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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Let's pop it up around here two minutes in fifteen
seconds past the hour three o'clock Central daylight time. Welcome back.

(00:24):
It's the Friday Football.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Beast edition of the Bumper to Upper Program on an
extremely dark, moist, chilly, murky Halloween night here in the
Twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. My name is
Dan Barrero, the host of the program guards. He produces
the show, and we are delighted to be with you
this afternoon. We hope you'll stay with us from start

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to finish, and finish Guardsy has tentatively told me is
six thirty. That has sometimes changed as we get a
little deeper into the show, but as of now we
think we're done at six thirty.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
That dead look.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
As I came into the control room here to double
check and it says six thirty, So that's what I'm going.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
What is your.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Weather forecast for Gopher's Michigan State tomorrow? Is it supposed
to be like this or wetter or dryer or chillier
or what.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
The morning is supposed to be? Like this, maybe a
little less than this. Yeah, in terms of the drizzle,
the rain is supposed to subside by around lunchtime. So
before the game, do you have.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
An officially designated Golden Gopher Radio network slicker? Do you
have one kind of Do you have one that's that's
literally literally made for the rain where it's it's waterproofal
bounce off you and you can, if you are forced to,
you can endure a significant rain storm. I have been
very hashtag blessed the equipment manager Brady a few years ago. Actually,

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this might even go back to Kyle Gurgley, original equipment manager,
been a real bad run of weather, and he came
up to me one of the games and he said,
in our chest, the Golden Gopher sideline chest, you have
a cubby wow with rain gear.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Should you need it? Your own cubbies.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
So I've got my own guardy, We've got the guardsy,
Cubbies says, Yet so with guards probably for brevity.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
That's probably sure.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
So one year probably wouldn't know how to spell it,
that's true. So I do have one. So Brady has one.
But there was there was a time though, and this
still bothers me when you didn't well where I had
the cubby, and then so then I went to the
cubby like the next year and it was replaced. My
spot was replaced by the old deputy athletic director who

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wouldn't be on the field if it was raining, if
he was serious collecting an nil chow.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
That's too good.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
So I even said, I go, he's not coming down here.
You know, he's not coming down here. Why why does
he have it? Was that a bit to get you going? No,
I just think, well, who should we take off? And
there was so that's more than you asked for. No,
no background I do have.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
So Brady the equipment guy, now is amazing. He remember
the Northwestern State game. This is how she fish. I
was it rained that game if you're recalling, they cut
it short, not that it really matter at all. And
because of that, I went into the tunnel and when
it started raining, because I don't I didn't know if
we had it, And like five minutes later, Brady runs

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up the tunnel and hands me my rain jacket.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
It was embarrassed because I'm like, did you think your
cubby didn't exist? Because it was gone from the year before.
I know, because it was I've had it for a while. Yeah,
but I don't know. I just think the game was
so uninteresting. I'm like, I don't need to now, jacket
or no jacket, I don't need what else is in
the cubby, like a ski hat, gloves in a parka.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
It's usually just it's usually just the rain gear. Okay,
so like for when it's cold, I'm kind of on
my own. I'm sure I could get a jacket, but
in terms of the rain stuff, that's a little bit
more specific. It's usually a jacket and pants, like rain
was you gotta be ready because you got to be
out there. Yeah, you got to be in the middle
of that nonsense. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Then I I'm
like a player. Then after I gotta throw my stuff

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in the laundry, like I really do something like not really.
So yeah, Brady takes good care of me, which I appreciate.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
I hope you have the decency to not shower though
in the locker room, because it's not like you actually
played or performed. Okay, worry you might take that too far.
It was you know, like I'm like one of the guys.
You got my own you know, equipment. Yeah, well okay,
and answer your question. I do usually have rain gear,

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should I need it? Interesting text. The timing is good
on this. This is this comes in from six to
one to two.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Guy who writes, I have a feeling the Vikings will
pull off the upset this Sunday.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Last year's the game, Thursday game for the Charges.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Just before kickoff, I looked at my son and said,
looking on the Vikings, they're going to get their ass
asses kicked.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
You can see it.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
This Sunday, the Vikings will win the game, and Trent
I guarantee that, and and the Packers will win by
thirty four points. The timing of that observation is good
because I really do believe this is for the twenty

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twenty five Vikings.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
One of those pat Riley moments where you're at the
fork and I think you're already at the fork in
the road. I really do. Even though the season is
not even half over. You lose this game, you come
back home at three and five, the division would be over.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
It might be over already, but then you.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Run the risk of falling too deep into the National
Cup Football Conference standings to really give yourself much of
a shot at even making the post season.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
At all, for whatever that's worth. And then you've got
who do we have next? Is Baltimore?

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yes, on the ninth, and we saw, we knew it
was coming this way that by the time everybody's getting excited.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, Ravens look as good anymore. Maybe this is as
tough at stretch as we thought. Said the same about
the Chargers. Well, the Ravens got their quarterback back last night,
and Lamar looked great, and he's playing a bad team.
But they didn't mess with a bad team. They just
dominated them. Think he threw four touchdown passes. So this
is the fork in the road plant your feet moment,
and it's the famous we've We've repeated this quote many

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times over the years. I'm pretty sure I wrote it
several times when I was an Inkstaine wretch Dallas Morning
News in the newspaper the Twin Cities start Tobune and
the Ryles quote. This goes back showtime days. I don't
remember what the circumstances were. If it was literally the
Lakers were on the brink of being eliminated.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Whatever it was, here's the quote.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Every coach should have a copy of this quote in
all honesty to put in every locker room.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Now, on the other hand, you got to be you can't.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
This is one you got to say for a special occasion,
because if you try to go down this road too much,
you'll probably lose his impact. But here it is every
now then, somewhere, someplace, sometime, you are going to have
to plant your feet, stand firm, and make a point
about who you are and what you believe in.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
And that's a fact.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
When that time comes, you simply have to do it. It's
a brilliant quote. I think he said he stole it
from his dad, or a portion of it from his dad.
But is that not galvanizing and is that not true?
There are so many teams that are in exactly this

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plant your feet position, where you say, if we don't
plant our feet now, it's going to be quicksand in
a matter of weeks and we're going to be doomed
and varied and it's not going to matter. Now. I
guess you have to know your team well. You have
to know whether the team has the ability to act
upon that work. And that's a big part of this too.

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Maybe this team is just at a place now where
they would be inspired by the comment and what you
know what it stands for, but they just aren't good
enough to do anything about it, especially going to Detroit.
And that's as you say, I don't know what the
point spread is. I haven't checked. We'll find out for
the prediction segment. I'm gonna guess the Lions are favored

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by seven, six and a half or seven?

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Does that sound about right?

Speaker 3 (08:24):
The Detroit Lions are favored by eight and a half
eight and a half.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
How often have we been eight and a half point
underdogs home more road in a division game? Eight and
a half a lot. That's a lot of points. And
so the odds are they're gonna lose. The odds are
they're gonna get killed. Let's face it, the Lions are
well oiled offensively. They've got a quarterback who's been doing

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it a while. They've melded what he does best with
the players around him. They've got two running backs that
are better than any team's many other team's top running back.
In fact, they're number two running running back.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
What's his name? And the guy used to be with
the Bears.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's not Gibbs, right, that's Gibsey is the number one
guy now Montgomery.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
He's averaging over like five yards of carrying. He's the
backup running back.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
They run routinely for four hundred yards. Their defense is
not as bad, I think as people think. They're well
put together.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
They're stable, right, they've got equity.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
They haven't won it all, but they've got some equity.
And the Vikings are a mess. They just came off
their worst loss, probably outside of the Cowboys loss here
forty to three. Didn't we lose to the Cowboys forty
to three here under KOs.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yes, sounds right.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
This has got to be there the worst loss in
Koc's run. Maybe this is even worse than that, depending
on how you want.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
To think of it.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
And we've got no ground game established, we got offensive
line still in flux. We've got a defense that's going
the wrong direction. A top five defense in terms of
scoring a year ago is now nineteenth in the NFL
starting this weekend. But so there's nothing logical I think
about picking the Vikings. But there's only one way you

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change the calculus.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
You just do it. You find a way to do it.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
You get a couple of turnovers, the Lions play down
a little bit, you get a big pick six. JJ
comes in and makes a couple of nice plays, perhaps
with his feet, so you you, I would Some people
might say wait another week or two for the plant
your feet thing, dare I would say don't. I'd say
do it right now, even though conditions aren't great for

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you and you're going on the road. In fact, maybe
I'm grading on too low a curve right now, you know,
I would say it would be a big improvement of
this team. Could just go to Detroit and challenge them,
even if they end losing the game. That doesn't say
much about expectations. But it's a plant your feet kind

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of a weekend, Halloween weekend, I would say, for your
Minnesota Vikings, and it has to be that you understand
that there's that logic has nothing to do with it,
but that ultimately, as we've said a million times on
this show, no matter how much commentary and analysis goes
in comparative stats, et cetera, the players always have the
last word. They always do and if they can rise up,

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in fact, I think they almost need to rise up.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Then everything could look different on Monday morning.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Correct can look different in the NFL if you just
get one of those is it too late? It might
well be I don't like their chances, but it's plant
your Feet weekend for sure. Fan and two men and
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I'm not sure from the early signs that the textures
are on board with the plant your feet pat Riley moment.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
I'll explain.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Lavelle five Guestling four thirty Gerbschmidt at the bottom of
the three o'clock hour, This uh plant your feet pat
Riley inspirat inspired motif does not seem to be resonating
with the audience. I'll give you a few examples. Wow,

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this is vicious right off the top. Hendo Minneapolis. I
don't think koc is a big plant your feet kind
of guy. He didn't even have the kahones to plant
his feet and pull the battered quarterback last week. Can't
argue with that. That's unfortunately, I mean the truth there
cannot be controversial.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Good afternoon, gentlemen. So first of all, plant the feet.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Let me tell you JJ McCarthy does not have quick eyes,
does not have a quick release and does not have
quick feet, and you have to have that by nature.
That's not something you can acquire. So guess what the
writings on the wall. These players don't want to play
for him. Goodness, he's deemed This whole team is demotivated,

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unfortunately because of the head coach.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
To this head coach might take happy Halloween.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Wait, it gets worse or better, depending on your point
of view, Chris. Just like the Wild pretending they're aging
slow veterans should be better, the Vikings are going to
magically expect some of the worst linemen in the league
to hold up for an entire game. I think the
Wynch shoulder drama distracted people from how absurd our offensive
line situation is. That it seems to be two no

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votes for planting your feet. They're not feeling it so far. Actually,
I take that bat No. Eight'. That's Willow Mark Rosen's cat.
There's a two parter from him, play your feet. I'll
be planning my feet in the backyard to rake leaves.
By halftime with the Lions up twenty eight nil. Wow, Actually,
I take that back. I might stick around for the
second half to see how Brozemer does after JJ goes down,

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and these folks call me negative.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
It is supposed to be nice on Sunday, My good
yard work, West Goodness.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
The only way the Vikings went on Sunday is if
they run the ball, control the clock, and get two
or more turnovers. Meat and potatoes football. There's probably some
truth to that. Look at the remaining schedule. I see
two to three more wins at most. Don't get cute,
writes Matt from Shoreview. I can tow stand a chance.
Sunday should be a twenty point blowout. Time to get

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JJ his reps best sellers and look to build with
solid draft capital.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Next season.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
If the Vikings lose this weekend, they would fall to
three and seven over the past ten. That's a thirty
percent winning percentage. Already scoping out tackles and centers in
the draft, Papa Taco. The slim chance of Vikings have
of making the playoffs if you look at the record,
they're already going to be at eight losses. The Falcons loss,

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Steelers loss basically have killed any realistic.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Opportunity to make the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
You're not going to sweep the Lions at best, you're
gonna split with the Packers, and then you have a
Baltimore Ravens team that's now healthy. We're looking at best
a nine to eight season. Unfortunately, that's Koc's motto or
something great year, bad year. Oh oh, I see his
per great year, bad year, great year, bad year. Needs

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to strink together a few good years on or after
twenty twenty seven, he'll probably be out the door.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Man.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
I so we have one guy who's picked the upset,
and everybody else is very skeptical of the Vikings chances
to plant their feet. I'm not here to say I
know that it's in them. I'm here to say that
this is now's the time. Yes, you have to to
change it. You've got to to to sort of at

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least open the door to retaking the season right. And
that means something big, bold and dramatic that nobody in
their right mind expects Vikings going to Detroit to knock
off the Lions.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
By the way, I think we've we've dropped.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Is it four to row or five in a row
to the Lions, which is unprecedent. The last time we've
lost five in a row to the Lions I believe
was when we were an expansion team at the start
of this process.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
It's the Lions for God's sake, as.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
Doogie used to say similar times, Well you use I'll
use a quote from my pat Riley PJ. Fleck, Okay,
because when he got hired, you know, you're reading all
the profiles and things. And Pete Tamill, the guy that
we had on that day to talk about PJ when
he was profiling him at Western Michigan, talked about some

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story where in like the fourth year, PJ basically gave
the same speech that pat Riley did to his Western
Michigan team, and the gist was when are you going
to be tired of be an average? When are you
going to actually go out there and play right? It
was this big speech that they all said was like
the turning point in the program. They go on and
they win. So one of the first two years I
asked him about that and I said, when do you

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give that speech like to this team m hm, And
he said he already did it. No, but he said
when they're ready, when they can do it, when they
can do something about Essentially, when you can do something
about it, you can't play the plant your like Ryles
knows he's got magic. I've got They're going to respond,
James Worthy, Michael Cooper. You have to know you got

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the guys or the most wasted energy, or it's just
it's just empty talk. Yeah, and every coach obviously is
going to do their speeches, and they've all got their.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
But isn't part of it though?

Speaker 2 (18:12):
That goes back to changing the quote unquote calculus where
you say you have to you have to almost ask
for more than you think the team is capable of,
and and and that's sort of what we're looking at
here because otherwise why bother just shut down the whole
thing now I know, or turn the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Well, they are turning the whole thing over to They
are to chase scary part when you douce like the wild.
Right now, they've already had a couple of plant your
feet meetings and nothing has changed. Right, They've lost four
games since all the players talked to the GM and
or coach. You have to be able to do the
follow through. The holding of the reservation is Jerry Seinfeld.
One set is the important part.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
I've got some more statistical nuggets to follow up on
our discussion yesterday under the classification of they have everything
and we have nothing across the men's sports professional landscape.
A disastrous weekend last weekend leading us to re examine
some of the larger statistics regarding the mediocrity that largely speaking,

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this sports market has been for the better part of
the last couple of decades. Some new information that I
mind that might not help the plant your feet inspiration,
but we'll get to that probably in the four o'clock hour.
We'll get to as I said guestling at the four
point thirty, with an update on injury issues. It sounds
like the head coach was very optimistic about both tackles

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offensive tackles starting. They're both I believe technically listed is questionable,
but in the conversation he had with the Jackals, he
led them to believe that they were going to play.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Now.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
In Darrisaw's case, how long. That's one of the open
questions at this point we shall see that would be
at least in theory of help. Even if they're not
at a either of both those tackles that's seventy percent
are still probably better than any other tackle options we
would have. At one hundred percent correct, I believe some
more on injuries with Guessling later at four thirty, level

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on everything at five thirty, how about picks. The prediction
segment is coming up next with our guy Carl Gerbschmidt,
and it could get If you're a Vikings fan, beware,
I have a feeling you're gonna need a trigger warning
or two because I gotta believe after the carnage in
Los Angeles, California, Englewood. More specifically, there's gonna be some
mocking of the Minnesota Vikings by mister Gerbshman.

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Speaker 3 (21:06):
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Speaker 2 (21:28):
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Carl Gerschmidt is indeed with us for the award winning
prediction segment. Carl, Happy Halloween, you and yours.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Thanks a lot, Dan, I just noticed my name is
not in that.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
You know what I just did too.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
I had never done in the pack kessel one. I
think he's in there like thirteen times.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
We know here we are every week.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
We never had contractual obligations or discussions body deep.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
Well aft up boss season, Jordan. You can feel free
to fix it now. I know that Kessla has the
ego and he has to like be in there like.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Thirteen times a lot of times.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yes, So he's needy. We got a lot of needy guests.
I'm glad you're not one of them.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Well I'm not. I'm just a regular old guy. I'm
the owner as supervisor.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
Can I read you a quote? And then I'm wondering
if you could tell me who said this? You ready?

Speaker 4 (22:25):
All right? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Every now and.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Then, somewhere someplace, sometime, you're going to have to plant
your feet, stand firm, and make a point about who
you are and what you believe in. When that time comes,
you simply have to do it. Who said that?

Speaker 4 (22:44):
Is it? John Claus?

Speaker 3 (22:45):
And am That sounds like some of you, Good said, it.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Sounds like something you could say. I assumed.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
I guess because I tend to stereotype you that you
were going to say Vince Lombardi or Fuzzy Thurston or
well that bar or you know, Bart star Dan.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
If you're kind of a winner, you don't have to
say something like that, you know what I mean? I
thought that was like it from a movie of sentence.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
It's realizing if you're.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
A winner, you don't have to tell people that you're
a winner.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
You know, you just do it. Win you got and win?

Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yeah, just do it. I know who said that Nike
was that was?

Speaker 1 (23:23):
That was? That? Is Nike a person or a brand?

Speaker 4 (23:27):
I think it's a Greek god.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, I think that's very true.

Speaker 4 (23:30):
Good At first, I think that's happy Halloween.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Guys, so give me.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
What's what's Halloween going to be like around the Gerbschmidtz.
Did you get a lot of kids or what's your
approach on Halloween nights.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
In the new house. I don't really know. It's like
I don't know. I know, the neighborhood takes a traces.
I'm looking across the street right now and the guy
in the house across the street has got like a
almost about twenty foot skeleton, and he's got like a
graveyard in his front yard. Friday, you're home, huhard and

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you have to hand out candy thirty Well, you guys
care about hanging out candy, but I do. I take
it seriously, Jordan, full sized candy bars.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
What kind do you get? Do you have a favorite?

Speaker 4 (24:19):
Or well? We got what we calls we have a selection.
We got some. I got some one hundred thousand.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Dollars bars and hundred hundred grand.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
I might not handle all those out. I got some
like butterfinger.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
That's that's underrated. I love how about Hershey? How about
Hershey bars?

Speaker 4 (24:42):
Got Hershey bars, got dolls, got crunch bars, got and
then we got for kids who don't like chocolate, we
got like skittles, and I got some red liquorice.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Here.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
We got to look, if you're coming buy our house,
you're going to get paid. I mean, I have a
thirty foot skeout in my front yard. But you know,
we you got some orange and purple lights and stuff
like that.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
What will your costume be when you come to the door.

Speaker 4 (25:06):
I don't dress up. Damn. That's that's your little children.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Oh okay, don't tell please, don't tell Lori Fisher that
because she what does she tell us what her costume
is going to be when she comes to the door
tonight in Maple Grove guardsy, Oh.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Yeah, what different than her costume earlier in the week.
Costume of the week five?

Speaker 4 (25:29):
Naught? Is it? TV produced it?

Speaker 1 (25:32):
No, it's not.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
Calm down, Yeah, my goodness, that's just why would you
go there?

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Calm down? No, she did tell us what the hell.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
A lot of women like to dress up as naughty something?

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Okay, says so is that what's going on to bed
and breakfast? Is the bed and breakfast full this week? Point,
it's a big.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
Week to breakfast and lunch. That's full. It'swam booked up
all the way through the months of November.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Would you say the breadth? What's better the breakfast or
the lunch?

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Breakfast?

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Breakfast?

Speaker 4 (26:01):
I like breakfast better, me too, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (26:04):
Got an omelet with some some kill boss in there.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Oh that's and we got sweet No, it's.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
Not sweetest, no, it's an expression. Yeah. And then we
got like like two different kinds of cinnamon role one
with raisins and one without which you prefer.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Neither.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Yeah, no, raisins I'm not big Well, actually I like
raisin brown cinnamon. I don't like I'm not a big
cinnamon roll guy at all. By the way, trail ref
Guy says Gerby doesn't even have to dress up for Halloween.
His clown costume works every day.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
That's not very.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
That is so you know, I'll tell you man. Was
that larry Mondelo guy? Again? It's just so clever. Damn
they they they they they always send you.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
But do you know why?

Speaker 2 (26:54):
I think you know why. I think they're a little
defensive with you. If they follow you on X. You
were not very what's the term I'm looking for? Understanding?
Last Thursday night, as the Vikings were getting pummeled by Charge.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
I understood completely. Didn't seem very can't block anybody. You
didn't seem very compassionate. I guess, boy, did you see
what they did your quarterback? I am not. I was
a kid and I had g I Joe's I don't
think you know and you didn't. I didn't destroy anything
worse than win. Scott hurt his arms hanging off.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah, it wasn't good.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
It's bend in the wrong direction. Yeah, I get it,
but you know that have.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Been a little bit more gracious, though, couldn't you?

Speaker 4 (27:45):
Yeah, well I could, yeah, but I'm not going to be.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
No, I didn't think so.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Speaking of food and Halloween, I was at kids Halloween
party today at school for my daughter and one of
the dads, Brian, was asking me. He wants to know
if we'll ever He wanted me to ask you, will
we ever get the recipe for the broughtworst Risotto? Posted online?
Somewhere where you ever revealed the Gerbsmith family recipe for

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broughtworst Risotto? He wanted me to ask you already did that?

Speaker 4 (28:13):
No, I'm not. I've never given the reci not anything. Well,
I don't feel Number one, I'm making money off it.
I don't really feel like giving it away. You know
that's you.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Can't be making money off it. That's not possible, Jordan.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
We are booked all the way through because of the
result at the bed and breakfast and lunch.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
You think it's because of the result at lunch. How
many rooms do you have?

Speaker 4 (28:44):
We have a sold on it. We've we've now gone
to six rooms from.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
What that's not exactly you added a room that's not
exactly impressive. And how did you would you create a
six off.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
Bed and breakfast? It's not the freaking Hilton.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Well, how much money can you really make?

Speaker 4 (29:02):
I can make a coin.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
You're making it sound like, though what we're sold out? Well, yeah,
how could you not be? It's like two and a
half rooms.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
Dam How many bed and breakfasts have you ever been to?

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Not very many. I'm not a big bed and breakfast guy.
I'll admit. What about.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
It? If you need to be quaint.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah you do.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
Now there's some companies that operate multiple beds and breakfasts
and they really specialize in quaint and they have like
a whole bunch of them, and it's it's like having
like a franchise listen room. Last week, I promised you
guys that would tell you what then somebody like to
dress up at how old? Because I learned it from

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Earl with Nikki during the is that's I'm sorry, that's
fabled Green Bay packing historian Earl with Nick and one
of his Earl talks that he does after breakfast and uh.
This week we're going to review the nineteen October thirty
first nineteen ninety four game and that coaching staff which

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had Mary Ucci and Gruden and Andy Reena. And he's
got stories. He's got stories about how those guys used
to entertain themselves. Well, what about the Bardi n He
would he was a very religious man.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Did you know this? I did.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
He was a very religious man. He would dress up
and go to practice as the pope. Like the hat.
He liked the hat. And if you didn't like do it,
like when you're doing push ups, if you can't get
your butt down, he would reach out with that stick
that the Pope has, I don't know what to call it,
and you walk you on the backside if you get

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your butt down. So he liked that, and he would
make jokes and he would like offer absolution and you know,
you know the quarterback would make a bag that creative
path he would. He would insist on the guy making
a confession. So, I mean, that's but that's online.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
I don't think the truth I think.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
Was there.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Lombardi's not making people do confession at packer practice.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Lombardi was a very demanding man.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Jordan, did you ever meet then somebody?

Speaker 1 (31:24):
I didn't. Unfortunately, I would have.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
Liked to ear used to Caddy form.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Okay, it's called the papal for rula, which is a
staff topped by a crucifix. Yeah, that's a sick. It's
Latin for rod. Can you tweet any pictures of proving?
Can you tweet any Lombardi pictures that they have him in? Said,

(31:50):
I don't have a Yeah, that'd be.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
A great thinking. They did not take selfie.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Back assured selfie stick. There is the occasional photo.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
I mean, you know not, but you know, I'm going
to guess someone's got a picture of that. If you
got a picture of that into I could get that. Yeah,
I'm kidding the picture, especially when he's laying the hat.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
I'm intrigued. Did he tell you any of the confessions?
I mean, any players have anything good? I'm still not
buying that.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
Well, I don't. I mean I stay for the whole.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Lecture must have been captivating because I.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
Had things to do. I have a I have a job.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
So apparently I never answered the question, how did you
find another room for the bed, breakfast and lunch?

Speaker 4 (32:41):
We built one onto the back of the house. Who
it's not as nice.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
No, I wouldn't. Does have heat?

Speaker 4 (32:49):
Not as nice, but it does. Uh, this is an
exclusive room because one of the doors to the root
to that room like let you out right into the
interactive iceboat.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
Libbit.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
It's a lot like it's like seems very private.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
Yeah, it's like being in Cinderella's Catholic Disney World.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Okay, it sounds small, and it sounds like it doesn't
have any heat.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
Across it has heat. There's like building codes.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Well, I don't know, how do we know you're abiding
by building codes? And you haven't before You've gotten in trouble.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
On building codes that the interactive ice pool exhibit a
couple of.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
Times, and that's why you don't do it anymore.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
I see you learned your lesson?

Speaker 4 (33:36):
Done right?

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Any Catholic this is from Tom and Columbia Heights. Any
Catholic impersonating the Pope is going straight to hell? Can
we just flat out say Earl is lying? That's what
Tom says.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Is that like Bishop Tom
is that.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
He's pretty serious about it. He knows the.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
Religious some guy that's making up stories trying to make
me look bad. It's not true. Listen, I believe Earl.
I might make some shirts up says, I believe it ear.
Oh my god, that's what I might do.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
It would sell fabled packer historian. Can you get him
on the show? Can you get him on the show?
Show it?

Speaker 4 (34:18):
Sometimes I suppose that you have any money, do a
lot of stuff not for free?

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Well, I mean, does he want to have does he
want to really have an audience? I mean we can
provide one for him.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
I provide that for him. I provide an audience three
nights a week from him.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
What did you just say, somebody? I just went from
hater to fan of Gerby? What I wonder what specifically
you said that that turned that hater in Catholic a lover.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
Probably? No, It's just that I think that tide of you.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Abusing me, that's what it is.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
I think people see you as some sort of bully,
and that I sometimes have am the target of your bullying.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Of the bullying.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
I would never ever call you a bully, despite what
you tend to say on acts mocking and ridiculing the
Minnesota Vikings and their fans.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
Dan, what happened last week?

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Well, the team played badly, but that was a really
good game. Doesn't mean you shift bully the fan base
the way you.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Do the fan base, the fan base number one. They're
not all stupid and and they probably realized, hey, this
team is not that good. But I did tell you
that at the beginning of the year. But I my
mistake was I thought you were that you were better
than Chicago.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
The long Chicago is still not that good. They just
got exposed by the Ravens last week.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
But you know, they're still probably betting you. Guys, I
don't know about that.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
It's uh, let's be honest. Lions are the best team
in the Vision. Backers are number two.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
For now. You're there for now. You've had the Have
you had the most favorable schedule? Yeah, well that was early.
Detroit was bored.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
Okay, when did your turn into Lions fan?

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Who have you played?

Speaker 4 (36:23):
We played Detroit?

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (36:25):
We played Dallas America.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Team not the Bears beat Dallas.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
Yeah, well we we did played last week? Who do
we play Lamber?

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Now?

Speaker 2 (36:39):
That was a that was wasn't that? The Steelers the horrible?
That's a that's a road down the road. That's a
decent victory.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
I'll give you that.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
I actually think they're not very good at all. And
how can you imagine losing to Pittsburgh?

Speaker 1 (36:56):
Well, Yeah, they're not. Well, they're terrible.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
Imagine how bad was to be.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Their offense isn't bad with a rog but their defenses
might be as bad as any in football.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
It's not Rogers now only throws the ball two yards.
He sees it the second he gets it, he doesn't
want it anymore.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
That's okay, it's not.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
That's not doing what you used to do.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Well, that's fine.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
Stand there, wait for two. He's gonna throw two yards
to just tackle the guy, and then three and out. Goodbye. Uh.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Handle in Minneapolis writes this, the new room at the
bed breakfast and lunch must be the boom boom room, separate.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
From the paper, separate from the other one.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Does that make it the boom boom room?

Speaker 4 (37:39):
I hadn't thought of that.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Hold on everything. Okay, Oh you're thinking of calling renaming
it that? Yeah, the boom. I wouldn't put that in,
Randy said. I wouldn't give that. I would encourage him
too much. Yeah, I wouldn't put that in, Randy.

Speaker 4 (37:55):
So the thing is that Manny has a very small
room in the house. Now he's not allowed to go
in parts of it.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
That's not even sharedan your house your new house or
the boom boom and breakfast and lunch.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
She turned into the breakfast and lunch.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Oh is he like the ra Is he like the
You don't give him a roo?

Speaker 4 (38:15):
The basement and your new Think about that charge of
something you're weird?

Speaker 1 (38:22):
No, can we get to the games? We got a
show to do here. Uh, let's take Dan.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
Just answer your dumb question.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
The race nuclear, The race is tightening up.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Gurby thirteen and eleven, Guardsy thirteen and eleven. I'm twelve
and twelve. Let's get to the games.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
Yeah, really, we are really good.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
We're locked in.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Well, it's you know, tough against the spread. Plus we
don't pick the easy games.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Guards. He makes it a point of offering up challenging games.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
I mean, in the old days, that's what we would do.
We each participant would pick his own three. Oh, but
and you could do it that way. But then you
can say, well then you're you're you know, are there?
It's a lot of work, and are the records.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
It's a lot more work than I can put into it.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Gerby, do you think it's time for us to go back?
I'm not. No, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
If you're familiar with the program called the Chad and
Barrero Show. Chad and Barrero.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
Well, it sounds like you were involved with that. Oh yeah,
that was the heart man, I remember you remember the
first time?

Speaker 1 (39:18):
I think that was Chad and Barret. His idea might
have been. But here's the point.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
Was that someone what's a guy's name who called me first? Dougie?

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Oh uh, you're talking about Doug Doug.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
Westerman, Ducky, Ducky was Ducky?

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Oh that was Doug Westerman? No, or was it Doogie?
Might have been.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
Dougie big Fan and Neil Patrick Kess.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Well, in the old days, what we would do is
each week we'd.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Have a guest picker.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
I remember that.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
So should we go back to that and add a
guest picker to you?

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Guardian?

Speaker 4 (40:02):
As I recalled, the reason that fell part is you
guys ran out of people who would do it.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Well, that's a good memory for a long season. And it
is true we had some let's just say we had
some repeats, no question, but probably not at this point.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
I think we're already asking too much of Frank and Amilia. Yeah, around,
that's probably true.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
I think we got a pass. Chiefs Bills playing again.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
You know, arguably the teams that define the AFC right
the last ten to fifteen years, but the Bills can't
ever get past the Chiefs regular season. This game is
in Buffalo. Chiefs are favored by one and a half points.
I'll start, I'll go Bills on at home, largely because
it's the regular season and the Bills are very good

(40:52):
at beating the Chiefs in the regular season.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
Postseason might be a different story. I've got Buffalo. That's
pretty much my entire logic as well. I know the
Chiefs are starting to round in the last back, They're
starting to feel it a little bit after a tough
what three or four week stretch. They're rolling, but this
is in Buffalo. I do think that matters, and I
think the Bills need it more just for their own sanity,
even though again it's not the postseason and that's going

(41:15):
to be the big one. So I will take the
Bills to cover and win.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
What do you think the trends? I'll say this Kansas
City is against the spread, It's five and one the
last six games. Buffalo is one and four against the
spread in the flast five games, So it's just going
in that direction, but I am inclined to say, Look,
Buffalo has had enough of Travis Kelsey and they're going

(41:39):
to win the game, So we'll take Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Second game is an interesting matchup involving the Seattle Seahawks
and the Washington Commanders.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
This game, I believe is in was Washday night football?
Is that Sunday night?

Speaker 2 (41:52):
You're right, and the Seahawks are favored by three and
a half. I assume the Commanders are still without their
starting quarterback.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Is that correct? I believe he's coming back. Well today
he is coming back. Is that right?

Speaker 3 (42:03):
That's the other reason why I added this, Yeah, he
should be back against Seattle.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
I'm look, the Commanders are showing, are not exactly showing
that last year was for real.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
They have come back to the pack.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
There's great frustration in Washington, which is a great and
very passionate football community. But I have a hunch they
know that their season is slipping away. If indeed they
have their QB back, it's too many points. Even if
Seattle wins, I'm going to take Washington at the very
least cover and perhaps even win the ballgame.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
Guardsy, Yeah, I'm thinking it's a twenty seven to twenty four,
probably Seattle, but I think it's I think it's closer
than three and a half just by obviously that half
point Daniel's being back is big.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
Washington is three and five. They're in there.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Draw the line in the sand. That's true portion of
the equation here as we reached the halfway point. So
I'm going to take Washington as well.

Speaker 4 (42:57):
Gerby one of those games you picked by feel you
know what I mean, It's like, what do you do
anyone think that Seattle is gonna be in't good? Not real?
But literally won all those games already. Do you just
think Washington is gonna be nias good? Not really? So
I think you kind of go, Wow, I'm going with
what I used to think. I'll take Washington. No, wait, yeah,

(43:20):
I'll take Washington.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
You are taking Washington, all right?

Speaker 4 (43:23):
The big one, Washington command is.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
The big one. High noon right here in the fan
pregame ten uh Sunday Sermons nine go for football Sunday
eight eight m here on the flagship.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
Where Packer preview on this season Packer preview.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
I think it should be seven thirty or seven. It
should be seven. Do they go an hour?

Speaker 3 (43:44):
I thought they were a half hour. Oh really, I
don't even used to be an hour. It probably should be.
Blake Moore's here, we can ask him.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
Lions are hosting the Lions, and the Lions are favored
by eight and a half points. That's a lot of
points in a division game. But it speaks, I think,
to the relative positions of these two teams right now,
as much as it pains me to say it as
a guy pretty much known to be an apologist for
the local team, the Minnesota Vikings, and I'm asking them

(44:14):
to plant their feet because either you do or you don't.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
I think the Lions are going to cover guardsy. I
did too.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
I said last week last week was the last week
I could pick the Vikings just because I'm a rube,
and that didn't work out too well.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
It didn't work out too well at all.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
It was rough, and I just don't have a great
feeling that JJ McCarthy's going to hop right. Gerby just said,
you pick these games on feel. I don't have the
feel that they're going to go into Ford Field stop
the Lions number one, but get anything going offensively with
the somewhat rookie quarterback. I think the Lions covered too
and it's going to be a rough Monday of talking

(44:54):
points on bumper to bumper might.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
Have to be a great moments in a kick ass Oeah,
that's tough because we that card a lot too lately.
Maybe we go with the deal. We could have gone
the defense. We could have done that too. Anyway, Carl,
what do you think.

Speaker 4 (45:07):
If you look at this game on paper, it just
does not look good. It got rookie quarterback who really didn't.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Show much the second year court yea, I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
You got a guy who's not very good who didn't
show it Budge in the first couple of games, and
then you got Detroit to start to detect the roll. Yeah,
and then five and one against the spreading the last
six games.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
And you know what happens.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
Every time I take Minnesota on these things, they lose,
So I'm taking them. I'm gonna take Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
That's to cover. That's very cruel.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
So it's because it sounds like you don't believe it,
but you think it makes it more likely that the
Vikings and their fans will suffer if you pick the
Vikings to cover.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
Well, you know we all do our podcast.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
Yeah, apparently you do. Uh who Are you playing this
week Carolina?

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Yeah, tough. That's a tough match up against Carolina.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
They're very tricky twelve and a half points spread, so
I didn't go with that.

Speaker 4 (46:07):
I think we'll cover it, but I think they're very tricky.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Are you going to the game?

Speaker 4 (46:12):
I'm going?

Speaker 1 (46:12):
Well?

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Sometimes you miss well, you got you got duties at
the business.

Speaker 4 (46:16):
I am missing Dan.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Don't you have to be at and breakfast in lunch?
Miss who's running?

Speaker 4 (46:24):
Who's there?

Speaker 1 (46:25):
Well, who's running it when you're gone? But you don't
trust him enough for me to believe that you literally
allow him to run it? Randy and Earl Basically, if.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
The difference between me missing a pack of game and
a cataclysmic event happening at the bed and Breakfast and lunch,
I see you at the game. I'm going to game.
Is it because we are first place operations?

Speaker 1 (46:51):
Is it a p Is it a noon? I guess
we'll never We'll never know. That's what I would like
the risotto recipe in all, honest I do. Actually I
don't have enough. Yeah, you never can get enough brought
worst in your system. So good for it, It's so
damn good for it? Is it.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
All my doctors say a top of the hour break,
I got a couple more inside Losing analytics to discuss.
To follow up on our conversation yesterday, we'll get to
some more texts. We'll also prepare I've got a driving
question for you, and we'll get back to the University
of Minnesota controversy regarding their decision to pull the plug

(47:31):
on having every big graduation take place in one of
their arenas. And then we will prepare for ben Gesling
at the four point thirty with the very latest Vikings
injury update