HR. 3 - Sports Ken Jennings

Cory puts Sauce to the test on some deep sports trivia, Tom Pelissero makes his weekly Bell Bank appearance

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Speaker 1 (00:32):
I didn't ask you, but this is an non air
production medium. Yeah, we normally talked to him earlier in
the week, but Grenard's out this week direct because of
the injury. Yes, this bit, yeah, I figured, ye that
I figured even on a Thursday was too little, too late,
But best of luck. Hopefully he plays on Sunday. Hopefully
the shoulders okay, and we're moving on with our lives.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
That is correct, all right?

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Should we do Fan five? Let's talk about some stuff
that we haven't talked about almost at all for while.
It's time for Fan five on the Power Trip, presented
by Builders and remodelerss chunky. Oh, all right, Sauce, you
like sports a lot. I love sports a lot, a lot.

(01:18):
Let's see how you do. But you're not canceled. Let's
see how you do, Saucy. Damn. Every time I do
a sports trivia that is related to news, there's always
a chance you read it. You like to read sports news. Yes,
Tark Schooble and Paul Skeens won the cy Young. Schooble
for the al Schemes for the NL uh Skins was unanimous.

(01:42):
All thirty votes, even even level. That's unbelievable. Yeah, all
thirty including Leavell went to Paul Skins in the NL.
So congratulations. Let's see how Sauce does with this one.
Skeens is just the fifth player ever to win the
cy Young in his first or back in the season.
How many of the other four, if any? Can you

(02:04):
name Doc Gooden? That is one in five Clemmens. Nope,
I mean one that was a guest, that was a test,
that was are you going to the mall later? Doc
Gooden is one. Dov has a jersey a Doc good
I think one of them is gettable because it was
a huge deal. The other two would be very very obscure.

(02:27):
That's the one I thought you could get because he
took over like it was like, what was it Fernando
Mania or something like that. I think that was the
same time. The Nightstocker was Valenzuela in nineteen eighty one.
The other two are going to be almost impossible. Though
almost impossible, I'm already I'm already still really impressed. Seriously. Yeah,

(02:47):
that's really good. Don Larson, No, I don't think you're
getting the other two. Even it in an air, I
would know. Yeah, even if I gave you the years,
I don't think you would even Oh that might get
Let's try. Let me give you the years first and
see if you have a shot eighty four and eight

(03:08):
Mike Mussina, No, what are the initials? Eighty four is
b s.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh brom Stoker.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Dude could sling it now? I don't know, damn. And
then in eight it was T L T L. Tim
Laudner he plays cashier for the Twins. Tommy, Uh, you
ded half right? Tim Linsicum nailed it. Woo still red. Yeah,

(03:48):
he was that pitching motion was soon.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Liked the way he threw that ball. How would you not?

Speaker 1 (03:57):
All right? Ken Jennings of Sports. Scoobl won back to
back al cy Young's. That is the first.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
This is not fair. He never went to schoobl that.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Is the senior year. He didn't even take a backpack.
He is the first al back to back cy Young
Award winner since nineteen ninety nine and two thousand? Was it, uh,
Pegro Martinez? That is the correct answer? Oh this God?
I love sports. All right, let's keep this going, genius.

(04:31):
I'm trying to pump you up so Gambler doesn't take over.
Thank you. I honestly cannot believe this is the case.
This is nuts. When the starting pictures of the All
Star Game are named, it's almost always because they are
killing it right. You are at the mid point of
the season. You are like the front runner, probably for
the Scion. You're the best. This is only the second

(04:53):
time because Schooble and Schemes were the starters. This is
only the second time the starting pictures from the All
Star Game both went on to win the cy Young. Wow.
The other time it happened was two thousand and one.
Saw us name those two pictures that started the All
Star Game and both won the cy Young in O one?

(05:16):
Is that too late for Greg Maddox. Maddox is incorrect.
Both huge names. So these are not obscure names. Thank you.
Randy john that's one Randy Johnson, And so let's see here.

(05:43):
Guy's a genius. Uh not John Smoltz. Who else was good? Um,
I'll give you a little hint. I assume Johnson was
at the Diamondbacks then, right, which means he was an
NL picture? Was that a Roger Clements? Roger Clements, Roger

(06:05):
Clements man. I like sports, I love sports man. You
guys know that when you everybody has a truth tell.
So if you ask somebody an obscure question, like a
real factual question about their life, they will always look
to one direction to try to find that memory. Yes, right,

(06:26):
Harry Nile, Yeah, Jesus, your mic is on. We obviously
know his tell.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
I mean he looks to the right and up every
single time when he's looking for the right answer. Now,
if he's lying, he'll probably look a different direction.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Did I not just say that to you before the
show two days ago?

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yes, but I'm telling you the truth?

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Thought, Yeah, no, I know, But that is weird. That
is weird, way poker, I've been listening to OHS Proman's book.
Oh yeah, it's not exact so far. Anyways, I'm only
two chapter six.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Isn't it's more about the social dynamics if reading people correct, Yeah, completely, yeahah, but.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
It's good so hard Yeah, so far, it's really good.
He's interesting to listen to, you know.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, I love that guy.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, and the story about how he started doing it's
really really interesting as well.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
But yeah, he's a he's a he's a warlock. He
might I mean, he's not real.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
He's like, no, I don't read people's minds, and it's like,
uh like no people's tales like no, yeah, no, you're
like some sort of like witchcraft going.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah. Sarah Jane asked me this the other day, and
I hope he addresses this in the book. If he
could read people like that, why doesn't he work for
the police?

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well? Yeah, so I've heard him say that. Almost every
different aspect of the world has asked him for help,
right right fortune one hundred CEOs has been like, can
you come work for us to read people in meetings
or help us see where we should be going? Like essentially,
he's been asked by the business community, what about sting?
Well played man? Your band jokes are off the charts

(07:50):
right now. We'll played Zach. So anyway, there were these
four brunettes. They weren't blonde, and they were meeting with
those pearlmen. What's going on? Man? Well done, you're paying
attention anyway. So yeah, no, I think you're right. It's
a It's a lot like when Sylvia Brown was a
big deal on Montella and then the police were like, going, hey,
help us solve murders and help us solve missing kids.

(08:13):
And of course, you know she did none of that.
She was as good as Kim Kardashian psychic's telling her
she was going to pass the bar. Exam, Paul, both
of your hands are off. Cynthia Brown Wood Hawk. I
believe she's dead. But back in the day one and
Sylvia Brown.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
But she already perceived how bad I saw the future?

Speaker 1 (08:32):
I think didn't she claim she helped it in a
bunch of investigations. I think so? Yah. I mean it's
isn't she the person they called when the guy that
now does America's Most Wanted Kid got taken John Walsh? Yeah,
I don't know. I think that is. I think that's
his name. Maybe by the way for the par Trip Survivor.

(08:54):
Everybody took the Patriots, but Martie, she took the Steelers.
Who the Steelers playing Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
We'll get rid of on this weekend.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
You just said it's gonna win. Yeah, this is interesting, man,
it is. It is. I should read that book or
listen to it.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
He saw somebody doing magic one time when he was
a kid. He was like, that's what I want to
do for the rest of my life. Wow, he said.
Even bought waterproof cards so he could do card tricks
in the shower because he loved it so much. And
then he went to a restaurant that that he had
scouted and saw that they had really slow time in
the mid afternoon, and he went in there with his
mom and started doing magic tricks at the bar and

(09:40):
the just so the bartender would see him, and the
bar tms like, wow, that's really cool. And he's like, really,
I could do this for your customers if you want.
And he started doing that at table to table at
a restaurant.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Oh wow. The work ethic is unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
That is the thing.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
And if you follow him on Instagram, he runs almost
a marathon a day. Yeah, that's right. He'll have like
a you know, a mentalist presentation at seven o'clock, and
he'll land at some city at like noon, run for
two and a half hours, and it's like I just
ran eighteen miles. I'm gonna go back and shower, and
then I got this show to do. It's like, for

(10:12):
God's sakes, he's running almost a marathon a day. He's
a psycho. It's like magic effort, man, It gets people places.
What we should look into it?

Speaker 4 (10:22):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Hey man? Your your sports dollege? Yeah, got you here.
And they told me in middle school that would never
matter what sports knowledge?

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, apparently they tord you brushing your teeth? Woldn't either.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
You can kiss a dog?

Speaker 2 (10:40):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah you go, but will I?

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh yeah, okay, cool, thank you.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
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Speaker 1 (12:47):
U oh like, oh no, Zach's running there he is,
and Tom's just shaking his head, shaking his head. He
like fills in for Rich Eysen. He's like on the
NFL network, professional organizations across the board.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
This happens every week.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
I have to deal with the freaking Power Trip Morning Show.
They hit the wrong buttons every week. They don't know
what they're doing. I've only got one.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
There he is, Hi, Toms, I just gave you the
best intro of all time.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
Yeah, no, I appreciate that You're welcome. Also, I hear
myself now, so this may be a little difficult.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Oh no, you need to hear yourself because you sound
so good. I was sitting at a bar in Rogers,
a lovely place called the Brick the other night. I
looked up on the television and there you were, and
I thought, I know that guy, that sweet sum bitch
is a good dude.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Man.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
How does it feel to be National slash International on
the television everywhere? People sitting in bars around the world
watching you. Can you believe that's your life?

Speaker 4 (13:45):
This is the weirdest intro we've had.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
I'm trying to stall until he gets this segment.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
No, I know, Yeah, I feel like Lou Garritt right
now giving the Luckiest Man's speech and hearing myself echoing
from the Yankee Stadium speakers.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
So you still hear yourself and your head center. I do. Still,
that's take them out of audition or utility.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
On that he's out of audition and utility.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Brother, Oh what else you got? According to guards? You
an echo on YouTube? Tom? Can you just do smoke
signals and then just we'll just repeat what you're sending us,
if that's possible. Or maybe like a crow.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
I could write my answers and hold them up like
a hostage video.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
That would be great, that'd be great. It would be
better to take out one of your earphones. Yeah, then
it doesn't look as cool though, you know, like we's
a international No, we got it. Whatever. You just did
that did it? Hey? We just hit the side of
the computer. Ye just smacked it around a little bit.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
No, worked, Tom. The problem is, do you remember when
you were an intern here a million years ago?

Speaker 1 (14:44):
I do.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
These are the same computers we were using when you
were an Internet.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
And that is not a joke, not a joke.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
When I was when I was an intern there, it
was the old building, it was two thousand and one.
I don't think I was allowed to touch a computer.
I mainly was throwing out T shirts in parades through
the northern suburbs.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
That was my primary job.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
Every now and then they let me take a laptop
to weigh eighty seven pounds to the Metrodome and cover
a Twins game, but mostly throwing out T shirts.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Well, and now you're big time, so we got it
all figured out. You can hear yourself. There's no so
we can talk football there.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
It's great. Yeah, so we get to start the show.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Fantastic, Thank you, Ben. All right, who's first?

Speaker 1 (15:21):
You go first? Man?

Speaker 3 (15:23):
All right, let's here's here's a concerning question I have
for you. I wanted to get your insights on this.
I didn't think anything of Justin Jefferson's performance last Sunday,
but apparently a lot of other people think that there's
like something brewing underneath, like saying, worst game he's ever played.
There's got to be something going on. Is he injured?

(15:43):
Is he disgruntled? I mean I saw some people on
social media like, man, he's he's doing this the aj
Brown thing, but just at a quieter level, like is
there anything to make of what happened on Sunday with
Justin's performance?

Speaker 1 (15:56):
And like is he happy? Unhappy? Like what's going on
with all this?

Speaker 4 (16:01):
I would say this, Ben, and I'm not inside Justin
Jefferson's head, but it's natural to be frustrated when you've
just had all these stops and starts in the season,
and you're coming off a really good game in Detroit.
I'll be at one where you didn't throw the football
a ton, and when they did throw the footballer than
the early touchdown it mostly went to Jalen Naylor, not
to Justin Jefferson, but then to have you know, that

(16:23):
type of a showing and you know, eight false starts
and just not even being able to snap the ball.
And then you know, take the interception that Malachi Starts
picks off. It's like that's a you know, a heave
into double coverage and Jefferson really doesn't even have an
opportunity to make a play on the ball. You know,
if I were out there runn those routes, I'd be
frustrated too. I do not believe it's Justin Jefferson, you know,

(16:46):
wants to get out of here.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Justin Jefferson doesn't like j. J. McCarthy.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
It's that was a bad game against the Ravens team
that's playing better and better on a Vikings team that
you know still to this point, I don't believe they've
won two games in a row. It's every time they
won a game, they've come out the next week and
that looked very good. You know, there's a long way
to go. You still got half the season left. You
got to clean up some of the things you know
that are happening with the cadence, the snap count, whatever

(17:12):
it is, because you know, jumping off side once at home,
having a fall start at home is bad. Eight times
is you know, completely below the bar, and so I'm
sure that's something they've been they've been drilling this week.
And there's no doubt that Kevin O'Connell wants to get
the football in justin Jefferson's hands. He's the best weapon
on a team that's got a bunch of weapons, and
none of those weapons were used as effectively as you

(17:32):
would like last.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Week, Tom, I saw your guy, Brian flora is on
a list of potential Giants head coaches next year. We've
talked about Flora's now for a couple of years, about
how awesome he's done here with the Minnesota Vikings, and
eventually he'll get another chance. Do you think the Giants
make any sense for Flora's this offseason. I don't know
that that's the best fit.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
I certainly believe that, you know, the you know, minimum
of tiebreaker, if not a prerequisite would be having previous
head coaching experience, and of course.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Flow had that in Miami.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
The Giant's recent history and the need to get Jackson
Dark going would suggest that they're going to hire somebody
with an offensive background. If I'm not mistaken, the last
non offensive coach that they hired to be the head
coach in New York was Bill Parcells. And that's a
long long time ago, you know, do they go that
direction again? Joe Shane, the GM is leading the search.

(18:30):
You've already heard other names connected, you know, Bill Belichick.
You know, you can't rule any of these out. I
would be, you know, fairly surprised if that were the
hire as of now. Steve Spagnolo's got a history with
the organization as well. You know, certainly there are you know,
various connections. Brian Flores is two steps away from Bill
Parcells via Bill Belichick. You know, if I had to

(18:51):
say right now and again they're really nowhere yet on
the search, I would say that my guests would be
at somebody with an offensive background in that job. But
in the mix for interviews again, we'll probably have the
usual six seven, eight openings, and we'll see, you know,
if the if the cards fallow his direction this time.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Tom non Vikings question is is the head coach of
the Packers really coaching for his job? With how bad
the offense has been the past few games.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
You know, two weeks ago saw us the Packers are
in position for the number one seed and they're five
to one and one. They had back to back poor
offensive performances at home. I was as surprised as you
were that after the game, Matt Lafluor is being asked
about his job, that people are writing columns and blog
posts about his job.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
You know, there is the reality is this?

Speaker 4 (19:40):
So the facts of these They got a new CEO
and president in ed policy, who's there. Matt Lafluor and
Brian Gudokunst the GM both have one year left on
their contract, so both signed through twenty twenty six. You're
not going to have a lame duck situation. And so
the belief would be after this season that you're going
to do contract extensions with both of those guys and

(20:00):
you know, carry on into the future. Matt l Fluor
has won two thirds of his game games as the
Packers head coach. Obviously a couple of those were with
Aaron Rodgers an MVP, then developing Jordan Love. They got
into the playoffs again last year. They're still tracking to
be in the playoffs this year. There's no question the
offense has to perform better. But you'll think about the

(20:21):
issues that they've had from a depth perspective over these
past couple of games.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
And I get it everybody has.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
Injuries within the league, but they lost Tucker Craft in
that Panthers game. That is the best offensive player you know.
You arg Josh Jacobs too, but certainly you know Tucker
crests been a difference maker for that team. He's out
for the season. You already don't have Jayden Reid, who's
been a top receiver for you. Matthew Golden was inactive
on Monday night because of his shoulder injury. Romeo Dobbs

(20:48):
suffers a chest injury. They got a guy named Bo
Melton who's a wide receiver who got moved to corner
in camp, which you can probably ascertained what at least
one of those reasons is Bo Melton was the number
four corner for the Packers, who didn't even suit up
a fifth on Monday night. And then because Dobbs gets hurt,
he's basically now the third wide receiver, and so it's like, oh,

(21:09):
fourth and eight and to throw in how can they
drop that ball? Well, that's bou Melton, who hasn't been
practicing receiver. Well, how do they you know, misaligned and
it wipes out a big play. That's bow Meltin who
probably hadn't lined up on that play and practice all week.
You know, they say some of that stuff is coaching,
some of it's personnel, some of it's you know, bad
luck with the injuries and just you know, the shortages
and the adjustments you have to make within the game.

(21:31):
I think Matt Lafleur is one of the best coaches
in the NFL. The track record suggests that he's a
really good play caller. They got the Giants this week,
maybe they got the one week pop with you know,
Jameis Winston and Mike Kafka taking over. If I were guessing,
I would say that this is a game where the
Packers are able to get back on track. But you know,
they're not getting Tucker Kraft back. They've got other you know,

(21:53):
injuries and personnel shortages. Let's see how they're able to adjust.
I do think that this is a week where the
Packers offense and bounce back.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Let's stay within the division and the team that we
are playing this week in the Chicago Bears. And you know,
if you listen and you know, all the people around Chicago,
I mean they think this is it. I mean they
have turned the corner. They truly believe in what Caleb's doing.
You look at their totality of their work and you know,
not a lot of quality wins there.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
So what do you make of the Bears?

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Are they for real or are they still building something
and not quite there yet.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
I think Ben Johnson's done an unbelievable job. It shouldn't
surprise anybody. Definitely shouldn't surprise the Bears, who gave him
a boatload of money to help bring him to Chicago.
You know, they've not been from an offensive perspective. They
haven't been putting up you know, Star Wars numbers. This
is not the twenty twenty four Lions offense that was
setting scoring records. But they don't have the personnel and

(22:48):
they don't have the time on task. What they've been really,
really good at is situationally, crunch time. We've seen the
Bears rally back from big deficits. We've seen them just
make the clutch play. We've seen Ben Johnson pull a
rabbit out of the hat from a play calling perspective,
and he does have Caleb Williams playing the most controlled
football we've ever seen Caleb play. Everybody knows when he's

(23:10):
flushing to his right and chucking the ball sidearm across
his body. He does rare stuff, and he can move
and he can scramble. But it's the playing in rhythm
that Caleb Williams has really grown through the course of
this season. And this is not you know, just like
any other first year head coach, both on offense and defense,
they're not perfect. They don't have perfect scheme fits at
every position. Even in Detroit when Dan Campbell was taking

(23:33):
over there, granted, you know that first year they had
Anthony Lenna's the play caller.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
That didn't work.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
So Dan Campbell did the same thing he just did
last week again, which was take over the play calling
duties himself. But Ben Johnson really got integrated. It wasn't
until year two, in the back half a year or two,
that they started playing at that elite type of level
that we've seen from the Lions. Ben Johnson already has
won more games to the first half of his first
season than Dan Campbell did in this first year and

(23:58):
a half.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
As the Lions head coach.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
It speaks to the work that Ben Johnson and Dennis
Allen on the defensive side have done to flip that
thing in a short period of time get guys believing,
you know, and that's culturally something you know, Ben that
you know, it's there's losing that gets ingrained in the
culture and that can take time to get that mindset
out of the building. In very short order, they're finding

(24:22):
ways to win games. Now. Do I think that this
is a Bears team that's trying to make a Super
Bowl run this year? That's probably asking a lot in
many regards. They've overachieved so far this season, but they
are playing good football. And you know this the Bears,
from what they've shown so far, they're not going to
beat themselves. If anything, they're a team that is uniquely
equipped right now to exploit your mistakes if you try

(24:45):
to give the game away late. They've done it repeatedly
this season, which is why they're sitting there with five
six wins and you know, in a position where you
know they might be able to sneak into the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
In Ben's first year.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Tom Pelliser about you by our friends at bell Bank
Real quick just quick twitch answers. If you wouldn't mind
on both these teams, how good in reality in your
opinion are the Colts and the Seahawks.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
Colts are playing really well. Louon Rumo has done a
really good job with not perfect personnel. You know, they've
had issues at every level of that defense. They made
a big swing obviously on the Sauce Gardner trade. He
played well for KYU, got there on a Tuesday, had
to learn a new defense, study a different team, fly
to Germany and start on Sunday. Saus was unbelievab. Would

(25:29):
have been even better if he had that pick six
in the game. They've been really good offensively. They're obviously
defined by Jonathan Taylor. We'll see if they can sustain
that into the postseason. You know, they just stumbled a
couple weeks ago against Pittsburgh, but they've been really good.
The Seahawks, I think, you know, have not gotten enough credit.
And as John Schneider is, you know, wise cracked at
when he's appeared on the Insiders before, it's like we're

(25:50):
just hiding up here in the Pacific Northwest. Nobody talks
about us, nobody ever. We're never on National TV. That
is a really, really good football team. Mike McDonald, whoever
he said, was brilliant, you know, going back to when
he was in Baltimore and at the University of Michigan.
He's got a defense that doesn't have a bunch of
household names playing at an elite level. And if anything,

(26:11):
you know, there's comparisons to be made to the twenty
thirteen Seahawks team, which also was really young, and of
course they made a run and ended up winning the
Super Bowl over the Broncos that year. If anything, this
Seahawks team throws the ball better than that Seattle team.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Ever.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
Did you know they'd turned Russ loose in the fourth
quarter and make a couple of big plays. But you know,
the way that Sam Darnold is playing, and that receiver
core with Jackson Smith and Jiggbit now bringing in Shaheed
Cooper cups healthy again. They got to run the football
probably more efficiently. I'm sure that's a big emphasis for him.
But the Seahawks. You know, in a year where I
don't know that there's a clear cut NFC favorite, plenty

(26:48):
of people are going to say the Lions. Plenty of
people despite the bumps in the road include on Monday Night.
The Eagles have had We'll say them. The Seahawks look
like they can compete with anybody, and that's not a
team I want to see in.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
January the time before we let you go? What's the
who's the bobblehead that's standing on his head behind you?

Speaker 1 (27:02):
That's I'm on Ross Saint Brown. That was a here.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
It's a pretty good one. It's actually, uh, it's a
bobble leg really. That was his celebration where he stood
on his head and flipped over. I thought that that
was a pretty good giveaway. And then the Vikings didn't
let him do anything in that game.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
So that was cool.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
I guess the lesson learned is if someone's giving away
a bobblehead with someone's touchdown celebration, just focus on not
letting that guy do any celebrations whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
It's good plan, that's PERFECTA one quick question, Tom, This
sentence is barely used, but is this a must win
game for the Chiefs this weekend? I don't know about
must win.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
I certainly think that the position that they've put themselves in,
you know, ever, win helps because the division is so
competitive and the Chargers have played at the level that
they have recently despite all their offensive line issues. The
Broncos are finding their way. I mean, they're a seven
win team even though you watch them too. It's kind
of like the Eagles, where the offense are like, man like,

(28:02):
when are they gonna find the you know, find the pace.
The Chiefs are still right in that thing. They've been,
you know, a division champion every year. They've had home
games every year. They've very very rarely faced the road
where they've got to go away from Arrowhead and win
playoff games. You know, being a wild card would be
something new for Patrick Mahomes, would make the road that

(28:23):
much harder. But you know, they're another team that's getting healthier.
You know, obviously having Rashid Rice back has been huge.
I wouldn't say must win, but absolutely you know, this
is not a year where you're gonna coast because the
division's bad and go ten and seven and win it
that this is probably gonna take twelve wins to have
a home game and to be even in the mix
for the number one seed.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
And so it's big for the Chiefs, no doubt. All right,
Where can people watch you? Where are you gonna be
this weekend.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
This weekend, we've got the Madrid game early morning on
NFL Networks, so I will be on the early early
pregame show six am Central Time, doing new from my basement,
not from Madrid. I will be right here. Other people
are in Madrid. I am right here. I will be
at the Vikings Packers game the following week at lambeau Field.

(29:12):
But the Insider's back Tomorrow night and every Tuesday, Wednesday
Friday during the regular season six pm Central.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Awesome, sweet, good time.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Thanks Tom, appreciate your man, Thanks Fellas, NFL Networks, Thanks
Tom Pella.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Now it's time for headlines. These signs Wolf Electric and
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(29:49):
I take that money to Vegas. No, it's postpone. Your
flight is postponed. Zach just looked it up. Thanks Wolf
of the Electric dot Com. Chunky. Sorry Chunky, I canceled
the penny Yesterday was the last ever US penny. It

(30:11):
was minted in Philadelphia. That was after a couple hundred years.
Man seventeen to ninety three, the US Mint in Philadelphia
started making pennies. At that point they were one hundred
percent copper, but since nineteen eighty two they've had a
mix and it's ninety seven point five percent zinc just
two point five percent copper. Whoa weird. But as we've

(30:33):
heard over the last handful of months, each penny costs
about three point seven cents to make. So the US
government's like, what are we doing here? What are we doing?
So it's over for the penny? Oh what? Yeah, it's over? What?
And I had like three people on Twitter say that
the guy who printed the last penny dresses and looks

(30:56):
like me. Yeah. I saw one video and it looked
like he was dressed in all black and I'm like, okay,
whatever them, Okay, calmed down. Oh see, I know it's
your birthday, but man, yeah, it's over for the penny.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Well it's a good run.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Experts also say this will cause us to need more nichols,
which we're also losing money on because according to the Mint,
each nickel costs about thirteen point eight cents to make
That's what she said. Well she did this, lady? Does
that work there? Yeah? That makes no sense? Car Oh boy,
did it sense? We got the see in the s bowl.

(31:36):
A seventeen year old kid drove onto a golf course
in Florida and did donuts. It's horrific, Yes it is.
He caused about one hundred and sixty thousand dollars in damage,
and the kid confessed that he just did it because
he got bored. Yeah. Yeah, have you seen the pictures.
It's hideous. It's really bad. One hole essentially? How many
holes did you? Yeah, drove around and did donuts. Yeah,

(31:58):
it's so Indiana, it really is. Yeah, I like doing
what song were you listening to? Hockey was going.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
White Snake, you know, and some lover boy too. We'd
whip essies.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
What's your favorite? White Snakes?

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Probably still in the night here with Wolf? How honey
sneaking around your door?

Speaker 1 (32:14):
How does that go?

Speaker 2 (32:15):
I just I literally just said, oh sorry, I can't
sing it to you because I ain't got no money left.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Damn it. Gamble or A twenty one year old woman
in Florida, yasmin or Razzo, let's go love that name.
She was going one hundred and seven miles an hour
in a fifty five. This story says eleven fifty two AM,
but I think they meant eleven fifty two pm because
she was trying to get somewhere by midnight. She claims

(32:46):
that's why she was going one hundred and seven miles
an hour. Yeah, fight the power, yeah right right, right, pat,
Where did she tell police she was trying to get?
Where was she get with State Florida? She was going
one oh seven at eleven fifty two pm.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
It's it's gonna be like a bar, you know, the veterinarian,
the Cotaano's never close, sweetpea. The veterinarian said, that's good.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
Oh, Jordan Adison the airport bar. Uh Hooters? Oh good
one spicy?

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Yeah yeah right.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
She wanted to get to Little Caesars before they close.
I feel and they're hot and ready. If you're not ready,
they're not going to be hot. Yeah, well said that's right.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
You know what she sounds like to me?

Speaker 1 (33:29):
No sophisticated, charming, yeah, Hawkwood, she's something. She likes pizza,
she does. You mostly nailed baseball trivia forty five minutes ago, right,
you nailed it, thank you. But that's your wheelhouse. Yes, sports.
Oh what I'm gonna do is chut a knock you
down a peg. So before gambler takes over, you don't
go to Vegas over confident.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
But maybe you nail this one and you gain confidence.
This is the opposite of baseball trivia. This is just history.
On this day, November thirteen, seventeen eighty nine, Benjamin Franklin,
he wrote a letter to a friend to Sauce, in
which he said, quote, in this world, nothing can be

(34:13):
said to be certain except blank and blank. In this world,
nothing can be said to be certain except blank and blank.
What are the two things? Image that Franklin famously said,
are the two things that are certain? Can I call
a friend? Nope? Can I ask Rosie what he thinks?

(34:35):
Blank and blank? Were Rosie any thoughts you have?

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Let's see if he if he picks up his birthday?

Speaker 1 (34:42):
So the beaver no, see Johnson, No, sweet sombrero think shucks.
Two things certain in this world, Sauce, Benjamin Franklin famously said,
are the beaver the truth? You know?

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Not for real?

Speaker 1 (34:59):
I don't know? No? Oh wow, really you don't really
know Seventh Avenue pizza and let me let me ask
you like this, I don't know what's what's one thing
that is certain? There you go. You did money bags,
so you figured it out with a nice job, right, sauage,

(35:24):
You go first on this one. But if if anybody
read this, don't guess, here we go. I love it.
Hanging out on the maternity ward. What absolutely relevant what
we're talking about? Mark Rosen seventy nine years ago in
this date Sauce in nineteen forty six, soaking wet Mount Greylock, Massachusetts. Yeah,
that's the key. That's where he mans from. That's not right.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Greylock is what Rosie caused his chest.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Oh my, people at Mount Greylock, Massachusetts were amazed by
inventor Vincent Shaeffer's new creation. They're at Mount Greylock, Massachusetts
in nineteen forty six, and they were amazed by inventor
mentor Vincent Shaffer's new creation. What did he create? Mount Greylock, Massachusetts,

(36:15):
nineteen forty six, November thirteenth, thty six. Does anyone else know? Hugs, Daddy,
is this something you know? No, Rosie anything you'd think
it is? Let me say this is Hey, look, you

(36:39):
just you know you tied to take the nipple out
of our mouths. That's no, it's not true. My god,
you just put the last one together with a very
small hints. Let me just give you this small This
is gettable if you guys work together as a team
and start figuring this out. Mount Graylock, Massachusetts, November thirteenth,
nineteen forty sixty sixth after World War two forty six.

(37:02):
Thing doesn't matter a ton Massachusetts. The four k TV
just a bit outside Massachusetts. So is it witch related? No?
Is it lock related? It is not? Is it?

Speaker 2 (37:18):
Is it media related?

Speaker 4 (37:20):
No?

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Is it a ski lift? Mess? That's the closest, so hard,
and it's not even close.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Is it a snowmobile?

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Is it a snowboard? Nope, but you're red hot, you're
snowboard boost snowshoes. The they were. They were amazed by it.
They were all amazed by what he had created. Oh
would it make snow? Artificial snow? You got there artificial snow?
Nineteen forty six? Pass Oh roast sure. I saw during

(37:51):
Twin Cities Laft a couple of days ago. I believe
Highland was already kicking out fake snow. Is everybody else
is Wild Mountain doing it, doing it.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
He's doing it, buddy is man, we're gonna write for
snow cross season. Baby, everybody?

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Are you doing that again? I don't know? Is that right?
Good for you? Yeah? I think I don't know. The
Kiddle dabbled in skiing last year and she really really
liked it. So I think we're going to do the
Old Family Pass at Highland this year to be sweet.
So you're gonna be fun for two days. Yeah. No,
I've never I've never actually skied at Highland, but she
went on a field trip last year and freaking loved it.

(38:22):
Good for her, So I think we're gonna do the
Old Family Pass and just go because there as much
if you actually go a bunch of times.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
No, of course, man, you're outside doing things exactly.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yes, it's fun. So I haven't snowboarded since I was
twenty five. I hadn't skied since I was like thirteen
until last year. Yeah, downhill skiing, the slopes, oh rosie.
But uh man, I I'm nervous to, like you said,
get that muscle memory with snowboards. It's been it's been
twenty years since i've snowboarded and you're uh yeah when

(38:53):
you fall down your I snowboarded for like ten winters
straight and that's all I did for ten years, but
haven't done rested long. Yeah. Then it's gonna kill your
social life, is that right? That's fun anyway? I'm yeah,
great spot.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Yeah, that'd be fun for you, brother.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Yeah, I can't wait all right, last one, this is uh,
this is last fill in the blank for the day. Okay,
gamifying the news. A fifty three year old man in
Pennsylvania had to be rushed at the hospital after his
dog did what uh bit his parts? Don't you just

(39:33):
endorse that? Brilliant We'll play pull our parts dot com?
Great spot. If you have a car, you don't need.
A fifty three year old man in Pennsylvania had to
be rushed to the hospital after his dog did what
oh oh? Unplugged an oxygen machine. It creates a good guest.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Knocked the radio into the bathtub.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Nope, knocked the toaster into the bathtub. Nope, this isn't
Groundhog Day. M gave him double pink eye. Probably he
did face no allergic reaction related food poisoning run into
his nutsg Yeah, I already said that that was his
first guess, Rosy the dog accidentally shot him.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
At all?

Speaker 1 (40:24):
Why? I guess the guy was cleaning his gun and
on some level of the dog, like you know, bumped
him or whatever and accidentally shot the guy. So how
about I don't know, cleaning your gun. If your dog's
a little hyper, how about keddle him up so he
doesn't try to give you a hug and then shoot you?
Train your dog?

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Right, man, man, get the dogs some glasses, you know
what I mean. Let's be honest.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah, yeah, man, that what an embarrassing story to tell
the doctors what happened? My dog shot me.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
They're gonna have to investigate that.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Yeah right, let me come on all right, sauce, let
gambler or take over at some point in the next
four days. Best of Luke fun in Vegas. We'll see
you on Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Dollars time. You're life Gary jealous, I mean, I'm gonna
miss you.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Yeah, I'll miss you guys as well. I love you,
love all of you.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
You're too busy to talk to us on Sunday, We'll
take care of it.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
No, I'm always available. I take that serious. You know
that you and I both do tomorrow. One hundred and
three thousand, five hundred dollars up for grabs with the
Saint Paul Federal Credit Union initials jackpot. That's right, one
O three five tomorrow. That's insane. Who's playing? Marti Gallener
will be here, Mark Parrish will be here, Hawks playing
as well, and of course former go for quarterback Adam

(41:32):
Weber will be here. Super cool, very excited to meet him.
Sounds like he's familiar with the game. Not sure how
well he'll do. We'll find out tomorrow. That'll be super cool.
That's tomorrow morning, five thirty to nine, nine to noon
is next.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
I'm her Rocket Club play this show tomorrow night at
the Armory. I'm gonna said a Heart association. That'd be great.
Hope it for colswind I'll come on everybody.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Read it for you have I love you.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
The girl enjoyed this beautiful day.