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Speaker 3: Well, the best kind of Top five of five over

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Speaker 3: the years has been when Luigi's come in early to

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Speaker 3: be a part of that before we get to some

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Speaker 4: It really is him in the flesh Lunani.

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Speaker 3: In fact, one of the texters notes, does Louis know

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Speaker 3: it's supposed to snow here this week?

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Speaker 4: Because the assumption is if you knew that you wouldn't

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Speaker 4: come back.

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Speaker 3: Now, you may have had a reason that you had

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Speaker 3: to come back, but otherwise you are aware. Right, they're

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Speaker 3: supposed to be there's sleep in the forecast Thursday. Are

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Speaker 3: you going to be here Thursday?

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Speaker 1: No, I'm going on Thursday fast.

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Speaker 5: They're unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: And did my taxes today?

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Speaker 5: I knew it. I told that, but I go it's

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Speaker 5: either executive physical at mail or his taxes. It's one

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Speaker 5: of those two. Other Yeah, So I'm glad I got

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Speaker 5: it right. So you're gonna beat the sleet. That's great.

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Speaker 1: Well, I hope so, I hope it doesn't until lafter

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Speaker 1: I've left in the morning. It won't.

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Speaker 4: It's Louis Lucky.

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Speaker 3: There's no chance it's gonna sleep until you're to go.

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Speaker 4: Are you going back to Florida or California? Well, Florida

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Speaker 4: Florida first, and then.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I following week, I got folling week,

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Speaker 5: Welcome back, It's good to see you. Guards you where

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Speaker 5: would you like to begin the Top five? Talking college basketball?

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Speaker 5: But more specifically, the numbers are in, the ratings are in,

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Speaker 5: and so far into twenty twenty six NCAA tournament, which

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Speaker 5: most watched NCAA tournament since.

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Speaker 3: Magic Larry No, because that whole tournament wasn't watched. It

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Speaker 3: was the championship game that was watched. I'm gonna say,

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Speaker 5: Nineteen ninety three averaging ten point three million viewers through

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Speaker 4: Who was nineteen ninety three? Refresh my memory?

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Speaker 5: Well, the tournament, so that would have been the second

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Speaker 5: Fab five year. Okay, North Carolina, all right, Kentucky was good,

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Speaker 5: Jamal Master really the same teams that are good this year. Yes,

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Speaker 5: for the most part, I think it was pretty good.

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Speaker 5: Duke was good. Olsen yep, exactly, uh up nine percent.

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Speaker 5: The Yukon Duke Elite eight matchup peaked with eighteen point

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Speaker 5: nine million viewers on CBS. That game averaged thirteen point

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Speaker 5: four million Sweet sixteen prime time window on Friday, fourteen million.

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Speaker 5: That's Duke, that's Michigan, that's Saint John's, it's Alabama. Every

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Speaker 5: delivered year over year viewership. So here's my question to

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Speaker 5: I don't think it would be probably not, at least

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Speaker 5: it helps. As we said last week, Duke, Yeah, Patino, Michigan,

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Speaker 5: Yukon the teams that you've got. Those are heavyweights, and

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Speaker 1: Well, they laughed at Barkley because he said there's no

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Speaker 4: So yeah, he's he's well, he he's made a name

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Speaker 3: Fortunately for him, the brand is great enough that doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: He's he's impossible not to watch and listen to.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. So if he's wrong, that's good, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, exactly it, And he's got a good sense of

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Speaker 5: twenty four to ninety four. Anthony Edwards with seventeen points

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Speaker 5: as Chris Finch said, Nature called just moments before tip off, Louis,

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Speaker 5: have you ever missed or do you don't have any

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Speaker 1: No interesting, I think some of them win in their bands.

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Speaker 4: That's hockey.

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Speaker 5: See hockey wouldn't do that. Hockey. They would go ahead

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Speaker 3: There's something I forgot to ask Tom creen about that,

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Speaker 5: Well, Chris Hine last night, Well, first of all, my

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Speaker 5: much more colorful language that I showed Luigi during the pause,

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Speaker 5: a much more vivid detail of less than when nature calls.

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Speaker 4: Yes, that's but.

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Speaker 5: Chris Heine from the Star Tribune, who wrote the book

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Speaker 4: I think Ant's food habits I have something to do

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Speaker 3: When I noticed it, at first, I thought it was

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Speaker 4: It's also possible he just wasn't ready. He came out late. Ya.

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Speaker 3: He comes up out laid for warm ups, for God's sake,

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Speaker 4: That's what it was.

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Speaker 3: I said, well, he probably just you know he wasn't

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Speaker 1: And there's no penalty for that, right, that's a difference.

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Speaker 5: But he was asked. Louis was asking.

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Speaker 1: About if you put your hockey lineup in, yeah, and

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Speaker 4: You cannot play. I think that's true of baseball too,

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Speaker 1: That's the years, right, Yeah, it is interesting to another

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Speaker 5: I know in basketball, once you turn in your lineups

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Speaker 5: they're playing Dallas is decimated.

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Speaker 3: They're a mess. They are playing out the string at

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Speaker 3: this point. But that kid, who, of course the Wolves

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Speaker 4: He's been a revelation. I love the move.

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Speaker 3: When they made it, I feel even better about it now.

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Speaker 3: Two weeks ago I was clamoring for him to start,

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Speaker 3: I think what he's doing is making it harder and

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Speaker 4: And I don't know what the lineup configuration is. Who sits.

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Speaker 5: He's been a great I even know where they'd be

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Speaker 1: And they just kept rolling along that That shows you

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Speaker 1: depth means a lot.

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Speaker 5: Twins are back of action tomorrow against Kansas City. They

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Speaker 5: don't play today. They lost yesterday. We talked about it.

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Speaker 3: We're going to get into all that with Louie about

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Speaker 3: the fact that if you have extended time between games

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Speaker 3: I don't think Louis thinks the team is in crisis.

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Speaker 3: So we'll get into all that with him. Keep the

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Speaker 6: In just a minute, Hey, welse he sneaks around the

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Speaker 1: Up from the.

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Speaker 3: we speak. A lot of good questions already coming in,

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Speaker 3: Uh for Louis six four six eight six, if you

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Speaker 3: them and as we possibly can't. Well, here's a good

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Speaker 3: toss up question regarding kind of the state of the team.

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Speaker 3: I mentioned the team was off, basically had four days off.

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Speaker 4: Their next game is on is a home game, guards

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Speaker 3: So when you have that much time, now, let me

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Speaker 5: This is from Jacob and maple Grove. What does Louis's

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Speaker 3: Which would you rather have a gold medal or a

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Speaker 4: That's a good question to ponder, that's for sure. Caprice Off.

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Speaker 1: I think when you get into the playoffs, I do

436
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Speaker 1: think that the s which is gonna.

437
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Speaker 4: Everything tightles you got to.

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Speaker 3: Yesterday, John Krasinski created quite an uproar, especially within the

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Speaker 3: hockey community. I had a text for him that I

440
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Speaker 3: that asked a question and in the end, the question

441
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Speaker 3: had to do with which of the two winter sports games,

442
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Speaker 3: hockey or basketball is more demanding more taxing, and ultimately

443
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Speaker 3: Johnny picked basketball. What do you want to weigh in

444
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Speaker 3: on this this because it was a huge controversy yesterday,

445
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Speaker 3: hockey community bitter, some basketball people bitter everybody. It was

446
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Speaker 3: became a very polarizing question. You want to weigh in

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Speaker 3: on it?

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Speaker 1: Well, I really think that you know, when you're looking

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Speaker 1: at sports, you see how more taxing you're you're running constantly? Basketball, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you do play at a fast pace, you

451
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Speaker 1: stay out there, but I don't think you you still

452
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Speaker 1: fight for pucks the way you do fight. You can't

453
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Speaker 1: fight for basketball and we can fight for buck And

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Speaker 1: I don't think because he played hockey, so he just

455
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Speaker 1: doesn't know what it means to fight for bucks along

456
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Speaker 1: the boards, in the corner, stuff like that. And I

457
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Speaker 1: take nothing away from basketball you ever have They have

458
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Speaker 1: some you know, strong contact in your on the basket,

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Speaker 1: but they they don't have as much of it as

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Speaker 1: you're going to get in hockey. And when you're going

461
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Speaker 1: that much faster and hitting somebody, and you do go

462
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Speaker 1: a lot faster skating than you do running and you

463
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Speaker 1: hit somebody. I don't think John's ever felt monose check.

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Speaker 4: I'll ask him next time. I will play it for

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Speaker 4: him next week, I said.

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Speaker 3: And it's not a very sexy position because it's not

467
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Speaker 3: going too far one way or the other that they're

468
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Speaker 3: just they're both incredibly taxing games, but they're different. They're

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Speaker 3: just And you point it out some of the differences

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Speaker 3: between the two, I just I don't. It's to me

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Speaker 3: it's a little bit of comparing apples and oranges, because

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Speaker 3: the nature of hockey is how long are you on

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Speaker 3: the ice?

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Speaker 4: A minute?

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Speaker 1: No, forty forty five?

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Speaker 3: And obviously in basketball you might play there's still some

477
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Speaker 3: really good players, not as many as things to that

478
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Speaker 3: play forty minutes or forty seven minutes a night, whatever

479
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Speaker 3: the case may be. Now it's a different kind of

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Speaker 3: stop and start. But to me, it's just it's two

481
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Speaker 3: completely different sort of games in that sense when it

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Speaker 3: comes to trying to figure out effort, which one.

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Speaker 1: Is more taxing and you're needing one big thing out,

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Speaker 1: what's that you know, weighing twenty pounds or really quipped.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's a good point, I guess tell you.

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Speaker 5: You know you have but it's sleeker now, isn't it

487
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Speaker 5: compared to maybe I'm just fourteen or fifteen? Do you

488
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Speaker 5: know you in the in the Kentucky jury stuff like that. Yeah,

489
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Speaker 5: they put two pounds on the two thousand pounds horse to.

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Speaker 1: Just hamper them to enough. Fourteen pounds tell Krusinski. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, you put two pounds on Krisinski, but try

492
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Speaker 1: fourteen or fifteen. It's not going to be much different.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: What he needs to do. You know, he's got his

495
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Speaker 3: own podcast. I think he should have you on discuss

496
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Speaker 3: this sort of thing. That's how he can.

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Speaker 5: Show a welcoming, a warming to the hockey community that

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Speaker 5: he tends to enrage from time to time. That would

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Speaker 5: be the answer, reaching out that way, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 5: reaching the gap.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why why the hockey community gets into

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Speaker 1: rage that he's just pulling them.

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Speaker 4: In well by the way he is.

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Speaker 1: And you know, everybody knows if if you're running constantly,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get tired. So yeah, you could see basketball

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Speaker 1: players getting tired. Yeah, that's and especially you know if

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Speaker 1: they do play the games and not have a little

508
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Speaker 1: management like.

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Speaker 4: This is from six to one to two?

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Speaker 3: Guy, what is the role that Nick Felino was supposed

511
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Speaker 3: was supposed to fill and is he filling it?

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Speaker 1: Oh, he's definitely filled. I really like that edition. Just

513
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Speaker 1: take I did the game Saturday, and the best line

514
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Speaker 1: was probably Fillino's line. They moved him to center and

515
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Speaker 1: he he he was very good and he's been good

516
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Speaker 1: in face off, but he's been killing penalties and the physicality.

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Speaker 1: You know something was going to happen the first game

518
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Speaker 1: he played. He's he's feeling the niche they should fill

519
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Speaker 1: and and I personally don't. I'd be surprised if Heinz

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00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: changed the to Felinos and Trenion because you don't want

521
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Speaker 1: to play against that line all night long. Trenion's got

522
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Speaker 1: over through almost four hundred hits and Marcus hits everything

523
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,880
Speaker 1: that moves to They're not an easy line to play against.

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Speaker 1: They could have a real telling effects on the defense

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Speaker 1: of Dallas by just for checking, because they don't miss

526
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Speaker 1: a check. They going to check you. They make contact,

527
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Speaker 1: and I think that that was really a good move.

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Speaker 4: What for you define success for the Wild in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I want him to beat Dallas.

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Speaker 1: If they beat Dallas, that's going to be.

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Speaker 3: By the way, somebody earlier said, you've been all along

532
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Speaker 3: with us, confident that they can and they wanted to know, why,

533
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Speaker 3: where does that confidence come from?

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Speaker 1: Because, uh, I, I've watched the plays, you know, during

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Speaker 1: this year and the other playoffs, and and I keep

536
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Speaker 1: thinking that right now, up front, they've got some you know,

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Speaker 1: Dallas got some good players, but I don't think that

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Speaker 1: when you start getting third and fourth line that there

539
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Speaker 1: is physical or they're going to be any more productive.

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Speaker 1: They got some outstanding players with the Johnson and the

541
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Speaker 1: ratting and one other goals score up there, and they

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Speaker 1: got two outstanding defensemen that I like, you know, Heskin

543
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Speaker 1: and and Harley, and of course Autinger's given them great goaltending.

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Speaker 1: But if that's why I said, if we can get

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Speaker 1: equal goaltending, yeah, and I like the fact that we've

546
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Speaker 1: added so much size and and uh I think we're

547
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Speaker 1: going to punish him a bit, especially the third and

548
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Speaker 1: fourth lines and the defenseman. So I and I just

549
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Speaker 1: think that, you know, if you look at Capriso last year,

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Speaker 1: I think he got five goals, he turns it into

551
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: a different a different game. And now you had Boldy

552
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Speaker 1: the way he's come through the Conference. He's gotten from

553
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Speaker 1: playing the playoffs and the Olympics. So you got two

554
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: lines like that, you got a miserable center to play against,

555
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,400
Speaker 1: two miserable centers. Because Eric Sinek gives everybody fits all

556
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Speaker 1: the time. He bothers everybody. And Hartman is just combative.

557
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Speaker 1: A's gonna be so I'm and now Addie mccerron in

558
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Speaker 1: the middle. He's six foot six and he takes the

559
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: body all the time. He can kill penalties. I just

560
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Speaker 1: like the way they fill their holes.

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Speaker 4: All right, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna get

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Speaker 4: a quick pause in here and now.

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Speaker 3: I do want to include some college hockey conversation with

564
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Speaker 3: the Since last time we've talked, obviously, the Gophers have

565
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Speaker 3: made some changes when it comes to both women's hockey

566
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Speaker 3: and men's hockey, and uh, I want to get into

567
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Speaker 3: some more details on certainly on the men's side for sure,

568
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Speaker 3: because you know, my sources say basically you made the

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Speaker 3: higher So.

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Speaker 1: No, I didn't, no, no, no, I don't want to

571
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Speaker 1: commit anybody. I told Mark I can live with any

572
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: you make the choice. All three were very good to me, Okay,

573
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Speaker 1: I was impressed with them.

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Speaker 4: All is that just be you being self deprecating.

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Speaker 1: No, no, because if I didn't, if I was, you know,

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Speaker 1: dead set again, somebody had just said, well two to

577
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Speaker 1: three were good, but I felt all three were good.

578
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Speaker 1: I was confident.

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Speaker 4: So you didn't block anybody.

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Speaker 1: No, I didn't.

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Speaker 4: We So you could have done that, Yeah, a stain

582
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Speaker 4: extent and you didn't do that.

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 3: I want to get into all of that when we

585
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Speaker 3: come back, and we'll continue to get We've got a

586
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Speaker 3: lot of really good texts to continue to come in.

587
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Speaker 4: Louis.

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Speaker 5: This is big, this is a banner day. Louis back

589
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Speaker 5: in studio. When's the next time we'll be able to

590
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Speaker 5: count on this?

591
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Speaker 4: In me July?

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Speaker 1: Lead me, No, I think late May. I think so.

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Speaker 5: Okay, well we'll we'll take that. That'll work more, Luigi,

594
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Speaker 5: and keep the text coming. Bratch on Brian Cafe in

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Speaker 5: text line is six four six eighty six.

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Speaker 7: Don't go away.

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Speaker 4: Louie is with us in studio.

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Speaker 3: I want to get to some college hockey as well.

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Speaker 3: The men's hockey team at the University of Minnesota has

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Speaker 3: a new coach. His name is Brett Larson. Maybe you

601
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Speaker 3: can talk directly.

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Speaker 4: To the roobs out there because and I actually defended them,

603
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Speaker 4: and which might annoy you, but I because they're The immediate.

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Speaker 3: Reaction amongst some of the hockey hardcores was really, Okay,

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Speaker 3: I guess I'm not I don't know. I feel like

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Speaker 3: we should we should get somebody who's been a little

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Speaker 3: bit more accomplished whatever. So talk directly to those folks

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Speaker 3: as a person who's familiar with a lot of these candidates.

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Speaker 3: And it sound like your approach was on the committee

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Speaker 3: is I'll tell you who I can't live with, and

611
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Speaker 3: then I'll leave it up to you. The guy I

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Speaker 3: now referred to as the Smiling Assassin, Mark Coyle at

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Speaker 3: the University of Minnesota. He has fired a bunch of

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Speaker 3: coaches in the last five years. But give it to

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Speaker 3: those rooms who are going, I'm not sure. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I get some of it, but I'm not inspired by

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Speaker 3: that higher you would say, what.

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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I want to tell you that

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Speaker 1: one thing great about Coyle is not afraid to make

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Speaker 1: a dicision. You better be happy you got a guy

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Speaker 1: like that than one would.

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Speaker 4: Last smiling assassin.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Well, when you see someone more accomplished, take

624
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Speaker 1: a look at what Brett Larson's done. He's been He's

625
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Speaker 1: coached in the Frozen Four finals. He's been there a

626
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Speaker 1: couple of times. He's been in the playoffs. More than that,

627
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Speaker 1: he's won two gold medals with the World Juniors. He's uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, won two NT double as with assistant coach

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Speaker 1: with Sandlin and Duluth. I mean, he's got a great

630
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Speaker 1: track record. He's a very very good recruiter. I think

631
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Speaker 1: you're going to be extremely impressed with the staff he

632
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: comes up with. And he's got contacts in all the

633
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: right places. You know. When when I joined the Wild

634
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Speaker 1: on the road and I ran into favor because I

635
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: joined them in Florida before I went to Boston, Brock

636
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Speaker 1: just read a kimer. Isn't that great? Larcen he' said,

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Speaker 1: I played for me. He's fantastic. That came out of nowhere.

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00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: I didn't ask him what do you think or anything.

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00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,719
Speaker 1: He didn't even wat I was, you know, part of that.

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Speaker 1: So I was really impressed by him saying that, and

641
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Speaker 1: a number I had some calls after decision was made

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Speaker 1: by Coyle and from guys in the hockey world. Extremely

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Speaker 1: extremely happy and thought that it was going to be

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Speaker 1: a great kid.

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Speaker 3: Or are we on the money the nil kind of

646
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 3: stuff that we hear about so much in football and basketball,

647
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 3: Where where is that in hockey?

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Speaker 4: And are we in good shape here?

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Speaker 1: Well, no, we're not in good shape here from when

650
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: it comes to money because, as you know, football takes

651
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: seventy five percent of it and then the other twenty

652
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Speaker 1: five percent is split between the two basketball teams and

653
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Speaker 1: women volleyball and hockey. And so we're not going to

654
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: be like Penn State that just got seven hundred and

655
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: fifty thousand for Gavin McKenna's number one pick. And Penn

656
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: State's the guy that built the ring, owns the Buffalo

657
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: Sabers and in some of these other situations have more money.

658
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: But money's not.

659
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 4: The Why can't we find a benefactor?

660
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: I don't know, but we don't find it, not only

661
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: for hockey, for the sports.

662
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 4: That's true.

663
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: I don't think we need it as much in hockey

664
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: because people want to play in Minnesota. We got so

665
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: many good hockey players around here. It's a great place

666
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: to play and I think that that's one of the

667
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: features that's going to be a make plus for Minnesota's

668
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: The ability of Larsen to recruit but I have to

669
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: say that the thing that we all got to put

670
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 1: our arms around is you got to get the right

671
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: mix of young guys in overa What is the key

672
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: right now for any of these teams. It's trying to

673
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: get the good ones to stay three years so they're

674
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 1: fully mature. And if you look at the teams that

675
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: are winning, it seems that you know, the winners are

676
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: getting the more mature players. We get great hockey players.

677
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,919
Speaker 1: Moscow did a fantastic job. So what happens last year

678
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 1: they're so good, six of them go and turn pro.

679
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,240
Speaker 1: You know you got one or two year guys leaving,

680
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: So now you leave the program like they left it

681
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: this past year with six key players eight totaling two

682
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: good ones that graduated out of the lineup. So that's

683
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 1: going to be the key for Minnesota. It is the

684
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,360
Speaker 1: key for any school that they got to be to

685
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: keep them long enough to win the thing.

686
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,720
Speaker 5: A lot of questions coming in of college hockey related

687
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 5: including whether you want to make a prediction about what

688
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 5: will happen with the Frozen four.

689
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a sleeper team and I'm just it

690
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: might not happen. But Denver seems a little older to

691
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: meaning a little more ready. Everybody's you know, thinking Michigan's

692
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: been the top team basically one or two all year long.

693
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: Look at Michigan State gets upset, you know, and they're

694
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: winning three to one with with the three minutes to go,

695
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: Wisconsin comes back and beats them in overtime. I mean

696
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: that it was really an upset. And you know, Hastin's

697
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,320
Speaker 1: done a great job there in Wisconsin this year, and

698
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 1: he had done a great job in man Cato. I

699
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: think that it's going to be tough for Wisconsin to win.

700
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: They could come back and Michigan, Michigan, you know, should

701
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 1: be the one that's going to win this thing. But

702
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 1: I just my dark horse is Denver.

703
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 4: I still have people who text saying that they missed

704
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:05,839
Speaker 4: the They want to find a way to bring back

705
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 4: the old w c h A. What can you tell them?

706
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 4: Do you think it's some decade they're going to have

707
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 4: to move on?

708
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, the one now because look at the Big ten,

709
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: how many good teams they've had, you know, they had

710
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 1: they're still yeah, well it might not be the same because.

711
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 5: Okay, but.

712
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 1: It's it's like every year you get a different type

713
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: of movie winning. He yeah, I mean war with the Oscar.

714
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: But if you like movies and you like the ones

715
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: that are good, they might be different. Might be a comedy,

716
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: might be a musical, might be a drama, But you

717
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: got to go with the winner.

718
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 3: This is from the fort I think in Golden Valley

719
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 3: many years ago. He writes, I was a thirty something

720
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 3: year old caddy at Woodhill and was looping for two members.

721
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,280
Speaker 3: There were two guests in the foursome in a cart,

722
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 3: Louis and Dave Mona. Louis and Mona got a heated,

723
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 3: heated conversation regarding hockey and basketball.

724
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 4: Does Louis remember this? You have any recollection?

725
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,280
Speaker 3: Was it which which sport was more taxing is between

726
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 3: the two. It could have been the Johnny athletic thing

727
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 3: all over. But long before Johnny you even.

728
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,760
Speaker 1: Existed, Simona has been coaching Johnny.

729
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, so it doesn't come to mind. No,

730
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 3: you have a good memory, but that there's not a particular.

731
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: But I don't think David was that strong. Yeah, on

732
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: basketball over hockey. That's why I'm saying that. You think

733
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: it's it might have been baseball. Then I could see me.

734
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, that could be goaltender question from the audience to

735
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 3: Gusta soon or the kid when you start the playoffs.

736
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: I get a different question discussing on the short leaf

737
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: in the play short leash in the playoffs, because I

738
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: think there's no question in my mind, guess it's going

739
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 1: to start unless something happens between at the end of

740
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 1: the year.

741
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:57,959
Speaker 5: But right is the question?

742
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: Leash is the question? Yeah? If we look back, what

743
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: was last year before when the leash was too long?

744
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 5: Yes it was?

745
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, wait, Guardian, I might have gotten into that

746
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 3: subject from time to time. Garn still doesn't like any

747
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,720
Speaker 3: of the discussion, but I think it's a fair question,

748
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 3: and you nailed it. That's exactly it. Gus is going

749
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 3: to start, but it's you know, how much is he?

750
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 3: Are you adhering to him?

751
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 5: Being the guy? He's got to play through it, and

752
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 5: I don't know how how do you think that.

753
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 4: Should be handled? If it was you, how long is

754
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:29,760
Speaker 4: the leash?

755
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be long now because if Wilstad keeps playing away,

756
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: he's playing the last four games. I have no problem,

757
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 1: you know, making a change. But I think that you

758
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,479
Speaker 1: have to see when I say the leash, it doesn't

759
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: mean that just because you'll say get scored on. It's

760
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: how the goal is go in. You know.

761
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 3: This is from Larry Mondelo guy, the resident comedian here

762
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 3: on the fan. Which is more exhausting fighting for loose

763
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 3: puck or battling for position in the paint for rebound.

764
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 3: I don't think it's close. He right, Think how much

765
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 3: more leverage and power you get standing on feet in

766
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 3: that skates? And hockey players are tiny? Aren't a lot

767
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:08,879
Speaker 3: of them five ten, one hundred and seventy five pound

768
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 3: guys are There aren't a lot of five ten, one

769
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:12,799
Speaker 3: hundred and seenty five pound guys in the NBA.

770
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: And they're not a lot in the NHL either. Yeah,

771
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: that's yeah, But I tell them Medelo, I do like it.

772
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:22,919
Speaker 1: I'm Medela beer. That's a great beer. Yeah, but they're

773
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: not Those bucks aren't loose when they're along the boards

774
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: and free and uh and when you're coming at them

775
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: at ry Melton now right, Yeah, that's a little different.

776
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 1: I think that maybe Larry just played basketball. That could

777
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 1: be too.

778
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 3: WCHA fan has emerged again, oh, listing to our conversation,

779
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,879
Speaker 3: and he's saying it has nothing to do with winning games.

780
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 3: WHA was for the fans Gophers versus Aint cloub umd

781
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 3: man Cato. The Minnesota rivalry and college hockey is dead.

782
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 3: The team one in the Big Ten, but the fans lost.

783
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 3: Nothing will change that. What would you say to him.

784
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: Well, then you got to just develop new rivalries, just

785
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 1: like when you move divisions. You know, we were in Buffalo, Toronto,

786
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:07,879
Speaker 1: Boston when I took over the North Stars. They moved

787
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 1: us that year. They made us into the We didn't

788
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: have names, and I mean divisions. It was like the

789
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: Smite or something out there. And so here we were

790
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: with Boston, Buffalo, in Toronto in our division. Two years

791
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 1: later we go into with Chicago and turned out to

792
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:27,800
Speaker 1: be the best thing they ever happened to the North Stars.

793
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 1: With that, Chicago's begetting Chicago and Saint Louis back, and

794
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,280
Speaker 1: we had started with Saint Louis. So you learned to hate,

795
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: you know, other teams, and that's what you got to do.

796
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 3: Minnesota Wild have won only twenty five regulation games. No

797
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 3: teams since the Kings, No team since the Kings has

798
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 3: won a Cup with thirty four or less regulation wins.

799
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:50,879
Speaker 4: Is that a concern to you?

800
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: It is to only a point, because they've won a

801
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: lot of overtime games, and a lot of these games

802
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: go to overtime. So if Minnies those record continues, if

803
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 1: they can get the overtime just the same way as

804
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,800
Speaker 1: the US got the overtime, you got a chance to

805
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: win a game, even though it's not going to be

806
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 1: three and three, but five and five. You know, if

807
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 1: their record continues, they'll have a good run.

808
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 3: Last but not let me see if I can find it.

809
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 3: I thought I saved it. Well, he actually did save

810
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 3: one of them. And I don't know if you have

811
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,280
Speaker 3: any insight into this, but you just did a TV game, Louis,

812
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 3: do you have any idea what the Wild are going

813
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 3: to do next year for TV? FanDuel TV is likely

814
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 3: not coming back next year. I'm curious about if over

815
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 3: the air is a possibility or victory sports like Dallas has.

816
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 4: Do you have any insight on where this is going.

817
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: I have no insight, but I have feelings and I

818
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: don't have anything to back it up. And I do

819
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: think that maybe Craig Leopold getting involved with the Twins

820
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: is minority ownership might be in Craig. He's pretty bright,

821
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: He's he was a marketing guy before he went into hockey,

822
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: and I kind of think that he would try to

823
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: be pushing them to have something like we had with

824
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,879
Speaker 1: Spectrum Sports US in the Twins, and maybe he could

825
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,879
Speaker 1: do that with the Wild and the Twins right now

826
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: in instead of throwing TV network and maybe get some

827
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: other you know, programming in there, whether it's college hockey,

828
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 1: small like yeah, people like Saint Thomas. Maybe if they

829
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: don't have if they don't or even the luth if

830
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: they if they don't have TV, that they could be

831
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: put on some nights because right now, the way everything's

832
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: going on, streaming and nesson has been extremely successful in Boston.

833
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 5: With that's true.

834
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 1: And if if the Twins wouldn't have left us in

835
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 1: eighty eight, nineteen eighty eight, we uh, we probably would

836
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: be controlling the TV market right now.

837
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:46,359
Speaker 4: You'd be a lot richer too.

838
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:52,439
Speaker 1: Not me, I had knowing, you know, no I wish

839
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: I did. I wish still be working, you know, I

840
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: you know I'm gonna keep working.

841
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,959
Speaker 3: You'd be working anyway. How hard is it for you

842
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,839
Speaker 3: to come back to even like forty two degrees? I mean,

843
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 3: is it just because you you're you? Once upon a time,

844
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,720
Speaker 3: you know you you've kind of built that extra layer

845
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 3: just living here. You don't live here anymore, So is

846
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 3: it like, is it a rude awakening for you to

847
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 3: have to wear like extra layers because you're you're you've

848
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 3: gone soft in Florida, growing, growing in the gang.

849
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: And I got on I I was on the trip

850
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 1: and I had no jackets to take care of me. Yeah,

851
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: I forget what. I forget what it feels like. You

852
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: can be here, but I uh, you know, I I can.

853
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 1: I can handle forty eight fifty.

854
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,439
Speaker 4: We're still waiting Guardsian me and I think we're gonna

855
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 4: be waiting a long time for some Olympic stuff from

856
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 4: Darn because he did the TV show whether he did

857
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 4: enough set with us, and I begged him, come on

858
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 4: you you got to have an extra Olympic hoodie or.

859
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 1: So well he does he keeps it for himself.

860
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 5: I'm frustrating.

861
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,399
Speaker 3: I mean, I just could throw us a bone every once,

862
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 3: So while I don't, I'm not sure we're gonna get

863
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 3: Maybe if they get out of the first round, you'll

864
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 3: be in a better mood in that regard, I'm not sure.

865
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: Well, that would be something that just I'm so anxious

866
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: for this playoff I think it's gonna Yeah. You just

867
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: imagine next year they got two extra games to play.

868
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are in their money. They like

869
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,760
Speaker 1: they're going to the lecture chair. It's like the last summer.

870
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 1: He was seven times a day. I can't believe it.

871
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: It's just amazing to me. You can just freeze, is

872
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 1: that true? They get up, they have breakfast, they go

873
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: to the ring. They got snacks outside the room before

874
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: they come home. They come home, they go to have

875
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: another meal, They go to bed, They get up, they

876
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: have a snack a tree, They go to the rink.

877
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 1: There's food outside. In fact, I had to go and

878
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 1: steal one blueberry muffin because the.

879
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 4: Car at the concession. After in the media room.

880
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 1: After the game, they got pizza outside the door, and

881
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: then the sandwiches. Then they get in the plane and

882
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: they have some things to eat until they have the

883
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: main meal. Then they have like steak or chicken or

884
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 1: really yeah, I'm telling you. After the game, after the game,

885
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: I said this like the last supper. It really is.

886
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like this.

887
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 3: Well, what's interesting to me about that is back in

888
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:15,359
Speaker 3: the night my days, you know, around the twins in clubhouses.

889
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,720
Speaker 3: There'd be you know, night games end at eleven whatever,

890
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 3: ten thirty, and then you'd see you'd walk in the

891
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 3: same thing that these huge buffet spreads, and it was

892
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 3: all like comfort food. It was like fried chicken, mashed potatoes,

893
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,800
Speaker 3: roast beef. Now, I think in baseball they've gone away

894
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:34,479
Speaker 3: from that to try to go to the healthier stuff.

895
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:36,760
Speaker 4: But you're telling me and hockey is still the same.

896
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 3: How do you eat at like eleven o'clock with a

897
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 3: bucket in your gut and then to go to sleep.

898
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if these guys work so I'm serious. Yeah,

899
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:47,399
Speaker 1: they work so hard. They burn it. They burn it off.

900
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: The big difference was after the game when I was

901
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:54,720
Speaker 1: down in the wild room one time and Andrew Burnett

902
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: came in. I'm talking to doctor Burns. And Andrew Burnette

903
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: came in and he sat in the chair and Burns

904
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: goes over and puts it in Travenie center and Sheildren

905
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: comes back to me. He said, what's the matter with He said,

906
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: he's just fluids. I said, didn't he ever hear a beer?

907
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:11,800
Speaker 1: We said he in the locker room. I couldn't believe

908
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,399
Speaker 1: the difference. I said, what a difference. Most Vaska would

909
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: have had a half a case by then. And and

910
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: these guys they take injured venus and they take food.

911
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: It's just amazing. I said, I've seen weird things in

912
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 1: my life. I was telling justin before you know, about

913
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 1: ten years ago, I was on a cruise, which one

914
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: I can't remember, but my wife and I were there.

915
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: After after dinner, go and see a musical showing this

916
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: older couple sitting to her left, and this guy sort

917
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 1: of falls asleep on my shoulder and I give him

918
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: a little nudge, and I give him another nudge. He

919
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,800
Speaker 1: never moved. I looked at his wife. She was panic stricken.

920
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: I called for a doctor. They stopped the show. The

921
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 1: doctor comes, they take him out. He died. In the

922
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: next day. I'm looking and they're taking the casket out

923
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: and the woman out. I said, I've been through a

924
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 1: lot of weird stuff in my life. Wow, imagine that.

925
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 1: I can't. And then they put the show back on.

926
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 1: I mean soon they yeah. And then I started wondering

927
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: and wonder often this happens on cruises.

928
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,439
Speaker 5: You know, you don't want to know, No, I know, yeah,

929
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 5: somebody who's asking uh six one two guys. Is did

930
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 5: Louis let the cat out of the back about Craig

931
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,240
Speaker 5: Leopold the twins?

932
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 4: That's out, isn't it?

933
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 1: Ye?

934
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 4: That's what I he thought.

935
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 3: Maybe you were roll because for a long time it wasn't,

936
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 3: was it? I think that was part of it, right?

937
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 3: But we learned, Yeah, we learned that. Okay, yeah, there

938
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:34,879
Speaker 3: was him and U. I came from some other places, New.

939
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 4: York bankers out out east by the way.

940
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 3: Did you see, you know, the the NBA is finally

941
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:42,439
Speaker 3: catching up the NHL. They're probably gonna add two teams

942
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 3: Seattle where you know obviously you guys got there first.

943
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 3: But did you see the estimated entry fee to get

944
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:56,280
Speaker 3: into the NBA six billion minimum eight billion a team,

945
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 3: maybe ten billion a team. Louis, let's just say it's

946
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 3: eight billion team. That's sixteen billion for the two teams.

947
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:06,479
Speaker 3: Divide it up among the thirty owners. That's a half

948
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 3: a billion dollars in the in the back pocket of

949
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:10,919
Speaker 3: a Rod and Mark Luri.

950
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 5: You think Glenn Taylor is right.

951
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 4: Giving up the teams the way he did at the

952
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:20,320
Speaker 4: price he did, is that that doesn't even seem possible

953
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 4: to me?

954
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: No, I don't know how how you make the numbers work.

955
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: I don't know either. How much money can you get

956
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,279
Speaker 1: from TV because that's where you're not going to get

957
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: it through the gate. You can't put it so it tickets,

958
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: you know, be TV. It's got to be TV revenue,

959
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: and just I don't know. You always you know, it's

960
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: the greater fool of the night theory. They hope that

961
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 1: somebody comes along when you sell the teams. Yeah, that's

962
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 1: a fool and you make your money back. But that's

963
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 1: what you have to You have to wait to die

964
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 1: and leave it to your family or just sell it

965
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:56,320
Speaker 1: because you're never going to make cash flow during during

966
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 1: that period. I can't think.

967
00:48:57,680 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 4: That's well again, you may be.

968
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 3: What we're going to find out is the NBA is

969
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 3: going to expand in ninety games of seasons.

970
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 4: Add more revenue, because I don't know how they're going

971
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 4: to do it at eighty two for the blueberry muffin

972
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 4: that you took to you.

973
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 1: Know what, he could go to ninety games you only

974
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 1: played forty five till that's a good shot.

975
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:18,240
Speaker 5: Play, Yeah, very well played.

976
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 4: And he can't argue it that he knows that that

977
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,360
Speaker 4: the league is vulnerable on that and tanking. Yeah, tanking

978
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 4: is a massive issue for sure. Good to see you

979
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 4: next time. We'll see you in studio. You said, may

980
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 4: think may probably Okay, Well it'll a nice surprise. Yeah,

981
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 4: it was a great surprise. Is outstanding.

982
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:40,280
Speaker 5: And then you appreciate that your taxes are so complicated.

983
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 5: You can't just email the forms. You got to come

984
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 5: back and do it. I really shame that.

985
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,760
Speaker 1: I really came home for some kemps I screen screen.

986
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 5: Now you're doing it.

987
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,879
Speaker 3: You got another speaking engagement. Yeah, Now do you write

988
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 3: all your speeches or do you just kind of do notes?

989
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: How do you do it? You do my assistant? Yeah, right,

990
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,760
Speaker 1: I go through a small force. That's what she said.

991
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 1: She says, we're going to have some grow more trees.

992
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 3: So do you have like, okay, here's my do you

993
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 3: have over the course of the time, You've given a

994
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 3: lot of speeches? I'm sure, Like, okay, I got like

995
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 3: ten different themes and I'll pick you know, on a

996
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,320
Speaker 3: given time, let's go to theme number three or whatever?

997
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 3: Or you I mean, how do you do you recycle

998
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:20,360
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff?

999
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 5: How do you do it?

1000
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 7: No?

1001
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 1: I actually I was given up speaking. I said I've

1002
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: done enough I don't want to do, And then I

1003
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: did one two years ago. Then I'm going to do

1004
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 1: one tomorrow and I and I thought, what can I

1005
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: talk about that I haven't talked about that I think

1006
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 1: is really important? So then I come up with an

1007
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:42,439
Speaker 1: idea that works, Yeah, and just build around that. It just, uh,

1008
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 1: you know, it's something you want to You want to

1009
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 1: have people interested in something they probably haven't heard much about, right,

1010
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: and uh, work some stories in to have it relate

1011
00:50:54,040 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: to them and go, yeah, you've done it a few times,

1012
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:01,319
Speaker 1: you know, to make you know how to make it

1013
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 1: work for well, you know, my part of my first contract,

1014
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: I did the personal service. And part of that personal

1015
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: service was that I had to do every appearance that

1016
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: the players wouldn't do, and I had to do it

1017
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 1: for nothing. And then whether it's just going to talk

1018
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 1: to a high school team, our great school team make

1019
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: fifty bucks, I wouldn't make the money. I had to

1020
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 1: do that for three years. That was part of the

1021
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:21,839
Speaker 1: way I sold my personal.

1022
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 4: Contract's great, that's great practice, right yeah.

1023
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 1: And then well then after that, then after three years,

1024
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 1: I started doing it myself and getting paid for it

1025
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 1: was different.

1026
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, you weren't do giving it away at that point. No, yeah, no,

1027
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 4: because I'm but you were by that point. You were prepped.

1028
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 3: Because you get all that experience, you get used to it,

1029
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:37,879
Speaker 3: you can you can think on a dime.

1030
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a beautyful. Yeah, it's great to see it.

1031
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:42,399
Speaker 4: Nice to see and may we'll talk to you though

1032
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:45,000
Speaker 4: next week. We're getting ever closer. Like you said, we

1033
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 4: just want the postseason to begin. Man, it's just so

1034
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 4: we can get past evaluating, well does this matter, this

1035
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 4: lost matter, what should they rash?

1036
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 3: They just just let's get to some games, right, you

1037
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:58,720
Speaker 3: got it. We're getting close. Is always a pleasure, Luigi.

1038
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,399
Speaker 3: Let's pause little light top of the six o'clock hour.

1039
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 5: Back in just a.

1040
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 4: Minute, Athletic fat guy checks in with Dan. Some guy

1041
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:36,280
Speaker 4: died on Louie's shoulder. That's basically what he confirmed.

1042
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 5: Yes, i'd never heard that one before.

1043
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 4: I don't think that's been any of the books.

1044
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 5: Maybe it has. I'm not sure that's a rude awakening.

1045
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:46,240
Speaker 5: I mean that that's.

1046
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 3: And that that that's that would I would think be jarring. Yeah,

1047
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:57,359
Speaker 3: forever he said his wife was right there too. They're

1048
00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:04,360
Speaker 3: watching a show and it's just yeah.

1049
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 1: I mean.

1050
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:07,319
Speaker 3: Whatever I guess it's the old I mean, there's no

1051
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 3: there's probably no good ways to go, but I mean

1052
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 3: it's just it's just that's that's an unusual one.

1053
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 4: I would saying anything.

1054
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 5: But you have heard the stories about people that pass

1055
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 5: away on true and what they've got to do. You

1056
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 5: gotta do what you gotta do. And they don't shut

1057
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 5: down the cruise for it. No, they just kind of

1058
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 5: wait till the next part of silence maybe hopefully I

1059
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 5: don't know, something like that. But you didn't remember which

1060
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:33,799
Speaker 5: cruise it was on. That's the other that's the best

1061
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 5: part of it.

1062
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, like I said, it could be one

1063
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,280
Speaker 3: of one hundred and fifty crews easily.

1064
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:38,840
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1065
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 3: One of the best Colombo episodes was a murder that

1066
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 3: takes place on a cruise on a cruise ship.

1067
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 4: Robert Vaughan was the bad guy.

1068
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 3: Colombo is just you know, just happened to be on

1069
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 3: the cruise and so he suddenly is in a position

1070
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 3: where he's got some detecting to do.

1071
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 5: Lucky for those people on the cruise that he was there.

1072
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 3: That's that's true because it might it might not have

1073
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 3: otherwise been sold gotten away.

1074
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:01,800
Speaker 4: That's that's for sure.

1075
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 3: Do you do we think we've solved the question of

1076
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 3: which is the more taxing game? Or do you think

1077
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 3: it's just gonna be an ongoing battle depending on whether

1078
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 3: you like hockey or bat.

1079
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:14,439
Speaker 5: I think it's going to be. But it's not even

1080
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 5: like a battle. It's almost like a cheap shot hockey

1081
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 5: fight between the sides. Louis.

1082
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, Louis got down and dirty in a way that

1083
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure I fully expected. I mean, he definitely,

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Speaker 3: I mean he I hope I'm assuming Johnny.

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Speaker 5: The word is gonna filter to john It already has

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Speaker 5: He's tweeted about it. Oh yeah, Yes, he's tweeted about

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Speaker 5: it already. Yeah, you can check out his Twitter handle.

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Speaker 4: That's too good.

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Speaker 5: Word has already filtered to him. He was probably already

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Speaker 5: less motivated. I think he just enjoyed his role in

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Speaker 5: the whole thing and getting the hockey community going. But

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think Louis does have has does have

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Speaker 5: that figured out that he's bewildered by the the frequency

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Speaker 5: with which the hockey communeity loses its mind over somebody

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Speaker 5: who's obviously trying to get trying to get them going

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Speaker 5: more than I'm trying to get them going very easily triggered. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: Louis wants the hockey community to have a little bit

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Speaker 5: more security about itself than they currently do, and that

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Speaker 5: is that comes with age. That's Luigi.

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Speaker 3: That is true in his case, but we got a

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Speaker 3: lot of people, I'm afraid close to his age who

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Speaker 3: in the hockey community that still remain as defensive as

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Speaker 3: ever we.

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Speaker 4: Went along with Luigi.

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Speaker 3: Let's get one more pause in we'll remind you we

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Speaker 3: had a terrific array of guests today. I want to

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Speaker 3: give you highlights from our three thirty guests and our

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Speaker 3: four to thirty guest and we'll also prepare you for what.

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Speaker 4: We have coming up next here in the fan.

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Speaker 1: It's the Bumper to Bumper show Wrap.

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Speaker 3: I know I'm perhaps not the most objective, but I

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Speaker 3: thought our three thirty, four to thirty guests were The

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Speaker 3: word I think I used with Rich Gannon was exemplary

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Speaker 3: brilliant work in the case of Tom Crean at three

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Speaker 3: thirty and Gannon at four thirty. You know, in both

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Speaker 3: cases speaking largely about what you one would expect with Creane.

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Speaker 3: He was at the Yukon Duke unbelievable finish.

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Speaker 4: So we talked some college hoops.

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Speaker 3: We talked four players on the floor for your own team,

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Speaker 3: how that might happen. We talked plenty of Minnesota Timberwolves

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Speaker 3: as well, and even a little football that was between

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Speaker 3: three thirty and just past four o'clock.

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Speaker 4: We went along there. We went long with Gannon at

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Speaker 4: four thirty for the same reason.

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Speaker 3: He was so damned good about the Vikings quarterback situation.

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Speaker 3: And I will submit to you that that interview will

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Speaker 3: be my exhibit A that I have every right to

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Speaker 3: some of my skepticism on Kyler Murray. Now I'll add

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Speaker 3: he Gannon being the he I think endorsed the decision

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Speaker 3: given the Vikings alternatives, but he also said, you have

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Speaker 3: to go into this with your eyes open about Kyler Murray,

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Speaker 3: and you have to have the come to Jesus meeting.

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Speaker 3: Presumably already did even before you had made the deal,

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Speaker 3: assigned him with him about and about what he needs

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Speaker 3: to do and the degree to which he needs to

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Speaker 3: be challenged. And you could hear in Gannon's voice at

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Speaker 3: times his own skepticism about whether seven years in this

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Speaker 3: will be year eight next year, that Murray's got it

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Speaker 3: in him, or that it's understandable if you're not sure

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Speaker 3: that he does so a very I think honest and

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Speaker 3: forthright analysis of what Murray at his best represents, but

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Speaker 3: also the pitfalls that you have every right to wonder

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Speaker 3: about going in no matter how elusive he can be,

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Speaker 3: both outstanding and Louie is always great, and he gave

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Speaker 3: us a great five o'clock hour on all.

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Speaker 4: Sorts of things.

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Speaker 3: It is interesting that Louis continues to be pretty steadfast

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Speaker 3: and he's not as concerned about the wild as many

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Speaker 3: many of the fans at this point. So we'll find

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Speaker 3: out soon enough, right, because the regular season got like

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Speaker 3: two weeks left, basically two weeks in both leagues, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: there's no playing in hockey though correct? Correct, Basketball, they're

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Speaker 3: still a play in. We cannot fall to the play in.

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Speaker 3: The lowest we can fall is six, and then if

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Speaker 3: we're six, we're probably playing the Lakers. If we're five

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Speaker 3: or four, we're probably either hosting the Nuggets or playing

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Speaker 3: the Nuggets likely right now. Yeah, that's the way it

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Speaker 3: looks again, and i'd love another Nuggets matchup.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't you.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it's a fun one. It's a fun one. Denver.

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Speaker 4: You could look at Denver two ways.

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Speaker 3: One they've been decimated by injury in a way that

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Speaker 3: the Wolves haven't, and yet they're still above the Wolves

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Speaker 3: in the standings.

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Speaker 7: Yep.

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Speaker 3: The other way you could so they're dangerous and deeper

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Speaker 3: than they were a year ago. But the other week

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Speaker 3: you can look at it is they don't guard and

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Speaker 3: are they going to suddenly, you know, turn the switch

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Speaker 3: on in the Postseason's hard to say. The Wolves we

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Speaker 3: know can guard. They don't always do it, but they can.

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Speaker 3: It's not really been in Denver's DNA this year, so

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Speaker 3: that would be a good matchup. Bottom line is through

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Speaker 3: outstanding guests today and if you missed any of them,

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Speaker 3: podcast watch later at your leisure whenever it works for you.

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Speaker 3: Kessler is on the docket for tomorrow. Looks like Sea

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Speaker 3: for Thursday. Is that correct?

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Speaker 5: That's the tentative plan. And it looks like Andy Lueger

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Speaker 5: is gonna come in studio Thursday bearing gifts. Wow, he's

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Speaker 5: bringing gifts to the show for a very specific reason,

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Speaker 5: which I will allow him to explain when he comes

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Speaker 5: into studio on Thursday, and who knows what else we

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Speaker 5: got coming up because the Wolves are off tonight.

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Speaker 4: Wild are off till Thursday, right, correct? What are the

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Speaker 4: Wolves playing next?

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Speaker 5: The Wolves they are Thursday Friday. I think Detroit is Thursday, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: we go back to back Detroit. I think Detroitch just

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Speaker 5: lost an OT to Okie City in Okie City, still

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Speaker 5: without Cunningham. Yeah, which is an interesting deal. A fan

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Speaker 5: and a man is going to follow us as per

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Speaker 5: usual tonight, and then it will be the award winning

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Speaker 5: Dan Patrick program that will.

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Speaker 4: Be coming up as well. We'll talk to you tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: It starts all over again beginning at three o'clock right

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Speaker 3: here on the fan.

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Speaker 5: A lot of things that are easily correctable.