Ben Goessling/Lavelle Neal - Bumper to Bumper 10/10/25 Hour Three

We wrap up the week with our Friday regulars: Ben Goessling joins for some Vikings bye week discussion and quarterback thoughts before Lavelle Neal joins with some Twins managerial steam, baseball talk and Wild and Vikings discussion.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Would you say a game.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Lavelle in about twenty five minutes or so. Ben Gestling
joins now kind of to adjust his schedule because Gerbischmid
had to, I guess, have a meeting before he could
then tell us about his big announcement on the new
interactive ice Bowl bed, breakfast and lunch project that he

(00:40):
thinks might change everything for him. So gold out through
the first weekend, that's what he tells us. We don't
even know that that is indeed true. Guestling, you get
any time to unwind here? You get a couple of
days or when when do you have to get right
back on the hamster wheel?

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
I keep forgetting these days, and I got to pop
these callers up. Go right ahead, sir. Sorry.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah, it's been a fairly relaxing week for the most part.
Hasn't been terribly stressful on the bye week. So yeah,
it's been it's been fairly low key. I think we'll
get back at it early next week. I would think
that we'll be back out there kind of getting ready
for the Eagles game. We haven't seen media access schedules yet. Yeah,
I would imagine we're out there next week. I'll have

(01:25):
to check out this bed and breakfast if there's some
free time this weekend. I did not hear the big
announcement from Gerby, but that sounds very, very high level.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, it definitely sounds like something unique. I'm not sure
it's going to be very successful, but maybe it will.
Maybe it'll be exactly one of these ventures has to be. Yeah,
sooner or later, you think they hit on something for
sure an entrepreneur. Yeah, he's proven that. That's absolutely true.
Let me ask you a toss up NFC North question.
We're now what the quarter? Will the way through or

(01:56):
you know little? I guess less than that with seventeen games,
although different teams have played different amounts depending on buy situations.
Refresh my memory regarding the how you viewed the state
of the division before the season began and whatever that was.
Has it substantially changed over the course of this first quarter.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
I kind of thought Lions and then Vikings and Packers
probably fighting for second and the Bears in fourth at
the beginning of it. Has that changed a lot? I
don't know that it's changed a ton. It's been I
don't know that any of these teams has had it
go exactly the way I thought it would. I mean,
the Bears seem like they are starting to figure things

(02:39):
out a little bit. It seems like if Ben Johnson
can get Cayler Williams playing the way that he wants,
that could be a factor as we go through the season.
The Packers, as good as they looked in those first
couple of games, they have come back come back to
the pack part in the pun a fair amount here,
and I have some questions about that defense, says it

(03:00):
continues to try to evolve and figure out exactly what
it's going to look like. They look so dominant in
those first two and then his last couple of games,
they've kind of raised some questions there. And then the Lions,
it tends to be this thing again of are they
going to be healthy?

Speaker 3 (03:15):
I mean, some of the injuries they've.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Had a little bit like last year, probably not as
catastrophic as last year. But I still think the Lions,
given all of the things in all of the time
they've had, with a lot of the pieces in the
roles that they're in, they probably have more continuity than
most teams, even.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
With the coordinator switches.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
I think the personnel continuity they have gives them an advantage,
and I just like what they've done. I like the
way that they play, and I think they've figured out
how to use a lot of their pieces. As far
as the vikings go, it has not been as smooth
as we thought it would be for a number of
different reasons. I think everybody assumed they would be excuse me,
a little bit of a learning curve for JJ McCarthy.

(03:55):
But my concern has been more on the defensive side
of the ball, when they have not been able to
stop the run better than they have. I mean, this
was a team that was second in the league in
run defense a year ago and I think they're twenty
fourth right now, and figuring that out is going to
be a big factor in how the next part of
the season goes. When it's Takuon Barkley coming up, you've

(04:16):
got Jamior Gibbs on the schedule, You've got Dereck Henry
on the schedule. I think that factor has been something
that I wasn't expecting to be as big of an
issue as it's been, and if they're not able to
get that under control, I think that is a big
concern for them going forward. I still think they're a
playoff caliber team, and I think they'll figure some things
out offensively if they go through it, but the defense

(04:36):
has to be sturdier than it's been to this point.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Who can you project on the basis of what you
know now or what you surmise or combination of both,
Who amongst the walking wounded should be ready to play
against the Eagles a week from Sunday.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Well, I think Blake Cashman will be interesting to see
how that goes. I mean, it seems like there's a
chance that they get him back. Being a hamstring, I
think you're always a little concerned with how serious that
can get and brushing back from that too soon. But
he's had you know, probably four or five weeks now
where he's had the chance to get that think healed up.

(05:14):
I think he'd have a chance to go. In terms
of the offensive line, you know, Michael Jurgens, I'll be
interested to see what they do there, because, like Brandell,
I thought played well enough to possibly get another run
at that. But if they get Jurgens back. We were
actually having this conversation on our podcast yesterday Andrew Kremer
made this pointment. I think it's a good one that
if you get Jurgens back. It allows you to have

(05:36):
Brandell in that swing role where he's been pretty valuable,
where you can put him in a number of different spots,
and if you need him at guard or if you
need him at tackle something happens or Donova Jackson isn't
ready to go, you have that guy that you can
kind of plug into that spot. And I think they
like that role, so I could see Brandell being the
guy there, But if Jurgens is ready, I could also

(05:57):
see them saying let's stick with this and have Brandell
kind of as that, you know, pitch hitter where we
might need him. I think Danovan Jackson will have a
good chance to play in this one. I think that
risk injury was not something that's terribly major. I think
he'll have a chance to get back. And then Andrew
van Ginkel will be the other.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Big question here.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
I mean, Kevin O'Connell has indicated they're trying to get
things figured out there. When they sounded more optimistic about
it early than they had the last couple of weeks,
it makes me wonder how long that one will pay.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
And needs a piece that they need.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
And then obviously I'm bearing the leave here on the
quarterback stuff, but that one and Carson Wentz came out
of that game pretty banged up, and he heard Kevin
O'Connell talk about that a little bit at the beginning
of the week. I think that is very much worth
watching how that shoulder comes out of that game. It's
just left shoulder, but if you don't want him getting
hit there, given the severity of it in that first game,

(06:49):
I think that's very much worth watching. I think there's
a good chance that they tried to get McCarthy ready
and back for this one. They've I don't think they're
going to rush that. I don't think if he's ready,
or if he's I don't think if he's if he
shows he's not ready, I don't think he's going to
be out there yet. I don't think this is going
to be something where they want to rush him back.
But if he feels good enough through this week of
work that he's had and some of the work he's

(07:11):
going to get next week, it wouldn't shock me if,
especially given Carson Wentz's state of play right now, that
if it's McCarthy a week from sending us the Eagles.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
What's the Ryan kelly prognosis at this point, do we
know well?

Speaker 4 (07:26):
I mean, he's on injured reserve and you'll have to
figure out what things look like when he comes back
from there. I just think with that, when it's been
two concussions this year, I believe it's been five in
the last two or three years, or five through his career,
and I think three probably in the last two or
three years, it's getting to the point where I would
imagine those discussions get a little more big picture than

(07:50):
just are you ready to come back from this one?
It's how many more of these can you take? What
risks are you incurring to your state of well being
the rest of your life? I mean, that stuff is
a larger question that I imagine is going to involve
medical folks, It will involve his agent, it will obviously
involve his family, and involves Ryan Kelly is thinking through

(08:12):
these things on his own. I don't know that anybody's
at that point yet, but I just think when you
have that many of these they've happened as as quickly
as they have, I don't know how that can't be
part of the conversation. So to say that I have
a read on that at this point would be I
just don't That's a conversation that I am not privy
to at the moment, and I don't expect to be so.

(08:32):
I think there's a lot of factors there for him,
and how he comes out of that is going to be,
you know, probably a larger discussion than.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Just this particular concussion.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
I have to think we're getting to a point where
everybody has to feel okay about him coming back in
a larger sense for that to happen.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Well, you know, one of the things that will interest
me once everybody becomes available again and the team is
practicing and there's any momentum about McCarthy starting, which I
still think is unlikely. But let's say that's the feel
you get, or maybe even the declaration maybe that's the
left shoulder, even though it's a non throwing shoulder, is

(09:12):
you know, it's got some structural issues to they gay
we're backing off here. I'm curious to know what you
think the KOC will say regarding this. Does whatever we've
been running offensively with Wentz, is it similar to what
we would run with JJ's return. Is he going to

(09:35):
acknowledge there's some differences in terms of what each quarterback
can process at this point. As he suggested before about
one of the Wentz advantages, what do you what do
we what kind of offense do you think we are
likely to see with this second rendition of McCarthy after
two games and getting hurt.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of the things
that people are talking about, and certainly it's been noticeable
with Carson Wentz is some of the quicker passes that
he's been able to get rid of the ball a
little bit quicker, and you help yourself and protection that way.
But I think Kevin O'Connell said it recently that quick
game if you don't protect, is basically just a drop
back game with worst protection, where you're not giving guys

(10:16):
a chance to get opened for very long and you're
just not able to protect because you need that ball
on the quarterback's hand and if he's not able to
get a clean look at things.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
It just doesn't work.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
So I think a lot of what they will do,
how much of this carries over is one It depends
on the offensive line health, and I think they will
be healthier than they were the first time with JJ McCarthy,
just because Christian Darosol is back, and that is a
big factor in how protected the quarterback and feel on
his blind side.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
I mean, I think we've.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
Seen the difference when Christian Darisol is on the field
compared to what it looked like before. I think that helps,
and I think Donovan Jackson being back probably helps as well.
But the state of that offensive line is one piece
of this. The other thing is has JJ McCarthy gotten
to the point where he's playing a little bit faster
that you're seeing him get through progressions, you know, going

(11:08):
from one to two or one to two to three
quickly enough that the ball is out of his hand
sooner than it was his first time through. I mean,
I think protection was an issue, but you also saw
sometimes where he's holding the ball, he's hitching, he's you know,
probably not getting rid of the ball in the timing
that he needs to do to hit some of these

(11:28):
throws in this offense the way they want it structured.
And then he just had times too where if he's
reading through things and maybe he doesn't trust what he's seeing,
he's taking off where if he does give himself another click.
I mean, I can remember a couple of plays where
if he stays in there for another second and trust
his pocket, he probably has a chance to hit a
downfield completion.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
So a lot of this, what this looks like.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
Probably depends on the state of the offensive line. But
I think just as importantly it's is he playing a
little bit faster? Is he playing a little more decisively?
I mean, Kevin O'Connell has talked about out being encouraged
by the things McCarthy has learned from watching Wentz. But
there's only so much that you can get from learning.
As we've seen, you have to go out on the

(12:09):
field and get the feel for things, get the timing,
your under your fingers, so to speak, before you feel
comfortable with all of it. I think that's only going
to come with a level of on field work and
a level of progression that is hard to disreplace from
off field study and off field observation.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Ben Gesling covers the vikings for the start to Ben
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heating and air conditioning as always. A couple people have
asked about Darisaw. It appeared to me that maybe even
the head coach was a bit confused or a bit
worn down. By not being able to use him in

(12:49):
the fourth quarter, even though the Vikings live to tell it,
is it possible? As a couple one textra suggested that
maybe this isn't just about usage, but about that maybe
Darrisaw tweaked the knee a little bit. What do we
know on Darrisaw moving forward?

Speaker 4 (13:07):
I yeah, I don't know that there's been a tweak
or a setback, or you know, whatever verbiage we would
want to use. Tweak has has become a loaded term
in these parts thanks to Mike zimmerndan Neil Hunter about
five years ago. I think some of it is there's
a little bit of a discussion, I think in terms of, well,

(13:29):
how everybody feels coming back from this. I mean, Darrisaw
has talked about this a couple of times, that this
was supposed to be a twelve month recovery, and he's
brought that up enough that I think he's probably said, Okay,
this even if even if I'm ready, and even if
everybody says I'm ready, I have to feel good enough
about it. It's when it is probably still a little

(13:50):
bit ahead of schedule. Given the fact that that injury
happened late October last year. So I think it's been
a little bit of a collaborative effort to use a
Kevin O'Connell term in terms of how comfortable does everybody feel,
how many snaps does he want to play, how comfortable
is he going the full way. I think it's been

(14:11):
a little bit of him having the latitude to say, Okay,
I don't feel good at this point. I feel like
this has been enough for the day. I'm worried about fatigue,
or I'm worried about the possibility of aggravating something because
of fatigue and you take a bad angle and technique
gets sloppy as a result of that and something happens.
I think there's been a little bit of a process

(14:33):
of trying to figure out exactly where that line is
for everybody, and that probably moves on a weekly basis,
probably depending on the type of game you played too.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
That Steelers game, being as physical.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
As it was, I think was on his mind as
you go through it. But I think they've had to
do a fair amount of just talking about what this
looks like, and I would assume that gets a little
more plug and play.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
As we go through the season.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
But I think a lot of thescussion to this point
has been exactly that, where you're just trying to say,
where is everybody comfortable here, and then we'll make our
plan from that point of the discussion.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
One other injury question. I don't want to turn this
into a mash episode, but there's there are a lot
of important names here. What about our right tackle, what
about O'Neil.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
Well so mcl coming back from that. I mean, we'll
see if he's back this week. I guess I would
feel like that's probably to a little ambitious.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, I mean, you'd have to.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
See exactly how severe that was and what he's able
to do. I wouldn't think that he's going to be
in any rush, and I would expect that's probably one
of those where they'll want to see him practice. They'll
want to see how he recovers from a day of practice.
It tended to be with these offensive linemen that they
want to see them get through a full week or
at least most of a week and feel pretty good

(15:51):
about the progression of that before they will put them
out there. So that may be one we don't know
about until the end of next week. And I wouldn't
be shocked if they say, let's get through a week,
let's see how this goes, and then especially with a
short week coming back. I mean, that's the other thing
to think about is that Chargers game coming right out
of the Eagles game. You expect it's probably a physical
game against the Eagles, and then you're flying four days later.

(16:13):
So it wouldn't shock me if they say let's get
through the full week and shoot for that Chargers game.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
That wouldn't be out of the question to do that.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Now.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
If that's the way it goes, that's a big question
at the Eagles given their pass rush, but.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
The way the Vikings have handled these things with offensive linemen,
I would expect it's probably a little more of that
type of trajectory.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
October ten, two thousand and three, Ben Gesling was.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
Where I was covering a high school football game where
the Pioneer Press during my internship in the East Metro
and driving back, I think catching the end of the
game you're referencing on the radio and getting back home

(16:57):
to my apartment at the University of Minnesota with a
roommates who were pretty crushed.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Because we had a chance of the jug Yes, and.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
It's looked through our fingers in the fourth quarter twenty
eight to seven going into the fourth as we laid
out at the beginning of the program, and I I
have theorized that that that's the game that might have
changed everything.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
And maybe that's grandiose, yeah, because I don't know. Maybe
they still go to you know, they go home, they
stay home and lose to Michigan State next week. I
don't think so. But by the way, there was half
the crowd at that game compared to the Michigan game.
But I just felt like that was it, man, that
this was going to be sort of the crowning achievement
Mace moment where they not only were winning, they weren't
gimmicky winning. They were absolutely blowing the doors off a

(17:41):
not national champion level Michigan team, but a good Michigan
team that guards you reminds me. I think it ended
up going to the Rose Bull that year.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
It was one of those games where it looked for
the early stretches that like, they are the better team.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
They are able to do things.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
I mean, because that's so often the question is are
they physically capable matching up with the Michigan the states
of the world and that was the game where they
looked like, yes we are and this is going to
now be the moment where everybody else in the Big
Ten is on notice. And I remember the first quarter
that Michigan State game the next week where they just
came out kind of stilling, a hangover and I think

(18:18):
got behind and had to try to rally at the end.
I mean, that's I think the lament of that season
was if it's not for the fourth quarter against Michigan,
in the first quarter against Michigan State, that team's.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Going to the Rose Bowl.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
And now obviously they have not gotten there. And the
first time they played in the Rose Bols since the
nineteen sixties was a regular season game against Ucla. I
think last year. I remember just thinking when they put
Ucla into Big Ten, it's like they have to go
before that, and the two thousand and three and then
I suppose Tylon Johnson against Siowa in twenty nineteen would
have been the other one that yeah, might have gotten

(18:50):
it done. Yea, Yeah, those hurt looking.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Back on them.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
I appreciate the help as always, my friend, and we
will chat next week.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
All right, sounds good.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
I appreciate the play flexibility as well, Ben Gestling, brought
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In fact, next we expect to visit with Lavelle, who

(19:23):
is as is joining us at his regular time. Five
point thirty questions for lavel on pretty much anything hit
the branch on Brian Kafan text line six four six
eighty six. I do want to, believe it or not,
talk some Twins manager ideas with him, because he uttered
a name either last week or the week before. That

(19:46):
kind of grab my interest if anybody can. Given the
state of this franchise and one of his colleagues I
think is recommended that same individual. So we'll talk maybe
a little bit about that, and plenty of football, no
question about that. His Bears club back in action, I
think Monday night game this week. We'll talk some wild
he's very high in the wild after the five to

(20:07):
zero opening victory in Saint Louis, and really who knows
what else? Leavel right around the.

Speaker 6 (20:12):
Corner Lavelle E.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Neil the third now joins us via the Connecticot Water
Systems hotline, as he customarily does on Fridays. As I
mentioned looking for text a lot of them are already
coming in six four, six eighty six is the Bratshaw
and Bryant text line. Not not really that much savagery early,
but it could. It can definitely. I don't want to

(21:02):
labor over Twins managerial search because I don't think this
team merits all that much attention because of the way
it's been run and ownership matters, But I will say
I thought it was interesting that a name you had
raised with us either last week or the week before
is also a name that your colleague Jim Suhan has

(21:25):
written about and a guy who I agree with both
of you should be very high on the list of possibilities.
Can you remind folks who that is?

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, it's a former Twins hitting coach, James Ralfon, who
oversaw the twenty nineteen Bomba squad. You know, the record
setting home run hitting team ended up going to the
postseason and getting sweat by the Yankees. But you know,
James had a great rapport with the players. He's a
good motivator, he's a good psychologist, cracks jokes, jokes about

(22:01):
the opposing picture to make everybody feel a little lighthearted.
And he's good about, you know, mixing you know, mechanics
and analytics and all that. And he's he's been, you know,
he's been on successful teams. He currently is with the Yankees,
of course, who seasoned in it last year. And you know,
he's the only one I know who was coached both

(22:22):
a Rod and Aaron Judge. You know, he was a
bench coach next to Don Manley and with the Marlins.
He's the assistant hitting coach with Detroit. So, uh, in
a lot I think actually I think he I think
he coached a few of the.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Guys who are coming of coming to their own now.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
He was there at the at the beginning for some
of those guys with with Detroit. So I just think
he's he's been at enough stops during his career. He's
got enough experience coaching that he should be given a
shot to be a manager.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
So I put him on the list.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
And uh, I think at least he deserves at least
a conversation about the gig. And you know, I think
he fits the type of a manager that Twin's gonna
havep hiring someone who doesn't have a lot, a first
time manager, because I think anybody with some experience, you know,
it's gonna be looking for like a better situation. The
Twins could get better in the next two to three years,

(23:19):
but you know, next year is a rebuilding year, and
next year, until they tell us differently, it's probably gonna
be a reduced payroll year. So it's gonna be hard
to get a credible manager under those situations. So that's
why I think that like someone like James Houston, or
I think Derek Shelton may come back because he's you know,
he has knowledge of the organization. He's in a worse

(23:39):
organization with Pittsburgh before he got Lego, or someone like
w garden Hight. So, but yeah, I saw Jim's colum
and I said, yeah, I think I think James deserves
a shot here.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
I think did we We had him on once or twice.
In fact, what I remember is from a you know,
journalism standpoint, I was sad when he left because I
for the next year wanted us to try to maybe
see if we could get him on occasionally because he
was fascinating to talk to and a sharp and as
you've nailed it, it may be that his lack of

(24:10):
experience means he can't be as selective right about a
managerial job as opposed to some other individuals. And you know,
we get it. Everybody's excited about would be, you know,
the idea of a Tory Hunter or an aj Prazinski
and all that. This guy's been beating the bushes right.
He's been doing the job in dugouts with major league

(24:32):
teams for a while, so I think they should absolutely
take a look at him for sure. We'll see where
it goes. Let me ask you a journalism question, a
journalism on one question. Let's say that Lavelle E. Neil
the third was writing last night for the Philadelphia Inquirer

(24:55):
and you're covering Game four of the nl DS series.
Eagle he Goles Phillies Dodgers. Phillies have to win to
extend the series. It has gone to the eleventh inning,
and the game ends, and the Phillies season ends on
an utterly boneheaded decision by the starting pitcher. I think

(25:19):
it's is it Kirkering? I think that's his name, who
bobbles ball gets thrown tapped back to him, he bobbles it, panics,
and instead of still throwing to first because he would
have had time to do it to end the inning,
he throws home wildly, not even close to home play,
where again they'd have to tag the catcher, was gonna

(25:39):
have to tag the runner. Terrible terrible decision. Postseason is over,
does Lovell do a rip job on him or does
he do the you know, the human the sort of
the pathos of what that picture will be haunted by
for years and years as a result of his bad
decision and bad play.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Well, we see this a.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Lot in the playoffs, we've seen in the World Series
before that. Pictures fielding practice that goes on in spring
training every year. It's totally forgotten sometimes in big moments,
and uh, I probably would write a story about this.
Stuff is covered in spring training. It's supposed to last
throughout the season, and somehow expired at the hands of

(26:24):
the picture for the Phillies. So I think I would
have went a little more towards the sticking the knife
into the wound there and kind of twisted it a
little bit, just because of the gravity of the situation
and the need for having composure and forward the terrible
outcome that.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah, I mean that was just a and I'm assuming
he's got people yelling through the first still got time
because there still was time one, but he just didn't. Yeah,
he just looked like he panicked. It just looks like
he forgot, you know, the basic tenants of of fielding
the pitch position. That is a very it's not unprecedent,
as you said, that's a very, very tough way to

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get eliminated in the postseason.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
I'm sure someone I'm sure a couple twa minutes of
screaming one one one has to throw the first. Yes,
and uh, it's something lost in the translation between what
he heard, what was going through his head, and what
his body was doing. Yeah, and it was. It was
a total system failure at that point for him. And
he's gotta he's got to own that thing for the
entire offseason, in the next spring training and the course

(27:29):
of stories in spring training like what is your learn
friends situation, Uh, you're gonna pay more attention to PFPS.
It's it's Philadelphia too, City of Bregley. Shove also means
you shove with your pen and your keyboard so he's
got to deal with that.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
After man, there's absolutely no question about that. Your wild club.
I think he wrote a preview column on him that
was pretty optimistic. They dominate their opener. They were kind
of dominated in the second period, but the goaltending was great.
They survived that, and then they kind of took over
the game the rest of the way and they win
it going away five nil. I've I've kind of I

(28:08):
don't know, I'm maybe I'm in trouble with the hockey community.
I often am, but I'm My toughness on this is
actually I think out of a measure of respect for
them that I believe this is one of those seasons again,
where as good as any you know, regular season win
or series of regular season wins are, we got it

(28:29):
great on a tougher curve. This is the season that
there's only one way in which success will be measured
as being worthy of our attention, and that is again,
and this is a modest goal, getting at least getting
out of round one. Do you not agree?

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, Well, when's the last time I got round Round one?
Was that twenty fourteen?

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Basically ten years years.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yep, And it's been and they've made the playoffs for
in the last five years and you've got waxed in
the first round each time. I think that's very reasonable
to demand from this team. A lot of things are
demand from this team right now. You know, as long
as caprice off and they act, don't revisit their injuries
of a year ago. I mean, you got like the
chances of this team being better. The fact that you know,

(29:16):
they had half season of caprice off missed act for
like with thirty five games or twentieth in the power
play and thirtieth independently kill and they still finished for
ninety seven points and reached the postseason. You're kind of thinking,
what that was kind of a that was kind of
an interesting year for them. Despite everything that went down,

(29:37):
they still got the ninety seven points. So this is
a team that you know, in health is a big
thing in hockey. You know, these upper embody lower injury things,
these upper and lower body injuries, you know, can snatch
good players out on line at any at any time.
But the expectation for should before these for this team,

(29:57):
there'd be a one hundred point team at the least
possibly getting the third is central and get to the
spot where you can win a first round series, so
I think that should be the expectation. You know, they
added terror Saint Cole, They helped with scoring a little bit.
I think I think he gets surpassed what he did
last year with Detroit. It seems like he's a good situation.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
I worry.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
I think the opening night roster had eight players under
twenty four years old. You know, you got some guys,
you know, getting thrown to the wolves here, the Wien
them has got a lot of talent on. People think
he's gonna be really good, and there's a couple of
pundits who put him on the kel McCard trajectory, which
is scary to think of. But he's going to quarterback
to power play for christ like he's nineteen. You know,

(30:42):
they're asking a lot for a guy who looked a
little overwhelmed when they tried them in the playoffs last year.
And that's all experience he really has. He's got to
show how much he's grown up and has adapted to
the speed of the game early on. You know, David
Jerry Sek, you're off hunter height some of these other
guy you know, or they have to prove they can
hold their own and it's gonna be developing going on

(31:04):
while he's just team's trying to GetUp to a fast start,
which is not easy to do so, but I like
their chances of getting passed one hundred point barrier for
the reasons that laid out, But yeah, can they go
the other way? Definitely? Injuries are already a factor on
this team. They they brought a Nico Stern to help
with the penalty kill. He's very good in the face

(31:25):
off circle. And when you are when you on the
penalty kill, you're taking face offs in your own zone,
So to be able to win those face offs gets
you off to a good start on the penalty kill.
And now he's out with a back injury, which could
be several weeks, and that's troublesom zu Gerrell out provide
another four to six weeks with his injury, you know
they got to tread. They have to win without him,

(31:46):
So you don't want you don't want that bug to
return like I did a year ago and start pulling
guys out of the lineup. Then it's gonna make things tougher.
Every team's gonna go through the same things too, and
the best team to adapt are the ones that are
gonna win. But you know, I don't think fans want
to see caprif Off after cent of that massive contract
end up being banged up like.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
It was a year ago. Let's do this, Let's get
a quick pause in we we'll get caught up, and
we got a lot more time and a lot more
to get to. With Lavelle E. Neil the third, maybe
some college football conversation. Big week for his ALIGNEI, big
week for my Hoosiers, and homecoming week for the Golden Gophers.
We'll get into perhaps some pro football as well. His
bears are playing, the Packers are playing. There's some nice

(32:28):
matchups even as the Vikings. Wait, and we got that
brewing quarterback issue that cannot be denied involving the Minnesota
Vikings due to injury. That becomes part of the story
as well. We'll get to all that.

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Speaker 2 (32:58):
Part two with Lavell E Neil the Third, before we
go any further, let me correct myself. In the Dodgers
Phillies game, the bases were loaded, so there was a
force at home. If he makes a legitimate throw, it
was still a more dangerous play than going to first base.

(33:19):
I forgot about the runner that had been walked, I
think previously, because I think there was a a base
that wasn't even credit as a stolen base because of
defensive indifference. So a second and third and then a walk,
so the bases were loaded when that play indeed took place.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
I still think you should work to first.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yeah, no question, still should have gone to first without
any doubt because you got the base runner with a
really good jump at that point, Lavel, Which of our
favorite college football teams, in your case Illinois in my case,
Indiana have a better chance to spring the upset. You're

(34:00):
playing Ohio State. I believe Indiana is playing at Oregon.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
What do you think? Well, I don't know, he's at
home nothing that what meann't matter.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
But the one thing impressed me about Indiana was one
a quarterback play. Two I just thought they were more
athletic and have more speed than the Illinois did when
they thrashed them a few weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
So going to.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Oregon, Oregon's gonna have athletes, They're gonna have speed. I
don't know how much they can hang on them, but
it's gonna be intriguing. I'm a little nervous by my Illinois
team for a couple of reasons. One, the secondary has
been shaky. Their best I believe defensive back is out
and so that's an issue. But the bigger problem has
been the offensive line. They have problems all year run

(34:46):
blocking and protecting the quarterback. And that says a lot.
Considering Luke Altmeyer, I believe a second. I think he's
second in the in the conference and yards thrown. He's
got twelve touchdown passes and no interception. You know he's
having a great year. But you know, you got to
deal with that Ohio State defensive front, and I can

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imagine a secondary that could be one of the tougher
ones they've matched this year.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
I think the.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Teams are both teams are in an equal predicament. I
think the Illinois spreads like fifteen and a half something
like that. Haven't looked it up lately.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
It may have changed.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
What's the spread that gains Indiana Oregon.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Seven seven and a half. In that range, it was
ten and at least. I don't know what it's back
to today. Earlier in the week it had gone. I
think it had started at ten and was down to
seven and a half. What do we got now?

Speaker 7 (35:37):
DraftKings has it Oregon seven point favorites and Ohio State fourteen.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
And a half point favorites. Here's a stat for both.
For you, that's not encouraging, although I'm sure Signetty would
say bring it on. All time versus Associated Press Top
five teams in their history, the Indiana Hoosiers are one
and seventy two. They've dropped forty six in a row

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when they've played an Associated Press Top five team. That's
tied with Wake Forest for the longest top five losing
streak of all time. Not again, you could say none
of that has to do with now. They obviously are
a different program. They've already proven that. But I agree
with what Mace told me Indiana. I mean, look, you're

(36:28):
not supposed to believe in moral victories for Indiana. If
you play this game close and lose, I don't think
you're going to get ripped. I really don't even with
that record. If you go to go to Eugene and
lose by twenty one or get blown out, you know,
by that or more, and it just doesn't even look

(36:48):
like you belong in the same court, same field, then
I think Indiana'll hear the same old stuff that. Well,
here it is two years in a row. You know,
you went to Ohio State and weren't all that competitive.
You played Notre Dame in the playoffs, weren't that competitive either,
even though the score looked better in the end that
it really was. So I think I like Indiana's chances
to at least make it a ball game. I don't

(37:09):
know if I'm ready to pull the upset, but I
think that's the case. That Bucky's defense, Yeah, which level
is ridiculous. I mean, the high of State defense is
not giving up double digit points this season yet.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
No, damn damn.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
It's ridiculous. And it's gonna be a tall task for
Illinois with the offensive line that tries to sustain some offense.
They're hopefully being at home and being front at home
crowd will help. It's a big weekend there. They've got
a bunch of recruits coming in, so there's some little
bit on the line here. I'm a little nervous. If
you bring Vegas odds in to the whole equation, it

(37:44):
looks like Indiana will have a better chance of coming
through successfully in Oregon and Illinois at home against Ohio State.
So I mean, I don't know. If I was gonna
have fun with a with a parlay, I would take
both teams into points. He's going to keep it close,
but that that's predicated on Luke Outmeyer finding the end

(38:04):
zone against the UH A hardly stoppable, unstoppable defense.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
That's a great defense.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
It's gonna be entertained. It's gonna be interesting. I at
least Indiana's at the point now that you could have
these what if conversations. Yes, I agree, you know, yes,
they've come a long way in the last couple of
years mcneenny. And it's like, well, if things break their way,
it could be their day, you know.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
So get up in the.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Morning, check the weather for cast. Maybe it's some rain
and play that would help the matters a little bit.
Fuck it up a little bit and see what happened.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Yeah, I think the UH. I don't know what time
your game is the IU Games two thirty. I believe
Gophers are night obviously homecoming against Produce Illino o'clock Big
Moon tomorrow, there's your triple header. Yeap, that's my that's
my college football triple header tomorrow day tomorrow. Then that's perfect.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
Yeah, I got wild tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
So I'm.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
And the Gopher bounced.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
Back against the hapless Purdue boiling Yeah, I'm trying to say,
or don't.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
That's not very nice. If okay, if lovel is the
head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, who is he starting
at quarterback a week from this Sunday against the Philadelphia
Eagles High Noon, People Stadium, Downtown Minneapolis.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Now, I was at Monday's press conference with KOC and
my eyebrows raised as he he kind of had kind
of had this sexposition of where JJ McCarthy was and
where Carson Wentz was. First of all, he talked about
how banged ub Carson Wentz was after the game and
his non throwing shoulder was pretty sore and it was

(39:40):
gonna be something they're gonna have to monitor.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
During the week here. So I'm curious to see.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
On Monday, when I believe Monday's media access, when they
get updates on how Wentz is doing because in the
opposite end, they were talking about how much work that
JJ was gonna put in during the week and how
much they're gonna drove down on Monday. Since you know
they've got the bye week, they can really you know,
drill down on things on Monday and get them get

(40:05):
their week off to a great start here. So, I mean,
the way he was talking up, you know, JJ rapping
up some things, I got the sense they were getting
ready for him to possibly start against the Philadelphia Eagles.
So based on that information, uh, I would I would
put mine. I wouldn't put a big wager. I put
a little wager down on JJ being behind center on Sunday,

(40:27):
and I didn't I didn't think that about a week ago.
I thought they would wait maybe a couple more weeks
to make sure that ankle was healthy right, and because
of the offensive line as well, But they didn't have
no choice. If if Wentz's got lingering issues with the
shoulder going into this week, they may have.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
To put the kid out there.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Well they do for the second time. They can hide
behind the injury a little bit like they did with JJ.
I I don't think they made up the injury. Obviously
McCarthy was hurt, but I don't think they minded sitting
him because of the way he had started through what
seven of his first eight quarters. And they could turn
it the other way now to their advantage and say,
we love what Carson did, but he's banged up. McCarthy's

(41:09):
now the healthier player. He's gonna be the healthier player,
is gonna be full in practice next week. That that
that could end up going that way. I think Wentz
deserves to start, but you know, and I'm still not
convinced that McCarthy is ready right now to be the guy.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Now.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
The Eagles have looked very vulnerable the last two weeks.
But does that mean the Vikings are going to get
the vulnerable Eagles or an angry Eagles club that's embarrassed
by all the savagery they're gonna have to deal with
even as a defending Super Bowl champions.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
Yeah, they're coming down the fil for pretty hard for
the lack of the imagination to their offense. Uh, the
Kwan's inability to run the plus Swan's got like an
issue apparently that he was cleared to play, But I
wonder I came into play yesterday against the New York Giants,
you know, because that cost me in my PICKINGM league

(42:02):
because I took Philadelphia to win and cover Blu for me.
But the offer just looked a little sluggish here. Can
they get that on track against the Vikings or does
the Vikers have something up their sleeves here? Apparently Blake
Cash is going to be at practice this week. I
think the may big, big blue surge defense if it's
on the field to help against the run. So this baby,

(42:26):
you know, in the NFL, man, it's not about who
you played with when you catch them, And right now
the Vikers are catching the Eagles when they're not at
full throttle, and then may be a situation they can exploit.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
On Sunday, you want to weigh in on the drummers
versus flats controversy we were examining and exploring earlier.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
Well, yeah, because as I texted during one of the breaks,
I was like, there are moments where flats are the
better choice than the drums. True, our family has a
recipe in which we mayrin wings overnight in a mixture
of soy sauce and pineapple juice, And it doesn't matter
if it's two parts of this and one part of that,
or even equal parts. You just mix it to whatever

(43:10):
your taste buds desire, and then you put it in
a pan, put fall over it, throw it in the
other I believe, for an hour, and then take off
the foil, and then and then let it go for
another forty five minutes, so it gets so the sides
get brown, and when you put by that time it
is so moist and succulent, and it's got so much

(43:32):
flavor that you could take that flat, put it in
your mouth and just pull the two bones out, and
then meat just falls off the bone, and that's when
the flat kicks the drummer's ass. Dan Winnisoda knows about this.
I either brought over a batch to this out the
time he went and smoked cigars, or I told him
about the recipe. I said it to him, and then
he fired that one through an algorithm and upgraded my

(43:54):
recipe to add some other funky stuff to it. I
can't remember exactly what he did, but it's a great
recipe and it yields. The type of the yields the
situation in which.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Flats over drummies well articulated, very well, I can't argue
with anything else that was like that was poetic for
being unrehearsed.

Speaker 7 (44:15):
You've never spoken so eloquently on bumper to bumper, uninterrupted,
no phone issues.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
That was unbelievable. That was concise, clear.

Speaker 7 (44:22):
Thirty years of joining the fan and you just found
your colorful, your peak expressive. By the way, a Texter
makes a good point, will you please ask Leavell again,
which quarterback would he start if he was making the decision,
Not who he expects to start, who he thinks the
Vikings are going to start, but who coached Lavelle e

(44:43):
Neil would start against the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
I want Jaj McCarthy out there whenever he's ready to
go out there. I think that you've got to get
through this period of adjustment and this the learning curve,
and he can't do it on the sideline or watch
someone else do it, get out there and get him
of it at all.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
I know.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Uh, it's also about winning with this team. Who gives
them the best chance of winning. But JJ is the future,
and I think you're better off a year from now
given JJ as much experience possible now as you can.
So I would put number nine out there and I went,
and I'm biased because I watched him play a lot
in college. I just like I like who he is,

(45:24):
I like how he carries himself. Uh, you know, talking
to the Vikings in Chicago after that game, you know,
I understand how they feel about him in that locker
in that clubhouse. Guy, I keep getting locker room the
clubhouse mixed up in that club and I just feel
like he's got a lot of qualities that there you're
gonna want in the leader lining up behind under center.

(45:44):
So if JJ's ready or a healthy apt to choose
to Ben two, I'm taking JJ over guy who's with
a six team in six years. I needn't have a
job until until uh what light in camp?

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Uh? I was about to ask what the Sunday calm?
It can't be the wild though with the your isn't
your Saturday night deadline for Sunday like one o'clock in
the afternoon.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
That's actually question. Dan, We'll see you're on top of
your game. I'm actually wrote a calm for Sunday on
Bill Garrett, and then my coverage of the Saturday game
will probably be a Monday's Pace.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Okay, there you go, just a day behind. That makes sense,
all right, have fun at the X, and we appreciate you,
and uh, yeah, you're right. I keep calling it that
Grand Casino. What's the shorthand name? Already? I thought somebody
came up, I just called the Grand? Was it the Grand?
I don't I thought it was that or something? Who knows.

(46:41):
We'll talk next week. Thanks love, all right, take care, guys,
lavell eat Neil the Third. As Nate writes, the wing
monologue was perfection from Lavelle Chef's Kiss. Meanwhile, Larry Mondela
Guy's back by lucky day, I just happened to have
a leavel using the word succulent on my novel bingo card.

(47:47):
All right, we are, indeed back. A lot of interesting
ideas coming in regarding uh, maybe a shorter shorthand version
of a grand casino arena. Some of them could be read,
some of them can't, or some of them won't. I
guess the better way to put I it's you probably could,
but I don't think it's probably worth the trouble at
this point. But if you have suggestions, I thought i'd

(48:10):
heard one on the station already that was pretty good,
but I don't quite remember all of that. Six four
six eighty six is the Bradshaw and Bryant k f
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bring I left my bag by my desk. We'll save it.

Speaker 6 (48:31):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
It was kind of a juicy a section controversy that's
broken out. Well, I I can I think I remember
the I can remember the short version. There's a big
time comedian Mark is it pronounced Maren or Maron? A man?
Is arni podcaster? Have you heard about his meltdown? He

(48:53):
is apparently there is, like everything else, a very loop
creative I guess you'd say laugh off comedy festival that
is scheduled to take place in Saudi Arabia. Oh and
a lot of big name comedians from the United States

(49:15):
of America have agreed to participate. They're taking the money.
They're taking the money. Marin is bitter about them taking
the money. He thinks that's a bridge too far. And
the kicker, I hope I have this right. The kicker
that I read was that one of the comedians who

(49:37):
may not be as big a name, but who is participating.
His father was a firefighter who was killed on nine
to eleven, and the ethical questions more generally about these
big shot comedians doing what they're doing has been raised

(49:59):
and I get you know, we've heard this via this
is the live golf all over again?

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Is it not?

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Yes, only a different version of it. And look we
everybody I think knows that.

Speaker 4 (50:09):
Well.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Gerald Positor, one of our regular guests, had a great
book on the Saudi connection to nine to eleven, which
he believes is quite extensive and might be a part
of the story that has been relatively speaking, still covered up.
The comeback to that is, in fact, some people have
written about how the guy in charge now is actually

(50:31):
liberalizing things compared to before. And then somebody else came
back and said, well, wait a minute. You mean the
same guy who signed off on and authorized the slicing
up of the what was the name of the journals,
Kashogi Jamal? So how far can you really say liberalization
is really going on there? So money talks and these

(50:54):
are these are huge paydays. I think they're all million
dollars each? Are they not even more? Depending on the comedian? Probably?
And that has been raised. Now is liv golf still
going on? It is? Ok? Yeah? And how have we
resolved that we have? And is there still the debate

(51:15):
like that, That go ahead. You can take the money,
but I'm not going to respect you very much for
doing so well.

Speaker 7 (51:20):
I think golf they kind of came back together a
little bit, like the tour started to work together a
little bit more and there's not the same kind of
animosity that there once was. So it worked out well
for those that took ultimately because they never got because
that was one of the talk, well we're going to bring.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
It back together. There's got to be some punishment on
this end, and it never took place, really did it.
Other then you have to deal with the public relations hit. Yeah,
which is what it is.

Speaker 7 (51:48):
And now those guys, you know, they play their tour,
they come back and play the majors, they can play
the Ryder Cup. Still, you know that was one thing.
Do we let them play the Ryder Cups? We now
let them play the Ryder Cup. That still do all
of that part.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Of the discussion.

Speaker 7 (51:58):
And you know, then the PGA, the PGA, I think though,
ended up taking some type of money from somebody to
help beef up their pursus as well.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
So well, and again you know, a couple of people
pointed out, look, we the government does business with some
you know, they exist, they're they're they're there. They they
we still need, you know, uh have a relationship with them.
So how do you where do you draw the line
on how far you go? I I mean, I guess
I could see a comedian saying, no, I I I'm

(52:29):
not interested in and even if it's a lot of money,
I'm turning down. Shane Gillis, did that? Is that true?
You just he said, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go. Well,
you look up the name. I think it's Pete Davidson.
Is that the one whose father was the firefighter? I believe?
But he is performing there, Yeah, exactly, I think that's

(52:51):
the one. So you know again, I it's it's I
passed it along just as interesting fodder as much as anything.
He's a New York City firefighter. Sure, I'm I'd like
to think when it was that personal, it would be
a pretty big bridge for me to cross over. You know,

(53:15):
maybe he's explained it, Maybe he has his own feeling
that Saudi Arabia is not as implicated as other people
think or or suspect. But that one struck me the
the ultimately people make their own decisions a million times
about because there's there's there's five thousand trade offs right

(53:35):
every day when it comes to that's dirty money or
who do you want? Do you want to do business
with them? And who you are? All that sort of thing.
But this one is getting I think a lot of
attention because I think the event is coming up right
fairly soon.

Speaker 7 (53:47):
Yeah, I don't have the date. Yeah, yeah, it's and
there's a lot of big names Chappelle, Bill Burr, Yeah,
a lot of huge yeahs. Absolutely, well, they got I
mean they print money. It's true, they can.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
They can. They can cut a check for whatever. It
doesn't matter. It's chump change right in the Kingdom pretty much.
It's crazy. A lot of old, lot of old, a
lot of old, and they're pumping it out right now.
By the way, they're not depriving the world of Yeah,
the oil supply is through the roof from there as
I recall it. All right, let's wrap up the program,

(54:19):
will remind you give you some highlights from several of
our standing guests today, and we'll also get back to
the Wings Slash Wings and drummis conversation and controversy that
broke out earlier as well, and then prepare you for
a very busy weekend, including a two hour Oh my
God edition of the Sunday Sermons program.

Speaker 7 (54:43):
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Speaker 2 (54:48):
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Speaker 1 (54:50):
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Speaker 2 (54:51):
What a night on Fox nine, unbelievable. We are as
usual now that we've hit football season. Our program called
Enough Said, is on at unusual times. But you can
always DVR right, you can always hit the uh uh
Fox Local app. You got It's a million ways to
do it. Fox nine were on at eleven o five

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after a cop I don't know what game we're after.

Speaker 7 (55:14):
I think we're after baseball in the news tonight. Oh
it's baseball. I'm pretty sure it's baseball tonight.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Okay. And then we're at on at eight thirty after
go for hockey on Fox Stein on Fox nine plus. Yeah,
we we just got a goal disallowed. It was a
slashed for the goal okay, was actually completed. So and
didn't we lose to somebody mediocre? Last week we split
a series with Michigan Michigan Tech. What's going on?

Speaker 3 (55:40):
Well?

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Check big? We're very young with of course we are
with very young. We lost our top five scorers from
last next week tonight on the Fan Fan of Demand,
followed by Dan Patrick as as well we want to think,
as I mentioned Guestling Lavelle. A lot of good Wing
contributors today as well, and of course Gerby on the

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big new announcement about a bed and breakfast and lunch hotel.
We almost missed the lunch. Yeah, that was the most
really part of the deal. That's very unusual. But he
thinks it's He says they're already sold out for the
upcoming week people, and almost sold out for the week after,
and he promises that the sheets will be changed between

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you know visits. Bed and breakfast have never appealed to me.

Speaker 7 (56:25):
No, I'm staying at a colle People love them, I understand,
but I don't.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Something doesn't seem right about it. I don't disagree with
you on that. It doesn't doesn't really do all that
much to me. Feels like everyone's too close. Hey, real quick,
this is today, we are told. At Columbia's Medical Center,

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protesters staged a die in for Palestine. They held signs
asking Colombia to call for a cease fire twelve hours
after the ceasefire had already begun.

Speaker 7 (57:06):
We go to school with morons. Well maybe they just
said in check Twitter, they have got to you. They
were focused on the people.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
At the top of the list, like wouldn't you Of
all people, they're the ones that he's supposed to be
the most likely to know.

Speaker 7 (57:22):
They were focused on the protests. They didn't want to
be distracted by the morning news. You know, a lot
of eyes to cross and tease to dot, as they say,
into business. But you know, got a framework.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
You sent to me a SoundBite from the president saying
that the woman who won the post, not the polster
the Nobel Prize called him and said, mister President, this
should have gone to you. You got jobbed. Basically, make
is there like a transcript of the record? Is there?
Is it a recorded call? As far as I know,
it was just a president's version, and as selfless as

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he is, he said, I did not ask her for
the award after she said that, correct, very nice woman,
So we said nice one. Very nice for her to
do that. It's as good as it gets. Thank you
for watching, Thank you for listening today. Enjoy this outstanding weather.
Big college football Day in the Big Ten tomorrow, which
we will review on a two hour edition of Sunday
Sermons as well. That'll be nine to eleven, our first

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two hour tour in quite some time. I think it's
going to be first show in a while. That's true
to you're right for the first time. You're back as well. Yeah,
celebrating a big homecoming victory over Tiller's Perdue boiler Makers.
Why not? If not now when we'll talk to you.
As I said guards, you'll talk to you at eight
a m. Sunday and we will be with you at nine.

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We're gonna win the Big Ten Championship. We're going to
take the Gopher Nation to Pasadena.