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Speaker 1: Around the world a ride in the world Nanny More,

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Speaker 1: we're edging closer to a temperature that our next guest

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Speaker 1: great state of Minnesota. But we ain't there yet. We

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Speaker 1: got a long way Togo. Louis joins us via the

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Speaker 1: Connectico Water Systems hotline for what's the lou Nanny threshold?

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Speaker 1: But if you when you can control it, what's your

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Speaker 1: minimum temperature that you're interested in in in you know,

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Speaker 1: I guess accepting when you come back here? Is it seventy?

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Speaker 2: Is it?

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Speaker 1: Is it fifty eight? Is it sixty five? What is

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Speaker 1: Okay? All right, at least you're honest about it, sixty

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Speaker 1: questions for Louis Bratshaw Bryan KFN text line six for

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Speaker 1: six eight six. Are you in Florida now?

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Speaker 2: I'm in Orlando right now. Orlando interesting tiered to four

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Speaker 1: That sounds very very nice. That's for sure. Four seasons.

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Speaker 2: You say, yeah, okay, I just took the tree up

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Speaker 2: this morning.

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Speaker 1: How's that work?

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Speaker 2: More than five minutes non stop from really West Palm

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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty five miles an hour? It's perfect.

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Speaker 1: So is it a smooth ride? You can you feel?

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Speaker 1: Do you sense the speed? Or or you know? What's

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Speaker 2: You know, I have to tell you it's spectacle. I've

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Speaker 2: written No. One in China and Tokyo, and I think

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Speaker 2: it got up to two hundred and twenty eight or

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Speaker 2: two hundred and sixty, I can't remember miles and arm

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Speaker 2: you didn't even know you're moving, but at one hundred

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Speaker 2: called the bright line. They've had it and I think

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Speaker 2: it's three years. And that's why I don't drive around

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Speaker 2: eastern Florida all Thursday I take it from here down

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Speaker 2: I just rather fight that track. Yeah, it makes sense,

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Speaker 2: really clean, beautiful, good service. It's just like the trains

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Speaker 2: in Europe where if they say you're leaving at two

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Speaker 2: you know, when you when you go catch a train

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Speaker 2: and if they say three fifteen, you better be there

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Speaker 1: Do you get I assume you're in a sleeper car here.

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Speaker 2: I don't need a sleeper star.

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Speaker 1: I thought for you though. You like luxury, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, Oh yeah, when I when I took it from

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Speaker 2: sleeper trains. They're beautiful.

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Speaker 1: That sounds pretty good. Yeah, those things are. They seem

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah. If you want a great trip and inexpensive

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Speaker 1: At the crazy man, that is crazy. That's got to

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Speaker 1: for you, any good? John Massich Stories from Louis just

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Speaker 1: Does Louis cheer for the US or Canada at the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: the US all the time. And I just sat and

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Speaker 2: I was thrilled to see it. You know, they the

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Speaker 2: hope they don't get complacent when they finally meet in

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Speaker 1: It was, yeah, they this is they'll obviously meet again

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Speaker 2: The essentially last year and a half, you guys, has

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Speaker 2: But and he didn't even you know, I called for Trouding,

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Speaker 2: He says, Lo, I got good news for you. Who says,

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Speaker 2: he said, father Bower. I said, what is it? He said,

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Speaker 2: You're flying here. You're going to start the the World

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Speaker 2: We got your job for Pillsbury. We're going to move

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Speaker 2: know who you're talking to. Sure, what are you talking about.

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Speaker 2: I said, you wouldn't give me a try four years,

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Speaker 2: Olympic team. He said, yeah, it's all set. I said,

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Speaker 2: And the funny part was, so the first game against

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Speaker 2: he didn't give you a tryout in September of sixty

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Speaker 2: wouldn't give me a tryout. I said, you better not printed.

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Speaker 2: So he didn't.

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Speaker 1: So did you check you're that? He he he took

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I didn't. Yeah, I didn't see anywhere work

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Speaker 1: That's amazing.

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Speaker 1: No, I meant the shot to knock the player out.

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Speaker 2: Oh? No, I hit him.

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Speaker 1: Greoty got good ahead Okay, I just want to be sure.

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Speaker 2: You're not going to take a chance of getting the major.

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Speaker 1: That's true in the Olympic, the Olympics. That's a really

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Speaker 1: good point. Canada USA Canada Women's hockey. Canada is the

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Speaker 1: all time series one six eighty six one. Team USA

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Speaker 1: as you said, it's definitely turned in a different direction.

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Speaker 2: And the thing is if you look at the Canadian team,

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Speaker 2: they're older than the US team, more experienced, but the

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Speaker 2: US got i want to say, at least seven new

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Speaker 2: it was so much fun watching them today, the way

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Speaker 2: Nanty a couple of times when they made a couple

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Speaker 2: I mean, everybody makes mistakes, but I didn't want any

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Speaker 2: and I don't want to, you know, see the Canadian

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Speaker 2: It was just terrific. All I could think of is,

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Speaker 2: Just finish it off. You know, they're they're a wonderful

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Speaker 2: It's been been really fun to watch. And uh and

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Speaker 2: of course the Wisconsin team's got so many good ones. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Mark Johnson has done such a marvelous job with that team.

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Speaker 2: It's just amazing. He just keeps winning all the time.

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Speaker 1: Does anybody else Are there any any other countries that

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Camps as always, Uh, Louis. Is

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Speaker 2: None? Zero zip And I don't mean one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: Well, I got to I'd say Canada fifty two chance

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Speaker 1: You know, we didn't talk about speaking of ode to

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Speaker 2: Well, here's the guy who played over five hundred games

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's too good, that's too I don't remember that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you said you've told us that before. That's a

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Speaker 2: He was taking angles trying something.

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Speaker 2: I don't think anybody has more agility and couldn't use

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's possible the way I say

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you could do it.

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Speaker 1: That's a good way to put it. Yeah, that's a

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Speaker 1: good that's a good way to for people to understand it.

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Speaker 1: about this, No, you got ripped on Beyond the Pond.

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Speaker 2: Not that I know, I don't know why I would.

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Speaker 1: I had no idea. Well, you don't make a he

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Speaker 1: doesn't forget anything. He's like you, he never forgets.

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Speaker 2: Well, well, I wouldn't forget that either, you know what.

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Speaker 1: To get to the bottom of that story, I mean I.

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Speaker 2: Probably in those days, we didn't. I can't. I can't

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Speaker 2: believe that that's true because in those days, you have

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Speaker 2: to remember, the guys didn't start playing in the Olympics

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Speaker 2: till I want to say, around ninety six or no,

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Speaker 2: maybe it might have even been two thousand. Before that,

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Speaker 2: pros couldn't play in the Olympics. So how could he

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Speaker 2: play in the Olympics because he played for me In

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Speaker 2: the seventies, pros weren't allowed to play in the Olympics

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Speaker 2: in the.

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Speaker 1: Eighties.

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Speaker 2: Pros, you go back in the eighties, there's no pros

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Speaker 2: playing there. If you earn one dollar from playing professional hockey,

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Speaker 2: you weren't eligible for the Olympics. That's why before when

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Speaker 2: I when I was going to play with the Olympics,

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Speaker 2: and the North Stars had their franchise sixty seven and

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Speaker 2: they had training camp in Halliburton. They came back with

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Speaker 2: two guys injured. They were opening the season at the

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Speaker 2: met I'm practicing at Soul Saint Paul Murray Williams as

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Speaker 2: a coach. Rehn Blair came in the back door. I

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Speaker 2: was in the corner. We're doing some drills, and Ren

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Speaker 2: said Louis Louis and I turned around. They didn't even

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Speaker 2: have last and they had sort of a screen, you know,

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Speaker 2: and he pokes said through a screen. So you got

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Speaker 2: to play for us the first couple of games, I

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Speaker 2: got two defenseman Hurd, I'll give you five hundred dollars

462
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Speaker 2: game and I said, well, sure, you gotta get okay

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Speaker 2: from the coach. Williams and Murray came over and Murray

464
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Speaker 2: said what do you want and then told me Murcy,

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Speaker 2: you nuts. He says if he plays one second, because

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Speaker 2: he gets paid, he can never play in the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: They got an argument, Murray's I'll be right out, will

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Speaker 2: take care of this outside.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's that's too good. I got one

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Speaker 1: last question from the audience, or this from a regular

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Speaker 1: hockey listener, dry heat guy who wants to know how

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Speaker 1: long you believe Ovechkin will play and your thoughts on

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Speaker 1: Russia not being allowed in the hockey tournament. He alleges

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Speaker 1: it's then not really the best on best hockey tournament.

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Speaker 1: What do you think?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think Obie I would not be surprised to

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Speaker 2: be retired after this year. If he doesn't, it's going

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Speaker 2: to be maximum one more year. I'm really disappointed that

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Speaker 2: they didn't allow the Russians to play because they have

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Speaker 2: Russian athletes and other events, they're coming under a new role,

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Speaker 2: right right banner. Why don't they just let the hockey

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Speaker 2: team do that? Because I feel like the listener, I

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Speaker 2: like to see the best play the best. I would

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Speaker 2: love to see the Russian team compete. I think that

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Speaker 2: they would be very capable of getting the medal. I

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Speaker 2: don't think that their overall team would be as good

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Speaker 2: as the Canadians or US, but it's close. And I

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Speaker 2: see that because the Russians got the best goaltending. They

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Speaker 2: have the best goaltending, and they have it's a good

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Speaker 2: forward group, probably as anybody. But I think that their defense,

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Speaker 2: you don't have enough defense, but a caliber would take

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Speaker 2: to win the goal.

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Speaker 1: This one last item action about the Olympics. A few

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Speaker 1: people have texted concern about injury for wild players and

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Speaker 1: also what the layoff is going to do in terms

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Speaker 1: of momentum, And I assume I can answer that question

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Speaker 1: for you that if you just can't, how do you

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Speaker 1: fret about that? You just have to hope for the

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Speaker 1: best regarding injury and every you know, the team there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of players in this tournament where you can

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Speaker 1: never possibly know what it's going to do to the

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Speaker 1: team coming back. But it's I think it's stuff hardly

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Speaker 1: worth fretting over, right, because how do you control it

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Speaker 1: either thing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't. You can't thread over it. You can't

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Speaker 2: control it. And I will tell you there's going to

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Speaker 2: be injuries, and I just hope it happens to Colorado

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Speaker 2: Dells while yeah, because I think that any injury is

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Speaker 2: going to be a serious injury. And I say that

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Speaker 2: because the players playing there are the best players on

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Speaker 2: your team, So it's going to be serious, and it

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Speaker 2: always happens. If it doesn't happen this time, I'd be

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Speaker 2: thoroughly surprised because it'll be the first time. As far

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Speaker 2: as momentum goes, I always worry about that because a

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Speaker 2: while we're playing so well, but so is Colorado and Dallas.

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Speaker 2: They're still going to end up in the top three

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Speaker 2: in that division, and the only thing that could hurt

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Speaker 2: in their momentum is maybe their standings. I don't know

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Speaker 2: if well, it depends on McKinnon. If he gets hurt,

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Speaker 2: then Colorado could fall out at first. Otherwise I don't

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Speaker 2: think there's any chance of anybody catch him for first

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Speaker 2: in the division. And then it means that who's going

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Speaker 2: to end up in second for home might either Minnesota

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Speaker 2: or Dallas.

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Speaker 1: That's our first I think that's our first game back,

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Speaker 1: by the way, is in Colorado against the Lanch. We

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Speaker 1: got two games left against them both there the rest

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Speaker 1: of the season.

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Speaker 2: Thing well, in the Wild have played pretty good in

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Speaker 2: Colorado over the years, So yeah, it's not as concerning

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Speaker 2: to me as much as it's just the fact that

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Speaker 2: Colorado's so balanced, so deep, and I don't know, they

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Speaker 2: just they just seem to be hitting on all cylinders

534
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Speaker 2: and it's a it's all going to come down to

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Speaker 2: how their goals any place, I think, because that to me,

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Speaker 2: could be the weakest position on that team. Even though

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Speaker 2: they're playing good, I still I'm hoping for them to

538
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Speaker 2: go back to regress to where I've seen them in

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Speaker 2: the past.

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Speaker 1: I hope business goes well for you in Orlando tonight.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, I'm looking forward to a night's dinner.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you. We'll talk soon.

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Speaker 2: Nice to talk to you. Thanks doctor next week.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, lou Nannie brought you by camps on a number

545
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Speaker 1: of controversial subjects, including the mikelny thing. Now somebody is

546
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Speaker 1: writing that the controversy to eighty eight was about the

547
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Speaker 1: world champion and ship's not the Olympics. I don't know,

548
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Speaker 1: okay that distinction is but maybe we eventually, well, we'll

549
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Speaker 1: try to get to the bottom of it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you hate to see, you know that in house sort

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Speaker 1: of fighting a little bit, right, family fighting. I don't

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Speaker 1: like that. No, do you know? Never? I mean, who

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Speaker 1: do you? I mean you root for both of them,

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Speaker 1: you do, Mikelety and Louis. I mean, that's just the

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Speaker 1: way it works, all right. We're a little bit We're

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Speaker 1: blamed fondness for stirring it up. That's the question. I'm

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Speaker 1: very curious to find out how it came to Blakemore.

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Speaker 1: Blakemore likes to stir the potcast he does. He does.

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Speaker 1: He loves more than.

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Speaker 3: Especially from this room where you're insulated. Yes, all that

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Speaker 3: is indeed true.

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Speaker 1: Bottom the hour break, don't forget Alex lewis to talk

563
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Speaker 1: some football Purple, a lot of quarterback speculation. He will

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Speaker 1: join after the top five. At five Dan wants to

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Speaker 1: give you a shot to win bonus Bucks.

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Speaker 3: That is our national cash contest and the keyword for

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Speaker 3: the four o'clock hour is friend. Go to KFE and

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Speaker 3: dot com and enter the keyword friend. How about this

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Speaker 3: little nugget.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember an attorney named Joseph Thompson. Yes, yes,

571
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Speaker 1: we've had him on the show. Him on the show

572
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: important to attorney, and then his last title the attorney

573
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Speaker 1: was like the head of the number two job whatever.

574
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Speaker 1: He was a big shot. Yeah, he decides he is

575
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Speaker 1: one of I think now fourteen who've left the US

576
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Speaker 1: Attorney's office, most of them in protest. Do you see

577
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Speaker 1: how he has, shall we say, surfaced? The next chapter, No,

578
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Speaker 1: the next chapter is you can't make this up. He

579
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Speaker 1: is going to defend Don Lemon in his in the

580
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Speaker 1: case that has been brought against the former CNN reporter

581
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Speaker 1: who made his way into the church and that then

582
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Speaker 1: became a point of controversy and bitterness, et cetera, et cetera.

583
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Speaker 1: So you go from US Attorney's office job, he's now

584
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Speaker 1: raising his hand to defend Don Lemon in the government

585
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Speaker 1: case against him. Can't make that up? Can you?

586
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 2: Well?

587
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Speaker 1: A time, It's remarkable, It is absolutely remarkable. I was

588
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Speaker 1: listening Saturday, Pat didn't Miicletty didn't seem upset at all,

589
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Speaker 1: even with Fallness trying to stir things up. Unbelievable, Kevin,

590
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: hard to believe that that would be the case almost

591
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Speaker 1: forty years later. You can't let a sleeping dog lie.

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Speaker 1: I'm a basketball guy, but I'm struck by the amount

593
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: of drama that swores around the Wolves and the continued

594
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: relative calm of the Wild. Never hear about internal disenchantment

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Speaker 1: with the local hockey team. Maybe it's because I'm not

596
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: paying attention to them, but still, Oh, you missed the

597
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: last decade, well did we? Yeah, that's true, although that

598
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: goes back for that was the suitor Perezy era you're

599
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: talking about. Yeah, I mean there was a lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff going on. There was stuff, yeah, And again that's

601
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Speaker 1: what's weird. This isn't like dogs and cats living together

602
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: anarchy in the Wolves locker room by any stretch. By

603
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,239
Speaker 1: the way, historically there was, Yeah, you were there for it.

604
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: There was a lot of dysfunction, But for now this

605
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: group does seem to have a lot less of that

606
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: going on, or it's just hidden better. I mean that

607
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: that's also sometimes the way we come to find out

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Speaker 1: about it. Speaking of local bowl games, we're told actually

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Speaker 1: that the Southwest light Rail Bowl will be coming to

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Speaker 1: Minnesota in twenty forty two. Okay, twenty that's from Tom

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00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: in Savage. That's really good. Southwest light Rail Bowl. We'd

612
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: have to wait a while easy to get to eventually.

613
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Speaker 1: Well maybe he actually threw in. Maybe he said coming

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty forty two. Maybe we're testing the tracks.

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Speaker 1: I saw the Fox nine story on that a few

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Speaker 1: months ago. We're testing the tracks. Jim Pete clearly loves

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Speaker 1: the show. Hopes his hero Finchy won't go without a move.

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Speaker 1: It should say without a mood. We're one and oh

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Speaker 1: Wolves and five. I apologized to Flynn flamm because I

620
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Speaker 1: blew the line. Jim Pete clearly loves the show, hopes

621
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Speaker 1: his hero Finchy won't go without a mood. Where one

622
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Speaker 1: and oh Wolves and five. That's pretty good anyway, any

623
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Speaker 1: of them that speak to content in the uh in

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Speaker 1: the program. I think it's worthwhile. And if you missed it,

625
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Speaker 1: we talked. Look, I mean, you know, I never I

626
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Speaker 1: really don't believe or not want to turn these into

627
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Speaker 1: you know, feuds or anything like that. Like I'm trying

628
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 1: to pick on any one individual because we played in

629
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Speaker 1: exchange and you brought to my attention during the Wolves

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Speaker 1: broadcast yesterday between Jim Peterson and h who was on

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Speaker 1: with him, Horton, it was Horton Day and there it

632
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: was mainly Peterson, but then Horton kind of agreed that

633
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Speaker 1: this notion that, uh, they're confused, that there's such a

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Speaker 1: lack of gratitude for what Chris Finch has done, and

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Speaker 1: I just I find I find that preposterous because I think,

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Speaker 1: as one of our texters said, you can do two

637
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: things at once. You can have great belief and praise

638
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: for and celebration of what Finchy has done here and

639
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: still call some things right now into question. I don't

640
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: think it has to be an either or, and I

641
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Speaker 1: think in the best markets, and in fact, with the

642
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: franchises who hold themselves to a high standard of excellence,

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00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: it's almost what they come to expect. So I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't really think that Now are there people Are

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Speaker 1: there some people on x or calling for Finch's head. Yes,

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Speaker 1: there's some people who would have called for Red Arobax head.

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Speaker 1: That's Philip Jackson's head. That's that's a false premise. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything when it comes to what some of

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Speaker 1: the pushback has been about the current state of the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolves and whether there might be some, you know,

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Speaker 1: some reason for a little bit of concern. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's get caught up because we went along with Luigi.

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Speaker 1: We'll come back into a couple of other items. I

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Speaker 1: had a couple of good Olympic nuggets that maybe you

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Speaker 1: weren't going to include in the top five and five,

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Speaker 1: so maybe we'll get to them next. I've got one

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Speaker 1: a section item I want to run by you, and

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Speaker 1: then Alex lewis to talk plenty of pro football, maybe

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Speaker 1: some leftover Super Bowl stuff, more importantly, where he thinks

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings are headed on a number of significant fronts,

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Speaker 1: including the quarterback position. A couple of interesting national theories

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Speaker 1: of being thrown out there that I'm having some difficulty accepting.

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Speaker 1: But we'll discuss those things as well. Stay turned. I

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Speaker 1: can't find the text right now. There was someone who

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Speaker 1: texted earlier urging me, if not demanding, at least urging

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Speaker 1: me to savage any athlete, any US Olympic athlete who

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Speaker 1: has expressed any kind of anger or frustration with the

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Speaker 1: I think the current administration, or how he's feeling about

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Speaker 1: representing the country, or whatever the case may be. I'll

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Speaker 1: revert back to what has been the official bumper bumper

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Speaker 1: policy on that particular issue, regardless of who is running

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Speaker 1: the country, for example, regardless of the era we're talking about,

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Speaker 1: whether the president is a Democrat or is a Republican.

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Speaker 1: I think most people are not honest about what really

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Speaker 1: bugs them. Let me quote, are you familiar with the

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Speaker 1: chess champion Casparov, big caspar Off guy, huge, who wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be a big caspar Off guy? And he just wrote

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Speaker 1: this within the last couple days about himself. He said,

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Speaker 1: you're only told to stick to sports when you say

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Speaker 1: something that those critics disagree with. I heard it from communists,

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Speaker 1: from Putinists, and when I criticized Obama's Russia policy today,

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Speaker 1: I hear stick chess from MAGA, who would also censor

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Speaker 1: US athletes the way dictatorships do. I can't get that

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Speaker 1: worked up over, because again, what you're if people are

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Speaker 1: honest about it. And we've talked about this regarding sharks

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Speaker 1: and jets over the last several months. When you get

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Speaker 1: mad about what an athlete has to say and you

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Speaker 1: think he should stick to the script more or in

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Speaker 1: this case, stick to sports, shut up and dribble that

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Speaker 1: sort of thing. What many people really mean is if

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Speaker 1: you're going to disagree with my position or offer a

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Speaker 1: position I think is content versial politically, then shut up.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it. But if you agree

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Speaker 1: with the sentiment that I think needs to be expressed

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Speaker 1: at a time like this, then go for it. That's

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Speaker 1: all we can do. And to be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: I don't even think the comments have been that extraordinary,

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Speaker 1: but I do think that we don't really live with

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Speaker 1: any measure of consistency in that regard. We've seen that

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Speaker 1: played out over and over so many times on so

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Speaker 1: many sports landscapes. For sure. We got top five at

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Speaker 1: five coming up. I want to get to one story.

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Speaker 1: Let me say I can find it here. This This

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Speaker 1: was in start to View and I think it was

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Speaker 1: a roper story that he wrote over the weekend, and

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Speaker 1: the story is basically, well, i'll give you the lead,

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Speaker 1: I'll give you the start of the story. Hennepin County's

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Speaker 1: top law enforcement officer is publicly mulling over whether to

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Speaker 1: agree to limit cooperation with immigration and customs enforcement as

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Speaker 1: a means to end the federal government's disastrous intrusion into

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Speaker 1: the Twin Cities. And the reaction, he writes from immigrant

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Speaker 1: rights groups has been swift. It is bowing down. It's

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Speaker 1: caving to these racist demands and racist rhetoric or the

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Speaker 1: Trump administration, according to Erica Zeroski, co founder of the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee. Now I should add, since

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Speaker 1: this story was written in fact, I think today Governor

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Speaker 1: Walls has said that he has been basically told by

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Speaker 1: Tom Holman that Ice could be out of here completely. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: very soon saw that. I think I had asked the

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Speaker 1: last time we had Luger and studio, I said, might

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Speaker 1: this be over by March one? Well, if the governor

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Speaker 1: and he thought it might be. But if the Governor's right,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like it won't even be that long, right,

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Speaker 1: because what's the day today? Today's February ten. Now, again,

725
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Speaker 1: the proof will be in the pudding. But that's the

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Speaker 1: I think the comment from the governor. So I don't

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Speaker 1: know whether any of that has to do with any

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Speaker 1: of these negotiations that are are going on, but I

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Speaker 1: want to get to another Pete part of the story.

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Speaker 1: Sheriffs across the state, including Ramsey County, are grappling with

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Speaker 1: how to respond. But the Henniman County jail I meant

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Speaker 1: down to Minneapolis is in some ways the center of

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Speaker 1: the storm. It stopped cooperating with ICE several years ago

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Speaker 1: with the exit of Sheriff rich stanic Uh. Then hold

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Speaker 1: on a second, I'm missing an important part of this story.

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Speaker 2: Where did it go?

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Speaker 1: Sheriff do Wanta Witt, this is they're they're they're kind

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Speaker 1: of framing it as this is her quandary. Witt, who

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Speaker 1: is up for reelection in November, told news outlets this

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Speaker 1: week that she is considering notifying ICE about the release

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Speaker 1: of certain people it seeks like those booked for violent crimes.

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Speaker 1: She emphasized the reporters on Friday, Feb six that she'd

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Speaker 1: been quote throwing out different ideas and quote and hadn't

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Speaker 1: hasn't made any decisions. She has had four meetings with

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Speaker 1: Borderzar Tom Holman, who is now leading the federal operation.

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Speaker 1: Here's an interesting quote. I thought from her quote, there

747
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Speaker 1: seems to be this overwhelming thought that somebody is going

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Speaker 1: to win all and go home. That's not going to happen.

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Speaker 1: There has to be a give and take, There has

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Speaker 1: to be some there has to be room for some

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Speaker 1: kind of negotiations. That quote stuck with me because it

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Speaker 1: sounds very statesman like by the sheriff. To me, it

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Speaker 1: sounds like, again in a real world in which you know,

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Speaker 1: you give up nothing, you budge on nothing, you don't

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Speaker 1: let the terrorists win. There are some people and in

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Speaker 1: fact quoted in this story, who are unhappy with that

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Speaker 1: approach or her even throwing that out. Now again, that

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Speaker 1: was I think Friday. I don't know if it's been

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Speaker 1: established at where those negotiations have ended up with For

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Speaker 1: all I know, she has ultimately decided to not even

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Speaker 1: go that far in her cooperation. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that's yet been established, but I will tell you I

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Speaker 1: think if you took a pull of most even in

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Speaker 1: the Metro area, most citizens, I believe, despite what we've

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Speaker 1: seen played out in the streets, that most people would

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Speaker 1: not consider that unreasonable. And I know all the comebacks

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Speaker 1: is well, how do you, on the basis of the

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Speaker 1: way they've gone about their business, how do you trust

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Speaker 1: any of these arrests or any individuals that this administration

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Speaker 1: or these ICE officials identify as bad guys that we

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Speaker 1: have to go get. And then there's the other question

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Speaker 1: of well, there's you know, these are individuals who may

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Speaker 1: have been charged with some things, but it hasn't not

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Speaker 1: these cases haven't always been adjudicated. But you brought this

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Speaker 1: up on enough, said Friday night. I think sooner or

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Speaker 1: later I would argue, I don't think it's we're back

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Speaker 1: to we should be able to do two things at once.

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Speaker 1: I believe we should be able to savage the policy,

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Speaker 1: the corrosive illegal policy that ICE has terrorized this community with,

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Speaker 1: because that's quite frankly, why we're in the position we're in.

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Speaker 1: That's why we're here more than anything else. I think

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Speaker 1: you can raise your hand and endorse that position and

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Speaker 1: still endorse the logic and reasoning that this sheriff offered

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Speaker 1: up regarding this, regarding this particular situation, because what we

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Speaker 1: were told on the front end was most people say

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Speaker 1: go after the bad guys, just don't be as sweeping

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Speaker 1: as you have been. So is that true or not true? Right?

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Speaker 1: So I find that quote from her, and I think

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Speaker 1: it's sad that we're everything the rhetoric has been elevated

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Speaker 1: to such a place where in some parties she's being

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Speaker 1: criticized for even going that far. She had even made

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Speaker 1: it on the base of those quotes a final judgment

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Speaker 1: or pronouncement. But isn't that sort of if when you

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Speaker 1: factor in a number of things, which is including the

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Speaker 1: economic hit that we're taking in this town that has

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Speaker 1: now been reported on pretty effectively, why is that such

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Speaker 1: an unreasonable position? I don't have the answer because I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm you're right.

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Speaker 3: I did bring it up on Friday, like there should

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Speaker 3: be when you say statesmen like it feels like there's

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Speaker 3: no room for that anymore, ever, and that's why we

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Speaker 3: get caught in these situations. I think there's no question

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Speaker 3: know why this one began. I think that's pretty obvious,

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Speaker 3: no doubt. I think we've been pretty frontal about that

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Speaker 3: whole thing, you know, going back to December first, I

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Speaker 3: think when when Operation Metro Search started and the complete

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Speaker 3: over the top nature of it, which we've talked about enough.

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Speaker 3: But eventually now it's okay, Oh, how do we end it?

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Speaker 3: How do we move forward? Are there some things that

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Speaker 3: each side can do to get this thing going where

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Speaker 3: we can actually move forward from it. It shouldn't be

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Speaker 3: that kind of stuff shouldn't be off the table.

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Speaker 1: One last text before Top of the Hour and Top

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Speaker 1: five at five Dan, I know this wasn't really the

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Speaker 1: subject matter today, but I just feel the need to

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Speaker 1: say this. As a strong conservative, I'm so exhausted by

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Speaker 1: conservatives bringing up Bad Bunny. Even as a Charlie Kirk fan,

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Speaker 1: I thought that TP used the USA It's alternative concert

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Speaker 1: with Kid Rock was cringe. Since when did the super

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Speaker 1: Bowl become Fourth of July? I feel like conservatives are

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Speaker 1: now being as extreme on things and trying to inject

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Speaker 1: politics into things just as much as we accuse the

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Speaker 1: left of doing. And it's beyond exhausting. It's just a

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Speaker 1: football game, like I said, not the fourth of July.

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Speaker 1: Everyone on both sides needs to settle down wishful thinking.

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Speaker 1: It is one of the elements that we didn't cover

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Speaker 1: yesterday and that people have talked about from time to time,

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Speaker 1: and that actually therevia actually historically have been some writings

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Speaker 1: who said this phony patriotism gets a little too performative

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Speaker 1: when it comes to the Super Bowl. Doesn't mean you

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Speaker 1: have to feel guilty about being patriotic, but what is

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Speaker 1: the line there exactly? And it is true that somewhere

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Speaker 1: along the line some people have decided, well that's what

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Speaker 1: that's the statement that needs to come out of the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl. Why, I mean, why does who decided? Who

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Speaker 1: made that? Made exactly that determination. I'm not sure a

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Speaker 3: Top five will include you assigning the proper color for

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Speaker 3: the Timberwolve's mood ring last night.