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November 20, 2025 42 mins
Tom Pelissero joins the show and gives the NFL stink

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Man, hey, welcome back here. We are.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
A week away from Thanksgiving Day.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Hell yeah, man, happy holidays, Thanks buddy. Are you guys
thankful for anything? I'm thankful? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, man. Are you thankful for carameld apples? Yes?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm glad to exist?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah? Man? What about nineties sitcom star Mayambiolic? Sure? By
the way, that smell is now in here. Yeah, it's weird,
is it really? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:40):
I hope that it is food. It just smells a
little burns. Something's burns.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Then show me the food. I don't know. Is it
your waffle? Still?

Speaker 4 (00:46):
No?

Speaker 5 (00:47):
I hate that this morning. That doesn't go to waste. No,
that's your sister. Okay, okay, let's do that. Come on, man,
that's uh. Let's do fan five. Let's talk about things
that have not been discussed in the first two and
a half hours of this show.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Shall we on.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
The Power Trip presented by Builders and Remodelers.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
All right, so somebody's gonna have to walk me through this.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Maybe, uh, we're gonna ask Bonus about it on Tuesday
because I don't really care today, but at some point
somebody can explain how this works. Maybe Zachary knows ESPN
and Major League Baseball reached a new three year media
rights deal, so NBC and Netflix are also going to
air baseball games. NBC Slash Peacock is the new home
of Sunday Night Baseball. Netflix is going to have exclusivity

(01:36):
to the Home Run Derby, so that's off the ESPN,
that's going to Netflix. ESPN loses postseason games and the
Home Run Derby, but ESPN also gets the in market
streaming rights for the six teams whose games are produced
by Major League Baseball, the Padres, the Rockies, the Diamondbacks,
the Guardians, the Mariners, and the Minnesota Twins. Now, somebody

(01:58):
like on bringing the new or somebody I forget said
yesterday that whatever the Twins did last year, that's exactly
what we're going to see this year.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
But then what does this mean.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
If we're going to see the exact same things act,
then what changes moving forward with this new deal.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
It's the way it sounds like ESPN is kind of
going to take a year and evaluate what they're going
to do moving forward.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Obviously they want to eventually move.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
All that stuff to their app but for now, the
way you watch the Twins this year saying they'll be
able to watch ninety to one hundred losses next year
the same way.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Okay, wow, that's a quote of the week.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, all right, so that's number one, number two if
you do like baseball. Hopefully this isn't one of the
the losses. But the Twins now, even though we've heard
the rumor for a while, we'll officially face the Phillies
in the Field of Dreams game August thirteenth in Iowa,
Twins of the home team, and that is on Netflix.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
So watching the Field of dream games.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Field of Dreams game Netflix, August thirteenth in Iowa. But
this is kind of cool. A couple of days before
the Saints, the Saint Paul Saints are going to play
the Iowa.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Cubs there on August eleventh. That's nice.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Saints on the eleventh, Twins on the thirteenth.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
And that'll be on Quibi. Doesn't Hawk have bad?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
And I believe Tim Hyde will cry it both games.
Oh yeah, he'll cry it both. How many people can
go lot and watch that live? I think it's like
three thousand. Yeah, I thought they created didn't they upgrade
the stadium?

Speaker 4 (03:25):
I thought they I thought they say they downgraded it
or something. I don't think it's a lot. They made
it smaller, so it's going to say you can't make
it very big because then you like ruin the aesthetic. Right,
it's supposed to be like you're playing on a cornfield.
I mean, Bonus is already there, great beer garden there. Yeah,
he's making his own in the fields.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
So anyway, things are changing in baseball.

Speaker 6 (03:47):
It says the there's a new originally the state the
first stadium they played in at eight thousand seats a game,
but there's a permanent stadium under construction that says it
has the it'll be three thousand people, but it has
the ability to expand to eight thousand, five hundred.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Very confused, So new stadium but not bigger stadium. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
The Field of Dreams bit is a ten out of ten.
Will you watch on Netflix?

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Of course? Yeah? Will yeah? Yeah? Support your Square support No,
I support.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Derek Shelton, okay, and Mitch Shelty, you man, Mitch and
Dustin Yeah, and Dustin and Dusty.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
When did you say the date that game thirteen?

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (04:27):
I was going to say, well that'll be wait wait,
I take that back.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
I might not be watching it because Hawk and I
will be watching preseason football.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, and that's way more important, right hogs.

Speaker 5 (04:39):
Yeah, you know it's right around the corner of preseason football.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Zachary helped me out on this one.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
I have no idea how to pronounce this guy's name,
but uh, Florida Panthers player e E tu.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
At two is? What is this Julius caesar at two? Brute? Yes?
E E tu is? His first name. Last name is
l u all O s t A r I n
e n h Leo Starinen. Let me uh lou o'starin
in my.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Two Either way, I have no idea how to pronounce
his name, but he's in the news because he is
out for.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
A while though Benjamin.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
He's out week to week after supper after suffering burns
during a barbecue accident. Burns he's twenty seven years old,
reportedly did not require overnight hospital stay, but burnt badly
enough where he will be out for weeks.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yea barbeque accent.

Speaker 7 (05:34):
You gotta you know, you gotta pop that lid open
when you start that fire man.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
This is the second time in a week we've had
an NHL player have a cooking accident that's led them
to miss time. Jack Hughes, one of the stars on
the Excuse Me New Jersey Devils, was I don't even
know if I've seen the full story yet, but cutting
something perhaps steak or whatever, and the knife slipped and
cut his hand.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
And now he's out for eight weeks.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
So we need to like start getting having people cut
and cook for these NHL players.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Apparently can't they need private chefs. Now, how did that happen?
What day of the week? Tuesday? Tuesday? Yeah, yeah, that's
what I thought. I thought.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I loaded that audio in huh.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Maybe earlier this week over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Apparently he was cutting cheese.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well played jokes, well played, Yeah, well played every time.
That's funny. Yeah, I thought you Julia Child's thing on SNL.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
That the best your hands up Julia Child's wood hawk.
Yeah yeah, I mean she's a good cook.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Alright, you guys, I actually want to hear from Jack Hughes.
You want to just keep doing bits. It's up to you.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Want to be serious sports, you should.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
We just we're trying to win something here, please a right.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
So apparently here's Jack Hughes actually breaking down the accident.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Cut my life into the piece. When do you go
Jack Hawk, Julian Child's with or without apron?

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Well, nothing but the apron? Is that an option?

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah? I mean yeah, that's what I means.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
You know, in front, she's all business and back ain't
nothing there.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Would you be happy or sad? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (07:17):
That made you morning?

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yuh.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Former Vikings Jim Marshall and Chuck Foreman didn't make the
latest cut for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. They
were for the Seniors division, but the former Vikings running
back Roger Craig is among the nine semi finalists for
the Seniors.

Speaker 7 (07:35):
A couple of years I didn't even know that talking
about Hei knees Man Holy a couple of.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Years after the Niners, after after Yeah, but yeah, Jim Marshall, R.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
I P.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
And Chuck Foreman did not make the cut. Rosie seems devastated.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
I don't understand why Marshall's not. I don't get it.
I don't either, I really don't get it.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
I think it might just be because they think they're
too many vices from that era in there.

Speaker 7 (08:02):
That's ridiculous. You're probably you're probably right, but it shouldn't
be based on that.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
There's more things we haven't talked about. At all, but
Minnesota and Jesse Diggins cross country Skiers said she is
retiring after this season. Essentially maybe, I don't know. Is
she the greatest cross country skier in the history of
cross country student?

Speaker 1 (08:20):
I think so? Why?

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Sure you hear about that snowboarder by the way, Yeah, yeah, happened.
He's He's now officially on the top ten most wanted list.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
He's like you want to murder, drug king. He's like
a giant deal a guy that was in the Olympics
way back.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
In the day, but now he was like.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
A snowboarding and drugs. So he's not currently a professional No,
he's currently a professional drug lord. Yeah yeah, drug mule. Yes,
snowboardten murderer.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
FBI's top ten most Wanted list.

Speaker 6 (08:57):
They said it was one of the most like intricate
Cindy kits in all of North American recent is.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
So it'll be a some kind of cool documentary. Yeah,
for sure. The thirty thirty is going to be crazy.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah. I mean that part I have a lot of
respect for. If you're gonna do it, do it right,
do it right. Yeah, I know, you gotta be careful, man.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
I was pulled in for questioning the other day.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, because I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
I don't think I told you guys, but I saw
a vampire attacking a lady and I went over and
kicked him right in the gut. Oh oh, and I thought,
you know, I'm saving the lady. And the officer said,
I was just supposed to give the kid candy.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
That's a dead joke as well. That's pretty not very
well delivered, but it's pretty.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Good though, even Isetta Frost host Toronto tomorrow at six
o'clock sauce.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yes, would you like a financial free roll? Free roll? Yeah, whoa,
this is a free roll.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
This does not count in the you know your twenty
one or twenty out of twenty one beats.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
This is just a free roll. Sure. Tomorrow night they
take on the Toronto Scepter.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, I'm gonna give you twenty American dollars scepters if
you can correctly spell scepters the way the Toronto Scepters
spell it.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Oh, so it's different than the actually spell it.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
However you want as if it's a sceptor tank, twenty.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Bucks if you can spell sceptors correctly.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
No, here's the deal. You're gonna go one letter at
a time. The second you make a mistake, the bets off.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
So there's no like are you going to the mall later? Like? Ready,
fire away, fire one ready.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
The second the letter's wrong, that twenty bucks goes away?

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Must we pee?

Speaker 1 (10:36):
You got this?

Speaker 3 (10:37):
S great start, that's over.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
No, he didn't say anything.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
I shouldn't I made. I made the face when he
was about to say, yeah, you can't go on A.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
It's definitely not a is it? S no sc S
like the Canadians right now, keep going s c.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
E excellent guess Paul s c E p t O
R S scept tours.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Hey do it a little slower? Can I use it
in a sentence for him? Sure?

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Tommy thinks everybody in here is hot scept turn.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Oh no, I tried one last time, S yes c sure, yes,
I'll do the rest of it.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
Slow, p Paul, nice to see you, p sep t
O R S step tours.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Uh s c E p t r E.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
S okay, Canada, very very more money.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's why it was a free role.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
It's like there's almost.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
No chance any of us, no I have either. I
love the nickname though.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
It's a cool nickname, fun name, A fun thing to say.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
That your second guest was, essay, is it doors Raptors?

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Maybe like the raptors? The raptors and this saptors. Yeah, man,
shout out to the Frost though. Hell yeah, good for
that worker.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Fox told us yesterday that Taylor Heisie was going to
do let's play hockey, Zachary, you were at the game?

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Did she? She did? She did a very good job.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Awesome. And then the Wild one and they did win
four to three in a shootout against the Carolina Hurricanes.
Yespervalstad had a streak of ninety five consecutive saves over
the last handful of games one one hundred and seventy
five minutes and twelve seconds. That is the fourth longest
shutout streak and Wild history. Awesome gloves saving the shootout.
They win four to three regulation goals by Faber, Boldie

(12:56):
and Ziccarello, and then Boldie with the game winner in
the shootout. They are at Pittsburgh tomorrow, so that's the
old Wild. And then again, max Ow, the Wolves won
one twenty one O nine against the rock Bottom Wizards.

Speaker 6 (13:07):
Yeah, handled business like they're supposed to. Nas Reed is
officially back. He had another amazing game. I think he
had twenty two points. That that was he had a
season high at halftime. Yeah, he finished with twenty eight.
The Wolves kind of just ran away with it. And
props to Julia Anthony Edwards. His his shot hasn't really
been falling over the last couple of games, but Julius
Randall's playing at an all star level.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Finch talked about Ant's problem shooting.

Speaker 9 (13:28):
You know, he turned down a couple that came his
way I thought were open in the second half. You know,
at this point in time, he's just got to try
to find he gets, get out, get some buckets, you know,
the old fashioned way, just just maybe run and cut
some energy plays.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
You know, his shot will come back to him.

Speaker 9 (13:43):
We got to do a better job of creating some
shots for him and trying to get it going that way.

Speaker 5 (13:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, one of eight from three.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, not not great for Aunt as of late. But
luckily he's got some great teammates to pick up the
slack and it's the Wizard so playing nobody. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
You have the weirdest stat right now in the NBA
that they are ten and zero against teams with losing
records zero to five against teams with winning records for
a total of ten and five.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
So at Phoenix Friday, at Sacramento Monday, and then the
champs in Oklahoma City on Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Who are fifteen and one? Yikes? Tom Pella Sero of the.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
NFL Network after this on the Power Trip Morning Show, right.

Speaker 10 (14:22):
Here, thanks for opening the door right as I screamed that.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
By the way, I didn't know you were going to
scream that. Did you make the text? I'll text her
right now.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
Oh no, Thanksgiving is a week away.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Happy Thanksgiving, Dad and other here.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
By the way, you're the quick Power Trip Survivor picks.
Fargo took the Lions, Me Hawk Bonus and Marnie took
the Ravens.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
A took the Lions.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Is Lamar Jackson gonna play? Did not practice yesterday?

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Is that right? There's thirteen? That game dramatically changes that
he doesn't play. Okay, I'm with you.

Speaker 7 (15:14):
I mean this is a significantly different team different Pull
your hands up, you guys still on the bet.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
No, you guys are out fun all right? Is Tom
Pelisaro there? Yeah he is. I got a pot them up, right, man.
There he is.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
There's Tommy.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, Tom pellisera, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks to our friends
at Bell Bank. Get you more on that really in
just a few moments here. But thanks to bell Bank,
and they're paying for a program for bringing you. Tom
Pelisero from the NFL Network. Hey, Tommy, look at it.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Look at you? Yeah, Tom, I like your hat.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
I like that. I thought you were getting your hair cut, hippie.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
He did it looks good, dud. I got I got
another one today.

Speaker 8 (15:58):
Every three weeks on Thursday, so you guys get to
see me right at the crest every week where I'm
at the point of needing it to be uh chopped down.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Do you go to the same person every time or
do you just you know, go to like a Great
Clips or something.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
You can't know.

Speaker 8 (16:14):
No offense to our friends at Great Clips, but no,
this this requires a full it's a full works situation.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Must require a team or is it just one person?
It's one person? Do you do you write, John, it's great,
she does it. She does a fantastic job. She takes this.
Don't that that makes it much? Yeah? It makes you
look good on TV. Bless you for having so much hairtage.
Very quickly does the same age.

Speaker 7 (16:44):
But yeah, I know that's why I'm like very jealous
that you have that much hair and I can't grow
hair anymore. Tp am I gonna see at the game
that you dined in a game tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
I ran into you last year where we were or whatever.

Speaker 8 (16:57):
There was two years ago where they couldn't get the
tickets to work and we and thousands of others were
standing outside hearing the game happening inside.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Oh no, TVD. I'm not sure if I'm gonna make
it yet. Oh man, it's gonna be a good one.
Are you going to Lambo? I will be at Lambo? Yes, okay,
and Chris there, Yeah, we'll see there. That is correct.

Speaker 8 (17:21):
Yeah, the Diety game would be more fun if I
had time to like pop down to Mandies, have a
couple of cocktails and then roll into the game and
don't know.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
It's probably gonna work in the schedule.

Speaker 7 (17:29):
Yeah, yeah, maybe just do the game. Maybe maybe not
all the time for all the pregaming, but okay.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Let's talk. Let's talk and started. Yeah, let's get this
whole thing started.

Speaker 7 (17:39):
Let's see here, you know, I do want I know
we're gonna get into I'm kind.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Of exhausted of the whole McCarthy talk because I don't know.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
This is like that's been the main topic on every
show every time.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
You no, I know that, but like it's like we
don't have the answers.

Speaker 7 (17:51):
I'm sure, I know, Tom probably just let me let
me ask you this though, because this is actually kind
of a hot topic that we don't talk about very much,
but very much a hot topic with all the Packer fans.
Is it are they like like smoking something to think
that the their court, their their head coaches on the
hot seat, or is there like actual some a spark
to this rumor that he's coaching for his job.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
I mean, I was.

Speaker 8 (18:13):
I was surprised when he was asked those questions after
the Monday night game that I was at. It was
a bad game. You know, they didn't play well offense
for two straight weeks. But they've had all these different
moving parts with injuries and different things again this week,
I mean, Josh Jacobs, we'll see whether or not he
can go. I know there was initial concern for him
after that game, and my understanding was he basically just

(18:33):
jammed his knee so hearted that hard met life turf
that you know, he ended up with a really bad bruise.
Knowing Josh, he's gonna want to go. If his leg
will bend, he's going to be out there. But that's been,
you know, the most consistent guy you've had, outside of
you know, Probaly Tucker Craft, who's right now out for
the season with a torn acl You know, listen, Matlin

(18:53):
Floor and Brian Goodakun's contracts are up after.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
The twenty twenty sixth season.

Speaker 8 (18:58):
They got a new president and CEO there, which means
you know you're going to make a decision after this season.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
I would be surprised, just based on history.

Speaker 8 (19:05):
If this doesn't end up with the Packers in the
playoffs and those guys getting contract extensions and being there
for a long time. If somehow it didn't, Matt Lafleuor
would instantly be the hottest candidate on the entire head
coaching market.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
I mean, he'd have a job in five seconds.

Speaker 8 (19:18):
You don't normally let guys like that, you know, who
are in their prime still early in his coaching career.
You don't generally let those guys out the door. So
I'd be surprised me he would have to go really
really sideways for this to not continue with Matt l
Floor as the coach of the Packers.

Speaker 5 (19:33):
Do you think they are still very happy that they
have Micah Parsons. I mean, and why I say that
is like he doesn't have that like dominant game that
you would pay two first round picks and maybe your
second best defensive player to get.

Speaker 8 (19:48):
Well, Like Clay closed out the game last week against
the Giants. He leads the NFL with fifty seven pressures.
He's a constant presence who's also drawing a lot of attention.
I mean, if you watch the it's you know, he's
getting doubled, he's getting chipped. There's very, very very rare
times where he's getting single blocked. And that's in spite
of Jeff Hafley's best efforts. Is one of the best

(20:10):
coordinators in the league of moving mic around and trying
to make it hard for teams to.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Match up with him. So you know, yeah, he doesn't
have He's not on a.

Speaker 8 (20:18):
You know, the Miles Garrett pace a breaking the sack record,
but he is impactful in a lot of different ways.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
He has made a difference for that.

Speaker 8 (20:26):
Defense, which is one more reason you know to still
believe in the Packers, which is the defense has been dominant.
The defense has been really really good if they play
like that, and the offense can just improve as maybe
they get a little bit healthier the second half of
the season. Jordan Love has been since he became a starter,
he's been, you know, one of, if not the most
efficient quarterback in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
From Week twelve on.

Speaker 8 (20:48):
He plays his best toward the end of the season,
and we'll see what that translates to on Sunday. But
that defense that rolls deep and Mike is you know,
the leader of it, They're big reason to still believe
that the Packers gonna be a tough out in the playoffs.

Speaker 7 (21:02):
You know, this might be a silly question because the
two teams are in different spots, but whose game? Whose
game is more important to win? Is it more important
that the Vikings go out there and win or is
it more important that the Packers go out there and
actually show a semblance of a cohesive offense and actually

(21:23):
win this game? Like who has the bigger the more
weight and the bigger impact for this game?

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Well, I think it.

Speaker 8 (21:29):
Depends ben on what your goals are for the season.
For the Vikings. If you lose this game, you're on
the brink of not making the playoffs. You're four and seven,
You're essentially going to have to run the table. And
there was a ten and seven team that didn't even
get in last year that would be it. So in
that regard, you say this is a bigger game for
the Vikings, for the Packers, you just run that risk

(21:50):
of all the stuff you just asked about with you know,
Matt Lafleur, and you know the you know, the vitriol locally,
whether it's media or whether it's fans. This would be
a third straight home loss if they were to lose
this game. They went to New York in one, but
they lost to the Panthers at home, didn't play well offensively,
they lost to the Eagles at home, and that Eagles
defense just dominated the game.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Went on the road.

Speaker 8 (22:11):
But now if you come back and you play bad again, yeah,
it's just gonna make that get louder. You know, there's
not a lot of times that the home team gets
booed at lambeau Field. That's just not a common thing.
If they play bad offensively in this game on Sunday,
you might hear some booze. But even if they were
to lose this game, they'd still be in the thick
of it. They've only played one division game. If they

(22:31):
beat the Vikings here, they're still right there with the
top teams in the division. If you know, you look
at the next gen stats, and you know, I'm always
at least slightly skeptical about whether or not those take
into account all the factors that I would use. But
they're still heavy favorites to, you know, win the division
at this point, even though the Bears are the number
one team in the division.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Tom Pelliser is our guest thanks to our friends at
Bell Bank, and they're paid for program. More on that momentarily, Tom.
We all know that the questions that are asked on
the air, the things that are said on the air,
are often different from the things said off the air,
especially from the coaches that you talk to. What's the
stink on JJ McCarthy off the air around the league?

Speaker 1 (23:10):
The stink? You know what I mean? The scot Yeah,
trying to point a new term. Is that a power
to give me the stink? He's not stinking here though,
does not.

Speaker 8 (23:25):
Sound like I don't think it sounds the same as
when you thought it was going to.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Sound, well, it didn't work. You got my point.

Speaker 8 (23:33):
I mean, listen, there's certainly you know, you look at
the numbers and we can go down the list. It's
a small sample size, right you're talking about, you know,
not even a handful of starts at this point for
JJ McCarthy.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
But there's you know, some historical stats.

Speaker 8 (23:47):
He's got the lowest passer rating of any quarterback on
third down in at least twenty five years. You got
the second lowest completion percentage of any quarterback on third
down in at least twenty five years. You know the
connection between him and Justin Everson. It's the worst efficiency
numbers Justin Jefferson's ever had with any of the quarterbacks
that he's played with for multiple games in his career.

(24:07):
But it's it's a small number of starts. We're still
nowhere close to figuring out exactly what JJ McCarthy is.
You know, if you want to, if you want to
be optimistic about it, you'd say there's signs of progress,
such as he didn't take a sack last week, he
was doing a better job playing on time last week.
He just wasn't hitting his receivers. I mean that first
drive where he's just you know, airmail's justin on the

(24:28):
third down throw.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
And just everything just seemed off.

Speaker 8 (24:31):
There's things mechanically when he's throwing the football down the field,
but you believe if the guy's able to play on
time and not take sacks, then you're just smoothing things
out and you're trying to get him in a groove.
And maybe you got to do a better job in
terms of getting them some easy throws early in the game,
although I don't know if it's a whole lot easier
than an eight yard out and you just throw the
ball over the guy's head. You know, if you want

(24:51):
to be a pessimist, you'd say, you know, accuracy doesn't.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Improve, But I don't.

Speaker 8 (24:55):
I don't see an accuracy issue with JJ McCarthy because
we've seen him be extraordinarily accurate. He was really accurate
in the Detroit game. I don't know that you could
do a whole lot better than that. And then he
has other games where is he is he two juiced up?
Is it mechanical? You know, he settled in just like
in the in the first Chicago game, he's settled in

(25:15):
down the stretch last week, terrible early on for him
in the entire offense, but got better down the stretch
and you know, kept them in that football game. Maybe
they win that game if not for giving up that
big kick return right after they had taken the lead.
You know, if I'm if I'm looking at this and
I'm the coaches or I'm a fan, I'm at least
going all right, there are times where this guy looks

(25:37):
like a real dude. There are times where you see
him and in crunch time when he's played well, when
you're in a hostile environment in Detroit and you're really
accurate at the football, those are things you can build on.
It's got to get a lot more consistent. But I'd
rather have it be really good and really bad it
then be consistently mediocre. What you're trying to do is
you're trying to reduce the amount of times that it

(26:00):
looks really bad. Just get it playing at a higher
level more often.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
If they can do that, and you.

Speaker 8 (26:06):
Know, this is gonna be a tough place to go
play on Sunday, there's no doubt about it. But if
you can just you know, kind of smooth out some
of those dips in the road, there's still plenty of
reason to believe that as he gains more starts under
his belt, he's going to get better.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
That's a good stink man.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah, good to anybody have a McCarthy follow up, otherwise.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
I'm going to completely changed subjects. Anybody got something else?

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Somebody else? Can you stink? Yeah? What's the snink on this? Tom?

Speaker 3 (26:28):
The Saints are finalizing a deal to play in Paris
next year, and the Vikings play on the road against
New Orleans in twenty twenty six. What do you know
about the process of how the league selects the road
team for international games and whether or not the Vikings
will potentially be in the mix to play in Paris
next year?

Speaker 8 (26:45):
They do, Corey, try to, you know, mix it up
in terms of who's having to go on those road games.
But if you're not the team giving up a home game,
you have less control over the process. If you're a
team like the Saints and that's not final from the league,
I can't get from that that's actually going to take place.
But if you do, you're voluntarily saying we're going to
give up a home game or we're going to go

(27:05):
and play in this and then the opponent is dictated
in part in part by who is on the schedule.
I mean, they don't manipulate who your opponents are. You know,
they're not going to send the League's not gonna send
the same team on the road five times for an
international game in consecutive seasons.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yet, although that day is.

Speaker 8 (27:21):
Coming where every team is probably going to play an
international game, if not too that day is, you know,
might still be ten years away, but it's not that
far off, you know, in terms of the exact process
that stuff that you know, Mike North and the folks
at the at the League office go through and trying
to you know, figure out exactly, you know, where the
different parts fit together. There's certainly considerations given, particularly for

(27:44):
the home team in terms of where do you have
a fan base.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
I mean, the Saints New.

Speaker 8 (27:48):
Orleans, the French Quarter going to Paris would make a
lot of sense, you know, just like the Steelers going
to Ireland with the Rooney family history. There's some of those.
But in terms of the road team, I don't want
to say there's a randomness to it, but it's not
nearly as linear in terms of how they set those
games so I wouldn't rule it out, but the fact
that the Vikings played two quote unquote road games in
Europe already this season would probably make them less likely

(28:11):
for that game though.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Rule nothing out.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, but you could also argue, right, nobody maybe has
a better grasp outside of the jags of how you
do international travel.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Correct, rid real hard to get to France. Let's go
to Paris.

Speaker 8 (28:25):
I'd love I'm hoping, you know, if we got the
primetime show and NFL network and listen, everything's a moving target.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
With that at this point.

Speaker 8 (28:32):
But the Australia game Man, you can do a primetime
show in the morning. That's the one that I'm rooting for.
The Rams will be over there next year. I would
I would like to go. I just I've been told
if I asked to go, I automatically am disqualified from going.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Sometimes my mouth shut. How can we help so we
can ask for you? Yeah, good question. The pressure on
the NFL network to send you in a bit, then
you don't.

Speaker 8 (28:52):
Wait at NFL network. Can Tom please go to Australia
next year?

Speaker 3 (28:56):
We send Tom down on Earth Calm Downs Act.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
That's where you get the stick.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
That's where you get the stinks.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Now you've planted it in my brain? Howky please here?
Please the stink on door Sanders.

Speaker 8 (29:17):
Hold on, I'm gonna text him right now and say,
what's something actually relevant?

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Let's go what's what's this on Lamar? And what's the
stink on Burrow? I'm texting that man, respond quickly.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
If you bring that up on the air, it'll be
that it'll make.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Anybody knows this be Does anybody know what that means?
Because maybe maybe it's afraid you know, do.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
You know he's gonna text everybody but you now and
go pellas hero is asking for the stink and it's
going to be like this inside joke that you're just
a psychopath.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
It. He might be on the peloton right now. We'll
see if he gets back.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
That's the perfect time to respond to the stink. Then
this stinks him?

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yeah, man, thanks Tom? All right, Tom, you're the best U.
That's it? What is that? He actually answered it? So
we figured it out. Even on a contest, you just
gave you a serious answer. Maybe the thing.

Speaker 8 (30:09):
What's the stinkodas long all the way around?

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, he came around man like again, all of those
guys are on their phones twenty four hours a day.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
You say, what's the stink on Burrow? They respond within.

Speaker 3 (30:23):
Seven seconds, I should be out in the NFL now
seven seconds.

Speaker 8 (30:28):
It must be an auto correct or something, or he
knows that the stink is worse. So this he's the
stink on the insiders on the NFL network, six pm
Central tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
Hey, maybe Ian Rappaport's just watching kfan dot com slash Watch.
Maybe he's just supporting you in your weekly appearances. You
never know, you never know. All right, Tom, You're the
best textbook man.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
See you later.

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Speaker 1 (31:58):
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Speaker 3 (32:03):
So Zach got to the bottom of it, Zach, I got,
I got the stink. You got the stink?

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Zach? What what is that? Electrical smoke? Actually I didn't
get the full bottom of it, just the tip. Okay,
the building is not on fire.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
No, there's some something going on down the hall like
there somebody brought a smoker in.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Because why wouldn't you bring a smoker in and.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Like somebody who's got a pack of Marlboroughs.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
You mean, yeah, like a smoker or something into a building. Yeah,
and he left at seven twenty. But then somebody else
brought another one in and what are we doing?

Speaker 2 (32:40):
What the hell is going on?

Speaker 1 (32:41):
What I smoker? Yeah, I'm sure it's a meat. Sure
it's a great bit. Oh okay, now I get it.
Oh yeah, here we go. I get it. I told
you his food. Yeah was all right. Let's work together.
Let's work together.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
According to a new ranking. I don't know they quantified this.
None of my business. Is just the headline.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Give it to me.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
The world's five best cities are blank.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Work together. Let's see if we can do this.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
You three give me a final work as a team,
and give me a final answer, and let's see how
many you can get before you get one wrong.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
The best cities San Diego. Do we all agree in
the world?

Speaker 4 (33:28):
I don't know if they Maybe not Paris.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
I'm gonna say Barcelonia.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Oh yeah, you think Paris? I need a group final answer?

Speaker 3 (33:39):
We do?

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Do we think Barcelona or not?

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Barcelona? Sounds right? That sounds good?

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yes or no?

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yes? Yes?

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Okay, yes?

Speaker 1 (33:46):
Final answer. Yeah, you're already out.

Speaker 11 (33:48):
Damn Sorry guys. Honolulu, that's a good one. No, No,
m Vegas. Where's the Monte Carlos?

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Vegas should be number one? What's the Monty Carlo was
in Geneva for about an hour? Monica.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
No, you've only said one, correct, but you didn't like
it inviously.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
San Diego, No Vegas, No Paris.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
Paris is number three, and again I couldn't agree more.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
It was awesome Lake Como, Italy. No, these are just
places you've been now, New York, Hock.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
You actually were on the right path, just picked the
wrong city in Sweden.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
No, Spain.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Number five, I have not I want to.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
All right, I'll just say Madrid five, Tokyo four, Paris three,
New York City to London one.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Yeah, man, London, people love it. I love London too, Yeah, London. Yeah,
London is fun. Yeah. Yeah. A business had to apologize
because they hired us.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Antah right to Uh yeah, oh dare they Well No,
that's that's not why they're apologize. Oh they apologize because
the guy killed his wife back in twenty eleven, but
pleaded insanity, so he was released last year.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
So now he's a Santa, Missus carr in this until
proven guilty.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Cor Yeah, nothing wrong. Oh Santa, don't know, don't.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
Don't tell me, Esus Sauce, No, all your hands out, yes,
Missus Claus.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Well the real one.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Sure, kiddos listen right now, and I would definitely not
I respect Santa and this was not the real sand.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
This is not the all right.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
If kids are listening, yes, especially everybody in the Elizabeth
Ores family, turn turn the volume down for the next
thirty seconds because he's next to are not kid appropriate? Okay, okay,
headline number one should.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Does he? Ever? How is your hearing? What? How is
your hearing?

Speaker 6 (35:57):
Man?

Speaker 1 (35:59):
How is your hearing? Hello?

Speaker 3 (36:01):
Yeah, fine, Viagra could reverse some deafness.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Oh yeah, man, I can I can hear, I can hear?

Speaker 6 (36:10):
Right?

Speaker 1 (36:12):
He slot machines going off from here? All right, this
is the more inappropriate part.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
Uh. Sales of an AI enabled Teddy Bear were suspended
after the bear ended up giving advice on extreme adult
activities and where to find knives.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Let's go, let's go in that order.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
He gives you the stink.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
If Teddy Ruxman's talking about the angry Dragon, you know
what I'm saying, Like that's essentially what this bear did.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
The Alaskan Pipeline are happy to see you and your
sweetish somber that evil ass laugh right there. That's fun though.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
Let's see here. I don't know if that one's worth
getting too.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
I got something, would you like it?

Speaker 3 (36:55):
I mean, I got a bunch, I just don't. I
just skipped that specific story. It was kind of worthless.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Try this one.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
If you adjust for inflation, how much do you think
pac Man Arcades made, making it the most profitable arcade
game of all time?

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Oh? Good questions? Actual revenue in an arcade? How much
do you think it made if you adjust for inflation?

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Because obviously it was you know what, early eighties, correct,
that's when it was really oh poppin'.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
I'll give you a little hint.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
It's it's about three times more than when it actually
made if you adjust for inflation.

Speaker 5 (37:35):
Uh, thirty million, No, that's a terrible in thirty billion
one point three billion, did.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
You say, Zachary? Thirty billion?

Speaker 3 (37:45):
That's the closest it actually made six billion, but with
the inflation nineteen point five billion dollars. Here's time right now,
here's the I think more fun trivia question. That makes
it the highest grossing arcade game of all time, just
ahead of what other two arcade games.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
I'm gonna guess the one where you fought each other,
Mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat. Is that one of them?

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Nope, Donkey Kong Nope, Centipede nope, NBA Jam nope, Missus
pac Man.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Obvious, I'm obvious.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
We're not taking They're both very gettable. Donkey Kunk nope,
Mario Nope. You guys can get both. NBA believe both.
You know I've said half of these. Ye, we serve
you guys. Don't listen. Miss pac Man get this, you
can do this.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
I wonder if pac Man counts as Miss pac Man,
like if they combined both of them. Gata Nope, Gatica.
You mean Gallica Gallica. Gatica is like a Manica gallaghas.
What's the one that starts with the c Centipede? No contra,
No contra.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
There we go grand theft. Oh no, no, no, no, no,
these are just just arcade games. Street Fighter street Fighter two.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Yes, that's number three, but you're missing number two. Street
Fighter two.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Is number three? Fighter one. No Simpsons, No, this is
this is old school.

Speaker 4 (39:16):
Oh h the b the pong No, not that old
brick attacks.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
That's you're getting your close ice hockey battle toed.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
Towards the one with the shooter thing you shoot the
things asteroid shooter.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
The one where you what did you move? Not Frogger then.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Progger too.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
You're gonna kick yourself as soon as I say, hold on,
we can get this is the space one Space Space.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Was so much Fader Street Fighter too. You got dude,
check this out.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
They gave I'm sorry real quick AI that that podcast
I listened to. Yeah, they put AI without giving it
any instructions, not telling it at all how to play
the game. They gave it a game of Space Invaders.
They went to bed. Twelve hours later. When they woke up,
it had beaten the game and had completely figured out

(40:10):
all the rules on how to beat the game in
twelve hours, got the patterns having never even given no
instruction or even told to play again. They didn't know.
They didn't even tell it it was a game, and
AI figured.

Speaker 5 (40:22):
Oh, yeah, good, I'm crazy. This is an honest question.
Do you think AI will ever figure out slot machines?
Or is that a dumb question?

Speaker 3 (40:31):
I mean, it's like figuring out all the But I mean,
wouldn't it just have to figure out the program to
determine when it goes off again? I mean it would
almost be like hacking into accessing them of.

Speaker 4 (40:44):
Random number generators, so even if I mean, I don't
know how that works with computers.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
But well, didn't you see Oceans thirteen when they rigged
everything if the Ocean's crew configured out Ai Greco was
the original Greco Roman Rush? Yeah, Willie Bank never saw
it coming. Oh yeah, great films.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
Banks. I love it.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
Although again, just like Ocean's twelve has one gigantic mistake
that Julia Roberts seen right, it makes no sense, it's done.
The biggest mistake in Ocean's thirteen is having the night
Fox basically just watch them for two hours and then.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Try to hold them up with a gun at the end.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
It's like, what this all time great thief is just
hanging out and then he sticks a gun to try
to get the diamonds at the end and then gets fooled.
That's his whole role, throws him away and walks up.
It's so stupid.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
What a waste.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
The night Fox kicked ass, You wasted him. In the
third one man we like to complain about stuff. Yeah,
I say more you I love those movies saying and
I love I love the third one. Yeah, I just
wish the Night Fox would have been gun in it.
All right, Nine to noon is next. We're back tomorrow,
five thirty to nine. One hundred and four thousand dollars
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(41:56):
Credit Union Jackpot.

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Maybe somebody who went to tomorrow one hundred and four
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