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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Brilliant, well done. Interesting. You know the song is called Rivalry.
Obviously it's by a group called Airborne. We're gonna have
to win the game on the ground. I think I
really trust the young kid yet ah, you know he's
number nine, number nine, number nine.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The alter ego.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Will return because it's like, here's how I would describe
it to be. The way I see it as like
the cork on a champagne bottle is just ready to
pop it. Once it does, it's going to be overflowing
with joy Vikings Green Bay. First time in the twenty
twenty five season. You'll hear that game on this radio station.
Our coverage begins at ten am Saturday, be here for
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the pooch and that will be at shortly after.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Again, as always, there's reaction to all of our montage action.
That was the best montage blend that has done since Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Welcome back to the spotlight, young man.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
But enough about ten of looking forward to what comes
up on Wheel of topic.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I care common, I care. There will be no wheel
of topic today.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I have well, I know exactly what I want to
talk about in what order it's there isn't I actually
prepped a little bit. It's not like there's so much
going on. I mean, first and foremost, it's the Border Battle.
It's packer week, second of all the Border Battle Packer Week,
and third of all Border Battle Packer Week.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Though there is one other topic.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I haven't checked my email in three or four days,
and so I got behind. And now I realize, Tenny,
are you familiar with an artist? I know?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I know Warren is an artist called Rod Stewart.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yes, he has a line in a song that says,
I know I keep you amused, but I feel I'm
being used. Do you know what Rod Stewart's on? That
is from Tennabe ready?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I think dang.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I mean I only know like two rods to her songs.
Someone said, Maggie May, Yes, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I know I keep you amused.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I feel I'm being used, and I now realize I'm
being used by the bye uh the sixty four dot com.
They had actually alerted me to the fact that I
was included. They write, hey, Dan, quick, FYI before listeners
start asking, because they knew the listeners would be, oh yeah,
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your show. The common Man is in a sixty four
show bracket launching Toys Day November twentieth to determine America's
best sports podcast radio slash podcast. Single elimination over six rounds.
So there's no there's there, there's no mulligans, there's no
going back to the first t and starting over. I'm
matched up against Carchon Anderson carch.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Ninety seven point nine, the unfiltered on third. Here's some context.
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This is the sixty four We've run thirty five plus
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to the internet. Seat restaurants, barbecue, barbershops, thousands, thousands, thousands
voting each tournament. McAfee, they don't even they don't even
have to lift his first name.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
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That popular, that you say McAfee, McAfee, Dan Patrick, lab Labatard,
libit LeBatard, Levatard, w FA, N shows and regional powerhouses
are all in it. I wonder if we're considered a
regional powerhouse. I think we are national brands versus regional
shows with cult followings. I think we have a cult following.
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I think that sums us up. I think the Commonland
program is an acquired taste, not asking you to promote it,
But I am just wanted you to know before your
listeners start tagging you or asking about it tomorrow, because
that's what they're gonna do. Ye could be easy content
if you need it. And then they even tell me
how to intro it. Apparently we're in some bracket and
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I would not have known.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I would not have known to introduce it that way.
I'm glad they did it because I wasn't sure how
to talk about it or ignored. Entirely. Totally up to you.
Cheers Claudine. PS. If your listeners find and started voting,
could get interesting. I know I keep you amused. I
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feel I'm being used, but in this case I.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Don't care because it is kind of fun and I
would like all of my listeners to go to the
like I. My guess is Leviatar doesn't care, McAfee doesn't care, No,
Colin Coward could care less. But the regional powerhouse is
like med if you underdogs, you know, hey, I'd like
a little bit of you know, a little bit of notoriety.
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So I'm encouraging everyone to vote early and vote often.
Stuff the ballot box and a lot of people to
say in the ballot boxes have been stuffed. Stuff the
ballot boxes for me. And you know what, I was
told by someone in the corner's office, the Power Trip
would be delighted, excited and looks forward to square it
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off against the all.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I think that they want none to do with us.
You know, I'd be embarrassing us. You know what, I'll
tell them, come on in the water form, bring it on,
bring it on, and bring it before you give us
any lip. Don't vote for the Power Trip or something
like that. No vote for the power for them until
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they play offs. Yeah, and then we'll speare off.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And then what if the Power Trips were to get
out to a two Z lead. Oh you can't because
it's a single elimination. What if we were to win
and square off against the uh, the National Treasure because
he's in it too.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
He's on the other side. Yeah, so we could meet
the National him like the ship. Yeah. Do you think
it'd be the ship or do think you'd be in
the final thing? The ship?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, the ship because we were like the bottom left bracket.
He was up in the top right bracket.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So let me say that again.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I know I keep you amused, but I feel I'm
being used, but in this case I don't mind, so
motally boat off and it's what is it they.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Supposed to go to v sixty four dot com?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Oh yeah, that's exactly right, Thank you the sixty four
dot com go really go off and a plenty of
controversial vikings news.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
To get to.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It's Packer Week. We're just two days away. We'll we'll
talk about the game for most of the show, but
we'll do an in depth look next on.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
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Portable Electric is shot from the Affordable am a text message.
It was starred, which meant it was.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Timmy, you understand that it's kept at the top of
the email list, which is something you've recommended I do
as I struggle sometimes.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Now where did that text message over email?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
This was starred from Big Tickets show and it was
still yesterday, from yesterday.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
But here's what it said, Lavelle.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Instead of O'Connell's endless sloganeering analytics scripted plays, eyes and feet,
feet and eyes, how about he devise a simple, efficient
game plan for what the quarterback can actually do well
at this stage of a young career. Head coaches not
doing the young quarterback any favors. While that seems to
make sense on the surface, and now I was frantically
(09:25):
searching for the story that I quoted from the other day, Timneby,
and now I can't find it, of course, but it
was the story in which Wes phillips the Vikings offensive court.
Remember when I quoted from that story where he said,
and I wish I had the exact quote because I
don't want anything to get lost in the translation.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
But it was basically saying, we can't.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Dumb things down just for the quarterback so he can
get by. We have other players on this team. We
have you know, there's more than just It's not all
about the quarterback. It's about the team. It's about all
fifty three guys. It's about the organization. So if you
make it easier on McCarthy, if that doesn't really help
(10:08):
the team overall as far as win games, Let's face it.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
As much as I like to chide.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Pro sports and how complicated they think it is, and
I try to maybe oversimplify it, there are nuances to
every sport that if you don't play the game, you
don't understand it completely. When I'm watching a game on
TV ten, but I don't know if you're the same way.
I don't know exactly what formation they're doing, what's going
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you know, when you listen to the bead levers of
the world, or the analysts that are on Fox or
CBS or ESPN or Amazon or whatever. You can tell
they've played the game at a very high level and
they understand it all. But there is complications to the game,
and you just can't say, well, you know, we got
to just do handoff right, handoff left, short pass here,
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dink and dunk there. The game is made to be
played in a way in which you have to try
to outsmart the chess. You know, the what am I
trying to say, The like a game of chess right
where you're trying to out maneuver the other the other players.
And so I think that's really so it's while it's
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easy to say, dumb it down for the kid, and
maybe there's a fund maybe there's a way to do
both right. Maybe maybe shrink the playbook a little bit
just so that he but I don't even know if
that would be a solution er.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
But here's what I'll say. This is year two of
him in the system. That's correct.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I've said it before many many times. It's it's as
kind of as rookie year in terms of actually playing
in games. But the system should not be an issue
for him at this point. Knowing the playbook should not
be an issue now executing the playbook apparently is that
I think when that revolves around being able to throw
to his left.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Apparently, here is another starred text message that I start.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I started it. No, it was.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
It was to the Paul Allen Project nine to noon
and they were at the Friday Football Feast today. This
came over ten forty five nineteen.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
That's what it says.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Out of seventy three quarterback wide receiver combos nine in
Justin Jefferson rank seventieth this season. Then he writes, let
that sink in.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And I did. After I read it, I closed my
eyes and I rubbed my temples.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I thought, seventy three QB wide receiver combos JJ McCarthy
and Justin Jefferson rank seventieth.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That's not good. No, that's not real good. And that's
been part of the problem.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
We've seen frustration from from Jefferson on them, and it
hasn't been over.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
The top frustration. Remember they talked.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
About it look like he wanted to throw his helmet,
but he didn't, and he just banged it when he
set it down on top of the equipment cabinet or whatever.
He did it with a little bit of oomph, with
a little bit of what I would say is probably
a little frustration. And you know what, I find that well,
absolutely I'm wanting to care. Yeah I can't, man, I
really care.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
No, I do as well. I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
But I do admire him that he didn't turn it
into a you know where all of a sudden, like
if you remember when when Cousins and Zimmer went at it,
when Zimmer pushed Cousins back, I mean that just stood
out like a sore thumb, and it creates all sorts
of of distractions and such like that.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
But here it didn't.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
It was just he was But yeah, so you know,
I don't know what the easy answer is, and you know,
I almost want to put a and I'm part of
the problem. Unprepared, uninformed, and apologetic. I kind of lean
on the quarterback thing, but I do think it is
the main story with the Vikings. I don't think there's
any question about it. When you've you when you've moved
up and used a tenth pick overall to select what
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you deem to be your franchise quarterback, and you had
a guy that could be considered your franchise quarterback who
played a brilliant season, Sam Darnold, and you just let
him walk, and you let Danny Dimes walk.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You know that that.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I do think it's a lead story. I almost want
to put a more tournament on. Let's just let the
rest of this season play out. Someone said on the
montage they were disappointed. They wanted right now by man
Halen have fun with this, right But at the same time,
in all honesty, I don't think there's any right now.
I mean I I think I think the main story
here it is the rivalry. We're playing the Packers at
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Lambell I yeah, I mean, could we run these games off?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
And are you really? Are? Are you?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
What I'm saying is there's no reason to play it
because I think it's over.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I mean, okay, wait, I'll do it myself. You know
why we're not done yet?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Over?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Did you say over?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
And so I just I think, really the the the
a topic on this game. It's the rivalry. It's this
hated Green Bay. It's the first time we've played them.
I think there were two players in the montage that
wanted to do to mention, you know, we've beaten them
the last.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Two we've beaten them. Jefferson was the other.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah, we beaten him twice now at the last two
times at Curly, and we'll see if that happens again.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Someone said to me that.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Were there eighteen players listed on the injury report report
for Green Bay?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Most of them were limited one.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
There wasn't too many listed us out, but yes they
did have a I mean, Josh Jacobs on there. I
think is Jordan Love still on there? Or this did
up his left shoulders?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
He could have Who was it that you used to
list somebody on the injury report?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
But Brady was always listening as freshible with like his shoulder.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, every single week, right, And I think that was
Belichick's way or whoever was in church, I'm assume as
Belichick check. It was his way of basically saying, these
are just trolling the national Yeah, well it was just meaningless,
you know, It's like, yeah, probably what he's trying to
say is everybody, you could put anybody on the injury
for really, you know, with a hangnail bum toe, shoulder
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to the real serious stuff, right where like I mean
like now, of course you would be listed at out
if you had a broken, a shattered shoulder, socket, a
separated shoulder, I mean you wouldn't even you wouldn't even
be you wouldn't even be listed as a question.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You'd be out much less play. But that's how that works.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
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Speaker 2 (17:54):
Let's just take a dog your dad A couple of
thirteen fourteen pastime common.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
He is tenabe, we are We're here until three. Then
it's a ticket. I think JG is is he? Is
he in town or out of town?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I think they're at Wrigley Field. Oh yeah, that's right
there at Wrigley. He was just in Kansas. Okay. Now
he's going to Wrigley Field and in the Bahamas next.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Week, right, and in Wrigley I would like to tell
him this, he isn't in Kansas anymore, Dorothy or that
be Toto, Toto too.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Laporta had done for the year, by the way, just
been announced. Uh he was out. He was on that
four game thing with the bad back.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And now they've said he is out for the season,
so the lines will be without Laporta. That basically slams
their window shut for this year. He is so important
to that team.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
He might be the most important offensive player in that team.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I know that sounds crazy when you have Sonic and
knuckles and you have golf and you have.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Number fourteen.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
But I was reading a piece on him and some
of the numbers, and it's extraordined that some of his
numbers match what wide receivers do and what he's been
really good at that the coach has been raving about
is he's gotten so much better at pass protection and
run blocking. He just does so many different things for them.
(19:18):
I think that's a monumental loss for the kidies. But
you know what, Tennaby, you know, we say next man up.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I had.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I was pulled over yesterday by the State Highway Patrol
and received my fourth written warning in the last three years.
I never get ticketed, never, they just give me a
written warning. It's because of the way I comport myself
with the officer.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, dan Cole, Dan Cole, have you any will.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags fill very respectful of
the officer. Oh, I will tell you while I was speeding,
I was right and the officer was wrong.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But if I say that in your get a.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Driving down ninety four headed to Woodbury to pick up
my lovely wife Potato, and then I'm going to take
her over to Marshev to pick up her car. They
got to the bottom of it on the electrical problem.
It was something about a something or other update. You
know they're always updating things like ulator. Yeah, they updated
(20:34):
the conculator. So I'm driving the left lane. By the way,
this highway patrol has been alongside me for almost the
entire trip from Minneapolis to Saint Paul. I'm not sure
where he's headed. He's just, you know, patrolling the highways
and the byways. We even make eye contact. He even
brings it up during during the stop that you know,
we saw each other going side by side. Everything was
(20:54):
going good. Why did you decide to go around that
car so fast?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I said, well, they were.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
In the left lane doing sixty and I needed to
get I have to pick up my wife. I'm already
late to pick her up. He goes, well, the speed
limit is fifty five. She wasn't doing anything wrong. I said, well,
traffic I was trying to keep up with traffic flow
and everybody else was doing seventy. Weus she wasn't doing
anything wrong. You're right, you're right, And then you know,
(21:21):
if your drivers, I think, get my drivers.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I's the whole thing. And yeah, you're right, you know
I shouldn't have done that. You're right.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I just was kind of in a hurry, and slower
traffic is supposed to move to the right. She should
not have been in the left lane doing sixty. I
don't care if it's fifty five miles an hour. That's
not how it works.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Technically the speed limit is if they can pull you
over doing fifty six, right, Yeah, you're doing fifty six.
You are breaking the law area, so they can do it.
And sixty miles an hour is five miles over the
speed limit. But I would think I think he was
annoyed because you know, I had to hit it to
almost low seventies, mid seventy to get.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
To go around her, right.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I wanted to get around then I was going to
go back to the what everybody else is doing seventy
miles an hour. There's there's open space between her and
the cars in front of her.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
For about a mile, and everything else is backed up
in the in the left and the right in the
in the two right hand lanes.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
But I swallowed my pride and I decided that even
though I felt I was in the right, even though
I was wrong, that I was sort of right and wrong.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Do you agree with me? Do you think I was
kind of right?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I mean I did break the law technically, Like I say,
if you go fifty six, if you don't signal your
lane change, they can pull you over. There's so many
if you if everybody drove exactly how they nobody can.
Nobody drives exactly how you're supposed to. I don't think
a lot of you know, I mean often, especially if
you're if you're driving down the highway, there aren't many
cars around you change lanes.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Do you do you signal your lane change every time?
I don't think everybody does. There's nobody behind you. So
I was wrong.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
But I think my respect for the officer and telling
him I understand exactly what he was saying.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Let me off with a written warning. We got a
written warning, That's what I'm saying. Oh yeah, oh I've got.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I get written for it's more dangerous I have four
written warnings in the past fight. There was the one
going out to Lincoln, there was the one last year
coming back from Manito Ridge, and then there was one other.
I get so many of them I can't remember. I
keep them as souvenirs because remember I read that story
from the I said, how you get how you're supposed
to respond to an officer when you pulled over?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And then it was all wrong? What you're supposed to say?
Is you just you? I wasn't lying to the officer.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I was trying to I was late, and I was
just trying to get around he because she was going
slower than the flow of traffic. Just like when I
got pulled over from Anaito Ridge. He said, do you
know how fast you're going? I go, I don't know,
seventy three, seventy four, he said, you were doing seventy five.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh, but I didn't do the old what most people do.
I think I was doing about sixty.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Well, you know you weren't doing sixty. You're just trying
to get you talk your way out of it. Oh,
I thought I was only going sixty miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
No, I know how fast I was going. I was daydreaming.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I was going over my round in my head, and
so when he gave me the written warning, hard to
keep track of which one I'm talking about, but this
would be the Manito Ridge one. I said to him,
I said, why just a written warning? He goes, because
you were honest with me. Honesty is the best policy.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Oh, I always do that, though I always sound remorseful.
You have to and just honest. Yeah, yeah, and just honest.
Instead of if I started crushing for them. If I
would have said, well, I think I was doing sixty
maybe sixty.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
One, he's going to go, why are you doing this?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You know you weren't doing sixty or sixty You're not
going to get out of the ticket doing sixty or
sixty one.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
If you were doing sixty or sixty one, I wouldn't
have pulled you over.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I had a leftling today where someone who's going fifty
in the left lane down Highway one hundred.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Yeah, and I always have to like.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Zoom past him and just look at him, like, who's
the type of person that I have to I have
to get a picture of the person that would actually
do this instead of just moving over makes zero sense.
I'm with you, I would say in your situation, well,
you are right to a certain extent. It's still a
little dangerous to be hitting seventy with a with a
police officer nearby.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I'd spaced out that he would even there.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
But I would like the police officer to take the
person that's in the left lane going the same speed
as everyone else, with lots of room and without pulling
over them.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
They need we need to have those people pulled over
as well.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
And explain to them that if you give me a sixty,
then you have to be in that middle lane or
the right lane. You just can't be in the left line,
because it's obvious she wasn't there, wasn't like she wasn't
getting ready to exit soon.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
She's just probably on her way to Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Well, and that's my problem with I ninety four heading
towards your place is there are so many left exits.
Right Like, if you're going if you're out of the
Lowry Tunnel and you want to go north on thirty
five WU, you got to be on the left lane
if you want to go. Once you get closer to
Saint Paul and you want to go, let you want
to go north on two eighty.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yep, you got to go in the left lane. And
which happens is you get a lot of slow drivers
in the left lane, correct, because they are thinking about
exiting instead of Hey, I can't be going slow in
the left lane. So it's just a it's a mess
that highway.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Are you familiar with WCCO television and their good Question segment?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I don't do they still do it? I don't know
this one. This one was from what's the date today?
November twenty first.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
This was from the eighteenth Good question What's the best
way to handle the I three ninety four I ninety
oh No? By Susan Elizabeth Littlefield. So situation thousands of
Twin Cities drivers face daily. Many commuters know the Interstate
three ninety four and Interstate ninety four interchange seems to
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back up almost every afternoon, No, not almost every afternoon.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Every after the afternoons anywhere exactly right, And you face
the choice should you wait in the back of the
line or try to get closer and swoop in? Yeah? So,
what should drivers do in a traffic backup? Good question?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
There are many reasons to hang out on the west
side of the Twin Cities but heading back toward the
Minneapolis skyline can get ugly. The Minnesota Department of Transportation
told WCCO it's a tricky area because it leads into
a tunnel that is only three lanes, and because it's
between the Basilica and Lowraing Park. Expanding would be tricky,
which leads a dilemma for drivers. It's a dilemma that
comes up at Interstate thirty five and nine to ninety
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four too. Minnesota State Patrol Lieutenant Mike Lee said it's
a question that's been asked time and again, and he
gets it. He says it's best to do the quick slipping. No,
he says it's best to wait it out. He says
it's unfortunate, it's time consuming, it's frustrating, but it's a
lot better than having to cut in at the last
second and create a dangerous situation. No, we really don't
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recommend people cutting over. So despite the urge, he says,
what's worse for time is best for safety.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Minnesota. Nice, drive nice, take your time, and plan ahead.
This is different than the zipper merge.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
That's when two lanes merge into one point. In that case,
min dots at cars should drive to the endpoint of
the merge at regular speed, then alternate in zipper fashion.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
And I think the people get the too confused.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
That's why when it's brought up the three ninety four
to ninety four quick slipping, people can confuse that with
the zipper merge.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I've never claimed it's a ziper merge. That's what people think.
And here's what I Let me try to establish this
Tennaby once and for all. It's not for the faint
of heart to slip it. It's for only.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Accomplished skilled drivers, drivers such as myself that I can
show you the certificate. I'm a graduate of the Skip
Barb race in school. I went to the Skipbubber Races
school and I graduated. I raced and the children's grond
pre And I've always said this. If you are in
the west exit l there's three lanes right, once to
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exit downtown, once to go ninety four or to go
on ninety four west, and the other go ninety four east.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
If you're going to try to swoop in, you must
do it in which you never slow the people down
behind you that are going west. You can't do that,
and you can't force your way in you know, come
to a stop and force way in.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
It's you have to time it right in wait.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Because there's there's usually a gap does create, not all
the time. And if the gap is not created, then
guess what you do. And I've had to do this.
You stay on west and now you're you're adding more
time to your trips.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Your own fault. But that's the chance you take with
trying to do the three ninety four to ninety four
quick slipping.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Don't do it to endanger any people. Maybe I've been
trying to get the average person. I don't recommend it
for anybody but highly skilled drivers such as myself, Guys
like me and Emerson fitt Apaldi and and uh Kyle Busch.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Can you think of any other NASCAR racers.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Lightning McQueen, Lightning McQueen or goggles pison them. Dick Trickle, Yeah,
Dick Trickle goggles pison them. Though we're the we're we're
the few of the proud, the Marines, we're the ones
that should try.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Don't try.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I'm not asking anybody else. I'm not asking Oak to
try it. Oak's not capable of it.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
He doesn't have the driving skills to just get back there.
Just do it. It's okay.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
And I don't even do it anymore. I found a
way around all that. But I'm not going to give
that away.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I've got yeah, please don't. Yeah, I've got a way
around alternate. I've got an.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Alternate route that I take that it's it's it's so
I don't need to do it anymore. So I don't
need more traffic there.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
And you know, because quick slipping has gotten worse since
you started talking about it, because more people.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Do it now, but they're not doing it the proper way.
I have an idea. We need some out of the
box solutions, don't we.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
If you go to the airport and you want to
get on a flight, there's a normal security line check in,
and then there's also tsa pre check over here, and
there's clear over here where you have to go through
a process. Yes, you have to apply and go and
give up certain information to go through that to make
sure you are good. Can we do some sort of
separate driving test that the three ninety four ninety four
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quick slipping will be illegal for all except for those
that have proven they are skilled enough to be able
to make that moves.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
That's exactly right. You have some sort of sticker on
your car. Someone says you give hold on.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
You get bad drivers the confidence to try to slip
in when they see you do it. While you may
do it correctly, you ruin the traffic behind you. Well,
I can't help that. People, you know, every I mean tenneby.
Do people not try to emulate others all the time?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I want to be like Mike? Sometimes I how's that go?
Sometimes I want to be you want to be like Mike,
Like Mike. If I could be like Mike, But how
does it start? Goes? Sometimes I dream dream the head
excuse me?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Oh, if I could be like Mike, If I could
be like common let's give Barbara race'schoogle graduate and if
that's that's if that's but not everybody can do it.
It's not for the faint of heart. So while this
story is absolutely correct, don't do that, don't because it
is annoying when when when it happens all the time,
I I have my little arms lit it. But when
I do just get in line and go, there's always
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people stopping and then the horns haunk.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Because you're you're creating two problems.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Now, the people that are just trying to cruise through
on ninety four westbound, and then the ones that are
that are.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
And get people that stop in the middle. You can't stop.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
That's like I say, that's where if you think you
can get in, get him. But if you don't, you
have to take ninety four and go all awhere and
then go down to what would it be what's the
first eggs that coming off of if you you know,
if you're headed west now toward you know, Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Park, Hiawauthor Broadway or something like that. Yeah, I think
it's Broadway. That's exactly what it is. Well, you got
to go down a Broadway that's on Broadway. On Broadway,
Dad love song singing that straight dude taking it all.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
You're familiar with the BG's Nights on Broadway. No, oh
my gosh, it's so good and it's so you know, well,
you know that Andy Gidd that or very Gid. That's
all he does is the falsetto and the Nights on Broadway.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
It's from the Uh it's from the soundtrack of a
of a Saturday Night Fever. Oo oo ooh ooh. Staying
a lot?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Can you do?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Stay in a love?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Right?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Now for me in your you can do it. I
want to hear you do it. Stay off there, going
off very good. Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Someone said, I was just gonna say I have thought
about because I've driven by there multiple times of is
there a is there an engineering change we can make
here to not have such an issue? Well, I'm sure
it'd be very expensive. But is there a way to
do like some sort of like underground tunnel or can
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we use the the Hartman Highway, the carpool lane that
seems to barely get used in that spot? Is there
a way to use some of that to almost create
like two different lanes, two options before you have to
meet and merged.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Well, the issue is, like they say they got you
have the Basilica and Loring Park. It's just very cramped there.
It's just really bad.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
So I'm wondering if you can still use that carpelane.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yeah, well, I don't know. I don't know if that
would work or not. But someone sends a text that says,
is the Skip Barber diploma your only diploma? Well, not
only do I have four years of college eligibility RAN,
but I have two of high school. I do have
a diploma from a Brown Institute. And just so you know,
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closed circuit tallick Lewis, it's Brown Brown Institute, the broadcast school,
not not the Ivy League school. Not the Ivy League
school that he thought graduate from.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
That's an honest mistake.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
If you listened to the grom right and you said, boy,
this guy's pretty bright, got a fairly high IQ. I
mean he were Cant's tales all the time. He's got
a great vocabulary. Pretty smart. Guy must have went to
Ivy League thirteenth ranked is the thirteenth most prestigious.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
College in the country. That's right, he thought that's where
it went. Did he get nominated for Did the committee
get that as a PST yet? I don't know if
we have that nominated or not.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
All you have to do is go back to to
get audio. Is when he appeared program Passwords. That's it
was right after program passed. We invited him to stick
around for a while and he said out when I
heard the clown from Brown, I.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Thought it was I mean, we got audio. It's so
good even I like it. Uh yeah, I don't. So
there you go so little. It is a little do.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
So we need to put money into exploring how we
can change that area. It's a disaster. It also doesn't
help that you have Penn Avenue merging on right before that,
because the cars are already stopped. So then you have
cars trying to merge into an area where they're stopped.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
That's correct.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Well, then the people on Pen this is this is
the other thing one when they're coming down Pen, they
put on their signal and stop right away. And the
people that are trying to go to Dunwoody Van of
White YEP, they can't get there because somebody's don't do Yeah,
what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Too many stopping in that area? Keep the flow going? Yes,
our howle.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Lanes aren't constitutional taxpayers roads, and now they're charging so
I tend to agree with that. We're already paying for
the gas. Your gas tax goes to pay for the roads.
You're you know, you're in your your vehicle tax. Matter
of fact, do you remember the reason vent jesse Ventur.
I I think most of our older listeners, middle aged
to older know who jesse Ventur is that he was
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the governor of the state of Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
At one time.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
I voted for him, first vote I ever made in
my life. He wasn't Yeah, and I voted if you
voted for him, and he did a terrific job. But
the reason he ran for governor was because the state
was charging him more for his license tabs for his
Porsche than you would have to pay for your Impala.
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And he's right, just because you have a more expensive car,
you're supposed to pay a higher It is bire. That
doesn't seem right to me. Now, I know we have
I know we why do we have a graduation? We
had different tax brackets. I think that's imminently more fair
than just the cars.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
But in cars dent.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Dent d dent d but anyway you can make it.
But Ventura ran and then he won because of that.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
That was his one issue.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
And I guess a lot of people that Porsius because
he he won the election. It was so shocking that
Skip Humphrey, the son of the late Hubert Horatio Humphrey,
never ran for office again after that.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Well, I'm sure he went home that night. He was
going I just lost to a wrestler, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Sure he felt a third party wrestler too. It wasn't
like he was backed by one of the two major parties.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Your party wrestler and I'm assuming that Hubert was rolling
over its great, which PST hadn't somebody rolling over in
their grave and they're not even dead yet. Didn't we
have that PST dominated not long ago, I don't remember,
somebody said on the air, so and so is rolling
over there grave and that person's not even dead yet,
so they can't be rolling over and their great.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
I always loved that one.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
I'm probably going to send people to win Early Great,
including my h Tody, my wife.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
We'll take a break, we'll come back. Lit'll be feminine
touch on the program. She joins us next here on
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