Transcript

07/27/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Bill schmid Armands are and the Iron Men. They were
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Speaker 1: here last week slugging it out for you smart, good
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Speaker 1: looking listeners who are experiencing this program on AM nine
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Speaker 1: to twenty Milwaukee, ten seventy, Madison, everywhere on that iHeart
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Speaker 1: app of yours streaming live, Facebook x and YouTube. The
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Speaker 1: five o'clock Clubbers are welcoming folks who wake up at
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Speaker 1: six glad to have you a board.
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Speaker 2: And we all are being welcomed by our friend Ryan
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Speaker 2: and Mosquigo, who drew and you said, catch me up.
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Speaker 2: I did forget to. I buried the lead on one.
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Speaker 2: We had a request. Now we've been expanding and are
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Speaker 2: as we expand into Training Camp Live starting up on
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Speaker 2: Wednesday eleven to one. All days during Monday through Friday
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Speaker 2: that there's a public practice myself and Wayne Larview will
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Speaker 2: be up doing Training Camp Live. So people were like,
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Speaker 2: if you're in this expanding culture and mindset, Ryan and
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Speaker 2: Mosquigo said, what about the blue collar club and start
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Speaker 2: this thing up at four am?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we were thinking in the opposite direction.
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Speaker 2: Ryan, However, we appreciate the blue collar folks out there,
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Speaker 2: So if there's anything we can do to make this
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Speaker 2: moist warning any better for you. Let us know that
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Speaker 2: doesn't involve us probably starting this thing up at four.
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Speaker 1: It is moist, let me tell you.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, the four o'clock club was an idea thrown
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Speaker 3: out there by him. But then I, you know, I
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Speaker 3: broached the idea, well more, do you stop it? What
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Speaker 3: about the three o'clock club? You know this is a
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Speaker 3: slippery slope, so we should just be on air at
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Speaker 3: all times.
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Speaker 1: In my early days of my career, I worked four
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Speaker 1: am to noon, was a shift on the desk at
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Speaker 1: the old Milwaukee Journal. Yeah, and there was also midnight
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Speaker 1: to eight. Yeah, two guys that worked midnight to eight,
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Speaker 1: and a bunch of guys came in at four and
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Speaker 1: worked four am to noon and put the paper to
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Speaker 1: bed so it could hit Billy's doorstep at you know,
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Speaker 1: four thirty five in the afternoon at midnight to eight.
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Speaker 2: I can only imagine the kind of good stuff you
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Speaker 2: were getting on that kind of desk. Yeah, there's if
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Speaker 2: anything is coming into the news desk at two thirty. Now,
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying necessarily from like a West Bend golf club,
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Speaker 2: but there's gonna be there's gonna be something interesting in
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Speaker 2: some kind of news worthy io.
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Speaker 3: At that point, you're just working the old one to
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Speaker 3: five or I call it the Less Grabs teem of
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Speaker 3: moral limitational.
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Speaker 1: All right, yeah, ever slept Robert, No, he didn't. He's
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Speaker 1: probably why he passed early because he lived on no sleep.
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Speaker 3: That was It was just like, can we talk about
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Speaker 3: our guy, big Ben mallor a robust community at that hour?
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Speaker 1: You know there really is, but yeah, Ben mallor though
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Speaker 1: you know, yeah, hero, but West Coast time man. Those
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Speaker 1: guys live on the West Coast, so the shift isn't
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Speaker 1: as onerous as it might be.
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Speaker 2: His same, Yeah, it's a little different than less doing
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Speaker 2: the legit eleven to five, ten and a half minute
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Speaker 2: weather updates that would happen and then all of a
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Speaker 2: sudden bringing anything back to the ninety three finals. Like
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Speaker 2: that's a talent. That's a talent that's hard to ever replate.
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Speaker 1: We're so deep in the wings here. A lot of
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Speaker 1: people don't know who Less Grass was. Chicago guy, legend,
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Speaker 1: overnight guy.
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Speaker 3: One of the only guys that was on Let's put
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Speaker 3: it this way live and somewhat local. I mean it's
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Speaker 3: not local here, but it was within a two hundred
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Speaker 3: mile radius. Local you just don't will not get radio
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Speaker 3: like that anymore. So it is a little nerd inside baseball.
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Speaker 1: Ish, but it's a by gone era.
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Speaker 2: It's just a by gone era and a lot of
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Speaker 2: sports broadcasting, Drew. We had a lot of those those
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Speaker 2: moments last week when the ESPN layoffs hit through. You
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Speaker 2: saw what we knew and what we have done and
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Speaker 2: seen in sports media and broadcasting is not coming back.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that it would.
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Speaker 2: Live the same uh, And it is a it's just
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Speaker 2: a different time to be doing a lot of what
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Speaker 2: we do and certain things that you think would be
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Speaker 2: beautiful that were fifteen twenty years ago and probably wouldn't
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Speaker 2: play right now because of how we consume so much
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Speaker 2: of it.
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Speaker 1: That point, I'll give you a little Bob Drew. I
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Speaker 1: heard you on the Jeff Pearlman podcast. I listen, Oh,
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Speaker 1: thank you for listening.
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Speaker 4: Guys.
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Speaker 3: We're talking about the golden age of sports writing and
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Speaker 3: how that those were the gold in the ears and
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Speaker 3: you sometimes you don't yet.
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Speaker 1: It was in one way, it was, but in another
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Speaker 1: way because back I think the generation before us, or
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Speaker 1: two generations before us, the athletes were a little more accessible. Sure,
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Speaker 1: even you know needed you, and yeah, I mean you
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Speaker 1: could do features and like go to guys houses in
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Speaker 1: the off season and stuff and do like you have
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Speaker 1: more access that today would be unthinkable.
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Speaker 2: They started to get a little more territorial back then
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Speaker 2: and just continue now to the point where it's almost like,
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Speaker 2: you know, zero dark thirty all the time.
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Speaker 1: Pretty much life for a lot of guys are different
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Speaker 1: to that. Well, yeah, compared to the current environment what
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Speaker 1: we had, and especially in terms of like budgets, Like
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Speaker 1: Jeff Peerlman, I met him, he's a buddy. When he
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Speaker 1: worked at Supports Illustrated, they had like an unlimited budget,
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Speaker 1: like they never like no expense was too big for
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Speaker 1: them to go anywhere there's some remote island and find
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Speaker 1: a guy, or just even even doing stuff like hey,
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Speaker 1: go fly there and see if you can find a
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Speaker 1: story and like chase stories that way.
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Speaker 3: He talks about it, how he would just on a
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Speaker 3: whim try and go and look around for guys.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, just Jeff's great and we're one of my
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Speaker 1: favorite people in the business. Great dude. So all right
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Speaker 1: eight seven seven seven nine game balls and kicks the
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Speaker 1: Balls Monday. I'm back from vacation and I missed this.
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Speaker 1: I missed our little daily fixtures like game balls and
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Speaker 1: kicks the balls today in the program, you know the ceremony.
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Speaker 1: You're in the locker room. You get to award a
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Speaker 1: game ball for a job well done. It's a kudo
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Speaker 1: and at a boy. Nice that this is a show
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Speaker 1: of appreciation, a nice gesture today on the huddle, this
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Speaker 1: is a game ball. How about a seven and two
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Speaker 1: home stand? How about a seven and two well played
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Speaker 1: Brian Anderson Brewers TV. Conversely, if someone needs to performance
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Speaker 1: provement plan, they needed to better kick them to the
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Speaker 1: wavos and go ahead and do it, and it sounds
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Speaker 1: like this.
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Speaker 4: Banking much worse for these guys today.
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Speaker 1: That's Rot talking about the Rockies. I could use them
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Speaker 1: as highlight, but those two bites were just too good. Worse.
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Speaker 1: Those are two good ones. Those are our game balls
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Speaker 1: and kicks to the ball sounder, and I will open
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Speaker 1: the bidding with a kick to the uavos for myself.
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Speaker 4: Thinking much worse one.
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Speaker 1: Come on now, started vacation after our show on Friday, Billy,
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Speaker 1: you were out on Thursdays. I recall the last two shows.
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Speaker 1: So it's just me and Armine skating shorthanded and then
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Speaker 1: we made it through. Made it through the show, and
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Speaker 1: my plan was to travel to Oklahoma, as I mentioned,
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Speaker 1: to visit my pal who runs a casino in Miama
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Speaker 1: Route sixty six, and I was there for Historic Root
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Speaker 1: sixty six one hundred and fiftieth anniversary this year. I
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Speaker 1: didn't know it was on celebrated. Yeah, it's on Route
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Speaker 1: sixty six. Find some interesting documentaries on YouTube, no questions.
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Speaker 1: So I'd never been there, and I was going to
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Speaker 1: go experience my palace facility in all of its glory.
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Speaker 1: And there was a Red Dirt music festival that was
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Speaker 1: on the Saturday night. My buddy Trapper Shep was scheduled
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Speaker 1: to play on Friday, did play on Friday leading into it,
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Speaker 1: and so it was just a cool series events events.
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Speaker 1: And I went there and after I show up, my
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Speaker 1: flight was at noon on Friday out of Milwaukee through
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Speaker 1: northwest Arkansas, which I've never been, like, I guess it's
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Speaker 1: the kind of the Fayetteville Airport. If you're flying into Fayetville,
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Speaker 1: I'll have to ask. I have to ask Jocko about this.
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Speaker 1: There's Pentonville and they did not go through Atlanta. Actually
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Speaker 1: changed planes in Dallas, Dallas makes sense. But as usual,
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Speaker 1: I'm scrambling to get ready. It's after the show. You're
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Speaker 1: a little foggy when you get up and work this shift.
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Speaker 1: But I was ready to go, fully juiced and ready
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Speaker 1: to go. Drove myself to the airport, and as I
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Speaker 1: was exiting my vehicle, what I like to do when
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Speaker 1: I go to the airport and you park in the
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Speaker 1: daily parking lot in the structure, I like to exit
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Speaker 1: my vehicle and take a picture of the nearest pillar
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Speaker 1: that tells me where I'm located.
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Speaker 2: Oh good call, yes, five, j man, I'm gonna start
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Speaker 2: doing that.
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Speaker 1: That's you can either drop a pin. People drop a pin,
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Speaker 1: but I just put in my photo library, take a picture,
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Speaker 1: and then you know, you don't have to think about it.
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Speaker 1: And then when you are on the plane touches down
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Speaker 1: at home, you look at your phone, go, okay, that's
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Speaker 1: where I am playing exactly. I made that dumb ass
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Speaker 1: mistake of walking around carrying my wheeled luggage back like,
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Speaker 1: all the way up and down the ramps looking for
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Speaker 1: my car. It yep, where is it? Chirp, chirp, trying
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Speaker 1: to chirp. Park south not north. Just text it so
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Speaker 1: I was I have the clear uh tsa pre and
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Speaker 1: I got clear. So I kind of, you know, cut
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Speaker 1: it closer than a lot of people do when it
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Speaker 1: comes to leaving departures. So I exited my vehicle and
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Speaker 1: went to take a picture of my location and realized
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Speaker 1: I didn't have my phone.
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Speaker 2: Oh oh, that's not it's not anywhere there.
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Speaker 3: That's as bad as it gets. That's not like we're
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Speaker 3: getting dental flaws. You can't, mat I have your phone
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Speaker 3: for the weekend.
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Speaker 1: You can't. I didn't have my phone, and it's like,
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Speaker 1: oh man, this is rough. How did it happen? I
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Speaker 1: have no idea because I'm an idiot. I remembered a
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Speaker 1: lot of other things, ancillary things, but you either have
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Speaker 1: to forget miss a miss a flight. I mean, okay,
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Speaker 1: but I also have an Apple Watch, as many do
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Speaker 1: in the Apple universe. I have been for twenty years
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Speaker 1: have the Apple Watch. And I thought, all right, well,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna text my wife and she can either maybe
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Speaker 1: buzz this into the airport and I can go meet
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Speaker 1: her outside or send it have it put it like
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Speaker 1: if she gets it to FedEx, I can get it
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Speaker 1: the next day. But I realized that my watch is
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Speaker 1: an older generation and it's not cellular enabled THEE I
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Speaker 1: roll into the airport and my flight was delayed by
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Speaker 1: like forty five minutes to an hour, And I thought,
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Speaker 1: that's tantalizing. Because I live close enough to the airport,
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Speaker 1: I can I could chance it. I could catch it
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Speaker 1: to go home and get back in time if I
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Speaker 1: leave right now. No, I'm going to roll with it.
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Speaker 1: I'll get ahold of my wife at some point. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm traveling. I'm flying naked without without the phone.
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Speaker 4: That is.
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Speaker 1: As you possibly right, So you might take like, okay,
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Speaker 1: this is no big deal. So I actually all right,
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Speaker 1: So how am I going to do this? All right?
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Speaker 1: What do you do on the plane? No? No music
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Speaker 1: to listen to. I actually bought two magazines. I bought
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Speaker 1: a GQ and a Pro Football Street Smith Pro Football magazine,
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Speaker 1: reading about all the teams, right, so I'm all right,
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Speaker 1: I'll have something to read on the plane.
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Speaker 4: Magazine.
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Speaker 1: So I'm thinking, all right, well I might be able
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Speaker 1: to do this. This is all right. So I fly
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Speaker 1: through Dallas and I get to Dallas and I have
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Speaker 1: my watch is working, and my watch has the American
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Speaker 1: app and it has my boarding pass on it. Stuff
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Speaker 1: I had. I had my ID and stuff, and I
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Speaker 1: didn't need a passport. But so I didn't have like
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Speaker 1: a hard boarding pass. But I was able to, you know,
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Speaker 1: I was scan in, yea scan in and yeah. So
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Speaker 1: and I wasn't checking the back because it was only
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Speaker 1: a weekend trip. So I'm traveling light. That's easy. And
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Speaker 1: I get to Dallas and I look at my watch
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Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, you know, Dallas is big airport
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Speaker 1: where the trams. So it's like, all right, I landed
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Speaker 1: at like C five and I have to get to
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Speaker 1: A eleven. Okay, I rolled and get on the tram,
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Speaker 1: go to eleven, get to A eleven and it's a
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Speaker 1: plane leaving for Mexico. Where is the plane for Northwest Arkansas?
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Speaker 1: That's back at see fifty. So you have to get
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Speaker 1: back on the tram. And now there was a gate
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Speaker 1: change that had I had my phone, I would have
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Speaker 1: received notification. Didn't receive it on my watch. Got to
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Speaker 1: so I got back on the tram, trains, planes and automobiles.
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Speaker 1: I wheeled back to the tram. I get to the
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Speaker 1: proper gate, which I could have walked to had I known,
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Speaker 1: you know, that had I been, I guess I could have.
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Speaker 1: I should have double checked. Yeah, I should have double
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Speaker 1: checked with the board. But I rolled to the I
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Speaker 1: rolled to the UH to the proper gate. I have
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Speaker 1: to take the tram all the way around the airport,
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Speaker 1: low processing, like oh no, and it's making the stops
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Speaker 1: and they stop seemed terminally long, and I'm getting more
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Speaker 1: and more pissed. I get to the proper gate and
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Speaker 1: I walk up and they had just closed the boarding door.
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Speaker 1: Gosh for my connecting flight, just like and didn't a page.
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Speaker 4: Well they didn't.
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Speaker 1: They did not because I wasn't checking a bag. So
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Speaker 1: like call the plane is leaving and I'm screwed. And
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Speaker 1: I'm like all right, still with no phone, no way
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Speaker 1: of communicating, and I'm like, all right, well I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: so they sent me now back, So now back on
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Speaker 1: the tram where I had gone. I'm sorry to get
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Speaker 1: to the to get to the I have I have
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Speaker 1: go back on the tramp to get back to customer
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Speaker 1: service and get rebooked. I get rebooked on the next
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Speaker 1: like get a hard boarding pass. It's like I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: be late. No way to reach out to anybody, an
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Speaker 1: extra two hours. There's a Portillo's in the airport, so
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Speaker 1: I was able to crush some familiar foods that point.
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Speaker 3: I mean, these are the things that are really rookie.
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Speaker 1: This is like what I'm like, how did we travel
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Speaker 1: back in the day? What did you do without the phone?
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Speaker 4: Now?
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Speaker 1: Thinking about this, like I can't call my boy that's
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Speaker 1: waiting for me, my buddy Trappers playing on Friday, and
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Speaker 1: they just wondering where I am, and I can't reach
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Speaker 1: out to anybody. So I go to a I've got
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Speaker 1: a couple of hours to kill. So I'm thinking to myself,
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Speaker 1: how do I alleviate this. There's there an electronics store
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Speaker 1: in Dallas. It's like a mall. It's like it's one
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Speaker 1: of the bigger airport. It's a huge. Here there's a
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Speaker 1: place called an eye Store. So I'm like, all right, well,
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Speaker 1: I'll jump on this tram and go to the eye Store.
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Speaker 1: Come on, now, I store. Maybe I'll buy a new phone,
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Speaker 1: buy a burner, I'll buy something. Although they don't have
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Speaker 1: any phones at the eye Store, they have like headphones
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Speaker 1: and cables and stuff. They do have Apple watches, though
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Speaker 1: cellular enabled Apple watches. My watch needs an upgrade it's
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Speaker 1: four hundred bucks, and I'm like, oh, I'll just grab
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Speaker 1: this watch. And then I realized, how do you set
13:31
Speaker 1: this up? Well, you need your phone or a laptop. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you can't do it. No, there's no way you can't
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Speaker 1: do it, Drew. I can't do it. So I run
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Speaker 1: it to a custodian and I'm like, wow, here's one
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Speaker 1: for you. What is there a payphone in the airport.
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Speaker 1: He's like, oh, wow, there used to be, like in Terminala,
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Speaker 1: but I don't know if it's there. The phones, there's
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Speaker 1: no payphone anywhere. There's a white courtesy phone. I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 1: maybe I can get an outsideline picked that up up
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Speaker 1: no dice for one of those quarter driven Yeah exactly.
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Speaker 1: Is there an internet cafe with an open terminal like
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Speaker 1: a locker? Right? Okay? Well then I think, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I got this credit card. What's in your wallet that
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Speaker 1: avails me of like, uh, airport clubs, that'll help you,
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Speaker 1: that'll help me. So I go to this place. I
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Speaker 1: go to the club. Now, if you subscribe to these things,
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Speaker 1: and I know it's a little bit boogie first world problem,
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Speaker 1: but if you if you have access to an airport club,
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Speaker 1: it used to be pretty cool, and then it became
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Speaker 1: like t s a pre like everybody has it, and
14:36
Speaker 1: then then they started It used to be you could
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Speaker 1: bring in three guests, and it was one. Now it's
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Speaker 1: like no, guess screwed. So I go to this lounge
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Speaker 1: for attached to my credit card. I'm not in an airport.
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Speaker 1: Like when I travel a lot, I had like these
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Speaker 1: airport airline clubs, and I had like status, and I
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Speaker 1: had miles and I.
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Speaker 2: Preferred every week. Yeah, I had a lot of the perks.
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Speaker 2: Now it's through the credit card. I go to this
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Speaker 2: credit card lounge and it's a freaking nightclub. It's like,
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Speaker 2: are you on the list? Like what list?
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Speaker 1: Oh, there's a waiting list. We have a waiting list.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be like twenty five minutes. They have people
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Speaker 1: have to leave to let them in. Give us your
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Speaker 1: phone number and we'll text you when you're when you're
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Speaker 1: when you're up. He gets worried about the fire coat
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Speaker 1: in here. I'm traveling without my phone. I don't have
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Speaker 1: my phone. Oh you don't. Well, then it's like stand
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Speaker 1: outside the door and Mike coming, Thanks buzzer that we
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Speaker 1: give you traveling without my phone? They're talking, well, forget
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Speaker 1: wandering like a shnook, like a zombie through the tall support,
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Speaker 1: no way to reach out to my wife, So I
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Speaker 1: have no hope of telling her to send my phone.
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Speaker 1: I've missed the window. Now she's not going to overnight
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Speaker 1: me a phone. I don't know what the hell at
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Speaker 1: that point, That's what I know. I felt like I
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Speaker 1: was Tom hankson Castaway both or the terminal either way.
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Speaker 1: But I'm just wondering now. I'm thinking to myself, Okay,
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Speaker 1: how do you work around this? And I'm asking I
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Speaker 1: told this woman at this I store and she's she's like, well,
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Speaker 1: there's like a play and concourse d And I go
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Speaker 1: there and it's just this crappy kiosk where they sell
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Speaker 1: headphones and for people who forget the game. That's not anything.
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Speaker 1: That's not gonna help me. I'm just zipping around these
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Speaker 1: trams and I'm trying to kill time, and it's just
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Speaker 1: the worst in it. I'm thinking to myself, could I
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Speaker 1: be that guy just go up to a random stranger
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Speaker 1: Bitsmart and say, can I send a text on your phone?
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Speaker 1: Because there's like two numbers I know my wife and
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Speaker 1: Johnny Vegas. Yes, and I could have texted them and like,
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Speaker 1: but I'm like, what would I do if someone said
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Speaker 1: get the hell out of here? Like, there's no way
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Speaker 1: in the midst of what your whole story here?
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Speaker 2: I've been trying to think of how I would try
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Speaker 2: to do it, and it was gonna be that awkward
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Speaker 2: encounter with somebody. Can I please borrow your phone? I
16:39
Speaker 2: know this sounds like we're in the early two thousands. Yeah,
16:42
Speaker 2: I just need to tell me to or could you.
16:44
Speaker 1: Text someone from your phone and say this is true
16:46
Speaker 1: for me and you text it and then you can
16:48
Speaker 1: block the number and you'll never hear from them. It's
16:49
Speaker 1: not a fishing scam. I'm screwed. I'm traveling with my phone.
16:52
Speaker 1: The only thing I was thinking of who would look
16:54
Speaker 1: at you?
16:54
Speaker 2: Stranger, said, random person you walk up to in the airport,
16:59
Speaker 2: or you know, the gate agent. Maybe they would have
17:02
Speaker 2: a phone sitting there at the desk. They might look
17:04
Speaker 2: at you like you had eight heads and then charge
17:06
Speaker 2: you twenty bucks to you.
17:06
Speaker 1: I actually went up to an empty gate and picked
17:08
Speaker 1: up the phone, tried to downline for an outside number
17:10
Speaker 1: and nothing. You can't Yeah strategy. I love that move.
17:13
Speaker 1: Can't get it.
17:14
Speaker 3: Next thing you know, you're intercomming the whole place, the
17:17
Speaker 3: whole terminal.
17:17
Speaker 1: Wow, this is so, this is incredible. Right, So I
17:20
Speaker 1: finally I'm screwed and I'm getting get in the plane,
17:23
Speaker 1: and I get to the Northwest Arkansas report. Rental car
17:26
Speaker 1: counter has my reservation. I walk up the counter. I'm like,
17:29
Speaker 1: I don't care what size car. I think I'd signed
17:31
Speaker 1: up for a compact or whatever. You know, I don't
17:33
Speaker 1: care what size car you give me, but it has
17:36
Speaker 1: to have navigation. Yes, I don't know. I will be cooked. Yeah, oh,
17:40
Speaker 1: none of our cars have nowt Oh, my gosh, here
17:42
Speaker 1: we go. Is it twenty twenty six? All right, none
17:46
Speaker 1: of the cars have nav great? Can I have a map?
17:48
Speaker 1: Here you go? I get this crappy map. The guy
17:52
Speaker 1: hands me a crappy eight and a half by eleven
17:54
Speaker 1: map of like northwest Arkansas. Now I'm traveling to Oklahoma
17:58
Speaker 1: and they can barely see Oklahom on the map the map,
18:02
Speaker 1: and this is a Nowheersville. This is Nowheresville, Arkansas to
18:08
Speaker 1: begin with Northwest Arkansas. And I know I'm gonna have
18:10
Speaker 1: to drive through Missouri and then get to Oklahoma because
18:13
Speaker 1: my boy Johnny vegas Man's a general manager of a
18:16
Speaker 1: casino in Oklahoma, but he lives in Kansas and drives
18:19
Speaker 1: through Missouri on his way to work. This is like
18:20
Speaker 1: where the States conserves. So I'm at the rental car
18:25
Speaker 1: counter and I'm like, oh my god, this map sucks.
18:27
Speaker 1: It's not going to get me, especially since it's getting
18:29
Speaker 1: dark and there's like and I'm in rural, rural Okay.
18:40
Speaker 1: And I drive it like there's the map. It's like,
18:42
Speaker 1: this is like a remote airport. To even get to
18:45
Speaker 1: a freeway. To get to the airport, there's like back
18:47
Speaker 1: roads and windy roads. And I find what looks like
18:49
Speaker 1: a main road and I'm approaching like this town called Bentonville,
18:52
Speaker 1: which you may have heard of, because I think it's
18:53
Speaker 1: like the headquarters of Walmart. Okay, Bentonville, Arkansas. That's why
18:58
Speaker 1: they have a nice airport. It's I knew and everything
19:00
Speaker 1: that was in the middle of nowhere. But I find
19:02
Speaker 1: this main drag and I find a an actual Walmart
19:05
Speaker 1: grocery store and I roll in. First of all, I
19:08
Speaker 1: found the first thing I found was a gas station,
19:10
Speaker 1: and I needed a bottle of water. And then I
19:12
Speaker 1: asked the kid working there. It's the size of grapes,
19:15
Speaker 1: you know, the kid, like twenty twenty year old kid.
19:20
Speaker 1: And I'm like, hey, you wouldn't happen to have a map,
19:23
Speaker 1: would you? No? No, you might want to check the
19:27
Speaker 1: Walmart like they don't have map. Maps don't exist anymore.
19:29
Speaker 1: I might as well have been asking for like a
19:31
Speaker 1: stone tablet or something.
19:32
Speaker 2: So like my man gave you the hardcore map didn't
19:35
Speaker 2: even print out like a map.
19:36
Speaker 1: Question for exist? This is like Andrew's going back twenty
19:41
Speaker 1: five years even Like so I'm like, how did we
19:43
Speaker 1: get around without our phones? It's unbelievad just the worg
19:47
Speaker 1: on trail going Oklahoma. So there's no map. I go
19:50
Speaker 1: to this Walmart that he sends me to. They don't
19:52
Speaker 1: have any map that I don't even think the woman
19:54
Speaker 1: knew what I was asking for. Then I'm like, all right,
19:57
Speaker 1: it's dark anymore. At this point, it's dark, and I
19:59
Speaker 1: have no chance, like if I had, if I hadn't
20:03
Speaker 1: come up with this idea, I'm like, okay, so where's
20:05
Speaker 1: the where's a? Is there a full service Walmart? I'm
20:07
Speaker 1: in Walmart Town? Is there a full service like what they?
20:10
Speaker 1: I don't want to go to I want to go
20:12
Speaker 1: to the super Oh yeah, there's a supercenter, Like you
20:14
Speaker 1: got to go like three miles and like I lucked
20:16
Speaker 1: into finding this supercenter, like because even then it was
20:19
Speaker 1: like windy, it's dark, it's Arkansas. I mean imagine being
20:24
Speaker 1: like clover arazing. Yeah, that's what I was worried about.
20:29
Speaker 1: And it's like out. So I go there and I'm
20:32
Speaker 1: looking at I'm looking at I might have to buy
20:34
Speaker 1: a cell phone. I might have to buy a burner.
20:38
Speaker 1: And then I see in the electronics department, I see
20:40
Speaker 1: a garment watch. I'm like, garment makes navigation beautiful. Boom. Yes,
20:45
Speaker 1: So I asked the kid, do you have any garment
20:48
Speaker 1: like navigation devices? Not the watch that's running right, but
20:51
Speaker 1: you have a garment navigation device. Oh, you have to
20:53
Speaker 1: go to automotive. So I walked schlep across this giant supercenter.
20:56
Speaker 1: Go to the other end. I walk into automotive. There's tires,
20:58
Speaker 1: there's batteries. I find a guy. I'm like, hey, do
21:00
Speaker 1: you have those navigation garment He's, oh, you gotta go
21:02
Speaker 1: to electronics. Brother, No, I don't know. I just came.
21:05
Speaker 1: They see me here another kid there they are another kid,
21:09
Speaker 1: they have the garment with one hundred bucks for a
21:11
Speaker 1: small screen one about the size of an iPhone, one
21:13
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty bucks for a bigger screen kind of
21:15
Speaker 1: the size of an iPad. Sure, all right, give me
21:17
Speaker 1: the smaller one cool plug and play. Plug it in
21:21
Speaker 1: and it works. I found the spot, so one hundred
21:24
Speaker 1: bucks for a garment to get me. So I'm like,
21:27
Speaker 1: I roll in. I show up at this at the
21:30
Speaker 1: place I'm supposed to be. I made it finally through,
21:33
Speaker 1: but it was still harrowing because it's windy. Yeah, the
21:38
Speaker 1: map you be trying to stay on. So I get
21:45
Speaker 1: to where I'm supposed to be as my buddy trapper
21:48
Speaker 1: Ship has finished it ten minutes after his set ended
21:50
Speaker 1: that I was supposed to be watching. I was going
21:52
Speaker 1: to introduce him. I wasn't. Yeah, calling you all the day. Yeah,
21:57
Speaker 1: that's a didn't have my phone. Didn't have my phone?
22:00
Speaker 1: That is crazy. So I made it there, but the
22:03
Speaker 1: way home was almost equally as bad. It was a
22:06
Speaker 1: travel nightmare. The moral of the story, kids, don't go
22:08
Speaker 1: anywhere without your fasts are so dependent on these devices,
22:12
Speaker 1: how did anyone get anywhere? It blows my mind? Maps
22:16
Speaker 1: or you KNOWSCA.
22:18
Speaker 2: I don't know where how you got places. I don't
22:20
Speaker 2: know how you met up with people. I don't know
22:22
Speaker 2: how you interacted with people. When somebody was going to
22:26
Speaker 2: an event and all of a sudden, oh sorry, I
22:28
Speaker 2: can't I can't make it there. I'm gonna be an
22:30
Speaker 2: hour late.
22:31
Speaker 1: Right Like that part of it has blown my mind.
22:33
Speaker 2: What you do for the seven minutes when you're sitting
22:35
Speaker 2: in a restaurant all by yourself while you wait for
22:37
Speaker 2: your friends to show up.
22:38
Speaker 1: And so it wasn't exactly just that way. I was
22:40
Speaker 1: in a hotel and I was on premise, and I
22:42
Speaker 1: still like to not be able to text people like
22:45
Speaker 1: I'll be there in ten minutes of where are you?
22:47
Speaker 1: That was brutal. In order to find out whether the
22:49
Speaker 1: Brewers won on Friday night, I had to wait and
22:52
Speaker 1: watch Sports Center and wait for the scroll and then
22:55
Speaker 1: it's like the scroll didn't happen. They went to commercial
22:57
Speaker 1: and then they I had to come back and wait
22:59
Speaker 1: for the highlight to see if the birds won. It
23:00
Speaker 1: was like two thousand and two weeks. It's like you're
23:02
Speaker 1: waiting for the school closing.
23:04
Speaker 3: You truly lived a life that was twenty years old.
23:07
Speaker 3: But you know, I have a really important question, and
23:10
Speaker 3: it's been worth it. It was gonna break, but it's
23:12
Speaker 3: been worth it. Did any part of you after the
23:15
Speaker 3: initial shock and frustration feel liberating without the phone, because for.
23:18
Speaker 1: The time, yes, that's that way, because I wasn't doom scrolling.
23:23
Speaker 3: I was not much different than being out of service
23:25
Speaker 3: if you're somewhere up north and you're in the middle
23:27
Speaker 3: of the woods exactly, and then it.
23:28
Speaker 1: Can be a little bit more connected with people in
23:30
Speaker 1: the conversations you're having. I mean, you're a little bit
23:33
Speaker 1: talking to strangers a little more.
23:34
Speaker 3: Yes, you've had you had a lot of people don't
23:37
Speaker 3: have any more in this society.
23:39
Speaker 1: Jruism. That's a great American summer road trip adventure. You
23:42
Speaker 1: had your ventor you had to figure out your way
23:44
Speaker 1: to survive. That's why I said I went. I went
23:46
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma via the Oregon Trail. It hits the balls
23:49
Speaker 1: to me, don't forget your cell phones, all right, when
23:51
Speaker 1: we come back, we'll fire up your game balls and kicks,
23:53
Speaker 1: and like the story goes on, because the chapter of
23:56
Speaker 1: getting home was almost equally as bad.
23:59
Speaker 2: Really, I was waiting though, for once you open that
24:02
Speaker 2: Garmin box for all of a sudden, it just say
24:04
Speaker 2: to complete your full resist.
24:06
Speaker 1: I did say that, go to the website. Yeah, it
24:09
Speaker 1: did say go to the website. But it plugged into
24:11
Speaker 1: the fully acceptable, thank god. And my wife has an
24:17
Speaker 1: older model car that has no Apple Play or car
24:20
Speaker 1: play or anything, so she actually can use that garment
24:22
Speaker 1: and it's like it'll be using the fair enough. That's
24:24
Speaker 1: a winner. Yeah. I would have paid one thousand dollars
24:26
Speaker 1: for a phone or something.
24:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, that guy should should have known he had you
24:30
Speaker 2: over the barrel five hundred probably, Yes, don't worry about it.
24:32
Speaker 1: I'll take it the lesson that you should have. Just
24:34
Speaker 1: go back and get the phone. And it's not worth it.
24:37
Speaker 1: We are so dependent no payphoness jock us. Fortunately I
24:41
Speaker 1: had Iron Jock clothing like my travel nightmare that I
24:44
Speaker 1: was just telling you about. Uh, it did not include
24:47
Speaker 1: my fashion because Iron Jock takes care of you. The socks,
24:50
Speaker 1: the underwear, everything that Paul Hanson makes is fantastic, top
24:55
Speaker 1: of the line, no question.
24:57
Speaker 2: And when you're sweating through uh freaking out at the
25:00
Speaker 2: airport and running up and downstairs and running back and
25:02
Speaker 2: forth to different lines, once you sweat, then it'll cool
25:06
Speaker 2: you down after and then it once stink once you're
25:08
Speaker 2: onto that plane. Finally, maybe that should be the new
25:12
Speaker 2: kind of campaign. That should maybe their new slogan. You know,
25:14
Speaker 2: I was hanging out with Polly a couple of weeks
25:16
Speaker 2: ago at the Brewers game. If I would have known this,
25:18
Speaker 2: I would have pitched that to him. Yeah, next time
25:20
Speaker 2: we see him, we're definitely going to sell that one to.
25:21
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25:52
Speaker 3: I was not that old funny because I was thinking
25:54
Speaker 3: about our friend Brian Butch when you were telling the story,
25:57
Speaker 3: true because I said to myself, the only other guy
25:59
Speaker 3: that I could see gett into travel predicament like this
26:02
Speaker 3: is Butchy because he has gotten some wild ones and
26:04
Speaker 3: he has driven through the most remote places ever to
26:06
Speaker 3: get to college.
26:07
Speaker 1: Bask that's true.
26:08
Speaker 3: So and he used to call me and stuff. And
26:10
Speaker 3: I remember the time, you know, he had a car
26:12
Speaker 3: broke down. I was looking up train schedules form. The
26:14
Speaker 3: only guy that I could think getting into predicament like
26:16
Speaker 3: this is Butcher, you know.
26:18
Speaker 1: Yeah.
26:18
Speaker 2: And the only reason why that one would be funnier
26:20
Speaker 2: is because he's the biggest son of a gun in
26:22
Speaker 2: the airport, blumber around asking for absolutely. I don't care
26:26
Speaker 2: what car you give me, it just needs to have navigation. Well, sir,
26:29
Speaker 2: we actually don't, but we do have this Pontiac Sunfire
26:32
Speaker 2: that we might be able.
26:34
Speaker 1: To put in navigation. Sit in see if you can
26:36
Speaker 1: get into that one. Man Ultimus that have been around
26:39
Speaker 1: game balls and kicks obviously game ball to MISERASKI I
26:43
Speaker 1: mean five innings pristine give it to him, Harman. How
26:47
Speaker 1: about a.
26:48
Speaker 2: Seven and two home state and how about a franchise record?
26:52
Speaker 2: Seven can first seven guys to start the game all
26:55
Speaker 2: ks that being the franchise record done a quick flyout
26:57
Speaker 2: and then another strikeout Drew. He just makes these things
27:01
Speaker 2: look so ordinary. However, even after that performance, I was
27:06
Speaker 2: ready to give myself a kick to the balls for
27:08
Speaker 2: considering Zach Wheeler and a Zac Wheeler investment at the
27:11
Speaker 2: Pototomy Sportsbook to win the cy Young Miserowski has that
27:13
Speaker 2: performance yesterday and his odds to win that award go
27:16
Speaker 2: down at the Potootomy Sports Book. Seems like people are
27:21
Speaker 2: starting to eyeball it and that it might not be
27:23
Speaker 2: as much of a lock as people thought it was.
27:25
Speaker 1: I did make that case because the Brewers are doing
27:28
Speaker 1: and what matters is not the cy Young. The Brewers
27:30
Speaker 1: did not adjust their schedule or manipulate anything to get
27:33
Speaker 1: him to pitch in the All Star Game. They don't
27:35
Speaker 1: care that much about the cy Young either. They care
27:37
Speaker 1: about October and having him ready and throw one hundred
27:40
Speaker 1: and four and ready to go when it matters. But
27:44
Speaker 1: that like that to the point, like if he reduces
27:47
Speaker 1: his innings to skip some starts, take some extra days,
27:51
Speaker 1: I mean a showing like yesterday. The Tyler Kepner's of
27:55
Speaker 1: the World and the Jeff Passons they're drooling over they
27:58
Speaker 1: love that. Yes, a good call, yep. But it also yeah,
28:01
Speaker 1: it might it might diminish his protecting. It might diminish
28:05
Speaker 1: his case in some circles.
28:06
Speaker 3: The big thing is it drops his war a little bit,
28:09
Speaker 3: and of those other guys, because they're producing more innings
28:12
Speaker 3: and outs and all those other things, we'll get a
28:14
Speaker 3: bigger war number, which is a cumulative number, and a
28:16
Speaker 3: lot of guys will vote based on that.
28:17
Speaker 1: Noani's not a threat for the young any.
28:19
Speaker 2: No, I don't think Otani's much of a threat. Sanchez
28:22
Speaker 2: has kind of slid down. Chris Sale is right there
28:24
Speaker 2: in the midst He had a huge eleven strikeout game
28:27
Speaker 2: last week. But you know, Zach Wheeler is the guy
28:30
Speaker 2: that's really running up in closing the gates right now.
28:33
Speaker 2: He's the the second in command. He get a huge
28:36
Speaker 2: start over the weekend. But I heard Murph on with
28:40
Speaker 2: with your pal Buster only on the Baseball Tonight podcast
28:43
Speaker 2: Phenomenal conversation last week.
28:46
Speaker 1: And Murph hat made some mention to it.
28:48
Speaker 2: He's like, we see all of these deals, we understand
28:51
Speaker 2: all of what our guys are in line for and
28:53
Speaker 2: the reason why we can work and operate the way
28:56
Speaker 2: we are right now.
28:57
Speaker 1: Is because our guys really don't care.
28:59
Speaker 2: Right, Like what you just said is paramount. Yeah, the
29:01
Speaker 2: team is not worried about it. But also didn't Sem
29:03
Speaker 2: like Misses, all that concerned about it. He would much
29:05
Speaker 2: more concern himself with pitching in October. And you see
29:10
Speaker 2: this whenever somebody gets pulled with a perfect gamer and
29:13
Speaker 2: no hitter and they say, well, we're saving them for
29:15
Speaker 2: bigger games.
29:16
Speaker 1: Well we want this moment.
29:17
Speaker 2: Well, the Cy Young is is a rather massive accomplishment
29:22
Speaker 2: for somebody to have, but not nearly as big of
29:24
Speaker 2: an accomplishment as starting a World Series guy. And when
29:27
Speaker 2: everybody in that clubhouse, especially maybe the biggest phenom in
29:31
Speaker 2: the sport right now, is buying into that, that's a
29:34
Speaker 2: that's a culture that's really contagious and something that's a
29:38
Speaker 2: little bit special. Agreed, because a lot of other guys
29:41
Speaker 2: would be looking for their opportunity in their award to
29:43
Speaker 2: try to be a maze.
29:44
Speaker 1: You win to Cy Young, you're a made guy in
29:45
Speaker 1: this league pretty much. Oh definitely. It's twenty three years old.
29:50
Speaker 1: That's that's a different belt on the wall.
29:51
Speaker 3: And it puts you a different stratosphere in terms of
29:53
Speaker 3: career and all kinds of when they when they start
29:56
Speaker 3: counting your all time accolades, there's no question about it.
29:58
Speaker 3: So pretty interesting. You mentioned the odds. Right now he's
30:01
Speaker 3: still the minus three thirty five favorite of Potawatomy Sports
30:03
Speaker 3: book Zach Wheeler. Now the second they're at plus six fifties.
30:07
Speaker 3: So it'll be interesting to see how things go down
30:09
Speaker 3: the stretch and how the voters vote. You know, we
30:12
Speaker 3: always have about wagering, Billy, and wagering on the futures
30:14
Speaker 3: for awards is always interesting because you're predicting human opinion
30:19
Speaker 3: in a way like you know, it's not predicting performance.
30:22
Speaker 2: You don't you don't know who's voting. You don't know
30:24
Speaker 2: you know what what entities. You know, maybe an athletic
30:27
Speaker 2: NFL writer is voting on it and she's already promised
30:29
Speaker 2: the awarded two people, so you don't you don't necessarily
30:32
Speaker 2: know who it could potentially be at some particular point
30:35
Speaker 2: in how those guys are or girls are going to
30:37
Speaker 2: be voting.
30:38
Speaker 1: That's interesting. Yeah, you don't know, Yeah, good point.
30:40
Speaker 2: We do know that our friend Justin in North Carolina
30:42
Speaker 2: is listening to us on his way to Pittsburgh play golf.
30:45
Speaker 2: He pointed out the Rockies after the home run on
30:49
Speaker 2: Sunday yesterday, when they're down eight to one and Willie
30:52
Speaker 2: Castro hits it. You could also hear the hot mic
30:54
Speaker 2: pickups saying I don't give a.
30:55
Speaker 1: Bleep about him.
30:56
Speaker 2: Pretty crazy if that's your only hit of the game
30:58
Speaker 2: where you want to celebrate like they yesterday off the
31:01
Speaker 2: homer on miss. But he did also point out game
31:04
Speaker 2: ball to Brandon Sisa for a great first post.
31:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, and buying into the Brewers culture to come.
31:09
Speaker 2: On, Brandon say, throwing out the first pitch getting ready
31:12
Speaker 2: for his first big camp. He is going to be
31:14
Speaker 2: somebody drew that we're talking. I would assume a lot
31:17
Speaker 2: about coming up this week as we start up training
31:20
Speaker 2: camp live, because eyes are always on the rookie, especially
31:23
Speaker 2: at corner where people have been trying to find a
31:25
Speaker 2: new one for the last couple of years.
31:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was trying to think about that because heading
31:30
Speaker 1: into this camp in terms of like competition for jobs. Yeah,
31:34
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the receiver room and like the
31:37
Speaker 1: is Carrington Valentine and Keishaw Nixon are they the starter
31:40
Speaker 1: as at cisay like that he's gonna play, But how
31:42
Speaker 1: much and how will they mix him in? To me,
31:46
Speaker 1: it's like, I still my eyes are gonna be on
31:48
Speaker 1: that offensive line. What does that look like? Because that's
31:50
Speaker 1: the unit that needs to improve the most year over
31:52
Speaker 1: year to me.
31:53
Speaker 2: One hundred percent, and it's the one drew that outside
31:55
Speaker 2: of maybe right guard. We were talking about this with
31:57
Speaker 2: Wayne last week and Nags and I were doing it
31:59
Speaker 2: on the CA the G Radio podcast, Like you come
32:02
Speaker 2: in with all these camp battles, there's not a ton.
32:05
Speaker 1: There's not a ton.
32:06
Speaker 4: Now.
32:06
Speaker 2: Some might some could open up depending on how much
32:08
Speaker 2: Tom practices at right tackle. Maybe Anthony Belton plays over
32:12
Speaker 2: there and Jagger Burton just takes over right guard early
32:14
Speaker 2: and often.
32:15
Speaker 1: That could alleviate one of those.
32:17
Speaker 2: But c Valentine is one that I know people don't
32:20
Speaker 2: like to hear this. He shot Nixon's gonna be one
32:22
Speaker 2: of the starters. He he is gonna be one of
32:24
Speaker 2: the starters. I think you go back and watch some
32:27
Speaker 2: of it. Him and Valentine didn't play as bad as
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Speaker 2: it would look in coverage. The tackling is the tough
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Speaker 2: one for Valentine and it's maybe the spot where Cis
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Speaker 2: can catch up quicker than elsewhere.
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Speaker 1: So that that and then who's opposite van Ness, Like,
32:40
Speaker 1: who's the edge guy until Parsons get back? Is it?
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Speaker 1: Is it the young Deny? Is it boy Dennis Sutton?
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Speaker 1: Is it?
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Speaker 4: Is it?
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Speaker 1: Or is it you know?
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Speaker 2: Or is it my flavor of the month For the
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Speaker 2: last two years, Drew every single time you and I
32:53
Speaker 2: are doing Packers TM, like watch out for Brenton Cox Jr.
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Speaker 2: Barons around and in the midst here they're handing up
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Speaker 2: Baron's rail fourth round pick from a year agoes Like, guys,
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Speaker 2: I'm right here and I've been training with Micah all
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Speaker 2: year long.
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Speaker 4: The guy.
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Speaker 2: The people were telling us that baby Micah Colin Oliver
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Speaker 2: was gonna come back last come out last year and
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Speaker 2: have a bunch of sacks. He played one game and
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Speaker 2: missed most of the offseason program, So that's a.
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Speaker 1: That's a good battle.
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Speaker 2: And also who's gonna play tight end alongside Tucker Kraft
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Speaker 2: is going to be an interesting that's interesting to you
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Speaker 2: anticipated it'll be a.
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Speaker 1: Lot last but maybe Josh Wiley.
33:30
Speaker 2: They've got a bunch of guys and that could be
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Speaker 2: a spot where R. J. Maryland keeps that streak alive
33:34
Speaker 2: of an undrafted rookie free agent man.
33:36
Speaker 1: Because it's Green Bay and it's camp, we will over
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Speaker 1: focus on the kicking game. Oh for sure, it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be all tray Smack all the time. It will be
33:45
Speaker 1: Tray Smack will be in the crosshairs.
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Speaker 2: One that I'm very happy we don't have. And how
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Speaker 2: about a game ball to Brian goodigunz fory.
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, I'll get one here for him
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Speaker 1: in a second, all right game? Oh sorry about that?
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Speaker 1: Yeah about a seven or two home state.
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Speaker 2: We will not discuss at all this camp a battle
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Speaker 2: for the backup quarterback spot.
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Speaker 1: True, only the third before the practice.
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Speaker 2: Car Yeah, only the only the one of who ends
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Speaker 2: up making the practice squad. But Tyrod Taylor is the
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Speaker 2: most locked in guy that the Packers have had at
34:17
Speaker 2: that spot with love.
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Speaker 1: Which begs a question, and this is a good one,
34:20
Speaker 1: And we'll have a whole camp to decide who do
34:22
Speaker 1: you feel more comfortable with as the number two, Malik
34:24
Speaker 1: Willis or Tyrod Taylor. Tyro Taylor is more experienced and
34:27
Speaker 1: through the league, longer and older. H Milik Willis was
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Speaker 1: great in the small doses they had to play in
34:33
Speaker 1: Green Bay, and it got him a contracts got him
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Speaker 1: a bunch of money. But are they in a better
34:37
Speaker 1: spot at the number two now with Tyrod Taylor than
34:39
Speaker 1: they were at with Milk.
34:40
Speaker 2: The proof will be in the pudding, But Drew, I
34:42
Speaker 2: kind of think they are from the from the knowledge
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Speaker 2: base that Taylor provides, the amount of games he's played.
34:47
Speaker 1: He took the people forget this one.
34:49
Speaker 2: He took the Buffalo Bills of the playoffs for the
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Speaker 2: first time in twelve years. He broke that playoff drought.
34:53
Speaker 2: It wasn't Josh Allen the year before he comes there.
34:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not the same. He's not dynamic, not gonna
34:58
Speaker 1: run as much, right, but he if he can, and
35:02
Speaker 1: Lafleura will Taylor something to him that if they have to,
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Speaker 1: if they have to break lass case of emergency, Tyrod
35:08
Speaker 1: Taylor's your guy.
35:09
Speaker 2: But also mentally on the sideline, like we started seeing
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Speaker 2: this a lot last year, it felt like Lafleur had
35:14
Speaker 2: adjusted or maybe leaned in a little too much. Going
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Speaker 2: over to the sideline, going over to the bench, make
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Speaker 2: sure you're sitting down, have as much conversation with Jordan
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Speaker 2: as possible. He maybe admittedly so thought it took him
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Speaker 2: away from the entire game a little bit more. Tyrod,
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Speaker 2: Taylor's gonna be able to do and have every conversation
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Speaker 2: imaginable about what he's watching, what Jordan's seeing, Like that
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Speaker 2: mental guy on the sideline, Drew, I don't know that
35:37
Speaker 2: he's had that club in his bag since he was
35:40
Speaker 2: has been playing. He got to go over there and
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Speaker 2: do it and have those talks with a Rod when
35:44
Speaker 2: he was playing. But Tyrod has seen everything in the NFL,
35:48
Speaker 2: and that's going to be mentally. I think a huge
35:50
Speaker 2: leg up for Jordan going into a huge right.
35:52
Speaker 3: And I'll predict us punk trains long pre game, so
35:54
Speaker 3: I think that'll be a win. Y, that's a good call.
35:57
Speaker 1: Taking your game balls and kicks to the balls. I
35:59
Speaker 1: think I got a kick, Billy. And this is like
36:02
Speaker 1: it might seem gratuitous. It Zoby Brissette making.
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Speaker 4: Much worse for these guys today.
36:08
Speaker 1: That's that's a choice to be the Cardinals quarterback. He
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Speaker 1: did sign fifteen point five million, But he's seems a
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Speaker 1: little pissed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't seem like he likes it doesn't seem
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Speaker 2: like that was exactly enough in the happiness category.
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Speaker 1: It was a little frosty to reporters when someone said, I,
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Speaker 1: what are you going to say to people like, you know,
36:28
Speaker 1: based on what you know? You're well, you want track
36:30
Speaker 1: record here? Third?
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Speaker 3: He went from third to lowest paid quarterback to fourth.
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Speaker 3: That's what I saw. A nice bump. Yeah, you know what,
36:36
Speaker 3: but it is a bump. I mean, you have to
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Speaker 3: ask yourself, is this his last shot.
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Speaker 1: Of the pay day?
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Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 2: The other the interesting thing for Brissette is he's like,
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Speaker 2: universally accepted is you could do a lot worse than
36:46
Speaker 2: Jacoby Brissette, right, but in the same vein, you can
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Speaker 2: always do a hell of a lot better. And every
36:51
Speaker 2: team is hoping better than paying better.
36:53
Speaker 1: All right, So michae lflores first shot to head coach,
36:56
Speaker 1: and he's got to navigate these somewhat choppy waters with
36:59
Speaker 1: a guy who again, welcome to the league, middle of
37:01
Speaker 1: the road. And I didn't realize, you know, did you know?
37:06
Speaker 1: Or I may have not registered it until I saw
37:08
Speaker 1: these stories. Who's Michael Fleur's offensive coordinator? M who is it? Drew?
37:13
Speaker 1: The Cardinals offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett? How about that? Huh
37:18
Speaker 1: is very very check and getting the callson plays? Maybe
37:22
Speaker 1: I know I don't know, maybe Mike.
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Speaker 2: But they got three guys that I think are they're
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Speaker 2: potentially gonna end up seeing play games uh at quarterback
37:31
Speaker 2: for the Cardinals. And they got a lot of a
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Speaker 2: lot of questions to answer, uh with their young squad.
37:37
Speaker 1: They got a couple of nice players.
37:38
Speaker 2: Marvin Harrison Junior had a better year than people would
37:40
Speaker 2: anticipate last year.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
37:41
Speaker 2: But Gardner Minshew was there. I think a lot of
37:43
Speaker 2: people would forget that. One wouldn't think that one. Carson
37:46
Speaker 2: Beck was the third round pick. I want to say
37:49
Speaker 2: he was one of those draft picks that the director
37:51
Speaker 2: of college scouting drew on that nice little parlay that
37:55
Speaker 2: was potentially placed by his wife's name.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 2: Carson Beck might end up starting games for them at
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Speaker 2: some point this year. So Jacoby Brissett's like, make sure
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Speaker 2: I get all my cash, even if it means I'm
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Speaker 2: probably helping give away my job coming up in my
38:09
Speaker 2: last year as a starting quarterback.
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Speaker 1: That's tough. That's a tough decision to make for a
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Speaker 1: couple of bucks. This is neither a kick to the
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Speaker 1: balls nor a game ball. It's just like hmm, the
38:20
Speaker 1: Red Sox making a trade and getting Curtis Mead the
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Speaker 1: third Basement from Washington in exchange for Connelly Early, who's
38:26
Speaker 1: a promising lefty.
38:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, now I see Curtis Mead. That's a nice player
38:32
Speaker 2: there for the Nationals to give.
38:33
Speaker 1: Up, right, yeah, his uh it looks like But then
38:37
Speaker 1: I think this, I would rather have the left handed arm.
38:39
Speaker 1: Yeah to me. But it's like I thought Durbin was
38:42
Speaker 1: coming around and like, what are you gonna do with
38:43
Speaker 1: Caleb Durban now that you went and trade it for
38:45
Speaker 1: a third basement. It's a great question, Durban. It's one
38:48
Speaker 1: of your hottest guys.
38:49
Speaker 2: And they're basically the same guy, twenty five years old.
38:52
Speaker 2: Third basement.
38:53
Speaker 4: Now.
38:53
Speaker 2: I also thought maybe that means the Nationals are opening
38:56
Speaker 2: up selling because over the weekend that was the story
38:59
Speaker 2: at the Athletic that the Rus we're going to try
39:00
Speaker 2: to rekindle those conversations for one CJ. Abrams coming up
39:04
Speaker 2: near the deadline, that would be a fascination to see.
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Speaker 1: Wild all right? Eight seven seven three. I just found
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Speaker 1: that curious. Again. Game balls and kicks a lot to
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Speaker 1: get to. We haven't even talked about the w NBA
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Speaker 1: All Star Game, oh man, and I watched every second I.
39:18
Speaker 2: Think we will talk about it, but god, my girl
39:22
Speaker 2: pagebackers was looking good after the game though.
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Speaker 1: Nice that they were after, Nice that they were able
39:25
Speaker 1: to have that without the the acrimony of you know,
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Speaker 1: the CBA stuff. Well, we're moving on. You're in the
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Speaker 1: huddle of Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.