April 9, 2026 • 48 mins
Ben Leber talks about some great family news and some not-so great alma mater news, podcast economics are discussed, Ben shares his latest steam (or lack thereof) for this year's NFL Draft
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
May I go?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Then Labor's here?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Been?
Speaker 6 (00:23):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Big plans this weekend? Anything fun?
Speaker 7 (00:25):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
My gosh, but see my kiddo's lucky of them are
going to Morgan wall And on Friday night.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Not gonna go.
Speaker 7 (00:33):
No, I'm not going. My wife's not going either.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Oh nice?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Uh not that I don't, Not that I don't. It's
not like I don't like him. I like him. It's
just that it wasn't really on my radar. My kids were,
My kids wanted to go, They're going with friends.
Speaker 7 (00:47):
And then Saturday night, gosh.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
We have something Saturday night, and I could not. Oh yeah,
there's like a there's another like school kid event or something.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Oh you're not going Tommy's party?
Speaker 7 (01:00):
Probably not.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I'm going to be the only one there.
Speaker 7 (01:03):
You are going to be the only one there.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I did feel bad yesterday when he was talking about
how many parties he's invited us to and nobody's gone.
That's all he wants, And there is a part of
me that just wants to surprise him. Yeah, I think
I you know, maybe we should just talk off air,
if there is a way that we could just all
show up.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
I mean, it's just surprised.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I'm gonna tell you right now.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
He would burst into tears, woulds because you know, we
caught him doing something you shouldn't be doing.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Oh you hope it's cent he home.
Speaker 7 (01:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (01:34):
Can you imagine, like seven of us carpool, we show up.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
And it's just him and schmoll and they're.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Disappointed because they wanted some time alone.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Ben.
Speaker 8 (01:46):
You posted it on social media, So I assume it's
okay to bring up with what your daughter decided this week?
Speaker 9 (01:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, how about this officially going to Auburn?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah yeah, super super excited.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
FO are very proud of her.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
You know these well, all of these you know, all
these kids that are graduating trying to decide what they're
gonna do with the rest of their lives, at least
for the next four or five years.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Is it's it's a long road.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
It's stressful, there's it's such a long process starting their
junior year, and you know, you hear from all these
other parents about what it what it looks like in
their junior year, all the way through their senior year,
and until you're really in it.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
You're like, wow, this is a this is a lot, just.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
The prep, the testing, getting all this all the paperwork ready,
you know, deciding like what schools may be candidates and potentials,
and then you know it's just a long time. So
you know, for weeks we've been saying to her, like,
just make a decision, like you you've got it down
between Tennessee and Auburn, Like you can't make a bad choice.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
And it was close to fifty to fifty in.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Her mind now it was It's always been like ninety
percent of year because she'll she'll try to ride her
club equestrian stuff there because they have a program. It's
a stronger club team than Tennessee. She just has a
little bit of a close her bond I think to
Auburn and just kind of the feel and what she's
like the campus or the campus, the size.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Of the school. That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
That's a small college town. She wants football weekends. All that,
I mean good unbelievable, Kelly Ma.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
To be young and to be able to choose to
go to that schools fantastic.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
All right, Sauce, you like sports? Right?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No?
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Yeah, what no poker? Phase it?
Speaker 9 (03:20):
Oh for the next twenty seconds, get over here.
Speaker 8 (03:24):
Do we believe Sauce knows the state that Auburn is in?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, yeah, of course, one.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
Hundred Well, everybody says one hundred percent, but.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I would, I would actually, I will actually put money
on the fact that he doesn't know what town.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
It's interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
All right, Sauce.
Speaker 8 (03:46):
Everybody says one hundred percent, you know what state Auburn
is in.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
It's in Alabama, and it's in.
Speaker 10 (03:55):
It's got like the tree that they like all talk about,
like one guy like poisoned it one year and it died.
What was the tree called the trn Yeah, Tim Tree.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
I also let me help you a little bit. I
wouldn't have known either. But if you had to guess,
what would you guess?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Wasn't it in the town Auburn? Ben, You are correct?
Is Auburn? Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
A lot of people, a lot of people don't realize
that it's in the town of Auburn, Alabama.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Didn't know that.
Speaker 9 (04:29):
Yeah, it's sweet with the city name as well.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
It's cool, dude, the fun.
Speaker 10 (04:33):
I mean, one of the greatest college football games and
that guy caught was it the kickoff?
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Yeah? Kicks, that's outstanding. Good for her Man.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Can you imagine a fall Yeah, football Saturday, the leaves
are changing, Alabama's in town and you are twenty years
old and free to go just have the day of
your life. Good for her Man. Yeah, good for her.
I'm so happy for that's so cute.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, you know, I mean of all things, I mean,
we can all be very proud of our kids and stuff,
but she really has worked her butt off academically. And
the fact that she got into so many these really
really good schools and actually had to make a tough choice,
I think that's the win in and of itself. Is Look,
you got into literally ninety percent of the schools that
(05:18):
you applied to, and she know she was applying to
some big schools, and so she she did a great
job with all of her essay or acts and all
of her stuff.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
She really she really deserved it.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
So you know, she got a little merit money as well,
so there's a little bit of academic scholarship involved, so
that's it's good for her.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Did she at all consider going to Ames Iowa and
Iowa State University.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
No, No, not at all, And she applied.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
The funny thing is she applied to Kansas State just
for fun and applied online. She got she heard back
within twenty four hours that she got in, which you
know is if you know the process, that sort of
unheard of and it's kind of laughable, you know, like wow,
they just wow, I didn't realize Kansastate just lets everybody.
(06:08):
A lot of these schools take weeks, if not months
to decide if you if you made the cut or not.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
In case, Date's like no, no, you're in.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
No, come on, you walked over, took that diplomb off
the wall and just threw in the trash.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Let me ask you the one question that I know.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
I know Aimes again, she's smart, I know she she
factored us in.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
But so, what's the casino situation in.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
And around Auburn and the state of Alabama.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Zero. Oh, she's a terrible choice. You know. Here's the
crazy thing.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Because she wants to she wants to rush for sorority
in Greek life in the in this part of the South,
and it's actually maybe not as unheard of once we
start looking into it. There are no individual sorority houses
because of the brothel laws because too many now having
too many women, a certain dwelling or domicile is considered
(07:05):
a brothel in the South.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
But you can't grow up together. Yeah, they can have fraternities.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
You say that about a lot of different Well, she.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Is crazy because in Minnesota we're trying to we're trying
to get those fraternities in the tournament bath house. Sure,
but still in that area of the South, they're like,
there are sororities, but you can't have sorority houses.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Get a bunch of filthy Jezebels. Yeah, totally completely.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
There's a lot of em.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
So will she be pledging for the Omega moves? I
don't think so, although that would be my wish those moves. Sure,
ken parties?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
All right?
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Diff ye?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
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right now?
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Right?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I'll change that.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
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Speaker 2 (08:00):
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(08:21):
Revenue for podcasters on the direct to fan platform generated
six hundred and twenty nine milken dollars in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
That's suppressing. Why did you bring that off?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
A thirty three percent year over year increase.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Podcasts have become the largest content category on the platform
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Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, you heard my.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Say a million a month month. Yeah, I don't know.
Sleepy Joe was doing a podcast. Is he's showing a
lot of skin.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I don't know who Joe Biden is. I really don't.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
He's a rapper, yeah, he was never like crazy popular
as a rapper, but he's he has a gigantic.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Audience when it comes to podcasting.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You remember when we were talking to our boss and
we said, just let us put it on Patreon, and
well we'll share the profits, and they were.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Like, that'll never work. I do remember that, never yep.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And then we want to keep it free for everybody.
Speaker 10 (09:35):
Remember when they can only find how much we made
like one day a year, and.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
They kept saying these great words, which I loved, they
were my favorites.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
We're going to get you those numbers, yep.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
They said it for twelve consecutive months. They would find
those numbers for us. It is weird when you have
to pay us you can miraculously find those numbers and
never show them to us. And then the money that
we get is very very small.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Interesting, But you know, it's not even about that.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
For me. The fact of the matter is just like,
just make a good decision once, right, Yeah. Just I
know we're idiots and we talk about wieners and stuff
here talking about it, but just give us a chance.
We have good ideas sometimes, no horrible I did never
go to work. Johnny Bones is over there with a direction.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Right yeah.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
And then remember when Johnny Bones broke down, how much,
by the way, we shouldn't have been in the room.
How much money a podcasts like ours would should make and.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
We're like, look, guys, these are real numbers. They were like,
numbers are dub.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Every time Zach's has done a basic Google search and
saying like, here's how many downloads we get a month.
Here's essentially what that equates to in advertising. And if
the number is jack and it's like, none of that
trickles back.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
I remember we were of it.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
We threatened you we will quit if you don't let
us do the right thing, and they were like fine,
and so we did and they were like cool.
Speaker 9 (10:59):
How about how about the time we had how about
the time we had the meeting.
Speaker 8 (11:02):
They're like, hey, if you guys do original content, if
you start your own podcast, we have a structure now
in place where you guys can make some money, like
in addition if you start, And we're like, sounds great.
We'd love to see that format. We'd love to see that.
You know, plan those numbers crickets. That was what I
forgot three years ago. We have been showing those numbers
in that structure.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Zero actually wrote us an email that said crickets because
they wouldn't pay the crickets to be there.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Right, Well, I mean I heard is guaranteed insect Yeah, right, right,
we don't say.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I dude's making a million dollars per month, you guys,
I mean something I cannot believe.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
I mean, I am, I am not obviously, I haven't
had one second. And your guys just shoes for those meetings.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
And it makes me get a migraine listening to you
guys talk about that.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
It's really frustrating.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
I can't imagine that.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, you know why it's frustrating for me.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And again, I am I'm certainly pleased with my life,
and I'm very, very lucky, and I know that. But
having an opportunity that seems obvious and and and to
not be allowed to do it, it's like, well.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
And the thing is, it's like it doesn't require much
out of the well, out of the actual organization.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
We were doing the work.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I know, you're already doing the work, and it's it's
literally just going to a different platform and offering one thing.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
There we go, but not everybody had to do a podcast.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Do we have to get our stuff and walk down
to the end of the yet?
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Is that drop foot?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
No?
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Yeah, I don't understand the logic from there. Well, that
was at all. That's that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
It's illogical for them to hold you guys back from
at least trying a different avenue. And it's not to
replace what you guys are doing here. It's it's just
an add on. It's to do something different.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well, and and the person who came in from corporate
who was here that day, I'm sure doesn't work here anymore,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And so.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It's just it's tough. It's weird, man, it's weird. But again,
sorry for complaining about something that, but it's just it's odd.
It's very odd because we knew we could see and
not because we're geniuses. Johnny Bones was like, guys, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
They do.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
They do a very specific yeah Twins broadcast and he
Wins podcast.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
He feels the rich.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Money.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
He quit his job. Yes, he quit my job. Yep,
he almost did. He almost got you to quit one day,
a couple of times. But sometimes you got to just
let it go and say, you know what, I guess
I wasn't supposed to have that money.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
It's cool.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I was gonna do good things with it, like buy
thongs or gamble.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Or gamble right now, right now, in the Master's broadcast,
they're listening the notable tea times and there's Colin Morricawa's picture.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Do you have a ready to go at nine to nineteen?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Do you have any idea what that decision did to
local casinos?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Do you have money points?
Speaker 8 (13:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll about all the local poker players
and are getting I wouldn't give it out. I'm one
of the most philanthropic people in the Midwest. If you
look at my hand in mom, but yeah, you're huh
you don't worry about it?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Oh yeah, it's the craziest thing.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Is that a blimp? Is that a blimp?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
It turns like one.
Speaker 10 (14:17):
Colin more Cowell will be fun, relaxed, worry about somebody
last three holes, Corey.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Every time you walk into poker room.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
This from.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
One of the one of the signs that you know
that I'm loved in a poker room is the dozens
of guys that remind me when poker tournaments are Hey,
you're playing this weekend, right, don't forget there's a tournament
this weekend.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
I had forgot. No, no, you should be there at
ten am. It's gonna be fun, great environment. You should
be there.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
A whole group of met their bank.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Like they're essentially like, I really want to play this tournament,
but I'm make sure Corey is there, otherwise we're not
guaranteed some money.
Speaker 9 (14:57):
And they're like, you're spotted back, he's playing.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Sixteen years from there's a child stand up receiving their
high school diplomba going and I want to thank Corey
Cove for putting me through college.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
My dad just sat around and waited for him to
punt a stack on level seven.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
WHOA, what about your hendon mob? Yeah? Yeah, I don't
even know what that is. Think about this. If you
guys are on Patreon, you don't you could go?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Don't You could go to Europe for the World Cup
issue wont exactly?
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Yeah, what a great transition, because as sauce, today.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
We'll watch how many hours of the Masters?
Speaker 7 (15:36):
Ballpark it I have today?
Speaker 10 (15:40):
With my son, We're going to do a lot of activities.
He loves to watch much of it.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
A lot of activities, meaning just sit in your living
room and relax, Ben, He's.
Speaker 9 (15:49):
Ben, how many how many hours are you watching the
Masters today?
Speaker 8 (15:53):
About seven? I was multitasking. I think I watched about
six hours.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Of the World Series of Poker Europe yesterday.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
About six maybe more. You were doing what while doing it?
I'm multitasking.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
I was working, but it was on in my house
for at least six to seven hours.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
How much time I spend deadline yesterday?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
At least six to seven hours, six to seven minutes,
about about nine minutes.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
Wait, that's in Prague, Benjamin, that's in Prague and searches.
Speaker 9 (16:24):
No, here's a poker main event.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
That's pretty leap.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
And I treat myself that city man looks so god
dang beautiful.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
I got to go to Prague. I know I want
to go there too.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You know how many times we beat a progue?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Right now? If we've just been given that permission first clock.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Then you know what the crazy thing is that that
ends up being content for the next Patreon Exactly.
Speaker 9 (16:48):
It's like, hey, we can hear a travel podcast for Patreon.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I must say one more thing, and that's where I'm done.
We said, here's the thing. You can have fifty percent
of all of this or fifty percent of nothing, yep,
And they chose fifty nothing.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
That's exactly what it was.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Smart though, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
And I still can't believe it. Here's reason.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
I don't know why they have all those degrees, probably
yourself free.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
And I'm proud of us because we said if you don't,
if we can't do this, it's done for us to
keep going.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
We're just gonna have to quit. And they were like, okay,
so we did.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
So the amount of money then the amount of money
that I would have had versus the amount of money
I would have given away for example, dude, it was
one of the worst moments of my life. I had
to go to a school and basically tell like twenty
kids that I couldn't pay for their college tuition that
I had promised them.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
He's not frea what it.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
Was called Cove's kids, and they didn't get the money
that I was going to give them to graduate.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
So I, to.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Be honest, I didn't even have enough money to give
them all laptops to do online schooling. So I just
gave them all laptop batteries. They were lithium, but those
laptops are virtually useless without batteries.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I feel sorry for you.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Oh wait, no, Rosie from the office Sauso do sports
after this.
Speaker 11 (18:01):
This is the Power Tie Morning show on the fan
million dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Hey, it's time for some sports man, that's what we do,
so we love and the man who's got his finger
on the pulse of absolutely nothing.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
That's any time for a fan.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Five on the Power Trip.
Speaker 9 (18:38):
Mel loves you, Mel does love me.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I appreciate it, Mal he does.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Let's see here.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
The Wolves have two games left after they lost to
Orlando one thirty two to one with mostly backups. Tarren
Shannon Junior had thirty three. Jade McDaniels did play. He
played for nineteen minutes and at eighteen points. They battle
the Rockets tomorrow at eight thirty they will will be
the sixth seed in.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
The playoffs Max.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
So yeah, it was a perfect little ramp up for
Jade McDaniels because even though the Wolves didn't have a
whole lot to play for, Orlando's right in a dogfight
there in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
There's like a four or.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Five team log jam down there in that play in
kind of situation in the Eastern Conference, so they had
everything to play for it. So it was a perfect
kind of highly competitive environment for Jade McDaniels to get
his groove back. Nas we'd kind of got back in
the rhythm of things. He's been dealing with some shoulder stuff,
and it was awesome to see TSJ kind of just
explode there. I mean, we were expecting him to kind
(19:32):
of have ascension this year, but obviously injuries hampered that.
I don't see him getting in the rotation too much
during the playoffs because Chris Finch is pretty notoriously you know,
has a short leash when it comes to his rotations.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
But it was a good little ramp up game.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
It felt like the whole point of the game was
to get nas In Jaden back into a groove.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
In mission accomplished, so hopefully everybody can get healthy.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
They're prioritizing health because, like you said, they they got
nothing to play for.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Really.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Our opponent is to be determined, but it looks like
a date Denver next next weekend.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So basically, are we gonna rest our starters the rest
of the season.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
I would imagine.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
So yeah, I mean I could yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I mean, it's Anthony Edwards almost he's too valuable to
throw him out there just for nothing. But I could
see them maybe giving him a couple of minutes just
because he's been out for so long. But yeah, it's
at this point prioritize health because a lot of teams.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
That's say, say you play the Lakers, They're gonna be
That's a team that health is not their.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Fortune right now.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
So that could be, you know, an advantage heading for
the Wolves heading into the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Do you worry about a rust factor with with Ant.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
No, not really.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
In the past, I might have, but Anthony Edwards his
his game this year. Man, He's just he's taken it
to another level. Every single year he adds something to
his game, and this year it felt like consistency. It
felt like no matter what defense is through at him,
he was virtually unstoppable. I mean, if the Wolves, you know,
landed a little bit higher and they're in their seating,
(20:56):
I would imagine Anthony Edwards would be in these MVP
talks and if he was able to meet the sixty
five game threshold or whatever that is, I would imagine that.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
But I don't.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
I don't really worry about the RUSS factor with with
Anthony Edwards. I would have more so with maybe with
Jade McDaniels. But I looked like the knee was spine
last night.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Hey Ben, are you just too busy to care much
about the timberwlves?
Speaker 10 (21:14):
This year?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
It seems like normally you're more down with the squad.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
That's a great question. I think.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I think sometimes I just don't end up catching them live,
so I will all look at the box scores and
stuff like that. And I don't get me wrong, I
love going to the games and all.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
That stuff, but I mean, yeah, that.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
There's I think I think for me, there's not a
lot of hope. They're they're fantastic club, but as you
guys already laid out, we're stuck in the West. Yeah,
I just don't not that I'm not gonna cheer them on.
I just don't think they're gonna They might make a
little noise in the first round, but after that, I'm
(21:53):
not I'd be shocked if they if they advanced past that.
So I just feel like something's got a change. Is
as good as they are, there's something just like kind
of missing from this team.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
And it's it's hard to say.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
That because you were it's kind of a superstar conference.
So if we were in the East and be like,
oh my gosh, we're gonna be in the finals, this
is gonna be great.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
There's something off with this team that I just can't
rally behind.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
Well said.
Speaker 10 (22:22):
The Twins beat Detroit yesterday eight to six, their third
straight win. They are six and six, same two teams today.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
At did I write twelve forty? Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (22:33):
It is correct?
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Sweet mick Abel goes for your twins today.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Man.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
He's supposed to be pretty good too, right, So.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Agree, he's going too though.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
He's had a little bit of a rough start, but
he's supposed to be good. He was one of probably
the prize piece they got in all the trades they
made last year because they didn't know what they had
in Taj Bradley.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Who's an absolutely stud. What are we doing.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
I don't know playing bass? Didn't we sort of do
this last year with the Twins where they didn't expect
much and then we got off to like sort of
a hot star and then it just went all to Yeah,
it fell apart. So I mean, I'll ride this for
a while. I mean, it's exciting that they're actually playing
beyond what we thought.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
I know that. Honey. Thanks, that's so nice of you.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
He's so sweet to us. He is member. He was
mean and now he's so sweet.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Yeah. Well, it's the donuts man.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I don't mean much Tunnis anymore either.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Good for you. Yeah bye Rose zach O.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
The Wild battle the Stars tonight in Dallas at eight pm.
One of the biggest regular season games for our Wild.
They only trail the Stars by two points. Who they
will play in the playoffs home ice kind of on
the line in tonight's battle. Yeah, it really all comes
down to this and if yeah, if they win, obviously
(24:04):
it's full speed ahead, try to get the points and
beat the Stars team and get some home ice. But
if they lose, then it's a very wolveslike situation where
you're probably gonna maybe get some more guys ice time.
There's been you know, they've they've got a wealth of talent,
so there's been a lot of guys sitting for a
long long time. So hopefully maybe they can get an opportunity.
(24:26):
Actually really hopefully they don't. Hopefully the Wild wind tonight.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
But it's gonna be obviously tough on the road against
a very very good team, but they're gonna have to
win down there probably anyway here in a couple of weeks.
So it's a good playoff preview. Should be a fun
one eight o'clock start on the fan, hopefully hopefully you listen.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Let's goal.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
What do you say about how there are some people
that say they would be better off starting.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
On the road.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I mean I get what they're saying, because I mean
they have been good on the road this year and
even in recent years. I don't think they would be
better off from a data standpoint or from even a
feeling standpoint. I just don't think it's as bad as
you would normally think. So it's not better, but it's
not worse. It's just kind of either way. You just
(25:11):
like to have the little slate heage, Especially when you
have two teams that are this good and this close,
you want to have any sort of edge you can
get and home ice not only from the fans perspective,
but also the last change being able to lie and
match would be a little bit easier with that.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
So thanks honesty.
Speaker 10 (25:30):
The Masters is currently underway, and was Rosie gonna take
Max Homa because he's currently tied for the league.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Max Homa?
Speaker 9 (25:41):
No, he wanted Katoka from Japan.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
Oh why worse he yet? Minus one? He's your leader
through to that was Rosie's guy. Yeah, good for Rosie.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Come again.
Speaker 10 (25:53):
Oklahoma City will be the number one seed in the
NBA playoffs. Again, they will most likely win a lot
of games. I want to eat my sandwich.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, I can tell ye.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
I was the most likely win a lot of games.
Speaker 10 (26:11):
Well, they will, that's not no, you're not wrong. No,
they're the favorites to win the whole thing. Yes, and
they will likely win a lot of games.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
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Speaker 2 (26:20):
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Speaker 2 (28:33):
I've got some percent chance questions regarding your Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Okay, what's it called again?
Speaker 7 (28:40):
There sus percent chance you really sold it?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
You really did that?
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Yeah, just a beaten dog. Yes, chain to the corner.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
Sarah mclaughlan's singing her song.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
To you by Sarah mcglo Hawkwood.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
Wrong song. It's always the wrong remember always things.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I will remember the wrong one, dude, it's the weirdest thing.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
Ben.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, what is the percent chance that Blake Brendel is
your starting center for the Minnesota Vikings for the first
four games of our season? Oh, the first four games
of the season? Yeah, minus injury of course. You know
I'm talking about seeing the chosen starter at center for
your Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Yeah, I'm gonna put that about seventy five percent, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah, do you like that fit? Do you think that's
a spot that's gonna be natural and good for him?
Are we going to be sitting here going man, what
a center he turned out to be?
Speaker 7 (29:30):
Well, he's kind of proven us all wrong. Throughout his
whole time here.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I mean, you want to play right tackle done, left
tackle done, playguard spot done, like he fills in awesomely.
So the fact that last year was a new position
for him, never played center, and he actually played pretty well.
And then he's gonna get a whole offseason to learn
some more of the nuance of it. Yeah, I think
that he could be the guy.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Now.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I do think they're going to look for more of
a natural center still, and that might take place in
free agency after the draft, or you know, maybe a
mid round pick. But the thing is, we got to
be careful with that because you know, we only we
have two thirds and and what no fourth if I
no no fourth, And again those guys in that that fifth, sixth,
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seventh rounders probably not you know, a super high percentage
that there are going to be a consistent start, at
least a day one starter. So I like the fact
that you said first four games. I will put it
at seventy five percent.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Thank you very much, thank you. And and by the way, Sas, yes,
you are allowed to disagree with Ben if you believe
he's wrong, but you've got to be very insulting when
you do it. You can't just say you know yes,
I want you to be like not like no, you
know what, I disagree. I want you to go you
are a more and then explain.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Only if it's.
Speaker 9 (30:43):
Real percent like precent chance.
Speaker 8 (30:46):
Pretend pretend or pretend testicles.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Start on fire? How did that happen? I don't know.
Speaker 8 (30:53):
Pretend thing. Pretend that you are Stephen A Smith and
skip Bayless. Can you do a stepiend a voice?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
By the way, please, it's here's some some black face.
Would you mind?
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Jesus you're getting emails and.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Do the whole day?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Go for it, go for it, do it?
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Do it?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Max is asking you Max Max.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
This month, this month, Hell is happy. Hey can we
take a quick break?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (31:23):
Jack Nicholas is about to tee off, you know, want
a ceremonial. Get the true the other one, the true
man he is getting, I mean the shot. So this
was this is an hour ago? Does he shank it right?
Does he he hits it in? He hit it into
the crowd? Boy.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
Normally they don't show it from like they just show
them hit it and then they don't show like a
back shot of it. Bird that you can see the
whole shot because they don't hit that far.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
Here's Gary Player. Relax, Gary player just ripped it. Yeah,
he's like a hundred and but look he ripped it.
He's yeah, high kick contest man. The other thing is fifty.
Speaker 10 (32:05):
When Jack goes up there, he and Colin Morricow have
the same back because he can't. He doesn't. I'm not
making fun of me. Yeah, he can't grab the tee,
but he hits the crowd.
Speaker 7 (32:19):
Watch.
Speaker 10 (32:19):
Did you know we're doing precent chance? Did he kill
somebody with the T shirt? I don't think it he
be held responsible for killing somebody. No, because you you
take it. It's like your own risk kind of bit.
I mean, you couldn't well, you couldn't sue somebody if you.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Got hit by a fall ball. I try.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
Thanks Macy Gray a reference. Thanks a pretty good reference.
I'm pretty I pressed with that.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
I watch. I know we're doing precent chance.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
You let me know when I'm worried.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
But I can get back to it. Oh man, I
can't see it. Nobody can hear it.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
It's because I can't see it.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
People listening, but I can't see it.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
But we're all with you.
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Hangnd I mean Jack's wiping away tears.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
It sucks. It's emotional for him. It sucks.
Speaker 8 (33:07):
Here he goes hang out, CEO, Betty crushes us into
the crowd.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
Right and oh they edited it, they edited it. Well,
yeah he did laugh. He did laugh, and then he yelled.
Speaker 10 (33:23):
He sarcastically yell for they show it from behind when
it was live, and it goes right.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
Into the crowd. Yeah, they didn't show where the ball.
Speaker 9 (33:30):
End because he definitely flew right into the ground.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
I mean went about twenty yards. I feel like I'm
gonna have a low back like that in about five years.
So the ball was already teed up when he got
up there. It's just been handed.
Speaker 9 (33:43):
An urgent and horrifying news story.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
ESPN is reporting that Jack Nicholas killed Colin Moricow, eliminating
Sauce from the Power Triop Masters.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
Well, yes, and teeed off yet, so I would get
to pick somebody else.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
True, he did die right before the turn it Melon
Happy Mel, Jesus smell.
Speaker 7 (34:04):
Mel Mel wants you to try the Stephen A. Smith impression.
He'll join you.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
You guys could do a barbershop quartet. My movie about it.
Speaker 7 (34:18):
You were saying, oh yeah, yeah, I think the worst thing.
Speaker 10 (34:22):
And you may have said this, but I've forgotten where
we were going because of all the things that were
thrown at me at one time. Yep, I think one
of those third round picks will be used on a
center the guy from Europe, uh from Kansas State, Jake
Slaughter from Florida would be another name to watch. Chris
wants Slaughter on this team, for sure. Slaughter, yep, Angel
(34:45):
you will you sing some slaughter?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
I will?
Speaker 7 (34:48):
What's your favorite slaughter song the Angels? Will you sing it? Sure?
I will.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Here's the next question.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Not right now?
Speaker 9 (34:56):
We're doing a show.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
You didn't tell me what to do.
Speaker 7 (34:59):
This isn't real.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
He's not a DJ at a wedding, brilliant.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
I'm in trouble for a lot of things.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
Sure I will, you are, Ben?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, we have a tight end on our squad by
the name of t J.
Speaker 7 (35:13):
Hockens Miller, Puckinsmiller. What's his name on pock Spiel?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
What's his name?
Speaker 6 (35:18):
That's it? Right?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Sorry, I have a bad memory.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
Duh.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
What is the percent chance the Vikings take a starting
tight end in the draft?
Speaker 7 (35:28):
I'll tell you what. I think. It's higher than most
people think.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
And if Kenyan Sadik is there at eighteen, I would
say go for it.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
It all depends if he's going to be there.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
The Chiefs rumored highly rumored to be looking at a
replacement for Kelsey, even though he signed that kind of
ceremonial extension, which I think it only really amounts to
just another year. I think it makes sense for them
to go after another time didn't like Sadik. So if
he gets past the Chiefs and he's there at eighteen
(36:05):
and a couple of the other corners have been taken,
even if Theeneman is there, even if McNeil Warren is
there from Toledo, I still think that Sadik is the
better of the two players. And if you're taking best
available plus a little position of need, I think that
the percent chance is pretty high. So I would say
if he's there, eighty five percent, Wow, Okay, fully agree.
Speaker 10 (36:30):
You also got to get him past the Ravens at fourteen.
That's another team that would take him. So that and
then I think Tampa might have a shot at him,
but he's got to get past a couple of teams.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
But if he's there, I think.
Speaker 9 (36:41):
It's Ravens still have likely and likely not he what's
his name, Mark Andrews.
Speaker 7 (36:46):
Yeah, but he's likely Goo likely went to the Giants.
He went with Harry followed Harbor.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:53):
Do you see Daniel Falla lately did the same thing?
What followed Harbaugh from the Ravens to the Giant? He
said a one year deal? So the former Gopher one
year deal? Isn't he better than that? Why is he
only getting a one year deal? Didn't he start like
a bunch of games for Baltimore?
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (37:10):
But I I understand correctly. I think they had some
issues just with his mobility. He kind of hit a
plateau and he didn't take off like they thought he.
Speaker 7 (37:19):
Was going to.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
So he went from he's serviceable and good, but I
think they're hoping that he'd be great at this point
and that is not quite there.
Speaker 7 (37:28):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
What's the name of this game?
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Sawas percent chance?
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Well, you are a wonder of your generation. No, I'm not,
Yes you are, I'll be forgotten man.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
What is the percent chance the ty Felton is w
R three for your vikings for four games?
Speaker 7 (37:52):
Fifteen percent.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
I do think that that is another giant position of
need that we really haven't discussed too much a lot.
So much of the discussion is defense tied in running
back wide receiver. Yes, it became news that we're going to,
you know, give Addison his fifth year and all this
other stuff, but.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
Beyond that, we still need a guy.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
I don't know if anybody is really excited about the
fact that who we have at wide receiver three. Kind
of goes back to my thought with Sadiq at eighteen
is if we can go more twelve personnel with Hawkinson
or Hawkinspiel or Hawkenberg, whoever you want to whatever you
want to call him there Hawk, I think that makes
(38:40):
up for the lack of a true number three receiver,
so you can go more twelve personnel two pass catching
tight ends. But I think if Koc had his druthers,
that he'd find more of a true separator at wide
receiver three. So look for that, maybe if not addressed
in the draft, but maybe post draft free agency. There's
(39:01):
still a number of guys that I think you can
pick up, maybe on the cheap, so I would put it. Actually,
the percentage pretty low that Felton Issie number three next
year Boom, I.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Saw, I'm gonna hit the chime and then you're gonna
say the name of the game, right.
Speaker 10 (39:19):
Yeah, I agree with you, Ben. I also think that
a wide receiver could be taking it. Pick forty nine, Yeah,
forty nine, and if the right one is there, I
don't think it's out of the world that they would
take one at eighteen.
Speaker 7 (39:31):
Ray Charles, Yeah, thank you. You guys hate me, I
love you.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
That was a Pepsi commercial. I wasn't taking a shot
at you.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
You got the right wall, bye bah you said if
you get the right never.
Speaker 9 (39:41):
Mind, You're not going to be forgotten. I'm gonna remember you.
Speaker 7 (39:43):
No, you won't. Who are you talking about? Yeah, who
are you talking?
Speaker 2 (39:46):
No?
Speaker 7 (39:46):
I was just singing that Sara mcglackman's song.
Speaker 8 (39:50):
Or Dog's Dads melt rogs on here we forgot hit
the chime. It's like Pavlovian let's go chance then salivating.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Percent chance that Jay Ward is a starting safety for
an NFL team at some point in his career.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Hmm, any NFL team, Yeah, any any. I wouldn't say,
I would say sixty percent chance. And I think that's
I think that's fair. I think he's I think he's
exceeded expectations. He's played multiple positions in the back end
of the secondary. I think he flashes a little bit
(40:33):
more than people realize. And if he gets the right
opportunity of the right system, yeah, I'd say sixty percent chance.
That's a that's a really as really Rosie would say
off the board question, Well, I was.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Really surprised by and I don't mean to if anybody
I thought he took that job from d O last year.
I thought he you know, I was surprised by you
how well he played on defense.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
I was shocked.
Speaker 7 (40:55):
Give me a give me a grade, you know, A
to F.
Speaker 8 (40:59):
How you feel about the current safety situation with the
Vikings where we add.
Speaker 7 (41:05):
See C minus.
Speaker 8 (41:08):
Maybe also highly likely they draft a safety right with
one of these nine picks.
Speaker 7 (41:14):
It's highly like gotta get somebody else in the mix.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
I obviously feel like I feel like it will happen.
I just don't know if it's going to happen at eighteen,
but they will. They will draft a safety if they
had their choice. Do you like McNeil Warren or theenum
and better? I like theenem and better. To me, theenemon
is the more is the more polished player. I think
he's more Day one ready. I think that he has
(41:41):
shown on tape a little bit more of what we
how we like to use safeties. He's played in and
around the line of scrimmage. He knows how to rotate
back into the other zones. They do quite a bit
of rotation at Oregon, a lot of post snap rotations.
(42:02):
So it shows to me that he's able to handle
some of the responsibilities because it's tricky. I mean, sometimes
he'll be, let's say, on the left hash as a
as kind of a down safety, and then he'll roll
all the way to cover the deep third on the
right over the corner, and that's like, that's a lot
of thought process, right, You got to really think about
what you're doing, especially on the run, and not to
(42:23):
tip away what you guys are doing with your disguise coverage.
So it feels like what he was asked to do
at Oregon is going to translate to what we do
here more immediately than McNeil Warren. Now. McNeil Warren is
a much more physical safety. So if you're looking for
an attitude setter, a tone setter on defense and you
(42:46):
want somebody to light somebody up, he will do that.
But at the same time, I'm surprised that he played
an assystem with the same de coordinator for three years
and it still looks like he's a read and ready
act player versus really understanding where he's supposed to be.
There are times where he, to me his body mechanics
(43:09):
looks like he's a little lost. He doesn't quite know
where he's supposed to be in coverage, versus Theeneman is
much more intentional about where he runs.
Speaker 7 (43:20):
McNeil.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
Warren is a bigger guy, not used in the box
as much, not used as a down safety as much,
and he's the bigger player. He's a striker and he'll
hit you and he'll flash on tape, but he'll also
swing in a miss. Way too many miss tackles that
I've seen on tape this last year.
Speaker 9 (43:40):
I know this isn't a bit called let's ask ben
draft questions.
Speaker 7 (43:44):
This bit is called uh huh percentes.
Speaker 8 (43:54):
But if I could ask you a non percent chance
question for a second at eighteen, let's say the Vikings
do not move. Uh.
Speaker 7 (44:00):
You like Cidik, you Likeeneman?
Speaker 8 (44:02):
Give me give me the entire list of ten out
of ten picks that you would be super happy about
if we stayed put and that name fell to us
at eighteen, so we don't have.
Speaker 7 (44:12):
To move at all. I assume those two are both
ten out of tens.
Speaker 8 (44:16):
For you, the two that I just named Cieneman, you're
both like thrilled if those names are eighteen.
Speaker 7 (44:21):
I'm I'm thrilled if we have a chance to get yeah.
Speaker 9 (44:25):
Is there are a couple more that are ten out
of ten.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
That Peter Woods defense defensive lineman where Zach's vacationing, my
god and camping.
Speaker 7 (44:37):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (44:38):
I think that he is. He's shown a ton of
position versatility. Last year or two seasons ago, he was
he was mostly used as such, sort of a five technique,
kind of a classic looking defensive ends.
Speaker 7 (44:51):
You like him better than Dick Johnson? What about he's
right on par with Harry Johnson.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
So he has shown he actually had a really splashy
year two years ago as an out more of an
outside guy lined up on the tackles, and then they
decided to move him in last year to be more
of a you know, play over the guards and more
of that that a gap sort of b gap situation.
And his numbers look like he went down a little bit,
but he changed positions it's not quite the flat, flashy position,
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but he's he's quick off the ball. I really like
his handstrike. I think that he's a really active player.
Could be used in our system very very well. I
think a couple of the corners, if they can get
down to us, Delane's gonna be gone. The two to
really watch are Avian Terrell from Clemson and Jamon McCoy
from Tennessee.
Speaker 7 (45:43):
He transferred from Oregon State.
Speaker 4 (45:45):
McCoy's coming off in ACL blew up his his pro
day because he didn't do anything at the combine and
then he ran like a four to three something at
his pro day. So he's probably your number two corner
even though he didn't play at all last year.
Speaker 7 (46:02):
The potential for him is out of this world.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
If if we could get any one of those two guys,
then I think that would be happy as well.
Speaker 7 (46:11):
Nell did what.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
About that center that they like? Penis theme Park?
Speaker 9 (46:15):
No, he'll be gone theme park. If you say last
name theme park, he'll be gone. He'll be as a
season past to beat us theme Park.
Speaker 7 (46:23):
I got a fast pass.
Speaker 9 (46:24):
I wasn't gonna say anything ten times.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
Act, don't you just did?
Speaker 7 (46:27):
I just heard you say it. You said it. That
wasn't me.
Speaker 6 (46:30):
That was sounded.
Speaker 7 (46:31):
Exactly like you, Lema and I, Oh.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
So chance.
Speaker 7 (46:40):
Yeah, well go ahead, we're gonna we're doing a draft show.
Speaker 10 (46:43):
Yeah, we're gonna do a mock draft today, a mock
draft guys number one, Uh free, Nando Fernando, I'm gonna
give you my hot take two weeks out. You guys
don't care. It's not interesting, it's not funny. You guys
think I'm a laughing joke.
Speaker 3 (46:59):
I don't think your jokes had anything to do with that.
Speaker 10 (47:08):
The Vikings will use one of their third round picks
to move up to thirteen or fourteen.
Speaker 7 (47:14):
To take Caleb Downs, the safety from Ohio State.
Speaker 3 (47:18):
Wow, is that worth that? Ben crap?
Speaker 4 (47:27):
I honestly, I don't see a Starck star track. My
My precent chance of that happening, I think is in
that single digits, under ten percent, under ten per brilliant,
under ten percent. The hell's happening that we use draft
(47:49):
equity to move up in this draft. I think that
there's a higher precent chance that we moved down in
this draft.
Speaker 7 (47:58):
It crap, So I played it's a trap.
Speaker 8 (48:01):
Hawkshaid some guy from star Trek and then you go
star track, and that's why.
Speaker 7 (48:08):
We all laughed.
Speaker 8 (48:10):
I'm not smart man, sorry, oh man, listening to use
the best love it. I would pay for it on Patreon.
Speaker 7 (48:19):
I really wouldn't. We're not allowed to do that.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
Speaking of Star Trek, we got a star on the
track coming up.
Speaker 8 (48:25):
What a transition. Yeah, we'll talk to uh, We'll talk
to William so Walach after this. He's a friend of
the show. Kid had a monster weekend, a groundbreaking weekend
for him. Let's let's talk to him bit about it
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
May I go?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Then Labor's here?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Been?
Speaker 6 (00:23):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Big plans this weekend? Anything fun?
Speaker 7 (00:25):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
My gosh, but see my kiddo's lucky of them are
going to Morgan wall And on Friday night.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Not gonna go.
Speaker 7 (00:33):
No, I'm not going. My wife's not going either.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Oh nice?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Uh not that I don't, Not that I don't. It's
not like I don't like him. I like him. It's
just that it wasn't really on my radar. My kids were,
My kids wanted to go, They're going with friends.
Speaker 7 (00:47):
And then Saturday night, gosh.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
We have something Saturday night, and I could not. Oh yeah,
there's like a there's another like school kid event or something.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Oh you're not going Tommy's party?
Speaker 7 (01:00):
Probably not.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I'm going to be the only one there.
Speaker 7 (01:03):
You are going to be the only one there.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I did feel bad yesterday when he was talking about
how many parties he's invited us to and nobody's gone.
That's all he wants, And there is a part of
me that just wants to surprise him. Yeah, I think
I you know, maybe we should just talk off air,
if there is a way that we could just all
show up.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
I mean, it's just surprised.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I'm gonna tell you right now.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
He would burst into tears, woulds because you know, we
caught him doing something you shouldn't be doing.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Oh you hope it's cent he home.
Speaker 7 (01:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (01:34):
Can you imagine, like seven of us carpool, we show up.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
And it's just him and schmoll and they're.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Disappointed because they wanted some time alone.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Ben.
Speaker 8 (01:46):
You posted it on social media, So I assume it's
okay to bring up with what your daughter decided this week?
Speaker 9 (01:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, how about this officially going to Auburn?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah yeah, super super excited.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
FO are very proud of her.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
You know these well, all of these you know, all
these kids that are graduating trying to decide what they're
gonna do with the rest of their lives, at least
for the next four or five years.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Is it's it's a long road.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
It's stressful, there's it's such a long process starting their
junior year, and you know, you hear from all these
other parents about what it what it looks like in
their junior year, all the way through their senior year,
and until you're really in it.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
You're like, wow, this is a this is a lot, just.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
The prep, the testing, getting all this all the paperwork ready,
you know, deciding like what schools may be candidates and potentials,
and then you know it's just a long time. So
you know, for weeks we've been saying to her, like,
just make a decision, like you you've got it down
between Tennessee and Auburn, Like you can't make a bad choice.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
And it was close to fifty to fifty in.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Her mind now it was It's always been like ninety
percent of year because she'll she'll try to ride her
club equestrian stuff there because they have a program. It's
a stronger club team than Tennessee. She just has a
little bit of a close her bond I think to
Auburn and just kind of the feel and what she's
like the campus or the campus, the size.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Of the school. That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
That's a small college town. She wants football weekends. All that,
I mean good unbelievable, Kelly Ma.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
To be young and to be able to choose to
go to that schools fantastic.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
All right, Sauce, you like sports? Right?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No?
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Yeah, what no poker? Phase it?
Speaker 9 (03:20):
Oh for the next twenty seconds, get over here.
Speaker 8 (03:24):
Do we believe Sauce knows the state that Auburn is in?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, yeah, of course, one.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
Hundred Well, everybody says one hundred percent, but.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I would, I would actually, I will actually put money
on the fact that he doesn't know what town.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
It's interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
All right, Sauce.
Speaker 8 (03:46):
Everybody says one hundred percent, you know what state Auburn
is in.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
It's in Alabama, and it's in.
Speaker 10 (03:55):
It's got like the tree that they like all talk about,
like one guy like poisoned it one year and it died.
What was the tree called the trn Yeah, Tim Tree.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
I also let me help you a little bit. I
wouldn't have known either. But if you had to guess,
what would you guess?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Wasn't it in the town Auburn? Ben, You are correct?
Is Auburn? Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
A lot of people, a lot of people don't realize
that it's in the town of Auburn, Alabama.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Didn't know that.
Speaker 9 (04:29):
Yeah, it's sweet with the city name as well.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
It's cool, dude, the fun.
Speaker 10 (04:33):
I mean, one of the greatest college football games and
that guy caught was it the kickoff?
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Yeah? Kicks, that's outstanding. Good for her Man.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Can you imagine a fall Yeah, football Saturday, the leaves
are changing, Alabama's in town and you are twenty years
old and free to go just have the day of
your life. Good for her Man. Yeah, good for her.
I'm so happy for that's so cute.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, you know, I mean of all things, I mean,
we can all be very proud of our kids and stuff,
but she really has worked her butt off academically. And
the fact that she got into so many these really
really good schools and actually had to make a tough choice,
I think that's the win in and of itself. Is Look,
you got into literally ninety percent of the schools that
(05:18):
you applied to, and she know she was applying to
some big schools, and so she she did a great
job with all of her essay or acts and all
of her stuff.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
She really she really deserved it.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
So you know, she got a little merit money as well,
so there's a little bit of academic scholarship involved, so
that's it's good for her.
Speaker 8 (05:36):
Did she at all consider going to Ames Iowa and
Iowa State University.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
No, No, not at all, And she applied.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
The funny thing is she applied to Kansas State just
for fun and applied online. She got she heard back
within twenty four hours that she got in, which you
know is if you know the process, that sort of
unheard of and it's kind of laughable, you know, like wow,
they just wow, I didn't realize Kansastate just lets everybody.
(06:08):
A lot of these schools take weeks, if not months
to decide if you if you made the cut or not.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
In case, Date's like no, no, you're in.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
No, come on, you walked over, took that diplomb off
the wall and just threw in the trash.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Let me ask you the one question that I know.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
I know Aimes again, she's smart, I know she she
factored us in.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
But so, what's the casino situation in.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
And around Auburn and the state of Alabama.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Zero. Oh, she's a terrible choice. You know. Here's the
crazy thing.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Because she wants to she wants to rush for sorority
in Greek life in the in this part of the South,
and it's actually maybe not as unheard of once we
start looking into it. There are no individual sorority houses
because of the brothel laws because too many now having
too many women, a certain dwelling or domicile is considered
(07:05):
a brothel in the South.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
But you can't grow up together. Yeah, they can have fraternities.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
You say that about a lot of different Well, she.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Is crazy because in Minnesota we're trying to we're trying
to get those fraternities in the tournament bath house. Sure,
but still in that area of the South, they're like,
there are sororities, but you can't have sorority houses.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Get a bunch of filthy Jezebels. Yeah, totally completely.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
There's a lot of em.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
So will she be pledging for the Omega moves? I
don't think so, although that would be my wish those moves. Sure,
ken parties?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
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Speaker 7 (07:45):
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Speaker 7 (08:28):
That's suppressing. Why did you bring that off?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
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Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, you heard my.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Say a million a month month. Yeah, I don't know.
Sleepy Joe was doing a podcast. Is he's showing a
lot of skin.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I don't know who Joe Biden is. I really don't.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
He's a rapper, yeah, he was never like crazy popular
as a rapper, but he's he has a gigantic.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Audience when it comes to podcasting.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You remember when we were talking to our boss and
we said, just let us put it on Patreon, and
well we'll share the profits, and they were.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Like, that'll never work. I do remember that, never yep.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And then we want to keep it free for everybody.
Speaker 10 (09:35):
Remember when they can only find how much we made
like one day a year, and.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
They kept saying these great words, which I loved, they
were my favorites.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
We're going to get you those numbers, yep.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
They said it for twelve consecutive months. They would find
those numbers for us. It is weird when you have
to pay us you can miraculously find those numbers and
never show them to us. And then the money that
we get is very very small.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Interesting, But you know, it's not even about that.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
For me. The fact of the matter is just like,
just make a good decision once, right, Yeah. Just I
know we're idiots and we talk about wieners and stuff
here talking about it, but just give us a chance.
We have good ideas sometimes, no horrible I did never
go to work. Johnny Bones is over there with a direction.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Right yeah.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
And then remember when Johnny Bones broke down, how much,
by the way, we shouldn't have been in the room.
How much money a podcasts like ours would should make and.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
We're like, look, guys, these are real numbers. They were like,
numbers are dub.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Every time Zach's has done a basic Google search and
saying like, here's how many downloads we get a month.
Here's essentially what that equates to in advertising. And if
the number is jack and it's like, none of that
trickles back.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
I remember we were of it.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
We threatened you we will quit if you don't let
us do the right thing, and they were like fine,
and so we did and they were like cool.
Speaker 9 (10:59):
How about how about the time we had how about
the time we had the meeting.
Speaker 8 (11:02):
They're like, hey, if you guys do original content, if
you start your own podcast, we have a structure now
in place where you guys can make some money, like
in addition if you start, And we're like, sounds great.
We'd love to see that format. We'd love to see that.
You know, plan those numbers crickets. That was what I
forgot three years ago. We have been showing those numbers
in that structure.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Zero actually wrote us an email that said crickets because
they wouldn't pay the crickets to be there.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Right, Well, I mean I heard is guaranteed insect Yeah, right, right,
we don't say.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I dude's making a million dollars per month, you guys,
I mean something I cannot believe.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
I mean, I am, I am not obviously, I haven't
had one second. And your guys just shoes for those meetings.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
And it makes me get a migraine listening to you
guys talk about that.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
It's really frustrating.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
I can't imagine that.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, you know why it's frustrating for me.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
And again, I am I'm certainly pleased with my life,
and I'm very, very lucky, and I know that. But
having an opportunity that seems obvious and and and to
not be allowed to do it, it's like, well.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
And the thing is, it's like it doesn't require much
out of the well, out of the actual organization.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
We were doing the work.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I know, you're already doing the work, and it's it's
literally just going to a different platform and offering one thing.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
There we go, but not everybody had to do a podcast.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Do we have to get our stuff and walk down
to the end of the yet?
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Is that drop foot?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
No?
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Yeah, I don't understand the logic from there. Well, that
was at all. That's that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
It's illogical for them to hold you guys back from
at least trying a different avenue. And it's not to
replace what you guys are doing here. It's it's just
an add on. It's to do something different.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well, and and the person who came in from corporate
who was here that day, I'm sure doesn't work here anymore,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And so.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It's just it's tough. It's weird, man, it's weird. But again,
sorry for complaining about something that, but it's just it's odd.
It's very odd because we knew we could see and
not because we're geniuses. Johnny Bones was like, guys, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
They do.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
They do a very specific yeah Twins broadcast and he
Wins podcast.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
He feels the rich.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Money.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
He quit his job. Yes, he quit my job. Yep,
he almost did. He almost got you to quit one day,
a couple of times. But sometimes you got to just
let it go and say, you know what, I guess
I wasn't supposed to have that money.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
It's cool.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I was gonna do good things with it, like buy
thongs or gamble.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Or gamble right now, right now, in the Master's broadcast,
they're listening the notable tea times and there's Colin Morricawa's picture.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Do you have a ready to go at nine to nineteen?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Do you have any idea what that decision did to
local casinos?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Do you have money points?
Speaker 8 (13:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll about all the local poker players
and are getting I wouldn't give it out. I'm one
of the most philanthropic people in the Midwest. If you
look at my hand in mom, but yeah, you're huh
you don't worry about it?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Oh yeah, it's the craziest thing.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Is that a blimp? Is that a blimp?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
It turns like one.
Speaker 10 (14:17):
Colin more Cowell will be fun, relaxed, worry about somebody
last three holes, Corey.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Every time you walk into poker room.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
This from.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
One of the one of the signs that you know
that I'm loved in a poker room is the dozens
of guys that remind me when poker tournaments are Hey,
you're playing this weekend, right, don't forget there's a tournament
this weekend.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
I had forgot. No, no, you should be there at
ten am. It's gonna be fun, great environment. You should
be there.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
A whole group of met their bank.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Like they're essentially like, I really want to play this tournament,
but I'm make sure Corey is there, otherwise we're not
guaranteed some money.
Speaker 9 (14:57):
And they're like, you're spotted back, he's playing.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Sixteen years from there's a child stand up receiving their
high school diplomba going and I want to thank Corey
Cove for putting me through college.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
My dad just sat around and waited for him to
punt a stack on level seven.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
WHOA, what about your hendon mob? Yeah? Yeah, I don't
even know what that is. Think about this. If you
guys are on Patreon, you don't you could go?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Don't You could go to Europe for the World Cup
issue wont exactly?
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Yeah, what a great transition, because as sauce, today.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
We'll watch how many hours of the Masters?
Speaker 7 (15:36):
Ballpark it I have today?
Speaker 10 (15:40):
With my son, We're going to do a lot of activities.
He loves to watch much of it.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
A lot of activities, meaning just sit in your living
room and relax, Ben, He's.
Speaker 9 (15:49):
Ben, how many how many hours are you watching the
Masters today?
Speaker 8 (15:53):
About seven? I was multitasking. I think I watched about
six hours.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Of the World Series of Poker Europe yesterday.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
About six maybe more. You were doing what while doing it?
I'm multitasking.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
I was working, but it was on in my house
for at least six to seven hours.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
How much time I spend deadline yesterday?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
At least six to seven hours, six to seven minutes,
about about nine minutes.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
Wait, that's in Prague, Benjamin, that's in Prague and searches.
Speaker 9 (16:24):
No, here's a poker main event.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
That's pretty leap.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
And I treat myself that city man looks so god
dang beautiful.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
I got to go to Prague. I know I want
to go there too.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You know how many times we beat a progue?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Right now? If we've just been given that permission first clock.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Then you know what the crazy thing is that that
ends up being content for the next Patreon Exactly.
Speaker 9 (16:48):
It's like, hey, we can hear a travel podcast for Patreon.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I must say one more thing, and that's where I'm done.
We said, here's the thing. You can have fifty percent
of all of this or fifty percent of nothing, yep,
And they chose fifty nothing.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
That's exactly what it was.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Smart though, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
And I still can't believe it. Here's reason.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
I don't know why they have all those degrees, probably
yourself free.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
And I'm proud of us because we said if you don't,
if we can't do this, it's done for us to
keep going.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
We're just gonna have to quit. And they were like, okay,
so we did.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
So the amount of money then the amount of money
that I would have had versus the amount of money
I would have given away for example, dude, it was
one of the worst moments of my life. I had
to go to a school and basically tell like twenty
kids that I couldn't pay for their college tuition that
I had promised them.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
He's not frea what it.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
Was called Cove's kids, and they didn't get the money
that I was going to give them to graduate.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
So I, to.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Be honest, I didn't even have enough money to give
them all laptops to do online schooling. So I just
gave them all laptop batteries. They were lithium, but those
laptops are virtually useless without batteries.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I feel sorry for you.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Oh wait, no, Rosie from the office Sauso do sports
after this.
Speaker 11 (18:01):
This is the Power Tie Morning show on the fan
million dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Hey, it's time for some sports man, that's what we do,
so we love and the man who's got his finger
on the pulse of absolutely nothing.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
That's any time for a fan.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Five on the Power Trip.
Speaker 9 (18:38):
Mel loves you, Mel does love me.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I appreciate it, Mal he does.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Let's see here.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
The Wolves have two games left after they lost to
Orlando one thirty two to one with mostly backups. Tarren
Shannon Junior had thirty three. Jade McDaniels did play. He
played for nineteen minutes and at eighteen points. They battle
the Rockets tomorrow at eight thirty they will will be
the sixth seed in.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
The playoffs Max.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
So yeah, it was a perfect little ramp up for
Jade McDaniels because even though the Wolves didn't have a
whole lot to play for, Orlando's right in a dogfight
there in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
There's like a four or.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Five team log jam down there in that play in
kind of situation in the Eastern Conference, so they had
everything to play for it. So it was a perfect
kind of highly competitive environment for Jade McDaniels to get
his groove back. Nas we'd kind of got back in
the rhythm of things. He's been dealing with some shoulder stuff,
and it was awesome to see TSJ kind of just
explode there. I mean, we were expecting him to kind
(19:32):
of have ascension this year, but obviously injuries hampered that.
I don't see him getting in the rotation too much
during the playoffs because Chris Finch is pretty notoriously you know,
has a short leash when it comes to his rotations.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
But it was a good little ramp up game.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
It felt like the whole point of the game was
to get nas In Jaden back into a groove.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
In mission accomplished, so hopefully everybody can get healthy.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
They're prioritizing health because, like you said, they they got
nothing to play for.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Really.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Our opponent is to be determined, but it looks like
a date Denver next next weekend.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So basically, are we gonna rest our starters the rest
of the season.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
I would imagine.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
So yeah, I mean I could yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I mean, it's Anthony Edwards almost he's too valuable to
throw him out there just for nothing. But I could
see them maybe giving him a couple of minutes just
because he's been out for so long. But yeah, it's
at this point prioritize health because a lot of teams.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
That's say, say you play the Lakers, They're gonna be
That's a team that health is not their.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Fortune right now.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
So that could be, you know, an advantage heading for
the Wolves heading into the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Do you worry about a rust factor with with Ant.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
No, not really.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
In the past, I might have, but Anthony Edwards his
his game this year. Man, He's just he's taken it
to another level. Every single year he adds something to
his game, and this year it felt like consistency. It
felt like no matter what defense is through at him,
he was virtually unstoppable. I mean, if the Wolves, you know,
landed a little bit higher and they're in their seating,
(20:56):
I would imagine Anthony Edwards would be in these MVP
talks and if he was able to meet the sixty
five game threshold or whatever that is, I would imagine that.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
But I don't.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
I don't really worry about the RUSS factor with with
Anthony Edwards. I would have more so with maybe with
Jade McDaniels. But I looked like the knee was spine
last night.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Hey Ben, are you just too busy to care much
about the timberwlves?
Speaker 10 (21:14):
This year?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
It seems like normally you're more down with the squad.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
That's a great question. I think.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I think sometimes I just don't end up catching them live,
so I will all look at the box scores and
stuff like that. And I don't get me wrong, I
love going to the games and all.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
That stuff, but I mean, yeah, that.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
There's I think I think for me, there's not a
lot of hope. They're they're fantastic club, but as you
guys already laid out, we're stuck in the West. Yeah,
I just don't not that I'm not gonna cheer them on.
I just don't think they're gonna They might make a
little noise in the first round, but after that, I'm
(21:53):
not I'd be shocked if they if they advanced past that.
So I just feel like something's got a change. Is
as good as they are, there's something just like kind
of missing from this team.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
And it's it's hard to say.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
That because you were it's kind of a superstar conference.
So if we were in the East and be like,
oh my gosh, we're gonna be in the finals, this
is gonna be great.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
There's something off with this team that I just can't
rally behind.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
Well said.
Speaker 10 (22:22):
The Twins beat Detroit yesterday eight to six, their third
straight win. They are six and six, same two teams today.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
At did I write twelve forty? Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (22:33):
It is correct?
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Sweet mick Abel goes for your twins today.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Man.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
He's supposed to be pretty good too, right, So.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Agree, he's going too though.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
He's had a little bit of a rough start, but
he's supposed to be good. He was one of probably
the prize piece they got in all the trades they
made last year because they didn't know what they had
in Taj Bradley.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Who's an absolutely stud. What are we doing.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
I don't know playing bass? Didn't we sort of do
this last year with the Twins where they didn't expect
much and then we got off to like sort of
a hot star and then it just went all to Yeah,
it fell apart. So I mean, I'll ride this for
a while. I mean, it's exciting that they're actually playing
beyond what we thought.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
I know that. Honey. Thanks, that's so nice of you.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
He's so sweet to us. He is member. He was
mean and now he's so sweet.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Yeah. Well, it's the donuts man.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I don't mean much Tunnis anymore either.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Good for you. Yeah bye Rose zach O.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
The Wild battle the Stars tonight in Dallas at eight pm.
One of the biggest regular season games for our Wild.
They only trail the Stars by two points. Who they
will play in the playoffs home ice kind of on
the line in tonight's battle. Yeah, it really all comes
down to this and if yeah, if they win, obviously
(24:04):
it's full speed ahead, try to get the points and
beat the Stars team and get some home ice. But
if they lose, then it's a very wolveslike situation where
you're probably gonna maybe get some more guys ice time.
There's been you know, they've they've got a wealth of talent,
so there's been a lot of guys sitting for a
long long time. So hopefully maybe they can get an opportunity.
(24:26):
Actually really hopefully they don't. Hopefully the Wild wind tonight.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
But it's gonna be obviously tough on the road against
a very very good team, but they're gonna have to
win down there probably anyway here in a couple of weeks.
So it's a good playoff preview. Should be a fun
one eight o'clock start on the fan, hopefully hopefully you listen.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Let's goal.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
What do you say about how there are some people
that say they would be better off starting.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
On the road.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I mean I get what they're saying, because I mean
they have been good on the road this year and
even in recent years. I don't think they would be
better off from a data standpoint or from even a
feeling standpoint. I just don't think it's as bad as
you would normally think. So it's not better, but it's
not worse. It's just kind of either way. You just
(25:11):
like to have the little slate heage, Especially when you
have two teams that are this good and this close,
you want to have any sort of edge you can
get and home ice not only from the fans perspective,
but also the last change being able to lie and
match would be a little bit easier with that.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
So thanks honesty.
Speaker 10 (25:30):
The Masters is currently underway, and was Rosie gonna take
Max Homa because he's currently tied for the league.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Max Homa?
Speaker 9 (25:41):
No, he wanted Katoka from Japan.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
Oh why worse he yet? Minus one? He's your leader
through to that was Rosie's guy. Yeah, good for Rosie.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Come again.
Speaker 10 (25:53):
Oklahoma City will be the number one seed in the
NBA playoffs. Again, they will most likely win a lot
of games. I want to eat my sandwich.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, I can tell ye.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
I was the most likely win a lot of games.
Speaker 10 (26:11):
Well, they will, that's not no, you're not wrong. No,
they're the favorites to win the whole thing. Yes, and
they will likely win a lot of games.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
You want to hear something awesome.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
We're going to play a little game called percent Chance
featuring Ben Lieber in Viking.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
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Speaker 4 (26:26):
Well, thanks, I don't have to get my southern accent.
You do not know, Thank goodness.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
No, no, no, you don't put the psychic bit to
bed for a while. That would be great.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
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Speaker 7 (27:11):
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Speaker 7 (27:24):
I just want to know it. But I was just
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Speaker 2 (27:36):
Normally would we would normally go to a lovely and
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This is called percent chance. So you got to do
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Never mind, Zach. We're going back to you next time.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
Was that precent chance? Okay? My god, bro Bro, I
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Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, I was hoping you'd inhale it, and like it
looked like he did.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
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Speaker 7 (28:22):
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Oh, it's great for me. It's one of my favorite things.
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You're expert.
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You read for this.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I've got some percent chance questions regarding your Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Okay, what's it called again?
Speaker 7 (28:40):
There sus percent chance you really sold it?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
You really did that?
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Yeah, just a beaten dog. Yes, chain to the corner.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
Sarah mclaughlan's singing her song.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
To you by Sarah mcglo Hawkwood.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
Wrong song. It's always the wrong remember always things.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I will remember the wrong one, dude, it's the weirdest thing.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
Ben.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, what is the percent chance that Blake Brendel is
your starting center for the Minnesota Vikings for the first
four games of our season? Oh, the first four games
of the season? Yeah, minus injury of course. You know
I'm talking about seeing the chosen starter at center for
your Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Yeah, I'm gonna put that about seventy five percent, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah, do you like that fit? Do you think that's
a spot that's gonna be natural and good for him?
Are we going to be sitting here going man, what
a center he turned out to be?
Speaker 7 (29:30):
Well, he's kind of proven us all wrong. Throughout his
whole time here.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I mean, you want to play right tackle done, left
tackle done, playguard spot done, like he fills in awesomely.
So the fact that last year was a new position
for him, never played center, and he actually played pretty well.
And then he's gonna get a whole offseason to learn
some more of the nuance of it. Yeah, I think
that he could be the guy.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Now.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I do think they're going to look for more of
a natural center still, and that might take place in
free agency after the draft, or you know, maybe a
mid round pick. But the thing is, we got to
be careful with that because you know, we only we
have two thirds and and what no fourth if I
no no fourth, And again those guys in that that fifth, sixth,
(30:13):
seventh rounders probably not you know, a super high percentage
that there are going to be a consistent start, at
least a day one starter. So I like the fact
that you said first four games. I will put it
at seventy five percent.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Thank you very much, thank you. And and by the way, Sas, yes,
you are allowed to disagree with Ben if you believe
he's wrong, but you've got to be very insulting when
you do it. You can't just say you know yes,
I want you to be like not like no, you
know what, I disagree. I want you to go you
are a more and then explain.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Only if it's.
Speaker 9 (30:43):
Real percent like precent chance.
Speaker 8 (30:46):
Pretend pretend or pretend testicles.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Start on fire? How did that happen? I don't know.
Speaker 8 (30:53):
Pretend thing. Pretend that you are Stephen A Smith and
skip Bayless. Can you do a stepiend a voice?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
By the way, please, it's here's some some black face.
Would you mind?
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Jesus you're getting emails and.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Do the whole day?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Go for it, go for it, do it?
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Do it?
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Max is asking you Max Max.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
This month, this month, Hell is happy. Hey can we
take a quick break?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (31:23):
Jack Nicholas is about to tee off, you know, want
a ceremonial. Get the true the other one, the true
man he is getting, I mean the shot. So this
was this is an hour ago? Does he shank it right?
Does he he hits it in? He hit it into
the crowd? Boy.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
Normally they don't show it from like they just show
them hit it and then they don't show like a
back shot of it. Bird that you can see the
whole shot because they don't hit that far.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
Here's Gary Player. Relax, Gary player just ripped it. Yeah,
he's like a hundred and but look he ripped it.
He's yeah, high kick contest man. The other thing is fifty.
Speaker 10 (32:05):
When Jack goes up there, he and Colin Morricow have
the same back because he can't. He doesn't. I'm not
making fun of me. Yeah, he can't grab the tee,
but he hits the crowd.
Speaker 7 (32:19):
Watch.
Speaker 10 (32:19):
Did you know we're doing precent chance? Did he kill
somebody with the T shirt? I don't think it he
be held responsible for killing somebody. No, because you you
take it. It's like your own risk kind of bit.
I mean, you couldn't well, you couldn't sue somebody if you.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Got hit by a fall ball. I try.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
Thanks Macy Gray a reference. Thanks a pretty good reference.
I'm pretty I pressed with that.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
I watch. I know we're doing precent chance.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
You let me know when I'm worried.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
But I can get back to it. Oh man, I
can't see it. Nobody can hear it.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
It's because I can't see it.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
People listening, but I can't see it.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
But we're all with you.
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Hangnd I mean Jack's wiping away tears.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
It sucks. It's emotional for him. It sucks.
Speaker 8 (33:07):
Here he goes hang out, CEO, Betty crushes us into
the crowd.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
Right and oh they edited it, they edited it. Well,
yeah he did laugh. He did laugh, and then he yelled.
Speaker 10 (33:23):
He sarcastically yell for they show it from behind when
it was live, and it goes right.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
Into the crowd. Yeah, they didn't show where the ball.
Speaker 9 (33:30):
End because he definitely flew right into the ground.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
I mean went about twenty yards. I feel like I'm
gonna have a low back like that in about five years.
So the ball was already teed up when he got
up there. It's just been handed.
Speaker 9 (33:43):
An urgent and horrifying news story.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
ESPN is reporting that Jack Nicholas killed Colin Moricow, eliminating
Sauce from the Power Triop Masters.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
Well, yes, and teeed off yet, so I would get
to pick somebody else.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
True, he did die right before the turn it Melon
Happy Mel, Jesus smell.
Speaker 7 (34:04):
Mel Mel wants you to try the Stephen A. Smith impression.
He'll join you.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
You guys could do a barbershop quartet. My movie about it.
Speaker 7 (34:18):
You were saying, oh yeah, yeah, I think the worst thing.
Speaker 10 (34:22):
And you may have said this, but I've forgotten where
we were going because of all the things that were
thrown at me at one time. Yep, I think one
of those third round picks will be used on a
center the guy from Europe, uh from Kansas State, Jake
Slaughter from Florida would be another name to watch. Chris
wants Slaughter on this team, for sure. Slaughter, yep, Angel
(34:45):
you will you sing some slaughter?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
I will?
Speaker 7 (34:48):
What's your favorite slaughter song the Angels? Will you sing it? Sure?
I will.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Here's the next question.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Not right now?
Speaker 9 (34:56):
We're doing a show.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
You didn't tell me what to do.
Speaker 7 (34:59):
This isn't real.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
He's not a DJ at a wedding, brilliant.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
I'm in trouble for a lot of things.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
Sure I will, you are, Ben?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, we have a tight end on our squad by
the name of t J.
Speaker 7 (35:13):
Hockens Miller, Puckinsmiller. What's his name on pock Spiel?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
What's his name?
Speaker 6 (35:18):
That's it? Right?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Sorry, I have a bad memory.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
Duh.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
What is the percent chance the Vikings take a starting
tight end in the draft?
Speaker 7 (35:28):
I'll tell you what. I think. It's higher than most
people think.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
And if Kenyan Sadik is there at eighteen, I would
say go for it.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
It all depends if he's going to be there.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
The Chiefs rumored highly rumored to be looking at a
replacement for Kelsey, even though he signed that kind of
ceremonial extension, which I think it only really amounts to
just another year. I think it makes sense for them
to go after another time didn't like Sadik. So if
he gets past the Chiefs and he's there at eighteen
(36:05):
and a couple of the other corners have been taken,
even if Theeneman is there, even if McNeil Warren is
there from Toledo, I still think that Sadik is the
better of the two players. And if you're taking best
available plus a little position of need, I think that
the percent chance is pretty high. So I would say
if he's there, eighty five percent, Wow, Okay, fully agree.
Speaker 10 (36:30):
You also got to get him past the Ravens at fourteen.
That's another team that would take him. So that and
then I think Tampa might have a shot at him,
but he's got to get past a couple of teams.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
But if he's there, I think.
Speaker 9 (36:41):
It's Ravens still have likely and likely not he what's
his name, Mark Andrews.
Speaker 7 (36:46):
Yeah, but he's likely Goo likely went to the Giants.
He went with Harry followed Harbor.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:53):
Do you see Daniel Falla lately did the same thing?
What followed Harbaugh from the Ravens to the Giant? He
said a one year deal? So the former Gopher one
year deal? Isn't he better than that? Why is he
only getting a one year deal? Didn't he start like
a bunch of games for Baltimore?
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (37:10):
But I I understand correctly. I think they had some
issues just with his mobility. He kind of hit a
plateau and he didn't take off like they thought he.
Speaker 7 (37:19):
Was going to.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
So he went from he's serviceable and good, but I
think they're hoping that he'd be great at this point
and that is not quite there.
Speaker 7 (37:28):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
What's the name of this game?
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Sawas percent chance?
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Well, you are a wonder of your generation. No, I'm not,
Yes you are, I'll be forgotten man.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
What is the percent chance the ty Felton is w
R three for your vikings for four games?
Speaker 7 (37:52):
Fifteen percent.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
I do think that that is another giant position of
need that we really haven't discussed too much a lot.
So much of the discussion is defense tied in running
back wide receiver. Yes, it became news that we're going to,
you know, give Addison his fifth year and all this
other stuff, but.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
Beyond that, we still need a guy.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
I don't know if anybody is really excited about the
fact that who we have at wide receiver three. Kind
of goes back to my thought with Sadiq at eighteen
is if we can go more twelve personnel with Hawkinson
or Hawkinspiel or Hawkenberg, whoever you want to whatever you
want to call him there Hawk, I think that makes
(38:40):
up for the lack of a true number three receiver,
so you can go more twelve personnel two pass catching
tight ends. But I think if Koc had his druthers,
that he'd find more of a true separator at wide
receiver three. So look for that, maybe if not addressed
in the draft, but maybe post draft free agency. There's
(39:01):
still a number of guys that I think you can
pick up, maybe on the cheap, so I would put it. Actually,
the percentage pretty low that Felton Issie number three next
year Boom, I.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Saw, I'm gonna hit the chime and then you're gonna
say the name of the game, right.
Speaker 10 (39:19):
Yeah, I agree with you, Ben. I also think that
a wide receiver could be taking it. Pick forty nine, Yeah,
forty nine, and if the right one is there, I
don't think it's out of the world that they would
take one at eighteen.
Speaker 7 (39:31):
Ray Charles, Yeah, thank you. You guys hate me, I
love you.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
That was a Pepsi commercial. I wasn't taking a shot
at you.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
You got the right wall, bye bah you said if
you get the right never.
Speaker 9 (39:41):
Mind, You're not going to be forgotten. I'm gonna remember you.
Speaker 7 (39:43):
No, you won't. Who are you talking about? Yeah, who
are you talking?
Speaker 2 (39:46):
No?
Speaker 7 (39:46):
I was just singing that Sara mcglackman's song.
Speaker 8 (39:50):
Or Dog's Dads melt rogs on here we forgot hit
the chime. It's like Pavlovian let's go chance then salivating.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Percent chance that Jay Ward is a starting safety for
an NFL team at some point in his career.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Hmm, any NFL team, Yeah, any any. I wouldn't say,
I would say sixty percent chance. And I think that's
I think that's fair. I think he's I think he's
exceeded expectations. He's played multiple positions in the back end
of the secondary. I think he flashes a little bit
(40:33):
more than people realize. And if he gets the right
opportunity of the right system, yeah, I'd say sixty percent chance.
That's a that's a really as really Rosie would say
off the board question, Well, I was.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Really surprised by and I don't mean to if anybody
I thought he took that job from d O last year.
I thought he you know, I was surprised by you
how well he played on defense.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
I was shocked.
Speaker 7 (40:55):
Give me a give me a grade, you know, A
to F.
Speaker 8 (40:59):
How you feel about the current safety situation with the
Vikings where we add.
Speaker 7 (41:05):
See C minus.
Speaker 8 (41:08):
Maybe also highly likely they draft a safety right with
one of these nine picks.
Speaker 7 (41:14):
It's highly like gotta get somebody else in the mix.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
I obviously feel like I feel like it will happen.
I just don't know if it's going to happen at eighteen,
but they will. They will draft a safety if they
had their choice. Do you like McNeil Warren or theenum
and better? I like theenem and better. To me, theenemon
is the more is the more polished player. I think
he's more Day one ready. I think that he has
(41:41):
shown on tape a little bit more of what we
how we like to use safeties. He's played in and
around the line of scrimmage. He knows how to rotate
back into the other zones. They do quite a bit
of rotation at Oregon, a lot of post snap rotations.
(42:02):
So it shows to me that he's able to handle
some of the responsibilities because it's tricky. I mean, sometimes
he'll be, let's say, on the left hash as a
as kind of a down safety, and then he'll roll
all the way to cover the deep third on the
right over the corner, and that's like, that's a lot
of thought process, right, You got to really think about
what you're doing, especially on the run, and not to
(42:23):
tip away what you guys are doing with your disguise coverage.
So it feels like what he was asked to do
at Oregon is going to translate to what we do
here more immediately than McNeil Warren. Now. McNeil Warren is
a much more physical safety. So if you're looking for
an attitude setter, a tone setter on defense and you
(42:46):
want somebody to light somebody up, he will do that.
But at the same time, I'm surprised that he played
an assystem with the same de coordinator for three years
and it still looks like he's a read and ready
act player versus really understanding where he's supposed to be.
There are times where he, to me his body mechanics
(43:09):
looks like he's a little lost. He doesn't quite know
where he's supposed to be in coverage, versus Theeneman is
much more intentional about where he runs.
Speaker 7 (43:20):
McNeil.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
Warren is a bigger guy, not used in the box
as much, not used as a down safety as much,
and he's the bigger player. He's a striker and he'll
hit you and he'll flash on tape, but he'll also
swing in a miss. Way too many miss tackles that
I've seen on tape this last year.
Speaker 9 (43:40):
I know this isn't a bit called let's ask ben
draft questions.
Speaker 7 (43:44):
This bit is called uh huh percentes.
Speaker 8 (43:54):
But if I could ask you a non percent chance
question for a second at eighteen, let's say the Vikings
do not move. Uh.
Speaker 7 (44:00):
You like Cidik, you Likeeneman?
Speaker 8 (44:02):
Give me give me the entire list of ten out
of ten picks that you would be super happy about
if we stayed put and that name fell to us
at eighteen, so we don't have.
Speaker 7 (44:12):
To move at all. I assume those two are both
ten out of tens.
Speaker 8 (44:16):
For you, the two that I just named Cieneman, you're
both like thrilled if those names are eighteen.
Speaker 7 (44:21):
I'm I'm thrilled if we have a chance to get yeah.
Speaker 9 (44:25):
Is there are a couple more that are ten out
of ten.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
That Peter Woods defense defensive lineman where Zach's vacationing, my
god and camping.
Speaker 7 (44:37):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (44:38):
I think that he is. He's shown a ton of
position versatility. Last year or two seasons ago, he was
he was mostly used as such, sort of a five technique,
kind of a classic looking defensive ends.
Speaker 7 (44:51):
You like him better than Dick Johnson? What about he's
right on par with Harry Johnson.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
So he has shown he actually had a really splashy
year two years ago as an out more of an
outside guy lined up on the tackles, and then they
decided to move him in last year to be more
of a you know, play over the guards and more
of that that a gap sort of b gap situation.
And his numbers look like he went down a little bit,
but he changed positions it's not quite the flat, flashy position,
(45:22):
but he's he's quick off the ball. I really like
his handstrike. I think that he's a really active player.
Could be used in our system very very well. I
think a couple of the corners, if they can get
down to us, Delane's gonna be gone. The two to
really watch are Avian Terrell from Clemson and Jamon McCoy
from Tennessee.
Speaker 7 (45:43):
He transferred from Oregon State.
Speaker 4 (45:45):
McCoy's coming off in ACL blew up his his pro
day because he didn't do anything at the combine and
then he ran like a four to three something at
his pro day. So he's probably your number two corner
even though he didn't play at all last year.
Speaker 7 (46:02):
The potential for him is out of this world.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
If if we could get any one of those two guys,
then I think that would be happy as well.
Speaker 7 (46:11):
Nell did what.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
About that center that they like? Penis theme Park?
Speaker 9 (46:15):
No, he'll be gone theme park. If you say last
name theme park, he'll be gone. He'll be as a
season past to beat us theme Park.
Speaker 7 (46:23):
I got a fast pass.
Speaker 9 (46:24):
I wasn't gonna say anything ten times.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
Act, don't you just did?
Speaker 7 (46:27):
I just heard you say it. You said it. That
wasn't me.
Speaker 6 (46:30):
That was sounded.
Speaker 7 (46:31):
Exactly like you, Lema and I, Oh.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
So chance.
Speaker 7 (46:40):
Yeah, well go ahead, we're gonna we're doing a draft show.
Speaker 10 (46:43):
Yeah, we're gonna do a mock draft today, a mock
draft guys number one, Uh free, Nando Fernando, I'm gonna
give you my hot take two weeks out. You guys
don't care. It's not interesting, it's not funny. You guys
think I'm a laughing joke.
Speaker 3 (46:59):
I don't think your jokes had anything to do with that.
Speaker 10 (47:08):
The Vikings will use one of their third round picks
to move up to thirteen or fourteen.
Speaker 7 (47:14):
To take Caleb Downs, the safety from Ohio State.
Speaker 3 (47:18):
Wow, is that worth that? Ben crap?
Speaker 4 (47:27):
I honestly, I don't see a Starck star track. My
My precent chance of that happening, I think is in
that single digits, under ten percent, under ten per brilliant,
under ten percent. The hell's happening that we use draft
(47:49):
equity to move up in this draft. I think that
there's a higher precent chance that we moved down in
this draft.
Speaker 7 (47:58):
It crap, So I played it's a trap.
Speaker 8 (48:01):
Hawkshaid some guy from star Trek and then you go
star track, and that's why.
Speaker 7 (48:08):
We all laughed.
Speaker 8 (48:10):
I'm not smart man, sorry, oh man, listening to use
the best love it. I would pay for it on Patreon.
Speaker 7 (48:19):
I really wouldn't. We're not allowed to do that.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
Speaking of Star Trek, we got a star on the
track coming up.
Speaker 8 (48:25):
What a transition. Yeah, we'll talk to uh, We'll talk
to William so Walach after this. He's a friend of
the show. Kid had a monster weekend, a groundbreaking weekend
for him. Let's let's talk to him bit about it
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