HR. 1 - Grandmas Opening

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Morning Light, gentlemen, and welcome to video message number twenty nine.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Listen Beaverville, Come on man.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Morning Light gentlemen, and welcome to video message number twenty nine.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Listen up. The radys just came in for last month.
We are number one.

Speaker 4 (00:16):
We just grabbed every key demography.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Super duper.

Speaker 5 (00:21):
That's nice.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Fight Ago, Nito Gay, Yes, boy, that.

Speaker 6 (00:25):
Is good news. It is the seventh day of July. Nope, July.
The hell is wrong with me. It is the seventh
day of November twenty twenty five. Good morning, everybody, and
welcome to the Partrip Morning Show. It is not the
seventh day of July. It's completely different than that. And
we might get some snow tomorrow here in the Twin
Cities area regardless.

Speaker 7 (00:43):
Be careful out there, everybody. Good morning to you.

Speaker 6 (00:45):
My name is Chris Hockey and Big Friday for you.
We meet our brand new Minnesota Twins manager. Today's gonna
play the initials game plus our buddy Nate Henderson's and
as we are right ahead of Veterans Day this coming
eleven eleven and so much more. Listen, Marnie Parish and
a Casto thousands. Here's some comedy from Tam Harmston on
the Power Trip Morning Show on a Friday. Now you
come on in, it's Friday, and I am glad you

(01:08):
are here.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Really, I'm mad at the airlines.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
They always have these specials that don't exist, you know,
like round trip tickets starting at forty nine dollars.

Speaker 8 (01:18):
Yeah right, there's no forty nine dollars round trip ticket,
or there might be one, and it leads like a
year from now and it goes from Fort Wayne, Indiana
to Topeka at four in the morning, and it's the
pilot that blacks out over ten thousand feet.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
And the stewardesses are cats. And you can get a
two dollars a day rental car which is a donkey
with a belly full of red ball.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Bring it back full. That's exactly what I thought it
was exactly.

Speaker 6 (02:11):
The finish side is well, but it is on your side.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
You hear the distance under.

Speaker 6 (02:22):
Ye, then you stray take your eye off.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
I can't think you all had another.

Speaker 9 (02:36):
We are.

Speaker 10 (02:41):
To take it too. Stiff went out to take it
to the top.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
It is a variety, ain't November seventh of twenty twenty five,
This is the Power Trip Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
We made it to the end of the week.

Speaker 9 (03:04):
I'm Corey Cove, that's Chris Hockey, that's Meat Sauce, Paul Lambert, No,
John krieswhile he's out, I don't know shooting stuff right,
shot stuff and what not. Deer camp yep, dear camp
is a deer camp. And I texted him last night
because Whill of Fortune was a train wreck too, And
I'm like, are you watching Wheel? This is a mess
and he said no, DVR, can't wait to watch it later.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
God, he loves the Wheel, loves it. He just loves it.

Speaker 9 (03:29):
Yeah, I love it, man, It's it's hard not to. Man,
they made some massive mistakes last night. Who sauce one
of those games? We're like, is this rigged?

Speaker 6 (03:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (03:38):
Oh man, they made four or five gigantic mistakes. Can't
wait till Chraese'll texted me after after he watches the Wheel.
Gotta love the Wheel. Yeah, he absolutely loves it. He
watches it like it's a Vikings game.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, it's that important. I agree.

Speaker 9 (03:53):
Yeah, we'll talk about the Vikings later. Mark Parrish will
be here later later. Marny Gelner will be here later.
Derek Shelton, the new manager of the Minnesota Twins, will
be here later. That's going to be super cool. Hell yeah, man,
Hell yeah man, Hell yes, it's going to be super fun.

Speaker 6 (04:08):
Just say how to Nate or did you good? Ignore him?

Speaker 2 (04:11):
What is your name again? My name is Nate? Oh man,
I wish you sports?

Speaker 6 (04:20):
My name is Nate?

Speaker 9 (04:23):
Got it?

Speaker 11 (04:23):
Got right?

Speaker 6 (04:26):
He's over there, Nick?

Speaker 2 (04:28):
What is Nick Madden?

Speaker 6 (04:30):
He's over there running the KFE dot com slash watch.
Have no idea.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter, what doesn't matter. Why
would I have to remember either one? Who cares?

Speaker 6 (04:41):
Do you guys have an old thing that you enjoy
as much as John Cristol likes Wheel Fortune?

Speaker 12 (04:46):
Well?

Speaker 13 (04:46):
I do.

Speaker 9 (04:48):
I mean, but I've I've been an old game show
soul since I was game.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Oh game soul cool? Almost talk almost what?

Speaker 6 (04:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (05:00):
We almost won? No, I don't know. It's uh, you know.

Speaker 9 (05:03):
You catch the last four or five minutes of Channel
four news and then there's there's the Wheel.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, there's Seacrest. Would you rather watch Wheel for the
rest of your life or Jeopardy? Well?

Speaker 9 (05:15):
I feel like Paul. That's a great question. A lot
of people have been asking me about that.

Speaker 6 (05:20):
Actually is a really good question. What is due? It's
a good cue.

Speaker 9 (05:24):
I'm better at Wheel, man. I love both of them
almost equally. Do you ever super close?

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Do you ever feel dumb watching Wheel? Because there are
times I feel dumb watching Jeopardy? Okay, well no, yeah
all the time. Never feel dumb watching Wheel unless it's like, uh,
like celebrity Jeopardy.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
All the time, I feel like a god. I'm so smart. Yeah,
exactly a good Yeah.

Speaker 6 (05:50):
Let's hear old old people things that young people do. Okay,
Oh boy, massive font on their phone?

Speaker 2 (05:57):
No, not yet mine standard size, mind.

Speaker 6 (05:59):
Standard, But but I have to take off my glasses
to look at my phone and put back my glasses
back on to see anybody more than five yards away?

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Do you have to squint, like close your bad eye?

Speaker 11 (06:10):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (06:10):
Sometimes, you know what, it's only in the room. No, no, please,
don't make fun sometime, real things here, please talking real here. Okay,
Nate's a veteran.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
It's Nate, right, yeah, last time I checked Nate.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
Okay, but I don't realize I'm squinting until I see
a picture of myself, and I'm like, son of a bitch,
was I trying to see an ant on the ground?

Speaker 2 (06:33):
The hell is wrong with you?

Speaker 6 (06:35):
Old guy shoes. That's that's a chat Abbott because of
his drop wear.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
These are shoes, those are slippings.

Speaker 6 (06:46):
Yeah, I'm fifty five almost, so every pair of shoes
I wear old wear shoes. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (06:51):
Going to the store early in the day, oh yeah,
I do that well, but that's different because our day
is wide open. Yeah, Like we wait until we get
off of work.

Speaker 6 (06:58):
At Fiveaturday to get up, like at the crack of ace.

Speaker 11 (07:01):
Oh yeah, sometimes I do. I'll go at like six
seven am. Yeah, what six seven?

Speaker 2 (07:07):
See six seven. We're cool, we're young school. I'll go
that early. Yeah, that's ridiculous grocery store.

Speaker 6 (07:14):
Yeah, yeah, why do you do that early?

Speaker 2 (07:16):
I'm always up early? Why are you watching leo? He Well,
my wife is I go to the store.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
If I go to the store that early, you can
know one thing's for sure. It's it's it's hunting season,
milf hunting season.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yeah, and you probably actually haven't been to bed yet,
let's not get crazy.

Speaker 9 (07:36):
Or or you're going through the self check out aisle
with the air refreshmer.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
And a plunger.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
Believe you gotta believe.

Speaker 9 (07:43):
Yes, yeah, she hawk that that's the reason why you
would go to the grocery store at six in the morning.

Speaker 6 (07:52):
Oh yeah, I'm going to need some of that too.
Excuse me, ma'am, I know the pharmacy hadn't opened yet.
Uh yeah, I have to call a friend of ours.
He's got some laying around.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (08:04):
That's the best time, though, to go to the store.
Why because there's no one really there for other people. Yeah,
all the stuff is fresh. If you want fresh like donuts,
what the hell? That's a good point.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah. I like to go that early.

Speaker 7 (08:20):
Because of fresh donuts.

Speaker 6 (08:21):
Yeah, that's a good idea.

Speaker 9 (08:22):
For Are you getting donuts sometimes? Like walking past them,
looks like you got some? Okay, Yeah, Jerry's has great donuts.
You gotta get there early for the best ones. And
they're hot and they're fresh.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
My god, do you think if you win at eight
thirty they'd be worse?

Speaker 11 (08:40):
Yeah, because everybody's picked through them, picknicking, squeezing on Saturday
or Sunday mornings. Oh yeah, the donut area at Jerry's
any Dina is packed. You can I show you what
you get. It's my whole body. It's always crowded. If

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you want to get the good apple fritters.

Speaker 7 (09:07):
You got, My god, maybe mix it an apple salad.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
I don't do it for goddamn weekend. I do it
like what some body maybe think about what you just said.
That's the most dining thing I've ever heard.

Speaker 11 (09:23):
If I don't get in line for the apple fritters,
it gets you're going crazy.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
They get picked through by all the high school athletes
in the scholarship.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yes, Melissa, make sure you get men are going to
go like a good Melissol.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
It's your personal assistant, Melissol.

Speaker 6 (09:44):
Would you please get a line for me because I
don't have to start a log.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Apple for I like them.

Speaker 6 (09:52):
They like Bulti cream cream.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
You like multi cream, Yeah, Baltic cream.

Speaker 6 (09:57):
You don't do the your big face?

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Does hot mean Bavarian?

Speaker 11 (10:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (10:02):
Yes, Boston clean, Boston.

Speaker 14 (10:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
I thought it's hard to hear in the dynamics that.

Speaker 12 (10:11):
Hop.

Speaker 7 (10:12):
Dude, No, it's fivefolded.

Speaker 6 (10:16):
But you can ask me that.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Hey, you don't go just for donuts, but I'll go.

Speaker 11 (10:22):
Like if Kelly and I have breakfast on Saturday mornings
together and if there's something we need, I go.

Speaker 14 (10:27):
I don't go all the time. I don't get down
to posing. No, I don't watching who's watching Leo Lionel.
My wife when you guys are at breakfast together, No, no, no, no,
we have it at home him with went uh mostly
my wife. She makes good breakfast.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Cook pro tip is to go your child while they're
still little.

Speaker 6 (10:55):
Question. You don't have a cook?

Speaker 12 (10:58):
No?

Speaker 6 (10:58):
You make you?

Speaker 2 (10:59):
What make your food?

Speaker 12 (11:01):
No?

Speaker 2 (11:01):
I don't know?

Speaker 6 (11:02):
My god?

Speaker 7 (11:02):
Do you a pull?

Speaker 15 (11:04):
What?

Speaker 2 (11:04):
What accident is he doing?

Speaker 6 (11:06):
I don't know bottlers?

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Why do you have? I don't know what? Because you
want to, you know, make sure you get the right
city council members and.

Speaker 9 (11:18):
In place, and you're at thanksgiving up my house high quick, Brenda,
pull your hands out as long as the pharmacy is
open on Saturday, because that's fine.

Speaker 6 (11:37):
The counter.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
What's plan? B?

Speaker 6 (11:43):
I niced that.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
I think I think apple fritters is planned? Ah? That
always just for me, man, this tastes fun anyway. What
else do the old people do?

Speaker 7 (11:58):
Driving like a little old lady.

Speaker 6 (12:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (12:01):
Never, I don't nowhere unless I have to be there immediately.

Speaker 12 (12:06):
I know.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Let's go back to phones for a second. I know
one old man thing that I do, and I know
I'm doing it, but I just don't care.

Speaker 9 (12:12):
When I'm when I'm at a table, I almost always
have my phone like at face level.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
I don't like my neck.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
To your point when you when you hurt your neck
when you were scrolling Twitter all day waiting for harboron news.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, no I don't. I don't have my neck down
all the time.

Speaker 9 (12:28):
When I'm like texting, I'll like pop my elbows on
the table and have it at face level so I
can look right at it. And it almost makes it
look like I'm filming people if they're across the table,
and that's why people hate it. But it's like I
don't want to be staring straight down at my phone.
So that's apparently I've been told that's an old man move,
is to have it at face level.

Speaker 6 (12:47):
Well, i'll tell you when I'm obviously this time. You
are ride planes a lot, and you do spend a
lot of time looking straight down exactly. You've got to
be real careful because man, that sucks. That sucks, man, Yeah,
that does suck. Technic. Oh no, that's why that's what I'm.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
I like it.

Speaker 15 (13:09):
Don't everyone kill me, Okay, Sauce, I am definitely on
your side. Well, you like move around, I don't. That's
on big side.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Why do some meaning to me about my weight?

Speaker 7 (13:23):
If that means crack and brenda, she can't be trusted.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
She does having to dinah though, I think at.

Speaker 7 (13:31):
Least nice boxes, nice one, nice boxes.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Not those he means cardboard boxes.

Speaker 6 (13:40):
Don't see this thing? Gross Weird sounds escape in your body,
not just farts and stuff like that. But sure pops
and you're like, where the hell did that come from?
Sometimes my belly is like, I'm like, dude, you just relax.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Is that the did Tony Romo make an old man
sound eating young man sound? That's the worst.

Speaker 6 (14:03):
Let's see early dinners. That's that's definitely Saucy eats his earliest.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Oh yeah, I like doing that too. I eat about
four o'clock every day, sometimes even earlier.

Speaker 9 (14:10):
Yeah, call to day. Yeah, but again that's our schedule.
I don't want to eat it eight or seven or six,
it's too late.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
I do that the wheel.

Speaker 6 (14:19):
I do this to the point where I do the
sex one, to the point where people notice. I checked
my pockets to make sure I've got everything, saying a
thousand times a day, I.

Speaker 7 (14:29):
Know all the time, where's my keys, where's my phone,
where's my wallet?

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Cell phone, wallet, key, Where's what Jerry's on Saturday morning?
Do you guys add like air pods to that?

Speaker 6 (14:42):
Yes? Yes, my right front pocket, I have a pocket
for everything. That's an old man thing. Left back pocket
that's my phone. Right back pocket, that's my wallet. Left
front pocket, that's my keys. Right from pocket that's my
that's my AirPods.

Speaker 9 (14:55):
But don't you just think it's it's it's maybe, sure,
it's sign a pitting older. It's also a sign of
getting wiser. It's the recklessness of youth, of not knowing
where things are. When you get older, you start to learn.
How about just being mature and know where all of
my important things are at all times? Yep, so being
organized as part of that. When I was twenty four,

(15:15):
sure probably left the house of time or two without
my wallet. I haven't done that in twenty years, right,
I always have my wallet with me. Yeah, where it
is it all times? Because I got to go play cards. Yeah, man,
you gotta have my wallet. You got to get to
the building, got to get into the building.

Speaker 6 (15:29):
What do you guys think this crack haad Brenda have legs?

Speaker 2 (15:31):
I mean, this is I think she's got one hell
of a story happens.

Speaker 10 (15:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
I don't think you'd ask or care.

Speaker 6 (15:38):
Sleep on the tin tags the tw T.

Speaker 9 (15:44):
I can't tell if Brenda is the daughter of Gary
Delabat or or she just needs a speech therapist.

Speaker 12 (15:52):
I can't.

Speaker 6 (15:53):
Gary's got some.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Questions to answer, Man, Gary God, I love Gary. Gary's
the most.

Speaker 6 (15:58):
I don't listen much anymore.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
It's it's it's obviously still the goat. It's still great.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
Yeah, I don't. I don't. They don't have as many
shows as they used to. Obviously have no aroun the air,
but it's not very often. No, I gotta listen to this.
That's some quotes podcast.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Saus.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
This is normally when I would say something weird and
try to get into a transition.

Speaker 9 (16:21):
But that's done until the spring, and Tommy's not here.
And Tommy's not here, I can't. I thought it's going
to do that too. Yep, all right, So Derek Sheldon,
manager of the Minnesota Twins, will be hero around seven
thirty or so, as we'll have a chance to talk
to him for thirty forty five minutes something like that,
and then.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
We'll play initials with him at eight fifteen. I have
no idea.

Speaker 9 (16:41):
If he knows how the game works. We're gonna find
that out when he gets here at seven thirty. But hey, man,
what about ten months ago Ryan Jeffers smoked all of you.
Oh yeah, so the bar is set high for the
Minnesota Twins. We'll see if the manager can keep up
with you guys. Marnie later, Hair, mister z later, Nate

(17:01):
Henderson's here. This is the power at your morning Joe
on the van, Hey.

Speaker 7 (17:31):
Good Marti, Patrick morks at five five to two.

Speaker 6 (17:33):
That's right. Well, I guess whatever time it is wherever
you're listening, whenever you're listening it on. Maybe I should
stop saying what time it is because you're looking at
your blog going, man, I'm nineteen hours late for work.
It's Saturday.

Speaker 9 (17:44):
You guys always surprised. And I know a lot of
people that do this, and by a lot, I mean
like five you guys always surprised.

Speaker 16 (17:52):
I Uh.

Speaker 9 (17:53):
When we were in Vegas, one of the listeners said
that he was still catching up and was about four
months behind. Yeah, and I'm like, yeah, you're binging us
like a Netflix show. Yeah, and most of the show,
you know what, half of it is pretty time sensitive. Yeah, yeah, sure,
because if he's listening to the show from four months ago,

(18:13):
he's talking about middle of summer or late summer, like
rating twin season right, So it's like, are you listening
to those episodes though? Just skipping ahead when we go
hardcore sports or what are you doing? But he was like, yep,
I'm probably like four months back, but I'm trying to
catch up.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Jesus.

Speaker 9 (18:30):
Oh, that guy definitely doesn't care that it's five point
fifty two in the morning.

Speaker 6 (18:35):
I got an eight I got an email from Timothy
Bobby Brown.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Oh heavy birthday.

Speaker 7 (18:40):
He says, I like to listen to I dread fast
forward when meets us talks.

Speaker 6 (18:44):
Wow, spend a lot of time fast forwarding.

Speaker 9 (18:46):
I don't why. I'm sorry, Timothy Bobby Brown. Hey, what
is the what is the skip button on on the
ihired app?

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Is it thirty? Isn't it fifteen?

Speaker 15 (18:57):
To go back?

Speaker 12 (18:58):
Back?

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Thirt fifteen back thirty four?

Speaker 6 (19:00):
Yeah? Not that I know.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
I listen every day.

Speaker 6 (19:02):
Yeah, thank you?

Speaker 9 (19:03):
All right, So saws, do me a favorite for the
rest of the day. If you talk, talk for exactly
thirty seconds, just so that guy can be like, oh god,
and then he can skip and then it'll be right
back to somebody else, you know what I mean?

Speaker 6 (19:17):
Stops talking?

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Well, but now I yes, I do. I can keep
going twenty nine more.

Speaker 6 (19:21):
Secund feeling that guy.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
You can't stop because now now he skipped ahead. Well,
give me a topic. Oh my god, what is this?
Whose line is it? Anyway?

Speaker 6 (19:32):
Yeah? Okay, you are a crackhead, Brenda and you just
walked into the drugstore looking for some plan b.

Speaker 11 (19:39):
Hello, my name is crackhead Brenda. I last night it's
up to the man named Chris Hockey. Oh, he gave
me the business. It was the best sex I've ever had.

Speaker 7 (19:48):
Oh, thank you, Brenda.

Speaker 11 (19:48):
But he decided it was the ride was over too
quickly and he didn't have time take it off the ride,
if you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
So now I have a problem.

Speaker 11 (19:59):
Not only I not clean myself up, but I'm gonna
birth to a little Christopher Allen Hockey. So can you
point me where I can figure this out? And I
would love an apple fritter? Please, the fresher the better.
How long much more do I have to talk?

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Dear God?

Speaker 6 (20:19):
I ask your question, Corey. I asked you a question.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Are you still crackhead Brenda? Yeah, what was what was
the question you asked about? Midway through?

Speaker 4 (20:32):
How much longer do I have to tell? You said
something about could you point me in the direction of
somebody who could help me figure this out?

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Or what did you say? Do you mean giving birth?
It's not what I'm saying. Happen with Hawk.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
And I know you said you were gonna, Yes you did,
and you said you were gonna give birth to a
little Christopher Allen Hockey.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
No, yeah, and you were.

Speaker 7 (20:50):
You were so deep and Brenda, you weren't listening anymore.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Whole method act. Then you said something about could somebody help?

Speaker 11 (20:56):
But then in my scenario, I realized it would be
honor to give birth to a mini Christopher Allen Hockey,
So instead I would rather have a fresh, hot apple fritter.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
But also, again, I love that crackhead.

Speaker 9 (21:11):
Brenda slept with Chris and immediately knows his full given
legal name.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
He leads with that that's on the paperwork.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah, well said, she's gonna name the kid after him,
even with the middle name fall.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
In this scenario, she knows all my passwords.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Long, God, I'm never gonna see him again. Where she's
gonna find him?

Speaker 6 (21:35):
I'm like I'm on the Oregon Trail.

Speaker 9 (21:37):
Well she has too, she has two places. She could
find him here or the casino.

Speaker 7 (21:42):
Correct, that's right, or pretty soon in a box right
beside her.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Are we talking about again? Remember me talking? Oh yeah,
time traveling head of the podcast, why not? That's right?

Speaker 6 (21:58):
Yeah, KVP slash watch. By the way, if we want
to look at us and see what we look like
this morning, if you don't want out, uh, to watch
our our almost new friend Derek Shelton. Oh yeah, okay,
On's here. You know we're so cool cool, give or take?
Looking forward to that, I got some things for you guys,
some leftovers from this week that we never got to play.
Would you like to hear something? Huh? This is a

(22:21):
fight at the bass pro shops that happened and I
loved it because the our prep services said, probably over
the fact that there was only one triple Excel shirt left.
But I like the last thing I hear in the audio.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
And you wonder why our school, what that lady's habits?

Speaker 7 (22:57):
What Brenda.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Hen The fight was over what, I don't know, over
a bathroom dispute in terms of what they were waiting
in line or something.

Speaker 6 (23:08):
Yeah, if somebody budgets that's the worst.

Speaker 9 (23:10):
At a bass pro shop. The line for the bathroom
was there. An event was the grand Open, and then
they were fighting.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Over who was supposed to be next in the bathroom. Yeah,
and the schools are falling apart because of it.

Speaker 6 (23:23):
That's why I wonder what triggered that out of her.
You know, yeah, I wonder what she what brought that
to mind.

Speaker 9 (23:30):
I feel it like it has a little touch of
Pete Webber when he said, who do you think you are?
I am yes, Like he knew what he meant, but
the words just came out. I'm sure she's trying to say,
like what's wrong with society? Why don't people have manners?
Why can't people treat each other? But exaid she just said,
this is why our schools are falling apart. We know
what she meant, right, like be nicer?

Speaker 6 (23:52):
Yeahs, and that is why our schools.

Speaker 9 (23:59):
Okay, hands up that lady. Well, yeah, she likes the
outdoors education too. She likes grand opening yeah, right, like
Hawk's backside.

Speaker 6 (24:08):
Oh, I like your Grandma's opening.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Wow. Wow.

Speaker 9 (24:15):
And that's the title of the restaurant up at Okay,
the restaurant up into loopt. When you guys go to
places like bass pro shops or you know whatever, any
of the outdoor stores. Do you guys ever walk through
a section that you've never been a part of it anyway,
But you're like, man, I should get into this. The

(24:36):
thason I asked is I wouldn't say get into this
is the right word, but man, archery looks fun, like
whenever I see the giant targets and bow and arrows
and stuff. My my friend Chad had one growing up.
His dad had a bow and arrow and we used
to shoot in the backyard. And looking back, there's no
way a couple of like twelve year old should have
been just firing bone arrow on the yeah, oh my god,

(25:00):
miss oh boy Backyardchicago City, just shooting at and they
had a full target and everything. And I'm like, what
if we miss, Like there's a neighbor not you know,
mow in his yard, but we're going to fire it
into his backyard. If we missed the target, that's not good.
But then just don't miss how many animals? I think
as the military man, I was, did you guys kill

(25:22):
with those zero? How many did he kill with them?

Speaker 2 (25:25):
I don't know, I think a lot. I think I
think his dad, I think Chuck shot a lot.

Speaker 6 (25:29):
Of Where's Puffy been?

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Whoa prison?

Speaker 12 (25:37):
Which? Hang on?

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Hang on?

Speaker 4 (25:38):
That was that was always two interesting mistakes. Chris made
one without thinking. Then I made one without thinking. I
meant diddy, you meant like a rabbit?

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah right? Or that was crazy?

Speaker 11 (25:53):
Okay, I get it, But you answered both questions and
neither one of us.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
You are correct. For the record, I meant and yes
he did, yeah, and yes he did.

Speaker 6 (26:08):
And finally, one more thing before we're gonna break a
new TikTok trend involves eating beans.

Speaker 13 (26:14):
I started with the beans because I was having anxiety
really bad, and so when on TikTok said hey, you know,
beans help with anxiety, I was down for whatever. Ran
to the pantry, grabbed a canno bean. I had just
gone on a run, and I was eating the beans,
and the food noise just stopped and I felt just
like I had eaten a steak, a potato and some broccoli,

(26:35):
you know, just that good of a feeling. The next day,
I went on my run and I was like, yo,
we're going to do that again. My recovery from the
run it was like, Oh what am I going to
do for the rest of the day.

Speaker 7 (26:49):
Really amazing, something's working, Yeah it does.

Speaker 9 (26:54):
You might need to slow down on the beans, but yeah,
it sounds like it's helping her be propelled.

Speaker 6 (26:59):
Something has helped her getting divorce.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
So stupid part jokes aside, What is the logic here?

Speaker 9 (27:07):
She's saying that if you if you work out with beans,
it makes you feel fuller or comfort?

Speaker 2 (27:13):
What's the deal?

Speaker 6 (27:14):
That is true? The fiber and just all that involved
does help you feel full, and the beans are great
for you. I wish I could eat more, but literally
my cat would move out.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Bruho's the guy you've had on blue blue zones?

Speaker 4 (27:32):
Yeah, the blue zone he talked about. He talks about
how good beans are for you. My question to that
lady is is it just any kinds of beans? Like,
because there's lots of different beans out there. Is she
just going to the pantry and emptying jars of beans?

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Wait to move in and there's no way her husband
wants her to live to hundred.

Speaker 9 (27:54):
I'm telling you, I'm in the brown zone.

Speaker 7 (27:57):
I would have to I'd have to take a gas yeah,
every god five minutes. But I know they're good for you.
I know they are, but it's intolerable. I like my
own sent It's.

Speaker 9 (28:09):
It's like, why it should be legal to have a
Chipotle at an airport that flies internationally?

Speaker 6 (28:13):
Oh my god, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
It's like, no, but if you're flying at Duluth, sure
we'll all jump on this plane with you. But Dwight flies,
I'm not going to Thailand with you.

Speaker 9 (28:24):
All right, thanks, thanks, But I paid sports in a
second is the larger. So my favorite part about that
was it was yesterday, less than twenty four hours ago.

(28:45):
Chad Abbott says, why is your show the only show
that misses the weather updates?

Speaker 4 (28:50):
Why can every other show do it? But you guys
are never paying attention the weather goes off, and you
guys almost never say it.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
When you do, you panic. I go, I don't know,
and I dismissed one bit.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
I didn't even know it.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
There's a lot we were doing other stuff.

Speaker 6 (29:04):
Yeah, normally Zach is here, but I don't know why
I depend on how he's always on vacation. So that's one.
Number two, I was loading in justin Jefferson Audio in
the other studio. And number three, you guys never listened.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
No, I'm not listening.

Speaker 13 (29:19):
I don't.

Speaker 9 (29:20):
So that's how guys, we're doing other stuff. We're getting
stuff done. It's forty it's going to be forty eight
for the high now.

Speaker 6 (29:25):
And here's the problem with that. I did load in
the weather, Chad, yet, Chad, who's it a man, I'll
hear this, and we're we're not getting a big snow storm.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
There is still a chance that we could see a
trace of snowfall on Saturday, but that's probably going to
be about it. Let's talk about that Saturday snow chance.
What has changed a subtle shift to the north. However,
we're still calling for just flurries around the Twin Cities
if that, with less further north, accoding to up to
an inch possible across southern Minnesota. We're talking the I
ninety corridor, maybe up towards the man Cata area. But

(30:01):
it looks like temperatures are going to be above freezing
for the most part. That means that snow falling is
just gonna melt on contact with the ground.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
At least to be fallen in the window. I like that,
but you know what I did, ReCore, If you're in
a lot of people going hunting and good morning, John Crazy.
I hope you get one this morning. Wind chills Sunday morning,
thirteen degrees. Yeah, so be ready for it.

Speaker 12 (30:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (30:25):
So when you're headed down to the Old I almost
said to the dome.

Speaker 7 (30:28):
How long is it, Ben?

Speaker 6 (30:29):
Since people set head down to the Dome. If you're
head down to us Bank Stadium, make sure you bummed
up because those finghees are going to get cold, right
sauce of your fingis.

Speaker 9 (30:38):
Oh yeah, gotta wear gloves, man. See, this is why
the weather updates are important.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (30:43):
Sorry, Chad, You're right and I'm wrong. Now get that
drop foot out of my way. I'm moving here. Gross,
I'm gonna play that instead of the weather.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
All right, perfect, don't encourage it.

Speaker 7 (31:00):
Forecast forecasts some dirty underwear.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Don't encourage you. Chat, don't tell us what to do.

Speaker 6 (31:09):
I'm so glad you invited your friends from Nate always
you know what we got to do sports. But I
do want to meet your friend real quick. But what
who do we have? Your left there? By the way,
Nate Henderson is a super soldier one eyed bandit.

Speaker 12 (31:22):
Here.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
I have one of my good friends, doctor Ben Riley.
He was a Lindstrom grad or a Schausago Lakes grad
like Corey.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Get it right. But we met in twenty eighteen in Afghanistan.

Speaker 6 (31:38):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
He was part of the forward surgical team that was
supporting my team when he was an expeditionary. And three
weeks prior to that, he had supported another team that
one of my good friends was on and my buddy
Ian got shot out on a mission and Doctor Ben's
team saved his life, stabilized him and got him too
higher care.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
And three weeks later, we are.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Sitting in my mom in Afghanistan and I brought up
carl oscar Days and Ben leans forward and he goes,
I'm from Lindstrom and then, you know, fast forward from
that was January of nineteen to the summer of nineteen.
We're sitting in Lindstrom at carl oscar Day's getting candy
for my kids.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Uh oh, you got to go to the parade.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yeah, obviously it goes right by my it goes right
by my Carlo's uncle's house.

Speaker 6 (32:24):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Who that That turns out to be one of doctor
Ben's best friend's neighbors.

Speaker 6 (32:31):
So what's that? A big city?

Speaker 12 (32:32):
Right?

Speaker 6 (32:32):
So that makes sense. That's crazy.

Speaker 7 (32:33):
Say, wow, that's incredible. I'm sorry, doctor Ben.

Speaker 6 (32:36):
What's your last name?

Speaker 7 (32:37):
My apologies, Riley.

Speaker 6 (32:38):
Nice to meet you, doctor Ben.

Speaker 16 (32:39):
Welcome man, Good to meet you, Hockey.

Speaker 6 (32:41):
Yeah, and feel free get little close to Mike if
you don't mind. I'm sorry, apologize. You're you're used to
saving lives and not talking on to micro friends. We
don't have to do hard jobs like this, you know.
But so what do you do for a living outside
of the army.

Speaker 16 (32:53):
So I am a nurse anesthetist and we're at at
the male clinic.

Speaker 6 (32:57):
That's what I thought.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Wow, yeah, wow man.

Speaker 16 (33:00):
Yeah, so I work for the Madle Clinic Health System.
And yeah, you know, it's funny because Nate Nate calls
me doctor Ben, which they call all their medics docs,
you know.

Speaker 6 (33:11):
Having a dog.

Speaker 16 (33:12):
Yeah, I'm a nur synesthetist. But I do have a
doctorate degree, so you know, the docs have their their physicians.

Speaker 7 (33:19):
Yeah, the rest of us have high school diplomas. We're
gonna call you doctor.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
I don't have that.

Speaker 6 (33:25):
Oh yeah, right, you don't have that.

Speaker 7 (33:27):
No, well, we'll welcome in, and we're so glad to
have you, so glad to know you.

Speaker 16 (33:31):
I appreciate that. I was telling telling the guys here Corey. So,
Corey and I are both from Chicago Lakes.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Just a couple of heroes. Yeah, exactly, no big deal.

Speaker 7 (33:40):
Similar pats and.

Speaker 16 (33:41):
I'm drive here. I was thinking, you know what do
I have in common with hockey? We both have a
Christmas birthday?

Speaker 15 (33:46):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (33:47):
Is that while you're born on Christmas Day?

Speaker 11 (33:49):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (33:49):
How bad that man? High five. It's too bad maxis
here because i'd be three of us. I don't know
if we're allowed to have three in the sane.

Speaker 16 (33:55):
And we're gonna have to get together June twenty fifth
and celebrate. Man, we have to share it with that
other guy.

Speaker 6 (34:00):
That was always a rumor that they were going to
do that for me, you know what I mean, Like
they were gonna, now this year, we're gonna have a
Christmas in June. And then June came and everybody's laid off.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
We did.

Speaker 6 (34:10):
But well again, welcome. When you say you work at
the mayor, do you are you part of the Mayo
system or do you work down in Rochester? Y?

Speaker 2 (34:17):
I did well.

Speaker 16 (34:17):
I'm credentialed everywhere, but I did work down in Rochester
for years and now I'm pretty much going to all
the male clinic health system sights in and in Wisconsin,
so a lot of driving around, but just you know,
going into the ours, putting people to sleep and letting
them get through their surgery.

Speaker 6 (34:33):
You ever, just get sick of it, get high on
your own supply.

Speaker 16 (34:36):
To be honest, it's a it's a it's a it's
a job hazards trying to you know, leave the goods
for the patient.

Speaker 6 (34:45):
I bet man, that's so interesting.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
So one thing that I failed to mention is, uh,
he's having a retirement party tomorrow, which is why I'm here.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
And he is retiring a full bird colonel.

Speaker 6 (34:57):
Wow, which is graduate.

Speaker 16 (34:59):
Wh No, I'm a high school grad too, congratulations.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
But he was what was you were a battalion commander.

Speaker 16 (35:09):
Yeah, deputy commander at battalion and twenty five years in
the reserves, five mobilizations.

Speaker 11 (35:15):
Wow.

Speaker 16 (35:16):
Wow, it's you know, my time with the Special Forces
team in Afghanistan was really the pinnacle of my army career.
To be able to be out there with the guys
that are really the badasses, the guys that are kicking
indoors and doing the hard work that nobody else would do.

(35:36):
And I didn't think that I'd ever be in a
position that I would be with that caliber of soldier.
And it was an honor to support those guys out there.
And you know, the Army Medical mission is preserving the
fighting force and that's what we're there to do. And
it's it's funny because Nate was here several years ago
after I want to say it was twenty twenty or

(35:58):
when did Ian retire twenty twenty one, Yeah, so you know,
he was here and did a segment with you guys,
and I was in Germany with the Army and one
of my buddies had heard the segment said, I think
there was a Green Beret guy on the radio talking
about you and your team, and like I said, I
didn't hear it because I was in Germany, so I
had to come back and find the podcast, and at

(36:20):
that time, he was here and he gave a shout
out to you know, thank my team, because he was
going to Ian's retirement ceremony instead of his funeral.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
I will always be grateful that I got to I
have the opportunity to go to have the opportunity to
go to his retirement ceremony and didn't have to go
to his funeral.

Speaker 16 (36:36):
Yeah, so now he's here going to my retirement ceremony,
which is really cool.

Speaker 6 (36:40):
Well, that's awesomely cool. We got to do some sports, man,
But I got a lot of questions for you, So
I hope you don't mind being on the radio.

Speaker 16 (36:45):
Yeah, thanks for having me.

Speaker 6 (36:46):
I appreciate it. Hold on one second, let's get this done.

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Speaker 10 (37:13):
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Speaker 2 (37:15):
Man, Leinstrom Winstrom, Minnesota.

Speaker 9 (37:17):
Man, great downtown, great, great place to a great place
to grow up. Right, you're right on the outskirts of civilization,
but it's within striking distance. You can just drive thirty
minutes and you're in Maplewood.

Speaker 7 (37:26):
Yeah, which which one has the little downtown?

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Is that Lestrom?

Speaker 12 (37:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (37:32):
That's so cute man.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah, So if you're.

Speaker 9 (37:34):
If you're going to Highway eight to get to Lake
Wisconsin and the Cabins or Taylor's Falls.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
You hit Chicago first, then Lenstrom and.

Speaker 9 (37:40):
In Center City and those are the kind of the
three cities that make up the Chicago Lakes area.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
But Linstrom definitely has the downtown.

Speaker 6 (37:47):
Your wow, that's the cutest, man, it's the Teapot water
Tower exactly. Yeah, Okay, there you go. Yeah, that's the situation.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
I mentioned to Ben during the break. I'm like, you were.

Speaker 9 (38:01):
You were ninety one, I was ninety eight, so we
probably don't know a lot of people that overlap, but
I'm like we must have had some of the same teachers.
And the first teacher I threw out to go, did
you have mister Romola? And You're like, of course, and
his son was a year older than you.

Speaker 16 (38:14):
Yeah, yep, his son was a year older than me,
and uh, you know, same little league teams and all
that other stuff.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
So was was mister Romola back in the day doing that?
Did he do that to you too? Remember that?

Speaker 3 (38:24):
What the hell was he was?

Speaker 2 (38:27):
He was the math teacher.

Speaker 9 (38:29):
He was the math teacher, and anytime it was like,
you know, seven point two two, he would just go two.
He was awesome and nuts and just ass loads of sarcasm.
I know I've told this story before, but I don't
know if I've told this part of it. So senior year,
I'm taking like a I'm taking whatever the college CALC

(38:50):
class where you could get credits so you could so
you could skip that in college.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
You're so smart.

Speaker 9 (38:55):
Well, it's my senior year. Much like how you didn't
bring a backpack year, right, No, I was just there
to talk to lady. So I'm in this COLT class
and I'm I'm doing it, but I don't understand it,
and I got to I have a good grade, but
I don't understand what I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
I'm just solving the numbers and I don't understand what
the numbers mean. And I'm like, man, this is just
my goodwill hunting. Yeah, but he understood it.

Speaker 9 (39:18):
So anyway, after the first whatever it was, quarter trimester, semester,
whatever we were on, I'm like, I'm dropping this class.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
I don't want to do this the rest of senior year.

Speaker 9 (39:26):
So Romola wasn't my teacher at that point, but he
got word from the other teacher.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Was it mister Peterson. I forget what his the other
guy's name, this doesn't matter.

Speaker 9 (39:34):
And I see Romola in the class in the hallway,
like on Monday or Tuesday, after I had dropped the class,
and he goes, I heard you dropped cal Can. I go, yeah,
I don't know, you know what. I don't know what
I'm doing with the rest of my life, but I
know it's not that. He goes, oh, no, no, Corey
doesn't need math.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
I don't.

Speaker 9 (39:50):
I go, well, no, mister Romola, I don't. I just
don't need that kind of math. I'm not going to
be doing derivatives. And no, no, you're never going to
need to learn math again.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
I go, yeah, you're right. No I don't. I don't
think I will. No, no, no, move on, Spider Man.
He just laiden on.

Speaker 4 (40:06):
Hun, good for you.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Moving on from that. Hated he liked me that I
had just completely. He was the best. He was a
fun teacher though. He was a good guy. Yeh super
good dude, like three ft tall to just just hilarious
tall guy.

Speaker 9 (40:26):
Wonder what other teachers we had that overlapped him, just
trying to think there, do you have a hootka?

Speaker 6 (40:30):
Oh yeah, oh god, there we go. I loved what
was friends with his kid. What class was that?

Speaker 12 (40:35):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (40:36):
God, what did was it? What didn't ed teach? Not blanking?

Speaker 16 (40:42):
Was that like a no, I don't. I was thinking
it was like something with history, but I don't. I
don't remember him. It's history.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
I just remember because he was my friend Dave's dad,
and he was a coach on a million different sports
teams I had.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
But now I'm completely blanking on which which class?

Speaker 16 (40:57):
A marketing teacher that did like all the DECA stuff.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
I can picture him, but I don't remember his name. Man,
getting old sucks playing sports?

Speaker 6 (41:08):
Are you like Corey?

Speaker 2 (41:11):
I played him?

Speaker 16 (41:12):
I just I just wasn't very good.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
I was.

Speaker 15 (41:14):
I was.

Speaker 16 (41:15):
I was okay at everything and great at nothing.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Which sums up most Chicago sports in the last forty years,
is it? I mean, we put up a fight.

Speaker 16 (41:24):
Our football team was so small our my senior year.
Our biggest lineman didn't weigh two hundred pounds. We'd go
up to Cambridge the Rum River Conference. Yeah, and those boys,
their smallest guy was two hundred pounds. It was like,
you know, fifty eight zero.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
What's the point.

Speaker 13 (41:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (41:39):
I can relate to that story. I can relate to
that story. Again, we can do some sports too during
what really matters. But when you are a would it
be right to class for you then as a combat medic.

Speaker 16 (41:53):
Well not exactly.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
No.

Speaker 16 (41:55):
We so we would go out in four man teams
when the Green Bray teams doing medical missions that were
outside the one hour medical evac ring where they couldn't
get treatment within an hour. In order to get green
lit for the mission, they had to embed this ghost team,
which can consist of an antesesure provider, which would be me,
a surgeon, a medic, and a nurse.

Speaker 6 (42:17):
Did you carry guns?

Speaker 16 (42:18):
Oh god, yeah, yeah for sure. Yeah, and it you know,
it's funny because you don't know, you don't know what
you don't know, and these guys train for that stuff.
I trained to put people to sleep and you know,
save lives. But you know, I remember one time we
flew into this this base and you know, it's all

(42:41):
was pitch black. It was all night vision. Flying to
the base. It's not secure, and we pile out of
this sea one thirty set up or perimeter. Everything's done
with night vision goggles. You know, the night is our
tactical advantage because we've got that they don't or they're
not supposed to.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
And the.

Speaker 16 (43:01):
Alpha for the team as asked me and my guys
to go set up a lookout on the side of
this building by this airport where we landed into it.
And he said, just check that fork from forty five
sixty degrees. Just look out there. Make sure nothing's moving,
nothing's coming at us. And oh yeah, yeah, I got

(43:22):
that arch. So I go over to the corner of
this building and I stick my head out and I'm
looking around, and I hear dogs park and I see
some lights on. I'm thinking this is the real deal.
I turn around and say to the team, you guys good,
everybody's good. Yep, we're all good. I stick my head
out again, look around. I did this like five or
six times, and all of a sudden, why these scream

(43:43):
break Ice comes up to me. He says, sir, if
you do that one more time, I am going to
shoot you. Really, I said, do what he was When
you're looking out like that, You never stick your head
out at the same level every time, or someone's gonna
take it off of your shoulders. Next time you look out,
I want you looking out at knee level and then
you're waist and then up top. You never do that

(44:04):
same height over and over you get just come on,
uh okay, yeah, I'll write that down.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Wow man, wow, wow.

Speaker 6 (44:14):
Holy moly god, I have so many questions about that. Incredible.
Well again, congratulations, congratulations, stick around for Yeah, absolutely well done.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
All right, we'll talk to mister Z in a second
about movies too. We'll do what really matters. Lots to
get to Derek Sheldon of the Minnesota Twins new manager,
will be here a little over an hour from now.
Marnee later, Parish later initials at eight fifteen tons of
money potentially up for grabs, more of the power trip
morning to you after this on.

Speaker 6 (44:37):
The phone, I was ready for the weather that time,
and then we didn't have it.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
We didn't miss it. No, no, I was ready for
it this time.

Speaker 9 (44:49):
So Chris mald doctor Ben Riley, and myself just spent
the entire break. Not only did we both graduate from
Chicago Lakes just seven years apart, we grew up in
the exact same neighborhood, Like are you paying a handful
of houses down from each other? We started talking about
where we grew up. Yeah, what maybe two streets over
give or take? Maybe not even Yeah, half a block man,

(45:13):
same neighbor.

Speaker 16 (45:13):
We were talking about the same little ballpark that we
would go down to and not fish in that same lake.
Probably have the same.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
YEP video of ault for the same rentals from frogs
to the roads.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
Is that really that you would put in fish? Yeah,
that's the same thing with frogs.

Speaker 4 (45:34):
And what was in the water in Chisago City, we
don't know, exceparate from the teapot.

Speaker 9 (45:39):
Yeah, man, what a small world, just a handful of
houses away. Incredible and we again we both grew up
to do great things. Yeah, it's just wonderful, heroic, monumental,
saving lives, all that stuff.

Speaker 16 (45:53):
One of my funniest Chicago or lens From stories is
when I was like thirteen fourteen years old, I snuck
out of my grandparents' house who lived in Lenstrom, and
I was there with my uncle, who's nine months older
than I am, and we met up with a couple
of friends and we went to a neighbor's garden and
we got a bunch of like rotten and old tomatoes
and we put them in a backpack and we went
over to where the Linster Muni is, which is where

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the water tower is. We climbed the water tower. There's
like a skirt around the teapot, like you can walk around,
like a little valence area. And we were on top
of the water tower and as cars were coming by
on highway, we were lobbing right and nobody knew where

(46:36):
they were coming from. And pretty soon there were cops
circling around and we were laying down on the deck.
They couldn't see us because we were there, but I
think we had to lay there for like two hours
before we could shimmy down and a high tail and
either there. You know what, It was harmless. It wasn't
like breaking windshields or anything, because it was they were
rotten tomatoes. But we thought that was hilarious. And now
every time I come into town, I look up there,
I go, I cannot believe we climbed that thing and

(46:59):
we're doing it was just stupid.

Speaker 6 (47:01):
I'm going to say this has never been said before.
Thank god kids have cell phones these days.

Speaker 9 (47:04):
Yeah, I'm surprised none of my dumb friends ever noticed
that there was a way you could climb up the
row things from the tea pod. Oh man, we did
a lot of dumb stuff too. That sounds fun. I'll
have to do that next time I go up there.

Speaker 6 (47:18):
Yeah, that's doctor Ben Riley over there. Who's our guests.
He's retiring after thirty years in the army, is all right,
so i'd say army, that's right.

Speaker 16 (47:26):
Yeah, army reserved twenty five years hockey.

Speaker 6 (47:28):
There you have twenty five years. Well, and then our
friend Green Bray and Nate Henderson over there as well,
and almost as the exact same thing. Uh, doctor mister
C's on the phone.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Yeah, mister also been heroic for twenty five years.

Speaker 6 (47:42):
He did it behind endemy lines. He saw it.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
He definitely did well.

Speaker 9 (47:45):
Hi, mister z Day, good morning, due. All right, what
do we what do we got in theaters this weekend?
What should we be looking for?

Speaker 17 (47:52):
Well, we finally escaped the Dould rooms of October and
two where we're we have bad Lands opening is the
is the major picture this weekend which the fans of
the Predator series are really going to enjoy it. I'm
not sure if non fans will.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
That's the only.

Speaker 17 (48:15):
Major we have. The Sydney Sweeney Christy Miller, the movie
about the Boxer and Dime. My love is very limited.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
So and that's the Jennifer Lawrence movie. Correct, Yeah, yeap.

Speaker 6 (48:33):
Real quick?

Speaker 7 (48:34):
Is is it a whole movie based on the television show.

Speaker 6 (48:37):
Dayline, which one Predator?

Speaker 2 (48:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (48:44):
I actually have a real question for you about it
because I saw the I saw the trailer for it
actually looks pretty good, but it's weird.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Corey.

Speaker 7 (48:50):
Have you seen the trailer for Predator?

Speaker 14 (48:51):
I have?

Speaker 7 (48:51):
Okay, are they trying to do with Predator what they
did with Terminator? In other words?

Speaker 6 (48:55):
And Terminator if you remember, in the very first one,
Arnold Schwarzenegger was the bad guy and then he became
the good guy for that. Are they trying to do
the same thing with Predator?

Speaker 10 (49:04):
Well?

Speaker 17 (49:05):
Yeah, and this is the things for me. Predator was
kind of just a goofy movie, you know. And they
are humanizing Predator by bringing bringing them into uh learning
about like how they grew up and all this stuff.

(49:26):
So I'm not sure if they made them good guys there,
but but they definitely are humanizing them by instead of
just being you know, ruthless killers, they're explaining why they
are the way they are.

Speaker 11 (49:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (49:40):
Yeah, it looks kind of interesting because it's like, uh,
it looks like they're putting him through green brain training.
They dropped this Predator guy in the forest and say
get out of here. And and you know he's not
speaking English, You're speaking whatever language he speaks.

Speaker 7 (49:54):
But it's it looks kind of interesting though interesting.

Speaker 9 (49:56):
It was crazy, misters that you bring this up all
the time. When I saw the Predator bad Land trailer,
I was like, who is this for? Because it's not
for me, But I'm like, I wonder who this is for. Well,
apparently whoever's seeing it loves it, because your favorite website
says eighty six percent with the critics, which that part
surprises me because ninety six percent for the audience. So
whoever's going to see it that wants to see it

(50:17):
is loving it. But the fact that I'm watching this
trailer going like, man, this has got to be super
super niche it's eighty six percent with the critics.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Even even the critics are like, this is worth seeing.
This is pretty good.

Speaker 9 (50:28):
I don't know, man, I don't know anybody that's super
super into the Predator series.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
But I guess they have a kind of a giant
underground fan base. Who knows ye if they do.

Speaker 17 (50:39):
And there's a comic book series and all these things. Yes,
the fans of that of Predator, and actually they kind
of slip AVP and alien versus Predator, of those two
things are connected still, to which I think is kind
of funny. But but yeah, yeah, it's.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Uh, it's.

Speaker 17 (51:05):
I think the reason the critics like it is that, again,
it's not just a ridiculous like the first Predator. They're
they're they're they're moving in uh some some of the
uh shoot, they're definitely moving in into the uh uh

(51:26):
come on, making it into a real movie, sort of
Mandalorian almost.

Speaker 6 (51:31):
Oh so like like Back to the Future, similar future
larean I'm scraping.

Speaker 7 (51:39):
I'm scraping along here, buddy.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Hey, when is uh speaking of that?

Speaker 5 (51:42):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Is that back in theaters?

Speaker 11 (51:43):
Now?

Speaker 2 (51:43):
When are they putting Back to the future?

Speaker 3 (51:45):
It is?

Speaker 6 (51:46):
It's running twice a day at all the theaters.

Speaker 9 (51:48):
I gotta go see that quickly. It's h yeah, out
of time. Well, oh my god, so stupid. All right,
so you mentioned quickly though. You mentioned Die My Love
with Jennifer Lawrence and then Christy with Sydney Sweeney. I
thought both of those were supposed to be like Oscar
worthy performances, but the reviews aren't great about either.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
One of the movies.

Speaker 9 (52:10):
So is this one of those situations too, where the
performances might be better than the film?

Speaker 2 (52:14):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 17 (52:15):
On Time, I love Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattison, the very
weird movie is not necessarily linear. And then Christy is
I don't know. I thought I thought it was fine.

Speaker 6 (52:29):
Good.

Speaker 17 (52:31):
She's sort of becoming a little bit some of the
Some people are reviewing movies based on whether on her politics,
which is great. But I think it's a perfectly fine
movie for people fans of women's mma, fighting, boxing.

Speaker 16 (52:53):
Et cetera.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
All right, sweet, right on, thanks missus, appreciate it. Man, awesome,
All right, guys, Teculator, I.

Speaker 6 (53:00):
Had fun with him and his son in Vegas. Those
are good dudes, Yeah guy, Yeah, yeah, yeah. His son's
way cooler than him.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
Most sons are. Yeah, no, I know, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 (53:09):
Christy just sixty seven percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Die My
Love is seventy six percent. That movie Nuremberg is sixty
nine percent.

Speaker 6 (53:19):
You know what, man, I heard back from him. We're
supposed to call Adam feeling okay, I just got to
go ahead to call him. Should we do it after break?
We'll yeah, after break all right.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
Let's also we'll talk to Feeling after this.

Speaker 6 (53:31):
Goodness you missed that, Corey, because uh, I asked Sauce
to do one thing for me, just one thing.

Speaker 7 (53:43):
I said, will you do me a favorite?

Speaker 6 (53:44):
While I'm doing my Daisy Brand French on your dep spot,
will you please call Adam Feeling? And he spent the
entire break trying to learn how to use a phone,
saw the whole thing, and he kept saying, it's busy,
it's busy, and I'm like, it's it's definitely not busy.
He's waiting on the call. I come up one, Adam, Hey,
how you doing? He just he couldn't use the phone.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
Paul, you know how phones work, right, timbers?

Speaker 6 (54:05):
Maybe I'm doing a commercial. He's like, hey, can you
get this thing to work? Do you not see the
microphone is on?

Speaker 2 (54:10):
All right? So Paul, now that we have Adam Feeling
on good morning, Adam, good.

Speaker 12 (54:15):
Morning, I think that might be where my golf invite
has been. He doesn't know how to actually text it.

Speaker 11 (54:21):
All.

Speaker 12 (54:22):
That makes more sense now.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
I think what happened is is I was calling the
number you gave me and it was a fake phone number.

Speaker 12 (54:30):
So it worked.

Speaker 11 (54:31):
It worked.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
It worked, But now you understand how phones work.

Speaker 9 (54:34):
Oh yeah, you must have gotten it to work, because
there's Adam right there is.

Speaker 7 (54:38):
I had to call him myself after Adam feeling Minnesota Viking.

Speaker 6 (54:41):
How are you, my friend? Good Friday morning to you.
Thank you for letting us give you a cab. We
appreciate the time as always. How are you doing today?

Speaker 12 (54:48):
I'm doing great. You know, we had an extra victory
Monday this week, so that was nice. I had some
more family time and extra day off, So feeling good.

Speaker 6 (54:56):
Man, what a win? Well, I can't even tell you.
I know within the room because I actually was upper
I'd had the luck to be in there and see that.
But outside in the community, the feeling is so much
greater this week. People have hope and feel really good,
and I think it has a lot to do with
that young quarterback. Tell me about your thoughts about his
game this past weekend.

Speaker 12 (55:14):
Yeah, you know, those those are things that that we
see every single day, so it didn't necessarily surprise us.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (55:21):
Just his mentality, his mindset, his energy, his positivity, all
those things kind of you know you feel day in
and day out, and you know that on game day
and when the lights are on, he's gonna show up. So, uh,
it's it's fun to be around. It's fun to see
a lot of times I'm kind of just laughing because
he's he's just got this this uh you know energy,

(55:43):
and I mean everyone saw the video in the locker
room after the game. He's got this intensity to him.
Uh that that's uh, that's fun to be around and
and and it's kind of funny to be honest, but uh,
it's uh, we're we're definitely fortunate to have him and
excited to see where this team can go and and
you know how he can grow and how we can
grow with him.

Speaker 9 (56:02):
So, Adam, yesterday Ben Lieber was on the Power Trip
on and Joe and we asked him about that alter
ego of JJ McCarthy, the whole nine thing and everything
you just mentioned with the mean mugging in the face
and what he kind of said and you kind of
just echoed this, But I just want to get clarification.
Is he kind of said, if the locker room knows
that it's not genuine, if it's performative, that that just

(56:23):
does not work. But if the team knows that it's
it is sincere and he is going beast mode, not
to just put on a show. If it's not fake
that you guys don't roll your eyes. You're like, oh,
this is real? Is that is that kind of the
vibe that if if the room knows it's genuine, then
you can do anything you want.

Speaker 12 (56:41):
Yeah. I think we've all been around people or players
that you can tell it's it's not real, you know,
and and it and it shows up, especially when the
lights are big and you know, big games things like that.
But everything, everything about JJ is real. You know, he
is extremely hard worker. He he cares so much, and
like I said, we feel that day in and day out.

(57:03):
So when it shows up on game day, it's not
it's not surprising or it doesn't feel fake. And again,
it's a really cool thing. And he's got this kind
of a little bit of this ability to kind of
not really care what people think or or or really
have too much stress. He's kind of just going out
there to win and to win every single play and

(57:27):
to have this type of intensity to that. And it's contagious, Adam.

Speaker 11 (57:32):
When you guys, you know, get ready for this game
against the Ravens and you are told or you look
at it because you're a professional, and you see that
the Ravens injury report has zero people on it, and
they are going to be full steam ahead with a
team that is favored to win their division. Even at
three and five, they're a loaded football team. What is
the offensi's goal other than obviously winning the game against

(57:55):
a team like the Ravens.

Speaker 12 (57:58):
Yeah, I mean in the past, this team has been
a very physical you know, they're they're in your face,
They're they're gonna stop the run. They're gonna make you
do things that necessarily you don't want to do as
an offense. So I think going into that and and
they're the same same TV defense, you know, you see
it again on tape this year, same thing. Physical, they're

(58:18):
gonna stop the run. They got some big boys in
the middle that that you know, are disruptive, and you know,
I think when you face a team like that, it's
it's all about those positive plays. You can't get behind
the sticks and kind of let them make you be
one dimensional. So, uh, the focus for us is is
being clean, uh, being smart, and and being really positive

(58:41):
on first and second down to give us those opportunities
to make big plays and I think it's kind of
that theme of all year for us is can we
sustain drives to, you know, ultimately give us more plays
to make the big plays. We have so many field guys,
we got running backs, we got to obviously a quarterback,
and and our whole line is healthy that when you

(59:01):
give us more plays, eventually one's gonna pop and someone's
gonna make a big play. Someone's gonna make someone miss
her or make a big play down the field. They're
gonna drop a coverage something. So for us, it's sustaining drives,
converting on third down and giving us manageable third downs,
and that's gonna be a big part of it.

Speaker 6 (59:16):
Adam Feeling again is our guest, thanks to our friends
at the Feeling Foundation and ETS Performance Now Adam in
studio with us right now is Ben Riley. He's retiring
from the Army after twenty five years multiple deployments Army
and esthetician. And I'm gonna let him ask the next
question because he didn't know real pressure. Ben, like I
should say, Adam, you know, like like asking questions on

(59:37):
the radio compared to saving lives out in the field
in Afghanistan. I thought, I'm gonna put him on the spot.
So doctor Ben, it's your turn. Go right ahead. This
is Adam feeling.

Speaker 16 (59:46):
Hey good Martin, Adam, how are you.

Speaker 12 (59:49):
I'm good. Thank you for your service.

Speaker 16 (59:51):
Hey, well, thanks for what you do. It's been fun
to watch you from a kid at Mankato to Minnesota
obviously North Caro or is that North North Carolina? And
then back.

Speaker 13 (01:00:03):
Uh.

Speaker 16 (01:00:04):
So I've been a season ticket holder for twenty plus years, Adam,
and I want to know what you're going to tell
the defenseman this week to uh knock down that quarterback
right in of Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 6 (01:00:16):
It's a question.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
It's off the charts.

Speaker 16 (01:00:18):
We got we got to do something to to uh
to knock that back a bit.

Speaker 12 (01:00:23):
That's right. I like that, Uh you know I uh
Fortunately the defense doesn't listen to me too much because
I don't know much about defense. But but uh, but no,
it's uh, we've got a great group over there. So
it's it's one of those things when they when they
bring the energy, when they bring the juice, and they
you know, they start fast. Uh, They're they're a tough group,
especially with Flores, you know his play calling, all the

(01:00:46):
veteran guys and the young guys that are just flying around.
So so my message of them is just go be
themselves and and bring juice. That's kind of my my
theme in the locker room, uh, is always just telling
guys bring the juice, because in this league, if you
don't have it, and you don't you don't start with
it right away, like it'll hit you right in the
face and it's tough to come back in this league.

(01:01:07):
So start with the juice.

Speaker 6 (01:01:09):
See Ben, that that's pressure right there. See how we
have to do these Do you have respect what we
do now a little bit more? I mean, that's incredible. Adam,
Your role obviously has changed so much throughout the years
as you you know, you go from a guy struggling
to make the team of becoming a superstar and then
you go away and you come back. I see you
on the sidelines and keeping yourself loose, but also spending
a lot of time talking to the other wide receivers

(01:01:31):
and the other even tight ends in the quarterbacks and
such like that. Do you see yourself now as not
just a player but also kind of a player coach?
Is that a role that you embrace?

Speaker 12 (01:01:41):
Yeah, I've kind of you know, Honestly, I've really enjoyed
that role, even going back to the end of my
college career and just trying to be a mentor, try to,
you know, help people learn from just some of my
experience and do I have all the answers, No, not
at all, but definitely have some experience to lean on

(01:02:02):
and try to be there as a resource and as
a friend, right as someone that they can trust and
go to, uh, not just for football but for life.
So definitely really enjoy that role, you know. At the
same time, I know I can still play at a
high level and I'm ready when when my number is called,
and and that's something I also, you know, pride myself on,
is I'm not just there to be a mentor or

(01:02:25):
a coach as well. You know, I know what I
can do and I wouldn't be playing this game if
I didn't think I could do it anymore. So, yeah,
I think having that having that balance right, like, yeah,
I definitely want to be a mentor and a coach
and a resource, but I also want to be able
to prove it on the field when I get my opportunities.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
Well hopefully that Sunday, Adam, thanks for the time. Is
always good luck against the Ravens.

Speaker 11 (01:02:46):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
We'll talk to you next week.

Speaker 12 (01:02:48):
All right, Thanks guys.

Speaker 6 (01:02:50):
That's Adam dealing ets performance and the feeling foundation. It
is interesting. He's a calming force on the sidelines. You
can see it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
Yeah, really is he?

Speaker 12 (01:02:58):
Do?

Speaker 10 (01:02:58):
You know?

Speaker 6 (01:02:58):
He'd and he'll go in for a couple of plays
and come out and you see him go immediately over
to somebody and start talking through stuff. And that's really
important if you coach at some point. And it's crazy
too because Jefferson does the same thing. You know, we
have two great receivers who are really just great people.

Speaker 4 (01:03:14):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:03:14):
It's it's fun to watch, man, you'd like him.

Speaker 16 (01:03:16):
Ben, Hey, you're fun to watch too, because you know
you ask the tough questions and thank you. Guy like
me asks an offensive player what the defense is going
to be?

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
A tough question.

Speaker 6 (01:03:26):
That is a tough question.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
People learn from Adam and you clearly have learned from Sauce.

Speaker 6 (01:03:31):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 16 (01:03:34):
I'm so much better at math than Sauce.

Speaker 7 (01:03:38):
I mean, come on, man, hey, listen, Lionel's better.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
Your son than exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:03:47):
Now I'm going to be doing that all day long.
Oh boy, So I again, if you're just tuning in.
Ben Riley is our guest and he's he's one of us,
but he's about to retire. He's a part of the
Army medical team. Who did you just say five deployments?

Speaker 3 (01:04:01):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:04:02):
Five deployments. And of course we got the Green Beret
Nate Henderson over there, who's our buddy who's going here
for his retirement. Such like that. So you mentioned earlier
before we went to break, I asked you about do
you guys carry a gun? So you're out there with
the top of the top, you're out there with green
beret with people like Nate. Two are real good at
taking care of business.

Speaker 7 (01:04:19):
How good are you?

Speaker 16 (01:04:21):
Well, we do a lot of weapons training because that's
part of being a soldier. I prior to get in
the Afghanistan deployment, I did earn my Expert Field Medical Badge.
So in order to earn that badge, you have to
be an expert marksman.

Speaker 9 (01:04:36):
Wow.

Speaker 16 (01:04:36):
So I'm good with my rifle. I'm decent with my handgun.
But I realized I was issued both. I had a
M nine and an M four while I was in
Afghanistan and the first mission I went out with those guys.
I carried the the handgun as well, and I realized
how stupid that was after the first time. I'd rather

(01:04:58):
have two magazines full. Oh wow, put in my rifle
in that extra handgun. I don't know, you know, these
are the things that you learn as you go.

Speaker 7 (01:05:07):
Sure, but maye, where were you on that one, Bud?

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
We hadn't met yet yet.

Speaker 6 (01:05:15):
Oh I got it. Yeah, Yeah, that's that's crazy. That
would be something like like you said, you don't know
till you get out there, and there's probably a lot
of things like that once you get out here like
a fly. Yeah, right man, and hopefully you get a
chance to go out a second time. Right, I mean
that's scary. Wow, man, that's I'm impressed. That's really something.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
Hey, I'm glad you guys are both here. I don't
I know you guys are in town for his retirement.

Speaker 9 (01:05:36):
But also it's Veterans Day on Tuesday, right, as a
couple of guys who are veterans of a lot of things,
what what what do you tell the people that ask
what we should be doing as citizens to celebrate or
honor Veterans Day?

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
What do we do? What should we do? Well?

Speaker 4 (01:05:54):
I I always like to draw the distinction because Veterans
Day and Memorial there two very different days. Right on
Veterans Day, you should just go find like everyone knows
a veteran, like every like everybody, whether they're from World
War two, Korea, Vietnam, or you know, someone like Ben
and myself who more recently, just go say thanks, like

(01:06:18):
you know, ask them what they're asking, what their favorite
memory of being in the services, or like a funny
we all have, you know, just the most ridiculous uh,
like you know, funny stories of a time somebody did
something really stupid and we were like, well that's dumb.
Almost got yourself killed there handgun exactly, but just just

(01:06:40):
a lot no uh, tell them like, hey, I like,
I appreciate your service.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
It's not it's not unseen. Sometimes guys can feel unseen.
Just a thank you goes a long way good advice.

Speaker 16 (01:06:52):
And nobody expects it, but it is nice when you
when it when it comes, and you can tell who
those people are. And it's interesting that it's about right
now about six percent of people in the country have served,
six percent of Americans, but at any given time, there's
only one percent of Americans that are serving in the
armed forces. So it's a small group and there are

(01:07:13):
people that sign on the dotted line and they don't
know what they're going to get themselves in. Do they
do what they're ordered to do, And you know, sometimes
that can be nothing. It could be state side stuff,
it could be support stuff. I've been to Europe three
different times. I've been to American Samoa doing medical missions
with the army. So you just never know what you're

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going to be asked to do. And I think that's
a big deal for veterans, just to hey, thanks for
your service. So yeah, and as as Nate said, Memorial
Day is an entirely different thing. We don't celebrate Memorial Day.
We reflect on Memorial.

Speaker 6 (01:07:50):
Day one more thing before we get a break, and
we'll get in some sports after this. But we're going
to pretend Nate's not sitting there. I've been luckily overseas
to play music and do some things for the troops
three times. And the first time we were over there,
Saucy was with me. We went into the cafeteria area
and everybody was you know, it's one hundred and twenty

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three degrees and everybody's dressed in their fatigues and you're like,
how do you wear that stuff? But over in the
corner there was one table where three guys were sitting
and they had beards and they looked like they'd been
sleeping in tents for a month. And somebody said, yeah,
you don't talk to them unless they talk to you.
Those are the Special Forces guys. I mean, this guy
here's a green break. Are those guys oddities?

Speaker 16 (01:08:32):
So the thing about those eighteen series guys, they are driven.
These are guys that they don't know quit. So you know,
they they do all the basic stuff when they sign up,
and then they decide that they want a little bit more,
and then they get ranger tabbed and then they go
to Q school and you know, they're the guys that
just keep going. And honestly, that was the highlight of

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my career is serving with those guys. Not only that,
but in Afghanistan because we were part of the sod
Of Task Force, we also got permission to grow our beards,
which twenty five years in the military and no facial
hair ever because it's not allowed. But all of a sudden,
you're going out on missions in Afghan villages and you

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need to respect of the elders that you're interacting with,
and you need to blend in a little bit, you
you know, maybe doing something else where you just need
to be more incognito and blend. And in Afghanistan, the
men I'll have beards. So but it is interesting, you know,
by the time, you know, three three months into it
or so, when I had a really.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Nice beard going, it was very good.

Speaker 16 (01:09:38):
Yeah, well thanks. You know, you go back to Bagram
and all the other soldiers that are on base and
don't leave base to go out on missions. When you
go into the defact which is the cafeteria that you're
talking about, they know your Special Forces or you're with
I'm fake Special Forces because I just support those guys.
But you know, I get to do all the stuff

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that they do. And yeah, they look at those guys differently.
They all know who they are, and uh, yeah, they're
they're the operators. They're they're the guys that are out
you know, doing the hard stuff. So like I said,
it was it was just was an honor to support
those guys and and learn from them and be out there.
And and girl, a beard in the military looked pretty

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pretty bad at.

Speaker 9 (01:10:19):
So kind of a fine line between the cool kids
table and the freaks.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
Yeah, they're simultaneously.

Speaker 16 (01:10:25):
Oh there's some I mean, some of those guys are
they're strange because they and then there's the OCD component
of what they do. And you know, I still I'm
in Army medicine and whatnot. Some of those guys are
so juiced. You know, I don't know, I don't know
what they're getting or where they're getting it from. But
you know, again, the first mission I went out on,

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I had like sixty five pounds of gear with me,
with everything, all my medical stuff. I needed to be
able to put somebody to sleep, if someone was shot,
if someone was injured. You know, we we were on
missions where we're getting mortared super heavily, and you know,
they're bringing guys in that are bleeding, and we got
to stop the bleeding. That's our job is damage control resuscitation,
and nobody wants to be operated on awake, So that's

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my job is to sedate them, to knock them down
to allow us to go and stop the bleeding surgically.
And it takes a lot of stuff. You know, when
I work as a civilian, I've got an operating room
I've got power, I've got I've got oxygen. I've got
all the stuff that I need. When when you're in
the field, it's what you have in your backpack. So

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it's a it's a way different thing to do a
full blown general anesthetic and not have all the comforts
of civilization. You have to be able to think on
your feet, You have to adapt. You have to accept
less than ideal circumstances for your patient just to keep
them alive, get them resuscitated and evacuated to a higher echelon.

Speaker 6 (01:11:56):
What of care. Well, you're a kid from a small
town Lindstrum and you're in Afghanistan meeting Afghanistan locals. What
did you learn about the people.

Speaker 11 (01:12:05):
Of the world.

Speaker 16 (01:12:07):
You know, it was interesting when when we were in
some of these villages, you're going door to door, you're
looking for shadow mayors this and that, and you know, I'm.

Speaker 6 (01:12:16):
Sorry, what's that? I'm sorry, what's the shadow mayor?

Speaker 16 (01:12:18):
So the Taliban will will drop in what they call
a shadow mayor of a town and they're there too,
you know, impart Sharia or whatever they're doing in that
village and make sure that everybody is abiding by Taliban rules.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
Sharia Lah.

Speaker 16 (01:12:33):
And when you're going door to door, you know, some
of these guys had biometric retinal scans that we were
looking for. We'd go there and they scan these guys
that were military age, seeing if they were the people
they were looking for. But you're going door to door
in these collots and these people are sleeping, they're in
their houses. We're kicking them out, and you know, they

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don't want to be bothered. They want to raise their families,
these people of Afghani, and they they don't necessarily support
the Taliban, they don't support the Afghan government. They want
to farm, they want to raise their kids, they want
to do their thing, just like anybody else. And they
they don't know where to put their allegiance to because
you know, the Afghan government would come in and be like, okay,

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we're we're gonna take care of you. We're gonna do this,
we're gonna do that. Then they leave. Well, the Taliban
comes two weeks later and says, no, you're not gonna
do that. You're gonna you're gonna do what we tell
you to do. And these people don't know where their
allegiance should lie, and they don't Frankly, they don't think
they care. They just want to raise their families and
farm their fields and do their do their thing and

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live life. But I always felt sorry for the kids.
You know, we'd have those mrs, which were delicious, by
the way, especially one after another.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
That's whatever. Teacher was super sarcastic.

Speaker 10 (01:13:49):
That was.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
That was sarcasm.

Speaker 16 (01:13:52):
Yeah, yeah, that was being sarcastic. But there was usually
a treat in there, and you know, as skittles or
this or that, and we had enough of those, so
I keep them in my pocket and when we were
in these in these places, i'd leave them for the
kids because they never see stuff like that. I mean,
they don't have a they don't have a food and

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fuel to run down to it and grab a snack.
So yeah, I don't know, you just feel feel bad
for the kids and the people just want to live
their lives.

Speaker 6 (01:14:22):
Yeah, dude, thank you for your service.

Speaker 7 (01:14:25):
Actually, Corey, do you see what you're capable of with
your education? Do you see what he did?

Speaker 8 (01:14:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:14:29):
He was at the same school, and look at you,
look at you compared to.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
Well, how many penis jokes has he made? Today?

Speaker 12 (01:14:34):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
Question, that's how I get to do.

Speaker 6 (01:14:36):
I made like seven off the air was very improper,
very bad, improper.

Speaker 16 (01:14:39):
Yeah, thank you, Bett Khalil.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
Yeah man, thanks to Ben, thanks to Nate.

Speaker 4 (01:14:47):
Mark Parrish is here, Marnie should be here in a
couple of minutes as well.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
And then about twenty five.

Speaker 9 (01:14:51):
Minutes from now, the new manager of the Minnesota Twins,
Derek Shelton, joins the Power to the Morning Joe.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
Initials at ain't fifteen, but the news is next on
the fan.