So I was working the

652
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: copy desk, so I wasn't doing any covering any games

653
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 1: or anything like that. So and again, Louisville was not

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00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: you know at the time, wasn't I still not, I

655
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: don't think a hockey mecca.

656
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 2: So it's kind of a.

657
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: Little bit harder to follow there than it might have

658
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: been other places. I am envious, you know, I've had

659
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:13,919
Speaker 1: I've had good fortune to cover a lot of great

660
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Speaker 1: stuff and many Olympics over the years, and a lot

661
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: of other great sporting events. You know, the the the

662
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:24,320
Speaker 1: Carl Lewis Ben Johnson one hundred meter dash in Seoul.

663
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: I can remember it like yesterday. Man, that moment is

664
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: just seared in my head, that scene. To be able

665
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: to cover that and be to be a part of

666
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: that's tremendous. But I really do envy the people who

667
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: were covering Lake Placid for sure, and maybe didn't even know,

668
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 1: you know that it was going to end up being

669
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Speaker 1: what it was, because there are a lot you know,

670
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Speaker 1: it wasn't I don't think it was even though it

671
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: was in the United States. I don't think it was

672
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: covered by everybody nationally, but the people.

673
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Speaker 2: Who are there and to have that memory what that whole.

674
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Speaker 1: Village must have been. Like, I covered hockey, I covered

675
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: a gopher frozen four. Yeah, in Lake Placid. I remember,

676
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 1: in fact, I flew through Montreal to get there, and

677
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 1: the scene was great even then because that you had

678
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 1: that sense of history.

679
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 2: But to actually be there for that thing.

680
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: I saw a tweet from I think it's Mike Lupeka,

681
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: the longtime New York Daily News les Gary Commness. We

682
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: covered all of it. Yep, I was Rosen there. I

683
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: thought Rosen was there. I mean he only tells us weekly. Yeah,

684
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: he was there, and actually his face appears in this documentary.

685
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 3: It does.

686
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 2: I think after one of the games, like a scrum

687
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:31,439
Speaker 2: and interviewed scrum.

688
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 3: Yeah.

689
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: I think he's kind of on the bench. And that's

690
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: the other thing for a Minnesota media member. Yes, I'm

691
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: sure that's why he was there. He's there, he was

692
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: covering that. Yeah, all the Minnesota connections, there's so many

693
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: of them. Yes, so it made a lot of sense.

694
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Speaker 1: So yeah, you can see young Rosen Meetsa's text had said,

695
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: it's ninety minutes and it's perfect.

696
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 2: Perfect what he said.

697
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 1: Well, I, you know, I did cover the eighty four

698
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: Winter Olympics that was in Sarajevo, and it was a

699
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:02,919
Speaker 1: good story in of itself because I heavily concentrated on

700
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: the team that follows and the pressure obviously that it fed.

701
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,359
Speaker 2: Didn't It didn't go well. I even think they got to.

702
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 1: The metal round. I don't remember, but it was not good.

703
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: Lou Vero was the coach. He was a wreck by

704
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: the end of he was a mess. It was impossible

705
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: to live up obviously to that standard. But because of

706
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: what eighty had done, that was the storyline. All right,

707
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: can we have another one of those, say okay, let's

708
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:26,240
Speaker 1: just almost like it's a matter of course.

709
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:27,879
Speaker 2: And it didn't.

710
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: The scene was great, but it didn't go very well

711
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 1: for the US team at all on that occasion. Let's

712
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: get caught up and we'll get to a number of

713
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:38,720
Speaker 1: texts on a number of very controversial subjects when we return.

714
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 1: Just announced today, Dave Chappelle returns to Minnesota February sixteenth

715
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 1: through a very special guest clips.

716
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Speaker 2: Don't miss out on this one.

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Speaker 1: It's a one off, one of a kind set Grand

718
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 1: Casino Arena in Saint Paul and tickets go on sale

719
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: tomorrow at noon. All the details are at cafean dot

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Speaker 1: com keyword calendar. Good show planned for tomorrow. Kevin Seffert

721
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: will join I'm Hoping in studio at three point thirty

722
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:28,359
Speaker 1: and then a rare Hostile League in studio appearance from

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Speaker 1: Aaron Gleman. That's four thirty four yep, so back to

724
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: back Seaffert and then Gleaman and I mentioned this on

725
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:42,240
Speaker 1: sermons that we ended up spending almost the entire time

726
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,399
Speaker 1: on the culture chasm and not so much on the

727
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 1: Twins story. I think because well it's I think the

728
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: reasons are kind of obvious that it's so much harder

729
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 1: to want to invest in anything the Twins are aren't doing.

730
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 1: It so hard to tell exactly what they are and

731
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: aren't doing at this point. They send so many mixed

732
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: messages and now you're, you know, getting rid of Falvey

733
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: two weeks before in effect, I know as mutual two

734
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,800
Speaker 1: weeks before or even less. I think before spring training

735
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 1: that when you don't think there's as much at stake,

736
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: it just doesn't feel very vital, right. But that's Cleman's

737
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: job to continue to pay attention to I mean, he

738
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: may still pay attention from Afar to the Timberwolves and

739
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: the Vikings, especially the Wolves. Yep, but this is what

740
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: he covers, so it will be I will I am

741
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: curious to get I've read some of the stuff he's written,

742
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 1: but I'm curious to get his view on how you

743
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: read the tea leaves here and where this might be headed.

744
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: And I guess my number one question for Cleman might

745
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 1: be why the latest poll ad seems so cock sure

746
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: of what the team's go to do this season? Basically

747
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: keeps saying we're gonna just watch, just watch it wait

748
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: until September. September, So maybe he's seeing it clearly. Maybe

749
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 1: he should be the guy in charge of the baseball operation.

750
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but Gleaman pays obviously a lot of

751
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 1: attention to who we've added and who we don't have,

752
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: and he doesn't simply make it about payroll, even though

753
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 1: payroll clearly tells part of the story because you're you're

754
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 1: you know, your margin for error is reduced as dramatically

755
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:36,760
Speaker 1: as it is. But the bottom line is there's still,

756
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: despite the Vikings disappointment, great interest in the Vikings, And

757
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:46,240
Speaker 1: right now there's a great deal of apathy regarding the Twins.

758
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:50,280
Speaker 1: And I, I don't know, I have a hard time.

759
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the levelle theory, the Lavelle theory

760
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 1: is all they're really doing that even though they walked

761
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: away from from sell this last time after declaring that's

762
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: what you're gonna do, he believes they're going to do

763
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 1: it again. He thinks they're going to wait, yeah, to

764
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: watch baseball get into a more viable financial position. Thereby,

765
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,880
Speaker 1: one would presume making all these franchises more attractive, worth

766
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: more money, and that at that point they're going to

767
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: come back to it again, once they've not necessarily improved

768
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 1: the team, but just improve their chances to make more

769
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,240
Speaker 1: money on the deal, Yes, and then sell at that point.

770
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 2: I think that's exactly what's happening.

771
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 1: Because the more you think about it, these magical minority investors,

772
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: the limited partners, Yes, they just gave us a half

773
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: a billion dollars to wipe off the debt, because they're

774
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: all good dudes to.

775
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 2: Could gig of you and get it, you know what

776
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 2: I mean?

777
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, what's their incentive if you're not going to

778
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: make money this season or next season because of the

779
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: product that you're putting on the field and the payroll

780
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: that regional stuff, you know.

781
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 2: What I mean.

782
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,839
Speaker 1: So because otherwise rich people don't just give away their

783
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: money for nothing. There's got to be something at the

784
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 1: end of it. So that's kind of my thinking is, hey, yeah,

785
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 1: help us with the debt, you'll get it back and

786
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: then some when we come back.

787
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 2: Well, we can only count the days.

788
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, when they gave us that opening and belief that

789
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: they were going to do it before and then let

790
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: us down, I'm not sure from a public standpoint, they'll

791
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: ever recover from that. I mean, the only way you

792
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,279
Speaker 1: get past that is you want a world series, And

793
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: that'd be a hell of a story if they find

794
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,240
Speaker 1: some way to do it with a Hey on Netflix,

795
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: what do we at now at one hundred mil? In

796
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 1: that range right around there.

797
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.

798
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: I'd like to tell you I care enough to check

799
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: into it. But that's what I've read. Even relative to

800
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 1: other teams in the league, and relative to the pie

801
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: that's out the pot of gold that's out there, it

802
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:46,760
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. We all know the story about

803
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,319
Speaker 1: the regional money, you know, being what probably fifty mil.

804
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 1: And now maybe they're getting a buck fifty. We don't

805
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,799
Speaker 1: know exactly what they're getting. They've never told us, which

806
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: always makes me wonder whether it's a little bit more

807
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:03,359
Speaker 1: than we think is. Here's the so Fauve surfaced, right,

808
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: and we'll get to this with Gleaman tomorrow. Didn't he

809
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,359
Speaker 1: surface with a couple of the Jackals afterwards? He did

810
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: on Friday? Yeah, Yeah, he did some kind type of

811
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: zoom or something. The question is whether, and maybe he

812
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: strikes me this guy was maybe never going to go

813
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: scorch to Earth. But I'm wondering if down the road,

814
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: you know, because that seemed to be pretty upbeat, right,

815
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 1: It wasn't. There wasn't a lot of bitterness to it,

816
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: and there wasn't a lot of savagery associated with it.

817
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:31,919
Speaker 1: We had honest conversations about the direction and deep discussions

818
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: and intentional discussions.

819
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 2: It was very falve esque.

820
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we came to the realization that the partnership

821
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: might not be beneficial for both parties, and we had.

822
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 2: Those honest dialogues.

823
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 1: Is he going to surface elsewhere eventually in a one

824
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: on one and is Quazy going to emerge?

825
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 2: My guess is not.

826
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,879
Speaker 1: Seems he's always been hesitant through all of this stuff, right,

827
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 1: But then my question is is it would seem only

828
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: human that it's some point as you see your name

829
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: dragged through the mud, not just for stuff that you

830
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: are responsible for, but for stuff that was definitely a

831
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 1: collaboration and definitely shared. Regarding the quarterback stuff, which we'd

832
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 1: examined heavily the first hour and change of the show,

833
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: and then again with Alec Lewis, you'd think it, you know,

834
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: Mike kick in and go wait a minute now now.

835
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: Then again, Mike Zimmer never did it, so that's true.

836
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: You know, maybe you know, he'll say it's not worth it,

837
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: or I'll go in a different direction.

838
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 2: I don't need to fight this fight.

839
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 1: Some people have and I didn't get this to this

840
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:34,919
Speaker 1: with Alec claimed that there was another coach on another team,

841
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 1: either another coach or GM, who said that one of

842
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: the biggest mistakes the quasy made was acknowledging his mistakes,

843
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: and maybe there's some truth to that.

844
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 2: I don't know.

845
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: Maybe to that extent he was too honest where he

846
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: said about looking back on the Darnel thing. I think

847
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: he said, well, you go through your paces and do

848
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: the things, and then you do kind of regret the

849
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: way some things came out.

850
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 2: I don't know.

851
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: I don't really buy that unless you think your bosses

852
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: are watching and going was does this guy know what

853
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: he's doing? But E would think in any review situation. Yeah,

854
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 1: like you would think that would have come up internally anyway.

855
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: You know that Lacy tells the Wilfs or whoever. Andrew

856
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: Miller the president A. Yeah, you learned some things as

857
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 1: you go through this. Like I read that and I said,

858
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: well that so you're just supposed to never give anything

859
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: and just never admit that you made a mistake. Ever,

860
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: that doesn't seem productive either. Yeah, that's especially if we

861
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: all know, Like to me, that was a good acknowledgment

862
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:31,240
Speaker 1: that we're all watching. We all see the few amount

863
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 1: of players that were drafted by Clacy that are actually participating.

864
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: It's not like he could fool anybody and say no,

865
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 1: it was actually way better than you thought, So I

866
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 1: actually liked that he said, Yeah, we learned some stuff,

867
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: we moved through some stuff.

868
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 2: I don't know.

869
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: Well, it always is easy to say what the anonymous

870
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 1: guy said after the fact. You don't give them, don't

871
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 1: give them an opening, you know, you don't let them

872
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: dance on your grave that way. Did it really have

873
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 1: any impact? I'm not sure. I tend to think it

874
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't have mattered whether he'd been more careful or

875
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: had you know, whether he was that director had been

876
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: more careful about his response. Top of the hour break

877
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 1: will come back, wrap things up, prepare for wild hockey,

878
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: and give you a little glimpse of what we have

879
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: coming up later in the week and what you missed earlier.

880
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 2: In The Showy.

881
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,800
Speaker 1: Show Rap is presented by American Pressure commercial grade pressure

882
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: Washers since nineteen seventy five.

883
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 2: It's the Bumper to Bumper Show Rap.

884
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 1: Dan Minnesota writes. The new Miracle documentary is good. Some

885
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: new footage and the players watching the footage and commenting

886
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: is also a good touch. But the original HBO Do

887
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: You Believe In Miracles still holds.

888
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 2: Its own in my opinion.

889
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: I don't even remember the original HBO one.

890
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 2: I'll take Dan Minnesota's word for it. The time to

891
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 2: watch both, but it.

892
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: Might be a good time, yeah, to to watch both.

893
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 1: That's that's very true. I went to a Thank god,

894
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: you're sitting down when I tell you this. I went

895
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: to see a motion picture in a movie theater the

896
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: other day.

897
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:15,720
Speaker 3: Nice.

898
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,359
Speaker 2: There were tickets available. There were tickets.

899
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: Available, I want to say probably there were. Well, it's

900
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 1: interesting when I looked at tickets available the day before,

901
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 1: literally zero had been sold. Then three hours before the show,

902
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 1: there were still zero sold. And I'm thinking we're gonna

903
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: be GIEVONZI, not gonna be the only ones in the theater.

904
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 1: But then when we got there there were i'd say

905
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:49,360
Speaker 1: maybe ten others in the in the theater.

906
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:49,879
Speaker 2: Not bad.

907
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 1: And I got to tell you because I mean, like

908
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 1: most people, I've gotten used to not doing it and

909
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 1: out of the half bit of doing it, and we

910
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: enjoyed ourselves.

911
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 2: Going back to me. Yeah, and this is a sequel.

912
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 1: I don't know many of it in our audience saw

913
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: the original. I think it's called Greenland and that has

914
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 1: nothing to do with the Donald Trump story. Just in case. Yeah, Uh,

915
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: it's a sequel. To an action end of the world

916
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: kind of drama.

917
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 2: Uh.

918
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: In fact, I'll have to look up the name of

919
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: the of the sequel. But I liked it a lot.

920
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: I thought it was you know, sequels usually are pain

921
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,360
Speaker 1: the ass. They're usually not you know, worthy of the original.

922
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,280
Speaker 1: But I thought it was very good. It's called Greenland

923
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 1: to my migration, Migration, and it stars I'm a big

924
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,399
Speaker 1: Gerard Butler, guy who is in that kind of film.

925
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: He's terrific in it, and so that it's his family

926
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: they were in the original, and it's it's years later.

927
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 2: It updates the story. And I thought it was really good.

928
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it.

929
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: We we both enjoyed every Now again, that movie kind

930
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: of means something to us too. We used to watch

931
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 1: it all the times, one of those we watch over

932
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 1: and over. But I thought it was really good, and

933
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 1: it did kind of come back to me, Man, this

934
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 1: is stay bad.

935
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:26,320
Speaker 2: You know, I didn't.

936
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 1: We didn't have anybody next to us, which is important

937
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:33,399
Speaker 1: for me. The corn was okay, you know, it wasn't great,

938
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:36,240
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, I think that. I think the tickets

939
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Speaker 1: were like twenty and the food was forty seven something

940
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: like that.

941
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure and all we got was two popcorns.

942
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 1: I think she got a suite of some sort and

943
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: we got two smart waters.

944
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 2: I think that's what.

945
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:48,400
Speaker 3: I think.

946
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:50,239
Speaker 1: It was literally like like forty some I believe it,

947
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 1: but I obviously the industry hasn't come back, has it. No,

948
00:49:56,320 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 1: not in that form, obviously, Yeah, I and for all

949
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 1: I know, it's already in an HP, you know, like

950
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: on one of the payout let's the streaming stream channels services.

951
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:14,399
Speaker 1: But I really liked it Greenland too. Did you see

952
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:18,919
Speaker 1: what's doing well despite getting panned by the critics, which,

953
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: what's that the Ivanka film Millennia mean.

954
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 2: May That's right, that's right, not Avanka. That's a different story.

955
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 1: Yes, it's And somebody said, like they have side by

956
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: side the Rotten Tomatoes score, which is like the critics,

957
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: which is like eight percent, and then the viewers the

958
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 1: film goers score, which is like ninety seven percent. And

959
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: somebody's headline was, this is just like the election. It's

960
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: true and there's some truth to it. Yeah, And I

961
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: have no idea if it's any good whatever, but I'm

962
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: sure will give us his review on Wednesday.

963
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:58,399
Speaker 2: He probably will. That's very very true, Davy. But yeah,

964
00:50:58,440 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 2: I enjoyed.

965
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Speaker 1: Uh the we saw a sequel over the weekend of

966
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 1: ja House too. Yeah it is Utopia. That's a good

967
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 1: one for the week.

968
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Speaker 2: Ye oh yeah.

969
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 1: We purchased it in the House Saturday night, twenty nine

970
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: ninety nine, whatever it is, and now we have it forever,

971
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 1: which is great.

972
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 2: It's great.

973
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Speaker 1: It's a good sequel, very good sequ's actually done hard

974
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 1: to top's Utopia one. They were right up there, right there, Yeah,

975
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 1: they were right up there. It was a good film.

976
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: Quazy takes the Fall, koc telling all media jackals throwing

977
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:30,799
Speaker 1: everything against the wall.

978
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Speaker 2: Wolves and five. That's Alan from Often.

979
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: David from Marshall is disappointed that I didn't ask Bill

980
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: ghon the following question, would he be interested in also

981
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 1: being the Vikings general manager?

982
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 2: That's that bad. Frustrated. See if I had one other one.

983
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: By the way, really good lineup today that included Alec Lewis.

984
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 2: At four point thirty.

985
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:01,879
Speaker 1: In the three o'clock our Johnny Athletic File to Live

986
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Speaker 1: report from Memphis. He is tracking the Wolves not because

987
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 1: this is a particularly sexy matchup with the decimated Grizzlies,

988
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 1: but because trade deadlines upon us are close to it

989
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,399
Speaker 1: it'll be Thursday at two Central, YEP. And that's why

990
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: I think he's tracking the team, not only there, but

991
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 1: didn't he say Toronto next Toronto just in case? Because

992
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 1: the Wolves are as he confirms, and as we've talked about,

993
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 1: that's my information as well, heavily involved in trying to

994
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: see if there is a path to get Great Freak

995
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 1: to come to Minnesota.

996
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 2: I mentioned this yesterday. You'll appreciate this.

997
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: It's an underrated part of the story that newer Wolves

998
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: fans cannot probably appreciate the notion that we take for

999
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 1: granted that a world class two time MVP winning basketball

1000
00:52:55,760 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: player is perfectly willing and maybe even about the prospect

1001
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 1: of any ending up with this franchise. People who haven't

1002
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:09,840
Speaker 1: been around this team from the beginning are close to it,

1003
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: have no idea how absurd in that context it sounds.

1004
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 1: It's it's one of those things that's beyond any sort

1005
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 1: of comprehension. If you go through the first most of

1006
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 1: the first thirty years this franchise and now it's oh yeah, well, yeah,

1007
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: I wouldn't we, which tells us that we are, if

1008
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 1: nothing else, literally a credible franchise. Even if we don't

1009
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 1: have a title yet. Tweet from at Guardsey January twenty ninth.

1010
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 1: Giannis is interested in becoming a Timberwolf. Odds are slim,

1011
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 1: but that in itself says a lot about the procession

1012
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: of the club's future, with ants, Yeah, it's yeah, you totally.

1013
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:44,799
Speaker 2: I get it.

1014
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 1: Not to be taken for granted. It is something to

1015
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 1: be treasured and I know you do. Also today, great

1016
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 1: conversation with Bill garn if you missed it, he joined

1017
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: between five and five thirty. Good Olympic stuff, good miracle stuff,

1018
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,839
Speaker 1: a little bit of everything. He reminded us how as

1019
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:05,240
Speaker 1: a nine year old kid that run in Lake Placid

1020
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:07,840
Speaker 1: stuck with him from the very beginning. He will not

1021
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: be bringing us anything back, and he will not be

1022
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 1: bringing us anything back, and don't beg and don't ask,

1023
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 1: and he doesn't wear underwear.

1024
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:16,760
Speaker 2: He also confirmed that as well.

1025
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 1: Lack of context there probably, but there is contextual issue

1026
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: related to the question if.

1027
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 2: You podcast tomorrow is Seaffert in studio? Who else?

1028
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: Gleaman Cleman in studio and in Florida, mostly Florida, so

1029
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: not standing lineup.

1030
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:32,400
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you tomorrow three o'clock