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Speaker 3: You ever floating a hot tub down the Mississippi River?
Speaker 5: Oh no, but we did a story on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's happening right.
Speaker 5: This looks like fun m M Minnesota hot Tub Boats
Speaker 5: or something like that.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 3: I was hoping that I might be giving you a story.
Speaker 3: I did, but way late on the last week go.
Speaker 3: A new Minneapolis business is betting plenty of people want
Speaker 3: to find out how it feels to float down the
Speaker 3: river in a hot tub. Minnesota hot Tub Boats launched
Speaker 3: this past weekend at Boom Island Park, offering ninety minute
Speaker 3: cruises aboard floating hot tubs on the Mississippi River. Electric
Speaker 3: hot tub boat fits up to six people and travel
Speaker 3: at five miles pro They cruise a roughly mile long
Speaker 3: stretch of the river between Nicolatte Island and the Broadway
Speaker 3: Street Bridge.
Speaker 4: Well that's sweet, I'm watching the video. Yeah that's cool.
Speaker 4: It's a good idea. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you get a safety briefing. I wonder if
Speaker 3: you can. Uh, I'm just gonna say it. Can you
Speaker 3: get it on?
Speaker 2: Sure? I mean sure, yeah.
Speaker 5: I think they have like a they have like the
Speaker 5: little what they called geo fences, so like you you know,
Speaker 5: like what to avoid in the river and all that stuff,
Speaker 5: and then they have like a GPS tracker so you
Speaker 5: don't go too far.
Speaker 2: But outside of that, I mean, yes, there's no camera.
Speaker 2: Who's driving this boat? You can't.
Speaker 5: You can hire a captain, or you can do what
Speaker 5: you're sa saving interesting uh huh yeah, Tommy Lee, I'm
Speaker 5: just gonna be shooting dice.
Speaker 2: I don't care what you guys do.
Speaker 3: Well, I see what you're saying. You'll be in there
Speaker 3: just a tank care room business. That's the shooting dice.
Speaker 2: Just like gambling.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you probably, I mean for the right price, hire
Speaker 5: Bright McKinney if you want.
Speaker 2: Ye, will he perform my services? Say he's willing to perform.
Speaker 5: You look more like a smooth guy. Well, yeah, I suppose,
Speaker 5: I suppose you're right.
Speaker 2: I believe. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, like, yeah, he wasn't really performing,
Speaker 5: I mean he was, I guess he was, Yes, he was.
Speaker 3: I think he was performing service.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, right, yes, you're right, thank.
Speaker 3: You, I think thank you. Minnesota city is are racing
Speaker 3: to expand a new kind of emergency response system, one
Speaker 3: where the first officer to arrive at a nine to
Speaker 3: one one call may not be a person at all.
Speaker 3: Across the Twin cities metro police departments are rolling out
Speaker 3: drone as first responder programs. It's an unmanned aircraft ahead
Speaker 3: of police, fire or other emergency crews. The drones can
Speaker 3: reach scenes in less than two minutes, live stream footage
Speaker 3: to responding officers, and in some cases, determine whether anybody
Speaker 3: even needs to be dispatched.
Speaker 2: That's brilliant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, h Minnetonka already has logged more than six hundred
Speaker 3: drone flights since launching the program last year, which I
Speaker 3: can't believe. I didn't know this. How do you not
Speaker 3: see drones everywhere? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 3: Dinah and Bloomington are testing similar systems. Brooklyn Park approved
Speaker 3: a four point six million dollar network of autonomous drones
Speaker 3: designed to cover the city, and Minneapolis officials are considering
Speaker 3: their own pilot program. The rapid expansion carries obvious tactical
Speaker 3: appeal for departments eager for information before officers arrive at
Speaker 3: a scene.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: So that's be a fad, ass, let's do it.
Speaker 6: I think Ben's TV station did a story on Minatanka's
Speaker 6: deal a couple of months ago, and they were showing
Speaker 6: how it works and yeah, the ability to just send
Speaker 6: a camera out there and be faster than any car
Speaker 6: or any other thing could and it's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I feel like, yeah, I feel like
Speaker 5: they're yeah, hmm. I think this is more of like
Speaker 5: a maybe this specific incident is not a not a
Speaker 5: big deal. It's almost like like what this could lead
Speaker 5: to is kind of the way I would think about it.
Speaker 3: Like RoboCop.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a little bit like.
Speaker 7: Again, think of the ability to assess what's happening and
Speaker 7: what's needed. I mean privacy, who I don't know. I
Speaker 7: don't want people spying on me either, But if I'm
Speaker 7: in some kind of an emergency situation and some drones
Speaker 7: flying over and assessing the situation and know what's needed, I'm.
Speaker 2: Struggling to find a downside. But I'm sure somebody will
Speaker 2: kind of complain.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I think it probably just is more like is
Speaker 5: this going to be used just for regular law enforcement?
Speaker 5: And then are they we just gonna have drones flying
Speaker 5: over all the time because as they go from point
Speaker 5: to point B, they're gonna be have they're gonna have
Speaker 5: to see all the things along the way.
Speaker 7: And it's like, well then stop nude sunbathing.
Speaker 3: You need to what you heard Roe said?
Speaker 2: Okay, your star, dear.
Speaker 3: Mister John, please get help.
Speaker 8: You're fine, Yeah, you're yeah, thanks, caught in this m right,
Speaker 8: see playoffs correct.
Speaker 3: I'm not creative songs for Luke bryan.
Speaker 4: Oh that's it's so bad. I wish I did, and
Speaker 4: I have no talent, but my god, that's ever put together.
Speaker 2: See that's self awareness, that talent. Yeah, thank you. We're
Speaker 2: all glad that you finally to go zero.
Speaker 3: Good for you.
Speaker 5: But either because Luke Bryant, Saucy Noriega, I like that.
Speaker 4: Oh is that the guy that died? Sure, sure we'll
Speaker 4: take one of them. We've gone too soon.
Speaker 3: Southwest Airlines reversing course on its plus sized passenger policy. Uh,
Speaker 3: the discount carrier were no longer required plus sized customers
Speaker 3: to book an extra seat in advance.
Speaker 5: That's a huge bitch.
Speaker 2: Why did you hit that?
Speaker 4: Oh that that's the captain When you see sus getting on.
Speaker 3: Jus, Melinda. We love the job you're doing, but please
Speaker 3: stop saying that.
Speaker 5: It's like a dollar an hour.
Speaker 1: We Linda must be pretty good at her job if
Speaker 1: that's all she's getting calling it.
Speaker 2: Fast right, well, she's saying it into.
Speaker 3: The radio and the whole she's just standing at the
Speaker 3: end of the jetway letting, letting the pilot know.
Speaker 7: I'm just imagining that the David Spade character from the nineties.
Speaker 2: Bye bye guy, huge.
Speaker 7: Only job he has. That's Southwest. Huh so you have
Speaker 7: reverse course they have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, that's right. Gate agents will now assign an
Speaker 3: extra seat for free if available, or work to get
Speaker 3: the customer on the later flight. Southwest says the change
Speaker 3: aims to create a more consistent and seamless experience. Yeah, okay, whatever. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And lastly, Google wants to release thirty two million mosquitoes
Speaker 3: in California and Florida as part of its debug program,
Speaker 3: but first it needs approval from the federal government. The
Speaker 3: initiative looks to stop bad bugs with good bugs by
Speaker 3: releasing hordes of sterile mosquitos to eliminate ones that carry disease.
Speaker 3: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says mosquitos are
Speaker 3: the deadliest animal in the whole wide world.
Speaker 2: True yeah, yeah, true true story.
Speaker 3: Google scientists say their eradication approach uses data analytics, sensors,
Speaker 3: and automation to scale the sterile insect technique.
Speaker 7: Now, can we find a way to train these mosquitoes
Speaker 7: to somehow kill the pythons in Florida?
Speaker 2: That would break great?
Speaker 7: Correct, Yeah, just like some kind of a snake poison
Speaker 7: that the rest of us are immune to. So like,
Speaker 7: if it bites us, we're fine. But if it gets
Speaker 7: like swallowed by a.
Speaker 2: Snake or if it you know, I don't know. I
Speaker 2: don't know how. I have a lot of good ideas.
Speaker 2: He's listening.
Speaker 5: I don't know how I feel about genetically modified animals.
Speaker 2: Oh, I couldn't be more in favor of, like King con.
Speaker 2: I saw a.
Speaker 3: Picture on my magazine here, dude, I don't know if
Speaker 3: you've seen this yet, Corey, maybe you have not. Let
Speaker 3: me look here in my Rolling Storm magazine. I just
Speaker 3: haven't turned the right page.
Speaker 4: You know what these are?
Speaker 2: Those are the dire wolves.
Speaker 3: Those are real life dire wolves they created. Man, I
Speaker 3: haven't seen those.
Speaker 4: Do you still get better? Do I win still get
Speaker 4: better homes and gardens, I get.
Speaker 3: Worse homes and gardens. Now, for people who.
Speaker 7: Remember that, the guy, the guy that runs that company
Speaker 7: was the guy that was asked on TV like could
Speaker 7: you make a unicorn if you wanted to? And he's like, well, yeah,
Speaker 7: but then I'm gonna catch a bunch of hells.
Speaker 3: What's not worth it existed?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 7: But he said he could basically modify one to have
Speaker 7: a horn, Like, they could do it if they really
Speaker 7: really wanted to.
Speaker 2: It wouldn't be a flying one, but it would be
Speaker 2: a unicorn.
Speaker 3: This whole article is that guy you're talking about, Ben Lamb?
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 5: I don't know Lamb.
Speaker 2: Anyway, maybe the whole article that's famous for poker, but.
Speaker 3: Science startup Colossal is on a mission to make animals productionized,
Speaker 3: getting rid of the need for eggs or wombs.
Speaker 4: What.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they're gonna make They're gonna make animal meat
Speaker 3: without being animals artificial wombs. You know what I've got.
Speaker 5: Again?
Speaker 2: I don't like I don't like all this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and if I understand that whole thing correctly, it's
Speaker 5: it's like less than one percent actual dire wolf or
Speaker 5: something like that is that it's been. They've had to
Speaker 5: use so many other pieces of genetics from actual wolves
Speaker 5: and other other canees to make that that it's like
Speaker 5: barely a dire wolf and so it's a mutt wolf. Oh,
Speaker 5: it's a total mut wolf.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell that to the dire wolve's face.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm just glad somebody's finally putting some
Speaker 3: money into making really good, careful, careful fake wombs. Mine
Speaker 3: were out real quickly.
Speaker 5: You don't, Yeah, yeah, just like a flashlight y wow
Speaker 5: mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: Does it suction to the wall?
Speaker 3: How dare you ask weird questions?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You don't know where the line is.
Speaker 3: There's a line, dude, does it? Yeah? It does.
Speaker 2: I don't know, you guys, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Oh, like you know, I tell you what the What
Speaker 5: I saw on Instagram last night that I really want
Speaker 5: is a is a puma.
Speaker 2: There's a I don't know. I think she was like
Speaker 2: Ukrainian or something.
Speaker 5: She's got this whole Instagram page where she's got a
Speaker 5: black panther for a pet. God, it looks awesome. Really,
Speaker 5: wouldn't you want like a big cat for a pet?
Speaker 2: Especially if I was like Noriega.
Speaker 7: Right, Like if if you need to intimidate people who
Speaker 7: work directly for you, having a panther, puma, jaguar or whatever,
Speaker 7: that would be.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't want I don't want to lion because that'll
Speaker 5: like for sure eat me eventually.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like, well, like a cheetah or something.
Speaker 5: There's like there's a big cat, big African cat that
Speaker 5: actually is like friendly to humans, that's not aggressive to humans.
Speaker 5: It's one of them, Max max Is Max is a
Speaker 5: big cat that like that.
Speaker 2: Was my nickname in high school. Big African cat.
Speaker 5: Kind of a long moniker. But I guess it works.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: They're gonna make a giant South Island giant moa huh,
Speaker 3: which is a huge bit a bird that stood twelve
Speaker 3: foot tall and weighed five hundred pounds, had eggs the
Speaker 3: size of.
Speaker 5: The football cheeze.
Speaker 2: That's a huge bird. Can he offensive rebound from time
Speaker 2: to time? I mean like, can we trade him for Rudy? Yes?
Speaker 2: Whoa to one of these moas verry moa. Wow, that's
Speaker 2: a huge bird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's big old bird. They're gonna make all kinds
Speaker 3: of things happen.
Speaker 5: Though, see and The thing is, why, why why do
Speaker 5: we need this?
Speaker 3: Because they're delicious?
Speaker 5: I mean they would extinct for a reason though, right.
Speaker 7: Well, ninety nine point nine percent of all species that
Speaker 7: have ever lived on this planet are extinct.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we need to bring them back.
Speaker 2: Extinction is the norm. We're headed for it for sure. Sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe we have to stop our own extinction first. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well said, or maybe not screw it.
Speaker 7: Or maybe creating other things we can eat will extend.
Speaker 2: Our lives, right or that?
Speaker 7: Maybe we're headed towards ext extinction unless we make these
Speaker 7: moas and cut them up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's have some moa strips. Yeah right, moa caniac
Speaker 2: combo nose low extra toes with a beer please and
Speaker 2: a side of dire wolf. Oh boy, a moa omelet
Speaker 2: sounds amazing. Yeah, we just needed to make it real sauce.
Speaker 2: Would you eat a moa?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Sure, thanks, you couldn't need any less.
Speaker 4: Up come, that's good, that was brilliant.
Speaker 2: I'm on my way down. Man, I've lost nine pounds.
Speaker 5: Nice?
Speaker 9: Really are you speaking German?
Speaker 2: I've lost you nine whole pounds or what? He cares?
Speaker 3: You got a big old hole on you.
Speaker 2: It is your dad dare you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, there you go.
Speaker 3: I can't find anything more about whether how much of
Speaker 3: the dire Wolf is actual dire Wolf. I'm looking through
Speaker 3: the article, but I'm not good reading.
Speaker 5: That's all right. It looks like a big article.
Speaker 2: Small words, yeah, really small letters.
Speaker 3: No. I love magazine articles, but I hate it when
Speaker 3: they're seventeen pages long.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think if I started the magazine, every article would
Speaker 3: be one page nothing more. You better figure it out
Speaker 3: and get to the point.
Speaker 5: See when you showed me that article. Yeah, the letters. Look,
Speaker 5: the font is so small. Yeah that I would just
Speaker 5: I would never read that. I would never take the
Speaker 5: time to read that. It is because it would feel
Speaker 5: like I'm getting nowhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is tough.
Speaker 2: Let's see, uh sway for the movie. Yeah, wait for
Speaker 2: the movie. Correct. M.
Speaker 3: The wolves were joined on their private two thousand and
Speaker 3: acre preserved by a third diar Wolf, their cloned sister Calisi.
Speaker 3: Oh that's very sweet.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: Anyway, yeah, so there you go. They're making things. I'm
Speaker 3: bringing it back to life. I for one would like
Speaker 3: to see Jimmy Hendricks again.
Speaker 2: Yeah. See why don't we do that? Yeah? We just
Speaker 2: clone humans? Is ted Williams still frozen. Yeah, a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of people.
Speaker 5: Are you can clone Noriega?
Speaker 2: Would you clone wrap? Who would I cal him? Jane's Mansfields? Damn, Sorry,
Speaker 2: I set up wrong. Man. That's cool, man, that's all right.
Speaker 2: Are you doing great? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Would you guys ever clone a pet back?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, I.
Speaker 3: Don't think so. There's a lot of doggies and kiddies
Speaker 3: out there.
Speaker 2: What's the animal Hawk just let leave his house?
Speaker 5: Moose?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the cat.
Speaker 3: You can't prove that.
Speaker 2: What if Mose has become just a massive beast in
Speaker 2: the woods.
Speaker 7: He also let that cat out about thirty seven years
Speaker 7: ago forever.
Speaker 2: Man, I don't know.
Speaker 5: In the wild, they can live a lot longer.
Speaker 3: I can, man, That's why I let her out. She
Speaker 3: needs to live long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she wanted to explore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, poor moose getting some tail.
Speaker 2: Wow. What if she got stepped on by a moose
Speaker 2: and like five seconds after Hawk let it?
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, this was ironic.
Speaker 2: That would be absolutely if there was a moose in
Speaker 2: Maple Grow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh my god, you guys you see the bear
Speaker 5: breaking news?
Speaker 3: Did you see it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's two blocks from my house. I treat two
Speaker 5: streets over a black bear. I saw the ring camp. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 5: yeah it was.
Speaker 3: It was sent to yeah to ask you about that
Speaker 3: because I think I had to be near you.
Speaker 5: So is that in the news, Yeah, it was in
Speaker 5: the news. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. How big of a bear are we talking here?
Speaker 2: I mean a big cuddly guy. I mean, but I mean.
Speaker 5: Exactly based on what I saw now, it was not
Speaker 5: on his two feet. I'd probably say if it was
Speaker 5: six foot and about uh four fifty huge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look at that black bear. Look at that bastard.
Speaker 2: What was he doing? Just wandering?
Speaker 5: Just wandering around, wander around?
Speaker 2: Leave them alone. He's fine.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean you probably you probably eats.
Speaker 2: Like he's looking for moose.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably hanging out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's two streets over from where. I'm so excited, man,
Speaker 5: I want to see this thing.
Speaker 2: Is that why you left?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Because you knew a bear was on its way? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 4: left from other reasons, but yeah, that's one of them. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the bear, the bears on the loose.
Speaker 3: Man, you left from other reasons, Zach, What do you.
Speaker 2: Think of this bear? I mean I've seen better bears,
Speaker 2: especially you Dinah mean, my god.
Speaker 7: Jeez, So Ben, between now and when you go home.
Speaker 7: Are you going to stop somewhere and get bear bells?
Speaker 7: They're only like a dollar?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I might have to.
Speaker 5: I might have put the bear bells on our dogs
Speaker 5: when we go for walks, exactly. Carry bear spray with
Speaker 5: me now, yeah, yeah, But the black bears are nice bears.
Speaker 5: They're not the brown bears, brown bears, aggressive black bears,
Speaker 5: Cudley soft.
Speaker 3: I bet they all you too, though you don't think
Speaker 3: they won't. Let me check it out. Let me say
Speaker 3: how many times the black bears have eating somebody?
Speaker 4: No, they are not inherently mean. Yeah, see they're nice.
Speaker 4: They are timidus DNA would be nice to it. Don't
Speaker 4: don't shoot it right?
Speaker 3: Well, black bear attacks are and consumptions are incredibly rare.
Speaker 3: There are documentary instance of black bear's attacking and consuming humans,
Speaker 3: but the odds of being preyed upon by black bear
Speaker 3: roughly one in a million. That ain't so bad, not
Speaker 3: so bad? How many people live in a Dina?
Speaker 2: Oh fifty? You're good then, don't not good? Like green?
Speaker 2: Great film? More like one under than millions?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Got it all and.
Speaker 2: I read it. So you're telling me there's a chance.
Speaker 4: Just yeah, that's such a possible, It's not zero nope.
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Speaker 3: NASCAR report. William Sawalach, our good friend. Third place in
Speaker 3: Nashville this weekend. Hell yeah, yeah, great right for Williams
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Speaker 3: ninth in the standings, up three spots to ninth in
Speaker 3: the standings in the O'Reilly Auto Parts Series after the
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Speaker 3: everybody Starky. By the way, last night's race was rained delayed,
Speaker 3: but Denny Hamlin ended up winning the NASCAR Cup Series
Speaker 3: race in Nashville.
Speaker 1: Denny Hamlin, everybody three wide for the lead at the
Speaker 1: at the white flag.
Speaker 2: It was a hell of a hell of a race.
Speaker 3: Who's break? Cal aren't going to explode? That's the question.
Speaker 3: Oh man, they had a lot of crashes last night
Speaker 3: because it breaks. That was that right, and a lot
Speaker 3: of them, Yeah, just exploded with flames is.
Speaker 2: Did any handle them?
Speaker 7: Like fifty years old at this point, it feels like
Speaker 7: that's a name that's been around.
Speaker 2: He's been around for a long time. Yeah, I like
Speaker 2: that guy forty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he owns that team with Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys ever.
Speaker 3: Heard that guy?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And Steve Lombardosi.
Speaker 3: Steve's not a part of it anymore. They fired him
Speaker 3: why because of his mustache. That's so, you're right for
Speaker 3: some five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's time for a fan five on the power Trip.
Speaker 4: We could talk about the Vikings things in Vikings News,
Speaker 4: but hawk, Yes, the NFL season starts one hundred days
Speaker 4: from today with the Patriots at Seattle in a Super
Speaker 4: Bowl rematch Wednesday, September ninth.
Speaker 2: Just live in the moment. Are we're going one hundred
Speaker 2: days away?
Speaker 3: In the moment, looking forward to one hundred days from now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which means if that's one hundred days away, don't
Speaker 2: say it. Preseason football is even closer.
Speaker 3: That's right, baby, Yes, oh jeez.
Speaker 4: The NFL Hall of Fame Game Hawk is Thursday, August
Speaker 4: sixth at seven o'clock. Yeah, that guy loves it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we'll be there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we lost twenty bucks, as you won't be.
Speaker 4: I don't want to better because there's things change. Right,
Speaker 4: where's things change change? Yeah, there's things change.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: Max doesn't sit to next well played. Uh, Maxo cares
Speaker 4: about this, and as do I. Caleb Williams will be
Speaker 4: on the cover of Madden twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2: Rip his knee and or ankle?
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: The Spurs beat the Thunder one eleven, one zero three
Speaker 4: to advance to the Final Let's go Or. They will
Speaker 4: face the Knicks on Wednesday at seven thirty. The first
Speaker 4: two games will be in San Antonio. The Spurs Maxo,
Speaker 4: are a five and a half point favorite in Game one.
Speaker 9: Yeah, thank god they ended that uprising dictatorship that we
Speaker 9: know as the Oklahoma City Thunder. Nobody wanted to watch
Speaker 9: that In the NBA Finals, the Spurs, they're gonna be
Speaker 9: the favorites, but they're certainly not unbeatable, and I think
Speaker 9: it's gonna be a way more even series than had
Speaker 9: the Thunder advance, and it's gonna be all it's gonna
Speaker 9: be a lot of fun too, just insane fan bases.
Speaker 9: I mean, New York might sink into the ocean if
Speaker 9: the Knicks somehow find a way to actually beat the Spurs.
Speaker 9: But man, that game, that Game seven, that whole series
Speaker 9: was just everything it was advertised to be. And I
Speaker 9: mean Victor we and Binyama took over and you could
Speaker 9: see how much admitted to him at the end. Man,
Speaker 9: I mean he just burst into tears right away. That
Speaker 9: whole team. They just have such a I know, we
Speaker 9: didn't like him personally when they beat the Wolves, it
Speaker 9: wasn't the cleanest basketball, but it seems like they kind
Speaker 9: of got back to their ethical hoops in this series,
Speaker 9: and they just have such a bond, man. And they're
Speaker 9: a deep team, and they're not like these manufactured super
Speaker 9: teams that we've seen, you know, over the last decade
Speaker 9: or so. They built it from the ground up with
Speaker 9: just really good draft picks and everybody, all their superstars
Speaker 9: are like twenty four to twenty five and under it's insane.
Speaker 9: They're gonna be here for a really really long time.
Speaker 9: And it was it was so much fun and uh,
Speaker 9: you know, bleep the thunder.
Speaker 2: You guys cheering for Wemby or cheering for Cat. Wemby,
Speaker 2: Cat don't care. I'd be happy either way.
Speaker 9: But Wemby, you just you kind of want to see
Speaker 9: a great playoff run like he's had, get get rewarded,
Speaker 9: you know, especially in the NBA with they'll bring culture
Speaker 9: thing he might never with his you know he could.
Speaker 9: He's gigantic. He's not gonna stay healthy probably forever. So
Speaker 9: you want to see him geting.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna be telling him he'll be out of
Speaker 3: the league.
Speaker 2: Twenty years to get plenty of rings here. Wemby have
Speaker 2: a game.
Speaker 4: One of the Stanley Cup Final is tomorrow, Z echo
Speaker 4: at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3: Play somebody answer his question when don't we have? Does
Speaker 3: anybody know the answer?
Speaker 4: I can't wait. I'm gonna watch it. I'm excited, you're excited.
Speaker 4: I want Cat to win. I like Kat.
Speaker 2: Kat's a good person. I hope he wins.
Speaker 9: I think Cat will be actually him versus will be
Speaker 9: a unique little matchup.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, man, it'll be entertaining.
Speaker 5: I've gambled too much and loss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's only one way to get it back. Yeah, gambling.
Speaker 2: It's not hard work and effort.
Speaker 5: Yeah what, It's just like the slot machine, just just
Speaker 5: holding on to it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I gotta get some odds though. Why because the Spurs
Speaker 4: are the favorite. It's a seven game series. Anything can happens.
Speaker 4: It's the championships, anything can happen. No, yeah, thanks, I'm
Speaker 4: not letting you guys push being bullying me around.
Speaker 5: I'm not bullying you.
Speaker 2: Who do you think is going to win? Behaf When
Speaker 2: you have hold on, you don't need to your opinion.
Speaker 4: Who do you think is going to win? I think
Speaker 4: the Spurs? But I like the action. See you didn't
Speaker 4: think I was going to say that. Hold on here,
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 2: On the edge of my seat. Oh here, what are
Speaker 2: you looking up? The odds? Yeah? The Knicks are like
Speaker 2: plus one fifty plus one seventy. What's that mean? So
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy dollars? If you bet one hundred,
Speaker 2: you win one hundred and seventy. Uh No, I don't
Speaker 2: want to bet it.
Speaker 3: Hawk, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Basketball.
Speaker 7: Nay nine you already took your money, Yeah, I did,
Speaker 7: I got at right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Game one of the Stanley Cup finalists tomorrow at seven
Speaker 4: pm a zacho between the Vegas Golden Knights and the Hurricanes.
Speaker 4: Game one and two will be Carolina.
Speaker 1: They have the Hurricanes off to a twelve and one start,
Speaker 1: the best postseason start I think since in like fifty years.
Speaker 1: So they are just on fire right now. Just the
Speaker 1: one little slip up and otherwise they'd be perfect. They
Speaker 1: go up against John Tortorella, who's got some championship pedigree
Speaker 1: and has seemingly unlocked just this Golden Knight squad and
Speaker 1: turn them into an absolute powerhouse. So it's a compelling series.
Speaker 1: It will be really good hockey. The ratings will be awful,
Speaker 1: but you know we'll be well for how I mean,
Speaker 1: just not really big markets, either Vegas or Carolina.
Speaker 2: So hockey fans will love it.
Speaker 1: The casuals will probably miss it, and it doesn't matter beginning.
Speaker 1: It will be a lot of fun to watch and
Speaker 1: I think even listen on the fan. I think we
Speaker 1: got the some of those games on, if not all
Speaker 1: of them, on kfan.
Speaker 7: So Vegas' success obviously helps the idea of putting all
Speaker 7: four major sports teams in last Vegas. Right when they
Speaker 7: came out of the gates hot, then when you heard
Speaker 7: like the Raiders are.
Speaker 2: Going there, and the A's are going there, the NBA
Speaker 2: is going to get a team there, it's like cool.
Speaker 7: But now that they've had nine years and this is
Speaker 7: already their third Finals appearance, now it's it's almost a
Speaker 7: detriment to the Raiders that the Vegas Golden Knights are
Speaker 7: so good and everybody in Vegas is like, this is
Speaker 7: our team. They're not a team that moved here. This
Speaker 7: is our squad and all they do is win. The
Speaker 7: Raiders just like, can we have some fans? Can we
Speaker 7: have a couple of them?
Speaker 5: In?
Speaker 7: The A's are terrible, So when they show up, it's
Speaker 7: going to be another relocated team that suck, that don't
Speaker 7: spend money. Cool, it might be an unbelievable stadium, But
Speaker 7: that's why I think the NBA team when it shows
Speaker 7: up there is going to have a really good chance because.
Speaker 5: It's going to be new, because the expansion team, it's
Speaker 5: going to be theirs.
Speaker 7: Yeah, right, Everybody in Vegas says that that's the difference
Speaker 7: is that they think they like the Knights because it's theirs.
Speaker 2: It's not a borrowed team.
Speaker 5: I don't think the Raiders. The Raiders will never have
Speaker 5: a home field advantage ever, I don't I don't care
Speaker 5: if they win a Super Bowl. Their ticket prices and
Speaker 5: the transient nature of all the people that are there,
Speaker 5: there's there's no loyalty to the Raiders ever. I don't think.
Speaker 5: I think they're gonna be They're gonna have a big,
Speaker 5: fancy stadium, and they're gonna find themselves basically in the
Speaker 5: same situation they were in Oakland that after a number
Speaker 5: of years they're regular fans are they're gonna be priced out.
Speaker 5: They won't be able to just sell their tickets to
Speaker 5: all the incoming fans the visiting team, and it's gonna
Speaker 5: suck for them. Well, so it'll be great for us
Speaker 5: when we go visit because it'll be seventy percent Viking fans.
Speaker 7: It definitely was at that one game that was the
Speaker 7: most boring football game I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 7: It was the three nothing game. It was terrible, but
Speaker 7: it was mostly Vikings fans. Yeah, right, It was like
Speaker 7: sixty five thirty five kind of arrange something like that
Speaker 7: it was mostly Vikings fans unfortunately, because that was.
Speaker 2: That was brutal, right, Remember Jefferson went to the hospital. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: some of the worst, some of the.
Speaker 7: Worst quarterbacking I've ever seen. Yeah, and man three, nothing
Speaker 7: changes so much.
Speaker 4: If they lose that game, they have like a top
Speaker 4: five pick in that twenty twenty four draft, it changes
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 2: What a awful wind.
Speaker 7: He could set football back about fifty years. It feels
Speaker 7: like we started over after that. But anyway, we have
Speaker 7: a new GM we can talk about in this Man
Speaker 7: Vikings News after this this is.
Speaker 2: The power for money showing to think.
Speaker 5: From the way to your first floor.
Speaker 3: And it is time for Vikings News and there's plenty
Speaker 3: as Ben Leber is here to break down our brand
Speaker 3: new GM.
Speaker 2: Here's Ben, that's it.
Speaker 5: Honda is teed up.
Speaker 2: Everything we need to know. His entire life story, his
Speaker 2: entire life story.
Speaker 5: Well, he grew up in the Pacific Northwest and he
Speaker 5: is a foot country, Bigfoot country. He's probably seen the
Speaker 5: Sasquatch before, and we can maybe ask him that in
Speaker 5: this press conference.
Speaker 2: That's all I want to know now.
Speaker 5: And if he can find Sasquatch or knows where big
Speaker 5: Foot is can he play ball?
Speaker 3: Not a bad d line?
Speaker 2: You know, do people that live in the Pacific Northwest?
Speaker 7: Do they embrace the movie Harry and the Henderson's the
Speaker 7: way that Minnesotan's embraced like mighty Ducks or grumpy old
Speaker 7: men coach? Yeah, but just like you know, it's like
Speaker 7: they're very, very proud of it or is it an embarrassment?
Speaker 5: No, I think they're They should be. They should be
Speaker 5: proud of it.
Speaker 2: I think so. I think so too. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean what Utah hockey team was almost gonna be
Speaker 5: called the Yetti?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Good point. Then Paul, was your hand up? Well, Utah?
Speaker 2: Are you going to give me two?
Speaker 7: So, like I wonder if Nolan Teasley I would say,
Speaker 7: like Harry and the Henderson's is like a top five
Speaker 7: phone for him.
Speaker 2: Probably probably, well he better. I mean if you can't
Speaker 2: wait to meet him and ask him.
Speaker 5: If he doesn't, then first question, I'm probably not a
Speaker 5: fan exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well soon even if he even.
Speaker 5: If he's lying, he should just at least say to
Speaker 5: this fan base, it's top five.
Speaker 2: It's top five, right. It greatly molded the man that
Speaker 2: he was, and he's.
Speaker 7: Gonna he's gonna make his decisions based on his love
Speaker 7: of that film, like he wants offensive linemen, specifically with size,
Speaker 7: with strength, but with kind hearts like Randon McDaniel.
Speaker 5: I think that's when they when they drafted Gray's abel,
Speaker 5: that hid the comp was Harry got it.
Speaker 7: Really, there's a whole circle we got there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, stew Teasley, O'Connell and Bersinski is a leadership
Speaker 3: team that features three experts in their respective field.
Speaker 7: So kind of like a triangle of authority. So we're
Speaker 7: back to that because that works so well the first
Speaker 7: time the.
Speaker 2: Triangle that was a disaster.
Speaker 5: Well even waits yeah, the second time around, I don't
Speaker 5: understand why it was a disaster. When people hear this
Speaker 5: triangle of authority, I think it's just semantics. I think
Speaker 5: every I think every organization is a triangle of authority
Speaker 5: for sure. I just think that we unfortunately named it
Speaker 5: something and put a label on it, so now we
Speaker 5: talk about it as if it's the triangle of authority,
Speaker 5: like it's something new. But don't you think that every GM.
Speaker 5: Don't you think Howie Roseman has a staff of people
Speaker 5: that he bounces ideas off of, or do you think
Speaker 5: that he scouts everybody himself and makes final decisions.
Speaker 7: No, And in the idea of it being a triangle
Speaker 7: and not like a duo makes a lot of sense,
Speaker 7: because if it's just two people, you can't like vote right.
Speaker 2: There's got to be a tie r. It's got to
Speaker 2: be an odd number.
Speaker 7: For example, the triangle of authority here at the Power
Speaker 7: Trap Warning Show, which is me, Chris and Chad Abbitt. Right,
Speaker 7: it's like the three of us get to make all
Speaker 7: the decisions.
Speaker 2: Yep, got to be three.
Speaker 7: Two doesn't make sense. One's a dictatorship. It's got to
Speaker 7: be three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, voting that guy no exactly, and he's always laid
Speaker 3: to the votes anyway because of that.
Speaker 2: Drop the draft, but to be sure, that is probably
Speaker 2: a better.
Speaker 3: Way to do Teasley, however, according to keV, receiver will
Speaker 3: be the Viking's primary decision maker.
Speaker 2: M So that's you know, that's the old Uh.
Speaker 7: That's the interesting question here, Benjamin is I don't know
Speaker 7: if we'll ever quite know, like what percentage of rob
Speaker 7: Razinski was this year's draft, right, and how much was
Speaker 7: koc how much was Flores probably had some say, maybe
Speaker 7: a lot of say, probably not all encompassing all powerful,
Speaker 7: say right, same thing with Seattle. I'm sure in his
Speaker 7: introductory press conference, it's going to be, well, how much
Speaker 7: of a part of the decision making process did you have?
Speaker 7: How much of these draft classes that have been really
Speaker 7: good for Seattle? How much of that was you? It's
Speaker 7: hard to quantify.
Speaker 5: So see, that is the question that I think we
Speaker 5: all are going to have, especially with big time positions
Speaker 5: like the quarterback. So hypothetically, if we rewound time and
Speaker 5: we go back to let's say January February, and we
Speaker 5: had identified Nolan Teasley back then, and let's say Brazinski
Speaker 5: was never interim GM, and we're entering free agency with
Speaker 5: new GM from Seattle, and it was still the triangle
Speaker 5: of power, right, it was still the same power structure
Speaker 5: and all this other stuff. All things remain equal, except
Speaker 5: the timelines now shifted back to February. Would his exposure
Speaker 5: experience playing against Kyler Murray in the NFC West, how
Speaker 5: would that have went into the formula to make the
Speaker 5: decision to sign him to a free agent contract if
Speaker 5: in his time when he's because he's been with Seattle
Speaker 5: his whole career, so he's he's seen Kyler Murray as
Speaker 5: a rookie all the way up till now. Kyler Murray's
Speaker 5: two and nine against the Seattle Seahawks in his available time,
Speaker 5: like he's played Obviously the teams have played more games,
Speaker 5: but he's been injured for a couple of games. So
Speaker 5: with Kyler being two and nine against the Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 5: and he's probably watched every single snap, does he like him?
Speaker 5: Does he dislike him? Where does and if he doesn't
Speaker 5: like him? But the head coach likes him, And the
Speaker 5: head coach is like, well, listen, you weren't here last
Speaker 5: year to see what we had what happened at quarterback?
Speaker 5: This is this is my opinion on Kyler Murray, and
Speaker 5: we're also going to get him for very cheap. Does
Speaker 5: no and say, I see what you're saying, but this
Speaker 5: is such an important position. I'm making the decision on this,
Speaker 5: and I vote no, Like, how does how would that work?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I guess that's I mean, that's the hypothetical. What we'll
Speaker 5: never we'll never know. But I think in a lot
Speaker 5: of these situations, when we do look at a triangle
Speaker 5: of authority or or whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 5: it was such a major decision. How does that play out?
Speaker 5: Is it really a three man vote? Do they really
Speaker 5: just like raise your hand in this room with the
Speaker 5: three of us guys, like who's yay or nay for Kyler?
Speaker 5: And then with Nolan having all this all these games
Speaker 5: experience and all these snaps being watched very intently, does
Speaker 5: he have more weight than the other two.
Speaker 3: He definitely has the scout in credentials that Quasi didn't.
Speaker 3: That's for sure.
Speaker 5: Well that's the thing, and I think, you know, so
Speaker 5: all that being said, with the hypotheticals that we can't
Speaker 5: we can't really just discuss, I just I enjoy the
Speaker 5: fact that we are getting back to just what we
Speaker 5: what we know about football, and football is it's not
Speaker 5: about numbers. It helps you, it helps you, like make
Speaker 5: partial decisions, it helps you color within the lines. But
Speaker 5: it's not all about the numbers. It's not all about
Speaker 5: the analytics. You still have to have a sense of
Speaker 5: what makes a good football player. And and sometimes it's
Speaker 5: not about how we've see you know, look at this
Speaker 5: this this flyer that who was at the the Eagles
Speaker 5: took who is that that that kid from from Africa
Speaker 5: that was part of the international program it doesn't matter
Speaker 5: his name, but you look at his metrics, and his
Speaker 5: metrics would say this guy is going to be a
Speaker 5: Hall of Famer. I mean the size, the strength, the athleticism,
Speaker 5: the change of direction, the speed, the explosive power that
Speaker 5: he can possess. You would think that this guy is
Speaker 5: going to be a Hall of Famer. But he still
Speaker 5: has got to play football. Lesler was another example. I mean,
Speaker 5: that's a that's a current example that we look at.
Speaker 5: Here's a physical specimen that nobody wants to like stand
Speaker 5: in front of and have to block, But the dude
Speaker 5: couldn't play football. So it is about which are the
Speaker 5: football guys? Which are the guys that have the mentality
Speaker 5: to play football? And it seems like he's he's got
Speaker 5: a knack for finding that type of talent. So I'm
Speaker 5: excited to see what happens with him at the Helm.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm excited too because Roberts and Skiaz sting in
Speaker 3: his role and again will be one of the three
Speaker 3: of the triangle authority for calling it that. But how
Speaker 3: about this, The Vikings are on track to spend one
Speaker 3: hundred million dollars lesson payroll this year than they did
Speaker 3: last year. Yeah, one hundred million dollars, and he mentioned
Speaker 3: it when we had to get ridder Gernard. Wasn't something
Speaker 3: we wanted to do. We just had to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean that's uh, that was a huge
Speaker 5: part of it. And the thing is, not only was
Speaker 5: there it was nice for a couple veterans current veterans
Speaker 5: to restructure their contracts to free up some of that money,
Speaker 5: but in in in the same timeline, in that same
Speaker 5: formula of trying to figure out how we're saving money,
Speaker 5: the guys that we were paying didn't produce, So it
Speaker 5: was like they weren't hard decisions to make outside of Gernard.
Speaker 5: Grearnnard had one money, he wanted more money. Dallas Turner
Speaker 5: seems like he's turned the corner. So you have to
Speaker 5: give the young guy a chance, especially with the rookie contract.
Speaker 5: So I'm sure the Wolves are very appreciative of the
Speaker 5: fact that they're going to spend one hundred million dollars less,
Speaker 5: But I don't think that it was like necessarily really
Speaker 5: really difficult decisions to make outside of Gernard.
Speaker 3: You know what I remembered when I was reading this
Speaker 3: article this morning, when we were in London, not Dublin,
Speaker 3: But no, it was Dublin. Maybe we were in Dublin
Speaker 3: and we were already talking before we interviewed one of
Speaker 3: those defensive linemen. You were just talking about about how
Speaker 3: disappointed we were.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 3: Do you remember that, and that was that early in
Speaker 3: the season. Didn't get any better, did it?
Speaker 2: No, it really didn't.
Speaker 5: And I think I think that is the you know,
Speaker 5: we talk about how long beleash certain people have. When
Speaker 5: you're a high priced free agent that's been in the
Speaker 5: league for already seven eight years, you don't get a
Speaker 5: lot of acclamation period. You it should be within game
Speaker 5: one and you're like, oh, yeah, this guy can play, yep, yep,
Speaker 5: this is yep. I know exactly why we paid this
Speaker 5: guy X millions of dollars. But when we didn't see
Speaker 5: that for a first handful of games, we're like, oh boy,
Speaker 5: I don't think this is going to work out.
Speaker 2: They were not good.
Speaker 5: No, And we were talking about Jalen Redmond the whole time. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean since since preseason, I mean really since the
Speaker 5: first week of padded practice. We're like, look at this guy,
Speaker 5: he can this guy can play, Like, let's see what
Speaker 5: this guy can do, and you know, against real in
Speaker 5: a real game, and then he goes out and proves
Speaker 5: in a real game. We're like, we talked more about
Speaker 5: him early parts of the season and throughout the whole
Speaker 5: season than anybody else in that defensive front we did.
Speaker 3: Can I read from Kevin Seffert's article about our quarterback
Speaker 3: situation gentlemen? Of course, In the team's second ota of
Speaker 3: the spring and the first open to local media members,
Speaker 3: Kyler Murray and JJ McCarthy both took snaps with projected
Speaker 3: starters and against the likely first team defense. If you
Speaker 3: were drawing up a plan to give each player fair
Speaker 3: and equal time to prove they are the team's best option,
Speaker 3: this would be it. But you can only have a
Speaker 3: genuine competition if there's actual uncertainty about who the best
Speaker 3: quarterback on the roster is. With the caveat that this
Speaker 3: was one day in May, with no pads and some
Speaker 3: drills performed at half speed, it is only fair to
Speaker 3: point out that the gap between the two quarterbacks was
Speaker 3: not close. Apparently, Murray made all the best throws of
Speaker 3: the practice, demonstrating his downfield touch and accuracy. Nothing McCarthy
Speaker 3: did was objectionable, and one of his few incompletions occurred
Speaker 3: when two receivers drifted too close to each other. While
Speaker 3: McCarthy's post practice comments about their relationship delivered headlines, it
Speaker 3: was Murray who might have said the most notable forwards
Speaker 3: of the afternoon. My confidence is unshakable. So according to Seaffert,
Speaker 3: it wasn't even close. And it probably I don't know,
Speaker 3: I guess that doesne surprises.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's shouldn't surprise you given his level of
Speaker 5: expertise and experience at this at this point in his career.
Speaker 5: I mean, JJ's entering year three that's been marred by
Speaker 5: injury and not a lot of snaps on the football field,
Speaker 5: and and Kyler has a ton of experience, so he
Speaker 5: should walk into this situation. And I mean that's the
Speaker 5: other things, Like they all know, I mean they know
Speaker 5: that this is a a weighted quarterback competition. It's it's
Speaker 5: going to be weighted towards Kyler. It's Kyler's to lose.
Speaker 5: I mean, Kyler would have to majorly s the bed
Speaker 5: for him to lose his starting role. It's a competition
Speaker 5: and the mental standpoint, but I think as far as
Speaker 5: the actual the roster and the way everything's shaping up.
Speaker 5: It's it's Kyler's to lose. So he should walk in
Speaker 5: and feel like he's the starter.
Speaker 2: Because he is.
Speaker 4: If JJ McCarthy was writing if his career only depended
Speaker 4: this season on his ability, would Kyler be here? What
Speaker 4: I mean is like he has the double whammy of
Speaker 4: he's injured a lot and he hasn't played he hasn't
Speaker 4: played well, like a bunch of games in a row.
Speaker 4: Would Kyler still be here if it was just based
Speaker 4: on his ability?
Speaker 5: M I mean, that's a hard question to answer because
Speaker 5: we don't know. I mean, if if you like take
Speaker 5: away the injuries from McCarthy, then who knows what happens
Speaker 5: in year one and who knows you know, what sort
Speaker 5: of role he gets on in year two. So I
Speaker 5: don't know. I think that there's a lot. There is
Speaker 5: a lot of skill and talent and just overall quarterback
Speaker 5: athleticism out of McCarthy. I think his his biggest thing
Speaker 5: that he has to continue to work on is the
Speaker 5: mental part of it. It's the process, you know, it's
Speaker 5: the understanding of when to use all the tools in
Speaker 5: my toolkit, and that comes with the experience. And so
Speaker 5: I think you know, I guess in a roundabout way
Speaker 5: to answer your question, I still think that we'd be
Speaker 5: in a situation where we were second guessing whether or
Speaker 5: not McCarthy is the guy going forward. So, going back
Speaker 5: to Kyler's contract, probably in the same situation where it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: why don't you just bring this guy in just because
Speaker 5: he's extremely cheap, He's got a lot of snaps under
Speaker 5: his belt. And let's see if we can actually have
Speaker 5: a quarterback duel to have one of these guys earn
Speaker 5: their spot.
Speaker 7: Can I have you guess something on June first? That
Speaker 7: is impossible to know, So it's just shot in the dark.
Speaker 7: Let's just see if we can track it and see
Speaker 7: how close you get. Yeah, seventeen games right.
Speaker 2: For the regular season for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 7: If you had to guess how many starts Kyler, Carson
Speaker 7: and JJ each get this year, what would you guess?
Speaker 7: Give me the split? I think because all three of
Speaker 7: them have injury histories, right.
Speaker 5: I think Kyler gets twelve, JJ gets five, and Carson
Speaker 5: gets zero zero.
Speaker 7: Anybody else have a hot take? Anybody else want to guess?
Speaker 7: So you're going twelve and Carson wins the job.
Speaker 2: Outright, sauce.
Speaker 4: I think Kyler plays fifteen of them and Carson Wentz
Speaker 4: plays the other two. Like that, I think McCarthy is
Speaker 4: either the third quarterback or he gets traded. If a source, no,
Speaker 4: I would tell you, I'll tell you off the air
Speaker 4: if I did, I do not.
Speaker 2: I just my guess. It's your hot. Take.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's your hot because I think the same thing
Speaker 4: that you said, Ben, and you're one hundred percent correct
Speaker 4: about Kyler.
Speaker 2: The same thing with the new GM could be said
Speaker 2: about JJ. He has no ties to JJ.
Speaker 4: He could walk in here and go, yeah, we fine,
Speaker 4: but the kids are distraction in a way, right. Kyler's
Speaker 4: the starter. We're going to move on with Kyler. Let's
Speaker 4: see if we can find a way to move McCarthy.
Speaker 4: You have Carson Wentzon here, who knows your offense, who
Speaker 4: can move the football. Let's find a way to move
Speaker 4: well JJ.
Speaker 7: Speaking of histories, wasn't wasn't Brozmer the disaster game against Seattle? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: he's got to be like, oh crap, we hired a
Speaker 7: seat guy. He watched my entire game, Son of a bitch,
Speaker 7: it's over. That's yeah, that wasn't his best performance? Uh,
Speaker 7: fan five and a second headlines.
Speaker 2: Later more of the power to morning too. After this
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