HR. 2 - Loss of Ball

Marney Gellner joins the fun and shares her insight on the Timberwolves ahead of Game 3, Hawk and Parrish ask questions and learn more about the rules of basketball

Episode Transcript

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Kids fired up for tonight's Wolves versusNuggets games with our own Max Fuller.
Tune in tonight at seven as heleads even to Tonight's matchup with our pregame
show presented by American Building Contractors.Catch it all right here in FM one
hundred point three kfan and anywhere onthe free iHeartRadio app that I'm trying to
you, thank you, let's go, ants, let's go, and so

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amp let's go by the way.Do you see, uh? I forget
it. It must have been maybeit was during the Calves in Celtics sauce.
Did you see they were talking aboutShay Gilgess Alexander and that he was
second in MVP voting and he's hadan awesome year and blah blah blah blah
blah, And then they mentioned AnthonyEdwards and Michael Wilbon reiterated it. He
flat out said it that if youlook at the scoreboard for the MVP voting,

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there was one second place vote forAnthony Edwards. And Wilbond said again,
he goes, that was me.He goes, you could have made
a case that Aunt was the MVP. He's like, I had him second,
But you could make a case thathe was the most valuable player of
the entire year. And he mentionedwhen Cat missed those nineteen or twenty games
that the Wolves still won about asixty six percent clip without Cat. Yeah,

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and that's because of Ants. SoI think it's a nice little value
pick for next year. Or you'regonna get him in that five to ten
range, behind Embiid, behind Joker, behind Sga, behind Giannis. He's
in that next group. You're gonnaget him at good value. If you
think Ann can do it next year. I think I might have to get

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one of those tickets in Vegas herein about a month. Paul, your
hands up. Does Chris Hockey?Oh god, we just you just wiped
the Caney at count Away and paidme like gambling. Does Chris Hockey know
what team Joel l Embiid plays for? Oh? I don't think so.
I think so. I'm gonna sayno, I don't think so. It

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only works if you would I areon the opposite point. Yeah, never
mind, Hogs. We both thinkit's no. I don't know where my
Robin is or he's Batman and I'mRobin. Whatever. I could use Parish
up. I think it's the ChicagoBulls. Yeah. See, we both
were pretty competent. This was inNow, well, who is he plays
for the Philadelphia seventy six and heused to play for the Is he going
to at some point to be seen? That's what I meant. Yeah,

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yeah, down the road. Youmight be right. Let's do the news.
Marni and Paris should be here shortly. Initials it a little over an
hour of the first here's Chris,yes his CAMFA in News with Chris Hockey,
presented by the Saint Paul Saints Man. You know, we love the
Saints. We're super excited about everythinggoing on, including our day with Bernie

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himself Wednesdays. Bernie's coming up here. Yeah, wait, can't wait for
that. Believe it. There's lotsof great baseball going on down at cchs
Field. The same pall Saints failedto capitalize on a number of scoring opportunities,
though in a five to one lossto the Toledo mud Hens. That
was at their place. The fourteenand twenty Saints and Randy Dobnack to the
mount against Toledo again tonight. We'lllet you know when they were back at
cchs Field. So you can goon down and enjoy a great time at

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the ball park, win or lose. We booze at chs Field and cheese
kurds and my kiddo gets dippin' dots. That's right. You know this,
Chris, you've gone through this.It's one of the best. Right.
We went to a Saints game.Kiddo got dippin' dots in like the first
inning. Yeah, and by aboutinning and five she was ready to go
because she doesn't care about baseball,but she liked chs Field. Right,

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Is there anything better than when yourkidder goes? Can I get dippin' dots
again? And you just go?Of course? Of course the face,
the work on her face was thisis the greatest day of my life.
Yeah, nice outdoor baseball game.I got cheese curds, you got double
dippin' dots. Let's call it aday. Yeah, what more do you
need in the world. So sheloved hs Field. As I've said one

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more and I'll say it again.The hockeys were all like target, and
I ran into him and Abby hada full armful of stuff and walked up
to Kim and said, can Iget all this? And she said,
where did you get that? Andhe she said, Dad said I could
have it. I did, Yeahabby, but it was just no. It
is so funny how quickly kids figureout which parent is on their team,

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which parent is the yes parent.No, I imagine that I can have
this. I might have taken thattoo far. Yeah, oh yeah,
but yeah. I mean she couldbarely hold all the stuff. She's twenty
one years old now. And doyou think I regret any second that I
made her happy? Not one?Exactly, not one? Well said right,
Crease, Yes, that's why yousay yes to Dippin' dots twice hss

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hair game. That's right, andI'll have some too. Exactly, get
your hand out of my cheese curds. You have more ice cream? Yeah,
these are my cheese curds. I'mnot sharing. I'm not gonna split
cheese curds. It's almost time forthe best cheese cuts. I know.
I can't wait for the fair calmdowns. Buckets are like twenty bucks.
I don't care if they're ninety.I want one a day. Do you
look outside and see the trees arenow turning green? Everything's popping right.

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The best part of the year isright in front of us. It doesn't
matter. If those kords were availableto me twenty four hours a day,
three sixty five like you. IfI could buy those in Plymouth, I
would look like Gilbert Grape's mom bythe end of the month. Just tim
would because I I can't stop.They're the best. One of those are
that's the top five food on theplanet. Cheese curds at the State Fair.

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It's about you would get there canbe good cheese. I can personally
writing challenge accepted. I can personallytest it with Saint Paul Sants. I
worked at Midway Stadium all summer.I'm finally just getting back in the cheese
kurts because you have to you haveto call test it through some kind of
withdrawal. You to go cold turkeyand cheese curts. Well, no,

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I just it was like summer.I'm like, oh my god, I
think my digestive system would uh notlove the challenge that I would present to
it, but I would. Iwould challenge every inch of that colon sauce.
Because you're gonna be with me,challenge every inch of your colon.

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We're both gonna have to go tothe proctologists because the amount of cheese we
would eat that was available year roundwould be a problem. I'm also seventy
five percent of the way to GilbertGrape's mom. The first Delta Airlines flight
from Minneapolis, Say Paul to Dublinis set to takeoff on Thursday. Christal
doesn't want to go. Yeah,no, no one ever talked to me
about it, but man, thatwill pass on it. So many inside

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jokes this morning for people we talkedabout time. There's there's almost nothing better.
There's almost nothing better than traveling theworld, and there's almost nothing better
than direct flights. Also, Dublin'sawesome, but do you want to stop
at fifteen places before you get there? Absolutely not. Direct flight to the
best, that's fantastic. So congratulations. If you've never been to Dublin,

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it's definitely worth your time. Keeperwhiskey, I always want to go back
to the Dublin love Keeper's heart.Let's do it. I think aer Lingus
made a direct flight to MSP likea week or two ago. They started
it, and so Delta said nope, they said, let's do it.
That's very cunning as well Ireland Wales. It is very nice Dublin's fun Man.

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What about real Zo Dublin? Chrisremember that slot machine? Oh dear
god, what happens if you're playingthat slot machine and a bunch of guys
trying and take it from jump ontop of you? Yeah, what happens?
You gotta beat them off? Youkind of let that happen to yourself,
all right. Dumb question that maybeonly Zach knows the answer to.
What is the longest destination that wecan fly direct from MSP? What's the

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furthest one? Tokyo? Probably,yeah, that's that's probably up there.
I don't know my longest flights fromhere. I just know it's like JFKDA
Perth or something is like the longest. But I'm saying specifically probably. So
we have a direct flight to Japan? Do we go direct to New Zealand
or Australia? Do I go directto South Africa? Where do we go?

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I think you have to connect through? So Japan is the answer?
It's Soul, South Korea? Ohgod, yeah, so okay, but
I'm not a soldier, not Pyongyang. How long is that flight NSP to
Soul? It is three thousand andeight and seventy one mind how many hours?
That's a poke? Thirteen forty five, thirteen forty five, okay,

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man, that's a long time,but long. But direct to direct to
Dublin is probably eight. I beteight. Sure? What is it to
London direct? I think is somewherein that range as well, right,
Yeah, Dublin's Dublin's not that farfrom really, yes, from England.
In fact, I would say justnorth of London, isn't it. So

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I'd say it's probably about the exactsame. It's pretty close. Oh no,
I'd like to go seven forty five, seven forty five, we guess
pretty seven eleven? Yeah, areyou okay? All right? People are
pissed off now they think third latefour. Yeah. Well, on the
way back from Savannah from the golftrip, remember Savannah, we are a
murder down there. Savannah? Isit all awesome city? We pulled away

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from the gate blades, We're dinkingaround, and then all of a sudden,
I could send someone was up inthe pilot's like, sorry, we
timed out. We got to goback to the gate. We couldn't go
back, so we were on theplane cooking for like three hours. Didn't
have the air conditioning on. Itwas a prison for a minute. Then
we got back and ended up withlike twenty five thousand sky miles. Not

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exactly good compensation, but yeah,I got home at midnight instead of five
pm. Damn it, Charlie saysabout prison. Yeah, a lot of
sex there. Don't pick up thesoap. Everybody be cool. There's a
geomagnetic storm watch, that's right.This weekend's geomagnetic storm watch has been upgraded
from a G two, which ismodern tow AG three, which is strong.

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And why is that? Because giantsunspots keep hurling towards Earth. There
are now at least three storm cloudsheaded our way, which means the Northern
Lights could be visible even in thenorthern iowand maybe Cargo tonight, the Northern
lights possibly all the way down toChicago Parish. I've never seen the Northern
lights in my in my life withthese eyes, get out of here,

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if you're sure not watching the wolvestonight, Chris, get on the motorcycle,
head north a little bit. Yeah, because because uh, the light
pollution. Just get out where it'swhere it's dark and you'll be able to
see it. I was bummed becauseI would do that, but I can't
miss game three, No, Ican't. It says between ten pm and
one am. Yeah, I gota flight in the morning though. Oh

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yeah, yeah right. You seethem all the time up at Grandberry's up
in Hackensacks in the summertime. Yeah, we always go up there. We'd
see him up there all the time. Sure, absolutely love them. I'm
sure between some of us on theshow, we can find something that'll make
you see him without even having goingto see them. I love Hackensack man.
Good there up. There wasn't therea right fair called Northern Lights back

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in the day, Yes, brilliantwas It wasn't that that one that yeah
you didn't go upside down? Butwas that the one that that went that
went to make them go into yourmouth exactly? That one flipping without going
full pirate ship on it? Andship sucked well because I was shocking.
This will shock none of you.I've been obese my whole life, and

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I always was like, yeah,this is how I die because the thing's
gonna go. Man. I didn'tknow we let whales on this ride and
it was going to break and thenI would have fallen and spidered on the
ground. That's a huge bitch thatthing. So pirate ship is still a
thing. Sure the people ride it. Sure, yeah, well until you
just ripped it. The ship.Yeah not anymore. I mean you know,

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I wrote it a thousand don't careabout it now. I would sure.
I like partying I used to.I wouldn't anymore. Getting old sucks,
Yeah, I get my belly.It's all upset. The l D
my head. Yahlibrium. Yeah,you get thrown off. Oh to be

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young again doing I'm doing great.How are you guys doing a great pair
of missions over there? Good Bye, Hi ch I brother, good to
see you. Good to see youtoo, my friend. That's the news.
That was the news, saw thesports. When we get back.
But Johnny k you got a roll. I got a roll, and I
will see you the final Friday ofthe month. So yeah. Anyway,

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calendar is starting to fill up laterin the year. So if you are
looking for an uplifting presentation motivational speaker, John Kriesel dot com, that's John
Creasel dot com. I love youguys very much, Chris. I will
see you in dad Wood week brotherCarol. So just so the listeners can
keep track for us, we're inDuluth next Friday, twenty fourth, you're
out, yes, and you're backto thirty first. I'm back to thirty

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first, got it? Yes,thank you. We'll go through the sports
when we come back. We'll talkabout Game three, Wolves and Nuggets,
which is tonight's sauce does sports.After this on the fan, rock out
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Mark Parrising Creed. Then you're gonnawant to come to hawk Fast. Oh
yeah, let's go. I can'twait. Unders. I'm a little nervous,
yeah, because we were just discussingbest but I'm I'm I'm very,
very excited. It's good to getoutside your comfort zone a little bit,
yeah, for sure. And whennot rock out absolutely, man, we
were practicing last night. Oh yeah, Oh, I can't wait, can't

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wait. All right, it's timefor some sports. There's lots going on
in the world of sports. Therereally is. There's a basketball game tonight.
Yeah, I heard that time forFan five on the Power Trip presented
by All Around Property Reservation. Let'sgo great song. Tonight's tonight, come

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on Wolves in Denver. Game threeis a Target Center. The Wolves lead
the series two to oh. Gametime is eight point thirty. The pregame
starts at seven o'clock. MAXI willbe on at seven. The Wolves are
four and a half point favorites.Yesterday, Denver listed Jamal Murray, Reggie
Jackson, and Contavious Caldwell Pope asquestionable for tonight's Game three. Who cares?

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Right? Even if they all play, let them play. They don't
have a deep enough bench, right, All those guys played in the first
two games, and we still kicktheir ass. Target Center is going to
be absolutely explosive tonight, whether theywin or lose. Can you imagine first
second quarter at Target Center? Tonightis going to be crazy, maybe unlike
we've ever seen. Is that gonnabe close to accurate? I don't know,
it might be, yeah, Iwould think so. Yeah, Well

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it's it's well, it's a mustwin for Denver. You assuming that too,
Well, it's the closest thing toa must win outside of an actual
must win, because no team,perish the history of the NBA has come
back from uh down over my nextquestion, no team ever, Well,
let's not let that be the firstteam. Right, here's a FINCHI on

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his team in Game three. Imean I expect their best, you know,
their best physical effort, their bestmental effort. I expect their best
one of their best efforts of theseason. That's an NBA champion over there,
with a lot of pride and alot of good players and the great
coaching staff. We know. Well, so they're gonna keep shuffling the deck
till they feel that they come upwith something that they can you know,
give to us, and they're gonnacome out of the gates strong. Yeah.

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I think that first quarter is goingto be super telling, right,
just whether or not Denver has figuredout anything, because again, this is
the championship team, right, they'rethe champs. They're not just going to
go, well, we don't haveenough depth, We're not good. I
mean, they've had five days tostrategize, to try to figure out,
how are we going to get Jokermore space? How are we going to

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get guys like Jamal Murray open toshoot threes? My guess is they're I
have something and it's just how fastin the the Wolves? So the first
quarter is going to be very interesting. Wouldn't it be nice though, just
to do kind of what we didin Game one before the Nuggets came back?
But can't can you imagine just likean eighteen to four start again,
just sweet bury any optimism they havein the first quarter, that place might

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shake to its coreat eighteen to four. Let's just do that pract the foundation,
Yes, well set just scare them. Obviously perish and hockey. You
guys watched this, but the NBAplayoffs resumed last night. We had a
shocker. The Calves crushed the Celticseighteen one eighteen excuse me, to ninety
four to tie the series one toone. I think I saw last night

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that the Calves were like plus sixthirty five on the money line. I
think that's what it was. DonovanMitchell had twenty nine. Game three is
tomorrow at seven thirty, and thenthe MAVs beat the thunder one nineteen one
ten to even that series at oneone. Yeah, a couple of minor
upsets yesterday, minor to major.Actually, I don't know, first loss

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of the the playoffs so far withthe thunder Light. Yeah, they're good
man. Did you guys hear whatthe the Calves had to say after the
game? No, I can't finda damn callous effect. I know I
got one in here. Sorry.Who do they beat it? Who did
they sweep in round one? Howam I forgetting? Already? They swept

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Sacramento? No, the hells arethey beating round one? That's how?
That's how. That's how uncompetitive thatseries was. I already forgot who they
swept? They swept Crickets, thePelicans. Pelicans, that's right, the
Crickets. Yeah, the Crickets.Before the Wolves game tonight, we have

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the refs and the Knicks at thePacers at six. The Pacers are seven
and a half point favorites and theover on two twenty two and a half.
Game time is six o'clock now I'mtrying toay you, thank you,
Perry. Let's get on over tothe NHL. You're awful, I know,
I am. The Rangers have wonseven straight hockey games after they beat

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the Hurricanes three to two and oht to take a commanding three to zero
lead. Yeah, Igor Schassterkin isabsolutely on fire. Hyah that one bill
Yeah oh no. Yeah. Modernmedicine's amazing. Carolina needs a lot of
it because Shasterkin is absolutely incredible.He's He's been stopping forty to fifty some
shots a night, has still againhas let in over three three goals or

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less. And I think thirty gamesnow are close to thirty games. And
plus the team in front of themis flying Sabana Jad Peneren Cryder. Everybody's
going on the Rangers. So thePresident's Trophy winning team in the NHL,
and they certainly look like they're don'tthey want to bust that streak of President's
Trophies and Stanley Cups because they lookincredibly their penalty kill I don't think Carolina

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has scored a power play goal maybewon this series at all. I mean,
they're just they're their top to bottoma horrifyingly good hockey team right now.
A couple days ago, we justasked you that exact question. Did
everybody overlook the Rangers? And you'relike, well, maybe not the hockey
community, but the public definitely did. Vegas definitely did right because the favorite
going on to the playoffs was theCarolina Hurricanes. Yeah, slightly ahead of

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the Florida Panthers and teams like theOilers. That what shocked me. Now
the Rangers are the favorite. DraftKingshasn't at plus three thirty slightly ahead of
the Panthers and the Dallas Stars andthe Oilers, but the Arrangers at plus
three thirty now have officially taken overthe favorite to win the title. That's
that's It's about time. Maybe they'vefinally been watching the NHL Network, because
yeah, we've we've been We've beentalking about those guys all the time all

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year. They've been incredible. They'vehad, you know, they like three
nine games street win streaks that theyput together. They had a big lull
kind of in the middle. Butthat some everybody goes through. And the
big thing is is just starking mygod. I mean, whenever it comes
down to when it come to playoffs, when you look at a ma when
I'm doing my bracket at the beginningof the playoffs, and I got to

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this when the Rangers in Carolina.I literally it was it was. It
wasn't easy, but it's the factof the matter is the New York Rangers
have Igor Shasterkin and nobody else does. The Carolina Hurricanes at Frey Anderson,
who's been good. He's been good, but good doesn't cut it in the
playoffs when you run into a monsterlike Igor. All right, this might
be a meet Sauce moment because youmay have just said this, but I'm

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going to ask you a trivia questionthat you may have answered in the last
sixty seconds. So this is whatit feels like when you're not sure if
somebody just said something. To behonest, I wasn't listening to him,
and I'm now I'm not listening toyou. You just said the streak right
of President's Trophy winners not winning theStanley Cup, it's been a while.
Do you know who the last onewas? And when it was? Zach

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You can jump into if you know, do you know the last go aheadular
season points leader in the NHL towin the Stanley Cup Blackhawks here slow it
was Claire Underwood. I don't knowwhy, but some of the ninety four
Rangers. Wasn't the ninety four Rangers? Was it one than thirty years ago?
Zach? What's your guest? Ithought maybe one of the years that

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Blackhawks were good, Like what year? Like eleven? Zach, you ignorance
slut you are? It was theChicago Blackhawks twenty twelve through twenty thirteen weren't
even close. Yeah, not evenclose that I was. I was way
closer my original six and twenty yearsbefore. Way to go, Zach,

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Chicago Blackhawks twenty twelve is what I'mjust that one time too. You're not
a hockey goalcor didn't do a Wikipedia. The only team to accomplish this feat
more than once is the Detroit RedWings. Yeah there's some. Yeah,
well, all these original six hashave records that are kind of obscene when
you go back for one hundred yearsof hockey for those six teams or No,

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but Martins, we already talked talkabout the Wolves before you got here,
so we have moved on. Iapologize. Okay, no more Wolves
stop. We'll have a good weekend, guys. I'll come to you I'm
super excited. Yeah, go on, I'm super excited today tonight, tonight,
the juice is loose and no,thank you very much. Ant.

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I feel like tonight is the nightwhere we find out if Denver has a
pulse because I heard the SoundBite youjust played from Chris Finch about we expect
their best. This is a championshipteam, great coaching staff, all that,
and that is the right attitude thatthe Wolves need to have. Of
Course, I don't know what we'regoing to get out of Denver because we
might have already taken the life outof them, because that's what I expected

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to see in Denver, especially inGame two after they'd lost on their home
court, and then we went aheadand dominated them even more. So I'm
not sure what the Nuggets have leftthat the Timberwolves can a just soul suck.
But I guess we'll find out tonight. How can you play that a
SoundBite that you just played from AnthonyEdwards? The h That's what I'm trying

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to tell you. I certainly canyou ready yep? That? Well,
I'm trying tay you so. Acouple of days ago, Sports Center reposts
an old interview years ago with MarnieGaelliner and Anthony Edwards and everybody loves all
of his cute soundbites. Now becausenow that Aunt his aunt, and people
are going back into the archives andthey found that interview, and now the
whole country watched you interview Aunt abouttrash can ball and how he would be

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good at hockey. It was afun interview. That was a Wolve's plus.
Thank you. Yes, that wasa Wolve's plus. That that was
done on media day of his rookieseason. No one had met him,
no one had heard from him.In fact, the only information we had
from him, because it was twentytwenty COVID very much around. The only
info we had on him was thatESPN report of he might not really like

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basketball that much and we might havejust drafted another Andrew Wiggins type. And
so I did that through an iPad. I was in our studio two blocks
away from Mayo Clinic Square, andhere comes this just turned eighteen year old
kid. And we did this halfan hour, probably went forty minutes,

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and we all wrapped it up andthanked him, and then we all looked
at each other and we went,did we just get punked? I had
no idea if he was toying withus, playing with us, effing with
us. It was the most bizarre, enjoyable, memorable, crazy ride of
an interview I've had, even inthe fifty seconds that they that they posted

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and showed. Yeah, you seemto have fun with the back and forth.
Totally did? You were just egginghim on? I totally did.
I just was hoping in the end, please don't be effing with me,
because this is so much fun.At one point, he talked about he
had just gotten two dogs over duringCOVID, and so I was asking him
about them, and he said,well, I was either gonna get dogs

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or lions, but I didn't havethe yard for lions. I remember that.
I was like, or what?And then I didn't want to react
to emotionally because I didn't want himto go Did you just fall for that?
He wasn't kidding. He wasn't kidding. Here's the snipper we're talking about.
By the way, I'm trying totell you, Yeah, you were

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the best player on your team.Now we're talking you could hit the ball,
but our fourth fifth hitter. Youknow what that means? Clean up?
Yeah, straight clean up? Onasle three, come come get it.
Sounds like you're just an athlete.Yeah, any okay, ping pong,
baseball, football, basketball, andis swimming. Whatever you need me

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to play, I'm gonna go doit. If it's some money on the
line, I'm gonna go do it. Can you golf, whatever you need
me to do, Okay, hockey, whatever owner on the ring, whatever
you need me to do, gotit, trash camball, whatever you want.
Trash can cook, cook food.There's some dom I bet I'd be

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a one from day one at eighteenyears old. Could you have done any
of that with a camera in yourface? I couldn't have done any of
that. And he started out,if you ever go back and watch the
whole thing, it was very Helooked like an eighteen year old and it
was just a natural conversation and sortof none of that gold came until you

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know, maybe five minutes in orsomething. He got a little comfortable and
we kind of established a rapport.That's because you did your job, and
then that stuff started coming out andhe he was locked in and it was
it was a lot of fun aboutnot just the ascension of Anthony Edwards but
against Stephen A. Smith right thinksthe Wolves are going to win the title.
On ESPN right now, they havethe panel talking about the playoffs and

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the how the Celtics lost last night, and the question they just did for
Factor Fiction was, you know,are the Celtics the best team in the
NBA because they're the favorite Vegas favoritesto win the entire thing and Zach load
isa as fiction, the Timberwolves arethe best. Like, every everybody is
jumping on the Timberwolves band wagon.And the more that jump on, the
more uncomfortable I'm starting to get.Because it was fun when we knew,

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like, hey, the Wolves aregood. The country doesn't think that the
Wolves are good. Now everybody thinksnot only do they think that were good,
there's a lot of people planting theflag saying this is the team that
is winning the title. And it'sso bizarre. Turned after Game two in
Denver, it did. It wasn'tthe four game sweep of Phoenix that got
people's attention. They were like,Okay, this is a legit team.
And even game one in Denver,Wow, that was impressive. This is

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a legit team. Then Game twoin Denver, that's when you heard multiple
people they're gonna win it all.They're the champs. That's the best.
It was the style of game right, because Game one it was so back
and forth until the Wolves pulled awayin the final half of a quarter.
Right, it was then, okay, they stole game one. Well,
game two wasn't just we stole it. We just we absolutely just bum rushed

(27:52):
them from day one and had theyhad no chance and they looked overmatched.
And that's that's why people were saying, I don't know what Denver can do
about this because they just don't havean advantage, which is crazy because the
three time MVP is their star,right, and they can't find an advantage
against the Timberwolves. That's how deepwe are. And you heard Charles Barkley
say that's the best defense I've everseen an NBA team play. That's sweet.

(28:18):
That's good to be heard in theplayoffs right there. Yep, yeah,
Pat, I've been told defense winschampionships. I've heard that somewhere once
or twice. If it's true,Man, y got a good show.
But how often do we see inthe NFL where a defense is unbelievable but
the offense is inept? Right,then, it's normally not enough to get
you over the finish line. Yougot to have both, and that's what
the Wolves have. Though. Haveyou got guys that can dunk? We

(28:40):
have a whole bunch of three pointshooters, including two guys that are seven
feet tall. Right. The factthat nas Reed and Kat can both shoot
from three, that's the difference becausethat gets Joker out of the lane defensively
and vice versa too. It's it'sthat's why I think we survived without Rudy
in game two, is you gotseven footers that can stretch the court.
The two guys that are out thereare threats offensively seven feet tall. Wow,

(29:03):
that's a huge. And then you'vegot you didn't even mention Anthony Edwards,
dude when you were talking about theoffensive. Yeah, back, why
we are that good? We arethe world. I can't wait for tonight.
Let's just win by ninety tonight,ninety like I don't know, like
one twenty to thirty. Yeah'd besweet. Viking's news if there is any

(29:27):
his next But Marty Galder is here, Mark Parrish is here. We're playing
initials at eight fifteen sixty five thousanddollars on the line with the Saint Paul
Federal Credit Gion initials Jackpot. Thisis the Power Trip morning show on the
fan, planning again coming back becauseParis, Yes, did Harbor and Home

(29:51):
and their song change local band ightfive Harley at Home. I do I
like this a lot, he say, Parish and I have some questions for
you, guys. I know we'resupposed to. I I he's just brought
to you by rag Comb. Yeahright, and rad is gonna be sponsored
me and then if he's in aminute, I thank you for rookie Mini
Camp sauce today. Yes, rookieMini Camp, that's right. But but

(30:11):
Paris and I have some questions.We have questions because we watched our very
first basketball game of the year onMonday night. Yes we did, we
not? He and I. Werealized we both hadn't seen a single moment
of a vootball game until money,So we have some questions. Would you
guys be wanting to answer some questions? Of course? Why is it charging?
Yeah? I don't like that one. I don't think I don't charging

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because you knew I was going tothe basketball You say, yeah, I
don't get it. Like that guyliterally intentionally gets in your way. You're
so you're allowed to just stand inthe way, and then that guy's not
allowed to just like if I gotthat ball, like I'm going right through
it. I'm trying. It's notyou. Nobody gets in his way.
He just stands there and he's clearlymoving. He's just stands there. That's
that's an invite for that guy withthe ball to put his shoulder right in

(30:53):
the middle of that standing man's chestand bury him on the way he is
asked money, the floor is yours. That ruled that rule bothered the crap
out of me. I think thedifference is that you're you're used to hockey,
where that kind of collision is notonly allowed but celebrated. Same in

(31:15):
football. The baseball is catches getrun over. Okay, baseball only Okay,
No, we're not talking about that. That's not a collision that happens
throughout the game time and time,and we're not wearing any shoulder pads.

(31:36):
No pads, no, I mean, look at the basketball players, no
helmet. Well, don't get inhis way. I still have a couple
of blazers with some that I mean, obviously, it's a it's a health
and safety protection players. I'm sorrythat it doesn't vibe the violence you're looking

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for. Well, it's like frustratingme. It's like, you know,
you get going if you just somebodyjust gets away, he's got to stop
and move around like what like,yeah, just you can only get in
your way if he sets his feet. If he's meaning, then the follow
is on him. You Can's whatI'm asking. Okay, so you have
to be if he's just standing therewith his hands like you can't crush into

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him, right, but your feetaren't set, then it's the foul on
the defender. You have to beoutside of the restricted area as well.
Right in what I was about towhat, you're right in the center of
the lane, like almost right underthe hoop. Okay, you got me,
I'm there. I'm with you.There's a there's a circular line thing.

(32:45):
Nope, in the lane throw linething. Free throw line is like
I know what that's keep going whereI'm talking under the basket. Okay,
Oh I got you. Okay,there's a circular of painted area and you're
the heels of the player, Imean the feet and the heels totally have

(33:07):
to be out of Okay, thankyou, this is the best thing.
Let's say there's a couple of diehardNuggets fans that are in town going Game
three. I want to see ifthese idiots are trash talking are champion Nuggets.
Let's flip on the old sports talkmorning show. Let's see if they're

(33:28):
talking trash about our Nuggets. Whatdo you think that show that you listen
to? They explained it too,of the guys what charging was for about
four and a half minutes professional hockey. Okay, okay, they were debating
whether or not you should be ableto run right through somebody pull your hands
up. Not these two. ButI was in there talking and they said

(33:51):
a couple of friends of theirs,the first game they'd watched all season game
said that on their thanks for listening. Yeah, So they explained what charging
was, and then one of thehosts had hated it so much, tuned
out the entire conversation and then justrepeat it what the other guy had already
said. Let me ask you thisquestion. Didn't it used to be a
rule that you couldn't take a coupleof steps without dribbling the ball. That

(34:13):
is new in the last like thirtyyears. You can basically just grab onto
the ball and run full court andthey will not call traveling. That doesn't
make sense to me. Is thattrue? Is he messing with me?
No? There was a there wasa play against Phoenix where Rudy Gobert I
think took seven steps and the Sunsfans were pissed. Yeah, that was
a crazy travel and they didn't callit. Hey, it happens though.

(34:37):
Right to air is to be human. Let the skill go. Fans want
to see the skill anyway. Letthe skill players have the ball, let
them go. I don't know ifthat was super skillful or graceful, but
he didn't make the layup. Yeah, that's traveling. That was traveling.
Hey, that's what I'm looking at. Was it used to be what one?
Two steps used to be two two? There's a nuance of continuation and

(35:00):
the gather, and there are thereare times when just visually to the eye
it looks like, wow, that'sa travel Then you slow it down and
say, well he's gathering on thefirst step, so that get to gather
and then the two steps. Letslet's reverse this. Ken Sauce eloquently explain

(35:21):
the euro step to Mark and Chris. Yes or no? Do you think
he can do it or not?Can Sauce explain what a euro step is
to market there? But I don'tthink he can get there eloquently, all
due respect, with all due respect, all right, take your best shot.
They don't know what the euro stepis, do you know? Explaining

(35:42):
its trying in basketball? Yes?Basketball? What is the euro step to
them? To them? Yes,the eurostep is where you can go down
the court and you can basically takea step and you Curtsey, no,
I'm kidding, but you can takea step. I don't really know.

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I don't know either. I don'treally known. You explained it. I
don't really know. I've literally neverheard of it before. I would say
the best way to kind of explainit is it is almost like a lateral
step. Right, it looks likeyou're taking a third step, so it's
kind of an optical illusion, butit's instead of going forward with your third
step, it's kind of sideways inthe left. It's like a more layup

(36:28):
where you're taking you know, youget to pick the ball up and take
two steps when you're when you're goingfor a layup. You guys know that,
right, huh? Of course,like you learn that in great school
steps, but in a Euro step, when you pick the ball up you
kind of go to the right andthen the left a little bit forward still,
but it looks a little awkward,but it's very effective than yourself.

(36:53):
If they are listening right now,Nuggets fans are going, this is the
worst morning show I've ever heard.Normally, it's worse than this. Actually,
yeah, it's honestly worse than That'snot learning. We're learning is number
two in the thirty five year historythe Timberwolves. These guys haven't had to
learn the rules. We haven't mattered, correct, They're just trying to play
catch up. It's fine they procrastinatein their homework is due tonight for game

(37:15):
three and they forgot. Still verysupportive. I mean, I'm on the
Wolves bend wagon. Let's rock,and I'm sorry if your morning show pretends
they know everything exactly, we don't. I don't know. I'd rather ask
the question and get the answer.What do you think of that? How
about this rule? It's called theback to the basket violation. That sounds
sexual. I don't know what thatis. Back to the basket violation,

(37:38):
she says, five second, backto the basket violation. An offensive player
in his front court below the freethrow line extended shall not be permitted to
drouble with his back or side tothe basket for more than five seconds.
I've never seen that in the world. I'm reading it from NBA dot com
right now. That just sounds becauseit sounds like the headache the refs interesting

(38:01):
results of paying attention to everything elsewhile you're counting somebody out, Like,
come on, it must be seriousbecause they cut one of your testicles off.
Oh wow, It says the resultis a loss of ball. Saw
should get that joke? A checkout? Oh yeah, did I check
out? Or not? A kindof plastical joke. The ball back to

(38:22):
the basket if you get it.They whoa, somebody just ralped? Somebody
throw up ralphed? What year isthis ralped? I don't know. Is
that what people say? Now?Yeah, that's what the kids are saying.
Somebody threw up. Nope, Well, I invite you to watch game
three tonight. Let's go, let'slet's go. What time is it at

(38:46):
eight thirty? Hawk knew that,Torres. What are your responsibility tonight?
What are you doing tonight? IAm going to shoot around this morning,
and then taping a little preview withJim Pete about Game three tonight, and
then I'm going to links practice thisafternoon. Sidebar, let's go. They

(39:07):
start on Tuesday, the season opens, and then game tonight, just doing
like the pregame stuff, like coveringthe the pregame press conference from Chris Finch
and then watching the game as afan with no halftime report. What but
from the media section, you know, Rosie's only sitting media section tonight.
He's not sitting? Did not know, yes, And he said, according

(39:29):
I heard him on Common say thisthe other day. He's fine with it.
He doesn't have to sit for arow. He said, he's absolutely
fine sitting in the media section.There there is a regular season media section,
and then there is a postseason anda second round. Because the media
has now gotten larger section of themedia. So I wonder if he's got
his regular season seat or if he'sbeen bumped up at all some other media

(39:54):
members have been. I would bethe would leave. He checked us guys,
is that right? But he didn'tcare. I thought, no,
he doesn't care. Parrish and Iare fascinated by something. Can we tell
you what it is? Yeah.Can we sure I need response? When
I asked a question, Sorry,daddy, Do you guys know about the
Stelly brothers st l L Y No, Tanya Stelly had to be in two

(40:22):
places at once. It's from theAthletic on January ninth. Nothing new to
her because it's a tradition of thepast three years. Whenever the NBA and
the NHL schedules collide in just theright way. The Knicks. We're playing
with the Portland Trailblazers inside the world'smost famous arena, Madison Square Garden.
On Tuesday. Her son, QuentinGrimes, is a guard with the was

(40:43):
a guard, but the next timenow he's on the Pistons. So her
son Quentin was playing basketball twenty milesto the east, her son Tyler,
who's with the Canucks, was playingin the NHL. Her sons, one
of them is an NBA player,one of them's an NHL player. Did
you guys know that? No?No, I this is blowing my mind
because I'm supposed to know this.I know exactly who Tyler is. Yeah,

(41:05):
Tyler Myers. It's unbelievable. Icannot believe I didn't know the story
and his brother Quinton plays for nowthe Piston. The Pistons didn't know that.
How about that? I mean we'veheard Chelsea's like, you know,
yeah, and it's two different winters, very different winter sports. How do

(41:30):
you do that growing up? You'rejust talking about yeah more No, he's
got Yeah, he's stuck now withMarty's a basketball player, so he's he's
in the uh, the gyms asmuch as he's in the rink. And
he's splitting back and forth. Andwe were just talking about the poor guy.
Yeah, he's got to go watchbasketball all the time. We might
have we might have cousins square offin the next round in the NBA playoffs.
Does that count? But that's thesame man, same sports. You

(41:54):
know which cousins I'm referring to.Yeah, it's Lyde's Giljess Alexander and and
the other guy. They have noidea that he's on this team. It's
Takiel Alexander, right, of course, you know who that is. He
made the big threes the other day, Yes see he did, That's right,
he made the big threes. Comeon, mane Chris is passing every
basketball test. Hey, speaking ofbig threes, do you want to hear

(42:15):
another basketball story. Yeah, doyou remember a guy named Glenn Davis?
Yeah, Big Baby, how aboutthis? He got forty months in prison
for defrauding the NBA player's Health andBenefit Welfare plan, plus three years supervised
release as well. He is,he's going to be going away for a
while. He's one of eighteen formerplayers now that have been sentenced in that

(42:36):
case. Eighteen. Wow, it'slike twenty two people total, twenty two
or twenty three, but eighteen ofthem are former players accused of stealing money
with fraudulent medical and dental claims.Yeah, wow, man thirty eight years
old, Big Baby Davis. Andeven if you were not a star in
the NBA, you would think youhad made enough money. If you played

(42:59):
in the NBA, play safe,even if you'd played five you should be
like, well, you're good forlife. There's always more, right.
That's why billionaires find tax loopholes andthere's corruption in this and that it's never
enough. Marins. Just don't begreedy. Greed is good. Was Big
Baby on the Celtics team that KGwon this championship with? He might have
been because he was on the Celticsteam and said two thousand and eight championship

(43:22):
with the Celtics. That was thatwas there. You go, well,
now he's going to prison. Yeah, man, that sucks. You don't
want the nickname big baby when you'rein prison. Your big baby, specially
Pa was in prison probably too.What at some point he's going to be

(43:43):
no, no, most likely hereat the fan to be at prison,
in prison for something before the endof their life. Most likely nobody,
nobody, well, somebody is themost likely. Oh n be is probably
the least likely. Yeah, Iracked my brain with the question. I'm

(44:09):
uncomfortable it. Maybe yeah, mybrain's just not letting me come up with
them uncoverable. I'm going to Ithink it is a probably not me.
I don't care. Well, youwere in the running a handful of years
ago, I'm guessing yeah. Iwas right at the top of that list.
Hey, did you guys know that, didn't that? A guy named

(44:30):
Michael I'm sorry. Patrick Beverley playedfor US at one point. Ye,
for sure. He got a fourgame suspension for throwing his balls. Yeah
technically, yeah, one of hisballs at a fan. Well, that's
right, aggressively, and then hetreated again of the locker room like an
absolute bed back and forth in thelocker room was the worst shocking to me.
It's the really not only that hewould say it, but that everybody

(44:52):
else just kind of went around whenabout business as usual. So Mark and
Christian talking about or not not aclue. So Pat Bev gets knocked out
of the playoffs with the Bucks theother day. And there is a female
ESPN producer named Melinda something. What'sher it doesn't matter, remember a very
established, well accomplished ship. I'dnever heard of it, but apparently she's

(45:12):
a big deal. That's fine.She she's asking him a question in the
locker room, and he says,do you subscribe to my podcast? And
she goes, no, I don't. He goes, well, then you
can't ask a question. So hesays that bluntly. Then it gets worse
though then even though she kind ofI don't want to say cowers, but
she kind of just says on herand she just stopped. She stops asking
the questions. But she's holding anESPN microphone kind of by his face,

(45:37):
and at first he doesn't notice it, but then when he turns slightly to
his right, he pushes the microphoneaway from his face. Like, get
your microphone away from me, andhe tells her to step up, step
backway from because she's a pro.She's like, she knows she's every right
to be there. So she kindof puts her microphone back in pat Beev's
face, and he does it evenmore so the second time, basically like

(45:57):
no, you get out of here. Basically, if you're not subscribing to
my podcast, then get lost.It was just so pathetic. And then
then Shocking on his podcast talked abouthow he has to be better, he
is going to be better. It'slike, I wonder, I mean,
it's just clickbait. Yeah, correct, So it seem to go about the
clickbait again. It's one of thosemoments. If everybody could have just been

(46:22):
in the moment and realize it,it would have been great to have everybody
just go, well, none ofus subscribe to your podcast, So I
guess we're all going to leave becausethe podcast sucks and just walk out in
unison and go, we don't carewhat you have to think. Then I
guess none of us subscribe to yourgarbage podcast. Nobody cares. He does
a podcast about garbage. Garbage theband he loves, Alternative with female lead

(46:43):
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