HR. 1 - The Fate

The guys talk World Juniors, some obscure European countries, Rasputin's crank and a sea cucumber

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, light and gentlemen, and welcome to video message
number twenty nine.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm like a dog and heat gaze at a graveyard.
Listen up. The radys just came in for last month.
We are number one. We just grabbed every key demograph. Yeah,
super duper. That's nice way to go, Nino Gay, Yes, boy,

(00:25):
that is good news.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
It is the thirtieth day of December twenty twenty five.
Good Tuesday morning, everybody. Welcome to the Parture Morning Show.
My name is Chris Hockey. It's Tuesday. Tireds. If you're
working well, I joined the club. If you're not, I
hope you're having a great day off. No matter what,
I hope you're having a good couple of last days
of the of the year twenty twenty five. We got

(00:46):
a Tuesday. We got Zacho and myself. We got Johnny
Bones coming in. We got Marty Gallarnar and a casto thousands,
maybe even Jonathan Garnard. Not sure we'll find out, but
I know we got some comedy here from a man
by the name of Paul F. Tompkins, and we got
a show to do. Let's get her starfart now, come
on in. I am glad you are here.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
You stay in retail too long, you passed that point.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Of no return.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Where you start talking to customers like this, Yes, sir,
I already told you it's an aisle three. I can't
pick you up and carry you over there.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
So I had passed that point a long time ago.
I had a taste of my dream gone. I was
mad at the world about it, really mad at myself.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
But surely this must be someone else's faults. So I
go and I get a job at a video store.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
There.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
I was back behind a counter, angry, full of self loathing.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I just couldn't make this fun for myself anymore. So
I started stealing.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah, they'll work like a charm. We're really living things
up at the old workplace. I stole videotapes, not money,
I prodded myself at the time. But I stole videotapes,
not money from the register.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I was no common thief, you see. I was a gentleman.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Bandits sweet and.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Feet us on your side. You hear the sistance thunders.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well, here we are, Astray Parson Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Here we are.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Tuesday morning, thirtieth day of December. And here we go,
just me and Zach, and I believe Bony is coming in,
and I guess Marns is coming in. No idea, I
think so. I'm just guessing. I didn't hear any differently.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Did you? No, no nerve?

Speaker 3 (03:20):
And yeah, I know that Bones is getting us some
coffee probably. I'm not sure about Max. I think he's
each day kind of a game time decision. But we
got lots to talk about, lots to do here, as
we are the only living morning show in America right now. Apparently,
so the parking lot emptier than my womb.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Your womb is not completely empty, though, well.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Certainly, Zach, go in the big chair. Look at you
sitting there in the big chair running things. Look at you.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
You ready for this? Yeah, let's do it, get it.
Let's do it. Get it. My goodness, are you tired? Surprisingly?

Speaker 5 (04:02):
Actually, I was able to fall asleep last night. I
don't know why.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
It was an exciting game. I listened to almost the
whole thing. Yeah, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, man, it was.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
It was fun to listen to you too. Man. That
was you and you and Mark Parrish, and we're talking
about the World Juniors. I'm gonna say juniors every time
because that's how Superstar used to say it. And I
never knew why he said junior. I think he went
to the high school with the kid they all called
junior junior, and so then every time he used the
word junior, he said junior. And that's been stuck in
my head the whole time. But fun to listen to

(04:32):
you guys. Man, that sounded very exciting. And when I
when I first tuned in, we were getting our asses whipped.

Speaker 5 (04:39):
Yeah, it was a tough first period, but you know, again,
working with Mark Parrish is so much fun. Obviously in
the mornings, but also, man, when you get him in
a hockey arena, he is so he's just like a
completely different person, lights up, just loves everything. He loves
everything wherever he is, but especially when it comes to
hockey and his passion. I hope it translates because it's

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a lot of fun working with him. And then obviously
you have the fact that he you know, it's Team
USA and he is about as good of a representative
of Team USA hockey as anybody playing in the World
Juniors himself and obviously in the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
And you know, we we had a great game last night.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Tough start for the Team USA, but they fought their
way back one six to five and are now going
into Wednesday, the final game of the preliminary round. If
they can beat Sweden, they will have the top seed
going into the bracket the Metal round, so they'll have
there's four quarterfinal games on Friday. The hope is that

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they will take care of business against Sweden, hopefully get
through the quarterfinals, and then after that you're you're on
your own because you know, there's some very very good teams,
very good talent, but just got to get to those
semi finals and hopefully yeah, maybe a gold medal game
and then maybe they could like I don't know, three
pete or something.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Are you as surprised as I am that Taiwan is
the number one ranked country right now in the You know.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
They've been they've been building their program for many years.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Certainly have had some help.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
It's definitely like a Jamaican Bob Slid situation, is it not.
It's really incredible and their coach John Candy has been
fun to watch and I'm I'm amazed by you know,
in all seriousness though, did did something happen with Canada?
I heard you guys kind of mentioning a couple of
times they got surprised by somebody.

Speaker 5 (06:28):
Yeah, well, they got upset real bad last year in
the quarterfinals against Latvia. They've they I think, yeah, and
they exited a year before that, I think in the quarterfinals.
So they this is their super Bowl like and I'm
not even exaggerating their their their TV there. It is
a national phenomenon up in Canada, and so when they

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don't do well, uh, it's a it's a big deal
up there, and they haven't done well the last couple years,
so they have a gigantic chip on their shoulder. They
almost lost to Via again this year on the actual
anniversary of that massive upset last year, but they did
pull it out. They are also undefeated in the preliminary round.

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They will play one more and then again we'll we'll
mix up and I don't know where the the seating
will go from there, but yeah, it's it's been an interesting,
interesting tournament and I'll jog it aside. Last year, I believe,
or is it two years recently, Kazakhstan was in the
World Junior Tournament, so they got relegated.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
There is a relegation game every year.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
They relegation they had, they had, they try to add
different teams and uh and and you know, every everybody
usually gets an opportunity and then obviously you got to fight.
So we gave away relegation game tickets if you want
to go see two teams fight for their lives. I
believe this, Ye, sometime this weekend there is a relegation game.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
The relegation game hasn't happened yet.

Speaker 5 (07:53):
No, no, because it's basically what they do is they
take all the two teams that don't make it into
the there's ten teams total in the tournament, and they
make it to the quarterfinal. The two fight for a
last to fight for a spot in next year's tournament.
And if you lose, uh, you just you don't get
to come back to the world janius for all, I.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Just clicked out of it. You know how great our
internet is here lately at the radio station. So I'm
trying to see. So we have Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, the
United States, Germany, Finland, Shekia, Canada, Latvia, thank you, and Denmark.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yes, has Estonia ever had a team? You know, off
the top of my head, I don't know, but I
wouldn't doubt it.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Because they're right above Latvia and Liftuwania is right below Latvia.
And I've been to Estonia, believe it or not. I've
been there, as weird as that might sound, because I
went to Helsinki and we took a We took a
ship across the Baltic Sea to Estonia to a town,
a town, a country, and a town talin t A

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l l I n N that I'd never heard of.
And it was like getting off a boat inside somebody's dream,
like getting off a boat inside Disneyland, only it existed. Wow,
it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
I'll never forget how cool that wasn't And Latvia being
one of the Baltic states, there's three of them, with
Estonia and Lithuania. Lithuania until this moment, even though I've

(09:24):
been very close to it, I thought was in Africa.

Speaker 5 (09:27):
Yeah, I don't even know if I would get into it.
If you were to give me a map and tell
me the point where that is, I wouldn't even get close.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Weird, how and I'm much older than you, but you
just forget that stuff.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Man.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
I'm sure I knew where all these things were at
one point. I would love to go to Latvia, yeah,
and I'd love to go back to Estonia because we
were only there for eight hours. There was a church
in Tallin that was so old that to go into
it you had to go downsteps, and it hadn't always
been that way, but the church was so old that

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the road had been built up around it, so instead
of going up church steps like you normally would, you
had to go down. And they celebrate music in Estonia
the way I would if I ran a country. Because
this was one of the countries that was overrun by
the Communist Party of Russia, the USSR, and in order

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to fight back, they didn't have an army of any kind.
So in order to fight back, they had a music
festival where they sang songs together in protest of Russia.
Like they came together as a country and created music
as their only way to protest being overtaken by a country.
And I know, and so there's this giant Amphitheater where

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that is on the site of where all these people
gathered and had this giant protest of music and love
against being overtaken by a giant country. They didn't want
to be a part of. So that's how import music
is to Estonia.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
So a music festival that fought the power exactly, wasn't
the power right?

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Exactly?

Speaker 2 (11:06):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
So yeah, so here we are talking about Lafia and
said about that anyway, So well done. And I sent
you and market text last night. I am in between
the second and third periods when it was tied four
to four, and then right away, seventeen seconds in we
score coming out on the third. Yes, yes, And you

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know what's fun about hockey that is so different from
what I do with the NFL. We score a touchdown
and there's a parade, and then we go to break
and people celebrate and they do the wave, and then
we come back and they kick off.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yep, you were still announcing.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
The goal while they were already back playing. And that's
got to be tough because you have to stop your
celebration and stop the description of what just happened and
cut mark off because they almost shot another goal almost immediately.

Speaker 5 (11:54):
Yeah, that's tough, man. Why don't they take more of
a second. Yes, it's all about momentum. You can move
my bags if you want to sit there. That works, cooled,
Hi John Bonus, It is funny.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
There's certain things that they will not let you. Even
even if we.

Speaker 5 (12:08):
Were later on in the break or later on in
the pier where we would normally take immedia time out,
they wouldn't have taken it because, uh, you can't do
immedia timeout on icings because you can't change if you
ice the puck. And there's other other things, but one
of them is goals, and the idea is that you
don't want the team has earned momentum by scoring that goal, right,

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they don't want to slow things down that you you
have the right to try to go back out there
on the ice and score again real quick with that
momentum that you've earned. So that makes sense. They never
from any NHL, whatever a league you're in. Uh, they
will never take a break after a goal. And they
try to get back to action as as quickly as
possible once the replays are done.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
But yeah, you can't. I have I've never noticed that, dude.
It's the craziest thing.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
John. I was listening to them and he called this
great by the way, great job. I mean, honestly, with
listen those two goals you listen to yet But like
I was you can't bind him, couldn't exist in the NHL.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
He wants to do a dance and.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Right when they score a goal, no chance to celebrate,
you know, good, get right back to it. That's pretty crazy, man.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
Yeah, they hug, they kiss, and then they make their
way back to the event. That's an interesting always kiss,
but there is some kissing usually.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
That was a lot of fun.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
Oh man. But thinking then, thank you for the text.
We didn't talk about it of the air, just the
It was very though. The response across the border is
really cool.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
We're having a.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
Really good time out there thanks to Kevin Faulness and
and Chad Abbott and everybody. In fact, we'll have fullness
tomorrow night because Mark Parrish is going to be celebrating
his son's birthday tomorrow. So god, yeah, it should be
a fun, fun night if you can make it down there.
By the way, Uh, the atmosphere at Grand Cassine Arenas

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will be.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Sounded like you were playing. It sounded like an Olympic game.
I mean, it was incredible. The chance you could that
was crazy, wasn't And.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Their goal song, free Bird is.

Speaker 5 (14:12):
I don't know, just started recently and it's they started
with like the four nations face off, and I think
even before that too a little bit, but it's it's
a wonderful, wonderful gold song.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
I don't know why it works, it does work, but
it was for a moment I was like, is that
free bird? We scored again? I'm like, yeah, that's that's
definitely free bird.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah. The eighteen year olds love the free bird.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yeah they must, Yeah they will now I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Oh no, it's and uh.

Speaker 5 (14:38):
And then the the fun part is the all the
other the European nations like Slovakia and in Sweden, you know,
their goal songs are completely different, completely.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
I mean, that's the trauma of the tournament.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
Is is is seeing all the or hearing all the
different the anthems too, and and and everything else that
the the tradition of the tournament.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
It's it's been fun, man, It's it's.

Speaker 5 (14:59):
Lived up to to everything that I wanted. And then
to be able to see it and be able to
call it here on on the fan, it's been it's
been a dream come true. So so when is it
again five o'clock tomorrow, Sweden team USA. We'll join in
progress here on the fan. Once the wild game is done.
They play the Sharks at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
So crazy, crazy schedulestor I forget for all kinds of sports. Yeah, Wolves, Well,
and yesterday was nuts. They want and they're all supposed
to be in Cavan. Yeah, the Wilders, the Wolves were
on the Gophers Gopher basketball.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
We went to the Gover basketball game, did you r?

Speaker 6 (15:37):
Yeah we did, and uh then and none of them
were on on because you were covering the World Junior Championship.
I mean eventually the wild.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Was nuts nine.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, the Wolves one. Yes, they they won us A one,
USA one, Gophers one.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Gophers one, the wild one. I think Overs women were
playing Gos women and I think they won to I
didn't see, actually I think I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
So cast of thousands.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah, we need more signals, essentially, You're absolutely right, we
need more signals. But yeah, again, I'm sure we'll talk
about it as.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Well for women.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
For women, lot, Yeah, over Indiana, which is they beat
the eleven and three Hoosiers seventy one to forty eight,
soign for women.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Let's go. Well, Indiana's a football school, you know, so
you can't expect right, yeah, right now, Yeah, I mean,
I know nothing about hockey, but you guys kept me
very informed last night. That's what I was saying in
that text I sent you guys. You guys, I don't
know how many times you guys have worked together doing
hockey's act. You in Parish, but you guys both were
in your roles and you stayed in your lanes. And

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that's so important. You know, you're the voice and he's
the expert, and you you set him up to succeed
and he let you do what you had to do.
I love that, man. That sounded like you guys been
doing together forever. It's well done, very well done, very
well done.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Bones not so great? Sorry by Yeah, sorry, I understood.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah you were. I did not stay last night. I
did that.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
You were taking a soft drinks last night. Nobody knew
who you were.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
What's going on?

Speaker 5 (17:05):
You tried to shoot a free throw?

Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah, not good and the in between the legs underhand
like that? Yeah, all right, we got let's talk about it.
Everybody wins. It's uh yeah, We're the home of all sports.
It's the powers of Morning Show and the fail be
right back. Aren't you glad to you? If you buy
a Chevrolet. You don't only get Chevrolet commercials while you're

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driving your Chevrolet. Yeah, he tries me crazy. How often
we advertise iHeart Radio while you're listening to ihet Radio.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Let us get back to the damn show, please God,
I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
Hey, it's Tuesday, John bald this is here and you
probably already knew that just said how.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
It came back from kids?

Speaker 7 (17:46):
Hi?

Speaker 5 (17:48):
You know, I'm also Yeah, it's uh.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
I just heard an iHeart Radio spot for I Love
Jesus commercial into an iHeart Radio spot for Let's go gambling. Marshall,
who's got money? We'll take it sure anyway?

Speaker 8 (18:06):
I stop.

Speaker 6 (18:08):
I mean he's not gonna top the pre Baltic States
talk from earlier.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
In the first segment, we've.

Speaker 6 (18:15):
Talked about you Lithuania. Yeahalin, not taland Vilnius. Vilnius in Lithuania.
Two people, you know are at least half Lithuania or
half Lithuanian. One is my wife Chrissy, No kidding, okay,
her dad's size of this entire Lithuanian.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Like several people there, uh.

Speaker 6 (18:37):
Not that I know of, Okay, not that we ran
into when we were in Vilnius. I will tell you this,
like her maiden name is so uncommon, and this is
crack back to the eighties when she used to like
travel for business, she was under strict instructions by her parents,
like open up a white pages and see if you
can find anybody with our last name, because we don't

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know anybody we have. Vernalis is the last name, and
it's not it sounds like a Greek last name, which
is not uncommon for Lithuanians. Like that's one of the
that's the type of names they have. It sounds almost Greek, right,
And the other person you know is Aaron Cleveland, also Lithuanian.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yes, v E R V R N A L I s. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
So she would have to she would have to go
Like every her dad would ask, hey, you went to
you know, California.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Did you find anybody with the name Vernalis?

Speaker 3 (19:30):
So where you just said you went to California because
the first thing that pops up.

Speaker 6 (19:33):
Is Vernalis California, which, by the way, we just stumbled
it when we in again back in the time when
there was no internet or anything like this and it
was hard to find things. We were driving we were
moving from Philadelphia to Minneapolis to start our lives, and
we decided, let's take three months. We don't have jobs
they're waiting for us anyway, Let's just take three months,

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spend all of the money we got from our wedding
and travel across the US for three months to see
what see what we found it run into and we
were in California and we saw that there was a
town called Vernalis, California. Well, we can't even find people
named Vernalis, let alone a whole town called Vernalis. So
we drove, you know, two hours outside of our wherever
the hell we were going, which didn't really matter, to

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go to Vernalis, California to see Vernalis, California, which is
basically a tiny little farmtown where they grow a lot
of peaches and have a diner.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
That's it. And that was it. That was what we
saw found in Vernalis, California.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
It's the surname Vernalos comes from Latin, I believe, I think,
if I remember correctly, means spring. That sounds right, which
signifi is renewal, yes and growth. Yes, yeah, it just
happened to.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Know that's what she that's what she signifies, renewal and growth.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Yeah, they all, yep, I love your little marriage we
talked about little marriage we do. We love it so wonderful.
Those are what we all aspire to. Me and Zach,
that's very nice. You too make it together some days
each other.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Well, you know, I hope.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
You do dumb crap like drive across the United States
and spend all your money.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
And I told Zach it was good sex. That's what
I was hoping between it. But you know, I mean, hey,
we like what we like, right, She holds up her.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
End of the barn, and I love it. I can't.
I can't say the savor.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
So yeah, again, if you wonder why we're talking about
all these different things is because obviously the World Juniors
and we were playing Slovakia last night, which sounds like
draculas from there, doesn't it.

Speaker 6 (21:35):
Yeah, it's a cool sound, really is that whole area
is an area. First of all, that's where part of
my family's from, and I have never traveled there, and
I really want to travel there like that you basically
basically you just go up from Greece and it's all
gorgeous and that's where all the you know, that's where

(21:55):
a lot of those soap prost Soviet states are that
are really good to Disparre. One of the best trips
I had was we went to Prague. Sure, this was
another thing. Christy and I were dumbing, young and dumb.
We backpacked through Europe together when we were trying to
figure out, We're trying to figure out if one of

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us was going to move to the other one's city
a thousand miles away, if it would make sense. And
to the test for that was we decided we would
backpack through Europe for three weeks together and see if
we could stand each other on an everyday basis enough
so that one of us was willing to move to
the other one city to go it was it missed
to be. I mean, it's both a magical experience but

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also a real stressful one.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (22:41):
And the single dumbest thing I did in my entire
life was, you know, we were in Berlin. The wall
had just fallen, like it's within well, it was early
ninety it was the summer of ninety one, so relatively
just fallen. Yeah, and Prague. We ran into people in

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Berlin and they were like, you got to go to Prague, man,
Like Prague is awesome and it's cheap, and you guys
are gonna love it and there's the city's coming alive.
And so we did and we spent three four days
in Prague. It was fantastic. But we arrive in Prague
on a train, you know, the urrail pass or whatever.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
We have no idea what we're doing. I have no idea.

Speaker 6 (23:26):
We're saying, we don't have cell phones. Again, this is
nineteen ninety one, right of course, man, nobody in the
world knows where we are except border patrol.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Like, that's it. Our parents don't have no idea where
it is.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
So freedom, man, that's so well.

Speaker 6 (23:38):
You would think so well, I know, But then you
end up a train station outside Prague and you're like,
we got to find a place to stay now in
Prague and a guy walks up to us and he's like,
would you guys like to stay at my grandmother's place
in downtown Prague. It's like and I'm like, we're trying
to tie the mine. And it was like a total

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like three bucks a night or something, just something ridiculous,
and we're like sure, and we talked, tossed both of
our bags into his his the back of his little
check car and uh, jump in the car and are
driving down the roads, and like, we don't know where,

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we don't know, we don't have any idea.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Where we're going. And I look at Crazy and I go, oh,
we may have just made a terrible mistake.

Speaker 6 (24:28):
We don't know, Like this is just a serial killer
that hangs out at train stations waiting to take us
to the next Saw episode. He's making right, And sure
enough we took us to he took us to his
grandmother's flat. We ended up staying in the second bedroom.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Actually, I wasn't even going to think.

Speaker 6 (24:45):
The second bedroom was basically the living room and a
pull out couch or something like that. And she did
not speak a word of English. We did not speak
a word of check. I spoke Russian, but that didn't
do anybody any good. And so we hung out there
for four days and we had a blast in prop
and she was the nicest person ever. She kept washing
our clothes for us. It was great, unbelievable. I've told

(25:06):
this story before.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
But my friend Jill and I, you know, Jail from
pas for pause, when we ran the the Athens marathon
in Greece, Uh, we can't had to come in after
our group because we were with a bunch of people
from Bolder Options. You know DT's uh charity, right, That's
how they raised funds is they do these uh these

(25:27):
flyaway marathons. And so we went to Athens, Greece, and
they were already there and we needed to get from
the airport to the hotel. All we had was the
name of the hotel. Legitimately, this is dumb. You know,
you're so silly because the way this was probably two
thousand and six something like that. The world is so big,

(25:51):
and you if you've never been someplace like this, you
don't know anything about anything.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Right. So we get off the plane and we're in
the air and I look around and everything's in Greek.
There's nothing in.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
English, nothing, no signs anywhere, even like the fourth language
is French, you know what I mean, Like there's not
a sign we can read in English and almost no
one speaks English. And you want to agree, right, well, yeah,
at least we hadn't We didn't run in. Anybody did.

(26:25):
And you want to take a step back as being
the filthy American for a moment and say, I now
have sympathy for people who come here and have no
idea what the signs say, or look confused when they're
driving down the road. You know, that's where you get
a little sympathies when you're that person yourself. So we
we get on the subway by complete luck, a train

(26:48):
thinking okay, well, this is probably going downtown. I can't
believe we did this. I wasn't a child, you know
what I mean. So we get with just by guessing.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
Anybody who's traveled in a ford country where they you've
all done trying to figure out public transportation is so brave.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
But what's her face? Who says I depend on the
kindness as strangers? You were able to do that? That
worked out same for Jill and I because we we literally, man,
we could have gotten on a train going right or
going left, and we chose the one going left.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
It never happened to be.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
The right one. Wow, going for you luckily? Yeah, because
we who knows where we'd ended up? Right, So we
end up getting into Athens, which is a hell hole
by the way. It couldn't be more dangerous, really, oh
my god, couldn't be more dangerous. And we don't know
what's there's no giant. Hey, this is the place to
get off, guys. This is downtown. We just got off
at a random stop that looked like there were a

(27:40):
lot of people around.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Wow, right, it was beautiful.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
We get off, we got our bags. Two people speak
no language in Bell speaks going it. We don't know
where we're we don't have that this that's ridiculous, but
it's true. And so we're walking with our bags down
a city street. I don't remember why we chose to
go direction there. We were literally thinking, hey, I bet

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we walked right in front of our hotel.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, right, exactly, Yeah, that's a giant sten and it started.
The sun's going down.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
It's till daylight, but the sun's going down, and we're
in Athens, Greece, and you just can't believe it.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Right, So we're just.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Wandering along again, I guess, just thinking we'll eventually come
across our hotel and a gentleman comes out of his
shop and he's closing the door. It's a jewelry store.
And a gentleman walks out, and I remember, I can
see it like it's happening in front of me right now,
big beard, big dude walks out, and he turns around
with his keys to lock the door of his shop,

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and he goes and he looks atus. He goes, my friends,
my friends, where are you going? He spoke English, right,
and we're like, well, we're trying to find our hotel.
He goes, you're not going the right way. You do
not want to go that way. And he walked us,
I kid you not wow, five zero fifty minutes across
town to our hotel.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah, wow, walked us to our hotel. And if we
had kept going that way, we were going with our bags, right, yeah, exactly,
we'd have probably been in trouble.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
He didn't. He wouldn't take a dime. He talked to us.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
It was the sweetest thing. Depending on the kindness of strangers, right,
And we get to our hotel. And then later Jill's
mom and dad flew in and they went back to
his shop and bought some jewelry just as a thank
you and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
But fud.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
But again depending on the kindness of strangers and just
being so silly to think, yeah.

Speaker 6 (29:28):
Sure we'll just go this way. I'm sure we'll run
into a hotel exactly right now. I mean, you do
dumb things. Yeah, I would never have guessed I'd be
telling that story thirty years later or whatever. You know,
twenty years later. Yeah, at the we traveled internationally, like
I said, when we backpacked across europ Bank in nineteen ninety, right,
and then the next time I traveled internationally was basically

(29:51):
I went when you guys went to Dublin. Yeah, like
that trip. We went to Paris a little bit beforehand,
and then and then Scotland a little bit beforehand and
then just driving some crashing has some had some COVID.
It was quite the trip. But I remember landing in
like Paris. I remember being nervous because I was kind

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of like I'd kind of forgotten how terrible it was.
I mean, not terrible, but what a challenge it was
to travel. It's kind of frightening. But it's so much
easier now than it wasn't even from.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Where you were in two thousand and six.

Speaker 6 (30:30):
Just having a Google Maps in your pocket at all
times is unbelievable. Completely, and not to mention, like so
many more people speak English then they then did thirty
five years ago in Europe and translate everything else, right, Yeah,
Like you can just take a picture of things and
it translates you translates the sign for you it is night,

(30:51):
And I mean you've got, you know exactly where hotels are.
It's easy to reserve a hotel, it's easy to change
your travel plans to go to a different seat and
jump on a flight. All that stuff is in your
I mean it used to be where if we get separated,
like one of the things you figured out when you
got to a city, Like if we get separated, we're

(31:12):
meeting here at noon on Tuesday, right, Like that's how
we're going to find in this city.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
So we don't have a place yet to go.

Speaker 6 (31:20):
So if we get separated before we get a place,
this is where we're gonna meet.

Speaker 5 (31:24):
That's more of a foreign thing concept to me than
any foreign land. Honestly, is that idea of Like I
guess I hope that we run, we'll be.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Back at the train station.

Speaker 6 (31:35):
And in fact, I think they've even used to have
like a spot at the train station where you could
leave notes for people kidding, Yeah, did you would just
leave a note like, hey I met I found a
place to stay Jim.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:50):
But I will say real quick on this one thing
that Google Maps can't do and all the phones can't do.
Is this so gonna sound stupid, but teach you how
to board a train, and even that was a foreign
concept a year ago. And how quickly they know they stop.
You don't have any time to hesitate.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Yeah, you have to.

Speaker 5 (32:10):
Get on, and I imagine, I mean even you know what,
you didn't really have time to think.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
It was left to right, going and we're going left. Yeah,
that's truth.

Speaker 7 (32:18):
Man.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
It's crazy. The world is enormous and so much fun
and kind of scary. But you know, you got one
little life. You might as well go see as much
as you can. Right, we'll be right back. We'll talk
more about everything. Essentially, everybody won is if you're wondering
how your sports team did, they probably won.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
We'll right back.

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Speaker 3 (33:01):
No kid, yeah, yeah right, I know.

Speaker 5 (33:04):
Just show your purple preset all right, So it's all
I can do that if there's.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
A and you know what, let's do this. I want
to get back to the travel thing in a minute
because I want to find out, like if there's We
had an interesting discussion this weekend. Our guy Michael Kinney
is on an African safari I think right now, still
with his family because he's taking a group tour with
defined destinations on an African safari. So he goes and
checks it out and gets everything. I'll say, you know,

(33:32):
And I was talking to the guys in the band
about this, Alex and everybody, the Chris Hockey band people
this weekend, and I have to and it's I think,
And it came to I had to think this through.
Why is it that that has no appeal to me?
And I think it's the heat. I do not do
well with you. I never have. That's part of the
reason I grew up in Indiana, moved to Virginya and
hated the heat so much that I moved to Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
All right, well that'll do it.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Yeah right, I'm telling you, working construction for a couple
of years and yeah, holy moly, yeah, never worked a
real job. Another day after that, by the way, but
I think that's part of it. But I mean, I
can't imagine. I guess I would get there and just
be blown away by it, and I think it was.
But all I picture is heat and a lot of bugs,

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and I don't like either.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Of those, right.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
I would rather go to Oslo or or or Scotland
for someplace and have to bundle up, you know what
I mean. I don't know travel there, man, go over there.
We're talking travel first, we're gonna talk sports, and we'll
talk about travel.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
But time.

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Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah. We mentioned all morning.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
And so it was just a great night for Minnesota
sports last night. A lot of victories. We'll start with
the Timberwolves. He had a slow start, but they bounced
back and then they ended up crushing the Chicago Bulls
won thirty six to one oh one out at United Center.
Nas Reed led the Wolves with thirty three points out
the bench, Anthony Edwards had twenty three, Julius Randall had seventeen.

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Six players total were in double digits for the Wolves,
and they now are twenty one to twelve. They continue
the road trip tomorrow in Atlanta two o'clock tip off
on the iHeartRadio Minnesota Timberrels channel against the Hawks before
they'll take a stop in Miami in Washington, DC this weekend.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Did you have a and appear somewhere last night, Mexo?
I did.

Speaker 9 (35:41):
Yeah, I was at a Wolves watch party at Casper's
not gonna lie very fitting name last night.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
It was a ghost town, Yeah it was. It was Monday.

Speaker 9 (35:52):
Oh oh yeah, No, there was like nobody up in there.
But it was a lot of fun, man, And even
when there's only a handful of people that show up,
it still people that genuinely want to be there and
like hang out with me.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
So that's that really, that really touches.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
The soul man for the Roads were still treacherous.

Speaker 9 (36:08):
Yeah, they were awful. That's what I'm saying to save
my ego. Yeah it was, but yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
It was a lot of fun.

Speaker 6 (36:15):
Still, I'm betting there were more people there than they
were at the Gopher Basketball get It is Christmas break
for the students, so there's no students around. It was
incredibly cold, It's hard to find parking.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
It was Yeah.

Speaker 6 (36:29):
I love I love going to Williams Arena, love that place.
But yeah, it was pretty bleakuely, yes, and they're playing
they were playing Farley Dickinson, which is I think in
the Ken Palm ratings like out of three hundred and
fifty what three teams or something, they're like three hundred
and thirty eight.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
So yeah, no, I mean, how many cars did you
guys see yesterday that was stuck trying to go up
a hill right yea, yeah, I mean in the middle
of one hundred, right down in the middle.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
I was just I was worn.

Speaker 6 (36:58):
People who are hitting the road right now it is
still yt of the side streets are still and.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
It don't happen when you don't explating. So don't do
one hundred and twenty. But by the same token, don't
do twenty either. Yeah, right, like down here at one
hundred and sixty two. If you're going let's say you're
going towards Bloomington on Highway one hundred, Okay, you all
know where I'm at. You get to sixty two, there's
kind of a little upgrade there. There was a semi

(37:24):
stuck and couldn't get up that grade and that's not
I mean, that's not much of a grade. And it
was just sitting there and the wheel spinning. It couldn't
and so it's in the middle of Highway one hundred. God,
and it couldn't move. And then behind it was a
guy in a Mustang rear Worlds drive who because the
semi get stuck, he was stuck to it, couldn't get
up the hill, and there were what are you gonna do?

Speaker 2 (37:46):
Get out and push up.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
We're in the middle Highway one hundred. There's people going
one hundred and twenty to your left right. Careful everybody.

Speaker 9 (37:52):
Yeah, there was hundreds of crowds, hundreds of trash, the.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Speed of trass. Go speed track and be careful, y'all.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
Especially like, no, don't you love when your cruise alone
and and you're like the roads ain't so bad and
you go under and overpass and suddenly your sideways. Yeah,
and there's you know, fifty cars around you. Yes, just
be careful, man, that's going to happen to all y'all careful,
be careful.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
The Wild.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
They also won last night five.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
To two final at the T Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
The Wild beat the Golden Knights five to two markets
Joe Hanson squad on his first shot of the hockey
and there was just twenty six seconds in to give
him Minnesota and early lead. Matt Boldi added one as
well three more goals in the second from Spurs in
favor and Ericson Eck and Marcus Johansson by the way,

(38:41):
just playing phenomenal hockey as of late. The while now
a two and zero record on this seven game road trip,
which continues tomorrow for a New Year's Eve tilt against
the Santos A Sharks. That puck drop will be at
three o'clock right here on the fan. Is city good
this year? Yeah, I mean they're the the They their credit.
They had some big injuries last night. Uh, and then

(39:04):
they also lost lost Hurdle early in the game because
he uh checked Ryan Hartman from behind and and hurt
him a bit in the boards and they kicked him
out of the game.

Speaker 8 (39:15):
Out.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
But yeah, that's a good team still.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (39:20):
Probably wasn't their best showing but regardless, another big win
for Minnesota and they should hopefully continue that against the Sharks,
who are are still rebuilding. They're gonna get there. The
Sharks are gonna be really really good. But haven't they
been rebuilding for like.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
Left Minnesota?

Speaker 5 (39:38):
The Sharks, they they did, but now they got Maclin
celebrating and Will Smith and all that, and they're they're
a mazing.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
I knew he wasn't getting a lot of acting roles.

Speaker 5 (39:53):
He's a good way to get his aggress started fighting
on a big stage.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
And now he's just uh wanted to do that more.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
NATed by Chris Rock, you know, I mean, just pick
Ego slap hey real quick. When you guys went down
to the refs last night and they you could tell that,
you know, the English was not their natively right, you
got all those different teams. Do the refs have to
speak all those languages?

Speaker 2 (40:15):
I don't think they have to.

Speaker 5 (40:17):
I think there's like I could be wrong here, don't
quote man, but I think there's like two languages that
they're I think English is one and then there's like
one other one that they're kind of expected to someone know.
But I think mostly it's it's English yeah, it's Portuguese.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
It is so Brazilian.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Yeah, yeah, because it'd be one thing to be accused
of high sticking, but it'd be nothing to be accused
of high sticking and not know what the guy said
I do what no I did not.

Speaker 5 (40:49):
It is interesting with with the international stuff, just the
little slight difference is the live scoring that like I
got to convert how they do it in Europe to
how they do it here, because like it's just these
little well so like for example, if somebody scores at
you know, ten minutes and twenty seconds into the second
period in America, it's the ten twenty mark of the

(41:13):
second period there, they have it marked. It is thirty twenty.
They start from Zara and they just continue all the way.
So like there were goals at the fifty four minute mark,
which is soccer, very soccer. You're they used to actually
the clock and they've just changed that too. Long ago
the clock in hockey international hockey would count up to
twenty minutes and that down.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
So like there's there's been some changes over the years.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
They've definitely made it more North American like, but yeah,
and then obviously all the countries and the fans. By
the way, we haven't even talked about that. The international
fans in Saint Paul. Man they're they're awesome. They they're
just partying up in the stands. They've got signs, awesome.
We've got the coolest jerseys you've ever seen. Party in

(41:59):
part will never say that. It's a different kind of y.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Right.

Speaker 5 (42:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, you got the bold North breakaway. Rice
Park is beautiful right now?

Speaker 2 (42:07):
So cool? Yeah, man, I got like the bumper cars
and all that. Yeah cars. Yeah, which, by the way,
why isn't that more a bigger thing?

Speaker 3 (42:17):
The law yesterday?

Speaker 9 (42:20):
Ye?

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Right, we should go tomorrow, guys, that would you said?
Tomorrow night?

Speaker 2 (42:26):
At what time? Five o'clock? Five o'clock?

Speaker 3 (42:28):
It was a perfect time, man, Oh not a perfect time. No,
I got I got a gig tomorrow tomorrow, that's right. Yeah, yeah,
I mean I'm glad to have a gig, don't get
me wrong. But man, that'd be fun. That'd be fun.
Will you guys go have fun without me? Get back
to me.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Tell me about if they get to the finals, we
could all go. That'd be cool. Yeah right, right, even
if they don't, it'd be fun.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
Even if it was heck, it might be more fun
of it. No, probably not. I won't say it like that,
but it'd be fun even if it wasn't our team,
you know what I mean. Yes, you don't have any
any anybody in the game that might be fun.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
To if it's Canada or whoever.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
Yeah, that final I mean, regardless, it's it's some of
the plays he's because these are again, these are the
best hockey players under the age of twenty in the world,
and they're making some spectacular plays that I mean, he
probably heard that.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Like we're going whoa up there? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (43:15):
When Mark does that, you're like, okay, that man Mark
said a few hockey games, right, hockey matches, hockey we're
off schemes games, okay.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Okay, cool, cool cook, All right, listen.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Later today we're going to just throw darts at the
map and tell Max where he's going next.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
I'm down for that, gentleman.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
Or two or something.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Right by.

Speaker 10 (43:41):
A long back into us A N they'll return the favor.
It's back into deep time explayers and Team USA and
a trial takes out Team Slovakia. The final score us
A six, Slovakia five.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
There you go where you get that high loaded it in.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
Dang, it was on one of our services what you
call it? Oh it was it was labeled Hey, that's
some blank. I think it probably was. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yep.
Man Brodie Ziemer, the captain or one of the captains.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
The captain, the captain. The captain talked about the slow start.

Speaker 10 (44:22):
They're a good team, right, like, uh, everybody's everybody's good
in the Seramon.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
You can't take a night off otherwise you would take
a loss.

Speaker 6 (44:28):
So I think just digging in, you know, almost a
little bit of a wake up call there from Austin.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
You'll find it away.

Speaker 5 (44:36):
There you go, Gopher hockey player and uh yeah, he's
he's good.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
He's good.

Speaker 5 (44:44):
There's a lot of good players from the golfers on there.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
From Boston. It's fun.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
That's Maxo, that's Saxo, that's Johnny Bones. Hi kids, and
here we are the Powers of Morning from Minus Dad
and uh, mom, this sauce. Our mom's kind of actually
kind of in the mom like the weird uncle. Yeah,
he's the weird he's the weird uncle. You you know,
hands above.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
The table, sticky magazine file.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
That's right, yeah, yeah, yeah, Please don't drink straight out
of the carton, you know, right, yeah, Christmas, you know
we see is he's the Has anybody seen my wallet?
I'm kidding, Sauce, You're not a thief. No, You're still
my heart though, and we miss you. So anyway, there

(45:32):
you go. That's that's what. And we think Mars is
coming in you know, unless uh you know, she she's
in Houston.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
I don't Yeah, I think I think she'll be here.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Okay, there's a reason I say, unless she's in Houston.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Yeah, we'll do that during That's what really matters, what
really matters, all right, Oh my goodness.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
Yeah right, So give me a give me a sport
we haven't talked about yet, give me a foot.

Speaker 10 (46:00):
Here you go.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
That'sday been there. We'll start with last night.

Speaker 5 (46:04):
What a game between the Falcons and that happened right
to the Rams and somehow, some way, the Falcons found
their way to a twenty seven to twenty four victory
out in Atlanta. Bijon Robinson accounted for two hundred and
twenty nine yards of offense, scored a rushing a receiving touchdown,
and probably won a lot of fantasy football championships. The

(46:26):
Falcons improved to seven to nine myself included Rams locked
into a wild card NFC wildcard at eleven and five.
Week eighteen kicks off of a Saturday doubleheader the Buccaneers
host of Panthers and a NFC South battle before the
Seahawks visit the forty nine ers for the NFC West
crown and the one seed throughout the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
But what really matters is this.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
And we will a little bit later go through the
entire playoff situation right now in the NFL, because it's
pretty fascinating.

Speaker 9 (46:57):
It's going to be really good, really great. Last week,
it's so unpredictable.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Yes, every game is unpredictable. Even the games that didn't
matter this past weekend were pretty much good if the
team cared at all, and that's not easy, but if
the team cared at all, it was fun to watch
this ges like like your vikings. I mean, we've been
out here for weeks and we're still four and now
in the last four games.

Speaker 5 (47:17):
Which is crazy that we're out of it with our
record that we've been out of it.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
How good this defense is.

Speaker 5 (47:22):
And I think it was bringing the News who came
out with an article yesterday talking about how if you
had like if the NFL was more like the NBA,
where you just took the top eight teams or top
whatever based on record and had nothing to do with
the vision, the Vikings would still be playing for a
playoffs spot this weekend. And I kind of I looked
at the way it was, I'm like, that would be
fun going into this week with multiple teams vying for

(47:46):
a spot. As a posted to I mean this, it's
cool still have these two matchups, but man, how cool
it to be to be scoreboard watching with the Carolina Panthers.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
Well, it would be cool, But it depends on who
your quarterback is.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
McCarthy's progressing.

Speaker 7 (48:00):
Swelling in that hand has come down a little bit,
and really it's just going to be about working through
it this week and seeing what his grip strength is
like and if he can possibly give it a go
this week. That will be something I'll keep you guys
posted on.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
We don't know for sure yet, we'll find out more.
You'll hear about it here. But you know, if Max
is your quarterback again.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
See the quarterback again? If we afternoon, yeah, busy, who
will it be?

Speaker 3 (48:35):
If it's not JJ Max, We're.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
Gonna you know, get Max ready to go.

Speaker 7 (48:39):
And I think John Wolford's a guy that you know,
he's been a snap away you know here last week
and has experience in the system, and we're really fortunate
to be able to bring Brett Ripping back as well.
So I'm kind of looking at it from a standpoint
of let's see where JJ is at and then get
Max ready to go. But at the same time, you know,
we want to make sure we have all these guys prepared.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
So if we were still alive for the playoffs, yes, yeah,
I was gonna say, like, it's exciting.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
We have the defense we have. We had three passing
yards last week.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
I know, three three, and I believe it was the
last play it was. It was negative.

Speaker 6 (49:19):
Yeah, we were actively in we were in the stands,
actively watching to see us when we broke zero. We
broke zero sometime in the third quarter and then immediately
fell back down beneath it again and then broke it
again on the last.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
Play us bank as well. Yes, how great was the
Harrison Smith moment? It was very cool, it was emotion,
it was very cool. It was and the Snoop Dog
halftime show was fan It's so good.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
It was super Bowl level. Seeing it it was it
was super Bowl level.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
The sound was fantastic and again the Stones there saw
Metallica there. I've not heard sound that good in that
state and it was a half time.

Speaker 6 (49:56):
It was not good in our area over the end.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
So we've fantastic we.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
Were at man, it was fantastic. I had no idea
who they were.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
But right, that's it.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
Yeah, So here's what really matters. And this will probably
the other one I get to in this segment because
there's some serious things of foot down in Houston right now.
Another people in Houston are continuing to share their concerns
over a serial killer being.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
On the loose.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Oh boy, with more bodies being found in lakes and rivers, yikes.
Three bodies were discovered in two textan bayous last Monday,
December twenty second, which brings the total to thirty four.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
What thirty four four.

Speaker 6 (50:39):
It's a nice job keeping the coverage on this, keeping
the lid on this coverage.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
At one point did they decide we needed to know?

Speaker 3 (50:48):
Two of the bodies were reportedly found at nine thirty
am local time in Buffalo by you and braised by you,
Rumors of a serial killer have continued to spread after
seven bodies were found in less than a month between
September October. The math isn't mathing. Uh, I think there's
a serial killer, a visitor told ABC. I don't know
why they quoted a visitor. I thought that was somebody.

(51:10):
Don't just quote John Bonus on the streets.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
You think somebody's killing people? Yeah, so man, math math, John,
don't use that accent.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
Despite concerns, law enforcement has continued to debunk the serial
killer claims. Just happens they found thirty four bodies. Come on, man,
swimmers out there. I guess for us as an agency,
rumors stir fear and anxiety in our communities. Well, don't
you want people to be on the lookout, said Houston
Police Chief. NOIDS experts also reminded locals that thirty five

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bodies were recovered from the bios last year, so this
year's number shouldn't be surprise.

Speaker 6 (52:01):
We didn't catch them last year, so why are you surprised?
Or maybe that's just where you disposed bodies. Maybe it's right,
Maybe that's just where people go to dogs.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
Everybody's meeting up there at the same time.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
I'm going to read this again I want to read
this statement again from the Houston Police chief, who I'm
sure is a fantastic person and has worked their whole
life and does a great job, but this just sounds terrible.
The reminded locals that thirty five bodies were recovered from
the bayous last year, so this number shouldn't be a surprise.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
What sir, that's actually I.

Speaker 6 (52:43):
Mean from from her standpoint, it's like, this is the job.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Gang. We just find bodies in the bayou. That's what
we do. NBB, who cares.

Speaker 7 (52:56):
You know?

Speaker 3 (52:57):
University of Houston criminal justice professor Krista Gering said, because
a lot of people think, oh they're in the bayou,
they're dumping the body to get rid of the evidence,
because that's what we see in TV shows that the
water will wash it away, the evidence and people could
have just had an accident. Now I'm sorry, could have
washed away the evidence. But people could have just had
an accident. People could have done this to themselves, or

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people could have been intoxicated.

Speaker 9 (53:20):
That sounds like something I would say if I couldn't
solve the crime.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Yeah, right, Like if I had if I had a
mad party to go to and I just wanted to
get out of there. I say, yeah, people probably just
did it to themselves. I tell the citizens of Houston,
we have a relatively safe city for the most part.

Speaker 6 (53:41):
I mean it's probably true, Like there's four million people
living in Houston, in the metro area of Houston and
thirty four there.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
Would be a great slogan for their city, sign a
relatively safely city for the most.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Part, except for the bay you part, man, But.

Speaker 6 (54:00):
It's like any other people stay away from the Bayous. Yeah, right,
it's very dangerous there. Listen, it's just hot.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
I can't believe the story I'm reading. Listen to this.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
Up until last year, the number of bodies found in
the Bayous was declining heading into twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Why are they finding by us? There?

Speaker 3 (54:18):
Reports suggests that the leading proven cause has been drowning.
The pools weren't open, so people were accessing all kinds
about the water during COVID. I know at that time
I lived in Austin, and we were seeing people getting
in the lake and people that didn't have the skills
of their ability to swim in open water. You can
see that water is inherently dangerous.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
So if we encourage people to talk about water safety
and talk about things we can do to prevent drowning.
I think we can change our culture. At least seventeen
deaths since twenty seventeen have been tributed to drugs now call,
eleven heart issues and seveny car accidents. The cause of
death of sixty eight victims, however, remains undetermined. Pretty normal,
I'm going to say that one again. The cause of

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death of sixty eight of the victims remains undetermined as
of early December.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Don't worry, guys, it happens every year. Can they undetermine
just one more just for the bed, just for you?

Speaker 6 (55:14):
I mean apparently the apparently the strategy of dumping a
body in the bio so that they don't know how
you killed them. Yeah, it is pretty effective one pretty effectiveness.
They're basically doing advertisements for killers and.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Just come on, stop by the body. You won't do
anything about it.

Speaker 3 (55:29):
Now. When I saw this article last night, it gave
me the thought. With Netflix and all these docuseries on
serial killers, there's got to be way more now, right,
you would think, right, because if you're nuts and you
want to kill people and you want to be famous,

(55:50):
now's your time, right, like.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
If they find so much more appealing right now than
it used to be.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
This could be somebody who's like, come on, man, I
threw him in the by I'm waiting to be found out.

Speaker 6 (56:03):
The buy you killer plastic so you can determine the
method of killing by you, Bob Merch maide yactly.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
I mean, if you want to be famous, and there
are people you do want to be damless, you know,
like right there, they they want to be this is
they're gonna be famous this person. If it finds out
that this person's killed thirty four people, they're gonna be famous.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
For sure.

Speaker 9 (56:25):
There'll be a Netflix documentary and a movie made out
about him by twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 5 (56:30):
And my Heart radio podcast definitely already one about that.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
Radio hosted by Sharpton Johnson and Sterling Sharp. I don't
know what Sterling Sharp has has is hosting this wall
for Reason.

Speaker 3 (56:54):
And what's the guy's name. What's the guy's name who
hosts everything for I Heart?

Speaker 2 (56:57):
What's the guy's name? Ryan? Secret Secrets?

Speaker 9 (57:04):
Sharpton Johnson and Sterling Sorry.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
I mean, well, only one of them is walking out
because by you, Bob's killing you. And I'd like to
choose which to bob. So anyway, don't go to Houston, Marty,
be careful driving. If you're on your way in. We
want to see your face. Marty's on her way in.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Can we confirm that No, I didn't text her.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
I should have, but you know what I figured it
would be. I was about saying, be insulting to ask
her if she was coming in. But I did text
my men.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
But you like insulting John Well and he likes it
to ye right. Patrick Morsha will be back with what
really matters.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
More of that and much much more on the jazzy
episode of the Patrick marsh On the Fans.

Speaker 5 (57:58):
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your take. Oh it's a purple Talkback Tuesday and Camfan
just open the iHeartRadio app hit the rid mic in
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com keyword contests for more information, Good luck narrowing it down.
Mine might be the Snoop dog appter.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
Yeah, man, it goes by so quickly, doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
It really does too quickly? An quickly enough? Actually this year. Yeah,
there's something to be said about that. It did feel
a little slower this year. The last couple of years
it was like, Wow, it's going by so fast. In
the middle of the season, I was like, oh, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
Hey, is it a bad sign when the lady doing
traffic is listening to Sweet Jams.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Watch you're doing traffic.

Speaker 3 (58:56):
I had to live because when we were doing it's
not gonna play now, it's being relow that while we were.
While I was running traffic over her, you guys were
over there talking and I was listening. I heard and
she was going and right now we're going to do
and the background.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
I wondered because I've heard that in the past. But
I'm like, oh, I got to be crazy.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
I'm telling you.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
We listened to it.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
In her She definitely was listening to Sweet James Taylor background.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
She was drumming herself. She might be James, that's right.

Speaker 6 (59:34):
You listen to music, you might as well be Yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
That's right, that's right.

Speaker 5 (59:39):
I mean, Hawk, you're guilty of it sometimes, brother, you're
the buzzing sound.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Well, I mean it's just my white favorite. Would you
give the remote to.

Speaker 3 (59:50):
Anybody but Tommy, that's exactly right. D T that's exactly yet,
all right, what really matters?

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
Yeah, the Ravens are not sure right now if ol
Lamar Jackson will be their quarterback for a Sunday season
finale against.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
The Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 5 (01:00:14):
Coach John Harbol to reporters that his status has not
yet been determined. Jackson missed the team's win over the
Green Bay Packers on Saturday with a back contusion. Tyler
Huntley had a touchdown and one hundred and seven yards
in Lamar Jackson's absence.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
But what really matters is this yet? How many? I'm sorry?
What did you say for a touchdown and one hundred
and seven passing yards?

Speaker 7 (01:00:39):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
Okay, I thought you said rushing yards. I was like, wow,
that's a hell of a day.

Speaker 9 (01:00:42):
That's would be pretty good for a quarterback. Feels like
it's almost over for Lamar in the Ravens. It does
feels like it's pretty close to that becoming a divorce.

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
Yeah, just like we always talk about. Man, You know,
it all comes around. The Chiefs an't going to be
in the playoffs this year, right, you know, the.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Li No Lions.

Speaker 6 (01:00:57):
The Ravens come back from a real big hole that
they dug themselves. Yeah, right and now, and Steelers helped
him out last week with the yeah, couldn't the of
the med versus Browns. They've got a shot at sneaky
in in here. I would love to see them knock
out the Steelers.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Should there going to be a real NFL quarterback?

Speaker 9 (01:01:17):
I think we I think the jury is still out,
but kind of it's I think that's better than what
most people thought. I think most people thought if he
had started this many games by now, that we would
definitively say no, he's not an NFL quarterback. But I
think that's a pretty good sign for him that the
jury's still out.

Speaker 5 (01:01:33):
He hasn't gotten undefeated and played perfectly his entire first seats,
and so obviously they got to be looking at somebody
else right now.

Speaker 3 (01:01:40):
I see what you're saying, what you're doing, Here's what
it really matters. On this date, which is, by the way,
the thirtieth day of December. Yes, on the state in
nineteen sixteen, Gregory Ismovich resputant.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
Yeah, oh, Russia's greatest love machinery.

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
That's right. He was murdered his penis, by the ways,
in a jar somewhere. Have you ever seen that I'm serious.
That's the truth, man.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
I believe you look it up right now. It's huge.
I guess it is your choice.

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
I know why I haven't demand that you did say
right now too, you didn't just say you know later on.
It's my thing to watch people look at his penis
at this point. The other way I can get an
erection is to watch other people look at this.

Speaker 6 (01:02:36):
But it was just so much difference from normally who
Saucity and us.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
He would be like, oh, yeah, he's got it. It's great. Yeah,
like you would have looked it up. It's just nope, no,
so uh.

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
On just nineteen sixteen, Resputing, a self proclaimed holy man
murdered by Russian nobles eager to end his influence over
the royal family respute, and a Siberian born peasant under
what a religious conversion as a teenager, proclaimed himself a
healer with the ability to predict the future. Won the
favor of Czar Nicholas the Second and Czarina Alexandra through

(01:03:11):
his ability to stop the bleeding of their hemophiliac son
Alexi in nineteen oh eight. Didn't know that from then on,
though he was widely criticized for his lechery and drunkenness.
Rest You're still find looking for penis, aren't you. I'm
talking exactly why Bonus flat not gonna do it. From
then on, he was widely criticized for his lechery and drunkeness.

(01:03:33):
Respute and exerted a powerful influence on the ruling family
of Russia, infuriating nobles, Church Orthodoxy, and peasants like He
particularly influenced the Saarena and was remembered to be her
he was we.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
Love that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
When Nicholas departed to lead Russian forces in World War One,
Respute and effectively ruled the country through Alexandra, contributing to
the already existing corruption and disorder of Romanov Russia.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
And leading to the revolution. That's exactly right. Russian Revolution. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
Fearful of Rasputants growing power, a group of nobles led
by Prince Felix something or other, the husband of Dissar's niece,
lured Rasputant to a palace one night in nineteen sixty first,
as would be killers, gave the monk food and wine,
both laced with cyanide.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Don't drink wine.

Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
Yeah, that didn't kill him because of his huge winer
the poison had no effect on him. Come on, John,
would you look it up?

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
Please?

Speaker 3 (01:04:43):
Suddenly, this is the most important thing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
Will it's immune to poisons.

Speaker 3 (01:04:47):
Please Someday When the poison didn't work, they shot him.

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
Yeah, that didn't work either.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
That didn't work a short time later, by the way,
it glounced off his giant.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
Like a woman arm bank. It's exactly right. You were there,
and you were there.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
A short time later, however, Resputant revived and attempted to
escape from the palace grounds, where upon the assailants shot
him again and then beat him viciously with his own penis. Finally,
they bound Resputant, who was still alive, and tossed him
into a freezing river. His body was discovered several days later,

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and the two main conspiracors were exiled, just exiled, that's all.
Not long after, the Bolshevik Revolution put an end to
the imperial regime, Nicholas and Alexandra were murdered, and the
long dark Rain of the Romanovs was over. We go
to our expert on all things Russian, Johnny Bonus, for

(01:06:04):
more in the story.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
Which started another long dark rain, the Soviet started.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
The Soviet that's right, so what man that You know what,
there's so many Disney movies about this, you know what
I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
Like that, I don't know what's right and what's wrong.

Speaker 6 (01:06:18):
Okay, but what's the lot of Disney movies about us?

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
Putin it is?

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
What was it? One?

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
That is?

Speaker 8 (01:06:26):
It?

Speaker 3 (01:06:26):
Was it one of the daughters who lived and they
didn't make sure she really was hers?

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
Right?

Speaker 9 (01:06:32):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:06:32):
Yes, they were trying to figure out at I think
that sounds right.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
Yeah, I have trouble remembering, but yeah, right, interesting interesting stuff, man,
Can you imagine how they fell after that?

Speaker 9 (01:06:43):
They're like, all right, we're going to poison his drink,
but just in case, we'll do.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
The food too. We'll make sure we have some gun's hand. Yeah,
he's just walking around chilling after the meal.

Speaker 6 (01:06:54):
I thought there was some stabbings going on too, but
we didn't get to that part.

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
But he asks for a third helping. You're like, this
is uh.

Speaker 5 (01:07:05):
There is a song about this whole thing called ras Boutine.
They actually changed his name to rast Boutine for the
the song, but it's one of the greatest dance dance
revolution songs out there. Yeah, back in the day, I'll
throwback pr in all great games, and it details basically
the wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
Story.

Speaker 5 (01:07:29):
I mean, the last line is, uh, they put some
poison to his wine.

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
He drank it all and said I feel fine. They
didn't quit. They wanted his head and they shot them
till he was dead. Wow. That's very R P and R.

Speaker 5 (01:07:44):
Peter Rasputin and his big Johnson before oddly enough the
artist by the way, bony of course, of course.

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
Oh that is that a real pick? Yeah, I guess
my eighteen sixteen that could be a real picture of him.
Well he was there, sure, Yeah, weird looking. He was
a weird looking, scary here's.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
A weird dude.

Speaker 6 (01:08:07):
I can't believe we haven't seen a good movie about him.
He just seems so. He was punk rock before punk.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
I think it's called Raspy does Russia.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
I've seen it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
While these here's all right, here's an entire story about
this phoenis you guys?

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
I do too, I really do.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
By the way, you just want to hit records for
best of While the circumstances of his death and the
fate of his penis for me a subject of debate. God,
I hope there's an article written about me like this.

Speaker 9 (01:08:48):
My biography is called the Fate of the Penis.

Speaker 3 (01:08:58):
Yeah, anyway, he was assassinated about he just read natural
fights fright. The devil who was dying of poison, who
had a bullet in his heart, must have been raised
from the dead by the powers of evil. There was
something appalling and monstrous about his refusal to die.

Speaker 8 (01:09:13):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
While rest Putin ultimately died by drowning, the fate of
his dong remained in flux. First reports of the fate
of the Infamous Member came to the nineteen twenties when
a group of Russian immigrants where living in France, claimed
to be in possession of it. How does that come
up to come on and have I shown you kept

(01:09:39):
as a religious relic of sorts. Legend has it that
the severed member had the power to grant fertility. When
word back got back to his daughter, I didn't know
he had kids.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
Oh you know he did? You have a shot him
all night? Right?

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
Here's a yeah, I do.

Speaker 5 (01:09:57):
Yeah, So you're I was just gonna say, severed members
play in the palace and they're very good.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Here's a weird sentience.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
When word got back to Resputant's daughter, she took possession
of it, denounced the people and their practices, and kept it.
In nineteen ninety four, an American collector named Michael Augustine
claimed he had it in a jar by the way

(01:10:28):
of late Maria Respute's estate sale. Oh yeah, and next side.

Speaker 9 (01:10:32):
Of up for bringing over here anybody.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
The grotesque Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
Call it. It was later in the term to be
nothing more than a dried up see cucumber.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
Loave that that's not a penis, that's a c cucumber.

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
The cucumber, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
Yeah, there you go. It sure looks like a young
son to me, I prefer to believe it is.

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:09):
Shoot, man, everything I've ever known about my childhood now
feels like a lie.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
That's crazy.

Speaker 9 (01:11:17):
Imagine Still that's how legendaries Johnson was that it was
believable for like almost one hundred years that that was
that dried of cucumber was this bag.

Speaker 3 (01:11:26):
So as of two thousand and four, there was a
member sitting in the Museum of Russian Erotica in St.

Speaker 8 (01:11:31):
Peters Petersburg, Peters peter that's the after hours museum.

Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
That's my homeland, that allegedly belonged to Resputen, the owner
of the museum claimed he paid a whopping eight thousand
dollars for the oversized member, which measures an impressive twelve inches. However, yeah, however,
here's a terrible sentence for you. Most experts believe that
this mystery meat is a severed cows penis. Yeah, you

(01:12:07):
know what again, to your point, mass, I hope somebody
somewhere has to determine whether it's mine or severed cows
like that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
There's at least a healthy debate about it. I don't
want to insult you, but that's gonna be.

Speaker 5 (01:12:23):
It would have to literally be a stretch, would you know,
the way you walk?

Speaker 6 (01:12:32):
Yeah, you're right, you have cows thing down there. Marnie
is so happy she's running lately at it. She just
purposely drove into the back of the hospitals better than
this anyway they go. That's the story of Rasputin's member.
But my god, but that is a weird looking to

(01:12:54):
that guy's scary.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
Yeah. Yeah, Like, if I.

Speaker 9 (01:12:58):
Walked in here right now, you'd be like, oh no,
I would dip. I would run like Scooby Doo circles
like that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
I would run out of here.

Speaker 3 (01:13:07):
Partrick Morrishaw, we'll talk about all the things I promise,
right back on the fame.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
We are alive. By the way, it is December thirtieth.

Speaker 9 (01:13:14):
There.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Take that s