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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
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We'll be here until is it official six fifteen or
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(00:48):
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Speaker 3 (01:04):
I feel like we should get the Twins stuff out.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Of the way. I'm kind of intrigued because I don't
know that i'd heard about this.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
You are familiar with Bob Nightingale. I am USA today,
not Bobby Nightingale the Father. Yes, okay, Bob Nightingale USA Today,
I'll just.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Read you the headline.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
The Minnesota Twins are trying to decide whether to trade
starting pitcher Joe Ryan or starting pitcher Pablo Lopez in
an effort to reduce the organization's debt. That's the headline.
I pulled up the story and now I can't find
it because there was more. They still have the debt service,

(01:41):
of course, that they're trying. I thought that was going to.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Be taken care of with the still unnamed or unidentified
minority investors.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
So the owners are carrying four hundred and twenty five
million to five hundred million dollars in debt after seeking
a sale and bringing in minority investors, plus a mid
season trade of veterans that boosted their farm system. And
number two, and this is like the AI distillation of it.
Fans voice strong opposition to the pole Ad family, while
the club's recent contract tenders hint at contention plans amid

(02:08):
winter meetings. So they're trying to decide if they're gonna
trade one of the two Joe Ryan.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
And so you're saying, among the possibilities not under consideration,
as we don't trade either of them, and we actually
then go out and get another picture. So we've got
three really interesting starters at the top of our rotation.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
I would say the ladder that you just talked about,
I've not seen now adding a picture.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
I've not seen that anywhere.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
There was also a nugget somewhere that I need to
find again that Byron Buxton, apparently for the first time,
is open.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
He had He has said that too. I want to say,
athletic guy, okay to Dan Hayes at least maybe more
than more than just him, But yeah, he is. So
things opened the door to the possibility because he is.
He's already on record as saying we've already this sin is.
I've been here, We've had two rebuilding plans. I don't
need to be a part of a third. So I
don't think he said it quite as directly as I'm suggesting,
But I wouldn't be at all surprised if if they

(03:01):
say to him, we're gonna get rid of the picture
or we are going to continue to try to we
now know? Is it again not confirmation that we now know?
Why when people like Levelle have constantly said we need
a declaration of philosophy and approach and vision of where
this is going. We now know why they're not doing
any of those declarations. Yeah, these are the declarations because

(03:25):
if they if they say these declarations out loud on
the record, they know they're gonna get pounded. So they
would rather be quieter about it. And and they know
they're still going to get pounded. But they're not gonna
get pounded as badly because we said a million times,
if their intentions were better, if their intentions were more ambitious,
you turned well know they would have said that because

(03:46):
they have every reason from a ticket standpoint to do it.
They're not. Because they're not gonna do it. They're gonna
go even further the other way. They're going to continue
to insult the intelligence of even the most fervent Twins
fans regarding the approach that they continue to want to take.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
It's a buzzkill, man, Well, it's but a confirmation. Yeah,
I know, I know they're playing a Field of dreams
next year. Oh, that'll be cool. I don't know who's
going to be playing for.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Well, that's the thing. The bunch of college players.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Probably they'll have to pick them up like like Moonlight Graham,
like Archie Graham. They'll have to drive down there and
Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones will have to pick.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
We'll pitch it. In all seriousness, I had this down
in my notebook that when we get what's the data
that is it August Field a Dreams game.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Whenever it is second weekend in August.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Remember when we get to around those dates, I'm not
gonna play the romanticizing baseball game. Then I know I'm
not gonna do it, no matter the setting, because of
the backdrop, which is they are not to be taken
serious as organizations. So when it's convenient for them to say,
oh yes, but it's it's the romance of the game

(04:52):
of base baseball, they've killed the baseball romance. You don't
get to go back to it when it's convenient for
you because you're having a game at the field Dreams.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
You will fall for it. I know I'm worried I'm
gonna fall for it.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
You will.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
I definitely I've already fallen for it. I've already looked
into it. I think I've already I've gone. But I've
never seen a game there. I've played catch with my
dad there. Yeah, I played catch with Tim Hyde there,
former promotions guy.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
But I've never seen a game. Good luck? Do you
have a good time? Can I call in? How about?

Speaker 3 (05:22):
How about I know you can't call? Well, no, here's why.
I call in from the field of dreams and you
just left me for ten minutes and then I'll hang up. Yeah,
I say, don't tweet. I'm going to block you and
then we'll do it that way.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Maybe that? Yeah, for sure?

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yes, for Wallstead, he's back. Well he's six.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Oh and oh, well he's in the net tonight. Brett
can tell us that I didn't look. Are we going?
Aren't we kind of alternating now? Back and forth every game?

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Wouldn't you? For fresh goaltender? We got the dust bus,
We got the great Wall of Saint Paul. He has
been named the n h l's Rookie of the Month
for November, a league best one point one four goals
and staverage, a ninety six point seven save percentage, three
shutouts in six games. A while I was in the Bahamas,
I I was. It made me laugh that Russo is

(06:11):
getting into Twitter battles with the Colorado Avs play by
play guy.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Have you seen.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
No, I missed that. To Erette may have seen this
as well. So you know the great Wall of Saint Paul.
When he wins a shootout or overtime game, he celebrates
like he's a skater, like he's an actual player, and
apparently avs played by Paul. He's bitter, was bitter and
basically said, you're acting like you won Game seven of
the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I've got the audio. Do you have the audio? I do?
You're ready? Play real? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Gary comes panel mccarr right handed shot, white side circle,
mccar trying to go five poles save made by ballstt
and he celebrates like he's one with Stanley Cup.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
He has not. Wow.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
So then so that makes the round. Russo gets into it,
says light up France basically, which is also my reaction,
and he just keeps going after it like it was.
The story that didn't end for like three days is people, So,
of course, say to Hockey then piles on this. First
of all, we wouldn't know anything about winning the Cup.
It's exactly right. We got to take what we can get.
Any generation of Hurricane players here, I just love that.

(07:12):
I'm just I'm watching this Twitter battle from Afar and
Russo is trying to like speak logically to the guy. Yeah,
you're talking to the Paul Island of Colorado going. I
don't think logic is going to answer it. So anyway,
it's tonight against Edmonton. Tonight is the bit is the
game and Blake Moore, can you confirm who's in the
net tonight? I've got Valsetet in the net the great Wall.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Paul. We are kind of just alternating now, correct, Pretty lately,
that's what we've been going back and forth.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Have we not.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yeah, well, it's been in pretty much a steady rotation
between the two. There's no one or two.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
And that's the way it should be, I think for
a while. I mean again, if somebody fades a little bit,
and then maybe you go back to the other one
for two or three games in a row. But what
we're seeing so far, I think is is a is
a view that we're close to fifty to fifty at
this point. Yeah, and and there's no reason not to
as long as it's going so well for both of them.
And that's a very different breakdown than everybody anticipated when

(08:07):
the season began.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
I can't wait for the playoff goaltender controversy.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Then that'll get That's when we'll get there. Gonna be
so meaty. That's when it'll be fun with Bill Garran
because whoever the wild pick will have to try to
agitate them and say they should have gone the other way.
And then I'll get I'll find some weird hockey analytic
yeah to back it up, and then you'll lose it.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
It'll just pop a cord. That's great, you know what, Yeah,
that's right. I don't care about those numbers. The Wolves
right now are in the sixth spot in the Western
Conference standings. They're twelve and eight after a nice victory
over San Antonio City on Sunday night, a very nice finish.
Our guy Mike Conley, who I think is going to
join us tomorrow. We'll get confirmation after the game tonight.
They're back in action against the New Orleans Pelicans. Remember

(08:47):
a few years ago when the Pelicans were kind of
in the same spot as the Wolves. They were a
trendy young Western Conference team. I don't know if we
had to play them in the playing game or a
game to get to the playing game, mcna't remember, but
they were right there. They are three and eighteen this
season three and eighteen. And I told you this earlier

(09:07):
in the show, so you will not be as surprised.
But I'll reenact what I told you. I'm glad you're
sitting down. Zion Williamson, it was reported today will miss
extended time with the right adductor injury. He will be
reevaluated in three weeks. He returned November nineteenth after missing
just over two weeks with a hamstring injury. Played in
five of the pelicans past seven games before sustaining this

(09:30):
adductor strain. So the guy they thought was maybe going
to change everything down in New Orleans has again found
himself on the sidelines. He may in fact be the
new Street Close, the new Anthony Davis.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Astonishing, it really is. And I I thought the Pelicans
do not have complete control over their number one pick
this year, because you know, the old tanking question comes up.
But I'll have to I can't get the see if
you can find it, it may be slight, he protected,
but I thought they might have given it up. I

(10:04):
think Joe Dumar has already traded it away. If I'm
not mistaken to move up a bunch of a bunch
of spots.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
They traded it to the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for
the rights to Derek Queen right this last draft the
trade also involved the Bucks. And is it lottery protected
at all? No, it's unprotected. I mean that that's that's
a trade that's frightening. Yeah, because they are at the
time too, they said, why are we doing this for

(10:31):
Derek Queen?

Speaker 2 (10:32):
That's but not worthy of that kind of gamble. So yeah,
this is I mean, and it is kind of you know,
as many jokes have been done on Zion as Zion Williamson,
it is a shame because he was part of the
I guess the hubbub surrounding him. I kind of got

(10:53):
because of the uniqueness with which he played, given his
size and how well he could move at that size.
But it does reach a point where you go, why
are we how can you possibly continue to invest in
this nonsense? There's just no chance it's ever gonna pay off.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
I'm trying to think in the college game in the
last ten years, if there was a player more.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Uniquely and highly touted.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
His year at Duke was incredible, Right, Barack Obama's going
to watch games at Cameron Indoor, That was the final
four year here twenty nineteen because Duke. I remember being
bummed when Duke lost I think to Michigan State because
the final four was not going to be here and
they were the number one team the whole year and
Zion was this you know, freak of nature and it's
been nothing but injuries and you know, eating basically.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Well, yeah, didn't he I thought he did lose some weight.
Did he came back? Yes, his body. He's just one
of those guys. I don't know if it's going to
be the same with JJ McCarthy. For whatever the reason,
he just can't stay healthy and you know you can't
really probably trade him. I don't know what. That's the thing.
What do you you're saddled with that kind of situation.
I don't even know what you do. I know it's

(12:01):
not good. Is that?

Speaker 3 (12:03):
Is that here or there? They're both they play on Monday,
they on Tuesday and Thursday. Both down there, both there. Yes,
so they're in New Orleans for a few days.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Well, they did have a nice victory. The Spurs have
been playing well even without women Yama yep. First half
was a defensive disaster for the Wolves. They seemed barely
interested in guarding. The word might have gotten to them
at halftime because they've played a lot better defensively second half.
There's a lot of talk about they went with this goofy,
this funky lineup in the fourth quarter, smaller lineup, And

(12:31):
I don't think Rudy played like the last fifteen minutes
of the game or at twelve to fifteen minutes. Right,
that's probably not gonna happen very often. I you know,
I don't know the deep dive we're gonna have to do,
maybe as soon as tomorrow. I touched on it with
Johnny yesterday. Is whether this new plan, which is born

(12:52):
of necessity I think more than desire, is really workable
long term. And that's basically saying Anthony Edwards is our
point guard. Right, I'm queasy about it. I don't buy it.
When you get to the playoffs and play good teams,
I think it will be I don't want to say
a disaster, but I don't think we're going to keep
getting as far as the final four or beyond with
that approach. But we're back to you know, maybe we'll

(13:16):
talk to Mike about this tomorrow. How much can he play?
How much can you count on him and what other
options this team might have to try to give themselves
another option at that position, because I'm sorry, I just
don't think that's Anthony Edwards strength. It just I don't
believe it, no matter how much more mature he's getting
in that role. Time to go, Oh, it is time
to go. All right, we'll get and well, Louis will

(13:36):
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Speaker 4 (14:31):
You see the game?

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Speaker 3 (15:00):
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Speaker 2 (15:05):
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We've got the bin over in front of us, to
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till six thirty. Is that correct? You got it? Louis
is going to join us in about ten minutes or so.

(15:26):
Not on location this year, He's gonna be by telephony.
He's back in Florida. Is that correct? Yes, as far
as we know out this morning. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Just I texted him yesterday because he was at some
of the wild Stuff this weekend, because I kept seeing
Russo tweet pictures of him and I thought, if Louie
is here, that'd be great. It's been a couple of
years since he's been able to join us on location.
And he said last morning, fly home Tuesday morning. I said,
that wasn't that convenient?

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Tuesday morning? Yeah? Probably in what's the new Delta coach.
There's a new coach designation that's not fancy coach. Oh,
it is semi fancy coach. Delta Comfort. Yeah, but I
thought there was a new one.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Well, they have like Delta Comfort Maine, Delta Comfort Classic,
and that's just how much you pay.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
And it's beginning to get Those designations are about as
confusing as trying to keep up with Well, let's see,
the Gophers are on They're on Peacock tonight, They're on
Big ten Network tonight, they're on you know, I get
it with it. We want to have more choices, and
the kids love the streaming, but you it is harder.
Oh yeah, when you don't you know, in the old

(16:31):
days you could at cardit service. So it's gonna be
one of two places. Now a lot of these games
will be one of like seven places. I know you
as you have to look it up these days.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
We should mention that the Minnesota Wild are on the
fan a little bit later tonight, and Timberwolves are on
the Timberwolves channel of your iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Okay, clear up the confusion.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
You could make both Kfan and the Timberwolves channel presets
on your very easy to use iHeartRadio app and then
you don't have to search around. He's perfect. You just
bang it like it's in your in your car.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, it's a wonderful.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
It's radio. So we got the presets there for you.
That's very very good.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Gopher men's basketball Big Ten play tomorrow night on the
fans six o'clock against Indiana's I think off to a
good start. I don't think they.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Can shoot it, apparently, according to Niko. Well, that's the
big that's the big remark from our guy.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
You know.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Rick Bosich has been kind of down on the Indiana
basketball program, and he's kind of sarcastically. He said's amazing
what you do when you get a couple of people
who can shoot.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah, and one of them the coach's kid too.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Is that right, Tucker Davie, Well, it sounds very elementary,
But there are coaches who forget They get so intrigued
with the athleticism of certain players, yep, that they forget
that it's the object of the game is to score.
And if you can have some pure shooters, you might
be able to accept some other warts in their game
if they can add that. And that's been a problem

(17:49):
for Indiana you remind me the Gophers, who, of course,
you know, they've got basically a brand new team under Nico,
first year coach here, and now we got more injury issues.
Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (18:01):
The point guard, Yeah, Chaunce Willis Junior, who led the
macins scoring a year ago as a broken foot, and
he's basically out the entire season.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Do we know how or when it happened.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
It happened in the first like three minutes of their
game against Stanford and palm springs.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Okay, and that's not good.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
So they have about seven healthy scholarship guys right now.
And the first coaches radio show hasn't even aired on
campaign yet. We aired it on the Plus today noon
to one. It'll be on the fan tomorrow noon to one.
And that was my, I guess joke to him today.
I said, my god, we haven't even gotten to the
first radio show and you've already got They've got multiple
guys that haven't played at all. Their best big man

(18:39):
is also injured. He's got a knee thing that's gonna
be a while, and so welcome to the Big ten.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Do we have anybody that we know we're getting next
year already? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (18:49):
I mean they have some freshmen coming and a local
kid from Wisetta is coming in. But again they're young,
and they'll they'll be big in the portal again next year.
But have to be Yeah, the season's not even really
by the because not football's ending, right, college footballs ending.
The NFL is about done, and your pot's getting the
com there'll be much more focus on yeah, right when
you're about to really lock in on hoops. It's like,
we got we got seven guys and a couple of

(19:11):
them probably aren't ready to play, and you lose an
important piece. I really liked Willis the guard that they guess.
He was a fun kind of rugged, you know, tough
scoring guard, and now he's he'll be back.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
They think.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Nico said there'll be no problem getting in the medical
red shirt. He's got a good case for that, but
he's not gonna help this year at the Barn.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
I really want college basketball to matter a little bit
more in this town. I don't don't demand that it
be as relevant as it once was under Clem, but
I would just like to see it bounce up a little.
You're not alone. I just just it would just be
nice as an option. Yes, Now, how is he holding
up mentally early the head coach. I mean, he's got
to know and they that this wasn't going to be

(19:49):
done in fifteen minutes whatever he thinks he can do.
But it's always easier to say that philosophically than enduring
it once you get into the season, because it could
be cruel. Yeah, if loss is topped upon another loss,
stacked on.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
Another loss, you know what I'm saying. He said today,
He was funny. He said, I've been through this, Gopher fans,
he said, I've been through year ones. He goes, I've
been through all of this at all my stops, It'll
all be fine. Hang with us, you know, he's playing
the good soldiers and puts a good face on. But yeah,
your ones are are tricky, and when you lose a
lot of your guys, it's it could be bad.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Like it could be bad.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
But tomorrow night at six, who's who's the best team
in the Big ten Michigan State? Probably, Yeah, they're the
bad right now here. They're gonna be good. They're gonna
be good. Yeah, they're gonna be good. They've got a
lot of good players back, any of them from here. Yeah,
Nolan Winter Trevor's kid.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, that's right. Have you are you? Have you ripped
him for that yet?

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Trevor absolutely, including on the Coaches Show today because Nico
like basically lived with Trevor in college.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
I'm like, some good. That's a good point.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
And his wife, Heidi, and Trevor and Heidi were always
over at our place and so some good that did us.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yeah, we don't talk to now.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, yeah, black yeah either go for pres probably listening now,
he'll text one of us. Still text me. He's a
good guy. We're happy for Nolan. All right, well, Wisconsin's
good to answer your question. You're going to be good.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
So let's pause. Let's talk some punk little hockey conversation
with Luigi. As I mentioned, hit my twitter handle Dan
bureau Cafe, and if you have questions for Louie uh,
we will talk about a team that seems to be
headed in a much better direction. We had a hardcore
wild fan in front of us earlier and he said
they're ready to make they're ready to win the Cup.

(21:32):
And I said, well, I hope you're right. It'd be
a hell of a story. We'd love to see it
be seasonal boost from a programming standpoint, But I gotta
see it sustain itself a little longer, becase we've got
to remember as recently as a year ago, the first
half the season, we were playing as good as anybody
in the league, right, Yeah, And so you gotta it's
got to be sustained. And again, the position this team

(21:54):
is in, as we'll talk about with Louie, is that
they have to start doing something in the postseason other
than losing the first round before anybody is really going
to take them all that seriously around the league, no
matter how well they play. But it's definitely trending in
a much better direction than when it started, mainly because
the goaltending and the defenses have been so good. We'll

(22:15):
get into all that with Luigi when we return here
in the Fans around the World.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
Ride in the World.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Nanny was with us at our toys for Tot's location
here at Shields in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. But as it
turns out, Louis is back. I believe in Florida. You
timed it nicely left this morning, is that correct?

Speaker 6 (23:04):
That's right. I had to stay over, you know, I
stayed up in Minnesota a few days. I had to
get back home here, but I had some duties with
the World Junior Hockey Tournament, and so I stayed till
this morning. And by the way, before I forget, we've
got to encourage the people to get tickets to watch
the greatest show of hockey for kids between seventeen and

(23:28):
twenty that you're ever going to see. It's it's to
be a great Christmas gift. It's a great gift for
the kids, for the grand kids, for the family, and
the players you're going to see. Players are going to
be in the NHL. They'll be the best players in
the world in four or five years.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
So what are the dates? Right the way of the refreshment.

Speaker 6 (23:46):
Six and going till January fifth. You got the Canadian
team in their divisions based at Mariucchi, three am at Mariucchi,
and the US team's based at Grand Casino. In the
playoffs are all at Grand Casino. Nice, and they've got
a really good deal on the Canadian tickets going right
now because there's been some problems with the Canadians coming

(24:09):
down here. You know, they get a little bit of
anger going and they're not coming, although I think more
of them will come when you get close to it.
They're so accustomed to see this urnam and they know
how grade it is. And it doesn't matter what teams
you see play. That's the best part about it. You
could go see the Fids and Swedes play and they

(24:30):
got a rivalry probably bigger than the Canadians in the US.
And when you look at the teams, whether it's Switzerland
and Germany, they all have talented occuplayers. And to see
these kids at eighteen nineteen years old that play so well,
it's just amazing the kind of intensity and how smart

(24:52):
they are, hard they play, and how good they can play.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
You know, I've always envisioned you as someone who would
have been a great UN ambassador. So are you like
work trying to work your magic to smooth things over politically,
to sort of, you know, to assuage the fears of
the Canadians about making this trip, et cetera.

Speaker 6 (25:15):
Well, you know, I talked to when the Blackshawn. She
had a sort of sports and events. She's fantastic with
a job she does, and I said, you know what
we really need to do. We need to get a
hockey player from each of the teams across county, each
to the NHL teams and just get them to do

(25:37):
a minute commercial about their experience in the World Juniors
and say I got to get down there and back
Canada in the championship because Canada is going to be
very good. The US beat him, and I loved that.
I was up an Autowa last year and then the
US beat him in the overtime period and as I
said before, made a fantastic player to do it, and

(25:58):
he made a great setup. And the year before the
US one as well. So US is going for their
third gold in a row and they've never done that before,
so they've got that to shoot for. But the Canadians,
they haven't won for a few years, so it'd be
something for them to win. And they are a favorite

(26:18):
team right now going in, so you would think that
they would get the kind of support that they've had
in the past.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
We will only hope a lot of good questions that
come in via my my Twitter, my ex account. Since
we're on location for the Toys for Tot's event. I'll
give you an example. Tyler writes, I got to know
if Louis has any good Kenny peterra stories. No doubt
they cross paths at some point and you got any

(26:45):
you got any good?

Speaker 6 (26:47):
Yeah, we task, but no, only don't have any about
kidding itself, but we might have a couple I'm unfortunately
I don't.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
That's uh a callback to was it during training? Move on?
Cogan passed away? Yeah, hul Cogan passed away and we
had Kenny.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Oh, that's one of Brett's worst days ever. Remember that? Yeah, sorry, Brett,
I forgot about that.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah, let's just move on. Kenny. Yeah, kind of forgot
that we were on you know, like major market radio
or didn't care or didn't care. And then also he did.
It's the old Sid trick where I think you can
relate to this. Occasionally somebody, a major sports figure would
pass away and Sid's column would end up being more

(27:34):
of a tribute to Sid than to the person who
passed away. And Kenny did some of that too. When
it was always fun, those are always the best. It
was absolutely the best.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
We've did find out though you can say the effort
like nine times apply on the radio before we get
in trouble.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah, that keeps that in mind. That was not that
was a little dangerous sham. Okay, So no good can
patra stories, but maybe an answer to this question. Can
you ask Louis how he would approach managing two really
excellent goaltenders rotating every game, which is I kind of
think the way the Wild are doing it right now

(28:14):
a sound solution. Or do you stick with one guy
for a while and see if he stays hot?

Speaker 6 (28:18):
What? No, I love what they're doing right now. When
you got two golden ears playing like that, you might
as well keep them challenging each other plus staying sharp
game out every second game. This way, they both are
getting there quicker, they've both been on top of their game,
and you might as well keep doing it because you're
given each of them a little more rest than you

(28:40):
normally would if you're just going with one for two
thirds of a time. So I think it's a good strategy,
and thus far it's really played out. So it's something
that the Wild got to be so happy about. Whilst
it has been such a terrific find this year, so

(29:00):
unexpected Deui's come in and and not just play good
gold and everybody get as many shoutouts as he had
and keep that gold against ever down.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
It's been terrific for it astonishing uh and in fact
he's in I think in that tonight game that you
can hear on the fan a little bit later, Brett Blakemore,
if you're paying attention, can you play the sound from
Avalanche play by play guy who's been in a big
Twitter war since he made these comments with our own

(29:31):
Russo Radio. Do you have those Blake Moore from me? Yeah,
let's let's let's play this so Louis, Louis, you may
have heard this, but I want to play for the listeners,
and if you haven't, it'll be a good starting off
point to get into a little bit of a conversation
and reaction to it. Let's leave.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
Jerry comes, Chanel mccarr, right handed shot, right side circle,
mcar trying to go five Boles say may by ballstet
and he celebrates like he's won the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
He has not.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
It's a great shoot out win for the Wild and
the Avalanche have their first loss of any kind in
ten games. They still get a point, they still lead
the Central Division, they still lead the National Hockey League,
and they still are the best.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Team in the world.

Speaker 6 (30:17):
Well, you say I had heard that, but I would
me too. I wish I was your The team might
have to pay him less. That guy loves his job
too much. I mean he might do it for nothing.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
That's very possible. You're right, So the battle, well, yeah,
the battle was then he's saying, you know, you're celebrating
too hard. Russo basically said, relax, calm down, little enthusiasm.
So what do you make of that whole deal?

Speaker 6 (30:41):
I think he's a bitterer, no question in my mind.
The guy was Bill said he wanted that street to continue.
He did want to see the Avalanche lose, and uh
a little jealous that Wals did. If I was him,
I would have celebrated the same way. You know, you
celebrate each one that you win like you're winning the

(31:03):
Standing Cup because each game is so important to the team.
And for a young guy like that, the announcers should realize,
this kid's in his first full year in the national athlete.
He just stopped the best defenseman in the world. He
wins a game against the team that's only one once
in regulation, that's part in the season. I think it's
something to celebrate, and it sure warrants it. And for

(31:25):
the guy to react like that, just to me shows
some bitterness. He didn't want to lose a game that announcer.
He thinks that it's okay for somebody else to lose,
but not the Avalanche.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah, I think we've put that under the classification of
a little bit of youthful exuberance, which in victory I
don't think should be you know, that big of a deal,
should it.

Speaker 6 (31:48):
Well, let's take a look at Green Bayvy. Time they
score a touchdowns, somebody jumps in the end zone. I mean,
that's a lot of exuberts. This kid's not jumping out
of the rink. And I think that if you look
around the league, there's other nights, other games being played
when you get to overtime and they come back and
be the top team that you're going to see the

(32:09):
goal Donder celebrate the same way. This guy was just
a little bit carried away.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Well, as long as he doesn't start calling himself thirty,
I think will be okay. I I think there's limits.
We've we've talked about it with JJ McCarthy. It seemed
like he wanted to build the myth about himself before
he performed well. And obviously Volstat hasn't led the Wild
to the Cup yet, but he's off to an extremely
good start in terms of performance, and that's the most

(32:37):
important thing. You know. We had a Wild fan here
earlier who was very excited about the club. Basic said,
you know what, I think this is a year wee
can really make a run. And I said, I want
to believe that. I would love to have hockey programming
and and and you know series for us to discuss
well into the month of May. It would be great
for the Bumper to Bumper program for sure, if we

(32:58):
want to think selfishly. But you know, I got to
see it sustained a little bit, so I'll ask you
the same question. I mean, at what point can this
be trusted? The trending is very good and needed given
the way the Wild started the season, no question about that.
But when can we say, okay, yeah, there's really something
going on here that might have legs.

Speaker 6 (33:20):
Far stilly far to early.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (33:23):
And before I go into that, let me tell you
one thing. We're an entertainment the flegs. It doesn't matter
what sport you're talking about. It's all about entertainment. And
Bill Goldsworth, the you know, he wasn't a known a
really big known quality in the NHL when he started
doing a Goldie shuffle and he started doing a Goldie

(33:43):
shuffle and it became something a signature thing that people
around the league used to light to see him do it.
And for Wall instead of the goaltender, this is the
same thing. So we shouldn't get on the guy that
much because he celebrated in a unique way, which is terrific.
But the wild they've you know, they've turned around really

(34:03):
a tough start with three six and three and they
were sinking fast and the next thing, you know, walst
that actually got him started in the right direction, and
now they're in a good position. You're almost the third
way through to the schedule, and if you project the
team doing the same thing the rest of the way,
that give them about one hundred and three points and

(34:23):
safely in the playoff position and in a good position
to go from there. But you can't start talking about
the Cup until you've you know, one a round or two.
You don't just leave rug from a strong league play
to the Stanley Cup, because we have to remember it.
For the most part, every President Cup winner is the

(34:48):
most points in the league. All the teams very seldom
wins the Cup at the think of a jump. So
we are way too early to start talking about that,
we're not too early to talk about the good hockey,
the wild they're playing, and if they can sustain that,
how competitive they'll be through the rest of the league

(35:09):
and then have an opportunity to get their first Is
it ten years or something, it's a long time. Ten
years they've won the playoff from that's correct.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Ten years, Well, it's a I think that I think
you've you've distilled it perfectly. I don't think there's anything
ever wrong with enjoying each victory, especially the way they've
been winning, enjoying this goaltending, because they are the games
in front of you right now. So if you're invested
in it, you're allowed to enjoy it right and to
appreciate it and to say, hey, maybe something's happening here.

(35:40):
But it's it's it's the long game, and it's frustrating
because the playoffs seem like a long way from now, right,
and they are quite frankly, But that's just sort of
the nature of it, because you've been around this long
enough to know that in the end it is about
making it. Maybe not even winning cups necessarily because that's

(36:01):
a lot, but making runs right, being vital and being
in the mix when you get to the postseason, and
that's you can't fast forward. You just have to play
your way through that in the meantime and try to
put yourself in the best position, as you said, But
it ain't gonna pay off until you pay it off,

(36:22):
and that's gonna be when we get to the spring.

Speaker 6 (36:25):
You know. Then, I gotta tell you, and not the
not for personal reasons, but what you're seeing reminds me
back when I was general manager. Anny McField was running
the Twins and we had gone through a great run.
We had seven years, we had seventy six playoffs keeps

(36:47):
and the next year we missed the playoffs, and of
course we took a lot of heat. And I'll never
forget mcphild coming to me, he says, for crying out loud,
he says, I hope I get that coming forward, to
have that kind of run for that kind of time,
time to be a factor for seven years in all
like that, And that's what it's all about, what you

(37:07):
just said, getting to be a factor in the playoffs.
You don't know if you're ever going to win it.
And I got to tell you, even if you get
to the finals, it's awful hard to get to the
finals again, but just having the opportunity to compete in
the Standing Cup finals longer than the first round really

(37:29):
fuels everything for the team. It gives you such a
satisfaction to be able to have taken that run and
gives you an opportunity to imagine. And that's what you
play the game for, to imagine. Like when you're a kid,
you imagine making the NHL and you imagine winning the

(37:51):
Standing Cup. Well, when you're in a playoff, you imagine
winning the Cup, and very few people get there compared
to how many play. But the good part about is
being able to imagine.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
That's it, That's one hundred percent true. Louis joining us
from Florida. We are at the Shields until six thirty tonight.
Toys for Tot's the big event. If you'd like to
stop buying and say hello, or more importantly, drop off
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and we appreciate all the support that we get every
year on this station on our Toys for Tot's Day. Now,

(38:26):
let's get to the most important question. Did you watch
the Viking's most recent debacle and how did you process it.

Speaker 6 (38:35):
Well, yeah, I watched. I watch every second of it,
and they you know, you're on the sideline, you were
in your living room watching the game, and it's a
game where you you're hoping and you're wishful that something's
going to be different, but you're also antagonizy or you're

(39:00):
self and it's aggravating inside because you're torn that you
know it's not going to happen, but you want it
to happen, and you he suffer. I mean, when you
watch a game that I got to tell you that
the defense is so good it was it wouldn't have
taken much of an offense to win that game. You know.

(39:22):
One of the things that that happened in the game
that no word is really paid much attention to it.
Sam Darnold did not look like a thirty million dollar quarterback.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
I did not. You're right and.

Speaker 6 (39:31):
And and and had you know, and I'm sure Max
would want that one play back again, had he just
taken a sack instead of thrown away. Even if they
got three points, then they're just down six and and
they were they were really affecting the game. The defenses
was making a big difference in that game. And and

(39:54):
it's just the little things, the usual things that happened
in that game that really set to you because because
they were so unusual that you say, often you see
that happen that shouldn't happen. And if they didn't happen,
the Vikes would have been writing in it all the
way to the end. And they really weren't get much
of an offense.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
No.

Speaker 6 (40:16):
I will say this if I was a quarterback, and
I was and I you know, I know nothing about football,
but I know one day if I was Max, I
would have thrown that ball to Jefferson every time. And
I take a chance of it being intercepted. Yeah, because
it's lucky. He isn't going to be intercepted. Because if
Jefferson doesn't get it, he'll knock it down. He just

(40:36):
you know, keep attempting. If you're good enough to throw
it over the guy and let Jefferson here and there,
he'd make a spectacular catch. But I would when you're dying,
you got to go with the one that brung you.
You know you've got it. When you go to a dance,
you say bring He's answer the one to bring in.
You got to go with Jefferson and just keep throwing

(40:56):
them the ball whether he catches it or not.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
All right, So they're sitting out for a less than
one percent chance they make the playoffs at this point,
So is it you got? You might as well put
JJ back in there, McCarthy and just play through everything,
even if he's dreadful. Again, you got to keep at
this point throwing him out there the rest of the

(41:18):
regular season. Do you agree with that?

Speaker 6 (41:20):
Yeah, And I don't think he's going to be dreadful.
I have to tell you, there's whether they'll admit it
or not. There's a lot of pressure off McCarthy right now. Yes,
because they aren't going to make the playoffs. It's just
you're not gonna have three teams that are good teams
above you all fail and you have to remember that
they play each other, so that there's going to be

(41:41):
wins by all three of them along the way that
are going to pull away from you. But I think
that when you when you look at JJ, a lot
of it sometimes early on becomes from the exuberance of
wanting to do a lot and trying to do You
try and do things, and before you know you're trying
to do too much and I think right now he's

(42:02):
going to come out. I really think different Hikings are
going to win a couple of games along the way.
Years is going to surprise people, and JJ it's gonna
have a couple of good games.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Well, oddly enough, I think to your point, I think
he may have a better chance to play looser now
because there's less to lose. I mean, and I felt
before the season began, Louis. The unfairness to McCarthy is
that when you come to a team or start for
a team that's coming off a fourteen three season, you're

(42:33):
going to be graded on a tougher curve, whether it's
fair or not. If you're a team that's rebuilding and
everybody's acknowledging we were terrible last year and we're just
putting this new QB out there and we're going to
see what he has. That's a very different deal than
when you join a team that's coming off the kind
of regular season they had last year, where no matter
what people said about being patient, it was going to

(42:55):
be harder to be patient, right because expectations on the
basis of that record and the fact that they spent
more money than any other team in the league in
terms of free agency. That was going to add to
the pressure that the kid, almost from the beginning, was
going to have to was expected to play well, even
if it was unfair to him.

Speaker 6 (43:15):
There's no doubt that he was under tremendous pressure. As
you said, you're coming to off with Trey fourteen to three. Yeah,
and how do you replicate that? That's tough enough to
replicated if you were the best quarterbacks ever played at
fourteen to three is a hell of a season. You
don't just have two in a row like that. And

(43:37):
I think that no matter what happened, he was going
to have some tough times along the way because he
is a rookie. We have to remember he's essessially a
guy that hasn't got a lot of experience behind him,
not even in college. So to expect that much out
of him right away is definitely going to put more

(43:59):
pressure him. And he's going to be grated tougher, like
you said, and there's gonna be There's gonna be times
when things are really bad, and it's I think he's
strong willed enough to get through that. I don't question
his mind ability to handle things, but physically, whether it's
mine's handling it or not. You still mentally try and

(44:21):
do sometimes more than you should be doing. You you
played the game a different way than you normally would
if you if there's no pressure and no higher expectation.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Uh. I'm going to finish with a toys for Tot's
question for you. When little Luigi Nanny was growing up
in the sue, give me a toy that you got,
a Christmas gift that you got that that changed everything
for a little Luigi. I mean, was it something Was
it a hockey stick? Was it something?

Speaker 6 (44:53):
Just something that gloves?

Speaker 2 (44:55):
It was hockey gloves.

Speaker 6 (44:56):
Yeah, I remember getting my first Baraarchy gloves and and
I can't even remember. It might have been six or
seven years old. To have a pair of hockey gloves
was reading something. And I still remember. That's why I
know exactly what I wanted to say, because to have
them all wrapped up like that under the tree, and
he opened up and they smelled good. I could still

(45:18):
smell the smell of those gloves. I still feel the
way they felt. I just it was a gift that
I just treasured the rest of my life.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
I love it, and that's something that's it's amazing. What
stays with you?

Speaker 6 (45:31):
Right, yeah, yeah, good exactly. I mean I used to
I used to love to get hockey stuff. I just
used to love to get archy stuff and and and
the new stuff because you know, even though it was
a long long time ago, it was expensive to get
archie book at all times in the comparative situation that

(45:54):
you're in, and and to get that to have new
stuff to go out the next day and play key
with new equipment was really really something I loved every year.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Excellent work is always my friend. We appreciate uh, the
your fine sponsor camps as well. We always appreciate their support.
And we will let chat with you next week.

Speaker 6 (46:14):
I love talking you from Shield. I enjoyed my time
when I came there. Yes, last time it was I
You guys do a great job and for toys, for
taught that's wonderful you able to do it. And sorry
missing it, but well.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
You've done it.

Speaker 6 (46:26):
You have a good time. Man.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
We were, you know, Guardian and I were talking about this.
You've been very loyal when you've been in town, going
all the way back. We used to be at the
Mall of America doing this. Ah, you showed up I remember.

Speaker 6 (46:38):
One time I got there. I didn't know if I
be able to make at the snow store.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 6 (46:42):
I want to be in one of those of you.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
No, no, you wouldn't even know what to do with
a snowstore.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Now, would rather driving.

Speaker 6 (46:48):
The cold weather. At least they can put sweaters on you,
like I got some nice sweaters I like to wear.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
They have new hockey gloves and shields. Louis, if you
want to wake up the echoes of the six year
old nana, there you go. They've got a lot of
new hockey gloves right up on the second floor.

Speaker 6 (47:01):
Send them down here.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Yeah, play with their panthers. Grow the game.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
Keep growing the game down there with those new hockey
gloves and and.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
A few others. Real esposito, Thanks man, good lu Nanny
Via the kineticot Water Systems hotline. We'll pause for the
top of the hour break. We'll get to a couple
of Vikings items, maybe a couple of other things in
our final thirty minutes or so. Don't go away.

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Speaker 2 (48:12):
Interesting quotes out of nowhere. You remember a picture named
Sonny Gray. I do fondly. We had for a minute.
I love Sonny Gray, and then we.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
Did, Yeah, he's with the Cardinals.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
Still right, No, not anymore?

Speaker 6 (48:27):
He is?

Speaker 2 (48:28):
Uh now, I believe uh with the isn't the Red Sox?
I think he just got traded to the Red Sox.
Sonny didn't we talk about that as the Red Sox.
I was probably off like Moore, I should say I
was probably off. So New York Post Sports Department seems
to have boxed up Sonny Gray. Here's what they have

(48:49):
Sonny Gray on his time with the Yankees after being
traded to the Red Sox most recently. I never wanted
to go there in the first place. They found a
quote from Sonny Gray after he indeed was traded to
the Yankees in twenty seventeen. I couldn't be happier to
be here today, to which the Post Sports Department snark says,

(49:12):
which one is it? Sonny? It is pretty good, it's
not standing. So who knows what the truth is. But
the moral of the story is he's not here. He's
still not here. No, Sonny Gray's still not here, which
I think we can confirm he's happy about. Well, yeah,
I think you're probably right about that.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
That's like somebody just boxed up Lane Kiffin in the
same way and said, because when he got the USC job,
he called it the greatest job in the country. Oh yeah,
and then two days ago he said LSU is the
greatest job in the country. That's the tricky part about
the digital age of which we live. There was a
time you might be.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Able to get away with it because we didn't have
the internet. Who was your guy, Colangelo? Right?

Speaker 3 (49:50):
Yeah, said the thing that haunted you, that where you
went down to the library because you knew that he
said something he ripped.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
Scott May, a former Indiana player who fared poorly as
a pro. Yeah, drafted by the Chicago Bulls.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
And in twenty twenty five, you would have confirmed that
in four seconds, a great point. You would have found
it right the fact, then you had to spend your.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
And he might not have been his cavalier about it, yea,
because you'd known chances are he's going to get boxed
up where he said, well, I don't know this idiot's
going to actually spend three hours in the catacombs at
the IU Library looking through newspapers. I love it, coppy
newspapers in the Chicago trick and you found it, and
I found it. It made my night. Yeah. And then
but what didn't make my next day was when I

(50:31):
presented it with him with the because I stole the
paper from the library, so I got to have this
and showed it to him. He just kind of like
he just walked away. Ye wouldn't acknowledge it. It's like,
I don't know what you're talking. I still don't know
what you're talking. That's probably what Sonny is doing today.
That's very true, very speeking of snark. Earlier, we had
Kevin Seaffert on location here and we were talking about

(50:54):
his view on the Adam Feelen saga the way it
played out, and part of this story we talked about
yesterday was it was Adam Feelin's bad luck that wide
receiver was the one position once the season began in
which nobody got hurt or nobody has been hurt since
the suspension to Jordan Addison, And if that position had

(51:17):
been the same as several others, he probably would have
had more of an opportunity because one of the other
receivers might have been out for at least a game
or two, to which a tweeter guy Christopher wrote, it's
hard for the Vikings wide receivers to get injured when
they don't get to touch the ball.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Iright, argument man, all right, argue how fast has it turned?
You know, we were talking about the Ken peterra interview.
That was a training camp. How different is the feeling
from how we felt that way or any day at camp.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
Let's be clear, though, if you if we go back
to our first day at training camp, it may or
may not have been a bit by Pa. But if
we recall, yes, basically all Pa did while we were
on the air was, oh my god, every past McCarthy
throws is either twenty yards past the receiver way up
in the air at.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
His feet, and then he had thought it was a
bit Well, the best part about that was when he
did have the completion. I said, that was a nice strike.
JJ to whoever and die Goes would have been sacked.
That's right, it would have been. That's what he said.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
So at the time I thought he was just playing
to our show, the snark of our show. But it
may have been he was ahead of the curve.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Yeah, as it turns out, Seafert was right, though it
wasn't up and down training camp so much.

Speaker 6 (52:32):
So.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
Remember when Kevin O'Connell did the sky is not falling,
we looked out. I don't remember if it was a
joint or a preseason game or whatever, but he was
already trying to kind of disquiet every quiet every Yeah,
but it is crazy that you think about the training
camp the year before.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
JJ was great.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
Yeah, everybody figured he we were all doing win's he
gonna start and then a lot of people thought it
might be the first game. That's true until he got hurt.
It's crazy. It comes at you fast. It definitely does.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
All right, we got one more break to get in
at Shorty will remind you what we have, what you've
missed earlier today, and what we have coming up back
at headquarters on tomorrow's program, what we have coming up
tonight on the fan as well, our final segment from
today's a Toys for Tot's event. And there's still time
for you to get here, drop up off a toy,
help out however you can via a toy or a

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check or cash or whatever the case may be easy
to find on the first floor of these Shields in
the massive Shields in Eden Prairie. Back for a final
segment for today in a.

Speaker 6 (53:34):
Minute, it's the Bumper to Bumper show wrap.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
Well, I think all things being equal, worked out pretty
well today in our Toys for Tots appearance the Bumper
to Bumper program at Shields and Eden Prairie. We had
a nice conversation with up and coming a Vikings defensive
lineman Levi Drake Rodriguez found out that he is at

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least this first time I knew he actually was an
offensive lineman. Yeah, and then ended up being moved to defense.
He joined us probably what about twenty or so, Yeah,
Seaffert for a good solid hour followed him Louis by telephone.
We just wrapped up, and I assume you could bring

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a toy in the next hour. Still, how long do
we extend this toys for Tot's deal?

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Do we?

Speaker 3 (54:33):
Probably until they're torn down? I don't know exactly, so at.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Least for a while to be close to eaton Prairie
Mall or or somewhere in the mall, because I know
a lot of people have their earbuds in and they
listen to us as they walk all the way around. Course. Yeah,
so he's still an opportunity to help out a very
very good cause, as I know many of you already have. Today.
We've met a number of folks find folks today as well.
We appreciate those who stop by to say hello to us.

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So tonight, what do we have? Rest of the evening?

Speaker 3 (55:00):
We've got Vikings Country coming up next, then Wild Weekly,
then Wild Edmonton Edmonton, and the Timberwolves game at seven
o'clock is on the Timberwolves channel of your iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
And you will not see Zion. We will see Zion
Williamson and Street Cloak. Actually he probably won't be probably not. Yeah,
I don't know, probably want to be there. I'm guessing
you know.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
One follow up I wish you would have asked today
that did you hear LEVI talk about his I guess.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
The Bible College or the religious school that.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
He went to, and he said, we could have visitors
from the opposite gender one day a month. Well it
was a very religious school. Well, I had so many questions,
like was it the same day?

Speaker 2 (55:38):
Was it? Did you stagger the day?

Speaker 3 (55:39):
Because I mean my mind exploded him like that had
to be kind of problematic.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
But he's like animal house that day? Is it? But
is it less problematic if you decide to go to that,
don't you kind of have to know, Yeah, you go
to that school, but the rules might be a little
bit different there, even in this you know, Texas or
wherever you Yeah, but yeah, you just cracked me up
that he brought that up. He goes, true, you could
have visitors from the opposite gender one day a month. Yeah,

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that interesting, very very unusual approach. But I'm but I'm
guessing it a lot of because he basically talked about
how that big, how big with that was for his faith. Yes,
that it's that kind of place where that's I think
you kind of get what you know, you know what
you're in for. You know, I'm not gonna rip you.
I'm not gonna feel sorry for you if you if
you go to that place, it's like you're you're not

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going to you know, you ain't going to Madison, you know,
University of Wisconsin. Yeah, where all bets are off from
the moment you get exactly un l V. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
Well yeah, I just I'm it just cracked me up.
Like if everybody wake up at four in the morning
that day just excited they get to see somebody from
the opposite gender, I don't know, it was just it
cracks me up.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
In any case.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
That was also at all of my colleges, people from
the opposite gender came over on average once every six months,
So it wasn't that Yeah, the frequently once a month.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
Wow, that'd be great. It feels pretty crazy for me,
almost annimal house house ish, like eh, yeah, all right,
So tomorrow we're back at headquarters and Mason your face
is he back? He would be back four to five tomorrow,
and then Kessler is up in the air. There may
be some things that will make it harder for him
to be with us, but we'll keep you posted on that.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
Tomorrow you think we'll have Mike Conley tomorrow too. That'll
be confirmed a little bit later tonight.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Andy Lueger is going to be in studio Thursday. There's
a lot to get caught up on with him, and
I wanted it was gonna be a tough day to
get into this. Today, New York Times had an interesting
piece that's getting a lot of attention regarding Minnesota land
of ten thousand fraud cases that really wasn't new, but

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maybe new to the national audience. It's a lot of
stuff that we have tended to cover. I wanted to
get Luger's reaction, though. There are a few comments in
that story that I did think advanced the story a
little bit. And I also thought that the governor Sunday,
I think it was on Meet the Press. I don't
think he could have done a worse job at defending

(58:08):
his administration regarding some of these stories. And he has
not done a particularly effective job from the beginning, especially
when he tried to actually take credit for well, where
the bad guys are going to jail, as if he
had something to do with that, which you can't quite
make up. So we might get into some of that tomorrow,
with or without mister Kessler that indeed the plan, and

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you mentioned Conley possibly, Yeah, I would anticipate we have
tomorrow as well.

Speaker 3 (58:38):
Then they are in New Orleans for the next three
days game tonight on Thursdayerous I mean, is New Orleans
still considered like for visiting teams a dangerous place to hangout?

Speaker 2 (58:47):
And I don't know how the street still exists, right?

Speaker 6 (58:50):
We know?

Speaker 3 (58:50):
Right still there? I was there about a year ago.
This time it's a little bit on.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
The dangerous side. I would think it could be. Are
we favored, by the way the Vikings to beat Washington?
I haven't looked Blake more. You have time to look
to see if we are un I can pull it
up too. I'm guessing. I'm guessing I've got it. We
are favored by one and a half. You nailed it,

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favored one and a half and a half. Yeah, that's that.
What an insult? By the way, that is. I know
it's their back right now. I think it's their backup
quarterback Marcus Mariota. Mariota, who's not terrible, but it still
is a backup here function. Their record's worse than ours,
isn't it. I think so we're four and eight, aren't
they three and nine probably man, so it hasn't gone
well for them either.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
NFC Title game a year ago for them, if you recall,
it's true. Yeah, I don't think their quarterback's long for
this world either, because don't think he's gonna stay here.
He's very slight, right, He's very slight. That's what I
worried about JJ. He's kind of slight too. I know, Well,
a long way from here to there. But you're going
to see him the rest of the year. Don't think
you're gonna see you bros more other than injury.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
Which is still a possibility, and it's not a cheap shot.
When they thought yesterday, I'm something.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
You're just trying to stay ready, Mack, stay ready.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
You're assuming he's the backups even said he didn't know it.
I know that's what. I would be surprised if he wasn't.
But at this point, you know, pretty much all bets
are off. I would say, you know, the other thing
I want to get into tomorrow is exactly the way
I think the Vikings should play at the next two
or three games. Kind of I think they should do

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it the way Seattle did this last game. All we're
interested in doing is crossing the fifty and getting to
like the other team's forty, and then we'll kick the field,
bang the field goal, and you know, if you make
seven field goals, you got twenty one points. That's true.
Our kicker could kick from.

Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
Anywhere, and our defense is paying in yes, playing last week.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Yeah, yeah, very very true. And then at some point
maybe we'll get a report on your kind of a
travelogue report on your Bahamas trip. There's a heck of
a two weeks which you lost. You gained going there
eighty degrees and then you lost eighty two degrees coming back.

Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
Yeah, we had Eugene, Lawrence Wrigley and the Bahamas in
two weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Think about that. That was one for the ages. Yeah,
that's quite a mixture. Two weeks stretch of weather. I
guess you could say extreme everything, like aesthetics, history, the
whole thing.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
I think it's too human for me down there. It is,
I told you it is. Yeah, it's really nice though
it's easier to get there. It's very easy, that's for sure.
That was long, No, no real jet leg. Yeah that's
a very good point.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
Yeah, well, thanks again for all the folks to stop
by to see us. And thank you more importantly, whether
you did or not, for your contributions. Thanks to Shield,
you Toys for Tots, and you for helping us out.
They they've always done, They've been great partners on this
year after year it gets he's getting better and better
with each passing year. Thanks for watching, Thank you indeed
for listening, and we will talk to you back from
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