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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh play Leader fan Fan Radio Network and k f
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o'clock Central daylight time. Welcome back. It is the Friday
Football Beast edition of the Bumper to Bumper Program on

(00:22):
a July like Friday afternoon here in the Twin Cities
that we affectionately referred to as Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
My name is Dan Barrero. I host the program. Guardsy
is jetting towards Columbus, Ohio, where the Golden Gophers tomorrow
night have a date with Destiny. Remember where you heard

(00:45):
it first, A date with Destiny. Meanwhile, Brett Blake Moore
is in that chair. Were you in charge of were
you governing program Password as well? I was, Cole. Well,
that's a hard that's not an easy job, one of
those jobs. It looks. Tenna makes it look easy, sort
of like Johnny Carson back in the day. Carson made

(01:08):
talk show hosting look simple. I'd say it's the same
for Tenna when it comes to program Password.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
The the technical trying to make.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
If you can't tell, I'm trying to make myself, trying
to get myself into the PST. Comparing Tenna with Johnny Carson.
I hope that is duly noted by somebody and it
gets to Tenna's nomination list. Anyway, you were saying.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
It taking preposterone, Yes, yes, no, the technical side was fine.
My word choices all are just terrible, just bad. So
it might be my last time.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
It could be it. Oh no, not that you're thinking
anything but that, Yeah, that'd be. What a devastating moment
for you. We are delighted that you are with us
this afternoon. We expect Gerby at the bottom of the hour.
We expect Ben gestling back from across the pond. He
did not stay for the second of the two You're

(02:00):
PN games for the Vikings, so he will be with
us by phone at four thirty and we expect level
and about five thirty he promises us he's going to
name the twins next manager, So we very much look
forward to that, probably at about five thirty. Branshaw on
Brian Cafe and text line is open at six four
six eight six. There's a lot to get to regarding

(02:23):
your favorite football team, the Minnesota Vikings, But I do
honestly think we've reached the point. This agonizing week, filled
with fear and loathing where you can look. We all
know the reality. Right team disappointed a week ago, didn't

(02:48):
show up until it was too late. Another series of
undisciplined penalties. I think we're second. I think we've committed
the second most penalties of any team in the National
Football League. We know about the fact that you're still
using a backup quarterback in Carson Wentz. We know also
that your offensive line has been shredded shredded again. You've

(03:13):
got a guard, a backup guard who's going to start
at center for the first time in his life. You've
got an undrafted rookie who will start at guard, and
you have the redoubtable justin school starting schedule to start
I believe at right tackle for our regular starter. And

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we also know that the Cleveland Browns are one of
the most stout defenses in football. We know what they
have at the you could say, at the line of
scrimmage in terms of putting heavy heat on that offensive
line Miles Garrett. Of course at the top of that list.

(03:57):
It can go on and on and on, but at
some point don't you say to yourself, go win the game.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
You have to.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Whether you're hamstrung, whether you've got some bad luck going
for you in terms of injuries. Whatever you win or
you lose, and you're still not playing like one of
the top five teams in professional football. For god's sake,
the Cleveland Browns offense has been so feeble that they're
taking a shot this early in the season on a

(04:27):
rookie quarterback. Now, maybe he'll end up being the answer.
Maybe he will end up being the quarterback in Cleveland
for the next ten years. I don't know, but it's
almost like it's being set up already as well. If
the Vikings lose, can't really blame him. I mean, it's
really you can't get two down on them. I mean,
the offensive line, like we said that we thought we

(04:48):
had going into the season doesn't even exist, and we
don't have the quarterback that we want out there, and
we got a couple of significant defensive issues in terms
of our or in terms of injury, right Cashman and
Van Ginkel still out, But win the regardless of all

(05:12):
those issues. That would be my message if I were Koc,
I'd say, well, somebody's got to step up. Then somebody's
got to make a play that they're not supposed to
make or pass protect better than they're supposed to pass
protect or make a circus catch or get a pick
six or whatever it is. Go win the game. It's

(05:34):
not as if there will be an asterisk if you lose,
and it's well, yeah, it's a loss, but it doesn't
really count as a loss because we've got the football guys.
For whatever reason, kind of against us doesn't matter. Every
year there are teams that get hit by injury more
than others. And I'll again say, you're not playing a

(05:59):
Super Bowl pet agree team, even if their defense has
been very good. So go win the game. Just make
enough plays. This is a week. Here's what the Vikings
have going for them. Nobody expects it to be pretty nobody.
I mean, everybody's betting the under on the over under,

(06:19):
which is I guess, the lowest over under in National
Football League history. I'm exaggerating that, so don't text me.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
I know.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
I'm just trying to make a point. So if you
come out of this game winning it thirteen to nine,
nobody's gonna hammer you. You're gonna say, gotta win, that's
all it matters. You don't have to be pretty, you
don't have. All you have to be is slightly better
than the Cleveland Bleeping Browns, and we're, like I said,

(06:47):
but people are acting like, oh, oh my god, what
a what a confluence of circumstance here. What are we
gonna do? You're gonna go win or you're not that good?
You lose again, to go to two and three in
the softest part of your season. You're not as good
as you thought. You weren't preparing for the buy. And

(07:09):
then a meat grinder of a schedule, which we've talked
about early and often on this program, so you can
fear it and you can lament it. And there's no
question that this offensive line has frightened people, lots of

(07:33):
Vikings fans included, especially this version of it, which we
haven't even seen before. This is another level of inexperienced
lack of I guess you could say achievement at the
professional level, but either do to you don't. And usually
what it ends up taking is, like you said, the

(07:55):
number of players play more professionally than they did the
week before out of an endless array of bad penalties.
You keep those to a minimum. Last week, the Vikings
didn't do that. You play at least a more disciplined game. Right,

(08:17):
you get maybe one of the best wide receiver combinations
in football. And I get it if the quarterbacks on
as doff, doesn't matter how open JJ might be, or
the dog lover might be Jordan Addison or the tight
end Hockinson, et cetera. But I I'm just I've reached

(08:40):
reached the point and I've kind of, I think, fallen
into the trap. Do you like, are you look at
that line, Look what they're doing. All that, while being
true to a certain extent, can't be enough. It's other
people have to indeed play well enough to beat the
Cleveland Browns. Well, I think are averaging what the numbers

(09:02):
I saw, They're sixth worst in total offense in football,
they're second worst in scoring offense. They're averaging fourteen points
a game. Now again, they've benched the QB who's been
their starter through those games. But you're going to be
frightened by a third round draft pick, a rookie, even

(09:27):
if he is like eight years older than JJ McCarthy,
because he played college football and a bunch of different
places and started a bunch two Come on, in all seriousness,
I think what you have to you look in the
mirror and you go, well, if there's nothing worth agonizing over,
if we're not good enough to beat the Cleveland Browns,
still to find a way to beat the Cleveland Browns,

(09:49):
then in a sense it almost takes the tension out
of the room and you go, well, it's if that's
where we are, then that's where we are. Let's go
win the game. Got to go win the ballgame, I
think is the better way to look at Now there
is an added bit of drama and juice that we

(10:10):
need to discuss when we come back out of a
dateline London. I don't know how much conversation there's been
about it yet today, but it it I think validates
our program from two days ago. What we started the
show with related to the head coach, Kevin O'Connell I
suggested that maybe this is the week he gets zimmerized,

(10:34):
or is this the zimmerization of KOC. We started that
on the basis of a couple comments he made to Pa.
Now we may have even more evidence that this indeed
is zimmerization week for the usually cool, calm and collected KOC.
And what does that tell you about perhaps his own

(10:56):
level of concern regarding the state of your favorite foot
ball team. We'll get to that. No bonus bucks today, No,
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Speaker 1 (11:40):
Nine one guy, what's nine four to one area code?
Brett Blake Moore?

Speaker 3 (11:44):
Do you know?

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Does that sound ring a beltie question? Nine for one.
I always like the intriguing ones.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
It is West central Florida, So Tampa, okay, all right,
fair enough, Dan, Remember these Browns meet the Packers and
we are completely depleted with injuries.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
It's not going to be that easy. You're kind of
missing my point. Nine to four one guy. I didn't
suggest it was going to be easy what I suggested
was you got to still go do it. I mean,
and if you can't do it at a point where
you really need a victory far more by the way
than the Packers needed that victory, then you're not that good.

(12:21):
That's all. It's let's remember something. The second game of
the season. Part of the reason the Vikings have put
themselves in this behind this eight ball, if that's not
too daated a term to use, is they messed around
with their home opener against Atlanta. They were not even

(12:42):
competitive ultimately in that game. We've been through this before,
so again, ultimately, I'm not here to say it's going
to be easy at all, but I'm here to say
you either do it or you don't, and sometimes you
have to. And the Vikings need this game a lot
more than the past Ackers, who I think at that
point where two and oh needed to beat Cleveland on

(13:03):
the road. This is technically a road game, but it's
not a road game. We all understand that. So it's
not a matter of whether it's easy. It's a matter
of if you just you have to find a way to
get the damn thing done right, because I dare say
Packers fans aren't going to tell you that they came
out of that game thing. And the Cleveland Browns are great.

(13:24):
They have a formidable defense, There's no question about that.
They have no offense. I mean you gifted them seven
right on the on the block, so you know you
either do it or you or you don't. Is the
point I'm trying to make. When we played the Bears
the first week, they head like seven starters out on defense.

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Do you think anybody cares.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
It?

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Just it's that's the way this game works. You So
you either do it or you don't. And I'll still say,
based on what we know about Cleveland's offense, it shouldn't
be like, my god, this is going to be one
of the greatest victories if the Vikings can what a
fiber victory, if they can find a way to beat
the Cleveland Browns with the injuries. I mean, Cleveland's hamstrong

(14:14):
in a large measure because their offense is terrible, whether
they're healthy or not or has been. I don't have
a lot of faith in the Purple right now on
the basis of what we saw last week for the
butt Vikings defense. Either I will grant that point, but
all I'm saying is we can go down, set up
every excuse you'd like. It's not going to pay dividends

(14:35):
for this club. It's not going to do them any good.
You just you find ways to get the damn thing done.
That's what good teams are supposed to do, even when
they are hamstrong. Now there is I think added evidence
that the head coach is nervous and maybe a little concerned.
I think he gets the danger the Vikings are in

(14:57):
if they don't win. We laid it out several weeks ago.
Your first five games, you had a relatively soft schedule.
You had the opportunity, if you're a good team to
go four and one, if you're a great team, to
go five and zero, give yourself some cushion for when
you get to that tough middle section after the bye,

(15:18):
starting with the Philadelphia Eagles. Well, if the Vikings lose
Sunday morning, there'll be two and three after that five
game stretch. That's not as good as five and oh
or four and one. It's not even as good as
three and two. And I mentioned we started the show
a couple of days ago with part of Koc's conversation

(15:40):
with the Project Vikings ex'es and O's with the head coach,
where he was unusually frontal about his impatience with his
team's propensity to commit sloppy, important turn penalties, I should say,

(16:04):
and even with the Jackals, I think there was a
quote some of the effect of how do these things happen?
He sounded more like Mike Zimmer than I ever heard
him sound, even if he can never quite sound like
Mike Zimmer, because nobody sounds like Mike Zimmer. But it
was in that direction. It was more frontal, it was
more confrontational, is more direct, and it seemed to suggest

(16:24):
a great deal of impatience and perhaps concerned that he
gets that the Vikings can't keep fooling around or they're
going to find themselves in a place from which maybe
they cannot recover. Now we come to find out via
sources across the pond that he's in maybe his first
significant media war with members of the Jackal press. He

(16:52):
apparently was very unhappy. Jim Suan had a column I
don't know when it landed. I read it this morning
Viastarturbune dot com that had the head coach seeing read
and the column was laying out the McCarthy scenario and
acknowledging the I guess you could say conspiracy theory that

(17:16):
we've talked about that some Vikings fans have shared and
apparently believe in that JJ was never really hurt or
not hurt enough to be benched. This is what's called
a soft benching, to take the pressure off and to
get him to sit a while because of how badly
he played in the second of the two games. And

(17:42):
so as he wrote it is what I remember reading
from it is he didn't really endorse the theory. He
actually thought the theory didn't make a lot of sense.
I've said, I don't think it makes much sense at all. However,
I've added, it's possible that they don't mind that he's
too injured to play on the basis of how overwhelmed

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he looked other than that fourth quarter against the Bears.
Apparently Kaoc did not take kindly to it. The implications
of that particular issue, and even some comments about perhaps
belittling Kose's propensity to get into the word salad conversation

(18:22):
a lah Derek Falvey. So my sources indicate that the
locker room was closed to the media today, something the
Vikings don't usually do, and that allah Mike Zimmer, he's
cranky right now. He is unhappy with the Jackals. I'm
sure he thinks he bends over backwards to be available,

(18:48):
cooperative with the Jackals, and that's true. He is incredibly accessible,
and you know, I kidd him sometimes about the word
salad stuff because sometimes it is difficult to follow him.
But there are other times where I think he's, you know,
got interesting things to say, insightful, et cetera. Whatever you
want to look at it. But I'm wondering if the

(19:08):
timing of this is not a coincidence. I'm wondering how
much of this is he's feeling a little bit. He's
feeling that, you know, they're on the verge of letting
the season get away from them. If they lose this
game again, they're going to have then some time to breathe,
maybe to you know, put the whole thing back together,
get healthier, and prepare for the Philadelphia Eagles that game.

(19:32):
You know, we're all assuming that's an l That also
shouldn't be the case. We see how much things change
in the league year to year. It's a challenging fall.
They've already the Eagles have already proven that. But I
think the game is here. I'm pretty sure the Eagles
game is here, if you'll double check Brett blakemore. But
it sounds as if there's some tension surrounding your favorite
football team. Maybe they're just tired of being in Europe

(19:53):
as much as they and see, I don't really have
much sympathy for that too, because they all told us
how smart they were, how well and long they'd researched everything,
prepared everything, and it was almost like other teams don't
want to do this. We're volunteering to do it because
we know what we're doing. We figured this whole thing out.
We're raising our hands, so I don't want to hear now, well,
maybe they're getting worn down, or maybe they ended up

(20:15):
being the trip being a little bit too long, when
all long it was no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
We've been working on our plan for two weeks in
Europe or two games in a row in Europe, for years.
We got it all figured out. We've talked to all
the experts, every moment accounted for, every situation handled. So
pay attention to all of this as we get closer

(20:38):
to game time, which will be of course Sunday morning
at eight thirty pregame show. By the way, we'll start
at six thirty, six thirty right here on the on
the fan. Let me get you one more before we
get the picks. One more quick text that's come in.

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Unproven rookie quarterback and an unpredictable O line. Oh, let
me back up a little bit. There's more to it.
I just have to scroll down. I know you guys, repeatedly,
you're saying the Vikings are a team built to win. Now, No,
what I've said is they have made moves as if
they believe they are a team that wants to make

(21:23):
a move. Now, that's I think what we've said. To
correct the record, I'd love for that to be the case.
Based on what fourteen to three last year, four games in,
they look much more like a nine win team than
a twelve unproven rookie QB an unpredictable O line. What
am I missing? Well, not a lot, except that if
you really break down the breakdowns in the Vikings losses

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so far, they go beyond just an unpredictable offensive line.
They go to stupid penalties, undisciplined penalties, and quite frankly,
not nearly enough production defensively, not nearly enough production defensively,
especially against the run against Atlanta and last week against Pittsburgh.

(22:07):
So I think it's just too easy to say, well,
how you can't really, you know, blame on me. Look
how how I guess you could say vulnerable? They are
in a couple spots, but even spots where they weren't
supposed to be vulnerable, they're not playing as good as
as well as they were supposed to play. So I
think that's part of the discussion as well. Let's come
back and how about this? How about this predictions A giddy?

(22:33):
I'm guessing, well, it can't be that giddy because well
he got a tie, which I guess is better than
a loss. Right, your team tied Vikings loss. We'll see
what Carol Gerberschmid has to say. Nowt could go.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
He will store this time.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
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(23:13):
The Friday Football Feast originated from? Today? What fancy. I
don't think I was one. Oh they didn't do it.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
No, it kind of pas in London. Yeah, so I
think they come on. I know there's the feast. Should
never get a week off, should it? I don't think so.
You have to ask, you know how management allowed that.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
You know, Carl Gersher, you're a big Friday Football Feast fan,
aren't you.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah, they do that on the Milwaukee sports station. They
do the game, they do the Friday Football Feast.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
No, that's we do that here now they do that
well nine to noon. I think the Paul Allen Project
invented it, though I doubt it. Yeah, you're a big
PA guy. We know that. You guys go away.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
But he's a bozo. I mean he is.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 4 (24:07):
Did you hear?

Speaker 3 (24:09):
I mean I'm trying to remember when it was. Uh
he was mocking and ridiculing. Uh, like the fans he's been.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
I remember.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
They were he was mocking a package he was, and
I was like, why don't you just concentrate your games? Flappy?

Speaker 4 (24:30):
That's it? Yeah, No, I can see.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
Maybe why they decided not to have one. I mean,
the real teams not playing this week?

Speaker 1 (24:38):
What are you talking about what yeh buy? I think
the Bears do too. Why do you guys have buyers
the same week?

Speaker 3 (24:48):
I think trying to copy us?

Speaker 1 (24:51):
It must be God.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
I just want to say I have not taken.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
This week by seriously, I really haven't spent that much.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Time on Oh you're setting it up, I tell you.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
I gotta tell you because Tato Fifth's album came out
last night.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
And spent a lot of time with that, and it's
very good. It's it's you know.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
I sometimes have difficulty with it because she tends to
root for the wrong football team, but you know, it's
a I think the kids call it a banger.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Well, this has been described to me as a little
more uplifting and a little poppier, but in a good way,
not as a rip. Is that? Would you agree with
that representation?

Speaker 4 (25:34):
Again?

Speaker 3 (25:34):
I think the last one she got a little movie
and I thought, you know, a little dark. I mean,
what what do you have to be misserable? You have
all the money in the world. I mean, everyone.

Speaker 4 (25:47):
Seems to love you. Why why are you said damn
this because it's you think that? I think she's in
love now, Dan, do.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
You think it is?

Speaker 4 (25:56):
I think it is there's a song on it, and
oh my goodness.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
It's just like, is it dedicated person? Is it dedicated
to Kelsey's eldest daughter?

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Really?

Speaker 4 (26:06):
I have an eldest daughter. I I only have one town.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
I remember that. It's a very good I recalled very
good football player.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
She's an excellent athlete. She's doing she's playing like like
a last sports now, uh, like just adult sports.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Didn't she play in the mathl for two years?

Speaker 4 (26:25):
Who?

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Uh the no? What was the name? What's the name
of the women's league that we've got a team and
we usually do very very well. Didn't she play for them?
I thought she did for a year or two.

Speaker 4 (26:35):
It's probably.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
She's got a very important job right now. And I'm
not allowed to say what branch of the government it's with.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
With the government, you say, is it with the federal government?
The state government?

Speaker 4 (26:49):
I'm not allowed to say it's a federal government.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Allowed to what she's doing?

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Is she working for the FBI?

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Damn? What did I just say? I've said it twice.
You just don't listen to anybody. I know your tobe
Isy usually asking questions during this time, but you got
to start learning to listen to what people say. Hey, Steve,
by the way, Yeah, everybody, this weekend is a great weekend.
Come up to the Wisconsin Interactive Ice Bowl exhibits. We

(27:24):
decided to what's always been there, Danas, we've decided to
put some money into it and we've got yeah, fresh
it up a little bit, provide more interactive because we
were saying interactive before and I wasn't as interactive as
it could be.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
But now we've gotten some actual.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Voices of real players to you know, to show. And
the Wax Museum is back, but we're not using wax
because that Melton. So we we got our own little
hall of fame. It's not the Green Bay Packerhall Fame
because the apparently the isma and we get soon. But
you know, there's some players that are there and we
actually have some of their voices. You can push a

(28:04):
button here a special message.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (28:07):
It's very exciting.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yeah, And if you're wondering, hey, you know, that's kind
of a long way to drive just to go see
the interactive I supposed it.

Speaker 4 (28:16):
I'm here to tell.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
You that, Oh Claire area is just it's a it's
just a happening thing. I mean, there's an awesome display
of America's monsters, superheroes and villains.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
That's uh, yeah, that's it's like our culture at play.
That's going on. Oh, Claire, there's like hot houses and stuff.
What else that I want to talk about because they
lost stuff want speaking of tear swift and cycling and
shake it off in the yoga rooms. That's very exciting.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
I'm not sure this is going to move the needle
for you so far, but go ahead, go.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yoga yoga place. Yoga player here is really kind of
figured it out because they not only have yogats, they
got al paca.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Oh yeah, that's big.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
At least one al paca.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
What about goat?

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Call multiple L packers L packers.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
I'm pretty sure it's with an ask L packers.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, that's going on too, that the.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Green Bay packers. You're talking about.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
That packers.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Oh I'm sorry packers. Yeah, of course you should have
known that. Sorry.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
Yeah, what tons of things. It's homecoming at u W
e C.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
What's a friendlier animal, the alpaca or the goat?

Speaker 4 (29:37):
Well, I would think the goat.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
The goats are friendlier.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Generally, I think I think the only first of all
start a lot more goats. They only picked out the
friendly one. Yeah, if you have a kind of an
unfriendly goat, you don't get to do to yoga. Okay,
I gotcha, And I think most of them are trained.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
Again, why am I doing that?

Speaker 3 (29:57):
I'm trying to make everybody's weekend a little better. You
they're trying to make everybody have a better weekend than
you had last weekend.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
When table was supposed to me.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Your team didn't exactly dominate.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
We tied. I want to think, here we.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Go, it's always Goodell's fault.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
Should have known, No, it was, but this case I was.

Speaker 3 (30:23):
Did you watch that came down?

Speaker 1 (30:25):
I did?

Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah, this right now? Dallas cowboys who are still holding Micropark.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
They just never let go.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
This is come on, I am.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
So let's go to an independent observer who's producing the show, the.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Very detached independent Brett blakemore.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Yeah, so singing producing black Brett Blake were the.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Hold they I heard they couldn't even get on the
plane back to Green Bay they kept holding him.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
So no, I agree it was just one guy holding them.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
He probably would have got away from it. But as
the two three guys, I'm surprised. You know that they
didn't like we're using ropes and stuff.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Any other added attractions, because I'm not sure, like I said,
you're gonna get much from what you've mentioned so far
regarding the interactive ice school exhbit.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
There's a comedy so called Moms Unhinged.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Mom's Unhinged. You say, yeah, how does that work?

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Well, you don't think that's you think.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
That's No, it's I'm chuckling.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
It's very sounds anti female comedy.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
No, No, I'm not saying that at all. I'm so
that's what it is. Mom's unhinged. Is it's like stand
up comedians?

Speaker 4 (31:47):
Yeah, buts hinged?

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Are they all moms?

Speaker 4 (31:51):
I assume? So what you why would you advertisements or not?

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Because it's a bit and you just need that, you
need the angle and you're lying to people. I just
don't like lies.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Oh can First of all, that's really being kind of
assumptive on your poet.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Okay, do you mean the Green Bay Alpacas.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
It's not the Green Bay Alpacas. Okay, don't be crazy
and crochet clubs. That's happening.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
This is it almost feels like you got too much
stuff going. You need one, you need one.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
But that's not being a big time place.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
You need one big attraction though. You need something that
that grabs everybody by the short hairs.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
The Succulent Pumpkin Workshop is this week.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
The Succulent Pumpkin Workshop.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah, well, what does that even mean?

Speaker 4 (32:46):
I have all the details and I it's just on
a list of things.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
See.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Okay, there's a.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
Blind tasting event at the Art and Wine Gallery.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
What does that mean?

Speaker 3 (32:55):
That can't That can't be bad? Well, I don't think
you have to be blind to get anybody blind. They
don't tell you exactly what the drinker.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Do you have any concern?

Speaker 3 (33:06):
You know?

Speaker 1 (33:06):
You mentioned the goat yoga? Yeah, I've read stories that
it sounds good sometimes in theory but in practice and
can get kind of kind of unseemly if the goat
urinates on the yoga person.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
I think you.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
I don't. I've never done it, Dan.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
You never have urinated on the yoga person.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Can you imagine me doing yoga?

Speaker 4 (33:27):
Let's be honest, not.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Really, But then again, I mean, who's I'm not. I'm
not here to judge, you know me. I never judge.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Yeah, I'm trying to appeal to a wide variety of
tastes okay, okay. Like, for example, if you're coming up
here and you you know you're bringing your wife, she
may not want to spend a lot of time in
the interactive ice blogs playing stuff for women to see,
but maybe she wants the.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Goat yoga, so it's variety.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
Happy wife, you gotta do that stuff, you see people happy?

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Will any former packs be there for this big unveiling?

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Not this weekend, though we have a project that's we're
announced the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Is that.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
I think we'll probably have some X pack of players
that because it's kind of a new exciting thing we're doing.
But I'm not prepared to go into it yet.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
We're just we're finishing it up.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
I think we should have it finished the next couple
of weeks.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Can't wait. I know I will be the first to know.
I'm sure you'll pass along all the way.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
I have the right because of my new contract that
I am allowed to promote that that's true.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
What's part of the new deal? I grant you that
where's the what about food? What are the food options?
Are they changing?

Speaker 3 (34:40):
There's lots of places you can get brought and pizza.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
What about whatever happened to the broad worst forsta Well.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
It's not being sold right now, what the hell is
that to create a demand for it.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
It's like, do you know how McDonald's.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
Brings back to mcgribb.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
I do.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah, we're going to bring back brat with you.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
So first you have to create the demand in the hunger.
It's like being a Mondays. Yeah, exact same thing. It's
like chick fil A being closed on Sundays.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
Right, No, because it's not got none due to religion.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
I think they do that because it's got The guy
thinks that Jesus doesn't like chickens.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Well yeah, that might be. But I also think the
hope is then you create greater demand the other days
because people who like to eat chicken.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
Sy stupid business myself. I want a chicken sandwich. Get
chicken salwich.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
All I'm doing is open.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
It up for like Popeyes.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
Okay, that's fair. I can't wait. This sounds really really good.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
Is there a place got to be very exciting?

Speaker 3 (35:40):
And Dan, I will invite you, and you can and
invite you, and I think you'll want to take take
take the advantage of this one.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
Oh, there's no question that so far your participation has
been very lax.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Well, it has, I will admit, but I'm with you.
I'm with you in spirit.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Right. I want to talk about football now? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Can we can we get to the picks?

Speaker 4 (36:02):
Are you guys worried at all?

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Uh Vikings fans are clearly worried. I talked about that earlier.
There's a great deal of concern. I would be on
the basis of what.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
Do you even have a full team over that to
play a game?

Speaker 1 (36:15):
No, but it shouldn't matter you're playing this.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
It wasn't very bright to go over to England if
you're not going to bring you home.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Well, we brought who we thought we needed and unfortunately
we had more injuries and now we need more uh guards.
He was three and oh last week, so he is
eight eight and four. I was two and one last week.
I'm at ten and two and Mike Tye went one
and two last week and is now it's seven and five.
What Mike Tye?

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Did you have him come back and do pick?

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Yeah? We had the week that you were playing hard
allegedly playing hardball.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
We're not I mean, like last week, did he come
back and do pick?

Speaker 2 (36:49):
No?

Speaker 1 (36:50):
But we're just naming it that from this point forward,
because you were not available.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
For one of the weeks, just hate me. So it's
to make me.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
Anger a little bit. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
That's part of the weapon.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
I didn't think it was.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
I'm here and he's not.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
I'm doing the picks and he's drinking in Seattle.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
All right, Well, then here's your first pick. The commander the.

Speaker 4 (37:10):
Name for a movie drunking in Seattle.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
There have been some variations on that.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
You even get Meg Ryan to be in it.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
I would say drunken eau Claire might be better and more
realistic Commanders in Los Angeles to take on the Chargers.
The Chargers are favored by two and a half. We'll
start with Gerby.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
As a game.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
I'm not that interesting. Let's tell you right now they're
still going to do They're still going to play it.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
I don't want to tell you that they're gonna play it.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
Off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure that
the Chargers are like twelve and four against the spread
Monaster sixteen games. I don't think Washington has done very
well against him there.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
I think said, isn't there starting QB still out or
is he back this week Blake Moore Daniel, I'm pretty
sure he will.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
I don't think it really Madens.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
I don't think it really matters, because what you gotta
go all the way to the West coast. That's never good.
And I just think I think that two and a
half points isn't enough.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
So I take the Charges.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
I also will take the Chargers, even though you're supposed
to pick next, but go ahead.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
You're picking on Guards to his behalf Brett Blake Wore.
I am h Jane Daniels is playing. At least he's
fully practiced. I am also going to go with the Chargers, though,
because I like a fully healthy, firing Herbert over a
questionable Jane.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
They did annoy me. Who did the Chargers lose to
last week? That made the Giants? That does annoy me,
But it also probably means Harball will have the club
more ready, so I too, I will stick with the Chargers.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
Well, and you can't you can't underestimate how much Goodell
wants New York.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
What are you talking about? He does actually does want
him to win. But I what's the evidence that I
had anything to do with the outcome of that game?
How about didn't didn't hear Herbert throw a bad well, yeah,
but there were some of that had to do with
the way the two teams performed.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
Well.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Sometimes I don't know about about football, man, not much,
not much difference in these teams really were better. But
the difference between a good team and a bad team
isn't that that much? Yeah, Therefore, you'd make you guys
happy because you're getting really close to being good.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
So you're saying the difference sometimes ends up being the
officials and good. What do you Cheryl Reeve? I mean,
cool man, Now, you wouldn't know Bucks at Seahawks, Bucks,
I should say Seahawks are favored Sam Darnold and the
Seahawks are favored by three and a half. We'll start
with Derby again.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
We're going east coast to west coast, which is not
always good.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
That's not good. But I I don't think Seattle is great.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Sam Donald's great.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
I think off the top of my head, I would
say that like in the last nine or so games
at home, I think Seattle's probably only covered twice, so
it's not a great record. And the Seahawks are favorite
Bay nine three straight up. I think I will take Tampa.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
Bay Brett Blake Moore? What do you think?

Speaker 3 (40:29):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (40:29):
I hate to keep agreeing with Kirby, but when you've
got a guy that just knows ball, it's hard not to.
I mean the Bucks.

Speaker 4 (40:35):
This happens to me all the time. I know people
copy me in.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
This they do, well, what do you want me to do?

Speaker 3 (40:43):
And then the only times that you don't copy me
is when you make a home of pits in Minnesota?
Or are you? Are you trying to get me angry
and pick against the bat?

Speaker 1 (40:53):
I'm going to take Uh. I hate to agree with
you as well, but I will. I will take.

Speaker 4 (40:59):
Tampa Bay.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
Have the segment?

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Well, I do I agree with you on the first game?
I guess I did? Well, I'm not. I'm not going
to change my pick just to be a contrarian.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Then you go first?

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Thing, Well, no, I'm in first place. I shouldn't have
to go first.

Speaker 4 (41:13):
Oh now, okay, I'm sure it doesn't matter that.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Bucks will cover three and a half's too many Seattle's.
Do Bucks are a little annoyed with there come from
behind effort? A week ago? Was that against the Beagles?
I can't remember, but there? I I believe in the Bucks.
I think the Bucks will cover. Here's the big one.
I know you've been waiting for it, Carl. The second

(41:37):
of back to back London games for the Purple and
it's the Vikings against the Cleveland Browns, and Minnesota is
favored by three and a half.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
I thought, Dan, I thought that that we like English.
I thought that that the President went over there and
they throw him a big.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Party and the Yeah, we love England.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
What do you mean you got the Why would we subject.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
That's supposed to it's two great defenses.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
Yeah, but there's no offense at all.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
There might not be Actually it's too well.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
I don't you damn, I think you could run well.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
Sadly, that might be true. I don't think your team
didn't exactly exempt show much offense against Cleveland either.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
Cleveland has a good defense. Yeah, okay, that's the absolute truth.
They are very good. I don't There is no other
way I predict Cleveland wins this game two to nothing.
So I will take Cleveland red Blake Moore.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
What do you think?

Speaker 3 (42:46):
Well?

Speaker 2 (42:47):
I was gonna do that, but in thech because we've
agreed on the last two games, I'll be different and
I'll go I'll have some faith. I think guards you
would have some Homer faith in the Vikings. So I'll
go with the Vikes. I'm worried about the half. I'm
not gonna lie to yet. That's the tricky part of this.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
In fact, if you go back to the Vikings Atlanta game,
I think we were favored by three and a half then,
and I took Atlanta to cover. Now, I didn't think
they were gonna lose. What was a twenty two to
six or whatever the hell the score was. But that
extra half point, Oh my god, Cleveland's terrible offensively, they
got a new quarterback. Sooner or later, you think the

(43:25):
Vikings half to Now, you know what, I'm gonna take
Cleveland the cover. I still think the Vikings have a
good chance to win the ball game, but that extra half,
that's what's got me trapped. I'm gonna take the never
thought i'd say it, the Cleveland Browns to cover against
the Purple I excu.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Should write your predictions down. I had time game, I think,
so instead of just copying me, Yeah, I did.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Copy you on all three, didn't I. Yeah, Well, if
I keep copying you the rest of the season, you
can't beat me.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
That's what. I think. That's what you're planning in.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
The rest of the year. That's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna I'm gonna do whatever. You're gonna be ahead
of me in terms of you're gonna pick first, and
I'm going to take exactly who you take, and I
will remain three games ahead of you when we get
to December and January. How about that?

Speaker 4 (44:13):
Oh damn, that's how you have to do something.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Fool proof strategy.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
I think.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
I think it's more important just to be right and
get the people some money.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
You do, Okay, So that's.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
You a generous guy.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
You're so clear.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
Come to the Wisconsin Interactive ice Borg this weekend. I
can't decide if I'm going to sleep in on Sunday
or not last week and I woke up because I
couldn't sleep.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
So you might watch some of the Vikings or maybe
the second half of the Vikings Browns.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Yeah, it's because there's nothing really else on.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Can't wait for your Oh, I.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Think maybe I beg it good and rip bro and
drunk side.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
Oh, don't do that, dude. You've been lately when you've
gotten that sauce. It's not been good to the point
where you didn't realize you signed a contract to come
back and to be on this show.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
Yeah. I actually went back and checked some of the
lawyer rules on that. Yeah, that's why I'm still here.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
I'm for sure that's what I thought. That's it, all right,
Thanks Carl. We'll be in touch. Can't wait.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
Well, I can't say go packs because we're not playing.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
You can still say go pack us. You can say
go out pack us. Get it. Hello, Carl, I guess
he's gone. Top of the hour break Ben gestling back
in the United States of America. We'll check the vikings
and fourth