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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Rosen would say his favorite Bears Vikings moment was nineteen
sixty one when fran Tarkington's were four touchdown passes when
they were twenty four point hunderdogs because st upset at
national point. Well, yesterday, oh, Rosie, we find I was
only a ten point underdog. And yeah, but Rosie, you
know he's he's prone to the exaggeration sometimes always Rose.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
I haven't seen Roses in a long time.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Rose's his birthday the other day.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
No, he's not.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
He's seventy four. But he's stronger at seventy four than
he was at forty. What is it?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Rose?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
I think you're just telling himself that when you get
to be our age, like I'm sixteep about to be
sixty seven. Then you start trying to lie to yourself
and I'm still fine. I've got a long time to live.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, I mean you look good, You're skinny like everything. Yeah,
you walk golf all the time.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
I know, but I'm you ride?

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Don't you ride and walk?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
It depends where I'm playing, what time of the day
I'm playing.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, do you eat when you're out there?

Speaker 4 (01:13):
No? You don't eat when I'm on the air.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'm a I'm a I'm an intermitt and faster. I
eat dinner at like seven or seven thirty, then I
don't eat again until one o'clock the next day.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Really ever loopy like at like ten am.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
I'm loopy just about noon? Yeah about but no loopy
just because of loopy.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Take a work a un I'm loopy all the time. Yeah,
it's great, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
But don't you create like a dog at the turn?

Speaker 4 (01:49):
You know, maybe a cat? I'm talking about dogs. I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I don't get I don't get hungry until lunchtime.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
But you you drive by that grill at Loggers and
it's it's roaring, yeah and all that. You don't ever
just get a quick burger no, good for you.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
That's on the next hole.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I mean disappointment.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
You're locked in.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I mean you gotta go lock.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
In for that par five.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
Ten.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, I know what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Great golf hole.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Great golf hole.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
It's one of the best par fives in town.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
No, I agree, it's very eagle.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well but but but it's a risk reward because if
you decide to go for it and end up in
that bunker, or let's say you end up over the green,
good luck getting up and all.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, you're d That's what I'm saying. So that's why
such a good par five. He is eagle.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
But I can't get there too, so I don't.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Hit the ball.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
You want to go eleven and then you got twelve
on the On the farm, Yeah, that's my uncle's farm.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Grew up playing there.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Seriously.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
He has buckets and buckets and buckets of all different
types of.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
His electric fence. That shocked my button. Yeah that's it.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's that's his farm. I go there
for Christmas every year. Greatest guy, uncle Pat.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Uncle Pap is a cowboy.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
He wears cowboy hats everywhere.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Cowboy hat.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
He's good for him.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, we ready to play.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, I'd rather talk about l.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
I'll tell you Tommy needs his own.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Podcast, right he needs a psychiatrist.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Well, he might need that as well.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Right now, lit'll Be and Zacho have forty four Common
and Tommy have twenty four.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
They're twenty points back.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
As always, you can watch the second half of program
password right now at kifan dot com slash watch. We
appreciate Nick Madden filling in for Zacho today, especially because
I think he was at the Friday football feast, so
he came back and helping us out today, so appreciate
double duty.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
I appreciate Nick doing that. Let's double dude, NICKO, ready
to play?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Let's play?

Speaker 4 (03:30):
All right, lit'll be and t O. You guys got
the iPad.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Please doing a little double duty.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
The password is oven.

Speaker 6 (03:44):
T O.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
You're down twenty still a two possession game, though you
can make it a one possession game here. The option
is yours? Do you want to go first or second? First?

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Okay, here we go.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
I'm just stressed, yes.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Rubbing his eyes t O in Common for ten microwave oven.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
Hi snyyar.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Second half. I have to start this the afternoon session
ten point game it's a one possession game.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Forty four thirty four Common and Zach.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Take a look at the ipen. The password is Cottage
mm hmm Common. All of a sudden, for the first
time in this game, you could, uh, you could make
this a tie ball game. You're down ten. You have
the option. You want to go first or second. I'm

(04:45):
gonna go second, all right, Zach and li'll be for
ten house cabin Common and t O for nine cheese trap,

(05:09):
Zach and Little B for eight grove Woods Common and
t O for seven.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
Would Bury Tavern, Zach and Little B for six craesel.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Mhm inver that's not a word an invergrove.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Uh, Common and t O for five.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
House brick last one, Zach and little Be for four grove.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
I have no idea what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Pretty good clues, but I know the word evermore.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Okay, give me, give me some swift fives and I know.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
Okay, let me just break something new. You're not getting
anything swift I have. I don't know whatever. Yeah, I
don't know what he's talking about.

Speaker 6 (06:38):
Idea.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
It's still forty four thirty four lit'tle Be and Zacho
with the lead lit'll be and t O take a
look at the iPad please. The password is Frosty once again, too,
another chance to tie this game. Here, you're down ten points.
What do you want to You're gonna go first or second?

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Second?

Speaker 1 (07:03):
All right, we'll be and Zach for ten icing Frosting
one chance to change it Frost.

Speaker 7 (07:15):
Oh, that's that's high level stuff, right, is high level?

Speaker 3 (07:20):
I see I didn't. Yeah, that's playing over.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
I thought he would think hockey, which I guess Frost
is still hockey as well.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
But wow, that was Thank you boys.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
That's that's why she's one one hundred fifty four thirty four.
Liby and Zach are twenty six point.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Think of that for a clue.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
I was gonna go Scott Frost. Either's no way, Scott.

Speaker 4 (07:41):
It could be.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Great, Scott, it could be Frost.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
He's got Baker Greeze Frost.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Common and Zach take a look at that iPad please.
The password is Palm.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Did you see that? Zacho? Yes? Kep uh Common.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
You're down twenty options on you would you like to
go first or second?

Speaker 6 (08:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Five seconds? Might go second, all right, Zach and they'll
be for ten hand fist.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Common and too for nine three or.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Zach and Lit'll be for eight springs common and too
for seven reader glasses, Zach and little be for six

(09:12):
City Park comment and t O for five Coconut.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
I'm getting answers anymore. Last one, Zach and little be
for four California palm.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yes, really, Oh my god, you have.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
No shot at that. Okay, thanks.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Judging with the rest of the clues, those are some
good clues.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
They were, Yes, they were all good clues. I played
it like fiddle. Was perfect.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
One second, he said, Ham.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Then I go tree.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, palm tree, palm tree, Hey, palm springs, Palm Springs reader.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
A palm reader, always thinking about his warning, thinking about,
always thinking.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
About giving him.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Not good at receiving. This is tough, tough.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Put that on the button bar uh fifty eight thirty four.
We'll be and Zach, you're twenty two points away from
the wind crop. Zacho, Lit'll be and t o. How
many points do they need to win? They need twenty
two to fine. Lit'll be and t O. Take a
look at that iPad. The password is bingo. Come on

(10:43):
to you. You're down twenty four points.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
Come on to you. You got the option, would you
like to go first or second? Second? All right, we'll
be and Zach for ten Bingo?

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Come on, what are you doing now?

Speaker 4 (11:11):
He's talking, he's got he's three and seven.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, that's a tough one.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
No, I was a tough one.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Not a Bingo guy was really good.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, you should be.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Bingo's fun.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Lit'll being Zach. You're twelve points away from a win.
It is sixty eight to thirty four.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
An American legion.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
They serve booze there and then you play Bingo and
then you win stuff. Oh my god, America.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Oh I'm sorry talk when Bingo's on.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
You can why it's that's hard for TA. You can't
stay still and be quiet.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Sorry, it's so fun.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Come and I feel awful.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
I'm playing so bad. A great job, Common and Zach
take a look at the ipen. The password is Visa.
Did you guys see it? You guys have the clue?

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Yes? Okp uh, calm you're down thirty four points.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
All of a sudden, options on you would I do
a first or second?

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Go first?

Speaker 4 (12:14):
All right?

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Comment and t O for ten MasterCard credit, Zach and
lit B for nine. Discover Visa. Yes, Wow, that's all

(12:40):
it wasn't because you guys got it on nine points.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Random word.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
I'm sorry, Tommy.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Thanks for trying to be nice.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Okay, all right, we'll be and Zach, you're at seventy
seven point.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
I was like in my head, is that two words
or one? But it is one?

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Any correct answer by lill Bey and Zach and you
are you are winners coming to any ten answers for
you guys forty six points.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
We're gonna be fine.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Fine, we'll be and Tommy, take a look at the iPad.
The password is karaoke. Tommy, you're gonna have the option
the rest of the way here. You're down forty three points.
What would you like to do? Go first or second?

(13:26):
Five seconds?

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Let's go first.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
We'll be in common for ten.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
No, he wants to go first.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
I'm sorry I said the wrong one. T O and
common for ten sing lit'll be and Zach for nine
and the win bar notes too in common for eight.

(14:05):
Volunteer karaoke.

Speaker 7 (14:09):
Yeah, good one, it's not over.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Sing was hideous, I know, but there's not a lot
of words that mean the same thing as karaoke.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
All right, they're still alive.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
It's seventy two seventy seven to forty two Common and
Zach take a look at the ipen. The password is bubble,
all right, Common. So we're gonna have the option the
rest of the way. And you can still figure something
out here.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
And what do you want to do? You want to
go first or second?

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Second?

Speaker 4 (14:45):
All right? Hellby and Li'll be for ten and the
win pop soda Common and too for nine.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Carbonation explode Halvey and Lit'll be for eight in the
win first m Common and Tommy for seven.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Suggs Champagne.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Halvey and Lit'll be for six in the win.

Speaker 7 (15:30):
Bubbles there were. He's smiling, five hundred, baby done, great game.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
It was fun tough for its today, Tommy, don't worry.
I hope your Gophers are tough. That was a tough
day on me. I played awful today. No, it were
really good, awful.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
I'd rather just have the conversations with you, to be honest,
like that's I just I couldn't.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
I hope ug your golphers play better than we did.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
Yeah, they're going to be in big trouble because they were.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Like war again and we were like the golf. All right,
but we'll see, we'll be fine. We'll be We'll be fine.
PJ also said after a forty one to three beat down,
we're really good team.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
We're gonna learn from this. If we watched, we watched,
we watched the film, we'll learn from it. There'sould be
a lot of good that comes from today.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Always good to see you.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
You're the best.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Comments going to see you, Brandow, Thanks for inviting me.
Thank you to thank you.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
He'll be nice to see on. Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Sign program, passwords, well done, it's fun'll be thank you.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
Thanks guys, we'll take a break. We'll come back.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Little disstad lad in the dark Star Memorial Hower that's
next to her in the fan. Yeah, here's the problem
with being sixty six.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
You should always put one more club in your hand
if you think it's six hit to five.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
And if six were nine, you'd be ninety nine years old.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
You could look good for night.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah. And if my aunt had different plumbing fixtures, she
would have been my uncle. And you go to larry
on on day five, and if he's got it, you're
in good ship.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
If he didn't have it, get the women each.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Other down the first five rows in my field.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Sometimes you've been looking into a man's mind and what
you come across as a staunch.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
I don't know if we should talk about this any longer,
because I don't know how long abbot can hold his breath.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
What's killing me? Two nuns and a goat get off
a train in Cleveland. I'll though.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
You just eliminated yourself with my consciousness.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
You need to raise your standards a little bit, son.

Speaker 7 (17:42):
I don't care.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
Stock incredible.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
This is the Dark Star Memorial Hour, the first of two.
It says, Hey, calming me boy, I'm writing today to
talk about the passage of my dad, Kurt, at the
age of sixty five on November the fifth.

Speaker 4 (17:58):
My dad loved the.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Common man because of his approach to sports that was
unique and kept everything light and easy and not taking
yourself too seriously, much like my my dad, who never
took himself so seriously. My dad loved the game of hockey,
loved that Tennabee was the voice of the people for
the wild, even though he insisted he hated the wild
because they simply were not the Norse Stars.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
He would watch every single game.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
I might be your youngest every day listener, and I
never plan on stopping. You make me think of the
happy memories of my dad. Thanks for everything common and
then next up it says, want to send a super
sky point to my departed friend Berg, gone too soon
a few years ago at age thirty eight from skin cancer.
Years back, he gifted me his old irons, to which

(18:42):
I still have and use. A few saturdays ago, my
son and I were golfing nine holes at dusk and
my son Lucas, age seventeen, asked to use my ten
yes ten iron on the par three ninth at Fort Snelling.
From one hundred and forty five out, we could barely
see the flag arkcers it's set in. He grooves his
shot toward the green and we assume it's slightly over.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
The green, but didn't see it land.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
As he walked over the green, he joked, I'll just
check the hole like we've all joked about before. Danged
if his vice pro wasn't in the cup, I can
only assume my dear friend Berg and his ten iron
his paintbrush guided the ball to its home and gave
us the memory that we'll never forget. I hope Berg
and Dark are enjoying a free meal at the Twins

(19:29):
Champions Club in the sky in bemoaning the Twins' lack
of success over the years. Thanks Common Antenna, Mike from
Apple Valley, and there you have it, our Dark Star memorials.
Let's take our final break of the program. It's the
Big Reformation segment. Next, the head coach of the soon
to be Big Game World champion Minnesota Vikings talk to
the media not that long ago.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
We'll have that for you.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna take a page from
the Paul Allen project. We're gonna rewrap that interview and
we're gonna are that news conference. So we'll do that
next on the Common Man Program in the Family.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Calling on Wild Fans, The Dukes come to town this Saturday,
and it's it's gonna be the Ducks. The Ducks come
to town. They forgot to see. I was a little confused.
The Ducks come to town this Saturday, and it's Zamboni,
gravy boat and flannel ticket pack night at the Grand
Casino Arena. Be there for the hits, the goals and
all of the action. Grab your ticket pack to secure

(20:31):
your seats at Wild dot com slash tickets.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Do you have the ability the technological advances in that
studio to slow the press or down, so six and
a half minutes is more like fifteen minutes. You can't
do that, can you?

Speaker 4 (20:47):
I am not that good? Do you kind of do that?
Like on podcasts where you can get at different speeds,
but you.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Can even there's even little tricks you can do, like
let's say, I'm so good. This is an old radio saint.
I mean when they have he's a guy good at
doing commercials. He's so good he can do a thirty
and twenty five.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
And if you do it in twenty.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Five, that's my highway philosophy.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
And if you need to, if you need to lengthen it,
you just now you have the ability to just slow
it down. Did I ever tell you that story?

Speaker 6 (21:20):
Back in.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
First radio job I ever had was in Great Falls, Montana,
morning news guy. Right then I got demoted from morning
news guy after three months and I became overnight disc
jockey guy where we had an AM station and an
FM station. It was so long ago and FM was
so new back in nineteen eighty one. That was our

(21:45):
automated radio station. We were live on the AM top
forty round the clock and do news in sports. You know,
almost like like a WCCO. All all small towns had
those kind of stations where they do a lot of
current events in local news and local sports and then
play music. Right, But the FM was a beautiful music station.

(22:06):
Okayse I'd play you know, like Perry Como, Andy Williams,
Frank Sinatra, right, music of your Life. And they were
on big reel to reel tapes, and there was a
little like tone system that like when one song would end,
then it would trigger a recorded voice and go, you're

(22:28):
listening to comfortable and cozy because it was koo z.
It was cozy. You're listening to comfortable and cozy, one
oh six point six koo z, Great Falls Montana. And
then that tone would switch would start the next tape
for the song to play. Right, it's on a boredom
in the middle of the night. I would go over

(22:49):
to the real reel to reel machine and it would
be playing. So let's say it's Sinatra, and so the
end is near. Then I would take my finger and
I would touch the reel to reel tape just ever
so slightly so be and so the elusions. Now I
face the foil curtain and I used to think that

(23:11):
was so much fun because I used to think like
some guy would be some old guy would be in
his in his in his rocking chair going, ma, they're
shund a row with the radio or do you think
it's maybe my hearing aid? That's how I entertained myself
during overnights. No wonder I got demoted from the news job.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
They had a good question for you, Yes, how do
you think the Vikings are going to do against the Bear?

Speaker 6 (23:39):
Well?

Speaker 2 (23:39):
I think that the Vikings will probably do very well
against the Bears. Let's find out what the hoast things that.
Kevin O'Connell not too long ago addressed the media at
Tcow performance Enter the New Winter Park. Here's what you
had to say.

Speaker 5 (23:53):
But, like I said, challenge versus This team really well
coached team, and we're gonna need to play our best.
Looking forward to being back at us Bank Stadium. It
is a major major priority to capture the energy our
fans bring every week and apply it to how we
play at home and very much looking forward to being
back in front of our fans for a second straight

(24:15):
week in a row. Just giving you guys a game
status update. Jonathan Garnard will be out for the game.
You know, we'll continue to be day to day here
and hope he keeps responding well to treatments and we'll
keep you guys posted next week on him.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
And then Ryan Kelly had a great week of practice.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
Been kind of a plan we had to get him
back rolling, and then we will rule him out for
this week, but hopefully continue that positive progression right into
next week. And plan all along has been to do
what's best for Ryan and he's in a great place
right now, really happy with the week he had.

Speaker 6 (24:51):
And we'll pick that back up next week. In our preparation.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
Those will be the only two players that we'll have
a designation going into the game.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
I think it was where a woman's on go coperation,
the cadence.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
Of some stuff you guys wanted to Yeah, it went
really well, you know, as it has to be expected.
It was something emphasized. We uh, we made sure we
you know, handled what we needed to handle as a group,
and I have total trust in that group to go
out there and play fast and turn it loose and
limit the presnat penalties.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Kevin, how Josh Oliver look working back in this week?

Speaker 6 (25:27):
Yeah, it looked great.

Speaker 5 (25:28):
He's he feels like he's in a good spot, and
like I said, we'll go in with no designation.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
Kevin, it seemed like.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
The Mayor's sent a lot of extra pressures at Jackson
Darton last week, but that's maybe not something.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
They always do. But we're preparing for a game.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
I mean, how do you kind of weigh nothing done
recently or I guess the quarterbacks versus kind of the
broader attendancy.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
Yeah, I think any Dennis Allen coach defense, this goes
back a long way. He's one of the best in
the league at kind of those third down pressures. He's
got ways of He's a really good coach at makes
a lot of things look the same, but they end
up being different. You got to be totally locked in
and all eleven guys on the same page. You got
to communicate pre snap. You got to make sure you're

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in and out of a huddle in a timely manner.
So JJ's got time at the line of scrimmage to assess,
you know, any the use of any tools he.

Speaker 6 (26:18):
Has to protect himself.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
And then it comes down to after all that, we've
got to get the same level of protection and the
standard at which I think our guys coming off of
a good week where we did protect pretty well for
the most part last week against a good physical Baltimore front,
and we're gonna need that again.

Speaker 6 (26:36):
This is an active front, active scheme.

Speaker 5 (26:40):
They they're blitzing DB's, they're blitzing linebackers and playing a
variety of different coverages behind it. So they've put a
lot of really good stuff on tape in the third
down world this year, and we got to be ready
for it.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Ryan Kelly, you get to.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Do any full team stuff like the one yet.

Speaker 6 (26:55):
Or he did? He did?

Speaker 5 (26:57):
Yeah, he was limited on Wednesday and then fully padded
participated in a limited capacity on.

Speaker 6 (27:05):
Thursday, and then he's in a great spot.

Speaker 5 (27:08):
This kind of boils down to more so just what
we think is best for the player that started many,
many days and weeks ago, just to make sure with
his own personal kind of concussion history that I mentioned
to you guys at one point that hopefully he would
bang down my door, and he's pretty done, pretty darn
close to that, and I think we've got a really

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good plan moving forward.

Speaker 6 (27:30):
Excited about it. Kevin JJ ware the pad during the
game on his hand, and I don't know that.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
Yeah, it really hasn't been something we've discussed.

Speaker 6 (27:39):
And talked about very much.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
So I'll leave that to whatever Tyler and the staff
and JJ thinks best.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
Just the execution of throwing.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
Does that effect anything?

Speaker 5 (27:48):
And yeah, he had to look really the last two
days maybe had two of his better practices throwing the
ball all season long.

Speaker 6 (27:58):
Two hundred games for Harrison coming up one Sundays. What's
that you mean to you?

Speaker 4 (28:03):
And the fact that he's done it all in one spot.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
Yeah, I think I've made no secret about you know,
Harrison and where he ranks in the all time Kevin
favorites of players I've gotten the blessed opportunity to coach.

Speaker 6 (28:18):
I told him this morning he was at the top
of that list.

Speaker 5 (28:20):
But I've probably said that to a few other players
over the years, but no, it was it was. We
reflected on that a little bit this morning. He comes
to see me on Friday mornings, and I just think
he's such a special person, player leader.

Speaker 6 (28:34):
If if they were all like.

Speaker 5 (28:36):
Harrison Smith, we would be very fortunate as fans and
coaches of football because of what he's meant to this organization.
Such a unique player and just been so fortunate to
coach him for four years, and I hope to get
to coach him longer.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
I haven't evaluated be ranker and coming out. How much
was based on just Lang versus personality? Boys? How much
that way in?

Speaker 5 (29:01):
Yeah, I know, Hat and DG spent a good amount
of time with him at the combine, and just there's
always been this swagger to Will that I think comes
from his natural confidence and authentic confidence and doing his job.
And then you, guys, can you not only see the
physical talent, you can hear it.

Speaker 6 (29:18):
I mean the way it sounds off coming off the foot.
You know, I'm to use the analogy before.

Speaker 5 (29:25):
I don't think it takes long to when baseball scouts here,
a high school senior throw fastball and it hits the
catcher's mitt and sounds a certain way, or the ball
coming off the bat of a Sho Hee O Tani
or somebody Byron Buxton. You know, I think it's kind
of like that with Will, and he sets a really
high standard for himself personally, and he's having a great year.

Speaker 6 (29:48):
Thanks everyone, Thanks guys.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
So back in the olden days of radio, when you
were working small markets, there was a six day work week, right, well,
kind of what you do in the big market ten
and to be during the Viking season you have six
work week, you work Vikings game day or the master
control supervisor, a very prestigious position, by the way, a
lot of us here at the radio scision which we had.

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I wish they would have asked me all those years ago.
I'd sure like to have all my Sundays taken away.

Speaker 4 (30:14):
As you say, if you'd like to do it now,
we can work out a deal.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Especially those London games, you know, those overseas games where
you have to be here at what four am? This
must be a lot of fun games. So yet, so
it was a Saturday night going into a Sunday and
I had the uh I was going to do the

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two o'clock in the morning shift. Even the program director
didn't like me. When I asked him why he passed
me over for the ten to two because a couple
of different times, the guy that was working ten at
night to two in the morning left for greener pastors
two different times and he didn't promote me either time,
and I asked him why. He said, well, you have
an irritating voice, and as long as I'm the program

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director here, you'll never work anything but two to six.
He hated me, and I didn't particular to care for
him either. So even on the weekend shifts, I had
to work at two am to six am.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
So we had.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
A kidnamed Scott bloom or part time force. He was
in the Air Force. Great Falls was home to Melmstrom
Air Force Base. He was from Minnesota, so part time
he would do disc jockey stuff. So one day I
walk into the radio station, you know, going from this
Saturday night and a Sunday morning. She was like one o'clock,

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I'm there an hour early. I know that stuns you
that I would be there that early, but I had
nothing else to do, huhuh. So I go to the
radio station. The radio station was inside of an old
house that had been converted into radio station.

Speaker 4 (31:48):
There's a lot of.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Those in small towns. So I'm walking down the stairs
and right when I get to the bottom of the series,
you can see the control room and there's nobody in there.
There's a song plane. Scott's down in the restaurant. So
I do the oldest trick in the book, because you
know what where a bunch of cutups. You go into
the studio and you turn the monitor down and then
you turn the headset down right, so there's no sound

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coming from the studio at all.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
It's still on the air, but you can't hear the.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
So I go around the corner in the sales office
area and I'm sitting there. I can kind of I
can see that, you know, there, And all of a sudden,
I hear that's a toilet, that's a toilet flushing.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Then I hear the sink run.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Then you hear the door open, and you hear him
start to come up the walkway. Then you hear, all
of a sudden, he stops because he realizes there's nothing
coming out of the studio. It's dead air, is what
he thinks. He goes sprinting down to the studio. He

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goes in, and I'm watching him. I come around the corner.
He still can't see me. He's picking up. This is
back in the days when we had turntables and records.
I know, you don't those well, records are like they
were on vinyl hot stacks of wax, top of the racks.
That's where we got that phrase from. And they would
be on turntables. You had a little arm that had

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a diamond needle on it. It would play the record.
He's picking it, he's picking up the arm of the turntable,
dropping it back down on the record, like two or
three different times. So imagine if you're driving in your car,
you're at home listening, You're hearing.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
Like, feels like the first time.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
No, and then it stops, feels like the first, and
then all of a sudden you hear and then all
of a sudden you hear it drop back down, feels
like the very first, and.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
So he he keeps.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
He does that like.

Speaker 4 (33:46):
Three or four times. I come around the corner laughing.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
I go look at your vu meters and of course
the needles are still bouncing.

Speaker 6 (33:56):
Right.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
He was so mad at me. He told the boss,
Oh right.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Probably another reason why the boss been like, and I
got admonished, don't ever do that again. How could you
have done that? We're running a ring, it's one o'clock
in the morning, nobody's listening, it said, Joe, calm down, now,
you know right, I get it. I shouldn't have done it.
It was still funny.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
I was all of twenty two years old, you know,
I feel like the early days, like the nineties here KFN,
there's a lot of pranks, and I feel like there
were pranks.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
There's no pranks anymore, No.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
There were pranks. What we used to do here all
the time. Everybody had like their satchel or their backpack
or right, and what we used to do forever was
when someone would leave it at their cubicle then go
go on the air, we'd go get like a roll
of toilet paper and stuff it in there.

Speaker 7 (34:47):
So I would get yeah, so they'd get home that
night the roll favor their back.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
Those are the kind of things we used to do.
Then there let's do that again. Then there was their digital.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Then there was the one we should do that for digital,
And then there was Mike Woodley used to work here.
Mike had a show, He and Tafoya had a show
together for a while.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
So this was the one.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
We were in Bloomington and he's on the air and
we're all a out our little cubiclarius, right, and so
we did this bit. And Hartman was the guy that
came up with all these. He was the instigator of
most of these practical jokes. So Mike would go to
break and then someone would call his phone at his
desk and it would ring. He would sprint over the

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pick up and go, this is my and then nobody
would be there, and he'd hang it up and he'd
go back in the studio, come back out for the
next break.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
Somebody would dial his number. This is my.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
He couldn't figure out. So he went to Francie, who
at the time was you know she was?

Speaker 4 (35:48):
She was Emily Yeah, Emily before she was Emily Yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Subs wrong with my phone?

Speaker 4 (36:02):
Did you get the humor in it?

Speaker 2 (36:04):
There was nothing wrong with his phone?

Speaker 4 (36:06):
I always loved that one.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Well, then there was the classic they got with me.
Hartman instigated one late in the show. One day, phones
start ringing off the hook and Ethan the Eels answer
in the phone and hanging up right there you go,
what's going on? He goes, Well, their complaints, people wanting it.
You're not talking enough sports, because that was back when
I never talked sports. And that was the We've played

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it many times, the sports, sports, sports is your whole life.
Just sports meltdown. I mean I was pranked. I fell
ford hook line and sinker. Oh you're tired of this, huh?
And so I melted down really bad. But Oh yeah,
we used to do the practical joke thing all the time.
That was so much fun. We used to love to
do that.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
By the way, this is not a practical joke. We're
in trouble news that I think you would interest you. Oh,
Tucker Kraft is not the only NFC North tight end injured.
Laportaut sam Or to out for the Sunday Nights game
against the Eagles with that back injury.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
Yeah, not a prank.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
And that is uh, it's not injured reserve. You just
felt this one. At least for now. That could change.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
I don't as is Terry and Arnold, Kirby, Joseph and
something called Josh Paschkal.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
He's good.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Yeah, he provides some good pass rush.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
And then you have like ten other players that are
questionable team. Your squad's always beat up. We're always beat up.
It's always like that. Took a beat up your own kneecasts.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
With Kirby and Arnold both out, that's not good either.
So yeah, then you're playing Philly. I mean, I, you know,
I took the kiddies and spreadstring.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
I always do. I I don't have a.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Good you know again, if they just have to score
a lot of points because I don't think with those
defensive players out and without the port of is a
really good target. Hey, when you have a lot of
weapons like Detroit does, when you have the two wide receivers,
the tight end, the two running backs and a good

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quarterback and a fairly decent offensive line. The other the
the defense on the other side of the ball out
the side of the field is always guessing when the
port is out. That's one less options, so it probably
doesn't bold well. I think the Bikings are going to
beat the Bear, so I have a feeling McCarthy's. I
don't necessarily to think it's going to be brilliant, but
I think it'll be better.

Speaker 4 (38:22):
How about you?

Speaker 1 (38:23):
What do you think as long as that hands okay, yeah,
that is the other I like that.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
I like the bike. I think Caleb Williams is going
to have some struggles.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Thanks for having me, Hey, great, jell you as well.
We'll back Monday at twelve noon. Stick around Big Ticket
and Brett lake Moore. They are next night right here
on the.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
Fan and good night, miss We're Heavy.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
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