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02/20/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle. I'm all
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Speaker 1: That's over. The let's go on track. God yeah, and
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Speaker 1: mythical legendary figure. Schmid, Oh my god, this man's been
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Speaker 1: out all night. Armand sorry, don't get scared me six
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Speaker 1: we ready. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on the air.
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Speaker 3: Got yourself.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in. It is the Beautiful Huddle edition of a
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Speaker 1: Friday show. I'm Bill Schmid alongside Hunter bombguard in for
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Speaker 1: Drew Olsen today, armand Surian's on that side of the glass.
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Speaker 1: I do sound stranger if that's just in my headphones, Fellas,
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Speaker 1: good morning, I appreciate it. Nice. Apologize for spooking you
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Speaker 1: guys this morning. Apologize for scaring the boys this morning.
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Speaker 1: As Hunter inver drew one more day, Arman is already
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Speaker 1: knocking out out shrill in saying, and I could already
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Speaker 1: see a little bit of a jump because both of
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Speaker 1: you guys still thought that I was maybe in the sunshine,
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Speaker 1: stayed here today for a fight. You were still hanging
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Speaker 1: out with the Grapefruit League. I I thought the same.
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Speaker 3: However, I'm gonna sity, I'm not gonna take this the
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Speaker 3: correct way, all right, the wrong way, okay, all right?
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Speaker 3: I think and I talked about it at one point, and
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Speaker 3: I think he mentioned that you were still there totally.
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Speaker 3: I implicitly, implicitly trust Hunter when it comes to any
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Speaker 3: sort of organization, all type of decision, as.
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Speaker 1: We do it, just about anything correct.
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Speaker 3: I would ever question that he knows less about it
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Speaker 3: than he should. So I think maybe we Hunter said that.
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Speaker 3: And as although when you sent me the snapchat on
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Speaker 3: the plane, I probably should have started my critical thinking skills.
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Speaker 1: That probably could Yeah, that probably could have done a
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Speaker 1: little something that might have worked out. I think we're
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Speaker 1: all good. I'm just gonna crank up your mic here, Louis.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, am I just on a wrong mic? No,
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Speaker 1: there's other wrong. It's not that you're that, it's right.
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure I wasn't making your
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Speaker 1: life more difficult.
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Speaker 3: I apologize tweaked some stuff a week ago, and you
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Speaker 3: haven't been here, so I don't think anyone said that
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Speaker 3: mic yet.
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Speaker 1: So I think we're good. Though you're at three. You're
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Speaker 1: at mike three, right, all right, So I'm breaking in
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Speaker 1: the all right, I'm breaking in a little bit of
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Speaker 1: fresh fresh feel on this mic. I mean Andrew might
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Speaker 1: have been in that seat yesterday. I was gonna say,
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Speaker 1: I thought I thought the video looked like he was
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Speaker 1: in the exactly, but the levels were different. Okay, we
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Speaker 1: forget Luddy.
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Speaker 2: He was a popular, popular guy in the text line yesterday.
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Speaker 2: You were happy to hear Luddy yesterday, as they should be.
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Speaker 1: I just forgot what mike he was using. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: that he wasn't in the right seat. Oh, people are
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Speaker 1: always excited to hear Luddy. They're also always excited to
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Speaker 1: see Letty good looking young mass Oh, I got a
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Speaker 1: potential modeling career for for Andrew Ludwaker. He was on
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Speaker 1: the YouTube stream yesterday, so that was going to be
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Speaker 1: able to see. I appreciate uh him waking up very
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Speaker 1: early for us this morning. Hopefully he got a couple
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Speaker 1: of naps yesterday, because you can need one after the start.
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Speaker 1: Hunter is going to need one after the week that's
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Speaker 1: been filling in. How has the first week on a
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Speaker 1: morning show and radio vent for you? It's actually not
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Speaker 1: been as bad as I thought. It just all what
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Speaker 1: I've realized is it all depends on when you get
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Speaker 1: to bed the night before. That's very much so.
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Speaker 2: And so that that has been and it's tough because
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Speaker 2: things are going on sports. I was telling Arman this morning.
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Speaker 2: Tamahawk Hatchet High school hockey team was playing last night
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Speaker 2: in the playoffs against the number one team, Hudson in
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Speaker 2: the state. So Tomahawk's the nine seed, Hudson's the one.
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Speaker 2: They went to Hudson. We're up six to five with
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Speaker 2: three minutes left, lost eight to six.
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Speaker 1: I pulled three goals in the.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, three goals in the last three minutes, unfortunately, but
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Speaker 2: what a fight by the Tomahawk Hatchet hockey team.
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Speaker 1: Have to give them a shout shout out to the Tomahawk.
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Speaker 1: So I was listening to that shout out to Hudson
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Speaker 1: for apparently being an absolute way.
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Speaker 2: I think they are like a perennial powerhouse, I believe
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Speaker 2: from what I understand. And Tomahawk won D two last year,
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Speaker 2: so they got bumped up to D one. That's an
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Speaker 2: interesting discussion too, is how that goes. And Tomahawk's a
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Speaker 2: very obviously smaller school compared to a lot of the
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Speaker 2: D one schools, and so now that's kind of a
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Speaker 2: that's a topic that could be of conversation just because
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Speaker 2: that's an interesting way they do that. I get it
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Speaker 2: because you know, want a team dominating in D two.
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Speaker 2: But Tomahawk is a that's a small talent, sound like
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Speaker 2: they were, you know, recruiting around the north past.
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Speaker 1: It's a difficult part of it, hunting is because there's
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Speaker 1: so much that that leans into you. You obviously want
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Speaker 1: everybody to be able to have an inequal chance of
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Speaker 1: being ably to be competitive and win. However, when you
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Speaker 1: just keep elevating a team because they are good, right,
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Speaker 1: you almost feel like you're punishing someone for their own success.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm with you on that, and that is
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Speaker 1: a that's a long, long conversation to have. Also a
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Speaker 1: good one to be able to have around Steven's point area,
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Speaker 1: which would be potentially wa a different you know, in
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Speaker 1: different covering bodies would potentially be But I like it is.
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Speaker 1: It is a fascinating one because you see it in
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Speaker 1: all of the sports, right. We'll see it with high
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Speaker 1: school basketball coming up here in a couple of weeks
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Speaker 1: as well, like their selection process comes out. We see
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Speaker 1: it with football all the time. Wanakey was always a
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Speaker 1: Division two team, and now they're battling in Division One
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Speaker 1: late into i think the the semi finals of the
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Speaker 1: football playoffs for the same reason, because they've always been
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Speaker 1: an absolute wagon and then you start getting elevated. It does.
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Speaker 1: It puts different schools in really different tiers.
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Speaker 2: It does, because I mean you're I mean, they're competing
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Speaker 2: against teams like eu Claire and and that's just obviously
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Speaker 2: a different sized town comparatively.
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Speaker 3: But what I was talking to Hunter about, and I
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Speaker 3: would think the challenge in high school hockey is is
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Speaker 3: that the size of the school doesn't necessarily mean that
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Speaker 3: the quality of the facility, the infrastructure, because hockey such
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Speaker 3: players exactly. Yeah, that type of thing, because in high
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Speaker 3: school hockey it's a niche thing. For instance, and I'm
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Speaker 3: telling you, growing up in southeastern Wisconsin, it was non existent.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't really think of that many high
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Speaker 3: schools around southeastern Wisconsin that have high school hockey. I
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Speaker 3: know they do, but it's just not really as much
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Speaker 3: of a factor. But up north it's a bigger deal.
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Speaker 3: So when you said Tomahawk, I had to kind of
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Speaker 3: confirm you men, you mean high school hockey, right, because
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Speaker 3: I don't know, because you have the club hockey.
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Speaker 1: Stuff down here, there's Shaw, there's Winter. I was gonna
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Speaker 1: say it was obviously a lot of co ops when
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Speaker 1: in Greenfield when you were in high school. Same with
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Speaker 1: same for me, and it was you're right, Shaw was
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Speaker 1: the one, and then there was It might have also
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Speaker 1: been Shaw that that had the the high school program
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Speaker 1: that a lot of different schools kind of fed into
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Speaker 1: when I was in high school. But when we were
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Speaker 1: talking with and it's funny that this is how it
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Speaker 1: starts out because it was actually exactly where we were
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Speaker 1: leading into. Because I don't know about you guys, all
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Speaker 1: I care about here coming up the next couple of
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Speaker 1: days of sports wise, obviously, I want to be able
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Speaker 1: to watch the Badgers figure some stuff out after a
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Speaker 1: disappointing l against the Ohio State buck Eyes, Right, get
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Speaker 1: yourself back on track. They can't step on another one
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Even though I don't necessarily know that's a
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Speaker 1: rake and eight lost team against a nine lost team, Army.
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Speaker 1: You'd be able to give me more more clarity and
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Speaker 1: then we'll talk about it. We'll talk about that one
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Speaker 1: going in, But as much as just because it's red, white,
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Speaker 1: and blue. I will very much back and be excited
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Speaker 1: and outwardly aggressively patriotic and excited when we start talking
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Speaker 1: about team sports in the Olympics, like this is where
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Speaker 1: for me Hunter, it always gets good and armin Like
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Speaker 1: Jordan Soulz yesterday hey captured the silver medal. Good conversation
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Speaker 1: on that one. We'll talk about it a little bit
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Speaker 1: later on exactly what that word is needs to be.
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Speaker 1: But the we end up watching what we watch, I
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Speaker 1: feel like and and I love watching sports that I'm
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Speaker 1: familiar with. I don't know that the sport of hockey
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Speaker 1: has been as familiar in the sports lexicon and as
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Speaker 1: much as it is right now, as hot as it is.
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Speaker 1: And like you see the game that happens yesterday against
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Speaker 1: the US women against the Canadian women, Shout out Hillary Knight,
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Speaker 1: that was awesome.
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Speaker 3: And she got engaged in that before comes out Captain
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Speaker 3: America comes to save our bacon, Canadian bacon. No pun intended,
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Speaker 3: because I'll admit, and I mentioned it yesterday. You get
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Speaker 3: a big win in the in the prelimbs, and that's
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Speaker 3: precisely what I was worried about.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure they did it I'm.
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Speaker 3: Not sitting here saying it, but subconsciously you might think,
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Speaker 3: all right, we got this thing licked.
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Speaker 1: We know we can beat this team.
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Speaker 3: Precisely, I was worried about maybe Canada changes up a
8:55
Speaker 3: couple of things, you know, maybe they make some adjustments.
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Speaker 3: All of a sudden, it's tighter, it's hard to score,
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Speaker 3: but win.
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Speaker 1: Go Hillary, thank you as that championship medal from her
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Speaker 1: days with the Badgers and the Badgers, she just got
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Speaker 1: that little bit of a redirect into the celebration. And like,
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Speaker 1: because women's hockey is one that I don't know a
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Speaker 1: lot of people realize that there is a professional hockey
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Speaker 1: league that is really starting to flourish in America. It
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Speaker 1: is potentially more than other sports that are now being
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Speaker 1: featured on ESPN's Women's Sports Sunday. I would like for
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Speaker 1: the professional women's Hockey League to get featured because there's
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Speaker 1: some incredible athletes there. Once you start winning championships like this,
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Speaker 1: you start getting more used to try the game. And
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Speaker 1: when we were talking about it with Greeny, we're seeing
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Speaker 1: it now. Maybe it's just in Milwaukee because we're into
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Speaker 1: the Olympics. The viewership numbers just show it but it
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Speaker 1: feels like right now could be And I know they
9:55
Speaker 1: talked about this with soccer in the nineties when they
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Speaker 1: had the World Cup. It's obviously not here, but when
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Speaker 1: your teams are good at it, I think it incentivizes
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Speaker 1: and motivates young people and parents to say, I would
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Speaker 1: like my kid to start figuring out how to skate
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Speaker 1: and how to play hockey. Maybe we do put oh,
10:12
Speaker 1: we do throw some water on that concrete slab that
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Speaker 1: we have outside and figure out if we can skate
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Speaker 1: a little bit backwards. Because the only way that the
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Speaker 1: sport continues to grow, guys, I think is if young
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Speaker 1: kids are playing it, and that part of hockey I
10:26
Speaker 1: don't know has ever been bigger right now. Yeah, if
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Speaker 1: I was If I was like a high school hockey
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Speaker 1: player right now and you know, in the playoffs or
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Speaker 1: you're you know, you're going through with your team and
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Speaker 1: watching these Olympic games and these hockey games on TV,
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Speaker 1: I'd be even more motivated to go out there and
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Speaker 1: have fun and enjoy the game because you just you
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Speaker 1: see the type of athletes they are and you feel
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Speaker 1: like you're kind of part of it. If you're going
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Speaker 1: out and you're playing it as a high school or
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Speaker 1: even obviously younger, and a lot of kids start at
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Speaker 1: a very young age and they're skating and they're getting
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Speaker 1: on their skates and learning how to do that super
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Speaker 1: early in life. The men's team has not won an
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Speaker 1: Olympic medal in hockey since twenty ten, so this is
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Speaker 1: gonna this is you know, we're at sixteen year drought
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Speaker 1: here and this would be a great way to capture
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Speaker 1: it if they're able to win today and get to
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Speaker 1: that gold medal game.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's sort of amazing when you think about it,
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Speaker 3: because you just kind of assume they had right right,
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Speaker 3: some more sort of amazing to think about it. So
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Speaker 3: when you have that tangible goal to reach, when when
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Speaker 3: you have the excitement that comes with it, and and there.
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Speaker 1: Are your best players playing, help.
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Speaker 3: Shits absolutely ability, absolutely and and you're right, it's a
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Speaker 3: flourishing sport, especially for young women. The PWHL is the
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Speaker 3: league you're referring to right now, Professional Women's Hockey League,
11:35
Speaker 3: eight teams for in the US, four in Canada. So
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Speaker 3: you know, it's it's it's taken us kind of by
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Speaker 3: storm right now. And yeah, it helps right now that
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Speaker 3: we're we're in the right part of the sports calendar
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Speaker 3: where we can be into Olympics and into hockey at
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Speaker 3: the Olympics, which is always super exciting. And when you
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Speaker 3: have that US Canada rivalry, you know, the four Nations
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Speaker 3: face off, I think really helped that a lot because
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Speaker 3: it gets people fired up to play. Thousand persons to
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Speaker 3: watch teams play and the watch flags play, so to speak,
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Speaker 3: you know, and there's a good competition across the world,
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Speaker 3: and there's the competition with Canada and the rivalry, and
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Speaker 3: you have local stars and so it makes the whole
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Speaker 3: thing really exciting. And yeah, we're all hockeyed out this week, man,
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Speaker 3: and some of these games have just been incredible, even.
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Speaker 2: They're like all going overtime and then we get this
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Speaker 2: three on three stuff, which is just amazing, and then
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Speaker 2: it's like, oh, it's so it's just a thrill. It's
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Speaker 2: just a thrill once you get to overtime. Three on three,
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Speaker 2: that's a lot of skating for those athletes, though, dude,
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Speaker 2: that's crazy.
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Speaker 1: That is maybe the most wide open any game is
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Speaker 1: outside of when you start doing the three man weave
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Speaker 1: in basketball practice and all you're trying to do is
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Speaker 1: keep up. Maybe that was just me as the fat
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Speaker 1: kid running around the outside trying to make sure that
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Speaker 1: I was in position for the past. But like it is,
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Speaker 1: that is an intense skate and it you hit the
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Speaker 1: Four Nations faceoff arm and yeah, it gave a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a pre limb. Hey, Slovakia not a part
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Speaker 1: of the Four Nations face off from what I'm hearing.
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Speaker 1: Don't sleep on Slovakia. I think they got like seven
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Speaker 1: NHL players, and that's a big part of this. Now
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Speaker 1: that NHL players are able to play again and again,
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Speaker 1: maybe we just get too prisoner at the moment here.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is gonna be the ninety two
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Speaker 1: dream team right where all over the world they're drumming
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Speaker 1: up NBA fans and you're seeing like the next crazy
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Speaker 1: surge in sports. But people ask, why is the NFL
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Speaker 1: so hell bent on going overseas? Why is why is
13:20
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell now tapping into a sixteen hour trip for
13:24
Speaker 1: two teams to go play in Melbourne, Australia. Have you
13:27
Speaker 1: ever seen how many people go to Ousie rules football games?
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Speaker 1: You ever see some of the dudes that are playing
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Speaker 1: in Auszie Rule three? What the NFL is looking at
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Speaker 1: is saying, I'd like those youngsters who want to play
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Speaker 1: American football in the NFL, and like you start trying
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Speaker 1: to grow different seeds of the sport in different territories
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Speaker 1: and the way the game grows. Arman knows this because
13:51
Speaker 1: I think he's become as much of a miss Rachel
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Speaker 1: stand as there might be. You end up starting as
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Speaker 1: much as you want to watch what you want to watch. Hunter.
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Speaker 1: You'll learn this very very soon, not very soon, maybe
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Speaker 1: maybe not very soon. I don't want to put that
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Speaker 1: on you. I'm not trying to put that on your
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Speaker 1: I apologize. No breaking news, no breaking news. I think
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Speaker 1: I engaged you the other day. Somebody did take it.
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Speaker 2: I want to say, thought you were engaged a magie Georgia,
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Speaker 2: I think, which I appreciate the support, Maggie.
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Speaker 1: We we we love, we love. He's the best, not
14:20
Speaker 1: that anybody else's. But like you, see, you start watching
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Speaker 1: what your kids are watching because guess what, you don't
14:25
Speaker 1: have control of the television anymore. And whether or not
14:29
Speaker 1: they start falling in love with you. See, I think
14:32
Speaker 1: Dad's watching a lot more volleyball than they would plan on.
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Speaker 1: The young daughters starts playing in clubs, and starts playing
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Speaker 1: in high school, in middle school and grade school and
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Speaker 1: and hockey. I think has the chance to kind of
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Speaker 1: do that when you have kind of moments like this
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Speaker 1: where today should be a phenomenal game. Kids will be
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Speaker 1: starting to get out of school here on a Friday
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Speaker 1: watching the clothes of some of the best athletes that
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Speaker 1: wear American colors and are from a Marria playing in
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Speaker 1: the games. And I think, like that is it's got
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Speaker 1: a chance to really continue to take off. Now do
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Speaker 1: I wish the game was not at eight in the
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Speaker 1: morning on Sunday if we get past the game here today,
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Speaker 1: that part that would be awesome, awesome if it wasn't
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Speaker 1: in the morning. Correct, But these Olympics the rules. These
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Speaker 1: Olympics have their rules and their guidelines and moses how
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Speaker 1: we do it at the Olympiad. So we'll get into that.
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Speaker 3: What they do, they stick with their rules and they
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Speaker 3: don't like to budge. Even in nineteen eighty I was
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Speaker 3: listening to an Rich Eisen was interviewing with Mike Ruzioni,
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Speaker 3: and I think it was at Rozioni. They were talking
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Speaker 3: about how even in nineteen eighty the usa Soviet game
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Speaker 3: was the early slate game, and the night game was
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Speaker 3: the other round, which is Finland and whoever it was
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Speaker 3: Checklist Sweden or something interesting, and they wanted that. They
15:46
Speaker 3: were begging the Olympics. The network was begging them to
15:48
Speaker 3: move it to the night game. So that's back when
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Speaker 3: I'm coming. No one could watch anything live unless it
15:53
Speaker 3: was in the primetime slot, and they didn't do it,
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Speaker 3: so they had to tape the layer of the whole thing.
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Speaker 3: And that's that's that family shot of everyone cheering. They're saying,
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Speaker 3: the game is next. We're not gonna tell you what
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Speaker 3: because there was no you could legitimately have like a
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Speaker 3: non spoiler back then, because there was no The paper
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Speaker 3: wasn't out yet there unless you're listening to radio and someone.
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Speaker 3: But then that media wasn't spoiling things for people. It
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Speaker 3: was just a different time. But you're right, Billy. They
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Speaker 3: don't want to budget on that stuff, so they're putting
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Speaker 3: it early in the morning, so hey, look breakfast and puck,
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Speaker 3: I guess that's what. But we don't want we don't
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Speaker 3: want to be worse, we don't want to get ahead
16:25
Speaker 3: of ourselves yet, correct, And that's what we almost did yesterday, right,
16:28
Speaker 3: we almost got ahead of ourselves and in US and
16:30
Speaker 3: Canada had to survive on Wednesday, and then the US
16:33
Speaker 3: had to to win it on Thursday. But but you're right, Billy,
16:36
Speaker 3: I think it's one of those situations where it's burgeoning popularity.
16:39
Speaker 3: I think also people and being around hockey, and obviously
16:42
Speaker 3: it's a big week for the admirals too. I think
16:44
Speaker 3: there's an aspect of the culture of hockey. Then a
16:46
Speaker 3: lot of sports fans do enjoy for reasons that they
16:49
Speaker 3: sometimes have been rejecting other professional sports. Sometimes more of
16:53
Speaker 3: the parts they don't like about professional sports like that.
16:56
Speaker 3: You know, it explained that a little bit if they
16:57
Speaker 3: feel that that the payments are out of reach right
16:59
Speaker 3: now where you know, obviously they're starting to go up
17:01
Speaker 3: higher in the NHL, but guys don't get paid like
17:03
Speaker 3: they do in the NFL, in the MLB and in
17:06
Speaker 3: the NBA. Necessarily the salaries aren't qute unquote as exorbitant.
17:10
Speaker 3: The culture of hockey players seems to be less about
17:12
Speaker 3: the Prima Donna stuff. Whether that's fair or not. I'm
17:15
Speaker 3: just saying that there seems to be that reputation. But
17:17
Speaker 3: I think that there are some people out there that
17:20
Speaker 3: rebuke professional sports for those reasons. You know, more about
17:23
Speaker 3: the collective more, not less about the individual. Hockey seems
17:26
Speaker 3: to give a little bit of that energy back to
17:29
Speaker 3: to sports fans. So I think some some fans do
17:31
Speaker 3: appreciate that with you. Yeah, Like I said, I don't
17:34
Speaker 3: know if it's fair or not in a lot of cases.
17:36
Speaker 3: I'm sure there's a lot of like you know, selfish
17:38
Speaker 3: dudes making a lot of money in the NHL, Like.
17:40
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
17:41
Speaker 3: That doesn't mean that everyone's the same, but there seems
17:44
Speaker 3: to be that that that sort of culture around hockey,
17:46
Speaker 3: like hockey guys like they're they're grinders, they play hard,
17:49
Speaker 3: they'll play anywhere.
17:50
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
17:51
Speaker 3: I think there's part of that as well that makes
17:53
Speaker 3: it popular when you really get amongst hockey people.
17:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, and in like that part being highlighted a lot
17:59
Speaker 1: of times, you see a lot more of those highlights
18:01
Speaker 1: are But I think during the Olympics because there is
18:03
Speaker 1: a lot more time to crowbar in the seven minute
18:07
Speaker 1: get to know this guy, the third line right winger,
18:11
Speaker 1: and they'll explained an amazing story of how he got
18:14
Speaker 1: to this point. And maybe it's not to the same
18:16
Speaker 1: spot with some of the great shots like Jordan Stoles
18:19
Speaker 1: did on the pond back in Keywaskin, But you start
18:22
Speaker 1: learning more about the we want to be emotionally connected
18:25
Speaker 1: to not only the players, to the game and feel
18:28
Speaker 1: like it really really matters. And I just there's a
18:31
Speaker 1: lot to it. There's a ton of spot, and there's
18:34
Speaker 1: a ton of runway right now for and growing up
18:38
Speaker 1: as well, and I think this does play into it.
18:41
Speaker 1: It was just never on TV, like the accessibility to
18:44
Speaker 1: highlight packages in the morning. ESPN just did not air
18:47
Speaker 1: it after the lockout. And maybe the MLB should take
18:51
Speaker 1: a little bit of an i as to how bad
18:53
Speaker 1: the lockout in the early two thousands affected the NHL
18:57
Speaker 1: and how they're starting to really really climb back out,
18:59
Speaker 1: because I think it would be a deal for Major
19:01
Speaker 1: League Baseball to go in in for one of those
19:04
Speaker 1: coming up here at the end.
19:06
Speaker 2: Well, speaking of baseball, we're going to get some of
19:08
Speaker 2: this taste, and I'm glad kind of the Olympics lead
19:11
Speaker 2: into this. The World Baseball Classic is next month and
19:13
Speaker 2: we're going to kind of continue this Olympic type pride
19:16
Speaker 2: for your country feeling, and it's going to be awesome
19:19
Speaker 2: because I think you're going to have some of the
19:21
Speaker 2: same effect that hockey has had with baseball, because I
19:24
Speaker 2: think you're going to almost continue this Olympic type feeling
19:28
Speaker 2: right this the Olympics that brought on the country pride
19:31
Speaker 2: and the enjoying the different events and cheering on your
19:34
Speaker 2: country and the I think March is going to bring
19:36
Speaker 2: that for baseball, which is going to be awesome. And
19:38
Speaker 2: the World Baseball Classic is so unique and something that
19:41
Speaker 2: you know, the really the the different countries around the
19:45
Speaker 2: world and South America and those type of teams are
19:49
Speaker 2: like all in on this stuff, and the atmospheres are
19:52
Speaker 2: through the roof in other countries in Japan obviously, and
19:55
Speaker 2: so I'm very excited to see what that can do
19:57
Speaker 2: for baseball too. And it's a perfect time leading go
20:01
Speaker 2: from Olympics and then about two three weeks later you're
20:03
Speaker 2: getting World Baseball Classic games and it's kind of that
20:05
Speaker 2: same feeling.
20:06
Speaker 3: And it is fun when it is fun when it
20:08
Speaker 3: seems like everyone's playing for something a little bit bigger
20:10
Speaker 3: than themselves and everyone's got that energy about you and
20:13
Speaker 3: you can get the you can get behind a flag
20:15
Speaker 3: and get going and uh and and when when you
20:18
Speaker 3: see it matter.
20:19
Speaker 1: To others that you're competing with, it's gonna matter to
20:22
Speaker 1: you more.
20:22
Speaker 3: And moy do we see that in the World Baseball
20:24
Speaker 3: Classic when you talking about the Latin countries and the
20:26
Speaker 3: Caribbean country, how intense and the excitement in Japan obviously,
20:30
Speaker 3: So I think that's probably the goal with the World
20:33
Speaker 3: Baseball Class. Again, it takes time, is to slowly grow
20:35
Speaker 3: the interest around the globe for a game like that
20:37
Speaker 3: to become one of those deals where people are.
20:39
Speaker 1: Interested a little. I shouldn't know where the sites are.
20:42
Speaker 1: I should know where the sights are for the World
20:43
Speaker 1: Baseball Classic. I think they're going back to Japan. I
20:47
Speaker 1: think they're playing one of the pool plays in Japan.
20:50
Speaker 1: They should because I think they're the reigning champions. Right.
20:53
Speaker 3: So Tokyo Tokyo, me, did you get it there? Houston, Miami,
20:57
Speaker 3: Tokyo and Puerto Rico s on Puerto Rico. Those games
21:00
Speaker 3: are gonna be epic, like those atmospheres awesome. And baby,
21:05
Speaker 3: when I really started going through with draws during uh
21:08
Speaker 3: COVID and we started watching KBO. You want to talk
21:12
Speaker 3: about a time in life where I actually do kind
21:14
Speaker 3: of miss I do miss waking up at four in
21:17
Speaker 3: the morning watching Katch knowing I have a couple of
21:20
Speaker 3: parlays on it like that.
21:21
Speaker 1: That was a fun time to live. That was a
21:24
Speaker 1: fun place to live in. This is a lot better.
21:26
Speaker 1: This is a hell of a lot better time to
21:28
Speaker 1: live in.
21:28
Speaker 3: So it was much more fun than betting the freaking
21:31
Speaker 3: check check table tennis because you couldn't watch it and
21:34
Speaker 3: you didn't know what was going on and what the
21:37
Speaker 3: high temperature was going to be recorded at uh, you know,
21:40
Speaker 3: Logan International Airport.
21:41
Speaker 1: That was That was also the time.
21:43
Speaker 3: But when the Samsung Lions played the Latte Giants or
21:47
Speaker 3: whatever throw the records out, you were just getting fired up.
21:50
Speaker 1: And then and they I love the way they did
21:52
Speaker 1: it with the music and the like the fake music.
21:54
Speaker 1: It was awesome. That was really good. It was awesome
21:56
Speaker 1: in ESPN's like, listen, we need something because I'm sick
21:58
Speaker 1: and tired of airing the Last Dance ninety eight times.
22:01
Speaker 1: So Carl Ravage learn some Korean baseball. I appreciate it.
22:05
Speaker 1: It will enjoy all of the games coming up for
22:07
Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic. More importantly, got two more to
22:10
Speaker 1: get big one coming up two o'clock today in the
22:13
Speaker 1: Milan Olympics for the US hockey team as they take
22:16
Speaker 1: on Slovakia and two games today Canada takes on Finland
22:20
Speaker 1: and nine forty If we get Canada United States once again, guys,
22:25
Speaker 1: I want to know where where we're where we're feeling
22:27
Speaker 1: with Canada, like where we're lining up with this a
22:31
Speaker 1: rival that maybe doesn't get the kind of love that
22:34
Speaker 1: they deserve. And by love I mean hate and by
22:38
Speaker 1: love I mean hate. And I got one team that
22:41
Speaker 1: Packers fans seemingly might not have as much hate for
22:44
Speaker 1: as I think maybe we should. It could be turning
22:47
Speaker 1: a little bit as we continue to roll in twenty
22:50
Speaker 1: twenty six, and their team continues to roll with a
22:52
Speaker 1: certain head coach eight seven seven to seventy nine four
22:54
Speaker 1: one nine seven three Hunter bombguart in for Drew Olson,
22:57
Speaker 1: Armansarians still knogging ote out Hey, one more day, big guy.
23:01
Speaker 1: You feeling good. I'm feeling great. I'm feeling strong to
23:03
Speaker 1: the finish with the fleece hat I don't have to finish.
23:05
Speaker 1: The head is sometimes tougher than the jacket. Just so
23:07
Speaker 1: you know, I got a space heater to really crank
23:09
Speaker 1: up the heat there in the in the seven o'clock
23:11
Speaker 1: hour to make sure you're in your keep on that
23:12
Speaker 1: final hour. Yeah, definitely, I'm ready for that. Join us
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Speaker 1: on the Nicolay lotta gop talking text, lotned huddle up.
23:21
Speaker 1: It's Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Welcome back. It is the
23:32
Speaker 1: Huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin on Bill Schmid alongside
23:35
Speaker 1: my main man, Arman Sarian knocking out out one more day,
23:39
Speaker 1: enjoying the festivities for the final couple of days in
23:42
Speaker 1: the Olympics. The United States men's hockey team two more
23:47
Speaker 1: games to get the United States women's hockey team, led
23:51
Speaker 1: by former Badger captain America Hillary Knight, who had a
23:55
Speaker 1: hell of a week, gets yourself engaged, gets the tying goal,
23:58
Speaker 1: also a lot of fans in gets to skate with
24:00
Speaker 1: the gold medal, and what I'm guessing is probably your
24:03
Speaker 1: last game, right, I don't know if she said that
24:05
Speaker 1: for sure. Thirty six years old, you put a hell
24:08
Speaker 1: of an Olympic career together. Most Olympic goals by any
24:11
Speaker 1: United States Olympian on the female side for the Olympic
24:15
Speaker 1: national team at fifteen thirty three overall points.
24:18
Speaker 2: If that's the way you go out hard to top. Yeah,
24:20
Speaker 2: they asked her right after the game, and she said, no,
24:23
Speaker 2: we'll see.
24:23
Speaker 1: Hard to top. Yeah. I also one of those things.
24:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's one of those things you don't want to
24:27
Speaker 3: have to commit to obviously, way because you know, playing
24:30
Speaker 3: in forty is not absolutely not out of the realm.
24:32
Speaker 3: So I'm sure she's gonna get that itch that bug
24:34
Speaker 3: to do it. Hey, we got we got gold medal athletes,
24:38
Speaker 3: you know, un retiring all over the place. I mean
24:40
Speaker 3: Alis Halu, right, the American figure skater.
24:42
Speaker 1: So she won the goal.
24:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, she won the gold yesterday. She's twenty and she's
24:47
Speaker 3: two years from unretirement. She retired at eighteen. No, yeah,
24:51
Speaker 3: I know I did a double take when I read that.
24:54
Speaker 1: So you really now are some of these like retirement
24:56
Speaker 1: and this is what you start learning in the combat
24:59
Speaker 1: sports realm, And I I apologize for putting you on
25:01
Speaker 1: the spot here, Army, where like in UFC, guys will
25:03
Speaker 1: retire because they're just not gonna give them the matches
25:05
Speaker 1: they wanted and they'll be like, well, I'm just not
25:07
Speaker 1: going to get the amount of money, so I think
25:08
Speaker 1: I'm gonna retire. And then all of a sudden they
25:10
Speaker 1: come out of retirement for the title fight that they've
25:12
Speaker 1: been waiting more for the parting person they're getting. Yeah,
25:14
Speaker 1: if this one, I don't know if that's the case,
25:16
Speaker 1: because I don't know that that's I don't know that
25:17
Speaker 1: that the payment is such a thing. I think some
25:19
Speaker 1: of it's also life, right, Like this is four years
25:22
Speaker 1: from now, Like hard for me to think about what
25:24
Speaker 1: I'm going to be doing in four weeks, let alone
25:27
Speaker 1: knowing exactly how I'm gonna feel in my position to
25:29
Speaker 1: be able to play in four years.
25:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, and not to get too deep into a hockey
25:32
Speaker 3: or figure skating is like sort of like gymnastics, and
25:35
Speaker 3: that it's one of those sports where they start so young.
25:37
Speaker 3: They like she was the I think the US national
25:40
Speaker 3: champion in thirteen, right, so you get burned out by
25:43
Speaker 3: sixteen and then you say I want to I want
25:45
Speaker 3: to retire so I can go to high school and
25:47
Speaker 3: live a normal life. And she wanted to go to
25:49
Speaker 3: CO so I think that's what that situation was. And
25:51
Speaker 3: then two years ago then the Olympic cycle picks up again,
25:54
Speaker 3: she picks it up again. So it is kind of
25:56
Speaker 3: funny to read like she's two years from retirement. But
25:59
Speaker 3: she's also can't legally drink it, you know, so it
26:02
Speaker 3: is kind of funny to see that. But yeah, so
26:04
Speaker 3: I wouldn't I wouldn't preclude Hillary and I from trying
26:07
Speaker 3: to take one more's uh, one more slap shot at it?
26:10
Speaker 3: No pun intill you. I like that when she's forty.
26:11
Speaker 3: But yeah, obviously it could be her last. Wait and
26:14
Speaker 3: uh boy, if you're one of those that believe I'm
26:16
Speaker 3: going out, you know, on top, what a better way
26:18
Speaker 3: to go out? Right? I mean that that was tremendous
26:21
Speaker 3: here what happened, and the imagery was beautiful. I mean
26:24
Speaker 3: some of the pictures, obviously, the celebration shots Canada. Canadians
26:27
Speaker 3: crying with it and loved it because they really thought
26:31
Speaker 3: they were going to knock off the US yesterday.
26:33
Speaker 1: And of course we were all nervous minutes away.
26:34
Speaker 3: You're talking about a minus forty eighty favorite the US,
26:37
Speaker 3: you know, and like, oh, this could be bad that.
26:38
Speaker 1: We don't want this. We don't want this, we don't
26:40
Speaker 1: want this. We're not scoring. What's going on here? Wait?
26:42
Speaker 1: There's only you know, one period left, there's only ten
26:44
Speaker 1: minutes left.
26:45
Speaker 3: There's only six minutes left, we're pulled the goalie and uh,
26:48
Speaker 3: that sweet little misdirection right there.
26:50
Speaker 1: It's why we love the NFL playoffs. It's why a lot,
26:53
Speaker 1: it's why we love the uh, the NCAA tournament, the
26:56
Speaker 1: one game elimination style, the ability to all of a
26:58
Speaker 1: sudden it flip on a don I'm and uh and
27:01
Speaker 1: and maybe the heaviest favorite be out because one player
27:05
Speaker 1: gets hot. That could be that could be a Slovakian
27:07
Speaker 1: goaltender here today, right, Okay, you could be one hot
27:10
Speaker 1: goalie away from being bounced out of this next So
27:12
Speaker 1: we need to be we need to be dialed in,
27:14
Speaker 1: we need to be focused, and uh, Captain Jack Eichel,
27:17
Speaker 1: let's make sure that we're putting a couple in there
27:18
Speaker 1: and the Ka Chuck boys, we'll be doing some some
27:20
Speaker 1: yeoman's work as well. But I don't want age to
27:22
Speaker 1: be anybody's reason for thinking that somebody can't do their job.
27:26
Speaker 1: I don't want anybody to be an age police here,
27:29
Speaker 1: because there's somebody amongst in Milwaukee sports that continues to
27:32
Speaker 1: just slap the age question away about Pat Murphy signing
27:35
Speaker 1: up for Let's go two more years, two more years.
27:39
Speaker 1: Last night Hunter as our Brewers insider. Uh, this has
27:42
Speaker 1: been a question that has been like one of those
27:45
Speaker 1: fun little things to throw out there and wonder, hey,
27:48
Speaker 1: Pat Murphy a lame dog, like, why is he gonna
27:51
Speaker 1: get extend? What is the situation with Pat Murphy's contract?
27:53
Speaker 1: We find out yesterday h first via Ken Rosenthal, I believe,
27:58
Speaker 1: and then everybody else had more of their own report,
28:00
Speaker 1: mostly the same reporting. But he gets a three year contract,
28:05
Speaker 1: does Pat Murphy? It is not a three year extension.
28:08
Speaker 1: They rip up this year, so he'll get a significant
28:12
Speaker 1: bump and pay for twenty twenty six, well deserved for
28:16
Speaker 1: the Brewers skipper, but it does seem like he's keeping
28:19
Speaker 1: himself on the same timeline. He's signed a three year deal.
28:21
Speaker 1: Originally this is three years, club option for a fourth.
28:25
Speaker 1: But in all reality, I would assume if he's doing
28:28
Speaker 1: this thing after twenty twenty seven, they might be doing
28:31
Speaker 1: a very very similar thing and changing something up for
28:34
Speaker 1: Pat Murphy because he's definitely earned the money. But it's
28:38
Speaker 1: a quick change, and I don't necessarily know the Brewers
28:41
Speaker 1: were thinking they were going to have one of the
28:42
Speaker 1: highest paid managers in baseball when Craig council left to
28:45
Speaker 1: be the highest paid.
28:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't imagine that was the case. And nothing
28:49
Speaker 2: against Pat Murphy and his abilities, but this has been
28:53
Speaker 2: one of the best starts to a managerial career ever.
28:57
Speaker 2: And you think about where he started, and obviously he
29:00
Speaker 2: had success in college, but it's different at the major
29:02
Speaker 2: league level. He's talked about how different it is at
29:05
Speaker 2: the major league level when you when just the everything,
29:08
Speaker 2: the speed of the game, the the how long the
29:11
Speaker 2: season is, everything like that. It's different at the major
29:13
Speaker 2: league level. And he has transitioned to that top role
29:17
Speaker 2: just perfectly. We talked about this yesterday. I think he's
29:19
Speaker 2: the he's the perfect manager for this market, this team,
29:26
Speaker 2: this town, this state. Just you listen to the forty
29:29
Speaker 2: seconds the Brewer's social team put out a couple of
29:32
Speaker 2: days ago of his opening address to the team, and
29:36
Speaker 2: you listen to those quotes and it's just it encapsulates
29:40
Speaker 2: exactly what as Brewers fans we feel, as you know,
29:44
Speaker 2: people around this state feel, people around the country that
29:47
Speaker 2: our Brewers fans feel. It's you can think about whatever,
29:51
Speaker 2: you can think whatever you want about us, but we
29:54
Speaker 2: if we're together, we can do anything. And that's the
29:56
Speaker 2: mentality he's brought to this team and he's led it
29:59
Speaker 2: to two division titles. And when you lead to two
30:01
Speaker 2: division titles, you get ninety seven wins, you get to
30:03
Speaker 2: the NLCS for the first time in seven years, You
30:06
Speaker 2: take him over the hump of winning a playoff series.
30:08
Speaker 2: He deserved this pay bump. He deserved the extension. I
30:11
Speaker 2: would have been shocked if we would have went into
30:13
Speaker 2: I don't know shocked, but I would have been surprised,
30:15
Speaker 2: pretty stunned. Yeah, if we went into opening day without questions,
30:17
Speaker 2: that's for sure, for sure. If he would not have went,
30:21
Speaker 2: if he would have went into Opening Day without an extension,
30:23
Speaker 2: I think I would have been very surprised. So it
30:25
Speaker 2: makes total sense. You get this done before the first
30:26
Speaker 2: spring training game tomorrow, and we know that Pat Murphy's
30:30
Speaker 2: here to stay. He's talked about if you want if
30:32
Speaker 2: he's going to manage, he wants it to be in Milwaukee.
30:34
Speaker 2: There's no reason the Brewers shouldn't want it on their
30:37
Speaker 2: side as well.
30:38
Speaker 1: And you're exactly right.
30:39
Speaker 2: I think that in basically everybody's mind, this was Ricky
30:44
Speaker 2: Weeks's the associate manager, not just the bench coach. He's
30:47
Speaker 2: the associate manager when they're hired together in twenty twenty four.
30:51
Speaker 2: They did the press conference together in twenty twenty four,
30:54
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden or in what it would
30:57
Speaker 2: have been, I guess the November of twenty three into
31:00
Speaker 2: that twenty twenty four season, and you thought, Okay, Pat
31:03
Speaker 2: Murphy's here for a couple of years, Ricky Weeks learns
31:04
Speaker 2: a little bit under him and most likely is the
31:06
Speaker 2: next manager. Well, Murphy has absolutely taken the league by storm,
31:11
Speaker 2: and there's no reason he shouldn't be the manager for
31:13
Speaker 2: years to go.
31:14
Speaker 1: And not only did this contract signify that that was
31:18
Speaker 1: the change. Yeah, but a couple of months ago when
31:20
Speaker 1: Ricky Weeks left the dugout, like it was pretty clear
31:24
Speaker 1: that there was going to be something different in Arman.
31:25
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know that it was like Ricky Weeks saying, well,
31:28
Speaker 1: get out of here, old man, or otherwise I'm gonna
31:30
Speaker 1: have to go get a new job. Maybe he didn't
31:31
Speaker 1: really maybe realize that he doesn't want to be in
31:33
Speaker 1: the dugout right. I think also guys have gone from
31:36
Speaker 1: the dugout to the front office back down to the dugout.
31:39
Speaker 1: Maybe that can still be the plan for Ricky Weeks.
31:42
Speaker 1: But man plans change when you're the first manager or
31:45
Speaker 1: the only manager outside of like Bobby Cox, to be
31:48
Speaker 1: a consecutive back to back manager of the year. And
31:51
Speaker 1: you know, Bobby Cox was in I think into his
31:53
Speaker 1: sixties when he did that in the mid two thousands.
31:56
Speaker 3: Bobby Cox was a type of guy that you know,
31:58
Speaker 3: probably from the age of thirty five to seventy five,
32:00
Speaker 3: looks sixty five the whole time.
32:02
Speaker 1: Yes, correct, and checked myself to make sure that he
32:04
Speaker 1: was in that range. Also, Bobby Cox, can we give
32:07
Speaker 1: a quick shout out, let's do it still kicking? Yeah,
32:09
Speaker 1: I did give that quick hesitation when I looked at
32:12
Speaker 1: the Wikipedia. I did a lot of that marvel during
32:14
Speaker 1: the Bills playoff, trying to make sure I was trying
32:17
Speaker 1: to make sure I was good podcast.
32:18
Speaker 3: I think I have to agree with that, and I
32:19
Speaker 3: think I read Anna mccalvey on a Reddit ama.
32:22
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken. Yeah, I love what he does.
32:24
Speaker 1: He does Reddit.
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Speaker 3: It's awesome making this suggest so his amas are on Reddit.
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Speaker 3: He was doing some he was answering quack.
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Speaker 1: He does that every once in a while.
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Speaker 2: He'll do lunch, he'll do let's you know, ask me
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Speaker 2: questions on Reddit, uh during over lunch or something, and
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Speaker 2: it's great. You get some great insight into what he's thinking,
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Speaker 2: what the organizations, Adam.
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Speaker 1: I know, it's like, I want to find me up.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to be like but I want to
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Speaker 1: have like my own.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to be like one of the regular
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Speaker 3: Reddit people that just like I want to have a
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Speaker 3: more exclusive access to that. But that's different. That's a
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Speaker 3: different thing because Adams such a cool dude. You want
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Speaker 3: to look like our guy dreaming here on the YouTube
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Speaker 3: comments just all arm and sorry in here?
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Speaker 1: Is that the problem? Absolutely? But I think I mentioned
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to mention. I think he mentioned at
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Speaker 1: one point that he didn't get the.
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Speaker 3: Indication that it was necessarily the original plan, or maybe
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Speaker 3: Ricky's plan to not be in the dugout anymore. But
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Speaker 3: this is just the way it evolved, and that's kind
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Speaker 3: of what you were talking about, Billy. And I don't
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Speaker 3: think anyone expected Murph to have this much success.
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Speaker 1: As a manager.
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Speaker 3: I think we were all hopeful that he'd do a
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Speaker 3: good job, but this much success was was, I think,
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Speaker 3: not what anyone expects.
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Speaker 1: I don't know anybody in their wildest dreams could have
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Speaker 1: thought this. I don't know anybody could have thought that.
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Speaker 1: He grows out of having an associate manager. Where we're
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Speaker 1: all asking, what is that different than the bench coach. Well,
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Speaker 1: it's a lot different. It's something different. It's a lot different.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna help a lot more. You understand how much
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Speaker 1: you guys understand how important this guy's gonna be to me.
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Speaker 1: You guys understand how important his job if the Brewers
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Speaker 1: somehow fall off, are we scared that? Ricky Weeks, I'd
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Speaker 1: like to know, because my man did go from I
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Speaker 1: don't need a bench coach, I need an associate manager. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he is going to grow. We are going to do
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Speaker 1: this thing together, true to the point where now we're
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Speaker 1: walking into twenty twenty six, He's like, I'm pretty good
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Speaker 1: at this pro ball thing. I've gotten to the back
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Speaker 1: to back manager of the years. I don't even need
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Speaker 1: a bench coach, right, all right, I got a hitting coach.
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Speaker 1: I got like fourteen or fourteen hitting coaches. Let's be honest.
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Speaker 1: I got Chris Hook I'll be fine, Like, we don't
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Speaker 1: need anybody else over here, airing over the side. I'm
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Speaker 1: interested to see who actually is the bench coach if
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Speaker 1: Murph gets run and who ends up taking over as
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Speaker 1: the manager, because I thought that was a that's a
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Speaker 1: unique twist where all of a sudden two years ago
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Speaker 1: you're introduced, like you said, side by side with the
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Speaker 1: associate manager to now they put out the super cool
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Speaker 1: graphic with a great Brewer Social team by the way,
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Speaker 1: tremendous Brewers Social team now really good. But as I
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Speaker 1: did so was riping yesterday, bring down, bring down.
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Speaker 3: The music a bit on the mix during the Murph speech.
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Speaker 3: Oh okay, I'll play it here. I'll play it after
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Speaker 3: the break, maybe because we can't get to a break.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's play it. The speeches awesome, they did a
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Speaker 1: great job. But the mix, the mix, come on, that's
35:04
Speaker 1: you know, we can always improve. There could always be
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Speaker 1: somebody that comes in and you know, takes you. It
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Speaker 1: was a fantastic video. I thought it was awesome. I
35:10
Speaker 1: thought it was awesome. But you can always go from
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Speaker 1: really good to great, and maybe there's maybe there's somebody
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Speaker 1: amongst us that can always go from good to great.
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Speaker 1: But like I always wonder, if you see, like all right,
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Speaker 1: I'm good on this. I understand what I'm doing here,
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Speaker 1: and you talked about it Hunter with kind of breaking
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Speaker 1: the norm of managers in pro ball and how different
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Speaker 1: it is. I don't know, and maybe I'm just a
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Speaker 1: maybe this is a little bit too blanket statement. I
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Speaker 1: don't know that Tony v gets the job in San
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Speaker 1: Francisco if Pat Murphy doesn't have the kind of success
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Speaker 1: that he's had so far. H the coach I'm mentioning,
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Speaker 1: was the head coach for the Tennessee Volunteers YEP for
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Speaker 1: a number of years. Quick turn that program into a
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Speaker 1: national title contender, and now he's the manager of the
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Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants. Those jumps didn't really happen before, and
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Speaker 1: Murphy was one of the guys to really take the
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Speaker 1: first leap. However, he was a round pro ball for
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Speaker 1: like a decade, realized how long it is. I do
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Speaker 1: think that's gonna be.
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Speaker 2: A little bit of an adjustment process out there in
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Speaker 2: sanfr I'm fascinating to see how he does in San Francisco.
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Speaker 2: I'm also fascinated by the fact that Pat Murphy, it's
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Speaker 2: it's against the grain type of higher in the fact
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Speaker 2: that in every sport, especially the NFL, right, it's all
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Speaker 2: about the young guy. And in every sport kind of
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Speaker 2: you know, you want to get younger, you want to
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Speaker 2: get new. You know, there's more analytics in every sport,
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Speaker 2: but they went older, and Pat Murphy's seems to be
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Speaker 2: one of the rare, uh you know, older managers that
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Speaker 2: can resonate with players as well as he can. There's
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Speaker 2: not a lot of managers that, I mean, you look
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Speaker 2: at like what Tony LaRusso did in Chicago like that,
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Speaker 2: there is just no need of nothing there that that
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Speaker 2: you obviously just was not resonating as much there falling asleep.
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Speaker 1: Well yeah, and there's there's been just other managers who
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Speaker 1: have just really important spots. Sorry, yeah, no, it's true,
36:58
Speaker 1: but you know it's so.
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Speaker 2: I I think it has been really impressive, not only
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Speaker 2: the winning he's done, but it's been because he's been
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Speaker 2: able to connect with his players so well and just
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Speaker 2: be yeah, just be able to kind of be young.
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Speaker 2: And Jenny and Appleton points out a really good thing
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Speaker 2: that he has young kids, and nothing will keep you
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Speaker 2: feeling young like raising children and being around young players.
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Speaker 2: He's been able to. I think that can only help him.
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Speaker 1: Really honestly, I couldn't agree more with Janey on that point,
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Speaker 1: Like you have, he's got kids that are probably the
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Speaker 1: same as that a lot of the players' kids are,
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Speaker 1: so like that does help in that in growing and
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Speaker 1: continuing to stay young. Listen, he's probably doing the six
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Speaker 1: seven way before any of the players were. True guys,
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Speaker 1: I got this. I'm figuring this stuff out early. I'm
37:42
Speaker 1: on the toc tic, I know what I'm doing. The
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Speaker 1: book face. Oh yeah, he's on snap face. He's ready
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Speaker 1: to roll eight seven, seven, seven, nine four one nine
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Speaker 1: to seven three. And there was a brief moment yesterday
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Speaker 1: where I thought Pat Murphy was going to be making
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Speaker 1: more money a year when I read the initial tweet
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Speaker 1: by Jeff Passing than than Craig Counsel, that highest paid man.
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Speaker 1: Oh that would have put Yeah, it would have been nice.
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Speaker 1: That would have been nice. There was a moment where
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Speaker 1: I was wondering if there was gonna be a significant
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Speaker 1: victory lap.
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Speaker 3: For mister Murphy or mister at Nausio, Like when I
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Speaker 3: want to spend mym no, I wanna spend my money
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Speaker 3: to show you.
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Speaker 1: Craig. Also, good work on Marcottinassio. Nobody, nobody really made
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Speaker 1: a whole lot of conversation when he said we don't
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Speaker 1: talk about contracts. Asked about Pat Murphy's contract, We don't
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Speaker 1: talk about contracts, Well, he might have had something up
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Speaker 1: his sleeve. Pat Murphy again going to be the manager
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Speaker 1: for the Milwaukee Brewers, a new three year contract, not
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Speaker 1: an extension. Becomes one of the highest paid managers in
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Speaker 1: all of baseball. Just shy of nine million dollars in
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Speaker 1: new money well earned for the Brewers. Skipper eight seven
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Speaker 1: seven seven nine four seven three Hunter Bombguard. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: a lot more Brewers because tomorrow the Brewers start games
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Speaker 1: on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: Your first chance to watch Brewers baseball in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 3: Phenomenal thing.
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Speaker 1: And we'll discuss it as we continue to roll forward
38:55
Speaker 1: ton to get to a beautiful Friday in the good Land.
38:58
Speaker 1: Apparently brought a little bit of the weather back from
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Speaker 1: a great Fruit League. I appreciate that although it seems
39:02
Speaker 1: like it might be getting a lot cold, it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be cold this week. It's yeah, don't tell arms like that,
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Speaker 1: Just don't feed. It's till February. And that's fine. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's still the correct. It comes correct at this time
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Speaker 1: of the year and it's still supposed to be.
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Speaker 3: So that the spring you were talking about and got
39:19
Speaker 3: a nice and you gotta appreciate the week for what
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Speaker 3: it was.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna hell of a weekend. Armand Sill be
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Speaker 1: partying with you in the Gin Blossoms and the Milwaukee Admirals.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be partying with you on the huddle. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk to Matt Lapey coming up in the seven o'clock hour.
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Speaker 1: Matt Lapay gonna be in the Milwaukee area coming up
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Speaker 1: this weekend, very very exciting news. We'll get into that
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Speaker 1: one as well. For a road at night. Lot to
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Speaker 1: get to we're already crow barring into our time, last
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Speaker 1: bit of the first hours. Already on the other side,
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Speaker 1: we got a lot of text to get to yours
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Speaker 1: at eight seven seven seven, nine four seven three next
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Speaker 1: on the huddle