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Speaker 1: up on Bumper to bumper on Friday night, your Minnesota

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Speaker 1: top of the program while general manager Bill Garon is

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Speaker 1: with us now, welcome back to the program. Are you

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Speaker 1: still on the adrenaline adrenaline rush? Are you past that?

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Speaker 1: How would you describe the current Billy Garren mood?

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, good morning, thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 2: No, not really. I mean, Nick, we got the player

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Speaker 2: Well? I you know what, Jim, Jim was great to

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Speaker 2: Then on Friday he called me back and said, hey, look,

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Speaker 3: Is that when you were you had you were working

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Speaker 2: Yes, I actually am right now too.

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Speaker 1: I swear to god, Now did you throw I mean

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we celebrated a bit that.

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Speaker 1: I mean good, you gave up good pieces across the board.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's crappy, and but you know what, we got

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Speaker 1: But you know how it works in this town. Really,

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Speaker 2: Well, then you won't make the deal. Mhm Jesus that

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Speaker 3: And we get him here where we think we're.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, we were patient and we made

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Speaker 1: You've been in NHL locker rooms, as you know, as

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the guys are really excited, you know

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Speaker 1: Was this was this you keeping your promise to Caprice off? No,

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Speaker 1: that's more dramatic if you say yes, that's not the truth.

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Speaker 1: Don't you don't have to worry about that. You take

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Speaker 3: A text.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this question because it's and a

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Speaker 1: the ten o'clock hour, Dan, could you ask Billy about

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Speaker 1: upgrading our center depth? It was already a big question

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, take a look at our decoor. I

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Speaker 2: still like to add, you know, some center depth, no doubt,

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Speaker 2: but no, there's there's there's more than one way to

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Speaker 1: Did you see the comments from within the hockey community,

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Speaker 3: Have you read a couple of those This is.

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Speaker 1: From a This is from the Athletic. This is a

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Speaker 1: That indication seems to be that both sides did extremely well.

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Speaker 1: A West Western Conference executive, very surprising you. You didn't

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Speaker 3: I'm a big boyim fan.

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Speaker 1: Rossi has already proven to be a twenty five goal

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Speaker 1: They reassigned him there, arguably getting the second best offensive

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's nothing, but you know it turned out to

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Speaker 3: Well, if that right to me.

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Speaker 2: If you're if you're only willing to do things that

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Speaker 1: That do you believe in collaborations what you're saying, Oh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this matters to you, but Louis

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Speaker 1: He didn't always get it right, but he believes it.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, and I agree with him, like it's he's

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Speaker 2: to to go after players like that. Like we we don't,

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Speaker 2: like I said, we don't want to just sit there

435
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 2: like this is not you know what I mean. We

436
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,600
Speaker 2: we want to win the Saley Cup. And you need

437
00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,639
Speaker 2: you need great players, and you need a great to

438
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 2: do that. So when the opportunity arises, you got to

439
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:08,120
Speaker 2: take it. Sometimes well you got Sometimes you don't. Sometimes

440
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:09,639
Speaker 2: it might not be the right time.

441
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 1: We also have to have an owner, I assume, I mean,

442
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,399
Speaker 1: the assumption is that you make this deal with a

443
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 1: full intent of re signing him, right, so that ain't

444
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 1: going to be cheap. So I assume that's those discussions

445
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 1: have to take place too, right, It's it's going to

446
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:29,199
Speaker 1: take another Brinks truck to bring him back if he

447
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 1: if he continues to be as good as he is, correct.

448
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 2: I ask you let me ask you a question. Sure,

449
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 2: do you like when you interview other gms, other people

450
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 2: in like the other sports, do you talk about like

451
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 2: the money like that, like oh yeah, well well let.

452
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,400
Speaker 3: Me give you let me answer. I'll answer it this way.

453
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,400
Speaker 2: I'm curious because like com of the NHL, we're kind

454
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 2: of gone into this new in this new land where

455
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,959
Speaker 2: guys are making real big money, and like it always

456
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,160
Speaker 2: comes up because you know, we've got the hard cap

457
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 2: and oh man, you're gonna have to spend all this money,

458
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 2: yeah and this and that, and I just didn't I

459
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 2: didn't know like if because like if you look at

460
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 2: like the NBA and MLB and some like they make

461
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 2: way more money.

462
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, Well.

463
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 2: I didn't know if you kind of approach it like that.

464
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:23,119
Speaker 2: But Craig, Craig owns the team. He's doing fine.

465
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,199
Speaker 3: He's in it twin yes, he is.

466
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 2: Their finances are good, like we're okay if we're not.

467
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 2: If it's not okay, then we wouldn't be in it.

468
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,199
Speaker 2: And you know what he wants to win. It's like

469
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 2: you can't. Like it's kind of like the trade. Like

470
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 2: I talked about the trade, you have to pay to

471
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 2: get a player of that caliber. In order to win

472
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup, you have to pay great players to

473
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 2: be on your team. It doesn't come free. You can't.

474
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 2: You're not. I'm sorry, but you're not gonna be at

475
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,920
Speaker 2: the minimum, the floor, the cap and win the Stanley Cup.

476
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 2: You're just not. So if we're if we're in it

477
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 2: and we're going for it, then we're going for it.

478
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 2: We're not. We're not trying to do it. Oh, just

479
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 2: on our terms. If we can only spend this much

480
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 2: and see if we can squeak one out, well you're

481
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 2: in it.

482
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: I am not here to suggest any of this spending

483
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 1: would be reckless at all. It's more, you know, Okay,

484
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 1: let's let's double check, let's be sure. No, Well, here's

485
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 1: I'll give you the exception. Whenever if I ever talk

486
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 1: to anybody from the Twins, and I don't as much

487
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: anymore because there's not that much to talk to. We

488
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: never talk money, Bill, because that organization doesn't want to

489
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 1: spend any money. And and I know that's not what

490
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: you're here to do. It's my job to take shots

491
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 1: at other organizations, but I honestly, this is what I

492
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:53,879
Speaker 1: think appeals to fans about the approach the ambitious nature

493
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: of this approach if they or may not work out perfectly,

494
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 1: but it's it's like, wow, that that's an investment, uh,

495
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,959
Speaker 1: literally and figuratively. And that's what the Wolves have largely

496
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 1: done and and I think I and that's definitely what

497
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: the Vikings have tended to do. Now they have more

498
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,239
Speaker 1: money to work with, but it's all relative. It's they

499
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: all still have certain thoughts from which they work and

500
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: not every you know, maybe even the NHL, there may

501
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 1: be owners of say no, no, no, no, I don't want to,

502
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 1: I don't want to, you know, take that kind of

503
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: a kind of a a step genially.

504
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 2: Where are in every sport?

505
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 3: Yes, they never win?

506
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it, that's it exactly all right. So you're

507
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: you're on Meatball patroling. What's the dish you're making now?

508
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: Is it a breakfast brunch dish or working at him

509
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:36,120
Speaker 1: for dinner?

510
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 2: What we we just I was up at like five

511
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 2: this morning, I just constant turning, and because of everything

512
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 2: that happened the other day, I didn't get to complete

513
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 2: the you know, the meatball extrapaganza. But you know, we're

514
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 2: making a bunch for Christmas Eve, Like I'm making them now.

515
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 2: I got the vacuum sealer out. They're going to go

516
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 2: in the freezer. Will pull them out for Christmas Eve.

517
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 3: It's impressible.

518
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 2: I think I made I made six pounds already this morning.

519
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 3: Six pounds. That's a lot of meat.

520
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 2: Polls. Yeah, we're gonna have like forty something people. Okay,

521
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 2: nobody's going to go hungry.

522
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 3: It's a good event. Do you find that process relaxing?

523
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,199
Speaker 2: Yeah? I just like cooking in general. General okay, and

524
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 2: it's uh, yeah, it's great. I love it.

525
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 1: Last question, because we haven't really talked about the team,

526
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,640
Speaker 1: and I think we should so leaving aside this move.

527
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:37,120
Speaker 1: Prior to this move, what beyond obviously some really good

528
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 1: goaltending most of the time, what else has changed for you?

529
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 3: What?

530
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: What do you see that you can can you know,

531
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 1: demonstrably tell us this is why we seem to be

532
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: turning some things around.

533
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 2: I think we've matured a lot, Like I think you

534
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 2: know what the guys are under understanding a little bit

535
00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 2: more like how we need to play every night, especially

536
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 2: in the games, Like you know, we've we've beat every

537
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 2: good team this year. You know, now now we have

538
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 2: to back it up, Like you know, we beat a

539
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 2: good team that we lose for a weaker team. Uh,

540
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 2: but we're we're we're at least kind of making a

541
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 2: step in the way we play in these you know,

542
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 2: big regular season games. So I think there's a I

543
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 2: think there's a maturity that's that's going on here with

544
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 2: with our team. And yeah, it's good to see.

545
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 3: I appreciate the time.

546
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: Congratulations on the meatballs, Congratulations on the deal.

547
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 3: And I'll and I'll add one other things.

548
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: Some often our interviews are different than they are with

549
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: other general managers in large measure because you allow the

550
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: jousting more, which I do appreciate, and you can't do

551
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: that with everybody. Some people get too uptight. Some people say,

552
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: well I'm shutting it down. I'm not doing that. So

553
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: if they are, sometimes they feel a little bit different.

554
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 3: It's because as you allow them to be different, which

555
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 3: as a host I much appreciate.

556
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 2: Awesome, I love it. No, I always love coming on

557
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 2: with you, and I appreciate the jousting. You always ask

558
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 2: good questions. Thanks matter who writes them.

559
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 3: For you, well, largely russo obviously, Yeah, I just quote

560
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 3: him and thanks, have a good morning. Thanks, thank you.

561
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: That's Bill Gharren, the Wild general manager, still working on

562
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: the meatballs that got interrupted apparently when he got word yeah,

563
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: we might have a trade that shows a certain sticktuitiveness,

564
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 1: a certain dedication to the bit from the Wild general manager.

565
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 3: All right, let's get caught up.

566
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: We will digest what he had to say and get

567
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: our own reactions in on a momentous weekend for Brett

568
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: Blakemore's favorite hockey team. Don't forget, we do expect some

569
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: bonus Russo Radio after he lands. He's headed to another

570
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: Canadian city. I don't remember which one he was in Edmonton.

571
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 1: He's landing someplace old with the Calgary I can't remember.

572
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: In any case, he'll join us sometime in the and

573
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: we eventually will talk a little bit of Vikings Cowboys,

574
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: and there may be a brief moment where we are

575
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: obligated to spend some time in an a section that

576
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: is absolutely filled with tragedy. This is a text from

577
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: Jeff out of Richfield. Blake Moore has to be absolutely

578
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: jacked about this trade.

579
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 3: Are you or are you not?

580
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: I didn't know you were on I assume yesterday I was,

581
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: And did you and Mikeletty get into an argument about it.

582
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 3: Because you usually do in the old days.

583
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: It was Falness in Mikeletty that got into verbal spats.

584
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: Right now it's you and mcletty or is it all

585
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: three of you?

586
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 4: Well, it's mostly all Usually me and Fallness are still

587
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 4: good though, Okay, but it's at first it was sticker shock.

588
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 4: It was gave up how much? And Zee the guy

589
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 4: that I was looking forward to watch and grow? And

590
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 4: we get attached to these guys so much. Sure, so

591
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 4: once they all loved I mean, they can't. They have

592
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 4: to know they've raved about him too. They thought he

593
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 4: had a chance to be a star. When I first

594
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 4: tweeted up, that was the sticker shock moment. Since then

595
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 4: then you start thinking about, well, what's this power play

596
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 4: going to look like? When he was ooh, he's gonna

597
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 4: play twenty eight minutes a night with probably with brock Favor. Oh,

598
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 4: and then you start thinking about it, and now I'm

599
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 4: full on except I mean a lot of people are

600
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 4: comparing it not to mark your Bingo cards to the

601
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 4: Micah Parsons trade.

602
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 3: Right, you know you're going for it.

603
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 4: You give up a lot, but you get one of

604
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 4: the best defenders, you know, second best passer, second best

605
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 4: defenseman in hockey. It's a huge swing, and I like

606
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 4: big swings. Saying we're going fast. I love it.

607
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 3: I'm all in.

608
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: Anybody who listens this show knows I felt that way

609
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: about Conley. I feel the same way here and again,

610
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: that doesn't guarantee success.

611
00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 3: On any one of the individual moves.

612
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: But you know, and I've already heard people we've got

613
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: so much herschel Walker trade trauma in this town that

614
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: that's the name for people who haven't gotten past your

615
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: sticker shock period. Even yet they bring up and I'm going, well, whatever,

616
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: the risks are different.

617
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 3: Herschel Walker was close to washed up when the Vikings.

618
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: By the time the Vikings got him, this kid, well

619
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: I call him kid.

620
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 3: He's not a kid, but.

621
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Speaker 1: He's twenty six, right, He's he maybe hasn't even reached

622
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: his prime, for God's sake, So it's a bad analogy

623
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Speaker 1: to use. The risk in this one is different. There

624
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: is the risk that you don't resign them right now.

625
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: I read and I want to run this by Russo

626
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: one of the analysis one of the analysts, I should say, said, look,

627
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: worst case for the wild.

628
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 2: Is that.

629
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: If they come to the conclusion that they even with

630
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: the advantage, the signing trade advantage they have on the

631
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: front end in terms of what they can give them,

632
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:09,280
Speaker 1: if that isn't realized, worst case is they turn around

633
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: and trade him for their own hall.

634
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 3: Is that realistic if he's that.

635
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: Much closer to the end of the contract, Because then

636
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: you're back to who's going to give you a hall?

637
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 3: Another hall?

638
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: Unless I guess you're trading him to somebody where the

639
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 1: agent has already said yes, we will, we will sign

640
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: long term there. But then that limits the team and

641
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: that may even limit how big a haul that you receive.

642
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 4: I don't think they can get just because of that.

643
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 4: Why would New Jersey, for instance, bend over backwards and

644
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 4: give a giant haul to the Wild when they can

645
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 4: just wait six months and get him for free, you know,

646
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 4: and not have to give up Bay. Right, So the

647
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 4: worst case snarios we get him for one playoff run,

648
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 4: which would be this one, and come trade deadline next year.

649
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 4: He says, right, it's been fun, I'm out of here.

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Speaker 4: Trade me and know we get something, but not nearly

651
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Speaker 4: as good. That's worst case best case, I mean, rue,

652
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Speaker 4: So just put an article you talked to them about

653
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 4: it headlined a wow to have no long term guarantees,

654
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Speaker 4: but there's some reason to believe yes, So.

655
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Speaker 1: There's encouraging signs early. But again that doesn't mean it's

656
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: going to pay off.

657
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 3: Correct.

658
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Speaker 1: I'll just say again, for me, this goes back to

659
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 1: when I was little Danny Barrero and was a fan,

660
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: much more of a fan growing up the Chicago area

661
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: to now being in the business. In this business, as

662
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Speaker 1: long as I have, I have great respect. Look, you

663
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: can't say every big swing, you know, all big swings

664
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Speaker 1: are equal, because some of them do come off as

665
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 1: reckless and a little bit too much hubris. But generally speaking,

666
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Speaker 1: if leave the position I'm in now just for fans

667
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: and the fan I remember I was, you know, when

668
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 1: I was closer to that growing up, I just wanted

669
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Speaker 1: my team to just try to be relevant, to try.

670
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,280
Speaker 3: To to take bold risks.

671
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: By more than anything else, what bringing in big time talent,

672
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 1: And again it comes at a big price, that's what

673
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,800
Speaker 1: you have to determine, but it is so much more

674
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Speaker 1: refreshing and encouraging to continue to invest.

675
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Speaker 3: In a team.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of saying what Garan is saying, Well, we

677
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: can you could bunt all your life if you want,

678
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: but it's every once in a while you have to

679
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: be able to come to the willing, be willing to

680
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: come to the plate and go for it.

681
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Speaker 3: And to me, that should be music to the ears of.

682
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Speaker 1: Any Minnesota Wild fan, I would argue any Minnesota sports fan,

683
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: and I think that's what Conley has done well with

684
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: the Wolves. They don't have a title, they may never

685
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: get a title, but they're ambitious about what they're trying

686
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Speaker 1: to do.

687
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,720
Speaker 3: It's not talking themselves out.

688
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: Of every big move or excusing themselves out of well,

689
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: oh that's all that to be hard. Oh that's dangerous.

690
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: Oh that's a little that's risky. Well that's expensive. You

691
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: want that, We have that and we see where it ends.

692
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: So I think it should be an absolute day of celebration,

693
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Speaker 1: not just for Minnesota Wild fans, but for Minnesota sports

694
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Speaker 1: fans as well. Let's get caught up because we went

695
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: along with Bill Garren and his meatballs in the first

696
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: segment of the program. We'll come back get to some

697
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,800
Speaker 1: other texts, a lot of other ground to cover between

698
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,320
Speaker 1: now and eleven o'clock. Of course, the vikings are tonight

699
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 1: right here in the Phantom, assuming pregame will start at

700
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 1: five with the opening faceoff just passed. Everything's going to

701
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,399
Speaker 1: be opening face off now. I think for the rest

702
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 1: of the year. It's seven fifteen Sunday Sermons brought to

703
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 1: you by jtr Roofing. I'm wondering how many of you

704
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: noticed Julius Randall welcoming Quinn Hughes to the State of Basketball.

705
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 3: I was impressed.

706
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: Here's the text or the tweet, Quinn Hughes, Welcome to

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00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: the city, my man.

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00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 3: You'll love it here. Can't wait.

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Speaker 1: To catch a game. Now, does Julius know the Wild

710
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:07,439
Speaker 1: playing Saint Paul? He said, welcome to the city, my man.

711
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 1: I think that might be.

712
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 3: Just you know, he's being more generic there.

713
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: But I should have mentioned I intended to mention this

714
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 1: to Bill Garon when he joined us at the start

715
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: of the show. They already the Wild should be working

716
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 1: overtime to set up a big Julius Randall invitation now

717
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: that he's asked it, bring the whole family to the Wild,

718
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: set him up in a luxury suite.

719
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 3: The whole bit great.

720
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with great partnership, even though they're both

721
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: winter sports teams. Right, there's room for both of them,

722
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say, and they do both

723
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: seem to share the willingness to spend some money and

724
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 1: to be ambitious as well. I want to read this

725
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: one to you see if this makes sense to you.

726
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: This has ed out of Saint Paul Dan. The best

727
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: example of a trade and flip is the Hurricanes and

728
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: Ranton and the Canes traded for him from the Avalanche

729
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: with the hope States sign him. After three weeks, they

730
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: realized it wasn't gonna happen, so they flipped them to

731
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Speaker 1: Dallas for a young player in two first round picks

732
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: Ranton and immediately signed an eight your extension with Stars.

733
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: They recognize their mistake in course corrected before he walked

734
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: out for free. Hopefully that doesn't mean the Wild will

735
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: be trading Huts away in three weeks. I think that'd

736
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,439
Speaker 1: be fairly devastating at this point. Yeah, but I get

737
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: his larger point that he's trying to make no and it's.

738
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Speaker 4: Certainly possible, and I'm not sure that they're going to

739
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 4: get an equivalent passage, so they can still get something right.

740
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 1: He's not probably not gonna walk for free free. I

741
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 1: don't think it'd be I don't think it'd be anywhere

742
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: near as much. Look at this, This is from Bart

743
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: out of Oakdale, way too much hockey talk. Come on, man,

744
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: I mean, in all seriousness, even if you're not a

745
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: big hockey fan, you gotta understand the timeliness of this situation.

746
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: If you can't go wall to wall on hockey on

747
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: a day like this or close to it, when can you.

748
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 1: This is arguably as big a trade as a Minnesota

749
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: sports team is made in I don't know how long,

750
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: in all seriousness, in terms of the talent on paper

751
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 1: in his prime that you're getting back. So no, you

752
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 1: got to understand we're going to follow the story and

753
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: we're definitely going to follow the story here as as well.

754
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: And by the way, he makes his our new superstar

755
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 1: makes his debut Matt and a Affair today at the

756
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: Arena formerly known.

757
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 3: As the X five o'clock against the Bruins.

758
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: And that game you tell me will be on because

759
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 1: we got Vikings pregame show at five on the fans

760
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,280
Speaker 1: so cool, one to eight, all the action.

761
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 3: I assume they might sell.

762
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: A few extra seats for that for it's a perfect

763
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 1: you know, it's not a late start tonight on a

764
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:54,240
Speaker 1: Sunday on a school night.

765
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 3: Five o'clock start holiday season. Place should be festive. Now

766
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 3: are you going? Do you have to work here? I

767
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 3: wish I was going.

768
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 4: You would be going if you weren't working, I would

769
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 4: be trying to weasel my way in.

770
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you? Yeah? If not?

771
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,879
Speaker 4: Now when I've gotten several texts saying, hey, can you

772
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 4: can you hook me up? Like I barely hooked myself up.

773
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 4: That's kind of a bit of a problem with the

774
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 4: game like this.

775
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: Jojis Rander could never go to Wild Game Wild Game

776
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 1: because they always play at the same time. That's Dann

777
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:29,320
Speaker 1: Minnesota has a peculiar obsession with this concern.

778
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:31,799
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't. I'm trying to figure out where

779
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 3: it comes from.

780
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: Like he thinks that teams should make sure in the

781
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 1: same market they don't schedule against one another. There's a

782
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 1: million variables that go into scheduling. This can't be at

783
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: the top of the list down In a perfect world,

784
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 1: obviously you wouldn't play at the same time, but it

785
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: happens everywhere.

786
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 3: I don't know. He's he's bothered by it. And again.

787
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: There's remotes, right, can't you flip back and forth pretty easily.

788
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 1: Is it that difficult to do? I didn't think it was,

789
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: but apparently in his world it is. Garan always seems

790
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: testy when he's on with you. But I'm not a

791
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: big hockey guy. On that note, I hope someday soon.

792
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 3: Hold on, where did it go?

793
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 1: You can refer to the start of Vikings game, his

794
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: first pitch at the people Stadiums at seven twenty. Yeah,

795
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: not holding my breath. Why wouldn't either, No, Garan and I.

796
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 1: You have to know garin a little bit. It's Garan's

797
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 1: nature to be somewhat testy, and it's part of what

798
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: I like about having him on to be honest with you.

799
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: He'll answer anything, he might fire back, that's that's fine.

800
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: And his question about the money part of it. The

801
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: misread was I wasn't saying we didn't have the money.

802
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: I was saying it's a compliment because you can't make

803
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: a deal like this without knowing whether the owner has

804
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: signed off on what another big contract potentially is going

805
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: to represent. Right, you have to go in with some

806
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: knowledge of what that's going to be. That's the point.

807
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: That's where the money matters, and in this town it

808
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: stands out because we do have some teams that at

809
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: least one team, I guess it's fair to say that

810
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: it's just not all that interested in participating in the

811
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 1: financial activity that is kind of essential if you're going

812
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: to give your even just give yourself a chance to

813
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: be more successful. Bill Garran has big meatballs after the trade?

814
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: Did Bill Garon do the big meatball dance? That's a

815
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: Sam Cassell throwback? Very nicely played. I kind of like it.

816
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: I might, in fact even steal it. And if you

817
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 1: wondering what we're talking about. Garran had said at the

818
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: time Friday he got the call that there was a

819
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: good chance the deal was going to get done, that

820
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: he was preparing meatballs for a big holiday party. And

821
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,919
Speaker 1: what he acknowledged with us this morning when he joined

822
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: is he was back working on the meatballs again because

823
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 1: he's got a big holiday party coming, and that's why

824
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 1: there's been so much meatball conversation.

825
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:07,399
Speaker 3: I guess the best way to.

826
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,760
Speaker 1: Put it looks like we've got a text from Russo

827
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: has he landed already? He has landed, So we'll decide

828
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,479
Speaker 1: during the break if we have Russo on immediately, whether

829
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 1: it's easier for him. If we put him off a

830
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 1: little later in the ten o'clock hour, we'll have that

831
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: production meeting off air. But suffice to say, you will

832
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 1: get some bonus Russo Radio in the second hour, and

833
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: he can I think, speak directly to the some of

834
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Speaker 1: the contract questions or you know, what are the odds

835
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: or what's the temperature in that regard, what are the

836
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: risks involved in it? And maybe also some of his

837
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: views on what exactly specifically I guess is the best

838
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: way to put it. Makes this particular player, Well, do

839
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: you buy the notion that he's the second best defenseman

840
00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: in hockey or do you think that's that's too low

841
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:00,760
Speaker 1: for the ranking.

842
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 4: No, I think he's right there with Cale mccarr. I mean,

843
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 4: mccarr is the elite of the elite, but he's right there.

844
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 4: I mean, Quinn Hughes won the Norris not too long ago,

845
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:10,720
Speaker 4: and that's the best defensemen in the league.

846
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: So all right, we'll get into all that, and we'll

847
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: get into some vikings conversation and some real world A

848
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,240
Speaker 1: section stuff as well. In our number two stay tuned Minnesota,

849
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: Windshill just made that you got most segment on ESPN

850
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 1: must have been was it a halftime performance and it

851
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: was a hell of a reception by Windshield guy. I

852
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: gotta say it was impressive. That's good exposure for the

853
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: formerly world champion wind Shill. I think we didn't defend

854
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: our championship. We won it year before last.

855
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 2: We didn't.

856
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: We didn't get it done this last year. But another

857
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 1: team that's not not afraid to spend the money and

858
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:51,800
Speaker 1: make the big trades. It's unbelievable how that works. Nothing ventured,

859
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,840
Speaker 1: As the cliche goes, nothing gained. Our number two of

860
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:58,959
Speaker 1: Sunday sermons, Bureau and Blake Moore with you till eleven

861
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: o'clock today. A couple programming reminders. We do expect to

862
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 1: visit from Russo Radio as soon as he gets off

863
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 1: the plane he is on that has just landed. And

864
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: in addition, let's remember Wild in action tonight. Right you

865
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: said five o'clock start. Quinn Hughes will make his Wild

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Speaker 1: debut at five this evening against the Boston Bruins.

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Speaker 3: And all that action will be on Cool one oh eight.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Vikings pregame show will start at five o'clock on

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Speaker 1: the flagship FM one hundred point three. The fan Bikings Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: which we will eventually get to as as well, try

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Speaker 1: to cover a couple of the issues there. Russo Radio

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Speaker 1: indeed is now kind enough to join us to give

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Speaker 1: us some bonus time.

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Speaker 3: All you do?

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Speaker 1: So you you you were in one Canadian city and

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Speaker 1: now you've landed in another.

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Speaker 3: Is that correct?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I got a through Calgary, but I have a

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Speaker 5: six hour layover here at five hours? What time it is?

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Speaker 5: So seriously, luckily I have enough enough to do.

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Speaker 1: That's okay, So you'll be able to fill the time,

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Speaker 1: is what you're saying?

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00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, nice beautiful airport?

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Speaker 3: Is it is it? Can you get your Can you

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Speaker 3: get your favorite coffee drink?

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Speaker 2: Though?

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Speaker 3: That's the question.

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Speaker 5: I will need one because man, I did not got

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Speaker 5: any sleep last night. I'm dragging today. But uh, I'll

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Speaker 5: find a Starbucks for or I'll have to go low

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Speaker 5: brown and gets important?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: We started the show with Billy garn I want to

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Speaker 1: get into some other aspects of the of the story

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Speaker 1: with you, including this. I've gotten this from several people.

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Speaker 1: Are you allowed in the city as this trade gets

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Speaker 1: put together and consummated? Are we allowed to ask the

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Speaker 1: agent his agent about a contract before the trade, How

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Speaker 1: does all that work and how will it now play out?

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Speaker 5: Yes, I mean well I did a huge story with

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Speaker 5: his agent today and everything was on the record, so uh,

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Speaker 5: you know, the one thing that he did say in

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Speaker 5: the story, which is making waves up here in Canada

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Speaker 5: as I'm looking at the TV and see my story

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Speaker 5: on it is uh, he told me on the record

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Speaker 5: that three weeks ago the Quinn basically told him now

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Speaker 5: that's time to trade. So you know that that was

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Speaker 5: pretty interesting that he was not willing to commit to

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Speaker 5: sign an extension there. The one thing, you know, one

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Speaker 5: thing with this agent, Tech Persani is the best Asians

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Speaker 5: in the NHL, one of the best. He's got a

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Speaker 5: you know, a billion and a half in contracts in

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Speaker 5: the league, get one hundred clients, and he has a

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Speaker 5: history of working with teams to broke the trades. So

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Speaker 5: it doesn't always look like this, but you know, Jim

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Speaker 5: Ruthford and Patrick Alvian essentially gave him permission to talk

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Speaker 5: to teams. So while they were working on and he

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Speaker 5: was also talking to these teams and able to one

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Speaker 5: help together pack news that allow these teams to steal questions.

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Speaker 5: And the one thing that he did tell every one

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Speaker 5: of these teams honestly, is that we are not able

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Speaker 5: to promise you that we're going to sign an extension

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Speaker 5: uh there, and we're not able to talk to you

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Speaker 5: yet about a contract that we don't know what we're

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Speaker 5: going to do. So, you know, the one thing Pat

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Speaker 5: told me yesterday and I have a great relationship with him,

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Speaker 5: and I trust it, is that that Twin is coming

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Speaker 5: to Minnesota with an absolutely open mind. He is priority

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Speaker 5: is winning and going to a great hockey experience. I

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Speaker 5: think that they feel that Minnesota, you know, is a

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Speaker 5: great spot for him. He absolutely loves still Garm, he

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Speaker 5: loves the culture in Minnesota. It's close to his family,

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Speaker 5: it's closer to his brothers. So I really think the

934
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Speaker 5: while will have a really good opportunity to extend them.

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Speaker 5: But and the other thing is that you know that

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Speaker 5: they you know, technically had eight months where they could

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Speaker 5: extend them, but they were seven months, right. But he,

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Speaker 5: you know, the big thing shoes that technically it could

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Speaker 5: go into next season if you can't get it done right.

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Speaker 5: And so it gives him sort of a year and

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Speaker 5: a half to really sell him on why to stay

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Speaker 5: in Minnesota. You know, and and early in his career

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Speaker 5: in Vancouver he played with some really good players when

944
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Speaker 5: Kohorvett was there and KT Miller and Elias Peterson were

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Speaker 5: getting along and playing great, and so he's played with

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Speaker 5: great players. But I think the hope from Bill Garrins

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Speaker 5: and obviously Craig Leopold is that once he gets playing

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Speaker 5: with guys like to preestof on that Boldie, two absolute

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Speaker 5: studs against the puck in their hands and wins games

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Speaker 5: and dobbles up points, that he's going to want to

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Speaker 5: stay here. And so that's their hope, and they're taking

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Speaker 5: a gamble. But there has absolutely been no assurances made

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Speaker 5: it one that he will stay here. And so what

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Speaker 5: type of contract it would it would it would it

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Speaker 5: would be. In fact, Bill Garran told me which kind

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Speaker 5: of shocked me, is is that he had not talked

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Speaker 5: to Craig Leopold about what the next contract could look like.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I have not talked to Craig Leopold

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Speaker 5: about this, but if it's an eight year deal, I mean,

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Speaker 5: the one benefit the Wild had is that they're in

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Speaker 5: the previous CBA right broke the free stuff where take

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Speaker 5: its time, and you know he could very well become

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Speaker 5: him in the car up at the same time, they

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Speaker 5: could be you know, seventeen million dollars players too, and

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Speaker 5: and you know, and they could command the same type

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Speaker 5: of structure with with with a contract where all of

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Speaker 5: a sudden they just want all signing Moses on July one.

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Speaker 5: And you know, Creig Leopold, who's already gonna have to

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Speaker 5: pay sixteen million dollars a year for the next eight

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Speaker 5: years on July one to broke the three stuff? What

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Speaker 5: if he has to do that. We're guy like from

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Speaker 5: Hughes as well, And so it kind of surprised me

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Speaker 5: that this wasn't discussed before the trade. But I think

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Speaker 5: that they that Bill Garran just pigiod let's get this

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Speaker 5: done and then we'll deal with the aftermath afterwards.

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Speaker 1: Part of what fascinated me, but in the comers and

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Speaker 1: I with Garn and the way you guys laid it

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Speaker 1: out in sort of piecing together the history that led

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Speaker 1: to this deal, is that in a sense, Garn wasn't

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Speaker 1: the primary mover at the front end. It's one of

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Speaker 1: his general assistant general managers who basically opens the door.

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Speaker 1: Because I said to him, I said, I just assumed

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Speaker 1: Billy with you you're going to be on you you

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Speaker 1: love this player, that you'd be all in on this

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Speaker 1: where you didn't have to be told by anybody else

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Speaker 1: to make this phone call. But he admitted, he said, well,

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Speaker 1: you tried to stay on top of everything. But that's

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Speaker 1: why we got a good staff. And that's sort of

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Speaker 1: what what got the ball rolling, which is kind of

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Speaker 1: interesting to me.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I you know, that's the one thing I

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Speaker 5: will say about this version of the Minnesota while is

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Speaker 5: I think everybody thinks that in pro sports that everything

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Speaker 5: is planned out, you know, yeah, once ahead of time.

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Speaker 5: And Billy has proven to be a very impulsive person.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, he's woken up on days and

997
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Speaker 5: you know, I think I'm gonna make a trade today.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't, so, you know, and then and then deals

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Speaker 5: with it after. And so this is one of those

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Speaker 5: where you know, all of a sudden, obviously that Matt

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Speaker 5: selves is the one that's being credited with giving him,

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Speaker 5: you know, the idea.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 5: The funny thing is that that same day I had

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Speaker 5: actually talked to Bill Garin and you know, we were

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Speaker 5: talking about Vancouver a little bit because I had started

1007
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Speaker 5: to hear this is ay that they want to keep

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Speaker 5: it sure wood, and I got the impression that they

1009
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Speaker 5: offered Marco sorry leam Ogrin for that, and that they

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Speaker 5: counted for Marco Rassi. And so even in my head,

1011
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Speaker 5: all of a sudden, you just wonder if they're suddenly

1012
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Speaker 5: wanting Marco ROSSI, if the deal could be made, and

1013
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Speaker 5: so you know it is. It is pretty uh, you

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Speaker 5: know interesting. I can't tell you though that that uh,

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Speaker 5: you know, I I know it was really good authority

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Speaker 5: that that was really excited, uh to becoming a minute.

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Speaker 5: But you know, obviously we'll get them later today. Hope

1018
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Speaker 5: I'll make the end of the game. I land uh,

1019
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Speaker 5: I'll be landing in the middle of the second period.

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Speaker 5: But you know, I spent the last week basically with

1021
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Speaker 5: his mom. Coincidentally, I'm doing a big feature on her.

1022
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Speaker 5: Sat down with her watch the Devil stuff gamy face.

1023
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Speaker 5: I watched one of her other kids with her on

1024
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Speaker 5: the day of this trade that happened. I can tell

1025
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Speaker 5: you that, yeah, I could tell I mean, it just

1026
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Speaker 5: was a stroke of luck that I just happen to

1027
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Speaker 5: be working on this uh this week, and so you know,

1028
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Speaker 5: I can tell you that they're really really excited.

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Speaker 1: Well that you know the cliche you make your own

1030
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Speaker 1: luck Russo, I mean that's the thing. It's I know

1031
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Speaker 1: it may be lock, but that's because you're you're you're

1032
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Speaker 1: out there beating the bushes. That's the that's the main thing.

1033
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Speaker 5: You know, what are the chances like this? So she

1034
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Speaker 5: she's the player development to sultant for for USA Hockey Women.

1035
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Speaker 5: So she's basically the you know, she's on the ice

1036
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Speaker 5: every day with the USA Hockey women, right, And so

1037
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Speaker 5: like the story that I'm basically was working on is

1038
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Speaker 5: you know this woman that taught you know, that was

1039
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Speaker 5: the star hockey player herself and taught three yellow you know,

1040
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Speaker 5: three NFL stars that skag essentially going to have her

1041
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 5: the Olympic Games. I know she's canceling interviews with me

1042
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 5: for a couple of days up here.

1043
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

1044
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Speaker 5: Interesting, She's like she also is like, what are the

1045
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:15,400
Speaker 5: chances that the Wild beat writers here while my son's

1046
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Speaker 5: about to get traded there?

1047
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Speaker 3: What are your uh?

1048
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:23,320
Speaker 1: Millions of athletic analysts who've offered up their views since

1049
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:29,080
Speaker 1: the deal was consummated suggested that worst worst case scenario

1050
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Speaker 1: for the Wild they end up flipping him and that

1051
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:37,359
Speaker 1: they then could get their own haul. That's not what

1052
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: they'd want to do, but that they could do that.

1053
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 1: You know, Blake Bore and I were talking about that.

1054
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:45,399
Speaker 1: It's hard for me to believe that you could get

1055
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:48,360
Speaker 1: the same haul that much closer to the end of

1056
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 1: his contract unless you're dealing with the team that is,

1057
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Speaker 1: you know that he's going to re sign with, and

1058
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Speaker 1: then you're limiting obviously the options with that team. So

1059
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Speaker 1: I know that's not what you're envisioning at this point

1060
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Speaker 1: or any in the organization.

1061
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Speaker 3: That's not why you do a deal like this.

1062
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Speaker 1: But do you buy that analysis is that you could

1063
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 1: again in an emergency situation, you could still get a

1064
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: hell of a haul Or is that asking too much

1065
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 1: a second time around?

1066
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Speaker 5: No, I think there's something to it. I don't think

1067
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:19,279
Speaker 5: you're getting Morco Rossis he's wam liam Ogrian our first

1068
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:21,879
Speaker 5: round pick. Though, to your point, because you know one

1069
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:24,080
Speaker 5: he's going to be, you know, closer to the end

1070
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Speaker 5: of this contract, some of the teams that you could

1071
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Speaker 5: be talking to could be really truly rental teams. And

1072
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Speaker 5: then if you're talking to a team that thinks that

1073
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 5: they're going to have a great chance of resigning him.

1074
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Speaker 5: You know, they might not want to give you the

1075
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Speaker 5: hall because they're just going to know that, you know,

1076
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Speaker 5: they could just thought him on in July one. Now,

1077
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Speaker 5: Bill Garret has been in that position before. It's totally

1078
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Speaker 5: different type of player. But I was always amazed that

1079
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Speaker 5: he was able to get a second round pick for

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Speaker 5: Jack mcdae's from the Coyotes when everybody knew that the

1081
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:52,279
Speaker 5: guy who was going to sign with the Coyotes a

1082
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 5: couple months later, Yet he somehow did it. So not

1083
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 5: at all that the same thing, but you know, you

1084
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 5: get my drip there is that he he's done that before,

1085
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:04,360
Speaker 5: and that is always an option. And as I mentioned,

1086
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:06,360
Speaker 5: the one thing with Patrishan is he could help you

1087
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:08,799
Speaker 5: do that. A lot of a lot of guys in

1088
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:13,280
Speaker 5: the league that have wanted out of teams has worked

1089
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,480
Speaker 5: with Pat to build the deals and he's really good

1090
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:17,320
Speaker 5: with it because he's so respected by all through these

1091
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 5: two teams. And you know, the one thing with Quinn

1092
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 5: too is you know, and getting to know him and

1093
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 5: his family you know, over the last several years, but

1094
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 5: especially his mom's leaves. He's comes from this respectful family

1095
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 5: and if It's true that he essentially two years before,

1096
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 5: you know, he was going to become a free agent,

1097
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 5: told the Vancouver Pen up three weeks ago, which is

1098
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,440
Speaker 5: what Pattisan told me, that he was not going to

1099
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 5: resign there. You know, most likely if he comes in

1100
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:44,880
Speaker 5: his head that like, look, you know what, I want

1101
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:46,439
Speaker 5: to be a free agent, or I want to play

1102
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:48,360
Speaker 5: somewhere else, I want to play with my brothers, I

1103
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 5: want to play in my hometown of Depote, whatever, and

1104
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 5: he's probably going to give Bill Gharan plenty of advance

1105
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 5: warning for that to happen. So Bill begin with that

1106
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:00,400
Speaker 5: process of trying to find a new home. But right

1107
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 5: now in the Wild feel like they've acquired the you know,

1108
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 5: one of the best players in the National Hockey League

1109
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 5: and their goals to keep them for a long long time.

1110
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 5: It's not often you get a guy two years a

1111
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 5: group from North Trophy winner ninety two points, he at

1112
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 5: twenty six years goals coming to your team. This is

1113
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 5: a changing type of player. He defends by having the

1114
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,240
Speaker 5: puff out of his own own he's pitch. You know,

1115
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 5: there's there was a stat the other day and he's

1116
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 5: got his puffs on his stick. Double the more per

1117
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 5: game anybody in the National Hockey League and maybe even ever.

1118
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 5: You know, there's hasn't that that these analytics haven't been

1119
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 5: tracked for a long long time, but the puckers just

1120
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 5: blew through him. He wants it, and you know, I

1121
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 5: think it's really going to help the Wild in many

1122
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 5: many ways for a team that like doesn't get a

1123
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:48,640
Speaker 5: lot of offense in their back end, and you know

1124
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 5: has him in great great on the transition, and and

1125
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 5: we know about their their forward scoring depths and now

1126
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 5: there's not a lot. But when you add a guy

1127
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 5: that's going to get that puck out and and up

1128
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 5: the ice, it's going to have help every line when

1129
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 5: he's on the life what I assume.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you how much of a chance

1131
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:08,439
Speaker 1: you had to talk to players, but you you stay

1132
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:12,480
Speaker 1: connected with everybody who has you know, I mentioned with Garan,

1133
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:16,480
Speaker 1: I have to believe you know, fans are looking I

1134
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 1: think or should be looking more than anything else for

1135
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 1: teams that want to be this ambitious. Doesn't always mean

1136
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 1: they're going to be right, but it's the old it's

1137
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 1: it's the whole big swing approach to going after it,

1138
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 1: which obviously Garran believes in Tim Conley believes in and

1139
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 1: to me, if you're a fan, that has to be

1140
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 1: half the battle. They're they're They're not as as Garan said,

1141
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:39,439
Speaker 1: They're not going to try bunting all the time.

1142
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 3: And same within a locker room. I gotta believe.

1143
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:44,960
Speaker 1: I mean they you know, you lost some pieces where

1144
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 1: I'm sure these their players are invested with those pieces.

1145
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: But I got to think it's got to be energizing

1146
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:53,680
Speaker 1: there too, that that that that a team is willing

1147
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 1: to take this biggest swing in the you know, in

1148
00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 1: the middle of the season.

1149
00:59:57,480 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree with you. I mean I TechEd it

1150
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 5: with a couple of players the other day, and you

1151
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 5: know they were I mean, you know, when one guy

1152
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 5: sent me the you know, the fire emoji. The guy, uh,

1153
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:09,840
Speaker 5: you know, couldn't believe it when I told them, because

1154
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 5: I textually what happened was I found out about twenty

1155
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 5: minutes before I put it on Twitter, and I was

1156
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 5: just trying to basically ask everybody that I knew that

1157
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 5: could maybe have an idea of if this has happened before,

1158
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 5: I could you know, I get second sources. And when

1159
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:28,080
Speaker 5: I told some of the people, they couldn't believe it.

1160
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 5: So they're excited, and I agree with you. I mean,

1161
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:33,200
Speaker 5: the one thing is that this has been the same

1162
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:35,560
Speaker 5: type of team for for a long long time and

1163
01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:37,640
Speaker 5: at some point you got to take a swing to

1164
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:40,080
Speaker 5: catch up with the Colorado's and Dallas is because that's

1165
01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 5: who you're gonna have to play in the first round

1166
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:44,920
Speaker 5: again this year. And it doesn't just doesn't guarantee anything.

1167
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:46,960
Speaker 5: We saw Colorado last year and not be able to

1168
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:49,800
Speaker 5: get past Dallas. But the one thing that does do

1169
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 5: is now give the Wild tech defense and can help

1170
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 5: you win a stailing top. I mean, you know you

1171
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 5: have Miro, He's gonna I skin on Dallas, Kel mccarr

1172
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 5: and Colorado Quinn who's in Minnesota. These three of the

1173
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:05,720
Speaker 5: best players in the league, let alone defense, and that

1174
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 5: are all in the Central Division, and that that's a huge,

1175
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:12,200
Speaker 5: huge bonus. But I I the reason why I really

1176
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:14,479
Speaker 5: agree with you is that like they're just like, look,

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01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 5: it stinks to see Marco go. It's thinks sees Easo.

1178
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 5: I think he is going to be a star in

1179
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:20,560
Speaker 5: this league. But he's going to be a star in

1180
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 5: this league in three or four or five years. And

1181
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:26,480
Speaker 5: right now, the Wild after four years of buyout team. Uh,

1182
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 5: the patience is up with the sanbase. We're seeing up

1183
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:32,120
Speaker 5: the lack of bucks and seas with Billy Garran, who's

1184
01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 5: had to sit on his hands, you know, for the

1185
01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 5: last four years, and with who's on two thousand and

1186
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 5: eight and has only gotten pas the first round twice.

1187
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 5: So they're now trying to you know, they've always been

1188
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 5: in win now mode, much to the chagrin of some fans,

1189
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 5: but now they're if they're in win mal mode where

1190
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 5: they're actually going big game hunting. That's pretty exciting, and

1191
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:53,360
Speaker 5: I think a lot of us thought that they were

1192
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 5: going big game hunting for a forward. The reality is

1193
01:01:56,120 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 5: you can't evance players that are on the market, and

1194
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 5: right now there's no star forward that's on the market.

1195
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:03,760
Speaker 5: But here's one of the best defensives in the National

1196
01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 5: Hockey League suddenly available in the wild. Figured out a

1197
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:10,840
Speaker 5: way to get them over about you know, ten other teams.

1198
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:13,479
Speaker 5: That's pretty impressive, by the way.

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Speaker 1: That was what the question kept getting is is there

1200
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:21,840
Speaker 1: another Are there any moves left? Do you have any

1201
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:24,800
Speaker 1: you know, pieces to to get any other moves done?

1202
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:27,720
Speaker 1: At the center position, for example? What do you say

1203
01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 1: to that question?

1204
01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know that's a good point. I mean, obviously,

1205
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:34,760
Speaker 5: their cap spaces. You know, we've sort of got to

1206
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:37,120
Speaker 5: count dollars. It's really hard to figure out their cap

1207
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:39,760
Speaker 5: right now because they got so many two way guys

1208
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:42,480
Speaker 5: on the roster that aren't even really part of this team.

1209
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:45,280
Speaker 5: I mean, they essentially got half of IUA on the

1210
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 5: roster right now because they've just so inundated with injuries.

1211
01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:51,480
Speaker 5: And then from an asset standpoint, yeah, they're they're starting

1212
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 5: to get they're starting to thin out. I mean, these

1213
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:56,920
Speaker 5: are these were four huge assets that he traded the

1214
01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 5: other day. Obviously he traded his first last year and

1215
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:03,120
Speaker 5: the Rochech deal. So yeah, I mean they have other prospects,

1216
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 5: but yet to get a top, top player unless you're

1217
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 5: doing in a free agency and we've learned here the

1218
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:10,920
Speaker 5: last couple of years. Players do go to free agency,

1219
01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:15,520
Speaker 5: you're gonna probably have to go dig into that that

1220
01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 5: prospect orient and try to get somebody. But I do

1221
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:20,640
Speaker 5: think that is one area that this team continues to

1222
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:23,439
Speaker 5: need to get better at. Like right now, I look

1223
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 5: at them as being a center away from being a

1224
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:29,400
Speaker 5: truth pretender, and can they get that guy? That's the question,

1225
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 5: you know, my eyes are on Buffalo and Cage and

1226
01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:35,680
Speaker 5: what happens with him if he ever want out. You know,

1227
01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:38,360
Speaker 5: it really feels like I'm you know, twenty a couple

1228
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:41,640
Speaker 5: of days ago. I mean, you know, it's funny when

1229
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:44,560
Speaker 5: things happen and you just start realizing after the fact

1230
01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:47,480
Speaker 5: what's going on. But I'm really you know, had a

1231
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:49,919
Speaker 5: great relationship with Kevin Adams, book with a favorite jam

1232
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 5: for a long time. I covered him in Florida's a Player.

1233
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:54,760
Speaker 5: I sent hello to him at the game the other

1234
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 5: day in Edmonton, and he was really unfriendly. And then

1235
01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:01,600
Speaker 5: two days later our right from the from the Athletic

1236
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:03,920
Speaker 5: breaks the story that it looks like he's best to

1237
01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:06,280
Speaker 5: be fired. So now all of a sudden they hire

1238
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 5: Yarmo keep the line and you know, all bets are off.

1239
01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 5: I mean, he might want to break apart that team,

1240
01:04:11,240 --> 01:04:13,280
Speaker 5: and maybe Page does get on the market or maybe

1241
01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:16,680
Speaker 5: Tay like get me out of here. The problem is

1242
01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:18,480
Speaker 5: is that, you know, do the wild now have the

1243
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:20,880
Speaker 5: assets to get that done or they trade them away

1244
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:23,600
Speaker 5: in this deal. That would be the biggest wild card.

1245
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 2: But we'll see.

1246
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 5: I mean, they got they do have still really good players.

1247
01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 5: I mean Adam Benneck looks like he's gonna be a stud.

1248
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:32,560
Speaker 5: Charlie Strammele has just gotten better and better and better,

1249
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 5: and they got Riley Hyett on her hate. You know

1250
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 5: they still have prospects, but certainly they traded uh, probably

1251
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:41,120
Speaker 5: their three best ones away the other day. If you're

1252
01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:42,520
Speaker 5: not including an all of Europe.

1253
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:46,200
Speaker 1: Thanks for the bonus time, safe travels getting back here

1254
01:04:46,240 --> 01:04:48,320
Speaker 1: at least in time to make it at some point

1255
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: to the matinee affair, and we'll we'll be in touch

1256
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:55,120
Speaker 1: during the way. Thanks Russe see Dan Taker appreciate you.

1257
01:04:55,240 --> 01:04:57,800
Speaker 1: Russell Radio. We apologize for this. This sound was a

1258
01:04:57,800 --> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 1: little bit distracting. I know he was in a position

1259
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:02,400
Speaker 1: where I don't think there's aything elsewhere else you could go.

1260
01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:05,840
Speaker 1: We couldn't use our usual setup, could not use our

1261
01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:08,560
Speaker 1: usual setup, but it was too important today to not

1262
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:11,920
Speaker 1: have them on. So I hope that folks are able to,

1263
01:05:13,280 --> 01:05:18,200
Speaker 1: shall we say, understand real world limitations. I know we're

1264
01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:23,120
Speaker 1: living a technological world where we only are we believe

1265
01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:27,720
Speaker 1: all sound it must be pristine, and every picture bucks

1266
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:31,480
Speaker 1: being four K? But do we really are we really

1267
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:37,040
Speaker 1: that spolt? Do we really if we show a little

1268
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 1: tenacity and focus. Can't we get past that just a

1269
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:43,280
Speaker 1: little bit?

1270
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:43,800
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1271
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 1: By the way, we have a thing called the Missos

1272
01:05:47,480 --> 01:05:51,080
Speaker 1: Sports Calendar of Calamity. There's the opposite of calamity. There

1273
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:57,200
Speaker 1: is celebration. And on this day forty five years ago.

1274
01:05:58,120 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 1: So some of you were not even born, but some

1275
01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:03,080
Speaker 1: of you were, and some of you, even if you

1276
01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 1: weren't born then might have heard about it forty five

1277
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 1: years ago. Today the miracle at the met and I

1278
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:12,000
Speaker 1: want to set it up a little bit before we

1279
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 1: get some sound from the network feed on that game.

1280
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 3: Vikings down.

1281
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:23,560
Speaker 1: Well, the larger miracle was the Vikings scored three fourth

1282
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:26,760
Speaker 1: quarter touchdowns to come from behind from a fourteen point deficit.

1283
01:06:27,320 --> 01:06:31,120
Speaker 1: They ultimately beat the Cleveland Browns twenty eight to twenty three.

1284
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:37,000
Speaker 1: They're down by one point though, with fourteen seconds remaining,

1285
01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:42,160
Speaker 1: and they have the ball at their own twenty yard line,

1286
01:06:42,520 --> 01:06:47,680
Speaker 1: and then these two improbable plays took place.

1287
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:49,280
Speaker 6: Freeking on the side.

1288
01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:52,000
Speaker 3: That's what they're going to do, well, gaivership to.

1289
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:52,680
Speaker 5: The far.

1290
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:04,080
Speaker 6: Five second six and out of bounds. They are at

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Speaker 6: the forty six yard line of cleevelook. They have five

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01:07:08,120 --> 01:07:12,240
Speaker 6: seconds and what about that from Bud Brant. The Collins

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01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 6: Mount rushbore thirty nine yards.

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Speaker 5: The old sleep Wicker passed all it was throwing it

1295
01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:20,440
Speaker 5: and latter lay back.

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01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:22,360
Speaker 2: To the trailing back and it worked that time.

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Speaker 3: Ten rounds number twenty three.

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01:07:24,960 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 4: Taking it down.

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Speaker 3: They've got another shot, Charlie. How we're gonna.

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01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:31,080
Speaker 6: Throw that ball up in the air and hope for

1301
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:34,240
Speaker 6: America will either a catch or a defensive penalty.

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01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:36,400
Speaker 3: R Modell's worried.

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01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:40,320
Speaker 6: And you can see what five seconds to go a

1304
01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:43,920
Speaker 6: footy yards mass sideline fix two yard mass tops o'clock

1305
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:44,880
Speaker 6: with one second to.

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Speaker 3: Go, So you'll go and win it up in the air.

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Speaker 2: Holy see, you're.

1308
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:53,600
Speaker 6: Hoping tap buck take up here today.

1309
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:56,640
Speaker 2: The fighting they win at.

1310
01:07:56,560 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 6: Time is run out a store. The champion had rashaw

1311
01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 6: everybody that good is tay thing with the title. I've

1312
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:18,040
Speaker 6: already told Jo they with the title with the eleventh time,

1313
01:08:18,280 --> 01:08:23,760
Speaker 6: but crap, Whenstrovisia.

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01:08:22,120 --> 01:08:23,120
Speaker 2: I said a miracle.

1315
01:08:23,240 --> 01:08:26,439
Speaker 1: And after they got that time, three receivers on the

1316
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:27,160
Speaker 1: same side.

1317
01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:30,400
Speaker 3: Cramer just threw that ball as long but as far

1318
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:34,160
Speaker 3: as high as he possibly could. There you have it.

1319
01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:36,920
Speaker 1: Charlie Jones, by the way, was the main announcer, I

1320
01:08:36,920 --> 01:08:40,200
Speaker 1: think that's it. That was a an NBC game actually,

1321
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 1: and the the the touchdown play, the miracle was Ahmad

1322
01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:51,040
Speaker 1: Rashad making kind of almost going backwards near the end zone.

1323
01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:54,920
Speaker 1: The ball gets tipped in front of him near the

1324
01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:58,839
Speaker 1: goal line. He very nonchalantly grabs it with one hand

1325
01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:03,200
Speaker 1: and it completes a forty six yard Yes, hail Mary.

1326
01:09:03,960 --> 01:09:06,800
Speaker 1: But the play that set it up probably doesn't get

1327
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:09,840
Speaker 1: enough attention. And that's what you heard first from the

1328
01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:14,400
Speaker 1: twenty yard line. They don't run a flea flicker. It's

1329
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:19,200
Speaker 1: it's the hook and ladder play. Kramer throws to Joe Sensor.

1330
01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:26,960
Speaker 1: Censor then laterals to a sprinting Ted Brown who then

1331
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:30,760
Speaker 1: goes left, ends up getting out of bounds in the

1332
01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:33,960
Speaker 1: you know, but obviously giving the vikings then for a

1333
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:36,240
Speaker 1: chance for the hail Mary play. That was a thirty

1334
01:09:36,280 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 1: four yard completion. That's as good a dramatic comeback and

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01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:44,400
Speaker 1: finish as you're going to get. It took place forty

1336
01:09:44,439 --> 01:09:49,800
Speaker 1: five years ago today at Metropolitan Stadium, coming back from

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01:09:49,800 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 1: a fourteen point deficit to beat the Browns twenty to

1338
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 1: twenty three and to win what was then called the

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01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:58,120
Speaker 1: Central Division let's get caught up.

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01:09:58,240 --> 01:09:59,280
Speaker 3: We'll get a pause in.

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01:09:59,520 --> 01:10:01,080
Speaker 1: We got some vikings to get to and we have

1342
01:10:01,160 --> 01:10:03,360
Speaker 1: some A section stuff to cover as well.

1343
01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:03,720
Speaker 3: Don't go.

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01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:30,000
Speaker 1: Two A section stories broke this weekend. I don't want

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01:10:30,040 --> 01:10:36,240
Speaker 1: to rank them. The level of horror and devastation involving

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01:10:36,280 --> 01:10:42,320
Speaker 1: both of them is incalculable. I'll mention that the first

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01:10:42,439 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 1: that came to my attention involved a shooting at Brown University,

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01:10:50,320 --> 01:10:53,120
Speaker 1: and as I understand it now, a person of the

1349
01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:55,600
Speaker 1: they're describing this as a person of interest is in

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01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:58,960
Speaker 1: custody in connection with the shooting. I think there's good

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01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:01,960
Speaker 1: reason to believe that events that person will be the suspect,

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01:11:03,040 --> 01:11:07,360
Speaker 1: if that has not already been established, because authorities have

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01:11:07,439 --> 01:11:10,280
Speaker 1: also said that there was no longer a need to

1354
01:11:10,280 --> 01:11:14,360
Speaker 1: continue the shelter in place edict that was in place

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01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:17,680
Speaker 1: for much of last night. I believe this individual was

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01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:23,120
Speaker 1: taken into custody at an area hotel as well in

1357
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:27,840
Speaker 1: Providence or near Providence. Authorities believe the person detained Sunday

1358
01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:30,480
Speaker 1: morning is in their thirties, but declined to release further details.

1359
01:11:31,920 --> 01:11:38,080
Speaker 1: The shooting resulted in the death of the murders of

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01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:43,879
Speaker 1: two students, was a Saturday afternoon in a busy academic building.

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01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:50,599
Speaker 1: Students barricaded themselves in dorm rooms and classrooms after the

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01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:55,240
Speaker 1: shooter fled, the mayor saying of the nine injured victims,

1363
01:11:55,280 --> 01:11:58,960
Speaker 1: seven were in stable condition, one critical but stable, and

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01:11:59,040 --> 01:12:04,680
Speaker 1: one had been discharged. And there's still I think a

1365
01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:08,679
Speaker 1: lot yet to be known in that case about motive, etc.

1366
01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:12,839
Speaker 1: There doesn't seem to be any remaining question about motive.

1367
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:18,439
Speaker 1: In the case of Sydney, Australia. The last number I

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01:12:18,479 --> 01:12:21,559
Speaker 1: have is eleven killed. That number I'm assuming could change.

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01:12:23,720 --> 01:12:30,120
Speaker 1: During a Honkah event Sunday on Sydney, Australia's Bondai Beach

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01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:36,840
Speaker 1: in what officials called a terrorist attack on Australia's Jewish community.

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01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:43,559
Speaker 1: One suspect also killed, the other is in critical condition.

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Speaker 1: More than two dozen people take it to hospitals in

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01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:49,439
Speaker 1: a range of conditions. This is according to officials quoting

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01:12:50,240 --> 01:12:54,880
Speaker 1: being quoted in the Wall Street Journal. This attack was

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01:12:54,880 --> 01:12:57,599
Speaker 1: designed to target Sydney's Jewish community on the first day

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01:12:57,640 --> 01:13:02,599
Speaker 1: of Hanukkah, said Chris Min's premiere of New South Wales State,

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01:13:03,040 --> 01:13:05,760
Speaker 1: which includes Sydney. What should have been a night of

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01:13:05,800 --> 01:13:09,280
Speaker 1: peace and joy celebrated in that community with families and

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01:13:09,320 --> 01:13:14,120
Speaker 1: supporters has been shattered. Police said they located a vehicle

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01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:17,280
Speaker 1: near the attack site that authorities believe held several improvised

1381
01:13:17,880 --> 01:13:22,519
Speaker 1: explosive devices. A bomb disposal unit still unseen as of

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01:13:22,640 --> 01:13:25,479
Speaker 1: Sunday night. We've generally tried to adhere to an edict

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01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:28,920
Speaker 1: on Sunday sermons that we have a strong separation of

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01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:31,720
Speaker 1: church and state as between the Toy Department and the

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01:13:31,760 --> 01:13:34,919
Speaker 1: A Section, because we do cover the A Section pretty regularly,

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01:13:34,920 --> 01:13:37,000
Speaker 1: as some of you know, during the week.

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01:13:37,320 --> 01:13:38,080
Speaker 3: But every once in a.

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01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:40,559
Speaker 1: While, it's not the first time a story or stories

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01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:42,439
Speaker 1: come along that I think make it.

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01:13:43,280 --> 01:13:44,040
Speaker 3: I don't even think.

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01:13:44,080 --> 01:13:46,280
Speaker 1: I don't feel like I'm doing my job if we

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01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:49,200
Speaker 1: at least don't acknowledge these stories and.

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01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:51,400
Speaker 3: Discuss them.

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01:13:51,439 --> 01:13:58,800
Speaker 1: And I'm loath to tell anybody listening to watch videos

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01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:01,439
Speaker 1: of a slaughter like what took place in the beach

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01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:05,120
Speaker 1: in Sydney, because it's too disturbing for a lot of people,

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01:14:05,479 --> 01:14:08,080
Speaker 1: and I respect that, and I actually don't always look

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01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:12,880
Speaker 1: at them, but I ended up watching one because of

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01:14:12,960 --> 01:14:17,879
Speaker 1: how long it ensued. It was about it was between

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01:14:17,920 --> 01:14:25,320
Speaker 1: ten and eleven minutes of video of somebody capturing two

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01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:34,840
Speaker 1: of these terrorists doing target practice and just indiscriminately Well,

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01:14:34,960 --> 01:14:36,320
Speaker 1: maybe that's not the right term for it.

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01:14:36,360 --> 01:14:36,920
Speaker 3: Maybe it was.

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01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:41,760
Speaker 1: It was obviously very targeted, just trying to take people out.

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01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:45,719
Speaker 1: And the assumption is at some point in the video

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01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:48,639
Speaker 1: there were authorities who might have been firing back, because

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01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 1: a couple times they're kind of up on a pedestrian

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01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:56,439
Speaker 1: bridge and they are occasionally getting down lower so presumably

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01:14:56,520 --> 01:14:58,840
Speaker 1: at some point they're being shot at as well. But

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01:14:58,960 --> 01:15:02,479
Speaker 1: the length of time is what struck me that they

1411
01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 1: were able to continue to do their damage. And there's

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01:15:06,240 --> 01:15:09,840
Speaker 1: another video in which one of these individuals, obviously because

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01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:12,600
Speaker 1: as of now we believe there were two shooters. I

1414
01:15:12,600 --> 01:15:15,439
Speaker 1: think that's what authorities are saying, and this is a

1415
01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:19,280
Speaker 1: video that is getting more attention, and I guess I

1416
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:27,360
Speaker 1: would be more willing to recommend there's video of a bystander,

1417
01:15:27,400 --> 01:15:34,800
Speaker 1: a good Samaritan who has he approaches one of the shooters.

1418
01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:36,360
Speaker 1: This is when they're not on the bridge. This is

1419
01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:39,040
Speaker 1: when one of them is down on lower land near

1420
01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:43,200
Speaker 1: a tree, as I recall it, and his back is

1421
01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:46,080
Speaker 1: turned to the from the direction that this bystander is

1422
01:15:46,120 --> 01:15:52,479
Speaker 1: coming bystander rushes him, blindside, rushes him as he's taking

1423
01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:57,160
Speaker 1: shots at people, gets him to the ground, takes his

1424
01:15:57,320 --> 01:16:01,320
Speaker 1: gun away from him, and then.

1425
01:16:01,240 --> 01:16:02,320
Speaker 3: Starts pointing the gun.

1426
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 1: Then clearly he doesn't retaliate by killing him.

1427
01:16:07,680 --> 01:16:10,360
Speaker 3: He's trying to be as humane as he can be.

1428
01:16:10,439 --> 01:16:13,240
Speaker 1: He's pointing the gun at the perpetrator, and then eventually

1429
01:16:13,280 --> 01:16:15,680
Speaker 1: he's signaling because you can tell he's not comfortably even

1430
01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:18,320
Speaker 1: having the gun in his hands, and potentially he ends

1431
01:16:18,400 --> 01:16:21,800
Speaker 1: up sort of leaning the gun against the tree as

1432
01:16:21,840 --> 01:16:25,479
Speaker 1: he's trying I'm presuming to get people in authority law

1433
01:16:25,560 --> 01:16:30,240
Speaker 1: enforcement to get there. And I guess we'll never know

1434
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:36,240
Speaker 1: if he's how many lives he saved, But I just

1435
01:16:37,080 --> 01:16:41,559
Speaker 1: I think, like most people, I just marveled at the

1436
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:46,160
Speaker 1: willingness to put yourself in harm's way at that level.

1437
01:16:47,600 --> 01:16:54,000
Speaker 1: It's remarkable to me, and I think now we're in

1438
01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:56,000
Speaker 1: the process of maybe learning a little bit more about

1439
01:16:56,000 --> 01:17:00,559
Speaker 1: that individual. And what's interesting is after he has taken

1440
01:17:00,600 --> 01:17:02,559
Speaker 1: the gun away, you see two or three other people

1441
01:17:02,960 --> 01:17:06,360
Speaker 1: come behind him, but they didn't do what he did.

1442
01:17:06,920 --> 01:17:10,080
Speaker 1: And I'm not ripping them for not because who amongst

1443
01:17:10,120 --> 01:17:14,240
Speaker 1: us has that in us to basically blindside somebody with

1444
01:17:14,280 --> 01:17:17,720
Speaker 1: a gun and by the way, not knowing he may

1445
01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:19,960
Speaker 1: have other firearms in his back pocket.

1446
01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:21,040
Speaker 3: That's the other thing.

1447
01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:25,360
Speaker 1: The risks are enormous, but something human in that guy

1448
01:17:26,360 --> 01:17:31,439
Speaker 1: resonated and as horrific as this story is, I hope

1449
01:17:31,479 --> 01:17:34,120
Speaker 1: this becomes part of the story. It's the one shred

1450
01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:38,800
Speaker 1: of hope in an absolutely disgusting, gross scene, because there

1451
01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:42,519
Speaker 1: are other videos that I've seen since in which you

1452
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:50,000
Speaker 1: literally see dozens and dozens of worshipers who's apparent crime

1453
01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:53,680
Speaker 1: is they practice the Jewish faith.

1454
01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:56,519
Speaker 3: On the ground, trying to make.

1455
01:17:56,400 --> 01:18:02,320
Speaker 1: Themselves as small as possible, just hoping and praying that

1456
01:18:03,200 --> 01:18:07,320
Speaker 1: these two terrorists are not going to take them out.

1457
01:18:10,080 --> 01:18:16,800
Speaker 1: You don't recover from that, and there's no talking around it,

1458
01:18:18,439 --> 01:18:22,040
Speaker 1: and I hope there's a willingness to follow the story

1459
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:23,520
Speaker 1: regarding the perpetrators.

1460
01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:26,240
Speaker 3: There's a lot of discussion.

1461
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:32,040
Speaker 1: That Australia has been in a bad cycle that almost predicted,

1462
01:18:32,080 --> 01:18:37,160
Speaker 1: if not this, something similar regarding anti Semitic attacks not

1463
01:18:37,320 --> 01:18:41,439
Speaker 1: taken seriously enough or not called out to the degree

1464
01:18:41,479 --> 01:18:46,120
Speaker 1: that they should be, and that's what we're left with.

1465
01:18:48,840 --> 01:18:53,679
Speaker 1: We're left with a story of individuals participating in something

1466
01:18:53,720 --> 01:18:55,280
Speaker 1: that's I guess been a part of tradition there for

1467
01:18:55,320 --> 01:18:57,759
Speaker 1: a long time. And by the way, I was reminded

1468
01:18:57,800 --> 01:19:04,680
Speaker 1: by a couple of Jewish leaders that Australia for some

1469
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:10,320
Speaker 1: who survived the Holocaust, their decision was to get literally

1470
01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:14,760
Speaker 1: or geographically maybe as far away as they could from that,

1471
01:19:14,840 --> 01:19:24,000
Speaker 1: and they picked Australia, and they thrived, married, had families,

1472
01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:27,720
Speaker 1: their families, had families, the whole bit.

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01:19:30,040 --> 01:19:30,920
Speaker 3: And now.

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01:19:32,400 --> 01:19:35,559
Speaker 1: Because of their faith, because I'm sure we'll find out

1475
01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:39,200
Speaker 1: there's some sort of statement that's supposed to be made

1476
01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:44,760
Speaker 1: by this that these individuals in Australia are somehow responsible

1477
01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:52,280
Speaker 1: for they're dead. That includes one rabbi. It included at

1478
01:19:52,360 --> 01:19:56,559
Speaker 1: least one young girl, I believe age twelve. A number

1479
01:19:56,560 --> 01:20:00,000
Speaker 1: of the others have yet to be identified. Horrific scene.

1480
01:20:00,240 --> 01:20:04,160
Speaker 1: But if I recommend any video, it's the man who

1481
01:20:04,240 --> 01:20:06,160
Speaker 1: I hope we learn more about who I'm sure My

1482
01:20:06,240 --> 01:20:08,879
Speaker 1: guess is it does probably don't even want the publicity,

1483
01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:13,800
Speaker 1: might not want it. Who did something that I'm not

1484
01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:15,880
Speaker 1: even sure there are words for how heroic that is.

1485
01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:17,759
Speaker 1: And it's not the first time we've seen that happen.

1486
01:20:17,920 --> 01:20:20,840
Speaker 1: Some people have that in them. They don't care what

1487
01:20:20,880 --> 01:20:22,600
Speaker 1: the odds are, they don't care what the logic of

1488
01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:28,680
Speaker 1: it is. Maybe they're angry, maybe they're frustrated. Maybe this

1489
01:20:28,760 --> 01:20:30,600
Speaker 1: is the way they deal with their own emotion. I

1490
01:20:30,600 --> 01:20:34,640
Speaker 1: don't know. But to have the wherewithal to blindside an

1491
01:20:34,680 --> 01:20:40,000
Speaker 1: individual and then, as I said, is mercy the right word? Now,

1492
01:20:40,040 --> 01:20:41,840
Speaker 1: maybe that person didn't know how to handle a gun

1493
01:20:42,600 --> 01:20:47,559
Speaker 1: to then just shoot that perpetrator dead, to try to

1494
01:20:47,720 --> 01:20:50,040
Speaker 1: rise above that and just point the gun at him, like,

1495
01:20:50,120 --> 01:20:51,200
Speaker 1: don't that's it?

1496
01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:51,960
Speaker 3: Just stop.

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01:20:52,760 --> 01:20:56,479
Speaker 1: Remarkable, absolutely remarkable. Let's get a break in. We'll return

1498
01:20:57,320 --> 01:21:00,559
Speaker 1: to the toy department. I'm sure we'll cover these on

1499
01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:02,920
Speaker 1: a little more depth during the week as well. Final

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Speaker 1: segment of today's editions of Sermons.

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01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:15,479
Speaker 3: That's neck. I got us up to minus three. I

1502
01:21:15,479 --> 01:21:17,400
Speaker 3: don't know what the official reading you have from the

1503
01:21:17,479 --> 01:21:18,640
Speaker 3: National Weather Service is.

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01:21:18,840 --> 01:21:22,200
Speaker 1: I've got five five above five under five under, okay,

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01:21:22,240 --> 01:21:24,799
Speaker 1: so still pretty damn cold. We're supposed to get above

1506
01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:27,400
Speaker 1: zero later in the day, though, are we not heavily?

1507
01:21:28,200 --> 01:21:28,320
Speaker 2: Oh?

1508
01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:31,040
Speaker 3: What's the difference. What's the difference at this point? That's

1509
01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:31,559
Speaker 3: for sure.

1510
01:21:31,680 --> 01:21:34,679
Speaker 1: Once you get passed like fifteen, it's just cold. You're right,

1511
01:21:34,760 --> 01:21:37,320
Speaker 1: A miracle at the met forty five years ago. Today

1512
01:21:37,360 --> 01:21:41,599
Speaker 1: we played some sound from that remarkable comfort Mine victory

1513
01:21:41,600 --> 01:21:46,080
Speaker 1: and Vikings history at Metropolitan Stadium. Down by a point

1514
01:21:46,120 --> 01:21:49,559
Speaker 1: fourteen seconds remaining, they go eighty yards in two plays.

1515
01:21:50,560 --> 01:21:53,599
Speaker 1: The game winner a forty six yard hail Mary pass

1516
01:21:53,680 --> 01:21:56,559
Speaker 1: from Tommy Kramer to a mad Rashad.

1517
01:21:56,760 --> 01:21:58,439
Speaker 3: A lot of techts.

1518
01:21:58,560 --> 01:22:01,040
Speaker 1: Coming in, including this one.

1519
01:22:01,720 --> 01:22:01,880
Speaker 2: Dan.

1520
01:22:01,960 --> 01:22:03,200
Speaker 3: My dad's a Browns fan.

1521
01:22:03,320 --> 01:22:05,479
Speaker 1: He my uncle, my mom's brother, and two of their

1522
01:22:05,520 --> 01:22:09,120
Speaker 1: other friends had left the game early. They heard the

1523
01:22:09,200 --> 01:22:12,240
Speaker 1: call on the radio and my dad ejected the three

1524
01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:17,160
Speaker 1: Vikings fans from his car in anger, before cooling off

1525
01:22:17,160 --> 01:22:20,400
Speaker 1: and coming back to pick them up fifteen minutes later.

1526
01:22:20,479 --> 01:22:26,679
Speaker 3: That seems a bit overwrought, but I was Dan.

1527
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:27,960
Speaker 1: I was bused to be at the game as guest

1528
01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:31,519
Speaker 1: of Eddie Payton. That was a great game, six point

1529
01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:33,960
Speaker 1: two guy, I remember that game went. I went rabbit

1530
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:36,080
Speaker 1: score hunting with my dad. I was nine years old.

1531
01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:38,040
Speaker 1: Just got into the car to go home and heard

1532
01:22:38,040 --> 01:22:43,640
Speaker 1: the final play on the radio on WCCO. Charlie, I

1533
01:22:43,640 --> 01:22:45,840
Speaker 1: should say, Tony and Saint Michael. The Miracle of the

1534
01:22:45,840 --> 01:22:47,640
Speaker 1: met was the first football game I remember I was

1535
01:22:47,680 --> 01:22:48,479
Speaker 1: watching with my dad.

1536
01:22:48,479 --> 01:22:51,040
Speaker 3: He was flabberg acid. I will never forget it.

1537
01:22:51,080 --> 01:22:55,280
Speaker 1: Indeed, it was Charlie Jones, the big, big time announcer

1538
01:22:55,360 --> 01:22:58,360
Speaker 1: for NBC, was on the call.

1539
01:22:59,240 --> 01:23:01,840
Speaker 3: Was that the same game? Somebody asks his balloon boy?

1540
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:02,360
Speaker 2: I don't.

1541
01:23:02,560 --> 01:23:04,720
Speaker 3: It's a great question a.

1542
01:23:04,680 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 1: Balloon boy was Was it a halftime event or a

1543
01:23:07,479 --> 01:23:11,800
Speaker 1: pregame where they had a hot air balloon deal where

1544
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:15,519
Speaker 1: it got away with a little kid in it and

1545
01:23:15,640 --> 01:23:17,679
Speaker 1: had to then he had to be rescued. In fact,

1546
01:23:17,720 --> 01:23:20,519
Speaker 1: we had that little kid on the show several years

1547
01:23:20,560 --> 01:23:23,479
Speaker 1: ago on the anniversary. I don't think that was the

1548
01:23:23,520 --> 01:23:24,519
Speaker 1: balloon boy game.

1549
01:23:24,439 --> 01:23:25,680
Speaker 3: Was it? I think it was a different game.

1550
01:23:25,760 --> 01:23:29,040
Speaker 4: I don't think so often A quick search now at

1551
01:23:29,080 --> 01:23:31,760
Speaker 4: that time show December fourteenth against the forty nine ers.

1552
01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:32,960
Speaker 3: Oh okay, so it was different.

1553
01:23:33,200 --> 01:23:35,160
Speaker 1: Pat from Lakeland, I was at the Miracle at the

1554
01:23:35,200 --> 01:23:37,120
Speaker 1: met as a nine year old Vikings fan. My dad

1555
01:23:37,160 --> 01:23:41,240
Speaker 1: decided we should leave early, and the miracle happened when

1556
01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:43,640
Speaker 1: we were When we were in the parking lot, I

1557
01:23:43,680 --> 01:23:46,200
Speaker 1: had to ask him, does that mean we screwed up?

1558
01:23:47,800 --> 01:23:48,240
Speaker 5: Wow?

1559
01:23:49,360 --> 01:23:53,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well that's that's the that's always the risk, because

1560
01:23:53,600 --> 01:23:55,519
Speaker 3: I mean nine times out of ten, you're not going

1561
01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:58,640
Speaker 3: to get burned, right, maybe ninety nine times out of

1562
01:23:58,640 --> 01:23:59,880
Speaker 3: one hundred you're not going to get burned.

1563
01:23:59,880 --> 01:24:02,720
Speaker 1: But there's always that one thing, and it's haunted him

1564
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:05,439
Speaker 1: for the rest of his life. Think about it.

1565
01:24:05,439 --> 01:24:07,519
Speaker 4: So, you see, is the moral of the story. Don't

1566
01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:10,040
Speaker 4: ever leave early. I mean, I can recall going to

1567
01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:13,320
Speaker 4: a Wild home opener. They're playing the Jets. Empty net,

1568
01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:15,639
Speaker 4: goal goes in. Everyone starts going to the rafters. Yeah,

1569
01:24:15,640 --> 01:24:20,040
Speaker 4: hold on, goal called back, it's off side, Wild comeback.

1570
01:24:19,680 --> 01:24:22,040
Speaker 3: Win the game over there, you go. See, you got

1571
01:24:22,040 --> 01:24:23,400
Speaker 3: to stay, you do? You really should?

1572
01:24:28,560 --> 01:24:31,360
Speaker 1: Tom from Columbia Heights, Dan, everything's good, russo sound. Find

1573
01:24:31,360 --> 01:24:33,840
Speaker 1: anyone who's saying anything saying something else has never listened

1574
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:38,360
Speaker 1: to Am eleven thirty or Lavelle in his car. That's

1575
01:24:38,360 --> 01:24:43,400
Speaker 1: a very very good point. You know, I had intended

1576
01:24:43,400 --> 01:24:46,760
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit of Vikings Cowboys, but if

1577
01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:49,000
Speaker 1: I'm honest, I don't really have that much left to say,

1578
01:24:49,120 --> 01:24:49,760
Speaker 1: do I I mean?

1579
01:24:49,880 --> 01:24:51,639
Speaker 3: Or do we I mean?

1580
01:24:51,680 --> 01:24:56,280
Speaker 1: At this point we previewed it a lot Friday. The

1581
01:24:56,360 --> 01:24:59,000
Speaker 1: team is in the position they're in, right, which is

1582
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:02,800
Speaker 1: ain't that much at stake less than a one percent chance.

1583
01:25:02,920 --> 01:25:06,000
Speaker 1: If you believe the analytics of making the postseason, does

1584
01:25:06,040 --> 01:25:07,360
Speaker 1: that mean you have a ghost of a chance.

1585
01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:11,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you do. For a miracle. Yeah.

1586
01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:13,719
Speaker 1: Once again, the story tonight is going to largely focus

1587
01:25:13,760 --> 01:25:17,760
Speaker 1: on the QB. Right, it's all about seeing progress in

1588
01:25:17,840 --> 01:25:21,759
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback for your Minnesota Vikings, and I think

1589
01:25:22,680 --> 01:25:25,120
Speaker 1: again for the second street week, they're playing a crappy defense.

1590
01:25:25,760 --> 01:25:29,679
Speaker 1: The difference might be the Cowboys do have some strength

1591
01:25:29,760 --> 01:25:33,720
Speaker 1: along the defensive line that I'm not sure the Commanders

1592
01:25:34,120 --> 01:25:38,559
Speaker 1: had because of performance and injury, and that might make

1593
01:25:38,600 --> 01:25:41,559
Speaker 1: it a little bit more challenging for JJ and I

1594
01:25:41,600 --> 01:25:44,200
Speaker 1: have a hard even though our defense, the Vikings defense

1595
01:25:44,280 --> 01:25:46,960
Speaker 1: is played better, have a hard time believing that Dallas

1596
01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:48,679
Speaker 1: is not gonna be able to move the ball. Dallas

1597
01:25:48,760 --> 01:25:52,320
Speaker 1: has so much more to play for. Clearly they now

1598
01:25:52,360 --> 01:25:55,080
Speaker 1: feel like they have a shot to steal the division

1599
01:25:55,560 --> 01:25:58,360
Speaker 1: from the Eagles. It sounded preposterous not that many weeks ago,

1600
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:02,559
Speaker 1: so I think, well, I'll watch. It's a really good

1601
01:26:02,640 --> 01:26:06,120
Speaker 1: in a sense double header tonight, right, because you've got

1602
01:26:06,160 --> 01:26:09,400
Speaker 1: Minnesota Wild at five, there's enough distance where you can

1603
01:26:09,400 --> 01:26:11,400
Speaker 1: get most what's the average hockey game go two and

1604
01:26:11,439 --> 01:26:14,920
Speaker 1: a half something like that. Yeah, So basically the football

1605
01:26:14,960 --> 01:26:17,679
Speaker 1: game won't start till seven to twenty. So if you've

1606
01:26:17,720 --> 01:26:20,200
Speaker 1: got wild at five, you're gonna get to see most

1607
01:26:20,240 --> 01:26:24,120
Speaker 1: of either the first or second best defenseman in hockey

1608
01:26:24,640 --> 01:26:30,200
Speaker 1: make his debut at the arena formerly known as the

1609
01:26:30,479 --> 01:26:33,160
Speaker 1: X and then you can flip over to see what

1610
01:26:33,280 --> 01:26:35,760
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy is is up to. Right, that's not a

1611
01:26:35,840 --> 01:26:39,400
Speaker 1: bad for the average sports roube. That really isn't a

1612
01:26:39,439 --> 01:26:43,120
Speaker 1: bad back to back sort of sports thing, is it,

1613
01:26:43,920 --> 01:26:44,360
Speaker 1: do you think?

1614
01:26:44,479 --> 01:26:44,879
Speaker 2: No?

1615
01:26:44,880 --> 01:26:49,040
Speaker 3: No, I think there's gonna be enough time I'm getting screwed. Yeah, yeah,

1616
01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:49,400
Speaker 3: that's true.

1617
01:26:49,439 --> 01:26:51,519
Speaker 1: But nobody cares about you, correct, any more than they

1618
01:26:51,560 --> 01:26:52,040
Speaker 1: care about me.

1619
01:26:52,120 --> 01:26:52,839
Speaker 3: Quinn Hughes.

1620
01:26:56,360 --> 01:26:59,080
Speaker 1: You know again, I didn't get into the whole box

1621
01:26:59,120 --> 01:27:01,240
Speaker 1: office thing with so, but I think he thinks that

1622
01:27:01,320 --> 01:27:03,759
Speaker 1: I do too, that whether it was showing up heavily

1623
01:27:03,760 --> 01:27:08,040
Speaker 1: at the box office or not, there's gonna be more

1624
01:27:08,120 --> 01:27:11,800
Speaker 1: and more sort of pushback, like Okay, come on, some's

1625
01:27:11,840 --> 01:27:14,800
Speaker 1: got to kick in here pretty soon. And one would

1626
01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:18,240
Speaker 1: assume he represents the kind of move, especially if it

1627
01:27:18,240 --> 01:27:21,320
Speaker 1: pays off in the ice we're supposed to of placating

1628
01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:24,120
Speaker 1: those individuals and maybe even bringing them back if they

1629
01:27:24,120 --> 01:27:26,840
Speaker 1: do happen to have one foot out the door, even

1630
01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:29,640
Speaker 1: with the success, the recent recovery success after the bad

1631
01:27:29,720 --> 01:27:33,400
Speaker 1: start of the season. Correct, Yeah, so what way have

1632
01:27:33,479 --> 01:27:34,120
Speaker 1: coming up next?

1633
01:27:34,479 --> 01:27:37,360
Speaker 4: Do we have a little Westwood one NFL insider, We'll

1634
01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:37,640
Speaker 4: get us.

1635
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:42,120
Speaker 1: We have the Bears, Oh Gophers played it for action,

1636
01:27:42,640 --> 01:27:44,639
Speaker 1: Bear Weather in Chicago. I'm going to watch a little

1637
01:27:44,640 --> 01:27:46,519
Speaker 1: of that at noon, just because I think it's supposed

1638
01:27:46,520 --> 01:27:48,479
Speaker 1: to be close to zero there at Soldier Field.

1639
01:27:48,520 --> 01:27:51,040
Speaker 3: You so rarely see that. Can't close this on.

1640
01:27:51,200 --> 01:27:53,719
Speaker 4: Your club is in Denver, they are it's only sixty.

1641
01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:56,000
Speaker 4: There is that true zero. Denver's weird.

1642
01:27:56,040 --> 01:27:56,240
Speaker 2: Man.

1643
01:27:56,320 --> 01:27:58,599
Speaker 1: It could be sixty one day and then a clipper

1644
01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:00,200
Speaker 1: comes to and I got twenty five in This is

1645
01:28:00,240 --> 01:28:01,040
Speaker 1: to snow the next stip.

1646
01:28:01,439 --> 01:28:03,200
Speaker 3: Thanks for watching, Thank you for listening.

1647
01:28:03,240 --> 01:28:05,840
Speaker 1: Billy Garren joined us early podcast you can get it

1648
01:28:05,920 --> 01:28:09,400
Speaker 1: a second time around, and bonus Russo Radio as well.

1649
01:28:09,720 --> 01:28:19,200
Speaker 1: We will talk to you tomorrow beginning at three