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May 17, 2024 27 mins
Every Friday around 8:15​-8:20 a.m. on KFAN 100.3 the Power Trip Morning show plays the Initials Game. The game involves 12 items people, place, things, phrases or anything as long as they share the same initials. All 12 items share the same initials. The contestants do not know the initials until they are revealed shortly before the game starts. Each item has 6 clues. As soon as the contestants know who or what the host is describing, they yell out their name. Their name is their buzzer. If the contestant gets it right, they get a point. If they get it wrong they are out for just that item. The item does have to be pronounced correctly. It is best out of 12 with tiebreakers if needed. Tiebreaker items have 3 clues.

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(00:22):
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen,the final segment of the powers At Morning
Show Life from Duluth's air show hereat the Lake Superior College Center for Advanced
Aviation. Thanks to our friends uphere at in Duluth for having us and
the great amount of people came outto watch the morning Show on a chili
chili morning in Duluth. It's rainingand chili. From what I hear,
it's basically the Bahamas back in theTwin Cities right now. Gonna be eighty

(00:43):
five for a height today, whichis too damn hot, which is why
I'm buying a house rock Dlooth eightytwo is way too hot. It's too
hot. And you know what elseis too hot? The Initials Game the
Jackpot as well. Let's go.It's time for Indisials Life from Duluth on
the Fan. And you didn't getthat it's time for Initials Game five seventeen.
Oh, I don't know how withyour host Corey Cole, we are

(01:07):
we are live Duluth. And again, please don't yell out the answers that
everybody here seems super cool. Everybody'sbeen really nice this morning. Let's not
break that streak. We got thekeys to the city. We're important.
Yeah, it's pretty nice. Uh. Let's go around the room. Let's
see who the competitors are and whathappens if they win. Paul, let's
start with you. I'm sponsored bymy friends at Seventh Avenue Pizza. All
Seventh Avenue pizzas on sale for eightninety nine at all Kowalski's locations. If

(01:33):
I win today, tweet me andtag some of that been pizza through the
end of Friday, and one luckywinner will win one hundred dollars to put
towards restocking their freezerver some of thatvenuepizza. Christopher. Hi, everybody one
eight hundred three two zero five threetwo six. By the way, is
the phone number in case you wantto If you're here and you could call
in, you may win the moneyright here. So don't feel like you
can't call just because you're here,but through no matter where you're at.
What in one hundred three tow zerofive three two six Thanks to the same

(01:55):
Paul Federal Credit Union. But Iam brought to you by Radco and radco
dot com. I'm all brought toyou by Radco. I love you Radco.
You will love him as well,especially if I win today to get
ten percent off online or in storeusing the promo code initials and through Monday
from Radco. Thank you Radco,Mark Parrish? What happens if you win
today? I am sponsored by mygood friends at ABC American Building Contractors And

(02:16):
if I win today, tweet atme at Mark D. Parrish and tag
at ABC will help through the endof Sunday and one lucky winner will win
a one hundred dollars Visa gift card. Let's go good Yeah, shout out
to ABC. Marny Gellner's had ahell of a last couple of months.
Marty, what happens if you winyet again? Oh? Those beautiful people
at Great Clips continue to stick byme. I love them. If I

(02:37):
win today, you can tweet metag Great Clips. Through the end of
Sunday, one of you will winfree haircuts for a year at Great Clips
Salons. And I would like todo some damage in Duluth. Okay,
let's go h Ben, you don'thave a sponsor, but just plug your
TV show, Ben, what happenedwith you? Win? Well? If

(02:57):
I win, you guys get achance to watch Twin City's Live every weekday
from three to four thirty. Andalso, you know my good friends at
Bell Bank. I'm sure if Iwin, they'll do something cool as well.
So yeah, just if if youhit them up, bell Bank will
do something, really will. Iwant to say something to you. By
the way, the Bell Bank rightdowntown d luthwalk by there last night,
Thank you Bell Bank for being involvedwith Marnie and myself and Ben and all

(03:19):
the good people in the world.Did you get casino by you're not gambling
him, I don't. I gaveit up. Yeah, he gave it
for you. What about midnight lastnight? You can go to Initials Game
dot com and get versions four andfive of the board game. There's also
something cool to starting in about amonth or so. We'll talk about that
down the road. But go toInitials Game dot com and get the home
version before we play game five.I think Zach just said five to seven

(03:40):
teams back died. Oh, here'sthe chance at sixty five thousand, five
hundred dollars. It's time for thejackpots. Now, it's time for the
Saint Paul Federal Credit Union Initials jackpot. That's right, the same pop feder
Credit Union Initials jackpot. It's currentlysixty five hundred dollars. Look at my
new cars money in your current carloan. We'll do it with say Paul
Federal Credit Union now offering carl loanrates is lowest six point two nine percent

(04:04):
apply to day Saint Paul XU dotorg, slash cafe and federally insured by
the NCUA. Thank you Saint PaulFederal Credit Union. It's spent a couple
of years since this thing went off, and when we first started it,
we thought it would take like maybethree to four years to go off,
but it's gone off twice already.But it's spent a long time. Although
the guy last week got two fifty, That was pretty cool, right the
guy in Ohio last week one twohundred? Back Colin back, I think

(04:26):
so if you guessed the letters inthe right spot, both letters in the
right spot, you win sixty fivehundred dollars. One letter in the right
spot gets you two fifty. Andthanks to our awesome friends at Saint Paul
Federal Credit Union, this is aprogressive jackpot that goes up five hundred dollars
every week. Sixty five five Allright, Zach back and Lewis Park has
a caller randomly pulled up. Caller, what is your name and where are

(04:49):
you from? That's good, Damfrom Oakdale? Dad, He by Dan
from Okdale. How you doing,Dan? Dan? You get a rack
at sixty five five hundred dollars?You excited about that? Yes, sir,
I am, I believe it?Okay? Are you taking a link
next Ford? I would be twoof I'm about to win sixty five to

(05:11):
five? All right? So,uh, Dan and Oakdale? What are
the letters you're guessing him for ashot at sixty five to five? We're
gonna go with D and M.Say the first letter again, D as
in Daniel Okay, D as inDaniel m as in Minnesota. So DM,
let's go good God correct? Godgot it? DM? All right,

(05:34):
Dan and Oakdale's going d as inDaniel m as in Minnesota for a
shot at sixty five thousan five hundreddollars? Does he have at least one
right for two fifty? And ishe alive for the jackpod? Come out?
Baby? Nope? Sorry? Dan? Are sixty six thousand dollars next

(05:56):
week? One letter this week wasvery gettable, the other one a little
trick. Year The initials for Gamefive seventeen Ladies and gentlemen, the letter
S. That was easy letter andthen the letter K. He gets Chris's
bit u. S K are theinitials for Game five seventeen between Ben Lever,

(06:19):
Mark Parrish, Marty Gelner, ChrisHockey and meets us Paul Lampert.
Here we go item one of sK and again, please nobody say anything.
Everybody keep it to yourself. Don'tsay the answers, and I actually
don't even mouth the answers, justin case somebody has that unbelievable vision.
Number one of SK Clue number oneconnected to red, white, black and

(06:40):
blue. Clue number two Mark MarkSeattle cracking, Oh, Perry parish out.
I love I the hockey team.I know. Yeah, crack House
crack in parish out. For therest of number one. Clue number two

(07:00):
has soul. Clue number three.Yes, South Korea. That's right for
me. That is for me.I missed that one man dogs with Korea.
Those are the colors on the flag. Chris, figure that out course

(07:23):
soul the other way yep uh spelledwith an e in the middle. Sure
got there. South Korea gets Chrison the board one nothing Here's number two
of s K Clue number one featuresitems. Clue number two is commonly considered
basic. Clue number three can beinvolved in projects or hobbies. Mark Yeah,

(07:57):
starter kit, that's right, twolooser star kid Man, that's my
main. I gotta step it up. I'm not one, really really good
right good guys. Mark has one, Chris has one. Here's number three
of SK clue number one former executiveClue number two, most prominent in the

(08:24):
nineteen nineties. Clue number three wasa defensive end at UNLV and a former
Los Angeles RAM. Clue number fouris a convicted felon currently serving a twenty

(08:50):
eight year sentence. Clue number five. His first name is actually Marion Mark
Oh Paul Mark Suge Knights, ShugNight Knights Goode sug Night from death Row

(09:16):
Records. Why did we play collegefootball? You played at UNLV and was
temporarily a Los Angeles RAM sug Nightsgood one. Mark Parrish, thank you
your good God. Parrish takes thelead. He has two. Chris Hockey
has won nine items to go.Here's number four of s K clue number

(09:37):
one in a sense, debuted innineteen twenty three. In another sense debuted
in nineteen eighty five. Clue numbertwo. The second word was once seagrums

(10:00):
Yeah. Clue number three. Itcan be found in the Pacific Clue number
four. They've moved. Oh,Clue number five. They frequently perform in

(10:20):
a state capitol. Clue number sixHawk Sacramento Kings' other school Kings literally every

(10:41):
other sport like basketball, boy goinggood guy. So I just needed to
use the key to the city goodGuy, Chris Sentimental Kings Wednesday. Oh
yeah, Hawk, we got this. Parish and Chris both have two eight

(11:01):
items to go. Here's number fiveof sk clue number one. There are
most commonly two. Clue number twofound on the far left and the far
right. Clue number three are rectangular. Clue number four often but not always

(11:33):
features an arrow. Clue number five. This is pressed and often held fine

(11:56):
Clue number six. It's primary functionis to modify, and this can be
found on a standard keyboard. MarkPaul was first five or space key,
No, Parish was second five ortwo many Marty Marney shift key Shi,

(12:20):
It's the shift key is the modifier. I know this space key, I
don't know. I'm gonna freezet literallyI was going like this, I'm trying
to picture it too, and Iwas like, I'll picture it. He
said, Mark is next to you. You're like, I got nothing that,

(12:41):
hey, Mark, Mark Martin stayingsilent though, is still better than
space key? Yeah, I don'tknow. Isn't that a space bar?
Space bar? Marnie, you're onthe board to one of them. Parish
has two pasts, Marnie has one. Sauce has the space key. There's
number six of sk Clue number onedoesn't near let me start this over because

(13:07):
that was bad. Clue number onedoesn't necessarily exclusively feature only the first word
yep. Clue number two is afacility. Clue number three involves assistance.

(13:35):
Clue number four This is most commonlyconnected to hardship. Marnie Marne soup kitchen.
Right, No, soup kitchen doesn'texclusively have soup, but sure soup

(13:56):
kitchen is the right answer. Halfwaythrough the game, sauce and leave her
kitchen. We're getting Scheffler, andthen Parish, Marni and Hockey each have
two. We can do this.We come on, can you spell?
Marns is cooking in her soup kitchen. Here's number seven of sk I know.
Clue number one connected to bars.Clue number two debuted in nineteen fifty

(14:28):
five. Clue number three is consideredbrown. Clue number four has a branding
connection to the color of red.Clue number five. You could argue this

(14:56):
is most often seen on a spoon. Final clue clue number six, one
of the words is simply a letterMarney, Marnie special. Okay, that's

(15:16):
right. I don't even get thoseclue special Okay, get the spoon one.
You get the spoon one. Yes, Cereal, Cereal the bar,
it's a special k bar. Ithought it was. Yeah, I was,
okay, bar exactly. I was. I was thinking every drink I've

(15:37):
ever had in my life, andwe'd be here a while. I know.
That's the reason I was stuck.Ends at nine. Mark, nice
job, mart Marty, Marty,Marty. Yeah on fire and Marny,
you have the lead now with togo There we go, good guys.
Marny has three Hawk and Parish havetwo. We go now, Martin go
though, everybody's still mathematically and thishere's number eight of sk Clue number one

(16:03):
known to compete. Clue number twois connected to the song The Bells Must
ring Ben Ben, I'm just gonnago for it. Steve Kerr Okay,
no, Steve Kerr incorrect Ben outfor the rest of number eight. Clue

(16:26):
number three, one of the wordsis a color huck. Okay, scarlet
knights. Wow, wow, Wow, what are the scarlet Rutgers? Guys?
Yeah, as scarlet knights and stupidme actually got that one before you
said that, So I rang ina way too early. Oh man,
I didn't think you had it.Chris. I don't know how you came
up with the guys fantastic. Ifigured that was coming out some kind of

(16:48):
a fight song. Oh exactly,that's exactly what that is. Marnie and
Chris have to lead with three parisjust one back, four to go.
Everybody's still in this Here we go. Here is number nine of sk Clue
number one have been somewhat phased outdue to advancements in technology. Did somebody

(17:11):
just say brilliant? Clue number twoconsidered considered simple yet persatal. It's us
Clue number three. We're mostly flatbut often featured a partial roundish Ben scalpel

(17:37):
knife Ben out for the rest ofnine. Let me finish that clue.
Clue number three We're mostly flat,but often featured a partial roundish decorative design.
Clue number four. Historically these wereiron or steel. Clue number five.

(18:06):
These are often inserted Mark mart skeletonkey. That's right. Oh wow,
we have the melos right front ofhim. Well how ironic that that
was crazy that we got the keysof the city to I didn't know that.
Wow. All right, Marco andBen Leeber and Sauce are both three

(18:32):
down with three to go, soeach of you have to individually run the
table to tie. But Parish,Marty and Hawk three way tie. Here
we go with three to go.Anybody's game. Here is number ten of
s K. Clue number one,often utilized for caution and prevention. Clue

(18:55):
number two is shorter than usual.Clue number three. One of the words
means a small firework that makes ahissing noise or a quick witty attack.

(19:18):
Clue number four. These bounce.Clue number five. These are produced by
a foot Ben Ben snapkick Ben outfor the rest of number ten. Ben's

(19:41):
fire and bullets. Final clue ofnumber ten Clue number six. These are
often executed by a professional athlete tominimize a possible paul by squib kit.
That is correct final the kick martsshoot my shot, Oh no, my

(20:07):
Harrison. Yes, for those ofyou listening on the radio and not here,
he's vitamin fish boy Sauce, Thanksdaddy. All right, that mathematically
eliminates Ben, but keep going,Sauce. You still need the last two
to force a four way tie breaker. Otherwise, Parish, Marti and Hawk

(20:30):
three way tie with three apiece withtwo to go. Here is number eleven
of sk clue number one. Thefirst word is a reference to a nineteenth
century chief. Clue number two.One of the words is connected to Scandinavian

(20:51):
folklore. Paul Paul Seattle Kraken.That's right, that is it over?
Yes, Seattle is named after achief, and the crack is Scandina.
Saucy. Does the rock match thecarpet? And you want to see kind

(21:11):
of draps whatever the carpet. That'sthe same thing. You're distracting me with
your long hair, tossing it around. Let's call it. We're gonna have
a walk off. Here's how itworks, Parish, Marty and Hockey.
You have three. If you anyof you get this right, you're the

(21:33):
winner. Sauce. If you getthis right, you force a four way
tiebreaker. If Ben gets this right, there's still a three way t Sauce
going for the tie, Parish Martyand Hawk going for the win. Here's
number well of s K Clue numberone. There are questions and different theories

(21:55):
surrounding his death. Clue number twowas featured in an iconic nineteen sixty nine
film, Paul for the tie.Stanley Kuprick Sauce out twelve. So Sauce

(22:22):
mathematically out. We're down to ParishMarty, Hawk excited and lieber Parish Marty
and Hawks still going for the win. Clue number three was often at large.
Clue number four, Hawk for thewin. Sundance Kids Sundale, nice

(22:48):
one, Baby Sundance Kid for thewind. Chris, that was a good
game. Yeah, man, that'sfine. Guys did well. It was
fun. Christopher gets another victory withfour boys here in Duluth. You remember
you how you used to be terriblein front of the live crowd. You
seem to be winning a lot whenwe go on location. I've made peace
with the world. Maybe what happensnow that you've won Game five seventeen.

(23:11):
Well, we win, we drink, and our friends are radco going to
give you ten percent off all weekendthrough Monday at radcot dot com or andsor
Raco used the promo code initials buyyourself some weather tech mats gets something nice.
Thank you, Rago, Thank youeverybody. It's so cool. God,
this boy nice stop. That wasa great win. Thank you.
It was like, is d isSam Kennison yead And it was their controversy

(23:33):
around his life. I was thinkingthe exactly yes, Sam Kennison's only name
was pumping in my head. Wow, man, Yeah, there's a whole
I obviously, Again, all theseend up being minor book reports, Sundance
kid like. He might have livedtwenty or thirty more years, he might
have gone to a different country.People are pretty sure that he died the
way that he died, but there'sa lot of theories that he just left,
who knows. I love that stuff. The old school outlaws can just

(23:55):
disappear and just start lives over indifferent so they don't even know if he
actually died, and they don't reallyI'm not sure about Butch Cassidy. There's
about that too in the Bolivia.Yeah right, it's so cool man.
And again, if you've never seenButchcastile and Sundance Kids. And you want
to see a movie where you wishyou were friends with those guys. Watch
that movie Paul Newman and the otherguy, Robert Redford, Robert. It's

(24:17):
one of my favorite movies. Ilove it. It's the best movie I've
ever seen it. Yeah. Uh. One thing we can watch this weekend
is Game seven Wolves and Nuggets Mars. Where are you gonna be? How
are you going to watch it onSunday? You're not going to Denver?
Where are you gonna go? No? I'm going to host a watch party
at Treasure Island. I don't knowthe game time yet. It's either going
to be a two thirty game ora seven o'clock game, but either way
you can come and watch it andthey'll have all prizes and drink specials and

(24:41):
they're giving away tickets. If theWolves make the Western Conference Final, we
will be giving away two tickets toone of the games on Sunday at Treasure
Island. That's awesome, man,that's only a lot of fun. And
of course you're working tonight, aren'tyou. I am working the Links home
opener against the Seattle Crap Store,the Cracks Center, store, a crack

(25:06):
store. Can you believe it?Up by the links game nights, it's
actually an eight it's an eight thirtystart because it's on Ion, which is
a national broadcast station for the wNBA last year and this year, so
we have a second game on Ion, So hey thirty either way, Target
Center, Links around a roll wothplaying Game seven. We're probably going to
the finals. Everything is great,pretty cool. It's gonna be great.

(25:29):
Ben, you are on TV.Are are they filming you going up with
the airplane today? Uh? Yes, but but I'm off today. I'm
officially off today. Yes, sothey've got a fill in today, so
just so I can do this thisafternoon. Uh, it will be filmed.
So I will be making a foolof myself with the the GoPro in
the cockpit and you can probably seeme in puke and pass out and we
will have all of that on Monday, on Twinesday's last. So if it

(25:52):
doesn't go, well, it's great. It's been great knowing you. Yeah,
thank you, very thank you.You've been a nice time on this
earth. My parents anytime. Sheand by the way, pair shout out
to I know we posted on Twitter, but that that thing that you did
with the p WHL that was readingthe lineup heart. That was super cool.
That was super fun. I gotway more excited than I thought I
was gonna man getting down down intothe the locker room down below before a

(26:15):
playoff game. You can just youcan smell it. And you haven't done
that. No, No, Ididn't get through that very much. At
off both I was insanely jealous andthose girls played spectacular. Matty Revie was
shout out. There was an amazinggame one in double ot and they got
game five tonight at six o'clock againstTorontal, which is their game seven's So
let's go p WHL Minnesota, TaylorHot Go. Thank going for all of

(26:38):
them. We absolutely loved luth.Thanks for having us again for the I
don't know billionth year, but thesecond consecutive year here at the the Loup
Hair Show. You guys are awesome. Congrats on one hundred years for w
EBC or is saus w with SA W I can't read it. Yesweody
likes you. Corey, look youLake Superior College is walking room is here.
Everybody for coming out and thank youfor the parting gift of the planes

(27:00):
that you're out giving as the pointso much. Thanks to Zach Calverson back
in the Cities and the unsung hero. Always shout out to Jared Wells,
always kills it. Garrett's the bestengineer in the building or in the business,
and in the building heasl's unbelievably awesome. Nine to Noon is next to
Power Chips back five thirty to nine. Thanks Everybody, Monday, Thanks everybody,

(27:22):
Man missus. To listen back totoday's Power Trip Morning Show or to
hear previous show, It's The podcastis on the iHeartRadio app or KFAI dot com.
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