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Speaker 2: I mean, I didn't tell you I was leading with

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Speaker 2: He took eighth. You asked me earlier who won the gold.

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Speaker 2: Kazakhstan's Mikhaile Shatteroff took hold. Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned

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Speaker 2: Well, all I can do is follow the story, and

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Speaker 2: Now there's twenty six games left. You're in the sixth spot.

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Speaker 2: I think right now here, I don't understand why any

435
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 2: of that, this whole mood thing is still no, it's

436
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 2: it's it's bizarre to me that again, it's people are

437
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 2: too philosophical about well, you know, personalities are what.

438
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 3: Are we doing here? Right? Stop feeling sorry for yourself.

439
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,359
Speaker 3: You're in a good position. The idea that what's my

440
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:14,439
Speaker 3: mood today? Is it up?

441
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 4: Down?

442
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,479
Speaker 2: I'm not exactly sure. Grow up, man, we should be

443
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 2: so far past the mood stuff. And again, remember this

444
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 2: wasn't a rudy who brought up moods. It's the head coach, right,

445
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 2: who brought up the mood thing. Yes, right, so check

446
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,880
Speaker 2: your moot rings at the door it exists. Be ready

447
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 2: to get in the top four. Yeah, I need another

448
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 2: oar rhyme because I just I just stumbled into a

449
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 2: wolves in five but I couldn't think of the third one.

450
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 2: But because and if we're really this moody, then we

451
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 2: should have just traded free honest.

452
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right.

453
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 2: We should have just given them whatever and said let's

454
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Speaker 2: try it again, because we'll see we'll see how it

455
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Speaker 2: all ends up. And they, like you always say, have

456
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 2: the last word and they can change the narrative. But

457
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,440
Speaker 2: it's time to go. When they come back, there's twenty

458
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Speaker 2: six games. Let's play Madson jacking up threes for the

459
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Speaker 2: ninth time, Riders pipes free, Becky's famous pasta recipes, Wolves,

460
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Speaker 2: and five. It's pretty good. Come with Lavell E Neil

461
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Speaker 2: the third. Questions or observations for Lavelle e Neil the

462
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Speaker 2: Third The Underwear King Ratchean Brian Kvan text line at

463
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Speaker 2: six four six eight six, lovel I need to start

464
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Speaker 2: this segment with an uncomfortable question unrelated to your underwear,

465
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Speaker 2: so you can rest easy, at least for now. Didn't

466
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Speaker 2: you say that if the quad God tanked his long

467
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Speaker 2: program in the twenty twenty six Winter Olympics in Italy,

468
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Speaker 2: that you'd leave town?

469
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Speaker 4: Was this question that meant for me? As someone else?

470
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 3: I thought you wrote that I have not.

471
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 4: Mentioned anything about the quad God yet during this Olympics,

472
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 4: he said, So I know he felt the medal today, right?

473
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 4: I think I know that much failed.

474
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Speaker 3: He didn't come close to medaling.

475
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,360
Speaker 2: He finished eighth, fell down at least twice was terrible

476
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 2: from start to finish. Scott Hamilton called it the most

477
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,119
Speaker 2: shocking result he can ever remember in figure skating.

478
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Speaker 4: Did he did he try to backflip?

479
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,919
Speaker 2: No, and I don't think he did actually, although I

480
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 2: don't remember. We had it on the background. I wasn't

481
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 2: watching every minute. I was just trying to do a show.

482
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,400
Speaker 2: But nothing worked. And he went into the long program

483
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Speaker 2: with a five point lead. Oh wow, and he wasn't,

484
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 2: like I said, he wasn't even close to meddling eighth place.

485
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Speaker 4: Wow, this is like a Twins collapse in twenty twenty four. Yeah,

486
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 4: in August of September, you could say that, Wow, that's

487
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 4: that's sad to hear. You know, you worked for three

488
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Speaker 4: and a half years to get to this point and

489
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,479
Speaker 4: you figure that your here're on top of your games.

490
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 4: You know, you made the team and you're doing well

491
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 4: in the early stages of the event, and it's for

492
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,120
Speaker 4: everything to just be pulled off from under you. Oh

493
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 4: that's that's too bad for the guys. So I hope

494
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 4: I don't know what else he has a lot to

495
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,880
Speaker 4: do with this Olympics, but I hope he is able

496
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 4: to bounce back somehow, some way, that's a that's a cruestion.

497
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:21,880
Speaker 4: But I would never predict anything like that. I would

498
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 4: never predict the figure skater to flop uh or not flap.

499
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 4: But I would never even entertain a bet in which

500
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 4: I will call for me to leave town.

501
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 5: Although technically my talent is.

502
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 4: In a Reroe Pike, so I could just move across

503
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 4: the border to Eagan and that would qualify, I guess,

504
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,360
Speaker 4: but I would never make it a bet like that.

505
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 2: That's the the the question is a throwback.

506
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 3: It's it's part of kfe and lore.

507
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 2: And I don't remember precisely the accusation, but it was

508
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 2: levied to me that I had written something and I

509
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 2: had said if it didn't happen, I would leave town.

510
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 2: And I can honestly tell you I wrote a lot

511
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 2: of you know, silly stuff over the time. I was

512
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 2: an Inkstaine wretch, but I was never going to be

513
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 2: foolish enough.

514
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 3: Well, put this way, even if somebody writes that.

515
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 2: The notion that the person reading it would actually think, well, now.

516
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 3: You have to leave, you have to leave town. You

517
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 3: should be held accountable.

518
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 2: It's in itself, I think, rather preposterous, But that's where

519
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 2: that whole thing began, you know, leaving town thing, that

520
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 2: was when it started.

521
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 3: So I wanted to see if I could box you

522
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 3: up in that.

523
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 2: I didn't think you'd actually written about him speaking of preposterousness?

524
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:34,880
Speaker 4: Did you make the tournament failed this year?

525
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 2: I don't think I've made it the last three years,

526
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 2: I don't think i've made I don't even know if

527
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 2: when when the last time is that I've made it?

528
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 3: Did you make it? I don't.

529
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 4: I'm guessing I have because the Sins an't going to

530
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 4: make any trades be for the deadline should be a

531
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 4: final four caliber failed pronostication. But I haven't. I haven't heard,

532
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 4: I haven't checked the website.

533
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 2: That one did not make it, Lavelle, I know for

534
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Speaker 2: a fact you did make it. For your statement that

535
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 2: it's hard to practice baseball was a statement that he made.

536
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 3: Apparently it's at some point was that out of context

537
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 3: or in context?

538
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 4: Well, based on the discussion I had with Derek Salby's

539
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 4: and explain, it's hard to practice baseball.

540
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 5: That that and the only way you can kind of

541
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 5: learn is.

542
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 4: Playing baseball at full speed, and it's hard to do

543
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 4: that when you're playing the spring training games. You know,

544
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 4: when you're maybe getting one into a bats or pitching,

545
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 4: you know, two or three innings. You know, that's where

546
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 4: it came from. But you know that's the that's the

547
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 4: one he picked after all the other crazy stuff I

548
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 4: said over the past.

549
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 2: There have been a couple more entries. I'll pull it

550
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 2: up and just make sure, but I do remember that

551
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 2: one specifically.

552
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 3: Well, there you have it. There, there it is.

553
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 4: And the last year I made that just it was

554
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 4: just bad mathemat part talking about cowboys travel one hundred

555
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 4: thousand miles a year to go into rodeo events, which

556
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 4: is a little bit off.

557
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 3: That's a little high.

558
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 5: It was a little high.

559
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 4: It was a little high.

560
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 5: So I didn't make I didn't make the finals.

561
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 4: When you are lost to Marty in the finals, I

562
00:29:57,960 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 4: can't remember what I said that year.

563
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 3: You should always be part of a columnist approach.

564
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 2: You got to have a little bit of they got

565
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 2: a little fun because you don't always mean it literally.

566
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 2: You might just mean it figuratively as well. But people

567
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 2: do tend to lose their minds that well.

568
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 4: You know, it's one thing to be provocative, is another

569
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 4: to be preposterous. And I think, yeah, uh, you know,

570
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 4: common jumps at anything that hints a preposterousness.

571
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, and context gets lost in the hull all the

572
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 2: the whole equation.

573
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 4: This is I still remember the year in which Paul

574
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 4: Allen was the one entire bracket.

575
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we could do that every year. Yeah, that's

576
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 2: actually Nordo's making a run. He's a bracket.

577
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: Yeah.

578
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 2: He's got about seven statements. Yeah, I think pa Is

579
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 2: rubbed off on him a little bit. Only one entry

580
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 2: for you, Lavelle, So did you have any I don't

581
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 2: think I had any, but as I said to Corey

582
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 2: in common because I was on the show, Yeah, I

583
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 2: feel like there were a number of statements that I

584
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,479
Speaker 2: didn't say, but I agreed with so am I getting

585
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 2: more preposterous as I where as I get older?

586
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 3: Yeah?

587
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 2: Where it didn't make they didn't rattle me. I said, well,

588
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 2: what's so preposterous about that? I kind of feel like

589
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 2: they have a good point. So I feel like I

590
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 2: could have had a couple.

591
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 4: Well, the committee is working harder this because you know,

592
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 4: the turia picking off of like national television shows now

593
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 4: and what people say on the radio, and you know,

594
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 4: if they go back and listen back to like your

595
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 4: go women's basketball calls. I'm sure they could find a

596
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 4: couple of statements that could get thrown in there.

597
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, most of the things I agreed was we're go

598
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 2: forer sports related. They were, It wasn't the general populist.

599
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 2: They didn't agree with that one thing. One theme though,

600
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 2: and you'll appreciate this dand that I took from the

601
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 2: PST field this year.

602
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 3: There are too many podcasts.

603
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 2: There's too many podcasts, and there's some really bad opinions

604
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 2: coming out of all those podcasts, namingly Gilbert arenaz Well.

605
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 2: To be honest, that would be I mean, that's the

606
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 2: boon to the whole the whole PST bit is there's

607
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 2: so many other possibilities where somebody could say something that's preposterous.

608
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 2: Yes that ever existed before exactly you could get to

609
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 2: it because it was it's out in the public domain.

610
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 2: We're going to have to expand the PST with all

611
00:31:58,920 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 2: the good podcasts.

612
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 3: Maybe that's it.

613
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, Odell, I heard O'Dell Beckhams today about

614
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 4: having a one hundred million dollar contract and that's that

615
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 4: really being enough money. I heard that one that was

616
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 4: that was wacky.

617
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 2: Lavell Bingo card is a smash Lavell says the twins

618
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 2: will make a splash.

619
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Speaker 3: Lavell without underwear may cause a rash. Wolves in five.

620
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 2: People work cards level, they they work really hard to

621
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 2: get those rhymes.

622
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 4: Is that mostly Larry Mandela Guy or Moriamsendam Guy.

623
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 2: No, we got a lot of regulars without even monikers

624
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 2: who some of them do, but a number of them

625
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,719
Speaker 2: are just as far as I know, phone numbers who

626
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 2: are not participating in the bit.

627
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 4: But challenge them, you know, let's see them. Let's see

628
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 4: with the listeners could come up with challenge the challenging

629
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 4: those sports haiko, see what they come up with.

630
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna give you an opportunity to sort

631
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 2: of weigh in and perhaps potentially break the tie, because

632
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 2: at your newspaper there seems to be a bit of

633
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 2: a battle going on regarding how concerned people should be

634
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 2: at this moment all Star break in the Timberwolves. I

635
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 2: think it was like four days ago Scoggin's had a

636
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 2: column basically saying, come on, man, let's sow more consistency.

637
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 3: What's going on here?

638
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 2: And I think today or yesterday Suehn had a column

639
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 2: basically said, calm down, everything's fine, It's not out of control.

640
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 2: We're in perfect position. We're gonna be We're in perfect

641
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 2: position to do exactly what we did again last year.

642
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 2: So where are you in this debate about what is

643
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 2: fair criticism and commentary on the Minnesota Timberwolves at this

644
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 2: All Star breakin?

645
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 4: I think criticism over the current state of the franchise

646
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 4: is warranted, But in the end, if you take the

647
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 4: ten thousand pirst view of the whole thing, I'd probably

648
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 4: be leaning towards the suit Hen scale in this just

649
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 4: because I was telling someone else this four like, it

650
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 4: seems like every year we have these maddening developments with

651
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 4: the Wolves where they're not playing defense, where they're turning

652
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 4: the ball over a thousand times in the quarter, and

653
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 4: where Anthony Edwards after game is like, we.

654
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 5: Know the game plan, we know the game plan, the.

655
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 4: Coach them tells what to do, we're just not doing it.

656
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 4: We're just like doing it. Listen to the coaches. We don't.

657
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 4: Sometimes we'll listen to the coaches, and it seems like

658
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 4: this happens every year. And then also break comes and

659
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 4: then they finally get serious over the last twenty games

660
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 4: and they finished strong. So I'm waiting for that to

661
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 4: happen again this year, especially now they have idled the

662
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 4: zoom in Tol. He can help the bench out a

663
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,799
Speaker 4: little bit. Maybe Terrence Hannon Junior could get back in

664
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 4: the mix here and get healthy. But you know, I'm

665
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 4: not ready to panic or jump off a cliff over

666
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 4: this franchise just yet, just because it seems like there's

667
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 4: a pattern that's kind of developed with the squad when

668
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 4: they go through these lulls and these stretches of maddening

669
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 4: play and bad decision making and you know, ripping themselves

670
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 4: uprecading full pelfness in there about how crappy they are,

671
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 4: and then turn around and says shrunk. So I'm I'm

672
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 4: gonna sit back and wait over these last twenty seven

673
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 4: games to see, you know, it's they're gonna be engaged

674
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 4: now that the altar break has put is coming and going,

675
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 4: and they can you know, start making the search toward

676
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:16,280
Speaker 4: the end of the regular season.

677
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 2: By the way, I'm just watching this was I think

678
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 2: on tape the men's ten kilometers sprint. I think this

679
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 2: looks like biathlon material, and I don't know, somebody just

680
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 2: crossed or somebody just finished his deal. I don't know.

681
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 2: If he's good, bad or whatever. But here's what struck

682
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 2: me about him. Every other's every other contestant has you know,

683
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 2: like gloves on, a hat, on a shirt that is streamlined,

684
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 2: but nevertheless a shirt maybe even two layers. This guy

685
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 2: had a short sleeve shirt and looked like shorts on.

686
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,359
Speaker 2: For God's sake, do we know who he is and

687
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 2: what that's about?

688
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 3: How unusual is that?

689
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 5: That does sound unusual?

690
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 4: You know, I having come uh uh downhill skiing at

691
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 4: the Olympics, I am a common made to how you

692
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 4: know a lot of the skiers are not wearing a

693
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 4: lot of stuff over their heads while they're doing this, yeah,

694
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:15,399
Speaker 4: and just goggles sometimes. Meanwhile, I'm all, I've got my park,

695
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 4: I got along underwear, I got on, uh uh, my

696
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,240
Speaker 4: mask and all my stuff here trying to stay warm.

697
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 4: But you know what, maybe you know, that's what gets

698
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 4: them going. And you know they do expand they do

699
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 4: expand heat too, you know, sometimes they they maybe they

700
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 4: need to uh uh you know, go that route. I

701
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 4: mean I was watching some speed skating earlier in the Olympics,

702
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 4: you know, and this code on those tracks and he's

703
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 4: racing around around the track and then the first thing

704
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 4: they do after the cross the finish lines is up

705
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 4: to the top and they're beare chested because they're I

706
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 4: guess they're they're they're heat it up, you know, so

707
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 4: maybe that sounds it to it, you know, to Eastern No.

708
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 2: By the way, a couple of people have asked ask

709
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 2: you asked me to add about the the current I

710
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 2: guess you could say climate regarding a new Bears stadium.

711
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 2: I'll ask the question this way, is it more likely

712
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,800
Speaker 2: the Bears end up in Iowa or Indiana?

713
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 4: I still think at the end of the day to

714
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 4: end up with the Orange and Heights pop project. But

715
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 4: there are some rumblings that the family, the Hollas families

716
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,760
Speaker 4: that had to with Kevin Warren and how he's a

717
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 4: fear through this. They wanted shovels in the dirt by

718
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 4: the end of twenty twenty five and that did not happen,

719
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 4: and it sounds like they're not happy about the lack

720
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 4: of progress. But you know, over the last two or

721
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 4: three weeks, there's been rumlings from Arlington Heights in the

722
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 4: state of Illinois that they can figure out ways to

723
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 4: kind of make the Arlington plan work. There's nothing like

724
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 4: the threat of moving across the state line to get

725
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 4: people acting on this, and that looks like the I

726
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 4: don't know if it's the rules or if it like

727
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 4: you know, Carl pol trying to tell the team of

728
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 4: von Bieber was enough to get people going and take

729
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 4: this seriously because Indiana.

730
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 5: First of all, Illinois is broke. I don't know how

731
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 5: much money they could.

732
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 4: Actually come up with to help the project. Indiana doesn't care.

733
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 4: And if Indiana can give the Bears what Kansas is

734
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:22,280
Speaker 4: giving the Chiefs to build the stadium in their state,

735
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 4: then I'm going to tell them, let Indiana take the

736
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 4: tax burden, because you know, Illinois pretty much tax attack man.

737
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 3: They had no money.

738
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 4: I oh, but the Indiana plan, I mean, they're going

739
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 4: to name the place Hallis Harbor for christ sakes, and

740
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,320
Speaker 4: I think I think it's important to Indiana.

741
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 3: I believe.

742
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 4: And but that's like one hundred miles away from like

743
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 4: nig Forest. It's weird. I just I just can't see

744
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 4: the movie that far away miles.

745
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 3: That's a little an exaggeration speaking of in Bellisue.

746
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 4: Lake Forest is like northwest Chicago.

747
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 2: I don't think it's one hundred but maybe Gary to

748
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 2: Chicago's liking buying like thirty five miles.

749
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 4: That's blake for Garry's probably fifty.

750
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it ain't a hundred. That's what I'm saying.

751
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 2: Look, I I'll admit, I am, I can't be objective

752
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 2: about it. If if my hometown could end up with

753
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears, it would make my my career. I mean,

754
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 2: there's no question. I mean, first of all, just the

755
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:24,240
Speaker 2: absurdity of it that that Gary, you know, my little Gary,

756
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 2: Indiana town that was left for dead for God's sake,

757
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 2: could like and presumably be somewhat revitalized by that kind

758
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 2: of a move. I I will admit I have a

759
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 2: great rooting interest in it. I still think it's unlikely,

760
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 2: but I don't think it's out of the question.

761
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 3: I really don't. Guards you guys, back.

762
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 4: In today, what was Gary and known for? What was

763
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 4: this number one.

764
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 3: Industry steel steel mills?

765
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 6: And Justine, this would be this would be kind of

766
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 6: I don't want to say full circle, but it would

767
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 6: be kind of serendipitous because it would then the Bears

768
00:39:56,080 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 6: will be part of like the greatest steelmaking project.

769
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 4: In the end, right said, Yeah, but if they're gonna

770
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 4: build all this to Gary.

771
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 3: That's correct.

772
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 2: You got a mileage total from Lake Forest, Illinois to

773
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 2: Gary sixty one point four miles right now.

774
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 3: It would take about ninety minutes to get That's nothing.

775
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,359
Speaker 2: I mean every team, as you know, there's a lot

776
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 2: of teams in the burbs.

777
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 3: That's nothing.

778
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 4: How far is portage from Gary? Real?

779
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 3: Close? Portages?

780
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 4: Right?

781
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:24,760
Speaker 2: Portage right next to Gary or very close to Gary?

782
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 2: Is it portage is at the site? I thought it

783
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 2: was Hammond was the site, But so this is ten

784
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,720
Speaker 2: miles further. So now it's now you're talking seventy one miles.

785
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:35,240
Speaker 2: You're looking at one forty five. Now this is Friday

786
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 2: night traffic in Chicago that I'm looking on the map.

787
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 3: I gotcha. Yeah.

788
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 2: Where in Iowa is it going to be? That's a

789
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 2: good question, leveled. I saw I was jumping on proposal.

790
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 2: Do you know where?

791
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 4: No, I don't. I know very little about the Diaopa pols.

792
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:50,919
Speaker 4: Would it be like Mason City or something like that.

793
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 4: I think it's to be a quat cities maybe, Yeah,

794
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 4: the Mason.

795
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 2: City is way too far. It would have to be. Yeah,

796
00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 2: Mason City is like in the middle of the state.

797
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 2: Almost Here's here's.

798
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 4: Actually that's actually Viking's territory in terms of television rights, right,

799
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 4: it would be Iowa.

800
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:07,720
Speaker 3: Makes it really makes no sense.

801
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 2: Northwest Indiana is you could argue, just another sort of

802
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 2: Chicago suburb. It just happens to be another state. Right,

803
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 2: there's enough, it's close enough that it's not insane. Iowa

804
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 2: sounds pretty much like somebody just trying to get some

805
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 2: attention cities.

806
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 5: You're right, the North Indiana is kind of considered part

807
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 5: of Chicago.

808
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 3: West's Chicago. When when they do the weather, as you

809
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:35,280
Speaker 3: know in Chicago, the Metro weather, they include various parts

810
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:39,760
Speaker 3: of the city of Chicago, Northwest Burbs, West Burbs, South Burbs,

811
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:41,959
Speaker 3: and Gary, It's it's considered part of the metro area.

812
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 3: There's no question.

813
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 4: And some people from Chicago think the Milwaukee is a

814
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 4: suburb of Chicago.

815
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,879
Speaker 2: Well pretty yeah, pretty close or reasonably close. That's true too.

816
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 2: Where was I going to go to the stadium there?

817
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 2: Milwaukee Chicago Bears in Milwaukee, Ah that I think Gerby

818
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 2: might have something to say about that that.

819
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 3: I don't think that would.

820
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 2: Although you remember the Packers used to play the two

821
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 2: or three games a year at County Stadium in Milwaukee.

822
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 3: I cried a couple of games. I remember it well.

823
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 4: It's one of the worst tales I've ever been in.

824
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's not much. There's not much.

825
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 2: I lost there as a young kid. My parents didn't

826
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 2: know where I was Milwaukee County Stadium. They found me eventually.

827
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 2: Great story. I do have a couple of questions, uh

828
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 2: from the audience here, Lavel, including.

829
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 3: This one.

830
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 4: I love how the interactive your show is you used

831
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 4: to use than any show I know.

832
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably sometimes to my own detriment because I get

833
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 2: distracted as guards. He will tell you from time to time,

834
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 2: will you asked the underwear king if it could pick

835
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 2: one Olympic sport to participate in? What what would it be?

836
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 2: That's from six five to one guy? What would it be?

837
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 2: If you could?

838
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 6: Oh?

839
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 2: Wow, winter Olympic sport. Now I don't want summer. I

840
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 2: want winter.

841
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:59,359
Speaker 4: If I could, it probably be hockey. You should think

842
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 4: I think I could. I think I could cover a

843
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 4: lot of the goal if I was a goalie. What

844
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 4: about curly would be second? I think, uh, Laurden knows

845
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 4: I've written enough about curling, and I know all the curlers,

846
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 4: all the curlers of note in the state, you know,

847
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 4: including John Schusteron and Kyler George and Chris Plies and

848
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 4: and all those guys, and plus the current team team

849
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 4: Casper Keem Peterson, Corey Dropkin, Corey TC and the mixed

850
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 4: doubles team, and all those people got like numbers and

851
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 4: emails addresses and communicating with them, and it's it's a

852
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 4: fascinating sport just because of the camaraderie that takes place

853
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 4: in the middle of his matches. Like United States men

854
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 4: were getting their ass kicked by Switzerland yesterday and they

855
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 4: decided to bring the altonate in fifty four year old

856
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 4: rich Ran So I was going to.

857
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:49,919
Speaker 3: Ask you about him next. We talked about him early

858
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 3: Maine history.

859
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, And and during the moment, you know, your Swiss

860
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 4: team and the US team were like joking and laughing

861
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:03,439
Speaker 4: on each I was like, Daddy casters really mad about

862
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 4: how this Mexican one. But this still comes out, you

863
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 4: know when I've watched, like in Beijing when Sweden was

864
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 4: playing the United States and was the rematch of the

865
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 4: Goldmela match from the previous four years, they're they're laughing

866
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 4: and talking in between shots and stuff you don't see

867
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 4: on camera all the time. So it's just a right

868
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 4: of unique sports from sport, from the sporting aspect and

869
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 4: the camaraderie aspect of the sport, and it seems like

870
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 4: it would be something cool to be part of. Now,

871
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Speaker 4: can I get done on the lunch right now and

872
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 4: throw a rock and get up? I'm not sure right now?

873
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 4: It might the good condition.

874
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 2: By the way, you mentioned the rich runa and you

875
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 2: mentioned made history. He became the oldest us of competitor

876
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 2: in any Winter Olympics at the age of fifty four

877
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 2: years old. What did you ever talk to him? Because

878
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 2: it sounds like reading stuff before the Olympics began.

879
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,280
Speaker 3: Cparently is a big time cook.

880
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 2: He cooks the players omelets, handles grocery shopping, he chaffers

881
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 2: them a in a rental mini van. And of course

882
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 2: he's a personal injury attorney as well.

883
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 4: I believe he's TSR injury guy.

884
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 3: Think he's one of those guys. I think that's right exactly.

885
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,720
Speaker 4: Yeah. I talked to him briefly once, not at length,

886
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 4: but I have met him before.

887
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 5: It's a very a very cool story.

888
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 4: Although someone went out to me on X that the

889
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 4: person he passed up was fifty years old and was

890
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 4: participating in figure skating pairs, and he was the previous

891
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 4: oldest US winner Olympia, which seems to be a little

892
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 4: more of demanding physically than Turleer.

893
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 2: I'm driving to my daughter's hockey game, writes nine to

894
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 2: five to two guy in Lake Forest from the airport,

895
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 2: and I am from Mason City listening to you, guys,

896
00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 2: what are the odds of all of that?

897
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 4: Is pretty funny, That's hilarious, and that speaks to them,

898
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 4: to the to the coverage of your show. You have

899
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 4: people from all over the region listening to it.

900
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, very true.

901
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 2: Dan Howard bears fan is going to get to Gary

902
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 2: slash Portage skyway is not capable of handling the traffic.

903
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 2: N ninety four just the same Indiana's leverage for Arlington. Well,

904
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 2: it might end up playing out that way. That's very true.

905
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 2: But the question is what are the limits to why

906
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,240
Speaker 2: allan OOI is willing to do right or Arlington?

907
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 4: You would take most of the suburban Chicago folks will

908
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 4: probably take two ninety four around the heavy yes and

909
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 4: get into southeastern part of town and then switch over

910
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 4: to either eighty or ninety. I think I think they

911
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 4: both going.

912
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 3: Eighty ninety four and you do not need to do

913
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 3: the skyway.

914
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 2: You're right, you could circumvent the just miss stay away

915
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 2: from the city entirely.

916
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:48,879
Speaker 4: Or you know, if it was Hammond, I would give

917
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 4: them route from my old house on the South Side

918
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 4: to Hammond because I used to ride with my parents

919
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 4: because I used to go over to Hamming because Taxico

920
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 4: cigarettes were cheaper, and after they would go to get

921
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 4: the cigarettes and it was like eleven minutes from our

922
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:03,359
Speaker 4: front door to him in Indiana, Robel, we're in.

923
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 2: The sports abyss. So what do you got? What's the

924
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:06,839
Speaker 2: Sunday calm? Are you taking Sunday off?

925
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:11,359
Speaker 4: Two words, Jesse Diggins and quite a week she's had.

926
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 4: The fact that she has bad ribs and she was

927
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 4: able to podium in one of those events is just

928
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 4: to me it was a remarkable feat. So I'm writing

929
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 4: about her week and just being in all of Jesse

930
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 4: once again and her determination or focus and just her

931
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 4: outlook on how it's okay to like go through the

932
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 4: process of like suffering in order to get to a

933
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 4: goal because she is not afraid to suffer. I'll tell

934
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 4: you what. Her pain thresholds higher than most of ours,

935
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Speaker 4: and then Sunday, I'm actually going to the Saint Paul

936
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 4: Curling Club because they're having a seven am watch party

937
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 4: for the team Peterson in curly.

938
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 3: She's the original pain cave gal. Correct, wasn't that her?

939
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 4: Right?

940
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 2: Her expression or the That's when I first heard the

941
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 2: expression when she talked about the pain.

942
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 4: Cave right, and her and Lindsey Buns another one Too's

943
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:02,800
Speaker 4: gotta thrust her the pain. I'm looking at the picture

944
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:04,800
Speaker 4: of her lying in the hospital bill with this contraction

945
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 4: on her leg. I was, is that thing gonna work

946
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 4: with its heal? I was like, I hope she's okay. Yeah,

947
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 4: but that she she doesn't regret one thing she did

948
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 4: in her comeback, uh, from having a titan in putting

949
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:20,800
Speaker 4: her knee to injuring her other knee to trying to

950
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 4: s key on it and breaking her leg in two places.

951
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 4: So this remarkable stuff man about and then speaks to

952
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 4: the human condition and and what what lenks people, uh,

953
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 4: people's determination can be in order to you know, fulfill

954
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 4: their dreams.

955
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 2: The digging story is illustrative of as much as we

956
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 2: put the emphasis on gold, understandably, uh, depending on the

957
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 2: competitor that that there is great achievement and great stories

958
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 2: being told, as you I'm sure will on Sunday in

959
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 2: getting less than that and still accomplishing something, especially considering

960
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 2: that you say background and situation. Still accomplished something very

961
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:02,280
Speaker 2: significant at the Olympics.

962
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 5: And you know the thing I talked to.

963
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 4: I talked to Jesse in December and I had to

964
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 4: get up at six forty five am and do a

965
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 4: zoom call with her because she was training in Italy,

966
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:13,240
Speaker 4: and I was asking.

967
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 5: About aren't you going to miss the competition?

968
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:17,399
Speaker 4: And her anson just kind of spoke to what she's

969
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 4: all about, because she's like, well, I don't race against

970
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 4: other people, she says, I race to beat the course,

971
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,960
Speaker 4: and so if I get bored, I need to get

972
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 4: on my skis and go cross country in somewhere and

973
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 4: get after the course. So I thought that was a

974
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:38,240
Speaker 4: rather unique way to looking at how she approaches her sport.

975
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 2: Enjoy the warm weather and have a wonderful weekend. We'll

976
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:43,280
Speaker 2: talk next week.

977
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,280
Speaker 4: I'm standing on the patio smoking a cigar as we speak.

978
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 4: When as soon as he got the fifty degrees that

979
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 4: the asset, I'm going outdoors.

980
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 3: Tell me, tell me your shirt is off too. No,

981
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 3: I'm layered, be sure. I just want to be and

982
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 3: I'm wearing underwear.

983
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 2: That's also for the record, I think very good to clarify.

984
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:03,359
Speaker 2: Thank you, Nouelle E. Neil the third. We call him

985
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 2: the underwear King these days, the underwear King. Text from

986
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Speaker 2: Eric in Circle Pine Sports abyss. We got NonStop Olympics

987
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,919
Speaker 2: twenty four to seven. It's the greatest ever. I don't

988
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 2: disagree with that, and that's part of the reason we've

989
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:40,320
Speaker 2: spent so much time yet again today on the Winter Olympia. Guardie,

990
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,840
Speaker 2: did you happen to read or hear about the Mayo

991
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 2: Clinic story? No, I don't think so. I missed this completely.

992
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 2: Do you remember doctor Michael Joyner. Maybe he had sued

993
00:50:53,320 --> 00:51:00,319
Speaker 2: Mayo in twenty twenty three. His allegation was that he

994
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 2: was retaliated against for public criticism of the federal government,

995
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 2: retaliated against by Mayo Clinic, and the case got a

996
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 2: lot of attention. Goes back, as I said, several years

997
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 2: and according to starthiview dot com, a jury found no

998
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 2: merit in his lawsuit against Mayo that alleged he was

999
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 2: stifled and prohibited from publicly criticizing the federal government's response

1000
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 2: to the COVID nineteen pandemic. In twenty twenty. It was

1001
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 2: apparently a nine day trial after two years, more than

1002
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:40,760
Speaker 2: two years of legal battles between Joiner and the clinic

1003
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:45,240
Speaker 2: MAYO officials. In a statement, this verdict underscores mail clinics

1004
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 2: steadfast commitment to upholding our values and holding individuals accountable

1005
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 2: to the high standards that define our organization, especially that

1006
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:53,760
Speaker 2: of the big knocker.

1007
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 4: No.

1008
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:56,879
Speaker 2: I added that that's not in the statement. This big

1009
00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 2: knockers out of this one, I think. Samantha Harris of

1010
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:05,960
Speaker 2: Allen Harris Law, representing Joiner during the trial, said in

1011
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 2: the statement, the Joiner quote remains deeply proud or stood

1012
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 2: up for what he believes is right, including open scientific

1013
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 2: dialogue and academic freedom heman has committed to his patients

1014
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 2: as research and his colleagues. My recollection when I read

1015
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 2: about this case a while back, quite a while back,

1016
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 2: was that I thought Joiner might have had a point

1017
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 2: regarding some of the what he some of the warnings,

1018
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 2: some of the silencing that was attempted. He also argued

1019
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 2: that Mayo retaliated against him by suspending him without pay

1020
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:40,240
Speaker 2: for one week claiming his punishment was over his public

1021
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 2: comments he saw it on a unspecified amount of money.

1022
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:47,280
Speaker 3: In the court order requiring Mayo to comply with its.

1023
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:51,359
Speaker 2: Policies, Mayo said, look, the allegations are unfounded and that

1024
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:54,280
Speaker 2: he was the one who demanded a seven figure payment

1025
00:52:54,680 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 2: back then. Mayo officials argued that his suspension had had

1026
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 2: nothing to do with silencing him, but was because he

1027
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 2: was quote found to have consistently.

1028
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:07,319
Speaker 3: Engaged in rude and.

1029
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:15,400
Speaker 2: Disrespectful communications towards coworkers, toward co workers and outside partners.

1030
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 2: A physician committee upheld the suspension after Joiner appealed it.

1031
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 2: A Mayo clinic mal official set and in an outside

1032
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 2: attorney concluded it wasn't retaliation for Joiners comments. One of

1033
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:27,920
Speaker 2: their most visible doctors, I'm at it. He has a

1034
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 2: big time reputation, co authored as many as five hundred

1035
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 2: medical studies, a bunch of research projects for.

1036
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 3: Mayo, and.

1037
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 2: In a January twenty twenty three CNN story, Joiner accused

1038
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 2: the National Institutes of Health of bureaucratic ropodope because it's

1039
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 2: half hearted approval of plasmid use in COVID cases. It

1040
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,719
Speaker 2: goes on from there, so he went, Now, we have

1041
00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 2: nothing from the jury about what struck them. You know,

1042
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 2: sometimes you can get jurors to talk. They're free to

1043
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:06,360
Speaker 2: talk after they're done, you know, with the case. But

1044
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 2: there's nothing in here that gives any indication about what

1045
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 2: they believed. But ultimately Mayo Clinic wins this case, and

1046
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 2: it got a lot of attention way back then. That's

1047
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:20,919
Speaker 2: that's for sure. So the question Mao saying I wasn't

1048
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 2: silencing him. We didn't like the way he went about

1049
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:27,719
Speaker 2: his business. I don't Maybe something we could follow up

1050
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 2: on as we get maybe as more as written about

1051
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 2: the resolution of the case. Bratchean Brian Cafe in text

1052
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 2: line is open at six four six eight six.

1053
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:41,759
Speaker 4: Dan.

1054
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:44,400
Speaker 2: This is from Dan out of Saint Cloud says, I

1055
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:46,600
Speaker 2: haven't heard you talk about Gary and Ian almost romantically.

1056
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 3: I decided to look at the town up on wiki.

1057
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,239
Speaker 2: I didn't realize it was the birthplace of the king

1058
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 2: of pop I didn't know it was for a long

1059
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:57,200
Speaker 2: time the hub of the steel industry.

1060
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,080
Speaker 3: What really surprised me is the riots in nineteen six.

1061
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 2: He ate following the assassination of MLK Nash Reguard was

1062
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:05,799
Speaker 2: brought in. According to the article, gasoline and liquor sales

1063
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 2: were prohibited until the violence was quenched. In light of

1064
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 2: what's happening today, I find that I found that to

1065
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:11,360
Speaker 2: be fascinating.

1066
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 3: Loved the show. Yes it was.

1067
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:19,279
Speaker 2: In fact, there was a famous quote. I don't know

1068
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:23,560
Speaker 2: when it was uttered or who uttered it, but it

1069
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 2: was a quote that kind of put Gary on the

1070
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:27,160
Speaker 2: map in a way that it didn't want to.

1071
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 3: And it was a prediction that if.

1072
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 2: Some of the if we've seen some significant rioting this

1073
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 2: was during the Civil Rights era in other cities that

1074
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 2: including Watts, California, where there were some very very very devastating.

1075
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 3: Rioting, that Gary was going to be the.

1076
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:54,360
Speaker 2: Next Watts, and the town sort of had to, you know,

1077
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 2: live that down for a period of time, but there

1078
00:55:56,880 --> 00:56:02,960
Speaker 2: was absolute difficulty then. I wasn't living in Gary at

1079
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 2: that point because we had moved to Tennessee for that

1080
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 2: my three lost years between sixty seven and seventy.

1081
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've done the list.

1082
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:12,800
Speaker 2: There's a lot of really famous people from from Gary,

1083
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:18,320
Speaker 2: obviously the Jackson family, Tom Harmon, Hank Stram who Vikings

1084
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:21,439
Speaker 2: fans always I think have a special affection for don't

1085
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 2: you think you always have Hanks s tram Akstram. Yeah,

1086
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:26,799
Speaker 2: that's why I know the word matriculate. Yes, that's how

1087
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Speaker 2: I learned that work. That's very true. It was I

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00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 2: think at its peak it was it was I think

1089
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 2: the population was like two hundred thousand, and then the

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00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 2: steel industry started losing strength, a lot of jobs went away.

1091
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 2: Employment rate went through the roof in Gary, sadly, tragically

1092
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 2: and inexcusably, a very segregated northern city, which I've talked

1093
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:56,319
Speaker 2: about before on the air, and it's at times it's

1094
00:56:56,320 --> 00:56:58,440
Speaker 2: had the highest crime rate in America. I don't know

1095
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 2: what it is now that's gotten a little bit better?

1096
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 3: Are there?

1097
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 2: And I don't know. I mean, you know, we talk about, well,

1098
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 2: could could it not an arena but a football stadium?

1099
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 2: Could it be part of a larger resurgence. I I

1100
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 2: would love, I would root for it because I have

1101
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 2: very strong emotional ties to to that very blue collar town.

1102
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I mean, it's hard to say,

1103
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:22,960
Speaker 2: is it Is it too far gone at this point?

1104
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 2: I don't think. I still don't think it's a particularly

1105
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 2: safe city. I don't think it's statistically as bad as

1106
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 2: it once was, but it's a lot of Yeah, it's

1107
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 2: it's had a number of very distinguished folks were born

1108
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 2: in the area or spent.

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00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 3: Time there as well.

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00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 2: The Charris Alex karras the famous football players from there.

1111
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 2: You've kind of gone, you've you've actually gone through the list,

1112
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 2: and it was I'm leaving a lot of people out.

1113
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 2: It was a very impressive list of individuals. Who's the

1114
00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 2: actor who played It'll come to me in a minute.

1115
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 2: Several actors are from Gary. Football player by the name

1116
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:13,200
Speaker 2: of Fred the Hammer Williamson. There's a it was a

1117
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 2: very vibrant town. I told you eight high schools at

1118
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 2: one point and they all played at the Memorial Auditoria. Yeah,

1119
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 2: that's exactly.

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00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:21,400
Speaker 3: They all played basketball there. That's what I am.

1121
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 2: Lyman Vostok former twin who was murdered when he was

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00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 2: back visiting at this point.

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00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 3: I think he was playing for the Angels, wasn't he?

1124
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 2: And he I think they were playing at Comisky and

1125
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:35,840
Speaker 2: he went back to Gary to visit family or whatever,

1126
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 2: and he was murdered while he was there. Lyman Bostock

1127
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 2: among others as well. La Troy Hawkins is from Gary.

1128
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 2: That's also true, which we've talked about LaTroy and I

1129
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 2: from time to time.

1130
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 3: You're on the list.

1131
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 2: Now, well, yeah, I was on the list. Yeah, and

1132
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 2: you were bitter because you thought it was too high.

1133
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:57,439
Speaker 2: Because I think I'm only up. I was relatively high,

1134
00:58:57,480 --> 00:59:00,360
Speaker 2: just because it's a alphabetical, so that's yeah. Be having

1135
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 2: a b name actually helped me in that regard. But yeah,

1136
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 2: I remember being on the list. But I don't think

1137
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:09,920
Speaker 2: I have to worry about ever making the Gary Niana

1138
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. That's what that would be my dream.

1139
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 2: But I don't think it's likely. I think I'm too

1140
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:16,600
Speaker 2: far gone. Ink stain ratch.

1141
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 3: Come on a lot of your rides, yeah, pro athletes, Yeah,

1142
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 3: exactly it all right, let's do this. Let us get

1143
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 3: one more break in.

1144
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:28,280
Speaker 2: We'll come back and give you some highlights and low

1145
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 2: lights of today's edition of The Afternoon Ardvark and remind

1146
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 2: you of what we have coming on. Show rap presented

1147
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:41,760
Speaker 2: by American Pressure commercial grade pressure washers since nineteen seventy five.

1148
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 3: It's the Bumper to Bumper show wrap.

1149
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 2: I want to thank our outstanding array. Well it's not

1150
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 2: really an array of guests. Today it was one guest,

1151
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:01,360
Speaker 2: Lavelle e Neil. The third it was a talker Tuesday

1152
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 2: on a Friday for us, guessling is I think taking

1153
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 2: a little bit of time off and try and sampling

1154
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 2: the broccoli juice.

1155
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 3: It was broccoli, right that we talked about this week, Yes, broccoli.

1156
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:17,960
Speaker 2: Juice apparently all the rage in Italy for the any

1157
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 2: of the distance performers. And we had pretty eclectic conversations

1158
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 2: well early.

1159
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 3: About the fact that it's now.

1160
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:34,560
Speaker 2: Measurably official that for the first time in the last

1161
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty years, the current generation they're called

1162
01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:43,760
Speaker 2: the Generation zas Is that correct? I believe so the

1163
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:50,840
Speaker 2: first time they're dumber measurably statistically than the previous generation.

1164
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 2: That it had been getting better and better in that sense, yeah,

1165
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:56,400
Speaker 2: for the last two hundred and fifty years, and now

1166
01:00:56,560 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 2: we are seeing officially the ravages of all our cute

1167
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:05,760
Speaker 2: little devices. They we are now officially getting dumber. The

1168
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:08,040
Speaker 2: other sad thing about that, and this is really sad.

1169
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 2: I don't know how you feel about this. You might

1170
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:13,040
Speaker 2: not agree. I don't think we're I don't think we're

1171
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:15,280
Speaker 2: walking around with a bunch of geniuses before jen.

1172
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:18,840
Speaker 3: Z show well preaching to the choir on that. I

1173
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 3: don't think any of us were flexing and thinking we

1174
01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:22,919
Speaker 3: were all that smart. I know, I wasn't.

1175
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:25,800
Speaker 2: I can't do math, and I had Kevin Fialla playing

1176
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 2: for Canada, so I mean I wasn't getting too cocky

1177
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 2: that Yeah. So the first couple of segments, if you

1178
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:37,160
Speaker 2: missed it, of very very engaging radio. At the start

1179
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:40,360
Speaker 2: of the show, we might have led into the commissioner

1180
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:44,320
Speaker 2: of the National Basketball Association. We did have a Trump segment,

1181
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 2: which I know half our audience appreciates and the other

1182
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:50,520
Speaker 2: half gets just angered, angered by, but it's there for you.

1183
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 2: What else did we explore today? We talked a little

1184
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 2: bit of twins regarding we're alsoposed to be excited about

1185
01:01:57,320 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 2: the fact that you can get like all you know

1186
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 2: you can get was a two dollar beers, yeah, pre

1187
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 2: game beers and pregame beers whatever, and happy hour stuff,

1188
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 2: and it's just it's just absolutely wonderful. A lot of

1189
01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:12,080
Speaker 2: Olympic talk, including the quad God man, man man, it

1190
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:15,720
Speaker 2: was an utter and complete Olympic meltdown for him. He

1191
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 2: goes from first place to eighth. That's where he finishes.

1192
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:24,480
Speaker 2: I mean, welcome to his nightmare. Guy had won his

1193
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:29,360
Speaker 2: last fourteen competitions, in a row and did not get

1194
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:32,919
Speaker 2: it done earlier today. And I remember Tariko a couple

1195
01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:34,440
Speaker 2: of weeks ago on one of the shows, could have

1196
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 2: been Dan Patrick, could have been McAfee. He basically said,

1197
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 2: wait till you see the Quad God. Yeah, because you know,

1198
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 2: none of us had heard of him until ten minutes ago, right,

1199
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 2: but he tree goes doing this homework and he said,

1200
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:47,160
Speaker 2: I got to give you a name, someone you're gonna

1201
01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 2: want to pay attention to that we don't talk much about.

1202
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 2: But you're gonna want to keep an eye on this guy,

1203
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:56,440
Speaker 2: the Quad God. They were building a lot around him,

1204
01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:59,080
Speaker 2: and they'll still get it obviously tonight on Grin Time,

1205
01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 2: and they had it on today and it was appointment

1206
01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:01,680
Speaker 2: television for many.

1207
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:04,440
Speaker 3: But that's a big one. It's a big miss.

1208
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh and startling, Like I said, Scottie Hamilton

1209
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 2: basically said, I I thought he'd win by thirty as

1210
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:13,320
Speaker 2: in thirty points. So I don't think this one can

1211
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:15,960
Speaker 2: be blamed on the French judge. I don't think anybody

1212
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:17,680
Speaker 2: was saying anything new with the judging. It had to

1213
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:21,880
Speaker 2: do with performance. I'm out for this for sunny sermons.

1214
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 2: I don't know who's in it may be Sinny, I'm

1215
01:03:24,560 --> 01:03:28,680
Speaker 2: not exactly sure, but we're back on Monday at three.

1216
01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:31,040
Speaker 2: I do want to remind you that tonight you've got

1217
01:03:31,040 --> 01:03:34,160
Speaker 2: fan of demand and then because it is the Abyss,

1218
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 2: it's the Dan Patrick Show. Enough said, I don't even

1219
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 2: remember our times. Did we establish our times tonight?

1220
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:42,480
Speaker 3: Fox? No regular times, but I don't remember.

1221
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:45,520
Speaker 2: Check your local listings or just DVR it if that

1222
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:47,920
Speaker 2: works better for you, guards you and me with Natalie

1223
01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:51,760
Speaker 2: Brenneger filling in capably for Lori Fisher. So enough said

1224
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:55,120
Speaker 2: tonight Fox Local app it's always still too yeah, and

1225
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:58,680
Speaker 2: it's there's some like a lot of Olympic stuff. There's

1226
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 2: some toy department stuff and then then some leftover ice

1227
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:05,920
Speaker 2: stuff as as well. So consume it as you will,

1228
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:08,360
Speaker 2: as as is most convenient to you. There's a number

1229
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:10,840
Speaker 2: of ways to do it. I think I begged my

1230
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:13,680
Speaker 2: way onto All Day next week.

1231
01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 3: I don't know that there's.

1232
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:17,439
Speaker 2: Any choice now because I just made such a fool

1233
01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 2: of myself aout it that I had never been on

1234
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 2: that uh Amy Hawkers show exactly right via Fox Local

1235
01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 2: as well, correct all Day. I guess what do you

1236
01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:31,400
Speaker 2: want to call? It, and then it's also on television

1237
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:35,040
Speaker 2: later that later, it's on television starting at noon, Yes,

1238
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, for several hours. So that may be

1239
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 2: part of my week next week. And I'm hoping, like

1240
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:45,880
Speaker 2: I said, we we got to get Russo at some point,

1241
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:48,320
Speaker 2: we got to get Billy Garan at some point from

1242
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 2: Italy as well. And I'm hoping Christine Brennan, uh, the

1243
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 2: very capable long time Olympic correspondent, among other things.

1244
01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 3: She's done all sorts of things last time.

1245
01:04:57,760 --> 01:05:01,080
Speaker 2: We now if I if we get her, how much

1246
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:02,760
Speaker 2: money will you pay me if I make my first

1247
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:07,400
Speaker 2: three questions about Kaitlyn Clark and try to get her

1248
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:10,320
Speaker 2: going again on Cheryl Reeve and Kaitlyn Clark. Oh, here's

1249
01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:12,000
Speaker 2: the thing, you might not even have to ask or

1250
01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:13,360
Speaker 2: anything that's true.

1251
01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:15,360
Speaker 3: She might bring it up. She might just bring it

1252
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:16,280
Speaker 3: up right about that?

1253
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:22,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kaylyn Clark's now part of the NBC NBA coverage

1254
01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 2: back a little bit on the side there, And you

1255
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:28,200
Speaker 2: heard the schism with that. No, the Reggie Miller we also,

1256
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 2: by the way, Yeah, Reggie Miller. Yeah, did put his

1257
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:33,600
Speaker 2: foot in his mouth? I love I grew up loving

1258
01:05:33,640 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 2: Reggie Miller. Oh, it's hard not to. And he's a

1259
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:38,600
Speaker 2: great commentator. We might have to have to start having

1260
01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:39,800
Speaker 2: a conversation about right now.

1261
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:41,919
Speaker 3: Oh is that right? You don't Oh, you're saying he's

1262
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 3: fading in your mind.

1263
01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:42,960
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1264
01:05:43,040 --> 01:05:46,280
Speaker 2: And also part of it is colored because I watched

1265
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:48,360
Speaker 2: him just completely turn you down for an autograph. No,

1266
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:50,840
Speaker 2: but I watched him when I was escorting Harlan to

1267
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:55,360
Speaker 2: the cage. Oh yeah, completely blow by one kid with

1268
01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:56,400
Speaker 2: a Reggie Miller.

1269
01:05:56,160 --> 01:05:58,040
Speaker 3: Car and it just ruined for me. No, did he

1270
01:05:58,120 --> 01:05:59,920
Speaker 3: really so that ruined it? Yeah, that's not good.

1271
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:03,840
Speaker 2: But when he told Caitlin Clarke to her face, he

1272
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:08,680
Speaker 2: thought he she was like Peyton Pritchard Prichard, the Celtics guy,

1273
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 2: nice player. Yes, No, I it was a terrible Reggie

1274
01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:15,760
Speaker 2: strategic flourish and you could see it on her face.

1275
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:19,600
Speaker 2: She tried to take the high road a little bit.

1276
01:06:19,640 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 2: But I mean, you know, you come on and somebody

1277
01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:23,280
Speaker 2: tried to save it on the other side or who

1278
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:25,520
Speaker 2: did that? Who did that commentator? Compare it to one

1279
01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:27,200
Speaker 2: of the like the all time great I don't remember

1280
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:30,360
Speaker 2: in shooting. He tried to save Reggie, but it was

1281
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:33,240
Speaker 2: not a good moment that have a wonderful weekend, and

1282
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:35,240
Speaker 2: we will talk to you on Monday, beginning at three

1283
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:36,200
Speaker 2: o'clock right here in the fan