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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Human.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
Guardsie I think is preparing for another goal to go
for women's basketball game. Brett Blake Moore is back in
that share Kessler coming up momentarily. You want to talk
hockey because you always feel that pressure with Kate Fallness
apparently looking over your shoulder.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Time now for the obligatory Kevin Fallness Minnesota wild mention.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I mean, the guy can be intimidating at all hours
of the night texting.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Not intimidating.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
He's not intimidating enough to do a thirty minute pregame show.
They are always like these nine minute things that could
be put together in about five minutes. I it's just
so ironic that the guy who's big on commitment to
the game can't muster up a thirty minute pregame.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Well, guess what this Saturday, no Kevin Fallness for on
the ponds which Zach Halverson filling in? What the hell's
that all about. He's got a hockey tournament. He'd rather
be there anyways. And also Zach Hollerson filling in during
the pregame show for Kevin Fallins as well. So major
departure and it's got to be committed a bit. I
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guess that pregame show that we mentioned that'll be for
the Senators game, but before that, the while get the
Stars at home.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
It's a big time.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I've been scouring the web for Matt Boldie, Middleton Zucarello updates.
I don't think I've really seen anything of it. I
know they all left afterwards. This could be user air
and we could be getting one hundred text right now
right but either way, we're gonna need them because the
Stars are still a really good team.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
The fan has learned.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
That's a big time Central Division collision tomorrow the uh.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
There's been a lot of fodder and conversation about the
hit on Zucarello that has resulted in the injury. Louis says,
a good but perfectly clean hit.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
You say what, I think it was pretty, I think
it was dirty. I think there was a little bit
of a chicken wing, I think, and the reverse angle
you can see zagarrel The first thing that moves it
is his head kind of in a whipping motion.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
That tells me, I thought it was shoulder to shoulder.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Well, when this is not a short joke, but when
when you're of Zugrello's stature, you're more vulnerable to that
type of hit.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So if we deliver that hit we love and say
it's just good, hard, clean hockey and deal with it.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
But it happens to our guy, and then we're gonna.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Now I understand everybody's mad because of who it is,
especially as a good buddy Caprisov.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, the Wild players certainly didn't think it was clean.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Well, here's the question though, and and and this is
the point Louis made, and I agree with him totally.
The angle is easy to take that that is what
transformed the Wild and inspired them to victory.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
We don't know that.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
We we it's a cool angle, and the hit was
worthy of a lot of conversation, but that's what we
tend to remember. We don't ever remember the games where
you didn't end up winning the game. Then that's not
an angle. But it's only an angle after it's if
it's conducive to you know the right outcome. So it's
a cute angle that we don't really know applies in
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this case. I know what the players said, and I'm
not saying it's dumb to rally to a teammate or
to be concerned about a teammate, but I think it's
too easy for us to assume that that was what
galvanized everything, because that's what we want to believe. Just
saying that, and you guys in hockey, I don't get it.
I mean, this was supposed to be the contact sport.
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This is the support we're supposed to know. You know,
we did never to apologize for hitting. That's part of
the game. But when our guy gets hit, then we're
all bitter about it. And by the way, I presume
there was a reason he didn't get There was no
major penalty on the like RCT.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I think there's roughing, but that was for all the
shenanigans afterwards, exactly exactly, which, funny enough, the Wild ended
up on the penalty kill after that.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
The other thing I'm waiting for, besides injury updates that
I may or may not be able to find, is
injury updates that I may or may not be able
to find for the Vikings. We've got the Dallas Cowboys
injury report. I'm scoturing the web for the Vikings. I
don't think they've came out that quite yet. But the
biggest story is at Ceedee Lamb, despite being listed with
a concussion, was limited today, So looks like he'll be
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in the works for a prime time showdown with the Cowboys,
who still have something to play for even though they've
got a long way to go.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
This is a seven o'clock, seven o'clock start with the
Stars tonight. Correct tomorrow? Excuse me, tomorrow? Yeah, tomorrow's twelve eleven.
You're what's today the tenth, right days of the tenth? Yeah,
so it's tomorrow at seven o'clock. Why are we out
at six tonight? We've got Gopher men's hoops. I believe
all that's right. Okay, go for men's hoops. Okay, that
that would likely explain it. As you mentioned, Stars are
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red hot.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Correct they are? Yeah, I mean they're they're a really
good team. They've got a lot of talent.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
You got to beat good teams some too.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Through this, and we have through some of this hot
streak before things got a little bit chillier at the
end of the road trip.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Your Wolves.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
They lose on Monday to the Suns, yet again a
team I think they should be capable of beating, and
now that's two in a row against them.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
They go to the Warriors.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
That's Friday, December twelfth at nine, which is a big
time matchup, and they've struggled going out West. It seems
like between Sacramento and Phoenix, what are they going to
do to kind of turn the corner?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
At least I'm looking at I'm curious to look at
the standings in the Western Conference. What Golden State is meandering?
More than I thought they are sitting right now, the
Wolves are in the sixth spot a fifteen and nine record,
Golden States in the eighth spot at thirteen and twelve.
I thought they got off to a hot start, but
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they have cooled.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Well.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Again.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
We had long discussions with Sam Mitchell about the state
of this club. I have I do have some concerns
about you know, a lot of it's point guard related,
but some of it is they've lost their depth. This
is what we talked about yesterday in that you might
have to start dat Vinchenzo. You might feel like you
need to, but then he's not on your bench right
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and you haven't yet replaced. As we said again yesterday
Nikhil Alexander Walker, I understand why you can't re sign everybody,
but he has not been replaced. So now, in effect,
you're down two very good bench players, one because he's
in the starting lineup and the other because he's not
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on the team anymore. And the youngsters have not been
nearly good enough thus far, so again they're not you know,
they've started slow before you could say they finished strong
last year. There's no reason for panic. We don't even
have this city. We really don't have the same team
we did a year ago at this point in terms
of starting lineup versus depth.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And I worry about that.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Somebody's gonna have to stand up or probably talk about
a trade.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
It's broke in the past couple hours. Michigan head coach.
I'm gonna go, Sharon. I don't follow Wolverine's football as
closely as I once did. Sharon Moore was fired after
there's credible evidence he was engaged in inappropriate relationship with
a staff member.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
That happened the court.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Earlier in the show we played it. Actually we talked
about it with when Louis was on. That's when the
story broke.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yes, this conduct constitutes a clear violation of university policy,
you know, maintain zero tolerance for such behavior.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Ad Award manual.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Said, Well, the interesting thing, I got a lot of
text from Michigan fans basically saying, well, they've been looking
for a reason to get rid of them, and they're
doing this, by the way, with they're firing him with cause,
so obviously that means they also then whatever is left
on his contract, they save that money as well, unless
this thing plays out in the courts at some point
or gets contested. I don't know, by Michigan standards, record
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not good enough. So in a sense, if Michigan was
looking for a reason, then this allows them to move
on without having to pay him as well. And Mason
and I were speculating on they named an interim, but
they're obviously going to name somebody else long term. And
I neither one of us really had logical candidates to
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be you know, like Michigan men who might be most
likely to end up back in the University of Michigan.
So we'll see exactly how that thing plays out. All right,
we'll break here because we are out at six, So
Kessel's going to join us after a very short pause.
Got a lot to get to with him, and we're
going to revisit a subject he's probably not going to
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be prepared for, but he has heard about before. And
we touched on it with Seaffert yesterday and it's coming
out later in December. It's the fiftieth anniversary of the
Hail Mary play, the original Minnesota Vikings Jinks, and there
are a couple of comments in the Seaffort piece definitely
worth a minute or two that will probably chuck Foreman's
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blood boil. We'll get to that with Kessler, and then
we'll get to some a section political stuff with him
as well.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Don't go away.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I wish the American media would take a great look
at the views that the people in Congress and find
out are they pro.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
America or anti.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
America, Guessler, because people have got to know whether or
not their presidents are property. I can't trust obamer tear
down this wall. Here we go. I did nothing wrong
at the Minneapolis Airport.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Senator, You're no Jack Kennedy Kssler and now to help
Dan break.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Down all the tough questions in politics.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
It's our own, it's all for political walk. I feel
like a supermodel, except like times ten.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Yay boys Essler with Dan Morero on the fan.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It is indeed that time again.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
If you have questions for Kessey six four six eighty six,
is the branch on Bryant k f A N.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Text line? Real quick? Here, I'm gonna look one other
place for vikings injury.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Here here's what I've I was able to find Brett
Blake Moore, darisaw dnp knee Hockinson d NP shin, darisaw
dnp knee tight end, t J. Hockinson, d NP shin.
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I don't remember him hurting his shin. I assume he
heard him heard in the last game, he had a
productive game. Sounds new, Yeah, touchdown. I thought it was
a poem wolves in five. Yeah, that's right now, that's
very different. That's extremely different. You're certainly old enough to
remember the Hail Mary play or then about thirty two,
thirty five years almost forty, almost forty, that's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
A couple of kids, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So Stefert reminded me that they're going to drop a
fiftieth anniversary piece because this I think it's is a December.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I think it's December. Look up the day to hail Mary.
I think it's December.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Twenty eighth, nineteen seventy five, so this would be then
fifty years.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
We've talked about it a bunch. We've had people, we
had Drew Pearson on. In fact, on that occasion Chuck
Foreman called in during our interview with Drew Pearson and
it started civil, but by the end of it, they're
yelling at each other. We playing at the moment it
was terrific. So, you know, we and we've talked about
the fact that you're a guy the Polish Eagle. Dick
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John Kowski think has made a huge celebrity because we
found out later after the fact that he was the
security guy on the sideline who on the previous fourth
and I think seventeen Conversion by Dallas.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Kicked Drew Pearson as he rolled out of box. Kicked him.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Oh god, but here's here's a nugget that's gonna It's
gonna anger Vikings. Fans old enough to remember it, and
certainly Chuck Foreman, who played in it, they quote, They've
got you know, all the principles are quoted, guys like
Paul Krause, Drew Pearson, Roger Staubach's deep, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
It's a deep dive and.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Makes sense because it is it is such a what's.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
The word for it.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
It's it's an iconic, it's an iconic moment, and it's
a mythic play that you know, for a lot of
Vikings fans old enough to remember it say, well, that's
where the whole thing starts, that's where it stays.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
All of that and for the hail Mary pass.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
ESPN NFL rules analyst Russell Yerk recently reviewed video off
the play. Oh Lord, brace yourselves, boys and girls. You're
there's no foul. It's not even close. Pearson is turning
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back towards the ball. The defender is kind of off balance.
He's surprised by it. I think when Pearson turns around
for the ball, just the action of that probably put
a little pressure on the defender and caused him to
lose his balance and fall down.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I don't see any overt push.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I don't see anything that would be OPI then as
an offensive pass interference then or.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Now I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
I don't know where they got this guy, the so
called quote unquote expert.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
But yeah, I mean it was a push. It was
a push.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
You didn't you certainly didn't endorse the bottle of booze
thrown at arm in Tersey in the referee.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Maybe, now come on, you can't do that. That's not good,
of course, and we don't like that. We don't like that.
But sure was fun. You know, I heard he didn't die.
I heard saying that some dude was myss. Somebody somebody
wrote in said their buddy had manufactured some of these
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for souvenirs.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yes, the foam.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Well, how about the story booze bottles? A guy texts
in also that I think did he say this was
it was Himmered his dad or somebody knew was a
cab driver, and that Pearson tried to get into a
cab here and as soon as he figured out who
drew who it was, he made pearson Lee cab. And
Pearson confirms it in the story. He confirms the cab controversy.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Okay, now that's awesome. That's a fan. You mentioned the
future in fifty years ago, and that was I think
one of the most crushing disappointments I think I've ever
had in any sports event, but certainly Vikings football. And
it sets the stage for all that followed, the highs
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and the lows, the agony of defeat.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Well, yeah, I mean it was something. I mean, it lasted.
It still was still last.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yeah, I mean, but it took months and years to
stop thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
There's no question about it, and I can't. You're ripped off.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Well here's here's the bigger the kicker. The kicker is
and this is this may be true, and this also
may be convenient. Well, that's the best Vikings team of all.
That was the Vikings team that would have won its
Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I don't remember, but I agree.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
People said, I agree, Well, of course that's what people
want to believe after the fact. Well, then you know what,
you're at home, win the game. Don't let him convert
on the fourth and what do we say? It was
was seventeen. I think the play before is fourth and seventeen.
It was a fourth and twelve.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I was just watching the highlights, and they got a
muffed punts at like the two yard lines. They punched
in they got gifts in this game, they still couldn't
do it.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
And still couldn't do it.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Well, God wanted Dallas to win because Roger Stawback throws
the ball, closes his eyes and says a Hail Mary,
Hail Mary, the Catholic Hail Mary.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
So there it is. That's where that's the that's.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
The origin of the Hail Mary, Pat that's when it
became to hail Mary path that's what he says, yes,
instead of hail Mary.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
One hundred percent true. Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
As I said, I was raised with the hatred of
the Coways based on the play, and I've also heard
the whiskey bottle story.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Thousands what it's all true. I mean it wasn't. I
got hit in the back of the head arm Terzyan.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Was he No, But I think he got knocked out
of the I mean I think it well, no, they guess.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
The game was a game already. It was. It was
at the end of the game. I think it's at
the end of the game.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
But he uh, I mean, I don't think he's knocked unconscious,
but I think he was hurt a little bit. Yeah,
I mean I think he was. He was definitely knocked woozy.
One would say, well, you know you don't like that.
You've got the bottle?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Is what I want to know. Does somebody have to
get in?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
How did they get through security and the metal detectors
and they check your bags?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Remember you wouldn't have any of that. You had none
of that.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Well, people are still pretty clever, right, well they are,
I mean think right.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It is a lot easier then.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Was it hot dog day at the Minnesota Twins came
the block?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Nobl like they're throwing.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Dollar. It was a dollar hot dog day. It was
definitely a special on wieners. So you do you endorse
throwing wieners? Well, that's a little after. I still wouldn't.
I wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
That's the commands, Bob Casey quote.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
That's correct. Quit quit this now, quit that. Tom Kelly
walked out in tears to the outfield. You know what
am I doing there?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
And put to bother you more than the than the
than the the whiskey bottle of the back of the head. Well,
I'm just saying, here we go. It's already started. Lawyer
Tom Pearson was out of bounds on the fourth and seventeen. Kids,
He's never going to stop. He's right it's never ever
going to stop. Uh, you're getting ripped to Ryan. I mean, no,
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Ryan is ripping Blake Moore. I should say Blake Moore
and said they can have the Packer injury reportant memorized.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
By this point, tell Vike's dot com to update their
life sounded and not that difficult. Alec Lewis had it.
I looked at.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Twitter now, okay, so busy on the pure progression stuff.
He's actually obsessed. Yeah, I know with the pure progression.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
It's not just progression.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Oh, it's pure I can't make it up. All right,
let's break, we'll come back. Let's take a look at
your list. We got a lot to get to, and
who knows what other controversies will arise between now and
the top of the hour.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Is that your Oh? Is that the governor? It's hi, Darling.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Oh okay, I'm on the radio. This is what we
have to put up with her in the Bumper to
Bumper program. Yeah, I mean, I mean, does does she
know we're trying to do a professional program?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
She feels?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
How would she feel by so many interrupting?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Now, normally that's my fault because I should have.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
The phone off. So they go Hi, darling. Yeah, well done,
all right, Well come back with more Kessie And it's
the Bumper to Bumper show rack. It's brought to by
American pressure. Let me squeeze.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
What this particular bit in firstn.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Me cannot wait progress.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I asked guards ee whether this was too remote or like,
you know, would enough people get it?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
But I have to.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Admit, if you're a sports fan at all, you can't
not know about pure progression as a fat passing a
quarterback philosophy, because that's all anybody associated with the Minnesota
Vikings I have wanted to talk about the last forty
eight hours. It's it's been pounded into our heads. So
for that reason, we went with a tsunami pure progression. Now,
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we did consider and I felt pretty strongly about this
one too, but we felt ultimately it might be a
little bit too old enough things have happened since this
to go in another direction, but I'll go ahead and
play it.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
No logic. God, how good has Ryan Donson become? That's good?
He has, absolutely, I mean I I can't.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I can't thank him enough because he uh, he loves
the bit and he's been very good at it.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
We're used to that.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I mean we're used to that a lot of time.
I used to do that to him all the time
on Channel four.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Is when yeah, also step right in. Yeah, it's just
so pure progression. Could be the name of a snowplow.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It could why not? Might well be her? Why don't
you dominate it?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
I might?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
You might do that. How neurological pathways could be too.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Did you storm the court after the Gopher men's basketball
team knocked off my Indiana Hoosiers?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
How about that number one? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Now our seats are in the mezzanine.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
The second level. I'm in the second Okay, we're happy,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I did storm the the Penn State football then a
couple couple three years back that way six years.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
That was like a year nineteen. It was a year ago. Okay, yeah,
kind of.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
So what I'm saying is I could have done it,
but it's difficult to get down there.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
But how about it, I say that had been precipitous,
Jo and John?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
What if so if you jumped and said, catch me
have fans and then you roll right, you know they
would you could.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Have done that would But here's the thing I say,
storm the court after everyone who cares.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Well, that's become what doesn't care? Why do I don't care?
I don't anymore. I've given up. I've completely given up
the ghost on it. If you don't come it exactly.
If you don't want to have standards, don't have them.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
It's okay.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Why is that a standard? Well, what's the if you
do it every time? Presumably the beginning. At the beginning,
the idea was this is a rare occasion because that's
what makes it feel valuable. Well, well, how does it?
How is it valuable if you do it in after
every game? What India losses should do it after losses too?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Hell? Why? Okay?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
So what was.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Indiana ranked at the time? They know they were like twentieth.
If they are twenty fifth, all right, so if they're out,
they've not fallen out. They got you killed?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
How about it?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
How about a top ten team?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Well, well, yeah, yeah, I think that should be the
standard in the middle of ten.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Well yeah, but I don't do tonight.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Well, you're gonna have a hard time storming the core
because you reminded me the games at in West at
Mackie Arena, West off Head.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
True enough, all right, so.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Tell me give me a good reason why the average
American farmers should not be thanking Donald J.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Trump today.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Don't worry about it. Trump is going to give American farmers,
including Minnesota farmers, twelve billion dollar bailout. These farmers are
facing financial devastation because of Trump's tariffs, and Trump is
swooping in to rescue everybody that he's rescuing people. He
has created a farm crisis, and now he's got a
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rescue plan that's going to protect them from his own actions.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Here's the deal.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Farmers cannot sell their soybeans because of the tariff's President
put on them. I sure hope that someday that the
tariffs will in fact help farmers and get them other markets.
But China stop buying. Even though they have an agreement
for China to buy more, they haven't done it. So
you got farm soybeans sitting on the farms. Everything costs more,
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the fuel, the drying machines, everything, and what are you going.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
To do with it?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
So this is like politics by Munchausen. Look it up, kids, Monchausen.
You create a crisis, then you swoop in, You swoop
in with a rescue plan, and then you're the hero.
So I don't know, Man, they've lost the market. China
is now buying from Argentina and Brazil, and how do
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you regain a market? And that's going to be difficult.
So yeah, these are what we'd like to call hush
money payments to American farmers.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
So I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I don't know where it's going to go. I sure
hope that some of the Minnesota farmers get helped by this,
but then what's going to happen next year? So that's
the deal. We'll see where it goes.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Have you yet attained or acquired? I guess that's probably
the more proper term. Yet acquired your new.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Trump Gold card?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
How about that? How much is that? Is that a million?
Has that five hundred?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I don't even know that this is the proposed investor
visa program?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
But we ever talked about this? We have not.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, and I think he's going to be his his
mugs on it is going to be on the card.
So it's an actual I think it's an actual card.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yes, gold. So here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
It looks like a credit card, but it's not. You know,
I think outside the box. I think this is an
interesting idea for immigrants that we want in the United States.
The brainiacts apparently from certain countries that can help with
what's the day today? Today is ten, here's the same.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
President Donald Trump today announced the launch of the Trump
Gold Card, which is similar to a Green card but
has more advantages. We've just launched the Trump Gold Card,
Trump said during a roundtable discussion with business He's about
thirty minutes from now. Site goes up and all funds
go to the United States government. Trump said businesses will
be able to purchase the cards and be able to
keep foreign exchange students in the US after they graduate
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from college and make it easier for them to get
jobs so they don't have to go back to their
home car country if they get a job in the
United States Gold Card. How much is it the Trump Well,
especially I thought it was a million, but I know.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
It might be five hundred thousand dollars. Let's say it's
five hundred thousand dollars. And our listeners are smart listeners
will tell you no, yeah, they'll tell them. So how
many companies you want? Ten of the foreign students who
have studied in the United States? Correct, And they might
be from India, they might be from Pakistan. They're really, really,
really smart, and you want to keep them here. So
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you want ten of them. And a company's going to
pay what five million yues?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I don't know. I mean that's the thing. So we
got so much money coming in. There's at least millions.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Now there's trillions, know that there are billions, oh billions
or maybe dollar there's trillions.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
The president says, twin, it's very possible. Tell me about
no problem.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Speaking of that, the President I think is planning starting
early next year, this affordability tour. So is this going
to be him finally acknowledging that it is an issue,
or is he still gonna Is he still running from
the notion that it is an issue for for a
lot of America.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Well, he began the affordability tour last night in in Pennsylvania, Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
And he just couldn't stick to the scrap.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Couldn't stick to the strip, very very difficult, and uh,
he kept veering off onto really unusual tangents. Uh, he's
there for the affili he says, I am the affordability President.
And then a minute later we'll say it's a hoax.
Everything's fine. You know your prices are going down. This
is I guess you could call it the don't pee
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on my leg and tell me it's raining tour. I mean,
why not? Well, yeah, because he says that on the
one hand, prices are coming down fast, you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Worry about it.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
On the other hand, he said, and I quote that
you don't your kids don't need the pencils. Yeah, you
don't need two hundred and fifty pencils. You just need
one or two and one or two dollars? And how
about that's and that like that? Last night?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Oh, he did said it again, it again.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
And he said that you don't need thirty seven dollars,
just give your daughter one or two.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Isn't that social? Isn't that communism? You've got it.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
He's controlling the flow of business. Yes, that's communism.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Everybody gets a dollar anymore.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Okay, for those of us who have daughters, did you
give your daughter thirty seven dollars for Christmas? No?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I don't think so. No, that most people didn't do that.
I did. Well, maybe they mean thirty seven over the
course of their lifetime. I don't know who has thirty
seven dollars. The courses a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Do okay, well, you know I did give not your judge,
I did give two hundred and fifty pencils.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
You have all kinds of connections within the Walls administration.
You want to tell me what he was smoking during
the Meet the Press interview. We've talked about a couple
of times without you, but I want to get back
into it now. I, for the life of me, I
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don't understand what he thought he was doing when he
answered the one question about well, what responsibil are.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You going to take?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
And I take, you know, I take your sponsorship for
putting the bad guys in prison?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
How does he do that?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
What?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
What?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
What was he thinking there? That was a jaw droppingly absurd.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
It really was.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Where you got to believe that Governor Waltz, who has
been you know, he's been in the middle of all
of this for many years as governor, he had to
expect that question. And when you ask someone in the
middle of a controversy, will you take responsibility? I mean,
did did he think?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
That?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Was flipping it on its head?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
That was what the hell moment where he said I
take credit for putting prodsters in jail.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Which is false. I mean it's demonstrably false.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Did he have some input on the on the edges.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Of all of this, Sure, but this wasn't moving forward.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
This was hell. This was the US Attorney's office that
that did this, and and there was one misstep after
another after number and I still think this isn't over.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
No, I don't either, So there it is.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yeah, there's still a lot of I think reporting that
probably needs to be to be done on it, and
I hope, I hope continue to be done on it.
Now you have an interesting one here that I didn't
see coming, and I guess I missed this. So the
Secretary of Transportation suggesting that, look, come on, people, let's
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stop going on an airplane for a ride to wherever,
you know, Florida, California, Paducah, Kentucky in you know, flip
flops and pajamas and basically your Jammy's That's exactly it.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
What are we doing?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
So what was the context of how this came up?
And it sounds like you're endorsing it, You're you're endorsing
the position the eat his position of let's get dressed
up again. Let's let's reregulate the airlines so that the
riff raft can't afford it anymore, and let's start putting suits.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
And ties on, and let's have a stewardess serve me
a martini correct on the flight. Well, this is a
Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, who in all of the
controversy surrounding flight the control towers and TSA and all
of the problems at the airports, which by the way,
we're in December and they're still blaming the Biden administration
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for this. But here's an idea that he had, he says,
And you know, I know flights are going down, and YadA, YadA, YadA,
he says, but how about this, how about we all
be a little more civil on the airplanes and when
it's just dress up a little bit, you know, just
you know, just dress up.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
I think that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
I promise I won't take my shoes off on the
flight right and.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Put them up on the bulky.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
But a lot of people are pushing back because it's
like riding in a cattle car nowadays, it's not really
there's not a lot of frills to this, and flights
are canceled and people are sleeping in airports and they
don't feel like they are special.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, Now, how old.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Were you with your first airline flight.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
First flight I took. I want to say I was
maybe six, okay, all.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Right, younger than me.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
My first airline flight was twenty years old. And I
was so excited. I mean, I got dressed up.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Where were you going? Do you remember? Yes?
Speaker 5 (32:40):
I was going to Philadelphia, Philadelphia of Minneapolis. And were
you dressed up on your first flight?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I'm sure I was. It was a trip.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
I think it was the only air flight I took
until probably teenage years after that. But it was to California.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, and we did. I'm pretty sure we got so.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
You know, fine, but I don't know if we were
in suiting suits and top I wasn't, you know, dress.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
Up like you're going to church.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
But that But you know, you've offered the comeback, which is, well,
if you want me to to sort of play along
with your game, then you have to change a lot
of the ways that you treat us and even what
you know, the if I feel like I'm going into
a cattle car, then I'm going to not be concerned
with your dress up game. Right, That's the contradiction. But
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does one contribute to the other. I don't know, And we.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Have a disconnect between let's all be civil on planes
and then watching the President of the United States on
his plane ripping. But here's here's the second part of
all of this. So Duffy, not making this up, says, maybe,
just maybe we should have exercise areas. In concourse, let's
throw a couple of chin up bars in there and
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let's do up.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Here's the problem with that, And I'm all dressing need sweaty,
stinky people then getting on sitting next to you sweating
because they didn't have a chance to shower after their
work pre flight work.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Well, you know, I thought it was a throwaway line.
But then the next day he shows up with a
chin up bar at one of the national airports and
they and they he has a contest with your guy,
Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who, by the way, works out
wearing jeans.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Long jeans. Yeah, I know, he's got an unusual So they.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Had a chin up contest. And is this what people
want or do they want to have the McDonald's restaurant
like the play areas for kids with all of the
plastic balls in there.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Last question that goes back to the beginning of the show.
How long have you lived here?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I have to think about this.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
A fifty year, sixty years.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
A long time. Yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Do you believe we are as good at handling a
four to five inch snowfall, because that's basically we had
this last twenty four hours as we believe we are,
or as we feel like we once were. Are we
still handling this again? There's a million more roads now,
there's a bunch more people, a lot, you know, so
you gotta fack it in. But do you think we're
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as good as we like to?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
You know, I're handling I don't think we are.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
And and although I'd have to do certain things when
I know we're going to get a snowfall, I fill
up the car and you know, like you.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Get bread for a month, you know, you do that,
you go to you do the panic buying at at
your cons and birey costco, costco, yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Bulk yeah, yeah, but yeah, I think I have one
piece of advice for the people. When you're trying to
get out of a parking spot in the snow, don't
turn your wheels, go forward. You know, I have had
to push so many people out and they're turning the wheels.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Of spinning them, spinning them, spinning them. You know what
I'm saying, Yes, I do. So, Yeah, I there's a
lot of panic. Yeah, there is.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
And so I don't think we are I don't think
we're awful, but I don't think it was as good
as we like to believe we are.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah, we're not.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
I I got a lot of texts from from drivers
or you know, like truck drivers and said, there's a
couple of examples where stuff was way too slow this time,
and I don't know if there's a specific reason for it.
And this has been funky because we've we keep adding
and literally another inches snow here.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
It's a pure progression of snow. It's over for two days,
very very true.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Uh so you're not going to go for game tonight, kids,
it's at Purdue.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
If I have what time, kid, it would be a
tough Well.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
You take the private plane, the private Fox nine plans
the jet done it before. You have done it before,
haven't you. How are the cards going?
Speaker 5 (36:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (36:29):
The holiday cards? Holiday cards? You love that well?
Speaker 3 (36:31):
I sent you had your feelings hurt by the conversation
Guardsian and I had earlier.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
I was so excited to see some Enough Said references.
I love enough set, so I write back on the cards.
Guardzi says happy holidays, and possibly Dan.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Barrero also that's w. I can't argue with that. Actually,
thank you of a pleasant week, Pat Kestler. We're out
for Golden Gopher men's basketball at Produce.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
They tuned