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Sports Done Wright with guest AJ Murphy · Sports Done Wright w/ Vince Wright

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Speaker 2: from ten thousand takes State of Skull, real good conversation.
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Speaker 2: We delved into the Timberwolves, the new ownership there. We
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Speaker 2: obviously jumped on the vikings and the offseason and some
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Speaker 2: things that they may need to do. But before we
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Speaker 2: get into that interview here and that's about thirty minutes long,
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Speaker 2: I wanted to touch on one thing here, and it
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Speaker 2: really hit me was there's a lot of talk at
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Speaker 2: the University of Minnesota about either tearing down Williams Arena,
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Speaker 2: building new, remodeling Williams Arena, whatever it is, or with
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Speaker 2: the new ownership of the Timberwolves, let's say they get
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Speaker 2: a new arena downtown, do you move the Gophers in there.
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Speaker 2: I don't see that working, because you know, from the
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Speaker 2: Timberwolves point of view, they're not building an arena to
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Speaker 2: share it with another entity at all. So I don't
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Speaker 2: see that happening. But I do see either remodel happening
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Speaker 2: on campus or there are reports as well. I heard
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Speaker 2: from Guardsy when I was listening to Kfan and him
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Speaker 2: and Dan Barrero were talking about this. And by the way,
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Speaker 2: if you go back a few days they had the
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Speaker 2: first hour of Dan Barrero show, he spent on this
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Speaker 2: topic as well. And that's what got me thinking about
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Speaker 2: it actually, and also my recent visit over there. I
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Speaker 2: haven't been over to a Gopher game. Last year. I
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Speaker 2: was cut the games I went to. I was covering
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Speaker 2: for gopherhole dot com. So I was sitting up in
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Speaker 2: the press area and I had a friend of mine
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Speaker 2: who won tickets from his job company works aut And
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Speaker 2: I mean, best seats out there, eleventh row, dead center court.
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Speaker 2: I mean my seat was right on the half court line.
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Speaker 2: You know, this is the seat you want for a
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Speaker 2: basketball game. And I couldn't believe how small these seats
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Speaker 2: are to begin with. I mean, I'm looks, I'm a
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Speaker 2: big guy. I'm six four, six ' five. You know,
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Speaker 2: I'm a big, bulky dude. I get that, But man,
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Speaker 2: I've had people that have, you know, that are basically
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Speaker 2: six feet tell me that you know, the leg room's tight,
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Speaker 2: and God forbid that if you are a bigger dude,
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Speaker 2: you know, scrunching into those seats to begin with is ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: So what I would like to see from the Golden
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Speaker 2: Golphers is some type of remodel or new arena with
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Speaker 2: a reduced capacity. I think you got to realize we're
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Speaker 2: in a new day and age that the you know,
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Speaker 2: Minnesota doesn't really need a fourteen thousand, five hundred seed
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Speaker 2: arena that technically Williams Arena is right now. You know,
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Speaker 2: this arena, the seating is so bad. Those prime seats,
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Speaker 2: you know, the seats, the actual seats, not the benches
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Speaker 2: that we gave up prime mid court seats at halftime
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Speaker 2: because we couldn't move and I mean could not move
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Speaker 2: once you sat down. You know, it took forever just
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Speaker 2: to move your knees, maybe an inch or two. Just
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Speaker 2: it was ridiculous. So we went and sat in some
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Speaker 2: bench seating after, you know, at halftime. You know, so
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Speaker 2: I don't know who designed this current Williams Arena, but
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Speaker 2: they did a horrible job. Those seats are ridiculous, and
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Speaker 2: you're you know, you're bringing in alumni. I don't know
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Speaker 2: how these tall basketball players sit down there. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it is nuts. So I'm all for either a new
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Speaker 2: Williams Arena or whatever. It may not even be called
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Speaker 2: Williams Arena. Who knows it remodeled with reduced capacity so
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Speaker 2: we have much more comfortable and we go from there.
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Speaker 2: But I think, you know, in this day and age,
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Speaker 2: we just got to realize that the Gopher basketball program
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Speaker 2: is in a different position. Obviously, we talk about Saint
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Speaker 2: Thomas and what they're doing and their Division one status,
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Speaker 2: and you know, they're just literally a ten minute drive
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Speaker 2: from the campus of the University of Minnesota. So will
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Speaker 2: they finally start playing here in the future, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: But in terms of arenas, because again the Saint Thomas
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Speaker 2: has a new arena coming online here later this year,
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Speaker 2: Gophers got to figure something out, man, because it is
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Speaker 2: as I heard on a few other radio stations and podcasts,
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Speaker 2: and I didn't think about this, but it is very
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Speaker 2: hard to go to a Gopher game, and when your
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Speaker 2: fan base is older folks to begin with, it's doubly hard.
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Speaker 2: And again, I am vns Right, host of the Sports
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Speaker 2: num Right podcast. You know you're asking people the closest
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Speaker 2: parking is reserved for season ticket holders, of which there
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Speaker 2: aren't a lot. So the parking ramp right across the
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Speaker 2: street from the arena. Yeah, you gotta have a parking
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Speaker 2: pass to park right outside the arena. Gotta have a
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Speaker 2: parking pass. They make it so hard and make people
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Speaker 2: park blocks away in the winter to walk to an
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Speaker 2: arena to watch a you know, mediocre at best product,
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Speaker 2: And that's just not good so Athletic Department, the administration
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Speaker 2: over there, University of Minnesota, border regents, everybody's got stuff
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Speaker 2: to figure out because the current state of getting to
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Speaker 2: a go for basketball game just ain't happening either. And
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Speaker 2: people go, well, sports gov winning cures everything. And I
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Speaker 2: get it. I've been fortunate enough to see go for
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Speaker 2: basketball teams that have that arena, and I get it.
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Speaker 2: When the place is filled and the place is rocking,
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Speaker 2: sure the magic happens, and honestly that's when it becomes
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Speaker 2: a top five arena. But I just think that in
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Speaker 2: terms of comfort and you know, new bells and whistles,
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Speaker 2: it's time. So that's what I got to say about that.
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Speaker 2: It's time Golden Gophers make it happen new Williams Arena,
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Speaker 2: whether it's a completely new building or like I said,
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Speaker 2: remodeled to just make it more comfortable with more bells
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Speaker 2: and whistles, getting rid of troughs in the bathroom. And
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Speaker 2: I get it, a events, it was built in you know,
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Speaker 2: almost one hundred years ago. Yeah, but you know, update
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Speaker 2: the trops. That's what I'm saying. All right, quick commercial
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Speaker 2: talking sports with aj from ten thousand takes our friends
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Speaker 2: All right, everybody events right, Sports Governor, Sports Don't Write podcast,
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Speaker 2: And it is my honor to be joined by mister
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Speaker 2: AJ himself. You can find him at AJ Murphy seven
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Speaker 2: six three on Twitter. He also does some work with
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Speaker 2: State of Skull over there at TENK and our friends
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Speaker 2: over there. So first off, AJ, thank you for making
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Speaker 2: your debut and joining us here on Sports Done right.
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Speaker 5: Of course, Man, glad to be on the show. Finally,
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Speaker 5: it's been s been a long time coming, but.
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Speaker 2: Yeah it has, man, it has. So let's get to it.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 2: So before we get into the vikings, I want to
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Speaker 2: talk about our Minnesota Timberwolves. We got some new owners
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Speaker 2: in the mix with the decision that came down last
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Speaker 2: week finally from the arbitration folks, Mark Lourie a Rod officially,
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Speaker 2: well I shouldn't say officially just yet, right, Yeah, a
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Speaker 2: little bit pumped the breaks Minnesota sports Man. Nothing can
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Speaker 2: ever just you know, be straight and whatnot. But as
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Speaker 2: AJ says, people, it has to go through the vote
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Speaker 2: of the Board of Governors and Glenn Taylor. You know,
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Speaker 2: let's not be you know, stupid here. He has a
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Speaker 2: lot of friends on those you know, in that board.
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Speaker 2: So who knows, does he have enough sway? Does he
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Speaker 2: want them to pull a power trip, so to speak,
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Speaker 2: and try and put a little break on this sale.
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Speaker 2: Who knows? But aj just give me your thoughts initially
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Speaker 2: on the new ownership and what you think it may
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Speaker 2: mean for the Timberwolves.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it means a ton You know, Glenn
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Speaker 8: Taylor has brought this franchise to what it is right now,
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Speaker 8: but in his thirty year tenure, I mean only two
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Speaker 8: seasons with a playoff win or a playoff series win.
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Speaker 5: That's that's pretty bad, right.
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Speaker 8: So when you look at, you know, the totality of
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Speaker 8: the history of his work, you know, it's kind of
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Speaker 8: time to move on in getting splashy owners like a
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Speaker 8: Rod and Mark Laurie. Uh is just insane for the team.
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Speaker 8: And it's what this team needs around Anthony Edwards and
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Speaker 8: really what this whole this whole city and the whole
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Speaker 8: Timberwolves hepe machine is like, you know, ever since they've
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Speaker 8: come back into prominence, you know, the last two or
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Speaker 8: three years, SAW has been about you know, Wolves back.
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Speaker 8: You know, you hear people say that all the time,
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Speaker 8: Wolve's back, Wolve's back. Well, this is this is the
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Speaker 8: final stamp on it. So you know, there's a lot
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Speaker 8: of things that go with it.
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Speaker 7: You know.
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Speaker 5: One of the things that's come about is a new arena.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 8: I have no idea how that's gonna work, but that's
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Speaker 8: something that's super exciting because you know, Target Center, they've
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Speaker 8: they've touched it up a little bit, but it's it's
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Speaker 8: kind of still ugly duckling. So I'm excited to see
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Speaker 8: what they can do. But you know, we still gotta
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Speaker 8: wait until it's officially official.
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Speaker 2: Right exactly. And that's the thing, man. So assuming everything
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Speaker 2: goes according to plan, which I think it will, let's
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Speaker 2: talk about that new arena because that's gonna be kind
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Speaker 2: of first and foremost Target Center. Yeah, they did some
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Speaker 2: touch ups, like you said, but it's still lacking, and
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Speaker 2: you know, I've kind of you know, I've talked with
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Speaker 2: some people who are like, you know, downtown business interests
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Speaker 2: are gonna be hardcore to keep it downtown. I understand that,
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Speaker 2: but if you can maybe bring it out to one
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Speaker 2: of the suburbs. I know there's been some talk about
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Speaker 2: a spot over an Egan kind of doing doing what
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Speaker 2: the Vikings are doing with their headquarters, or maybe even
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Speaker 2: making it part of the land over there. You know,
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Speaker 2: they've already kind of got a basic intrastructure and can
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Speaker 2: maybe do something with the parking. But do you think
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Speaker 2: that the our vikingscuse me, Timberwolves will ever play the
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Speaker 2: suburbs as opposed to downtown AJ.
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Speaker 8: You know what I think about it, I just don't
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Speaker 8: see it in It's one thing to compare you know,
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Speaker 8: football stadiums versus basketball teams, because you know, football, you
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Speaker 8: have such this big footprint. The stadium is that much bigger,
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Speaker 8: So it kind of makes sense to put it in
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Speaker 8: you know, a quote unquote suburban area, right. You know,
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Speaker 8: there's all that footprint and you can build a massive
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Speaker 8: parking lot, you can build you know, shops and movie
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Speaker 8: theaters and restaurants and blah blah blah whatever. But when
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Speaker 8: you look at the NBA, it's always kind of like
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Speaker 8: in you know, an area, you know, a downtown. So
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Speaker 8: I think the Timberwolves hoop for them to jump over
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Speaker 8: right now is how are they going to because I
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Speaker 8: think they benefit from me being downtown. I've also seen
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Speaker 8: something where it would be, you know, if they kept
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Speaker 8: it in Minneapolis, their reredom would go over by the
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Speaker 8: Farmers Market, which is kind of a weird area in
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Speaker 8: sketchy area. I'm always saying that because I got my
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Speaker 8: car broken into there when I was here.
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Speaker 5: But whatever, not that I mean to laugh at you, brother,
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Speaker 5: but I get what you're saying.
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Speaker 8: I get what you're saying, just my unbiased opinion, but
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Speaker 8: I just feel like that's that's an interesting area, Like
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Speaker 8: there's not really anything around there. There doesn't really see
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Speaker 8: like you could probably build, you know, enough parking lot infrastructure.
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Speaker 8: But again, it's kind of a sketchy area, away from everything,
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Speaker 8: away from North Loop, away from all the good stuff.
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Speaker 8: So that's definitely a hoop that they're gonna have to
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Speaker 8: climb over. But I think they'll be able to get
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Speaker 8: it done. And it sounds like it's gonna be privately funded,
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Speaker 8: so I mean, the the getting a money part probably
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Speaker 8: isn't gonna be a problem, which people in Henimon County
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Speaker 8: love to hear because that's always.
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Speaker 2: As yeah, exactly, because you know, I mean, the city council,
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Speaker 2: and you know, there's no way in hell I can
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Speaker 2: see them giving money or at least substantial money uh
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Speaker 2: to uh for a new arena there the way that
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Speaker 2: they're looking. And then, like you said, I mean, you
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Speaker 2: know that area is interesting over there because you know,
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Speaker 2: it's kind of it is. It's sketchy Bardline over on
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Speaker 2: the north side over there, and honestly not the easiest
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Speaker 2: to kind of navigate too because they do have some
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Speaker 2: new apartment buildings over there, so there's less of a
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Speaker 2: blueprint to work with or a footprint to work with
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Speaker 2: over there. Then you know, maybe there was just you know,
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Speaker 2: a year and a half ago. So I think if
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Speaker 2: it is downtown, they're gonna keep it, you know where
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Speaker 2: it is. You know, maybe they put them in US Bank,
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Speaker 2: move them over to Excel to play for a year
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Speaker 2: or two while you know it gets built. But yeah, man,
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Speaker 2: I agree with you. Sorry to hear about your car
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Speaker 2: getting jacked over there.
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Speaker 8: Hey, I had it coming putting my backpack in my
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Speaker 8: back seat in Minneapolis, Like, yeah, yeah, you get what
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Speaker 8: you deserve.
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Speaker 5: I guess come on, AJ, you know I guess I don't.
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Speaker 2: All right, folks, AJ joining us here, stay to school
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Speaker 2: ten thousand takes. We are talking about the Timberwolves new owners,
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Speaker 2: Mark Laurie A Rod. I don't want to bash on
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Speaker 2: Glenn Taylor, because you know, he did save the franchise.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we gotta give him perhaps for that.
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Speaker 2: You know, this team would not have been in Minnesota
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Speaker 2: if it was not for him, So you know, definitely
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Speaker 2: props to him for doing that. But like you were
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Speaker 2: saying earlier, a mediocre run. You know, obviously you got
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Speaker 2: Cage in the early part of it. But outside of that, man,
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Speaker 2: a lot of just very bad basketball. So I am
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Speaker 2: glad his tenure is done. He's in his eighties now,
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Speaker 2: he has health problems, and you know, I personally, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's just like, hey, why don't you just go enjoy
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Speaker 2: you know, those billions dollars that you've made in your
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Speaker 2: life and then you know, enjoy the family. But like
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Speaker 2: you were saying, man, I'm very excited for a Rod
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Speaker 2: and Marklorie. I think they're exactly who we need because
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Speaker 2: at first off, if they can do like you said,
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Speaker 2: that privately funded arena, then yeah, that's a dune deal
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Speaker 2: because it's privately funded. But you know, they'll probably need
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Speaker 2: some some tax breaks, some work with you know, the
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Speaker 2: infrastructure around the place, and you know that's where the
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Speaker 2: city comes in stayed all that stuff. So at least
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Speaker 2: kind of some new owners. A Rod brings celebrity pizazz.
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Speaker 2: Whether you love them or hate them from his baseball days, you.
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Speaker 5: Know, it is what it is.
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Speaker 2: So I'm excited to man, and I think this is
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Speaker 2: nothing but good news for the Minnesota Timberwolves. So very
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Speaker 2: excited and we will see what happens there. Your thoughts
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Speaker 2: real quick before we get into the vikings on just
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Speaker 2: the Timberwolves this year. You know, we got a couple
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Speaker 2: of new players and right now seventh place, fourteen games
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Speaker 2: out of first place. I don't think we were really
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Speaker 2: expecting that, But here we are Timberwolves looking at the
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Speaker 2: play in game again.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think they really just kind of have to
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Speaker 8: tread water and just do what they can with the bench.
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Speaker 8: Union and tel Dante de Vincenzo and Julius Randall find
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Speaker 8: the way back into the lineup. It seemed like he
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Speaker 8: was kind of starting to come together, especially more so
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Speaker 8: with Randall before he got hurt. And you know, I
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Speaker 8: say what you want about the whole cat trade. It
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Speaker 8: kind of needed to happen as much as you know
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Speaker 8: last if you go back your calendar year, everyone was like, oh,
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Speaker 8: we need a trade cap, blah blah blah blah. It was,
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Speaker 8: you know, everyone was knocking on the wood, you know,
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Speaker 8: all this stuff. And then we kind of got through
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Speaker 8: the year and we were like, Okay, well maybe this
20:29
Speaker 8: can work. And everyone kind of convinced themselves that, you know,
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Speaker 8: this whole thing with Kat and Ant both on the team,
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Speaker 8: especially with Rudy and all the spacing and all the
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Speaker 8: issues could work. And then they decided to ship him out.
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Speaker 8: And I think it was just a shock for everybody,
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Speaker 8: including Julius Randall.
20:44
Speaker 5: He kind of saw it.
20:45
Speaker 8: You know, he maybe had to warm up to the
20:47
Speaker 8: team a little bit and find his groove, and I
20:49
Speaker 8: think he was starting to before he got hurt. So yeah,
20:53
Speaker 8: it's just about getting those guys back in the lineup
20:55
Speaker 8: treading water. I mean, you look at you know, the
20:58
Speaker 8: last two games before the start break, losing to the
21:01
Speaker 8: Bucks shorthanded, no dame no. I was at that game
21:05
Speaker 8: that sucked, and then the next night beating the number
21:10
Speaker 8: one seed in the West, the OKC thunder who have
21:13
Speaker 8: had our number. They destroyed us pretty well the first
21:16
Speaker 8: time around, so now we've got to come out to
21:18
Speaker 8: break and see them, you know, a couple more times.
21:20
Speaker 8: The February schedule was pretty tough, but I think if
21:22
Speaker 8: they can treadwater win enough games to get to March
21:26
Speaker 8: and just really kind of get everyone back and get
21:28
Speaker 8: the chemistry going, I think it's I think it's gonna
21:30
Speaker 8: be good. I think they could definitely find themselves in
21:33
Speaker 8: the top six and hopefully not find themselves in the plane.
21:36
Speaker 5: That's my prediction. But I'm I'm gonna say anywhere from
21:39
Speaker 5: like that four to six seed.
21:40
Speaker 2: Range, right, And yeah, I mean, you know, that's what
21:43
Speaker 2: I was hoping for too. I'm realistically, I'm hoping from
21:46
Speaker 2: like third to fifth, if they can just kind of
21:48
Speaker 2: find a way, like you said, when these guys get back,
21:52
Speaker 2: Randall was hopefully finally, like you said, starting to kind
21:56
Speaker 2: of fit in, because everybody was really starting to question
21:59
Speaker 2: the trade in terms of the Randall selection, the Vincenzo
22:03
Speaker 2: obviously the sharp shooter from the outside. So if we
22:07
Speaker 2: can get these guys back and you know, just like
22:10
Speaker 2: you said, tread water and just kind of build on
22:12
Speaker 2: that and just my goal for them. Honestly, AJ is
22:16
Speaker 2: to finish in the top five and just kind of
22:18
Speaker 2: go from there. I'm not so much concerned anymore. I mean,
22:22
Speaker 2: home court is great, obviously, but I think we've seen
22:26
Speaker 2: enough recently. You know that, you know, teams are able
22:29
Speaker 2: to win on the road here and there as well,
22:31
Speaker 2: So you know my opinion, better teams always are are
22:35
Speaker 2: going to win in general. So hopefully our Wolves will
22:39
Speaker 2: be one of those teams. Man. So let's do this,
22:44
Speaker 2: folks again. We got AJ as you see on our
22:46
Speaker 2: screen here AJ Murphy seven six three on Twitter. Let's
22:52
Speaker 2: talk about these Minnesota Vikings because I want to give
22:54
Speaker 2: them the kind of the majority of the time while
22:56
Speaker 2: we got you here, man, So you saw what happened
23:00
Speaker 2: at the end of the season. Sam Darnald kind of
23:06
Speaker 2: regressed when we did not need him to regress. Season
23:11
Speaker 2: comes to an end, Okay, So now it's hit Man
23:14
Speaker 2: Harry all intense purposes. He's gonna be done. So we're
23:18
Speaker 2: gonna have some new faces and the defense. I hear you, man,
23:22
Speaker 2: I hear you, hit Man. Hit Man was my dude,
23:25
Speaker 2: and you can talk about him in a second, but
23:28
Speaker 2: you know, just give us your thoughts kind of the
23:31
Speaker 2: end of the season, what you saw in those last
23:33
Speaker 2: few games and into the playoffs, and did you see
23:37
Speaker 2: maybe the regression happening because a lot of folks were worried,
23:42
Speaker 2: I think, just kind of being Minnesota sports fans in general,
23:45
Speaker 2: it's like, oh my god, the playoffs, We're gonna lose,
23:47
Speaker 2: and blah blah blah. Obviously that's what happens. So AJ
23:50
Speaker 2: give us your thoughts on that end of the season
23:52
Speaker 2: for the Purple.
23:54
Speaker 8: You know, it's really sickening when you kind of take
23:57
Speaker 8: a step back and look at the whole picture. You
24:00
Speaker 8: bring in Sam Donald at the beginning of the season,
24:04
Speaker 8: like we're at stay to school. We had no idea
24:07
Speaker 8: and I think a lot of Vikings fans really had
24:10
Speaker 8: no idea how the whole thing was gonna go with
24:12
Speaker 8: Sam Darnald and the fact that he came in and
24:15
Speaker 8: bought out, especially in that first month, and just really
24:19
Speaker 8: like whoa like I mean, it was. It was an
24:21
Speaker 8: amazing season. It was a really fun season. It was
24:23
Speaker 8: an awesome season. We got what we needed out of
24:28
Speaker 8: Sam Donald. We mailed to that for all it was worth. Unfortunately,
24:32
Speaker 8: it just came crashing down the hard part about it
24:36
Speaker 8: is kind of the two pieces put together. So, you know,
24:39
Speaker 8: aside from the Jacksonville game, up to that point, we
24:42
Speaker 8: hadn't really seen Sam Donald struggle or do bad. So
24:46
Speaker 8: I think people would kind of, maybe myself, convinced themselves
24:50
Speaker 8: that that wasn't going to happen and that he'd be fine.
24:53
Speaker 5: And then you take you know, the vikings part of it.
24:55
Speaker 8: You know, oh primetime, Oh playoffs, they show up their purple.
25:00
Speaker 8: I've had to hear all the insults from my dad,
25:02
Speaker 8: who's a Packers fan, blah blah blah.
25:04
Speaker 5: I get I have thick skin.
25:06
Speaker 8: I don't care, you know, because I don't play on
25:09
Speaker 8: the team, But just to see it go down the
25:11
Speaker 8: way that it did in prime time, you know, Sam
25:14
Speaker 8: couldn't do anything, and when you watch the games, you
25:19
Speaker 8: kind of come away from me and you're like, Okay,
25:21
Speaker 8: who can we blame?
25:23
Speaker 5: It was all him?
25:25
Speaker 8: Like wide receivers were getting wide open, the play calls
25:28
Speaker 8: were there, but Sam just wasn't. But also I think
25:33
Speaker 8: part of it too, and this kind of goes into
25:35
Speaker 8: a problem that I've had with KOC and it's really
25:38
Speaker 8: the only problem that I've had is that the run
25:40
Speaker 8: game is not consistent. That took a big step this
25:45
Speaker 8: year with Aaron Jones. He was fantastic again, much like
25:49
Speaker 8: Sam Donald, I think he did a lot better for
25:51
Speaker 8: the Vikings than a lot of fans expected him to.
25:54
Speaker 8: But there was some moments where you're like, you see
25:56
Speaker 8: him on the sideline, He's like, he's got the helmet off,
25:59
Speaker 8: he's touching at the hammy, like, what's going on here?
26:03
Speaker 8: And the backups you know, cam Akers got blessed Ty Chandler.
26:07
Speaker 8: They just couldn't get it done. So I think the
26:10
Speaker 8: lack of a regular run game is what hurts this
26:13
Speaker 8: team and what needs to be worked on moving forward,
26:15
Speaker 8: along with the trenches.
26:16
Speaker 5: But you know Sam Donald crashing and burning, that really sucked.
26:20
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, exactly, And that goes to the trenches
26:23
Speaker 2: because that was kind of my next question. The offensive line,
26:27
Speaker 2: on which obviously, for again the majority of the season,
26:30
Speaker 2: like the rest of the team, played very well. I
26:34
Speaker 2: think they played, you know, above what a lot of
26:36
Speaker 2: people were gonna give them credit for. And then yeah,
26:39
Speaker 2: these last couple of games going into the playoffs, you know,
26:45
Speaker 2: Sam Donald was getting sacked for a reason. You know,
26:47
Speaker 2: a big chunk of it. Sam Donald of course, but
26:51
Speaker 2: you know, some of this offensive line just went a
26:54
Speaker 2: wall as well. And then obviously you know the Ram
26:56
Speaker 2: game and everything, But man, what do we gotta do
27:00
Speaker 2: You talk about consistency with the running game. I want
27:03
Speaker 2: more consistency with the offensive line. So do we hit
27:07
Speaker 2: it hard in the draft this year? What do we
27:10
Speaker 2: do sat look for some you know, the worthy free
27:13
Speaker 2: agents or maybe a mixture of both.
27:16
Speaker 5: You know, I think at this point you really got
27:19
Speaker 5: to hit it in free agency.
27:21
Speaker 8: Yeah, and that's not a knock on Quezy, but we've
27:24
Speaker 8: been I feel like we've had this problem for like
27:26
Speaker 8: a really long time where interior offensive lineman has been
27:30
Speaker 8: a massive struggle. Now there's you know, there's not any
27:34
Speaker 8: you know, world beaters this year in the free agency class,
27:36
Speaker 8: but there's enough guys out there where if you give
27:38
Speaker 8: him a pretty penny, they can help you out and
27:40
Speaker 8: make a big difference. You know, we talk about Trey Smith,
27:43
Speaker 8: Will Fryes, guys like that that can come in play
27:46
Speaker 8: the guard position in be nasty like Dalt Reisner did
27:49
Speaker 8: what he could.
27:50
Speaker 5: I think he was solid. And then ed Ingram yeah yeah,
27:55
Speaker 5: and then everyone knows Garrett Bradberry, but he's you.
27:57
Speaker 8: Know, he's had his upside downs, undersize of the center whatever.
28:02
Speaker 8: We could probably do without him too, to be honest,
28:04
Speaker 8: but you know, when you have, you know, great tackles
28:07
Speaker 8: at the end and then bullshit in the middle, it
28:09
Speaker 8: kind of just all equals to mid. So I think
28:12
Speaker 8: they really got to try and hit it in free
28:14
Speaker 8: agency just because of the fact that you know, getting
28:17
Speaker 8: it in the draft getting it right is really hard,
28:20
Speaker 8: and that's something that you know, the Vikings just haven't
28:23
Speaker 8: been able to do. So I feel like, you know,
28:26
Speaker 8: you got to put your money where your mouth is,
28:28
Speaker 8: putting it towards the trenches and see what happens.
28:31
Speaker 2: No, I totally agree with you. I think if you
28:36
Speaker 2: do hit it hard in free agency and just kind
28:38
Speaker 2: of get that message out there that the time is
28:40
Speaker 2: now because it is, which leads me into obviously the
28:44
Speaker 2: big question in terms of quarterback. If you're gonna invest
28:48
Speaker 2: in the offensive line, are we gonna keep Sam Darnold? Aja?
28:51
Speaker 2: Are we gonna go with the rookie? Does somehow Daniel
28:56
Speaker 2: Jones work his way into this conversation what's happening man?
29:01
Speaker 2: Because it is starting to get it's starting to get
29:03
Speaker 2: real interesting with this Vikings quarterback talk, because for a
29:07
Speaker 2: quick minute, it was like, you know, obviously right after season, man,
29:11
Speaker 2: I think we got to get rid of Donald. It
29:13
Speaker 2: was a nice little run, but you know, we got
29:15
Speaker 2: jj blah blah blah blah blah. Then all of a sudden,
29:19
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones's name pops out of nowhere as he works
29:22
Speaker 2: his way off to practice squad into the number two position.
29:26
Speaker 2: And now, I mean there's a few people out there.
29:29
Speaker 2: I'm mean, not the sports governor, there are a few
29:33
Speaker 2: people out there that are throwing mister Jones's name into
29:37
Speaker 2: this mix all of a sudden, at least to get
29:40
Speaker 2: a fair shot AT's starting. So listen, you're the expert, bro,
29:45
Speaker 2: Let's hear what you got to say. AJ talk to
29:47
Speaker 2: us about these Vikings quarterbacks.
29:50
Speaker 8: I mean, I think it really comes down to this
29:52
Speaker 8: is what the Vikings have been building towards having a
29:55
Speaker 8: rookie quarterback on a rookie deal to you know, you
29:58
Speaker 8: build the super team around him and then you go
30:01
Speaker 8: you let it run. And that's honestly, the ultimate hack
30:04
Speaker 8: to winning the Super Bowl is you build a team
30:07
Speaker 8: around a quarterback on a rookie contract and you'll let
30:10
Speaker 8: the thing fly, So I think that's what has to
30:13
Speaker 8: happen here. You know, Sam Donald came in, he like,
30:17
Speaker 8: like we said, he did well above expectations. It was
30:21
Speaker 8: a fun season, and then when it mattered, he kind
30:23
Speaker 8: of crashed and burned. I think if he had performed
30:26
Speaker 8: differently in the playoffs and you know, maybe had gone
30:28
Speaker 8: up with more of a fight, then we could have
30:30
Speaker 8: a different conversation, and I would be down to have
30:33
Speaker 8: a different conversation. But also it's like the money part,
30:36
Speaker 8: Like you know, to hear that they were pretty close
30:38
Speaker 8: to bringing kirkback at a high number is a little
30:42
Speaker 8: scary to me, which is why the Sam Donald coming
30:45
Speaker 8: back situation is worrisome. And you know, I don't me
30:49
Speaker 8: saying this is like, oh I don't want Sam Donald
30:50
Speaker 8: back at all, but it's got to be for the
30:52
Speaker 8: right price, and like he's got to be the backup,
30:54
Speaker 8: like it's J J.
30:55
Speaker 5: McCarthy time. So here's what I'm thinking. You let Sam ride,
30:59
Speaker 5: you let him go. JJ McCarthy's the guy.
31:02
Speaker 8: Then you let Daniel Jones be the backup in case
31:05
Speaker 8: if you know, something goes wrong with McCarthy or you
31:08
Speaker 8: know he has a bad game, whatever, you bring in
31:10
Speaker 8: Daniel Jones. You kind of are walking into the same
31:14
Speaker 8: situation that you were with Donald a year ago. So
31:16
Speaker 8: I think, you know, just kind of kicking the tires
31:19
Speaker 8: on those guys that you know, our backups and have
31:21
Speaker 8: kind of lost their way. You reel them in, you
31:23
Speaker 8: make them right again, and then you know, you kind
31:26
Speaker 8: of have something on your hand. So that's that's my
31:28
Speaker 8: hopes for the Vikings quarterback situation.
31:31
Speaker 2: Now that's your hopes. Do you see that happening? Because
31:38
Speaker 2: I think that I think you're pretty close on man,
31:42
Speaker 2: because if you would have asked me this question maybe
31:44
Speaker 2: a week and a half ago, aj I would have said, yeah,
31:47
Speaker 2: you know, maybe Sam is here still. They worked something
31:53
Speaker 2: out with JJ to just kind of like, hey, be patient,
31:56
Speaker 2: your time is coming, but we know, just chill out.
32:00
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe restructure a contract or something, give
32:03
Speaker 2: him a little bit of money somehow. I don't know
32:04
Speaker 2: how it works. I'm not going to pretend like I do.
32:07
Speaker 2: But like you just said, I don't know, man, because
32:10
Speaker 2: if Donold's out of here, I don't really see any
32:13
Speaker 2: you know, game changing quarterbacks that at least the Viking's
32:15
Speaker 2: going to have a shot out of the draft and
32:18
Speaker 2: then man, yeah, all of a sudden, for all the
32:21
Speaker 2: crap I've given Daniel Jones and everybody's given Daniel Jones,
32:25
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, he may be in the mix
32:26
Speaker 2: to start for this team. Obviously, huge health question mark
32:31
Speaker 2: with JJ, you know, promising before he got injured in
32:36
Speaker 2: the preseason last year, so obviously you know, the fans
32:40
Speaker 2: were ready for him to actually jump in last year
32:43
Speaker 2: obviously before he got injured. So I think it's going
32:46
Speaker 2: to be very interesting. I think that I don't know, man,
32:50
Speaker 2: there's something that's just irking me that I they for
32:56
Speaker 2: the right price, like you said, if they can keep
32:59
Speaker 2: Donald around, I think they would like to do that.
33:03
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I think it's in his best interest
33:06
Speaker 8: to think about that too, because if you go somewhere
33:09
Speaker 8: else where, is he really gonna go where he's gonna
33:12
Speaker 8: make a splash, Like he's not gonna go to the
33:15
Speaker 8: Raiders or the Giants or the Titans in win ten
33:20
Speaker 8: games and be in the thick of it like that.
33:22
Speaker 8: That just doesn't seem like something that's super viable to me,
33:26
Speaker 8: Like it's probably just in his best interest to stay
33:28
Speaker 8: and be a backup.
33:29
Speaker 5: And sometimes like.
33:31
Speaker 2: You just gotta accept that role, and the more willing
33:35
Speaker 2: that you are to do that, the better off you'll be.
33:37
Speaker 2: The very good point, and also the coaching staff, I mean,
33:40
Speaker 2: because people are like that. You know, if a quarterback,
33:44
Speaker 2: let's just obviously we're talking about Darnold. You know, it's
33:47
Speaker 2: not guaranteed that that success is obviously gonna carry over.
33:51
Speaker 2: Take a team like the Raiders, they've sucked forever. You know,
33:54
Speaker 2: I keep saying on my show this that the Raiders
33:57
Speaker 2: won't win again until Mark Davis sells the team. Horrible
34:00
Speaker 2: owner puts together mediocre at best coaching staffs, And you know,
34:06
Speaker 2: I don't see a coaching staff that's better than what
34:09
Speaker 2: we got being able to help Donald if he goes
34:12
Speaker 2: elsewhere into a you know, a Vegas situation or something
34:16
Speaker 2: like that. So yeah, at that point, maybe it's just like, look, man,
34:20
Speaker 2: I got a great situation here. I'm probably gonna get
34:24
Speaker 2: an opportunity to play here and there. Maybe he can
34:28
Speaker 2: be talked into a backup role on this team.
34:33
Speaker 8: That would be interesting, Yeah, it really would. But it's
34:37
Speaker 8: also kind of awkward for him too, because you know,
34:39
Speaker 8: last year he was a starter. Now he's the backup
34:41
Speaker 8: he's kind of watching the cliffboard. But it could have
34:44
Speaker 8: been what last year was if JJ McCarthy hadn't gotten hurt.
34:47
Speaker 8: I mean a lot of people were saying that he
34:50
Speaker 8: was on that inside track to get, you know, the
34:52
Speaker 8: starting job, and he was cooking. Personally, I was like,
34:56
Speaker 8: let's pump the brakes. I really always wanted him to
34:58
Speaker 8: sit that first year. I mean, it didn't matter like
35:02
Speaker 8: what Sam did, like right, you see it with you know,
35:05
Speaker 8: you saw it with Jordan Love all these other guys
35:07
Speaker 8: that have gotten the time to kind of sit in
35:08
Speaker 8: the simmer and just you know, learn the game because
35:11
Speaker 8: as a quarterback, you gotta learn the game. You gotta
35:13
Speaker 8: be cerebral, yeah, you know, you know, you need time
35:17
Speaker 8: to kind of absorb everything.
35:19
Speaker 5: So that's kind of my take on it. Really.
35:21
Speaker 2: No, that's now. You know, I am way older than
35:24
Speaker 2: you are, So that's what That's what I grew up
35:27
Speaker 2: with with, you know, backup quarterbacks. You know, I was
35:29
Speaker 2: talking with uh, you know, I've had the opportunity to
35:32
Speaker 2: get to know Tommy Kramer here over the past few years,
35:34
Speaker 2: and I was talking about that with him, you know,
35:36
Speaker 2: coming up behind you know, legendary fran Tarkington and you know,
35:41
Speaker 2: I asked him, I said, hey, did Frand ever give
35:43
Speaker 2: you any grief? I mean, obviously you're drafted to be
35:45
Speaker 2: his replacement and blah blah blah, And he's like, nope,
35:48
Speaker 2: I just buy it. In my time, friend was always
35:51
Speaker 2: there to help me. And that's what you don't get
35:53
Speaker 2: to see nowadays because either, you know, the quarterbacks make
35:56
Speaker 2: so much money coming into the league that it's hard
35:59
Speaker 2: to just if I sit in them, or situations happen
36:02
Speaker 2: obviously where they have to play right away. But I
36:05
Speaker 2: totally totally agree with you, bro. If you could sit
36:09
Speaker 2: a quarterback a JJ McCarthy for a couple of years
36:11
Speaker 2: coming out of school and just learn that playbook and
36:14
Speaker 2: all that, I you know, I think quarterbacks in general
36:19
Speaker 2: would be a lot better suited and they would play
36:22
Speaker 2: a lot better.
36:23
Speaker 5: But that's just me. Yeah, I agree.
36:26
Speaker 8: You know, it's a crazy game and you need time
36:29
Speaker 8: to adjust, and the really good ones could come in
36:31
Speaker 8: there and rip it up. And that's kind of what
36:34
Speaker 8: we saw from a lot of the guys in the class.
36:36
Speaker 8: Bow Knicks got thrown in right away. It took him
36:38
Speaker 8: some time, but he was decent. Jaden Daniels was, you know,
36:42
Speaker 8: rookie of the Year. I mean, I don't think anybody
36:45
Speaker 8: saw that coming.
36:46
Speaker 5: That was awesome.
36:47
Speaker 2: I did not, And I got to apologize to Jaden
36:50
Speaker 2: because you know, I wasn't the biggest fan of his
36:53
Speaker 2: coming out of school. Wasn't really and even though he
36:56
Speaker 2: was the Heisman Trophy winner, you know, coming out of
36:58
Speaker 2: a blue blood pro like LSU, I still wasn't, like,
37:03
Speaker 2: you know, overly impressed with him. And then what he
37:06
Speaker 2: was able to do to get these commanders and Washington
37:09
Speaker 2: back in the mix. Obviously, man just took me by surprise,
37:12
Speaker 2: So mad props to him. Folks. This is Sports Don't
37:17
Speaker 2: Right Podcast with Vince Wright, Sports Governor. A couple of
37:20
Speaker 2: minutes left here with AJ's I want to keep them
37:22
Speaker 2: all night. He was nice enough to join us here,
37:24
Speaker 2: so let me ask you this, AJ, your thoughts on
37:29
Speaker 2: this Super Bowl here? You know you're a football guy,
37:33
Speaker 2: football mind, So before we get you out of here tonight,
37:35
Speaker 2: I just wanted to get your thoughts on the Super
37:37
Speaker 2: Bowl Kansas City. For me, it was like I got
37:42
Speaker 2: to see somebody beat them, Like I just couldn't pick
37:45
Speaker 2: against them because of what we've seen the past few
37:48
Speaker 2: years with mahomes and able to pull things out of
37:52
Speaker 2: his yazoo and make things happen and everything else. But
37:56
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts, who, by the way, should have been a
37:58
Speaker 2: Minnesota Viking. I will say that to the day I
38:00
Speaker 2: died when they had picks twenty three and twenty five.
38:03
Speaker 2: But no, we gotta have mister cool guy Kirk Cousins. Anyway,
38:08
Speaker 2: don't get.
38:08
Speaker 5: Me gone, but Hurts he.
38:13
Speaker 2: Quote unquote hurts, yes, but just you know, let me
38:18
Speaker 2: what were your thoughts on the Super Bowl? And because
38:21
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody expected the blowout that we saw.
38:25
Speaker 5: No, I don't think anybody saw the blog coming.
38:28
Speaker 8: But honestly, it's kind of a microcosm of the whole
38:32
Speaker 8: twenty twenty four NFL season, Like all these games that
38:35
Speaker 8: we were super excited for. You know, you get rampsed up,
38:37
Speaker 8: you get seate on the couch, you kind of blow
38:40
Speaker 8: off your plans, and then it's a blowout or it's
38:42
Speaker 8: like a seventeen to ten game, Like it's just how
38:46
Speaker 8: the whole year went. Like like, give me something exciting,
38:50
Speaker 8: give me something good, Like I feel like we don't
38:52
Speaker 8: have good games anymore, and I feel like that's attributed
38:54
Speaker 8: to how defense is played in the NFL. But that's
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Speaker 8: the whole other RNT that I can get into a
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Speaker 8: whole nother day. But you know, the Super Bowl. As
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Speaker 8: time came closer, I was a little bit skeptical on
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Speaker 8: the Chiefs, and you know, people were saying it, like
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Speaker 8: when I thought about it the day of, I was like,
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Speaker 8: you know, this Eagles team, are they better than they
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Speaker 8: were two years ago? I think they were, because, yeah,
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Speaker 8: the offense was pretty much the same except you throw
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Speaker 8: in Saquon Barkley, who had probably literally the best year
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Speaker 8: running back could ever have. And then that defense, who
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Speaker 8: was a monster unit like Jalen Carter, the Williams guy,
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Speaker 8: Josh Sweat, Cooper, Ejen all those guys, absolute dogs. Zach
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Speaker 8: Bond who came out of absolutely nowhere was a DePoy finalist.
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Speaker 8: Like just crazy what they were able to do. But
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Speaker 8: I didn't think they would shut down Kansas City like
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Speaker 8: they did. Yeah, yeah, that just made things so boring,
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Speaker 8: like Kansey couldn't do anything. And I feel like that's
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Speaker 8: how it would be if the Vikings made the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 8: Is we would not cross midfield until the third quarter
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Speaker 8: with five minutes left, man, and.
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Speaker 2: You bring up ugly stats, you know, listening to K
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Speaker 2: and here the past few days, because what was the
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Speaker 2: Vikings in their four Super Bowls? And I think Buffalo.
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Speaker 2: No Buffalo scored, but the Vikings that did, they didn't
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Speaker 2: score in any of the first halves of those four
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Speaker 2: Super Bowls that they were in.
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Speaker 5: That doesn't surprise me.
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Speaker 2: Minnesota bullshit right there. I mean, that's that Minnesota sports fan.
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Speaker 2: Only here do we get a stat like that. You know,
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Speaker 2: we've been in the Bowl four times, haven't scored in
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Speaker 2: the first half in any of those games. So I
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Speaker 2: get you, man, So all right, but hey, let me
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Speaker 2: let AJ get to his life people. He has joined us.
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Speaker 2: He will be back AJ before we get you out
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Speaker 2: of here. Tell the folks where they can find you,
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Speaker 2: what you're up to on social media and how they
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Speaker 2: can follow you and stay in touch.
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Speaker 5: Yeah at AJ Murphy seventy sixty three. I'm on x Twitter.
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Speaker 8: I don't know why I call it x Twitter Instagram.
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Speaker 8: I don't have YouTube. Maybe at some point TikTok. I'm
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Speaker 8: trying to do a little bit more short video stuff.
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Speaker 8: Staate of school. We're trying to pump out stuff when
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Speaker 8: it comes about. Obviously, this is the quiet time, so
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Speaker 8: not a whole lot going on over there. But you know,
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Speaker 8: we kind of had to do some retooling with the podcast.
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Speaker 8: We kind of had to cut it off late in
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Speaker 8: the season. But I think we're gonna, you know, behind
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Speaker 8: the scenes, put some stuff together, put it back together.
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Speaker 5: And get it rolling again.
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Speaker 8: But yeah, at State of School ten k and at
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Speaker 8: AG Murphy seven sixty three, that's where you can find me.
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Speaker 2: Sounds good. AJ. We will be in touch with you.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for reaching out, and hey, I'm glad we
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Speaker 2: could finally make it happen, man, because been wanting to
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Speaker 2: get you on for a minute.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately life gets in the way. I ain't got to
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Speaker 2: tell you how that happens sometimes, but bro, I am
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Speaker 2: so glad that we finally got you on. So thank
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Speaker 2: you so much for joining us, no problem man, All
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Speaker 2: right one and only AJ Murphy joining us from ten
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Speaker 2: thousand takes stay scol all that good stuff, like you said,
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Speaker 2: so big shout out to AJ again for joining us
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