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Speaker 1: Questions for Michael Russo Russo Radio.

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Speaker 2: He's joining us now six four six eighty six is

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Speaker 2: the Bradshawn Bryant k f A n text line. Did

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Speaker 2: Fauless tell you that he rudely interrupted us during the

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Speaker 2: Top five at five with the cooperation of Brett blakemore.

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Speaker 1: No, what happened? Well, I think it was let's Sday Thursday.

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Speaker 1: I think it was Tuesday. Uh. He cracks the mic.

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Speaker 2: Does Blake Moore for the Top five five says we

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Speaker 2: have a special guest too, instead of doing that fallness

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Speaker 2: SoundBite he loves to use.

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Speaker 1: Uh, he just put Fallness on. I had no choice

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Speaker 1: but to have to engage.

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Speaker 3: That is funny. Uh, just typical, Like he wasn't on enough.

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Speaker 3: He was on the morning.

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Speaker 4: He was on with the Nordo today for like an hour.

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Speaker 4: I interrupted. This is interrupting, But Blake Moore turned on

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Speaker 4: my microphone and invited me into the top five minutes.

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Speaker 4: That's an invitation. I was gracious to accept his invitation. Well,

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Speaker 4: nobody bothered to tell me about it.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Fondness, I just sent you a tweet.

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Speaker 3: Oh good brouh, you might want to look at it too.

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Speaker 3: My boy that's related, No, Zach Howerson related?

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Speaker 1: Is it funny? Yeah? I think I can't see it?

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Speaker 1: So who did you? Did you do?

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Speaker 2: You probably have me muted on on I do not.

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Speaker 2: Did you tweet it out?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I tweeted it just a fondness. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: In the studio, hermit, this is what he looks like

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Speaker 3: during games when he's engineering.

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Speaker 1: He looks very focused. That's what he looks like all

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Speaker 1: the time. What is he so? Is he? Is he sleeping?

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Speaker 1: Or is he just his eyes?

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Speaker 2: Look?

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Speaker 1: You know yea deep in thought.

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Speaker 5: A hockey game deep in thought is great games here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of a contradiction in terms of deep

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Speaker 1: in thought. But whatever.

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Speaker 3: But speaking of candles, after all that, you know what

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Speaker 3: that that Kevin spewed with no one of us today,

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Speaker 3: he needs a candle to like, you know, get that

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Speaker 3: sense in here, that better sense and.

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Speaker 1: Here started smelling there again. Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't a

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Speaker 1: lot of wisdom, let's put that way. I was really good.

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Speaker 1: I thought I was on fire. Do you have to

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Speaker 1: worry about mice in your studio?

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Speaker 4: It's actually very clean despite what he's trying to portray here.

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Speaker 4: If you ever came down here, like you go to

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Speaker 4: the cage at Target Center.

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Speaker 1: I'm you're looking for yourself. It's clean, it's up, it's right,

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Speaker 1: it's shiny. That's so, isn't it like about?

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Speaker 1: It's just on the other side of the river. Yes,

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Speaker 1: he'll get you down here forty two miles or so.

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Speaker 1: I'm misinformed in that regard. Okay, yeah, you're You're always

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Speaker 1: welcome of the cage.

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Speaker 4: There's no squeaky shoes, will still take you squeak issues.

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Speaker 1: You say, all right, that's enough.

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Speaker 2: Allness, hussy, Are you any or less convinced that we're

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Speaker 2: gonna make or the Saint Since the last time we

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Speaker 2: talked that we're going to make a blockbuster trade?

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Speaker 1: I think I'm still about the same.

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Speaker 3: And it's like, I know he's trying, and he's I mean,

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Speaker 3: the one thing that Bill Garon's doing is he's making

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Speaker 3: a lot of calls to try to, you know, ascertain

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Speaker 3: who is available out there, who's going to be available

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Speaker 3: now before the Olympic trade freeze and before and who's

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Speaker 3: after and then trying to size up one who's available,

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Speaker 3: on who what the prices are. The issue is is

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Speaker 3: that you know, because they have traded a lot of

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Speaker 3: unquote A Plusters or blue Chippers or things like that.

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Speaker 3: So my biggest question is does he do it now,

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Speaker 3: like meaning before the deadline, or does.

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Speaker 1: He do it this summer.

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Speaker 3: If he does it this summer, I still think that

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Speaker 3: he is without a doubt at some point. Adding with

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Speaker 3: if he can either a top six winger or a

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Speaker 3: is what is available. Can he get a you know,

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Speaker 3: can he does he go after guys like that this

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Speaker 3: You know those guys, You know, I think a trocheck

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Speaker 1: You know, to me, Coyle, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I love Charlie, but he's not somebody that

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Speaker 3: I think is going to move the needle, that's going

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Speaker 3: I think that a Trocheck or O'Reilly certainly would help.

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Speaker 3: And there are other centers out there, so I think

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Speaker 3: he's what he's doing is just he's he's starting engage prices.

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Speaker 3: You know, they had their their meetings last week in

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Speaker 3: Arizona where they really threw a lot of ideas around,

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Speaker 3: and now it's just a matter of going out there

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Speaker 3: and trying to get something done at a time where

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Speaker 3: you know, there's a lot of teams that are bunched

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Speaker 3: up in the standings that still think that they have

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Speaker 3: a chance to make the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: The other thing I'll I'll tell people is, you know

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Speaker 3: Chris Drury, Tom Fitzgerald, Bill Zito, the you know Stan Bowman,

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Speaker 3: They're all on his staff at the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: So there's no trade before the Olympic freeze.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he could work out trades with them in

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Speaker 3: person over there of them and some of those gms

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Speaker 3: have players that I think the Wild covet.

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Speaker 1: So if it.

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Speaker 3: Does, you know, I still think that he is going

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Speaker 3: to make a big move just because I don't think

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Speaker 3: you give up this type of package for Quinn Hughes

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Speaker 3: and making that next trade.

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Speaker 2: All right, you raised some eyebrows with your report indicating

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Speaker 2: that the Wild would be willing to at least consider

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Speaker 2: trading away the young goaltender as part of a package, because,

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Speaker 2: as you say, we're running out of other options, and

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Speaker 2: allegedly you dangle him, there'd be some teams that might

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Speaker 2: be very interested in him. That was pretty fascinating to me.

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Speaker 2: Give us the sort of pros and cons of going

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Speaker 2: down that road. Do you think there's danger in potentially

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Speaker 1: I think it's all that.

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Speaker 3: I just think that they realize that you have to

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Speaker 3: are largely touchable. And he's there, without a doubt right

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Speaker 3: now their best prospect after giving up guys like Rossi

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Speaker 3: right now you're talking about you know, Charlie Stramold Danela

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Speaker 3: teams out there that need future goaltending is definitely Jess

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Speaker 3: pervalstat So he's got to at a minimum be in

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Speaker 3: the conversation if it's for the right guy. I don't

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Speaker 3: think you trade him for a Ryan O'Reilly. I don't

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Speaker 3: like that. He wouldn't do it, he said he wouldn't

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Speaker 3: there is a superstar out there, number one center or

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Speaker 3: if that were to happen, probably happens in the off season,

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Speaker 3: because if you trade him now for something, even if

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Speaker 3: it's like somebody like a Robert Thomas, but then all

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, now you've traded your piece.

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Speaker 3: So that's why it's a bit of a dilemma right

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Speaker 3: now because they've traded so many assets away that I

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Speaker 3: just I'll be interested to see what he does. But

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Speaker 3: I I just think that he is absolutely on the table.

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Speaker 3: It's not like he's out there shopping them and things

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Speaker 3: like that. The con obviously to your point, is that

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Speaker 3: you're trading Jasper Volstad and he is somebody that looks

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Speaker 3: But when you have Philip Gustuson at a really good

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Speaker 3: he's got a no move, you know, it allows he's

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Speaker 3: But I just think that right now, for the right player,

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Speaker 2: Is there any doubt that if the Wild pulled the

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Speaker 2: Volstad as part of the package, that Flower would come

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Speaker 3: I mean that was largely conjectured this this uh, this

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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you where we're coming from.

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Speaker 3: It's educated conjecture, so a lot of it is putting

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Speaker 3: H is reading the tea leaves. Now, if it happened

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Speaker 3: If it happened now, you could either trade for a

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Speaker 3: the thing with Mark Andre Fleury is that he is

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Speaker 3: getting calls. He's got Yeah, he's gotten three offers. He's

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Speaker 3: on a regular basis. He can, he's and I get

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Speaker 3: the impression that he's tempted. But here and then there's

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Speaker 3: another thing reading the tea leaves is that he's skating

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Speaker 3: week with the Wild when Bill Garan has asked him,

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Speaker 3: because both their goaltenders are at the Olympics, that when

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Speaker 3: they resume practicing on February seventeenth, that he be their

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Speaker 3: you know, one, it's going to be probably getting his

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Speaker 3: he could still play. Three, He's gonna you know, get

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Speaker 1: The other thing is that if.

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Speaker 3: There is any temptation to come out, I think just

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Speaker 3: his role with the Wild being in their GMS booths

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Speaker 3: multiple times, hanging out with these guys still off the ice,

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Speaker 3: going to places like Arizona in their meetings and getting

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Speaker 3: all this propriety, proprietary information. I just think it would

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Speaker 3: in the playoffs, or sign with another team. So this

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Speaker 3: is again total conjecture, but I could tell you from

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: From thirteen to fifteen in the Wild unfortunately play them

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Speaker 2: Once Dana checks in, can you ask Russo if Flower

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Speaker 2: Doctor Mike asks, does Russo think my vaal staid for

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Speaker 3: You know, and we know that Quinn and Brady are

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Speaker 1: I mean, just imagine that that school of.

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Speaker 1: But if Brady Kuchuck became available.

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Speaker 3: So you know, if Austin all of a sudden became available,

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Speaker 2: Is there anybody you can't get a hold of. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: in Montreal, he looked extremely tired to me, and he is.

437
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Speaker 3: You know, he's somebody that Look when he first got here,

438
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Speaker 3: he was playing thirty minutes night on a routine basis,

439
00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:26,520
Speaker 3: and he really hasn't done that in the last couple

440
00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:28,640
Speaker 3: of years here. So now all of a sudden, you're

441
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Speaker 3: playing with Quinn you're playing some high minutes and you're

442
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Speaker 3: starting in the offensive zone, which, as I was talking

443
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Speaker 3: to Favor about this the other day, is very different

444
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Speaker 3: for him. He gets a lot of dez On starts

445
00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:40,359
Speaker 3: before Quinn got here, so the type of minutes that

446
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,160
Speaker 3: he's playing is very, very different. So I just think

447
00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:46,200
Speaker 3: sometimes his mistakes are fatigue mistakes. The one the other

448
00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,280
Speaker 3: day was not a very good mistake that turned out

449
00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,959
Speaker 3: to be the Ryan Donado goal. But yeah, he does

450
00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:53,639
Speaker 3: like Look, I mean, when you when you play thirty

451
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Speaker 3: to thirty five shifts a game, they're not all going

452
00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,879
Speaker 3: to be perfect. And he's made some mistakes. But I

453
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Speaker 3: think for the most part since early November up until

454
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Speaker 3: well passed when Quinn got here, I think Brox played

455
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:05,679
Speaker 3: outstanding hockey.

456
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,399
Speaker 2: If the wild swing for a big name, how does it?

457
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:10,439
Speaker 2: How does he fit in under the cap? Would a

458
00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:12,600
Speaker 2: medium to big contract also have to be moved?

459
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Speaker 3: And who would that be? Well, it depends. That's the

460
00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,080
Speaker 3: problem right now is that, Look, they have the ability.

461
00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 3: This is why you're seeing shuffling lately while they're even

462
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:23,159
Speaker 3: doing stuff like bringing up cursed it over over like lambos.

463
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Speaker 3: You know, I know it sounds like it's one hundred

464
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Speaker 3: thousand dollars and that means nothing on a daily rate's

465
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Speaker 3: like one thousand bucks. But they're trying to do everything

466
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Speaker 3: they can to make sure that they have the most

467
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Speaker 3: possible money that they will have a crew at the deadline.

468
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Speaker 1: So they hope they can have.

469
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Speaker 3: Right now, it's hard to say with some of the

470
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Speaker 3: two way contracts on here, but they're going to send

471
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Speaker 3: some guys down and I think we'll have a better

472
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Speaker 3: idea of February fourth, when they make their roster moves

473
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Speaker 3: and who goes to Iowa and who stays what they'll

474
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Speaker 3: have at the deadline. But depending on health, they could

475
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Speaker 3: have anything from seven to ten million in cap space.

476
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Speaker 3: So that could be seven to ten million in players,

477
00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,840
Speaker 3: or it could be one monster player. But you're right,

478
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,080
Speaker 3: so it all depends. It depends if another team retains

479
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Speaker 3: some money. So it's it's really hard to to, you know,

480
00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 3: say right now. But the Wild because they've came into

481
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Speaker 3: the season with a good amount of cap space and

482
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Speaker 3: because they haven't gone into lt I R once this season,

483
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Speaker 3: they keep on accruing and the hope is that they're

484
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Speaker 3: going to have a lot of money that they could

485
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Speaker 3: potentially use at the deadline.

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Speaker 2: Russo, how far away is the center who plays in

487
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Speaker 2: Michigan State. How well thought of? Is he good skater

488
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 2: and big kid? Yeah, they they really love him. That's

489
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Speaker 2: Charlie Strammel, who's actually from here. You know.

490
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Speaker 3: He's somebody that left left University of Wisconsin transferred to

491
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Speaker 3: Michigan State where his coach, Adam Nightingale is there. He

492
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Speaker 3: was his coach at the program you know before for

493
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Speaker 3: USA Hockey, and he has just absolutely taken off under

494
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:51,880
Speaker 3: him and he's been one of the best college players

495
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 3: in the game this year.

496
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Speaker 1: So you know he is.

497
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Speaker 3: Joe Smith spent some time with him, my colleague got

498
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Speaker 3: down at Madison a couple of weeks ago. He made

499
00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:01,919
Speaker 3: it extremely clear to Joe on the record that he

500
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,840
Speaker 3: plans on signing with the Wild after season. So fans

501
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 3: that have worried that he could, you know, because it's

502
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 3: his fourth year, try to become a free age in

503
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,719
Speaker 3: August fifteenth, he said he is not planning that. So

504
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 3: then the question is do they sign him now and

505
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 3: burn a year and bring him right to Minnesota whether

506
00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,439
Speaker 3: he plays or not, or do they throw you know,

507
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,159
Speaker 3: sign him for next year. Then sign him to an

508
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 3: amateur tryout and send him to Iowa. So that'll be

509
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 3: what's the hope is. The hope is that he can

510
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 3: go out and win a national championship. The other thing

511
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 3: is right now, you know, other than you're off, he's

512
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 3: probably an other than Walstad. He's probably their best prospect.

513
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 3: So there's even a chance that teams are asking about him.

514
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 3: And as I just mentioned, if if you know, I'm

515
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 3: not convinced that Charlie Stramles future is necessarily in Minnesota,

516
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 3: if the Wild have you know, are willing to trade

517
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Speaker 3: some prospects here.

518
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Speaker 1: Which they are. Man, these these folks go deep with you.

519
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 2: Man, why have you been retweeting so much New York

520
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:56,119
Speaker 2: Rangers content? Is there something Russo that you know and

521
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 2: we don't? That's Daniel from Egan?

522
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Speaker 3: Well, just Trocheck, I mean Check and Miller are two

523
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:02,919
Speaker 3: guys that we know that Bill Garran has a has

524
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 3: a big affinity for. I think Trocheck is somebody that

525
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 3: makes a lot of sense here. As of last week

526
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 3: we reported that they had not talked. I think that

527
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 3: has changed. And as I mentioned, Chris Drury will be

528
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 3: with Bill garn In in in Milan. So that's really

529
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Speaker 3: the reason. And just because we've been working with those

530
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 3: Rangers writers in terms of intel, the sharing information, in

531
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Speaker 3: terms of the Wild's interest in both those players.

532
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Speaker 1: JT is somebody that the Wild really like.

533
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Speaker 3: I just think that what JT would cost in terms

534
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,679
Speaker 3: of assets, it's probably something that Bill can probably not do,

535
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 3: just because there's a lot of pressure on the Rangers

536
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Speaker 3: because they give up so much for him to get

537
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 3: them from Vancouver and he's their captain to just give

538
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,400
Speaker 3: him away. And so we'll see. Panerien's the one guy.

539
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,440
Speaker 3: I just got to tell Wild fans. I know there's

540
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 3: just a lot of belief out there that the Wilder

541
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Speaker 3: and Paneria and there they're not right now, paneren wants

542
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,679
Speaker 3: to go anywhere with an extension the Wild or not

543
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 3: in a position where they'd give them an extension. And

544
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Speaker 3: I don't even think as a rental the Wilderness and

545
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,719
Speaker 3: on Panerin as much as you know, maybe they've had

546
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 3: a phone call at things like that, but but you know,

547
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 3: I would not buy into that stuff.

548
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 2: Calgary Tonight on the fan pregame, I'm assuming starting at

549
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:14,640
Speaker 2: six forty five this evening on the flagship is it

550
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 2: is this a loser proof game, we.

551
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 1: Get the Flames. Nothing's loser proof.

552
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,880
Speaker 3: As Kevin was pointing out this morning in the wild,

553
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 3: you know, lately against teams that are below them, and

554
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,919
Speaker 3: the standings seem to be taking some teams for granted,

555
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 3: which is.

556
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Speaker 1: The complete opposite of last year.

557
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Speaker 3: Right last year they were beaten up on the bottom

558
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 3: feeders and having an immense amount of trouble with the

559
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 3: teams on top of them in the standings, and this

560
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 3: year it's the opposite. They have the second best record

561
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,920
Speaker 3: against playoff teams current playoff teams in National Hocoy League,

562
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,159
Speaker 3: but it's below them where they've sometimes had trouble. I

563
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,119
Speaker 3: think they're going to come out like a lot of teams.

564
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 3: A lot of people would look at this as a

565
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 3: trap game, but I just think that that they probably

566
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 3: learned a valuable lesson against the Blackhawks the other day,

567
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 3: falling down three nothing and having a rally back. And

568
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 3: I just think, you know, they only have three games

569
00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 3: before the excuse me, one, two, three, four games before uh,

570
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,159
Speaker 3: the Olympics, and I just think that they're going to

571
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 3: only two home games, and I just think they're going

572
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 3: to want to come out and make some noise tonight

573
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 3: against a team that's as struggling and looks like they're

574
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 3: going to be in cell mode pretty quickly.

575
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Speaker 2: Here.

576
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,679
Speaker 3: They already started by trading Rasmus Anderson to to Vegas

577
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago.

578
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Speaker 1: When when are you leaving for ELEA Monday? Monday? Yes,

579
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Speaker 1: twenty five days. Yep. Well make sure you know. Don't

580
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 1: forget about us. I won't.

581
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Speaker 3: Anytime you need me, I will figure out the time

582
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,199
Speaker 3: at the time of that stuff. By the way, what

583
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 3: is Fawna's doing from six thirty six forty five?

584
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,919
Speaker 2: Why can't he do a don't only get me started,

585
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 2: don't even get me started on that he refuses to do.

586
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 2: I know for a fact that the that here at

587
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 2: the fan the executives would much rather go with a

588
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 2: half hour pregame show, but.

589
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Speaker 1: He doesn't want to work that hard. Yeah right, I

590
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 1: was told I don't know. I heard that. I said that.

591
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 3: He told Nordal, I'll do a morning today, like an

592
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,120
Speaker 3: hour this morning, but I'm not doing a thirty minute

593
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Speaker 3: post pregame show.

594
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Speaker 1: Then here it is just malarkey o.

595
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Speaker 5: It is Hey Russell, Yeah, real quick on your Olympic

596
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 5: bit for Monday. Are you Are you going with the

597
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 5: Lavelle Neil the third Underwear plan?

598
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: And what is that? I'm I'm almost afraid to ask.

599
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: You should be? You should be?

600
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 5: It's where And he learned this, I think from Rachel

601
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 5: Right didn't Rachel Blunt didn't.

602
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I don't even want to know.

603
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 5: So you bring old underwear in your suitcase so you

604
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 5: can throw away in whatever foreign country you're at, so

605
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 5: then you have room in your suitcase the other stuff you.

606
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: Buy the swagg you guys. Yeah, actually it's kind of smart.

607
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,919
Speaker 5: So somewhere in Beijing, where was the Olympics, I went,

608
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 5: there's lavel underwear all over Beijing.

609
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 2: Surprise he was able to landfill And yeah, exactly. I

610
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 2: can't even make it up because it's not biodegradable. We

611
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 2: know that there's no chance. There was no way of

612
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 2: getting rid of it, just like plastic for sure.

613
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:41,400
Speaker 1: Man.

614
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's hard to think about. Yeah, I don't really

615
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 3: know if I really want to think.

616
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:47,880
Speaker 1: I understand it's jarring imagery.

617
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 2: It definitely is. That's one hundred percent. I've been hearing

618
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 2: about it firsthand. Yeah, I know, you just heard about

619
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 2: it hand. Yeah, Yeah, it's just too good suit travels

620
00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 2: across the pond, and we you will definitely hear from us.

621
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Speaker 2: Thank you all right, See, guys, appreciate you. Guys appreciate

622
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 2: Russo for sure. And fallowness maybe a little bit bottom

623
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 2: of the hour pause, lots more to get to before

624
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 2: we wrap it up at six thirty.

625
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: Stay now. I know we want to be mad. I

626
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 1: know the.

627
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 2: Pitchforks are poised, as we've discussed each of the last

628
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 2: two days with the news that Bill Belichick did not

629
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 2: make the Hall of Fame on the first ballot. But

630
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Speaker 2: as we laid out yesterday in our conversation with Kevin Seaffert,

631
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 2: it's a bit more nuanced than that.

632
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you can just go with it. Outrageous. You

633
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: see how many I mean, how many Super Bowls does

634
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: he have to win? This is absurd. Who are the voters?

635
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: Who are the voters?

636
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 2: And can we get can can we.

637
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 1: Have them taste?

638
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 2: But we're getting a good window now from a voter

639
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 2: as to the complicated nature that I do think had

640
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 2: some impact on what seems on the face of it,

641
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 2: obviously utterly and completely absurd and illogical. This is out

642
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 2: of New York Post dot com. A second Pro Football

643
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame voter has admitted to passing on Bill Belichick.

644
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 2: Fox fifty nine CBS four sports reporter Mike Chappell, a

645
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 2: guy I know Boss is tighter with him than I am,

646
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 2: but I know him from back in the day, who

647
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 2: has covered the Cults for more than four decades, said

648
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,959
Speaker 2: his non Belichick vote came down to a choice between

649
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 2: the head coach and someone who is very close to

650
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 2: him during his days in New England.

651
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: Quote.

652
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 2: As one of fifty selectors, I voted for Robert Kraft,

653
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 2: the long time and accomplished New England Patriots owner, Chapel

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Speaker 2: wrote in a column on Thursday, and I vote against

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Speaker 2: Bill Belichick, the long time and accomplished head coach of

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Speaker 2: that dynasty. I realize that's a different side of destination,

657
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Speaker 2: but I'm comfortable with my decision. Chapel is the second

658
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Speaker 2: of at least eleven voters who didn't put Belichick on

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Speaker 2: their ballot to go public, joining the Kansas City Stars

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Speaker 2: vahe Gregorian Hope and pronouncing their first name right like Gregorian.

661
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Speaker 2: The Hall's voting process, which forced committee members to choose

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Speaker 2: up to three names from a group consisting of Belichick,

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Speaker 2: Craft and senior members Kenny Anderson, Roger Craig, and ELC.

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Speaker 2: Greenwood was part of Chapel's reasoning. Chapel City used two

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Speaker 2: of his votes on senior candidates who might be facing

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Speaker 2: their final chance at making it into Canton, and was

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Speaker 2: then left to decide on Belichick, the Belichick and Craft.

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Speaker 2: In the end, the latter went out and then he

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Speaker 2: During the column, he takes time to lay out the

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Speaker 2: reasons Crafts role in building the Patriots dynasty beginning of

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety four and his undeniable role in helping negotiate

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Speaker 2: the end of the one hundred play day work stoppage

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Speaker 2: one hundred the day workstoppage in twenty eleven while his

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Speaker 2: wife was gravely hill that has resulted in the longstanding

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Speaker 2: labor piece. He's also been involved behind the scenes in

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Speaker 2: bolstering the NFL's ever increasing TV revenue. One big thing

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Speaker 2: was working against Belichick and Chapel's I Spygate. There's no

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Speaker 2: erasing the stain of Spygate from his bio. This wasn't

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Speaker 2: alleged behavior. The NFL find Belichick a half a million

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Speaker 2: dollars the maximum allowed, along with docking the Patriots two

681
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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand dollars in a first round draft

682
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Speaker 2: pick for illegally videotaping New York Jets signals in two

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Speaker 2: thousand and seven. Even with all the scandals, Chapel said,

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Speaker 2: Belichick is still a Hall of Famer, but just not

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Speaker 2: over his former boss. What I will say before we

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Speaker 2: get into some of the details series, I just appreciate

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Speaker 2: the precision with which he lays this out. You can

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Speaker 2: disagree with him, and I would still say, if I'm

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Speaker 2: bringing it down to one of those two, I'd still

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Speaker 2: rather the coach get in before the owner. Yeah, because

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Speaker 2: it's football to me. But he lays out some reasons,

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Speaker 2: and if you factor that in with a belief that yes,

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Speaker 2: Spygaate does bother me, which I think is totally permissible,

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Speaker 2: and because you weren't around the last couple of days

695
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Speaker 2: to listen but or could to participate how many jackals,

696
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Speaker 2: then we're saying he's not getting enough heat. This is

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Speaker 2: a bigger stain than you think. And so now we're

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Speaker 2: going to be mad if people remember that and say, well, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know what, I know, he's going to get in.

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Speaker 2: But for me, that's part of my process here. So

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Speaker 2: The larger issue though about the new procedure is, to me,

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Speaker 2: what's muddy the waters completely? And because as a strategy,

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Speaker 2: this goes back to Baseball Hall Fame.

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Speaker 1: We used to talk about this.

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Speaker 2: Some guys, if they leave somebody off as obvious, they

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Speaker 2: would do it strategically because of a belief that, well,

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Speaker 2: this is the last year for somebody else who I

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Speaker 2: think is worthy. I'm going to give him his best

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Speaker 2: shot to get in. And people would lose their minds,

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Speaker 2: but they're there was some logic to it, even if

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Speaker 2: you didn't disagree with it, if you'd actually listen to it.

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Speaker 2: And in this case, I think it's the procedure itself

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Speaker 2: that needs to be absolutely and completely modified so you're

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Speaker 2: not in an either or situation because that's sort of

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Speaker 2: the way it's created, especially when you're when you're having

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Speaker 2: to use these you have to make decisions between Okay,

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Speaker 2: how many of money you senior votes for.

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Speaker 1: That's I think what all contributes to how this ended up.

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Speaker 5: Happens, especially when there's some kind of urgency around other candidates. Yea,

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Speaker 5: it was just im perpetuity eligible senior. Yes, you could say,

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Speaker 5: then you wouldn't have that artificial, not even artificial, the

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Speaker 5: real deadline to make a choice like that, because everybody

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Speaker 5: does know. Of course Bill Belichick is going to get

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Speaker 5: into the Hall of Fame. That's pretty obvious, I would think,

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Speaker 5: unless we find out a bunch more stuff in the

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Speaker 5: next year, which maybe Pablo Torre is going to do.

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Speaker 1: Who knows, maybe maybe is going to find out right

728
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Speaker 1: that's true. I don't know, or Paul Bloom or low Regroose,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure of them.

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Speaker 5: So, but when you have that kind of thing set up,

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Speaker 5: and I'm guessing a lot of the NFL voters probably

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Speaker 5: thought that way that well Bell checks in, I don't

733
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Speaker 5: have to worry about it. I can go here or

734
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Speaker 5: spygate bothers me. I'm not going to give him first

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Speaker 5: ballt I'm gonna vote for him next year. I appreciate though,

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Speaker 5: that they are, even though explaining nuance is just a

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Speaker 5: fool's errand yes in twenty twenty six, which we've all

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Speaker 5: learned here again, you know, the last couple of weeks,

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Speaker 5: nuance is it's a fool's errand here, but I appreciate

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Speaker 5: that they're at least taking the time.

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Speaker 1: I agree with that.

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Speaker 2: I agree totally and I think he laid it out

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Speaker 2: very nicely, and again you don't have to agree with him.

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Speaker 2: But what this should take away is this notion that

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Speaker 2: at least people aren't even thinking what could they possibly

746
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Speaker 2: be thinking. Well, that's a pretty well thought out piece,

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Speaker 2: and I don't know how well thought out the other

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Speaker 2: one was. I still don't think you're obligated to have

749
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Speaker 2: to go public with it, but.

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Speaker 1: We've had it. We had it.

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Speaker 2: There was another one today. I don't know who the

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Speaker 2: individual was. It's very clear that the game has passed.

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Speaker 2: Bill Polley, well, oh that's possible, right, He's been out

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Speaker 2: of it for a while because he was identified as

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Speaker 2: someone who might have spoken.

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Speaker 1: Up against him, although he I think denies it.

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Speaker 2: But it's like this, if whatever point you're trying to

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Speaker 2: make him bout Bill Pollian, this isn't enough to where

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Speaker 2: somebody's vote should be taken away. It's forever we've talked

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Speaker 2: about this when it comes to Baseball Hall of Fame voting.

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Speaker 2: But there is an argument. A lot of people might

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Speaker 2: disagree with it, but there is an argument. I believe

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Speaker 2: that I will at least defend the someone's right to

764
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Speaker 2: pursue it. Regarding pretty unprecedented punishment. I asked this question yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Name me another legendary coach who has that kind of

766
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Speaker 2: punishment levied on him regarding cheating, because that's in effect

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Speaker 2: what it was, and we can you know, Jim Jimmy

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Speaker 2: Johnson basically says, we all were doing it. What's the difference?

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Speaker 1: I saw that. Maybe that's true.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but the NFL felt differently obviously, So

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Speaker 2: you know, I just think it's I, like with so

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Speaker 2: many other subjects, people tend to lose their minds over

773
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Speaker 2: the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get caught up.

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Speaker 2: I've got an a section item. I guess the best

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Speaker 2: way to headline this, or to tease this would be

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Speaker 2: the impuning the integrity of a judge, in fact, to

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Speaker 2: the attempt to try to turn a judge into some

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Speaker 2: sort of left wing zealot despite his particular background. We'll

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Speaker 2: get to that, and who knows what else when we

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Speaker 2: return it.

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Speaker 5: Caff An welcomes the Black Crows and Whiskey Myers to

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Speaker 5: go on sale Friday, February sixth. That's a week from

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Speaker 5: tomorrow at ten am. Get the complete details on all

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Speaker 5: keyword calendar.

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Speaker 1: Two Minnesota in the news for very very different reasons.

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Speaker 2: We'll examine both of these cases, and I think the

790
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Speaker 2: stories will probably speak for themselves. And you could say

791
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Speaker 2: both of them are under siege. I think one legitimately,

792
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Speaker 2: one not so much. Which one do you want first,

793
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Speaker 2: the one legitimately under siege or the one not so much.

794
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Speaker 2: Let's go legit all right, let's go legitimately under siege.

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Speaker 1: I missed this story completely.

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Speaker 2: Mark Anderson, thirty six years old, a Minnesotan arrested and

797
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Speaker 2: charged with impersonating an FBI agent after he tried to

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Speaker 2: enter a federal jail and release suspected murderer Luigi Mangoni.

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Speaker 2: According to law enforcement sources, Anderson arrived at the Metropolitan

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Speaker 2: Detention Center in Brooklyn on well ends day evening, So

801
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Speaker 2: this is yesterday, I'm assuming, claiming, see how old this

802
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Speaker 2: story is.

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Speaker 1: You know they gets today.

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Speaker 2: I think it's dated today, claiming he was an FBI

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Speaker 2: agent with a core order for Mangoni's release. According to

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Speaker 2: a criminal complaint filed today and a law enforcement source.

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Speaker 2: Within a When officials with the Bureau of Prisons asked

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Speaker 2: the man for his credentials, the man provided a Minnesota

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Speaker 2: driver's license. He also allegedly stated that he had weapons

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Speaker 2: in his bag. Anderson then allegedly threw paperwork at the

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Speaker 2: Bureau of Prisons officers. The papers appeared to be related

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Speaker 2: to legal claims against the Justice Department, according to the

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Speaker 2: FBI agent who signed the complaint. Prison officials searched Anderson's backpack,

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Speaker 2: according to the complaint, and found a barbecue style fork

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Speaker 2: and a circular steel blade.

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Speaker 1: He traveled to New York.

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Speaker 2: Anderson did for a potential job that didn't work out,

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Speaker 2: and had been working at a pizzeria before his arrest.

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Speaker 2: It isn't clear what connection of any he has too

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Speaker 2: man Ngoni. He has been held at the federal jail

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Speaker 2: since his arrest in December twenty twenty four for the

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Speaker 2: suspected murder of United Healthcare chief executive Brian Thompson. He

823
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Speaker 2: is facing federal and state murder charges and has pleaded

824
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Speaker 2: not guilty. Had you seen that story, I had not.

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Speaker 2: That's scary. That's a local angle that we probably don't want.

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Speaker 2: Right We're not very excited about it. So and I

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Speaker 2: don't see this is a CNN version. I don't know

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Speaker 2: if there's any more information about Mark Anderson's background, what

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Speaker 2: might have moved him to go down this particular road.

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Speaker 2: Although we did see remember when that story broke, when

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Speaker 2: it happened, there were there were people who considered sadly

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Speaker 2: pathetically Lee Luigi Mangonia folk here exactly right, Yes, a

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Speaker 2: sympathetic figure with that a figure exactly it all right.

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Speaker 2: Now here's another Minnesotan who is under siege, and I

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Speaker 2: think the reasons are a little bit more questionable, or

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Speaker 2: at least I would say to those ripping him, at

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Speaker 2: least get your facts right if you're going to rip

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Speaker 2: the direction he went. Here example, Tricia McLoughlin is Assistant

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Speaker 2: Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

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Speaker 5: That's d HS to you in the know. Yes, I've

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Speaker 5: watched her a lot here in the last few weeks.

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Speaker 1: Yes you have. Here's the quote from her. Judge Patrick J.

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Speaker 2: Schiltz is just another activist judge who is clearly more

844
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Speaker 2: concerned about politics than the safety of Minnesotan's. The judge,

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Speaker 2: of course, said he did cancel the cont hearing. Originally

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Speaker 2: he was requiring the ICE director's appearance on Friday, but

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Speaker 2: as we talked about earlier with Governor and former Governor

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Speaker 2: Ernie Carlson, he is savaging ICE on aer in a

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Speaker 2: number of particular ways, saying ICE has violated more court

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Speaker 2: orders in January twenty twenty sixth than some federal agencies

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Speaker 2: have violated in their entire existence. Well not surprising that

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Speaker 2: the Trump administration would not like it.

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Speaker 1: So what card do you go to? You go to?

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Speaker 2: I don't know those looney left activist judges, Wells has

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Speaker 2: pointed out in a number of cases. The sixty five

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Speaker 2: year old Schiltz was appointed by George W.

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Speaker 1: Bush W. He is currently the chief judge of the U. S.

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Speaker 2: District for the District Court for the District of Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: fellow traveler of the Conservative legal movement who clerked twice

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Speaker 2: for Scalia antonin Scalia and later recommended Amy Cony Barrett,

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Speaker 2: then one of Schilt's law students.

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Speaker 1: Now, does that sound like a looney left resume? Again?

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Speaker 1: You can? You know?

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you want to argue with the Ruins

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Speaker 2: or say we think he's been on we had that discussion.

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Speaker 2: If you like, but at least follow the story, at

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Speaker 2: least pay it attention to what his background is before

868
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 2: you go out. Got to be another one of those

869
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 2: activists judges that Obama appointed, right or Biden, you know,

870
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 2: whatever the case may be. Here's the comment from the judge.

871
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 2: The Court's patience is at an end. Accordingly, the court

872
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 2: will order. Well, this is actually I think this has

873
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 2: been updated. This was when he was ordering the Director

874
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 2: of Ice acting Director of ICE to appear personally. I

875
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 2: think he's backed away from that. That's in the case

876
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 2: about a person held in federal detention as part of

877
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 2: President Trump's current immigration crackdown in Minnesota. On jan fourteen,

878
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 2: Schiltz order the government to provide petitioner with a bond

879
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 2: hearing is required by federal law within seven days, or

880
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 2: else the petitioner must be immediately released from detention. Those

881
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 2: seven days shockingly came and went, and the individual lists

882
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 2: in court documents had neither received a bond hearing nor

883
00:42:56,480 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 2: had been released from federal detention. Is one of dozens

884
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 2: of court orders the judge rules with which respondents have

885
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 2: failed to comply in recent weeks. So again, there, if

886
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 2: I guess what you do, you use the playbook, and

887
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 2: you say, well, most people aren't gonna bother at check, right,

888
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 2: that's not going to know the judge Minnesota judge. Yeah yeah,

889
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 2: another loony lefties in Minnesota. And yet the story is

890
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 2: obviously a lot more complicated. In fact, Mattel in studio

891
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,240
Speaker 2: a couple of days ago raved about him again, another

892
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 2: looney lefty, Chris Maddel. So you just got to get

893
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 2: your story story straight, or get him better if you

894
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 2: want to convince somebody that, well, this judge seems to

895
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 2: be going over the line and what he's declaring and

896
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 2: what he is indeed ruling a debate you can at

897
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 2: least attempt to have. Despite the fact that this particular

898
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 2: judge has an outstanding reputation as well, I wonder if

899
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 2: we can get him on the show, probably not, probably

900
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,399
Speaker 2: being unable to talk about that sort of thing right now.

901
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 2: That will probably be a conflict of some sort. But

902
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 2: I did find that interesting reading much of this. You

903
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 2: can read this background anywhere. This is from a story

904
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 2: via Reason dot Com that got my attention that I

905
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 2: thought did a good job of sort of distilling the

906
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 2: whole thing into a form that might be usable for

907
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 2: us as as well. Bratschewn Brian Kafean text line is

908
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 2: open at six four six eighty six.

909
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,399
Speaker 1: It's been another very brisk.

910
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 2: Text line today, many many, many texts, especially when we

911
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:38,399
Speaker 2: were joined early in the program, actually about three point

912
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 2: thirty by a former governor, Arnie Carlson. Perhaps we revisit

913
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 2: a little bit of that, and perhaps we also talk

914
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 2: about what we discussed at the top of the program.

915
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:49,800
Speaker 1: Is it possible.

916
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 2: It's been a lot of talk about a lot of

917
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 2: big superstar names that the Minnesota Wild might be interested in.

918
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 2: It might even willing to give up the kid goaltender

919
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 2: of the future to do it. But Minnesota Timberwolves, are

920
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 2: they in the running for an extremely big fish, an

921
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 2: extremely big prize? What are their chances? How interested they

922
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 2: should they be? Bran, Yeah, that's it, We'll get into

923
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 2: that subject. I bet your aunt would love it, there's

924
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:19,760
Speaker 2: any question to you. Absolutely, although you're gutting the roster

925
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 2: a little bit.

926
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:24,439
Speaker 5: And two of his guys, Nas and especially Jaden, well,

927
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 5: would he feel better when in a separate deal we

928
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 5: get Cat back, because Cat is like he's under siege

929
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 5: in New York. I know he doesn't even play at

930
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 5: the ends of games anymore, and his feelings are hurt

931
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 5: because he was rumored to be part of the Honest

932
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 5: deal this summer for the Knicks to acquire him.

933
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 2: So Cat's not feeling well. We might be able to

934
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 2: get him cheap. I mean, the salaries have to match up,

935
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 2: but they might give him away to us at this point.

936
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 5: Well, it's very weird. Kat's super Max was a year before. Yeah, right,

937
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 5: so when is his going to be up? Maybe he'll

938
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 5: give us a hometown discount. Although he just sold his

939
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 5: place in another one.

940
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: You can find one.

941
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,839
Speaker 2: I probably find another one a decent rate, I would think. Well,

942
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:07,000
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948
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Speaker 6: Oh I love I loves man, I love him man

949
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:33,799
Speaker 6: like he plays both ways. Oh I love I loves man,

950
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 6: I love him man like he plays both ways.

951
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 2: So what you're telling me is, yes, that's the Honest,

952
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:45,760
Speaker 2: that's the Greek freak. His brother's podcast. His brother, even

953
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 2: his brother has a podcast. An Assis, Yeah, he has

954
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 2: a podcast. Apparently he can't make that up on Twitter.

955
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 2: That that probably now means it's official that everybody does

956
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 2: have one. Yes, everybody has a podcast. You need one,

957
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 2: I guess I need one.

958
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 1: That have to have one. Well, here's all I can

959
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: tell you. We started the show with it.

960
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 2: Giannis has made it clear he's ready to be traded.

961
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: Where might he end up? How interested would the Wolves be?

962
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 2: I've said for days that no matter what your plan is,

963
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 2: you have to do your due diligence.

964
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: You are you are, you should be fired.

965
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 2: As a general manager or president of basketball or vice

966
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 2: president of basketball operations. If you are not evaluating, efforting,

967
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 2: doing everything in your power to see what might be possible.

968
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 2: What would you have to give up? What would the

969
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 2: circumstances be?

970
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:38,359
Speaker 1: All of it?

971
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,359
Speaker 2: He's too good a player, despite his age. He's too

972
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 2: good a player to not at the very least vet

973
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 2: And I'll mention that we've got pretty good confirmation from

974
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 2: John Athletic that the Wolves are working it, they are

975
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 2: doing their due diligence, and they are extremely interested.

976
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: Now I don't mean anything.

977
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 2: I don't mean anything going to happen, right, because there's

978
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 2: other teams, there's how much you're willing to give up,

979
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 2: what the cost might be, how a rod? You know

980
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 2: what apron do we end up in? You suggested maybe

981
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 2: the third apron, not the second. It'll be a new apron,

982
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:25,919
Speaker 2: a new apron that's created just for us. But that

983
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 2: there is definite interest, And that encourages me, not because

984
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 2: I think it means that that that necessarily guarantees that

985
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 2: it's going to happen.

986
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: But.

987
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 2: That they are that that this they are doing exactly

988
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 2: what they should be doing, taking very seriously, he's Connie's

989
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 2: not afraid of big deals. And you if you have

990
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 2: a chance to get Giannis when presumably then keep them

991
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 2: for a while. And I think he's got plenty of

992
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 2: good basketball left in him the way he keeps himself

993
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,399
Speaker 2: in shape. Now he has been hurt more at that,

994
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 2: but that's part of the due diligence. You know, where

995
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 2: is his body? Is it likely that it's going he's

996
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 2: going to decline quickly, et cetera. Uh, you'd absolutely have

997
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 2: to look at it and be a ridiculous combination, even if,

998
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:14,839
Speaker 2: of course you'd be having to give up some good

999
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 2: players to get them. The complicating factor is what we said,

1000
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,920
Speaker 2: you'd have to include a minimum of three teams maybe four.

1001
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: That's get That gets harder.

1002
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 2: Because the Wolves would need to get draft picks that

1003
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 2: they don't have correct. So that means you got to

1004
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 2: get as part of that big deal more draft picks

1005
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 2: someplace else, and that's easier said than done, and that

1006
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 2: makes it harder and more challenging to do. So, No, Garan,

1007
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:45,839
Speaker 2: I'm not guaranteeing anything. What I am guaranteeing is they're

1008
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 2: interested and that they should be interested, and that means,

1009
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 2: you know, within the next week.

1010
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: What are we a week away from the deadline?

1011
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 5: You said, just less than a week, less than a

1012
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,399
Speaker 5: week from today, week from today to Ada.

1013
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 2: That that you work every angle that you popp can

1014
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:05,919
Speaker 2: you can't worry about hurt feelings. Somebody did ask Kat

1015
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 2: about his name coming up, and Kat he gave it

1016
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 2: the right answer, which was, I've been in trade rumors

1017
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:13,879
Speaker 2: for like, you know, every day for the last two years.

1018
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 1: And it's true. In his case, he ain't lying. And

1019
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: so at some point you do.

1020
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 2: Sort of have to you sort of have to you know,

1021
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 2: zone out of it because otherwise I would think it

1022
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:27,359
Speaker 2: would be very, very very concerning. So the interest is there,

1023
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:32,800
Speaker 2: and the question is whether there's actual a actually a path.

1024
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 2: And the Wolves probably would be in a better position

1025
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:39,839
Speaker 2: if they had more picks, right, and he has any

1026
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 2: doubt about that. That's where you're at the mercy of

1027
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,879
Speaker 2: other teams cooperation, and some of that then gets back

1028
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 2: to how motivated they are for what they're going to

1029
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:52,360
Speaker 2: get out of the deal. It does seem likely that

1030
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 2: if you make a deal that big, you're gonna lose

1031
00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 2: probably three a lot of your guys, two starters and

1032
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 2: three rotational players. The Nastas might have to quit the

1033
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:07,760
Speaker 2: podcast because he's gonna have to start.

1034
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: He does he have any pat as a player? Do

1035
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 1: we think?

1036
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 5: Well he's Isn't he the brother that's with the Bucks?

1037
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure at least one of the brothers is

1038
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 5: also with the Bucks. He is, that's true. It's a

1039
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 5: kind of a Brownie James situation. Yeah, Well, the Browny's

1040
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 5: getting some run. I don't mind it, but I think

1041
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 5: he'd probably be part of the deal as well. You'd

1042
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 5: have to bring back the brothers.

1043
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 2: What about Pascal Siakam and Mathern instead of a Giannis blockbuster.

1044
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,280
Speaker 2: I'm not going to simulate the math but Jaden should

1045
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 2: be close to untouchable. My opinion defends one through five.

1046
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:43,800
Speaker 2: And I don't know that the Wolves can keep these

1047
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 2: scoring wings like sga et cetera in check without him.

1048
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 2: And hasn't been playing very good defense this year. What's

1049
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:52,479
Speaker 2: the perimeter defense look like? Ant Dante Clark and Drew

1050
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 2: holliday E. That's from flim Flam that was much earlier

1051
00:51:56,160 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 2: in the show. I love Mathrin. Don't know where the

1052
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think the Pacers want to gut themselves, right.

1053
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:07,759
Speaker 2: I think the Pacers know this is a what do

1054
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 2: they call it when you take a year of the

1055
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 2: gap year?

1056
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, because of the because of injury. Yes.

1057
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 2: My assumption is they like putting there. They're going to

1058
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:19,319
Speaker 2: prefer to put together the roster that they have. But

1059
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 2: I absolutely love Mather and I I and I like

1060
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 2: he's a nice He's a nice piece.

1061
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 5: It's no question Rudy kind of cooked him in the

1062
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,359
Speaker 5: two games we played him this time, which was fun. Yeah,

1063
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 5: but he's a really won title. I mean he has

1064
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 5: kaw I won a title. It was a while ago,

1065
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:32,919
Speaker 5: but he's good.

1066
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1067
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:35,399
Speaker 2: The beauty of it is you get then you get

1068
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,319
Speaker 2: a guard obviously, who I think can be you can

1069
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:40,280
Speaker 2: plug in and be a factor for a long period

1070
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 2: of time. I would take the Matherine name has come

1071
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 2: up previously with Johnny just alone. I don't know if

1072
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 2: that's very realistic either, because the beauty of that is

1073
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,560
Speaker 2: it fills a position of need. Right, Yes, And in

1074
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,879
Speaker 2: some of the speculative deals we would end up with,

1075
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 2: the two pieces we would end up with would be

1076
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 2: honest and Drew Holliday.

1077
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:03,399
Speaker 5: Correct, that's the deal in which Portland is the third team, Yes,

1078
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 5: in the athletic was the one that put down Orlander Wolves.

1079
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 5: And who's the other team?

1080
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: Milwaukee?

1081
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 5: Milwaukee obviously, Yeah, exactly, so, and Mike Conley would be

1082
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,800
Speaker 5: going to port Cony would go, Yeah, that's exactly.

1083
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: Jane would be going to Portland.

1084
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 5: Speaking of the Pacers real quick, did you see the

1085
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 5: Tyrese Haliburton Lebron James clip that's been circulating this week?

1086
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:21,319
Speaker 1: I think it's from this week.

1087
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 5: Haliburn's obviously out, but he was on the Olympic team,

1088
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 5: you know, last year, and didn't get whenever that was right,

1089
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four.

1090
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:30,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't get to play.

1091
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 5: Yes, And he'd never told the story before about the

1092
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:36,839
Speaker 5: team meeting where they're getting ready to go and all

1093
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 5: twelve of them are in there and and Steve Kerr

1094
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:40,719
Speaker 5: is doing, hey, look we got twelve guys. You're not

1095
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:42,320
Speaker 5: all going to get to play. It's that meeting that

1096
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 5: they have to do every year, and Lebron spoke and

1097
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 5: KD spoke, we're all stars, and Haliburton was kind of

1098
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:49,359
Speaker 5: picking at the beginning. He goes, well, I wonder who

1099
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 5: they're talking about. And he says, as the meeting is

1100
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 5: going along and they're watching film, he's like, oh no,

1101
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:58,319
Speaker 5: they're talking about me. I'm the guy that's not going

1102
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 5: to play. He's like, I'm dead. It's all I thought.

1103
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 5: It was Celtics guy who didn't play well.

1104
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 2: He didn't play much. Either of them didn't. Yeah, I

1105
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 2: guess you're right, that's true. But how it was so good?

1106
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 2: That's well played. It's just so funny. He's like, wait

1107
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 2: a second, it's me.

1108
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 5: He's in't like the first meeting before they go, that's

1109
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 5: pretty and that's brilliant. And then he had the greatest

1110
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 5: tweet of all time when he had his gold medal

1111
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 5: on the plane or wherever it was and said, when you

1112
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 5: didn't do anything for the group project and you still

1113
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 5: get an A which is just amazing self awareness. Yes

1114
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 5: it is, and it seems to be a very selfible

1115
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:28,840
Speaker 5: it does. He seems like a good dude.

1116
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's for sure.

1117
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 2: What about a four team trade in which at the

1118
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 2: end of the day we end up with Giannis and

1119
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:36,880
Speaker 2: Kobe White?

1120
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I'd entertain that. I mean at Kobe White.

1121
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 2: The ard part with him is it's one of those

1122
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 2: players I think you got to see every night.

1123
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 1: But he intrigues me.

1124
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,439
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't really think he's a point guard,

1125
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 2: and they don't really think he's a scoring guard. But

1126
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 2: it looks to me like he's a good basketball player.

1127
00:54:57,040 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 2: I don't think defensively he's anything special right now, but

1128
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 2: I don't.

1129
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 5: Like the flopping inside. Have to get you yeah you

1130
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 5: yeah that I put myself on record there. We'd clean

1131
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 5: them up. Yeah, you find a way.

1132
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:12,719
Speaker 2: Conley, Tim Conley has said and Finchy deprogramming ethical basketball.

1133
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:13,839
Speaker 1: That's what we play around here.

1134
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:16,799
Speaker 2: Deepro Well, that's tonight one of the what's the what's

1135
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:23,399
Speaker 2: the Vegas odds on Finchy being tossed tonight because Big

1136
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:25,400
Speaker 2: News the last time was that the last time.

1137
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 5: We played the Thunder I think it was, yeah. And

1138
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 5: if it was the last time they played him here, yeah,

1139
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 5: I remember that. Well, it's already a schedule loss for us,

1140
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 5: right because we played in Dallas last night. So to

1141
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 5: Oklahoma City. Oh, I think Oklahoma City played last night.

1142
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 5: There's the box. Did they play well?

1143
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:42,919
Speaker 2: Obviously they played on the well, they might have played

1144
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:44,239
Speaker 2: at home. I don't know, do they play at home.

1145
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:46,359
Speaker 2: Let me pull up for sure here and see where

1146
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 2: they were at. They're six and a half point favorites. Okay,

1147
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:50,239
Speaker 2: I did see that. That which is interesting to me.

1148
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 2: I don't even know how those things are set up

1149
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:53,440
Speaker 2: at this time. I haven't watched them lately because they

1150
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:55,840
Speaker 2: went through that weird stretch where they were five hundred

1151
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:57,320
Speaker 2: for a while and now they recovered.

1152
00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 1: Are they back? I have thirty eight ten, still a

1153
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:01,959
Speaker 1: pretty good record.

1154
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:03,800
Speaker 5: Is it today? Maybe they didn't play last night? I

1155
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 5: thought it is the twenty fifth. They played the Pelotons recently,

1156
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 5: the Pals.

1157
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, the twenty ninth is today, I wonder, So we

1158
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:15,800
Speaker 2: got the schedule loss going for are we healthy? Rudy

1159
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,400
Speaker 2: was questioning toy on the Edward what what's the foot?

1160
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 2: What is it is it? Is it an infection? I

1161
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,399
Speaker 2: thought it was an infection And what does that even mean?

1162
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 2: I'm not sure he needs to.

1163
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 1: Wash his feet.

1164
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 2: He got to keep his feet clean. Maybe yeah, that's

1165
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:35,720
Speaker 2: how these things start. Yeah, well, uh we need him,

1166
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 2: I think, right.

1167
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a schedule loss for us. Yeah, I'd

1168
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,279
Speaker 1: be scheduld be set up for that. There's just there's

1169
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:41,479
Speaker 1: only so much that we could do.

1170
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:44,319
Speaker 5: Well in another national game at like midnight. Yeah, it's

1171
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:46,640
Speaker 5: another right game, isn't it. Yeah, that's true. That's the

1172
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 5: tough part.

1173
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:47,359
Speaker 1: True.

1174
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:49,719
Speaker 2: Well, for whether it's for whatever it's worth it what

1175
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 2: you talked about earlier. Kendrick Perkins in laying out his

1176
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 2: top five teams who need be honest the most, he

1177
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:58,399
Speaker 2: had the Terribles number one. Now, you could say that's

1178
00:56:58,400 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 2: a little bit of a rip that he feels like

1179
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 2: if they don't make a move that big, they're not

1180
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 2: going to get back to the Western Conference finals. Or

1181
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:06,839
Speaker 2: it could be a compliment that if you add them,

1182
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:08,320
Speaker 2: they'd be in good position.

1183
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 1: A Texter brought this up. I mentioned this much earlier

1184
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:12,280
Speaker 1: in the show.

1185
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 2: The complicating factor, which apparently is not getting in the

1186
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 2: way of the wolves interest and other team's interest, is

1187
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 2: he's not Hell, he's injured right now, and I think

1188
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 2: he's supposed to be out.

1189
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 1: Of like two more weeks.

1190
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 2: So maybe it's but maybe it's the kind of injury

1191
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 2: that we don't think is going to linger. I don't know,

1192
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:31,600
Speaker 2: but right now he's sitting. So if you got him

1193
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 2: right for the deadline, my guess is he's not going

1194
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 2: to play for you for a little bit while, a

1195
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:37,560
Speaker 2: little while, and I hope it's not the kind of

1196
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 2: injury that might be chronic or that if you come

1197
00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 2: back too soon. Wasn't it a calf I thought that

1198
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 2: they aren't we scared of calf injuries.

1199
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: Well we should be, because that's what they say leads

1200
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 1: to achilles. That's it. That's the thing, that is what

1201
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 1: they say, And yes, it is a calf injury.

1202
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 2: All right, we'll come back, wrap things up and remind

1203
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 2: you about tomorrow's outstanding lineup.

1204
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:06,000
Speaker 5: Show represented by American Pressure commercial grade Pressure Washers since

1205
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 5: nineteen seventy five.

1206
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: It's the bumper to bumper show rap.

1207
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:21,439
Speaker 2: I think one of the open questions about Giannis would

1208
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 2: be how adamant he gets about where he wants to

1209
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 2: where he wants to land, right, I mean, logically, I

1210
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 2: wouldn't think he'd be militant about this being the only

1211
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:35,320
Speaker 2: place he would consider.

1212
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 1: But that's one of the theories.

1213
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 2: It's been advanced that he's going to have a lot

1214
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:42,720
Speaker 2: of say and a lot of power.

1215
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 1: The Bucks know it. That's the way these things usually work.

1216
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 2: And therefore, if he makes it clear that's a direction

1217
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 2: he wants to go, maybe it makes it more likely

1218
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 2: that the Wolves could find a path or that the

1219
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 2: Bucks would be willing to play ball with this team.

1220
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 2: But again, I think realistically you're going to have to

1221
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 2: include at least one other team, maybe maybe two, And

1222
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 2: that does make it more complicated because the assumption is

1223
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:08,240
Speaker 2: the Bucks are going to want not just players, but

1224
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 2: they're gonna want draft picks as well. And between the

1225
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:13,480
Speaker 2: Gobar deal, didn't we give up one for Dilly too?

1226
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 1: Oh? You did that? That's that all enters into that decision.

1227
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 1: So stay tuned. Got one in the cat trade, used

1228
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:22,480
Speaker 1: it on be.

1229
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:26,360
Speaker 2: That's true and that, but it looks that looks very promising.

1230
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:27,919
Speaker 2: It looks like he's got a chance down the road

1231
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:31,840
Speaker 2: to be very very good. So I think I think

1232
00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 2: it's a story that is legitimately worth watching. I don't

1233
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 2: think this is just sort of like what it was, reckless. Oh,

1234
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:41,720
Speaker 2: we want to every every you know, franchise wants to

1235
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:45,680
Speaker 2: think they're on the verge of getting him. There's interest

1236
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 2: from the Wolves, and apparently there is at least a

1237
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 2: belief on the other side that Giannis has the Wols

1238
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 2: on the list of teams that he would be very

1239
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 2: interested in in in in going to. So everybody kind

1240
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:02,080
Speaker 2: of assumed, I think my Miami because they're desperate situation

1241
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:05,120
Speaker 2: and it's Miami, right, but maybe that maybe honestly didn't

1242
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 2: care about that kind of non say, hell, he's been

1243
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:07,440
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee forever.

1244
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 1: I was going to say, this should be an easy

1245
01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: sell for him. That's very very true, David. He knows

1246
01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 1: the markets.

1247
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:15,440
Speaker 2: If you missed the earlier parts of the program, it

1248
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:18,840
Speaker 2: will be podcastable as always, And we chatted with former

1249
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:22,520
Speaker 2: Minnesota Governor Arnie Carlson, who definitely got a lot of

1250
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 2: people's attention, at least via the text line that was

1251
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:29,959
Speaker 2: between three point thirty and at four o'clock today, Lure

1252
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 2: Goose gave us some good extra time between four fifteen

1253
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 2: and four to thirty on the Home and Press conference

1254
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:38,959
Speaker 2: today and sort of the larger meaning of what trying

1255
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 2: to as he said, read the tea, leaves on where

1256
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:44,720
Speaker 2: we're at here and if is there any substantive change

1257
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:49,200
Speaker 2: or is it the beginning of a of a ramp,

1258
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 2: you know, an off ramp that at least will make

1259
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 2: it well. Holman has said our plan is to go

1260
01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:59,640
Speaker 2: back to going after individuals with a criminal record. Do

1261
01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:02,280
Speaker 2: they mean it or is that just part of the rhetoric,

1262
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:04,960
Speaker 2: Because if they mean it, I think that would go

1263
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 2: a long way towards at least lessening a lot of

1264
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:11,040
Speaker 2: the controversy and the tension. Whether it ends it or not,

1265
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 2: that may depend on just how bored with the story

1266
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 2: the president gets, because if he gets bored with a story,

1267
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 2: he just you know, he's capable of I'm done, and

1268
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 2: we'll quietly move on to the next and we'll pretend

1269
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 2: we did what we wanted to do.

1270
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:25,040
Speaker 1: Right.

1271
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 2: That's the beauty with Trump is he can walk away

1272
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 2: at any time because he can just say we got what,

1273
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:32,400
Speaker 2: we did what we wanted to we got the attention

1274
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 2: people we wanted to and now we're out, so we'll

1275
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 2: see where that goes. But that was between four fifteen

1276
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 2: to four to thirty. And to Russo from the Arena

1277
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:45,240
Speaker 2: formerly known as the X, he joined at five o'clock

1278
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 2: today wild or on the fan tonight. In fact, six

1279
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:50,480
Speaker 2: forty five is when the pregame show will begin. The

1280
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 2: Calgary Flames, the mediocre Flames, the opponent tonight.

1281
01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:56,560
Speaker 1: I asked russofa was loser proof.

1282
01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 2: He said, that's too dangerous for this team this year,

1283
01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 2: but a good opportunity to pick up a couple more

1284
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 2: points as as well.

1285
01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:08,360
Speaker 5: We will also join Wolves Thunder. It's on the timber

1286
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:11,400
Speaker 5: Olves channel of your iHeartRadio app. Per usual every game is,

1287
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 5: but we will join that game already in progress, following

1288
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 5: Kevin Fallness's nice, extremely long postgame show. Okay, so I'm

1289
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:22,320
Speaker 5: assuming no prediction segment tomorrow because it's an off week, correct,

1290
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:27,600
Speaker 5: So that's out. Ben Gesling probably will join, and Lavelle

1291
01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 5: with maybe underwear.

1292
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:30,880
Speaker 1: Tips for Russo Radio.

1293
01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:36,000
Speaker 2: Russo about to head to Italy for the Winter Olympics.

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Speaker 2: We're going to try to have him on early and

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Speaker 2: often from there. I should have asked him, but I

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Speaker 2: is it stating the obvious that all he's covering there

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Speaker 2: is hockey.

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Speaker 1: Yes, he's not going to get out on doing any

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Speaker 1: alpine work. I don't think so.

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Speaker 5: But I think he specifically is covering women's hockey.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's right.

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Speaker 5: He told us that because he's been tracking them in

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Speaker 5: the rivalry series as they've gone along.

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Speaker 1: He's been on that for a while.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and as he said, hell, there might be some

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Speaker 2: trade otiations done there right between the big shots who

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Speaker 2: are there, executives who are there, and and Billy Garran.

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Speaker 1: So I think he said he.

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Speaker 2: Was leaving Monday text Garan soon direct just to get

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Speaker 2: on the board. Although I assume you can get text

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Speaker 2: in Italy too, Bill garin Ken, Yeah, probably he's gonna

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Speaker 2: need to. You might have a poor cell phone guy.

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Speaker 2: I mean there's a bunch of there's the executives all

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Speaker 2: have like two or three or four of them, don't they.

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Speaker 1: Some of them?

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Speaker 6: Do?

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Speaker 1: I feel like he's a one cell phone?

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Speaker 4: He is?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, happy, I do, all right, doesn't he because he's

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Speaker 2: not nonsense? Yeah, that's true most of the time.

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Speaker 1: You're right.

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Speaker 2: Plus he'd five, I'll lose the other one and I

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Speaker 2: can't keep track of one phone from the other. That's

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Speaker 2: what I'm thinking. You might be right about that. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for listening today. Thank you for watching today. Most

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Speaker 2: of all, thank you for hitting the making the bratchan

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Speaker 2: Brian Kaffean text line a thing of utter beauty today

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow three o'clock. Right here in

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Speaker 1: the fan change his pace, be happy, enjoy it man.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean boy? This is a big, big package.