June 1, 2026 • 46 mins
Hawk has the news including a story about police departments using drones, Ben Leber does a Vikings News deep dive with the new GM and the ongoing QB situation
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:10):
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We'll break down some biking stuff a little bit later
on OTAs in the in the In the in the Books,
Kevin Sieffert with an interesting article regarding JJ versus Kyler
(00:31):
and the new GM as well. So let's get to there.
But no time for the news, guys. The news, the news.
I gotta hey tell you the hard hitting things going
on in the world.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
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Speaker 5 (01:21):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You ever floating a hot tub down the Mississippi River?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Oh no, but we did a story on that.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, it's happening right.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
This looks like fun m M Minnesota hot Tub Boats
or something like that.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
See.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I was hoping that I might be giving you a story.
I did, but way late on the last week go.
A new Minneapolis business is betting plenty of people want
to find out how it feels to float down the
river in a hot tub. Minnesota hot Tub Boats launched
this past weekend at Boom Island Park, offering ninety minute
cruises aboard floating hot tubs on the Mississippi River. Electric
(01:58):
hot tub boat fits up to six people and travel
at five miles pro They cruise a roughly mile long
stretch of the river between Nicolatte Island and the Broadway
Street Bridge.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well that's sweet, I'm watching the video. Yeah that's cool.
It's a good idea. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, you get a safety briefing. I wonder if
you can. Uh, I'm just gonna say it. Can you
get it on?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Sure? I mean sure, yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I think they have like a they have like the
little what they called geo fences, so like you you know,
like what to avoid in the river and all that stuff,
and then they have like a GPS tracker so you
don't go too far.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
But outside of that, I mean, yes, there's no camera.
Who's driving this boat? You can't.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
You can hire a captain, or you can do what
you're sa saving interesting uh huh yeah, Tommy Lee, I'm
just gonna be shooting dice.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I don't care what you guys do.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well, I see what you're saying. You'll be in there
just a tank care room business. That's the shooting dice.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Just like gambling.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Yeah, you probably, I mean for the right price, hire
Bright McKinney if you want.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Ye, will he perform my services? Say he's willing to perform.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
You look more like a smooth guy. Well, yeah, I suppose,
I suppose you're right.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I believe. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I was gonna say, like, yeah, he wasn't really performing,
I mean he was, I guess he was, Yes, he was.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I think he was performing service.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Sure, yeah, right, yes, you're right, thank.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
You, I think thank you. Minnesota city is are racing
to expand a new kind of emergency response system, one
where the first officer to arrive at a nine to
one one call may not be a person at all.
Across the Twin cities metro police departments are rolling out
drone as first responder programs. It's an unmanned aircraft ahead
(03:53):
of police, fire or other emergency crews. The drones can
reach scenes in less than two minutes, live stream footage
to responding officers, and in some cases, determine whether anybody
even needs to be dispatched.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
That's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, h Minnetonka already has logged more than six hundred
drone flights since launching the program last year, which I
can't believe. I didn't know this. How do you not
see drones everywhere? Right?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Dinah and Bloomington are testing similar systems. Brooklyn Park approved
a four point six million dollar network of autonomous drones
designed to cover the city, and Minneapolis officials are considering
their own pilot program. The rapid expansion carries obvious tactical
appeal for departments eager for information before officers arrive at
a scene.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
So that's be a fad, ass, let's do it.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
I think Ben's TV station did a story on Minatanka's
deal a couple of months ago, and they were showing
how it works and yeah, the ability to just send
a camera out there and be faster than any car
or any other thing could and it's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Yeah, I mean I feel like, yeah, I feel like
they're yeah, hmm. I think this is more of like
a maybe this specific incident is not a not a
big deal. It's almost like like what this could lead
to is kind of the way I would think about it.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Like RoboCop.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Yeah, a little bit like.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Again, think of the ability to assess what's happening and
what's needed. I mean privacy, who I don't know. I
don't want people spying on me either, But if I'm
in some kind of an emergency situation and some drones
flying over and assessing the situation and know what's needed, I'm.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Struggling to find a downside. But I'm sure somebody will
kind of complain.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Yeah. I think it probably just is more like is
this going to be used just for regular law enforcement?
And then are they we just gonna have drones flying
over all the time because as they go from point
to point B, they're gonna be have they're gonna have
to see all the things along the way.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
And it's like, well then stop nude sunbathing.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
You need to what you heard Roe said?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Okay, your star, dear.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Mister John, please get help.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
You're fine, Yeah, you're yeah, thanks, caught in this m right,
see playoffs correct.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I'm not creative songs for Luke bryan.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Oh that's it's so bad. I wish I did, and
I have no talent, but my god, that's ever put together.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
See that's self awareness, that talent. Yeah, thank you. We're
all glad that you finally to go zero.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Good for you.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
But either because Luke Bryant, Saucy Noriega, I like that.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Oh is that the guy that died? Sure, sure we'll
take one of them. We've gone too soon.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Southwest Airlines reversing course on its plus sized passenger policy. Uh,
the discount carrier were no longer required plus sized customers
to book an extra seat in advance.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
That's a huge bitch.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Why did you hit that?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Oh that that's the captain When you see sus getting on.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Jus, Melinda. We love the job you're doing, but please
stop saying that.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
It's like a dollar an hour.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
We Linda must be pretty good at her job if
that's all she's getting calling it.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Fast right, well, she's saying it into.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
The radio and the whole she's just standing at the
end of the jetway letting, letting the pilot know.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
I'm just imagining that the David Spade character from the nineties.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Bye bye guy, huge.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Only job he has. That's Southwest. Huh so you have
reverse course they have.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah, Yeah, that's right. Gate agents will now assign an
extra seat for free if available, or work to get
the customer on the later flight. Southwest says the change
aims to create a more consistent and seamless experience. Yeah, okay, whatever. Yeah.
And lastly, Google wants to release thirty two million mosquitoes
(08:24):
in California and Florida as part of its debug program,
but first it needs approval from the federal government. The
initiative looks to stop bad bugs with good bugs by
releasing hordes of sterile mosquitos to eliminate ones that carry disease.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says mosquitos are
the deadliest animal in the whole wide world.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
True yeah, yeah, true true story.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Google scientists say their eradication approach uses data analytics, sensors,
and automation to scale the sterile insect technique.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
Now, can we find a way to train these mosquitoes
to somehow kill the pythons in Florida?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
That would break great?
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Correct, Yeah, just like some kind of a snake poison
that the rest of us are immune to. So like,
if it bites us, we're fine. But if it gets
like swallowed by a.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Snake or if it you know, I don't know. I
don't know how. I have a lot of good ideas.
He's listening.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
I don't know how I feel about genetically modified animals.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Oh, I couldn't be more in favor of, like King con.
I saw a.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Picture on my magazine here, dude, I don't know if
you've seen this yet, Corey, maybe you have not. Let
me look here in my Rolling Storm magazine. I just
haven't turned the right page.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
You know what these are?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Those are the dire wolves.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Those are real life dire wolves they created. Man, I
haven't seen those.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Do you still get better? Do I win still get
better homes and gardens, I get.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Worse homes and gardens. Now, for people who.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Remember that, the guy, the guy that runs that company
was the guy that was asked on TV like could
you make a unicorn if you wanted to? And he's like, well, yeah,
but then I'm gonna catch a bunch of hells.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
What's not worth it existed?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Right?
Speaker 7 (10:04):
But he said he could basically modify one to have
a horn, Like, they could do it if they really
really wanted to.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
It wouldn't be a flying one, but it would be
a unicorn.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
This whole article is that guy you're talking about, Ben Lamb?
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
I don't know Lamb.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Anyway, maybe the whole article that's famous for poker, but.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Science startup Colossal is on a mission to make animals productionized,
getting rid of the need for eggs or wombs.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
What.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, so they're gonna make They're gonna make animal meat
without being animals artificial wombs. You know what I've got.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Again?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I don't like I don't like all this.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Yeah, and if I understand that whole thing correctly, it's
it's like less than one percent actual dire wolf or
something like that is that it's been. They've had to
use so many other pieces of genetics from actual wolves
and other other canees to make that that it's like
barely a dire wolf and so it's a mutt wolf. Oh,
(11:06):
it's a total mut wolf.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, tell that to the dire wolve's face.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I don't know. I'm just glad somebody's finally putting some
money into making really good, careful, careful fake wombs. Mine
were out real quickly.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
You don't, Yeah, yeah, just like a flashlight y wow
mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Does it suction to the wall?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
How dare you ask weird questions?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah? You don't know where the line is.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
There's a line, dude, does it? Yeah? It does.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I don't know, you guys, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Oh, like you know, I tell you what the What
I saw on Instagram last night that I really want
is a is a puma.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
There's a I don't know. I think she was like
Ukrainian or something.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
She's got this whole Instagram page where she's got a
black panther for a pet. God, it looks awesome. Really,
wouldn't you want like a big cat for a pet?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Especially if I was like Noriega.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Right, Like if if you need to intimidate people who
work directly for you, having a panther, puma, jaguar or whatever,
that would be.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
I don't want I don't want to lion because that'll
like for sure eat me eventually.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Like, well, like a cheetah or something.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
There's like there's a big cat, big African cat that
actually is like friendly to humans, that's not aggressive to humans.
It's one of them, Max max Is Max is a
big cat that like that.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Was my nickname in high school. Big African cat.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Kind of a long moniker. But I guess it works.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
They're gonna make a giant South Island giant moa huh,
which is a huge bit a bird that stood twelve
foot tall and weighed five hundred pounds, had eggs the
size of.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
The football cheeze.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
That's a huge bird. Can he offensive rebound from time
to time? I mean like, can we trade him for Rudy? Yes?
Whoa to one of these moas verry moa. Wow, that's
a huge bird.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, it's big old bird. They're gonna make all kinds
of things happen.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Though, see and The thing is, why, why why do
we need this?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Because they're delicious?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I mean they would extinct for a reason though, right.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Well, ninety nine point nine percent of all species that
have ever lived on this planet are extinct.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Yeah, we need to bring them back.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Extinction is the norm. We're headed for it for sure. Sure.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah, maybe we have to stop our own extinction first. Yeah,
well said, or maybe not screw it.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Or maybe creating other things we can eat will extend.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Our lives, right or that?
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Maybe we're headed towards ext extinction unless we make these
moas and cut them up.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, let's have some moa strips. Yeah right, moa caniac
combo nose low extra toes with a beer please and
a side of dire wolf. Oh boy, a moa omelet
sounds amazing. Yeah, we just needed to make it real sauce.
Would you eat a moa?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Sure, thanks, you couldn't need any less.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Up come, that's good, that was brilliant.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I'm on my way down. Man, I've lost nine pounds.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Nice?
Speaker 9 (14:25):
Really are you speaking German?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I've lost you nine whole pounds or what? He cares?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You got a big old hole on you.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It is your dad dare you.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Yeah, man, there you go.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I can't find anything more about whether how much of
the dire Wolf is actual dire Wolf. I'm looking through
the article, but I'm not good reading.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
That's all right. It looks like a big article.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Small words, yeah, really small letters.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No. I love magazine articles, but I hate it when
they're seventeen pages long.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I think if I started the magazine, every article would
be one page nothing more. You better figure it out
and get to the point.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
See when you showed me that article. Yeah, the letters. Look,
the font is so small. Yeah that I would just
I would never read that. I would never take the
time to read that. It is because it would feel
like I'm getting nowhere.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah, it is tough.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Let's see, uh sway for the movie. Yeah, wait for
the movie. Correct. M.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
The wolves were joined on their private two thousand and
acre preserved by a third diar Wolf, their cloned sister Calisi.
Oh that's very sweet.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Man.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Anyway, yeah, so there you go. They're making things. I'm
bringing it back to life. I for one would like
to see Jimmy Hendricks again.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah. See why don't we do that? Yeah? We just
clone humans? Is ted Williams still frozen. Yeah, a whole
bunch of people.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Are you can clone Noriega?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Would you clone wrap? Who would I cal him? Jane's Mansfields? Damn, Sorry,
I set up wrong. Man. That's cool, man, that's all right.
Are you doing great? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Would you guys ever clone a pet back?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
No? No, no, I.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Don't think so. There's a lot of doggies and kiddies
out there.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
What's the animal Hawk just let leave his house?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Moose?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, the cat.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
You can't prove that.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
What if Mose has become just a massive beast in
the woods.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
He also let that cat out about thirty seven years
ago forever.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Man, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
In the wild, they can live a lot longer.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I can, man, That's why I let her out. She
needs to live long.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, she wanted to explore.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Yeah, poor moose getting some tail.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Wow. What if she got stepped on by a moose
and like five seconds after Hawk let it?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Like, yeah, this was ironic.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
That would be absolutely if there was a moose in
Maple Grow.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Yeah, oh my god, you guys you see the bear
breaking news?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Did you see it?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Yeah, it's two blocks from my house. I treat two
streets over a black bear. I saw the ring camp. Okay, yeah,
yeah it was.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
It was sent to yeah to ask you about that
because I think I had to be near you.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
So is that in the news, Yeah, it was in
the news. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah. How big of a bear are we talking here?
I mean a big cuddly guy. I mean, but I mean.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Exactly based on what I saw now, it was not
on his two feet. I'd probably say if it was
six foot and about uh four fifty huge.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, look at that black bear. Look at that bastard.
What was he doing? Just wandering?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Just wandering around, wander around?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Leave them alone. He's fine.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Well, I mean you probably you probably eats.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Like he's looking for moose.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah, probably hanging out.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Yeah, it's two streets over from where. I'm so excited, man,
I want to see this thing.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Is that why you left?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Because you knew a bear was on its way? I mean, yeah,
left from other reasons, but yeah, that's one of them. Yeah,
the bear, the bears on the loose.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Man, you left from other reasons, Zach, What do you.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Think of this bear? I mean I've seen better bears,
especially you Dinah mean, my god.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Jeez, So Ben, between now and when you go home.
Are you going to stop somewhere and get bear bells?
They're only like a dollar?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, I might have to.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
I might have put the bear bells on our dogs
when we go for walks, exactly. Carry bear spray with
me now, yeah, yeah, But the black bears are nice bears.
They're not the brown bears, brown bears, aggressive black bears,
Cudley soft.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I bet they all you too, though you don't think
they won't. Let me check it out. Let me say
how many times the black bears have eating somebody?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
No, they are not inherently mean. Yeah, see they're nice.
They are timidus DNA would be nice to it. Don't
don't shoot it right?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Well, black bear attacks are and consumptions are incredibly rare.
There are documentary instance of black bear's attacking and consuming humans,
but the odds of being preyed upon by black bear
roughly one in a million. That ain't so bad, not
so bad? How many people live in a Dina?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Oh fifty? You're good then, don't not good? Like green?
Great film? More like one under than millions?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Got it all and.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I read it. So you're telling me there's a chance.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Just yeah, that's such a possible, It's not zero nope.
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Thank you. I would like to say hi and thank
you to our friends with Starkey who bring us this
NASCAR report. William Sawalach, our good friend. Third place in
Nashville this weekend. Hell yeah, yeah, great right for Williams
Sawallash third place in Nashville and that moves him up.
I believe too. Let me take a look over haw
ninth in the standings, up three spots to ninth in
the standings in the O'Reilly Auto Parts Series after the
(20:34):
race at Nashville. So well done, Williams Sawallach. Thank you Starky.
Get your free hearing test at starkey dot com. Starky,
everybody Starky. By the way, last night's race was rained delayed,
but Denny Hamlin ended up winning the NASCAR Cup Series
race in Nashville.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Denny Hamlin, everybody three wide for the lead at the
at the white flag.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
It was a hell of a hell of a race.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Who's break? Cal aren't going to explode? That's the question.
Oh man, they had a lot of crashes last night
because it breaks. That was that right, and a lot
of them, Yeah, just exploded with flames is.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Did any handle them?
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Like fifty years old at this point, it feels like
that's a name that's been around.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
He's been around for a long time. Yeah, I like
that guy forty five.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yeah, he owns that team with Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah, you guys ever.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Heard that guy?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah? And Steve Lombardosi.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Steve's not a part of it anymore. They fired him
why because of his mustache. That's so, you're right for
some five.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, it's time for a fan five on the power Trip.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
We could talk about the Vikings things in Vikings News,
but hawk, Yes, the NFL season starts one hundred days
from today with the Patriots at Seattle in a Super
Bowl rematch Wednesday, September ninth.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Just live in the moment. Are we're going one hundred
days away?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
In the moment, looking forward to one hundred days from now.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, which means if that's one hundred days away, don't
say it. Preseason football is even closer.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
That's right, baby, Yes, oh jeez.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
The NFL Hall of Fame Game Hawk is Thursday, August
sixth at seven o'clock. Yeah, that guy loves it. Yeah,
we'll be there.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yeah, we lost twenty bucks, as you won't be.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
I don't want to better because there's things change. Right,
where's things change change? Yeah, there's things change.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Max doesn't sit to next well played. Uh, Maxo cares
about this, and as do I. Caleb Williams will be
on the cover of Madden twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Rip his knee and or ankle?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
The Spurs beat the Thunder one eleven, one zero three
to advance to the Final Let's go Or. They will
face the Knicks on Wednesday at seven thirty. The first
two games will be in San Antonio. The Spurs Maxo,
are a five and a half point favorite in Game one.
Speaker 9 (23:12):
Yeah, thank god they ended that uprising dictatorship that we
know as the Oklahoma City Thunder. Nobody wanted to watch
that In the NBA Finals, the Spurs, they're gonna be
the favorites, but they're certainly not unbeatable, and I think
it's gonna be a way more even series than had
the Thunder advance, and it's gonna be all it's gonna
be a lot of fun too, just insane fan bases.
(23:33):
I mean, New York might sink into the ocean if
the Knicks somehow find a way to actually beat the Spurs.
But man, that game, that Game seven, that whole series
was just everything it was advertised to be. And I
mean Victor we and Binyama took over and you could
see how much admitted to him at the end. Man,
I mean he just burst into tears right away. That
whole team. They just have such a I know, we
didn't like him personally when they beat the Wolves, it
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wasn't the cleanest basketball, but it seems like they kind
of got back to their ethical hoops in this series,
and they just have such a bond, man. And they're
a deep team, and they're not like these manufactured super
teams that we've seen, you know, over the last decade
or so. They built it from the ground up with
just really good draft picks and everybody, all their superstars
are like twenty four to twenty five and under it's insane.
(24:17):
They're gonna be here for a really really long time.
And it was it was so much fun and uh,
you know, bleep the thunder.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You guys cheering for Wemby or cheering for Cat. Wemby,
Cat don't care. I'd be happy either way.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
But Wemby, you just you kind of want to see
a great playoff run like he's had, get get rewarded,
you know, especially in the NBA with they'll bring culture
thing he might never with his you know he could.
He's gigantic. He's not gonna stay healthy probably forever. So
you want to see him geting.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah, they're gonna be telling him he'll be out of
the league.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Twenty years to get plenty of rings here. Wemby have
a game.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
One of the Stanley Cup Final is tomorrow, Z echo
at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Play somebody answer his question when don't we have? Does
anybody know the answer?
Speaker 4 (25:12):
I can't wait. I'm gonna watch it. I'm excited, you're excited.
I want Cat to win. I like Kat.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Kat's a good person. I hope he wins.
Speaker 9 (25:21):
I think Cat will be actually him versus will be
a unique little matchup.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, yeah, man, it'll be entertaining.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
I've gambled too much and loss.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yeah, there's only one way to get it back. Yeah, gambling.
It's not hard work and effort.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Yeah what, It's just like the slot machine, just just
holding on to it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
I gotta get some odds though. Why because the Spurs
are the favorite. It's a seven game series. Anything can happens.
It's the championships, anything can happen. No, yeah, thanks, I'm
not letting you guys push being bullying me around.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
I'm not bullying you.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Who do you think is going to win? Behaf When
you have hold on, you don't need to your opinion.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Who do you think is going to win? I think
the Spurs? But I like the action. See you didn't
think I was going to say that. Hold on here,
I was.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
On the edge of my seat. Oh here, what are
you looking up? The odds? Yeah? The Knicks are like
plus one fifty plus one seventy. What's that mean? So
one hundred and seventy dollars? If you bet one hundred,
you win one hundred and seventy. Uh No, I don't
want to bet it.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Hawk, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Basketball.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Nay nine you already took your money, Yeah, I did,
I got at right now.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Game one of the Stanley Cup finalists tomorrow at seven
pm a zacho between the Vegas Golden Knights and the Hurricanes.
Game one and two will be Carolina.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
They have the Hurricanes off to a twelve and one start,
the best postseason start I think since in like fifty years.
So they are just on fire right now. Just the
one little slip up and otherwise they'd be perfect. They
go up against John Tortorella, who's got some championship pedigree
and has seemingly unlocked just this Golden Knight squad and
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turn them into an absolute powerhouse. So it's a compelling series.
It will be really good hockey. The ratings will be awful,
but you know we'll be well for how I mean,
just not really big markets, either Vegas or Carolina.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
So hockey fans will love it.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
The casuals will probably miss it, and it doesn't matter beginning.
It will be a lot of fun to watch and
I think even listen on the fan. I think we
got the some of those games on, if not all
of them, on kfan.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
So Vegas' success obviously helps the idea of putting all
four major sports teams in last Vegas. Right when they
came out of the gates hot, then when you heard
like the Raiders are.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Going there, and the A's are going there, the NBA
is going to get a team there, it's like cool.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
But now that they've had nine years and this is
already their third Finals appearance, now it's it's almost a
detriment to the Raiders that the Vegas Golden Knights are
so good and everybody in Vegas is like, this is
our team. They're not a team that moved here. This
is our squad and all they do is win. The
Raiders just like, can we have some fans? Can we
have a couple of them?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
In?
Speaker 7 (28:28):
The A's are terrible, So when they show up, it's
going to be another relocated team that suck, that don't
spend money. Cool, it might be an unbelievable stadium, But
that's why I think the NBA team when it shows
up there is going to have a really good chance because.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
It's going to be new, because the expansion team, it's
going to be theirs.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Yeah, right, Everybody in Vegas says that that's the difference
is that they think they like the Knights because it's theirs.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
It's not a borrowed team.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
I don't think the Raiders. The Raiders will never have
a home field advantage ever, I don't I don't care
if they win a Super Bowl. Their ticket prices and
the transient nature of all the people that are there,
there's there's no loyalty to the Raiders ever. I don't think.
I think they're gonna be They're gonna have a big,
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fancy stadium, and they're gonna find themselves basically in the
same situation they were in Oakland that after a number
of years they're regular fans are they're gonna be priced out.
They won't be able to just sell their tickets to
all the incoming fans the visiting team, and it's gonna
suck for them. Well, so it'll be great for us
when we go visit because it'll be seventy percent Viking fans.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
It definitely was at that one game that was the
most boring football game I've ever seen in my life.
It was the three nothing game. It was terrible, but
it was mostly Vikings fans. Yeah, right, It was like
sixty five thirty five kind of arrange something like that
it was mostly Vikings fans unfortunately, because that was.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
That was brutal, right, Remember Jefferson went to the hospital. Yeah, yeah,
some of the worst, some of the.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
Worst quarterbacking I've ever seen. Yeah, and man three, nothing
changes so much.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
If they lose that game, they have like a top
five pick in that twenty twenty four draft, it changes
a lot.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
What a awful wind.
Speaker 7 (30:11):
He could set football back about fifty years. It feels
like we started over after that. But anyway, we have
a new GM we can talk about in this Man
Vikings News after this this is.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
The power for money showing to think.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
From the way to your first floor.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
And it is time for Vikings News and there's plenty
as Ben Leber is here to break down our brand
new GM.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Here's Ben, that's it.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Honda is teed up.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Everything we need to know. His entire life story, his
entire life story.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Well, he grew up in the Pacific Northwest and he
is a foot country, Bigfoot country. He's probably seen the
Sasquatch before, and we can maybe ask him that in
this press conference.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
That's all I want to know now.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
And if he can find Sasquatch or knows where big
Foot is can he play ball?
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Not a bad d line?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
You know, do people that live in the Pacific Northwest?
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Do they embrace the movie Harry and the Henderson's the
way that Minnesotan's embraced like mighty Ducks or grumpy old
men coach? Yeah, but just like you know, it's like
they're very, very proud of it or is it an embarrassment?
Speaker 5 (31:16):
No, I think they're They should be. They should be
proud of it.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I think so. I think so too. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
I mean what Utah hockey team was almost gonna be
called the Yetti?
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Good point. Then Paul, was your hand up? Well, Utah?
Are you going to give me two?
Speaker 7 (31:32):
So, like I wonder if Nolan Teasley I would say,
like Harry and the Henderson's is like a top five
phone for him.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Probably probably, well he better. I mean if you can't
wait to meet him and ask him.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
If he doesn't, then first question, I'm probably not a
fan exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yeah, well soon even if he even.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
If he's lying, he should just at least say to
this fan base, it's top five.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
It's top five, right. It greatly molded the man that
he was, and he's.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
Gonna he's gonna make his decisions based on his love
of that film, like he wants offensive linemen, specifically with size,
with strength, but with kind hearts like Randon McDaniel.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
I think that's when they when they drafted Gray's abel,
that hid the comp was Harry got it.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
Really, there's a whole circle we got there.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Yeah, Well, stew Teasley, O'Connell and Bersinski is a leadership
team that features three experts in their respective field.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
So kind of like a triangle of authority. So we're
back to that because that works so well the first
time the.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Triangle that was a disaster.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Well even waits yeah, the second time around, I don't
understand why it was a disaster. When people hear this
triangle of authority, I think it's just semantics. I think
every I think every organization is a triangle of authority
for sure. I just think that we unfortunately named it
something and put a label on it, so now we
talk about it as if it's the triangle of authority,
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like it's something new. But don't you think that every GM.
Don't you think Howie Roseman has a staff of people
that he bounces ideas off of, or do you think
that he scouts everybody himself and makes final decisions.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
No, And in the idea of it being a triangle
and not like a duo makes a lot of sense,
because if it's just two people, you can't like vote right.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
There's got to be a tie r. It's got to
be an odd number.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
For example, the triangle of authority here at the Power
Trap Warning Show, which is me, Chris and Chad Abbitt. Right,
it's like the three of us get to make all
the decisions.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yep, got to be three.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
Two doesn't make sense. One's a dictatorship. It's got to
be three.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yeah, voting that guy no exactly, and he's always laid
to the votes anyway because of that.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Drop the draft, but to be sure, that is probably
a better.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Way to do Teasley, however, according to keV, receiver will
be the Viking's primary decision maker.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
M So that's you know, that's the old Uh.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
That's the interesting question here, Benjamin is I don't know
if we'll ever quite know, like what percentage of rob
Razinski was this year's draft, right, and how much was
koc how much was Flores probably had some say, maybe
a lot of say, probably not all encompassing all powerful,
say right, same thing with Seattle. I'm sure in his
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introductory press conference, it's going to be, well, how much
of a part of the decision making process did you have?
How much of these draft classes that have been really
good for Seattle? How much of that was you? It's
hard to quantify.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
So see, that is the question that I think we
all are going to have, especially with big time positions
like the quarterback. So hypothetically, if we rewound time and
we go back to let's say January February, and we
had identified Nolan Teasley back then, and let's say Brazinski
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was never interim GM, and we're entering free agency with
new GM from Seattle, and it was still the triangle
of power, right, it was still the same power structure
and all this other stuff. All things remain equal, except
the timelines now shifted back to February. Would his exposure
experience playing against Kyler Murray in the NFC West, how
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would that have went into the formula to make the
decision to sign him to a free agent contract if
in his time when he's because he's been with Seattle
his whole career, so he's he's seen Kyler Murray as
a rookie all the way up till now. Kyler Murray's
two and nine against the Seattle Seahawks in his available time,
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like he's played Obviously the teams have played more games,
but he's been injured for a couple of games. So
with Kyler being two and nine against the Seattle Seahawks
and he's probably watched every single snap, does he like him?
Does he dislike him? Where does and if he doesn't
like him? But the head coach likes him, And the
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head coach is like, well, listen, you weren't here last
year to see what we had what happened at quarterback?
This is this is my opinion on Kyler Murray, and
we're also going to get him for very cheap. Does
no and say, I see what you're saying, but this
is such an important position. I'm making the decision on this,
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and I vote no, Like, how does how would that work?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
I guess that's I mean, that's the hypothetical. What we'll
never we'll never know. But I think in a lot
of these situations, when we do look at a triangle
of authority or or whatever you want to call it,
it was such a major decision. How does that play out?
Is it really a three man vote? Do they really
just like raise your hand in this room with the
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three of us guys, like who's yay or nay for Kyler?
And then with Nolan having all this all these games
experience and all these snaps being watched very intently, does
he have more weight than the other two.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
He definitely has the scout in credentials that Quasi didn't.
That's for sure.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
Well that's the thing, and I think, you know, so
all that being said, with the hypotheticals that we can't
we can't really just discuss, I just I enjoy the
fact that we are getting back to just what we
what we know about football, and football is it's not
about numbers. It helps you, it helps you, like make
partial decisions, it helps you color within the lines. But
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it's not all about the numbers. It's not all about
the analytics. You still have to have a sense of
what makes a good football player. And and sometimes it's
not about how we've see you know, look at this
this this flyer that who was at the the Eagles
took who is that that that kid from from Africa
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that was part of the international program it doesn't matter
his name, but you look at his metrics, and his
metrics would say this guy is going to be a
Hall of Famer. I mean the size, the strength, the athleticism,
the change of direction, the speed, the explosive power that
he can possess. You would think that this guy is
going to be a Hall of Famer. But he still
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has got to play football. Lesler was another example. I mean,
that's a that's a current example that we look at.
Here's a physical specimen that nobody wants to like stand
in front of and have to block, But the dude
couldn't play football. So it is about which are the
football guys? Which are the guys that have the mentality
to play football? And it seems like he's he's got
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a knack for finding that type of talent. So I'm
excited to see what happens with him at the Helm.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Well, I'm excited too because Roberts and Skiaz sting in
his role and again will be one of the three
of the triangle authority for calling it that. But how
about this, The Vikings are on track to spend one
hundred million dollars lesson payroll this year than they did
last year. Yeah, one hundred million dollars, and he mentioned
it when we had to get ridder Gernard. Wasn't something
we wanted to do. We just had to.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's uh, that was a huge
part of it. And the thing is, not only was
there it was nice for a couple veterans current veterans
to restructure their contracts to free up some of that money,
but in in in the same timeline, in that same
formula of trying to figure out how we're saving money,
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the guys that we were paying didn't produce, So it
was like they weren't hard decisions to make outside of Gernard.
Grearnnard had one money, he wanted more money. Dallas Turner
seems like he's turned the corner. So you have to
give the young guy a chance, especially with the rookie contract.
So I'm sure the Wolves are very appreciative of the
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fact that they're going to spend one hundred million dollars less,
But I don't think that it was like necessarily really
really difficult decisions to make outside of Gernard.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
You know what I remembered when I was reading this
article this morning, when we were in London, not Dublin,
But no, it was Dublin. Maybe we were in Dublin
and we were already talking before we interviewed one of
those defensive linemen. You were just talking about about how
disappointed we were.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Do you remember that, and that was that early in
the season. Didn't get any better, did it?
Speaker 2 (39:56):
No, it really didn't.
Speaker 5 (39:58):
And I think I think that is the you know,
we talk about how long beleash certain people have. When
you're a high priced free agent that's been in the
league for already seven eight years, you don't get a
lot of acclamation period. You it should be within game
one and you're like, oh, yeah, this guy can play, yep, yep,
this is yep. I know exactly why we paid this
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guy X millions of dollars. But when we didn't see
that for a first handful of games, we're like, oh boy,
I don't think this is going to work out.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
They were not good.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
No, And we were talking about Jalen Redmond the whole time. Yeah,
I mean since since preseason, I mean really since the
first week of padded practice. We're like, look at this guy,
he can this guy can play, Like, let's see what
this guy can do, and you know, against real in
a real game, and then he goes out and proves
in a real game. We're like, we talked more about
him early parts of the season and throughout the whole
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season than anybody else in that defensive front we did.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Can I read from Kevin Seffert's article about our quarterback
situation gentlemen? Of course, In the team's second ota of
the spring and the first open to local media members,
Kyler Murray and JJ McCarthy both took snaps with projected
starters and against the likely first team defense. If you
were drawing up a plan to give each player fair
and equal time to prove they are the team's best option,
this would be it. But you can only have a
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genuine competition if there's actual uncertainty about who the best
quarterback on the roster is. With the caveat that this
was one day in May, with no pads and some
drills performed at half speed, it is only fair to
point out that the gap between the two quarterbacks was
not close. Apparently, Murray made all the best throws of
the practice, demonstrating his downfield touch and accuracy. Nothing McCarthy
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did was objectionable, and one of his few incompletions occurred
when two receivers drifted too close to each other. While
McCarthy's post practice comments about their relationship delivered headlines, it
was Murray who might have said the most notable forwards
of the afternoon. My confidence is unshakable. So according to Seaffert,
it wasn't even close. And it probably I don't know,
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I guess that doesne surprises.
Speaker 5 (41:59):
I mean, it's shouldn't surprise you given his level of
expertise and experience at this at this point in his career.
I mean, JJ's entering year three that's been marred by
injury and not a lot of snaps on the football field,
and and Kyler has a ton of experience, so he
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should walk into this situation. And I mean that's the
other things, Like they all know, I mean they know
that this is a a weighted quarterback competition. It's it's
going to be weighted towards Kyler. It's Kyler's to lose.
I mean, Kyler would have to majorly s the bed
for him to lose his starting role. It's a competition
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and the mental standpoint, but I think as far as
the actual the roster and the way everything's shaping up.
It's it's Kyler's to lose. So he should walk in
and feel like he's the starter.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Because he is.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
If JJ McCarthy was writing if his career only depended
this season on his ability, would Kyler be here? What
I mean is like he has the double whammy of
he's injured a lot and he hasn't played he hasn't
played well, like a bunch of games in a row.
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Would Kyler still be here if it was just based
on his ability?
Speaker 5 (43:24):
M I mean, that's a hard question to answer because
we don't know. I mean, if if you like take
away the injuries from McCarthy, then who knows what happens
in year one and who knows you know, what sort
of role he gets on in year two. So I
don't know. I think that there's a lot. There is
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a lot of skill and talent and just overall quarterback
athleticism out of McCarthy. I think his his biggest thing
that he has to continue to work on is the
mental part of it. It's the process, you know, it's
the understanding of when to use all the tools in
my toolkit, and that comes with the experience. And so
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I think you know, I guess in a roundabout way
to answer your question, I still think that we'd be
in a situation where we were second guessing whether or
not McCarthy is the guy going forward. So, going back
to Kyler's contract, probably in the same situation where it's like, oh,
why don't you just bring this guy in just because
he's extremely cheap, He's got a lot of snaps under
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his belt. And let's see if we can actually have
a quarterback duel to have one of these guys earn
their spot.
Speaker 7 (44:38):
Can I have you guess something on June first? That
is impossible to know, So it's just shot in the dark.
Let's just see if we can track it and see
how close you get. Yeah, seventeen games right.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
For the regular season for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 7 (44:48):
If you had to guess how many starts Kyler, Carson
and JJ each get this year, what would you guess?
Give me the split? I think because all three of
them have injury histories, right.
Speaker 5 (45:02):
I think Kyler gets twelve, JJ gets five, and Carson
gets zero zero.
Speaker 7 (45:10):
Anybody else have a hot take? Anybody else want to guess?
So you're going twelve and Carson wins the job.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Outright, sauce.
Speaker 4 (45:21):
I think Kyler plays fifteen of them and Carson Wentz
plays the other two. Like that, I think McCarthy is
either the third quarterback or he gets traded. If a source, no,
I would tell you, I'll tell you off the air
if I did, I do not.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
I just my guess. It's your hot. Take.
Speaker 4 (45:44):
Yeah, that's your hot because I think the same thing
that you said, Ben, and you're one hundred percent correct
about Kyler.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
The same thing with the new GM could be said
about JJ. He has no ties to JJ.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
He could walk in here and go, yeah, we fine,
but the kids are distraction in a way, right. Kyler's
the starter. We're going to move on with Kyler. Let's
see if we can find a way to move McCarthy.
You have Carson Wentzon here, who knows your offense, who
can move the football. Let's find a way to move
well JJ.
Speaker 7 (46:08):
Speaking of histories, wasn't wasn't Brozmer the disaster game against Seattle? Yeah, yeah,
he's got to be like, oh crap, we hired a
seat guy. He watched my entire game, Son of a bitch,
it's over. That's yeah, that wasn't his best performance? Uh,
fan five and a second headlines.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
Later more of the power to morning too. After this
on the fan from the one eight hundred ask Gary
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We'll break down some biking stuff a little bit later
on OTAs in the in the In the in the Books,
Kevin Sieffert with an interesting article regarding JJ versus Kyler
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and the new GM as well. So let's get to there.
But no time for the news, guys. The news, the news.
I gotta hey tell you the hard hitting things going
on in the world.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
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Speaker 5 (01:21):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You ever floating a hot tub down the Mississippi River?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Oh no, but we did a story on that.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, it's happening right.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
This looks like fun m M Minnesota hot Tub Boats
or something like that.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
See.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I was hoping that I might be giving you a story.
I did, but way late on the last week go.
A new Minneapolis business is betting plenty of people want
to find out how it feels to float down the
river in a hot tub. Minnesota hot Tub Boats launched
this past weekend at Boom Island Park, offering ninety minute
cruises aboard floating hot tubs on the Mississippi River. Electric
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hot tub boat fits up to six people and travel
at five miles pro They cruise a roughly mile long
stretch of the river between Nicolatte Island and the Broadway
Street Bridge.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well that's sweet, I'm watching the video. Yeah that's cool.
It's a good idea. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, you get a safety briefing. I wonder if
you can. Uh, I'm just gonna say it. Can you
get it on?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Sure? I mean sure, yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I think they have like a they have like the
little what they called geo fences, so like you you know,
like what to avoid in the river and all that stuff,
and then they have like a GPS tracker so you
don't go too far.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
But outside of that, I mean, yes, there's no camera.
Who's driving this boat? You can't.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
You can hire a captain, or you can do what
you're sa saving interesting uh huh yeah, Tommy Lee, I'm
just gonna be shooting dice.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I don't care what you guys do.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well, I see what you're saying. You'll be in there
just a tank care room business. That's the shooting dice.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Just like gambling.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Yeah, you probably, I mean for the right price, hire
Bright McKinney if you want.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Ye, will he perform my services? Say he's willing to perform.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
You look more like a smooth guy. Well, yeah, I suppose,
I suppose you're right.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I believe. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I was gonna say, like, yeah, he wasn't really performing,
I mean he was, I guess he was, Yes, he was.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I think he was performing service.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Sure, yeah, right, yes, you're right, thank.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
You, I think thank you. Minnesota city is are racing
to expand a new kind of emergency response system, one
where the first officer to arrive at a nine to
one one call may not be a person at all.
Across the Twin cities metro police departments are rolling out
drone as first responder programs. It's an unmanned aircraft ahead
(03:53):
of police, fire or other emergency crews. The drones can
reach scenes in less than two minutes, live stream footage
to responding officers, and in some cases, determine whether anybody
even needs to be dispatched.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
That's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, h Minnetonka already has logged more than six hundred
drone flights since launching the program last year, which I
can't believe. I didn't know this. How do you not
see drones everywhere? Right?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Dinah and Bloomington are testing similar systems. Brooklyn Park approved
a four point six million dollar network of autonomous drones
designed to cover the city, and Minneapolis officials are considering
their own pilot program. The rapid expansion carries obvious tactical
appeal for departments eager for information before officers arrive at
a scene.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
So that's be a fad, ass, let's do it.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
I think Ben's TV station did a story on Minatanka's
deal a couple of months ago, and they were showing
how it works and yeah, the ability to just send
a camera out there and be faster than any car
or any other thing could and it's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Yeah, I mean I feel like, yeah, I feel like
they're yeah, hmm. I think this is more of like
a maybe this specific incident is not a not a
big deal. It's almost like like what this could lead
to is kind of the way I would think about it.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Like RoboCop.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Yeah, a little bit like.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Again, think of the ability to assess what's happening and
what's needed. I mean privacy, who I don't know. I
don't want people spying on me either, But if I'm
in some kind of an emergency situation and some drones
flying over and assessing the situation and know what's needed, I'm.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Struggling to find a downside. But I'm sure somebody will
kind of complain.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Yeah. I think it probably just is more like is
this going to be used just for regular law enforcement?
And then are they we just gonna have drones flying
over all the time because as they go from point
to point B, they're gonna be have they're gonna have
to see all the things along the way.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
And it's like, well then stop nude sunbathing.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
You need to what you heard Roe said?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Okay, your star, dear.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Mister John, please get help.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
You're fine, Yeah, you're yeah, thanks, caught in this m right,
see playoffs correct.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I'm not creative songs for Luke bryan.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Oh that's it's so bad. I wish I did, and
I have no talent, but my god, that's ever put together.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
See that's self awareness, that talent. Yeah, thank you. We're
all glad that you finally to go zero.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Good for you.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
But either because Luke Bryant, Saucy Noriega, I like that.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Oh is that the guy that died? Sure, sure we'll
take one of them. We've gone too soon.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Southwest Airlines reversing course on its plus sized passenger policy. Uh,
the discount carrier were no longer required plus sized customers
to book an extra seat in advance.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
That's a huge bitch.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Why did you hit that?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Oh that that's the captain When you see sus getting on.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Jus, Melinda. We love the job you're doing, but please
stop saying that.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
It's like a dollar an hour.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
We Linda must be pretty good at her job if
that's all she's getting calling it.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Fast right, well, she's saying it into.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
The radio and the whole she's just standing at the
end of the jetway letting, letting the pilot know.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
I'm just imagining that the David Spade character from the nineties.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Bye bye guy, huge.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Only job he has. That's Southwest. Huh so you have
reverse course they have.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah, Yeah, that's right. Gate agents will now assign an
extra seat for free if available, or work to get
the customer on the later flight. Southwest says the change
aims to create a more consistent and seamless experience. Yeah, okay, whatever. Yeah.
And lastly, Google wants to release thirty two million mosquitoes
(08:24):
in California and Florida as part of its debug program,
but first it needs approval from the federal government. The
initiative looks to stop bad bugs with good bugs by
releasing hordes of sterile mosquitos to eliminate ones that carry disease.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says mosquitos are
the deadliest animal in the whole wide world.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
True yeah, yeah, true true story.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Google scientists say their eradication approach uses data analytics, sensors,
and automation to scale the sterile insect technique.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
Now, can we find a way to train these mosquitoes
to somehow kill the pythons in Florida?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
That would break great?
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Correct, Yeah, just like some kind of a snake poison
that the rest of us are immune to. So like,
if it bites us, we're fine. But if it gets
like swallowed by a.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Snake or if it you know, I don't know. I
don't know how. I have a lot of good ideas.
He's listening.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
I don't know how I feel about genetically modified animals.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Oh, I couldn't be more in favor of, like King con.
I saw a.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Picture on my magazine here, dude, I don't know if
you've seen this yet, Corey, maybe you have not. Let
me look here in my Rolling Storm magazine. I just
haven't turned the right page.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
You know what these are?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Those are the dire wolves.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Those are real life dire wolves they created. Man, I
haven't seen those.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Do you still get better? Do I win still get
better homes and gardens, I get.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Worse homes and gardens. Now, for people who.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Remember that, the guy, the guy that runs that company
was the guy that was asked on TV like could
you make a unicorn if you wanted to? And he's like, well, yeah,
but then I'm gonna catch a bunch of hells.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
What's not worth it existed?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Right?
Speaker 7 (10:04):
But he said he could basically modify one to have
a horn, Like, they could do it if they really
really wanted to.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
It wouldn't be a flying one, but it would be
a unicorn.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
This whole article is that guy you're talking about, Ben Lamb?
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
I don't know Lamb.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Anyway, maybe the whole article that's famous for poker, but.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Science startup Colossal is on a mission to make animals productionized,
getting rid of the need for eggs or wombs.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
What.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, so they're gonna make They're gonna make animal meat
without being animals artificial wombs. You know what I've got.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Again?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I don't like I don't like all this.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Yeah, and if I understand that whole thing correctly, it's
it's like less than one percent actual dire wolf or
something like that is that it's been. They've had to
use so many other pieces of genetics from actual wolves
and other other canees to make that that it's like
barely a dire wolf and so it's a mutt wolf. Oh,
(11:06):
it's a total mut wolf.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, tell that to the dire wolve's face.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I don't know. I'm just glad somebody's finally putting some
money into making really good, careful, careful fake wombs. Mine
were out real quickly.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
You don't, Yeah, yeah, just like a flashlight y wow
mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Does it suction to the wall?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
How dare you ask weird questions?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah? You don't know where the line is.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
There's a line, dude, does it? Yeah? It does.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I don't know, you guys, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Oh, like you know, I tell you what the What
I saw on Instagram last night that I really want
is a is a puma.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
There's a I don't know. I think she was like
Ukrainian or something.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
She's got this whole Instagram page where she's got a
black panther for a pet. God, it looks awesome. Really,
wouldn't you want like a big cat for a pet?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Especially if I was like Noriega.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Right, Like if if you need to intimidate people who
work directly for you, having a panther, puma, jaguar or whatever,
that would be.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
I don't want I don't want to lion because that'll
like for sure eat me eventually.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Like, well, like a cheetah or something.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
There's like there's a big cat, big African cat that
actually is like friendly to humans, that's not aggressive to humans.
It's one of them, Max max Is Max is a
big cat that like that.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Was my nickname in high school. Big African cat.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Kind of a long moniker. But I guess it works.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
They're gonna make a giant South Island giant moa huh,
which is a huge bit a bird that stood twelve
foot tall and weighed five hundred pounds, had eggs the
size of.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
The football cheeze.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
That's a huge bird. Can he offensive rebound from time
to time? I mean like, can we trade him for Rudy? Yes?
Whoa to one of these moas verry moa. Wow, that's
a huge bird.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, it's big old bird. They're gonna make all kinds
of things happen.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Though, see and The thing is, why, why why do
we need this?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Because they're delicious?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I mean they would extinct for a reason though, right.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Well, ninety nine point nine percent of all species that
have ever lived on this planet are extinct.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Yeah, we need to bring them back.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Extinction is the norm. We're headed for it for sure. Sure.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah, maybe we have to stop our own extinction first. Yeah,
well said, or maybe not screw it.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Or maybe creating other things we can eat will extend.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Our lives, right or that?
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Maybe we're headed towards ext extinction unless we make these
moas and cut them up.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, let's have some moa strips. Yeah right, moa caniac
combo nose low extra toes with a beer please and
a side of dire wolf. Oh boy, a moa omelet
sounds amazing. Yeah, we just needed to make it real sauce.
Would you eat a moa?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Sure, thanks, you couldn't need any less.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Up come, that's good, that was brilliant.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I'm on my way down. Man, I've lost nine pounds.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Nice?
Speaker 9 (14:25):
Really are you speaking German?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I've lost you nine whole pounds or what? He cares?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You got a big old hole on you.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It is your dad dare you.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Yeah, man, there you go.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I can't find anything more about whether how much of
the dire Wolf is actual dire Wolf. I'm looking through
the article, but I'm not good reading.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
That's all right. It looks like a big article.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Small words, yeah, really small letters.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No. I love magazine articles, but I hate it when
they're seventeen pages long.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I think if I started the magazine, every article would
be one page nothing more. You better figure it out
and get to the point.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
See when you showed me that article. Yeah, the letters. Look,
the font is so small. Yeah that I would just
I would never read that. I would never take the
time to read that. It is because it would feel
like I'm getting nowhere.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah, it is tough.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Let's see, uh sway for the movie. Yeah, wait for
the movie. Correct. M.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
The wolves were joined on their private two thousand and
acre preserved by a third diar Wolf, their cloned sister Calisi.
Oh that's very sweet.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Man.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Anyway, yeah, so there you go. They're making things. I'm
bringing it back to life. I for one would like
to see Jimmy Hendricks again.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah. See why don't we do that? Yeah? We just
clone humans? Is ted Williams still frozen. Yeah, a whole
bunch of people.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Are you can clone Noriega?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Would you clone wrap? Who would I cal him? Jane's Mansfields? Damn, Sorry,
I set up wrong. Man. That's cool, man, that's all right.
Are you doing great? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Would you guys ever clone a pet back?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
No? No, no, I.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Don't think so. There's a lot of doggies and kiddies
out there.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
What's the animal Hawk just let leave his house?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Moose?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, the cat.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
You can't prove that.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
What if Mose has become just a massive beast in
the woods.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
He also let that cat out about thirty seven years
ago forever.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Man, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
In the wild, they can live a lot longer.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I can, man, That's why I let her out. She
needs to live long.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, she wanted to explore.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Yeah, poor moose getting some tail.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Wow. What if she got stepped on by a moose
and like five seconds after Hawk let it?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Like, yeah, this was ironic.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
That would be absolutely if there was a moose in
Maple Grow.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Yeah, oh my god, you guys you see the bear
breaking news?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Did you see it?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Yeah, it's two blocks from my house. I treat two
streets over a black bear. I saw the ring camp. Okay, yeah,
yeah it was.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
It was sent to yeah to ask you about that
because I think I had to be near you.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
So is that in the news, Yeah, it was in
the news. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah. How big of a bear are we talking here?
I mean a big cuddly guy. I mean, but I mean.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Exactly based on what I saw now, it was not
on his two feet. I'd probably say if it was
six foot and about uh four fifty huge.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, look at that black bear. Look at that bastard.
What was he doing? Just wandering?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Just wandering around, wander around?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Leave them alone. He's fine.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Well, I mean you probably you probably eats.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Like he's looking for moose.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah, probably hanging out.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Yeah, it's two streets over from where. I'm so excited, man,
I want to see this thing.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Is that why you left?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Because you knew a bear was on its way? I mean, yeah,
left from other reasons, but yeah, that's one of them. Yeah,
the bear, the bears on the loose.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Man, you left from other reasons, Zach, What do you.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Think of this bear? I mean I've seen better bears,
especially you Dinah mean, my god.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Jeez, So Ben, between now and when you go home.
Are you going to stop somewhere and get bear bells?
They're only like a dollar?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, I might have to.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
I might have put the bear bells on our dogs
when we go for walks, exactly. Carry bear spray with
me now, yeah, yeah, But the black bears are nice bears.
They're not the brown bears, brown bears, aggressive black bears,
Cudley soft.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I bet they all you too, though you don't think
they won't. Let me check it out. Let me say
how many times the black bears have eating somebody?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
No, they are not inherently mean. Yeah, see they're nice.
They are timidus DNA would be nice to it. Don't
don't shoot it right?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Well, black bear attacks are and consumptions are incredibly rare.
There are documentary instance of black bear's attacking and consuming humans,
but the odds of being preyed upon by black bear
roughly one in a million. That ain't so bad, not
so bad? How many people live in a Dina?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Oh fifty? You're good then, don't not good? Like green?
Great film? More like one under than millions?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Got it all and.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I read it. So you're telling me there's a chance.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Just yeah, that's such a possible, It's not zero nope.
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Thank you. I would like to say hi and thank
you to our friends with Starkey who bring us this
NASCAR report. William Sawalach, our good friend. Third place in
Nashville this weekend. Hell yeah, yeah, great right for Williams
Sawallash third place in Nashville and that moves him up.
I believe too. Let me take a look over haw
ninth in the standings, up three spots to ninth in
the standings in the O'Reilly Auto Parts Series after the
(20:34):
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Get your free hearing test at starkey dot com. Starky,
everybody Starky. By the way, last night's race was rained delayed,
but Denny Hamlin ended up winning the NASCAR Cup Series
race in Nashville.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Denny Hamlin, everybody three wide for the lead at the
at the white flag.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
It was a hell of a hell of a race.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Who's break? Cal aren't going to explode? That's the question.
Oh man, they had a lot of crashes last night
because it breaks. That was that right, and a lot
of them, Yeah, just exploded with flames is.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Did any handle them?
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Like fifty years old at this point, it feels like
that's a name that's been around.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
He's been around for a long time. Yeah, I like
that guy forty five.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yeah, he owns that team with Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah, you guys ever.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Heard that guy?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah? And Steve Lombardosi.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Steve's not a part of it anymore. They fired him
why because of his mustache. That's so, you're right for
some five.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, it's time for a fan five on the power Trip.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
We could talk about the Vikings things in Vikings News,
but hawk, Yes, the NFL season starts one hundred days
from today with the Patriots at Seattle in a Super
Bowl rematch Wednesday, September ninth.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Just live in the moment. Are we're going one hundred
days away?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
In the moment, looking forward to one hundred days from now.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, which means if that's one hundred days away, don't
say it. Preseason football is even closer.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
That's right, baby, Yes, oh jeez.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
The NFL Hall of Fame Game Hawk is Thursday, August
sixth at seven o'clock. Yeah, that guy loves it. Yeah,
we'll be there.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yeah, we lost twenty bucks, as you won't be.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
I don't want to better because there's things change. Right,
where's things change change? Yeah, there's things change.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Max doesn't sit to next well played. Uh, Maxo cares
about this, and as do I. Caleb Williams will be
on the cover of Madden twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Rip his knee and or ankle?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
The Spurs beat the Thunder one eleven, one zero three
to advance to the Final Let's go Or. They will
face the Knicks on Wednesday at seven thirty. The first
two games will be in San Antonio. The Spurs Maxo,
are a five and a half point favorite in Game one.
Speaker 9 (23:12):
Yeah, thank god they ended that uprising dictatorship that we
know as the Oklahoma City Thunder. Nobody wanted to watch
that In the NBA Finals, the Spurs, they're gonna be
the favorites, but they're certainly not unbeatable, and I think
it's gonna be a way more even series than had
the Thunder advance, and it's gonna be all it's gonna
be a lot of fun too, just insane fan bases.
(23:33):
I mean, New York might sink into the ocean if
the Knicks somehow find a way to actually beat the Spurs.
But man, that game, that Game seven, that whole series
was just everything it was advertised to be. And I
mean Victor we and Binyama took over and you could
see how much admitted to him at the end. Man,
I mean he just burst into tears right away. That
whole team. They just have such a I know, we
didn't like him personally when they beat the Wolves, it
(23:55):
wasn't the cleanest basketball, but it seems like they kind
of got back to their ethical hoops in this series,
and they just have such a bond, man. And they're
a deep team, and they're not like these manufactured super
teams that we've seen, you know, over the last decade
or so. They built it from the ground up with
just really good draft picks and everybody, all their superstars
are like twenty four to twenty five and under it's insane.
(24:17):
They're gonna be here for a really really long time.
And it was it was so much fun and uh,
you know, bleep the thunder.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You guys cheering for Wemby or cheering for Cat. Wemby,
Cat don't care. I'd be happy either way.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
But Wemby, you just you kind of want to see
a great playoff run like he's had, get get rewarded,
you know, especially in the NBA with they'll bring culture
thing he might never with his you know he could.
He's gigantic. He's not gonna stay healthy probably forever. So
you want to see him geting.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yeah, they're gonna be telling him he'll be out of
the league.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Twenty years to get plenty of rings here. Wemby have
a game.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
One of the Stanley Cup Final is tomorrow, Z echo
at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Play somebody answer his question when don't we have? Does
anybody know the answer?
Speaker 4 (25:12):
I can't wait. I'm gonna watch it. I'm excited, you're excited.
I want Cat to win. I like Kat.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Kat's a good person. I hope he wins.
Speaker 9 (25:21):
I think Cat will be actually him versus will be
a unique little matchup.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, yeah, man, it'll be entertaining.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
I've gambled too much and loss.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yeah, there's only one way to get it back. Yeah, gambling.
It's not hard work and effort.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Yeah what, It's just like the slot machine, just just
holding on to it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
I gotta get some odds though. Why because the Spurs
are the favorite. It's a seven game series. Anything can happens.
It's the championships, anything can happen. No, yeah, thanks, I'm
not letting you guys push being bullying me around.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
I'm not bullying you.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Who do you think is going to win? Behaf When
you have hold on, you don't need to your opinion.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Who do you think is going to win? I think
the Spurs? But I like the action. See you didn't
think I was going to say that. Hold on here,
I was.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
On the edge of my seat. Oh here, what are
you looking up? The odds? Yeah? The Knicks are like
plus one fifty plus one seventy. What's that mean? So
one hundred and seventy dollars? If you bet one hundred,
you win one hundred and seventy. Uh No, I don't
want to bet it.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Hawk, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Basketball.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Nay nine you already took your money, Yeah, I did,
I got at right now.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Game one of the Stanley Cup finalists tomorrow at seven
pm a zacho between the Vegas Golden Knights and the Hurricanes.
Game one and two will be Carolina.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
They have the Hurricanes off to a twelve and one start,
the best postseason start I think since in like fifty years.
So they are just on fire right now. Just the
one little slip up and otherwise they'd be perfect. They
go up against John Tortorella, who's got some championship pedigree
and has seemingly unlocked just this Golden Knight squad and
(27:23):
turn them into an absolute powerhouse. So it's a compelling series.
It will be really good hockey. The ratings will be awful,
but you know we'll be well for how I mean,
just not really big markets, either Vegas or Carolina.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
So hockey fans will love it.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
The casuals will probably miss it, and it doesn't matter beginning.
It will be a lot of fun to watch and
I think even listen on the fan. I think we
got the some of those games on, if not all
of them, on kfan.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
So Vegas' success obviously helps the idea of putting all
four major sports teams in last Vegas. Right when they
came out of the gates hot, then when you heard
like the Raiders are.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Going there, and the A's are going there, the NBA
is going to get a team there, it's like cool.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
But now that they've had nine years and this is
already their third Finals appearance, now it's it's almost a
detriment to the Raiders that the Vegas Golden Knights are
so good and everybody in Vegas is like, this is
our team. They're not a team that moved here. This
is our squad and all they do is win. The
Raiders just like, can we have some fans? Can we
have a couple of them?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
In?
Speaker 7 (28:28):
The A's are terrible, So when they show up, it's
going to be another relocated team that suck, that don't
spend money. Cool, it might be an unbelievable stadium, But
that's why I think the NBA team when it shows
up there is going to have a really good chance because.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
It's going to be new, because the expansion team, it's
going to be theirs.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Yeah, right, Everybody in Vegas says that that's the difference
is that they think they like the Knights because it's theirs.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
It's not a borrowed team.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
I don't think the Raiders. The Raiders will never have
a home field advantage ever, I don't I don't care
if they win a Super Bowl. Their ticket prices and
the transient nature of all the people that are there,
there's there's no loyalty to the Raiders ever. I don't think.
I think they're gonna be They're gonna have a big,
(29:11):
fancy stadium, and they're gonna find themselves basically in the
same situation they were in Oakland that after a number
of years they're regular fans are they're gonna be priced out.
They won't be able to just sell their tickets to
all the incoming fans the visiting team, and it's gonna
suck for them. Well, so it'll be great for us
when we go visit because it'll be seventy percent Viking fans.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
It definitely was at that one game that was the
most boring football game I've ever seen in my life.
It was the three nothing game. It was terrible, but
it was mostly Vikings fans. Yeah, right, It was like
sixty five thirty five kind of arrange something like that
it was mostly Vikings fans unfortunately, because that was.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
That was brutal, right, Remember Jefferson went to the hospital. Yeah, yeah,
some of the worst, some of the.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
Worst quarterbacking I've ever seen. Yeah, and man three, nothing
changes so much.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
If they lose that game, they have like a top
five pick in that twenty twenty four draft, it changes
a lot.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
What a awful wind.
Speaker 7 (30:11):
He could set football back about fifty years. It feels
like we started over after that. But anyway, we have
a new GM we can talk about in this Man
Vikings News after this this is.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
The power for money showing to think.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
From the way to your first floor.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
And it is time for Vikings News and there's plenty
as Ben Leber is here to break down our brand
new GM.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Here's Ben, that's it.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Honda is teed up.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Everything we need to know. His entire life story, his
entire life story.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Well, he grew up in the Pacific Northwest and he
is a foot country, Bigfoot country. He's probably seen the
Sasquatch before, and we can maybe ask him that in
this press conference.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
That's all I want to know now.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
And if he can find Sasquatch or knows where big
Foot is can he play ball?
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Not a bad d line?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
You know, do people that live in the Pacific Northwest?
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Do they embrace the movie Harry and the Henderson's the
way that Minnesotan's embraced like mighty Ducks or grumpy old
men coach? Yeah, but just like you know, it's like
they're very, very proud of it or is it an embarrassment?
Speaker 5 (31:16):
No, I think they're They should be. They should be
proud of it.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I think so. I think so too. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
I mean what Utah hockey team was almost gonna be
called the Yetti?
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Good point. Then Paul, was your hand up? Well, Utah?
Are you going to give me two?
Speaker 7 (31:32):
So, like I wonder if Nolan Teasley I would say,
like Harry and the Henderson's is like a top five
phone for him.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Probably probably, well he better. I mean if you can't
wait to meet him and ask him.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
If he doesn't, then first question, I'm probably not a
fan exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yeah, well soon even if he even.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
If he's lying, he should just at least say to
this fan base, it's top five.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
It's top five, right. It greatly molded the man that
he was, and he's.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
Gonna he's gonna make his decisions based on his love
of that film, like he wants offensive linemen, specifically with size,
with strength, but with kind hearts like Randon McDaniel.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
I think that's when they when they drafted Gray's abel,
that hid the comp was Harry got it.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
Really, there's a whole circle we got there.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Yeah, Well, stew Teasley, O'Connell and Bersinski is a leadership
team that features three experts in their respective field.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
So kind of like a triangle of authority. So we're
back to that because that works so well the first
time the.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Triangle that was a disaster.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Well even waits yeah, the second time around, I don't
understand why it was a disaster. When people hear this
triangle of authority, I think it's just semantics. I think
every I think every organization is a triangle of authority
for sure. I just think that we unfortunately named it
something and put a label on it, so now we
talk about it as if it's the triangle of authority,
(32:56):
like it's something new. But don't you think that every GM.
Don't you think Howie Roseman has a staff of people
that he bounces ideas off of, or do you think
that he scouts everybody himself and makes final decisions.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
No, And in the idea of it being a triangle
and not like a duo makes a lot of sense,
because if it's just two people, you can't like vote right.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
There's got to be a tie r. It's got to
be an odd number.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
For example, the triangle of authority here at the Power
Trap Warning Show, which is me, Chris and Chad Abbitt. Right,
it's like the three of us get to make all
the decisions.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yep, got to be three.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
Two doesn't make sense. One's a dictatorship. It's got to
be three.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yeah, voting that guy no exactly, and he's always laid
to the votes anyway because of that.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Drop the draft, but to be sure, that is probably
a better.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Way to do Teasley, however, according to keV, receiver will
be the Viking's primary decision maker.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
M So that's you know, that's the old Uh.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
That's the interesting question here, Benjamin is I don't know
if we'll ever quite know, like what percentage of rob
Razinski was this year's draft, right, and how much was
koc how much was Flores probably had some say, maybe
a lot of say, probably not all encompassing all powerful,
say right, same thing with Seattle. I'm sure in his
(34:05):
introductory press conference, it's going to be, well, how much
of a part of the decision making process did you have?
How much of these draft classes that have been really
good for Seattle? How much of that was you? It's
hard to quantify.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
So see, that is the question that I think we
all are going to have, especially with big time positions
like the quarterback. So hypothetically, if we rewound time and
we go back to let's say January February, and we
had identified Nolan Teasley back then, and let's say Brazinski
(34:40):
was never interim GM, and we're entering free agency with
new GM from Seattle, and it was still the triangle
of power, right, it was still the same power structure
and all this other stuff. All things remain equal, except
the timelines now shifted back to February. Would his exposure
experience playing against Kyler Murray in the NFC West, how
(35:04):
would that have went into the formula to make the
decision to sign him to a free agent contract if
in his time when he's because he's been with Seattle
his whole career, so he's he's seen Kyler Murray as
a rookie all the way up till now. Kyler Murray's
two and nine against the Seattle Seahawks in his available time,
(35:27):
like he's played Obviously the teams have played more games,
but he's been injured for a couple of games. So
with Kyler being two and nine against the Seattle Seahawks
and he's probably watched every single snap, does he like him?
Does he dislike him? Where does and if he doesn't
like him? But the head coach likes him, And the
(35:47):
head coach is like, well, listen, you weren't here last
year to see what we had what happened at quarterback?
This is this is my opinion on Kyler Murray, and
we're also going to get him for very cheap. Does
no and say, I see what you're saying, but this
is such an important position. I'm making the decision on this,
(36:07):
and I vote no, Like, how does how would that work?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
I guess that's I mean, that's the hypothetical. What we'll
never we'll never know. But I think in a lot
of these situations, when we do look at a triangle
of authority or or whatever you want to call it,
it was such a major decision. How does that play out?
Is it really a three man vote? Do they really
just like raise your hand in this room with the
(36:36):
three of us guys, like who's yay or nay for Kyler?
And then with Nolan having all this all these games
experience and all these snaps being watched very intently, does
he have more weight than the other two.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
He definitely has the scout in credentials that Quasi didn't.
That's for sure.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
Well that's the thing, and I think, you know, so
all that being said, with the hypotheticals that we can't
we can't really just discuss, I just I enjoy the
fact that we are getting back to just what we
what we know about football, and football is it's not
about numbers. It helps you, it helps you, like make
partial decisions, it helps you color within the lines. But
(37:17):
it's not all about the numbers. It's not all about
the analytics. You still have to have a sense of
what makes a good football player. And and sometimes it's
not about how we've see you know, look at this
this this flyer that who was at the the Eagles
took who is that that that kid from from Africa
(37:37):
that was part of the international program it doesn't matter
his name, but you look at his metrics, and his
metrics would say this guy is going to be a
Hall of Famer. I mean the size, the strength, the athleticism,
the change of direction, the speed, the explosive power that
he can possess. You would think that this guy is
going to be a Hall of Famer. But he still
(37:58):
has got to play football. Lesler was another example. I mean,
that's a that's a current example that we look at.
Here's a physical specimen that nobody wants to like stand
in front of and have to block, But the dude
couldn't play football. So it is about which are the
football guys? Which are the guys that have the mentality
to play football? And it seems like he's he's got
(38:20):
a knack for finding that type of talent. So I'm
excited to see what happens with him at the Helm.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Well, I'm excited too because Roberts and Skiaz sting in
his role and again will be one of the three
of the triangle authority for calling it that. But how
about this, The Vikings are on track to spend one
hundred million dollars lesson payroll this year than they did
last year. Yeah, one hundred million dollars, and he mentioned
it when we had to get ridder Gernard. Wasn't something
we wanted to do. We just had to.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's uh, that was a huge
part of it. And the thing is, not only was
there it was nice for a couple veterans current veterans
to restructure their contracts to free up some of that money,
but in in in the same timeline, in that same
formula of trying to figure out how we're saving money,
(39:04):
the guys that we were paying didn't produce, So it
was like they weren't hard decisions to make outside of Gernard.
Grearnnard had one money, he wanted more money. Dallas Turner
seems like he's turned the corner. So you have to
give the young guy a chance, especially with the rookie contract.
So I'm sure the Wolves are very appreciative of the
(39:26):
fact that they're going to spend one hundred million dollars less,
But I don't think that it was like necessarily really
really difficult decisions to make outside of Gernard.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
You know what I remembered when I was reading this
article this morning, when we were in London, not Dublin,
But no, it was Dublin. Maybe we were in Dublin
and we were already talking before we interviewed one of
those defensive linemen. You were just talking about about how
disappointed we were.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Do you remember that, and that was that early in
the season. Didn't get any better, did it?
Speaker 2 (39:56):
No, it really didn't.
Speaker 5 (39:58):
And I think I think that is the you know,
we talk about how long beleash certain people have. When
you're a high priced free agent that's been in the
league for already seven eight years, you don't get a
lot of acclamation period. You it should be within game
one and you're like, oh, yeah, this guy can play, yep, yep,
this is yep. I know exactly why we paid this
(40:19):
guy X millions of dollars. But when we didn't see
that for a first handful of games, we're like, oh boy,
I don't think this is going to work out.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
They were not good.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
No, And we were talking about Jalen Redmond the whole time. Yeah,
I mean since since preseason, I mean really since the
first week of padded practice. We're like, look at this guy,
he can this guy can play, Like, let's see what
this guy can do, and you know, against real in
a real game, and then he goes out and proves
in a real game. We're like, we talked more about
him early parts of the season and throughout the whole
(40:50):
season than anybody else in that defensive front we did.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Can I read from Kevin Seffert's article about our quarterback
situation gentlemen? Of course, In the team's second ota of
the spring and the first open to local media members,
Kyler Murray and JJ McCarthy both took snaps with projected
starters and against the likely first team defense. If you
were drawing up a plan to give each player fair
and equal time to prove they are the team's best option,
this would be it. But you can only have a
(41:14):
genuine competition if there's actual uncertainty about who the best
quarterback on the roster is. With the caveat that this
was one day in May, with no pads and some
drills performed at half speed, it is only fair to
point out that the gap between the two quarterbacks was
not close. Apparently, Murray made all the best throws of
the practice, demonstrating his downfield touch and accuracy. Nothing McCarthy
(41:35):
did was objectionable, and one of his few incompletions occurred
when two receivers drifted too close to each other. While
McCarthy's post practice comments about their relationship delivered headlines, it
was Murray who might have said the most notable forwards
of the afternoon. My confidence is unshakable. So according to Seaffert,
it wasn't even close. And it probably I don't know,
(41:56):
I guess that doesne surprises.
Speaker 5 (41:59):
I mean, it's shouldn't surprise you given his level of
expertise and experience at this at this point in his career.
I mean, JJ's entering year three that's been marred by
injury and not a lot of snaps on the football field,
and and Kyler has a ton of experience, so he
(42:21):
should walk into this situation. And I mean that's the
other things, Like they all know, I mean they know
that this is a a weighted quarterback competition. It's it's
going to be weighted towards Kyler. It's Kyler's to lose.
I mean, Kyler would have to majorly s the bed
for him to lose his starting role. It's a competition
(42:43):
and the mental standpoint, but I think as far as
the actual the roster and the way everything's shaping up.
It's it's Kyler's to lose. So he should walk in
and feel like he's the starter.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Because he is.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
If JJ McCarthy was writing if his career only depended
this season on his ability, would Kyler be here? What
I mean is like he has the double whammy of
he's injured a lot and he hasn't played he hasn't
played well, like a bunch of games in a row.
(43:18):
Would Kyler still be here if it was just based
on his ability?
Speaker 5 (43:24):
M I mean, that's a hard question to answer because
we don't know. I mean, if if you like take
away the injuries from McCarthy, then who knows what happens
in year one and who knows you know, what sort
of role he gets on in year two. So I
don't know. I think that there's a lot. There is
(43:46):
a lot of skill and talent and just overall quarterback
athleticism out of McCarthy. I think his his biggest thing
that he has to continue to work on is the
mental part of it. It's the process, you know, it's
the understanding of when to use all the tools in
my toolkit, and that comes with the experience. And so
(44:09):
I think you know, I guess in a roundabout way
to answer your question, I still think that we'd be
in a situation where we were second guessing whether or
not McCarthy is the guy going forward. So, going back
to Kyler's contract, probably in the same situation where it's like, oh,
why don't you just bring this guy in just because
he's extremely cheap, He's got a lot of snaps under
(44:32):
his belt. And let's see if we can actually have
a quarterback duel to have one of these guys earn
their spot.
Speaker 7 (44:38):
Can I have you guess something on June first? That
is impossible to know, So it's just shot in the dark.
Let's just see if we can track it and see
how close you get. Yeah, seventeen games right.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
For the regular season for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 7 (44:48):
If you had to guess how many starts Kyler, Carson
and JJ each get this year, what would you guess?
Give me the split? I think because all three of
them have injury histories, right.
Speaker 5 (45:02):
I think Kyler gets twelve, JJ gets five, and Carson
gets zero zero.
Speaker 7 (45:10):
Anybody else have a hot take? Anybody else want to guess?
So you're going twelve and Carson wins the job.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Outright, sauce.
Speaker 4 (45:21):
I think Kyler plays fifteen of them and Carson Wentz
plays the other two. Like that, I think McCarthy is
either the third quarterback or he gets traded. If a source, no,
I would tell you, I'll tell you off the air
if I did, I do not.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
I just my guess. It's your hot. Take.
Speaker 4 (45:44):
Yeah, that's your hot because I think the same thing
that you said, Ben, and you're one hundred percent correct
about Kyler.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
The same thing with the new GM could be said
about JJ. He has no ties to JJ.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
He could walk in here and go, yeah, we fine,
but the kids are distraction in a way, right. Kyler's
the starter. We're going to move on with Kyler. Let's
see if we can find a way to move McCarthy.
You have Carson Wentzon here, who knows your offense, who
can move the football. Let's find a way to move
well JJ.
Speaker 7 (46:08):
Speaking of histories, wasn't wasn't Brozmer the disaster game against Seattle? Yeah, yeah,
he's got to be like, oh crap, we hired a
seat guy. He watched my entire game, Son of a bitch,
it's over. That's yeah, that wasn't his best performance? Uh,
fan five and a second headlines.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
Later more of the power to morning too. After this
on the fan from the one eight hundred ask Gary
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