December 15, 2025 • 40 mins
Common Man Hour 2 -- 5 Questions, Common grades the Hughes trade, Common lists the two people that beat Father Time.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Back paper that paper.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Back. That's my favorite party.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So Sam whispers in my ear, not sweet nothing, but
he goes, you know we're back. Yeah, this is this
is basically your segment. I eat lunch during five three four,
got it, That's.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Why I was late coming back.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I too, I heat it up, having broccoli and a
cauliflower couch. Just burned myself little little tuna salad and
an avocado. So this is where you're gonna have to
make really long questions and then if I can't answer them,
I'm gonna say, what do you think?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So this is gonna be your time to shine. Can
you handle it? I think? So let's give it a shot.
All right. Time now for.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Five questions, Well actually three, but five sounds like more
than four.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Question number one.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Time now for an in depth look at the state
of the state of hockey.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Al Right, So Carill Caprisov had two goals, Quinn Hughes
had a goal, Ryan Hartman at boldy, Jared Spurgeon all
scored for the Wild. Gus Buss had twenty nine saves
the Wild or he improves to six to one and one.
The Wild win against Boston in a blowout. Common How
do you feel about this newly put together Wild team
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as it approaches the halfway point of this season.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
And we can build this thing together, stand in strong forever.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I think nothing's gonna stop U strong. I like it.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I like teams that. It was the same thing I
said when the Timberwolves traded for Rudy Gobert. They traded
all sorts of assets to get Rudy Gobert, and there
was blockbuster trade, polarized to a certain extent.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Because the two big man.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Thing really hadn't worked for ages. I think the last
time was Samson and Elijah one right, But I remember
saying at the time, I said, I'm actually all for
the trade just because as bad as this franchise has been,
meaning the Timberwolves, I'm willing to try anything at this point. Now,
the Wild haven't necessarily been a bad franchise, but let's
face it, they've been. They've been to hockey what the
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Wolves were to basketball in this town. As far as
the Wolves had a stretch where they made I think
they qualified for the playoffs like six seven years ago,
and they got eliminated in the.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
First round each and every year. It was just it
was one and.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
So the Wild if I'm not mistaken, have done the
same thing. They've made postseason play. There might be a
year or two where they didn't in this in this stretch,
but six seven years, maybe even a few more, where
they've made the first round. But then they get bounced.
And so it's like, if I've said this once, I've
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said it a couple of thirteen fourteen times. Get to
the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Get back to me. The Wolves took me up on it.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I found some a team in town finally took me
up on it, and they got to the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
But they just got bludget. As we talked about last segment.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
So I like when a team decides, let's go out
and let's let's try.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
To make some Let's do something here.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Let's not just sit on like the Twins as we've
talked about, they're just the opposite.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
After breaking the zero for eighteen postseason streak.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
A couple of years back, at the end of the season,
they decided to downsize the pay instead of saying, well, no, no,
we got something to build on. Now, let's go ahead
and take that next step. That's what the Wild now
with with with the onerous suitor Perezy contracts, gone money
to spend a team that is playing well. They had
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the best month of November, They've been the hottest team
in hockey for a month. Well, so now you got
a general manager and an owner who's all behind where
I say, let's go in. Let's let's let's try to
grab the brass ring.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
So I love them.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I do. Now, if it ends up that we don't
get to where we want to be, and he ends
up demand he doesn't re sign here in free agency
and goes and plays with his brothers, I'll rip him.
We'll wait until that I'll conveniently forget that it was
for the trade in the summer.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Of twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
If I'm still here, I'll say I tried to tell
you guys, you should never have made that deal.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
But I'm all for it.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I like a team that's trying it makes the winter.
Now we have two teams, and I like the wild
Chance has been than the Wolves, just because the Wolves
disappoint me, because I just when I hear out of
the locker room and they're they're they're there, there, there
there they they just don't seem to take it quite
as serious as some of the other teams in the league.
But yeah, we have two teams now that that should
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make the Winter Sports of Viewing a spectating season interesting.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Question number two.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yes, it's now time to take an in depth look
at the welfare of the Wolves.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
The last question you asked was pretty good because we
rather lank gave me a chance to win. So you're
gonna make this a long question too, that'd be great.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Oh yeah, I'll wind it up for you. So the
Timberwolves did win yesterday. They've won two in the row now,
but they won yesterday one seventeen to one oh three
versus the Sacramento Kings. This was the game common you
may remember, was actually not scheduled until few weeks ago,
just because of the NBA care playing and all that.
But Julius Randall put up twenty four points. Jane McDaniels
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had twenty one. Rudy Gobert did leave early, I think
it was the third quarter and missed a.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Second which for personal reasons, for personal reasons. We know
what that is. Yeah, and it's none of our business.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I guess I just hope it's nothing really serious, right, Yeah, No,
you leave a game for personal reasons, at least me
you kind of go, WHOA, I hope everything's okay.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I certainly hope everything is okay. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
So all that being said, kind of the same question
as the Wild, the Wolves are still locked into that
sixth seed in the West. The Spurs didn't do the
menu favors by knocking off the Oklahoma City Thunder by
the way, So common where do you where do you
feel or how do you feel about the Wolves as
we're coming up to the end of the year here
heading into their halfway point the season as well.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I don't feel yeah, you know, it's it's it's wait
and see. I you know. Again, it does seem there are.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Generally teams that kind of weigh around to flip a
switch when it gets to be March and April heading
into postseason play. It's usually teams that have accomplished quite
a bit. Now you can say the Wolves did by
making the.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Western Conference finals the last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And himself said, it's hard to do that, to wait
to play defense and wait to become a cohesive unit
at playoff time and be able to compete. But I
think that's kind of what we're stuck with. I don't
expect this team to change its colors at all. I
think what we're going to see is when they play,
like I have to look.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It up right after they beat.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Sacramento, So I go, let's go with Sacramento Kings basketball team.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Oh they're six and twenty. Yeah, everyone, that's what I
was thinking.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
That was looking at the Yeah, so six and twenty,
which is par for the course for the Wolves. They
beat teams that they's and that's fine. I mean, look
better to beat the teams you're supposed to beat than
lose to those teams, because that spell's trouble.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Then you start.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It may not be time to panic, but you do start.
You raise your eyebrows and go, what is this?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
What are you doing? You know you got to beat
these teams. But yeah, so, I mean, I I you know,
I don't even.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Know if the right phrase is cautiously optimistic until I
see a real concerted effort against some of the better
teams in the league and win some of those games too.
Like I think Rosen brought up, we played OKAC I
think once this year, earlier in the year, and I
think it was a relatively score wise. I didn't see
the game, so it was like a four or five
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point win for Oklahoma City, so that means, okay, must
have been in the game.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But you know, it's the record is the record against
the good teams. The record is the record. They're beating
the bad teams, they're losing to the good teams.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
And until that changes consistently, I don't have a I
don't have a Yeah, they'll probably make the playoffs, but
I don't have a lot of hope that they can
make much of a run.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
The funny thing is when they beat the Warriors the
other day, I said, Okay, there's a good called statement
went on the road against the you know, a team
that's always been good the last decade, and then I
see that they're five hundred this year, so well, yeah
they were.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Allowed green yep. Draymond wasn't there. Yeah, no, Steph, I
mean Steph was.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It was his first game back after I think missing
six seven games, and he was really good. He scored
thirty nine points. But Golden State is I think their.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Time is coming gone?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I think, yeah, there's still I mean, there's still probably
a They're the upper half of the if you want
to split the West into you know, one through eight
and nine through sixteen, they're probably a one of eighteen.
You know, I don't know where they are in the
standing right now or they already Okay, so there they're
one through waight kind of a claw, but they're certainly
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not what they used to be. So yeah, I don't
I don't put a lot of stock in that. I mean,
it's better again, better to win those games and lose them.
But until they're they're they're playing with the who just
beat Oklahoma City. Say, women Yama was brilliant apparently, I mean,
he was these he he was the difference in the game.
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I got some numbers. Well, we'll talk a little NBA
a little bit later. I got some numbers from that game.
But until they start beating those teams and beating them
on a regular basis, and I just I just kind
of rolled my eyes my shoulder to shake my head.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Question number three.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Just taking a quick look around the NFL, there's some
big stories. Obviously, the Chiefs lose Patrick Mahomes to a
torn a cl The Packers did confirm that Micah Parsons
does have an a cl tear as well, and then.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Just some other stories.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Philip Rivers making his return to the NFL at each
forty four doesn't quite get the win against Seahawks common
What stood out to you the most out of the
NFL news from week fifteen.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Well, the best story of the weekend was for me,
at least the most interesting one was the Phil Rivers
store hasn't played since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
He's forty four years old.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I tweeted last night that when you saw him on
the sideline, he looked more like a fierce pass rushing
rocket Gibraltar run stopping defensive lineman. That he did a
precise pass throwing quarterback. He looked like he certainly isn't
as he's put on a few pounds. To say the least,
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they dumbed the game. I want to say they dumbed
it down for Phil Rivers, because you know he's he's
played at a high level for a number of years.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
But they didn't.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It was just it was check downs, it was dump offs,
this that the other.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I looked it up.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Let me see if I can find the number again. Oh,
give me a second here, how many people?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah? I find the elevator means like, have can you
find it? It's age two? Page two? Okage two? It
says inneris common land. Page got right here? Can you? Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
So I asked AI yesterday, Okay, how many people do
you think have lived on planet Earth?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
From the time og and Grog first?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
You know, it's just the cave man days. Since since
since there were human beings on Earth? How many do
you think there have been? I looked it up.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
It's obviously an approximation.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
It's not like they were doing a census every year
since and Grog.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
But what do you think that number is? Throw out
a number, sad, let's sell us out.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I don't know, probably like fifty billion. Oh no, way higher? Okay, yeah, more.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Than double that one hundred and seventy. Here's what it says.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Around one hundred and seventeen billion people have ever lived
on Earth. Wow, with about eight.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Billion alive today, meaning roughly ninety three percent of all
humans who have ever existed have died. Okay, A number
based on estimates by the Population Reference Bureau and other
demographers considering human history, population sizes and birth brates. So
that means there have been roughly one hundred nine billion
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people that have died. Right, one hundred and nine billion.
O camp from there, not one of them have beaten
Father Time. There is that Phil Rivers looked like he
was about to beat five. He was going to be
the first person to beat Father Time. And then he
threw the intersept at the end of the game and
they lost. So even Phil Rivers couldn't be bither Time.
So that's what I take from this National Football League season.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
We'll pause, We'll come back.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
More controversy of Vikings, who is on the side of
the break here in the common Man program and.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
The fan the common Man he just complains, never stops talking.
It was the same six complaints over and over and
over again, week days a noon on the fan.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Well, I've gotta buy for you blop, sweat and tears tour,
the petty theft tour starts or continueses.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
We already had one show earlier this year January thirty. First,
here's what's crazy, Sam.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I've had a lot of people tell me, oh sure
you can take your comedy act and play the New
Hope Cinema Grill.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
And oh sure you can go to.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Moe's and Mounds View and the Mermaids and Mounds View,
and oh sure you can work.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
The Cato Ballroom. The legendary Cato Ballroom and Man Cato.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Oh, sure you can go to the Sanctuary Fargoing Graham's
up in Duluth.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
But you'll never work the So is that the end
of it?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
No, no, no, no, no, no no you no no, no.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
This wasn't There was no need for you to add
in on here.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
This is just me doing a lame, old tired bit
trn to get to the bottom of the hour. They said,
you'll never work the Eagles Club in Rochester, and yes,
we will be working at the Eagles Club in Rochester.
So January thirty first one show only seven thirty starts.
Tickets are available at commonmanbook dot com. Now you can't
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get a book there anymore. Those are sold out, but
you can get tickets. It's a common Man Larrymundelo Guy
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Speaker 2 (17:18):
First. Tickets available right now.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Just quot to commonmanbook dot com and you'll get all
loaded up. We had we've had a numerous email or
text messages coming to our bradch Cavan text line regarding
a comparison between the Wolves and the Wild, which team
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the listeners feel as a better chance.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
And We're not just talking about qualifying for the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
We're actually talking about a parade, you know, And I
think we all like parades.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
We'd like to have one. This one says, the.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Huge trade is the first thing Bill garn has done
to improve the team since he's been GM. As much
as I rip Garant, he deserves an a for this move.
I stopped watching the games. They were going nowhere, same
mediocre roster year after year. Now I'll start watching again,
and I understand the frustration of wild fans and the
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team sort of just spinning their skates and not making
any progress. I bought into the you know, the the
money that was still owed for Suitor and Perezi apparently
was the albatross around the team's neck. They didn't have
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the money to spend on other players. Now they have
that money, So that was You can call it a
convenient excuse, and you can call it an excuse as
to why the team wasn't able to accumulate better talent
and spend more money. I tend to agree with it, though.
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As a general manager, part of your your job is
to no matter what hand you're dealt, you're supposed to
find a way to draw the right cards, and so
you know, part of your job is we know it's hard.
That's why there are only there's thirty two general manager
or how many hockey teams aren't if it's thirty or
thirty two. Let's say it's thirty two. There's thirty two
general manager jobs. And there's a reason that they're they
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it's like a saloon door where you're in and you're out.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You're in and you're out.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
You know, general managers, general or coaches don't tend to
stay too.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Long unless they create results.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
So yeah, I mean, you know coming in taking the
job that this is the situation you're you're coming into.
You've got the Parisian Suitor deals hanging over your head.
It's gonna be hard to cumulate talent.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
But you can't just keep using that as an excuse.
You have to find a way.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
And I think he did attempt, and I don't have
a list of all the moves that he made from
the time he's been here until the trade for Hughes.
They made it an attempt, but their hands, I guess
you could say it's one hand tied behind their back.
And I'm but I'm with you that this is a
move that I'm all for it. As I said, I
kind of compared it to what what Conley did when
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he traded Gobert or traded four go Beart. It's like
it might not work having two big men, but you
know it's it's like this team has done nothing.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Ever.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I mean they they went to one Western Conference Finals
back in No. Three, and so I was all for it,
and it got him to the Western Conference Finals. They
they got beat by by Dallas four games to one,
but they got there. Then just before the season started
last year, they traded bike me out.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I wasn't high on that move.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Either team was still able to get to the Western
Conference Finals, but again they got drilled four games to one.
So but that. But Conley is a guy who wasn't
afraid to make a move. He goes ahead and me
makes a woman. And I like franchises that will at
least make that move. That that goes back to I
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brought this up last hour when the Vikings back in
nineteen eighty nine traded for herschel Walker. Looking back on
it now, I don't know how many people were around
then and how many people supported the trade or were
against the trade. I mean, we know how damaging it
was to the franchise, to the Vikings, we know how
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much it benefited Dallas, But at the time, I don't
remember a Viking fan.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And this was my Roob days.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I wasn't in the radio business or they hadn't even
gone to broadcast school yet. This was eighty nine, still
in my hate Ashbury days, to be honest at the
very tail end. But at this point me and my
buddies were just fans, and all we're saying is we
love it. You know, the Vikings were missing a running back.
Walker was considered a quality running back, and we all
thought that was the move that would say that would
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push him over the top. Turned out to be it wasn't,
And so we all know what's happened. What happened immediately
following it for the next few years lost draft picks,
and that those draft picks turn into some pretty quality
players for Dallas and that helped them win was it
two or three Super Bowls under under Jimmy Johnson. But
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I like teams that go ahead and decide they're going
to give it a shot music and so that's what
I I'm all for, I you know, And again whether
it works or not, I don't know, but it's most
of the people I trust, as I say in reading
the reviews of the trade, not even locally but nationally,
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think it was a really good move for.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
For the Wild. And you hear this all the time.
This is a cliche, and.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Cliches are cliches for a reason because generally they're true.
You don't see trades that benefit Bowl teams very often. Well,
with Vancouver where they were, and with with the Hughes
kid basically saying he and his his representation, we're having
conversation with Vancouver basically saying worse it's gonna In other words,
he was telling them he opened up moving alongs. I
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don't think I'm gonna resign because there's no future. These
guys all want to win, and so uh. I think
the Van Cooper got.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
A nice hall for it.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
They got they got three quality players, all first round
draft picks. They have an unprotected first round draft pick
coming up next year in the Wild get maybe uh,
if not the best defenseman in hockey top three for.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Sure, we'll break, We'll come back.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
More controversial Vikings news on the side of the Break
Common Man program on the fan fan a couple of
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thirteen fourteen pastime comedy Sam in four Tannebach. You should
be back tomorrow. I think he had a sick kid.
Some childcare duty spot tend to be. How short of notice?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Were you over at the crack pop station earlier today
or were you?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
No?
Speaker 5 (24:22):
I was not, but I got the text this morning
about what time. I don't know, probably nine o'clock.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, and you were. I mean like, is this all
you do for a living? Is radio?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Or do you have another job? Do you have jobs A, B, C,
D or do you just have this one?
Speaker 5 (24:38):
I mean, well, I do have jobs ABC and D.
However I do have a full time job. I was
off today, so I was able to sort of pinch
it and come and fill it all. But it does
kind of disrupt my my day off plans I have
for today.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
But that's okay. I'm happy to be. Let me ask
you a question. What were your day off when you know? Yeah,
I was gonna go get a haircut. I just had
need one. Yeah hair cut. Your carot looks really short?
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Well, thank you, Well, I haven't I got the going on,
so just on the side, so I got to hide
the gray that's starting to come in.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Oh, you're not getting gray hair yet. Let me guess.
I'm gonna guess how old you are. You're twenty eight?
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Huh No, you gotta keep going thirty one. It's like
the clock game higher. I'm thirty seven, thirty seven. Yeah,
I'm an old timer compared to my my coworkers.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Wow, what it worre'st time gone? I know? Yeah, you're
telling me thirty seven already. Yeah, So I was looking up.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
It's funny you say that because I was thinking back,
you know, all these acl tairs that that have been
you know in the headlines.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Ya.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
I was thinking, like, you know, when was APS? Because
I was thinking to myself, that's got to be six, seven, eight, nine,
ten years ago. Nope, it was fourteen years ago, twenty eleven.
So I was thinking to myself, where did that time go?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
We're and like, are you happy with where you are? Right,
where you've been, where you're going, where you're at? I mean,
if you're not, you know, if you are, if you're
excited or maybe you know, do you consider yourself a
rousing success, abject.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Failure, or somewhere in between? See?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I consider myself just just above abject failure.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah, I think much but a little bit.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
So my first stint with I heard I got hired
here in January twenty twenty. Uh so you can guess
how that how that worked out? Yeah, so I was
here for a few weeks, so that kind of threw
a wrench in the plan. So I still feel like
a success compared to you know, where I was five
years ago, definitely, but I think the the that time
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off with the pandemic definitely kind of threw off my
timeline for myself.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
What's your full time I worked? I'm an HR manager?
Oh I better be careful. Oh no, you're fine here.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I don't Yeah, they don't pay me enough to work
in HR here, So you can say it every.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Sing What do you do as an HR?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
As an HR manager, do you like you go to
work every day and then you just wait for somebody
to complain? Well, I mean, what is an HR manager?
Do want a data today? I mean, seriously, I'm interested.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
I think, Well, the biggest things, it's a mix of
I do a lot of like training stuff. I sort
of lead train, a lot of planning ahead for that
kind of stuff. I do a ton of training what
do you mean training? Like organizing training for our employees
and and given the training materials to the other managers,
like operational managers. So like if I was in HR
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comfartable here, like I would give you know AB and say, okay,
here's your list of all the trainings that your staff
has to do this week, for example. So it's all
that kind of stuff I would I got. I wish
I had the yawn button available.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
It's always available on the show here. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
No, I'm fascinated. Well, actually, to be honest, I'm trying
to eat an avocado right now and I see that.
Yeah you like avocadas.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I love avocado. Are sharing with you? Just a little
salt and pepper sometimes it's all you need on those. Okay?
So and she have that full time? Is that what
you're trained for? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
So I didn't actually go to school for HR. I
actually went to school for audio engineering. So I did
audio engineering, yeah, kind of like what our guy Jared
Wells does. I did studio recording for music and things
like that. So that's more of my you know who
George Martin is. I'm not gonna put myself in that
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conversation but I do know George Martin.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
But you wanted to be George Martin or somebody.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Yeah, yeah like that. Tom Dallas is another one, Doctor
Dre even to an extent. I mean they're Quincy Jones.
He could go down the list of Well, because engineers.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I've been thinking about getting into the music business and
I need somebody to produce.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Think, yeah, I think it'd be a.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Little Long John's as a rapper, a little Long John's
and then have it with Z on the end. Yeah,
because if you're Lil that, always that that you got.
I can see that for Lil Nas X, lill b.
How many other Lil's are there out there? There's a
lot of rappers that are little that. And then I thought,
then I could just wear long underworlds stage, Little long Johns.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I could see that. Oh you know, maybe you could
help me out. You gotta do the shirt.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Off though, and we gotta get you like a chain
in the whole deal, and you can pull that look off.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Well, but I got to keep the long Johns.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
So how did you end up here? It's radio station.
Did you try to get an engineering job here?
Speaker 2 (29:24):
No?
Speaker 5 (29:24):
My So the first stint was I was on the
Street Team.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Oh yes, so that's your interview with lill Be. I did.
I did. I have some good stories from what you do.
Can you share them? Or even you'll get mad at you?
I don't think she'll get mad. My you bring your
cat into your dog with you? Did you? I did
not know. I did not let me, let me see,
how do I want to use it.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
You didn't tell her that you're looking for a work
life balance, did you, because you wouldn't have gotten the job.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
I understand, So I know. I interviewed the little be.
Things were going really well. She ended up offering I
interviewed with another person, so we had kind of like
a group interview deal. But obviously went well enough she
offered me the position. And it was sort of like
a night and day difference because she was so happy
and she was so energetically you interviewed. When I came
in to do my new higher stuff, it was, oh,
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this is a real big callback. This was the day
after the Vikings lost to the forty nine ers. It
was the twenty twenty playoffs. They lost in San Francisco,
So everybody's mood was just down right. So I came in.
I was like, hey, a Little Bee and then she
was just like, yeah, come on, let's go.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
She had a mad mood.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Oh yeah, everybody was. I mean everybody was sour on
the Vikings loss.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I don't remember being upset at all, but that's just me.
I don't take it serious enough.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I guess there is that. So anyway, I come in.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
And then actually my first memory on that day was
tied to the Common Man program because in our offices overhead,
they rotate between all the different iHeart stations, and when
I was doing my paperwork stuff on the computer, the
show was playing. It was the end of the show,
and it was you and Rosie Antenna. You were, you know,
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just sort of recapping the loss, and then the outro
music starts to play and all that, and then the
next thing I know, I hear Rosie's voice in Little
Bee's office. So within like thirty seconds, he made it
across the entire floor from the studio over to a
Little Bee's office.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
That's when he was young.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
In Spray this Fast movie, he kind of walks out
a limp. If you notice now he's got that. I
think he's got a titanium hip. He had a hip replacement. Okay,
so a little he's got a little hitch in his gideo. Now.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Yeah, I saw him, what was it two weeks ago?
He looked really good. Though he's still he still got it.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, here's what I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
If you look closely, he's stronger now at seventy five
than he was at forty five.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I believe that he's the Phil Rivers of radio. He's no, yes,
he's I like that.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I'm telling you, if anybody can beat Father Time, it
would be uh tennabe. I have to correct myself on him.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I said, there was how many billion people have been
on planet Earth? Did I say?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
One hundred and eighteen billion? Says at the beginning of time?
Since the game time, Yes, there's eight billion.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
On planet Earth now one hundred and seventeen billion.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Because like one hundred and nine billion, one hundred nine
billion people have come and gone. I said, nobody's beaten
Father Time. But somebody, of course had to text me
and correct me because I was giving some false information.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
It says.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Enoch beat Father Time. Have you ever heard of Enoch?
I had not heard of him either, But I'll tell
you who he is.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I I have it.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Here's what it says, he's a prophet, says Enoch is
a biblical figure.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
In patriarch prior to Noah's flood. That was a long
time ago. You've heard of Noa's flood? I have, yes.
I wanted to buy land to it by see Noah.
I want you to build me an arc. Woopa, voopa, voopa.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
He is the son of Jared and father of Methusela.
Do you know who Methusela is?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
The name sounds familiar. I think Methusela is the cat
that's got all the snakes in his head. That methus
people when you stay at it. Oh, that's Medusdusa. Yeah, Well,
who the hell is Methusela? I feel like I've heard
the name, but I'm not sure. The text of the
Book of Genesis. Are you familiar with Genesis? Absolutely, Matthew, Mark,
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Luke John, that's New Testament. J Did you know God
was a baseball fan?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Well, the first verse in the Bible is in the beginning,
in the beginning, in the big inning.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the other
says the Book of Genesis.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Has Enoch lived three hundred and sixty five years before
he was taken by God. The text reads that Enoch
walked with God and he us no more for God
took him, which is interpreted as Enoch entering heaven alive
in some Jewish and Christians traditions.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
So he beat father time.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
He did not die, he made it. And then he
also says that Elijah was taken up to heaven as well.
So Elijah beat Father time. I'm not sure if that did.
You look up Methusla by the way, I am on
it right now.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Ysell for me.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Oh it'll it'll pop up. I got it myth like methamphetamine,
meth meththus us methus uh Lah.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
I got it right here, I forget. So yeah, Google
search is going a little slow here. Let's think a look.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Okay. So Methusela.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
Uh was a biblical patriarch in a figure in Judaism, Christianity,
and is Islam. He has claimed to have lived the
longest life, dying yet nine hundred and sixty nine years.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
So that he died, he didn't live, he died. Well,
we weren't talking about Methuselam. How long did he live?
Nine hundred and sixty nine years of age.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
And you know what, he looked better at nine hundred
and sixty nine years of age and at four hundred
and fifty six years of age.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I believe that growth.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
But yeah, then it says, you know, Methusel is the
son of Enoch, and then I clicked on Enoch. Enoch
is a biblical figure in patriarch prior to know his flood.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
What I said, yep, so yeah, interesting the more you know.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Elijah was a provident miracle worker who lived in the
Northern Kingdom of Israel.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Apparently he he went straight to have him too. He
didn't die.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
So there's two people at that. So there are two
people that have beaten father time. Otherwise nobody else has
ever beaten Father Times are good for them. Mark Craig
is a football writer for The Fisher Factor in the
West Side.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
We referred to him often after every the.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Monday, after every game whatever, regardless of what day they play,
Monday night, Sunday night, Tuesday night, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
He writes five extra points.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
And one of them and I think is it's it's
true and it's important. Number two is extra point is
more playing less thinking.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
For McCarthy, here's here's what Mark writes says.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
The learning process is flowing both ways between coach slash
QB whisperer Kevin O'Connell and McCarthy, the QB wildly unconventional
thrower of the football. McCarthy is good at playing football,
he's not good at thinking football. O'Connell seems to be adjusting,
or at least dialing back from control free to control
(36:47):
enthusiast on preaching the perfect fundamentals. And then he goes
on to talk about what McCarthy did in the game,
and I think he's spot on. I think we've talked
about this. It takes a while to get to a
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conclusion oftentimes when you're not on the inside, when you're
not inside the walls of TCO Performance Center, the aka
the new Winter Park, so oftentimes it's hard to really know.
And even if you're inside the walls, you know, owners,
front office, coaching staff, even players oftentimes keep things close
(37:29):
to the best right.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Keep it within the family. And what we have been
discussing is.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
When the Vikings after making the run to the playoffs
last year and Sam Darnold, I wouldn't even say he
resurrected his career because he really didn't have a career
until last year. He had played terribly with the Jets,
played terribly, whether it was a Carolina with his next stop,
I believe I don't recall San Francisco, San Francisco, and
then you know, as you've hurt me.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
I don't know if I'm meeting you.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Meeting listeners have probably heard me read the quotes from
Darnold where he basically gave all the credit to brock Purty.
He said, watching brock Purty for an entire season, from
Oda's mini camps, training camp through the full season right
through to the big game. Now, they lost the big
game that year, I think, but right through then, he said,
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that's where he learned most of his That's where he
figured out how to play football by watching brock Purty.
I think the Vikings thought McCarthy was a little further
along than he was. And I'm still puzzled as why
they didn't see the mechanics thing earlier. But maybe they
thought that would be a quick fix, because as you know,
(38:44):
they were still working on mechanics here in year number two,
and I know last year was injured, but I think
they knew about the mechanics. Anyways, it seems that now
we may be over a hump here, there's still mechanics
to work on. We talked about that earlier too, where
they showed highlights of one pass he has perfect mechanics.
The next time he looks like mel Stottleminer. Do you
know the name mel Stottleman.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
No, I didn't think you did. It's really old. Squad.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Probably should upgrade that. He looked more like Francisco Larriano. Okay,
I could even update it further and say, who's the
guy Terrek?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Is it Koobel? Who's the guy that pitches for no
Schooble school Scooble? He looks like Schooble with the big
with the big light kick at the very end.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
But maybe he's gotten over the hump and now he's
just playing football, right that don't overload the circuitry with
you know, not only a really complicated playbook, but also
with all the with all the the mechanical stuffs. Maybe
you know, making it a little easier on him is
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allowed him to just play football, or maybe starting to
see some of the the fruits.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Of that, well, break will come up. We're breaking the minuters.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Really the head coach at the Sooner We Big Game
World champion Minnesota Bikings, Kemn O'Connell schedules a day after
the game news conference at two o'clock today.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
That's next year. On The Common Man program on the
Fan m The Common Man. A lot of pressure. You
gotta rise above it.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
You gotta harness in the good energy block out the
bad harness energy block bad
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Weekdays at noon on the Fan
Back paper that paper.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Back. That's my favorite party.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So Sam whispers in my ear, not sweet nothing, but
he goes, you know we're back. Yeah, this is this
is basically your segment. I eat lunch during five three four,
got it, That's.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Why I was late coming back.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I too, I heat it up, having broccoli and a
cauliflower couch. Just burned myself little little tuna salad and
an avocado. So this is where you're gonna have to
make really long questions and then if I can't answer them,
I'm gonna say, what do you think?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So this is gonna be your time to shine. Can
you handle it? I think? So let's give it a shot.
All right. Time now for.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Five questions, Well actually three, but five sounds like more
than four.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Question number one.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Time now for an in depth look at the state
of the state of hockey.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Al Right, So Carill Caprisov had two goals, Quinn Hughes
had a goal, Ryan Hartman at boldy, Jared Spurgeon all
scored for the Wild. Gus Buss had twenty nine saves
the Wild or he improves to six to one and one.
The Wild win against Boston in a blowout. Common How
do you feel about this newly put together Wild team
(02:49):
as it approaches the halfway point of this season.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
And we can build this thing together, stand in strong forever.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I think nothing's gonna stop U strong. I like it.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I like teams that. It was the same thing I
said when the Timberwolves traded for Rudy Gobert. They traded
all sorts of assets to get Rudy Gobert, and there
was blockbuster trade, polarized to a certain extent.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Because the two big man.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Thing really hadn't worked for ages. I think the last
time was Samson and Elijah one right, But I remember
saying at the time, I said, I'm actually all for
the trade just because as bad as this franchise has been,
meaning the Timberwolves, I'm willing to try anything at this point. Now,
the Wild haven't necessarily been a bad franchise, but let's
face it, they've been. They've been to hockey what the
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Wolves were to basketball in this town. As far as
the Wolves had a stretch where they made I think
they qualified for the playoffs like six seven years ago,
and they got eliminated in the.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
First round each and every year. It was just it
was one and.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
So the Wild if I'm not mistaken, have done the
same thing. They've made postseason play. There might be a
year or two where they didn't in this in this stretch,
but six seven years, maybe even a few more, where
they've made the first round. But then they get bounced.
And so it's like, if I've said this once, I've
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said it a couple of thirteen fourteen times. Get to
the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Get back to me. The Wolves took me up on it.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I found some a team in town finally took me
up on it, and they got to the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
But they just got bludget. As we talked about last segment.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
So I like when a team decides, let's go out
and let's let's try.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
To make some Let's do something here.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Let's not just sit on like the Twins as we've
talked about, they're just the opposite.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
After breaking the zero for eighteen postseason streak.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
A couple of years back, at the end of the season,
they decided to downsize the pay instead of saying, well, no, no,
we got something to build on. Now, let's go ahead
and take that next step. That's what the Wild now
with with with the onerous suitor Perezy contracts, gone money
to spend a team that is playing well. They had
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the best month of November, They've been the hottest team
in hockey for a month. Well, so now you got
a general manager and an owner who's all behind where
I say, let's go in. Let's let's let's try to
grab the brass ring.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
So I love them.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I do. Now, if it ends up that we don't
get to where we want to be, and he ends
up demand he doesn't re sign here in free agency
and goes and plays with his brothers, I'll rip him.
We'll wait until that I'll conveniently forget that it was
for the trade in the summer.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Of twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
If I'm still here, I'll say I tried to tell
you guys, you should never have made that deal.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
But I'm all for it.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I like a team that's trying it makes the winter.
Now we have two teams, and I like the wild
Chance has been than the Wolves, just because the Wolves
disappoint me, because I just when I hear out of
the locker room and they're they're they're there, there, there
there they they just don't seem to take it quite
as serious as some of the other teams in the league.
But yeah, we have two teams now that that should
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make the Winter Sports of Viewing a spectating season interesting.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Question number two.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yes, it's now time to take an in depth look
at the welfare of the Wolves.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
The last question you asked was pretty good because we
rather lank gave me a chance to win. So you're
gonna make this a long question too, that'd be great.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Oh yeah, I'll wind it up for you. So the
Timberwolves did win yesterday. They've won two in the row now,
but they won yesterday one seventeen to one oh three
versus the Sacramento Kings. This was the game common you
may remember, was actually not scheduled until few weeks ago,
just because of the NBA care playing and all that.
But Julius Randall put up twenty four points. Jane McDaniels
(07:07):
had twenty one. Rudy Gobert did leave early, I think
it was the third quarter and missed a.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Second which for personal reasons, for personal reasons. We know
what that is. Yeah, and it's none of our business.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I guess I just hope it's nothing really serious, right, Yeah, No,
you leave a game for personal reasons, at least me
you kind of go, WHOA, I hope everything's okay.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I certainly hope everything is okay. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
So all that being said, kind of the same question
as the Wild, the Wolves are still locked into that
sixth seed in the West. The Spurs didn't do the
menu favors by knocking off the Oklahoma City Thunder by
the way, So common where do you where do you
feel or how do you feel about the Wolves as
we're coming up to the end of the year here
heading into their halfway point the season as well.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I don't feel yeah, you know, it's it's it's wait
and see. I you know. Again, it does seem there are.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Generally teams that kind of weigh around to flip a
switch when it gets to be March and April heading
into postseason play. It's usually teams that have accomplished quite
a bit. Now you can say the Wolves did by
making the.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Western Conference finals the last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And himself said, it's hard to do that, to wait
to play defense and wait to become a cohesive unit
at playoff time and be able to compete. But I
think that's kind of what we're stuck with. I don't
expect this team to change its colors at all. I
think what we're going to see is when they play,
like I have to look.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It up right after they beat.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Sacramento, So I go, let's go with Sacramento Kings basketball team.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Oh they're six and twenty. Yeah, everyone, that's what I
was thinking.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
That was looking at the Yeah, so six and twenty,
which is par for the course for the Wolves. They
beat teams that they's and that's fine. I mean, look
better to beat the teams you're supposed to beat than
lose to those teams, because that spell's trouble.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Then you start.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It may not be time to panic, but you do start.
You raise your eyebrows and go, what is this?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
What are you doing? You know you got to beat
these teams. But yeah, so, I mean, I I you know,
I don't even.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Know if the right phrase is cautiously optimistic until I
see a real concerted effort against some of the better
teams in the league and win some of those games too.
Like I think Rosen brought up, we played OKAC I
think once this year, earlier in the year, and I
think it was a relatively score wise. I didn't see
the game, so it was like a four or five
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point win for Oklahoma City, so that means, okay, must
have been in the game.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But you know, it's the record is the record against
the good teams. The record is the record. They're beating
the bad teams, they're losing to the good teams.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
And until that changes consistently, I don't have a I
don't have a Yeah, they'll probably make the playoffs, but
I don't have a lot of hope that they can
make much of a run.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
The funny thing is when they beat the Warriors the
other day, I said, Okay, there's a good called statement
went on the road against the you know, a team
that's always been good the last decade, and then I
see that they're five hundred this year, so well, yeah
they were.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Allowed green yep. Draymond wasn't there. Yeah, no, Steph, I
mean Steph was.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
It was his first game back after I think missing
six seven games, and he was really good. He scored
thirty nine points. But Golden State is I think their.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Time is coming gone?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I think, yeah, there's still I mean, there's still probably
a They're the upper half of the if you want
to split the West into you know, one through eight
and nine through sixteen, they're probably a one of eighteen.
You know, I don't know where they are in the
standing right now or they already Okay, so there they're
one through waight kind of a claw, but they're certainly
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not what they used to be. So yeah, I don't
I don't put a lot of stock in that. I mean,
it's better again, better to win those games and lose them.
But until they're they're they're playing with the who just
beat Oklahoma City. Say, women Yama was brilliant apparently, I mean,
he was these he he was the difference in the game.
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I got some numbers. Well, we'll talk a little NBA
a little bit later. I got some numbers from that game.
But until they start beating those teams and beating them
on a regular basis, and I just I just kind
of rolled my eyes my shoulder to shake my head.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Question number three.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Just taking a quick look around the NFL, there's some
big stories. Obviously, the Chiefs lose Patrick Mahomes to a
torn a cl The Packers did confirm that Micah Parsons
does have an a cl tear as well, and then.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Just some other stories.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Philip Rivers making his return to the NFL at each
forty four doesn't quite get the win against Seahawks common
What stood out to you the most out of the
NFL news from week fifteen.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Well, the best story of the weekend was for me,
at least the most interesting one was the Phil Rivers
store hasn't played since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
He's forty four years old.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I tweeted last night that when you saw him on
the sideline, he looked more like a fierce pass rushing
rocket Gibraltar run stopping defensive lineman. That he did a
precise pass throwing quarterback. He looked like he certainly isn't
as he's put on a few pounds. To say the least,
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they dumbed the game. I want to say they dumbed
it down for Phil Rivers, because you know he's he's
played at a high level for a number of years.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
But they didn't.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It was just it was check downs, it was dump offs,
this that the other.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I looked it up.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Let me see if I can find the number again. Oh,
give me a second here, how many people?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah? I find the elevator means like, have can you
find it? It's age two? Page two? Okage two? It
says inneris common land. Page got right here? Can you? Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
So I asked AI yesterday, Okay, how many people do
you think have lived on planet Earth?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
From the time og and Grog first?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
You know, it's just the cave man days. Since since
since there were human beings on Earth? How many do
you think there have been? I looked it up.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
It's obviously an approximation.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
It's not like they were doing a census every year
since and Grog.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
But what do you think that number is? Throw out
a number, sad, let's sell us out.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I don't know, probably like fifty billion. Oh no, way higher? Okay, yeah, more.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Than double that one hundred and seventy. Here's what it says.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Around one hundred and seventeen billion people have ever lived
on Earth. Wow, with about eight.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Billion alive today, meaning roughly ninety three percent of all
humans who have ever existed have died. Okay, A number
based on estimates by the Population Reference Bureau and other
demographers considering human history, population sizes and birth brates. So
that means there have been roughly one hundred nine billion
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people that have died. Right, one hundred and nine billion.
O camp from there, not one of them have beaten
Father Time. There is that Phil Rivers looked like he
was about to beat five. He was going to be
the first person to beat Father Time. And then he
threw the intersept at the end of the game and
they lost. So even Phil Rivers couldn't be bither Time.
So that's what I take from this National Football League season.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
We'll pause, We'll come back.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
More controversy of Vikings, who is on the side of
the break here in the common Man program and.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
The fan the common Man he just complains, never stops talking.
It was the same six complaints over and over and
over again, week days a noon on the fan.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Well, I've gotta buy for you blop, sweat and tears tour,
the petty theft tour starts or continueses.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
We already had one show earlier this year January thirty. First,
here's what's crazy, Sam.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I've had a lot of people tell me, oh sure
you can take your comedy act and play the New
Hope Cinema Grill.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
And oh sure you can go to.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Moe's and Mounds View and the Mermaids and Mounds View,
and oh sure you can work.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
The Cato Ballroom. The legendary Cato Ballroom and Man Cato.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Oh, sure you can go to the Sanctuary Fargoing Graham's
up in Duluth.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
But you'll never work the So is that the end
of it?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
No, no, no, no, no, no no you no no, no.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
This wasn't There was no need for you to add
in on here.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
This is just me doing a lame, old tired bit
trn to get to the bottom of the hour. They said,
you'll never work the Eagles Club in Rochester, and yes,
we will be working at the Eagles Club in Rochester.
So January thirty first one show only seven thirty starts.
Tickets are available at commonmanbook dot com. Now you can't
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get a book there anymore. Those are sold out, but
you can get tickets. It's a common Man Larrymundelo Guy
and meat Sauce. That will be Saturday night, January thirty.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
First. Tickets available right now.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Just quot to commonmanbook dot com and you'll get all
loaded up. We had we've had a numerous email or
text messages coming to our bradch Cavan text line regarding
a comparison between the Wolves and the Wild, which team
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the listeners feel as a better chance.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
And We're not just talking about qualifying for the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
We're actually talking about a parade, you know, And I
think we all like parades.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
We'd like to have one. This one says, the.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Huge trade is the first thing Bill garn has done
to improve the team since he's been GM. As much
as I rip Garant, he deserves an a for this move.
I stopped watching the games. They were going nowhere, same
mediocre roster year after year. Now I'll start watching again,
and I understand the frustration of wild fans and the
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team sort of just spinning their skates and not making
any progress. I bought into the you know, the the
money that was still owed for Suitor and Perezi apparently
was the albatross around the team's neck. They didn't have
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the money to spend on other players. Now they have
that money, So that was You can call it a
convenient excuse, and you can call it an excuse as
to why the team wasn't able to accumulate better talent
and spend more money. I tend to agree with it, though.
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As a general manager, part of your your job is
to no matter what hand you're dealt, you're supposed to
find a way to draw the right cards, and so
you know, part of your job is we know it's hard.
That's why there are only there's thirty two general manager
or how many hockey teams aren't if it's thirty or
thirty two. Let's say it's thirty two. There's thirty two
general manager jobs. And there's a reason that they're they
(19:26):
it's like a saloon door where you're in and you're out.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You're in and you're out.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
You know, general managers, general or coaches don't tend to
stay too.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Long unless they create results.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
So yeah, I mean, you know coming in taking the
job that this is the situation you're you're coming into.
You've got the Parisian Suitor deals hanging over your head.
It's gonna be hard to cumulate talent.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
But you can't just keep using that as an excuse.
You have to find a way.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
And I think he did attempt, and I don't have
a list of all the moves that he made from
the time he's been here until the trade for Hughes.
They made it an attempt, but their hands, I guess
you could say it's one hand tied behind their back.
And I'm but I'm with you that this is a
move that I'm all for it. As I said, I
kind of compared it to what what Conley did when
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he traded Gobert or traded four go Beart. It's like
it might not work having two big men, but you
know it's it's like this team has done nothing.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Ever.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I mean they they went to one Western Conference Finals
back in No. Three, and so I was all for it,
and it got him to the Western Conference Finals. They
they got beat by by Dallas four games to one,
but they got there. Then just before the season started
last year, they traded bike me out.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I wasn't high on that move.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Either team was still able to get to the Western
Conference Finals, but again they got drilled four games to one.
So but that. But Conley is a guy who wasn't
afraid to make a move. He goes ahead and me
makes a woman. And I like franchises that will at
least make that move. That that goes back to I
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brought this up last hour when the Vikings back in
nineteen eighty nine traded for herschel Walker. Looking back on
it now, I don't know how many people were around
then and how many people supported the trade or were
against the trade. I mean, we know how damaging it
was to the franchise, to the Vikings, we know how
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much it benefited Dallas, But at the time, I don't
remember a Viking fan.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And this was my Roob days.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I wasn't in the radio business or they hadn't even
gone to broadcast school yet. This was eighty nine, still
in my hate Ashbury days, to be honest at the
very tail end. But at this point me and my
buddies were just fans, and all we're saying is we
love it. You know, the Vikings were missing a running back.
Walker was considered a quality running back, and we all
thought that was the move that would say that would
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push him over the top. Turned out to be it wasn't,
And so we all know what's happened. What happened immediately
following it for the next few years lost draft picks,
and that those draft picks turn into some pretty quality
players for Dallas and that helped them win was it
two or three Super Bowls under under Jimmy Johnson. But
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I like teams that go ahead and decide they're going
to give it a shot music and so that's what
I I'm all for, I you know, And again whether
it works or not, I don't know, but it's most
of the people I trust, as I say in reading
the reviews of the trade, not even locally but nationally,
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think it was a really good move for.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
For the Wild. And you hear this all the time.
This is a cliche, and.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Cliches are cliches for a reason because generally they're true.
You don't see trades that benefit Bowl teams very often. Well,
with Vancouver where they were, and with with the Hughes
kid basically saying he and his his representation, we're having
conversation with Vancouver basically saying worse it's gonna In other words,
he was telling them he opened up moving alongs. I
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don't think I'm gonna resign because there's no future. These
guys all want to win, and so uh. I think
the Van Cooper got.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
A nice hall for it.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
They got they got three quality players, all first round
draft picks. They have an unprotected first round draft pick
coming up next year in the Wild get maybe uh,
if not the best defenseman in hockey top three for.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Sure, we'll break, We'll come back.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
More controversial Vikings news on the side of the Break
Common Man program on the fan fan a couple of
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thirteen fourteen pastime comedy Sam in four Tannebach. You should
be back tomorrow. I think he had a sick kid.
Some childcare duty spot tend to be. How short of notice?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Were you over at the crack pop station earlier today
or were you?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
No?
Speaker 5 (24:22):
I was not, but I got the text this morning
about what time. I don't know, probably nine o'clock.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, and you were. I mean like, is this all
you do for a living? Is radio?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Or do you have another job? Do you have jobs A, B, C,
D or do you just have this one?
Speaker 5 (24:38):
I mean, well, I do have jobs ABC and D.
However I do have a full time job. I was
off today, so I was able to sort of pinch
it and come and fill it all. But it does
kind of disrupt my my day off plans I have
for today.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
But that's okay. I'm happy to be. Let me ask
you a question. What were your day off when you know? Yeah,
I was gonna go get a haircut. I just had
need one. Yeah hair cut. Your carot looks really short?
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Well, thank you, Well, I haven't I got the going on,
so just on the side, so I got to hide
the gray that's starting to come in.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Oh, you're not getting gray hair yet. Let me guess.
I'm gonna guess how old you are. You're twenty eight?
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Huh No, you gotta keep going thirty one. It's like
the clock game higher. I'm thirty seven, thirty seven. Yeah,
I'm an old timer compared to my my coworkers.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Wow, what it worre'st time gone? I know? Yeah, you're
telling me thirty seven already. Yeah, So I was looking up.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
It's funny you say that because I was thinking back,
you know, all these acl tairs that that have been
you know in the headlines.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Ya.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
I was thinking, like, you know, when was APS? Because
I was thinking to myself, that's got to be six, seven, eight, nine,
ten years ago. Nope, it was fourteen years ago, twenty eleven.
So I was thinking to myself, where did that time go?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
We're and like, are you happy with where you are? Right,
where you've been, where you're going, where you're at? I mean,
if you're not, you know, if you are, if you're
excited or maybe you know, do you consider yourself a
rousing success, abject.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Failure, or somewhere in between? See?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I consider myself just just above abject failure.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah, I think much but a little bit.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
So my first stint with I heard I got hired
here in January twenty twenty. Uh so you can guess
how that how that worked out? Yeah, so I was
here for a few weeks, so that kind of threw
a wrench in the plan. So I still feel like
a success compared to you know, where I was five
years ago, definitely, but I think the the that time
(26:35):
off with the pandemic definitely kind of threw off my
timeline for myself.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
What's your full time I worked? I'm an HR manager?
Oh I better be careful. Oh no, you're fine here.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I don't Yeah, they don't pay me enough to work
in HR here, So you can say it every.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Sing What do you do as an HR?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
As an HR manager, do you like you go to
work every day and then you just wait for somebody
to complain? Well, I mean, what is an HR manager?
Do want a data today? I mean, seriously, I'm interested.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
I think, Well, the biggest things, it's a mix of
I do a lot of like training stuff. I sort
of lead train, a lot of planning ahead for that
kind of stuff. I do a ton of training what
do you mean training? Like organizing training for our employees
and and given the training materials to the other managers,
like operational managers. So like if I was in HR
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comfartable here, like I would give you know AB and say, okay,
here's your list of all the trainings that your staff
has to do this week, for example. So it's all
that kind of stuff I would I got. I wish
I had the yawn button available.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
It's always available on the show here. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
No, I'm fascinated. Well, actually, to be honest, I'm trying
to eat an avocado right now and I see that.
Yeah you like avocadas.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I love avocado. Are sharing with you? Just a little
salt and pepper sometimes it's all you need on those. Okay?
So and she have that full time? Is that what
you're trained for? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
So I didn't actually go to school for HR. I
actually went to school for audio engineering. So I did
audio engineering, yeah, kind of like what our guy Jared
Wells does. I did studio recording for music and things
like that. So that's more of my you know who
George Martin is. I'm not gonna put myself in that
(28:19):
conversation but I do know George Martin.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
But you wanted to be George Martin or somebody.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Yeah, yeah like that. Tom Dallas is another one, Doctor
Dre even to an extent. I mean they're Quincy Jones.
He could go down the list of Well, because engineers.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I've been thinking about getting into the music business and
I need somebody to produce.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Think, yeah, I think it'd be a.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Little Long John's as a rapper, a little Long John's
and then have it with Z on the end. Yeah,
because if you're Lil that, always that that you got.
I can see that for Lil Nas X, lill b.
How many other Lil's are there out there? There's a
lot of rappers that are little that. And then I thought,
then I could just wear long underworlds stage, Little long Johns.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I could see that. Oh you know, maybe you could
help me out. You gotta do the shirt.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Off though, and we gotta get you like a chain
in the whole deal, and you can pull that look off.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Well, but I got to keep the long Johns.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
So how did you end up here? It's radio station.
Did you try to get an engineering job here?
Speaker 2 (29:24):
No?
Speaker 5 (29:24):
My So the first stint was I was on the
Street Team.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Oh yes, so that's your interview with lill Be. I did.
I did. I have some good stories from what you do.
Can you share them? Or even you'll get mad at you?
I don't think she'll get mad. My you bring your
cat into your dog with you? Did you? I did
not know. I did not let me, let me see,
how do I want to use it.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
You didn't tell her that you're looking for a work
life balance, did you, because you wouldn't have gotten the job.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
I understand, So I know. I interviewed the little be.
Things were going really well. She ended up offering I
interviewed with another person, so we had kind of like
a group interview deal. But obviously went well enough she
offered me the position. And it was sort of like
a night and day difference because she was so happy
and she was so energetically you interviewed. When I came
in to do my new higher stuff, it was, oh,
(30:16):
this is a real big callback. This was the day
after the Vikings lost to the forty nine ers. It
was the twenty twenty playoffs. They lost in San Francisco,
So everybody's mood was just down right. So I came in.
I was like, hey, a Little Bee and then she
was just like, yeah, come on, let's go.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
She had a mad mood.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Oh yeah, everybody was. I mean everybody was sour on
the Vikings loss.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I don't remember being upset at all, but that's just me.
I don't take it serious enough.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I guess there is that. So anyway, I come in.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
And then actually my first memory on that day was
tied to the Common Man program because in our offices overhead,
they rotate between all the different iHeart stations, and when
I was doing my paperwork stuff on the computer, the
show was playing. It was the end of the show,
and it was you and Rosie Antenna. You were, you know,
(31:07):
just sort of recapping the loss, and then the outro
music starts to play and all that, and then the
next thing I know, I hear Rosie's voice in Little
Bee's office. So within like thirty seconds, he made it
across the entire floor from the studio over to a
Little Bee's office.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
That's when he was young.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
In Spray this Fast movie, he kind of walks out
a limp. If you notice now he's got that. I
think he's got a titanium hip. He had a hip replacement. Okay,
so a little he's got a little hitch in his gideo. Now.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Yeah, I saw him, what was it two weeks ago?
He looked really good. Though he's still he still got it.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, here's what I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
If you look closely, he's stronger now at seventy five
than he was at forty five.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I believe that he's the Phil Rivers of radio. He's no, yes,
he's I like that.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I'm telling you, if anybody can beat Father Time, it
would be uh tennabe. I have to correct myself on him.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I said, there was how many billion people have been
on planet Earth? Did I say?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
One hundred and eighteen billion? Says at the beginning of time?
Since the game time, Yes, there's eight billion.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
On planet Earth now one hundred and seventeen billion.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Because like one hundred and nine billion, one hundred nine
billion people have come and gone. I said, nobody's beaten
Father Time. But somebody, of course had to text me
and correct me because I was giving some false information.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
It says.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Enoch beat Father Time. Have you ever heard of Enoch?
I had not heard of him either, But I'll tell
you who he is.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I I have it.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Here's what it says, he's a prophet, says Enoch is
a biblical figure.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
In patriarch prior to Noah's flood. That was a long
time ago. You've heard of Noa's flood? I have, yes.
I wanted to buy land to it by see Noah.
I want you to build me an arc. Woopa, voopa, voopa.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
He is the son of Jared and father of Methusela.
Do you know who Methusela is?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
The name sounds familiar. I think Methusela is the cat
that's got all the snakes in his head. That methus
people when you stay at it. Oh, that's Medusdusa. Yeah, Well,
who the hell is Methusela? I feel like I've heard
the name, but I'm not sure. The text of the
Book of Genesis. Are you familiar with Genesis? Absolutely, Matthew, Mark,
(33:38):
Luke John, that's New Testament. J Did you know God
was a baseball fan?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Well, the first verse in the Bible is in the beginning,
in the beginning, in the big inning.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the other
says the Book of Genesis.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Has Enoch lived three hundred and sixty five years before
he was taken by God. The text reads that Enoch
walked with God and he us no more for God
took him, which is interpreted as Enoch entering heaven alive
in some Jewish and Christians traditions.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
So he beat father time.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
He did not die, he made it. And then he
also says that Elijah was taken up to heaven as well.
So Elijah beat Father time. I'm not sure if that did.
You look up Methusla by the way, I am on
it right now.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Ysell for me.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Oh it'll it'll pop up. I got it myth like methamphetamine,
meth meththus us methus uh Lah.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
I got it right here, I forget. So yeah, Google
search is going a little slow here. Let's think a look.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Okay. So Methusela.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
Uh was a biblical patriarch in a figure in Judaism, Christianity,
and is Islam. He has claimed to have lived the
longest life, dying yet nine hundred and sixty nine years.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
So that he died, he didn't live, he died. Well,
we weren't talking about Methuselam. How long did he live?
Nine hundred and sixty nine years of age.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
And you know what, he looked better at nine hundred
and sixty nine years of age and at four hundred
and fifty six years of age.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I believe that growth.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
But yeah, then it says, you know, Methusel is the
son of Enoch, and then I clicked on Enoch. Enoch
is a biblical figure in patriarch prior to know his flood.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
What I said, yep, so yeah, interesting the more you know.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Elijah was a provident miracle worker who lived in the
Northern Kingdom of Israel.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Apparently he he went straight to have him too. He
didn't die.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
So there's two people at that. So there are two
people that have beaten father time. Otherwise nobody else has
ever beaten Father Times are good for them. Mark Craig
is a football writer for The Fisher Factor in the
West Side.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
We referred to him often after every the.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Monday, after every game whatever, regardless of what day they play,
Monday night, Sunday night, Tuesday night, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
He writes five extra points.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
And one of them and I think is it's it's
true and it's important. Number two is extra point is
more playing less thinking.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
For McCarthy, here's here's what Mark writes says.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
The learning process is flowing both ways between coach slash
QB whisperer Kevin O'Connell and McCarthy, the QB wildly unconventional
thrower of the football. McCarthy is good at playing football,
he's not good at thinking football. O'Connell seems to be adjusting,
or at least dialing back from control free to control
(36:47):
enthusiast on preaching the perfect fundamentals. And then he goes
on to talk about what McCarthy did in the game,
and I think he's spot on. I think we've talked
about this. It takes a while to get to a
(37:08):
conclusion oftentimes when you're not on the inside, when you're
not inside the walls of TCO Performance Center, the aka
the new Winter Park, so oftentimes it's hard to really know.
And even if you're inside the walls, you know, owners,
front office, coaching staff, even players oftentimes keep things close
(37:29):
to the best right.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Keep it within the family. And what we have been
discussing is.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
When the Vikings after making the run to the playoffs
last year and Sam Darnold, I wouldn't even say he
resurrected his career because he really didn't have a career
until last year. He had played terribly with the Jets,
played terribly, whether it was a Carolina with his next stop,
I believe I don't recall San Francisco, San Francisco, and
then you know, as you've hurt me.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
I don't know if I'm meeting you.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Meeting listeners have probably heard me read the quotes from
Darnold where he basically gave all the credit to brock Purty.
He said, watching brock Purty for an entire season, from
Oda's mini camps, training camp through the full season right
through to the big game. Now, they lost the big
game that year, I think, but right through then, he said,
(38:22):
that's where he learned most of his That's where he
figured out how to play football by watching brock Purty.
I think the Vikings thought McCarthy was a little further
along than he was. And I'm still puzzled as why
they didn't see the mechanics thing earlier. But maybe they
thought that would be a quick fix, because as you know,
(38:44):
they were still working on mechanics here in year number two,
and I know last year was injured, but I think
they knew about the mechanics. Anyways, it seems that now
we may be over a hump here, there's still mechanics
to work on. We talked about that earlier too, where
they showed highlights of one pass he has perfect mechanics.
The next time he looks like mel Stottleminer. Do you
know the name mel Stottleman.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
No, I didn't think you did. It's really old. Squad.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Probably should upgrade that. He looked more like Francisco Larriano. Okay,
I could even update it further and say, who's the
guy Terrek?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Is it Koobel? Who's the guy that pitches for no
Schooble school Scooble? He looks like Schooble with the big
with the big light kick at the very end.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
But maybe he's gotten over the hump and now he's
just playing football, right that don't overload the circuitry with
you know, not only a really complicated playbook, but also
with all the with all the the mechanical stuffs. Maybe
you know, making it a little easier on him is
(39:43):
allowed him to just play football, or maybe starting to
see some of the the fruits.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Of that, well, break will come up. We're breaking the minuters.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Really the head coach at the Sooner We Big Game
World champion Minnesota Bikings, Kemn O'Connell schedules a day after
the game news conference at two o'clock today.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
That's next year. On The Common Man program on the
Fan m The Common Man. A lot of pressure. You
gotta rise above it.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
You gotta harness in the good energy block out the
bad harness energy block bad
Speaker 2 (40:13):
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