Transcript

02/16/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Again.
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Speaker 2: This was the first ever USA versus the World format.
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Speaker 2: Team Stars blew out the stripes. Anthony Edwards of the
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Speaker 2: Timberwolves was voted MVP. There were no medals for Team
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Speaker 2: USA at the Olympics yesterday, but it was another gold
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Speaker 2: on Saturday for Keyo Waskins Jordan Stoles. He won the
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Speaker 2: five hundred meter race and set another world record. He'll
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Speaker 2: go for a third gold this Thursday in the fifteen
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Speaker 2: hundred meters. The US women's hockey team will face Sweden
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Speaker 2: on Monday, with a trip to the gold medal game
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Speaker 2: on the line. Most Brewers position players are now in Arizona.
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Speaker 2: The first full squad workout is tomorrow. The first Cactus
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Speaker 2: League game is this Saturday against Cleveland. Over the weekend,
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Speaker 2: the Brewers signed infielder Luis Rinngifo to a one year deal.
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Speaker 2: He spent the past seven seasons with the Angels and
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Speaker 2: hit nine home runs last year. Colin Moore Kawa wins
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Speaker 2: on the PGA Tour at Pebble Beach. Tyler Reddick wins
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Speaker 2: a wild finish at the Daytona five hundred. He never led,
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Speaker 2: but broke out from the third spot after two recks.
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Speaker 1: On the final lap. The huddle is next.
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Speaker 2: I'm Scott Dolphin on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 3: I'm all someone huddling. If you have something to say.
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Speaker 1: Right into it's time to wake up and talk about
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Speaker 1: the teams you love, nobody nobody with the guys you love.
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Speaker 1: It's just about getting the group together.
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Speaker 4: I need you, you need me today. Let's keep touching
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Speaker 4: make sure we smell each other for a half.
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Speaker 1: Watch us on YouTube, Facebook and act. You need fifteen
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Speaker 1: gather around because it's time to huddle up. West Leftlott.
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Speaker 4: We think we watch stick on one ready to learn.
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Speaker 1: prat red ride eighteen Bob on one ready cutting me prep.
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Speaker 1: You'll look at this play.
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Speaker 2: What we're trying to get is a seal here and
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Speaker 2: a seal here, and to try to run this play.
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Speaker 3: In the hour. Hurt were talking let's all the let's
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Speaker 3: go n track.
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Speaker 5: What God do?
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Speaker 4: What you're doing?
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Speaker 6: God?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and make it play? Be right all the way outside?
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Speaker 3: Why left banks three.
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Speaker 1: Ninety sick bag?
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Speaker 3: Behn se punk? Is that long enough for you watching
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Speaker 3: to be pouty of professional?
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Speaker 2: It's a great professional about damn playing this ball game
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Speaker 2: like I know you can play it.
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Speaker 1: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure.
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Speaker 7: Schmid, Oh my god, this man's been out all night.
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Speaker 1: Armand sorry, don't get skinned, says were ready. Fox Sports
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Speaker 1: Radio Wisconsin is on the air.
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Speaker 3: God, huddle up.
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Speaker 6: Our number three of the huddle on Fox Sports Radio
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Speaker 6: Wisconsin is on the air. As Big Voice Guys said,
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Speaker 6: right there, and you get to enjoy Big Voice guy
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Speaker 6: this week. Honored and privileged to have our friend Hunter
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Speaker 6: Bomber in for Drew Olsen this week. Huddling up with
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Speaker 6: us this morning, Hunter, our number three of your first
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Speaker 6: morning show. How's it feeling.
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Speaker 1: As well? Should turn my mic on first?
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Speaker 6: Very very I had I had a scary moment here
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Speaker 6: on location, thought I was talking to nobody.
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Speaker 1: You're good, Yeah, I know, all is well? That was
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Speaker 1: on me. I uh so it's going well despite you
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Speaker 1: know what, I what I just uh that what I
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Speaker 1: just did and did not turn the mic on. Oh
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Speaker 1: that okay, something worse.
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Speaker 7: No that's a minor. You can turn the micros. You
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Speaker 7: got it scared there I thought something worse happening.
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Speaker 1: No, no, we are we are doing good. I uh,
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Speaker 1: I'm a morning person at heart, so like, but you know,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't me there's a difference between you know, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, like a three thirty wake up call and
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Speaker 1: a morning person. Yeah, this is a wake up call.
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Speaker 7: This isn't the regular morning, like from a morning like,
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Speaker 7: this isn't the regular morning because like for for being
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Speaker 7: a morning person, you need to get up. You see
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Speaker 7: the sunrise, you got some cakes in the griddle, you know,
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Speaker 7: as John Denver said, But this is like we wake
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Speaker 7: up in the middle of the night. Basically that's okay,
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Speaker 7: that's what we do.
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Speaker 1: We're here, yes, because you're here. It brought me back
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Speaker 1: to the days. So my most consistent morning program was
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Speaker 1: when I used to host a by selling trade show
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Speaker 1: on Lacrosse that was six am on Saturdays, and that
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Speaker 1: was one to two times a month. We'd rotate who
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Speaker 1: hosted it.
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Speaker 7: And so really quick, if you haven't done a local
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Speaker 7: radio slash swapping shop on radio. You haven't had the
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Speaker 7: radio career mine because Hunters.
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Speaker 3: I haven't done it.
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Speaker 7: Hunter has, and therefore Hunter you are. That is the
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Speaker 7: true heartbeat of local radio in America. Is the swapping shop?
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Speaker 7: All right, go.
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Speaker 1: Ahead, yeah, swopping shop. I liked what they Yeah, well
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Speaker 1: it was called Hunter's Hangout and yeah, yeah, we all
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Speaker 1: it was like we had Tony's Treasures, we had Dan's Deals.
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Speaker 1: You know, whoever was Mike's Market like we had whoever
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Speaker 1: was hosting.
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Speaker 7: Got a I got a brand new I got a
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Speaker 7: Singer sewing machine in good shape. I'm asking fifty bucks
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Speaker 7: for it. Call Marty at four three five, you know,
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Speaker 7: you know whatever.
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Speaker 1: It was great, But it was four hours, so six
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Speaker 1: am to ten am, and it was just it was
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Speaker 1: it was all so like obviously you get more and
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Speaker 1: more calls as people woke up and everything, so you
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Speaker 1: have to prepare like other things to talk about obviously
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Speaker 1: to make the show entertaining.
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Speaker 7: But honey, get that box. We got something to sell
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Speaker 7: in the air. Right.
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Speaker 1: It reminded me of that because as I was driving
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Speaker 1: in this morning and listening to Ben Maller who was
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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio and there's something different about night
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Speaker 1: and early morning radios, Like there's just something different about it.
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Speaker 1: There's something different about driving when it's dark out, and
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Speaker 1: just the way it sounds, the way it comes across
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Speaker 1: the hosts that are on at that time and at
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Speaker 1: that time, and Arman, You're gonna remember the name of
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Speaker 1: this host the show. When I was driving in for
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Speaker 1: those Bicelling trade shows on the news station, we had
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Speaker 1: a show about ghosts on and it was it was
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Speaker 1: about art bet. It was like that that type of show. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I knew he remember, right, of course, well might I
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Speaker 1: might have ran it one like right, So yeah. So
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Speaker 1: then so then they you know, callers were calling, you know.
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Speaker 1: I was in this hotel once and I heard that,
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Speaker 1: you know, And and so I'm driving into the you know,
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Speaker 1: in the station and I'm I'm getting, you know, scared,
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Speaker 1: and then I'm you know, I'm like, oh, these are
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Speaker 1: really weird stories. But then at that time, I was
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Speaker 1: the only one in the building because it's that early.
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Speaker 1: So then I'm like watching every corner, I'm going, what
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Speaker 1: was that noise? What was that noise? I just got
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Speaker 1: to start the show, put the headphones on, getting the
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Speaker 1: zone because I don't want to pay attention to what's
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Speaker 1: going on in this older building before before the show
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Speaker 1: starts exactly, so that that's what it flashed me back to.
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Speaker 1: It was a good flashback this morning.
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Speaker 7: You know that's true. I mean, you're just getting work
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Speaker 7: more than you kind of forget the places that your
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Speaker 7: mind is spinning towards. Yes, of course, dreaming likes I
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Speaker 7: knew he would like our bell go and he says,
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Speaker 7: but yeah, it's one of those listens and you're talking to,
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Speaker 7: you know, the blue collar workers. We talk about building
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Speaker 7: Coast to Coast, a coast corners out there. I think
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Speaker 7: they saw something in the lights.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's but you're right, this sounds awesome.
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Speaker 7: I mean yeah, yeah, it's a whole different.
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Speaker 3: Can we think any of this is on?
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Speaker 6: Any of this is on like YouTube, like all of
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Speaker 6: a sudden, the francessa and.
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Speaker 1: Oh well we got we got Coast to Coast am
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Speaker 1: dot com.
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Speaker 7: Oh I'm sure there clips, Billy, Okay.
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Speaker 6: Because listen, you think that things are gone in radio,
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Speaker 6: and then all of a sudden, Mike and the mad
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Speaker 6: Dog from Day After the Red Sox beating the Yankees
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Speaker 6: in the in the Alcs. Yeah, blew the three nothing
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Speaker 6: lead that pops up on your YouTube algorithm and you're like.
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Speaker 3: Good, look at God right.
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Speaker 6: Or a game ball to LaRoy Butler's YouTube account.
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Speaker 7: Yes, let's give that. Let's give him a game ball. Indeed,
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Speaker 7: as I get to the game balls on a beautiful.
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Speaker 3: Game balls, it kicks to the balls Monday performance wisconcert Badger.
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Speaker 6: And you throw a Matt Lape game ball over to
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Speaker 6: the YouTube account of Leroy Butler, which has Arman digitized
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Speaker 6: the nineteen ninety six Packer Super Bowl VHS, which was
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Speaker 6: the in flight entertainment for my three year old yesterday.
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Speaker 7: What man, he's a he's a real one right away.
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Speaker 6: On my on Instagram and my man is literally just
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Speaker 6: like zoned into it. I got a great picture of
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Speaker 6: him looking at the huddle, which works out Brett bringing
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Speaker 6: the boys into the huddle, and uh, you know now
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Speaker 6: then he just wants to know all the final scores.
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Speaker 3: The good thing is Dad doesn't know any of them,
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Speaker 3: but so it is. It was phenomenal.
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Speaker 6: Being able to have that is great, but armand being
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Speaker 6: able to now actually run a potential tally on how
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Speaker 6: many times you watch that tape?
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Speaker 3: How many times I watch that tape. And now how
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Speaker 3: many times my young son will watch that tape.
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Speaker 6: That's gonna be a good standings to watch because I
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Speaker 6: got a feeling there was probably a year and a
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Speaker 6: half where every day with your honey bunches of oats,
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Speaker 6: where we going special K for breakfast as a kid, kid,
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Speaker 6: well you were eating, you're eating your practice watching that
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Speaker 6: going into school?
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Speaker 3: Okay, good, all right, good, I didn't. I'm sorry I didn't.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know what we were doing.
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Speaker 7: And my mom won't let me get that one like
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Speaker 7: you know, yes, but yeah, there's no doubt about it.
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Speaker 7: I've talked a lot to extensive measures how important the
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Speaker 7: nineteen ninety six Super Bowl Highlight Packers, Highlight Video Team
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Speaker 7: Highlight Video, how important that's been on my life, the
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Speaker 7: impact that's had on my life low these many years,
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Speaker 7: I've watched it probably hundreds of times. It's great to
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Speaker 7: know that Carson's probably gonna surpass me one day because
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Speaker 7: that kid loves it. He's really into it right now.
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Speaker 7: That's his favorite video of choice. And thank goodness we
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Speaker 7: had the technology now that you can actually watch it
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Speaker 7: on YouTube and not have to put the v you
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Speaker 7: don't have to bring a VHS TV like I had
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Speaker 7: to watch to bring the tape around looking for a
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Speaker 7: VHS player. You know what's great, though, is you're right, Billy,
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Speaker 7: it's not as easy as you think to find the
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Speaker 7: old NFL films on YouTube because you know, they can
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Speaker 7: get they can get copyrighted and all these things. And
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Speaker 7: the NFL is really really good in having these guys
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Speaker 7: make sure they scrub what they need to scrub. But
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Speaker 7: Leroy Butler's uh YouTube count is the one account that
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Speaker 7: has that whole thing right there.
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Speaker 1: And I love it and it's Hunter.
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Speaker 3: You'll love it. It's fifty eight minutes and forty nine seconds.
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Speaker 6: Why do I know that because I've seen it pop
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Speaker 6: up on my screen way too many times in the
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Speaker 6: last month and a half.
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Speaker 7: They're right by the great, late great Harry Kallis, who
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Speaker 7: was the Affilies back. Guess yeah, really really good boys.
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Speaker 6: It's not John Facenda Voice of God, but I mean
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Speaker 6: the transitions, Armin just the broadcast wise.
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Speaker 3: It's sickly good.
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Speaker 6: Hey, you know really, but it's fun to be able
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Speaker 6: to see they actually do. And I was surprised because
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Speaker 6: you're right there, it's not just littered with the NFL
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Speaker 6: films because ESPN just paid what ten of their company,
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, for the for all the NFL media and
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Speaker 6: NFL film stuff.
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Speaker 3: It was not all on there.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but there's a good like twenty years worth of
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Speaker 6: those old NFL films yearbooks they would do, which was
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Speaker 6: a twenty six minute version to say, hey, this team
10:55
Speaker 6: was fun. They didn't win the Super Bowl, but we
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Speaker 6: did document all of their games because some was gonna
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Speaker 6: want to watch it. And you can watch a decent
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Speaker 6: amount of you know, rejected NFL teams, who rejected Packers teams,
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Speaker 6: your long video mind.
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Speaker 7: I do have them. Nothing hits like that, No, nothing
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Speaker 7: hits like that. One absolutely is the best one. It's
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Speaker 7: just a beautiful thing to know that young Carson is
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Speaker 7: indulging himself and I have a lot in common with him,
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Speaker 7: which is amazing to say because he's three and I'm
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Speaker 7: forty one, But we have a lot in common. And
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Speaker 7: one of those things and people like quick Friends the
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Speaker 7: ninety six ce Packers, so the great thing is all
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Speaker 7: have something to talk to him about.
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Speaker 1: And like that's true.
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Speaker 7: You know, I can't wait to talk to him about
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Speaker 7: it because I'm sure he'll know every result. For I
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Speaker 7: think I know that whole thing by heart, if you
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Speaker 7: got me started on it, but I'm not really sure,
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Speaker 7: but it's that's how many times to watch it. So
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Speaker 7: that was great to see that. The inflight entertainment. He's
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Speaker 7: a real one. He was watching it right away. I'm
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Speaker 7: sure he's gonna get up and watch it this morning.
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Speaker 7: That's what you do when you love something so much.
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Speaker 6: You know, if you if you sing that the song
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Speaker 6: that buddy with the face paint before your Chargers game,
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Speaker 6: you have the mombo.
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Speaker 3: That was the first game you went to correct.
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Speaker 7: That was my first ever game, first ever Packers game.
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Speaker 7: They won the week three, forty two to ten. Leroy
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Speaker 7: had a pick six, he had another interception in that game.
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Speaker 7: I remember thinking, this team is the best team I've
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Speaker 7: ever seen. They'll never look they look like the perfect team.
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Speaker 7: They looked unstoppable to my naked eye. They were up
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Speaker 7: twenty eight nothing and I want to say it half
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Speaker 7: they looked absolutely unstoppable.
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Speaker 1: It was.
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Speaker 7: It was actually incredible. So yeah, and it just.
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Speaker 3: Has great sound bites of it.
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Speaker 6: The cheeser lady, that's how we play football in Green Bay.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, just like I mean it is.
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Speaker 7: It's chef's kiss like it is a so.
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Speaker 3: Good Hunter, you gotta check it out.
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Speaker 6: Can I get a game ball to Luis ren Heifoe.
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Speaker 1: To the performance to Wisconsin Badgers.
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Speaker 6: Now Hunter Luis ren Heefo, newest Milwaukee brewer as he
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Speaker 6: gets signed to a major league contract. I appreciate that
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Speaker 6: they did include that to let you know he's gonna
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Speaker 6: be on the team. He's gonna be a factor. He's
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Speaker 6: probably gonna be your third baseman, rolling in and Hunter.
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Speaker 6: In all reality, the game ball goes to like twenty
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Speaker 6: twenty two, twenty twenty three, and twenty twenty four Luis
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Speaker 6: Renhefo Definitely twenty twenty four Renhifo when he hit three
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Speaker 6: hundred and he was a menace in fantasy baseball. For me,
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Speaker 6: I saw the name, recognized it because he's been in
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Speaker 6: the lineup for a long time. Had a down year
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Speaker 6: last year, so did my fantasy baseball team. I think
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Speaker 6: it coincided it because I never took him out. But
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Speaker 6: a major league player who's been around a long time
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Speaker 6: but hasn't been outside of Anaheim, and I'm excited to
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Speaker 6: see what he does in a clubhouse culture that's about
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Speaker 6: winning and not just being able to fill somewhat of
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Speaker 6: the stands on a Thursday night at Anaheim.
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Speaker 1: That's true, like a change of scenery as we always
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Speaker 1: hear in sports, right, what can that do for a player?
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Speaker 1: It could be really good for Renhifo. I think this
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Speaker 1: is the you know, not that the Brewers had this
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Speaker 1: planned after they traded Caleb Durban, but obviously we knew
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Speaker 1: that there was probably another move coming. It was it
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Speaker 1: was unlikely that they were just going to roll. I
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Speaker 1: mean maybe they would have just rolled with David Hamilton
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Speaker 1: or try to move Joey over there, whatever, whatever it
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Speaker 1: happens to be. I know that they're probably going to
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Speaker 1: try a lot of different things in the infield. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's played a bunch of second base too, so he
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Speaker 1: played shortstop. I mean he can play anywhere in those
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Speaker 1: three positions. You know, Joey can do that. Obviously, Jet
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Speaker 1: Williams is mainly up the middle, but he has the
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Speaker 1: ingredients to play third base, as Matt Arnold has said,
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Speaker 1: and David Hamilton can play all over. So I have
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Speaker 1: a feeling that they're going to try some different things
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Speaker 1: in spring training. However, if I were to say, who
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Speaker 1: is going to be your most mainstay at third base.
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Speaker 1: It's renhefo as it should be. It's a veteran. Like
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Speaker 1: you said, he's only been in Anaheim since his debut
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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, and it makes sense to just have
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Speaker 1: this kind of stopgap guy right who comes in you know,
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Speaker 1: makes about three and a half million, then with incentives,
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Speaker 1: can can go a little above that and just be
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Speaker 1: at third base and then whenever you have other guys ready.
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Speaker 1: If you think Jet Williams is not quite ready at
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Speaker 1: the end of spring training, he starts in Nashville and
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Speaker 1: then you bring him up at some point, or see
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Speaker 1: how Joey Ortiz does in the first couple of months
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Speaker 1: in the season where he is offensively, do you know,
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Speaker 1: do you start making a start thinking about a change there,
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Speaker 1: Because with Joey, I kind of think you give him
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Speaker 1: the first couple of months, but if that offense is
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Speaker 1: doing what it did last year, you know, come Memorial
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Speaker 1: Day or so, I feel like that's kind of where
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Speaker 1: and I don't know where the organization is at this,
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Speaker 1: but I feel like that's kind of where the questions
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Speaker 1: maybe start. And maybe that's too long, maybe it's too short.
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Speaker 1: That can be debated, but I kind of feel like
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Speaker 1: that's where like, okay, now this is a longer trend.
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Speaker 1: This is not just you know, one year, one and
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Speaker 1: a half year. This is now becoming what he is
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Speaker 1: at the major league level. And at what point with
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Speaker 1: Jet Williams and with the guys you have in that
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Speaker 1: minor league system, do you go? You know, I don't
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Speaker 1: want to give up because he's so good on defense,
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Speaker 1: but at some point you have to have some of
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Speaker 1: that offensive production.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and it feels like just another another option, right,
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Speaker 7: And that's the Brewers are great at the situations, is
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Speaker 7: giving themselves a bunch of options and trying to see
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Speaker 7: which one works. And you know, they ended up signing,
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Speaker 7: which was funny because a lot of us were talking about, well,
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Speaker 7: are they going to sign a betteran third baseman now?
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Speaker 7: And I think some of us were like, well, they
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Speaker 7: probably won't. You know, they might just roll they have.
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Speaker 1: But the options were, you know, right, because it's not
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Speaker 1: like there was a great options out there, and it
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Speaker 1: was like introvers fashion.
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Speaker 7: It was an option. I didn't think of it right totally. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: So it's just funny all that works out.
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Speaker 3: And that's the thing. Like when the name popped, I
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Speaker 3: was like.
16:30
Speaker 6: Oh, now again, probably should have had more information been
16:34
Speaker 6: done better digging. I didn't see his name in the
16:38
Speaker 6: John Birdie group of free agent third basemen because I
16:41
Speaker 6: think our Hunter he was just littered around in utility
16:45
Speaker 6: and probably more at second base in different free agent
16:48
Speaker 6: listings than over at third. He's a name that I
16:51
Speaker 6: had not thought of. Arman, I know you'll like this. Yeah,
16:53
Speaker 6: for the last four years he's been a positive war player.
16:57
Speaker 7: All you want now.
16:58
Speaker 6: Granted, in twenty twenty two he was you know, a
17:00
Speaker 6: two and a half, which, if you add that into
17:02
Speaker 6: this team is gonna be pretty pretty sizeable stuff to
17:05
Speaker 6: be able to be a real contributor on a night
17:08
Speaker 6: in a.
17:09
Speaker 7: Night out basis.
17:11
Speaker 6: But I do wonder Hunter you brought it up? Is
17:15
Speaker 6: does this also signify that they're gonna have a runway
17:19
Speaker 6: and more than more importantly a leash on Joey Ortiz?
17:24
Speaker 3: Like, is this going to set up for?
17:26
Speaker 6: Because I think Memorial Days a very fair day, right,
17:29
Speaker 6: like Armin's favorite days, Flag Day as the time when
17:32
Speaker 6: you start watching and you start checking out the standings,
17:36
Speaker 6: you're gonna kind of have an.
17:37
Speaker 3: Idea as to who you are gonna be at that
17:39
Speaker 3: point and.
17:42
Speaker 6: More sure it is giving him an opportunity and trying
17:46
Speaker 6: to still cash it on that asset. And I think
17:50
Speaker 6: get one of those guys from the Corbyn Burns trade
17:52
Speaker 6: that would pop and be a significant player for you.
17:54
Speaker 6: But I also think what it does is just allows
17:59
Speaker 6: you to do it without saying we're gonna save a
18:03
Speaker 6: year of service time on one of these three guys
18:05
Speaker 6: who's gonna duke it out at the minor league level
18:07
Speaker 6: to try to get that call up right between Jet
18:10
Speaker 6: would Wilkin or Cooper Pratt factor into that group. That's
18:14
Speaker 6: what maybe not but like I think that's where it
18:17
Speaker 6: is Hunter, where you can say we're gonna give him
18:19
Speaker 6: the opportunity he's earned it. Also, we would like that
18:23
Speaker 6: law that trade to not be seemingly a total loss,
18:25
Speaker 6: because I don't know exactly what d L. Hall's future
18:27
Speaker 6: is with all of the arms and all the left
18:28
Speaker 6: handed arms they.
18:29
Speaker 3: Have right now. We would like that to be at
18:31
Speaker 3: least a possibility.
18:33
Speaker 6: Knowing Buddy Brock Wilkin gets a number at bats there,
18:36
Speaker 6: that's six foot four lad, they're going to, I think
18:39
Speaker 6: quickly want to elevate him in.
18:40
Speaker 4: That power bat.
18:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would think so I mean that, Yeah, he
18:44
Speaker 1: was crushing it last year, obviously had the injury riddled year,
18:47
Speaker 1: so there's somewhat. You know, the numbers aren't as high
18:50
Speaker 1: as what they would have been because they're impressive just
18:52
Speaker 1: for the amount of games he played in. But Pratt
18:54
Speaker 1: and Wilkins still have not played in Triple A yet,
18:56
Speaker 1: so that has to be factored in. But I also
18:58
Speaker 1: don't think they trade away Durbin if they think they're
19:01
Speaker 1: light years away. If they think they're you know, they
19:03
Speaker 1: need a full season or plus in Triple A in
19:07
Speaker 1: order to play at the major league level. Like I
19:09
Speaker 1: think it's a real chance we see Pratt or Wilkin.
19:12
Speaker 1: I would say second half of the year. I would
19:15
Speaker 1: be surprised if they're on the roster in the first
19:18
Speaker 1: half of the season, But if they're forced the if
19:22
Speaker 1: they're if you get a kind of a forced hand there, right,
19:24
Speaker 1: Joey doesn't produce offensively, or you know, or Renhifo maybe
19:28
Speaker 1: isn't doing what you want whatever it happens to be,
19:30
Speaker 1: and you want to give these young guys a chance.
19:32
Speaker 1: You clearly opened a spot at third base with a
19:35
Speaker 1: trade of Caleb Durban and all the rest of the
19:36
Speaker 1: depth there as well, So I'm I'm interested to see
19:39
Speaker 1: what happens. But I do like that they have a
19:42
Speaker 1: veteran guy now Wrenhifo's not exceptional defense, so it's a
19:45
Speaker 1: little bit of sacrifice of their of the defense there.
19:47
Speaker 1: And you don't usually see the Brewers sign a guy
19:49
Speaker 1: like that, but they have a lot of other really
19:51
Speaker 1: good defenders in that infield, So I think you you
19:54
Speaker 1: sacrifice that a little bit, and then you see how
19:56
Speaker 1: he plays over there at third.
19:57
Speaker 7: Guy, think he gave you a little bit of pop.
19:59
Speaker 7: He's been Emily, which you know we love these days.
20:03
Speaker 7: We love Homers, we love true and the lineup needs
20:05
Speaker 7: a little more more popular, more slugging, and a guy
20:08
Speaker 7: that had two or three productive years guys and then
20:11
Speaker 7: kind of dropped off last year, So maybe they find
20:13
Speaker 7: a little value in that if he really gains that form.
20:15
Speaker 7: I think that's another thing that Brewers like to do,
20:18
Speaker 7: is trying to find some hidden value inefficiency in the market.
20:21
Speaker 7: And a guy that you know wasn't as good the
20:23
Speaker 7: year before is a guy that if you get to
20:26
Speaker 7: return to form, is a guy you can get value
20:28
Speaker 7: from because he don't cost as much so he.
20:30
Speaker 6: Would be my uh bet this year to be a
20:33
Speaker 6: Andrew Vaughan version, right, Like then, yeah, stuck in an
20:37
Speaker 6: organization that just perpetuates losing. I mean like if you
20:42
Speaker 6: are on the Anaheim part of me Los Angeles who
20:46
Speaker 6: play in Orange County, no one gives a rep right.
20:49
Speaker 6: I mean like their owner literally doesn't even schedule games
20:53
Speaker 6: that are advanced advantageous game times to his team. He's like,
20:57
Speaker 6: I don't want any day games because I'm not going
20:59
Speaker 6: to sell any tickets. So I don't care if y'all
21:01
Speaker 6: gotta fly across the country and play in Philly the
21:03
Speaker 6: next day you're playing at seven o'clock.
21:05
Speaker 3: That that's good inside baseball and then some good business.
21:08
Speaker 6: I do want to talk more about the possibility of
21:10
Speaker 6: those young players tomorrow, because I think there's a lot
21:13
Speaker 6: of it Hunter and also, I mean the service time
21:15
Speaker 6: is a question of it. Yeah, but as as much
21:18
Speaker 6: leash as they want to give, I think there's two
21:20
Speaker 6: or three different players and positions that could be, you know,
21:25
Speaker 6: not necessarily up for grabs, but somewhat gettable by the
21:29
Speaker 6: youth in the organization. I think they've they've spoken pretty
21:32
Speaker 6: loudly that they're open to doing some some conversations.
21:35
Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna have a fun conversation coming up.
21:37
Speaker 6: On the other side, Chris Foster's calling the Olympics for
21:41
Speaker 6: NBC and he gives us a lowdown on the puck
21:46
Speaker 6: on the ice hockey and Chris fosters uw alum calling
21:51
Speaker 6: some Olympic action. He joins us on the other side
21:54
Speaker 6: to celebrate the Olympics, celebrate.
21:56
Speaker 3: Hockey, and celebrate the University of Wisconsin.
21:58
Speaker 6: Chris Foster's huddles up with Hunter, Bombguard, armand Sarian, myself,
22:02
Speaker 6: Billy Schmid and all of you on Fox Sports Radio
22:04
Speaker 6: Wisconsin coming up next, so they.
22:06
Speaker 7: Know who they back.
22:07
Speaker 3: Then you know what's in.
22:09
Speaker 7: My Welcome the baby control weekend.
22:17
Speaker 3: Even we don't have to.
22:22
Speaker 1: Welcome with an historic gold for the Canadians.
22:32
Speaker 6: She ties Haley Wickenheiser's record for the most goals in
22:37
Speaker 6: Olympic history. Highlight Curtesy of NBC, Welcome back. It is
22:45
Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. The huddle, I'm Billy Schmid, Hunter Bomb,
22:49
Speaker 6: Guards right there, armand Sarian's got the Olympic gearan for
22:54
Speaker 6: the wrong network. We won't talk about that here because
22:57
Speaker 6: Chris Boston.
23:00
Speaker 7: Play by play bad for the Olympics on hockey.
23:03
Speaker 3: Chris, appreciate the time, man, thank you for doing this.
23:06
Speaker 3: Been a big band for a long time.
23:07
Speaker 6: I know when you have called basketball games at Wisconsin,
23:11
Speaker 6: you you've had the luck, the distinguished honor of doing
23:15
Speaker 6: like a two and a half hour pregame show. I
23:17
Speaker 6: feel like with Brian Butch during a delay. How did
23:21
Speaker 6: that prep you for calling the Olympics where you guys are,
23:24
Speaker 6: because you guys are doing a phenomenal job, maybe not
23:27
Speaker 6: feeling all of the energy of being right on site.
23:29
Speaker 3: It's been so good.
23:31
Speaker 5: Well thanks Bill h Yeah, you can certainly empathize to
23:35
Speaker 5: the you know, the perils of sudden programming changes in radio,
23:39
Speaker 5: I'm sure, and I like listening to you on on
23:41
Speaker 5: pre and postgame shows for the Badger football specifically, But
23:45
Speaker 5: you know, nothing, nothing can prepare Nothing can prepare you
23:48
Speaker 5: for two and a half hours on the radio with
23:50
Speaker 5: Brian buch But yes, it does help down the road
23:54
Speaker 5: with just being able to think on your feet, roll
23:56
Speaker 5: with the punches. I think that's a that's a key
23:59
Speaker 5: trait to work in this in this industry.
24:02
Speaker 4: So yeah, that was you know, sometimes you just you.
24:06
Speaker 5: Lose power in the in the gym, as was the
24:08
Speaker 5: case at the Greenbriar.
24:09
Speaker 4: Tip off that year. So you gotta you gotta work
24:11
Speaker 4: with what.
24:12
Speaker 7: You got and sometimes you run on a snacks, which
24:14
Speaker 7: usually doesn't happen with Butch, but it doesn't have those
24:17
Speaker 7: exciting the one thing Butcher always has the snacks. But listen,
24:21
Speaker 7: you sometimes if you don't have you have to bring
24:23
Speaker 7: your own. Chris, thanks for joining us. I did see,
24:25
Speaker 7: speaking the right network, I did see that Milwaukee is
24:28
Speaker 7: right up there, tied for third, and right up there
24:30
Speaker 7: with one of the home markets that loves the Win
24:33
Speaker 7: Olympics the most, that's watching the most. Does that surprise
24:36
Speaker 7: you at all? That wisconsinights love the Winter Olympics and
24:39
Speaker 7: love watching NBC doesn't surprise me.
24:42
Speaker 4: It doesn't surprise me at all either.
24:44
Speaker 5: Arman And Yeah, I saw that as well, and I
24:46
Speaker 5: thought the same thing, and personally, I'm sure you guys
24:49
Speaker 5: would agree. I think there's definitely a Jordan Stole bump
24:52
Speaker 5: this year. I think, with with him being one of
24:55
Speaker 5: the faces of the Olympics, and with how good he
24:58
Speaker 5: was supposed to be, and not only that, but the
25:01
Speaker 5: extent to which he's already delivered on his sky high
25:04
Speaker 5: Olympic expectations. So I think I think Wisconsin has got
25:08
Speaker 5: such a great speed skating tradition, specifically that when US
25:12
Speaker 5: speed skating is good, there's definitely going to be a
25:14
Speaker 5: bump coming from the from the Milwaukee area.
25:16
Speaker 4: But no, not not surprised at all.
25:18
Speaker 5: Wisconsin always represents Team USA so well at the Winter Olympics,
25:22
Speaker 5: and growing up as a kid in in Brookfield, I
25:24
Speaker 5: was I was a huge fan of the Winter Olympics.
25:27
Speaker 5: Would would carve out the time during my school schedule,
25:30
Speaker 5: of course, to watch whenever I could. But so it
25:33
Speaker 5: was great to see Milwaukee up so high on the
25:35
Speaker 5: on the local market ratings.
25:37
Speaker 1: Knowing that you obviously did that Chris for and enjoyed
25:40
Speaker 1: it as a kid. What's it like calling it now
25:43
Speaker 1: on NBC. I mean, I'm guessing that's a that's a
25:46
Speaker 1: kind of a surreal thing, especially at the beginning. Obviously
25:48
Speaker 1: it's a job to do, but you got to be
25:50
Speaker 1: loving every second of it.
25:52
Speaker 3: It is.
25:52
Speaker 4: It's it's totally a full circle moment.
25:56
Speaker 5: I I love, you know, even though not being on
25:58
Speaker 5: site for the for the Olympics, as Bill mentioned, and
26:02
Speaker 5: NBC does a great job of providing an atmosphere at
26:05
Speaker 5: their studio in Stanford, Connecticut where they bring the games
26:09
Speaker 5: to you, I would say, and you know there are
26:11
Speaker 5: there are literally three thousand plus people in the in
26:14
Speaker 5: the building twenty four to seven working on the Olympic broadcast.
26:18
Speaker 5: So there's there's tremendous energy in the building. You know,
26:21
Speaker 5: they've got decorations, they've got food and snacks that you
26:24
Speaker 5: know are are designed to make you feel like you're
26:27
Speaker 5: here in the host country. So there's just there's just
26:31
Speaker 5: a one of a kind energy about the Olympics that
26:34
Speaker 5: is totally unique to all the sporting events that I cover.
26:38
Speaker 5: And as I said, personally, growing up, I was a
26:40
Speaker 5: huge Olympics junkie. My dad was the was the sports
26:43
Speaker 5: medicine doctor for the US Olympic speed skating team for
26:47
Speaker 5: the two thousand and two Games, which was when Apollo
26:49
Speaker 5: Ono had his had his breakout Olympics. So you know,
26:53
Speaker 5: it's special for for me on a personal note as well,
26:56
Speaker 5: there's always been Team USA year in the house. You know,
26:59
Speaker 5: my parent and his basement has still got a bunch
27:01
Speaker 5: of my dad's Olympic memorabilia from the Salt Lake Games.
27:04
Speaker 5: So it's it's definitely full circle to be able to
27:07
Speaker 5: cover it professionally in my line of work.
27:09
Speaker 6: So, uh, Chris Foster is joining us here voice of
27:12
Speaker 6: hockey on the NBC Sports for the Olympics. So so
27:15
Speaker 6: how much how much pride is is Pop's taken? I mean, like,
27:18
Speaker 6: I know you you're probably not hearing it all over
27:20
Speaker 6: the place, but he's he's letting everybody know of the
27:23
Speaker 6: games that that you're on, to let everybody know the pride.
27:25
Speaker 3: Pride's got to be incredible.
27:28
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he's got his you know, he's got his
27:30
Speaker 5: hand up for you know, gear like this after after
27:33
Speaker 5: the Olympics, he's, yeah, he wants, he wants some of
27:37
Speaker 5: the hand me downs when when we see each other.
27:39
Speaker 4: After the games.
27:39
Speaker 5: But no, he's he's proud for sure, and you know,
27:43
Speaker 5: I'm I'm equally proud of him. So it's a it's
27:45
Speaker 5: another cool moment that we've been able to share in
27:47
Speaker 5: a sense father and son, Chris.
27:50
Speaker 6: When when you look at the puck that's being played,
27:52
Speaker 6: the the caliber of hockey feels like it's not been higher, right,
27:56
Speaker 6: Like you see it at all different levels the way
27:59
Speaker 6: that you cover the game, and I think college hockey
28:01
Speaker 6: has been incredible as it continues to go, and probably
28:05
Speaker 6: NIL might assist college.
28:07
Speaker 3: Hockey more than anybody's gonna think.
28:09
Speaker 6: But it feels like the athleticism is greater than it's
28:13
Speaker 6: ever been, the speed of the game is phenomenal, and
28:16
Speaker 6: you're getting the showcase just some of the best shot
28:19
Speaker 6: making it you're gonna see in the sport. I mean,
28:22
Speaker 6: it is incredible how good the hockey is right now.
28:26
Speaker 5: I agree, I agree, And then you just factor in
28:29
Speaker 5: the obvious heightened emotion of putting on a national team
28:34
Speaker 5: sweater and it's definitely been akin.
28:38
Speaker 4: A breadth of fresh air.
28:39
Speaker 5: But I feel like, certainly in the United States, there
28:42
Speaker 5: are more eyes, more attention being paid to Olympic hockey
28:46
Speaker 5: this year, specifically because of some of the factors that
28:49
Speaker 5: you've mentioned, Because the college game continues to improve, because
28:54
Speaker 5: NHL players are back in the Olympics for the first
28:57
Speaker 5: time since twenty fourteen, Because the women's game continues to grow,
29:01
Speaker 5: because there's a burgeoning women's league in the PWHL that
29:05
Speaker 5: seems to have good financial backing and good grounding. And
29:09
Speaker 5: then also with the success last year of the Four
29:11
Speaker 5: Nations Tournament, the US Canada, Sweden, Finland played in a
29:16
Speaker 5: round robin exactly one year ago. There was a great
29:20
Speaker 5: there was a cross through, a breakthrough moment. I think
29:22
Speaker 5: to the mainstream sports fan watching international best on best hockey,
29:28
Speaker 5: and I think across sports, you know, with baseball as well,
29:31
Speaker 5: getting ready for the World Baseball Classic. There is a
29:34
Speaker 5: tremendous appetite for that among sports fans, seeing best on
29:38
Speaker 5: best in a national team setting. So I think it's
29:42
Speaker 5: it's been a great moment for the sport of hockey.
29:45
Speaker 5: I think a lot of people are interested in the game,
29:47
Speaker 5: and the skill level has been incredible on both the
29:51
Speaker 5: men's and the women's side.
29:52
Speaker 4: It's been a ton of fun to watch.
29:53
Speaker 7: Yeah, that four Asians faceoff thing is interesting because I
29:55
Speaker 7: agree with you Chris, I think it does have a
29:57
Speaker 7: huge effect in getting people excited about the Olympics where
29:59
Speaker 7: the international hockey game at play, Maybe because it's already
30:03
Speaker 7: such an international game, but in a world of sports
30:05
Speaker 7: where a lot of times all star games are failing
30:07
Speaker 7: on the other end, that one seemed to work. Do
30:09
Speaker 7: you think there do you think there's an aspect of
30:11
Speaker 7: you know, we just accept international play as part of
30:13
Speaker 7: hockey more and and is that it or is it
30:17
Speaker 7: just more of you know, we have this appetite for
30:20
Speaker 7: some great sports stories, and you know, Olympics hockey nineteen
30:23
Speaker 7: eighty that's still one of the great American sports stories.
30:26
Speaker 7: I think that is that all kind of part of it.
30:29
Speaker 4: I think so for sure.
30:30
Speaker 5: And I think you know, if you look at you know,
30:33
Speaker 5: if you look at some of the storylines on on
30:35
Speaker 5: the US men's team, I mean, it's it's great seeing
30:38
Speaker 5: Brady and Matthew could Chuck not only play together, but
30:41
Speaker 5: be on the same line together. And you know, anyone
30:43
Speaker 5: who's a fan of hockey can't help but watch the
30:47
Speaker 5: Canadian team their power play. You've got Sidney Crosby and
30:51
Speaker 5: coddr McGavin amazing and Nathan McKinnon all on the ice
30:54
Speaker 5: playing at the same time.
30:55
Speaker 4: I mean, it is it is remarkable. I mean it is.
30:58
Speaker 5: It is awfully close to like dream team level of play.
31:03
Speaker 5: When you know you add Jordan and Patrick Patrick, Charles Barkley,
31:07
Speaker 5: I mean it's like it is up there. So I
31:09
Speaker 5: think that's just at the core like where all of
31:12
Speaker 5: this comes from. I think as sports fans, you know,
31:14
Speaker 5: you want to see, you want to see best on best,
31:16
Speaker 5: and with the Olympics specifically, you know, there's there's always
31:20
Speaker 5: the the feel of amateurism that's still in there, you know,
31:24
Speaker 5: that the fact that, uh, you know that the non
31:26
Speaker 5: traditional athlete can have an Olympic moment, and certainly the
31:29
Speaker 5: Miracle on Ice team has got a piece of that
31:32
Speaker 5: as well, being all college students at the time, many
31:35
Speaker 5: of them, you know, teenagers. So I think, you know,
31:38
Speaker 5: that's kind of where you get sort of a meeting
31:41
Speaker 5: of the crossroads. You know, you've got these, you know,
31:44
Speaker 5: in hockey's case, these multimillion dollar athletes that are living
31:48
Speaker 5: in the Olympic village, you know, rooming up in dorms
31:51
Speaker 5: with just like every other athlete for their for their
31:54
Speaker 5: nations country. So I think it kind of gets it
31:57
Speaker 5: gets back to the purity of sport and show that,
32:00
Speaker 5: you know, even these guys that make a lot of money,
32:03
Speaker 5: you know, they play for love of game and love
32:05
Speaker 5: of country.
32:06
Speaker 1: You mentioned the three thousand people or so at NBC
32:10
Speaker 1: making this thing happen. Calling all the different events take
32:14
Speaker 1: us a little bit through what a day is like.
32:17
Speaker 1: Calling an event from there, you know, with the games
32:20
Speaker 1: going on in Italy and how you're able to get
32:22
Speaker 1: that atmosphere and how you prepare and just take us
32:25
Speaker 1: a little bit behind the scenes there.
32:28
Speaker 5: Sure, so you know, the schedule for Milan is a
32:33
Speaker 5: little bit better than it was for say, like the
32:36
Speaker 5: Tokyo Summer Olympics, where there was a match complete polarity
32:40
Speaker 5: in the schedule, Like Tokyo was thirteen hours ahead of Stanford,
32:44
Speaker 5: so it was like, you know, six in the morning
32:47
Speaker 5: here was seven in the morning there. You know, there's
32:49
Speaker 5: there's a little bit more done during the daylight hours
32:54
Speaker 5: here for the Milan Olympics in the United States. But
32:57
Speaker 5: you know, the first games of the hockey schedule take
32:59
Speaker 5: place a little bit after noon in Milan, which is
33:02
Speaker 5: a little bit after six o'clock Eastern time, so it's
33:05
Speaker 5: still it's still plenty early, but you know, you walk
33:08
Speaker 5: in there and for like for my my six o'clock
33:11
Speaker 5: hockey game yesterday, you walk in there and it's, uh,
33:15
Speaker 5: it's still dark outside, but you look around and everybody
33:17
Speaker 5: else is there for work, and so you kind of
33:19
Speaker 5: forget that you're tired or you're just woke up, and
33:22
Speaker 5: you know, they've got a nice like espresso bar in
33:25
Speaker 5: the in the in the Commissary, which is of course
33:28
Speaker 5: necessary twisted, yeah, and twisted in the Italian way. So cappuccinos, lattes,
33:34
Speaker 5: what whatever, whatever you like. But you know, NBC does
33:37
Speaker 5: such a great job documenting their their history and sports broadcasting.
33:41
Speaker 5: So you know, actually one of the first things that
33:43
Speaker 5: I see when I when I walk in is a
33:45
Speaker 5: you know, a large black and white edited photo of
33:49
Speaker 5: Super Bowl one. So uh, you know, my my Packers fandom,
33:53
Speaker 5: you know, immediately gets uh gets stoked, you know, right.
33:56
Speaker 4: When you walk in.
33:57
Speaker 5: But they've got a you know, they've got a big
33:58
Speaker 5: wall with all all of the all of the plaques
34:02
Speaker 5: for all of the Olympic games that have that have
34:04
Speaker 5: been broadcast on NBC.
34:06
Speaker 4: So am No. Ninety eight, Nagao.
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Speaker 5: I'm that.
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Speaker 4: Every every just about.
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Speaker 7: Every all the pretty much all the rest, yeah exactly.
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Speaker 5: Is still a great a great Olympics as well. But
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Speaker 5: you know, you walk down the hall and then you
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Speaker 5: make a turn and it's uh, you know, you get
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Speaker 5: to a really wide hallway at the back of the
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Speaker 5: building and they call that I ninety five for you know,
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Speaker 5: the actual interstate that runs up the East coast, and
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Speaker 5: you know that's kind of the the main drag truly,
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Speaker 5: where you know, you've got all of the all of
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Speaker 5: the big studios that that you see part of the
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Speaker 5: Olympic coverage, whether you're watching on c NBC or Universal
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Speaker 5: during the day. A lot of those studios, of course,
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Speaker 5: are the ones that you see, for example, Sunday night
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Speaker 5: football during the football season. And then one of those
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Speaker 5: studios has been has been repurposed into just a series
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Speaker 5: of vo booths, so voiceover booths, and so you know,
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Speaker 5: hockey is hockey is Booth two and booth three or whatever.
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Speaker 4: The one right across the way from us is curling.
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Speaker 5: So you know, you kind of go in there and
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Speaker 5: you hear these you hear these these snapshots, these you know,
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Speaker 5: exclamation points of like big action that might be happening
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Speaker 5: in other events that you're not doing. So you know,
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Speaker 5: it's a it's a it's a humble setup, I guess,
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Speaker 5: you know, We're just calling games off off monitors and
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Speaker 5: then I'm sitting in a booth, you know, right next
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Speaker 5: to my color commentator, and then there's a dividing wall
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Speaker 5: on the other side of that as our producer, you know,
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Speaker 5: basically just getting getting the cues from obs from the
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Speaker 5: Olympic Broadcast Service, you know, instead of every instead of
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Speaker 5: every country sending their own camera crews and technical crews
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Speaker 5: over there, you know, the Olympics provide the camera work
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Speaker 5: and the shots and in some cases even the graphics,
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Speaker 5: and then they send that right to us at NBC
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Speaker 5: and then we kind of take it and then we'll
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Speaker 5: doctor it up with some of our some of our
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Speaker 5: own graphics if there's something specifically that we want to emphasize,
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Speaker 5: and then you know, we kind of mesh that into
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Speaker 5: whatever the programming flow is for whatever channel we're on,
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Speaker 5: whether it's c.
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Speaker 4: NBC, Universal, NBC, or or Peacock.
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Speaker 5: So you know, that's kind of I guess I'm getting
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Speaker 5: a little bit into the second bargain that maybe the
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Speaker 5: average fan wouldn't wouldn't care so much about. But you know,
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Speaker 5: like there's there's all kinds of even even some of
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Speaker 5: the quirky stuff too, Like you know, you walk through
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Speaker 5: and there are you know, you can practice your Italian
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Speaker 5: and you know they've.
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Speaker 4: Always got.
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Speaker 5: A little bit a little bit Yeah, yeah, I've been
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Speaker 5: a little bit timid to try that, but you know that, Yeah,
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Speaker 5: the metal count is is always on display, so you know, you,
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Speaker 5: you get, you get pumped up being a part of it.
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Speaker 6: For the hallways are like the gold zone. You just
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Speaker 6: get to hear all the greatest moments from all the
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Speaker 6: all the different ones to tremendous. Totally, Chris, you guys
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Speaker 6: are doing a phenomenal job. One last do we have
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Speaker 6: it one last time for one more broadcast? Nerdy question?
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Speaker 3: One last one?
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Speaker 6: Okay, So, Chris, in all the games you've called right
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Speaker 6: called the highest level in the NHL and all.
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Speaker 3: How different is it? What are you? Are you using
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Speaker 3: like a full ice? Look?
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Speaker 6: Are you getting me all eleven or all twelve you'd
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Speaker 6: call it in in hockey with the five and the goaltenders,
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Speaker 6: or or are you noticing when you're watching it calling
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Speaker 6: it off the monitor of what we're almost seeing that
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Speaker 6: it's easier for you to identify.
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Speaker 3: It's fascinating. You guys done such a good job with it.
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Speaker 5: Well thanks, And so you know, the unique challenge about
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Speaker 5: doing these Olympic Hockey broadcast is that we are just
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Speaker 5: calling it off the program feed, just calling it off
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Speaker 5: of what you see at home, and we like, you know,
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Speaker 5: I've done I've done remote broadcasting plenty, you know, and
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Speaker 5: I always have it like an All eleven or you know,
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Speaker 5: even like an All four or something like that, you're
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Speaker 5: always able to see the other camera angles don't have
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Speaker 5: that for for this, so it is truly you know,
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Speaker 5: they're like candidly. There are some times where you know
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Speaker 5: there there are some blind spots and you know you
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Speaker 5: kind of just just through just from you know, the game,
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Speaker 5: you kind of get a sense for, Okay, that was
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Speaker 5: that was offside or no, that was actually a penalty
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Speaker 5: or I think that was you know, a high stick.
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Speaker 5: So you know you kind of have to you know,
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Speaker 5: you just can't have to hedge a little bit. You know,
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Speaker 5: you're you just can't go out and say what happened
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Speaker 5: unless you you know, you're actually one hundred percent percent sure.
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Speaker 5: So it makes for a unique challenge, I think to
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Speaker 5: this broadcast assignment specifically. But you know, again, like the
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Speaker 5: one shot that you're given does a good job picking
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Speaker 5: up you know, ninety five percent of the action.
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Speaker 6: It's one of those moments where if you told the
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Speaker 6: young aspiring broadcaster Chris Foster's, hey, you're gonna get to
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Speaker 6: do the Olympics, but you're gonna call it on a
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Speaker 6: tin can and not being only be able to watch
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Speaker 6: the game cast. I think you'd probably take the assignment.
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Speaker 6: Just the program feed will be good and you guys
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Speaker 6: have knocked it out of the park.
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Speaker 3: Man, it's been. It's been awesome. So thank you for
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Speaker 3: the time, and thank you for all the work. And
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Speaker 3: we're going to continue to watch and enjoy it.
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Speaker 5: Man, love to hear it, enjoy the new show and
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Speaker 5: always happy to come on with you guys, and thanks
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Speaker 5: for tuning in.
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Speaker 4: Really appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Chris, You're the man, dude. Thanks Chris.
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Speaker 4: There he is.
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Speaker 3: Chris Foster's joining us here from NBC.
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Speaker 6: Make sure you follow him on social media at c
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Speaker 6: J Vosters as well. He was in from Matt Lapey
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Speaker 6: does a phenomenal job basketball hotball on Big ten Network.
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Speaker 3: He's one, he's one of the best.
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Speaker 6: And uh said a listener, how about he's been meant
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Speaker 6: to be in a huddle?
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Speaker 3: You can't.
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Speaker 7: Right, let's go.
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Speaker 6: That's what we like to hear, that's what we needed
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Speaker 6: and we want all of you listening on the other
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Speaker 6: side as we have our closing ceremonies Olympics not closing up.
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Speaker 3: This little huddle.
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Speaker 6: Will be for day one of the week on a
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Speaker 6: game balls and kicks to the Balls Monday coming up.
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Speaker 3: On the other side, you got the huddle.