1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: May nine. 2 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 2: I'm assuming directly related to the jersey number worn by 3 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 2: our incumbent starter, the alter ego J. J. McCarthy. He 4 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,639 Speaker 2: did refer to his alter ego as on game day, 5 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 2: I become nine, and the committee, with great suggestions from 6 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 2: several people in the rule audience, came to believe that 7 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 2: it perfectly captured and symbolized. One could say, the nature 8 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 2: of the astronami that allegedly paralyzed us this weekend, not 9 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 2: quite living up to the predictions, not quite living up 10 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 2: to the billing. Now before Tiny Joe Nelson texts us 11 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 2: via the Bratch and Brian Kevin text line, we are 12 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 2: aware that there were many areas that got pelted by 13 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 2: extreme weather and snow conditions. But here at the Abumper 14 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 2: to Bumper program, we're always going to be straight with you. 15 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 2: We're not going to be no pun intended. Paralyzed by 16 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 2: the hype. In the Metro area, we were told the 17 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 2: amount of snow was potentially going to be well, basically 18 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 2: the low end was sixteen inches, closer perhaps to twenty 19 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 2: and I think the term that was used on Friday 20 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 2: via one of the weather services was travel will become impossible. 21 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 2: Now there were areas where it was sure not this area. 22 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 2: So I mean, as one of our Rube texters or 23 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 2: tweeters in this case pointed out, it was it failed 24 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 2: to perform to expectation to such a degree that we 25 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 2: have been the Vikings in this case have been forced 26 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 2: to look elsewhere for another quarterback, and we sadly are 27 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 2: looking for another Snownami that might come in and do better. Now. 28 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 2: I think we all hope it doesn't come this winter. 29 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 2: I'd rather wait until next winter rather than challenging the 30 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 2: weather gods will I mean, come on, you're gonna bring 31 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 2: it next time instead of what you did. Can we 32 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 2: call that one Kyler flurry? Maybe we could, That's very possible. 33 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 2: I think it ended up being basically nine or ten 34 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 2: inches of snow officially, and that's, by the way, a 35 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 2: very healthy snowfall. But the research I did indicated that 36 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 2: this is the three hundred and seventy fifth largest snowfall 37 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 2: for a single period of time in the history of 38 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,959 Speaker 2: the Twin Cities market. So interesting. That would seem a 39 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 2: little short of what was hyped on the front end. 40 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 2: Don't bother telling me this doesn't what This wasn't hyped 41 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 2: that way don't bother telling me it's wind it just 42 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 2: blows all over the place, because that's not the way 43 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 2: it was presented. And so to play that game after 44 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 2: the fact of We'll look at Apple Valley twenty six 45 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 2: inches of snow there someplace it was over twenty inches 46 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 2: of snow. Do you think that valley just gets like 47 00:03:55,560 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 2: blowing snow from buck Hills to the artificial snow from 48 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 2: buck Hill. Yes, that's what I'm blowing over. 49 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm wondering, right, because they're always in 50 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 3: the crosshairs of this. Yes, yes, it has to be 51 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 3: that buck Hill must just be spilling over. 52 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 2: That must be it as as well. And I think 53 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 2: we've considered is this isn't the first time we've considered 54 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 2: Sonnami nine. It just sort of writes itself, is a reminder, 55 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, what we were dealing with last year 56 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 2: with JJ, the alter ego, the other personality. But it 57 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 2: fits so perfectly, I think with what took place this weekend. 58 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 2: Great job once again by Ryan Donaldson. Once again, it's 59 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,039 Speaker 2: done a great job of becoming kind of the Sonnami voice. 60 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, in the last he's the voice of them. 61 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:46,159 Speaker 3: The last several years. 62 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,359 Speaker 2: Correct. Yes, he's tremendous at it. He is extremely good 63 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 2: at it, and we appreciate his his input. Meantime, it's 64 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,840 Speaker 2: the bumper to bumper seal of a proof. It has 65 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 2: to go out. Yesterday it went out to our guy Guardsy. 66 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 2: Today it goes out to one of our favorite basketball coaches, 67 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 2: Fran's red face. Remember him? Do you remember Fran McCaffrey. Well, 68 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 2: last time we knew, he was coaching and screaming, getting 69 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 2: a red face in the sidelines in Iowa City, Iowa 70 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 2: right coaching the Hawkeyes. Well, he's no longer with the Hawkeyes, 71 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 2: which I think a lot of people know, but they 72 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 2: may not know, or they may not have even remembered 73 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 2: that he took a job at penn which I believe 74 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 2: is his alma manter. It sure is. And he has 75 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 2: led the pen is A Quakers yes to the back 76 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 2: to the NCAA Tournament. They are in the Big Dance 77 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 2: on the men's side. 78 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 3: This is. 79 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 2: The fifth different program that he is taken to the 80 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 2: Big Dance. That's the second most all time. Started at 81 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 2: Lehigh nineteen eighty eight, UNC Greensboro two thousand and one, 82 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 2: Sienna three times eight nine, ten, and then Iowa one, two, three, four, five, six, 83 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 2: seven times to the Big Dance, although unfortunately for him, 84 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 2: most recently was twenty twenty three and now Penn twenty 85 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 2: twenty six. Now, based on what you've heard, is Fran's 86 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 2: face as red at Penn as it tended to be 87 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 2: at Iowa? Is it the new friend McCaffrey. Is he 88 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 2: humbled a bit? I would think probably he's not humbled 89 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 2: at all if he's back in the dance, right, further 90 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 2: proof that the guy can coach, right, So what do 91 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 2: we know about? Are there any Frans red face controversies 92 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 2: this time? 93 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 1: Right? 94 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 2: I haven't. Here's the thing. 95 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 3: I don't think there have been any, because we would 96 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 3: have heard about them, even though he's in relative anonymity 97 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 3: now to us in the IVY League, not a high 98 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 3: profile league, right, not in the national conscience very often. 99 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 3: But he's such a polarizing figure that you remember when 100 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 3: he stared down the ref in the time out so good, 101 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 3: He just walked right over. 102 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 2: Me, just stared at him. I didn't say a word, 103 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 2: just kept looking at it. 104 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 3: I don't know if that would have surf that would 105 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 3: have surfaced at the Polestra a lot of stuff has 106 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 3: resurfaced about him, and you know, it was a year 107 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 3: ago basically that he took that job. And it's a 108 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 3: good story obviously. And he talked about his dad was 109 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 3: a security guard at the Polestra, so he grew up. 110 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 3: He's a Philly guy, so he grew up going to 111 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 3: the games, watching the team, watching all the what do 112 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 3: they call it, not the Group of five but the 113 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 3: Philly five whatever they call it there, there's so far 114 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 3: Villanova's one of them, obviously, you know, Penn's there, and. 115 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 2: It's pretty it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. It's kind 116 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 2: of a retirement gig that he can go there and 117 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 2: bring his alma monitoring year one back to the attorney. 118 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 3: That's pretty special stuff. A local angle. His wife went 119 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 3: to Cretan Durham Hall. If anybody didn't know, you probably 120 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 3: told me that before. I didn't realize local angle. He's 121 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 3: kind of one of us. The big five, I think 122 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 3: is what they called aunt in Philly. I think that's 123 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 3: a big five, is what they was, what they go 124 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 3: with you. I couldn't remember either. Yeah, So good for him. 125 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 2: By the way, I do want to talk, you know, 126 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 2: I might try to add Bozis tomorrow to help us 127 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 2: figure out the big dance. Now that the field is set, 128 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 2: maybe I'll try to include him on tomorrow's broadcast when 129 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 2: we come back. I do want to get into the 130 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,839 Speaker 2: women's side. It is now. Well, it was official. I 131 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:36,559 Speaker 2: guess as a Saturday that we were going to get 132 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 2: to be a host city Minneapolis the bar and in 133 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 2: particular for the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament, 134 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 2: or at least a piece of it, and obviously being 135 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 2: a host school, we get our team gets to play 136 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,839 Speaker 2: there as well. So we'll get to that announcement, we'll 137 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,359 Speaker 2: get to the pairings, and we'll get to whether Wisconsin 138 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 2: Green Bay, which I believe it is our opponent in 139 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,079 Speaker 2: the first round, correct, is one of those sneaky teams 140 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 2: you better not sleep on. We'll get a scouting report 141 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 2: from Guardsy on all of those items. Don't forget before 142 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 2: we're done. Kyle Potter, thrifty traveler guy will join at 143 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 2: five point thirty ode to a dead guy and oh 144 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 2: so much more. Dan, with the near OKC level of 145 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 2: flopping meteorologists tend to like to postulate with impending stomach eddins, 146 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 2: where would you rank this storm on the spectrum like 147 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 2: SGA being hit from some part of body contorting alien 148 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 2: laser in a Mippi fall away, or maybe an elbow 149 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 2: flail to the groin or head of a screener, or 150 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 2: straight up ethical weather forecasts only please. I had to 151 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:58,079 Speaker 2: do some editing there because I think this might have 152 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 2: been a dictated text. Yeah, it, that's why we called it. 153 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 2: Does Lavo get the bit? Because Lavo wanted it to 154 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 2: be called Sami fraud And I said, well, that's what 155 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 2: Sonnami nine is. We're just we just we like the 156 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 2: committee prefers to be a little more subtle. What says 157 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 2: fraud or what says not up to its billing nine? 158 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 2: We could have said Sonami JJ, but we took it 159 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 2: to the next level, which was playing off of and 160 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 2: sort of mocking his desire to turn himself into this 161 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 2: sort of otherworldly Game Day character right with the Sonami 162 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:43,959 Speaker 2: nine thing, Mike. For me, Dinah, it was way overblown. 163 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,959 Speaker 2: I couldn't believe how empty the streets were yesterday. I 164 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 2: had no problems getting around in my fw D Sedan, 165 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 2: but several stores I went to were closed. By the way, 166 00:10:53,480 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 2: I sent you Sami nine months ago for another storm. Good. Interesting, Well, 167 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 2: that's the beauty of it, because any storm that's not 168 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 2: up to its billing, it could apply, but we don't 169 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 2: want to overuse it, right, that's for sure. Franz Red 170 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 2: Faces Sun Dates, Caitlin Clark. Yeah, Oh is that the 171 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 2: pacer guy? Yeah? Connor, I guess I had I forgot that. 172 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 2: I know guy. I think he's with Butler. 173 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 3: Butler okay, okay, and uh, although we'll see because that 174 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 3: monitors retired, so I don't know if he'll be kept on. 175 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm pretty sure he's with Butler. Is it 176 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:34,079 Speaker 2: possible Apple Valley is pumping up their snow totals much 177 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,679 Speaker 2: like the Memphis Grizzlies pumping Jaron Jackson Junior's block numbers 178 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 2: the home kids. I guess you can't. Maybe that's become 179 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 2: the bit there. How will we get noticed on any 180 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 2: of these storms? How do we distinguish ourselves from every 181 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 2: other nameless suburb? We just add three or four inches 182 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 2: to whatever the real total is? Interesting? I hadn't thought 183 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,839 Speaker 2: of that. That's interesting. That's actually smart good marketing, because 184 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:59,839 Speaker 2: no one's gonna it's now you're gonna go, well, we've 185 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 2: done Congressional investigation, right, and you've you've inflated your numbers 186 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 2: by five or six inches of snow. 187 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,079 Speaker 3: I mean know, none other meteorologists are actually going to 188 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 3: go down there. They're going to be in there. Want 189 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:14,559 Speaker 3: it to be downtown, you know, University Avenue, suburban tescrasion station. 190 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 3: They're not going to go West Metro suburban television station. 191 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 3: They're not going south of the river. 192 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 2: All right, So we have four teams in the Big 193 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:24,199 Speaker 2: Dance on the women's side coming here. Is that correct? 194 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: Yes? 195 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 2: Well, obviously University of Minnesota will be here, is already here, yep. 196 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 2: But three other teams with us. So this is Explain 197 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 2: this to me because I thought, like first round on 198 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 2: the men's side, it tends to be eight teams. Usually, no, 199 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 2: am I wrong? On the first round it's usually two 200 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 2: little quadrants in one city. That's what we have. 201 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 3: There's no host city, there's no on campus host cities 202 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 3: for the men. 203 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:52,199 Speaker 2: They're all in the country. So we have we this 204 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 2: is one quadrant, right, we have four now four teams, 205 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 2: four teams, not eight, oh, yes exactly. So we play 206 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 2: this is it the second game of the two five 207 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 2: o'clock Friday Green Bay The Phoenix. Now a lot of 208 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 2: people have said the obvious, well why don't you put 209 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 2: the local team in at night? But I assume it's 210 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:12,439 Speaker 2: all TV generated about Yes, when you play what correct? 211 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 2: Absolutely so the first game of the quadrant, yes, is 212 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 2: Ole Miss and Gonzaga at two thirty on Friday, okay, 213 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 2: and then the Gophers Green Bay minutes after, Yeah, follow 214 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 2: them at five, and then they'll play on Sunday if 215 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 2: they win to TBD on time time, espn U for 216 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 2: TV and kfas super usual for the radio Lynette and me. 217 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 2: So what do we need to know about? I assume 218 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:37,559 Speaker 2: they're ecstatic. I mean, you know, they thought they were 219 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 2: gonna be able to host, but it was a little 220 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,199 Speaker 2: bit iffy because they were eliminated in their first Big 221 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 2: ten tournament game massive, So they get do we know? 222 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 2: And so the theory is it has been as as 223 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 2: it has been advanced to me. Is the decision to 224 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 2: make that announcement on hosting the day before was to 225 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 2: give various markets like this one more time to sell tickets. 226 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 2: I kind of get it, but I thought it lost 227 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 2: a little bits luster where it would be more. It 228 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 2: would have been more dramatic if you could have had 229 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 2: the announcement when the entire pairings were revealed last night 230 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 2: starting at seven o'clock Center. 231 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,199 Speaker 3: That's interesting. I honestly, I hadn't heard that. I guess 232 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 3: that makes sense as a theory to do it. I 233 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 3: don't even know if it's confirmed the day before. Yes, 234 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 3: I'm trying to think. I guess, yeah, I guess it 235 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 3: would have been. 236 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 2: They ever done that before, I thought, because I was 237 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 2: stunned when it when they started leading, I'm going, wait 238 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 2: a minute, is this a media report? And this was 239 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 2: confirmed obviously, this was the first time where they did 240 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 2: like a selection reveal at like two o'clock. I think 241 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 2: it was on Saturday. I was at the barn, and yeah, 242 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 2: they must have been able to. 243 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 3: I know that the Gophers sold their sold tickets to 244 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 3: season ticket holders on Saturday night. That was like their 245 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 3: pre sale opportunity last night. Was Gopher score like donor 246 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 3: type people, or if you've bought season tickets to other sports, 247 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 3: you have a Gopher score so you can get tickets 248 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 3: today general public. 249 00:14:57,760 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a massive deal. 250 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 3: They haven't hosted NCAA tournament games in over twenty years, 251 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 3: and back when they did it then that was back 252 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 3: when you didn't earn the opportunity to host necessarily with 253 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 3: what you did that year. Yes, you earned it by 254 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 3: what they thought you might do. Oh okay, and they 255 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 3: just predetermined sites every year like that's why the final 256 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 3: four year when the Gophers hosted, they were a seven 257 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 3: seed because Whalen got hurt the last but it was predetermined. 258 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 3: So poor Kansas State, the number two seed, had to 259 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 3: come here into the House of Pain and one of 260 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 3: the great environments I've ever seen to a now althe 261 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 3: Lindsay Whalen, and you know, they didn't even know what 262 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 3: city they were in as a two seed. So this 263 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 3: is the first time they've actually earned it where it's 264 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 3: like what you do on the court, you get into 265 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 3: the top sixteen. It's massive. It was a huge, huge accomplishment, 266 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 3: and it was a tense week, I'm sure because as 267 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 3: you and I talked about last week, I was always 268 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 3: like sixty forty that they were going to get it, 269 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 3: but not beating Ohio, beating Ohio State in the big 270 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 3: ten turn, it would have slam dunked it. 271 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 2: There would have been no tension, in my opinion. 272 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 3: So when you when you lost that game, the door 273 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 3: was opened a little to somebody else jumping in or 274 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 3: a couple of teams jumping in, and when all was 275 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 3: a sudden done, they got to host So Friday at 276 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 3: five and the tickets are flying good, like it's. 277 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 2: Lower level already sold. Not horrible, right, twenty six bucks 278 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 2: for Friday, Yeah, that's not bad at all, forty five 279 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 2: I think for all the sessions including Sunday. And what 280 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 2: do we know about Wisconsin? 281 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: Green Bay? 282 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 2: They are thirteen obviously, Yeah, they always We've played them before, 283 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 2: we played them in the WNIT a couple of years ago. 284 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 3: I had to go over there to Green Bay. They're 285 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 3: always good. They've won a bunch of they've been in 286 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 3: this tournament a million times. Interesting season, and that they 287 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 3: lost to Wisconsin, who's not great. They beat Kansas State, 288 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 3: who's decent. They hung with Washington who beat the Gophers, 289 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 3: and I think Ole Miss is the other team who 290 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 3: they played. I'm trying to remember. So they've been They're formidable. 291 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 2: Enough that it's not going to be a difficult sell 292 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 2: for the head coach to say pay absolutely. Yeah, And 293 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 2: they as you would expect, they have a bunch of 294 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 2: kids that know the Gopher kids because there's some Minnesotans 295 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:08,959 Speaker 2: on the team that played with some of the Gophers 296 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 2: Grace Kerholski and some of the Wisconsin kids know they're 297 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 2: Wisconsin kids, so there's a lot of familiarity that way, 298 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 2: and then familiar the other two teams you said is Gonzaga. 299 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:21,120 Speaker 3: Gonzaga and Mississippi and Mississippi who's favored there, Ole miss 300 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 3: they're the five. 301 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:25,360 Speaker 2: So if if it goes to form, we would then 302 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 2: play to advance to the next round, we would play 303 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,159 Speaker 2: Old Miss on Sunday. Correct at the time yet to 304 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:31,919 Speaker 2: be determined. The time you had to be determined for 305 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 2: the right to go play UCLA and the Sweet sixteen in. 306 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 3: Sacrament That's right, Bruins are pretty good there. I think 307 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 3: they're gonna win the national championship. Well, but there's two 308 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 3: games to get there before that. 309 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 2: Just enjoy, Yeah, play this out and take the idea 310 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 2: is to take full advantage of it and you get 311 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 2: another whole week of good will and publicity. Yeah leading 312 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 2: into it. 313 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 3: So all those are Last night, speaking of not canceling things, 314 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 3: they had a selection show party. Yeah, I remember that 315 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 3: that I was that I was at It was okay, 316 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 3: given that everyone have been scared to not do anything. 317 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,160 Speaker 2: But it was great. It was Yeah, it's a huge deal, 318 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:07,120 Speaker 2: Like it's a huge deal to be able to host. 319 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 2: I mean, sixteen teams get to do it. How did 320 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:13,719 Speaker 2: how did how did the fear and loathing and terrorizing 321 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:17,239 Speaker 2: affect the crowd for the wild game? I don't know, 322 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 2: And probably there were a few people wished they didn't 323 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 2: show given the performance by so we got down three 324 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 2: to nothing, cut it to one, and then gave up 325 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 2: an empty netter late to lose four to two. General 326 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:32,919 Speaker 2: managers on a warpath, he's he's very unhappy head coach. 327 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 2: He was crankier, I think really the last game. Yeah, 328 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 2: kind of done the shot last night. He didn't seem 329 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 2: like he was. I think that's the old eye. Well, 330 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 2: I can't go scorched earth every day, so you look, Aaron, 331 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 2: go scorched earth, scorched earth. I guess this time, and 332 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 2: we know we're not going to catch the Lanch. We're 333 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 2: losing any sort of hope of catching the Stars, whether 334 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 2: we want to or not. Right, I think the Stars 335 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 2: are five, six seven points ahead of us, and I 336 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 2: think they have the proverbial two games in hand. 337 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 3: I know ticket prices were a little depressed last night. 338 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 3: Our five thirty guess Kyle Potter actually tweeted about that, 339 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:10,639 Speaker 3: right because it's the snow, it's the Sunday night, it's 340 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:11,639 Speaker 3: We're not going to deal with that. 341 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 2: We're going to sell our tickets. So they were down. Well, 342 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 2: one of the things we have to talk to Kyle 343 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 2: Potter about at five thirty uh is there was did 344 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 2: you see he I think he tweeted something about the 345 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 2: fact that Saturday night, the last flight to get in 346 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 2: was the Toronto team flight. Yes, and there was the 347 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 2: there was the the expected muttering like why do they 348 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:35,719 Speaker 2: get special treatment? 349 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:35,919 Speaker 3: Oh? 350 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,440 Speaker 2: Why should it be them? And now you look back 351 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 2: on it and say, well, maybe what have you know, 352 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:44,639 Speaker 2: the the the uh uh, you know, air control people, 353 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 2: aviation people, what might have done the wild of favor 354 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 2: by not letting them in, by saying, sorry, are you'll 355 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 2: have to You'll have to fly to I don't know, 356 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 2: des Moines and bus from there. Maybe that would have 357 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 2: helped our cause because they got in and then they 358 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 2: beat us. They did another non playoff team. Correct. Has 359 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 2: not been a good week for the winter sports teams 360 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 2: now the playoff teams. That's very true, very very true. 361 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 2: Davey of course going to go for men's hockey. Not 362 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 2: gonna have to worry about that. Yeah, and the women's 363 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 2: team got eliminated too, right they did in first game? 364 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 2: Yeah they did. Yeah. Yeah, we're not in a We're 365 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 2: not in a good stretch here right now, bottom of 366 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 2: the hour pause. As I mentioned Kyle Potter, in about 367 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 2: an hour, we've got owed to a dead guy to 368 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 2: get to We've got some A section stuff to discuss 369 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 2: as well. Keep the text coming, bratch On Bryant k 370 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 2: f a n text line back after a brief pause 371 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 2: here in the who is in studio? Never Johnny athletic. 372 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:56,120 Speaker 2: Rudy's ball handling skills are pathetic, Max Fuller's afro is majestic, 373 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 2: Wolves and five that would presume we're gonna survive the 374 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 2: play in. We're headed for the play in. You know that, right, 375 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 2: Wolves are going to try to make it all the 376 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 2: way to the NBA Finals from the play in. We 377 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 2: believe in creating challenges for ourselves and then paying off 378 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 2: on them. Yeah we do. We were a six seed 379 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 2: a year ago, correct, we were? Yeah, I made it 380 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 2: into made it to the final four. Uh so do 381 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 2: the odds makers have Yukon the favorite. You picked Ucla 382 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 2: to win it. I assume the odds makers had Yukon. 383 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 2: I haven't looked, but I assume that is this the 384 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 2: greatest Yukon team ever. No, they're good. They're I mean 385 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 2: they they're a margin for victory like greater than it's 386 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 2: ever been, even by their standard. 387 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: Yeah. 388 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 3: Part of that is the conference that they play in, 389 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 3: Oh Okay, the Big East is not very good. Yeah, 390 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 3: but I don't hold that against them. They're gonna go. 391 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 3: They're gonna be in the final four. I'd be stunned 392 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:54,640 Speaker 3: if they lost to anybody but UCLA. I just think Ucla, 393 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 3: I feel like has been building for it. Might be 394 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 3: my Big Ten bias, you know, the legendary Big ten 395 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 3: program U c l A that I've just grown up 396 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,880 Speaker 3: watching as a Big ten rival, might be my Big 397 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 3: ten bias. But just knowing what they have, who they have, 398 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 3: kind of how they've built this thing. I hope they 399 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 3: get to play because I think it's going to be 400 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:14,640 Speaker 3: a great game. 401 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,440 Speaker 2: Dan, my wife and I contemplated driving home from Lovely 402 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 2: monomine Wisconsin to Fargo near the Dells. The news reports 403 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:27,120 Speaker 2: which one a Monominee or Nominee. Yeah. Yeah, the news 404 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 2: reports showed multiple cars in the ditch, commenting it's near 405 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 2: impossible to drive. We went with our gut and made 406 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,920 Speaker 2: the track. We went fifty five miles per hour the 407 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 2: whole way through Minneapolis area and finally reached speeds a 408 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 2: seventy plus just west of Monticello. Call us the problem 409 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,119 Speaker 2: that I agree the reports were as fake as the 410 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 2: Joe Burrow rumors. They weren't fake, they were just not 411 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 2: what was advertised for the metropolitan area, which we've talked 412 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 2: about before. That's the beauty of the way. The wind 413 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 2: blows all over the place. It's probably going to land somewhere. 414 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 2: It's just that they spoke with great certainty that it 415 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 2: was going to land right in our laps. And even 416 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 2: you know, Sunday morning, the drive I took it was slow. Yeah. 417 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 2: And by the way, you know the idea that well 418 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 2: you have to have like a a eighty six thousand 419 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 2: pound four by four, I don't even think that's going 420 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 2: to say true. It helps obviously. My issue isn't that 421 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 2: anybody was required to prove their toughness by getting out 422 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,679 Speaker 2: in this You're not, especially if you prefer not to. 423 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,120 Speaker 2: But The message that was conveyed is don't try, don't 424 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 2: even think about it, don't even begin to contemplate it. 425 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 2: And it is it's like we're treated as if we're children, 426 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 2: and that part of it distance does not make a 427 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 2: lot of sense to it. To me, do we want 428 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 2: to do? Oh do a get dead guy first? Or 429 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 2: oh to a dead bar? I think we got to 430 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,120 Speaker 2: get to the bar. All right, let's do the bar first. 431 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 2: We don't really have Once upon a time, maybe this 432 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 2: could be the added sideline for Ryan Donaldson because we 433 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 2: did it, used to have a big voice guy add 434 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 2: to the od to a dead guy with ode to 435 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 2: a dead blank whatever it might be. That's right, we did, 436 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:10,199 Speaker 2: and maybe he wants to do in the future that 437 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 2: sort of thing, because I know he's got nothing else 438 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,359 Speaker 2: to do, you know, because in this case, if we 439 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 2: had the music, it would be owed to a dead bar. 440 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 2: And this story is from a week ago, right that 441 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,360 Speaker 2: you brought to my attention, and because I had missed it. 442 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 2: Apparently it's the end of the run for the Mall 443 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:33,119 Speaker 2: of America Hooters. Is that correct? That's our information. Is 444 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 2: it already closed or is it a Was it just 445 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 2: an announcement, and it's about to be closed. 446 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:41,360 Speaker 3: Their last day of operation is six days from now, 447 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:42,439 Speaker 3: March twenty second. 448 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,640 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, today's the sixteenth. Okay, March twenty second. 449 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 3: Thirty three years, thirty three years Hooters at the Mall. 450 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 3: Oh hysteria, an original tenant. That is what I think 451 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,439 Speaker 3: the biggest story is, yes, because you know, Hooters have 452 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:56,880 Speaker 3: been closing all over the country. 453 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:58,880 Speaker 2: Right. We used to have the Hooters in Blockie. Yeah, 454 00:24:58,880 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 2: that's true. 455 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 3: A lot of the kind of fast casual restaurants have 456 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 3: been downsizing their operations. 457 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 2: But to me, it's almost the end. 458 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:10,959 Speaker 3: It's end of multiple years the restaurant craze number one, right, 459 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 3: but number two just it's staying power of It's one 460 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 3: of the original mall of America. It was restaurants. And 461 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 3: you loved the wings. I'm not a big wing guy. 462 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 3: Uh the burger was underrated, Okay, I liked the burger, 463 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:25,439 Speaker 3: the Hooters burger. 464 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. What what's interesting about it is, I said, there's 465 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 2: a time where in the last ten, twelve years, maybe twenty, 466 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:36,160 Speaker 2: were you go, well, don't you don't want to talk 467 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 2: too much about Hooters. What it conveys, what it represents, 468 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:43,400 Speaker 2: the controversy, et cetera, et cetera. But I'm presuming that 469 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 2: now that we've had this sort of pushback on anybody 470 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,439 Speaker 2: casting aspersions on is it Cornette, is that the Spurs 471 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 2: player who wrote about his belief that the NBA was 472 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 2: blowing it, allowing this celebration of a well established, very 473 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 2: successful Atlanta landmark, a gentleman's club as they call it, 474 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 2: there by the name of what's the name of it, 475 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 2: magic City, Magic City, that the NBA should not be 476 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 2: endorsing that necessarily, and ultimately the NBA agreed. Presumably the 477 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 2: commissioner got involved. I don't exactly know who it was, 478 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 2: and the commissioner has been getting ripped. Cornett's been getting ripped, 479 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 2: as I mean, I still I wish I could read 480 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 2: the actual quote, but I can't. It came from Michelle 481 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 2: Beadle about what she said about this being more than 482 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:43,479 Speaker 2: a blank bar, and it made me chuckle, not because 483 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 2: it can't be true, but because in the last twenty 484 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 2: five years, if any male had proclaimed that out loud, 485 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 2: he would have been obliterated. He would have been destroyed. 486 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 2: Oh you're gonna tell me about the wings? Seriously, even 487 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 2: if the wings are good. You say, well, you can't 488 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 2: leave out what the number one aspect is of that place. 489 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 2: And yet, like I said, the blowback in favor of 490 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,439 Speaker 2: the place, and what's the big deal? And there's no 491 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 2: harm done. So I'm assuming it's okay to celebrate the 492 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,760 Speaker 2: loss of Hooters now, not celebrate it, but to discuss 493 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 2: it without necessarily having to whisper it. Now, I'm sure 494 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 2: fans of the Atlanta establishment will say on I don't know, 495 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 2: Taples and Oranges, that Hooters had no soul to it, 496 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:40,640 Speaker 2: It had no permanence to it. It was a franchise place, right, 497 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,640 Speaker 2: it's all what but that this place in Atlanta has 498 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 2: become over a period of decades, much more than that. 499 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,679 Speaker 2: But do we know what's replacing the Hooters? Is it 500 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 2: going to be another bar? Or is it just shutting down? 501 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 3: For I would assume they put some type of restaurant 502 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 3: in that spot, because it's already got all the infrastructure, 503 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 3: and it's on the fourth floor, which was always build 504 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,360 Speaker 3: is kind of the entertainment level of the mall right, 505 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 3: the fourth floor when it first opened, that was the 506 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 3: big great American sports bar. There's another bar? I mean, 507 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 3: they've had so many things that have kind of come 508 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,679 Speaker 3: and gone. Dick's last resort, Planet Hollywood. I mean this 509 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:17,240 Speaker 3: tells you how long Hooters has been there. Planet Hollywood 510 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,639 Speaker 3: was an original Mall of America, right, like the ar 511 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 3: Swarzenegger place. 512 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:25,400 Speaker 2: Well, is that the place where Rider got in trouble? JR? Ryder? 513 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 2: What was the place where what was the bar in 514 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,639 Speaker 2: Mall of America? Ryder was supposed to be there for 515 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 2: an appearance. He either showed up late or he was 516 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 2: very what's the word borderline violent with somebody who was 517 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 2: challenging him on either getting there on time or what 518 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 2: his responsibilities were going to be. Uh huh. There was 519 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 2: a major that was like one of the first I 520 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 2: want to say, Isaiah Junior, Jared J. Ryder hiccups, controversies, 521 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 2: there were a bunch of them while he was here, 522 00:28:58,480 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 2: but that was Yeah. 523 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 3: He was convicted of fifth degree assault after killing a 524 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 3: female sports bar manager at the. 525 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 2: Who was pregnant. I think, was she not? I'm gonna 526 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 2: I'm looking it up here on the fly, so I think. 527 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,400 Speaker 2: But it was a kick, You're right, That's what it 528 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 2: was at the time, and so was it? What did it? 529 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 2: Did it? Name? The bar you're looking now, I'm looking now. Yeah, 530 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 2: for some reason, I want to say that was Planet Hollywood. 531 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,959 Speaker 2: That was the place where that took place, Wasn't that? Also? 532 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 2: Didn't common Where was the bar? The sports bar? That 533 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 2: was the great American sports bar? That's right, yep? And 534 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 2: was that was that? Was that at the mall? Yes? 535 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 2: It was basically right across the hall, fads. That's the 536 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 2: sound we've lost, right, the sound where he's trying to 537 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 2: talk and some drunken idiot, Yeah, just comes up to 538 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 2: and starts screaming, and he gets so frustrated. He doesn't 539 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 2: really know what to do. Didn't he just sort of 540 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 2: like sign off or just he may have say we 541 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 2: got to go to break here, this is out of control. 542 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 2: He may have. Yeah, I don't think we have that sound. No, unfortunately, 543 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 2: because that was a good one. That would have been 544 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 2: from the late nineties, mid to late nine. Jody writes, 545 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 2: did you ever owe to a dead bar cafe and 546 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 2: the restaurant? Many times we've definitely owed. 547 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,920 Speaker 3: Well, there was like two years where we couldn't even 548 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 3: mention cafe all the legality. Who knows, and we've never 549 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 3: got the full story on that. 550 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 2: If you recall there was a lot of rampant speculation 551 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 2: once upon a time that we were investigating one of 552 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 2: the previous big shots here. Yes, oh yeah, investigating the 553 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 2: idea of trying to bring it back right next door 554 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 2: to where we are, right in the West End. I know, 555 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:33,719 Speaker 2: I think we could have done it then. I I 556 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 2: think you're right. I don't know what got in the way. 557 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 2: Was it too expensive? Probably? Probably? Yeah, we couldn't get 558 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 2: the right deal at this point, that's for sure. Fat 559 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 2: Tuesdays was that at Mall of America could have been Yeah, 560 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 2: how about Mickey Gillies. I remember that were Mickey Gillies. 561 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 2: I don't either. 562 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 3: They have They've had a ton of places there. That's 563 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 3: what was impressive about the Hooters run. Yeah, it was 564 00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:58,960 Speaker 3: stunning that it was still all the criticism. 565 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, despite all the savagery, despite all the I gotta 566 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,720 Speaker 2: apologize for even thinking about going there. It was I 567 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:06,800 Speaker 2: don't know, I wouldn't. I can't say I know if 568 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 2: it was thriving, but it was staying. Yeah, it was open. 569 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 2: I hope they keep. 570 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 3: They have on one of the walls that you can 571 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,400 Speaker 3: see from Nickelodeon Universe. They have up on the fourth floor, 572 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 3: like the Hooter's logo or the Hooter's name. Yeah, you know, 573 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,640 Speaker 3: to indicate that it's up there. I hope they keep 574 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 3: that up, you know, like they do with the Killer 575 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 3: Brew seat. Yes, I hope they keep that up. I 576 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 3: think there's no reason. There's no reason to take it down. 577 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 2: It happened. You can't pretend it didn't. It existed. Did 578 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 2: you ever eat there? I'm guessing I did, but I don't. 579 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 2: I mean I don't have. First of all, I didn't 580 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,160 Speaker 2: particularly like their wings, I don't think, But I my 581 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,560 Speaker 2: guess as I ended up there once or twice, I didn't, 582 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 2: I wasn't. I wouldn't call myself like a frequent customer 583 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 2: where I had one of those cards that gave me 584 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 2: person something. You didn't go there on your birthday? No, 585 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 2: I don't think I did. Is this true? Or is 586 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 2: this a bit? Twin Peaks? Is the new boob casual 587 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 2: dining spot? That's correct? Is that correct? Yes? That's correct? 588 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 2: And where is that? Is that? In the mall moment? No? 589 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,320 Speaker 2: I think there's a Twin Peaks. There was a time 590 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,719 Speaker 2: where it was was it Burnsville? I think where there 591 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 2: used to be a Hooters Okay, I remember doing an 592 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 2: appearance at Hooters at that Burnsville like fifty years ago. Yeah, 593 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 2: Chadkas and I went down there Twin Peaks, But I 594 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 2: think that's what Twin Peaks took over. There's also a 595 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 2: Twin Peaks I know in Frisco, Texas. I think because 596 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 2: that because all the Bison fans, that's where they would go. 597 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 2: That's whats national Championship game was. 598 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:37,480 Speaker 3: So they like knew the waitresses and waite staff and 599 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,160 Speaker 3: manager on a first name basis. 600 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 2: So what were the other that would be interesting to research? 601 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,760 Speaker 2: The other original fourth floor restaurants at the Mall of Hysteria. Yeah, 602 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 2: when it first, it'd be great. So Hooters wasn't original? Yes, 603 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:51,080 Speaker 2: we think. 604 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,719 Speaker 3: I know Planet Hollywood was Planet Hollywood. I think you're 605 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 3: exactly right, great American sports spot. I don't think Rainforest was. 606 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:01,440 Speaker 2: Was it? No, and that's not that's not Rainforest moved. 607 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 2: I think they're on the first floor now they're lower. 608 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,000 Speaker 2: You're you're exactly right about that. 609 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,280 Speaker 3: It is funny how things change. Well, actually it's not. 610 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 3: Things don't change all that much. Because you may not 611 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 3: believe this or not. But the last time I went 612 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 3: to Hooters was last August with my children and my 613 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 3: nieces and nephews because they wanted to go to Hooters 614 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,960 Speaker 3: because of the movie Big Daddy with Adam Sandler. 615 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 2: So there's two poor parenting choice tricks. 616 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 3: Number one that they've already they're not old enough to 617 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,520 Speaker 3: watch Big Daddy, and they've already seen it multiple times 618 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,360 Speaker 3: enough to be intrigued to go to Hooters. 619 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:35,560 Speaker 2: Yes, when we're in all of America. 620 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 3: So last August, and we got a great picture and 621 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:39,560 Speaker 3: it was a bunch of their birthdays, so they did 622 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 3: the birthday deal at Hooters. It was tremendous and Rosen 623 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:44,880 Speaker 3: gets a lot of heat for saying Hooters was a 624 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 3: family restaurant. We weren't the only family in there. There 625 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,240 Speaker 3: were a lot of families in there. That's Saturday afternoon 626 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 3: rode some rides, went to Hooters. My brother in law. 627 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 3: I had a great time. It was it was wonderful. 628 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 3: Do we know why they're closing? They cite rising costs 629 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:04,640 Speaker 3: and competition. Okay, is what Restaurants of America, the independently 630 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 3: owned Hooters franchise, the company that owns it. They they 631 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 3: cite rising costs, inflation, increase, competition, was. 632 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 2: Knucklehead's Comedy Club. Was that an original? 633 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:16,520 Speaker 3: It may have been. It may have been. And I 634 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 3: used to go to that all the time. Knuckleheads. Yeah, 635 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,520 Speaker 3: when I moved back after my first college. When I 636 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,640 Speaker 3: moved back here, worked here, had no friends because they 637 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,880 Speaker 3: were all in college. I would go there all the 638 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,320 Speaker 3: time because I love stand up comedy. 639 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:28,919 Speaker 2: It was great. 640 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:29,640 Speaker 1: Huh. 641 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,439 Speaker 2: You know you're with me on the mall. I love 642 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,840 Speaker 2: them all. I do. I love going to the actually 643 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 2: the only mall, like I said, or I feel like 644 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,600 Speaker 2: I'm somewhere else. As odd as that sound, I love 645 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 2: exactly right. I love them all. 646 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:41,000 Speaker 1: I don't. 647 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,600 Speaker 2: I can't even explain it because it doesn't make sense, 648 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,319 Speaker 2: but I do. I feel like, you know, if I'm 649 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 2: going to the other ones, the regular ones, Ridgedale, et cetera, Southdale, 650 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,960 Speaker 2: I just them all. That's the mall of America, not 651 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:53,880 Speaker 2: and not because of the name. I just feels like, 652 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:59,120 Speaker 2: maybe because you're going further, it's a very strange. They've 653 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 2: got what's the rest? Uh, Gievanji and I just ate 654 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 2: there a few weeks ago for the first time in 655 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 2: a while. 656 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,279 Speaker 3: Is it called Twin Cities grill? Yeah, Twin City girl. 657 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,319 Speaker 3: It's tremendous on the first floor, and that. 658 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,560 Speaker 2: Feels too like because it's an actual restaurant, you're out 659 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,480 Speaker 2: of the madness of it. For sure. They got really 660 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,439 Speaker 2: nice food. They do very great, very good comfort food 661 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:17,400 Speaker 2: as well. For sure. 662 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,000 Speaker 3: Do you know the Do you know the story of 663 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,480 Speaker 3: the kfe and personality that I ran into at the 664 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,880 Speaker 3: Hooters at Mall of America after the super Bowl. 665 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,279 Speaker 2: When the super Bowl was last year? Last year? Yeah? 666 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:35,560 Speaker 3: No, because okay, it's a ridiculous story that nobody believes. 667 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,080 Speaker 3: So I went to the super Bowl and the media 668 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,920 Speaker 3: bus dropped you off at the mall. You got it 669 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 3: into the Mall of America, so that's where all the 670 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,279 Speaker 3: hotels were kind of that way, that's where we had 671 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,560 Speaker 3: to park, and so I went. 672 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,800 Speaker 2: So I went down. Well at the time, you know, 673 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,000 Speaker 2: I didn't have a seat, a media seat. I had 674 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,160 Speaker 2: just like a workroom passed. So I stood it kind 675 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 2: of up by the jumbo Tron, which was awesome. It 676 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,200 Speaker 2: was great, But in standing there for five hours, my 677 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,640 Speaker 2: phone was dying and I was going to uber home 678 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,200 Speaker 2: when I got back to Mall of America, but I 679 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,400 Speaker 2: needed to charge my phone. So at like one in 680 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,960 Speaker 2: the morning. I went to Hooters. 681 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:16,080 Speaker 3: Charge my phone, charging stations, yeah, exactly, got some fried pickles, 682 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,279 Speaker 3: grabbed a beer and they. 683 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,800 Speaker 2: Were ordinarily open that late, I mean. 684 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:26,080 Speaker 3: Probably, but because it was yes, charge my phone, which 685 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:26,920 Speaker 3: no one believes. 686 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:28,359 Speaker 2: That's why I went there. 687 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,800 Speaker 3: My wife included, by the way, get my fried pickles, 688 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,799 Speaker 3: get my beer. Turned to my left, Who do I see? 689 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,520 Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, Paul charging Helvie. 690 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,359 Speaker 2: Helvie, what are you doing here? 691 00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:45,200 Speaker 3: I'll think he his buddy Chad, because wherever there is Halvie, 692 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:45,640 Speaker 3: there's Chad. 693 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 2: And there weren't that many of us there. 694 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:51,000 Speaker 3: There were some angry Patriot fans and there is me, 695 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:52,239 Speaker 3: and he's like, what are you doing here? I'm like, 696 00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,560 Speaker 3: I'm charging my phone. He's like, really, that's what we're 697 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,160 Speaker 3: going with. So now I think of Halvey every time 698 00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:58,840 Speaker 3: I think of Hooters. That's pretty The two of us 699 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,480 Speaker 3: might have to go to lunch there before it shuts 700 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:01,480 Speaker 3: down on the twenty second. 701 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:03,000 Speaker 2: That's interest. Now. I don't know if I've ever heard 702 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,040 Speaker 2: that story. Charge my phone, got my car and banged 703 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,120 Speaker 2: out of there? Are we out of is that? Does 704 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,160 Speaker 2: this mean Hooters is out of our market? It is 705 00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,080 Speaker 2: that this was the final leaders in Minnesota. Emotional. 706 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,719 Speaker 3: Yeah, there used to be one in Block E. Remember, Yeah, 707 00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:18,719 Speaker 3: we tried to make it. You tried to make it 708 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:19,720 Speaker 3: a panicicoock and hoos. 709 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,279 Speaker 2: That's true. He did to make it a honk for 710 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,879 Speaker 2: the honk. Thought it'd be a nice transition. Yeah, didn't 711 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,120 Speaker 2: go and it didn't go anywhere. No, there's still no hoose. 712 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:32,239 Speaker 2: It's open, right, that one's gone. Yeah, Yeah, and I 713 00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:36,200 Speaker 2: remember the Burnsville one. Yeah, the Burnsville Hooters. I guess. 714 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:37,480 Speaker 3: I don't know if there were other ones. If there 715 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,319 Speaker 3: was one like up in du Luther or Mancato, people 716 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,359 Speaker 3: could be like, just know, but there are no This 717 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:42,880 Speaker 3: is an end of an ear. There are no Hooters 718 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:44,240 Speaker 3: locations in the state of Minnesota. 719 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:48,560 Speaker 2: Very very emotional. So whatever temptation the Wolves might have 720 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:52,880 Speaker 2: had to give, well, could you give Hooters a day now? Yeah, 721 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,640 Speaker 2: in commemoration for the end of the Hooters run? And 722 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:59,640 Speaker 2: how what? What would that illicit controversy? In other words, 723 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:04,120 Speaker 2: would Cornett, the San Antonio Spurs player who got seemed 724 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:09,240 Speaker 2: to get the Hawks in trouble for this event promotion 725 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,000 Speaker 2: promotion that they were going to do. Would he also 726 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:16,320 Speaker 2: write angrily that there's no place for any team in 727 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:21,840 Speaker 2: the NBA to celebrate the passing of a restaurant called Hooters. 728 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,319 Speaker 2: A fair question. I don't know where do you draw 729 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:25,799 Speaker 2: the line. Don't where you draw the line at this point, 730 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,799 Speaker 2: it's very, very, very confusing. The plan at five point 731 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:35,000 Speaker 2: thirty is to chat air travel Kyle Potter thirty traveler guy. 732 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,640 Speaker 2: He's going to join at five thirty. He is a 733 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,800 Speaker 2: course part of the uglydeck dot com guest lineup. Johnny 734 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:46,400 Speaker 2: Athletic already checked in upon his return from Oklahoma City, 735 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,680 Speaker 2: where things did not go particularly well for your favorite 736 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,160 Speaker 2: basketball team didn't go much better for your favorite hockey 737 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,719 Speaker 2: team last night at home. I do have an ode 738 00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:57,799 Speaker 2: to a dead guy to get to. That's a little 739 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:02,360 Speaker 2: bit obscure, but I think important. Nevertheless, at least I 740 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:06,040 Speaker 2: feel that way as a former ink stained wretch and 741 00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,480 Speaker 2: top five at five. What do you have for today? Well, 742 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,280 Speaker 2: those two losses that you just mentioned, Wolves and Wilde 743 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,080 Speaker 2: will give you details on the go for women's basketball 744 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:20,880 Speaker 2: postseason opportunity and late breaking the Gopher men's basketball postseason 745 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,760 Speaker 2: opportunity that has broken in the last fifteen minutes