October 8, 2025 • 55 mins
Dan and Gaardsy review the Top 5 before Pat Kessler returns in-studio after his trip to Italy. Dan and Kessy recap that as well as go over all the state and national politics they can fit in the final few segments.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
All right, top five to five and if you got
too much stuff, we can extend it because Kessler's not
going to join Theill five thirty, so don't hesitate in
turning it into the five twenty Sports Fix as well.
If there's enough meat on the bone, well, we'll see
how it goes. We'll see how it goes. We are
going to start hockey just for Kevin Fallness. You've heard
of Jack Eichel, pretty good player for the Vegas Golden Knights. Correct,
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He was also eligible for a contract extension this year.
Really good player, big time player. I know Brett Blake
Moore wanted them desperately on the last people wanted them
on the wild a few years ago, right when he
was traded from the Buffalo Sabers. Well, he is also
Dan signed an eight year contract extension.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
The average annual value.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Thirteen point five million dollars thirteen point five million dollars.
He was entering the final year of an eight year
deal that carried a ten million dollar cap hit, one
that he originally signed with Buffalo. He scored twenty six
points in twenty two games during the Vegas playoff run
in twenty twenty three to help them win their first
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Stanley Cup. They again are expected to be Stanley Cup contenders.
Eight years, thirteen point five million dollars I used. I
didn't try to do the math on my own. I
tried to use a calculator, So I think that's one
hundred and eight million dollars total. If it's thirteen point
five times eight years correct, that sounds right. I got
one hundred and eight Caprisov was one hundred and thirty
six mil total correct, and seventeen million dollars a year.
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So so far, if you're you know, keeping score, and
I get it, there's a million permutations.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
As it pertains to economic.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
David Caprilla, Caaprisov should feel very good about his agent. Yes,
relatively speaking, what he got for him compared to these
two big name players, and whatever strategy was being used
in both cases. Carill at least again for now, and
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I don't know, if there's any other big contracts left
to extend, he ends up in the offseason literally being
the big winner. And you could argue to a certain
extent that it is not even close in terms of
yearly value and in overall value as well.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Correct. Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Does that mean we spent more than we should have?
Does that mean garn should have played hardball? I don't
know if he would have been successful clearly Originally the
wild Garan especially, I think was not happy when the
original sixteen million dollar a year offer was turned down
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because I think I think he thought, we're not gonna
play the game of going real long. We're just going
to offer you what we think you should take, and
they said no. And I do think, you know, talking
to people and reading things that originally there was more
anger that then perhaps we realize and a little bit
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of the old bleep you attitude, and then cooler heads
prevailed because I think in the end Garren knew that
they were over a barrel in a way that he
had almost no choice but to move the number up.
What's interesting is I kept being told, well, there's others
that are going to be right there with them or higher,
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and I don't know who's left. They would be in
that category, not sure either, but it hadn't happened yet.
It hasn't even come closer. We're talking four or five million,
and they've already got a cup with their guy, right.
That's the other part that's kind of like deflating a
little bit Edmonton. They're signing guys that they've had these
major ones correct so well that hurts Wild open.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
The season tomorrow night in Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
RUSO Radio is going to join about twenty four hours
from right now from Saint Louis, and he and Joe
Smith wrote about today the fact that Nico Sterm, according
to their sources, is expected to undergo surgery for a
back injury that's been ailing him since the first practice
of training camp. And they describe it as a significant
hole because head coach John Hines planned to deploy Storm
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in a variety of ways beyond his fourth line role.
They know about Zukie and now Storm he's out as well. Yeah,
And I mean, Luie and I have talked about this.
You can the deal on. I mean, I feel like
Storm's value from the beginning was was inflated based on
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what we know of him as a player, and then
you factor in the injury as well, and you go, well,
I mean due diligence back. I mean, now you're asking
for who knows when exactly he is going to come back.
So I don't view him as a great player at all.
They clearly had had projected, had convinced themselves though that
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he would serve a significant purpose for them. Maybe they
were right, But if they were right, doesn't matter, because
he starts the season not just on the injured list.
But now, as we knew yesterday, but now facing surgery.
Did it say he's already had it or he's going
to have it? It says he's expected expect to get
the surgery. Okay, by the way, we're reminded. Also your
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guy Kyle Conner Winnipeg Jets, eight years, ninety six million dollars.
That was announced earlier today as well. He finished seventh
in the NHL last season with ninety seven points. That's
a deal that's going to start in twenty twenty six,
twenty seven. So carell set the market. Everybody's just going
underneath it.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
That's it. That's it, man. No, he ended up setting
literally setting the market. That's crazy. We can talk wolves
if you want after this.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We can talk baseball if you want after this. It's
a pretty quiet, quiet day, sire. Let's do let's break
and let's put a grand and let's try.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
To get some Bonus Bucks going, and then let's keep
it going.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Before Kessler joins, a fan and two men and a
junk truck want to do that Bonus Bucks National Cash
Contests five o'clock Wednesday. Keyword is check. Go to kfan
dot com and enter the keyword check. Remind me also
to discuss some unfortunate news, not health wise but career wise,
involving our guy Sean Salisbury, our Thursday regular. We'll get
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to that as well when we continue the five to
twenty Sports Fix. Yeah, a couple more nuggets for the
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five twenty Sports Fix, a carry over from the top five.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
At five.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
It is worth noting regarding Storm that what was one
of the biggest gripes from a year ago.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
We can't win a.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Face off, can't win a face offt win a face off.
Our percentages are awful, And that's allegedly what Storm was
going to offer. In fact, he had offered that apparently
during the preseason. So again I just wondered when there
was so much fanfare about, you know, bringing him back,
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that it's like, well, okay, but what are you You're
asking too much from a guy who still has some
limitations for obvious reasons, and that didn't even go into
the area of whether he might be damaged goods or
might have a significant injury as well. What else should
we mention here in our carryover? Well, how about the
fact that the Yankees done six to walk?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I think it was that when we were watching it
here the last couple of minutes of the show, they
were about to be swept and Aaron Judge said, not
so fast, my friends. That was pretty cool. Not in
my house. And his home run last night still hasn't landed.
And it was the first. This is a I'm probably
reading I think it hit the file pol in it.
It did, but it was crushed. I'm reading too much
into this, probably, but it was the first according to
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Greene because they led with that this morning. It was
the first home run he hit all year with a
pitch that was outside the strike zone. So in other words,
he wasn't waiting for his pitch. He's like, I gotta
do something he was doing going Kirby Pucket on Aaron Judge. Yeah,
I'm gonna I'm gonna be a good I'm gonna be
a great bad ball hitter because my team needs something
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and I love that. So I'm blowing that completely out
of proportion. Show remember Joe doing that much.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
But that's just me. I know he's in the Hall
same you get hitting pitches. Yeah, well, speaking of hitting pitches,
but it wasn't well. I got to work to count.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I gotta wait and hopefully I'll get one and the
pitcher makes a mistake. No, my team's about to die
and I gotta do something. And the swing, if you
watch it, it didn't look very comfortable. The pitch was up.
It was a way you had to fight it off.
And it was awesome. I know nobody likes the Yankees
except thinking ant Allen. She'll tweet in that it was great,
but it's exactly what they needed at that point, right.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
It was great, no question. By the way.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Speaking of baseball, Cubs who have to win to or
today they're down two games to none.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
They returned home.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
To Wrigley, they scored the Brewers scored one in the
top of the first. I think they got helped by
one of those uh you know, routine pop ups that
didn't get caught, and the Cubs responded with four runs
in the bottom of the first inning, starting with the
local kid here that we talked about with koomdag yesterday,
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Michael Bush with another dong, a solo dong, and then
the Cubs scored three more in the uh later in
the first. So they're up four to one. They must
win to extend the series. They're down two games to
none in the proverbial best five Tigers also, by the way,
extend of their series. They beat the Mariners today nine
(09:45):
to three, so game five. So that's too too Yeah, okay, interesting,
exactly right. Philly's Dodgers a little bit later tonight, Dodgers
looking for the sweep air and then the Yankees look
to continue to stay alive against the Blue Jays tonight
at the six. Does I believe WNBA Finals continue tonight
in Phoenix?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Do they not? I want to say, who do I
look like? The commissioner?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, I know this Phoenix has to win because they're down.
Well no, I let me let me back up. I
forgot they went best to seven for the finals. This year,
so Phoenix, they probably still need to win, because if
you're down three to zero, not much happens. Not much
good happens in basketball playoffs. Down three games to not
in the best of seven, but they are at the
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very least indeed back home. So that's I had a
w NBA nugget to get links fans going again. I'll
save it maybe for between six and six thirty or
tomorrow's program as well. And I feel like there was
something else but the Jimmy Johnson news. Oh it's Jerry
Jones related. Yeah, So Jerry Jones gets nailed, gets caught
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with the rigid digit middle finger. Yeah, and that this
was with was it who do they play? That was
the Jets fans right, that found r they get the
Jets most recently.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
And what was was a fine like fifty two hundred
and fifty thousand That seems a bit excessive to me,
am I being too kind to Jerry Jones quarter of
a million dollars for a bleep you.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I mean the stuff that said during games before games,
after games sometimes that the mic catches I. I you know,
I get it. It's not it's not becoming an NBA owner.
I certainly understand that part, but I maybe he's already
on double secret probation for some other things that he did.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I'm not sure. Well.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
The other part, though, is Tepper is a Panther's owner.
He got banged three hundred thousand dollars. He threw a
drink at a fan. Really, the owners are just melting down,
perhaps inspired by Cheryl reed to bleep off the phoenix
she was finding in fifteen thousand for that which could
be equivalent, so she got well, I see because of
the relative Yeah, I mean too and all that. Ye,
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fifteen for Cheryl, probably for one of the jones is
probably less Trump change for the Joneses and for the Yeah,
as a drink at a fan, get to three hundred
thousand dollars, fine, these owners need to chill.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, owners need to have some chill.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Markin Ziggie aren't doing that, Kessler will tell us that,
or way, Leonard, he's not doing that. Yeah, he did
the proverbial you saw you tweeted out I think a
link to the news about who is going to be
entertaining at the next at their most Yes, was it
sixty sure or sixty one? Whatever number it is, and
it was the obligatory Kessler treat good tweet, I should say,
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good decision, but will never compare to Prince. By the way,
this is a big historic day in Prince album history.
I think the Mattress album, I think it's first was.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Released on this day.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It was either yesterday or today in nineteen hundred and eighty.
I've told the story about I was in Atlanta with
some with it in a while friends who had heard it.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I had not heard it, and they were way ahead
of it.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I have to say they were ahead of the crowd
in saying this guy is there's something different about this guy.
That was nineteen eighty and there was as today was
the day. What's the name of the album? No, I'd say,
your friends were right, The friends were right. Yeah, we'll
double check that. I should know the name of the album.
It's him posing in front of a mattress, in front
of it like a box spring, as I recall it,
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rather scantily clad, as Prince occasionally was wont to be,
you know from time to time. But why can't I
think of the name of the album? It'll it'll come
to somebody. Also, maybe this articulates the popular rage here
six to one to two. Guy, my god, this sports
market must have infuriated some powerful entity. Every team, every sport,
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key players and before the season even begins.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Pull the pin out of the doll man. He's speaking
about injuries.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Obviously, JJ is still out right now, blessedly at this point,
knock on for my the Wolves are relatively healthy. Correct,
Yes they are. I'm trying to think of any injuries.
I comly got his footstepped on last night in the
first quarter. That was dangerous. Do better, Charlotte. That's all
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I can say as a player. Jade McDaniels missing game
for personal reasons, his girlfriend tweeting out that she is
now officially sat numbered by boys. Yes, so I'm gonna
read between the lines and say that she must have
had a baby. So congratulations, which means less sleep for
the home games for the for the Wolves.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
We don't do that last year. That's true.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
We can't win at home because we've got too many
kids and present fathers. What is more obnoxious than a
preseason NBA game that goes to overtime?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Last night was the that was the occasion. Somebody said
it may have been your guy who's coming into town.
Frank Isola that the new rule on NBA preseason games
that go to overtime is that the games are decided
by which team can hit a half court shot first.
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That's really not a bad idea. Like a shootout, that's
not a bad idea. Yeah, and there's nobody wants to
see it. Nobody cares, but they would want to see that.
And the people that are left at the game, they
can all go down on the court while everybody shoots it.
You can go stand by the players, yes, all the fans,
because there's only a couple dozen left.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Just go stand there next to everybody. Give people that.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I don't know Johnny got in on this because I
know he did a tweet storm last night. I was
in and out of the game, and maybe I didn't
see enough of a cross section of it.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Dilly Ham's worrying me. I don't I don't see it yet.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I keep waiting for it, and I look, we both
were excited about the team moving up to get them
the whole bit. I just I don't know, I I.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Don't, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I hope it's in him, but it's just it's going
to take him longer. Maybe like it's going to take
JJ McCarthy longer. But I still don't see it. I
don't I don't see it translating to the professional level.
And then that gets back to where I what are
you going to do if you can't come out on him?
And how patient is the head coach going to be
because he's he's tended to not be very patient. I
think you can even just hear in how he speaks
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about Rob Dillingham, I really and he's asked about it
constantly because it's a high profile pick. They traded up
to get him top ten when they weren't expected to
draft in the top ten, and I'm guessing he I
just feel like you can feel that he doesn't want
to bury him, but he also is honest about Yeah,
I'm not I'm not gonna lie about what I'm seeing him,
Why he's not out there and what we need from him?
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Is Kesler in the house? Yet he's here, He's been
here for a long time. He has been Yeah, we
should break behind. Yeah, we got the Vikings report to
get to and then we got to.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Get to Kessler.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Oh all right, Well I'll find what I'm looking for
in a minute. And then actually any discussion of Prince
is dangerous with Kessler because I mean, honestly, everything's the greatest,
Everything's the greatest, it's ever been done. It doesn't make
any difference. But we'll get to the bottom of all that.
And to prepare for Kessler's I guess you could say
travelogue on his big trip to Italy to hang with
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George klu All that is coming up.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Time now for the Vikings Report on the Fan, presented
by Miller Lyte. Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielend joins Danbury
room next.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
I wish the American media would take a great look
at the views of the people.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
In Congress and find out are they call America or
anti America.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
A Kissler because people have got to know whether or
not their presidents are crump.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
But I'm not a crump.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I can't trust a ball. He's an Eric Passler. Tear
down the fsh wall. I did nothing wrong at the
Minneapolis Airport. Senator, You're no Jack Kennedy Pakssler. And now
to help Dan break down all the tough questions in politics.
This is Patcastler recording Pan Kessler political walk. I feel
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like this force Pat Kissler with Dan Barrero on the fan.
The governor has built a barrier between himself.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
And the voters.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, it was a pairrier, all right, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
By the way, For the record, as we're reminded by
Steelers guy, dirty Mine is the album I was thinking
of that was released on this day by Prince well,
I guess not technically released by Prince, but his album
on this day in the year nineteen hundred and eighty,
I was in Atlanta, Georgia. I've told the story before,
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outside a bar. I literally spent three to four days
a week or nights at named Carlos.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Mcgee'e and the with it.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
And while group I was with, we're talking about an
album called Dirty Mind by Prince nineteen eighty came out
on this day. Thanks to yours guy for the reminder,
Kessie is in the house or I as I now
referred to him, Marcello Mastriani that when you had those
sunglasses on, those Christian deyor sunglasses with the muffler, the scarf, you.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Had gone beautiful scarf.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I'm thinking, Marcelle, you're familiar with Marcello Mastriani.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
That's a compliment. Yeah, it is. He's good he's a
good look at this is the new meat. So you
go to Italy for two weeks, so far away from
the farm. I can't even tell you to come back
a transformed man. Correct. Was I wearing a handbag and
you had the handbag with it? You did?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
So men wear handbags. I hope you got you? Hope
you don't have anything against it.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I have one. Yeah, I'm absolutely wear it a lot.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
But I wear in mind all the time with the
new with the scar beautiful scarf from the marketplace muffler
in in uh Florence. I got, I don't. I didn't
wear them today. It's a little chili. But the capri
pants of course three quarters. Yeah, it's the allowed to.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Wear socks in Italy if you're gonna be fashionable.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
No nobody, I mean men in suits. The men are
really handsome, of course, and the women are beautiful. They're
absolutely gorgeous. Men are handsome and stylish and everybody looks great.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
No, so no socks with the men in no matter.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
What, whether you're wearing dress hues, loafers or did any
does anybody wear you know, the sort of athletic shoes,
the nikes, the sorts of things here they do wear
those with a one thousand dollars suit, of course, yes, okay,
absolutely what no socks though?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
This is, this is changing.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
And you think, I know, you're a patriot. You are
USA America. U s A you're a patriot? Ye make
American America is free? Damn it.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Do you think it's free?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
It is.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
In Italy. You can smoke anywhere you want in public.
You can in public. Yeah you're talking. I mean tobacco
or pot or whatever. I did not have one you
could get. I did not smell once marijuana the sweet
sense of mea. But so usually it's it's tobacco once, tobacco,
people tobacco, bacon, they're vapor really, you know, And it's
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did you feel transformed? Very This was a transformative, It
changed my life, you know, hanging out at a cafe,
leaning out the window and while.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Watching uh the Gopher Coaches show.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Well that was that was on our trip from the Alps. Uh,
you know, as we're being taken back to Lake Como.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I'm not kidding. It was the last seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It's it's the he's never been less relatable to a
normal person. I finally kicked him out and said enough,
I'm tired of being one upped. And he heard me
in every conversation here, so he insultiates yourself.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
So I love Italy, I mean who doesn't? No one,
every one love Italy. That's that's the way you say.
That's I mean, I mean, it's it's pointed about one thing.
Tell me what it is, I should say, maybe it'll
surprise me. But what I really want to know. You
went everywhere.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I'm sure you saw a lot of wonderful things, including
the Roman Colisseum. Did you visit the birthplace of Sophia Larreent?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
That's what I am. But by the way, I was
born in Rome. I don't know where where is.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
She's still alive. Saphilla Lurrett is still alive. She's like
ninety one years old. Yes, yeah, confirm that for me. Well, yeah,
that the.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Most beautiful woman in the world was laur Is Ever
I'm not going to say it was.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
She's a lot.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Yeah, absolutely so, I'm sorry to say I didn't you
want to see Sophia lurn in Majestic Beauty.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Rent a motion picture you probably can't even't find anymore
called el sid about the legendary Spanish folk hero uh
played by Charlton Heston, and his beautiful bride is Sophia
Urn And I'm telling.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
You it's unspeakable beauty in the case of Sephila Urn.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Well, that that's I'm now. I feel bad. I couldn't
have even seen her. I know, it's it's crazy that
I didn't, But I felt every moment as if I
was walking through a movie in nineteen sixties Italian movie
everywhere we went.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
So I'm not going to say I was do Italians
love Americans? Do they like Americans? Or they like the French?
Kind of kind of annoyed, don't bother me, kind of look,
you know, look down.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
On most charming people.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Ever, however, like parents with their children and all of
us with children have gone through this, Yeah, I'm not
angry with America. I'm just very disappointed. There was a
lot of anti Trump sentiment. There was a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I was.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
I was kind of surprised we never brought it up,
And frankly, through the whole vacation, I wasn't sure if
I was going to be denied re entry into the US.
Who knows, But yeah, I mean, people are very disappointed,
you know, we bought. We bought some wine back.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
And what happened.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
There's two there are two pricelests, one for the entire
world and then another one for the US because of
Trump terrorists.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
We'll get to that end, you know.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
So that you got all that, now, I will just
say I wasn't gobsmacked, but I was godsmacked with the churches.
Like every hundred feet there's a church, and I have
to go look at every one of them. The only
thing I can compare it to the number of churches
per square block is like a small town in Wisconsin
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with a number of bars per square block. That's what
it was like, you know, Yeah, it was, it was.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
It was something. That's all I'm going to say. Well,
it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I don't think anybody ever complains about about Italy or
any part of it.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
So I did not visit Italian. But I did not
visit Sophia Lorenz.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I'm disappointment. I'm very disappointed. Now. I did, however, visit
the Vatican the well, yes we did.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
But I'll tell you one movie, okay, I did visit
the last scene and Gladiator really where Russell Crowe is
going up the long drive way to the beautiful. I
visited that house.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It ain't been her, but it's okay. I also know
the true stuff. Yeah, I mean it ain't been her. Yeah,
I guess there's only one.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Ben Her there is. I mean, let's face it. And
I saw Salah God, I love that movie. I love
that movie. Yeh, chariot race scene in that movie? You
kidding me? And those are authentic?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Yes, according to the people that I talked to in Italy,
ben Hur was authentic.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Gladiator yeah kind.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Of okay, Yeah, second level and as you as you mentioned,
the Colosseum is bigger than US Bank Stadium.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Well, isn't by far? Isn't part of the issue.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
What what strikes most people when they go back to
the old countries is there's stuff there that's more than
fifteen minutes old. There's stuff that's unbelievas and centuries and
centuries old.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
And they're still finding it. When they build a road,
they will find an Etruscan village. Yeah, the under the ground,
it's incredible. Did you bring back anything you weren't supposed to?
I didn't declare everything.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
If I could say that, I don't know if I
could declare some of the thousand lot radio.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
You know, quiet doesn't.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Get you like I forgot to declare this beautiful scarf
that I'm wearing.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
So will I get me in trouble?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
It might actually, Yeah, So tell Kessler that in northeast
Minneapolis there are twenty three bars and eighteen churches.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
That's the proper ration you need to go. That is
the properation. I think that's fantastic. I love that comparison.
And and it was I had to go into every
church because some of them are from.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Six hundred a d. Think about it, and you're going.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
And finally, my beautiful gal who's with me, I said,
I got to go look at the church.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
He says, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
I'm going to go sit across the street at the
wine bar on the piazza and have a couple of
glasses of wine. Come and find me when you're done. Wow,
that is the story of my marriage, the end.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah. Well that's fair at least.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, so she doesn't stand in your way, No, pat
be free.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Be you.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I'd like to hear from mister Kesser about his experiences
with the protests in Italy. Why isn't that event being
shared with the American people? Via news footage on a
daily basis.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
There were many protests in Italy and as a matter
of fact, there was a strike where all the transportation,
public transportation shut down while you were there, while we
were there for Gaza, they were protesting in favor of
a ceasefire in Gaza, Palestinian statehood.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
All of that.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Good thing you had. Your driver, I didn't experience any
any glitches with but.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
He noticed that other people are having trouble getting around
that did anybody was in your car?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Would you say.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Your special car, that's a good shot. I would say
that it's probably true. Any George Clooney updates.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Well, you know, I I was telling guards, I have
video of George Clooney's house of my tour of the
lake of Lake Como, and I I just I went
back and forth. Why would I ever put that up
on X put the video on Twitter? I mean of
George Clooney's house where you could see it and we
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were right up next to it.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
And you want security goons.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
I didn't see any. You didn't see any. But you know,
I'm sure they've got they got to have it. They
got to have ye and it's George Clooney it's not
Sophia Loren but it's George Clooney.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
So yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
So it was all of that, and the and the
Russian oligarch whose house has been confiscated on Lake Como
by the Italian government because of the money laundering for
Putin and Russia and the war against Ukraine. So I mean,
they don't mess around. So yeah, it was a transformative trip.
And I thought about you.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Not at all. I thought about you all the time.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I asked about you because it seemed like you disappeared
from Twitter for a while, and I'm going, well, did
he get arrested?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
And that's why did you?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I mean, how how aggressive were you at the Vatican
trying to get an audience with our favorite pope from Chicago.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Well, dub Pope, dup Hope.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
I stood under the balcony, directly under the balcony, just
waiting quite a long time. I was yelling, as Marlon
Brando in cat on a hot roof kids, look it up,
Look it up, Stella, except I was yelling.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
And it causes did you cause a scene?
Speaker 5 (29:55):
You know? People were looking and she gets embarrassed. My
beautiful wife, I don't know, My god, she's got a
reputation up, I know, and it is the Catholic Jubilee,
so there are tens of thousands of pilgrims.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
So how grand a spot is it?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Is it like enormous in a way that you go,
I don't know where to look it's it's or when
you're there, is it actually smaller than it appears on TV?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Bigger, bigger, bigger than it appears.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
So with a with a Saint Peter Square with three
hundred thousand people can fit in there, that's nut. And
how revered the pope is, particularly this one is revered
in it seems. Uh, they and a lot of people
talking about immigrants and immigration, and they have many of
(30:42):
the same issues in Europe as the States, writing Maloney, Yeah,
Prime Minister Maloney, however, uh that it's you've got to
figure out a way to restrict immigration and and so
people do talk about that. However, like Pope Leo, they
are shocked at the way America is rounding up immigrants
(31:02):
and hauling him away. People are concerned about that. The
ones that would volunteer this to us when they find
out we're America.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Jd Vance got an audience with Pope Leo. Why was
Kessler overlooked by the Pope.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
That is a really good question.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
And what exactly did Leo talk to JD about and
what did JD say to him, because they are dismissing
and belittling the White House. Is Pope Leo's comments about
the treatment of immigrants right as Jesus would have us do.
(31:38):
And there's a lot of pushback from the White House
about that. So you know, JD's a Catholic and they
did meet, and I just don't know. He came out
of the to meet people the day after we were there.
So it's a.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Couple of people are saying it wrong. Reference streetcar named Desire.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Pardon me, you're right, You're right, you're right, absolutely, thank you,
Thank you for correcting me on that.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Brunello Veno Nobile, Thank you, Barolo. What's Kessler's favorite flavor?
Brunello Brunelo? Guy?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Not down?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, absolutely? Since I was at the winery. You've traveled
abroad before. This isn't your first ship? Not a lot?
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Right?
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Right? So is there? I mean, is this on another level?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Because like I said, everybody who travels to Italy tells
me that even if they travel a lot, that there's
just something different there.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Well, how many times do you go on vacation and
you say, God, I love this place, and then you
take the next time and think, God.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Should we live here? Should we get a place here?
Did you get a condo? Well you think about it.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Yeah, sure, And then people are saying, well, here's where
you could live in Cartona, near near Russell Crowe's home,
and glad you could live there a villa for a lot.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Less so you can buy something in Palm or fly.
You guys are tempted, aren't you. I asked you're tempted. Yes,
but yeah, there's a lot of urbones and stuff there.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
The prettiest spot you landed on, would you say, just
esthetically speaking forget history or culture, just the prettiest where
you go.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
This is beyond beautiful. Tuscany. Tuscany is yeah, absolutely. Have
you been there? No, I've never been Italy. Yeah, so
it's it's it's just beautiful.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
And they have these ancient towns that are still standing
with yeah, that they haven't been torn down like we
do in our young country of two hundred and fifty
years old. Our country, and I love America, but we
tend to take down, tear down buildings and put new
ones in their place. You don't have that there, and
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so everything is old, cobblestone streets, stone streets, narrow alleys.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Artie asked you if I had Fomo earlier regarding the
Vikings trip and rapport, who went.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I really didn't on this one. I do. I do
because I just it. Just like I said.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Now, Louis goes like every fifteen minutes. But so he's
not a good example, but he tells us great stories
about various spots in Italy.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Knows the country better than anybody I know. But I you.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Know you look for Okay, Well, it's gotta be a
few horror stories, and I don't.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I've not heard them. When it comes to Italy, we
didn't have one.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
People are so kind and we are I'm not going
to say we're the ugly Americans because we're not.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
But I don't speak Italian.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Everybody there speaks English speaks English. Yeah, and I even
bought the air Did you the AirPod pro deals where
you can hit the hit it and it will translate serious. Yes, yes,
so you could so I could hear. And then it
became well, maybe I could hear what they're saying about me, like,
(34:53):
what a dufist?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Are you better off not knowing that? Is it deflating?
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
They said, we don't.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
We normally don't like Americans, but these two, yeah right,
look at that woman?
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Yeah, wow they she is.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
But at some point I'm just wondering, is this clown
with her trying too hard to look like Marcello Mastrianni.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Yah.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I got with the sunglasses and the scar said honey
and the merse and then they got the man back.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Yeah, and I said, honeyway she says, be you. It's
a tight fitting leotard type thing.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
What does that go back to? I don't remember that.
That's a good one. I was so high.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
Yeah it was was I at the Strip club?
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Did you guys eat late? Like that's the custom there?
Like with Spain, right, you eat dinner late.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
Yes, that's when we went to a restaurant called Imperioli.
Uh in Rome, al Pacino's favorite restaurant. No big deal,
no no big no big deal no. But yeah, I
mean it doesn't even open untill seven thirty eight. Yeah,
and so you got to go nine thirty, ten, ten thirty,
and you know what was your favorite teeth in the glass? Right,
what was your favorite pasta dish?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Pepe?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Seriously that they make that, and of course we melts
in your mouth, I bet, although we made our own
at the home of a chef.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
What are you talking about? Cooking class? Dude? Oh why not? Spicy?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Then?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
And then all to end the evening? You know. But man, yeah,
that's this is the new Man. It's a different look.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I don't think you're ever gonna go back. Well, I mean,
I don't think you're gonna go back to being the
previous Prints album I do Dirty Mind, Yeah, yeah, I
mean that's you're.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Gonna Are you going to dress in his outfit on
the cover? Is he got? Is that a lad? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (36:46):
That was early prince early princey say this is the
greatest album ever or yeah, we know he's a great
artist because of Dirty Mind.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
That was the It was a great I mean at
the time, it was groundbreaking, it really was. It was
something difference going on here. It was so different, well
it was, but it was also good funk.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
I mean it was.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
It was good stuff to it, I would argue as well.
All right, we got to get to some of the
news of the day. Good travelogue, good overview, you got
gifts for both of us.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Oh yes, I got the hand wipe from the Italian train.
I do, I want to do.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
And I can't wait to see what you brought us.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
I was so shocked that you you were anticipating gifts,
because the last time I brought gifts you turn up
your nose at me and said you don't want that.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
I did.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Yeah, it was the gifts from the bounty, from my garden.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
It was from his garden. It you know, it's not
my fault.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
The little death of zucchini was shaped like a human anatomy.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
That's not my fault. I mean, you don't want it.
You don't even want to touch it, very very big.
You know, you got a break.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
We'll come back and try to get to some news
if we can't stay there. Kestler back with us after
an extensive travelogue in our last segment, and we barely
(38:19):
touched the surface. It's so much, you know, I tell
you how lovely the people in Italy are.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Just one final note.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
They would ask where we're from, and we'd say Minneapolis
and kind of a you know, vacant stare, and so
we said where Prince lived?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Changed everything? Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
And then sometimes people will say, did you know him
because he lives in your town or lived in your town?
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I said no, not really. So yeah, so Prince is
big the world over.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
You think if you'd said Saint Paul rather than Minneapolis,
they are strong.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
We did that too, Did that took Yeah, they that's
where you live. Like most people, what we said St.
Paul in Minnesota, you don't said all of that.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Well, maybe if you've said Minneapolis, they would have appreciated it.
And you try hard to be authentic, and you said Paul.
Well we said Saint Paul all the time.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Okay, we're happy for you, but you know, fewer people
knew where that is. So what do you do?
Speaker 2 (39:19):
All right, let's get trying to get to some news
here of the day. I'm looking at a tweet from
earlier today. In fact, this might have been on your list.
The President is making plans for a significant aid package
for US soybean farmers. The package could include, according to CBS,
more than ten billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
In relief, and a lot of people are.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Asking, I think the the fairly obvious question that is,
so is this an attempt to deal with the degree
to which soybean farmers have been punished because of Trump's
policy decision in the first place.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yes, now this is socialism.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
I mean, I mean people are upset about what's the
dude's name in New York, Mom, Donnie.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Yeah, I mean this is socialism too.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
So the president imposes these tariffs and continuously, you know,
we don't know, maybe it'll work. But first they said,
immediately we did work. But what happened. Corporate welfare is
what it is. That's exactly what it is. It is
directing capital, directing the economy. The government is intervening in
the economy to do certain things for certain outcomes. And
(40:38):
in this case, the tariffs cause China to almost completely
stop buying soybeans from American farmers, including millions of bushels
of soybeans from the Great Farmers in Minnesota. So this
is not working. The market bottom has dropped out of
(41:01):
the market. There is virtually no sales. China is now
buying it's soybeans and it's a big deal in China
soybeans buying soybeans from Brazil and Argentina.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
So now the president is.
Speaker 5 (41:14):
Going to go in and we have heard in reporting
that it's a ten billion dollar package. But that's just
to start. It could be as much as fifty billion dollars.
Where are you going to get the money? Do you
take it from all the tariffs that are being paid
to the government. We don't know that there's that much yet,
(41:34):
So this is in fact a direct cause and effect.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
The tariffs caused the.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
Sales to go to almost zero for soybeans and Minnesota armors.
So now they've got to figure out a way to
fix it. Create the problem, and then fix it. You're
the hero, is there?
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (41:52):
We've had government shutdowns before a lot of people have
suggested this one's different. This one is going is likely
to last a lot longer. There's no real end in sight.
So what do you think are the the t if
you read the tea leaves, is this one more likely
to be much more long lasting and then, to that extent,
potentially much more damaging.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Boy, I don't see it.
Speaker 5 (42:16):
The president had the longest shutdown in US history in
his first term. I think it was thirty five days,
and that was shut down because I forgot about dollan.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Yeah, it was the longest one.
Speaker 5 (42:27):
In history, and he refused to assign bills, do anything.
The government shutdown because Congress would not appropriate the money
to build a wall. The billions of dollars they would
take to build a wall in Mexico. We can talk
about that forever, but this one, I just cannot believe
that they are going to let this go much farther.
(42:48):
We saw the hints that President Trump says, I can
make a deal with the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
Yeah, I'm open to a deal.
Speaker 5 (42:54):
We don't know that yet, but the words coming from
the President's mouth are are a little scary to workers.
He says that this is going to give them a
tremendous opportunity to lay off or fire tens of thousands
of federal workers, and the ones who are furloughed or
the ones who are forced to come to work, the
(43:15):
essential workers. He is saying that they may not be
entitled to back pay won the shutdown ends. So these
are scary things for families. And by the way, no
back pay includes the US military, So our soldiers, our
army men, army women, service members are not getting paid.
(43:38):
The first paycheck I think is next week, the fifteenth
of the month, and there ain't no paycheck for the military.
So we'll see where that goes. That could also end
u more quickly. In one final thing, the air traffic
controllers are beginning to call in sick, not show up
to work. It's a little bit of a slowdown. Peaks
(44:00):
me out a little bit when air traffic controllers are
unhappy and they're working double shifts and all of that.
That forced an end to the last shutdown, and I
wonder if that'll help too. So I cannot imagine. And
I'll come back and admit I'm wrong, but I can't imagine.
I'll be very surprised if this goes on.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
How does the.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
Logjam get busted? Though? Who has to move.
Speaker 5 (44:21):
Somebody's got to give, somebody's got to give. And trying
to blame the Democrats, it's it's mostly false, but there
is some truth to you know, you've got all this money.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
Obamacare has been a.
Speaker 5 (44:34):
Mess since it was first instituted, but now it's part
of our our institutions. Now it is part of our system,
and they got to figure out a way to do this.
And Democrats don't trust the Republicans when they say, we
promise we'll talk to you about this when it's over.
I wouldn't trust them, but they got to move somebody's
got to move.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
This is out of the hill dot com. Republican senators
are increasingly uneasy about the President's standoff with Democratic governors
over deploying National Guard troops from other states to Portland
and Chicago. Conflict escalated dramatically over the weekend when Trump
moved to send National Guard soldiers to Oregon and Illinois
despite opposition from both. It's all relative because I think
(45:20):
basically there's three Republicans who are allegedly expressing this unease.
That's not enough, right, I mean, it's going to have
to be much more of a groundswell, and I don't
think there's much indication that there's much stomach for really
bucking the president on this on the Republican side of
the aisle.
Speaker 3 (45:39):
Is there.
Speaker 5 (45:39):
Well, if you've got three Republicans doing it publicly, there
are many more behind the scenes that are not, and
that's where the pressure will build. Well, yeah, but you
knew more public too. I was threatening, and I cannot
believe this will happen. I mean, maybe I'm naive, but
he is threatening to arrest the mayor of Chicago and
the governor of Illinois if they get in his way
(46:00):
and meantime, they're staging these black arc helicopters with ice
agents repelling down to the top of an apartment. They've
got cameras set up all around for a recruitment video
hauling people out of here.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
Did people sign up for this?
Speaker 5 (46:17):
I don't know why President Trump doesn't take the w
of how many people are crossing the border. And it
was a mess when Biden was there, there was nobody
stopping it. Hundreds of thousands were pouring across the border.
How many today?
Speaker 3 (46:32):
Two? Yeah? Four? You know seven?
Speaker 5 (46:36):
It's he has essentially stopped the bleeding at the border.
And if I were President Trump, I'd take the w
and say look what I did, and he did so
good for you.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
But did you this is getting bad? Did you notice
sitting real we're running out of time? Unfortunately? But did
I not read the ear guy? Governor Walls when asked,
said I will not be running for president again in
twenty twenty eight. I don't think the Illinois governor he
(47:09):
played with it a little bit more. He kept the
door open, but did not. Isn't this the first that's
really the first time I ever heard it. I'm not
running for president At.
Speaker 5 (47:17):
The Minnesota Star Tribune's first ever North Star Forum, and
it was kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (47:21):
A lot of news came. Why did they have to
bring a New York Times report.
Speaker 5 (47:25):
That I'm just back, But I'm going to find out
because I thought, whychev Rochelle Olson do all of them?
Speaker 3 (47:30):
I know you got people, Yeah, you can do this.
Speaker 5 (47:33):
Not only he said I'm not running for president of
twenty eight, he's running again. And then former Governor Polenti,
the Republican, said, you know Republicans.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
Can't win here. He's the last guy to win state wide,
last Republican in two thousand and six.
Speaker 5 (47:46):
People have been urging him to run again, either for senator, governor.
He says it's the party's magnified. I would never win,
So let's let Mike Lindell.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
Have a chance. That should work. In a statement, that'd.
Speaker 5 (48:00):
Be an incredible campaign, so Wall said, entertaining. But for
Trump to send troops to Minnesota, and he's probably not wrong.
Also says I am prepared to be arrested. So I mean,
where are we going with all of us? And if
you see a recruitment video from Ice that you can
carry a gun and wear masks, are who's joining right now?
(48:24):
Who is becoming an ice agent because you can do
that with looks like a video game, those those videos.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
So I mean, get.
Speaker 5 (48:32):
The really really bad people out, But you're arresting grandma
who's been running a bakery for thirty years.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
So where are we? We're out of time. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
I went along with the Well they'll be there's always
more time you'll be I think, unless you're you know,
going to hit well. I do have more travel Iceland.
I heard you're going to next Iceland.
Speaker 3 (48:53):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
It's supposed to be on weekend right NonStop to recufect.
Is that true from here?
Speaker 3 (48:58):
Yeah? Absolutely, Man, you'd be flying coacher. You are so cute.
Thank you all right man.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
Pat Kessler five six and ten, Channel four back to
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Speaker 3 (49:15):
It's the bumper to bumper show Wrap.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
We are back a final segment wrapping things up. Outstanding
crew of guests today, two of the three in studio
back from European trips. Right Kessler to Italy and there
in other spots thereabouts and the sea for trip of
course took him to Dublin and to London. Seafer joined
(49:54):
at three point thirty, actually three point fifteen. He started
today and we wrapped up the four o'clock hour with
him him or started it, and then Mason your face
between four and five from his new locale Fargo. That's
become kind of a regular thing for him and Kessler
between five point thirty and well into the six o'clock
hour beek to Bison or Fighting Hawks. Coaching staffs have
(50:16):
thought about bringing Mason just to grab a whistle and.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
See what he sees.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
Not a bad idea, I mean, wouldn't you want to?
Obviously they know what they're doing. Not a bad lots
but mas Dune Sundling, he's got much to do up there.
Let him watch a couple of drills. He'd do it well.
I mean, I don't know at this point you could
rule anything out. I mean, in Mason's face, he's he
definitely in Mace's case. Speaking of Mason's face, I think
(50:42):
it's very, very possible that takes place Tomorrow's Thursday. Sean
Salisbury's going to join and the inbox and am I
missing anything?
Speaker 3 (50:49):
Is that it? For right now? Russo Radio russoll radio.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
That's right, Minnesota Wild Hockey back in action here on
the fan. We start our season and we'll start we'll
kick it off with Russo tomorrow. The news with shan
Sean Salisbury is not all good. We'll talk to him.
I'm sure about it a little bit. He's tweeted about it.
I've reached out to him, but he was let go.
He was laid off, one could say from an iHeart
(51:13):
a fellow iHeart station.
Speaker 3 (51:15):
In Houston, Texas.
Speaker 2 (51:16):
He had the very a very popular sports talk morning
show in Houston. I think it was seven ninety on
the dial, if I'm not mistaken, Am, And he sent
out a very I thought, gracious note under under conditions,
thanking everybody for the support he got over the years
and understanding that sometimes that's the way these decisions go.
(51:37):
And so we'll talk football with him and a little
bit of how he's doing. He tells me he's doing well.
He's got other some other big plans and is the.
Speaker 3 (51:46):
Busiest guy he is. He Yeah, he's very resourceful.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Him multiple shows, and I think he still kind of
keeps himself in the football business too. I think he
works with some players, he works with some quarterbacks, he
does a little bit of everything. It's sort of like
Sam Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (52:00):
You know.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
Sam is still working with basket with young basketball players
in some case cases, I should say. And then he's
obviously doing some really good broad national broadcasting work. And
as I mentioned, I think he's coming to the town
at some point this weekend, and I'm going to see
if there's any I don't know how long he's staying about,
maybe even getting him on early next next week. So
(52:23):
I still haven't gotten to my w n B a
item that it's playing off of. A pretty interesting investigative
piece that's that was released via ESPN dot com dropped
a couple of days ago regarding the ongoing brawl between
the players and the commissioner and the feast of Collier
(52:46):
component of that story as well. That kind of laid
laid it out pretty well. They I think they also
did a pretty good job giving background on the economic
state of the league where it's really at at this point,
where it still needs to grow despite a significant level
of growth to this point as well, So I'll try
to find we have a fewer guests tomorrow, so tomorrow
(53:08):
might be the day for us to explore that and
thereby probably I will further annoy some very sensitive links fans.
There's about nine stories I didn't touch today. But that's okay.
I mean, there's always that's the beauty of being on
five days a week, right, there's a there's always another
showrow and it's a full show tomorrow three to six
thirty because of no Vikings programming.
Speaker 3 (53:29):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 2 (53:30):
We'll lead you right into a fifteen minute fan on
the Man on the air and then wild hockey. Okay,
so you'll have plenty of time to stretch. That all
makes sense. Coomer's Cubs leading the game. They have to
win at Wrigley. They're still up. I think it's four
to two. Did Kesser tell you that seventh? Yes, he's. Yeah,
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he's pretending to be a big Brewers rube.
Speaker 3 (53:52):
He's gonna go fought. I know. Yeh.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
The permanent plus one Freaky's got. Yeah, he's the permanent
plus one. And now she's in charge of mill lot.
He's and he's pretending he's this big Brewers friend. It's incredible.
It's just for he loves the crew. TV is so phony.
It's just it's amazing. It doesn't really seem to matter.
I mean, I get it in Freaky's case. Yes, I
don't know that I necessarily do in his. But he
also claims that he'll be hanging out with the athletic director.
Speaker 3 (54:16):
Yeah, he will be a homecoming again. That's a Freaky production. Yeah. Yeah,
it's just the plus one the coattails thing is. I mean,
it's it's remarkable how it's worked out for him.
Speaker 2 (54:29):
It's funny how every name drop situation that he wedged
into my seven to ten minutes with them in this
studio made it into your studio as well, that he
dropped all the same names with me that he dropped
with you.
Speaker 1 (54:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (54:44):
I think he just does that with every conversation. Though.
Speaker 2 (54:46):
Yeah, I think it's become almost like second nature to him.
Like you said, he he's further from being the farm
boy than he's ever been in his life. It's not
I mean, it's not even it's it's a different human being.
There is not a soybe in subsidy that could give
him to being the farm boy. No, it's sad, but
very very true dating.
Speaker 3 (55:08):
Them, How could you not? How could you not? That's
for sure. We appreciate you listening. We appreciate you watching.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
We appreciate you texting all those things as as are
always true for us, and we look forward to uh
tomorrow's visit.
Speaker 3 (55:22):
What do we have coming up later tonight on the fan?
Speaker 2 (55:23):
You said Fan on Demand, then Wild Weekly, then Damn Patrick. Okay,
good combination. Enjoy the rest of it. It looks like
a very nice evening, little crisp.
Speaker 3 (55:32):
That's good. We'll talk to you three tomorrow, America.
And just in case you missed it, it's the top
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
All right, top five to five and if you got
too much stuff, we can extend it because Kessler's not
going to join Theill five thirty, so don't hesitate in
turning it into the five twenty Sports Fix as well.
If there's enough meat on the bone, well, we'll see
how it goes. We'll see how it goes. We are
going to start hockey just for Kevin Fallness. You've heard
of Jack Eichel, pretty good player for the Vegas Golden Knights. Correct,
(00:40):
He was also eligible for a contract extension this year.
Really good player, big time player. I know Brett Blake
Moore wanted them desperately on the last people wanted them
on the wild a few years ago, right when he
was traded from the Buffalo Sabers. Well, he is also
Dan signed an eight year contract extension.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
The average annual value.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Thirteen point five million dollars thirteen point five million dollars.
He was entering the final year of an eight year
deal that carried a ten million dollar cap hit, one
that he originally signed with Buffalo. He scored twenty six
points in twenty two games during the Vegas playoff run
in twenty twenty three to help them win their first
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Stanley Cup. They again are expected to be Stanley Cup contenders.
Eight years, thirteen point five million dollars I used. I
didn't try to do the math on my own. I
tried to use a calculator, So I think that's one
hundred and eight million dollars total. If it's thirteen point
five times eight years correct, that sounds right. I got
one hundred and eight Caprisov was one hundred and thirty
six mil total correct, and seventeen million dollars a year.
(01:48):
So so far, if you're you know, keeping score, and
I get it, there's a million permutations.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
As it pertains to economic.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
David Caprilla, Caaprisov should feel very good about his agent. Yes,
relatively speaking, what he got for him compared to these
two big name players, and whatever strategy was being used
in both cases. Carill at least again for now, and
(02:16):
I don't know, if there's any other big contracts left
to extend, he ends up in the offseason literally being
the big winner. And you could argue to a certain
extent that it is not even close in terms of
yearly value and in overall value as well.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Correct. Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Does that mean we spent more than we should have?
Does that mean garn should have played hardball? I don't
know if he would have been successful clearly Originally the
wild Garan especially, I think was not happy when the
original sixteen million dollar a year offer was turned down
(02:58):
because I think I think he thought, we're not gonna
play the game of going real long. We're just going
to offer you what we think you should take, and
they said no. And I do think, you know, talking
to people and reading things that originally there was more
anger that then perhaps we realize and a little bit
(03:20):
of the old bleep you attitude, and then cooler heads
prevailed because I think in the end Garren knew that
they were over a barrel in a way that he
had almost no choice but to move the number up.
What's interesting is I kept being told, well, there's others
that are going to be right there with them or higher,
(03:41):
and I don't know who's left. They would be in
that category, not sure either, but it hadn't happened yet.
It hasn't even come closer. We're talking four or five million,
and they've already got a cup with their guy, right.
That's the other part that's kind of like deflating a
little bit Edmonton. They're signing guys that they've had these
major ones correct so well that hurts Wild open.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
The season tomorrow night in Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
RUSO Radio is going to join about twenty four hours
from right now from Saint Louis, and he and Joe
Smith wrote about today the fact that Nico Sterm, according
to their sources, is expected to undergo surgery for a
back injury that's been ailing him since the first practice
of training camp. And they describe it as a significant
hole because head coach John Hines planned to deploy Storm
(04:25):
in a variety of ways beyond his fourth line role.
They know about Zukie and now Storm he's out as well. Yeah,
And I mean, Luie and I have talked about this.
You can the deal on. I mean, I feel like
Storm's value from the beginning was was inflated based on
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what we know of him as a player, and then
you factor in the injury as well, and you go, well,
I mean due diligence back. I mean, now you're asking
for who knows when exactly he is going to come back.
So I don't view him as a great player at all.
They clearly had had projected, had convinced themselves though that
(05:08):
he would serve a significant purpose for them. Maybe they
were right, But if they were right, doesn't matter, because
he starts the season not just on the injured list.
But now, as we knew yesterday, but now facing surgery.
Did it say he's already had it or he's going
to have it? It says he's expected expect to get
the surgery. Okay, by the way, we're reminded. Also your
(05:29):
guy Kyle Conner Winnipeg Jets, eight years, ninety six million dollars.
That was announced earlier today as well. He finished seventh
in the NHL last season with ninety seven points. That's
a deal that's going to start in twenty twenty six,
twenty seven. So carell set the market. Everybody's just going
underneath it.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
That's it. That's it, man. No, he ended up setting
literally setting the market. That's crazy. We can talk wolves
if you want after this.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We can talk baseball if you want after this. It's
a pretty quiet, quiet day, sire. Let's do let's break
and let's put a grand and let's try.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
To get some Bonus Bucks going, and then let's keep
it going.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Before Kessler joins, a fan and two men and a
junk truck want to do that Bonus Bucks National Cash
Contests five o'clock Wednesday. Keyword is check. Go to kfan
dot com and enter the keyword check. Remind me also
to discuss some unfortunate news, not health wise but career wise,
involving our guy Sean Salisbury, our Thursday regular. We'll get
(06:26):
to that as well when we continue the five to
twenty Sports Fix. Yeah, a couple more nuggets for the
(06:47):
five twenty Sports Fix, a carry over from the top five.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
At five.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
It is worth noting regarding Storm that what was one
of the biggest gripes from a year ago.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
We can't win a.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Face off, can't win a face offt win a face off.
Our percentages are awful, And that's allegedly what Storm was
going to offer. In fact, he had offered that apparently
during the preseason. So again I just wondered when there
was so much fanfare about, you know, bringing him back,
(07:18):
that it's like, well, okay, but what are you You're
asking too much from a guy who still has some
limitations for obvious reasons, and that didn't even go into
the area of whether he might be damaged goods or
might have a significant injury as well. What else should
we mention here in our carryover? Well, how about the
fact that the Yankees done six to walk?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I think it was that when we were watching it
here the last couple of minutes of the show, they
were about to be swept and Aaron Judge said, not
so fast, my friends. That was pretty cool. Not in
my house. And his home run last night still hasn't landed.
And it was the first. This is a I'm probably
reading I think it hit the file pol in it.
It did, but it was crushed. I'm reading too much
into this, probably, but it was the first according to
(08:03):
Greene because they led with that this morning. It was
the first home run he hit all year with a
pitch that was outside the strike zone. So in other words,
he wasn't waiting for his pitch. He's like, I gotta
do something he was doing going Kirby Pucket on Aaron Judge. Yeah,
I'm gonna I'm gonna be a good I'm gonna be
a great bad ball hitter because my team needs something
(08:23):
and I love that. So I'm blowing that completely out
of proportion. Show remember Joe doing that much.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
But that's just me. I know he's in the Hall
same you get hitting pitches. Yeah, well, speaking of hitting pitches,
but it wasn't well. I got to work to count.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I gotta wait and hopefully I'll get one and the
pitcher makes a mistake. No, my team's about to die
and I gotta do something. And the swing, if you
watch it, it didn't look very comfortable. The pitch was up.
It was a way you had to fight it off.
And it was awesome. I know nobody likes the Yankees
except thinking ant Allen. She'll tweet in that it was great,
but it's exactly what they needed at that point, right.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
It was great, no question. By the way.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Speaking of baseball, Cubs who have to win to or
today they're down two games to none.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
They returned home.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
To Wrigley, they scored the Brewers scored one in the
top of the first. I think they got helped by
one of those uh you know, routine pop ups that
didn't get caught, and the Cubs responded with four runs
in the bottom of the first inning, starting with the
local kid here that we talked about with koomdag yesterday,
(09:24):
Michael Bush with another dong, a solo dong, and then
the Cubs scored three more in the uh later in
the first. So they're up four to one. They must
win to extend the series. They're down two games to
none in the proverbial best five Tigers also, by the way,
extend of their series. They beat the Mariners today nine
(09:45):
to three, so game five. So that's too too Yeah, okay, interesting,
exactly right. Philly's Dodgers a little bit later tonight, Dodgers
looking for the sweep air and then the Yankees look
to continue to stay alive against the Blue Jays tonight
at the six. Does I believe WNBA Finals continue tonight
in Phoenix?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Do they not? I want to say, who do I
look like? The commissioner?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, I know this Phoenix has to win because they're down.
Well no, I let me let me back up. I
forgot they went best to seven for the finals. This year,
so Phoenix, they probably still need to win, because if
you're down three to zero, not much happens. Not much
good happens in basketball playoffs. Down three games to not
in the best of seven, but they are at the
(10:29):
very least indeed back home. So that's I had a
w NBA nugget to get links fans going again. I'll
save it maybe for between six and six thirty or
tomorrow's program as well. And I feel like there was
something else but the Jimmy Johnson news. Oh it's Jerry
Jones related. Yeah, So Jerry Jones gets nailed, gets caught
(10:53):
with the rigid digit middle finger. Yeah, and that this
was with was it who do they play? That was
the Jets fans right, that found r they get the
Jets most recently.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
And what was was a fine like fifty two hundred
and fifty thousand That seems a bit excessive to me,
am I being too kind to Jerry Jones quarter of
a million dollars for a bleep you.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I mean the stuff that said during games before games,
after games sometimes that the mic catches I. I you know,
I get it. It's not it's not becoming an NBA owner.
I certainly understand that part, but I maybe he's already
on double secret probation for some other things that he did.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I'm not sure. Well.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
The other part, though, is Tepper is a Panther's owner.
He got banged three hundred thousand dollars. He threw a
drink at a fan. Really, the owners are just melting down,
perhaps inspired by Cheryl reed to bleep off the phoenix
she was finding in fifteen thousand for that which could
be equivalent, so she got well, I see because of
the relative Yeah, I mean too and all that. Ye,
(11:58):
fifteen for Cheryl, probably for one of the jones is
probably less Trump change for the Joneses and for the Yeah,
as a drink at a fan, get to three hundred
thousand dollars, fine, these owners need to chill.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, owners need to have some chill.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Markin Ziggie aren't doing that, Kessler will tell us that,
or way, Leonard, he's not doing that. Yeah, he did
the proverbial you saw you tweeted out I think a
link to the news about who is going to be
entertaining at the next at their most Yes, was it
sixty sure or sixty one? Whatever number it is, and
it was the obligatory Kessler treat good tweet, I should say,
(12:33):
good decision, but will never compare to Prince. By the way,
this is a big historic day in Prince album history.
I think the Mattress album, I think it's first was.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Released on this day.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It was either yesterday or today in nineteen hundred and eighty.
I've told the story about I was in Atlanta with
some with it in a while friends who had heard it.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I had not heard it, and they were way ahead
of it.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I have to say they were ahead of the crowd
in saying this guy is there's something different about this guy.
That was nineteen eighty and there was as today was
the day. What's the name of the album? No, I'd say,
your friends were right, The friends were right. Yeah, we'll
double check that. I should know the name of the album.
It's him posing in front of a mattress, in front
of it like a box spring, as I recall it,
(13:22):
rather scantily clad, as Prince occasionally was wont to be,
you know from time to time. But why can't I
think of the name of the album? It'll it'll come
to somebody. Also, maybe this articulates the popular rage here
six to one to two. Guy, my god, this sports
market must have infuriated some powerful entity. Every team, every sport,
(13:43):
key players and before the season even begins.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Pull the pin out of the doll man. He's speaking
about injuries.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Obviously, JJ is still out right now, blessedly at this point,
knock on for my the Wolves are relatively healthy. Correct,
Yes they are. I'm trying to think of any injuries.
I comly got his footstepped on last night in the
first quarter. That was dangerous. Do better, Charlotte. That's all
(14:13):
I can say as a player. Jade McDaniels missing game
for personal reasons, his girlfriend tweeting out that she is
now officially sat numbered by boys. Yes, so I'm gonna
read between the lines and say that she must have
had a baby. So congratulations, which means less sleep for
the home games for the for the Wolves.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
We don't do that last year. That's true.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
We can't win at home because we've got too many
kids and present fathers. What is more obnoxious than a
preseason NBA game that goes to overtime?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Last night was the that was the occasion. Somebody said
it may have been your guy who's coming into town.
Frank Isola that the new rule on NBA preseason games
that go to overtime is that the games are decided
by which team can hit a half court shot first.
(15:01):
That's really not a bad idea. Like a shootout, that's
not a bad idea. Yeah, and there's nobody wants to
see it. Nobody cares, but they would want to see that.
And the people that are left at the game, they
can all go down on the court while everybody shoots it.
You can go stand by the players, yes, all the fans,
because there's only a couple dozen left.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Just go stand there next to everybody. Give people that.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I don't know Johnny got in on this because I
know he did a tweet storm last night. I was
in and out of the game, and maybe I didn't
see enough of a cross section of it.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Dilly Ham's worrying me. I don't I don't see it yet.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I keep waiting for it, and I look, we both
were excited about the team moving up to get them
the whole bit. I just I don't know, I I.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Don't, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I hope it's in him, but it's just it's going
to take him longer. Maybe like it's going to take
JJ McCarthy longer. But I still don't see it. I
don't I don't see it translating to the professional level.
And then that gets back to where I what are
you going to do if you can't come out on him?
And how patient is the head coach going to be
because he's he's tended to not be very patient. I
think you can even just hear in how he speaks
(16:08):
about Rob Dillingham, I really and he's asked about it
constantly because it's a high profile pick. They traded up
to get him top ten when they weren't expected to
draft in the top ten, and I'm guessing he I
just feel like you can feel that he doesn't want
to bury him, but he also is honest about Yeah,
I'm not I'm not gonna lie about what I'm seeing him,
Why he's not out there and what we need from him?
(16:28):
Is Kesler in the house? Yet he's here, He's been
here for a long time. He has been Yeah, we
should break behind. Yeah, we got the Vikings report to
get to and then we got to.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Get to Kessler.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Oh all right, Well I'll find what I'm looking for
in a minute. And then actually any discussion of Prince
is dangerous with Kessler because I mean, honestly, everything's the greatest,
Everything's the greatest, it's ever been done. It doesn't make
any difference. But we'll get to the bottom of all that.
And to prepare for Kessler's I guess you could say
travelogue on his big trip to Italy to hang with
(16:59):
George klu All that is coming up.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Time now for the Vikings Report on the Fan, presented
by Miller Lyte. Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielend joins Danbury
room next.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
I wish the American media would take a great look
at the views of the people.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
In Congress and find out are they call America or
anti America.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
A Kissler because people have got to know whether or
not their presidents are crump.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
But I'm not a crump.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I can't trust a ball. He's an Eric Passler. Tear
down the fsh wall. I did nothing wrong at the
Minneapolis Airport. Senator, You're no Jack Kennedy Pakssler. And now
to help Dan break down all the tough questions in politics.
This is Patcastler recording Pan Kessler political walk. I feel
(17:48):
like this force Pat Kissler with Dan Barrero on the fan.
The governor has built a barrier between himself.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
And the voters.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, it was a pairrier, all right, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
By the way, For the record, as we're reminded by
Steelers guy, dirty Mine is the album I was thinking
of that was released on this day by Prince well,
I guess not technically released by Prince, but his album
on this day in the year nineteen hundred and eighty,
I was in Atlanta, Georgia. I've told the story before,
(18:25):
outside a bar. I literally spent three to four days
a week or nights at named Carlos.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Mcgee'e and the with it.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
And while group I was with, we're talking about an
album called Dirty Mind by Prince nineteen eighty came out
on this day. Thanks to yours guy for the reminder,
Kessie is in the house or I as I now
referred to him, Marcello Mastriani that when you had those
sunglasses on, those Christian deyor sunglasses with the muffler, the scarf, you.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Had gone beautiful scarf.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I'm thinking, Marcelle, you're familiar with Marcello Mastriani.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
That's a compliment. Yeah, it is. He's good he's a
good look at this is the new meat. So you
go to Italy for two weeks, so far away from
the farm. I can't even tell you to come back
a transformed man. Correct. Was I wearing a handbag and
you had the handbag with it? You did?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
So men wear handbags. I hope you got you? Hope
you don't have anything against it.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I have one. Yeah, I'm absolutely wear it a lot.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
But I wear in mind all the time with the
new with the scar beautiful scarf from the marketplace muffler
in in uh Florence. I got, I don't. I didn't
wear them today. It's a little chili. But the capri
pants of course three quarters. Yeah, it's the allowed to.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Wear socks in Italy if you're gonna be fashionable.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
No nobody, I mean men in suits. The men are
really handsome, of course, and the women are beautiful. They're
absolutely gorgeous. Men are handsome and stylish and everybody looks great.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
No, so no socks with the men in no matter.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
What, whether you're wearing dress hues, loafers or did any
does anybody wear you know, the sort of athletic shoes,
the nikes, the sorts of things here they do wear
those with a one thousand dollars suit, of course, yes, okay,
absolutely what no socks though?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
This is, this is changing.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
And you think, I know, you're a patriot. You are
USA America. U s A you're a patriot? Ye make
American America is free? Damn it.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Do you think it's free?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
It is.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
In Italy. You can smoke anywhere you want in public.
You can in public. Yeah you're talking. I mean tobacco
or pot or whatever. I did not have one you
could get. I did not smell once marijuana the sweet
sense of mea. But so usually it's it's tobacco once, tobacco,
people tobacco, bacon, they're vapor really, you know, And it's
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did you feel transformed? Very This was a transformative, It
changed my life, you know, hanging out at a cafe,
leaning out the window and while.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Watching uh the Gopher Coaches show.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Well that was that was on our trip from the Alps. Uh,
you know, as we're being taken back to Lake Como.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I'm not kidding. It was the last seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It's it's the he's never been less relatable to a
normal person. I finally kicked him out and said enough,
I'm tired of being one upped. And he heard me
in every conversation here, so he insultiates yourself.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
So I love Italy, I mean who doesn't? No one,
every one love Italy. That's that's the way you say.
That's I mean, I mean, it's it's pointed about one thing.
Tell me what it is, I should say, maybe it'll
surprise me. But what I really want to know. You
went everywhere.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I'm sure you saw a lot of wonderful things, including
the Roman Colisseum. Did you visit the birthplace of Sophia Larreent?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
That's what I am. But by the way, I was
born in Rome. I don't know where where is.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
She's still alive. Saphilla Lurrett is still alive. She's like
ninety one years old. Yes, yeah, confirm that for me. Well, yeah,
that the.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Most beautiful woman in the world was laur Is Ever
I'm not going to say it was.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
She's a lot.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Yeah, absolutely so, I'm sorry to say I didn't you
want to see Sophia lurn in Majestic Beauty.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Rent a motion picture you probably can't even't find anymore
called el sid about the legendary Spanish folk hero uh
played by Charlton Heston, and his beautiful bride is Sophia
Urn And I'm telling.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
You it's unspeakable beauty in the case of Sephila Urn.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Well, that that's I'm now. I feel bad. I couldn't
have even seen her. I know, it's it's crazy that
I didn't, But I felt every moment as if I
was walking through a movie in nineteen sixties Italian movie
everywhere we went.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
So I'm not going to say I was do Italians
love Americans? Do they like Americans? Or they like the French?
Kind of kind of annoyed, don't bother me, kind of look,
you know, look down.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
On most charming people.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Ever, however, like parents with their children and all of
us with children have gone through this, Yeah, I'm not
angry with America. I'm just very disappointed. There was a
lot of anti Trump sentiment. There was a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I was.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
I was kind of surprised we never brought it up,
And frankly, through the whole vacation, I wasn't sure if
I was going to be denied re entry into the US.
Who knows, But yeah, I mean, people are very disappointed,
you know, we bought. We bought some wine back.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
And what happened.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
There's two there are two pricelests, one for the entire
world and then another one for the US because of
Trump terrorists.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
We'll get to that end, you know.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
So that you got all that, now, I will just
say I wasn't gobsmacked, but I was godsmacked with the churches.
Like every hundred feet there's a church, and I have
to go look at every one of them. The only
thing I can compare it to the number of churches
per square block is like a small town in Wisconsin
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with a number of bars per square block. That's what
it was like, you know, Yeah, it was, it was.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
It was something. That's all I'm going to say. Well,
it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I don't think anybody ever complains about about Italy or
any part of it.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
So I did not visit Italian. But I did not
visit Sophia Lorenz.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I'm disappointment. I'm very disappointed. Now. I did, however, visit
the Vatican the well, yes we did.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
But I'll tell you one movie, okay, I did visit
the last scene and Gladiator really where Russell Crowe is
going up the long drive way to the beautiful. I
visited that house.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It ain't been her, but it's okay. I also know
the true stuff. Yeah, I mean it ain't been her. Yeah,
I guess there's only one.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Ben Her there is. I mean, let's face it. And
I saw Salah God, I love that movie. I love
that movie. Yeh, chariot race scene in that movie? You
kidding me? And those are authentic?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Yes, according to the people that I talked to in Italy,
ben Hur was authentic.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Gladiator yeah kind.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Of okay, Yeah, second level and as you as you mentioned,
the Colosseum is bigger than US Bank Stadium.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Well, isn't by far? Isn't part of the issue.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
What what strikes most people when they go back to
the old countries is there's stuff there that's more than
fifteen minutes old. There's stuff that's unbelievas and centuries and
centuries old.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
And they're still finding it. When they build a road,
they will find an Etruscan village. Yeah, the under the ground,
it's incredible. Did you bring back anything you weren't supposed to?
I didn't declare everything.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
If I could say that, I don't know if I
could declare some of the thousand lot radio.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
You know, quiet doesn't.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Get you like I forgot to declare this beautiful scarf
that I'm wearing.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
So will I get me in trouble?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
It might actually, Yeah, So tell Kessler that in northeast
Minneapolis there are twenty three bars and eighteen churches.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
That's the proper ration you need to go. That is
the properation. I think that's fantastic. I love that comparison.
And and it was I had to go into every
church because some of them are from.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Six hundred a d. Think about it, and you're going.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
And finally, my beautiful gal who's with me, I said,
I got to go look at the church.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
He says, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
I'm going to go sit across the street at the
wine bar on the piazza and have a couple of
glasses of wine. Come and find me when you're done. Wow,
that is the story of my marriage, the end.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah. Well that's fair at least.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, so she doesn't stand in your way, No, pat
be free.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Be you.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I'd like to hear from mister Kesser about his experiences
with the protests in Italy. Why isn't that event being
shared with the American people? Via news footage on a
daily basis.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
There were many protests in Italy and as a matter
of fact, there was a strike where all the transportation,
public transportation shut down while you were there, while we
were there for Gaza, they were protesting in favor of
a ceasefire in Gaza, Palestinian statehood.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
All of that.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Good thing you had. Your driver, I didn't experience any
any glitches with but.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
He noticed that other people are having trouble getting around
that did anybody was in your car?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Would you say.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Your special car, that's a good shot. I would say
that it's probably true. Any George Clooney updates.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Well, you know, I I was telling guards, I have
video of George Clooney's house of my tour of the
lake of Lake Como, and I I just I went
back and forth. Why would I ever put that up
on X put the video on Twitter? I mean of
George Clooney's house where you could see it and we
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were right up next to it.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
And you want security goons.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
I didn't see any. You didn't see any. But you know,
I'm sure they've got they got to have it. They
got to have ye and it's George Clooney it's not
Sophia Loren but it's George Clooney.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
So yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
So it was all of that, and the and the
Russian oligarch whose house has been confiscated on Lake Como
by the Italian government because of the money laundering for
Putin and Russia and the war against Ukraine. So I mean,
they don't mess around. So yeah, it was a transformative trip.
And I thought about you.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Not at all. I thought about you all the time.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I asked about you because it seemed like you disappeared
from Twitter for a while, and I'm going, well, did
he get arrested?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
And that's why did you?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I mean, how how aggressive were you at the Vatican
trying to get an audience with our favorite pope from Chicago.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Well, dub Pope, dup Hope.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
I stood under the balcony, directly under the balcony, just
waiting quite a long time. I was yelling, as Marlon
Brando in cat on a hot roof kids, look it up,
Look it up, Stella, except I was yelling.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
And it causes did you cause a scene?
Speaker 5 (29:55):
You know? People were looking and she gets embarrassed. My
beautiful wife, I don't know, My god, she's got a
reputation up, I know, and it is the Catholic Jubilee,
so there are tens of thousands of pilgrims.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
So how grand a spot is it?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Is it like enormous in a way that you go,
I don't know where to look it's it's or when
you're there, is it actually smaller than it appears on TV?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Bigger, bigger, bigger than it appears.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
So with a with a Saint Peter Square with three
hundred thousand people can fit in there, that's nut. And
how revered the pope is, particularly this one is revered
in it seems. Uh, they and a lot of people
talking about immigrants and immigration, and they have many of
(30:42):
the same issues in Europe as the States, writing Maloney, Yeah,
Prime Minister Maloney, however, uh that it's you've got to
figure out a way to restrict immigration and and so
people do talk about that. However, like Pope Leo, they
are shocked at the way America is rounding up immigrants
(31:02):
and hauling him away. People are concerned about that. The
ones that would volunteer this to us when they find
out we're America.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Jd Vance got an audience with Pope Leo. Why was
Kessler overlooked by the Pope.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
That is a really good question.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
And what exactly did Leo talk to JD about and
what did JD say to him, because they are dismissing
and belittling the White House. Is Pope Leo's comments about
the treatment of immigrants right as Jesus would have us do.
(31:38):
And there's a lot of pushback from the White House
about that. So you know, JD's a Catholic and they
did meet, and I just don't know. He came out
of the to meet people the day after we were there.
So it's a.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Couple of people are saying it wrong. Reference streetcar named Desire.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Pardon me, you're right, You're right, you're right, absolutely, thank you,
Thank you for correcting me on that.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Brunello Veno Nobile, Thank you, Barolo. What's Kessler's favorite flavor?
Brunello Brunelo? Guy?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Not down?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, absolutely? Since I was at the winery. You've traveled
abroad before. This isn't your first ship? Not a lot?
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Right?
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Right? So is there? I mean, is this on another level?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Because like I said, everybody who travels to Italy tells
me that even if they travel a lot, that there's
just something different there.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Well, how many times do you go on vacation and
you say, God, I love this place, and then you
take the next time and think, God.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Should we live here? Should we get a place here?
Did you get a condo? Well you think about it.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Yeah, sure, And then people are saying, well, here's where
you could live in Cartona, near near Russell Crowe's home,
and glad you could live there a villa for a lot.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Less so you can buy something in Palm or fly.
You guys are tempted, aren't you. I asked you're tempted. Yes,
but yeah, there's a lot of urbones and stuff there.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
The prettiest spot you landed on, would you say, just
esthetically speaking forget history or culture, just the prettiest where
you go.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
This is beyond beautiful. Tuscany. Tuscany is yeah, absolutely. Have
you been there? No, I've never been Italy. Yeah, so
it's it's it's just beautiful.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
And they have these ancient towns that are still standing
with yeah, that they haven't been torn down like we
do in our young country of two hundred and fifty
years old. Our country, and I love America, but we
tend to take down, tear down buildings and put new
ones in their place. You don't have that there, and
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so everything is old, cobblestone streets, stone streets, narrow alleys.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Artie asked you if I had Fomo earlier regarding the
Vikings trip and rapport, who went.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I really didn't on this one. I do. I do
because I just it. Just like I said.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Now, Louis goes like every fifteen minutes. But so he's
not a good example, but he tells us great stories
about various spots in Italy.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Knows the country better than anybody I know. But I you.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Know you look for Okay, Well, it's gotta be a
few horror stories, and I don't.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I've not heard them. When it comes to Italy, we
didn't have one.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
People are so kind and we are I'm not going
to say we're the ugly Americans because we're not.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
But I don't speak Italian.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Everybody there speaks English speaks English. Yeah, and I even
bought the air Did you the AirPod pro deals where
you can hit the hit it and it will translate serious. Yes, yes,
so you could so I could hear. And then it
became well, maybe I could hear what they're saying about me, like,
(34:53):
what a dufist?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Are you better off not knowing that? Is it deflating?
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
They said, we don't.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
We normally don't like Americans, but these two, yeah right,
look at that woman?
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Yeah, wow they she is.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
But at some point I'm just wondering, is this clown
with her trying too hard to look like Marcello Mastrianni.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Yah.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I got with the sunglasses and the scar said honey
and the merse and then they got the man back.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Yeah, and I said, honeyway she says, be you. It's
a tight fitting leotard type thing.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
What does that go back to? I don't remember that.
That's a good one. I was so high.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
Yeah it was was I at the Strip club?
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Did you guys eat late? Like that's the custom there?
Like with Spain, right, you eat dinner late.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
Yes, that's when we went to a restaurant called Imperioli.
Uh in Rome, al Pacino's favorite restaurant. No big deal,
no no big no big deal no. But yeah, I
mean it doesn't even open untill seven thirty eight. Yeah,
and so you got to go nine thirty, ten, ten thirty,
and you know what was your favorite teeth in the glass? Right,
what was your favorite pasta dish?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Pepe?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Seriously that they make that, and of course we melts
in your mouth, I bet, although we made our own
at the home of a chef.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
What are you talking about? Cooking class? Dude? Oh why not? Spicy?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Then?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
And then all to end the evening? You know. But man, yeah,
that's this is the new Man. It's a different look.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I don't think you're ever gonna go back. Well, I mean,
I don't think you're gonna go back to being the
previous Prints album I do Dirty Mind, Yeah, yeah, I
mean that's you're.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Gonna Are you going to dress in his outfit on
the cover? Is he got? Is that a lad? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (36:46):
That was early prince early princey say this is the
greatest album ever or yeah, we know he's a great
artist because of Dirty Mind.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
That was the It was a great I mean at
the time, it was groundbreaking, it really was. It was
something difference going on here. It was so different, well
it was, but it was also good funk.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
I mean it was.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
It was good stuff to it, I would argue as well.
All right, we got to get to some of the
news of the day. Good travelogue, good overview, you got
gifts for both of us.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Oh yes, I got the hand wipe from the Italian train.
I do, I want to do.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
And I can't wait to see what you brought us.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
I was so shocked that you you were anticipating gifts,
because the last time I brought gifts you turn up
your nose at me and said you don't want that.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
I did.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Yeah, it was the gifts from the bounty, from my garden.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
It was from his garden. It you know, it's not
my fault.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
The little death of zucchini was shaped like a human anatomy.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
That's not my fault. I mean, you don't want it.
You don't even want to touch it, very very big.
You know, you got a break.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
We'll come back and try to get to some news
if we can't stay there. Kestler back with us after
an extensive travelogue in our last segment, and we barely
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touched the surface. It's so much, you know, I tell
you how lovely the people in Italy are.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Just one final note.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
They would ask where we're from, and we'd say Minneapolis
and kind of a you know, vacant stare, and so
we said where Prince lived?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Changed everything? Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
And then sometimes people will say, did you know him
because he lives in your town or lived in your town?
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I said no, not really. So yeah, so Prince is
big the world over.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
You think if you'd said Saint Paul rather than Minneapolis,
they are strong.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
We did that too, Did that took Yeah, they that's
where you live. Like most people, what we said St.
Paul in Minnesota, you don't said all of that.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Well, maybe if you've said Minneapolis, they would have appreciated it.
And you try hard to be authentic, and you said Paul.
Well we said Saint Paul all the time.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Okay, we're happy for you, but you know, fewer people
knew where that is. So what do you do?
Speaker 2 (39:19):
All right, let's get trying to get to some news
here of the day. I'm looking at a tweet from
earlier today. In fact, this might have been on your list.
The President is making plans for a significant aid package
for US soybean farmers. The package could include, according to CBS,
more than ten billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
In relief, and a lot of people are.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Asking, I think the the fairly obvious question that is,
so is this an attempt to deal with the degree
to which soybean farmers have been punished because of Trump's
policy decision in the first place.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yes, now this is socialism.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
I mean, I mean people are upset about what's the
dude's name in New York, Mom, Donnie.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Yeah, I mean this is socialism too.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
So the president imposes these tariffs and continuously, you know,
we don't know, maybe it'll work. But first they said,
immediately we did work. But what happened. Corporate welfare is
what it is. That's exactly what it is. It is
directing capital, directing the economy. The government is intervening in
the economy to do certain things for certain outcomes. And
(40:38):
in this case, the tariffs cause China to almost completely
stop buying soybeans from American farmers, including millions of bushels
of soybeans from the Great Farmers in Minnesota. So this
is not working. The market bottom has dropped out of
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the market. There is virtually no sales. China is now
buying it's soybeans and it's a big deal in China
soybeans buying soybeans from Brazil and Argentina.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
So now the president is.
Speaker 5 (41:14):
Going to go in and we have heard in reporting
that it's a ten billion dollar package. But that's just
to start. It could be as much as fifty billion dollars.
Where are you going to get the money? Do you
take it from all the tariffs that are being paid
to the government. We don't know that there's that much yet,
(41:34):
So this is in fact a direct cause and effect.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
The tariffs caused the.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
Sales to go to almost zero for soybeans and Minnesota armors.
So now they've got to figure out a way to
fix it. Create the problem, and then fix it. You're
the hero, is there?
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (41:52):
We've had government shutdowns before a lot of people have
suggested this one's different. This one is going is likely
to last a lot longer. There's no real end in sight.
So what do you think are the the t if
you read the tea leaves, is this one more likely
to be much more long lasting and then, to that extent,
potentially much more damaging.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Boy, I don't see it.
Speaker 5 (42:16):
The president had the longest shutdown in US history in
his first term. I think it was thirty five days,
and that was shut down because I forgot about dollan.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Yeah, it was the longest one.
Speaker 5 (42:27):
In history, and he refused to assign bills, do anything.
The government shutdown because Congress would not appropriate the money
to build a wall. The billions of dollars they would
take to build a wall in Mexico. We can talk
about that forever, but this one, I just cannot believe
that they are going to let this go much farther.
(42:48):
We saw the hints that President Trump says, I can
make a deal with the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
Yeah, I'm open to a deal.
Speaker 5 (42:54):
We don't know that yet, but the words coming from
the President's mouth are are a little scary to workers.
He says that this is going to give them a
tremendous opportunity to lay off or fire tens of thousands
of federal workers, and the ones who are furloughed or
the ones who are forced to come to work, the
(43:15):
essential workers. He is saying that they may not be
entitled to back pay won the shutdown ends. So these
are scary things for families. And by the way, no
back pay includes the US military, So our soldiers, our
army men, army women, service members are not getting paid.
(43:38):
The first paycheck I think is next week, the fifteenth
of the month, and there ain't no paycheck for the military.
So we'll see where that goes. That could also end
u more quickly. In one final thing, the air traffic
controllers are beginning to call in sick, not show up
to work. It's a little bit of a slowdown. Peaks
(44:00):
me out a little bit when air traffic controllers are
unhappy and they're working double shifts and all of that.
That forced an end to the last shutdown, and I
wonder if that'll help too. So I cannot imagine. And
I'll come back and admit I'm wrong, but I can't imagine.
I'll be very surprised if this goes on.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
How does the.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
Logjam get busted? Though? Who has to move.
Speaker 5 (44:21):
Somebody's got to give, somebody's got to give. And trying
to blame the Democrats, it's it's mostly false, but there
is some truth to you know, you've got all this money.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
Obamacare has been a.
Speaker 5 (44:34):
Mess since it was first instituted, but now it's part
of our our institutions. Now it is part of our system,
and they got to figure out a way to do this.
And Democrats don't trust the Republicans when they say, we
promise we'll talk to you about this when it's over.
I wouldn't trust them, but they got to move somebody's
got to move.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
This is out of the hill dot com. Republican senators
are increasingly uneasy about the President's standoff with Democratic governors
over deploying National Guard troops from other states to Portland
and Chicago. Conflict escalated dramatically over the weekend when Trump
moved to send National Guard soldiers to Oregon and Illinois
despite opposition from both. It's all relative because I think
(45:20):
basically there's three Republicans who are allegedly expressing this unease.
That's not enough, right, I mean, it's going to have
to be much more of a groundswell, and I don't
think there's much indication that there's much stomach for really
bucking the president on this on the Republican side of
the aisle.
Speaker 3 (45:39):
Is there.
Speaker 5 (45:39):
Well, if you've got three Republicans doing it publicly, there
are many more behind the scenes that are not, and
that's where the pressure will build. Well, yeah, but you
knew more public too. I was threatening, and I cannot
believe this will happen. I mean, maybe I'm naive, but
he is threatening to arrest the mayor of Chicago and
the governor of Illinois if they get in his way
(46:00):
and meantime, they're staging these black arc helicopters with ice
agents repelling down to the top of an apartment. They've
got cameras set up all around for a recruitment video
hauling people out of here.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
Did people sign up for this?
Speaker 5 (46:17):
I don't know why President Trump doesn't take the w
of how many people are crossing the border. And it
was a mess when Biden was there, there was nobody
stopping it. Hundreds of thousands were pouring across the border.
How many today?
Speaker 3 (46:32):
Two? Yeah? Four? You know seven?
Speaker 5 (46:36):
It's he has essentially stopped the bleeding at the border.
And if I were President Trump, I'd take the w
and say look what I did, and he did so
good for you.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
But did you this is getting bad? Did you notice
sitting real we're running out of time? Unfortunately? But did
I not read the ear guy? Governor Walls when asked,
said I will not be running for president again in
twenty twenty eight. I don't think the Illinois governor he
(47:09):
played with it a little bit more. He kept the
door open, but did not. Isn't this the first that's
really the first time I ever heard it. I'm not
running for president At.
Speaker 5 (47:17):
The Minnesota Star Tribune's first ever North Star Forum, and
it was kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (47:21):
A lot of news came. Why did they have to
bring a New York Times report.
Speaker 5 (47:25):
That I'm just back, But I'm going to find out
because I thought, whychev Rochelle Olson do all of them?
Speaker 3 (47:30):
I know you got people, Yeah, you can do this.
Speaker 5 (47:33):
Not only he said I'm not running for president of
twenty eight, he's running again. And then former Governor Polenti,
the Republican, said, you know Republicans.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
Can't win here. He's the last guy to win state wide,
last Republican in two thousand and six.
Speaker 5 (47:46):
People have been urging him to run again, either for senator, governor.
He says it's the party's magnified. I would never win,
So let's let Mike Lindell.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
Have a chance. That should work. In a statement, that'd.
Speaker 5 (48:00):
Be an incredible campaign, so Wall said, entertaining. But for
Trump to send troops to Minnesota, and he's probably not wrong.
Also says I am prepared to be arrested. So I mean,
where are we going with all of us? And if
you see a recruitment video from Ice that you can
carry a gun and wear masks, are who's joining right now?
(48:24):
Who is becoming an ice agent because you can do
that with looks like a video game, those those videos.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
So I mean, get.
Speaker 5 (48:32):
The really really bad people out, But you're arresting grandma
who's been running a bakery for thirty years.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
So where are we? We're out of time. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
I went along with the Well they'll be there's always
more time you'll be I think, unless you're you know,
going to hit well. I do have more travel Iceland.
I heard you're going to next Iceland.
Speaker 3 (48:53):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
It's supposed to be on weekend right NonStop to recufect.
Is that true from here?
Speaker 3 (48:58):
Yeah? Absolutely, Man, you'd be flying coacher. You are so cute.
Thank you all right man.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
Pat Kessler five six and ten, Channel four back to
wrap things at our sers. Show Wrap is presented by
American Pressure commercial grade pressure washers since nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
It's the bumper to bumper show Wrap.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
We are back a final segment wrapping things up. Outstanding
crew of guests today, two of the three in studio
back from European trips. Right Kessler to Italy and there
in other spots thereabouts and the sea for trip of
course took him to Dublin and to London. Seafer joined
(49:54):
at three point thirty, actually three point fifteen. He started
today and we wrapped up the four o'clock hour with
him him or started it, and then Mason your face
between four and five from his new locale Fargo. That's
become kind of a regular thing for him and Kessler
between five point thirty and well into the six o'clock
hour beek to Bison or Fighting Hawks. Coaching staffs have
(50:16):
thought about bringing Mason just to grab a whistle and.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
See what he sees.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
Not a bad idea, I mean, wouldn't you want to?
Obviously they know what they're doing. Not a bad lots
but mas Dune Sundling, he's got much to do up there.
Let him watch a couple of drills. He'd do it well.
I mean, I don't know at this point you could
rule anything out. I mean, in Mason's face, he's he
definitely in Mace's case. Speaking of Mason's face, I think
(50:42):
it's very, very possible that takes place Tomorrow's Thursday. Sean
Salisbury's going to join and the inbox and am I
missing anything?
Speaker 3 (50:49):
Is that it? For right now? Russo Radio russoll radio.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
That's right, Minnesota Wild Hockey back in action here on
the fan. We start our season and we'll start we'll
kick it off with Russo tomorrow. The news with shan
Sean Salisbury is not all good. We'll talk to him.
I'm sure about it a little bit. He's tweeted about it.
I've reached out to him, but he was let go.
He was laid off, one could say from an iHeart
(51:13):
a fellow iHeart station.
Speaker 3 (51:15):
In Houston, Texas.
Speaker 2 (51:16):
He had the very a very popular sports talk morning
show in Houston. I think it was seven ninety on
the dial, if I'm not mistaken, Am, And he sent
out a very I thought, gracious note under under conditions,
thanking everybody for the support he got over the years
and understanding that sometimes that's the way these decisions go.
(51:37):
And so we'll talk football with him and a little
bit of how he's doing. He tells me he's doing well.
He's got other some other big plans and is the.
Speaker 3 (51:46):
Busiest guy he is. He Yeah, he's very resourceful.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Him multiple shows, and I think he still kind of
keeps himself in the football business too. I think he
works with some players, he works with some quarterbacks, he
does a little bit of everything. It's sort of like
Sam Mitchell.
Speaker 3 (52:00):
You know.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
Sam is still working with basket with young basketball players
in some case cases, I should say. And then he's
obviously doing some really good broad national broadcasting work. And
as I mentioned, I think he's coming to the town
at some point this weekend, and I'm going to see
if there's any I don't know how long he's staying about,
maybe even getting him on early next next week. So
(52:23):
I still haven't gotten to my w n B a
item that it's playing off of. A pretty interesting investigative
piece that's that was released via ESPN dot com dropped
a couple of days ago regarding the ongoing brawl between
the players and the commissioner and the feast of Collier
(52:46):
component of that story as well. That kind of laid
laid it out pretty well. They I think they also
did a pretty good job giving background on the economic
state of the league where it's really at at this point,
where it still needs to grow despite a significant level
of growth to this point as well, So I'll try
to find we have a fewer guests tomorrow, so tomorrow
(53:08):
might be the day for us to explore that and
thereby probably I will further annoy some very sensitive links fans.
There's about nine stories I didn't touch today. But that's okay.
I mean, there's always that's the beauty of being on
five days a week, right, there's a there's always another
showrow and it's a full show tomorrow three to six
thirty because of no Vikings programming.
Speaker 3 (53:29):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 2 (53:30):
We'll lead you right into a fifteen minute fan on
the Man on the air and then wild hockey. Okay,
so you'll have plenty of time to stretch. That all
makes sense. Coomer's Cubs leading the game. They have to
win at Wrigley. They're still up. I think it's four
to two. Did Kesser tell you that seventh? Yes, he's. Yeah,
(53:50):
he's pretending to be a big Brewers rube.
Speaker 3 (53:52):
He's gonna go fought. I know. Yeh.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
The permanent plus one Freaky's got. Yeah, he's the permanent
plus one. And now she's in charge of mill lot.
He's and he's pretending he's this big Brewers friend. It's incredible.
It's just for he loves the crew. TV is so phony.
It's just it's amazing. It doesn't really seem to matter.
I mean, I get it in Freaky's case. Yes, I
don't know that I necessarily do in his. But he
also claims that he'll be hanging out with the athletic director.
Speaker 3 (54:16):
Yeah, he will be a homecoming again. That's a Freaky production. Yeah. Yeah,
it's just the plus one the coattails thing is. I mean,
it's it's remarkable how it's worked out for him.
Speaker 2 (54:29):
It's funny how every name drop situation that he wedged
into my seven to ten minutes with them in this
studio made it into your studio as well, that he
dropped all the same names with me that he dropped
with you.
Speaker 1 (54:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (54:44):
I think he just does that with every conversation. Though.
Speaker 2 (54:46):
Yeah, I think it's become almost like second nature to him.
Like you said, he he's further from being the farm
boy than he's ever been in his life. It's not
I mean, it's not even it's it's a different human being.
There is not a soybe in subsidy that could give
him to being the farm boy. No, it's sad, but
very very true dating.
Speaker 3 (55:08):
Them, How could you not? How could you not? That's
for sure. We appreciate you listening. We appreciate you watching.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
We appreciate you texting all those things as as are
always true for us, and we look forward to uh
tomorrow's visit.
Speaker 3 (55:22):
What do we have coming up later tonight on the fan?
Speaker 2 (55:23):
You said Fan on Demand, then Wild Weekly, then Damn Patrick. Okay,
good combination. Enjoy the rest of it. It looks like
a very nice evening, little crisp.
Speaker 3 (55:32):
That's good. We'll talk to you three tomorrow, America.
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