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02/23/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Is it.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 3: I'm all for someone huddling if you have something to.
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Speaker 1: Say right into It's.
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Speaker 2: Time to wake up and talk about the teams you love,
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Speaker 2: nobody with the guys you love. It's just about hitting
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Speaker 2: the group together.
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Speaker 3: I need you, you need me today.
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Speaker 4: Let's keep touching each other.
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Speaker 3: Let's make sure we feel each other. Let's make sure
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Speaker 3: we smell each other for.
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Speaker 2: A watch us on YouTube, Facebook and act.
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Speaker 5: You need fifteen or twenty huddles to correlate with a
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Speaker 6: Pick the cameras off the field, and the final.
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Speaker 2: Hubs now gather around because it's time to huddle up
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Speaker 2: West Leftlott. We think we watch stick on one ready
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Speaker 6: Learning with If it looks like man covered, I'll check,
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Speaker 2: What we're trying to get.
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Speaker 6: Is a seal here and a seal here, and to
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Speaker 6: try to run this play in the hour. Let's over.
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Speaker 3: Let's go out a kick and TRACKD what you do
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Speaker 3: heay o, god, yeah and they can play.
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Speaker 2: Be right all the way outside?
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Speaker 7: Why left Banks three ninety sick bag be he see
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Speaker 7: punk is not long enough for.
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Speaker 3: Wanting to be proud of professional.
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Speaker 7: It's a great professional out there and playing this ball
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Speaker 7: game like I know you can play it.
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Speaker 2: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, this man's been out all night. Armand sorry, good,
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Speaker 3: don't get skinny six were ready?
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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on the air.
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Speaker 1: Got yourself again.
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Speaker 7: Let's get after it on this Monday. Good morning, Wisconsin.
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Speaker 7: Welcome into the huddle. Drew Wilson, Billy Schmid, armand sorry
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Speaker 7: and good to be back in the chair after a
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Speaker 7: week on a beach chair. And uh, oh my goodness.
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Speaker 7: Fellas we live in interesting times.
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Speaker 3: Yeah we do.
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Speaker 5: And we also live in the land of the Free,
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Speaker 5: the home of the and the home of gold medal
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Speaker 5: and the home of hockey. The home of hockey. Is
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Speaker 5: beautiful to wake up in the land that dominates this sport.
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Speaker 5: Unlike our sisters to the north.
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Speaker 3: We thought they did it for so many years. What
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Speaker 3: a beautiful morning to be alive. Goodness, Oh my god,
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Speaker 3: Yes we did it. We did it. Won a game,
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Speaker 3: won a match.
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Speaker 6: It was amazing to think, guys, that we sled once
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Speaker 6: in nineteen eighty. I don't know why that kept passing
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Speaker 6: through my mind that I thought for some at some
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Speaker 6: point in the last forty six years we had won
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Speaker 6: the gold in men's hockey and we hadn't, and it.
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Speaker 3: Kept crossing my mind.
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Speaker 6: I finally saw another thing that I hadn't seen in
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Speaker 6: my lifetime sports wise.
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Speaker 3: There it is.
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Speaker 6: And I kept thinking about that, like, you know, how
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Speaker 6: many things are laughed to not see? The Bucks won
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Speaker 6: a title finally, you know, we're all still waiting for
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Speaker 6: the Brewers to win it all. But you know, triple
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Speaker 6: crown was one thing I remember when American Pharaoh first one.
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Speaker 6: I'm like, all right, finally knock that off the list,
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Speaker 6: you know, and this one and in the most dramatic fashion,
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Speaker 6: what a wonderful, wonderful scene that was. What a wonderful
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Speaker 6: morning it was to want someone. It was incredible. It
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Speaker 6: was incredible to be able to see it. And we
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Speaker 6: learned from Jim Nance a couple of Super Bowls ago
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Speaker 6: twenty years a generation so last two generations Arman that
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Speaker 6: that had not seen it yet and to be able
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Speaker 6: to inspire a bunch of young kids with two teeth missing.
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Speaker 6: Did Jack Hughes do that in overtime? And then another
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Speaker 6: one of those beautiful moments where you remember why sports
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Speaker 6: is so sweet and so awesome and the brotherhoods are
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Speaker 6: so great. While they got a road at night playing
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Speaker 6: in the Milwaukee theaters this week over in Brookfield, Matla Payne,
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Speaker 6: Brian Butch, we're over there yet on Saturday as well
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Speaker 6: as Patrick Curbin Company owned Friday Night with a post discussion. Man,
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Speaker 6: you see the Johnny Goudreau moment, Drew is is why
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Speaker 6: we love sports and why we love brotherhood?
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Speaker 7: That was phenomenal, y oh, terrific. Absolutely, it's oh, man,
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Speaker 7: what a roller coaster that was. I spent last week
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Speaker 7: in Mexico.
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Speaker 3: Boys.
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Speaker 7: I was in the lovely city of Puerto Bareto, one
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Speaker 7: of my favorite spots to visit, close fourth or fifth
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Speaker 7: time there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, beautiful, beautiful.
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Speaker 7: And I left on Sat Today afternoon, and I got
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Speaker 7: a call Sunday morning from my cousin who was still there,
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Speaker 7: saying the entire city's on fire.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, good thing he got out.
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Speaker 7: It was a little bit hyperbolic, they were. They put
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Speaker 7: some cars on fire and some buses a couple of
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Speaker 7: gas stations, a bunch of cars in the Costco parking
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Speaker 7: lot where I was just walking around. I wasn't in
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Speaker 7: the Costco. I didn't go to Costco on vacation.
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Speaker 3: Walked past it. You go all the way to vacation
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Speaker 3: to get wrong. It's not wrong, but I meant in town.
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Speaker 3: Maybe don't get her.
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Speaker 7: Started going aundation, but uh, the Olympics were on. Obviously
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Speaker 7: Mexico not a big cauldron of activity for the Winter Games,
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Speaker 7: but they were on everywhere, and I got to see
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Speaker 7: some of the games in passing at bars and during
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Speaker 7: the day, which was cool. But I felt it was
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Speaker 7: a good unplugging for me. Uh to get away, unplugged,
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Speaker 7: be on the beach and then to see how horrific
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Speaker 7: things got within twelve hours of me leaving. It was, Uh,
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Speaker 7: it's insane. I just see like I was just there yesterday.
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Speaker 7: You were the I was there. You got out in time.
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Speaker 7: I got out while I could still use my uh
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Speaker 7: my tsa pre check, although that didn't work in Mexico,
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Speaker 7: but Global Entry was pretty sweet bypassing a line in
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Speaker 7: Chicago at O'Hare, Yeah, that makes it nice. Then I
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Speaker 7: had one of those nights where bad experience, you know,
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Speaker 7: the weather started to screw things up, and shout out
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Speaker 7: to our friends on the East Coast were getting crushed
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Speaker 7: right now enjoying a snow day for the Ages, a
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Speaker 7: historic snowday. Yeah I heard it was three inches per hour. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: they're talking bomb cyclones now. So like Boston, Philly, New
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Speaker 7: York all getting like between one and two feet of snow.
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Speaker 3: I probably should have looked and seen that millions of people.
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Speaker 7: Ben had a truck dra so that's going. But I
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Speaker 7: was going to complain because I had There were some
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Speaker 7: flight cancelations, some delays get into O'Hair and arm, and
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Speaker 7: I know you've.
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Speaker 3: About American airlines. Yeah, I'm so anti.
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Speaker 7: And Doug had problems too, by the way, Oh yeah
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Speaker 7: he had problems with American too. I I'm not one
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Speaker 7: of those guys that reflexibly hates everything about Chicago and
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Speaker 7: considered great council will be a friend of mine.
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Speaker 3: M hm.
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Speaker 6: I have not just sports, you mean like the city, Yeah,
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Speaker 6: the cities, right.
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Speaker 7: It's like the sports seems it's yea arman, you have
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Speaker 7: some ties down there as well. But the one thing
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Speaker 7: I will say that I hate with the fire of
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Speaker 7: a million suns is O'Hare International Airport.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's no pain.
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Speaker 7: And that leg it's always such a worthless leg because
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Speaker 7: it takes you longer to taxi and stuff to fly
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Speaker 7: from Milwaukee to Chicago for then it does to drive right.
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Speaker 7: It's just it's brutal, and I try to avoid whenever possible,
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Speaker 7: connecting through a hair. I just and people, oh, I
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Speaker 7: just go down there and fly direct. Well, that sucks too.
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Speaker 7: I would rather fly through Charlotte anywhere else, right, because
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Speaker 7: that little twenty five minute flight, it's so easy for
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Speaker 7: them to cancel and just blow off.
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Speaker 3: And they did that last on Saturday night.
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Speaker 7: We got we're sitting in a plane and I kind
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Speaker 7: of knew this was going to happen, and they were
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Speaker 7: sitting in the plane finally gonna get home, and like
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Speaker 7: forty minutes, we're just sitting there widling while they're de
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Speaker 7: icing and de icing A second time. A third time
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Speaker 7: guy comes on, Yeah, our our crew just timed out.
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Speaker 7: We have to let you guys know there will be
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Speaker 7: no flight, and then there then they wouldn't There was
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Speaker 7: no mechanism because they had sent the luggage crew home
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Speaker 7: to get the bags out from under the plane. So
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Speaker 7: they're like, you guys can wait like between two and
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Speaker 7: four hours at midnight.
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Speaker 3: O'Hare.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, now we did what a whole bunch of people did.
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Speaker 7: We just caught an uber for one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 7: bucks that once. Yeah, it's brutal right, And so I
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Speaker 7: was gonna bitch about that. Then I wake up to
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Speaker 7: the news that the city I just left.
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Speaker 3: Fire really champagne problem there.
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Speaker 7: People are shelter and place orders, and the airports are
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Speaker 7: closed and people trying to get in or get out
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Speaker 7: were screwed yesterday.
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Speaker 3: And I just thought, well, it could be a lot worse.
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Speaker 3: That could be a lot worse. Yeah, goodness, a lot.
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Speaker 3: Then that's a good you know, it's good though.
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Speaker 6: You get those little lessons sometimes exactly a little perspective,
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Speaker 6: little perspective like it's like if you're you know, if
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Speaker 6: you're jack Us, you know, and you lose all your teeth,
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Speaker 6: you know, but it was worth it, you know, it
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Speaker 6: was worth it, what lost all your teeth to get
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Speaker 6: a gold medal. So it's like, you know, you give
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Speaker 6: something up, you get you get.
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Speaker 3: The life's about sacrificing, and that's about a give and take.
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Speaker 3: Ye and you you ultimately do.
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Speaker 5: But that is definitely a that that that's a tough
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Speaker 5: one and I do believe Drew as we live in
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Speaker 5: this twenty twenty six year of our Lord, that travel
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Speaker 5: plans and travel issues will be will overtake all of
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Speaker 5: health problems. That's as people's number one thing to talk about.
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Speaker 5: Like there it's always uh oh, I went to the
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Speaker 5: doctor to day. Ah, I had to go last week.
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Speaker 5: It was crazy. I had to go. I had three appointments.
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Speaker 5: Nobody even would help me right away in the waiting room.
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Speaker 5: So then I had two prescriptions that I had to
9:42
Speaker 5: go fill. Oh wait, by the way, how was your
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Speaker 5: doctor appointment?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 5: So it would be the first thing you somebody will
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Speaker 5: travel and it'll be like, I hope.
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Speaker 7: You didn't have what happened to me six weeks ago.
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Speaker 7: It is amazing.
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Speaker 5: But as more and more people are doing it and
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Speaker 5: less and less jobs are being occupied in those pace
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Speaker 5: is the more and more difficult it becomes. It also
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Speaker 5: does test human beings because once you walk into an airport,
10:06
Speaker 5: it seems like most people check a lot of their
10:09
Speaker 5: common decency. It's kind of at the door, at those
10:12
Speaker 5: sliding doors, and then a lot of times you see
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Speaker 5: the worst in people, A lot of care airports, Yeah,
10:16
Speaker 5: no doubt about it.
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Speaker 7: So I'm in part of i arts and again it's
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Speaker 7: a lovely city. And I was just saying as we left,
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Speaker 7: it's like, I I feel safer in port of i
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Speaker 7: Arta walking around at any time of day or night
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Speaker 7: than I do in my own neighborhood.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they do have a nice and that was.
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Speaker 7: Because of the cartels, right, because of the cartel, Like
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Speaker 7: they don't want to mess with tourism. They already basically
10:38
Speaker 7: shuttered off a poco. So port of Arta was like
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Speaker 7: in the no touch so but then the thing right
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Speaker 7: when the mob ran, Yeah, they then they killed the
10:45
Speaker 7: kingpin and things went sideways and it's going to be
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Speaker 7: rocky for a while.
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Speaker 3: But I still love Mexico, will still go there. Now.
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Speaker 3: You know who I saw a lot of there? Who
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Speaker 3: our neighbors to the north, Oh Canadians. The joke was
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Speaker 3: take that.
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Speaker 7: The joke was, did I see more Canadians during my
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Speaker 7: week in Porto Arto than Mexicans? It was close close
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Speaker 7: to and they weren't They weren't too thrilled about you know,
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Speaker 7: they were into the curling and they were. They weren't
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Speaker 7: too thrilled about the boys the women's gold medal game.
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Speaker 7: As you can imagine that I was home free yesterday.
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Speaker 7: But and here we go, Tony and Oak Creek on
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Speaker 7: seven seven seven nine four morning boys.
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Speaker 3: It should only be hockey talk all day to day.
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Speaker 7: I don't know about that because I still got to
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Speaker 7: get you guys thoughts because I missed the Rich Bassacia.
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Speaker 7: This dismissal or departure, Yeah, which is an interesting one.
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Speaker 7: Box We got some college hoops talk about.
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Speaker 5: So it's not gonna be all hockey, but it does
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Speaker 5: feel Drew and we talked about it on Friday when
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Speaker 5: we started the show that this could be a turning
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Speaker 5: point for the sport because while we are going to
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Speaker 5: talk about the Bucks and uh, you know, there are
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Speaker 5: stories every single night of people paying thousands and thousands
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Speaker 5: of dollars to go and see their favorite players. Their
11:54
Speaker 5: favorite athletes fly internationally like you did, maybe to go
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Speaker 5: see a Luca and Lebron Lakers Celtics game, and the
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Speaker 5: best players are always sitting And then yesterday you wake
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Speaker 5: up and watch one of the young stars of a sport,
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Speaker 5: get his teeth knocked out in fifteen minutes later, win
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Speaker 5: a gold medal with it with a snipe shot from
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Speaker 5: inside the blue line.
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Speaker 3: Like that is.
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Speaker 5: It feels like hockey has a chance with not only
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Speaker 5: basketball struggling as big time as it as it is
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Speaker 5: right now in the NBA level, Major League Baseball, walking
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Speaker 5: into whatever twenty twenty seven holds for them, Hockey's like, hey,
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Speaker 5: we had our labor issues twenty years ago, we figured
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Speaker 5: ourselves out here in America, and now it's our sport. Yesterday,
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Speaker 5: I bet there is a ton a ton of young
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Speaker 5: fans that grow up wanting to be Olympians because of
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Speaker 5: what those dudes did yesterday in Milan.
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Speaker 7: Oh Billy, I hate to be the wet blanket for you,
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Speaker 7: but the same exact same comments. Had this industry existed
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Speaker 7: in nineteen eighty, we're echoing throughout the planes. Yeah, the
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Speaker 7: fields in nineteen eighty and it was going to be
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Speaker 7: the big, the big moment. It was going to be
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Speaker 7: the big But look at the Youth World Cup. Every
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Speaker 7: four years we get the fee totally different. World Cup
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Speaker 7: Soccer said, finally, look at all these people, Look at
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Speaker 7: all the crowds, of people watching on Brady Street. Look
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Speaker 7: at all the people that are gathered around TVs. This
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Speaker 7: is gonna be a turning point and then it goes
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Speaker 7: away again until the next big event. Yeah, but what
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Speaker 7: do what do those ones have in common? In the eighties,
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Speaker 7: you you know it, no one was playing hockey because
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Speaker 7: no one could afford it, and and the accessibility to it.
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Speaker 3: The amount of ice time wasn't there, weren't that many
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Speaker 3: rings even weren't.
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Speaker 5: Now there's a ton and the amount of high school
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Speaker 5: hockey programs, youth programs that are continuing to roll through,
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Speaker 5: and and soccer is never gonna happen because our best
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Speaker 5: athletes are never going to play the sport. But when
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Speaker 5: you talk about into uh hockey moms and a lot
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Speaker 5: of football moms, I know a lot of people that
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Speaker 5: are thinking hockey is safer game than than football because
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Speaker 5: you don't check until you're into college area, and they
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Speaker 5: take care of kids so much into the development programs.
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Speaker 5: I totally get it, Drew, and we have seen it,
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Speaker 5: and I'm not I'm not gonna say that you're not
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Speaker 5: You're not right idea.
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Speaker 7: The NHL regular season, Like I can't wait to watch
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Speaker 7: San Jose Winnipeg tonight.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, because you're actually gonna see the guys that are playing.
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Speaker 5: I think you're actually gonna see the guys that are playing.
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Speaker 5: I'm like yesterday, the guys that are playing in the NBA.
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Speaker 5: It's the nationalism, it's the jersey.
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Speaker 3: It's like.
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Speaker 5: But they're also now on every night, Drew and again,
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Speaker 5: in my age and the one that you're talking about
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Speaker 5: the last twenty years, they weren't on ESPN because they
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Speaker 5: had no rights deal, they had no TNT Turner deal,
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Speaker 5: and they had no NBC deal until the early twenty.
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Speaker 6: Tens now late nineties, Fox picked up a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean into the two thousands, it was barren.
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Speaker 3: There was none.
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Speaker 5: You wouldn't even see highlights on Sports Center the next
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Speaker 5: day as of the fifteen games that happened the night before.
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Speaker 5: Now they're on national television four nights a week. I mean,
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Speaker 5: like if you want, if you want the ability to
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Speaker 5: watch it, and everybody's gonna have to have the ESPN
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Speaker 5: Plus package you get basically every NHL game. So the
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Speaker 5: accessibility to it is the difference. Where you have appointment viewing,
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Speaker 5: you're gonna be able to watch stars and in right
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Speaker 5: now in the NBA. That is, this year has been
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Speaker 5: so drastically worse than it has been for the first
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Speaker 5: five to the last five to ten years. That with
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Speaker 5: the swing over the last year and a half, I mean,
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Speaker 5: I'm telling you, look out it is there's gonna be
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Speaker 5: a serious swing towards it.
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Speaker 3: I I'm not cheering against hockey. My roots. I covered
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Speaker 3: the admirals, I love the admirals. I love hockey. I
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Speaker 3: appreciate it. I've been watching it for years.
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Speaker 7: The US nineteen eighty victory, all due respect to the
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Speaker 7: lads yesterday remains the single greatest supporting event of my lifetime.
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Speaker 3: Alf will say the same thing when.
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Speaker 7: He comes in here later, because he's an old guy
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Speaker 7: like me. But I just don't see it translating that much.
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Speaker 7: We get this every four years, you get the fever.
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Speaker 5: Not like this, though they haven't won in forty six years,
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Speaker 5: though I know, I.
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Speaker 3: Don't know how, I don't know how long. Okay, So
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Speaker 3: if you.
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Speaker 7: Can say we win this every year, when the game
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Speaker 7: a decade ago, when Crosby scored the golden goal to
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Speaker 7: beat them in overtime, yeah, they had won that game,
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Speaker 7: then it would we'd all be well first, and we're
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Speaker 7: in the midst of how many different programs. I mean,
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Speaker 7: you can talk to Greeny and you can get the
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Speaker 7: actual numbers. I bet there's double the amount of youth
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Speaker 7: hockey programs over the last ten years in the in
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Speaker 7: the southeastern Wisconsin area, let alone the state.
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Speaker 3: I don't know about ten years. It may have doubled
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Speaker 3: in the last thirty. Okay, then then we can.
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Speaker 6: Grown.
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Speaker 3: I mean, like I'm also I.
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Speaker 5: Was in high school fifteen years ago and there were
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Speaker 5: two high school programs around yes Shaw and there are
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Speaker 5: now four different high school conferences. So like, again, I
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Speaker 5: get it, but you you're already seeing it and what
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Speaker 5: starts and what actually gets people's eyes what their kids
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Speaker 5: are watching. And if I'm going to go in here
16:26
Speaker 5: to try to watch Luka Doncic and he's not going
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Speaker 5: to be playing, but I watched Jack Hughes and he's
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Speaker 5: gonna be playing every single night with three teeth mangled out.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's just I get it. But I totally do.
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Speaker 3: But of what happened yesterday and the Jack Huston is
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Speaker 3: a great example because.
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Speaker 5: And you're also talking about a game that was tape delayed.
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Speaker 5: I don't know if we can really be comparing that
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Speaker 5: to something last night or yesterday. What we're also going
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Speaker 5: to be able to see with the amount of coverage
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Speaker 5: that you're getting now, it is going these guys are
16:49
Speaker 5: going to be different stars.
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Speaker 7: It was tape delayed in nineteen eighty, but it also drew,
16:52
Speaker 7: like the biggest audiences of it just dwarfed. What happened,
16:55
Speaker 7: No I know, but then where but where did those
16:57
Speaker 7: guys go then? Like after they were done, they went
17:00
Speaker 7: and played college hockey, which you weren't able to then
17:03
Speaker 7: go that you weren't able to go see Now these
17:05
Speaker 7: guys are going to be playing NHL games three nights
17:07
Speaker 7: a week next week.
17:08
Speaker 3: It was different. It was it was different.
17:10
Speaker 7: They weren't the pros then, and that in some ways
17:12
Speaker 7: that made it sweeter and better that they actually won
17:14
Speaker 7: that Like.
17:15
Speaker 3: This was just this was basically an All Star game.
17:17
Speaker 7: Guys were playing their asses off for their country, no question,
17:20
Speaker 7: which is great. I imagine seeing an NBA All Star
17:22
Speaker 7: Game where guys were that invested. They've tried to do
17:24
Speaker 7: that with the nationalized play that you know, yeah kind
17:27
Speaker 7: of happened in the Olympics, but never that testing. But Again,
17:32
Speaker 7: I'm not rooting against hockey, but I don't think there's
17:34
Speaker 7: gonna be this giant swell of people are into hockey now.
17:37
Speaker 3: It's just it's never it's not you know, you.
17:39
Speaker 6: Know, I don't think it's gonna be a drastic like
17:41
Speaker 6: it's never gonna overtake an NFL. But nothing's going to
17:46
Speaker 6: It's a sliding scale. But I think there is an energy
17:48
Speaker 6: to it.
17:48
Speaker 3: But continue though the Jack Husing.
17:51
Speaker 7: He was almost a goat when he took a penalty
17:52
Speaker 7: in the thirty period.
17:54
Speaker 3: Oh he was almost and I don't mean goat greatest
17:56
Speaker 3: of all the time, I mean guy.
17:57
Speaker 6: Who lost the gold medal, can't go in to buy
17:59
Speaker 6: it was that was not smart, no, And.
18:02
Speaker 7: So yeah, he ended up he ended up sniping and winning.
18:05
Speaker 7: And here's another thing, and this is a hipocrisy test
18:07
Speaker 7: for folks. If you've ever made fun of high level soccer,
18:11
Speaker 7: and the World Cup's coming up this year, hopefully it'll
18:13
Speaker 7: be in Guadalajara, if they can clean up the cartoon stuff. Uh,
18:16
Speaker 7: if you've ever been if you ever watched high level
18:18
Speaker 7: socle soccer, and you've poop pooed the idea that big
18:22
Speaker 7: matches are settled on penalty kicks. You're gonna have to
18:25
Speaker 7: shut the hell up about the three on three because
18:27
Speaker 7: that is and I'm a guy who loves the runner
18:29
Speaker 7: on second, I love this stuff. But that is not
18:32
Speaker 7: the same as what they played, and that is a gimmick.
18:35
Speaker 7: It's like a shootout, a three on three finish to
18:37
Speaker 7: that game. They wouldn't do that. They don't do in
18:39
Speaker 7: the Stanley Cup. They would never do that in the
18:41
Speaker 7: Stanley Cup. And the Canadian side it sounds like sober grapes,
18:44
Speaker 7: but they're not wrong.
18:45
Speaker 3: It is a different game. US did get outplayed for
18:48
Speaker 3: the most of the game.
18:49
Speaker 5: Yeah, the majority of the game, and that's why I
18:51
Speaker 5: think it was even sweater and a bottle and it
18:52
Speaker 5: made it awesome.
18:53
Speaker 7: But that three on three thing is a gimmick and
18:56
Speaker 7: you can't but I think they played an all international player.
18:58
Speaker 3: They can't.
18:59
Speaker 7: Yeah, but you can't dump on penalty kicks in soccer
19:01
Speaker 7: and then say, but this was great because it is
19:03
Speaker 7: kind of the Yeah, and again, maybe we're just running
19:06
Speaker 7: in different circles. I think American people like penalty kicks
19:09
Speaker 7: more than the actual soccer game, Like.
19:11
Speaker 3: I actually think, I actually think penalty kikes is what
19:13
Speaker 3: people enjoy.
19:14
Speaker 5: And that's why I think like again because it will
19:16
Speaker 5: be while the World Cup does this every single year
19:18
Speaker 5: and it always runs through. Yeah, but it's still so
19:21
Speaker 5: much slower, right, like attention span for me from I understand,
19:26
Speaker 5: like the strategy part very much similar, right yeah, not
19:29
Speaker 5: just a goal slice the amount of people in half,
19:31
Speaker 5: but the intensity and the quickness and the speed of
19:34
Speaker 5: it is just so much different for our attention span
19:38
Speaker 5: right now compared to soccer, where again I like, it
19:42
Speaker 5: is gimmicky, and it was. It was wild. It was
19:44
Speaker 5: definitely crazy to see how quickly they fly. I think
19:46
Speaker 5: it's only five minutes in NHL overtimes for three on
19:49
Speaker 5: three compared to the twenty that they were set to
19:51
Speaker 5: play yesterday for.
19:53
Speaker 6: But it makes it a lot of fun to watch,
19:55
Speaker 6: if you guys the top, it's still you know, to me, it's.
19:58
Speaker 7: Very similar to the putting the runner at Secon can
20:00
Speaker 7: accelerate things because nobody needs a fifteen inning game, and
20:02
Speaker 7: with TV, they don't need hockey games that stretch out
20:06
Speaker 7: and delay the other programming.
20:08
Speaker 3: Right It's like they don't need They want to keep
20:09
Speaker 3: it containing and there's a constant scoring threat.
20:13
Speaker 7: But it is a bastardization. And I'm just saying, be consistent.
20:16
Speaker 7: Agree because the same people who say, what a joke.
20:19
Speaker 7: You play for three hours and then it's penalty kicks.
20:21
Speaker 7: What do we have a best basketball game where we
20:22
Speaker 7: have a three point contract to subtle instead overtime? That's
20:25
Speaker 7: a joke. Those same people got to check themselves because
20:28
Speaker 7: that was different too. That's that's what I'm saying.
20:31
Speaker 5: I mean consistent, Yeah, I mean, I'm listen, I'll be
20:33
Speaker 5: consistent it this way. I think that I think the
20:35
Speaker 5: NFL needs to adop one like I mean, after we
20:37
Speaker 5: we can't have the forty forty game in Dallas. Now,
20:40
Speaker 5: we would have lost, right, we had no chance in
20:42
Speaker 5: this one field goal kickoff. I mean, you you start
20:46
Speaker 5: three kicks from the fifty five, however met much of
20:49
Speaker 5: your netting boom.
20:50
Speaker 3: We're backing it up to the six one.
20:52
Speaker 6: We need to. We can't be having these games. What
20:55
Speaker 6: about five two point conversions? I mean they're sort of
20:57
Speaker 6: like that in college and when you get to the
21:00
Speaker 6: you know, the two points, it's the sudden posion one.
21:03
Speaker 6: Now the coaches, though Arman will say, we only have
21:06
Speaker 6: like four two plays well, develop some more.
21:08
Speaker 3: We can't you know, so much time. We only have
21:12
Speaker 3: so much time.
21:13
Speaker 5: That's why I think the game that is not settled
21:15
Speaker 5: by kickers as much. Again, like hockey, how many one
21:18
Speaker 5: on one breakaways do you get? Maybe two in a game,
21:21
Speaker 5: maybe three in a game that decides it? Penalty kicks
21:24
Speaker 5: do you maybe see one in any single game? Then
21:27
Speaker 5: we line it up with sixty yard field goals and
21:29
Speaker 5: that decides that.
21:30
Speaker 3: That's why I don't have a problem with.
21:31
Speaker 6: It, because at some point every game has to come
21:33
Speaker 6: down to something like that, and you could acknowledge that,
21:36
Speaker 6: like you might not see the best, Like the debate
21:40
Speaker 6: would be, well, are you deciding what team is better
21:42
Speaker 6: based on that?
21:43
Speaker 3: No, But that's how sports goes.
21:44
Speaker 6: Sometimes it becomes a coin flip type situation, and that's
21:47
Speaker 6: just the way it goes. And that's what decides a champion.
21:50
Speaker 6: I mean, if you're just gonna you know, is it
21:52
Speaker 6: not boxing? We don't vote at the end of the
21:54
Speaker 6: game will wins you know, well or college foot some
21:57
Speaker 6: sports like you know.
21:58
Speaker 3: Figure skating and stuff.
22:00
Speaker 6: Yeah, which is can be corrupt, But that's the reason
22:03
Speaker 6: we do these things right, is because side on the
22:05
Speaker 6: field and especially with soccer. You had to do it
22:08
Speaker 6: at some point because scoring is so rare.
22:10
Speaker 7: So eight seven seven seven three. You guys are gonna
22:14
Speaker 7: have to catch me up on everything I missed locally
22:16
Speaker 7: last week. I did watch some basketball yesterday, thankfully the
22:19
Speaker 7: Badgers were on up against the Bucks.
22:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, at least there was there was one good one. Yeah,
22:23
Speaker 3: nice second half too.
22:24
Speaker 7: I didn't get to I watched the Brewers for about
22:26
Speaker 7: an inning on my phone because I didn't know where
22:28
Speaker 7: else to find it. We'll talk about that as we
22:31
Speaker 7: move forward as well. We're gonna have some fun today.
22:34
Speaker 7: Dolphins gonna join us. We're gonna do some game balls
22:37
Speaker 7: and kicks to the balls because that's the way we rolled.
22:39
Speaker 7: It's good to be back in the saddle, Tan, rested
22:42
Speaker 7: and almost ready to take on a Monday with you smart,
22:45
Speaker 7: good looking early Risers. It's the Huddle on Fox Sports
22:48
Speaker 7: Radio Wisconsin.
22:58
Speaker 3: Monday Edition.
22:59
Speaker 7: Let's get after shaking off the rust after a week off,
23:02
Speaker 7: Baby Taco's in Tequila. Nothing better than sun and again
23:07
Speaker 7: again check yourself, because you know Mexico isn't just run
23:10
Speaker 7: by cartels an awful. I had a great week in
23:13
Speaker 7: Port of Arton, one most beautiful cities. I love it there,
23:15
Speaker 7: the people of food. My cousin's been going there for
23:17
Speaker 7: like twenty five thirty years. He has like a PhD
23:20
Speaker 7: in PV, he likes to say, and he was a
23:22
Speaker 7: great tour guide. My boy Johnny Vegas was down there
23:25
Speaker 7: with his lovely wife. They're still hunkered down, nice hope,
23:27
Speaker 7: hoping the best for them. But it was an unbelievable,
23:30
Speaker 7: incredible week. And then we come home and find out
23:31
Speaker 7: that it's melting down over there line and no, no
23:35
Speaker 7: hoa police over in U over in ports of I.
23:38
Speaker 3: Arthur, Yeah, you missed that. You missed that situation that
23:41
Speaker 3: we saw last week. It's gonna have to catch me
23:43
Speaker 3: up on all of that, well everything.
23:45
Speaker 5: It was Tuesday and we we opened up the show
23:47
Speaker 5: from the Hills down in Fort Myers as uh is.
23:51
Speaker 5: Then we encountered Del Boca Vista. Well just wait because Jack,
23:58
Speaker 5: because as all the sad and I started realizing that
24:01
Speaker 5: there was somebody yelling at me. It wasn't Armine trying
24:04
Speaker 5: to yell through a talk back into my ear. It
24:06
Speaker 5: was a gray haired buddy down to my right who
24:10
Speaker 5: had caught somehow gotten some kind of a pool noodle
24:13
Speaker 5: or a rake or something, and had gotten a couple
24:15
Speaker 5: of rattles in on the cage as I'm outside on
24:18
Speaker 5: my parents' little Lenai patio out in Florida. Because it's great, right,
24:21
Speaker 5: you have to have the screened in porch. I think
24:23
Speaker 5: that's a low almost a prerequisite. So that's where I
24:27
Speaker 5: decided that we do it and keep the kids sleep
24:29
Speaker 5: and everything trying you.
24:31
Speaker 3: Doing all day all complex up down.
24:36
Speaker 1: This ball.
24:36
Speaker 3: You do your day yesterday and now you're doing that.
24:39
Speaker 5: Guy, No, not going up in gold die gold die.
24:44
Speaker 3: Wow. Okay, buddy, let's calm down. We'll be okay.
24:49
Speaker 5: I gave my thumbs up through then uh, I realized
24:53
Speaker 5: that for the next hour and a half, uh, my
24:55
Speaker 5: security detail, which was my parents, my father was running
24:59
Speaker 5: a lot of interference back and forth to be able
25:01
Speaker 5: to make sure our Tuesday show was able to finish.
25:04
Speaker 5: We then had a slight hearing that potentially settled of
25:09
Speaker 5: h o A court on Tuesday afternoon.
25:12
Speaker 3: Yeah.
25:12
Speaker 5: That then relocated our program on on Wednesday to a
25:17
Speaker 5: to a very public area into their little clubhouse commons.
25:20
Speaker 5: We were able to settle things down. We did have
25:22
Speaker 5: security detail all of Wednesday because there could have been
25:25
Speaker 5: something that potentially went down.
25:27
Speaker 3: We flared, We flared some stuff up on Tuesday.
25:29
Speaker 5: We got we got into some into some stuff in
25:32
Speaker 5: Florida that we did not antipillate.
25:34
Speaker 8: We were going to so everybody of the community down there,
25:37
Speaker 8: everybody at the village's got to experience what we did
25:39
Speaker 8: at the flophouses at the draft when they fired up
25:42
Speaker 8: the mics at five point fifty facing game and.
25:44
Speaker 5: I didn't rip any share I got, didn't I didn't
25:47
Speaker 5: rip any of those vocal ones out.
25:49
Speaker 3: But apparently they didn't like our version of game Balls
25:51
Speaker 3: and Kicks in the.
25:52
Speaker 6: Ball Billy was really fighting it and we got through it, Billy, thankfully.
25:57
Speaker 6: And then it's amazing the fact that you didn't prove
25:59
Speaker 6: backdrops say that down to the common area.
26:02
Speaker 7: I'll give it because you know we're gonna debut game
26:05
Speaker 7: Balls and Kicks after six o'clock. But I will give
26:08
Speaker 7: the first game ball the day to you guys, because
26:09
Speaker 7: I have a show to come back to. Thank you
26:11
Speaker 7: for keeping it between the ditches, and to uh Hunter
26:14
Speaker 7: Bombguard for sitting in. First guy ever to host a
26:16
Speaker 7: show where he voiced the open and then got to
26:19
Speaker 7: got to sit in.
26:19
Speaker 3: As a host.
26:20
Speaker 7: So young Hunter getting some stretch and I guess Letty
26:23
Speaker 7: said in while you were flying one day, so Letty
26:25
Speaker 7: gets a pass today.
26:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, Letty came in. On Thursday, Hunter actually broke some
26:28
Speaker 5: news dust. That was the first time he's done the
26:30
Speaker 5: morning show in radio in his illustrious careerly car like
26:34
Speaker 5: we It made sense that he hadn't done it here
26:37
Speaker 5: because he wouldn't getting off the afternoons right like he did.
26:40
Speaker 3: There was gonna be some serious problems.
26:42
Speaker 5: But like it once he I had figured in the
26:45
Speaker 5: UWL days, I thought that he had got there.
26:47
Speaker 3: I thought some of his lacrosse days he didn't know.
26:50
Speaker 5: That was the earliest rise for Hunter, and he rose
26:52
Speaker 5: to the occasion, not only waking up with every us
26:55
Speaker 5: every single day, then also during the week hosting the
26:59
Speaker 5: Hunter Bomb Guard Show on I believe.
27:01
Speaker 3: Tuesday Night with the Brewers News Army. Was that Tuesday
27:03
Speaker 3: or Wednesday night? I'm trying to think Tuesday nights.
27:06
Speaker 5: Hunter went live for about an hour hour fifteen minutes,
27:09
Speaker 5: dropped a little bit of Brewers knowledge.
27:10
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was phenomenal for so I go away, Murph
27:13
Speaker 7: gets extended. No shock there, Bisacia Leaves shocking only because
27:16
Speaker 7: of the timing we talk about right, all of that
27:19
Speaker 7: as we move forward eight seven seven, seven nine three.
27:23
Speaker 7: Since he's awake and wants to talk to us, Thomas
27:26
Speaker 7: and Lacrosse is on the nicolay Law dot com talk
27:29
Speaker 7: and text line. Thomas, welcome, thomasod morning fellas.
27:34
Speaker 4: Drew welcome back.
27:35
Speaker 3: Thank you sir.
27:38
Speaker 2: How how was that beautiful?
27:40
Speaker 4: Humidity?
27:42
Speaker 3: Wasn't humid? Eighty five degrees? Perfection? I was? I could not.
27:48
Speaker 7: You had it right. It was perfect walking around at night.
27:50
Speaker 7: The weather was perfect. You could wear our long sleeves
27:52
Speaker 7: if you wanted to. You could be comfortable in pants
27:54
Speaker 7: if you wanted to. But shorts was for us Jesus perfect. Yes,
27:57
Speaker 7: it was perfect. That's the perfect vacation. It's like, yeah,
28:01
Speaker 7: eighty five during the day and sixty seven at night
28:04
Speaker 7: at night, perfection.
28:05
Speaker 3: I just yes, highly recommend Thomas.
28:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, weller, I got you. First off, I
28:13
Speaker 4: want to say, you'd probably want to be down in
28:15
Speaker 4: the Cayman Islands where my parents are right now. It
28:18
Speaker 4: is eighty two degrees down there with a UV of
28:21
Speaker 4: ten as well.
28:22
Speaker 3: I got island the Cayman's three times. Actually, yes, indeed, yeah. Oh,
28:29
Speaker 3: I'd love to go down one some day.
28:31
Speaker 4: But anyway, Yeah, so obviously the Olympics, huge congrats by
28:35
Speaker 4: the way to the USA men's hockey team for winning goals.
28:39
Speaker 4: And here is my strong hot tape you got you
28:42
Speaker 4: could call it hot tape Thomas.
28:43
Speaker 7: Here.
28:44
Speaker 4: I believe personally that King USA. Yeah, this could be
28:48
Speaker 4: my new on Eric name too, if we want King
28:50
Speaker 4: USA winning hockey goal. I feel like it's really more
28:53
Speaker 4: than a trophy that incomp encompasses it, right, It really
28:57
Speaker 4: I think brought America together when we needed it most
29:01
Speaker 4: and it gave really.
29:04
Speaker 3: Us a true moment, no doubt. It was a moment
29:08
Speaker 3: we share.
29:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, obviously we have the Mikaila you know,
29:12
Speaker 4: Shiffern gold medal, we had Arm. I mean I talked
29:17
Speaker 4: with y'all Thursday, remember about a lot of Taylor's Meyer.
29:21
Speaker 6: Great accomplishment, but Momo Bob just doesn't pale in comparison
29:25
Speaker 6: to what the energy is for for.
29:26
Speaker 3: Hockey at the Olympics.
29:28
Speaker 6: Well, it doesn't diminish the accomplishment, but you're absolutely real, right, Arm, and.
29:31
Speaker 5: It doesn't diminish it, but it is a little bit
29:33
Speaker 5: different the team aspect of it.
29:35
Speaker 3: In something that we watched, Thomas. I totally agree with you, man.
29:37
Speaker 5: I couldn't agree with you more that the fact that
29:39
Speaker 5: it gives somebody and appreciate it, brother, because it gives,
29:42
Speaker 5: it gives something to a pinpoint moment. Now again, does
29:46
Speaker 5: it mean that all of a sudden, the twelve million
29:49
Speaker 5: kids that we're gonna start playing football, eleven million of
29:52
Speaker 5: them to say, you know what, I don't want to
29:55
Speaker 5: be Aaron Donald or Joe Burrow anymore. You know what
29:57
Speaker 5: I don't I don't want to Lamar Maxson. I'll want
30:00
Speaker 5: to be Jack Eichel. I know that's not happening. However,
30:04
Speaker 5: from the do we then coerce our dad to figure
30:08
Speaker 5: out how to freeze up the backyard concrete slab, which
30:13
Speaker 5: you know, if this was four years later, I could
30:15
Speaker 5: already believe that I would have been figuring out a
30:17
Speaker 5: way to ice up the slab in the backyard because
30:20
Speaker 5: Hars was dialed in. We were hitting with the little
30:23
Speaker 5: Franklin hockey net yesterday. I was taking some definite slashing penalties.
30:28
Speaker 5: I was getting slashed quite a bit by the moment.
30:31
Speaker 5: Really unfair, however, like if indeed it.
30:35
Speaker 7: Just draws a number of them to a sport that
30:38
Speaker 7: already is growing significantly in population and popularity with the youngsters.
30:44
Speaker 5: I think it's a big one. But I also would
30:45
Speaker 5: say this, Drew, and I wonder if this is a
30:47
Speaker 5: part of it as well. The US women's hockey team
30:50
Speaker 5: does just about as much now. They have dominated the sport, right.
30:54
Speaker 5: They're phenomenal. So you knew that you expected them a
30:57
Speaker 5: lot more. You hoped with the US men's that they
31:00
Speaker 5: would be there. You didn't necessarily expect, and frankly, because
31:03
Speaker 5: they weren't necessarily the better team for the entire sixty
31:05
Speaker 5: plus minutes yesterday, maybe throughout the game, didn't expect they
31:08
Speaker 5: were gonna win the game. But seeing those stars and
31:13
Speaker 5: them become superstars to a next generation, that's what rolls
31:17
Speaker 5: with it. And maybe it was. Maybe it was a
31:19
Speaker 5: great Thard moment. I hope everybody woke up for it.
31:21
Speaker 5: I know I did.
31:22
Speaker 7: Now.
31:22
Speaker 5: Granted that also might have been the morning show in
31:24
Speaker 5: me that had me up at four forty five.
31:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, it worked out.
31:27
Speaker 5: But I went out there on Matt Collins, did I
31:29
Speaker 5: put my feet on the bear grass, screamed out America
31:32
Speaker 5: at five in the morning, And I was right to roll.
31:34
Speaker 3: It was.
31:34
Speaker 5: It was an exciting, exciting day yesterday to have the Red,
31:38
Speaker 5: white and Blue rolling.
31:38
Speaker 7: Here's one for you, billy. What's a bigger injection of
31:42
Speaker 7: energy into hockey? What happened yesterday? And I'm not forgetting
31:45
Speaker 7: the women, Thomas. I think forgot to shout out the women.
31:49
Speaker 7: He meant too though he was he was wrong, he
31:50
Speaker 7: meant he was probably next. Yeah, I might say that
31:55
Speaker 7: in some circles, the massive hit that is heated rivalry
32:02
Speaker 7: is helping soccer as much as Yeah, people's eyes to hockey,
32:11
Speaker 7: you know.
32:12
Speaker 6: Yeah, Friday night at the Admirals game, they had Hockey
32:14
Speaker 6: Romance Night.
32:15
Speaker 3: It was like that was the promotion.
32:18
Speaker 6: There were so many and I'm gonna just say it,
32:21
Speaker 6: there were so many middle aged.
32:22
Speaker 3: Females at that game.
32:23
Speaker 6: I could not believe my eyes that were lined up
32:26
Speaker 6: to meet authors to talk, you know, about the books.
32:29
Speaker 3: It was Romance novel night.
32:30
Speaker 6: There were sections sections full of people. It was incredibly
32:33
Speaker 6: long lines and energy to go. So that that there
32:36
Speaker 6: is an aspect of that too. I mean no doubt.
32:38
Speaker 6: My my wife's been watching the show and she's you know,
32:42
Speaker 6: like mentioned hockey because of it. So there's an aspect
32:44
Speaker 6: of that as well.
32:45
Speaker 3: And you're right.
32:46
Speaker 7: I mean, I think there's a Danielle Steele books there,
32:49
Speaker 7: you know, with a little.
32:52
Speaker 6: Romance, and there's an aspect of whatever kind of demographic
32:56
Speaker 6: or you know, strata of society or whatever you are,
33:00
Speaker 6: there is an aspect that you can glom onto when
33:03
Speaker 6: something like this happens. You mentioned the kids. How many
33:05
Speaker 6: kids are gonna get in trouble today for trying to
33:07
Speaker 6: flood their backyards with dad's hose to try and make
33:09
Speaker 6: an ice skating rink?
33:10
Speaker 3: How many?
33:11
Speaker 6: You know, Like you said, maybe it's middle aged reading
33:13
Speaker 6: the romance novels or something like that. You know, there's
33:16
Speaker 6: an aspect of that, or someone that never watched hockey
33:18
Speaker 6: before saying, well, this guy lost his teeth. It might
33:21
Speaker 6: be just something as little as that, but the imagery
33:23
Speaker 6: is there, the energy's there, and then you have the
33:25
Speaker 6: moment of the overtime goal.
33:27
Speaker 5: The only thing that could be better for the NHL
33:29
Speaker 5: is their playoffs start like tomorrow because their playoffs are
33:32
Speaker 5: very very good.
33:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, Like, they sadly have a.
33:34
Speaker 5: Month and a half until they get to the playoffs,
33:37
Speaker 5: or almost two months until they get to the playoffs, but again,
33:39
Speaker 5: it's just the accessibility of it.
33:40
Speaker 7: It's the amount of time that you have to watch.
33:43
Speaker 7: And I keep going back to the NBA because I'm
33:46
Speaker 7: such a fan of the league and it is so
33:48
Speaker 7: frustrating what they're doing to the league we love. Every
33:52
Speaker 7: single night, the question is who am I going to watch?
33:56
Speaker 5: And then yesterday there's Sunday night basketball, which is supposed
33:59
Speaker 5: to be a benchmark time, and you're like, well, sweet, okay,
34:02
Speaker 5: Like it's a it's a good game, it's it's okay
34:04
Speaker 5: and some of the guys rolling, But it's just like
34:06
Speaker 5: the night in and night out drama. I hope that
34:10
Speaker 5: hockey's able to capitalize on it, because you're never going
34:12
Speaker 5: to be able to manufacture Drew, Like you said, though,
34:15
Speaker 5: the actual disdain there was between the Canadians and the
34:18
Speaker 5: Americans yesterday, Like you can't manufacture that as much as
34:22
Speaker 5: maybe the Devils and Rangers don't like each other, as
34:24
Speaker 5: much as maybe maybe the Predators and Blackhawks don't fairly dive.
34:29
Speaker 5: Playing for country is different that patriotism yesterday, that stuff.
34:32
Speaker 7: Playing for the country was awesome to give a witness
34:35
Speaker 7: now to the NBA. I heard this rolling in today
34:38
Speaker 7: to the Megaplex Portland Traiveblayers scored a season low. They
34:42
Speaker 7: were held to their season low last night yesterday at
34:46
Speaker 7: the Crypto or whatever arena in Phoenix. They scored ninety
34:50
Speaker 7: two points, a season low. First of all, to go
34:51
Speaker 7: the whole season in ninety two is your low? Yeah,
34:53
Speaker 7: that's at this point you used to be in the seventies.
34:55
Speaker 7: It's pretty crazy solid. Yeah, but they were held to
34:58
Speaker 7: their season low ninety two points and still crushed Phoenix
35:02
Speaker 7: to seventy seven.
35:03
Speaker 3: And you're singing, wow, they got roundhoused last night.
35:06
Speaker 7: This is a team that's under five hundred and they
35:08
Speaker 7: don't score less than ninety two. I don't pay a
35:10
Speaker 7: lot of attention to the Blazers. I love Drew Holliday,
35:12
Speaker 7: but that Left Coast. Can't say I'm watching them a lot.
35:16
Speaker 7: I watched the Blazers about as much as I watched
35:18
Speaker 7: the Winnipeg Jets. But for them to score ninety two,
35:21
Speaker 7: have that be a season low and still win going away?
35:24
Speaker 7: Oh my, by the way, the Bucks game was just
35:25
Speaker 7: abominable yesterday.
35:27
Speaker 3: Horrible. Yeah, they got they got, they got wrecked over there.
35:29
Speaker 3: They got wrecked. The winning.
35:33
Speaker 5: Six eight though, right and one in one sense, the
35:36
Speaker 5: all start screech and and you're right, Billy, and that's
35:39
Speaker 5: just another thing.
35:40
Speaker 7: And I hate to be the wet blanket, but uh
35:43
Speaker 7: now we do have to wait for the Stanley Cup.
35:44
Speaker 3: And will there be an uptick. I'm gonna bet the under,
35:47
Speaker 3: but it'll it'll help.
35:49
Speaker 7: But the idea that hockey's gonna like take over and
35:52
Speaker 7: like stake acclaim because of this. I heard that before.
35:56
Speaker 7: I heard Dippin' Dots is the ice cream of the future.
35:58
Speaker 7: I heard soccer, every every world Yeah, every World Cup.
36:01
Speaker 3: Soccer is gonna be huge. Look at the numbers, Look
36:02
Speaker 3: at the participation. By the way, your kids.
36:04
Speaker 7: Got to play soccer, because it's the law, both of
36:06
Speaker 7: you guys, your kids gotta be Yeah, and I just there.
36:09
Speaker 7: It's the gateway to a lot of other sports. It's
36:11
Speaker 7: good for footwork, good for conditioning.
36:13
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe it's just because I'm with the admirals and
36:15
Speaker 5: I see I see the amount of youth that are
36:18
Speaker 5: already playing it and rolling through like there's always gonna
36:21
Speaker 5: be soccer clubs, there's always going to be excite. At
36:24
Speaker 5: no point are the best eight nine ten year old
36:29
Speaker 5: athletes in America saying you know who I really want
36:31
Speaker 5: to be is a soccer player. I really want to
36:34
Speaker 5: be in Bape. No, they're saying I want to be
36:37
Speaker 5: Joe Burrow, I want to be Lamar Jackson. But if
36:39
Speaker 5: five of them are saying I want to be Jack
36:41
Speaker 5: Hughes after yesterday, I said.
36:42
Speaker 3: That's a little bit of a different.
36:43
Speaker 7: I see a lot of kids like they're the Premier League,
36:46
Speaker 7: the access to the Premier League and to the international stuff,
36:48
Speaker 7: and we start getting more Americans Antonio Freeman's son, you
36:51
Speaker 7: know the lineage some of an NFL player now playing internationally.
36:55
Speaker 3: True part of the US.
36:56
Speaker 5: National always going to be some, there's always going to
36:58
Speaker 5: be a few, there will be, But this one, this
37:00
Speaker 5: one's different, especially the way the sports around it occupy.
37:04
Speaker 7: I think about the thing about hockey is like I
37:06
Speaker 7: can go from soccer to playing football or basketball.
37:09
Speaker 3: Right, It's that skating is a gay things. Skating. Skating,
37:13
Speaker 3: that's the one thing. It's the thing. This is the skating.
37:16
Speaker 7: Not everyone has skates and not every and if you're
37:18
Speaker 7: not skating as a little kid, the idea that you're
37:20
Speaker 7: gonna pick it up at twelve.
37:22
Speaker 5: But again and again that that's where that's where That's
37:25
Speaker 5: where the whole conversation goes to, There's there's so many
37:28
Speaker 5: more rinks now, there's so many more places for you
37:31
Speaker 5: to go compared to just the Petit Center when you're
37:33
Speaker 5: talking about it.
37:34
Speaker 3: In the eighties.
37:34
Speaker 7: Sure, in Madison Is or Wilson Parks. I've always been
37:37
Speaker 7: a hotbed for Badger hockey and and uh.
37:41
Speaker 3: I I totally, I totally don't. I don't don't make
37:43
Speaker 3: me do this.
37:44
Speaker 5: I don't think we can compare professionals on skates in
37:48
Speaker 5: playing for the USA to to Badger hockey, Like I don't,
37:50
Speaker 5: I don't, I don't Badger hockey.
37:53
Speaker 3: Right, I went through that when I was covering the Admirals.
37:56
Speaker 3: I would tell you I'd go to bed. Everybody's all
37:57
Speaker 3: fired up at badgery.
37:58
Speaker 7: And I'm like, oh, this is slower and not as good,
38:00
Speaker 7: And yeah, most of these guys couldn't play. And this
38:03
Speaker 7: was back in the International Hockey League days. The age,
38:06
Speaker 7: and that's the part of it, Like the skill is
38:08
Speaker 7: so much better now, like the absence are so much question.
38:10
Speaker 7: But I just mean, in terms of youth hockey, is
38:14
Speaker 7: it gonna is the there're gonna be an uptick in
38:16
Speaker 7: medicine that's already got a vibrant youth hockey community.
38:19
Speaker 3: Will there be I think there will be. Yeah, Billy,
38:22
Speaker 3: I hate to be the wet blank.
38:23
Speaker 5: No, that's fine, you've seen it, you know way more.
38:26
Speaker 5: We'll see if it happens.
38:27
Speaker 6: Well, I think, well, I think just to just to
38:29
Speaker 6: throw my two cents in before break. I think you'll
38:31
Speaker 6: see a bump. Question is how much and how will
38:33
Speaker 6: it's the same, But you'll see a bump.
38:35
Speaker 3: You know this, But what is our barometer going to be?
38:38
Speaker 3: The NFL? No, there are any kids too?
38:40
Speaker 7: Now, are there any kids who like, don't want to
38:42
Speaker 7: muck it up in the corners but want to be
38:44
Speaker 7: Jordan Stoltz. That's a good queen, you know, because what
38:48
Speaker 7: is figure skating going to see an uptick a surge?
38:50
Speaker 7: Because every we have these we have these conversations, but
38:54
Speaker 7: you also get to do it with your friends.
38:56
Speaker 5: And you can't do those with your friends, right, Like
38:58
Speaker 5: I can go and practice my might double axel or whatever,
39:02
Speaker 5: or we can skate a five hundred. You can't do that,
39:05
Speaker 5: Like you can play in hockey with your boys.
39:07
Speaker 6: But I heard Jenz doesn't play outside of the people
39:09
Speaker 6: on any more than neighborhood.
39:10
Speaker 3: So maybe I don't that's true. I don't know. I
39:12
Speaker 3: think they still do. I hope at least please absolutely please.
39:15
Speaker 7: Game balls and kicks. The ball is gonna fire up
39:17
Speaker 7: after six. Dolph is going to be here at halftime
39:19
Speaker 7: at six thirty. We'll get his thoughts on all this.
39:22
Speaker 7: Got to catch me up on you guys. I want
39:24
Speaker 7: to put a quarter and so you can give me
39:25
Speaker 7: your greatest hits about Bisacia's departure. Gonna talk Brewers because
39:29
Speaker 7: they're in camp. They're rolling. Although this is a weird
39:31
Speaker 7: because the World Baseball Classic is gonna take some guys
39:33
Speaker 7: away from camp.
39:35
Speaker 3: Be a good opportunity. Oh sorry, Joey Orgius said that?
39:39
Speaker 3: Who said that?
39:39
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40:04
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40:06
Speaker 5: Tommy and Sun Prairie is still hard to get into
40:07
Speaker 5: hockey without an NHL team in the area, spending twelve
40:11
Speaker 5: plus hours in ice rinks across the state every weekend
40:13
Speaker 5: for youth hockey. No thanks, probably steering my kids away
40:16
Speaker 5: from that. Will prefer to be outside watching youth baseball
40:19
Speaker 5: in summer months as my kids grow up.
40:21
Speaker 3: Well, that would be one of the two. I like,
40:23
Speaker 3: I I uh.
40:24
Speaker 5: And again, I think they're I think they're different, right,
40:26
Speaker 5: because I believe one plays in the summer.
40:28
Speaker 3: One would play the way I was gonna say, you
40:29
Speaker 3: can't sit don't you could do both? I think you
40:32
Speaker 3: could probably play both. I'm just gonna say, can't you
40:35
Speaker 3: do both in the summer.
40:36
Speaker 5: It's either that or a screaming gym with uh, I mean,
40:38
Speaker 5: I don't know, like with dance or volleyball. With basketball,
40:43
Speaker 5: most likely you're gonna be doing something on a bench
40:45
Speaker 5: for something twelve hours.
40:46
Speaker 3: Ask people who spend a lot of time in pools.
40:49
Speaker 6: Yeah right, parents. Also, either way, all you're hearing is whistles.
40:54
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, got a lot more human too. And either
40:57
Speaker 6: way will be expensive. That's just the reason it, no doubt,
41:00
Speaker 6: And either way, you'll be traveling to like Cincinnati and
41:03
Speaker 6: Louisville and tim bucktoo, to go to play the team
41:06
Speaker 6: from down the street.
41:06
Speaker 3: You've never been to Albuquerque more now, I think sports.
41:09
Speaker 6: Don't get me started on that, you know. So it's
41:12
Speaker 6: all what usually it's gonna be, he says, what he's
41:14
Speaker 6: steering away. It's gonna end up being what your child likes,
41:16
Speaker 6: or what you know is accessible to them, or what
41:18
Speaker 6: they end up playing. But it might be both. I
41:20
Speaker 6: got news for you, Tommy. It might be both hockey
41:23
Speaker 6: and one hundred percent.
41:24
Speaker 5: And again maybe it's also potentially steering, you know, my
41:27
Speaker 5: youngster towards it, just because I'll be investing on it
41:30
Speaker 5: a lot more every night because you know who's playing.
41:32
Speaker 5: Like again, that just comes to who what you can expect.
41:34
Speaker 5: I like Janny and Appleton hockey. The hockey was awesome,
41:38
Speaker 5: but the sour grapes from Canada really ticked me off
41:41
Speaker 5: after Yes, three on three is not ideal, but both.
41:45
Speaker 3: Sides had to play it. Both sides had the same opportunity.
41:47
Speaker 3: We won.
41:48
Speaker 5: You didn't don't make it about the rules. Be a
41:51
Speaker 5: good sport and congratulate the winner and shut up. Now
41:53
Speaker 5: they were good sports. I did think they were good
41:55
Speaker 5: sports because everybody had to get an arman. You've been
41:58
Speaker 5: watching these, you know, to cover. So I apologize for
42:01
Speaker 5: just tapping in now and having a hot take. What's
42:04
Speaker 5: the stuffed animal they're getting? Why do they have to
42:07
Speaker 5: get a beanie baby?
42:09
Speaker 3: After they medal? Had a fifteen minute convo. Bought that
42:14
Speaker 3: with Laura.
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Speaker 6: It's so funny because a lot of Olympics had their
42:18
Speaker 6: little prop of their mascot to give. It's not differently
42:21
Speaker 6: any of Olympics. This just happened to look funny because
42:24
Speaker 6: it was after the medal. You're giving all these guys
42:27
Speaker 6: just stuffed animal, and they're all like, what what do
42:29
Speaker 6: I do with this? But either the kids are gonna
42:31
Speaker 6: get it or and I'm gonna be honest with you guys,
42:33
Speaker 6: is the way I'm thinking of it. Those will be
42:36
Speaker 6: very valuable memorabilia one day they're gonna sell. It's gonna
42:39
Speaker 6: show up at Golden Auctions or one of these things.
42:41
Speaker 6: This was Jack Hughes stuffed animal. But they're looking at
42:44
Speaker 6: this thing like what the heck do I do with this?
42:45
Speaker 6: I was looking for the first guy to just throw
42:48
Speaker 6: it at the other guy if they.
42:49
Speaker 5: Were enjoying they go the The Americans were enjoying that
42:52
Speaker 5: part of the ceremony.
42:53
Speaker 3: The Canadians were the one that looked through that.
42:55
Speaker 7: Okay, you really gonnas me off the ice as soon
42:57
Speaker 7: as possible. Why do I have to hold this stupid animal?
43:00
Speaker 3: I did?
43:01
Speaker 5: I did give uh. Connor McDavis at of my man
43:04
Speaker 5: had to wait. Connor McDavid had to wait for that
43:06
Speaker 5: guy to go through the entire line for the medals,
43:08
Speaker 5: the entire line for the beanie babies and then say.
43:12
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. I appreciate it, thank you, thank you.
43:15
Speaker 5: Classic the end, they still had to be as classy
43:18
Speaker 5: as possible.
43:19
Speaker 3: That was good.
43:20
Speaker 6: He didn't hear too much sour grapes. I think that
43:22
Speaker 6: maybe there's something I thought they handled it well. That's
43:25
Speaker 6: heart breaking, heart breaking and there, and they're gonna be
43:27
Speaker 6: salty knowing that they they I'll play the US a
43:30
Speaker 6: lot but couldn't get it done. That's on them because
43:32
Speaker 6: we had the better goalie, obviously, and that's part of playing.
43:35
Speaker 6: Somebody was MP. But of course they're gonna feel a
43:40
Speaker 6: little bit salty about it.
43:41
Speaker 5: It's just and I do love I think that's my
43:44
Speaker 5: favorite counter hallibuck American hero. Now we'll go play for
43:48
Speaker 5: the Winnipeg Jets coming up next week.
43:50
Speaker 3: And he's he won't get boot off the ice.
43:53
Speaker 7: I assume might be happy that are not going to
43:57
Speaker 7: be pleased, but he returns between the place that.
44:00
Speaker 3: Added the spark to it.
44:02
Speaker 7: Yeah, and whoever I think was Brady could chuck when
44:05
Speaker 7: the President called and they he didn't. I think he
44:07
Speaker 7: was the guy that screamed closed to the northern border. Dude,
44:10
Speaker 7: you play for Not the smartest thing to say in
44:14
Speaker 7: the heat of glory. All Right, we're off and running
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