December 18, 2025 • 41 mins
Dan and Gaardsy review the Top 5 including a Vikings injury report and a preview of the Wild game before they open "Dr. Dan's Inbox" with plenty of submissions from all sides of the Pohlad family.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Human.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
What can I say to Jonathan from Bloomington. KG isn't
the type to do a big press conference. That's what
made him different from Jimmy Buckets and his press conference
when he gave out his cell number. It doesn't have
to be that kind of press conference. Man, What well,
what are you spoken here? I covered KG forever. I
understand who he is. He's not incapable of doing a presser,
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or he's not incapable of trying to make this kind
of announcement with a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Substance to it and effectiveness.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
That's all I'm saying is and eventually he probably will.
Maybe they'll say, well, it's just a matter of time
when that is. But this has nothing to do with
like I'm trying to turn him into the next Jimmy Butler.
It's kind of a flawed analogy that misses the point
on if this is what's coming it's a great opportunity
for the organization to maximize its effectiveness. Right, the best
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player in team history is coming back, right, He's back
in the family.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
That's something to milk, isn't it. Yes? And I bet
they will milk it eventually. I bet they will milk it.
For the record, I wanted to start hockey, and that's
what we're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Did you read read the text from Guardsy's Conscience? Is
that why you're doing it? It was at a late switch. No,
because the suggestion was you weren't going to lead with hockey.
That's obviously the falllest burner account is Guardsy's Conscience?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Oh is it?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Well, I'm assuming it is. Yeah, I'll it's a fire up.
I have not yet really learned how to do the
idification code that you do.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It's it's not fun.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah, it's fine. I did it when I was hosting
a little bit, but it took a while. Yeah, so
I haven't done it today. But I was texting with
Guardsy's Conscience because I had a question for him.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I just wanted to know what times of pregames start. Well,
I know that.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
It's probably about to start in about forty minutes. We
won't carry it on the fan because we go until
six on the Wild Radio network. They'll bring it up
or they'll have it, but I just wanted to confirm
and make sure I knew that it was the Great
Wall of Saint Paul in Net Tonight as your red
hot Minnesota Wild hit the road now after a great
homestand where they continued their thirteen game points at home streak,
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which I believe tied a franchise record, and they get
the Columbus Blue Jackets tonight. The Blue Jackets not very good,
just thirty four points. That married it is a trap game.
I heard Tom Reid say it the other day on
the way home, said, you gotta pay attention. You can't
mess around in this game. But with Quinn hughes and
apparently people call him Huggy, I'm gonna go with Hughesy.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
For this show. The nickname is Huggy.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
That's when somebody texted, why isn't the Hughesy Maybe it
is for some and somebody said call it or Hugsy
or hugs I don't know right, but I'm calling him
Hughesy and Houggy.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Doesn't I mean for a for a grizzled hockey player.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I don't think that works.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
It was just one text, so somebody could just be
making it up. That's true, So you hear the game
right here on the fan. The Wild continue to play well.
I mentioned the Great Wall of Saint paul Is in
net tonight eight one and oh in his last nine starts,
your guy Carson Lambos is making his NHL debut. Because
for the hottest seem in hockey, and nobody's playing, we
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have like four players available. Seven regulars are injured, as
the Wild looked for six in a row for drug.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
How is that possible? How do we have that many
people out? Anybody else have that many people out? I
don't know, but we have a lot. Can we blame
the training staff? We like to do that. That's what
the Twins would do. Twins would fire the trainer. Did
you see have you seen much of the Hughes era?
Have you been locked in since they not? It's it's magic,
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pure electricity. Yes, he is pure electricity.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
He is.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I used to just watch Caprice off every time he
was on the ice and just follow him.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You lose yourself in his eyes. And now it's guys now,
it's like who do I watch? Who do I look at?
Because they're both doing majestic things. I can't. I have
no argument.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It's it's it's so as we talked about with Louis,
the entire franchise has been elevated to a place that
has not been in a long time. None of that
guarantees the Cup, but it guarantees you're in more rarefied
air from the casual sports fan that says, I got
to lock into this. I gotta pitch. I want to
get in on this because I don't want to have
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suffer fomo. This is going to become right now. This
is becoming the cool team to follow. It is no
question about it. It's fun and it helps that they're
playing now as well as they're playing or winning as
as consistently as they're winning.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
At least, Biking season is continuing this Sunday against the
New York Football Giants on the road. You'll also hear
that right now here on the fan as well as
your iHeartRadio app. Brian O'Neill and Ryan Kelly were both
back at practice today. Limited in practice today. Christian Darisad
did not participate again in practice today, shut him down, like.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
We talked about last week. Why do we bother? And
here's Kevin Seaffert's tweet Christian Daris.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
On Tuesday we did Did you talk Deariso at all
or did you get other things?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
What is today? Thursday? I barely know what happened.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
An hour ago, Christian Darisa said he preferred not to
talk today. When approached in the locker room, he said
he couldn't answer a question about whether he will play
again this season. That from Kevin Seffert, we did talk,
deisawd now that you mentioned it, because I asked him.
I asked Kevin something along the lines of do we
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anticipate that this is going to be something they'll be
dealing with next year? That and Kevin's response, and you know,
Seaffert was my understanding is that the expectation is this
will not happen next year, which I think means the
team's gone, Like what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Well, yeah, that's why we're shutting down, because we shut
down Grenard, we shut down tell Us, right, Martell, tell us,
Josh Man tells, call him tell us.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I got a good vibe with him, monster back.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
So yeah, well, I mean, what what's the what's the
difference at this point unless they are mad at him,
they and they don't want to give him the satisfaction
of shutting him down. To me, it makes all the
sense of the world to shut him down.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Where did I want to go? How about the Wolves?
Are you gonna?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I guess Falness really is in charge of the top five?
You weren't going to mention them.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
But that was a bad game last night. Did you
watch that? That was brutal as bad. I'm glad Finchy
said it, although, like you always say, it's your team,
coach if things aren't going well, and I know Bones
Highland played pretty well in some stretches last night.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
But not at the end.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
He pulled him out of the game with three minutes
ago after he jacked up a shot from the left side.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Which one he jacked up too. I don't think he
wasn't happy with him. I don't think the flow of
the offense means Bones Highland needs to be throwing up
to wing threes from thirty feet. I'm not sure, but
Nas had a weird shot. Randall was a messy. It
was as bad an offensive performance as I can remember.
And yet on the other side, and by the way,
Memphis was letting him hang around too. That Memphis was
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without Jah Yep and Zach Edie had basically been their
most valuable player right the previous like three weeks, and
that he's out with I think it's a stress fracture.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I think, so he's out for a few weeks. This
sums it up. Bobby Orr's clone Tepaw stands alone. Jock
was in the zone Wolves and five. Who's the guy
named Jock from Memphis? I never heard of him before
twenty points.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
That's the guy with the hair but also the bald spot,
daggering corner spreez. I he had twenty and ten I
know anyway, and he hit the daggers your club.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, it was. It was not a good watch.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
And the funny thing was they actually did get Memphis
to has enough shots to steal the game, and they
could not do anything in the last five or six minutes.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It was it was no good. Yeah, the balls.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
So we got Friday, right, Yeah, I'm assuming that's why
we let Ant take another day off, is we want
to make sure he's ready for that one.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
And there were some videos of him after practice today
getting some extra work and it looks like he's moving
pretty well.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
So we got a good opponent's Sunday too. Who is it?
It's the Bucks, It's the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Wha.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Actually, I haven't paid it to the Bucks if they're
up or down even playing at point gannest I don't
think he's an out right they maybe they maybe they're
not that good.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
And then the NBA Cup champion New York Knicks are
coming to town next Tuesday. Tell me if you agree
with you because it's the cup, because it's the Cup.
This was a late rant I had last night. I'm
perplexed why everyone's mad that the Knicks like celebrated winning.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
The NBA Cup. Couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Because we complain the way I phrased it to Blake More,
who's you know?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
It is not the biggest NBA guy.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
So I said, what what's the biggest complaint about the NBA?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And he said load management.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I said, kind of, that's a complaint, but the guys
don't care too cool and that they don't try cool
and they create this and it's not organic. Of course,
not everybody on that team won a half a million dollars.
The San Antonio Spurs Davy got two hundred Grand Final.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
But to your point, the competition ended up being pretty
damn good.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Games were very good in your hundred percent right that
they should be able to celebrate it. I'm with you,
and you don't have to apologize. We know they didn't
win an NBA title last night, right. The thing about
a banner, I don't know if you want a banner.
I don't that a little much. And they're not doing one,
and I don't care if they did. But I think
the fact is this is because this is gonna be.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I think in ten years is gonna be pretty big.
I really do by then because people get used to it,
and it built the competition down The stretch of those
games was was pretty damned damned good, including Oki City
that's where I wanted to go.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, and the Spurs and go back to the Semis
that game, the Wemby set, it was terrific, the chippiness,
all of it because we so I'm just people as
a can't win. You have to make me laugh because
they're mad about and you know, Barkley says the Cup
is stupid, and it's like and and yes, in a
perfect world. The teams are always going to be locked in.
On December seventeenth, on a Tuesday night, were over there,
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but we know it's not reality.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I have no problem celebrating the event and winning it
and yeah I like it. No, it was it was man,
we can't ever get there.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
That's the contradiction, is that.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Most of the time we're too cool for school, and
then when people react like there is some emotion involved,
it's like, oh, calm down.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
What did you really act? So what do you want? Exactly?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
All right, all right, let's uh, we'll get to inbox
the bottom of the hour. Email guards e J G
JG at cafe and dot com back in a minute.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
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Speaker 1 (11:18):
Allen and Aften, writes Dan.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
When KG does join the show sometime in the near future,
please make sure Brett Blakemore is not working. KG will
make Kenny Petera look like a church minister, and Blake mar.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Will not be the man the bleep button.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Well enough save his career for stalking the ASU hockey coach.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
That's Alan Afton. That's very good.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
We may have to pre record it. Yeah, yeah, that's
true KG. Though he knows how to clean it, he
actually does when he has to. Yes, absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
If the Wolves would have celebrated the cup like that,
Dan would have ripped them all show.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I really wouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Now, if Wolves fans would have stormed the court, well,
it wouldn't be. It wasn't gonna be a home game anyway. Right,
it was in Vegas, but I might have ripped that. No,
I'm with you totally on it. I think it's again,
there's no point in belaboring it. It's it's sort of
been explained that there's this weird disconnect between what do
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you want exactly? I I you know, I mean, I
didn't think they acted like they won the NBA title.
I thought they acted like, Okay, it's a nice saga.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
We had a nice run week. It was.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It was a really good game, and as you mentioned,
the game that kind of set it up. Uh, the
Spurs game against Oklahoma City. You know again, Oklahoma City
is right now one of those teams like, well got
to see can they possibly lose one? And so for
it to happen in the tournament, I think accentuated the moment.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
So I I.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
What I've ripped the Wolves. I really don't think I
would have. I honestly don't. Now if there are people
in the you know, in the organization, we're acting like
they'd won the title, fine, but I don't think the
Knicks were acting like they wont tight.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I don't think. So.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
What if Pat Bev was there and he grabbed Anthony
Lance again and they jumped on the scorers tape, that
might be a bit much. That might which, by the way,
I didn't rip him for that. I can't remember if
you did or not. That was, like I sadly at
the time, it was like a top five moment in
franchise history.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I might have not sure Seagules last night.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Why as a round ball guy've been preferring to watch
the Wild They've been remarkable And don't forget Boldie, he's
been a beast.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
That's from Hugo Big time guy. I had no arguing
with that. True. I can't even believe the power play.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
The power play, well it had it for ninety seconds
in the first two minutes, and the puck was flying
all over the place. It was so fun. No no
clunky zone entry, no bad shots. I don't think they
scored on that one. I don't know if that was
a Terasinko one or not, but it was just flying
all over the place. It was majestic.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Always dangerous visiting Dean Everson's blue jackets. He'll be mean,
mugging on the bench the way only he can and
looking for revenge.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I do miss that look. I do miss the d look,
don't you. It was great, just outstanding.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
You see his line today when somebody asked him to
skate around, Now, what do you see the difference with
the wild or something like that?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
He said, better coaching is what he's said. Yeah, perfectly clear.
I thought it was gonna be the other thing.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Well, if they if they had given me a defenseman
as good as as the current coach heinz he's got,
maybe maybe I never would have been fired.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
It's very very true. I think he did say that.
Actually he said that over the weekend. Did he He
said something along the line of, I wish you would
have made that move while I was there.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I'm pretty sure he did say that, which was great.
Is no arguing with that. I don't think it's a
good line, self deprecating to a fault. They're not very
good though, right the jacket. No, they're not thirty four points.
I think I said I had Oh, I assume you
talked a decent amount of twins the last couple of days.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yes, you were on both days. Yes, newpole had in town.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yes, well, the jokes are going are pretty funny actually
about it.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
It's like it's kobiaks. How many? How many kubiaks are there?
How many?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I had no idea there were this many pole ads?
Did you basically almost made it sound like a palace coup.
He basically said to Joe, Joe, I'm older, it's time
getting hell out right. It's almost like the whole family
just streams succession on HBO.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Go exactly. That's what this feels like. They don't know
what to do.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I don't know what if he had any overarching points,
but mine would be simply this.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
The quote.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
There were several quotes that rubbed me the wrong way.
That's not new when I pole Ad speaks, although I
guess you give this pole ad some credit for saying
we have no credibility with our fan base. That's the
first pole Ad has been willing to state the obvious,
even if it is obvious. But here's the the I
don't have to direct the exact quote in front of
me from which what's which pole Ad is?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
This is Tom this is Tom pol.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
But it was something along the lines of we're not
going to put a lot more money into it right now.
We put a lot of money into it the last
few years, and that's part of the reason where in
the position we're in, to which I again, and I
think I can say this with a straight face. If
I had been at the press conference, if this was
a press conference, I honestly think I would have sit
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up and said, then why don't you sell the team?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Seriously? That's what I can't countenance. I can't tolerate.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You have every right to thinking you got were wronged
by all this money you spent when once again, by
Major League Baseball standards, the payrolls were not really that obscene.
But if it's so daunting and you feel like you
can't solve the Rubik's cube because of some of the
limitations you have, whether it's the TV deal, whatever the
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case may be.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Then get out. Just get out of it. That's my
that would be my comeback to them. Let let's find out.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Maybe the next guy or the next two guys would say,
I don't feel different thing. The pole ads there, there
ain't no way to do this, to spend money, But
wouldn't it be refreshing to find out give somebody else
a chance who might have not only deep pockets, but
pockets to say, screw it for the next five years,
I'm spending even if it's not logical. I'm going to
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spend and and I'm going to see where this thing goes.
That's the part that just made me sick. It's it's
the older We want to have it both ways. We
want to continue to tell you why we can't spend money,
but we want to still hold.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Onto the product. Why why do you want.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
To hold onto the product if it's this much of
a if the obstructions are as great as they seem
to be, Do you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
I just don't understand that part because they have they,
But they also have a relentless pursuit to win a championship.
Remember that I forgot about that one, Remember that relentless.
I'm looking forward to the Tom Pole out era. Let's see,
let's see what happens.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Open mind.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Well you got to. I mean, it can't believe worse
than the Joe poll out era. But I'm not That
quote doesn't give me.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
This.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I mean, yeah, I have to imagine the poll add
Christmas is pretty nice, and now there's going to be
all this tension. Although he made it seem like he
didn't love it at first, but he's coming around or something.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, like, are we sure? I know that?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
The whole thing seems very strange to me. It's a
it's a strange family.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Let's pause. I didn't tell you my idea.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
No, because Joe has been, you know, obviously basically kicked
out of the family business. I think what he should
do is he should be the one. He should be
the Minnesota Golphers, Mark Cuban, he should be he should
be the new nil guy for the Golphers.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah, the poet PJ. What do you want?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I'm sure their neighbors, I'm sure they live close. Just
take some of that money, maybe some of the other
cousins too, and give it to the Gophers, you know,
Dickey Town athletes, and then he can be on the
sideline's idea next year for.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
The college football. I'm guessing PJ. Fleck wouldn't mind. He
would take it. He would love Joe.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, exactly, yea, as the check books open, he the
PJ J. P Joe.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I mean, it's writing itself a wonderful thing. Let's come
back and get to the inbox. Email Guardie jg at
cafe and for any late entries. We will wrap things
up at six leading into Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Wild h.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Is the cnunami ongoing right now. It's dark, so we
can't see her. I can't see anything.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, that's not good. Well, I'm all confused by this
light snow right now, let me get refreshed.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I assume the roads are a mess though, because it
doesn't take much snow in rush hour to screw it up.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
All right, is it time for the inbox? Yeah? I
just got to grab the music. There we go, and
here we go. She's dying for a doctor sandbox.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Wow did you see the Nick Saban comments about James Madison.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, and I don't like him.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I'll remind I'll pass it along to folks who have
not seen it. Saban says James Madison getting into the
college football playoff over notre name is the equivalent of
a Triple A baseball team qualifying from the MLB playoffs.
He was on, is that the mcinally show what's his name?
Pat McAfee, McAfee, Yep, what is it?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Mcinaley? For me, I always think mcinow.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
McAfee, who's like smirking the whole time.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
He is saying it.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You do not approve of the Saban no savagery. No,
it's not the twelve best teams, which is fine. I
don't think it needs to be. But should it be,
how do they get there?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Again?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
I forgot it has to do with being one of
the highest ranked power fors or non power forwards and
conference champion, the whole deal. I don't have any problem
with it. It's okay. We're asking all these schools to
pay their players and invest and pay all this money.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I just on Alabama, man, that was my issue.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
No, and same with Tulane. There's a lot of bitterness
tu Lane's in there. It's like, it's okay for not
every game has to be epic. Not every game, you know,
it has to be a battle of blue blood heavyweights.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
And it bothers me.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
It just it does bother me that we think that
the playoff has to be this elite of There's plenty
of SEC teams in there, right, There's plenty of Big
ten teams in there. There's plenty of quote unquote power
teams in there. It's okay to let the little guy
in there to.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Have a crack. When do you have to go to Phoenix?
I'm leaving Monday, Monday, okay, and the game is the
twenty sixth.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
The game is, yeah, Thursday or Friday, so you have
to go that early. I don't have to go there.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You are going there? Oh, I see it.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
It's a Christmas. It's a family Christmas. Okay, you got
to figure it out. It's the the entire Guardsy crew. Okay,
hopefully none of them are listening in the car.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Right now, because it's supposed to be a surprise.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Yeah, you shouldn't have said that. Well, but I didn't
want to be cag with you. Oh well, you know,
but you could have been away. You pull the thread well, no,
but I wasn't. I really wasn't thinking. I was just thinking,
you know, when the timing's not great because it's the
day after Christmas and it might affect everything, but.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
The team's going Sunday. I believe gotcha Sunday after all. Right,
Letter number one, Dear Doctor Dan, this is a good
one because I had to think about this first.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I hope all of this wasn't my fault. It was
all fun and games.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
When I brought my show to town for the Super
Bowl a few years ago, since your m Vikings weren't
able to make it to the big Game, I thought
I would do your state of favor bring a few
laughs from New York. In order for me to do that,
I needed to take advantage of your state's snowbait program
and the two hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars that
went with it. I had heard about Minnesota and ice,
and lately it sounds like a lot of people have
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been finding out how Minnesota ice and generous your state
can be. When I was there, I opened my show
by saying, hold on to your tater tots, but to
two hundred and sixty seven thousand. I got May as
well be tater tots. Compared to some of the latest
funds being handed out, looks like the state is providing
the laughs.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Now, sincerely, j Fallon, that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
So what Collin is admitting is he was one of
the original fraud tourists. He may have been He may
well have been a fraud tourist, is what he saw.
We did have to give it. Remember that.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, that's that program to bring the arts here. Think
about and it was controversy our seal. Think about it
in this context.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
How much was it to sixty seven thousand, sixty seven million?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Nope, turn of.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Sixty seven thousand and now so tourist, you know, we
say two sixty seven thousand. That's like tip money in
feeding our future or autism or what's the latest one, medicaid.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
It goes on and on and on.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
That's seth chump change. Wow, how times times they were?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
The simple times?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Definitely simpler times for sure. That's a good one. That
is a very deep cut.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It's time for doctor.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Box.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Dear doctor Dan.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
How about that wild hockey team Stanley cup Chet, Western
Cottmerance chit. Oh wait, it's the regular season is December
and they still haven't won anything yet. We'll see how
m bold K capriceof Q Hughes and Jay Volstad doing
the playoffs if they make it. Sincerely, j Krasinski and
Jay Frederick, how much.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Do you think there's a little, deep down secretly there
is a little envy and jealousy right now because you know,
Louis said it right. I mean, if you go back
to the Ruty trade, you can go back to last
year before training camp, the cat trade. The Wolves were
the cats me out, no pun intended, Yes, it was
all the cat Oh well big you know again big
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swings from Tim Conley. Now it's the hockey team taking
a big swing, and I think they feel a little
bit left out they.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I mean, I don't think Johnny has it in him.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
To do an oral history on this particular trade, do
you think And even if you wanted to, Russo wouldn't
let him. That's a he's already probably yeah, And I
know Joe Smith did one. I think they did a
cobal line one.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
But Jay Frederick is on there. You joined me yesterday
and I said that, I go, what's Tim Conley's move?
And Jason first of all said, well, are you sure
the wild aren't responding to what the Wolves did. Well,
see is you know factual because they did make the
two big swings, but then he had to do that.
And if they they make the Western Conference finals back
to back years, let's get back to us. And I
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even said I thought this was is this Monday? And
Johnny ATHLETEX on the show was crazy.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
All these basketball guys, I didn't realize they're incredibly defended.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
That's what hockey people usually are. It is interesting. Yeah,
that's turning a little bit. It didn't help. Like you
said last night, the performance last night was bad.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
No, like Kevin Garnett's back, that's what he's doing. We're
not exactly sure that's right. When is Jerseys being retired?
We don't know that either, clue.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
But we can do the Instagram post now, which is good.
And we're still supposed to get a Rod and Lori
and studio sometimes. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
That's what my sources say, but I but I keep waiting.
It'll obviously have to be after Christmas.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Now, Dear doctor Dan, in my tireless effort to create
one Minnesota, it turns out that perhaps a dollar or
two is gone missing.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
While sipping a diet due.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
This morning I learned that em Lindell is trying to
unseat me as governor over my felt jogger's boy. Here's
the real question, doctor Dan. Would you rather have my
leadership or my pillow?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
To you all, you wouldn't think t Walls would have
time to do this sort of thing right now? You know,
you think you'd be a little bit on the busy side.
But he's got people. Well, nobody in all honestly thinks
the pillow guy is going to get the nomination. Is
he running a Republican or is an independent? I think
it's Republican. You know Kessler Kessler yesterday what he says said,
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he's got big inroads with a lot of Republicans right now.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I and and who else is in the UH? I
can't remember the faces.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
It was the Rice White But he's talking about Senate, right,
Senate Yeah again?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Probably whatever again?
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Yeah, Michelle Tafoya considering a Senate apparently, yeah, garnering some momentum.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Correct, right, doctor.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
We good letters due, doctor Dan.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Everyone is singing my praises for the Q Hughes trade,
and that's nice, But it's my other recent genius move.
I'm even more proud of becoming an owner of the
soon to be fourth place finishers of the revered American
League Central, the m Twins.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Here's why it's genius.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
While the M Wild are constantly criticized for not getting
out of the first run of the playoffs, as owner
of the Twins, I'll never have to hear that criticism again.
Making high pressure trades, no worries signing off on a
multimillion dollar contract for someone insert laughing emoji here. It's
the best gig in town, doctor Dan. The only pressure involved.
How can we keep milking the eighty seven and ninety
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one World Championship teams?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Sincerely see Leopold. Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Well, somebody texted this earlier that well, I think I
mean Louis at all. So said when we talked to
him that now people are talking about forget getting out
of the first round. They have the Wild making the
Cup title round the the Championship around the finals. What's
the minimum since the big trade? Now that we made
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the big trade, what's the minimum? The minimum is you
have to get out around one? Yeah, you have to
get out of two.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Do you have to get I don't know, because there's
Hockey's weird well, and it's still the central Yeah. I
think we need to remember also the teams that they're
still chasing. Yeah, I know they've beaten both of them
in the last two weeks, Dallas and Colorado.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
But those teams aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
You got to get out around one somehow, some way, somehow,
some way, as Yeah, because that's what you what you
when you make the big swing, it's a lot of
fun and I applaud it, but then it does raise
the stakes. It's inevitable, it's it's got to raise the stakes.
So somehow, some way, you got to find a way
at least to get out around one.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
All right, where I want to go?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
We got a lot from you're getting ripped as being
you're on the college football playoff. Typical woke slash liberal
take by Guardgie.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
What does that mean? What's the that's one probably that
you know that you didn't want to be. I'm a
college football socialist, so everybody. Yeah, there's plenty of blue bloods.
Alabama's playing Oklahoma. I think tomorrow night. I think in
the in the eight nine, my Hoosiers or might be
in trouble. Why they lost their second best defensive player
the guy.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
I mean, it's yeah, perform that's not that's not great
to help. It does take some luck, but Siegel figured
it out. They've got to buy right before they go
out to the Rose Ball.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yeah, it's hard to believe they're gonna be playing in
the Rose Bowl. I still think you should go out.
I know you do. Well, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
This one won't get any text. All right, go ahead,
dear doctor Dan. I shouldn't do this with ten minutes
left in the show, But what the hell? It was
so great to hear you complain about t Walls and
the Democrats not taking responsibility for things.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Going wrong under their watch.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
That's the only way to get re elected to any
position of power. That's been the foundation of any success
that I've had.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
D Trump, Well, yeah, it's a dangerous bomb you drop,
because I'm getting ripped by a lot of the righties
for even attempting to bring Trump into this conversation. So
I'm damned if I do. I'm damned if I don't.
There's absolutely some truth to what he's saying, although I
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haven't seen what are the current Walls. Who's got lower
approval numbers in the state of Minnesota. Walls as governor
or Trump as president. I gotta believe in Minnesota it's
Trump as president. But nationally, Trump's approval numbers are in
the thirties, aren't they like the low thirties?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Now, yes, and.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
He's And here's the thing, Indiana Republicans basically said bleep
you to him. I don't know if you guys talked
about that with Kessler, but you know, the plan in
Indiana was we're going to what's the term and for
it reconfigured.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
That's not the term for it, Yeah, redistrict.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
And there were enough Indiana State Republicans who said we
ain't doing it.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
And that's pretty impressive.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I mean, right now, in all honesty, Indiana should be
considered heroic nationally, one for standing up to Trump in
that case. And two they got the best, you know,
football story in all of college football this year at IU.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
And if Kevin Warren is to believe that, you believe Garrett,
They're about to get the Chicago Bears football stadium.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
I'll tell you something. It's not crazy. We can do
a deep dive on it maybe tomorrow. A lot of
people think it's it's absolute posturing I'm not discounting that possibility,
but I'm here to tell you, and I don't know
if people understand it. The Bears playing in Northwest Indiana
is not all that different than the New York Giants
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playing in Joysy.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
It really is. It really isn't.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
And here's in Indiana might be more willing to play
ball because it would be such a dramatic story and departure.
Are you kidding me? Indiana? The region Northwest Indiana, which
is really more Northwest Indiana, is a lot less Indiana
and a lot more Chicago.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
To be honest with you, anyway, it's like a whole
different part of the state. In fact, the rest of
Indiana I'm not.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Even sure likes the region, which might be the problem politically.
Do you get enough votes to get all of the
money that you want that obviously Kevin Warren wants to
even consider making such a dramatic move.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
I've driven by the Gary RailCats Stadium on that interstate
a lot. I think they're an independent baseball team. Yeah,
it's a beautiful ballpark. See I've never even seen it.
I hear it's pretty. It looks awesome off the interset,
the RailCats in a grand name.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
It's a great name. Yeah, that's true, it's a great name.
So we'll see. All right, let's do this. I do
a series of.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Fun doctor dan I just want to say something to
all those people who claim that I was born and
raised on third base and never had to work for
anything in my life. I am technically not on any
base right now. After my brother decided to pinch run
for me and take over what I had, I guess
I'll go wander around in the woods where we replanted
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those spruce trees in center field. It's not all easy
street in my life, Doctor dan Ja Polab.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Well, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
This isn't the time for it, because doctor dan zinbox
is supposed to be relatively light. But I got to
tell you something, and I'm glad. I actually my memory
is now jogged. Wall Street Journal had a terrific op
ed piece that about the Rob Reiner tragedy and about
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the life that his son now obviously facing murder charges,
and we it's easy to play the game of well
what do they have? You know, what do folks like
that have to complain about? He's he's he's born into privilege,
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just like Rob Reiner was built, was was born into
privilege on his dad Carl, and so no one ever
wants to hear about the problems of individuals who who
have all those you know, advantages. But the story lays
out beautifully how there is often more to the story,
and whether people want to admit it or not, or
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accept it or not, they're often are trials and tribulations
associated with being born into that kind of notoriety that
are unde deniable. I'm gonna bring it in tomorrow unquote
from it more directly, because it had a lot of
good stuff, but it probably isn't worthy of probably a
little too heavy for the.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
For the bus.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
I just like I said, Doctor Dan admits he doesn't
really want to think about any pole ads anymore.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I don't, I don't.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
I mean, I just wish they would go away and
do whatever else they want to do. And it's no offense.
It's like, I'm not, you know, demanding it or anything. Well,
I guess I kind of am, but it's just I'm
weary of all of the trials and tribulations and all
of the permutations and the stops and the starts, and
now we've.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Got another pole ad.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Kid in there, and that's he's going to be different
or he's not going to be different. And here's why
we're doing it the way we're doing it. You know,
you know, the only thing that upset the apple cart
would be if then he won't do it. If Buxton
were to say, there are rumors that I might be
willing to waive my no trade clause, and you're assuming
I no longer am interested in waving that trade clause
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because you're saying you're not going to make any more trades.
But you're also saying you're really not going to make
that many auditions. Auditions, get me out of here. That's
the only hope we have. But even then, I don't
think the pole AADs would have the dec seat to sell.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Tom says he's go bigger, go home, guy, go bigger,
go home. Did he really say that he did? I
didn't remember if I saw that quote. Only time will
tell go bigger, go home. That's what he says. But
now maybe not this year, What year, I'm not sure undetermined.
Same year that Cag's jersey is going to be retired.
We're not sure. Dear doctor Dan. Here's a couple more quickies.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Give somebody else a chance. I really wanted to. They
were never going to sell the damn team.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
I really enjoyed listening to your conversation with El Nanny today,
especially when he was talking about how great b Or was,
specifically at how great a skater he was and how
great he was at avoiding checks. I'm an eleven year
NHL player, and I also know someone who is great
at avoiding checks. M frozen that from the Manny's booth
and M perish.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Yeah, well, there there was an abbreviated version of that
one texted in earlier, so I kind of knew you
saw was going that.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
One was coming.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Did you know where this one was coming? No, I
was just gonna say. I mean, Luie and I have
had this discussion forever.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Most hockey historians believe that the two greatest hockey players
ever are Bobby Orr and Dwayne Gretzky.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
I happen to agree with.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
That, but I will tell you that I think if
you forced me, I mean, I'd live with the guy
you know, getting this second guy, But if you forced
me to pick, I think I would pick Bobby Or.
I don't even think the kids realize how good Bobby
Orr was my god with a magnificent player and you know,
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an unstoppable scorer as a defenseman, not to mention being
a great defenseman.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
There was nobody like Bobby Orr Ever, he's dying for
a doornbox your doctor, Dan, you know what. I'm not
going into the shenanigans about my chili being hot, but
I can't assure you my meatballs are succulent. That from
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b Garn. Oh God, I forgot to ask Louis. I
don't think Louis is much of a cook. No, he
likes good fo he does, but I.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Don't think he's as much as as much of a
cook as Billy Garran seems to be.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Not that we'll ever find out.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
You weren't invited to the party when you talked about
it on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Not really, now, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
I guess I could have been frontal and try to
invite myself, but I thought that was a little ghost.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Garen.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Actually, I think would be like, yeah, yeah, he would
would come by.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
It's going to be a heck of a swarrey.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Well, he's been cooking for a month, he's been making
meatballs for six weeks.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Didn't he say I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
I thought he said he had he was he had
like they had, like, is sixty pounds of meatballs ridiculous?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Maybe it's a lot, Oh, that's a lot. Whatever it was,
it was it.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
They was working on it when the trade came through
it and they were still working on it Sunday when
he was talking.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
On it's got to be sixty because yeah, sixteen seems
not enough. Well not for like multiple days like that.
When when was the party?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Was it this week? No, it's kind of it hasn't
happened yet.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
So that's where I think's like right before Christmas, I think, yeah,
which is coming up?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
And it is right around the corner.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Last one, Dear doctor Dan, my brother told me we
needed to right size the family.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
How's that for Irony J Pollet? I just I hope.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Somebody like lovel does the backstory on, like I said,
the Palace Coop, because it definitely, based on the quote,
sounds like Joe was not all in on this and.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Was pretty much told Joe go to the back of
the line. You've had your moment, We're done with you.
Even though the quote was also well, you know, it
came along after a while that was really fun. It
was very It felt like there might have been some
uncomfortable I think he said it, yeah, moments at the
dinner table. It's and I'm assuming it's one of those
dinner tables where huge, like one end is like four
miles from the other, and everything's fancy and everything's got
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you know, you got the formal stuff and so forth, and.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
The other siblings and have to choose side. I mean,
I'm serious. This is like succession. It's very strength, like succession.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
All right.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
I want to thank Sean Salisbury who joined at three
point thirty Luigi at four inbox was opened just this
final segment of this show. A lot of ranting early
on the latest Land of ten thousand scandals scandal as
offered up by the US Attorney once again. That was
between three and three thirty today, and I managed to
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annoy both Sharks and Jets along the way somehow, some way.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
It's a skill, it's an art.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
I guess tomorrow is Friday, so it's to be Friday
football beast, correct did if you I haven't talked much
Vikings giants, if you am having a hard time bringing
into this game to know perfectly, Frank exactly, and there's
a lot of there's a lot of other stuff going
as well. Assume the regulars Lavelle and Ben Gesling will
join too. Enjoy hockey tonight right here on the fan
(40:52):
that is coming up immediately after a very brief pause.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
We'll talk to you tomorrow three, but you know what
be then your
Human.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
What can I say to Jonathan from Bloomington. KG isn't
the type to do a big press conference. That's what
made him different from Jimmy Buckets and his press conference
when he gave out his cell number. It doesn't have
to be that kind of press conference. Man, What well,
what are you spoken here? I covered KG forever. I
understand who he is. He's not incapable of doing a presser,
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or he's not incapable of trying to make this kind
of announcement with a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Substance to it and effectiveness.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
That's all I'm saying is and eventually he probably will.
Maybe they'll say, well, it's just a matter of time
when that is. But this has nothing to do with
like I'm trying to turn him into the next Jimmy Butler.
It's kind of a flawed analogy that misses the point
on if this is what's coming it's a great opportunity
for the organization to maximize its effectiveness. Right, the best
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player in team history is coming back, right, He's back
in the family.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
That's something to milk, isn't it. Yes? And I bet
they will milk it eventually. I bet they will milk it.
For the record, I wanted to start hockey, and that's
what we're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Did you read read the text from Guardsy's Conscience? Is
that why you're doing it? It was at a late switch. No,
because the suggestion was you weren't going to lead with hockey.
That's obviously the falllest burner account is Guardsy's Conscience?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Oh is it?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Well, I'm assuming it is. Yeah, I'll it's a fire up.
I have not yet really learned how to do the
idification code that you do.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It's it's not fun.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah, it's fine. I did it when I was hosting
a little bit, but it took a while. Yeah, so
I haven't done it today. But I was texting with
Guardsy's Conscience because I had a question for him.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I just wanted to know what times of pregames start. Well,
I know that.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
It's probably about to start in about forty minutes. We
won't carry it on the fan because we go until
six on the Wild Radio network. They'll bring it up
or they'll have it, but I just wanted to confirm
and make sure I knew that it was the Great
Wall of Saint Paul in Net Tonight as your red
hot Minnesota Wild hit the road now after a great
homestand where they continued their thirteen game points at home streak,
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which I believe tied a franchise record, and they get
the Columbus Blue Jackets tonight. The Blue Jackets not very good,
just thirty four points. That married it is a trap game.
I heard Tom Reid say it the other day on
the way home, said, you gotta pay attention. You can't
mess around in this game. But with Quinn hughes and
apparently people call him Huggy, I'm gonna go with Hughesy.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
For this show. The nickname is Huggy.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
That's when somebody texted, why isn't the Hughesy Maybe it
is for some and somebody said call it or Hugsy
or hugs I don't know right, but I'm calling him
Hughesy and Houggy.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Doesn't I mean for a for a grizzled hockey player.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I don't think that works.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
It was just one text, so somebody could just be
making it up. That's true, So you hear the game
right here on the fan. The Wild continue to play well.
I mentioned the Great Wall of Saint paul Is in
net tonight eight one and oh in his last nine starts,
your guy Carson Lambos is making his NHL debut. Because
for the hottest seem in hockey, and nobody's playing, we
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have like four players available. Seven regulars are injured, as
the Wild looked for six in a row for drug.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
How is that possible? How do we have that many
people out? Anybody else have that many people out? I
don't know, but we have a lot. Can we blame
the training staff? We like to do that. That's what
the Twins would do. Twins would fire the trainer. Did
you see have you seen much of the Hughes era?
Have you been locked in since they not? It's it's magic,
(04:01):
pure electricity. Yes, he is pure electricity.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
He is.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I used to just watch Caprice off every time he
was on the ice and just follow him.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You lose yourself in his eyes. And now it's guys now,
it's like who do I watch? Who do I look at?
Because they're both doing majestic things. I can't. I have
no argument.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It's it's it's so as we talked about with Louis,
the entire franchise has been elevated to a place that
has not been in a long time. None of that
guarantees the Cup, but it guarantees you're in more rarefied
air from the casual sports fan that says, I got
to lock into this. I gotta pitch. I want to
get in on this because I don't want to have
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suffer fomo. This is going to become right now. This
is becoming the cool team to follow. It is no
question about it. It's fun and it helps that they're
playing now as well as they're playing or winning as
as consistently as they're winning.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
At least, Biking season is continuing this Sunday against the
New York Football Giants on the road. You'll also hear
that right now here on the fan as well as
your iHeartRadio app. Brian O'Neill and Ryan Kelly were both
back at practice today. Limited in practice today. Christian Darisad
did not participate again in practice today, shut him down, like.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
We talked about last week. Why do we bother? And
here's Kevin Seaffert's tweet Christian Daris.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
On Tuesday we did Did you talk Deariso at all
or did you get other things?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
What is today? Thursday? I barely know what happened.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
An hour ago, Christian Darisa said he preferred not to
talk today. When approached in the locker room, he said
he couldn't answer a question about whether he will play
again this season. That from Kevin Seffert, we did talk,
deisawd now that you mentioned it, because I asked him.
I asked Kevin something along the lines of do we
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anticipate that this is going to be something they'll be
dealing with next year? That and Kevin's response, and you know,
Seaffert was my understanding is that the expectation is this
will not happen next year, which I think means the
team's gone, Like what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Well, yeah, that's why we're shutting down, because we shut
down Grenard, we shut down tell Us, right, Martell, tell us,
Josh Man tells, call him tell us.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I got a good vibe with him, monster back.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
So yeah, well, I mean, what what's the what's the
difference at this point unless they are mad at him,
they and they don't want to give him the satisfaction
of shutting him down. To me, it makes all the
sense of the world to shut him down.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Where did I want to go? How about the Wolves?
Are you gonna?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I guess Falness really is in charge of the top five?
You weren't going to mention them.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
But that was a bad game last night. Did you
watch that? That was brutal as bad. I'm glad Finchy
said it, although, like you always say, it's your team,
coach if things aren't going well, and I know Bones
Highland played pretty well in some stretches last night.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
But not at the end.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
He pulled him out of the game with three minutes
ago after he jacked up a shot from the left side.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Which one he jacked up too. I don't think he
wasn't happy with him. I don't think the flow of
the offense means Bones Highland needs to be throwing up
to wing threes from thirty feet. I'm not sure, but
Nas had a weird shot. Randall was a messy. It
was as bad an offensive performance as I can remember.
And yet on the other side, and by the way,
Memphis was letting him hang around too. That Memphis was
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without Jah Yep and Zach Edie had basically been their
most valuable player right the previous like three weeks, and
that he's out with I think it's a stress fracture.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I think, so he's out for a few weeks. This
sums it up. Bobby Orr's clone Tepaw stands alone. Jock
was in the zone Wolves and five. Who's the guy
named Jock from Memphis? I never heard of him before
twenty points.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
That's the guy with the hair but also the bald spot,
daggering corner spreez. I he had twenty and ten I
know anyway, and he hit the daggers your club.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, it was. It was not a good watch.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
And the funny thing was they actually did get Memphis
to has enough shots to steal the game, and they
could not do anything in the last five or six minutes.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It was it was no good. Yeah, the balls.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
So we got Friday, right, Yeah, I'm assuming that's why
we let Ant take another day off, is we want
to make sure he's ready for that one.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
And there were some videos of him after practice today
getting some extra work and it looks like he's moving
pretty well.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
So we got a good opponent's Sunday too. Who is it?
It's the Bucks, It's the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Wha.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Actually, I haven't paid it to the Bucks if they're
up or down even playing at point gannest I don't
think he's an out right they maybe they maybe they're
not that good.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
And then the NBA Cup champion New York Knicks are
coming to town next Tuesday. Tell me if you agree
with you because it's the cup, because it's the Cup.
This was a late rant I had last night. I'm
perplexed why everyone's mad that the Knicks like celebrated winning.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
The NBA Cup. Couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Because we complain the way I phrased it to Blake More,
who's you know?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
It is not the biggest NBA guy.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
So I said, what what's the biggest complaint about the NBA?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And he said load management.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I said, kind of, that's a complaint, but the guys
don't care too cool and that they don't try cool
and they create this and it's not organic. Of course,
not everybody on that team won a half a million dollars.
The San Antonio Spurs Davy got two hundred Grand Final.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
But to your point, the competition ended up being pretty
damn good.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Games were very good in your hundred percent right that
they should be able to celebrate it. I'm with you,
and you don't have to apologize. We know they didn't
win an NBA title last night, right. The thing about
a banner, I don't know if you want a banner.
I don't that a little much. And they're not doing one,
and I don't care if they did. But I think
the fact is this is because this is gonna be.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I think in ten years is gonna be pretty big.
I really do by then because people get used to it,
and it built the competition down The stretch of those
games was was pretty damned damned good, including Oki City
that's where I wanted to go.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, and the Spurs and go back to the Semis
that game, the Wemby set, it was terrific, the chippiness,
all of it because we so I'm just people as
a can't win. You have to make me laugh because
they're mad about and you know, Barkley says the Cup
is stupid, and it's like and and yes, in a
perfect world. The teams are always going to be locked in.
On December seventeenth, on a Tuesday night, were over there,
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but we know it's not reality.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I have no problem celebrating the event and winning it
and yeah I like it. No, it was it was man,
we can't ever get there.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
That's the contradiction, is that.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Most of the time we're too cool for school, and
then when people react like there is some emotion involved,
it's like, oh, calm down.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
What did you really act? So what do you want? Exactly?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
All right, all right, let's uh, we'll get to inbox
the bottom of the hour. Email guards e J G
JG at cafe and dot com back in a minute.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
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Speaker 1 (11:18):
Allen and Aften, writes Dan.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
When KG does join the show sometime in the near future,
please make sure Brett Blakemore is not working. KG will
make Kenny Petera look like a church minister, and Blake mar.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Will not be the man the bleep button.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Well enough save his career for stalking the ASU hockey coach.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
That's Alan Afton. That's very good.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
We may have to pre record it. Yeah, yeah, that's
true KG. Though he knows how to clean it, he
actually does when he has to. Yes, absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
If the Wolves would have celebrated the cup like that,
Dan would have ripped them all show.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I really wouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Now, if Wolves fans would have stormed the court, well,
it wouldn't be. It wasn't gonna be a home game anyway. Right,
it was in Vegas, but I might have ripped that. No,
I'm with you totally on it. I think it's again,
there's no point in belaboring it. It's it's sort of
been explained that there's this weird disconnect between what do
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you want exactly? I I you know, I mean, I
didn't think they acted like they won the NBA title.
I thought they acted like, Okay, it's a nice saga.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
We had a nice run week. It was.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It was a really good game, and as you mentioned,
the game that kind of set it up. Uh, the
Spurs game against Oklahoma City. You know again, Oklahoma City
is right now one of those teams like, well got
to see can they possibly lose one? And so for
it to happen in the tournament, I think accentuated the moment.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
So I I.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
What I've ripped the Wolves. I really don't think I
would have. I honestly don't. Now if there are people
in the you know, in the organization, we're acting like
they'd won the title, fine, but I don't think the
Knicks were acting like they wont tight.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I don't think. So.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
What if Pat Bev was there and he grabbed Anthony
Lance again and they jumped on the scorers tape, that
might be a bit much. That might which, by the way,
I didn't rip him for that. I can't remember if
you did or not. That was, like I sadly at
the time, it was like a top five moment in
franchise history.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I might have not sure Seagules last night.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Why as a round ball guy've been preferring to watch
the Wild They've been remarkable And don't forget Boldie, he's
been a beast.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
That's from Hugo Big time guy. I had no arguing
with that. True. I can't even believe the power play.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
The power play, well it had it for ninety seconds
in the first two minutes, and the puck was flying
all over the place. It was so fun. No no
clunky zone entry, no bad shots. I don't think they
scored on that one. I don't know if that was
a Terasinko one or not, but it was just flying
all over the place. It was majestic.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Always dangerous visiting Dean Everson's blue jackets. He'll be mean,
mugging on the bench the way only he can and
looking for revenge.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I do miss that look. I do miss the d look,
don't you. It was great, just outstanding.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
You see his line today when somebody asked him to
skate around, Now, what do you see the difference with
the wild or something like that?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
He said, better coaching is what he's said. Yeah, perfectly clear.
I thought it was gonna be the other thing.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Well, if they if they had given me a defenseman
as good as as the current coach heinz he's got,
maybe maybe I never would have been fired.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
It's very very true. I think he did say that.
Actually he said that over the weekend. Did he He
said something along the line of, I wish you would
have made that move while I was there.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I'm pretty sure he did say that, which was great.
Is no arguing with that. I don't think it's a
good line, self deprecating to a fault. They're not very
good though, right the jacket. No, they're not thirty four points.
I think I said I had Oh, I assume you
talked a decent amount of twins the last couple of days.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yes, you were on both days. Yes, newpole had in town.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yes, well, the jokes are going are pretty funny actually
about it.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
It's like it's kobiaks. How many? How many kubiaks are there?
How many?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I had no idea there were this many pole ads?
Did you basically almost made it sound like a palace coup.
He basically said to Joe, Joe, I'm older, it's time
getting hell out right. It's almost like the whole family
just streams succession on HBO.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Go exactly. That's what this feels like. They don't know
what to do.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I don't know what if he had any overarching points,
but mine would be simply this.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
The quote.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
There were several quotes that rubbed me the wrong way.
That's not new when I pole Ad speaks, although I
guess you give this pole ad some credit for saying
we have no credibility with our fan base. That's the
first pole Ad has been willing to state the obvious,
even if it is obvious. But here's the the I
don't have to direct the exact quote in front of
me from which what's which pole Ad is?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
This is Tom this is Tom pol.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
But it was something along the lines of we're not
going to put a lot more money into it right now.
We put a lot of money into it the last
few years, and that's part of the reason where in
the position we're in, to which I again, and I
think I can say this with a straight face. If
I had been at the press conference, if this was
a press conference, I honestly think I would have sit
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up and said, then why don't you sell the team?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Seriously? That's what I can't countenance. I can't tolerate.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You have every right to thinking you got were wronged
by all this money you spent when once again, by
Major League Baseball standards, the payrolls were not really that obscene.
But if it's so daunting and you feel like you
can't solve the Rubik's cube because of some of the
limitations you have, whether it's the TV deal, whatever the
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case may be.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Then get out. Just get out of it. That's my
that would be my comeback to them. Let let's find out.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Maybe the next guy or the next two guys would say,
I don't feel different thing. The pole ads there, there
ain't no way to do this, to spend money, But
wouldn't it be refreshing to find out give somebody else
a chance who might have not only deep pockets, but
pockets to say, screw it for the next five years,
I'm spending even if it's not logical. I'm going to
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spend and and I'm going to see where this thing goes.
That's the part that just made me sick. It's it's
the older We want to have it both ways. We
want to continue to tell you why we can't spend money,
but we want to still hold.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Onto the product. Why why do you want.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
To hold onto the product if it's this much of
a if the obstructions are as great as they seem
to be, Do you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
I just don't understand that part because they have they,
But they also have a relentless pursuit to win a championship.
Remember that I forgot about that one, Remember that relentless.
I'm looking forward to the Tom Pole out era. Let's see,
let's see what happens.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Open mind.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Well you got to. I mean, it can't believe worse
than the Joe poll out era. But I'm not That
quote doesn't give me.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
This.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I mean, yeah, I have to imagine the poll add
Christmas is pretty nice, and now there's going to be
all this tension. Although he made it seem like he
didn't love it at first, but he's coming around or something.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, like, are we sure? I know that?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
The whole thing seems very strange to me. It's a
it's a strange family.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Let's pause. I didn't tell you my idea.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
No, because Joe has been, you know, obviously basically kicked
out of the family business. I think what he should
do is he should be the one. He should be
the Minnesota Golphers, Mark Cuban, he should be he should
be the new nil guy for the Golphers.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Yeah, the poet PJ. What do you want?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I'm sure their neighbors, I'm sure they live close. Just
take some of that money, maybe some of the other
cousins too, and give it to the Gophers, you know,
Dickey Town athletes, and then he can be on the
sideline's idea next year for.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
The college football. I'm guessing PJ. Fleck wouldn't mind. He
would take it. He would love Joe.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, exactly, yea, as the check books open, he the
PJ J. P Joe.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I mean, it's writing itself a wonderful thing. Let's come
back and get to the inbox. Email Guardie jg at
cafe and for any late entries. We will wrap things
up at six leading into Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Wild h.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Is the cnunami ongoing right now. It's dark, so we
can't see her. I can't see anything.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, that's not good. Well, I'm all confused by this
light snow right now, let me get refreshed.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I assume the roads are a mess though, because it
doesn't take much snow in rush hour to screw it up.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
All right, is it time for the inbox? Yeah? I
just got to grab the music. There we go, and
here we go. She's dying for a doctor sandbox.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Wow did you see the Nick Saban comments about James Madison.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, and I don't like him.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I'll remind I'll pass it along to folks who have
not seen it. Saban says James Madison getting into the
college football playoff over notre name is the equivalent of
a Triple A baseball team qualifying from the MLB playoffs.
He was on, is that the mcinally show what's his name?
Pat McAfee, McAfee, Yep, what is it?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Mcinaley? For me, I always think mcinow.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
McAfee, who's like smirking the whole time.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
He is saying it.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You do not approve of the Saban no savagery. No,
it's not the twelve best teams, which is fine. I
don't think it needs to be. But should it be,
how do they get there?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Again?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
I forgot it has to do with being one of
the highest ranked power fors or non power forwards and
conference champion, the whole deal. I don't have any problem
with it. It's okay. We're asking all these schools to
pay their players and invest and pay all this money.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I just on Alabama, man, that was my issue.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
No, and same with Tulane. There's a lot of bitterness
tu Lane's in there. It's like, it's okay for not
every game has to be epic. Not every game, you know,
it has to be a battle of blue blood heavyweights.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
And it bothers me.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
It just it does bother me that we think that
the playoff has to be this elite of There's plenty
of SEC teams in there, right, There's plenty of Big
ten teams in there. There's plenty of quote unquote power
teams in there. It's okay to let the little guy
in there to.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Have a crack. When do you have to go to Phoenix?
I'm leaving Monday, Monday, okay, and the game is the
twenty sixth.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
The game is, yeah, Thursday or Friday, so you have
to go that early. I don't have to go there.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You are going there? Oh, I see it.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
It's a Christmas. It's a family Christmas. Okay, you got
to figure it out. It's the the entire Guardsy crew. Okay,
hopefully none of them are listening in the car.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Right now, because it's supposed to be a surprise.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Yeah, you shouldn't have said that. Well, but I didn't
want to be cag with you. Oh well, you know,
but you could have been away. You pull the thread well, no,
but I wasn't. I really wasn't thinking. I was just thinking,
you know, when the timing's not great because it's the
day after Christmas and it might affect everything, but.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
The team's going Sunday. I believe gotcha Sunday after all. Right,
Letter number one, Dear Doctor Dan, this is a good
one because I had to think about this first.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I hope all of this wasn't my fault. It was
all fun and games.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
When I brought my show to town for the Super
Bowl a few years ago, since your m Vikings weren't
able to make it to the big Game, I thought
I would do your state of favor bring a few
laughs from New York. In order for me to do that,
I needed to take advantage of your state's snowbait program
and the two hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars that
went with it. I had heard about Minnesota and ice,
and lately it sounds like a lot of people have
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been finding out how Minnesota ice and generous your state
can be. When I was there, I opened my show
by saying, hold on to your tater tots, but to
two hundred and sixty seven thousand. I got May as
well be tater tots. Compared to some of the latest
funds being handed out, looks like the state is providing
the laughs.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Now, sincerely, j Fallon, that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
So what Collin is admitting is he was one of
the original fraud tourists. He may have been He may
well have been a fraud tourist, is what he saw.
We did have to give it. Remember that.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, that's that program to bring the arts here. Think
about and it was controversy our seal. Think about it
in this context.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
How much was it to sixty seven thousand, sixty seven million?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Nope, turn of.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Sixty seven thousand and now so tourist, you know, we
say two sixty seven thousand. That's like tip money in
feeding our future or autism or what's the latest one, medicaid.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
It goes on and on and on.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
That's seth chump change. Wow, how times times they were?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
The simple times?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Definitely simpler times for sure. That's a good one. That
is a very deep cut.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It's time for doctor.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Box.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Dear doctor Dan.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
How about that wild hockey team Stanley cup Chet, Western
Cottmerance chit. Oh wait, it's the regular season is December
and they still haven't won anything yet. We'll see how
m bold K capriceof Q Hughes and Jay Volstad doing
the playoffs if they make it. Sincerely, j Krasinski and
Jay Frederick, how much.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Do you think there's a little, deep down secretly there
is a little envy and jealousy right now because you know,
Louis said it right. I mean, if you go back
to the Ruty trade, you can go back to last
year before training camp, the cat trade. The Wolves were
the cats me out, no pun intended, Yes, it was
all the cat Oh well big you know again big
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swings from Tim Conley. Now it's the hockey team taking
a big swing, and I think they feel a little
bit left out they.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I mean, I don't think Johnny has it in him.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
To do an oral history on this particular trade, do
you think And even if you wanted to, Russo wouldn't
let him. That's a he's already probably yeah, And I
know Joe Smith did one. I think they did a
cobal line one.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
But Jay Frederick is on there. You joined me yesterday
and I said that, I go, what's Tim Conley's move?
And Jason first of all said, well, are you sure
the wild aren't responding to what the Wolves did. Well,
see is you know factual because they did make the
two big swings, but then he had to do that.
And if they they make the Western Conference finals back
to back years, let's get back to us. And I
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even said I thought this was is this Monday? And
Johnny ATHLETEX on the show was crazy.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
All these basketball guys, I didn't realize they're incredibly defended.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
That's what hockey people usually are. It is interesting. Yeah,
that's turning a little bit. It didn't help. Like you
said last night, the performance last night was bad.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
No, like Kevin Garnett's back, that's what he's doing. We're
not exactly sure that's right. When is Jerseys being retired?
We don't know that either, clue.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
But we can do the Instagram post now, which is good.
And we're still supposed to get a Rod and Lori
and studio sometimes. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
That's what my sources say, but I but I keep waiting.
It'll obviously have to be after Christmas.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Now, Dear doctor Dan, in my tireless effort to create
one Minnesota, it turns out that perhaps a dollar or
two is gone missing.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
While sipping a diet due.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
This morning I learned that em Lindell is trying to
unseat me as governor over my felt jogger's boy. Here's
the real question, doctor Dan. Would you rather have my
leadership or my pillow?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
To you all, you wouldn't think t Walls would have
time to do this sort of thing right now? You know,
you think you'd be a little bit on the busy side.
But he's got people. Well, nobody in all honestly thinks
the pillow guy is going to get the nomination. Is
he running a Republican or is an independent? I think
it's Republican. You know Kessler Kessler yesterday what he says said,
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he's got big inroads with a lot of Republicans right now.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I and and who else is in the UH? I
can't remember the faces.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
It was the Rice White But he's talking about Senate, right,
Senate Yeah again?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Probably whatever again?
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Yeah, Michelle Tafoya considering a Senate apparently, yeah, garnering some momentum.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Correct, right, doctor.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
We good letters due, doctor Dan.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Everyone is singing my praises for the Q Hughes trade,
and that's nice, But it's my other recent genius move.
I'm even more proud of becoming an owner of the
soon to be fourth place finishers of the revered American
League Central, the m Twins.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Here's why it's genius.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
While the M Wild are constantly criticized for not getting
out of the first run of the playoffs, as owner
of the Twins, I'll never have to hear that criticism again.
Making high pressure trades, no worries signing off on a
multimillion dollar contract for someone insert laughing emoji here. It's
the best gig in town, doctor Dan. The only pressure involved.
How can we keep milking the eighty seven and ninety
(27:46):
one World Championship teams?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Sincerely see Leopold. Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Well, somebody texted this earlier that well, I think I
mean Louis at all. So said when we talked to
him that now people are talking about forget getting out
of the first round. They have the Wild making the
Cup title round the the Championship around the finals. What's
the minimum since the big trade? Now that we made
(28:15):
the big trade, what's the minimum? The minimum is you
have to get out around one? Yeah, you have to
get out of two.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Do you have to get I don't know, because there's
Hockey's weird well, and it's still the central Yeah. I
think we need to remember also the teams that they're
still chasing. Yeah, I know they've beaten both of them
in the last two weeks, Dallas and Colorado.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
But those teams aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
You got to get out around one somehow, some way, somehow,
some way, as Yeah, because that's what you what you
when you make the big swing, it's a lot of
fun and I applaud it, but then it does raise
the stakes. It's inevitable, it's it's got to raise the stakes.
So somehow, some way, you got to find a way
at least to get out around one.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
All right, where I want to go?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
We got a lot from you're getting ripped as being
you're on the college football playoff. Typical woke slash liberal
take by Guardgie.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
What does that mean? What's the that's one probably that
you know that you didn't want to be. I'm a
college football socialist, so everybody. Yeah, there's plenty of blue bloods.
Alabama's playing Oklahoma. I think tomorrow night. I think in
the in the eight nine, my Hoosiers or might be
in trouble. Why they lost their second best defensive player
the guy.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
I mean, it's yeah, perform that's not that's not great
to help. It does take some luck, but Siegel figured
it out. They've got to buy right before they go
out to the Rose Ball.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yeah, it's hard to believe they're gonna be playing in
the Rose Bowl. I still think you should go out.
I know you do. Well, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
This one won't get any text. All right, go ahead,
dear doctor Dan. I shouldn't do this with ten minutes
left in the show, But what the hell? It was
so great to hear you complain about t Walls and
the Democrats not taking responsibility for things.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Going wrong under their watch.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
That's the only way to get re elected to any
position of power. That's been the foundation of any success
that I've had.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
D Trump, Well, yeah, it's a dangerous bomb you drop,
because I'm getting ripped by a lot of the righties
for even attempting to bring Trump into this conversation. So
I'm damned if I do. I'm damned if I don't.
There's absolutely some truth to what he's saying, although I
(30:24):
haven't seen what are the current Walls. Who's got lower
approval numbers in the state of Minnesota. Walls as governor
or Trump as president. I gotta believe in Minnesota it's
Trump as president. But nationally, Trump's approval numbers are in
the thirties, aren't they like the low thirties?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Now, yes, and.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
He's And here's the thing, Indiana Republicans basically said bleep
you to him. I don't know if you guys talked
about that with Kessler, but you know, the plan in
Indiana was we're going to what's the term and for
it reconfigured.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
That's not the term for it, Yeah, redistrict.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
And there were enough Indiana State Republicans who said we
ain't doing it.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
And that's pretty impressive.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I mean, right now, in all honesty, Indiana should be
considered heroic nationally, one for standing up to Trump in
that case. And two they got the best, you know,
football story in all of college football this year at IU.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
And if Kevin Warren is to believe that, you believe Garrett,
They're about to get the Chicago Bears football stadium.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
I'll tell you something. It's not crazy. We can do
a deep dive on it maybe tomorrow. A lot of
people think it's it's absolute posturing I'm not discounting that possibility,
but I'm here to tell you, and I don't know
if people understand it. The Bears playing in Northwest Indiana
is not all that different than the New York Giants
(31:59):
playing in Joysy.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
It really is. It really isn't.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
And here's in Indiana might be more willing to play
ball because it would be such a dramatic story and departure.
Are you kidding me? Indiana? The region Northwest Indiana, which
is really more Northwest Indiana, is a lot less Indiana
and a lot more Chicago.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
To be honest with you, anyway, it's like a whole
different part of the state. In fact, the rest of
Indiana I'm not.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Even sure likes the region, which might be the problem politically.
Do you get enough votes to get all of the
money that you want that obviously Kevin Warren wants to
even consider making such a dramatic move.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
I've driven by the Gary RailCats Stadium on that interstate
a lot. I think they're an independent baseball team. Yeah,
it's a beautiful ballpark. See I've never even seen it.
I hear it's pretty. It looks awesome off the interset,
the RailCats in a grand name.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
It's a great name. Yeah, that's true, it's a great name.
So we'll see. All right, let's do this. I do
a series of.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Fun doctor dan I just want to say something to
all those people who claim that I was born and
raised on third base and never had to work for
anything in my life. I am technically not on any
base right now. After my brother decided to pinch run
for me and take over what I had, I guess
I'll go wander around in the woods where we replanted
(33:22):
those spruce trees in center field. It's not all easy
street in my life, Doctor dan Ja Polab.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Well, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
This isn't the time for it, because doctor dan zinbox
is supposed to be relatively light. But I got to
tell you something, and I'm glad. I actually my memory
is now jogged. Wall Street Journal had a terrific op
ed piece that about the Rob Reiner tragedy and about
(33:53):
the life that his son now obviously facing murder charges,
and we it's easy to play the game of well
what do they have? You know, what do folks like
that have to complain about? He's he's he's born into privilege,
(34:13):
just like Rob Reiner was built, was was born into
privilege on his dad Carl, and so no one ever
wants to hear about the problems of individuals who who
have all those you know, advantages. But the story lays
out beautifully how there is often more to the story,
and whether people want to admit it or not, or
(34:33):
accept it or not, they're often are trials and tribulations
associated with being born into that kind of notoriety that
are unde deniable. I'm gonna bring it in tomorrow unquote
from it more directly, because it had a lot of
good stuff, but it probably isn't worthy of probably a
little too heavy for the.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
For the bus.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
I just like I said, Doctor Dan admits he doesn't
really want to think about any pole ads anymore.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I don't, I don't.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
I mean, I just wish they would go away and
do whatever else they want to do. And it's no offense.
It's like, I'm not, you know, demanding it or anything. Well,
I guess I kind of am, but it's just I'm
weary of all of the trials and tribulations and all
of the permutations and the stops and the starts, and
now we've.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Got another pole ad.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Kid in there, and that's he's going to be different
or he's not going to be different. And here's why
we're doing it the way we're doing it. You know,
you know, the only thing that upset the apple cart
would be if then he won't do it. If Buxton
were to say, there are rumors that I might be
willing to waive my no trade clause, and you're assuming
I no longer am interested in waving that trade clause
(35:48):
because you're saying you're not going to make any more trades.
But you're also saying you're really not going to make
that many auditions. Auditions, get me out of here. That's
the only hope we have. But even then, I don't
think the pole AADs would have the dec seat to sell.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Tom says he's go bigger, go home, guy, go bigger,
go home. Did he really say that he did? I
didn't remember if I saw that quote. Only time will
tell go bigger, go home. That's what he says. But
now maybe not this year, What year, I'm not sure undetermined.
Same year that Cag's jersey is going to be retired.
We're not sure. Dear doctor Dan. Here's a couple more quickies.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Give somebody else a chance. I really wanted to. They
were never going to sell the damn team.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
I really enjoyed listening to your conversation with El Nanny today,
especially when he was talking about how great b Or was,
specifically at how great a skater he was and how
great he was at avoiding checks. I'm an eleven year
NHL player, and I also know someone who is great
at avoiding checks. M frozen that from the Manny's booth
and M perish.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Yeah, well, there there was an abbreviated version of that
one texted in earlier, so I kind of knew you
saw was going that.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
One was coming.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Did you know where this one was coming? No, I
was just gonna say. I mean, Luie and I have
had this discussion forever.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Most hockey historians believe that the two greatest hockey players
ever are Bobby Orr and Dwayne Gretzky.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
I happen to agree with.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
That, but I will tell you that I think if
you forced me, I mean, I'd live with the guy
you know, getting this second guy, But if you forced
me to pick, I think I would pick Bobby Or.
I don't even think the kids realize how good Bobby
Orr was my god with a magnificent player and you know,
(37:36):
an unstoppable scorer as a defenseman, not to mention being
a great defenseman.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
There was nobody like Bobby Orr Ever, he's dying for
a doornbox your doctor, Dan, you know what. I'm not
going into the shenanigans about my chili being hot, but
I can't assure you my meatballs are succulent. That from
(38:05):
b Garn. Oh God, I forgot to ask Louis. I
don't think Louis is much of a cook. No, he
likes good fo he does, but I.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Don't think he's as much as as much of a
cook as Billy Garran seems to be.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Not that we'll ever find out.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
You weren't invited to the party when you talked about
it on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Not really, now, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
I guess I could have been frontal and try to
invite myself, but I thought that was a little ghost.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Garen.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Actually, I think would be like, yeah, yeah, he would
would come by.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
It's going to be a heck of a swarrey.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Well, he's been cooking for a month, he's been making
meatballs for six weeks.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Didn't he say I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
I thought he said he had he was he had
like they had, like, is sixty pounds of meatballs ridiculous?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Maybe it's a lot, Oh, that's a lot. Whatever it was,
it was it.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
They was working on it when the trade came through
it and they were still working on it Sunday when
he was talking.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
On it's got to be sixty because yeah, sixteen seems
not enough. Well not for like multiple days like that.
When when was the party?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Was it this week? No, it's kind of it hasn't
happened yet.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
So that's where I think's like right before Christmas, I think, yeah,
which is coming up?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
And it is right around the corner.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Last one, Dear doctor Dan, my brother told me we
needed to right size the family.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
How's that for Irony J Pollet? I just I hope.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Somebody like lovel does the backstory on, like I said,
the Palace Coop, because it definitely, based on the quote,
sounds like Joe was not all in on this and.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Was pretty much told Joe go to the back of
the line. You've had your moment, We're done with you.
Even though the quote was also well, you know, it
came along after a while that was really fun. It
was very It felt like there might have been some
uncomfortable I think he said it, yeah, moments at the
dinner table. It's and I'm assuming it's one of those
dinner tables where huge, like one end is like four
miles from the other, and everything's fancy and everything's got
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you know, you got the formal stuff and so forth, and.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
The other siblings and have to choose side. I mean,
I'm serious. This is like succession. It's very strength, like succession.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
All right.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
I want to thank Sean Salisbury who joined at three
point thirty Luigi at four inbox was opened just this
final segment of this show. A lot of ranting early
on the latest Land of ten thousand scandals scandal as
offered up by the US Attorney once again. That was
between three and three thirty today, and I managed to
(40:26):
annoy both Sharks and Jets along the way somehow, some way.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
It's a skill, it's an art.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
I guess tomorrow is Friday, so it's to be Friday
football beast, correct did if you I haven't talked much
Vikings giants, if you am having a hard time bringing
into this game to know perfectly, Frank exactly, and there's
a lot of there's a lot of other stuff going
as well. Assume the regulars Lavelle and Ben Gesling will
join too. Enjoy hockey tonight right here on the fan
(40:52):
that is coming up immediately after a very brief pause.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
We'll talk to you tomorrow three, but you know what
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